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VILLAGE ALIEN
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Di« Century Cmpany
By Viola Roseboro*
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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
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of tnnMftons sp'rits
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—
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._______
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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?"
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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.”
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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.
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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
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systems are deficient In7
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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 _________
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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
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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.