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k • Í V ’S- ■* - ’ to ah« « fl If H » VILLAGE ALIEN B By Viola Roseboro' a fi 8 B H s Long before poor A any Meuratn. gaunt and tattered and despairing and beaten, came back to bls home Strath- boro bad become familiar with tbe sight of Blossler going about bls work with a tiny figure by his side, a little «tri with tbe most marvelous double rows of brown curls under her corn- shuck bat, curls as stiff and slick and regular aa If they had been done out of wood with a turning lathe. Strath boro admired the curls unanimously, but an accomplishment of their owner filled them with an even livelier inter est That little thing could speak French, talk it right along with old Blooey! Tbe pair were continually called up on to demonstrate the fact. When old Mrs. Farnley came in from tbe country to stay with her daughter- in-law, she was not to be convinced by tbe ordinary exhibition. “You, Mr. Bloesy,” said she—“you can clean out there by that there crajre myrtle and stay there where I can see you. Janey, you tell Mr. Bloasy when be comes back to give me my «tick. Tell him In French.” Janey wus a lit tle mystified, but she was used to ex hibiting her French, so she successfully performed tbe feat required of her. and when Blossler, with a bow. hand ed the old lady her staff more witness es than one bad a new realization that tbe strange tongue was not a meaning less jargon. Andy McGrath’s soul was as much like Jane’s as one cornfield pea is like another. Tbe Infinite mind doubtless aaw diatinctions between them, ami Jane knew that Andy took more sugar In his coffee than she did, and Andy knew that she would spank Janey sometlmea when he would not; but. so far aa other human beings were concerned, they might as well have had Interchangeable Identities. When they got married, Mrs. Pembroke remarked Zz« I i -NÍ\ •z •< •< r *' I • • .... .. — J aiossler, with a bow, hnnded the old lady her etaff. to Mrs. Kitchens that it was curious to see two siich good, dumb, clever, say nothing bodies uiurry each other, but then, she added, perhaps It would have been more curious yet if they bad not Of course Andy accepted Blossler In exactly Jane’s spirit He felt a little at ■ loss aa to bow to conduct himself with a Frenchman, finding himself without social traditions on that point, but he had the best will In the world to adapt himself as well as be could to any new etiquette required. Neither he nor Jane bad a touch of the usual sore contempt for ways new to them, so little may a large spirit be dependent on experience or Intellectuality. Andy had been borne a week, and It was the evening after they had first . I- persuaded Blossler to sup with them. Janey, her curls tumbled Into merely human tresses, but presumably dream ing French dreams, lay In her trundle * bed. and close by Jane and Andy sat at the window, cooling off and, as they ■aid, “talking things over." Jane now opened up the subject she bad had so long at heart. “’Peara, Andy, like Mr. Blossy’s too good to be doing nlggah's work all the time. .Of course with a Frenchman things Is different, but seems like if he can teach Janey he might teach oth- cr 8. “It ’pear« like It would be more fit ting.” said Andy, seizing tbs Idea. “It’s called a smart thing to know French. There’s Babe Tucker.” "Blossy must know all about It,” re sponded Andy again. “Yea; I heard Judge Caldwell any years ago that he was educated.” “It’s bad time now, Jane." “I know that, Andy, but wc mnst Just try and get him siiutisl. The war'« over, and people got to educate their W- - children quiet It they’re rotog to at all.’’ “French la extry." "Well. Blossy's right here, and n heap of houses beside ourn would 've burnt down If he hadn't been. It won’t coat much. He’ll be better off anyhow than working all the time like a nig- gab. You talk to your brother Ben. > Andy. He’ll like to have hla girls as ■mart as Janey,” concluded tbe self aacrlffclng Jane, with a sigh. Ten years from that night Judge Caldwell was sa/lng to a guest, a law ver from west Tennessee: "Yes. sir; Strathboro can show more people, ol<1 •nd young, accomplished In the French tongue, sir. thnn any town a larger proportion, sir, so accomplished—than any town In the state. There are nil merous children In Strathboro that talk French with each other together at tbelr play, air. sometlmea. In fact, there ia a little niggah here about the house somewhere now that I beard say Ing— Yon. 'IJaa, where's that pick« ninny of yours?" The judge Interrupt ed himself to call a servant passing tbe door. "She done sleep, Jedge." Ml » fi H « MM MM sS Mt SS 8S 88 & Mi —was siie mr.ke tay. moae ucucute wts fin ger»-, et uiol. tue 1 Leip. I hely hot» when t lee tie. when I biggcre.” Andy had forgotten bis glass uuw and was starlug aud yet trying to look polite. and not too conscious of the strangeness of French ways. “And. M«■«!ere Andee, my fingere also, alwny. even now—I sew for uiy cio’es myse'f alway. you not know? I know I do alnyt’ing zat way easee, beautiful, and ze manlere. se pollteneM —ah. Mees-tere Andee, you know ze French peepul zey have ze manlere—I teach ze leetle daugbtere all, 1 keep ze house. I sew de cio’es. so uot in Struth boro is such cio’es, Meee-tere Andee, si vous peremeet me. Mees-tere Andee, come cbes vous to your house— you comprehend?" By this time lUossler was standing on the walk In front of Andy, rapidly pantomiming bls Ideas aud pleading with gesture as well as voice, as if tiegging that children of bls own should be cared and labored for by Andy. For a moment Andy stared on In silence, and Blossler'« heart was in his mouth. Then be got up, caught and wrung the Frenchman’s hand an In stant. dropped It and, turning his back, pulled his old soft hat over bls face. Two days later Strathboro iuid the enormous excitement of seeing Bios- sler’s household goods—a queer little cartload they made—moved to Andy McGrath’s house, and behind the cart walked Blossler. carrying our old friend, the double bass. So was established the oddest house hold south of Mason and Dixon’s line. Lt was a year before Strathboro sounded tbe full depths of Its oddity and ceased to vibrate with the excite ment of fresh discovery. Blossler took completely a woman's place in the household economy, and the world has rarely seen few more touchingly funny sights than that little man sitting cross legged on the floor of Jane's old sitting room making feminine fripperies of an unmistakably Parisian character, friv olous and modish, airy and coquettish, to be worn by bls favorite, the faithful but stolid Janey. He sits there yet. bald, a little shaky, annoyingly dim of sight, but still enjoying turning out, for Janey’s babies now, such dainty confections of laces and ribbons as no other fingers in Stratlilairo have ever concocted. Strathboro has long ago accepted Andy McGrath's establish merit—for Andy still beailB It—as one of Its peculiar possessions and takes much pride in it, and Jimmy Pendle ton, who buys goods in Memphis, or one of Judge Caldwell's granddaugh ters, who Is a belle and visits the best people from Louisville to New Orleans, or any of the most traveled residents of the place, will tell you again and again that the fame of its French and Its Frenchman bus gone abroad as far as west Tennessee and southern Ken tucky and even northern Alabama. Janey only of the children, with her husband anil her children, Ilves in the old place. The rest are married and scattered, and Andy and Blossler seem to depend on each other more and more as the years go by. They never had anything to say to each other, and they have nothing now, but they love to sit side by side on tbe gallery on summer evenings or by tbe open fire in winter, as might two rough coated, long acquainted old dogs and with no more sense of failure of companionship in tbe silence. Each understands how [>ast and present are mingled In the other's mind as Janey’s children tum ble about, nightgowned for tbelr final romp, and each knows the dear figure that as wife or patron saint Is ever in the other's thoughts, though Jane Mc Grath hns been buried so long that even in this small world she Is become to others little more than a name on a tombstone, and together these two look forward quite trustfully to the time when their names also shnll be on tombstones. And, surely, if there is assurance for the merciful and the meek and the pure In heart—for the salt of the earth. In abort—as to that veiled and awful door through which poor humanity is always crowding, they may be assured. “Very well; never mind.” “Well, sir, I must let yon hear that little darky talk French In tbe morn ing. It sounds comic; it does indeed. She picked It up from my grandchil dren. Stratlitioro always bad a literary taste. This county has produced a large proportion of the great men of middle Teum'ssee. Mr. Hunter—« large pro[»ortlon, even take the whole state together, sir- aud, owing to the cir cumstances 1 have related to you, a rivalry In the French language and lit erature sprang up among our people ladles and children, that la, chiefly- till now, sir, almost as many of them have read ‘Corinne,’ sir, Mme. de Stael’s masterpiece, as are familiar with the ’Beulah’ or ’St. fclmo’ of our own Miss Evans.” The judge spoke truly. It had come about that learning French was the gume tlie town moat affected, and Blos sler was, of course, tbe teacher. The tone aliout him bad not greatly changed. A familiarity with French had not much decreased Strathboro’s sense of the anomalous In the exist ence of a Frenchman, but tbe face of life had greatly altered to Blossler, Stimulated by the gentle prodding« of Jane McGrath he had studied to fit himself for his new calling, and It had come about that be bad developed a little genuine simple interest in exer cising his few wits, and, bless him. was enjoying the sweets of the Intellectual life. Moreover, though the tone of the town about him bad not much altered, its tone to him was necessarily in the new circumstances more friendly and considerate, and that deeply touched and pleased the little man. He still lived by himself, but now it was In “the ofllce,” in Mrs. Pembroke’s yard, and so he was within tbe pale of civilization and could be looked after If he fell sick. Jane had not rested till that possibility was provided for. But fate is apt to pass over tbe possibilities scrupulously provided for. Blossler bad never spent a day in bed since he re covered from bis burns when one au tumn the dear Jane herself sickened and died and was laid away In that shadow village always growing, grow Ing silently and ominously, by Strath boro’s side. Poor Andy McGrath was indeed left, as A'nt ’Cindy said, like the half of a pair of selssora. Yes; that was It. He was now a something absurdly useless, unnaturally unflt for existence, a some thing to provoke tbe mirth of Olyni pus. IIow strange a thing, still strange In its awful familiarity, that a creature no Inoffensive, living In dumb, belplesa good faith the life thrust on him, could seem so played upon! At the funeral, after Jane was laid In the ground and the earth was well heaped over her, Andy turned bls poor, bewildered, puln dazed eyes upon the faces nbout him, and amid their wea ried assumption of solemnity, beneath which tbe usual easy little interest In the commonplace was already assert Ing itself, be saw Blossler, his features working convulsively as he gazed with eyes that did not see upon the hideous mound. It was not In Andy to feel resentment against the others. Perhaps he, too. realized In tbe depths of Ills wordless consciousness that poor humanity could hardly exist except as It Is “well wadded with stupidity," but Id« heart went out to Blossler and was earn'd a little at the sight of his grief. He went to him and took his band, A WESLEY INCIDENT. and without a word the two men. the Flrat Methodist Lay Preacher Fal two piteous old children, went away lowed la a Year by Twesty, together from Jane's grave. The societies met on Sundays, but Months went by, nnd Strathboro be came used to seeing them together and never at the hour of church service, had almost ceased to gossip about tbe and, when neither Wealey nor any queer taste Andy showed when one other clergyman was present, spent June day new fuel fed tlie flame of the honr in prayer and religious con versation or exhortation. From ex popular criticism. hortation tiefore the society to formal The week liefore Blossler hn<1 over heard one of his pupils, a middle aged preaching liefore It was only a step, unmarried lady, say In ills class to her but to Wealey it seemed a very long nearest nelghlior that “It was a plum »top. While in Bristol he learned, one day shame tbe way poor Mrs. McGrath's little girls was running wild, with no In 1739, that one of bls converts, body but A'nt 'Cindy to look after 'em. Thomas Maxfield, had been preaching ■ nd she so old she didn't know what tiefore the Founder/ society. He hur she was doing anyhow,” and that It rieil up to London to stop it But Ills wits her '"pinion that pore Miss Jane mother, who «luce the death of her would rather they hiid a stepma than husband had been living In a room of to have 'em left with no raising at all the Foundery building, met him with a protest “John, take care what you like that.” Jane had left four daughters. This do with reference to that young man. little Inciilcnt gave Blossler food foi for lie is as surely called to preach a» profound reflection. He reflected to you are.” Admonished by this conn some purpose. That night, instead of ■el from one whose caution on all going and sitting on the gallery ate]» chnrehly matters he knew to be quite after supper with Andy, as usual, be equal to hl« own, Wesley reluctantly stopped outside tbe front gate and coiiaeiited to hear Maxfield preach «•»)j|e<| with a portentous, mysterious After listening, he exclaimed: “It 1» air. “Mees-tcre Andee. Mees-tere Andee the Lord'c doing. Let him «1o «• seem —non, non!" in answer to the Invita eth to him good,” Convinced In spite tlon to enter, and then he lieckoned, of deep rooted disinclination, he sane ■till mysteriously, with sidelong, tuick Horn'll the flrst Methodist lay preacher ward node or tae bp #!»., xnr A.nqy r»< Within a year there were twenty.—*'. eoine to him. "Howdy?” said he when F. Winchester in OutUQ. • Andy reached tbe gate, now ansumlng The Vtelss of Birds. a light, degage air. totally Inconsistent Birds have very acute vision, per with Ills previous manner. “Coûte chez haps the most acute of any creature, mol, these eve-nlng.” When Amly wns seated on the steps and the sense is also more widely dif of "the office.” Blossler twought him a fused over the retina than Is the case mint julep and, with n glass of cheap with man. Consequently a bird can claret for hlmaelf, tbs one luxury of his see sideways as well as objects In front prosperity, sat himself down in the of It. A bird sees, showing great un easiness In consequence, a hawk long doorway. "Mighty nice,” aald Andy politely. before it la visible to man. So. too, fowls and pigeons find minute scraps “Get your mint close by?” But Bliawler was so absorbed In try of food, distinguishing them from ing to arrange tils thoughts for presen what appear to us exactly similar pieces of earth or gravel. tation that he forgot to answer. Young chickens are also able to find "Mces-tern Andee,” be at last twgan. “your Icetie daugbtere alr-r much upon their own food, knowing its position m.v mmlltntlon. I wets sey have se besa anil how distant it is, as soon as they are hatched, whereas a child only very cumMion possible.” Andy stopped with the uplifted glass gradually learns, either to see or to half way to his mouth and liegan with understand tbe distance of objects. a troubled countenance scrupulously to Several birds, apparently the young of all those that neat on tbe ground, can study its contents. “My fstere was one tallenr, Mees- see quite well directly they come ont tere Andee,” Blossler Inexplicably pro of the shell, but the yonng of birds that ceeded. putting bls glass down on the nest In trees or on rocks are born blind step snd talking eagerly, with out and have to be fed.-Cbambera' Jour stretched palms, "and mv moo terr was nal HUMOR OF THE HOUR YELLOWSTONE CANYON. A lease st Frs»rtetr. At First Its nigsess and Barbaric Color Are Overgowerla.. The case of poor De Swipes was be fore tbe court. He bad already admitted having tak en tbe money intrusted to him by tbe charitable organization and approprl ■ting It to his own use. His flawless past was much In bls favor. The court was sorely puzzled. Witness after wltnsss testified to tbe man’s previous trustworthiness. No information of his having gam bled or otherwise dissipated could be obtained. At last the judge turned to the cow ering. crestfallen creature and said in a studiedly stern tone: "Have you any statement to make?” “I have," replied the prisoner In a firm voice. "I was custodian of the mouey that 1 used. I Med that money for my own private purposes, but I did not know it was embezzling. There was a brand new baby at my house, and knowing that tbe coin I had at my disposal was admittedly a fresh heir fund”— • When the Judge saw the point be wept silently. Then ho dismissed the charge of em bezzlement. But he gave the prisoner twenty days In jail for contempt. He couldn’t stand for the pun.—Bal timore American. A Cl.v.r Doctor. “Skimpy Is just dying for want of exercise, and what do you think the doctor recommended to do?” “Give it up.” “Tuke sawdust baths." “Why, that's all right. Tbe doctor expects him to produce his own saw dust.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Doable Faced Scheme at It» Best. Each of these Chinese rivals thought he’d got a grand plan to scare his foe off the earth. IET AND DISPOSITION The Food We Kai Hao a Direct In- ■ oence t'pon Oer Manaera. And when they met unexpectedly round the corner they were both so scared nt the sight of each other— —that they did a lightning run In op posite directions and don't mean to meet again In a hurry If they can help It. How the Quarrel Started. “Of course,” she said, “I’m the only one you love?" “Darling,’’ he replied, “when I’m in your presence I forget all”— “You do, do you?" her eyes flashing fire. “All! How many are there? Oh, deceiver!” (Tears, pleadings, explana tions and the usual wind up.)—Balti more American. Kept a Secret. To say that food has a direct influ- tnee upon diiqiosltlon is to utter a com monplace dietetic truism now accepted and acknowledged by every one who has even a rudimentary knowledge of physiology. If one Is inclined to doubt this let him experiment upon the lower animals. Feed a pair of baby lions from tbe time they are born until they are as large as a fox terrier dog on nothing but bread and milk, and you will have a couple of docile, gentle and loving pets ns playful and harmless as kittens. Take a pair of 8t. Bernard puppies, the gentlest of all the canine family, and as soon as their teeth come begin fei'dlng them raw meat, and you will soon have a couple of snappish, snarling, quarrelsome dogs, inclined to fight each other and ready to pick a fight with every dog in the street. If the meat diet Is persisted In they will become a menace to a whole neighbor hood. Is ft any wonder, then, that some men and women are snappish, snarling and quarrelsome? We give much less attention to what we feed the human animal than we do to what we feed the lower animals. What does the growling, garrulous, grumpy old scold, who makes life a burden to his family, eat anyway? On what does the nag ging woman feed? Why not look into these matters?—Pittsburg Chronicle. fill» turquoise taffeta tucked all over In fine tucks anil trimmed with applica tions of cream lace in a rose design. The gultupe is of mousseline de sole of the same shade, also tucked and aansl «»> —-A — —— a INCURABLE. That la What the Books Say of Chronic Kidney Disease, But the New Fulton Compounds Have a Record of of Reaov- erica Among Chronic Cases la- curable by All Other Medloloes. BLOUHK OP TVHqVOlSB TA r PKT A. trimmed with the applique and bor dered with three festooned bands of the taffeta united by fagoting. The full sleeves are tucked at the top, where they are trimmed with the fagoted bands and tbe applique. They are finished with deep cuffs composed of the fagoted bands and trimmed with the applique.—Chic Parisian. Advent of the Full Skirt. Morning gowns of wash silk are among tlie new things seen at the lm- porters. They are very simply made, with plaited skirts and shirt waists or else shirred or gathered. Very little trimming is used. The full skirt la certainly coming back. Not a few gowns are belug made with long straight skirts gather ed all around the waist line and falling In full folds to the feet in a nunlike severity of Ilia». Skirts are a very un certain quantity this season, and the economical woman who expects to wear some of her gowns another sum mer or into tlie autumn is at a loss how to have them cut. The tight skirt, dur ing at the bottom, tbe ruffled and druped skirt, the sun plaited, the tuck ed and now the full skirt all seem equally correct. The probabilities are that some form of fullness will soon banish the sheath effect to which we have become accustomed. It will be wise in buying handsome gowns to buy a few extra yards of material to permit of alterations later.—New York Fash ion Letter. The Parasol. Drufglata know that kidney dtoaaw tkat kaa kuug un eight or ten months kas beoome vhroule and that 11 to then regarded by yhyeiolaaa aa Incurable and that up to the advent <x Fulton (Ximpuunda that nothing on their ahel vea would touch It. It to a proven fact that nearly nine-ten the of all oases are now ourable, and druggists themselves are taking the new Com pounds. Oue of the reooverlns was Dr. Eelia himself, the pioneer druggist eC MB PavUto Street, Ban Franoisoo, and he gave it to over a dozen others who recovered. Here is another Interesting recovery. (We copy from the Baora- tnuuto News of November IB, 190B). “After a serious illness of over a year Judge J. R Allen of this oily has recovered snd re gards himself moot fortunate In sucvoeofully battllug with what Is generally regarded as a fatal malady. Bright's Disease of the kidneyo. la speaking of his ease Judge Allen aald; *1 believe that the treatment given mo by my physloian was to accordance with the beet methods nsed la the regular practice of medi cine, but It afforded mo no relief. Hearing of the Fulton Com pounds I went to Sen Francisco to investigate and was soon convinced 1 should uudergo he treatment. It was three amnihe before i noticed a c tango for the better. I used the medicine faithfully for nearly a year and can now tlud no evl ienco of the disease and am satlsflea it la eutirelv eliminated. My ap petite lsgcod, 1 have gained seventeen pounds In weight and will be pleased to describe mv ezperienco to anyone who may oall or write.* * —Sacramento News, Nov. IB, ¡BOB The editor of the News himself was the friend who told Judge Allen of the Fulton Compounds. They are the only things known that cure kiduey diseases after as well as before they become chronic, which happens about the tenth month. Equally efficient in dropsy. Bout, rheumatism from uric acid and bladder troubles. Fulton’s Renal Compound for Bright’s aid Kidney Dincaaes, etc., |1; for Diabetes, 91 *0* John J Fuitm Co , «« Washington street. Ban !• rancisco, sole compounders. Free analyses for patient*. Send for pamphlet. We are tbe ex- Usuaivu agents for these Compounds in thia city. Save the Baby. The mortality among babies during th» thiee teething years ia something frightful. The census of 1900 shows that about one in every seven succumbs. The cause is apparent. With baby*» bones hardening, the foutanei (opening in the skull) closing up and its teeth forming, all these coming at once create a demand for bone material that nearly half the little systems are deficient in. The result Is peevishness, weakness, sweating, fever, diar rhoea, brain troubles, convulsions, etc., that prove terribly fatal. The deaths in 1900 under three years were 304,988, to say nothing of the vast number outside the big cities that were not reported, and this in the United 8tates alone. When baby begins to sweat, worry or cry out In sleep don’t wait, and the need it neither medicine nor narcotics. What the little system ia crying out for Is more bone sup- material. ¿¿weetman’a Teething Food . plies it. It has saved the lives of thousands of babies. They begin to Impruve within forty-eight hours, Here is what physicians think of it. 1934 Washington St., San Francisco, June 1, 1902. Gentlemen—1 ani _ prescribing _ _ your food In the multitude of baby troubles due to Ira- A larve percentage of In- peded dentition, fantile Ills and fatalities are the result of slow teething. Your fokl supplies what the deficient system demands, and I have had surprising success with :l. Zn scores of cases this diet, given with tbelr regular foad, has not failed to check the 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. MENDKL, M. D. The parasol of the moment Is ex tremely attractive with Its long han dle a la Pompadour, very often incrust ed with rare gems, and Its shade of chcne silk Inserted with medallions of lace and jeweled trimming. The sim Petaluma, Cal., September I, IMS- Dear Sir»—I have just tried the teething plest parasol of all, which has a great food In two cases and tn both it was a suc share of popularity this season, baa a cess. One was a very serious case, bo criti plain silk cover, with rows of rlhbon cal that it was brought to me from another city for treatment. Fatal results were feared. woven In black, for preference, on a In three days the baby ceased worrying and light ground in graduated widths and commenced eating and is now well. Its action in this case wan remarkable. I would ad a long, plain, colored handle. This vise you to put it In every drug stere in thio should perhaps be called the en-tout- city. Yours, ' M. PROCTOR, M. D. I. cas of the moment. It is certainly very Stveetman's Teething Food will carry baby useful. All White. This charming bat is of pure white chip, trimmed with a succession of white ostrich plumes turning toward Wife—Think I can’t keep a secret, do you? Husband—Yes, I do. Wife—Well, I’ve worn an old hat HANGMAN’S PAY. trimmed over the past two months, and I haven’t told a soul yet, no there. The Wap an Oriental Ksecutlnner Helps to Fill His Parse. —New York Weekly. In the east a hangman’s trade Is very profitable. As soon as a person is Slsale Blraaedness, “Yes, it’s twins," growled Nupop. condemned to be hanged notice is sent “What Is that old saying? ’Misfortunes to the executioner, who has the privi never come singly,’ Isn't it?” lege of erecting the scaffold wherever “Yes,” replied Batcbeller gleefully he pleases, and at sunrise the next “or better still, ’Misfortunes nevei morning he lieglns his work. Accom come, single.’ "—Philadelphia Press. panied by his assistants, who guard the condemned man and carry material His Ra.e, for the scaffold, he goes to some promi Street Boy—Sir, have you lost your nent place in front of a large dwelling pocketbook? ■ nd there pro-eeds to erect the scaffold. Gentleman (searching through his A few minutes later the owner of the pockets)—No, my boy. large dwelling rushes out and Implores Street Boy—Then will you be so kind him to go somewhere else. * CHIP WITH OSTRICH PLUM». as to give me a nickel?—Judge. “I don’t want to have a man hangeil the left and reaching over the brim to in front of my house,” he explains. Ball» and Bear«. “All right,” says the hangman. "I’m tbe hair. These plumes are fastened Sharpe—Wonder where the author of willing to go elsewhere provided you under a rosette of white ribbon, the “Wild Animals I Have Met” got bls pay me for my trouble in coming here center of which is a handsome filigree Inspiration? and for the time which I have spent ornament. This hat Is large and turns Wheal ton—Probably gazing at the at the job.” up high on the left side. bulls and bears in tbe Stock Exchange. Though the sum which he names Is —Philadelphia Record. Hats ssd Hair. pretty large, the owner of the large dwelling pays it without a word, With the present style of wide, flat Felly Oeeupled. whereupon the hangman goes to an hats, the low coiffure Is tbe mode, and “Tí abe verv busy these days?" other large dwelling, where a similar It Is whispered the use of hair nets Is “Busy! Well. I should think so. scene is enacted. being revived. Whatever the arrangt Why, she is faithfully following the In this way several hours are spent ment adopted by the leaders of fashion, rules of a guide to good health.”—Chl- by the executioner In extorting money do not follow a style blindly, but have »ago Post. from all the magnates In the neighbor some one whose opinion is reliable help hood. When his pirrae 1« st Inst well yon to decide which Is the becoming Mo tas.adeaeo, filled he erects the scaffold In some mode for you to adopt I flirted with her on the car dnrk wood, and soon tbe unfortunate The very flrst time that I met her. Rhe smiled straight at me from afar, man. who Las been tramping after him Common MC1otbeo Sense.** Bo I resolved to know her better. ■11 day, Is at rest.—New York Herald. Many times a little forethought saves Wherefore I soon arose and went a deal of pin money and It Is a well And seated me beside her bravely Motklus te Speak Of. known fact that some of tbe most mod And talked—aya, with her full Consent- The little blind girl was writing a Isbly gowned girls spend but a fraction Talked lightly, tenderly and gravely composition on tbe rabbit and, never of Vie Income on tbelr clothes thought having seen a creature of any sort, in lessly expended, with less evidence Then, when «he rang the bell to go. 1 g'w' her lip» a pair of ktoaee. quired of her teacher whether the rab thereof, by tbe sisters who do thing' A piece of Impudence? Oh, no! bit bad a tall. tn a hurry or without the guidance el Ju«t «lx year» o’.d the little mlaa to. “Yes. a small one. none to speak good common "clothes sense." -New Orleans Tlmeo-DemocraL of,” answered the teacher. A Fair Wsrstsg. This Is tbe way the little girl intro Oae VBww of Dtaleet. Mrs. Browne—Don’t you think th<> Dialect tempered with slang Is an ad duced the matter Into her composition: ’The rabbit baa a small tail, but new nelghl>or Is cute? Rhe has such mirable medium of communication be a coaxing little way about her. tween persona who have nothing to any you mustn't talk about it” Mrs. Greene—Well, she’ll get heraelf »nd persons who would not care for Into trouble if she tries her coaxing anything properly sald.-Thomas Bai Tbe Vasal Delay, little way on either of my hired girls. ley Aldrich tn Century. Restaurant Proprietor (to guest)—it's Himself te Blame. too bad you have bad to wait so long. Her Bight. "Didn’t you one* say that your wife Our men have just gone on a strike. “What right has she to star?" asked How long aince you gave your order? was the making ef you?” “Only once.' answered Mr. Meekton the envious Thespian. Guest- About half an hour. I didn’t ‘•The best right In the theatrical know there was a strike. I thought It “Henrietta heard It and said It wss world," was tbe reply. "She has se was merely tbe usual delay.-Chicago very unkind and unjust to blame ber Tribune. tn that manner.’’- Washington Star. cured an ’angel.’ " Chicago Poet safely and comfortably through the meet 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 cents (enough for six weeks), sent postpaid on re ceipt of price. Pacific Coast Agents, Inland Drug Co., Mills Building, San Francisco. Beecher's Application. One Saturday afternoon two Brook lyn men were on their way over Fulton ferry to the City of Churches. Mr. Beecher happened to lie on board. As tlie ferrybout felt ita way into the slip Mr. Beecher seemed to be looking on abstractedly. As the boat struck the piling at the side, which creakingly yielded, Mr. Beecher’s face lighted up. One of the men, who knew Mr. Beech- er's method of sermonizing, remarked to the other: “Tliere will be something about that In tumorrow's sermon. Let us go and see." The men were In Plym outh church the following morning as suggested. Sure enough, in tbe course of the sermon Mr. Beecher made some such reference as this: “There are In every community men who perform for society the service that yonder pil ing does In the ferry slip—when they are struck they gracefully yield, yet are not quite swept from their position. They stand for principle, but they tact fully yield in nonesaentlals. Those buffer souls are valuable members of society.” III« Second Stomach. Smugglers' brains are proverbially fertile, and a clever expedient was once adopted to Intpoft brandy Into v»ris without paying the octroi duties, says the Gohlen Penny. For several weeks a splendid elephant and his keeper be longing to a circus had constantly gone in and out of oue of tLs Paris gat:a, when one day a custom house officer suddenly thrust his probe Into tbe creature's side. The spectators were horrified, but the elephant did not ap pear to feel nny pain, while from tbe wound fell four tiny barrel« of brandy. The keeper, considering that a little extra size In the unwieldy shape of his change would not be noticed, had in cased its stomach In the old skin of a larger elephant and bad filled out the ■pace with brandy—a very profitable enterprise. A Desperate Maa. It was In a restaurant, and tbe young wife looked anxiously at her busband •a he devoured a double portion of lob ster salad. “I wish you wouldn't eat that dear.” she urged. “You know It never agrees with you, especially at night“ “ttdoesn't, but I don't care," ba aald as he tackled a huge mouthful. “It’s my turn to take cart of the baby to- atght. anyhow.”—New York Press. • ’ ... s-.-' ■ Imugliie. if you cgn—but you never ctu—a mighty cleft tn tbe level earth a third of u mile wide. Its brinks sharp, precipitous, reaching over 1,200 feet downward, sometime, almost perpen dicular, sometimes banked with huge heaps of talus or buttressed with spin dling pinnacles and towers often sur mounted with eugle nests, and ail painted, glowing with the richest color —vast patches of yellow and orange, streakings of red and blue, with hero a towering abutment of red and there another all of yellow. At the bottom flows the gleamiMg green river, and at the top the dark green forest reaches to the canyon edge, and sometlmea even rugged and gnarled pines, tbe van guard of the w< sl, venture over the precipice to fln<l f(Hiring on some ledge or to hang, half di-lodged, with angular, dead arms reaching out into tbe mighty depths, a resting place for soaring eagle or hawk. Tbe sides of the can yon being not of solid rock, but of crumbling, soft formation, have fur nished plastic material for the sculp- turing of water and wind, which have tooled them Into u thousand fantastic forms. One'« eye traces out gigantk castles, huge dog forma, bird forms, ti tanic faces- all adding to tbe awful Im preaslvenesa of tbe place. For miles the canyon stretches north ward from the lower falls. From numerous well guarded outlooks the spectator, grasping hard upon tbe rail ing lest tbe dizziness of these heights unnerve him, may behold a hundred varied views of tbe grandeur, looking either toward the falls, which seem to till the canyon end like a splendid white column of marble, or off to the north ward. where the stupendous gorge widens out. loses some of Its coloring, admits more of tbe forest and finally disappears among rugged mountains. Everywhere tlie view Is one that places the seal of awed silence upon tbe 111». It never palls, never' grows old. One soon sees all too much of geyser and paint pot; of this, never. At first the sensation <rf savage immensity Is so overpowering that the spectator gathers only a confused sense of big ness and barbaric color, but when he has made the perilous descent to the canyon bottom below the falls, when he has seen the wonder from every point of view, he begins to grasp a larger part of the whole scene, to form a picture which will remain with him. —R. 8. Raker In Century. WOMAN AND FASHION ' buie , . ¡■•miT w K íín V pipéis A (h>ralu< Watet. oarobtook The Ulustratlou shows a blouse of *T9WNE| 4 —
