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'■ » » H » » » fi VILLAGE ALIEN ». I* Di« Century Cmpany By Viola Roseboro* » SS ss 8 £ £ 8 8 & & lluit his win not even gissi of its klud. lit- bad regretted before that Fate at the tlm< - she made music his resource lunl not lliruwu a more companionable Ins.rcimTit into bls hands, but never before did he feel its galling deflcleu- eies us now. Why, a fife would be bet ter! Blussicr felt the picturesque and po ellcul element in bls plan and that it was odious to be obliged to depend on such means for Its execution. How ever, there was no chance of getting a Afe and learning to play It within au hour, so he soon contrived more opti mistic views of the case as it stood. A luiss viol gave forth at all events a very strong masculine sound, well cal culated to convey assurances of protec tion. He put himself again Into bls rugged coat, again took up bls ragged straw hat and started forth to inform the la dles of Ills intentions. There would’ be nothing comforting In it If in the night that heavy scraping boom took them unawares—“tout au contralre,” he said gravely to himself. It was not luird to spread the news. Tlie women were concentrating their weakness for the night. Scattered rel atives were docking together to spend it at the most central house of the clan, The women living on the out- skirts of the village came over the bridge or down the turnpike or up the stage road, as the case might be, to lodge for the time being with neigh bors mure closely neighliored than themselves, The general trepidation passed the bounds of reason. Many Strathl>oro householda had been ex- clusively feminine for many months— yes. years. Their natural protectors luid been long endangered beyond the chances of this misadventure; but, with a solidarity of sentiment that did them credit, the women all agreed to Hiiffer in kind with those who had spe cial causes for alarm, aud uncommon fear prevailed. WOMAN AND FASHION S mart set friendships ■«ulea HaEta borate Streamers. The»' Isually Have a Fur*e*r, So cial. Polltleal ar Fiaaaeial. Just as the sleeves of last winter re quired almost more material and orua- ment than ths blouse, so the ends of all tbs new ruches are built by the same rule. They are very wide, made of quanti ties of accordion plaited material, trim Ntratlilioro people would have con- ■idered old Blossier crazy If they had not felt obscurely that such an opinion Included un admission that be had once been sane, an admission so unthinkable that they contented themselves with explaining everything on the ground that be was a Frenchman. Yes; be was a Frenchman. That was ■till clear to even bis poor confused 7 : j k brain, though little else autobiograph ical was. He was uot old in years, not much more thau forty, but the adjec tive was more than an epithet; it was descriptive of bls relation to life. How he had drifted to Stratbboro be would have found it bard to tell. He had dim memories of barricades and dan- gers and swelling emotions in hls youth, and be cherished them and ■round them gathered vague sentl- meuta of patriotism that still stirred within him at the mention of France ■nd of liberty, but the changes of the years had been too much for his pow er« of synthesis. He had lH*eu hustled med with many ruffles put on in de through too maiiy and too varied sign. scenes; be could not untangle the coil After thia lace, ribbon and silk bauds N August sun wns of memory; he was confused; he guvs arc added. It up; be lived on from day to day. beating down on This photograph shows one made of For five years he had so lived in Strathbora The lit black net, elaborately trimmed with tle town wore a Strathbora He maintained himself by white and black striped ribbon and ac strange aspect An doing odd jobs of many kinds- nursing (TO BE CONTINUED.) cordion plaitings* of black and white Intelligent bird, com the sick, laying out gardens, particu net. ing from afar and larly flower gardens, and tending them, CAPTIVATING SIMPLICITY mending furniture, painting indoor flying over houses, yards and gardens, The Sweater Appears. might have realized something curious woodwork and making odd toys which The Way Job* Burrouabs Secured a Transatlantic tourists for a season children particularly adored. In fact, In the look of things. Treasury Clerkship. or two have experienced the comforts The square surrounding the court he did all these things and others un Early in the sixties of the last cen and delight of the sweater, and ever house and lined with shops was utterly commonly well, else in this slave own tury, when Hugh McCulloch had Just and anon the golflst has appeared witli ing community he would have had deserted. The shop abutters were gen been appointed comptroller of the cur a sweater of blazing scarlet, and now erally up, nnd the courthouse, which nothing to do. He never bad much, and rency to organize the new department at last the shops boldly present sweat the war liad not increased his income, had no shutters, showed the need of under the provisions of the national ers. them in many a shuttered pane of but he lived some way in the queer bank net, there walk'd into his office, Following the vogue for white, these glass^ which gave It an air of degraded little hut he had built himself in a unannounced, one day a stranger natty and exceedingly becoming gar desolation. Both in the square and be wornout abandoned Aeld at “the edge dressed in “store clothes” and wearing ments are shown In pure white tones. yond. grass and weeds overgrew in a of the town,” and he had so far re They come In both mercerized linen long hair. deemed a portion of the exhausted disorderly, squalid way many an un thread and in hand knitted yarn, and "My name is Burroughs — John Bur land as to have a flourishing bit of gar accustomed sisit. Tlie ample gardens a new model is in cable stitch and behind tlie houses were oftenest a tan den at his door, which of course was a roughs,” said the visitor. “I should like gle of luxuriant untrained growths. great help for the summer. He did not to have a position in your department." reaches below the waist line. A becoming and unusual thing for “What <lo you know about banking?" The asparagus beds flung out their return in kind the good natured curious feathery foliage In great spreading contempt Stratbboro felt for lilm. No; asked the comptroller, thinking that the girl who “will be different” is a masses, and against them the ironweed In his muddled way lie was cosmopoli perhaps in the unique stranger might sweater of pale gray. A fancy stitch Is and ragweed nnd Jamestown weed tan and felt for his neighbors a regard be discovered some genius of an ac used In the make up of the garment which ends at the waist line with a grew tall nnd lusty, nnd among these that in some cases was almost affec tuary or accountant. “Unhappily nothing,” replied the ap drop belt and which has ns a finishing climlted wild morning glories. At oue tion. And now today as be stood In touch a modish turnover stock and ■Ide perhaps would be a little patch of the middle of the old turnpike nnd plies nt. tight cuffs. “Who sent you here?” cultivated ground where a few sweet watched his feeble and saddened fel The girl with a straight, lithe Agure “No one.” potatoes and a little corn took up moat low townsmen as they started with “Well, who’s your congressman? To will promptly affect the sweater; her their armed escort upon their long, hot of the room. “chunky” slsfer will avoid It as she Not a man was to be seen anywhere, march his heart yearned with anxiety whom can you refer me?” would avoid the plague. The sweater “I know no congressman.” but now and again a sunbonneted wo- for them. He bad nursed Mr. Patten “And you expected to get a govern goes best with a trig tailor made skirt, man or several sunbonneted women to through that spell of typhoid fever that gether would pass from one house to had left him so weak; he remembered ment |s>sltion without qualification for many gored and severely plain in fln- Jimmy Pembroke's broken leg, never tlie iHMitlon and without indorsement ish and effect. The bat to keep com another. pany witli the sweater is a but affair Inside the houses or on their shaded properly set. and how much walking or backing of any character?" "I think I could learn office work ■ nd thereon are laid, with the precision galleries groups, still altogether femi always started It hurting; he looked up nine. were gathered, talking with an at the lofty bead of old Judge Caldwell here, and the salary would be a great of the milliner who really knows, a quill or two and a severely plain l(ow air curiously uniting listlessness and with pitying awe and wondered how help to me In my literary career.” the soldiers could thus humiliate digni “Oli, you are a writer, are you? of the “long line” variety, and the bow restlessness, apathy nnd anxiety. may be held down to the liat with a The truth was they had special lm- ty and worth. But it was when his eye What's your line? Poetry, perhaps?” “I try to write poetry,” confessed the cut steel buckle, and the buckle must mediate cause for fear, but they liad turned back to the hollow eyed, staring keep to the general line and be long suffered so long aud so much in similar women, hanging over gntes and out of visitor. "Got any of it with you?” asked the and narrow. ways that in many the capacity for windows and forth from gallery steps keen feeling was blunted. Yet they to see the last of the prisoners, that his comptroller, now considerably amused. The Sailor Hat. would have told you they suffered none feelings choked him. He alone was left “If so- let’s see it.” to care for them. The sailor hat is ever with us and The poet-naturalist produced a song the less liecuuse they suffered dully. In after years this whole incident redolent of early spring. It treated of changes very little In shape as the It was In 1863. The Federal forces under General Paine were in possession took a humorous tone in Strathboro tho chewink, the oven bird and the years go by. This year there are three of this part of Tennessee, and he had traditions, but the comical side of it Carolina wren, with a dainty reference kinds of straw Introduced In the sailor his headquarters at Tullahoma, not was pretty well lost sight of at the to forest violets and hepatlca. time. Several citizens, on suspicion of “This is great,” commented the comp flfteen miles away. Strathboro had been well stripped of aiding In the depredations of soldiers troller; “It’s right out of the woods.” “Which is more than can be said of men for many a day. Even the four and bushwhackers, had been shot re teeu and fifteen year old boys were cently In that same Tullahoma camp, the author,” observed Mr. Burroughs, away flglitlng. But until this morning nnd now the wrathful general was thinking of the world of finance which a few male ¡(arsons were to be seen Scaring he would keep his communi he was seeking to Invade. The comptroller laughed. "And la ■ bout, and, though usually they were cations oi>en If he had to kill every old or sick or deformed, the Bight was man along the whole line of the rail this all you have In the way of cre a comfort to the weary eyes of the wo road. The sunlight seemed a glare dentials?” “I have some more poems at home, mankind. Rightly or wrongly, they rather than a radiance In Strathboro was the bland and sincere reply. now involuntarily felt as never before that day. Over the hill the marching men In much merriment the comptroller the superiority of the dominating sex. passed out of sight, ieaving a faint summoned an assistant. "Here’s the It was they who were fighting out this war, and even the least awe Inspiring trail of dust, like smoke, behind them. most astonishing Instance of Ingenu man represented the ¡tower that car Blossier went up the street nnd stopped ousness I have ever encountered In ried fate In Its hand. And now today at Mrs. Pembroke’s gate. She was a public life,” said he. "That man over here they were, left without a man—a widow, and Jimmy, whose lame leg there applies for a government position white man, that Is—In Strathboro. No; Blossier so sorrowfully remembered, and the only backers that he can name not literally without one. Uncle Billy was her only son. She sat on her front are the muses. Yet this department Is Caldwell, aged elghty-two, still sat at steps, her gray, disordered head In her not political, nnd soqiehow I’m Inclined home in his big chair, quivering nnd hands. Blossier bared bis as lie stood to put the fellow to work. I am cap THIS SEASON'S SAILOR. tivated by the man’s honest sim bewildered, nnd Blossier, the French- there silent. hats, one of which, the split sennit, as “Oh. they didn't take you!” was Miss plicity.” man. was also left behind. So John Burroughs was set to work shown In the hat here pictured, being This peculiar state of things was Catherine's salutation when she Anally as a treasury clerk. No appointment far in the lead. Tbe brim of this sailor i brought altout by General Paine In bis saw him. efforts to Btop sudden Confederate Non, mudame. 1 rest here for to ever before had been secured on such is quite broad and the crown exceed raids u|>on hla bridges, railroads and protect ze ladles. I am rejoice to aid a basis and no one since has had the ingly low. While black bands are pre telegraph wires. These attacks were you of any manlere. Ze gouvernment temerity in asking for a government ferred, yet rtmny are seen with colored | always made and the offenders gone regard my country, voila je—how you Job to cite song birds and wild flowers ribbon bands. Worn with one of the 1 modish linen suits, this bat completes I before punishment could reach them. suy—I Is here. Command Blossier, as his only references. Borne of Mr. Burroughs’ old col a really smart outfit, ■ nd under fresh provocation General inn du me.” Palue had conceived the Idea of bold “There ain’t anything you can do,” leagues are still In the treasury service. As Elaborate Line* Gown. ing the few remaining and helpless said Miss Catherine wearily, and she In telling this story of bls appointment I male citizens of Strathboro responsible got up and went Into the house. She they dwell with emphasis upon the ex , A linen gown as elaborate of design aa though it were richest silk is in color cellent work lie did in the department, for the doings of the soldiers he could thought It hard that she must be both earning rnpid promotions and finally a soft, dattcate btaa, tha skirt herd wed not catch. So this morning an armed ered by old Blossy Just then. With a dainty vine pattern embroidered i squad had descended upon the dls- Aa evening drew on Blossier reflected securing the responsible position of re henrtened little town and had marched that In the long silent stretch of the ceiver tor a tailed national bank In with white wax thread. This same em I New York, the affairs of which he set broidery decorates the puffs of the off to Tullahoma the lame, the halt night would lie the severest trial ■ nd the blind. Fitlstnir« army was a "the ladles' ” strained nerves, lie pui tled satisfactorily both to the creditors sleeves and the edge of the bolero. and the government. -Saturday Even Around the middle of the skirt Is a se robust Isaly compared to this hnndfvl himself In their place and conjured up ing Post. ries rf lace medallions R» shaped. jb ? to ___ of tnnMftons sp'rits __ — suggest the Idea of sun rays. A deep Uncle Billy Caldwell was not only What be conceived to be the tears hov- Hla Tide of Fart**«. collar of guipure is worn with this, and i elghty-two, but lie weighed nearly 300 »ring in their imaginations. His good “ ‘There is a tide In the affairs of pounds. If tnken, he was obviously offices had not been rejected always men,’ ” said the man who habltually the girdle of black velvet ribbon has during the day. He had helped one wo little cut ends dangling from It, which I sure to die on the way. nnd that, would quotes Shakespeare, “‘which, taken at are quite long In the back. Inevitably enuse some delay and In man with her fretful sick child; be bad its flood, leads on to fortune.’ ” convenience. so It wns plainly discreet brought wood aud water for others yvho "Yes,” replied the man who had mar Leaf Green. that be be left behind. But, ns to the were deserted by their servants. But ried an heiress« “I remember the tide I The popular and becoming color leaf Frenchman, there wns no logical rea what could he do at night? that led to my fortune well." He was sitting in his cabin, gazing green la seen In an accordion plaited f son for the leniency shown him. It "What tide was that?” gown of silk mull. Tbe skirt Is plain was simply that the Anglo-Saxou con westward Into a serene, cloudless, "It was eventide, and we were sit querors had. In common with the primrose sky. As he got up and turned ting in the garden.”—Ban Francisco ■nd flowing. The Jacket waist Is of lace the exact color of tlie mull and Anglo Saxon conquered, so deep n feel Indoors bis eye fell on a queer, big Wasp. has a abort tunic. It is belted In at the Ing of his foreiguness that be seemed something lu a dark bag in a dusky waist with a satin girdle. The accor outside of humankind. The question corner. He bad au Inspiration! In that Coou*leoooe. of taking him to Tullahoma was dis tuig was an old viol, a double bass, a "You have been conspicuous in the dion plaited sleeves have an elbow cuff missed with a grin, as It alight have relic of a time, draped In the mists of halls of legislation, have you not?” said of the green lace._______ ••• «•■■>■■ ■»■■«. been had It referred to one of Uncle antiquity, when Blossier bad “assist the young woman who asks all aorta of "I’m afraid ahe isn't cut out for a Billy’s ancient hounds. Bat old Blos ed” lu a theatrical orchestra. question«. Perhaps few Instruments are less sier himself naturally to>k uo such “Yes, miss,” answered Senator Sor aoclety woman.” “Why not?" *| view of the matter. He understood adapted to the purposes of a strolling ghum blandly; "I think I have partici “Well, ahe seems to have no idea of English very Imperfectly, but be be serenader than a double bass, but as pated tn some of the richest hauls that lieved that France was honored In bls Bloaaier caught sight of his It was to a legislation ever mad«.*’—Washington the pleasures of «xtravagance.”— De-! troit Free l*resa. person, and he bad his ragged straw night of serenading that be dedicated Star. hat pressed to his bosom as he bowed IL He would systematically patrol the TU v Lo*l«-al Weskan. low to the officer in command before town, and from that double bass should Jest!*« at Seara. Eupbemla—Professor. I suppose you beginning to express as beat he could Issue strains assuring the poor ladies Upgardson—I was sorry to hear that between the two language« his grati that a friend was near and on tbe Fklmmerhom has bad the smallpox Would be afraid to marry a logical woman? Did it disfigure him much? fied sense of their regard for la belle watch. To be sure, as be considered ths Professor—Oh, no; if she was really France, when, lu. be rr.ised bls head Atom— Disfigure him? No; It Im aud officer and men were gone, hurry scheme be felt keenly the musical llm- proved him. It changed his exprew logical i could convince her once In I Itatlona of a double basa He knew alon.—Chicago Tribune. ■while.—Exchange. ing, backs toward him, tut the street! There are friends in what la labeled "the smart set” whose motto In life would appear to be, “Banish dull care ” These are the people who give those cheerful dinners where nobody cares a rap for precedence. Everybody takes his affinity In to dinner. The host starts off with the prettiest girl, and the host res is taken down by some beard lean boy. It Is Liberty hall, with nicknames for ail present, abundance of “chaff' and stories something more than risky. They are all great friends, of course, and call each other “dear things” and know exactly how much la meant by that, while they smile sweetly and say "Cat!” to connection with most of then: behind their backs. Few of these so called friendships in society are made without a purpose, either political, so cial or financial. The peeress wants a “tip” from tbe millionaire, either a Stock Exchange tip or one affecting coin or copt>er or whatever bls special line may be. Our “nice” friends arc nice In so far as they are useful to us. At the same time, in Justice to society. It ought to be ¡minted out that no one la taken in by these Interested friend ships. The people who only make friends calculating how much they will benefit thereby are seen through by ev erybody and disliked so openly that only their toadies fall to let them see it —London Outlook. The Flai.hln* Toach. The small boy with his eyes open of ten knows more of things as they are than the artist who draws things as they are not. An illustrator who Is winning laurels by his Ane work main tains that his most valuable critic is his son. a boy of twelve. lie knows little about drawing, says the artist, but he has a quick sense for beauty and a keen imagination as well. Not long ago I had to make a drawing of a street full of people running to a Are. I flattered myself I had made ti lifelike and moving scene and submit ted it to my boy with a feeling of satis faction. lie surveyed it for a moment, hands in his pockets, head on one side. Then he said: “The people are all right, but where’s the dog?” “The dog?” I inquired. “What dog?” “Any dog,” he said in a tone of pity for my dullness. “Why, father, don't you know there’s always at least one dog running alongside and getting un der everybody’s feet when you're going to a Are? Haven’t you ever been to a Are, father, or seen a crowd going to one?” When 1 thought it over I knew he was right, and the dog went in.— Youth's Companion. LIFE IN ENGLISH VILLAGES. BLUE, it la Mat tha 14,111* Faros That Foot* ■ lae Ahaet. f lz ‘I kuow a village where there are no fewer than thirty cottages with” but one bedroom apiece, and in each of these siugle bedrooms six. seven and more people are sleeping,” says A. Montebore-Bruce, writing in the Lon don Mail about life In the average Eng lish village. “In one of them, father, mother aud eight children buddled to W« Have Secured Control tor gether. In another, father, mother and This City of the Fulton Com six children—three of whom are grown pounds, the Only Thln£e Known up-are sleeping. In these cottages to Medicine That Cure Kidney there Is oue living room downstairs Diseases In Both the Primary and no sanitary urrangement of any ■nd Secondary Stage*. kind. At the back of the cottages runs au open ditch. It is also an open sewer. "Here, lu the very heart of the coun The kidneys arenotaeiislttvsand thsdlsesa* try, I expect to And abundance of pure is •omvtlmns fulened aud already shrouio wuter, abundance of sweet air. Too with lb* very Brat symptoms. Mil has buug often I And neither about the cottages. on eight is ten mouths II la avrriy chronic, tn Hundreds of villages have uo water cither cuss why takaohancut Why not take al supply, though ,, ) comparatively small Drst th* only thin« known that euree kidney obroula a* well aa the primary expenditure coui d provide it I know di*M«*lnthe st*s<a Tbs Pali oare cited b*low, by permis a village-it Is typical of hundreds— sion. is especially valuable, tor Ila Incurability waa doubly eotuiriuad by consulting physicians, where the cottagers have to go half a and «tier recovery under tbe Fulton Compounds ndle to get wuter. A foul ditch fur- the recovery was also doubly attested. tin May 1st. UUi. the aou ot R. a Pell, the nlshes another village with the whole manager ot the l'acin* Coast Hlacutl Company of its water supply. Offensive refuse ot Scoond aud Folsom alreela. San Franclavo. dec I »red by the family physician to have heaps lie piled round the crumbling wu sbrouls kidney disease end Incurable. Another walls of the cottages. The wooden thjslolau waa called In and eonBrmed the laxuoaU. Tbe whole body was swollen with floors within are rotten with sewage. dropsy, aud a fatal termination looked lor. The “Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex contain Fulton Compounds were then turned to aa the hope On September 1» the dropey had many such villages, and other counties only disappeared nnd the boy was well, and after —such as Bedford, Cambridgeshire, double examinations the pbyelalan declared the complete and gave Mr. PSU a written Wiltshire, Dorset. Somerset—easily vie recovery report which ho now has Judge G A. Cabanias, tbe Police Judge of Baa with them. I could write of lonely Fraoolaou, alao attests the recover» under hla cottages far across the Acids, with no own observation of r**rlend of bls who alao water within a utile, whence the chil recovered when the cuJu (chronic Bright’s Dis ease of tbe kidneys) was well known to be In dren morning after morning walk two curable according to all medical autborlttea. Up to tbe advent of the Fnlton Compounds miles to school, and drag their tired medicine knew nothing that would cure kiuuey limits that distance back again at night troubles after they became chronic. About —aud this whatever the weather; nine ten tha of all cases are now eurnble, -ven alter they have develoired Into the dreeded where the postal service comes but chronic forms of Bright'» Disease and diabetes. once a week; where the men and boys No etalemeuts ure published or Invited except from chronic cases that, like the above, are in walk daily Ave or six miles to and from curable by all other known medlcinea. If yous work; where of drainage there is none; kidney trouble is recent Fulton’s Kenai Com pound will cure it quickly. If It Is of over eight where of the simplest sanitation there to ten months standing it Is the only tL.ug Is none; where the medical officer of kuown that will save your life. John J. Fulton Co , atu Washington street, San Franetsco, sole health comes not, and where the in- compounders Fulton's Renal Compound for Bright's and Kidney Diseasea.fi; for Diabetes. Spector of nuisances Is unknown.” A Great Agency Î MEXICAN CUSTOMS. Female friends kiss on both cheeks when greeting or taking leave. Gentlemen speak first when passing lady acquaintances on the street. When a Mexican speaks to you of his home he refers to it as “your house.” The sofa is the seat of honor, and a guest wait« to be invited to occupy it. Men and women in the same social circles call each other by their first names. Mexican gentlemen remove their hats as scrupulously upon entering a busi ness office as in a private residence. Dinner calls are not customary, but upon rising from the table the guest thanks his host for the entertainment. After a dance the gentleman returns A Biulnew Epitaph. Amusing epitaphs are not difficult to his partner to her seat lieside her par ents or chaperon ■ nd at once leaves And if one is seeking them. The Ch shire Republican cites a most singular her side. The fashionable call of a few mln- one which may be found on a monti- utes Is unknown, A lady who arrives ment in eastern Tennessee: Sacred to the memory of John Smith, at 4 o'clock will remain until 6 or 7. for twenty years senior partner of the Tho calls of Intimate friends are half flrm of Smith & Jones, now J. J. Jones & day visits.________________ Co. The names are not really Smith and Jones, but they will answer for the purposes of the story. “I met Jones later,” says the narrator, “and he gave me a frank explanation of the Inscrip tion. “Smith was a bachelor without rein tives,” he said, “but he knew a tre mendous lot of country people, and If any of them happened to see his grave they might think that the old house had closed up and gone out of business. So I thought it no more than right to let them know that the firm was st 111 alive.” Haul , IMF« I MEFITI ] « wt I nuk Ï2 i PÀPFBÇ * ® TaWNF ••• -r- 1 —• s y W n E | z-s AA o PLUCKING SHEEP. Shearin* Proeess Not Used In Shet land on 1'ure Bred Animals. The pure bred sheep in Shetland are not shorn, but plucked. The process takes place generally In June, when the fleece is "ripe” and the silky wool can be pulled off without pain. This is called “rooing” and is much less damaging to the young Aber than clipping with shears. The wool when thus handled retains its peculiar soft ness, so that any one of experience can tell whether the material of a knitted article has been plucked or shorn. It ripens first upon the neck and shoul No Doubt About It. A kind hearted lady saw a small boy ders, so that sheep half pulled resemble seated on one of the benches in Fair in some sort a poodle that Is clipped. We must suppose that harsher han mount park the other day smoking s cigar which she afterward told a dling prevailed at one time, for we rend friend seemed almost as big as him that in 1616 the Scottish privy council self. The lady Is an enthusiastic anti- spoke of the custom as still kept up “In tobacco worker and never loses an op some remote and uncivil places,” and portunity to Impress, especially upon James I. wroto to tell them that it had youthful minds, the evils of using to been put down in Ireland under penal bacco in any form. ty of a fine. Upon this they passed an Seating herself by the side of the lad. act on March 17, 1010, deploring the she said kindly, “Ob, my boy, wouldn’t destruction of sheep thus caused and your father be dreadfully pained if he imposing similar fines on those who saw you smoking that cigar?” should persist in the practice. “Rather think he would,” responded the twentieth century young man The Tropic Home. without removing the weed from bls White men’s homes in India, the moutli. “This is one of his best cigars.” West Indies, west Africa and other —Philadelphia Ledger. parts of the tropics to which civiliza tion has penetrated are usually run on Death From Eleetrle Shock. the principle of having as much air The ultimate cause of death, when and as little furniture as possible. due primarily to electric shock, is gen Carpets, rugs, cushions, hangings nnd erally considered to be stoppage of portieres are banished. Tables and the action of the heart or of the respir chairs are made of light wickerwork, atory organs. That the latter may be bamboo or cane. The floors- are pot- affected Is shown by the fact that vic lshed w ltli cocoanut husks until they tims of electric shock are sometimes become ns slippery as a good dancing brought to by practice of some of the floor. Indeed, they are used for that well known methods of artificial res purpose nearly every evening in any piration. The cessation of the heart's settlement where there is society. A action may be due to stimulation of the ball In the tropics requires no prepara nerves which control the beating of the tion. After dinner It Is only necessary heart. These, when stimulated to ex to move the light furniture to one cor cess, may cause the heart to stop alto- ner of the spacious room, send some F«tb*r— j rrhibaid WUsan la CaMiet'a body to tlie piano and start dancing. Magazine. The ballroom is practically in the open air, for wooden "Jalousies” form Sosk«» and Farrst In Brasil. In Braxll monkeys and parrots have most of the wall space and are opened Interests to com men. -a-X j •lire Wrot’.r. Wrds *<ij*4 la roost to the same trees, but work for , night breezes. mutual benefit. Tbe monkeys cannot, The »Jast AH be.” easily pick the big Brazil nut husks ( from the trees, so the parrots gnaw ' Few people perhaps notice that all them loose, allowing them to drop, tbe omnibus wheels are painted yellow. fall to the ground splitting them. Then ■ays the Ixtndon Chronicle, so that any the monkeys tear the cracked husks' wheel may be worn with any bus color. asunder, gather the nuts and divide Every circus ring in the world is of them with the parrots. Sometimes. 1 precisely the same diameter, whatever when tbe busks fall to split, tbe mon- , the size of the auditorium, so that the keys carry them up to tbe highest rider knows the angle at which he limb« of the tree and let them drop 1 must lean in San Francisco is the an ■gain. Monkey and parrot enjoy their ' gle of safety In St. Petersburg. Even the ladder Is “standardised.” Every harvest side by side. hodman in England knows what he Rivals la Misfartaae. has to step when tolling up the build- People are very often proud of the 1 er*s ladder. though be may not know properties to which they are helm, but I it is seven Inches. The sailor who runs surely few landed estates are so vaunt-1 up the ratlines has twelve inches as a ed. few castles are so boasted about, 1 •tep, and that makes a run possible, as are the ills to which the flesh la' and the Aremen’s ladder is crossed heir. Human nature fairly revels tn with exact equivalence to the ratlines Its misfortunes, and this revelry leads to rivalry and to many complications. Flaelag the Blame. None Is so proud, npne Is so jealous, Caller—So the doctor brought you n as your traveling Invalid. tittle sister the other night, eh? Autlclnntlu* Hla*. , Tommy Yeh; I guess it was the doc “Jenkins, I believe yon have «ome of tor done It. Anyway I beard him tell the elements of success about you.” ; In’ pa some time ago 'at ’at If pn pa didn't didn’t “Not a dollar, old man. Honor pay his old bill he'd make trouble ft: bright. You'd be welcome to It If I him.—Philadelphia Inquirer. had.”-8tray Stories. |l SO. Free analyses made for patients. Send for pamphlet. We are Uiu exclusive agents la Uiia oily. Save the Baby The mortality among babies during the thiee teething yean la something (rightful. The census of l»oo shows that about one In every ■even succumbs. The cause Is apparent. With baby’s bones hardening, the fontanel (opening In the skull) closing up and Its teeth tormina, all these coming at once create a demand for bone material that nearly ___ _ hair the llttls systems are deficient In7 ___ ____ _ _ in. The result Is I eevlshnese, weakness, sweating, fever, diar rhoea, brain troubles, convulsions, etc., that prove terribly ratal. The deaths In lsoo under three years were 3ot.‘.i«S, to say nothing of the vast number outside the big cities that were not reported, anti this In the United States alone. When baby begins to sweat, worry or cry out In sleep don't wait, and the need la neither medicine nor narcotics. What the little system Is crying out for Is more bans material. Sweetman's Teething Food sup plies It. It has sated the lives of thousands of babies. They begin to Improve within forty-eight hours. Here la what physicien» think of It. 29S4 Washington 8t.. Ban Francisco, June Î, 1902. Gentlemen—1 uni _________ _ w __ _____ prescribing your food __ in the multitude of baby trouble*} due to im peded dentition. A large __ p-n-.iits«« of In- fantile ills and fatalities are the result of slow teething, Your food su tipiles what the deficient system deitMndn, and I have had surprising success with :t. in Heures of cases this diet, given with the!» "esular toed, haa not failed to check the s infantile _______ ___________ distresses. Several of the more serious cases would, 1 feel sure, have been fatal without it. It can not be too quickly brought to the attention of the mothers of the country. It is an ab solute necessity. L. C. MENDEL, M. D. Petaluma, Cal.. September 1. IMS. Dear Sirs—1 have just tried the teething food in two cases and in both it was a suc cess. One was a very serious case, so criti cal that it was brought tw me from another city for treatment. Futai results were feared. In three days the baby ceased worrying and commenced eating and is now well. Its action in this case was remarkable. I would ad vise you to put it in every drug store in this city. Yours, I. M. PROCTOR. M. D. Sweetman’s Teething Food will carry baby safely ami comfortably through the mast dan gerous period of child life. It renders lanc ing of the gums unnecessary. It is the safest plan and a blessing to the baby to not wait for symptoms but to commence giving it the fourth or fifth month. Then all the teeth will come healthfully, without pain, dis tress or lancing. It is an auxiliary to their regular diet and easily taken. Price 60 centa (enough for six weeks), sent postpaid on re ceipt of price. Pacific Coast Agents, Inland Drug Co., Mills Building, San Francisco. Hla Long Sermon. A Philadelphia clergyman used to re late the following on himself: "I preached a funeral sermon at one time and spoke on the resurrection. I am ■ure I spoke longer than was my cus tom. "The undertaker was a man of nerv ous temperament, and as the afternoon wns going he began to be anxious to tie on the way to the cemetery. He Anally whispered to one of my members, ‘Does your minister always preach as long as that at a funeral?* “ ‘Well,’ said the brother, ‘that Is a good sermon.’ “ ‘Yes,’ said the undertaker, 'the ser mon Is all right, and I believe in the resurrection, but I am afraid If be does not Btop pretty soon I will not get this man burled In time.’ ’’—Philadelphia Ledger. ■h* Peeke«. A gentleman tells a good story on his betrothed slater. Visiting his home after a long absence, he was sitting by the side of his slater, with his er tn ■round her waist. Her head drooped on his shoulder in the old, old way An aunt in the same room enjoyed the affectionate display and remarked, “W.V_ Cwt loots- a* Il -i; udskt I k Will”—the name of the young lady's sweetheart. "Indeed,” the sister re plied. “you never saw Will in thia position.” “Maybe I have,” said the •nntie. "Well, if you did you peeked," was the parting shot, which was ■ practical admission of the soft Im peachment. Givis* ■■ O.l.loa. Taddles- I used to think a good deal of Straddles, but— Waddles—You don’t say so? What bas he done? “The other day I asked him to call round and give me his opinion of an ar ticle of mine on ‘The Impending Crisis.' Well, he came all right; but be brought a little thing of ills own for me to hear, and, confound him, be wasted all the evening with hla egotistical trash. Friends «■• Relatives. "So the poor fellow's dead?** “Yes, ■nd be left all bls money to charity. His funeral was very largely attended.’’ "Ah, yes, be bad lota of friends; I don't suppose be had any enemies at ■IL” “Ob, yes. a few; he had several rela- tlvsB.’’-Philadelphia Ledger.
