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saa e e w aaeeraaaoaeooaa : BANDON RECORDER. •i P olly L arkin $ when you will ack me to i»lp WRITER’S THOUGHT CRAMP VI »41 1 lllrik lhi«v m H laughed I m I üs I ifm I at MÎ this thiM you.' How they all spraeb of mine, but 1 meant It and my propbray has come true. Not only once, but many times baa be asked ae- sistauce from me and 1 have never foiled to help him. His old air of bravado hav gone, bis spirit b broken. Why? The answer is simple enough. Because he never learned to know the value of a dollar. He simply didn't kuow bow to save and became a spendthrift. Th« Was «he Hoot at lasuired taeaa Khtoa aad Flaws. CHOICE MISCELLANY NEW SHORT STORIES FACTS IN FEW LINES Valweky Beral »>■«. Th*« th* Worked. The shooting of firecrackers la not American; It la Chlnaaa One factory haa marketed 09,000 elec • sly B Few at Ths«« Historic Tr««» trical flatirons thia season. New HeaABia. Of all lhe pl'iful things in this world, There are 22.400 more females than There are only about 400 cedars of moles to Cornwall, England lebutton now remaining high up on the about tbe saddest aud most deplorable Tbe Johannesburg Public library la rock7 slopes. Hadrian sculptured his is the uiau or woman who Is last de now open on Sunday afternoooa scending lhe bill of life with uothiug Imisrial anathema against all who The Cathedral of Notre Dame tn thould cut these sacred trees; the Maro laid by for a rainy day. Possibly they Paris la now lighted by electricity. have earned good salaries tut have nite is-asanta almost worship them aud Three times aa much freight paaaad call them the "cedars of the Lord,” and lived up to them, forgetting that the the "Soo” last year aa peened through time was passing, carrying with it “Now, I have a family ot two sous a recent governor of the Lebanon has the Suez canal. surrounded them by a great wall so tbe youth, iheir energy aud ability to »“«> four daughters. It was not ueces It la estimated that the population of work. Perchance they did not have to “ »O' <«» *uy <* ‘ ben', particularly tbe that tbe young shoots may not be in British Somalllaud la about work, but were abuudautly provided I ever to turn their baud to auy- jured by roving animals. Yet, century area la about 08,000 square for aud bad no thought of the future, ‘btug. To the boys I gave each a line by century, their number grows leas. Atlantic City possesses a But If ths cedars are Tew in number Mistakes in speculation aud business cattle ranchaud they oould baveslmply tor car which is used solely for tho these few are of royal blood. They alveutures lu everyday life turn the overseen tbe place, had no work to do, conveyance of intoxicated prisoners. are not the largest of trees, though tide of prosperity and when tbey least •«“* enjoyed themselves as most youths During tbe last three yean twenty- some of the trunks measure over forty expect It everything, even to their do-society, a lilt'e traveling, etc. But two millionaires have died In England. feet aroumt Their beauty lies In the Their average age was seventy-five wide spreading limbs, which often cov household effects Is swept away, leaving But ‘bey uever received a deed to tbe years. er a circle 200 or 800 feet In circumfer them wholly unprepared for a battle place until they had beguu at tbe foot Within five yean wages for all class ence. Rome are tall and symmetrical, with life. The spending money they of the ladder aud worked up to the fore- es of mechanical occupations have In with beautiful horizontal branches; have so recklessly parted with in the manship. Then, aud not till then did creased from 20 to 25 per cent in Ham others are gnarled and knotted, with daysgoneby w< uld be to them a fort uue I consider them sufficiently up In tbe ilton, Canada. Inviting seats in the great forks and now. They don’t kuow the first prin- business to become the owner of it. charming beds on the thick foliage of clples of economy. It is a new exper- The result is that my boys are shiewd Two Russian papers asked their the swinging boughs. readers to name tbe ten greatest men, fence for them to go into a store and business men and will uever be caught The wood has a sweet odor, is very and in both cases Tolstoi came out at hurd and seldom decays. Tbe vitality order a few ceuts worth of this or that napping. My daughters, when it comes the top of the poll. of the cedar Is remarkable. A dead where, iu the days of their affluence, to business matters, ate not far liehind The largest tree in tbe world Ilea tree is never seen, except where light they have run up big accounts and ‘hem. One is a good stenographer aud broken and petrified at the end of a Making Standard Oil Cui. ning or tbe ox has been at work. Of have simply made their purchase with bookkee| er aud she uot ouly clothes defile In northwestern Nevada. It is Nowhere does the policy of economy ten a great bough of one tree has the order to “charge it.” The wealthy *»d boards herself but has a little bank Mid to be U«I6 feet long. which Mr. Rockefeller has worked out grown Into a neighbor, and the two who are reduced to poverty are even account of her own. Another one is a It is stated that on Jan. L 1903, there show better than In one of the Stand are so bound together that it is Impos were 1,124 bituminous coal mines tn more to be pitied than those who have music teacher. I gave her the beet ard canning works. Several months sible to say which Is the parent trunk. operation in Pennsylvania as compared ago the writer visited the largest of Perhaps the unusual strength aud vi lieen compelled tooount theirdimesaud advantages with the finest musicsl in with 948 on Dec. 81. 1909. the Standard can factories, the Devoe, Saved A bb a Decking. tality of the cedars are due to their dollars They seem so perfectly help- structors. Tbe other two daughters are There are more than 17,00« machine A colonial shrew who was threatened on the East river. Long Island City. slow growth. When a little sprout less, so at sea aa to what tbey shall ar<isle and have all they can do. You tending operatives tn Lowell, Maas., It has a capacity of 70,000 five gallon with tbe ducking stool was once saved hardly waist high is said to be ten or turn their baud to. Ou tbe other hand may deem it strange that, wealihy as I caring for 838.000 spindles and earn cans a day and is probably the largest fifteen or twenty years old one cannot those who have toiled, those who have am. I allow my children to work aa by this plea: ing over $590,000 a month in wages. “You wish to duck Ann Willott to can factory in the world. help asking, Whnt must be the age of worked since they were mere children hard as though they did not have a Wages of the working people of the The five gallon can turned out at the great patriarchs of the grove? It and know the value of a dollar, If ad- dime in tbe woild, yet it hai 1 een the cure her!” her defender declared. "Now United Kingdom, according to official if she be not cured where is the gain In the Devoe is a marvel of evolution. Is hard to tell exactly. By the aid of verelty comes, they will uot alt down making of them. The only wrong I statistics, showed a decrease of $7,920,- ducking her! And if she be cured all The present methods of manufacture a microscope I have counted more than 009 last year compared with tbe pre 790 rings on a bough only thirty Inches and bemoan their fate and wonder can see iu it is the fact that they are the women who now keep a guard over are almost entirely the work of Her ceding year. In diameter. Those who have studied what tbey are to do, but will turn occupying places probably that some their tongues through distaste to be man Miller, known in Standard circles It is claimed by Boston that It makes . the matter more deeply think that some resolutely toward butldiug up their less-fortunate boy or girl should fill, likened to such a known, notorious and as the "father of the five gallon can.” the finest quality of Egyptian ciga of these trees must be more than a fallen fortunes. They may not be vory However, every boy and girl must look contemptible scold as Ann will do so The machinery for making the can In a large New York department rettes, produces the choicest Italian thousand years old. Indeed, there Is cheerful over the outlook, but they do out for themselves, aim high, save their no longer; but although It is not like has been so developed that while, In nothing wildly Improbable in the not Intend to sit down aud cry over dollars and ceuts and know no such any should become such as she, yet all 1865, when Mr. Miller began his work, »tore some books were being sold at macaroni and has altogether tbe best thought that perhaps the Guardian, for their misfortune, aud nine times out of | word as fail.” will scold a little more than now they one man and a boy soldered 850 cans the dry goods counter aa a «pedal at brand of the Irishman in politics. Instance, may have been a young tree do, tho check of her example being re in a day in 1880 three men made 8,000, traction. A business man rushed In to Tbe English post office gives 20 per when Iliram began cutting for the tem ten they will assume an air of cheerful moved. Now, it is better that Ann, be and since 1893 three mon have made get n novel on his way downtown, cent better speed tn delivering parcels and he chanced to mistake the dry ness and the world will never know of 24,000. It is an actual fuct that a tin ple at Jerusalem.—Lewis Gaston Leary ing a single woman without family to than tbe private carriers and at a cost BRIEF REVIEW their bitter disappointment. In Scribner’s. afflict, should go unpuulshed and un can Is made bj Miller in Just about goods counter with the book specialty of 6 cents for a pound, 8 cents for two for the book department. In breathless ducked, but despised by all. and wag the time it takes to walk from the pounds aud 24 cents for eleven pounds. Petrie Finds Ten Temples. her tongue as she will, standing there point in the factory where the sheets French drivers and firemen and even APHORISMS. An old gray-haired mau said to me Professor Flinders Petrie lias given in for the whole town, than that she of tin are unloaded to the point where French fuel will be imported for the the other day, “Polly, I have made au interesting account of tbe past sea- the finished article is filled with oil.-- Habit la the deepest law of buman several fortunes in myjifetime. I made I W1|1>M excavation at Abydos. Iu the should be silenced and the tongues of trial in Bngland of the De Glehn giant Ida M. Tarbell in McClure’s. other women run more free.” nature.—Carlyle. locomotive engine which is being built my money easy and I let it slip through clearance of tbe old temple sites, which This argument seems to have pre In France for tbe Great Western rail Good nature is stronger than toma my hands like water. I was not far extended over several acres, there were vailed, for Ann Wlllot was never Waaon Load, of Money. way. hawks.—Emerson. sighted enough and never questioned revealed, at a depth of about twenty ducked.—Youth's Companion. The presses of the bureau of engrav Talebearers are Just as bad as tale Two submarines made a sham attack ing and printing are moving twenty- my al'ility to keep up the steady prac feet, ten t-uccessive temples, ranging in makers.—Sheridan. on tbe French squadron at La Rbchelle four hours a day printing money. The ■«•phen»OB’s Birthplace. Almost always the most indigent are tice with the ready money flowing in age from 500 to about 5000 B. ('., thus recently In tbe evening, and so smartly In a red tiled two story house on the run Is on new national bank notes. and keeping my puree replenished. I enabling the changes through the the most generous.—Stanislaus. were they handled that it la said in ac It takes about twenty-five days road between Newcastle and Hexhnin, tual warfare tbe whole division wefiid Those who complain moat are most seemed to forget that clever young men whole Egyptian history to be seen. prepare new money for the banks England, was born George Stephenson, were applying themselves to the study The main result, as regards religion, is have been annihilated. to be complained of.—M. Henry. the Inventor of the first practical loco that It will be properly seasoned to Becquerel has shown that radium True gentleness la native feeling of law and would, when admitted to that Osiris was not tbe original god of Into the hands of the public. motive, on June 9, 1181. He earned his heightened and improved by principle. the bar, seek successful fields to bang emits cathode rays moving at a veloc The banks huve orders ahead for Abydos. The jackal, and then Khen- first regular money—a shilling a week -Blair. ity of over 120,900 miles a second A out their shingles, aud that while old- tamenti, the god ot the West, was hon —for looking after cows, and he was many millions, and the circulation is particle traveling with this velocity and He that thinks ho can afford to be time friends wou.d still continue loyal being delivered to the comptroller by eighteen before he learned to read. The starting from tbe earth would reach negligent is not far from being poor.— the new generation would seek the ored until the twelfth dynasty. The modeling of engines In clay was his wagon loads each day. From the most striking change is seen about the tbe moon In two seconds. Johnson. comptroller's office it is shipped to the clever young lawyers who could make a fourth dynasty, when the temple was favorite occupation as a boy, and when A mau in Cincinnati applied to tbe Persistent people begin their success banks upon the deposit of bonds cov show and cut a dash by tlieir up-to-date abolished, and only a great hearth of he grew up toward manhood he had courts for an injunction to restrain the where others end in failure.—Edward charge of engines and displayed his In ering the amount to be shipped. The ideas, and would pass by the lawyer burnt offering is found, full of votive ventive genius in their improvement. circulation of national bauks of the tongues of the gossips of the neighbor Eggleston. hood. He learned from Judicial sources He who commits injustice la ever who bad been counselor and friend to clay substitutes for sacrifices. This At last. In 1813, he produced his first United States has passed the $400,900,- that there are some things beyond tbe made more wretched tliati he who auf bls father, considering him merely an agrees with tbe account of Herodotos, locomotive, which he called a traveling 000 mark, the largest amount in their control of tbe highest human power. old fogy or a mossback. One day 1 that Cheops had closed tbe temples engine. Lord Ravensworth waa called history. fers It.—Plato Dec. 31 last the circulation of the Russeil square, London, beloved of A friend that you have to buy won't waked up to tbe fact that I was really and forbidden sacrifices. This materi a fool for advancing money for the con readers of “Vanity Fair,” seems to be be worth what you pay for him, no a back number as far as my business alization of history is made more real struction of a locomotive. A few years, banks stood at $384,929,784, and this fast disuppearing. Half of the east side matter what that may be. -Prentice. was concerned, aud of all the money I by the finding of an ivory statuette of however, proved that Lord Ravens was considered al*out the highest fig has been torn down to make room for a worth was not so foolish as people sup ure that would be reached before next had made there was not a dollar laid by. Cheops of lhe finest work. Some Foriiifil Correspondence. mammoth hotel, and now tbe west side posed, for In 1825 the Stockton and Dar fall.—Washington Post I had some bitter reflections about that A matter of fact sacristan of the Ca fa beginning to yield to blocks of flats. lington line was opened for traffic. thedral of Berlin once wrote tbe king time. We had lived in the same house Preferred Her Cell to Paying Bills. Great Britain's Seagoing Men. High license went Into effect in New for many years and had paid enough of Prussia this brief note: One in every tblrty-slx of tbe males Mrs. 'Felka Ijessilan, a widow, for York city May 1, and as a result 718 The Electrical CwrreBt. Sire—I acquaint your majesty, first, rent to have bought It and bad some merly in the carpet business in Wil hotel and saloon keepers went out of The path traversed by a heavy cur over fifteen years of age In the United that there are wanting books of psalms thing to call our own in our old age. I liamsburg, on account of ill health waa rent of electricity in passing through Kingdom Is a seaman in tbe mercantile THZ IM PATIENT CUSTOMX8 WAH CONVHONT- business. Under the new law licenses for the royal family. I acquaint your was too prosperous and I let that oppor- reiem^dT^m the Itaymond'st^t jail, were advanced from $099 to $999 tn XD BY A XOUXU WOMAN the body is a matter of great luqtor- marine or a fisherman, according to the majesty, second, that there wants wood to warm the royni seats. I acquaint your (unity slip. Well, to sum it all up and Brooklyn, after having been confiued tance. The moit dangerous is from report of the l*oard of trade commit Brooklyn and from $800 to $1.200 In haste he aske.l for “ Peggy O ’ Neal. ” majesty, third, that tho balustrade next prtooner. Mre. Le88llan waH one hand to the other, because the re tee, but that by no means represents and the saleslady at the counter an Manhattan and the Broux. the river, behind the church, is become make a short story of a long life of mis- M B the proportion of Britons who go to tbe Since the Introduction of the Bertll- ruinous. SCHMIDT, swered, “Not here at the moment, but takes, I am to-day homeless and you Woman in the jurisdiction o’ sistance of the path is low and because sea in ships. For the current year the Sacrist of the Cathedral. tbe current passes near the heart. might say friendless as far as being able the lTnit<.d H(alaj nigtrlct ck>urt ln the will call." The saleslady next rushed lon system in France 29,000 persons The reply of the king wns not that of Hence it is a good rule In handling llvo total numlxr of officers and men, active to the speaking tube and cried, “Send who have committed crimes aud who to call on my acquaintances for assist- Eastern dh)trlct to be imprisoned under a “gracious majesty.” Its stiff formal Conductors to use but one hand. An service ratings, provided by the esti Peggy O’Neal down right away!” A were concealing tboir identity have by ity In imitating the style of tbe sacris ance. I would like to read every young I t|je bankruptcy law, says the New York Important rule to observe In rescuing a mates for the royal navy is 127,000, few moments later tbe impatient cus means of tbe system been Identified tan probably was not taken by tbe re man who is starting out on his business Herald. The Court ordered the woman person in contact with a live wire and being an increase of 4,000 over the tomer wiii confronted by a young wo and brought to Justice, and among al! career a story with a moral, and “ to pay over to her creditors $2907. She when it is impossible to cut off the cur previous year. Taking the two totals ceiver as complimentary to him: man whose name answered to the these not one mistake is known to I acquaint you, Herr Sacrist Schmidt, would only be relating the little, inslg- refu8ed, aIleglllg that she had no money, rent Is to push the victim off with one this means that one in about every title of the novel. Explanations aud have been made. first, that those who want to sing may nificant history of my own life. I would jwo yeant previously she had sold her foot Even should the current pass twenty is a sailor, which is an enor- The restriction of emigration from apologies followed, and then the cus buy books. Second, I acquaint Herr from one foot to the other through the mously larger percentage than that tomer was shown to the book depart tbe continent to London is now agitat Sacrist Schmidt that those who want to like to impress upon every young per- Ltore ior|io,ooo. which any other nation can boast, rescuer the resistance of the path is be warm must buy wood. Third, I ac son, girls and bc-ys alike, the necessity ________________ _ ed as an urgent public question. Tbe ment. quaint Herr Sat Hst Schmidt that I shall considerable, and as the current does even with the conscription which sup- census of the metropolis shows 38,147 Maroh of Improvwnent not trust any longer to the balustrade of laying by something each week. Let plies tbe seamen of several continental not pass near the heart serious injury Russians, 27,427 Germans. 13.420 Poles, Early RI o I bb Proverb». A next the river. And I acquaint Herr them make it their aim in life to have I countries.—London Chronicle. . i.Misx -...i we harnewed t»(eam . and ..... made is not likely to result Sacrist Schmidt, fourth, that I will not a A father was telling his son of tbe 11,204 French and 10,889 Italians. New little bank account of their own. and have any more correspondence with him then when old age comes creeping on ! * *«l“vebridled advantage of early rising, which be York city can digest that number of FREDERICK Proof of a CoBs>irBey. Desolate at. Helena. emphasized by using tbe well worn foreigners every year. It won’t bring the horror of being de- my8,w ol“c«'led electricity The following story Is told In ex A recent leading article in tbe only (but much appreciated) adage, “It Is Absent Minded Lord Derby. Tbe number of theological students pendent that is so galling to anyone “d ‘ la^r for U8 CouId planation of the reason why the teach paper printed on the Napoleonic rock Lord Derby could be very absent with the lewt particle of pride. Then 8lrJ“’,c Newton return to ing of chemistry in Turkish schools advocates the conversion of St. Helena the early bird that catches tbe worm.” in Germany has diminished gradually minded, and once on a time he walked he can grew old gleefully, contentedly, ***“ ,,e*o1uld '**“* r“11ZB 1,e WM was forbidden some years ago. It into a sort of penal settlement as the The precocious Juvenile replied. "All from 4.207 in 1830 to 2,149, or less than right, father; you get up in the early half, although the population has dou with Lord Clarendon, his opponent, happily. My experience should be a a ch'ld «aching or pebbles upon had been proposed that this science only mode of salvation. St. Helena bad morning and catch tbe worms, and bled since 1830. Tbe Insufficiency In and told him all tbe secrets of the cabi warning to all young people.nd I make ‘he *hore’ “ he “,ld he WM when should be added to the curriculum, but an extraordinary boom of prosperity I'll go fishing with them in tbe after- the number of candidates for tbe min net. Lord Clarendon listened amused, the first thing that struck the eyes of during the South African war, when " l*,ore' No ““ but thought It too large an order when It my aim in life to impress upon the he w“ *,ere noon.” Charles Sothern (of illustrious istry is discussed as a matter of ex the ruler of tbe faithful on opening thousands of Boer prisoners were iso “o he was asked for bls advice. It was not young that I come iu contact with, the ' *n prediet memory), tn his famous character play ceeding gravity by German theologians. an elementary textbook of chemistry lated there. Now there is no market You are at «ext century The Iwt great aebieve- for him to counsel bis political foes. At Importance of saving. of “Lord Dundreary,” used to quote The town of White Pigeon. Mich., was the . formula for water, 112 O. for the local beef and vegetables, and this Intimation Lord Derby woke up. liberty to publish this conversation, me,lt the proverb, "Early to bed, early to claims to be run as cheaply as any tbat of tbe Marconi. "Here,” said the sultan, "is proof of the agriculturists are In despair. "Their saying, “Really, I thought all tbe time rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy town in this country. Last year it cost a conspiracy to undermine my author lands are full of weeds, their gardens aud Polly, providing you do not use any I was talking to a colleague!” He bad wise,” on which he commented as tbe 800 inhabitants $1.325 for expenses. names,” said this silver-haired friend, Alcohol by New Method. ity in the eyee of my subjects. H two unplanted.” continued, hardly recognizing tbe fact, follows: "Now, there's my brother The health department spent $2.25 In Tbe Imperial Official of Paris says O! That’s nothing but a sly way of a controversy he had been having with and I do hope all who read It will take Sam; be used to go to bed early, some addition to the health officer's salary of Intimating that Hamid II. is a naught." A Remarkable Hat. other ministers at the foreign office. Of warning and profit by my experience.” in a report of the National proceedings times aa early as 4 o’clock (in tbe $20. Tbe police department appropria According to a French paper, there course Lord Clarendon honorably pre ------------- of the Agricultural Bociety, that a new morning), and he was not particularly tion waa 50 cents, the fire department The Rom«« Lunette. 1a a man in London who possesses a served the cabinet secrets, but he told Another gentleman, who reckons up nieans has been discovered of produc- The Roman lupetto, which Is almost remarkable straw hat. For yean past healthy. As for being wealthy, he $00. his story against I-ord Derby and made bis fortune in many figures, said uot 'n8 alcohol. As a result of expert- Indistinguishable from the so called be has followed King Edward about at would borrow a half crown from any It will be a surprise to many to know a laugh. body without the slightest hope of that the authoress of that well known long since when talking on thia same many years ago by Mr. Pomeranian dog, invariably tries to foreign watering places, and whenever being able (or even willing) to pay It hymn, "Safe In tbe Arms of Jesus,” Is subject: “I have plenty of money— Berthelot In the chemical analysis of bury or cover over any food given him he saw the Prince of Wales, aa the His Mistake. back. And I never knew him to be Gushlngton-I wonder what’s the enough to make my family liveon Easy I alcohol efforts have lieen made to per- which he does not like. If fed on n king then was, drinking anything wise, but confoundedly otherwise.”— still alive. Mrs. Van Alstyne. the lady in question, has Just entered upon her matter with Starr, th® trngefltan. He street for tbe remainder of their lives. ,ect and simplify the production tbat loose drugget he will skillfully rnvor through a straw be pounced down upon American Boy. up the obnoxious food; If the carpet Is eighty-fifth year. In her day she is never notices me any more. Lmunle my money by hard work and COH‘ 8 cents per gallon, the alcohol nailed down so that he cannot do thia the straw and added It to bis collection. said to have produced no fewer than Last year this strange collector hud Crittlck—Didn't I hear you tell him the strictest economy, and can remem- ‘° he of 100 degrees. he goes through the exact process with gathered such a bundle of straws that Why He Never Married. 2,000 hymns, many of which have se his style was very much like Booth's? tier distinctly how proud I was when I hie nose which would turn over the he had a hat made of them. The late Paul du Chsflln was on on* cured worldwide recognition. Gushlngton—Yes. But surely— ter- dellos 'n (Lra - A w.Kgwai.iu uasivceirdy uevu signed plate If It were movable. The lupetto occasion asked why he had never mar CrttM^ir utartc jwa uade .'IcncdJrt .ivy. Canada is sbout to become tbe chief ried. “Well, once upon a time," be source of the world’s supply of arsenic. your mistake. You should have said bank. It wa<< an incentive for greater In India which promises to answer has a general contempt for any but Loagoa's Hospitals. Booth's style was like his.—Philadel efforts and I would have gone hungry overy objection against felons and to meat diet, and, though he may conde The total expenditures of all the hos answered, without a smile, “an old Af The arsenic which for many years baf phia Public Ledger. rather than have drawn one dollar of discuss every question against Islam. scend to accept bread and milk out of pitals of the British metropolis exceed rican king who was very fond of ms fled the gold miners of Hastings coun deference to his owner (many of them offered me my choice of 853 women as ty, Ont, in their efforts to extract the $5,000,000 s year. that accouut. How I did work to add The Russian Government, while hith would not make this concession), be Is a wife. ’Your majesty,* 1 replied. 'If I precious metal from Ito matrix has be No Dl.lnatloB Neeses. More than one half of It is derived another ten dollars to that amount. I erto intolerant of missionaries, gives sure to go through the form of protest He—The astrologer described you ex wasn't Betting tbe best of wages either from Investments and legacies. The should marry one of these beauties of come tbe more profitable of the two the Bible itself free of course among the first actly and said that 1 would marry other half is obtained from voluntary yours there would be 852 Jealous wo minerals. This strange turn of tbe but I learned to be economical. I re people. It la admitted free of charge you. contributions of the living, leas $425,- men here.* 'Well,' replied the king. wheel of fortune has been caused by BeysnS Bellst. member lhe day that the idea took pos- and haa often been transported free. f That Is easily settled. Take them all.’ the virtual exhaustion of tbe former Rhe—Don't you think it was a waste Mr. Hunter (reading)—Huh! Thia ad 000, which la all that the patients pay. sresion of me to not ouly make money •f money to consult him? vertisement says "roomy flat to let.” Last year 2.008,905 patients were That was a little too strong for me, chief source of supply of arsenic in but save It. A boy about my own age, “Why?” treated at the public hospitals, or near however, and aa I have never bad such Germany and England, together with Home curious experiments are re Talk about yonr “condensed lye!” “I could have told you the same thing w I kmm * father was wealthy, came to the ported in Italy about the effects of col Mrs. Hunter—How do you mean? ly one in every two of London's entire a field to choose from since I am still a tbe superior quality and purity of tho bachelor.”_________________ myself If you had asked me.’’—Stray same town and finally entered the turnip, Canadian product Mr. Hunter—Well, if it1« roomy It population. on on the uervee of alck or insane pec- Stories. A Startlla* Mee seat. district school that I attended. He pie Red has good effect on melan •urely can't be a flat; if It’s really a His ArS. Percy is a little boy who makes plane flat it can’t be roomy, and if by some was dressed In the most up-to-date and Wsriteg Bsth Wars. cholia and blue on violently insane What DM Ha Maaaf "Why do you say he's a wonderful to shirk his bath sometimes. But the miracle it should be a roomy flat It Jagglee—Are tbey good divorce law other evening he came in from play actor 1“ "Have you ever been married r” expensive clothing. Mine were made- people. wouldn’t be “to let”—Philadelphia over garments and threadbare. He waa yers? "He sat through an amateur dramatic asked the magistrate. tired and hot and sticky. P-sea.________________ Ignorance generally prides itself upon | Waggles—Beet In tbe business. “No,” replied the prisoner at the bar overliearlug and never refrained from “Do I get a bath tonight, ms?" he entertainment and actually made peo A Hevivsg Tents of Dlsessalna. .They’ve originated over a hundred dif asked. pie think be enjoyed it”—Chicago Post of Justice; "but I've been blown up by taunting me with being |«uor on every its wisdom, while wisdom admits the "It looks as If we were in for an ferent ways of collecting alimony and dynamite.”—Philadelphia Record. occasion. Then and there, after some ignorance of man. "Yea,” answered bis mother. other Napoleonic revival.” aa many more for evading tbe payment tantal zing remark that made my blood "Well," be said cheerfully, "tbe Lord "What makes you think so?” of it—Judge. The Parsaa's Camaseat. knows I need It.”—Brooklyn Earle. boil with Indignation, I made up my It Is not right or fair to expect a "I understand tbe Lime and Waster “Tee,” said the Blllville father, "that mind to work, work, work, and I em teacher to create brains for your child. club has revived tbe old debating ques tbe Howe islands. islands, off Au»-1 Ans-1 "Home men.” said Uncle Eben. "will boy shall be tangbt to tell the truth.” In one of the tion, 'Resolved. Dat Bonaparte am a trails, is a banyan tree tbe branches nut In weeks prayin' fob rain an' den “He’s mighty young to be sent so fur phasized the word work each time with { clenched hands and flashing eyes. I Noisy people seldom do much think greater man dan Napoleon.’ ’’—Cleve and trunks of which cover nearly seven kick cos dey happens to git delr feet from home!” replied the parson.—At land Plain Dealer acres. | wet”—Washington Star. lanta Constitution. J reatetnber I said to him, 'The day will I ing. $ ♦. THE CEDARS OF LEBANON If the fiction writer has bis delicious momeuts, whea be tastes tbe Joys which come with tbe excitement of creative composition—and these be un doubtedly ha» also be knows distress ing periods of mental apathy. He has been working away at top speed, full of gladness in that subtle fabric which his pen weaves In the tvarp and woef of paper and Ink. Ills head Is packed with inspired Ideas, like a gift box from tbe gods. His hopes rid» high. His ambitions scrape tbe clouds. Then something happens. It is not a snap, a break, a crash-nothing so tan glble. It la Just a cessing. Abruptly, unexpectedly, all his fine thoughts van ish. No longer is life a country of majestic, white robed heights and al luring purple toned valleys. All ls flat and gray and bleak. Just about now, if the writer only knew it, is a most excellent time to go fishing. At last, baffled, discouraged, heart sick, he sits with bis head in bis bands, contemplating with foolish self pity the melancholy spectacle of himself. But, like drought and flood, war and pestilence and all other Ills great and small, it passes. And he knows not how or when it goes. Days after he wakes up to find himself, pen In band, hard at work again. Of its own ac cord apparently the machine has net itself In motion.—Sewell Ford in The Reader. The Christian name of Peter baa never been fashionable among royal ties. England has never had a mon arch baptized as Peter, and In other countries tbe Peters have been un lucky. ~ ‘ Peter or Pedro I., emperor of Brazil, at «Ilea ted after au uneasy reign, and his son, Pedro II., waa driven to Europe by a revolution and died in^^^^B ________ __ Paris In 1891. Pedro the Cruel of Castile and Ixxjn waa slain by his brother in single combat Peter the Great of Russia was guilty of frightful excesses. HU grandson. Peter II.. reigned only three years and died of smallpox at the age of fifteen. Peter III. was dethroned and strangled by conspirators. Peter I. of Bervla haa al ready a brutal massacre behind him. John is another name avoided by roy alists. We had only one John, and the experience was unhappy. In Scotland such was the popular repugnance to the name that when the son of Robert II. ascended tbe throne he changed his name from John to Robert. Few of the Jameses died In their beds, and the al teration to Charles was not a success ful experiment. Edward, George, Wil liam and Henry have on the whole been fortunate names for our sover eigns to bear.—London Chronicle. Some mouths after K., aa Tommy 1 calls Lord Kitchener, had taken ever ■ command from Lord Roberts during the recent war in South Africa he bad occasion to visit some blockhouses which were in course of erection Just j outside one of ths leading commercial towns. One, be noticed, had beeo ■ placed In a rather exposed position, and be therefore ordered trenches and san gas to be thrown up at once, tn order to strengthen IL Going inside one of tbe blockhouses -they are all connected by telephone—ho rang up the officer com manding a unit in tbe town, when tbe following dialogue took place; K. Are you there? 0. O.—Yes, sir. K.—Are you in command of the ----- shire regiment? C. O.—Yes, sir. K.—I want a working party, fifty strong, with intrenching tools, to be here at 0 o'clock tomorrow morning. C. O.—I bog your pardon, sir, but my men are ail employed on something or other, the majority escorting prisoners down tbe line. K.—Ob, I see. Ab, is that a band I hear playing there? C. O. (liesitutlng)—Y-yes, sir. K.—Oh. it Is. What band? C. O.—Regimental band, sir, playing outside the mess. K.—Playing at mess? Well—ah—Just have those instruments put away for some future occasion, will you. and make that working party 100 strong, to arrive here tomorrow at 6 a. m., or there will be a regimental command vacant. C. O. (stammering) -Very good, sir. That working party were mostly bandsmen. Kitchener had heard tbe music vibrating on the telephone in strument.
