tvouKt not nave recognia«*a its vaiue
Two days' work along this line coo-
vliK-.-d him of tbe uselessness of bls ef
forts, and be became despairing.
Why was It. be reasoned to himself,
as be sat ou the humble bed under tbe
roof, that be c«uld not get a chance to
show what be could do? Ami the next
day waa New Year's. What hallowed
memories were conjured up by tliat
name! They would miss blui at tbe old
farmhouse in Cayuga county on the
morrow. He could not w>ite home for
money, because that would be an ac
knowledgtnent of defeat. Hls relatives
expected great things of him. And
there waa Nellie, tbe blue eyed girl, to
whom be was a veritable Hlr Galahad.
What would, she say wbeu she beard
that all those lieautlful tales which he
read to her In tbe orchard bad been re
fused by every newspaper of standing
In New York? Then Robinson burled
hls face tn hls pillow and went to sleep
hungry, for only 10 cents remained of
hls $20.
In the effort to dispose of hls manu
script Robinson had visited every news-
P>i|wr office In tbe city except one. This
newspaper, by reason of Its acknowl
edged superiority over all the others,
had frightened the young author. He
did not have the confidence to think
that be could write anything fit for its
columns. But now that he was liter
ally driven to the wall Robinson re
solved to beard the Tark row literary
lion In hls den. and If he failed be
would go back to tbe farm and milk
tbe cows. Hls breakfast consisted of
two rolls and a cup of coffee, leaving
him a cash capital of 5 cents. Before
starting on hls forlorn hope be picked
out from among bls manuscripts a
short descriptive sketch of a mountain
brook. It was the gem of his collec
tion. In glowing language he had pic
tured the rippling cascades, the silvery
IKXils. the kaleidoscopic trout, the trees
whispering overhead, together with all
tbe light and color of the woodland.
.This was the little brain child upon
which he had expended more time than
u[H>n any other. He was satisfied that
If ft were rejected lie could do no bet
ter and that he was indeed a failure.
How gingerly he went tip the staircase
leading to the editorial rooms! With
what timorous glances his eyes roamed
over the dusty apartment which had
sheltered so many men of genius! And
Ills voice was scarcely audible as he
said to the office boy:
"Can 1 see the managing editor?”
“Certainly, sir. Come right in.”
Wonder of wonders! A courteous
office boy!
Nhaklng In every limb, he approach
ed the nutoerat behind hls rosewood
desk. • -<
“Well, Mr. Robinson, what can I do
for you?" said he cordially.
“I culled to offer a short sketch for
publication In your paper,” replied
Robinson In a voice strengthened by
hls kindly reception.
“Ah, thank you!” said the grent man,
taking the manuscript from Robinson's
trembling lingers and thrusting It .into
a pigeonhole. “Glad to get It. sir; glad
to get It.. Alwnys looking for new Ideas
fpotn you young men. Good day, sir.”
The editor turned to his mail, and
Robinson walked down stairs with Ilia
head erect and hls shoulders squared.
He did not know that, even though his
sketch might be accepted. It would
probably be two weeks before It would
be printed, and then there would inter-
■ »>•*.
■ * •'
OBINRON had worked bis way
through Cornell university
ami bad been graduated with
bom».
Having Inherited a
taste for literature, he decided to go to
New York and wlu fame and fortune
with hls pm. To a young and ardent
man thia prospect la a very pleasant
one. lu the effort a few men have suc
ceeded, but many more have failed for
the reason that tbe road Is more stony
than the famed rocky road to Dublin.
But Robinson's heart lieat high ami
strong. He knew be would have tc
work, but be was willing. Hix ambi
tion was to become an editorial writer
like Horace Greeley or Henri Roche-
foyt-
W’hen Robinson arrived In New York
city tn Decemlier, 18—, he bad one still
of clothes and two ten dollar notes.
Having passed through an uppreiitlce-
shlp In economy at college, In* knew
the value of a dollar, and so he decided
to make his cash capital go us far as lie
could. It was tbe first time he hail
ever visited a great city, and a feeling
of inexpressible loneliness came ovei
him as he looked Into the faces of thou
sands of men and women and wonder
ed why he did not recognize any of
them- Robinson had lieen reared In an
environment of green trees and run
nlng brooks, where nature smiles upon
man. But to the country boy'o percep
tlon the tall buildings seemed to frown
forbiddingly iqxiu him. and the noise
of Innumerable vehicles sounded dis
cordantly In his ears.
Tugging hls old carpetsack, contain
Ing Ills clothing, a copy of Shake
speare, a Bible and a thesaurus, b«
walked up Broadway in search of u
lodging house. He was amazed at tiis
bustle and activity, tbe Indifference ol
every man for hls neighbor and at th<
Indications on every hand of wealtt
and proH[writ,v. Up the great thorough
‘ fare he wandered, looking for h home
hut finding no renting place until he
arrived In Harlem. Here, 'lu a quiet
side street, he secured a hall bedroom
on the top floor of a tenement house
by paying $1.00 In advance. This Uttlf
room, perched lip on the eighth floor
Just under the eaves of the building
contained a small lied, a washstaud
and one chair. Thoroughly exbaustec
by his long walk. Robinson lay dowt
and fell asleep.
Hls first Impulse on arising in th«
morning wus to examine this great
city of which be had heard so much
to visit the public buildings ami otliet
objects of Interest, but he repressei
this Inclination and began to work
As Is the case with many young met;
ot like Inclination, Robinson waih )U
Ideirllst, a dreamer. He delighted II
writing little prose and poetical etch
Ings of scenery and - of hitman etuo
tlons. The publishers of newspaper»
hove learned by experience that lueil
readers do not.care for tills khat ol
writing. They prefer stories of crime
murder, burglary, arson. In short, they
want tlie pepper of ^enxat lonu lism
Robinson, unfortunately fot hls.pocket
did not take notice of tbe direction ol
public taste. Day after day he worked
away along ideal lines until at the
end of a week he bad a dozen sketches
and poems ready. Then be discovered
that half of bls money was gone anc
be must Bell some of Ills work in ordet
to replenish hls pocketlxiok. Fillinti
hls pockets with his stories and iioemx
he started to walk the seven miles in
tervenlng lietween hls lodging lions«
and that Mecca of journalistic genius
1’ark row. This Is the street where ul
the great metropolitan papers are Io
cated, the street which never sleeps
Under Its sidewalks mammoth presset
are always In motion day and night
There gaping crowds congregate t<
read the bulletins of news from al
over tbe world. ’Tin the sjat whets
more American history 1ms tieen re
<-orded than any other in the country
'TIs a cruel place for a stranger with
out friends or money to be found, anc
He approached the autocrat.
here it was that Iloblimoti took Ills
vene
still
another week before he would
first lesson In the sale of manuscript
Robinson was of a refined mid sens! be paid, and in his blissful Ignorance
live nature. By the time he had met he walked up Broadway, elate, Impas
three office Ixiys who were hired to sioned. The sidewalk was soft as vel
- keep Just such men ns be awBy from vet to his feet
O youth, luminous with promise,
the editors he wns very much diseom-
aged, and yet lie felt that Ills work bright with the rosy hue of expectan
whs good. And so as he trudged back cy!
Again Robinson went supperless to
to Ills room lu Harlem with his pre
clous manuscripts still In Ills pocket bed. But what a small matter that
be took heart of grace and rexolvi-d to seemed to him! Tomorrow his sketch
start out again on the morrow. The would lie in the greatest paper In Amer
resolution was strengthened by a band ica. And he tell asleep nnd dreamed
organ grinder who caiue under hla win of beefsteak and onions and the blue
eyed Nellie. In the morning he was so
dow and played “Walt Till the Clouds
eager to get down stairs that he scarce
Roll By.” But It was uphill work. In
ly waited to tie his shoestrings. In his
after years Robinson could not remem
hurry and excitement be gave his last
her the various Incidents of that event
nickel to the newsboy and forgot the
ful week, so crushed ami dlsapixiinted
change. lie opened the paper with
was he. It was not lieeauxe the ed
shaking hands and glanced down the
itors were unkind to hlin. but they hud
first page. There was some unimpor
no time to Is* sympathetic. “Bring us
tant matter about a famine In India
rews," they said to him. “and we will
which had killed a thousand men, a
print It and pay you liberally. We
stabbing affray In Philadelphia In
have no space for literature.”
which a man was horribly mutilated
In the cource of a week Robinson
and seven children left fatherless, a
vlaltml the editorial rooms of nearly fire In Pittsburg which had killed six
every newspaper office In New York teen girls, but hls story was not there!
-■ city, but he did nrt dtepn-je of «. 4!«c He looked over the editorial page,
of hls work. Ills nearest approach, to where the gre-t editor had launched
an acceptance came from mi editor hls keenest invectives against munici
who offered to print some of tils st» pal abuses, and there, too. were those
rles provided he did not ask fol- pay brtth» pr.nsgr'.nhs. wJbov w«4 had eho-!-
‘With um’onscioiia irony'Kolilniom said lenged hls admiration before. IIow
he needed money to buy brend. but psltry they seemed today! The other
when he became famous-which was a pages contained the usual record of a
certainty—ho would lx* glad to furnish coming war In Europe, etc., but hls
a few specimens of hls genius. By sketch was not there. Then hope died,
this time Robinson's money was be and a great rage filled bls breast. The
coming scarce, and be decided to take hand of every man seemed to be
the advice of the editors nnd hunt for against him. lie clinched hie teeth
news. It is a fact peculiar to the and hU hands ami hived like a mad
aewspajier business that news is sel man and started on a run of seven
dom got by searching. An nlile report miles down Broadway to kill the edi
er might start out tomorrow to limit tor.
aimlessly tor news and not run across
Hls stomach was empty as a pawned
au Item in a week. But lot him visit wedding ring.. Hls eyes were blood
police headquarters, where all tbe shot. He ran blindly as a borne runs
crime of a great city Is chronicled, or from fire. In two miles hunger, rage
the courts of Justice, or shipping of and exhaustion forced him to stop. He
fices. or the headquarters of any great sat down on a curbstone until he had
Industry, and hla search Is likely to tie recovered his breath. Then he stag
rewarded. But Robinson did not know gered on. By the time he reached the
this. Resides, lielng untrained, be did newspaper office bls reason had return
Lot know what the word "news” meant ed. He had walked so long on the hard
la the vernacular. If he hnd run acrons pavement that the soles of hls shoes
au Item of International Importance, he ' were worn through, and at every step
tbe balls of bis feet touched tbe stones
His heart acbad, bls head ached, hls
feet were bleeding, and be wanted to
bury bis bead in his mother's lap.
"Helto!” said tbe managing editor,
looking up from Ills desk at,tbe pa
thetic flgure standing liefortr him.
"You're the little chap who was here
yesterday, eh! Yes, yes. Walt a min
ute”’
He took the manuscript in hls hand
aa a practical gambler might take a
pack of cards. He glanced down each
page with what seemed Incredible
swiftness to tbe palpitating Robinson.
Within two minutes lie bad taken In
all the beauty of Imagery, all tbe grace
of expression, nil tbe enrmarks of con
scientious effort. Till'll lie looked up
at the pallid face beside him, tbe Idooil-
sliot eyes, tlie hard lines about the
tense mouth, end a look of deep ti'd-
derneaa and compassion came Into Ills
eyes as he said, gently as a woman:
“My dear tx>y. that is Just the kind of
stuff we want. If yeu have any more
of U, brlug It along.”
Robinson gas|>ed and turned away,
for tbe cisterns of Ills heart were lx*-
ginnlng to leak. And as be went the
editor looked around the comer of Ills
desk. He saw the worn shoes, tbe tat
tered coat, and he shouted:
“Come back, Robinson. You’ve for
gotten something.” And be pine: d in
tbe young man's band a small piece of
glazed paper.
Robinson reached the sidewalk in a
dream, but when be had pulled him
self together he looked at tbe. slip of
paper and read tbe following words:
• Naw Y ear ' s D at . Jan. 1, 1»—.
Cashier. New York ----- :
Pay to Oeorge Robinson the sum of
110 on account of sketch called "A Moun
tain Brook.”
------------- .
Managing Editor.
That night Robinson's supper con
sisted of two pounds of fried bam, a
plateful of old fashioned John Brown
fried iMitatoes, half a pumpkin pie and
two cups of coffee. As he sat back
in his chair and lit hls cigar the con
sciousness that it was New Year's day
came to him In full force. He smiled
as be reflected that be bad not killed
the editor. How bright and happy the
waiters all seemed! The tarnished ta
bleware glistened in the gaslight. The
world seemed a very good place to live
In. after all. A peripatetic piano stop
ped In front of the restaurant. The
Instrument was out of tune, nnd the
tune was uneven, but no orchestra had
ever played such seraphic harmony as
the first selection, "Walt Till the Clouds
Roll By.”
A PLATE OF SOUP.
Ita Egewt I'poa Geaeral Scott's Pros*
Ideatlal Asplratlou*.
Serving dinners in courses Is com
paratively a modern fashion, first in
troduced in diplomatic circles In Wasb-
Uigton and Imitated from France. Up
to the date of President Folk's admin
istration the eburse ill liner among
Americans bad made no further prog
ress than that of serving tiah ami soup
separately. Soup was reguriled aa such
* foreign frippery that a note written
by General Winfield Scott, In which be
explained that lie was "Just sitting
down to a busty plate of soup,” cov
ered him with such ridicule as to ma
terially contribute to hla defeat as a
candidate of tbe presidency.
Soup In the early days of the repub
lic was considered as food for Invalids
or [Hxir people only. Later, when tbe
soehiI splendors of tbe court of the
Empress Eugenie attracted rich Amer
icana In flix'ks to Paris. French table
manners and customs pushed the old
Engltali dinner fashions to tbe wall. It
Is doubtful, however. If soup ever found
a place on the dinner table of the
wealthy Maryland or Virginia planter,
unless green turtle, which was really a
stew, might l>e so called.
The object of an old time dinner par
ty was to eat, whereas that of tbe
course dinner Is to delight the eye rath
er than the palate, and yet who will
say that the sight of a well filled din
ner table where an array of silver cov
ered dlslies gives forth a bouquet of
appetizing odors fails to make an
agreeable Impression on nil the senses?
—Lippincott's Magazine.
n Her Own Room.
“Talking altout being lost,” says th?
girl who lias been visiting her grand
parents In the old family homestead—
“I have been lost in the city and lost
In the country, but never was there
anything so horrible as lielng lost in
my own room. It was a very queer
room I had at grandmamma's any
way—one of those rooms from which a
flight of stairs leads down; rooms such
as arc only to lie seen In old houses.
It blew up cold the first night I was In
the house, and I got up to close the
window. The room, i of course, was
pitch dark. In getting back from the
window to the lied I lost myself. I
had not the slightest idea in what
direction to turn, and I knew that if
I was not careful I should go down
those awful stairs. There was noth
ing to do but sit down on the floor and
howl for some one to come and find
me, and that was Just what I did. If
grandiia and grandmamma had not
liven unusually normal Individuals. I
should have frightened them to death.
As it was, they only thought I had a
nightmare, brought candles him ! loeat-
ad me nnd showed me my way to bed
again.”
Gmi-lWo« fn Xbo«t.------- ■■
The other day a solitary snort smart
hls gun under ills arm, was waixlerlng
down a country lane In Inverness-shire
when be met a small laiy making for
tbe sThtxu.
“I say, my boy." he remarked, “Is
there anything to shoot down here?”
Tbe boy looked around for a moment
and then answered with eagerness:
“Aye, there’s a skulemaloter cornin’
owre the hill!"—Loudon Answers.
Frsfeesor
Was
.Tatla« Till»«*.
“Wasn't it a terrifying experience."
asked his friend, "when you loot your
foothold and went glidlug down tlx*
mountain side?"
“It was exciting, but extremely Ln
►.•resting," said the college professor.
"I could not help noticing all the way
town with what absolute accuracy I
was following along the line of least
resists net- "-Chicago Tribune.
Werth While.
She- I should like to know what good
your college education did you?
H*—Well, It taught me to owe a lot of
money without being annoyed by It.
VERBAL ALIASES.
i
i
WORDS THAT GET TOO FAMILIAR TC
6UIT SOME TASTES.
The »cieatlde Fad •« ClolUa« Old
Thla^e 1» daw Tt'R*-*»*»* Weeds
the MM»i»«s •* whieh Ara Oaa-
muslx Mlessaee«*»«*-
SPOILING A SCENE.
Aa lulgtsi That Eoge« Marg À».
deraoa's Straloia« After avalisas.
Did you ever hear Mary Anderson's
pet story of how she was cured, of her
love of realism?
In a big drama In which this great
actri
ouce took part the heroine In a
acene of Intense emotlou Is made to ex
claim, “Hark. I bear the wheels of car
riage«!”
Now. It was easy enough to obtain
the effect of wheels ou gravel, bqt no
resource of the stage mechanism was
adequate to imitate tbe stamping of
the feet of horses ns they were drawn
up at the door. Every device was ex
hausted when a bright Idea occurred
to tbe actress herself. It was that a
donkey should be hired to trot up and
down behind tbe scenes on gravel laid
for tbe occasion. This was done, It nd at
rehearsal all went well. Tbe illusion
was iierfect.
The first night came. The heroine
gave the cue The wheels were heard,
but they stopped, ami the rest was si
lence. A pause, r.nd again the actress
siMike her words. A terrible scuttling
began and then “Hee-haw. hee-haw,”
In stentorian tones from the back of
the stage as the indignant donkey
protested vigorously against bls 111
treatment by energetic carpenters and
supers. It was one of-the most serious
situations of the play, yet audience
atid actors Joined In ¡laroxysms of
mirth until the tears were streaming
down their checks.
Wlieu the report was recently elrcu
lated that a prouilueut public Bian had
lost his life through aecideutulty lu
haling u quantity of earbou dioxide,
the Ulan lu the street began at once In
qitlrlug what curlxiu dioxide was.
A» a matter of fact, earbou dioxide
is merely unollier name for carbonic
acid gas,- one of the products of com
bustion and a constituent of atmos
plieric air.
» :
Cai boule ackl gas Is kuown by sev
eral different names, as, for Instance,
carbon dioxide, cai lxiuk- oxide and cur-
book) anhydride.
< 'oiisuiupiion as a name for a terri
ble and widespread disease is known
and mnlerstood by practically every
limn, woman and child In England.
Lui the medical fraternity, ever on the
liMikout for something new in the way
of professional nouieucluture, elected
some years back to cull it phthisis,
and then Just when that unapellable
word begau to be known and recog
nized they evolved yet another—tuber
culosis.
And as with consumption so with
moat other complaints. A quarter of a
century ago even eminent physicians
A Bold Scotchman.
were content to speak of ¿imallphx, of
The late czar of Russia was one night
typhoid fever, of lockjaw. Today they playing a game of whist at Homburg,
are called vqriola, enteric aud tetanus and the Prince of Wales and several
respectively.
of his friends were of the party. Among
A doctor when giving evidence'before those friends was Bir James Macintosh,
an ignorant east end Jury the other a well known Ixiu vlvant of tbe eight
day said that the Immediate cause of ies and nineties. Sir James was one of
death was "a violent and prolonged those blunt, dowurlght, rough spoken
fit of combined epistaxis and stomator Scotchmen tvlio didn't know fear of
rhagia.” It would, one would think, God or man.
liuve been far easier for him to have
In tlie midst of the game Sir James
s|xiken of u bleeding at the nose and called out to the czar, “You've re
mouth, and he would at all events have voked." Everybody’s blood ran cold.
had the satisfaction of making himself Tbe Prince of Wales kicked the Scotch
understood.
man under the table, and the czar,
.Most people uow living can remem blushing and confused, exclaimed In
her the time when bacteria were known bewilderment-. “Revoked! Why. I nev
generically as auilualculie— a not very er did such a thing In my life!” But
strictly scientific definition, perhaps, Sir James persisted, anil the monarch
but one easily understandable, and cou- whs proved to be In tbe wrong, where-
veylug, moreover, a distinct Idea to upou Sir James replied to tlie observa
any one of ordinary education aud in tion of the czar, “I dare say you’ve of
telligence.
ten revoked, your majesty, but thia Is
For that very reuson, doubtless, tbe tbe first time you were ever told so.”
title In question was voted out of date
and old fashioned anil the word "bacil
Riat Trees of Florida.
li” was substituted. This means, liter
It Is difficult oven to guess at the age
ally, "little sticks,” certainly a most of the ancient live oaks, but some of
novel definiUon. but one that scarcely them must number centuries, and the
strikes the average lay mind as lielng oldest and greatest of them all is a
either lucid or suitable. Nevertbeleoa, monarch of the forest, with its outer
It was accepted, aud at last became branches sweeping the ground in a cir
familiar to the uiau in the street.
cle 120 feet across, with limbs as great
That of course coil hl not lie tolerat as ordinary trunks of trees and bearing
ed. Imagine a bacteriologist using a a garden of aerial ferns and air plants
word which conveyed any meaning to upon tlielr bark. This venerable tree
anybody outside hls own charmed cir Is supposed to be the largest live oak
cle! The Idea is both degrading aud in Florida. Enormous grapevine trunks
preposterous; so he set to work forth rise sinuously from the ground and lose
with and Invented a whole host of ter themselves aiuld the quarter acre of
ritlc verbal aliases.
foliage that crowns this tree. The sap
He called them for example, schlz- lings that once gave them support have
omyeetes, neuromuskelzellen, megacuc- disappeared loug years ago, their only
el and ixilymorphomiclear leucocytes, record being the angles and curves of
as well as half a ii u nd red other things; grapevine stem to’ which they lent
while for the chemical siiltstances in their transient aid to climbing sky-
cidental to the science be Invented such ward.—Country I-ife In America.
delightful terms ns “tetrabydropara-
methyloxyqulnollne” and “tetrametbyl-
So Easy Too.
dia m Ido-iriphenyl'Carblnol-oxii late.”
Suppose your wife—it is a wild 8up-
The craze, tix>, Is getting commoner position of course, but let us just Im
among other than scientists. Take tbe agine it for once—set up her own Judg
word "reeking." tor Instance, and ask ment against yours in some vital mat
your friends what they understand by ter. Try this way out of the difficulty.
It.
‘Reeking?” one will say. "Why, Say to her:
reeking means dripping with moisture,
"My dear, you know that my Judg
soaked with wet." You will derive ment Is above criticism, for I had tbe
some amusement from bls surprise inspired wlaiom to select you from
when you tell him that reeking means among the many, but you, on the other
"smoking, steaming.” A chimney can band, cannot place absolute reliance
reek. When a horse reeks with mois upou your judgment If, after accepting
ture, It is because Its Hanks smoke and me, you find yourself wavering as to
steatn.
your confidence in my ability to direct
The change from tbe real meaning to our ways.”
that given It In |>opulai'. present day
You will, readily see that a wife in
phraseology can easily be ttaeed. Any wtedotii caiiuot protest against such a
thing very wet will reek lu frosty diplomatic assertion of domestic lead
weather; so the wetness lius been as ership.
sumed to be tbe real characteristic of
A Clever Cat.
reek
A y ng lady bookkeeper has been in
Then there is "lurid,” which nine
people out of ten use in an entirely the «bit for some time of glviug the
wroug sense. Ask a man wliat color office cat a piece of meat for Its lunch
lurid Is, and be may answer correctly, every day. Precaution is taken to lay
but the chances are that be will say, a piece of pa|>er under the meat to
"Red flame, orange or bright yellow." avoid greasing the door. The other day
Of course, lurid means smoky or dull at lunch hour, when theje was no meat,
color. London fog is lurid. Thick, suf pussy begged for some In her most In
telligent fashion and at last, going to
focating smoke Is lurid.
Lurid and livid are ulrnost synony the wastebasket, dragged forth her
uious. Lurid flaiueq are flames choked regular paper tablecloth fend laid It
and hidden by smoke. A lurid sunset properly for the meat.
Is not a brilliant one. but one dull and
Hls Loss Walt.
gray and cheerless.
Of course, tlie use of verbal aliases
“Grandpa, how old are you?"
“I atn eighty-seven years old, my lit
Is not an absolutely new departure. It
Is only that we of this generation In tle dear.”
“Then you were born eighty years
our wild strivings after uovelly have
so enormously iucreased and multiplied before I was?”
“Yes. my little girl.”
them. The taste of our grandfathers
“What a long time you bad alone
aud great-grandfathera lay rather in
the direction of using over and over Walting for me!”—Current Literature.
again two or three long nnd uncommon
Words.
Rrasva.kla Ks.I.B.tl...
Thus bouorlticabHItudluitatibus. as a
Customer—You charged me $14 for
nynonym of fame, eminence, occurs this one garment? I think that's pretty
and recurs with almost depressing reg high.
nlarity In the plays of old pre-Eliza
Tailor—Well, the bill, as I made It out
bethan dramatists and is even used by at first, was for $13. but that is such
Ebakespeare on occasion.
an unlucky number I thought you'd
It wa« D-rt!y ! b rldlcuk of Gre-siiiy rather pay a dollar more. — Chicago
custom of using this and other s'mlbir Tribune. - - - ■
aTiotic verbal doubles, which bad sur
Kln«*ess Breaaht Tears.
vived lu part even until bis time, that
Mother—oil. yjra. m*el Jw! ycn
Ilabelals makes Pantagrue^ speak of.
nioriauiuoriaeverzengirTzequoquemor
making your brother cry.
Algernon—No, mummy; I'm not. I’m
gasachaquevezinemaffretiding my poor
•ye" and ask angrily of Mr. Mauhonnd ouly sharing my cod liver oil with him,
whether it wns not enough to wot you said was so nice.-Washington
Star.
have "morcrocasttbezastcverestegrlge
Mgoscopapondrlllated us all in our up
Borne of the people who think they
per members, but you must also n|tply
such
uiorderegrlppiatabrrofrelucbam- were born to command do not discover
burdurecnquelurintlmpanlments to om their mistake until they get married.—
Pack.
shinbones?”—Loudon Tit-Bits.
Gifted CaareraatlaaallBt.
‘Slip hag wonderful con versa t Iona 1
jowers.” said .Miss Cayenne.
"But she doesn't talk a great deal.”
"No; I never knew any one who
showed such discretion In tbe selection
3f tilings to be left unsaid."
What It Was Lika.
Miss Boatonwlck—Did yon go to the
Wagner concert?
Mr. Poker—I did.
Miss B.—What was It like?
Mr. P — Like Browning set to music.
—Town and Country.
Treasury figures show 'deposits in th«
Ba« Tbey ■•<» 1*»s • LHtle.
“Of course, clothes don't make the
tanks and trust concerns of the coun
try aggregating $H,.T0U,<MMLWÄ, or about •tan.” • i
.. ; .. » „ ,
$IOK per capita. The Total dr Available
fTertalfily oof.”
cash lu the country 1" something mon
“At tbe same time, if you have a
11 urn $2.."s»i.'"Si.<*Mi. or leas than $30 per new suit you'd better put It oq when
cnultu.
you go out to ask for ermilt.”
IMMITdl *NV •<*UM I«
ASSORTED LAUGHTER.
IS»
Kia« Thai la Gaa« **4
Braaala That Ara B*«.
**•
Is laughter a good thing—the laugh
ter which is directed to sometblag
wlildi falls to rvmiply with a social ra
Hulretoent." which la compelled by the
Sight of liu-ongruity or by sudden sur
prise? All laughter, at all events, Is not
good. The giggle and tbe titter are
laughter ileliaaed. People who trifle
with laughter, wrote Carlyle, “only
sniff and titter and sniggle from tbe
throat outward, or at best produce
some whittling, husky cacbinuation, as
If they were laughing through wool.”
But though the snigger Is detestable,
you can still have too much of hearty
laughter, of the roar of Teufelsdroeckh.
It Is only the unrestrained or the lrre-
s|Mjusible niHu who laughs tempestu
ously often; -and. Indeed, as • man
grows older and gets a wider view of
the world he laughs, no doubt, leas
loudly. Professor Sully thinks that as
a nation we have loot some of tbe mirth
of our forefathers. If by that be means
the noisier, self abandoned mirth of 200
years ago. It hi not perhaps.to be re
gretted. It Is true that hearty laughter
Is often an Index to an honest soul.
Carlyle was probably right when he
said that “no man who has once hearti
ly and wholly luugbed can tie altogeth
er bad.” But there la a better laugh
thun Teufelsdroeckh'a, and that la the
deep found chuckle of kindliness and
experience together- Perhaps w'e laugh
more wisely, even If more rarely, than
our forefathers.—I-ondon Spectator.
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The Stark Battle.
HFFITT
PAPERS
" T®WNF WRAPPING... 1
C IVwRE I
«- varo «TCir-ïK
ANOTHER
CITY EDITOR
Bright *• Disc«»« and Diabete«
Ar« Positively CuraM«.
Uttor Eagalks, editor and proprietor ot th.
Callioesia Journal, tke-Uoraiau peper ut <■’
Moatgonary Hl . Hau Fraaviaou, lalarvlawml:
Q,- Will you hrlp us ooaviaco tbe people ilia
Hrlgbl’a Disease and Diabetes are positively
durable by roivrriug Is your recovery t
A. -I've told II to a great mauy myselt, am
a< we
tbeiu prottied by It and were cured.
Q—How lose ago was Itt
A—About sis years ago. I was so 111 wit'
Bright'a IMvoaae that the doctors, be lug uuabl
to help me, advised uie aa a last resort tbai
try some of the springs. Before golug 1 tiearv
o' Ute Fulton Compound and took it sad dldu'
)iave to go. I began to get belter, and kept oi
wIlB II till I was finally as well M over.
Q — Any symptoms of a return of Ilf
A.—Noue, although I don't permit a year 1«
pa« without taking some of II.
M — You say you told others?
A.—1 told Charles F. Wackyr of 131 Stilb St
about It on learning fie had diaoetea. He took
it and la entirely well. I told a well-to-do tier
man Iddy attieted with Bright's Dlaease. Sb
had been to Europe for treatment without re
suit. She, too. took It and go« wall. I've lol/*
a gryat many 1 know these Compounds to In
cerlalu cures in Bright’s Disease and Diabetes
Il Is sc Incredible that one has to be cured U
be convinced, aad It even then dawns ou ow
slowly.
Sir Wilfrid I.awson, the great tem
perance advocate, once met a laborer
walking along the road with‘the old
familiar black Ixrttle protruding from
bis piK'ket.
"Empty that cursed stuff away,”
Medlral werka agree ths« Bright's Dines»
said Sir Wilfrid vehemently, pointing sod
IMuIxtee are loi-ursble, but S" per seal. *n
to the liottle. “Drink something better poxiitvely recovering under the ru'tou Coin
pounds. tConisiuu toriux oj. Alduey vomplsia'
than that poison."
end iheumslism offer but short resistance
The man was so overcome that he Prlix-. fl tor -Ibe Brlghl's Dtwsso and »1 Xu f.x
the Dlubelie Compouud. John J Fulton Co.
took out the receptacle anil emptied the ««>
MoutgooK-rv 8t., Hun Fisuciseo, sole corn
liquor Into the road.
pounders, frx- testa made for pst.eulr. De
scrlptiv
psmphlet mailed tree.
Sir Wilfrid's face beamed with pleas
ure, and. handing the man a shllliug,
he said: "Take that, my g<xxl fellow.
It will buy you something better."
The man, to the intense disgust of
Th* mortality amons
ba bier during tha
Sir Wilfrid, immediately entered a pub Ihiea
teething years Is something frightful.
lic house and spent the shilling in beer. The cenaua of 1X00 shows that about one la
aeven auccuniba.
On coming'out Sir Wilfrid accosted the every
The cauae
la
apparent.
With
baby's
laborer and asked why he had spent boner- l.tuienlng. tha fontanel (opening In the
skuUl
closing
up
and
Its
teeth
rornting,
all
the money for beer.
the«« coming at ones create a demand for
"Faith, your honor, 'twas that I bone material that nearly halt tbe little
thought you wanted me to drink, for siatema' are deftclent In. The result la
l«evlahneu. weak nee», sweating, fever, diar
the liottle of poison I was after throw- rhoea, brain troubles, convulsions, etc., that
prove terribly fatal. The deaths lu lvou under
in’ away was cold tay!”
Save the Baby.
What to
Make ot the Bog.
three years were 3(M,D8k, to say nothing of
the vast number outside the big cities that
were not reported, and this In the Unlltal
States alone.
When baby begins to sweat, worry or cry
out in sleep don't wait, and the need la
neither medicine nor narcotics.
What the
little sjeleni Is crying out for Is mote bone
Sweetman’B Teething Food sup
material.
plies It. It ha® waved the lives of thousands
Thev begin to improve within
ot babies,
Here is what physicians
forty-eight hour®.
think of It.
3S34 Washington St.,
San Francisco, June 2, 1902.
Gentlemen— I am _ prest-rlbins
_ , your food in
the multitude of baby troubles due to im
peded dentition. A large percentage or In-
fantile ills and fatalities are the result of
slow teething. Your food supplies what the
deficient system demands, and 1 have had
surprising success with H. in score» of cases
___ ______
this
diet, ______
given _____
with their regular food, has
not failed to check the Infantile distresses.
Several of ths more serious cases would. I
reel sure, have been fatal without It. It can
not bo too quickly br.-ught to the attention
pt. the mothers of the country: . It la an alo
solute necessity.
L. C. MENDEL. M D.
There is an old Lancashire custom of
putting a number of articles before •
child and prophesying by the article
which the child touches what he may
become.
The story goes of a Lancashire man
who was at hls wits' end to decide
what to do with his offspring. So he
placed on a table a sword, a Bible, an
apple and a txix of pills. If tbe child
touched the first be was to be a soldier,
the second a clergyman, the third a
greengrocer and the last a doctor. It
was a somewhat heterogeneous mess
of professions, true enough, but It of
fered tbe advantage ot a wide range of
choice. After the experiment wag over
he met a boon friend.
“Well, Jimmy, how did It get on?"
Petaluma. Cal., September 1, 1902.
asked th? friend. “Did he take the
Dear 81m
___ — _ I have _ just tried the teething
_
sword or” -
food in two
and In both it was a
“He took th’ lot, so I’m goln' to make ceisB. Ope wa$ a very serious case, so criti
cal that it was brought to me from another
him a lawyer.”
city for treatment. Fatal results were feared.
Baralary la Kaalaad.
Burglary cannot be committed in the
daytime. The English rule la that If
there is light enough to see the face of
the Intruder there Is no burglary. This,
however, does not Include moonlight,
for a housebreaker entering after night
fall, however brightly the moon may
be shining, is legally a burglar—that is,
if it Is reasonably certain that be has
entered with the Intent to commit fel
ony, for while a tramp breaking into a
bouse to sleep may be a housebreaker
he is not in the proper sense of the
word a burglar. Burglary, however,
may consist In breaking out as well as
breaking in, for one who hides In a
bouse before nightfall to steal and aft-
er stealiug break, out to get away la
just aa much a burglar as he who to
effect his purixise breaks in.
Where “Sterllwa" Came From.
Sterling signifies money from the le
galized standard of coinage of Great
Britain. According to one theory, the
term originated as follows: It is a cor
ruption of Easterling, a jierson from
north Germany, on the continent of
Europe, and therefore from the east in
geographical relation to England. The
Easterlings were ingenious artisans
who came to England in the reign of
Henry III. to refine the silver money,
and the coin they produced was called
monetn Easterlingorum. the money of
the Easterlings.
Her Station.
A little boy nnd girl were playing at
trains, says the Western Mail, and the
boy was calling out all the station
names he knew. The first atop was
Cardiff, the second Newport, the third
Swansea, and then he paused for a
name. At last, with a rush, he came
opt triumphantly
with “Hekves-F’
“ ’Top,” cried the sister. “I t'lnk I'll det
out here.”
The Felthfal Retainer.
..J’JVJir d't -JAC-- V«rsji
«syt
"diet ni your 'retainer?’ ”
"Because lie alwaya keepa everything
he finds."— Portsmouth News.
In order to l>e a gentleman many a
man baa to forget himself,—Saturday
Evening ¡'oat.
Two are company until they're mad.
one.- Baltimore American.
All or ROM.
Busy Merchant-Well. sir. what do
you want?
Timid Youth— Y-your daughter's hand.
Busy Merchant—Can't give It to you,
sir. Either take her enure or leave her.
We are not doing an Installment husl
ness. —Chicago News.
What liarte* th*
Wife-1 wonder how you can look
me In the face.
Husband-Oil. a man can get used to
anythlug- New York Times.
In three days the baby ceased worrying and
commenced eating and is* nov well. Its action
In this case was remarkable. | would ad
vise you to put it in every drtfg store In this
city. Yours,
I. M. PROCTOR, M. D.
p
■ . —■
Rweetman's Teething Food will carry baby
safely and comfortably through the most dan
gerous period of child life. It renders lanc
ing of the gums unnecessary. It is the safest
plan and a blessing to the baby to tiot wait
for symptoms but to commence giving it the
fourth or fifth month.
Then ali the teeth
will come healthfully, without pain, dis
tress or lancing. It is an auxiliary to their
regular diet and easily taken. Price 50 cents
(enough for six weeks), sent postpaid on re
ceipt of price. Pacific Coast Agents, Inland
Drug Co., Mills Building. San Francisco.
HAWAIIAN FISHERMEN.
ll»«> as< Teeth Flax a Part
- fhptwrlaa the Octopes.
la
The native fisherman of Hawaii,
while an adept with the hook and line,
does not scorn to use bls bands to cap
ture his prey when occasion arises.
The bonito Is the fish most generally
caught with book and line, and us the
b<x>k used Is of mother of pearl, made
from the shell of a mollusk now quits
rare/ which glistens with an lrldea-
reuce similar to the shimmer from the
scales of the smaller kiuds of fish ou
which the bonito Ilves, no bait is need
ed. The tarb of these hooka Is of
bone, and two tufts of hog's bristles
attached at right angles to the barbed
end keep the Inner side up. so that the
hook Iles flat on the surface of ths
sea.
When a likely fishing ground
has been reached, the fisherman, stand
lug up tai the canoe, casts out bls line
violently, so that the hook fails with
a slap* on the WHter and attracts the
attention of the Hah. The line and
book are then drawn rapidly toward
It were a spoon,
the Ixiat, aa though
_
and the Imnlto, taking fhe hook to be
a small fish, rises to It Immediately.
It Is fortunate for the fisherman that
he baa to wjvvte- tw time In bzItlLg-hia
b<x>k. for tills method of casting fright
ens the school, and the fish disappear
within ten or fifteen minutes
An lugeulous plan by which very
largo h'nlF are caught la by 'plnuting a
long pole on the shore in such a pool
tlon as to cause It to lean decidedly to
ward the water. On the top of thia
a hell is arranged eo that it can swing
deer of the top of the pole. A block
and fall are also attached to the pole
close to the top, and a long line, with
baited hook at the end. Is run through
the block and allowed to float out to
sea. tbe land end being tied In a slip
knot to the bottom of the pole. As soon
aa a fish Is btsiked Its struggles cause
the bell to ring, whereupon the fisher
man runs to tbs pole, loosens the slip
knot-aml plays tbe fish until be baa
drowned it, when It Is hauled ashore.
In fishing for octopus the native dives
to tbe bottom and with a stick pokes
around In tbe small holes In which tbe
octopus live«. When he touches one,
It 'Seizes fhe stick afid allows him to
drAWIt out of the bole. When be
reaches the surface, tbe native grabs
It with bls hands and bites Into tbe
bead, thus killing the animal.