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justing her wraps, and they went down
the stairs.
“Say. Pybua, call a cab.” Stedd whis
pered it shamefacedly, pushing bls
friend forward, and Pybua led the way
up. Mlaa Peyton followed.
"Do yon mind,” be asked deferential
ly after be had explained matters—
“will you stand here?’
Mias Peyton posed obediently against
the canvas, from which the “Portrait
of Zulelka” bad disappeared. Her gray
draperies threw out the soft tints of
eyes and hair, and Pybua, lowering the
lamp on the mautel, left the room with
a lugubrious “perfect” on his lips. Soon
after, aa be and Stedd stared reflective
ly from their biding place behind the
stairs, McCuller passed them and went
up the steps.
•
•••••
e
McCuller threw himself into a chair.
From the alcove where the frame
stood came subdued sighing, aa of some
one in trouble.
"My very ears deceive me,” McCuller
said irritably. “Why on earth do these
hallucinations persecute me? Have I
daubed and striven for thia, to degen
erate at last into Insanity? No; I have
worked too steadily, brooded too much,
perhaps. Humanity la not machinery,
however much we may try to identify
them. There la always the soul. Ah,
that's it! With these higher powers,
why might one not— Pshaw! I am
nervous, run down. I need a tonic."
He strode toward the alcove and
flung aside the portieres. Miss Pey
ton’s eyes met his dreamily a second;
then—
“You?’
THE INSTINCT FOR DOLL8.
R*« Dahlee Mure Love4 Th*» Their
Ga*4y Waa Slater*.
Few things are more psychologies lly
Intereating than tbs instinct which
make« little girls (sometimes before
they are able to articulate) seise upon
any absurd object to satisfy the mater
nal Inatluct; avsn a bottle wrapped to
a towel has served tbs purpose, for,
like savages, when they worship they
■re content with the rudest imitation
ef the human figure. On that wretch
ed caricature, the daubed and lumpy
rag doll, boundless affection ia be
stowed, and with it how many Socratic
dialogues are held!
Aa time goes on thia rudimentary ef
figy ia exchanged for others which bet
ter satisfy newly developed tastes and
feelings. A girl of six is not content
unless her doll baby bears some resem
blance to her mother’s baby. Aided by
this mirage of reality, the imagination
leaps all bounds. But it la checked by
too studied an imitation of life. The
splendid, richly dressed creature of
wax la never really loved. Its tame
ness chills the fancy. It la Imposed
upon the affections, not created by
them. And too large a doll la seldom
much liked. A small doll, not too
handsome, ia usually the favorite.
As girls grow older there may often
be seen a touching suggestion of a fact
familiar tn real life, a partiality for
the weakest and least favored of the
doll family.—Good Housekeeping.
FREAKS OF CLOCKS
THE STRANGE WARNING CHIMED
FROM STRASSBURG CATHEDRAL
rveailarittM «X th« Tla>«*l«*e 1« th«
■rltlab H«aa« •< L«r4a—Th« M*4-
*«M «r Meeh Ila’s ClMk — “Wk.e
Claek* G« Crasy. Thl*<* u« D*tt."
THE AGILE OSPREY
ODDITIES IN PET NAMES.
> Hsagry Bird as4 a Tragedy aff a
Treat Streaas.
<•• **4 ria Ar« the Teras* C«v«<«4
by Freaeh W**aa*.
A big brown and white bird cam«
■ailing up tb« trout stream, bls long
wings stretched far out to right and
left. He flew slowly, for be waa look
ing for something-something that be
wanted very much. Hj waa doing bls
family marketing. Up in th« top of a
big pine tree a mile away his wife was
■itting on a neat full of eggs, and it
Was both his duty snd hla pleasure to
find a supper for her. Suddenly he
stopped short. He bad caught sight of
the thing for which be was searching—
a dusky, shadowy shape, with an out
line like that of a submarine torpedo
boat, lying moveleaa tn the clear water.
For just an instant he seemed to bang
poised in the air, but It waa only long
enough to change the direction of hla
motion; then down be went with a
rush and a swoop.
The brook trout aaw him coming and
tried to dart away, but It waa too late.
With a mighty aplaah the oaprey
■truck the stream and went clear un
der and out of eight, while the water I
boiled and surged over him. He could I
not see for the commotion about him,
but his aim had been true, and hla out
stretched feet touched a slippery,
aliuiy, wriggling body that was juat
beginning to gather headway.
Quicker than a wink bis toe* closed
■bout it and hla sharp talons sank
deep Into the trout’s flesh. Then up be
came, rising out of the stream like
some fabled monster of old and shak
ing the water from hie feathers in a
shower of flying drops. Every thread
of muscle In hla wings and breast waa
working with all its might to lift that
heavy trout. Up went the bird’s great
pinions till they were straight above
him; then down the} came, lashing the
■lr like wblpa. Up again and down, up
and down, up and down, harder and
faster and fiercer, and little by little
he and bls victim rose from the stream
till at last they were clear of the tree
tops, then straight away to the nest
In the old pine, where the wife was
waiting to trake them both welcome.—
W. D. Hulbert in Leslie's Monthly.
BLAKE,
«ÏÏÉ 8®“»PAPERS
tn*NE
OARO STOOK
“If a man In this ceuntry calls hla
...Straw and Biaderà* Board...
wife a cat the foundation Is laid for a
■S-S7^t»-«l rtrat (Mreet
divorce suit,” said the man who trav-
Tal. Mals UM».
U
SAN FRANCiaOO.
els. “But a French woman takes the
same word as a term of endearment
It'a odd how the choicest phrases in the
vocabulary of affection of one people
■re used for quite an opposite purpose
by another nation. One of the most fa
miliar and most coveted phrases of en When Hie Kidney Trouble Has
dearment among the French, for in
Fastened
and
Reached the
stance, la ’my little pig,’ and ’my little
Chronic
Stage?
If
it Has It la
puppy dog* ia also well liked.
Incurable by Anything Known
“But if tig* Frenchman were to call
Except the Fulton Compound*.
Mme. Narcisse ’duck.’ as an American
We Are The Solo Agent*.
husband might lovingly call hl* better
half, she would be very much offended.
Oue of the oddest pet names that I ev
A* *n «vtdssc* ot th*UDuauslohsr*eterof th*
er beard of was that used by a famous Fulioo Compound* thst company doe* not pub-
German general, who always called his llsb or isvlt* te*Umoulsls *xc*pt tbo«* report
wife ’my little kernel of coffee.' They inc r*oov*rl*s la kldnsy dl*» **o* thst havs
were divorced at last, however, and a rmohad th* chronic stsg«, sUogsd to b* Incur«,
cynic said that the general’s pet name bls. H*r* Is another r*cov*ry In * cm * l»ours-
should have been 'my dear little stack bl* till th* advent ot th* Fulton Ccmpoun.l*,
of bayonets,’ for the lady waa said to reported by John* A Johnson, the agent* of th*
have had a very sharp tongue. I know Fulton Compounds tn Los Gatos:
W. H. Fridlsy, a resident ot Ix>s Onto*,
a devoted disciple of Walton, who, baring chronle kidney dieesee (Bright's Dis
when writing to bls wife while on a ease) had, ilk* everybody else, found *11 treat-
fishing expedition, calls her ‘my dear ment futile. Re oommsneed on Fulloa's Renal
little speckled trout.' "—New York Compound In February, mt, snd on Deoembcr
10 of th* esine year reported the total disap
Frees.
WHO KNOWS
There la an old saw which declare*
fiiat “when clocks go craay, things go
A PORTRAIT of Zulelka.’’ tall,
»aft.”
sheer, with the introspective
At 2 a. m. on Sept. 27, 1869, the
gaze of old time eaiutshlp in
h-orld
famous clock in the great cathe
the eyes that looked out
dral at Straasburg commenced to chime
from under gold shot hair lying In dap
without rhyme or reason. It sounded
pled rings across the forehead; short
1,879 peals, then stopped, and after an
lips ou which the paint gleamed fresh.
Interval slowly began to toil as if for
McCuller bent bls bead critically.
a great one dead.
,
“Aa good a* you make 'em," suggest
The political atmosphere of Europe
ed his friend from a lounge to the cor
at that time waa indicative of pro
ner.
found peace. Nothing of danger or dis
“No*” said McCuller; “want* life. It
grace could by any possibility be con
la the artistic basis which I lack; ex
ceived of as threatening Strassburg or
presses her, though, ’soft as the mem
its inhabitants. Yet less than a year
ory of buried love.’ Humph! Not quite.
afterward the German armies had en
What do you say, Pybua?’
circled the city with a ring of steel and
He turned, weighing the palette in
tire. The German shells were falling
his bands. “Strange how the face
thickly in her streets and squares and
clings to me! An Idea, my Idea, mate
exploding even within the precincts
rialized, created from nothing, like
of the stately cathedral itself. And
God's world. For the furtherance of
precisely at 2 a. m. Sept 27, 1870, Gen
what? My own glory? Not as long as
eral Uhrich signed the capitulation
the eyelids appear as if they had never
pearance ot the dlsesas. He writes thst he hae
which waa to deliver Straaaburg Into
winked. See; they stare too much.”
gained fifteen pound* to weight snd is again
Why X*a«ra Get Tired.
the hands of the Invaders.
Pybua raised himself on one elbow
“Do you know why we dip a ra xor sbl* to do a good bard day’s work. John* *
In the bouse of lords Is a certain his
to look at the picture through half
Johnson, the Loa Gatos druggists, confirm this
In warm water before we begin ■bsv- reoorery snd Snow of seversl other recoveries Is
torical
timepiece
wbicl*
is
said
to
in
■but eyes. “Push it back against the
Ing,
and
do
you
know
why
some
Ig
similar
ossee of chronlo kidney disease In Los
variably suffer from temporary aber
portiere—aa Crimson set* it. aa it
norant men say a razon is ’tired? ” ask Gstoe. *11 ot which wve Incurable by snything
ration whenever a member of the royal
The lllago« Saree.
were, to relief. There; that’s better.
else known to druggists. S. A. Palmer, the
ed the barber. “Well, this ia all due leading druggiatut Sants Cruz, H. H Maynard,
The saree is the national costume of family of Britain passes away. The
Now she breathes.”
4*£ »»
to the fact that a razor la a saw, not the Ps'alums druggist, the Ferry Drug Com-
almost all Hindoo women and occa peculiarity waa first noticed when Wil
“No; but I wish she did. Pybus, it
ot No. 8 Market street. San Franctsoo. W.
a knife, and It worka like a saw, not dany
They gazed at each other three min sionally of Mohammedan women In liam IV. died. Very early in the morn
R. Pond, the Berkeley druggiat. Dr Markley,
ia Pygmalion over ngaln. I could love
the Cloverdale druggiat, Willis A Martin, the
like
a
knife.
Examined
under
the
utes
after
that.
Then
the
girl
said:
ing
the
clock
began
to
emit
a
aeries
of
India. It ia an entire cloth, in many
her If she lived.”
drngglata, and scores of other Cali
microscope Its edge, that looks so Sacramento
"You have forgotten me, of course; cases eighteen yards long and about a peculiar gurgling noises, as though
fornia druggists all report apeelfio recover!*-*
“And feed her? McCuller, you are
In chr-.ntc kidney diseases that were poeltlrvly
smooth
to
the
naked
eye,
Is
seen
to
but,
believe
me,
I
would
not
have
come
yard broad. In texture the cloth va- gasping for breath, went suddenly
crazy. If ahe lived, you would have to
Incurable by anything known except the Fulton
have Innumerable and fine ■aw. teeth. Compound a.
bad 1 knowu.”
ries to suit the poorest ■■ well aa tbe ■low and finally stopped altogether.
Dropiy, rheumatism from urle acid, gout and
When
these
teeth
get
clogged
with
dirt
“Who are you?’ McCuller tried In richest Inhabitants of the country, In All efforts to atari It failed, and on the
bladder troubles are proofs that the kidneys
all the honing and strapping in the are not pertortul ng their functions. The chronic
vain to recall some Incident connected the matter of tying and wearing the evening of the day of the funeral It
world will do no good—the razor is elage of kidney trouble la Bright,« Disease If
with the girl's face, but it eluded him. garment there ia little difference any restarted of Its own accord, nor did it
you feel languid or miserable, if your kidney
dull and nothing will sharpen it. Then trouble hangs on send for Pamphlet. Per
“Dora Peyton. You helped me over where. The cloth, which has one plain give any further trouble whatever for
is the time the ignorant say it Is centage of recoveries nearly DO percent among
a crossing with my father a year ago. end. la passed around the loins and the many years afterward.
{iurely chronic cases Fulton's Renal Compound
’tired’ and stop using it. but the wise nr Bright's a d Kidney Diseases, tl: for
It waa raining"—
It has over and over again been no
upper border tied In a strong knot
Diabetes, (1 W. John J. Fulton Co., 4X1 Wash
know
It
Is
only
clogged.
“Yes; I remember now. Your father The cloth is then passed two, three or ticed that clocks, especially those ■lt-
ington street. San Francleoo, sole oompouodere.
“The wise, though, don't suffer their Free analyser* for patients. We are the sole
was”—
even four times around the waist to uated In the turrets of high buildings
razors to get clogged. They dip them sgeuta fur the Fulton Cuiupuuud* tn this olty.
“Not himself." She drew in her form a petticoat which. If the saree be having unusually deep foundations, are
in warm water before they use them,
breath quickly. Then all at once she a proper width, reaches to the ground liable to go wrong in sympathy with
and thus the teeth are kept clean. It
gave him her band. “Oh, I have never A portion is then plaited neatly into seismic disturbances happening in dis
PITH AND POINT.
is because a razor is a saw that lather
forgotten! There were ao many look folds and tucked In before so as to tricts sometimes very fsr away.
doesn’t soften the beard, as so many
ing on and—laughing. They were all hang down in front to the instep, or
The more culture the less jewelry.
On Nov. 1, 1755, for inatance, fully
The mortality among babies during the
unkind, but you”—
even lower. The remainder of the cloth half the timepieces in Edinburgh were
Night is only a tunnel to him who people think. It stiffens it. so that It thiee teething years is something frightful.
will present a flrm and resisting sur- The census of 1900 shows that about one in
“Cleared the crossing and took you is passed across the bosom over the affected. Many stopped altogether. travels toward hope.
face to the rasor.”—Philadelphia Rec- every seven succumbs.
home,”
McCuller laughed lightly. left shoulder and head, on which It Others went slow or fast or started
The cause
What some folks call luck Is in real
is apparent.
With
baby’s
ord.
“Well, as a reward you have come rests, the ornamental ends falling part striking wrongly. In this the supersti ity disaster to them.
bones hardening, the fontanel (opening in the
skull) closing up and its teeth forming, all
here to— What is it that you have ly over the right arm below the waist. tious saw some calamity impending,
these coming at once create a demand for
It Is love of virtue, not fear of law,
O*e Oe*ll*t’* Advice.
come here for, and who told you to In the south of India, however, the and it was not until news arrived of that makes civilization.
bone material that nearly half the little
“
So
you
have
been
trying
to
doctor
systems
_______ __
__ _______
are deficient
in.
The
result __ la
come?"
end does not prss over the head. It la the great Lisbon earthquake that the
A man’s business may be a success your own eyes," remarked the oculist peevishness, weakness, sweating, fever, diar
“Your friend, Mr. Jones. He ■aid drawn tightly over the left shoulder alarm was allayed. It waa then discov
rhoea,
brain
troubles,
convulsions,
etc
, that
■nd yet the man ■ failure.
as the patient removed the bandage, prove terribly fatal. The deaths In liHM) under
you were”—
and bosom and tucked into the waist ered. by comparing times and dates,
three
years
were
304,988,
to
say
nothing
of
Don
’
t
weep
over
a
bad
crop,
Get
displaying an aggravated case of con
“Insane?”
behind or on the right hip.
the vast number outside the big cities that
that the first shock must have traveled your land ready and sow again.
junctivitis. “In many cases you can were not reported, and this in the Unltwl
“No, morbid about ‘Zulelka.’ I was
from Fez in Morocco to Cape Wrath
You can conquer your cares more cure yourself, but If you don't know States alone.
to personate her—for money—but had
Ow»»nAI> ef ata*« “B»il«»w."
in leaa than eight seconds.
When baby begins to sweat, worry or cry
quickly
if you do not continually carry what treatments to avoid you are lia out
in sleep don't wait, and the need 1»
I known"—
A curious coincident waa then recall a long face.
One of the peculiar things about a
neither medicine nor narcotics.
What the
ble
to
do
yourself
injury.
Old
house
"Were the boys going to play a joke copyrighted play la that any little piece ed. On the evening of April 7, exactly
little system is crying out for is more bone
Whatever
you
may
have
In
your
wife
remedies
are
all
right
in
their
material,
on me? Well, you have spoiled it.”
Sweetman
’
s
Teething
Food
sup-
of business or any new lines which five years previously, several thou
plies It. It has saved the lives of thousands
She started. “I did not think— Of may be inserted in the manuscript sand« of persons, particularly those of purse, carry hope In your heart and place, but I would advise you not to of
babies,
They begin to Improve within
■pend it freely.
use tea leaves. They often give relief, forty-eight hours. Here is what physicians
course I will not
i
take the money."
while a stock company is playing the rank and fortune, had camped out lu
There is no law against laughter, my but they bring on other complications. think of It.
“Are you so much in need of drama belong thereafter to the man Hyde park and bad thus passed the
2934 Washington St.,
friend. You are here on earth and en In fact, the ’tea leaf eye' Is well known
money ?’’
San Francisco, June 2, 1902.
who owns the copyright.
hours from dusk till daylight
They gazed at each other.
to
the
profession.
The
lid
Is
puffy,
flab
Gentlemen
—
I
am
_
_ your ___
prescribing
rood _ In
titled
to
its
sunshine.
“Yes. My father
I
is lying at home
Every time a stock company rents a
This was to avoid an earthquake
multitude of baLy troubles due to lm-
by and lifeless. If you wish to reduce the
support her, and she would worry you. unconscious, I had to come”— She
What
fortunes
are
wasted
by
men
peded
dentition.
_
A
____
large
percent
age
of In-
play for production from the owner of shock which had been predicted for
the Inflammation In your eyea uae hot fantile Ills and fatalities are the result of
Aa it is, you posses* her and she need paused hopelessly.
the copyright it la cut. Interlined and the early morning of the 8th by an al and women who are struggling to
slow
teething.
___
_____
Y
our
rood
dupplies
what
the
not eat. Be thankful.”
“So It was your face that clung to added to before it la produced. ▲ stage leged “madman." The threatened know those who are hardly worth water with a cloth. That Is enough deficient system demands, and I have had
“I am. But, Pybus, what a glorious me.” McCuller smiled. How utterly
Yea; you may add salt If you wish, but surprising success with :t- in scores of cases
knowing!
diet, given with thew -egular
___ _____
food, _ ___
has
conceit to command life to the eyes, absurd that a factory girl leading manager, for instance, may Interpolate quake, however, failed to materialise,
Keep on trimming your lamp«, till it Is not necessary in most cases. Salt this
some speeches In order to work up to ■ nd the scared ones got heartily laugh
not failed to cheek the infantile diHtrrsses.
call the blood from heart to Ups”—
home her drunken father In the dead the introduction of a song or specialty, ed at for their pains. Nevertheless, It ing your soil, tugging and pegging is merely an antiseptic and has no Several of the more serious cases would, 1
sure, have been fatal without it. It can
“You did not paint the heart.”
of night, saved by him from being fol
■way. You never can tell when the other virtue for eye lotions.’’ — New feel
not be too quickly brought to the attention
“None the less possible to will It into lowed by a jeering mob—that this face or he may strengthen the climax by was noted at the time that several of messenger of success will come.— York Press.
of the mother* ot the country. It 1* an *b-
putting In some new and strong lines. the public and private clocks of the
solute neceMlty.
existence. To will—do you understand? seen for a moment In the gaslight
Schoolmaster.
L. C. MENDEL. M. D.
For, if the emanations of n divine will should have formed hla conception of Often these Interpolated lines prove to metropolis stopped at precisely the
AU Br*ahe4 Ofit.
can effuse themselves Into created ma “Zulelka." And the girl herself? He be the most striking in the play and same moment on the morning In ques
A
lady
called
at
a
chemist
’
s
■bop.
Petslum*,
Cal.,
September L UM.
The Travel* of a Jewel.
make decided bits. If they are left in tion, and this fact at once took on a
Dear Sir»
___ — _______
_
I have w____
Juat __________
tried the ____
teethlns
terial substance, why should not hu had forgotten her entirely.
Fanny Kemble when In the United then, after examining one or two ar food in two cases and In both it waa a ruc-
when
the
manuscript
goes
back
to
its
new
and
sinister
significance.
man will by the potency of its divine
ticles,
remembered
that
she
wanted
ceaa.
One
waa
a
very
serious
case,
so
criti
“You say you remember me?” he
“Was It possible,” people began to States years ago was persecuted by the
cal that it was brought to me from another
germ evolve Into a sentient, an already asked curiously. “It waa a year ago.” owner, they become bis property ab
some cosmetic for the toilet and turn city
attentions
of
a
wealthy
lunatic.
When
for
treatment.
Fatal
results
were
feared.
solutely
and
may
not
be
used
by
the
ask, “that the so called ‘madman’ waa
visible, conception?’
She only nodded. She did not say,
finally rejected by her be flung a pack ing to the chemist, asked. "Have you In three days the baby ceased worrying and
commenced eating and is now well. Its action
“Goodby, McCuller. I came here to “Yes; I thought of you, dreamed of man who wrote them in any other pro not so very 'mad' after all and that age upon the table, exclaiming, “Well, any bloom of youth?’
duction;
therefore
shrewd
managers,
In this case was remarkable. I would ad
London
bad
providentially
escaped
recreate, not to speculate upon divine you aa the one chivalrous hero amid
The
merchant,
over
whose
head
more
vise you to put it in every drug store In this
at least take this!” and disappeared.
emanations. There la nothing divine countless scores of ruffians whom 1 before they return a play to its owner, what might possibly have been a hid The parcel proved to contain a very than fifty summers had passed, turned city. Yours,
always
take
great
pains
to
erase
every
‘ I. M. PROCTOR, M. D.
eous
and
unparalleled
catastrophe?"
■bout me. Goodby.”
knew.”
to one of his assistants and asked In a
scrap of correction or interlineation.
The so called' “madness” of Mech beautiful jewel. The actress was not
“Yea; it la speculation, Pybus. Every-
Sweetman
’
s
Teething
Food will carry baby
Well, it was natural that she should
long permitted to retain it She saw business way, “Have I any bloom of safely and comfortably through
the meet dan
thing la speculation. You and I are have remembered him. It was also In this way only may they keep what lin's clock constitutes one of the moat
youth
left?"
gerous
period
of
child
life.
It renders lanc
no
more
of
her
persecutor,
but
did
not
■peculations. Do not Imagine”— But natural that he should have forgotten really belongs to them.—Chicago Trib mysterious Incidents of the Napoleonic
The clerk looked up with a quiet ing of the gums unnecessary. It Is the safest
remain
under
any
sense
of
obligation
une.
plan and a blessing to the baby to not wait
wars. It happened In 1806. Two
Pybua slammed the door, and McCul her.
■mile and answered. “I believe not. for symptoms but to commence giving It the
years previously the Corsican usurper to him. The gem was stolen from her
ler finished bls speech alone.
Gasshetta
’
s
Skull.
fourth or fifth month.
Then all the teeth
sir."
—
London
Globe.
“You will not think I meant to play
before she quitted the United States.
a
•
•
•
•
•
will come healthfully, without pain, dis
When Gambetta died the medical au had razed a portion of the city to the She forgot all about it in the course of
a joke ou you?” she said anxiously,
tress
or
lancing.
It
is
an
auxiliary to their
ground, and the place bad also suffered
“Pybua.”
regular diet and easily taken. Price 50 cents
K**li*h Injustice.
laying great stress upon the “you.” thorities requested Dr. Laborde, the
severely In other ways. But the mag the years that followed. A very long
(enough
for
six
weeks),
sent
on re
“Well?”
distinguished
physician,
to
examine
his
An Australian tourist traveling in ceipt of price. Pacific Coast postpaid
Then she looked at him with “Zulei-
time afterward she was In Italy. A
Agents, Inland
“Will we succeed in getting this in- ka’s” eyes and smiled at him with “Zu- brain, and, going to Ville d’Avray, nificent cathedral had been spared, and
the west of Ireland asked an old wo* Drug Co., Mills Building, Ban Francisco.
peddler
displayed
the
contents
of
his
then, ■■ now, Ito massive tower rising
■ane Idea out of McCuller's head?’
man bow far It was to the nearest
lelka’a” mouth. McCuller waa mor where the body lay, he began work as
four square to a height of more than pack before her at Sorrento. There lay town. She sadly looked at him, then
“Don’t know.”
bid. He had worked too steadily; he soon as possible. First he opened the
the long lost jewel. Through whose
Tne snake’« Whistle.
300
feet
and
bearing
four
dials,
each
“Jones says be'* getting morbid on was run down and needed a tonic.
skull and then, removing the brain,
sighed and said:
I found myself somewhat muddy and
forty-eight feet In diameter, waa one hands it had passed there was nothing
the subject.”
laid
it
on
a
napkin
and
took
it
to
bis
“
It
was
five
nice
miles
two
years
“If I let you go.” he said irrelevant
of the moat striking landmarks for to show.
“Who la—Jouea?’
■go, but some English brute came breathing a little hard, but I was not
ly, “ ‘Zulelka’ will seem more dead to own bouse, where, for the purpose of
wholly chagrined. I bad heard and
“No; McCuller."
preserving it, he placed it In a solution miles and miles around.
over with chains and made it seven,
P«**«r*«l*t Dvo>*.
me than ever.”
seen a black snake whistle. I bad never
Inside the tower waa the gigantic
"He’s about right**
To make peppermint drops take a ■nd our hearts are broke walking it
“Well,” she said In a little grieved, of sulphate of sine.
even known of the habit before. Since
“Who—McCuller?"
Unfortunately before doing so be bad dock, the biggest in the world. It bad cupful of sugar crushed fine and just ever since, bad luck to them!”
heartbroken way, “she is dead.”
then I have seen one other snake do it.
boomed the hours for longer than the moistened with boiling water; then boll
“No; Jones.”
forgotten
to
weigh
it,
and
when
be
took
And
she
disappeared
Into
the
house,
“Are you jealous of her?’ be asked
■nd I think I have heard the sound
There waa a knock at the door, and reflectively, for her eyes had grown it out of the solution next day he found oldest burgher could remember and five minutes; take from the fire and leaving him there.—Illustrated Bits.
three or four times. It Is almost Inde
Stedd blew away a cloud of smoke as quite wet.
that a portion of It had been dissolved had never gone wrong. When, there add cream of tartar the else of a pea;
scribable. The jaws were closed as it
he said, ‘Come In!”
“No," she said untruthfully, pushing and that what remained of the brain of fore, in the early dawn of one summer mix well and add half a teaspoonful of
I«See*e« ef Ckllere*.
was made, not even the throat moving,
The door not opening Immediately, back her gold shot hair—“no; I am not the famous statesman weighed only day the great bell began clanging furi essence of peppermint; beat briskly
Childhood In its weakness Is often ■
he rose, swearing beneath bis breath jealous. She Is dead.”
700 grams, which is about the weight ously small wonder that not only the until mixture whitens, then drop quick strength that resist* the strain of all that I could see. The air seemed to be
blown violently through the nostrils,
city, but the whole countryside, waa ly upon white paper; have cream of
■t the trouble. lie got half way across
"That Is true,” he said. “Well, will of an idl->t*s brain.
the passion*, and that holds even when
the room before a slight figure crossed you let me love you Instead of 'Zulel-
Dr. Lalxirde, it la said, never forgave roused. Mechlin Itself waa like a dis tartar and essence of peppermint meas deep hatred exerts its power to drive though sounding as if driven through
the teeth-a shrilling hiss, fine and
turbed hive, men rushing from their ured while the sugar is boiling; if it
the threshold and a tremulous voice kn?"
himself for making this blunder.
asunder.
piercing, which one not so much bears
began:
houses half dressed, but all armed, sugars before it Is all dropped add a
“If you wish it very much,” she said,
“
If
it
were
not
for
the
child,
I
would
as feels- feels it crisping cold along his
while from every town and village little water and boil a minute or two.
"I was told to come in”—
Very Uk« B««*o*.
letting him take her bands with an af
not live with you another day.” I
“Yea," Stedd executed a bow, “Miss”—
The crows and other birds that carry within a radius of twenty miles angry Wintergreen drops are made the same heard an angry husband say to his nerves. It may seem strange, but I be
fectation of reluctance which pleased
“Peyton.”
shellfish high in the air and then let peasants poured cityward.
way by using half a tesspoonful of wife, when righteous Indignation drove lieve this whistle Is a mating call. Even
McCuller greatly.
“Ah! Mr. Jonee sent you?’
the forked tongue (or maybe the nose)
It
waa
a
false
alarm,
however,
after
them
drop
upon
the
rocks
to
break
the
essence
of wintergreen.
“So I have waked my ’Zulelka’ after
him nearly to dlatractioD.
“Yes.”
of a snake grows vocal with love.—Dal
shell show something very like reason «11. No assault followed. No column
alL” he said five minutes later
That
was
quite
a
number
of
yean
"Has be told you what you are to went to the head of the stairs
las Lore Sharp In National Magazine.
or a knowledge of the relation of cause of dust on the horizon heralded the ad
Th« wait« ■** I* Aral«*.
ago, and now they have two more chil
do?’
and effect Fronde tells of some spo vance of the enemy, although anxious
"The footprint of the white man la dren to strengthen the bond Ix-twecn
railed:
“Yea, air. He said I was to stand to
AU Wear Costly Raiment.
des of bird that be saw in South Af eyes watched all day. But when to like the tootprint of the elephant," them. This little episode of domestic
"Come up here, you trattori!"
a frame and personate ’Zulelka’ for a They
No man who eats In a restaurant
rica fixing amid the swarm of migrât- ward evening one more curious than says • Swazi aatlve proverb; “It re Infelicity wss recalled by some statis
came up.
joke. I—he told me it was being done
“Stedd. Pybua,” then, turning to them, ing locusts and clipping off the wings his fellows bethought him to examine mains in the ground.”
tics that recently emanated from Ber ever pays less than $75 for a suit or an
to ridicule a friend of his out of some
overcoat, and no woman who eats In a
Another proverb: “White men are lin and which speak volumes.
“my future wife.” And Pybua stam- of the insects so that they would drop the Interior of the clock tower In order
morbid Idea.”
Mired, something Incoherently, while to the earth, where the birds could de to discover If possible the reason for like and yet uallke quails. When you
These statistics have been carefully public place ever wears a waist costing
“Yea; It la all right Mr. Jones hap
*••)<? explosively, “ 'Pon my word, vour them at their leisure. Our squir the clock’s strange behavior a grew- see one in your country you will soon gathered from the divorce courts, and less than $25. and frequently the cost
pened to see you at your window and
see a flock. But the q<u.iU Isa is jut
McCuller. If you can originate noth- rels will cut off the chestnut burs be *oiue sight met hi* Hew.
lu*i Out of i.Outi divorces 54u Is teach more, at I coa I so says the pro
waa struck with your resemblance to
Entangled in the massive works of ■gain, the white men never.”
fore they have opened, allowing them
• g else you can create a sensation."
were granted where there were no chil prietor of a fashionable New York res
the picture. You are almost an exact
to fall to the ground, where, as they the huge timepiece, torn, gashed, every
dren, 214 where there was one child. taurant. He, like all restaurant own-
reproduction. We concocted thia plan
Th« Fir*« lr«* ■«!*.’
Chll4re* la Souaulilaud.
seem to know, the burs soon dry open. bone broken, was the body of a French
139 where there were two children, 00 era, occasionally receives complaints
In order tn bare a lsvgb over our
Th* first Iron *blp has more reputed Feed a caged eocu oollcd food—a piece officer. He had evidently climbed into
Children are regarded as a chief as where there were three children. 25 from people who have lost an over
friend.”
birthplaces than Homer, according to of bread or meat rolled on the ground— the tower unobserved and had been set In the belongings of a Somali na
where there were four children, 12 coat—or mislaid one—and wno have
“So Mr. Jone« said. And-you will Chambers' Journal. Both the Clyde
and before he eats It be will put it in caught by the machinery while en tive. A man may have as many as where there were five children snd 10 had garments positively ruined by a
pay me aa soon aa It la over?"
■nd the Mersey claim pre-eminence In his dish of water and wash it off.— gaged in tampering with it What his four wives, and most of the patriarchs where there were six children.—New careless waiter spilling soup or some
“Oh, yea! You said—Mr. Jones an Id this respect Sir E. J. Robison of Edin
object waa in ao doing none ever knew. boast of tremendous families. One old York Herald.
thing else on a portion of it, usually a
John Burroughs in Century.
—your father waa 111. uuconacloua?’
burgh designed an Iron vessel in 1818,
That it waa something sinister there chief of a tribe near Berbers was the
sleeve, and be says that the atxive fig
"Yea.” Her lip quivered suddenly. which was not launched till three years
4V*a**t T«« a*«*i.
ures are the lowest quotations he ever
Berweata* Cwra ^*v Drunken*«*». could be no doubt. Probably he had head of a family consisting of 23 sons,
“It waa solely on hla account that I later, and it la said that an iron boat
Deafneae la largely a matter of habit, heard.
In Norway drunkenness is punished Intended to ao arrange the Interior 29 daughters and 390 grandchildren. A
consented to come. We are very poor. waa worked on the Severn even aa far
by imprisonment As soon as a man is I mechanism of the clock ■■ to cause It father sells bls daughters for camels ■ay* a writer to the New York Press. I
I can’t get anything for him, and I am back as 1787. Steel waa not used In the
Salt th« Editor.
Incarcerated the delinquent ban a loaf to sound a signal later in the day. At and often builds up for himself a for know men who cannot hear you two
afraid he will”—
construction of merchant ships' balls and wine morning and evening. The all events, whatever hla plan. It mis tune In this way. The children are feet away, though you bawl at them,
“You have no use for the papers,
She broke off abruptly. 8tedd thought until 1859. Old Mita were not alone 1«
bread Is served in a wooden bowl full carried. And be blmaelf fell a victim named according to the circumstances yet at the distance of a block they will you say?” remarked the tourist
■he was going to cry.
their belief that wood waa meant by
“No,” replied the wild westerner.
to hla own temerity and want of know* of their birth, as Wa Berri (born in grasp your faintest whisper Some are
“Mr. Jones offered me so much.” she Providence to float but Iron to go to of wine, in which it has been soaking
for an hour. The first day the drunkard «d«e.
the morning) or Robleh (born in tbs deaf for convenience, some for fraud, “They get too personal sometimes. I
ended brokenly, “I could not refuse.” th« bottom. A naval constructor of swallows his allowance
some for hypocrisy. Beware of the deaf did subscribe to a paper onct, but 1
willingly
rain).
“No.” The affair seemed gradually some repute one« said: “Don’t talk to enough. The second day It seems Isss
man. One of the noted deaf men waa stopped it”
to be assuming tragic proportions. The me of Iron ships. They are contrary to pleasing. At th* end of eight or ten
old Matt Griffin, long ago an assembly
“What paper is it you refer”—
nature." Now none but small craft ar* days prisoners have been known to ab
two men exchanged looks.
man from Griffin's Corners. Delaware
“You mean what paper 'was' it
county. N. Y. By eonrteay deaf mem Ain't I just told you 1 stopped it?
“We shall wait outside the studio to built of wood to England.
stain altogether from the food thus pit
ber* receive front seats In the assem Done it in one shot too.”—Philadelphia
bear the particulars of the joke,” said
ilessly presented. This course of treat
bly, while other* usually draw lota. Press.
Btedd half heartedly. It struck him ae-
ment finished, the drunkard, except la
to
Incongrnous that this girl was to per
When old Matt was excuaed from
rare Instances, is radically cured.
■*44**.
drawing a fellow member hotly pro
petrate It Her face waa too white,
Ethel-There, I've forgotten to at
tested. "Rut the old man is aa deaf as
and the strained expression in her eyea
■mote him.
a poet,” «aid the house leader. ‘'Deaff' * tend a function to which I was invited.
exclaimed the protestont "Matt Grif- How careless!
“It Is tonight?’ she asked In « re
fin deaf! Why. bleaa your honest soul, | George—You should have an engage
signed tone, and he nodded seriously.
be could hear a ten cent ahtoplaater * ment calendar.
“Yea. Can you go with us now?’
Ethel—Oh, George, this Is so sudden!
rattle to a bag of feathers!"
"Yea.” She drew down %er veil, ad-
—Chicago Record Herald.
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