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By Viola Roseboro'
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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
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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
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persuaded Blossler to sup with them.
Janey, her curls tumbled Into merely
human tresses, but presumably dream
ing French dreams, lay In her trundle
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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
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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."
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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
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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”—
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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