BANDON RECORDER.
a1
i»e»s»«staee>eis»»a«a>B>aae«s(s«sts*s<sl
j
P olly L arkin $
on Ustrd the traus|Hirt than 1 war.
How I .canued the sea of faces to see if
I uould reoogniae my mother, for 1
kuew she would be there all smiles and
tears to welcome her boy home. Bhe
was not among those who had pressed
forward eager to see their loved ones.
Btiil my heart did not misgive me. I
was disappointed, but thought all along
the line of march that her dear face
would lie seen somewhere among the
crowds that lined the streets. I saw
one of my old neighbors, who gave me
greeting, and I called out, ‘How is
mother? Where is she'.*’ Bhe didu’t
answer and we passed on. When we
disbanded and every boy was looking
for his relatives or being fairly sur
rounded with friends, I started out to
find mother. Our little home was de
serted, still the awful truth did not
dawu on me. I thought she had sim
ply moved some place else. Going into
a former neighbor’s I learned the truth
—mother bad been dead about two
mouths, aud her furniture aud every
thing bad been sold to pay funeral ex
penses. It aeons my death had been
repotted in some of the papers, but it
was some other soldier who bore the
same uame, aud my mother gave up
completely and commenced failing rap
idly. ‘It was simply a broken heart,’
the doctor said. Bhehad nocomplaint
that be could see, and she had no de
sire to live. I had saved my money
and bad pictured the good use I would
make of it. Bhe said she would never
see me agalu when I departed, but I
laughed al her fears, thiuklng she was
ouly fearful that I would be killed. I
will never forgive myself for having
left her and I curse the day that I went
away from her side.” Twice during
the day 1 heard young men make the
same remark as they placed their offer
ing of flowers ou a grave, “I curse the
day I left my mother.”
THE TRUE FISHERMAN.
Balers Nature's Bea stirs aad Is
Net • Hers Bstrher.
CHOICE MISCELLANY NEW SHORT STORIES FACTS IN FEW LINES
by *B«rlHi> Slana.
Mr«. VaadorStlt’s Tact.
The turuitw used in Cuba Is large
ly from the Vulted Btatee.
The angler’s art la but a pretext or.
The total population of Canada
rather, the Incentive to a ramble, and
equals that of the state of Ohio.
not the sole object of the fisherman,
Tksr Way Have CaaseA the Hawn-
tall ot the latperlal City.
Next to Liverpool, Bremen Is now the
unless, alas, be belongs to that too
It seeuis to Polly that if there is one
«ommou variety, tbo man whose sols
leading cotton market of Europe.
When Home was in her glory and day in the year that should be bright
object la his catch. Buch a man fishes
men were strong and women beauti
The proportion of Chinese to Indians
aud beautiful that day should be the
with a worm, bides fingerlings In the
ful. they set first importance upon
In the United States Is as two to three.
30th of May—Decoration Day. There
depth of bis basket and photographs
the bath. There were 800 public baths
The population of Canada east of
have always been, and always will be,
Ida catch as a witness of his crimes,
in imperial Bogie.
Ixike Superior is 4,000,000 and west ot
euough
tears
sin
don
the
day
appoiuUd
lie
is
not
a
fisherman,
but
a
butcher.
Before taking a bath the Roman took
it 1.600,600.
A yellow primrose on the river's bank
a little exercise. In the later history to commemorate the death of loved
The Bt. James district of Ixmdon. al
is to him a primrose and nothing
of Home the room In which be un ones without nature sending copious
though but seven-tenths of ■ square
more.
dressed was heated, and after undress showers as though lu sympathy with a
mile, has 471 policemen.
ing be was anointed with oil. Then mourning people. In every city, town
The true fisherman loves to catch
Mining enterprises and limited com-
flab, to match bls wits against the
came tbs scratching and rubbing of and village the day is observed. Flags
panics are now taxed 2 per cent of
the skin with the strigil. Following
weary trout, but as be wanders from
tbelr net profits in Bolivia.
float mournfully at half mast, the gar
this perspiration was promoted by
pool to pool the songs of the birds
California produces more dollars'
dens
are
stripped
of
their
treasures
of
heated air or a hot bath. The batb
greet him restfully. Every turn in the
worth of oranges than of gold—oranges
was completed with a cold douche or buds aud blossoms and woven into gar
stream reveals a nook ta which strange
over $18,000,000 and gold $17,000,000.
cold plunge.
Finally the body was lands, wreaths aud bouquets to deck
wild flowers nestle. The gentle ex
The Russian navy has been using
the graves of meu aud mere boys who
anointed again.
citement of the sport prevents the
alcohol boat motors up to 800 horse
It la believed by many writers that have died for their country. The pro
scene from becoming monotonous. The
power with highly satisfactory results.
the Introduction of the hot bath in cession of gray-haired veterans of the
element of chance, the uncertainty of
During the last three years twenty-
the place of ^he cold bath among the
the catch, add the drop of tabasco
Graud Army of the Republic, the Na
two millionaires have died In Englaud.
Bomans was the principal cause of
sauce
which
gives
zest
to
the
day.
And
tional Guardsmen, regular troops and
Their average age was seventy-live
tbelr downfall. The luxury of the hot
the noontide meal by the brink of the
years.
bath was weakening and destroyed others, on last Memorial Day carried
stream! When did a meal bare a more
that personal valor and hardihood for oue back to the scenes during the Bpau-
A person usually begins to lose height
delightful flavor?
Delmonlco never
which the Bomans were notorious in ish war wheu so many of the brave
at the age of fifty and at the age ot
served a trout like unto those we have
boys in blue marched through the
their earlier history.
ninety has lost at least one and a half
eaten by the banka of a mountain
Little by little the enervating influ streets to the transports which were to
inches.
brook with the clear blue sky above,
ence of the hot bath gradually napped cuuvey them to foreign shores. Many
the waving forest round about and
Ia Southwark, the smallest Ixmdon
away the vitality of the Roman soldier a grave in the Presidio cemetery shows
the murmuring stream at our feet.
borough, there were more lunatics last
until the more hardy men of the north
The hour of contemplation comes
year than in any other metroiailitau
bow part of the boys came home. No
found them very easy foes to con
afterward, with the pipe of peaee in
borough.
Landon.
pen can describe the mourufuluess of
quer.—Medical Talk.
our hand instead of the relinquished
When Queen Victoria ascended the
There are many Loudons known to
the ships bearing the dead coming in
rod. How far off the city seems! Are the statistician, but that known as the
throne only $106,000 a year was spent
Pasalan or rhe Aristocrats.
with flags half-mast and carrying scores
there such things as corporations, metropolitan police, district is the most
on education; now the amount expeud-
The Revolution, In giving us a sepa of bodies, some being shipped to their
trusts, stocks, bonds, electric lights comprehensive and complete. It com
«1 is $65.000.000.
rate nationality, had not destroyed
friends awaiting with heavy hearts the
that amaze tbs sight, harsh warnings prehends an area witbiu a radius of
The biggest wheat field In the world
time honored traditions. Our manners
of trolley gongs, the rumble tnd grind fifteen miles of Charing Cross, but it
sad home-coming of their loved ouee,
is In the Argentine. It belongs to an
and customs were English, bred in the
of
the
wheels
and
the
brake«
on
the
Italian named Guazone and covers just
does not Include the city of London.
bone; our point of view that of the aud others unclaimed laid to their long
elevated road which affright ihe ear? Much of this area Is densely populated
over 100 square miles.
mother country. Freedom and equal rest in the Presidio cemetery. The
The harshest note that breaks the still and thickly covered with streets and
In Berlin a club of the "disengaged"
ity were political terms that no one bands played mournful dirges, and as
ness here Is the boom of the bittern In houses. Much of it is now every year
baa been formed by young men who,
dreamed of applying to social life. the procession approached the Presidio
the distant marsh.
lielng so conditioned, and much of it,
having broken with their sweethearts,
What gave position at that time was twenty-one minute guns were tired
Home to camp the fisherman goes, again, is still rural and beautiful.
regard marriage as fated to be a fail
Inherited distinction. Its possession that reverberated over the city. Ap
taking a cast In this silent po»l in
Since 1870 the population, of this
ure.
was free from self consciousness—sim propriate exercises were held, aud when
which the trout rose In the formoon large Ixmdon has grown from 3,618,000
* The Royal Geographical society has
ply an advantage of birth, which that
to his cast, but missed the fly, or in to 6,678.000 at the end of 1001. It is
the crowds of old soldiers and patriotic
recently acquired the boat's compass
Providence who had always shown an
that dark hole deep under the tank thus hardly using the language of ex
used by Dr. Livingstone on bls drat
affinity to hierarchies saw fit to bestow people weuded their way from the cem
Another tribute to the dead which In which a vigilant eye may detect the aggeration to say that the population
Journey down the Zambesi valley in
on a favored class. The community etery, at the head of every grave in the
brown
sides
of
a
trout
with
lazily
wav
has doubled in thirty years. Since 1870
1856.
was divided by the grace of God into Graud Army plot was a little flag and a should appeal to every one was the
ing tins and tall, an old campaigner over 500,000 new houses have been
In some of the Parisian cemeteries
gentlemen — and others; perhaps It large one floated at half-mast. Every placing of flowers on the graves in the
not easily caught.—Dr. A. T. Bristow built, and of these over 2(M»,000 were
there are open vaults connected with
would tie more exact to say gentlemen, inch of the enclosure was covered with potter’s field, which originated with
in World’s Work.
built after 1890. Since 1870 8,000 new
electrical appliances to prevent the
their servants and others. The privacy a mantle of fragrant flowers. As early some lady In one of our country towns.
streets have been formed, and these
burial of persons who may be only lu
of these gentlemen concerned them as 8 o’clock in the morniug the soldiers All honor to her for this thoughtfulness
new streets measure over 1,300 miles,
CHINESE CONTRASTS.
a trance.
selves only. There were no “social
from the Presidio began strewing the for the poor aud friendless, even though
531 of these miles having been added i
happenings” heralded in their newspa
Machinery has been ordered for the
they are sleeping their last sleep just as
We bake bread; In China they steam since 1890.
pers to force notoriety upon family life. graves of their comrades with flowers
Argentine Republic to turn out 250
A hundred thousand people are being
How It would have astonished those that they had gathered from the reser sweetly and Just as quietly as those it.
tons a week of molascult, the new cat
G m 4 w I h and rhe Artist.
We divide the day into twenty-four added to it every year and 20,000
early aristocrats If they could have an vation. Among the four thousand offi who are lying under the glistening
Sydney Grant tells this story of Nat tle food made from molasses and sugat
hours;
they
into
twelve.
houses.
It
shows
no
sign
of
stopping
ticipated the fictitious ImiMirtance later cers aud soldiers buried at the Na monuments, and possibly their record
Goodwin: The actor and bls wife, cane fiber.
We locate Intellect in the brain; they in its growth and In a very few years Maxine Elliot, attended a picture show
days would attach to their privileges!— tional Cemetery only a small portion is a purer and more enviable one than
A census recently completed shows
promises to convert what is now an
Elizabeth Duer In Smart Set.
bad friends and relatives in Ban Fran some who are lying under a marble locate it lu the stomach.
In Boston. While wandering through that there are 94,882 children of school
outer circle of townships Into an inner
Our
calendar
Is
based
on
solar
time;
the gallery Mr. Goodwin’s eye was at age In Boston and that 71,532 of them
cisco, yet every grave, from the tall shaft.
Wlud and Temperatnre.
circle, welded Into the compact iiiiiHH
theirs Is based on lunar time.
tracted by a small canvas, and be went are pupils In the public schools aud
The wind does not affect the ther- aud most conspicuous monument down
aa
I
.ondo
II.
—
indistinguishable
save
With us the seat of honor Is on the
up to Inspect It more closely. Just then 15,601 In private schools.
BRIEF REVIEW.
mometer, as any one may find out for to the simple little mound with the
Westminster Review.
right; with them it Is on the left
Almost every adult Mantcboo carries
himself by a simple test. Take two words “U. B. Soldier,” was adorned
Our given name precedes the sur
a Connecticut dollar watch. The United
dry bulb thermometers of exactly the with its tiny flag aud a wealth of flow
Britain's Postal Basks.
Old Violin Recovered by Czar.
name; theirs follows the surname.
States had no trade worth mentioning
same kind and baug one of them where
The fact is mid that the post office
ers. One feels a great wave of pity
A Htradivarlus, which hail been
The needle of our compass points to savings banks of Great Britain are
in Manchuria until we tiegan to fur
It will be exposed to the wind and the
sweep over them when they think of played by several Czars, beginning with the north; theirs points to the south.
nish Russia ties, rails and engines for
other where It will be sheltered—suy,
technically Insolvent. Their deposits
her railways. Now the trade in flour
We have standard weights and meas at the end of the year were $700.060,-
on two sides of the corner of the house the graves of the unknown dead in the Alexander I and which disappeared
and cotton Is Important.
—and after allowing them to hang National Cemetery.
from the Museum of the imperial Or ures; their weights and measures differ (M)0, their assets only about $070,800,-
thus for a few minutes you will Und
The great power station of the Dis
chestra at Bt. Petersburg in May, 188*2, lu each district.
000.
that they register the same, And yet
One of the prettiest tributes of Memo has been recovered by Dwight J. Pal-
Our children stand facing the teach
trict railway, Ixmdon, possesses special
Nobody worries about a little thing
the persou who stands near the ther- rial Day to the departed was the strew tello, United Htates Treasury agent al er to recite their lessons; theirs turn like that; the government is responsi
Interest because of the fact that It will
mometer that hangs in the wind will ing of tlowers on the ocean for those
their backs to the teacher.
be the first large electrical power sta
ble. Of course the discrepancy rose
Berlin. Mr. Partello, who himself is
feel the cold more sensibly than the
tion to be operated entirely by steam
Our watchmen quietly go their from the high prices the department
who had lost their lives at sea. Early the possesMir of twenty famous violins,
persou who stands near the sheltered
turbines. The plaut will consist of ten
in the morning the Government tug heard word dropped by a persou inter rounds with a view to catching was forced to pay for national bonds
one.
rarsons-Westlngbouse turbines, each
thieves; theirs beat gongs and yell to before the Boer war. The lowerlug of
Slocum,
carrying
150
representatives
ested In violins, which enabled him to frighten them away.
The wind is simply air In motion,
of 7,500 hone power.
the rate of interest allowed is an ob
and air in motion is no colder than the of the various camps of the Grand trace the stolen instrument to a col
The Australian death rate from can
We bury our dead a few days after vious cure.
same air in a state of rest. We feel Army of the Republic and other organ lector living in a town of Southern tbelr decease; they often keep theirs in
The postal banks were authorized in
cer for every 10,000 living has risen in
colder in the wind simply because its izations steamed a little outside the France, who bought it for $2500 from a the bouse in heavy, sealed coffins for 1861, and nearly ten mlllioua were de
the last thirty years from 2.75 to 5.72.
blowing over us takes the be'at away heads, where a brief stop was made.
posited the first year. Some later de
It has more than doubled for males and
Paris dealer. The violin Just recovered years.—"China's Millions.”
from the body by causing a more rap Minute guns were tired, followed by a
velopments are curious. By the "slip”
nearly doubled for females. Cancer Is.
is
specially
precious
to
the
present
id evaporation from the skin. There is
system a sum so small as 2 cents can
however, distinctly a disease of later
program of prayer and song. Then Czar, because one of his childhood rec
The Hookah la Isdta.
no evaporation from the dry bulb of a
be deposited. Deposits can be with
life. Increasing in prevalence aa age in
The
hookah
is
smoked
as
a
refresh
those
on
board
scattered
thousands
of
ollections is seeing hie father, Alexan
thermometer, and therefore the wind
creases beyond Its middle term.
blossoms of ail kinds on the water, der III, often play it. Czar Nicholas ment and sign of fellowship by the drawn by telegraph. School savings
does not affect it.
banks are recognized, but are not very
Cohesion is an extended electric at
which were carried on the tide seaward therefore, was much annoyed when, natives of India and not merely as a successful owing to the superior at
luxury. When a group of natives are
traction of groups of electrons in mu
followed by a tiny tri-cornered raft walking through the museum one day,
Oriental Jusrirlery.
seated together and. as is the custom, tractions of sweets as a medium of In
tual linkage or satisfaction. Cohesion
An eyewltneaa of a celebrated font nearing a flag. As the vessel slowly he saw in the violin case, where the
the hookah is passed around to each In vestment.
in tbe electric sense, as in wireless te
of oriental Jugglery tells the following turned Buglar McKie sounded taps Btradivarius commonly rested, an ordi
A
feature
of
the
postal
banks
la
turn It is considered very bad manners
legraphy, is tbe artificially enhanced
story of what he thought he saw a aud the Slocum started on her home
nary instrument with the name of a Bt. for any one to decline to have a few through their agency depositors
molecular attraction due to electric
band of Indihn fakirs accomplish:
ward way, leaving a trail of flowers be Petersburg shop pasted inside. The puffs. If the hookah is thus refused buy small fractional portions of
stimulus and tbe momentary Inductive
"They produced a chain seventy-five
hind her that were wafted gently out vender recognized and pointed out a In a friend's bouse or while one is the ernment bonds.
displacement of groups of electrons.
feet In length and in my presence
The delays in the construction of war
a member of the Russian imperial guest of another it is regarded as an
threw one end of it toward the sky. to sea on the tide.
First
India
insult If for any reason a native is
ships In private yards in this country
where it remained as if fastened to
household as a buyer of this cheap in
The
first
full
blooded
Indian
-to
ar
put out of caste the fact Is strictly
constitute a grave national danger. Tbe
something in the air. A dog was then
The accused denied the marked by bls former caste fellow's rive at League Island navy yard Is
It was a day for remembering the de strument.
British admiralty boasts that It can
brought forward and. being placed at parted. for alter this beautiful tribute of statement absolutely, and as he was of
the
painter
of
the
picture
In
question
refusal to smoke with him, and any now doing duty on the Minneapolis.
wait to know tbe designs and efficiency
the lower end of the chain, immedi showering flowers on the soldiers’ rank sufficiently to have bis word ac
happened
in.
He
recognized
Goodwin,
one who eats, drinks or smokes with He Is known In the Crow tribe, of
of tbe projected vessels of France, Ger
ately ran up and. reaching the other
graves had tieen rendered, the cars cepted, this line of inquiry was dropped. an outcast Is himself outcaated.— which he Is a member, as Great White but did not suppose the actor was many or the United States before It be-
end, disappeared in the air. In the
aware
of
bls
identity.
Mr.
Goodwin.
It
bear
and
Is
descended
from
the
In
Chambers’ Journal.
ulna to build new vessels to excel them.
same manner a hog, a panther, n lion leadiug to the different cemeteries in
dian chief of that name. Whitebear, seems, had previously met the artist at
A Speaking Arc Light
As stammering la a cauae of rejection
and a tiger were successively sent up the city as well as the steam and elec
a dinner and did not fail tc recognize
as
he
Is
called
at
the
navy
yard,
en
"■zeentive AkIUty.”
for military aervlce. Its frequency la
A direct-current arc lamp, when con
the chain, and all disappeared at the tric cars conveying passengers to the
saw
him
In
the
gal-
his
face
when
be
“But then, of course, be has execu listed as a landsman. He was edu
upper end. At last they pulled down various well-kept “God’s-acres” in Ban nected up in shunt with a telephone
lery. Sauntering up to Goodwin, the shown by the atatiatlca of the examina
cated at the Carlisle Indian school.
the chain and put It in a bag. no one Mateo county were crowded with peo transmitter, will reproduce speeches, tive ability,” we said conclusively.
painter, scenting, as be did. possible tion of recruits In different nations,
“
I
have
been
here
two
days,
and
the
"Executive ability!” repeated our ac
ever discovering in what manner the ple going laden with flowers and re the lamp In this case being termed a
eulogy of his effort and perhaps a sale Tbe number rejected as stammerers Is
qualntance. "What do you mean hy officer has placed me In charge of a
7.50 per thousand examined In France,
different animals were made to van turning empty-handed. One of the
of
the canvas, remarked casually:
squad,
”
said
the
Indian
Jackie,
with
“a;>eaking arc” or “archophone.” The that?”
8.23 in Switzerland, 2.87 in England.
ish.”
“
You
seem
to
like
that
picture?
”
great
pride,
when
asked
how
be
liked
cemeteries Polly visited. A beautiful alternating current arc has not thus far
“Why, the quality of holding subor
2.2
In Austria, .86 In Italy and but .19
“
Like
it,
”
answered
Goodwin,
smil
Thomas Carlyle and His Wife.
picture it made with its smisith vel been found adaptable to this use. One dinates responsible for failures and bis experience so far. "I felt when I
In Russia.
As a married couple they were in vety lawns and glistening tombs and of the theories offered to explain the taking credit to ourselves for their suc left Carlisle that I would like to do ing meaningly at Miss Elliot. "A man
There Is alive in France today a wo
something for my country, and the who would perpetrate a thing like that
deed to be pitied if the world hsd monuments of white and various col
cause of these sounds issuing from the cesses." we responded.
man wbo has been asleep for tbe last
life of a sailor appealed to me. so 1 ought to get six months.”
known it. They were childless, and
Which we considered rather clever
twenty years. Recently an abscess ap
ored marbles and granites, its beautiful arc is that the slight variations of cur
This was too iqucb for the artist.
enlisted. They make a good Ameri
therefore half the world was dark to
for studied Impromptu. — New York
shrulis
and
flowers,
aud
thousands
of
"Why, what do you know about peared on one arm, and this had to be
rent
set
up
by
the
transmitter
produce
can of you at Carlisle. I believe the
them. No man can be a “sage” who
Herald.
discipline and training of the navy painting?” he exclaimed. “You're only lanced. Dr. Charlleu performed tbe
has no children. A barren woman Is people placing floral emblems and bou relatively large variations of tempera
will be a good thing for Carlisle grad an actor. How can you know a bad operation. The sleeper seemed to feel
■ad and Bad.
like half a story. Let her be ever HO quets on the graves of those they loved. ture in the arc, the temperature vary
the Incision and for tbe first time In
clever, so literary, so witty, when it Borne of the bereaved, still heart-broken ing as the square of the current. These
Kind Hearted Citizen—Tut tut tut! uates, and I hope other Indians will picture? You never painted one.”
“No,” drawled Goodwin; “that's true twenty years was observed to move,
comes to the essentials of life she is over their loss, others resigued. There variations in temperature in turn effect Don't worry over it, little boy. You follow my example."
enough, but I know a bad egg when I making a slight twitch of the arm.
open to the retort How do you know? were scores of people liearing little slips rapid variations in the volume of the didn’t break your pitcher, and there’s
Costly Cherries.
The remnant of a strange tribe of
run across It, and. would you believe it,
And so it was with the Carlyles In ol pafier in their hands with the num
no use, you know, In crying over spilt
carbon vapor, of which the arc is main
One of Mme. Humbert's creditors, s I never laid one either.”—New York Eskimos has been discovered on South
their unsatisfying world of literary
milk.
tier and section of the one little spot ly composed, thereby setting up sound
ampton island, at the north of Hudson
eminence. Pity them, gentle reader!
Little Boy—Do I talk as If I was cry- green grocer, recently put in a claim Times.
bay. These people had never seen a
When they shut the doors of their sev they wanted in all thia lieautiful sec waves in the air around the arc. It In', mister? (Resumes hie violent lan for the sum of $760 for goods supplied
A Themas Pas.
during the period of three months.
white man until recently. Tbelr huts
eral bedrooms at night a mouse might tion and which they were patiently has been suggested by R. A. L. Snyder guage.)—Chicago Tribune.
Augustus Thomas Is credited with a are built of tbe great jaws of whales,
One item in the account has attracted
Everybody was in sym that this discovery may be employed to
not squeak or. a fly buzz but they hunting.
special attcntlci -a* the Palais de J tic- ' bit o?--humor ?t --rocer* taa irher». be. «■'•sre-i with rk-lB«. In the middle ta go
must lUtt Tuil awake In (he messed pathy, and strangers met and <x>n versed enable a speaker to address a large as
A Mystery Kxslalned.
dart end moralize, the one on eternity uu the one topic that appealed to one semblage with comparatively little ef
"I don't understand,” said the Igno tlce. It Is a charge of $115 for a cherry and Elsie De Wolf met for the first elevation, cn which Is a stone lamp
and the other on Thomas. — Ixmdon and all. One young man was search fort, inasmuch as the speech waves set ramus at the academy, "why they al tree ordered by Mme. Humbert In the time since the playwright's ‘The Earl used for lighting, heating, cooking,
month of January and which caused. It of Pawtucket” was forced out of the melting snow and drying clothes. Tbe
Outlook
ing tor his mother's grave and he found up by a teleptioue transmitter could be ways put the baidheaded men up In appears, no little sensation, as It was Madison Square thester to make room tribe is almost extinct, only some six
-fie fvoi» avrjf.------ U . . .
h, beside btitiiliet wufere a womau and superpiieMi upou 'uie held of an arc
Tor 'Kias De W»d« s ' piuduvUua ul teen beingiett.
»nttsrmknaf.' ‘
"That's easy," butted In the usher. iirougnt into her dining riibm covered
“Who Ilves In that big house on the her three little children were kneeling light machine, when all the lamps op
With cherries on the oi-casion of one of. "Cynthia.” Miss De Wolfe was ex
Commercial schools in Russia are
"They put ’em up there so they’ll be
corner, Dennis?”
her celebrated dinner parties.
pressing her regret at the clrcum founded by the state wherever they
and decking the little mound with a erated from this machine would repro near the flies.”—Boston Herald.
"The Widdy O’Mallejr, eor, who Is wealth of floweis. Tears fell fast as he duce the speech.
stances, which, she said, could not be are thought to be necessary. Tbe Ini
■aeonraaee Imposition.
dead.”
foreseen or prevented, and added: “I tiative Is always taken by commercial
placed his offering of pinks and ferns on
■▼11.
Tbe 8ydney Telegraph says that by hope you realize bow awfully sorry I organizations- that Is. chambers of
"Indeed! When did she die?”
A Danbury man lias made a com-
Good Is positive.
Evil is merely
the neglected grave. Words of sym
the New South Wales old age pension
"If she had lived till next Sunday
pressed air engine which 1« half an inch privative, not absolute It
like cold, aysiem a uew class of siale dependence I was to turn you out, Mr. Thomas, right commerce and similar bodies tbe
the would have been u«-su a year."— pathy were exchanged betweeu the
in inc midst of your success. Bui my members of which have previously
lady and himself, and I heard him say, high and no larger than a dime, but It which la the privation of beat. All has been created Involving an nnnunl ' ?ontract was signed before there was
Kansas City Journal.
examined tbe question. Russian com
evil
is
so
much
death
or
nonentlty.-
ruus
as
long
as
the
air
is
applied.
“I curse the day I left my mother. Bhe
expenditure of alarming proportions any thought of producing your play, mercial schools are state institutions
Emerson.
without relieving existing charitable and as there was no other theater va and are under tbe control of tbe min
did not wish me to go, but I went in
The reanlty.
Institutions to any appreciable extent. I cant of course”—
spite of her pleadings, and wheu I re
The Uulted States and Great Britain
A Feer Bnrwnins'-
ister nt finance. There are forty three
Mr. Workbardd - My dear, I have lost
The act. It is said, has tended to en- i "I understand.” laughed Mr. Thoma a.
turned
she
was
dead.
They
tell
me
she
toge
ther
handle
more
letters
and
peri
Ethel
—
I
offered
Ferdy
a
penny
for
commercial sctoola In the Russian em
my situation, and It just happens that I
courage Imposition and actual fraud, “In spite of our great financial success pire under tbe control of tbe state and
haven't a dollar ahead. We must go to died calling my name. 1 was filled odicals than all the red of the world bis thoughts.
Edith-Well, I'll never let you do any “besides loosening ties of kinship and we couldn’t keep De Wolfe from the twenty private schools, similarly or
with the desire that many other boys combined.
the poorhouse for dinner.
weakening moral obligation.”
door.“—New York Times.
shopping for me!—Puck.
ganized. with state supervision.
Mrs. W.—Surely some of the grocers of my age had at the time of the Span
From
Harve
a
French
lady
has
sent
Frews
and
Paskos.
with whom we have dealt for so many ish sir to fight for my country. I
■ ■Its a Llomlot.
atm Mses Asteerstls.
Two Moats.
Tbe common snake ia very fond of
years will trust ns.
Mr. 8. had Just welcomed hie nephew
thought duty called me, when if I had out to the Cape a number of sheep aa a
Knicker-Didn’t he find It hard to re water. Its food consists exclusively of
“I never send out a story for publica
Mr. W. (sadly)—No; I have no credit not lieen so determined to see the mat present to the Boers.
borne
from
school.
“
Now,
then.
Tsm-
turn to civil life after commanding in frogs and fishes. All snakes eat either
anywhere. We always paid cash.—New
my.” be said, “let us see wbat you tion.” said Dullpath, the realist, “with
ter only in the light that favor»d my
the army?
living food. Including eggs, or creatures have been learning all this time. Wbat out first having slept over it.”
York Weekly.
The United Blates Weather Bureau
Böcker—No, Indeed. He got a pool they have themselves killed. When
ambition to go forth and fight, I would
Is the meaning of felo de se?” In I “I don’t believe I’ve ever read one of
employs 1400 trained otaervors at 180 tion as janitor.—Smart Set.
have known that my duty was to have
pursued by a snake tbe frog seems to stantly replied the lad, a little con them either without doing the same
A Mower «aver.
stations.
be half paralysed with fear, leaping temptuously: “Oh. that’s only French thing,” returned Hawley.
City Oueat—Why don’t yon have your stayed with my dear mother and made
less and less powerfully as the snake for a sailor. Ask me something In
The dogskin glove of which we used
Windows washed, landlord? I can't see her old age aa comfortable aa possible.
approaches it more nearly and uttering Latin.”
SWaet Contest.
Instead of this I left her with tears to bear is made of nothing but the skin
Mt
feeble cries. If a stick be so pushed
Blobbs—811 Ileus is very proud of bis
Country Innkeeper No, don't want streaming from her eyes and filled with of the Cape goat.
through tbe grass toward a frog as to I Tbe pride that many unblemished lineage. Isn't be?
'ana downed
If they were clean I'd anxiety, doubts and fears. When the
Imitate the movement of a snake tbe ' persons affect In their ancestry Is so) Slobbs-Yes; be would rather have
have to get curtains to keep the sun California boys came home, I don’t
In Western Canada 296,000,000 acres
frog will exhibit tbe symptoms of ter melancholy that they might as well be ancestry than make a name for him-
out
believe there was any happier person of arable land to-day await the plow.
ror Just noted
dead thetuselves.-8cboolmaster.
self. Philadelphia Record.
ROMAN HOT BATHS.
:
The parliamentary language of New
York's board of aidermen ta puzzling
the people of “the tight little islaud."
the early home of the English tongue.
“What Is a 'pie faced mut?”’ asks the
Ixmdon Chronicle. “That Is wbat an
aiderman tailed the chairman at a
council meeting. He also called the
presiding officer a gazabo.' Thia la
proliably a corruption of 'gazeebo,' a
word defined in Buiart as 'a summer
house commanding an extensive pros
pect.’ The definition does not matter.
The word in appearance and sound is
so nobly objurgatory that it was Ism nd
sooner or later to be used as an insult
ing epithet.
"But 'mut?* We have searched In
vain for an origin, a meaning, for that
The etymologies of transatlantic slang
often elude us." The more sapient
Globe rushes In with an explanation.
" ‘Mut’ Is Identical with *mlt,' and *mit’
Is America nene for a corruptionist who
accepts a 'dip in the palm.’ but whose
cage mess for more 'boodle' is so great
that he wears a large mitten.” We
have heard of “big mlt games,” but
the learning of the Ixmdon paper leads
It astray when it derives "mut” from
“tnit” A conference of the best availa
ble authorities on American slang says
that “mut” is brief for “mutton heud.”
—New York Tribune.
Ths tale of bow Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt outwitted a kodak flend who
bad snapped her picture serves to
strengthen Mrs. Vanderbilt's reputation
for supreme tact, says the New York
Press. The tragic scorching of Miss 1
Evelyn Harden's ankle attracted all of ’
her friends as inquirers, and it was a
gala occasion for an Indefatigable cam
era man to take bis stand outside of
the Madison square mansiou and snap
each woman of fashion as she left her
carriage.
They had all run the gantlet some
shielding their faces and others laugh
ing Into the lens, and the sun was at
its highest when Mrs. Vanderbilt ar
rived. Bhe reached the bouse without
the "kodaker” getting in his deadly
work, but when she returned to the
street he caught her as she came down
the stoop.
To make matters worse the footm in
had difficulty opening the carriage door,
and the enthusiastic photographer
snapped again and again.
“Do something to that man," cried
Mrs. Vanderbilt angrily to her foot
man.
He explained that a quarrel would
make matters worse.
"Then order a policeman to arrest
him." commanded the woman of fash
ion.
The footman believed that snapping
the celebrities was not included In the
penal code.
“Then," said she, with a new idea,
"tell him Mrs. Vanderbilt would like to
speak to him.”
The footman delivered the message,
and the camera man, with bared bead,
approached the carriage.
“Will you be so good,” said Mrs. Van
derbilt sweetly, “as to give me that
film? I want It very much.”
The man said there were other ex-
liosures on the film that he wanted.
“Well,” replied the woman, “I want
those pictures you took of me. You are
not going to refuse me.”
Her manner was most captivating.
“I'll tell you wbat I'll do,” said the
man. “Here's my word of honor that
I'll never use those pictures of you in
any way.”
“Very good,” resiionded Mrs. Vander
bilt. with relief, “and I shall trust
you.”