Who imj i ipp. <l
MU.lhto. 111.
lot
sain«' t i»l * tifiros«* and *> a i ■ to «r nil
fl
fl
'I
|H
At the top i t eu li silt ft lie eie.ir. tl bis
throat ut the Is'ltom luoiatvued bis
Huger*. tini er dal not understand llis
■I»w i, but the others did. ami lie
«
tt
n
::
«
Old Men
knew that it made tbotli gugry. Some
times it in .to them very uugry. and
ume a Bi.in cursed him ill Single sylla
files, stinging and tense, till the man
at the table rappetl bis mouth shut.
For an Interminable period tlie man
read. His monotonous singsong utter
ance lured lmber to dreamiug, and be
was dreaming deeply wheu the man
ceased. A voice sjioke to him in bis
own Whitefish tongue, and he roused
Up. without Mirprlse. to look U(>ou the
fun* of Ins sister's son. a young man
who had wandered away years agone
to make liis dwelling with the whites.
"Thou dost • not remember me." he
said, by way of greeting.
"Nay.” Imls'r answered. "Thou art
Howkan, who went away. Tliy mother
be dead."
“She was an old woman." said How
kan.
But lmls*r did not hear, and How
kail, with hand upon Ills shoulder,
roused him again.
"I shall speak to thee what the man
lias spoken, which is Hie tale of the
troubles thou bast done and which
thou bast told. O fool, to th«* Cnptnin
Alexander. And thou shalt understand
and say if it be true talk or tu Ik not
true, it is so commanded.”
Howkan had fallen among the uils-
slon folk and been tailgilt by tliem to
read and write, In Ids bands he held
the many fine sheets from which tlie
man had read aloud aiul which had
las'll taken down by a clerk when Im
her first made confession, through the
mouth of Jimmy, to Captain Alexan
der. Howkan began to read, lmber
listened for a space, when a wonder
ment rose tip in bls face, and he broke
In abruptly:
Yet
“That be my talk. Ilowkan.
from tliy lips it comes when thy ears
have not heard.”
Howkan smirked with self apprécia
tlon. His hair was parted In the mid
die. "Nay. from the paper It comes.
O lmber! Never bave my ears heard
I.la eyM grew dull. as though a film
rose up Ind coveretK them from the
World
And te dreamed as only ini
can dream upon the colossal futility of
youth.
Howkun roused iitn, again
Later__
saying: “Stand up. O (tuber, It be
commanded that thou tell why thou
didst these troubles and slew these
people and at the end journeyed her«*
seeking tin law.”
SILENT HM« MEN WOMAN AND FASHION
selr Boil» su|»«*rl». I<«H Ibelr Hooks
Xre V.*tthout llorb».
JEU SKIT ; ES THAT HAVE BEEBNoTtD
l'hre«' of us. t«i Amerleiiiis and one
.’afiai.v»' started out 111 Jlurlkishas
,'roiu Tuipe’i. the modern rapltal of
;i'<eim -,i. nr J ilwan. to go to the house
of a wealtl)« gentleman alsiut eight
miles up tlie river which runs through
tin* valley of Taipeh. The way led
through a beautiful and fertile country,
tlie valley inu red w tb th«* second crop
of ri-w and the liills with the famous
Formosa tea shrub. After luncheon
and after photographing some head
hunting savages w«* found there we
proposed to fish for snlmiw trout at an
altitude less than 230 f«*et aftoV« aen
level and in latitude alsiut 24 degrees
4o minutes north, practically in the
tropics. T he temperature of the stream
Was ii I hiii I To degrees or higher, and the
water was «ell aeratetl. This stream,
from <io to loo yards w ide, is dear and
full of rupida and riffles.
W<* used Jiipauest* tackle—horsehair
line and horsehair leader, the latter
consisting of on«* strand only; a bamlioo
risl and a most delicate palmer titsl on
a small barbless litsik. The risl is de-
cideilly gissl and, weight for weight.
Is stronger and a better caster than
our Jointed risl. It rarely weighs over
tour ounces (mine weighed about two),
but the line is,practically worthless for
casting us we underst no«
t i in
Tin* ny is perf«*ct, but tie 'i* '.
«' *
slvuiiglh, and th«* fish
l> . ,
may easily detach liimse f* a
or an eddy or by fouling
ail know how it is done : rou
rlence with pin hook ami thread m
tbe brooks at home.
The Japanese, liowM'ver, have imother
method of fishing which may be as new
to some of our readers as it was to me.
It is quite successful. They catch one.
fish in any way they can and then
fasten the line securely through Its
upper jaw, passing it through the roof
of tlie mouth and out at th«' top of the
upper jaw well in front of the eyes
and then attach through tin* body of
tlie tlsli not far in front of the tall a
horsehair to which is tied a three
pronged barbless hook, which trails in
line with the tisli and a few inches be
hind. while it is slowly worked up the
stream by tlie fisherman. Tbe theory
is that other fishes, seeing the captive
moving along as though feeding or per
haps spawning, will pursue it and be
come impaled on the hooks. In point
of fact that does happen, as I saw a
Chinaman take two tine trout in tills
manner.
Our success with the flies was poor.
We got thirteen or fourteen fingerlings,
but we saw tlie fish we wished to iden
tify caught in fairly good numbers by
tlie Chinese fishing with decoys. For
est and Stream.
AS «listjts OF •ORD'k
••»me ol the W iirld'n <4rt-|luH (»»•*
artera
llmr
Been
»•A»li«B
to*
l.aniriuiBe n> The» Have pr<-s pro*.
• aal or Herd»
bi
FISHING IN FORMOSA
HenowS.
It is a curious anil Interesting fhet
that n. ,ny of the wueí N h greatest men
|iai> teen as sparing of words as they
A NERVOUS WAIT.
Copyright, 1WJ, by Jack London
bave lavn prodigal of dtads.
Waled Natsllon •••■> its Odrad
It is doubtful If there (¡ver lived a
Became Totally Dark.
mere taciturn man tl*j. Wallenstein,
“I went to n Fifth avenue church last
pushing Know I vage
the famous commander of the Austrian
* ~kt the barracks a man was being more
Sunday night.” said a man who is good
I A I tried for liis life. He was an Interior dialects.
irmy during the thirty years' war. It
once
a
week,
“
and
quite
unexpectedly
“Him Whitefish man,” be said to
I^Yl old man. a native from the
got a new sensation. The church was Is said of Wallenstein that he “lived in
Emily
Travis.
"Me
savve
um
talk
no
Whitefish river, which empties
brilliantly I dated, but something went tn atmosphere of silence” ami never ut
into the Yukon below Lake la? Barge. very much. Him want to look see chief
wrong with the electrical apparatus, tered a word that was not absolutely
All Dawson was wrought up over white man.”
and
all of a sudden most of the lights necessary, nor would he permit others
“The governor,” suggested Dicken
the affair and likewise tbe Yukon
went out. Midway In the building two to speak in his presence more than was
sen.
dwellers for a thousand miles up and
or three bunches of bulbs continued to tssentftil. One of his chamtsTlains was
Jimmy talked some more with the
down. It has been tbe custom of the
Hud a sepulchral twilight, but the pul- bunged for waking Wallenstein with
Whitefish
man,
and
his
face
became
land robbing and sea robbing Anglo-
I it was shrouded In darkness, and nerv needless noise, ills servants were so
grave
and
puzzled.
Saxon to give the tow to conquered
ous
memliers of the congregation begun many mutes, not daring to open tlielr
“I t'iuk um want Cap'n Alexander,"
peoples, and ofttimes this law is harsh.
lips in his presence, and he was sur
to
fidget.
But In the case of lmber the law for be explained. "Him say um kill white
"This condition of affairs lasted for rounded by patrols, and the approach«*s
white
boy,
plenty
man,
white
woman,
once seemed Inadequate and weak. In
some minutes until the choir bad fin to his house were barricaded by chains
the mathematical nature of things kill um white people, Him want to
ished an anthem. Then the preacher to preserve liim from the least disturb
die.
”
equity did not reside in tbe punish
arose and requested the people to re ance. In comparison with Wallenstein,
“
Insane,
I
guess,
”
said.
Dickensen.
ment to be accorded him. The pun
main quietly seated for half a minute it lias been r«*eorded. Diogenes would little round yoke In the back and the
“What you call dat?”
ishment was a foregone conclusion,
in total darkness, when the church have been a chut terbox and William princess front. There are so few styles
Dickensen thrust a finger figuratively
there could be no doubt of that, and.
would be fully illuminated again. With the Silent a brawler.
though it was capital, lmber had but Inside bls head and imparted a rotary
But silence is a characteristic of many for children of tills age that^iny inno
the words the few remaining lights
motion
thereto.
one life, while the tale against him
of the world's most famous soldiers. vation is welcomed. The frock consists
went
out,
and
for
a
space
darkness
like
“Mebbe so, mebbe so,” said Jimmy,
was one of scores.
Napoleon boasted that In his dealings of only five pieces, and the little prin
that of a coal hole prevailed.
In fact, tbe blood of so many was returning to lmber, who still demanded
with
men hi* never wasted a word ami cess front affords a place for a lilt of
“It was the weirdest, most uncanny
upon his hands that the killings attrib the chief man of the white men.
made
monosyllables answer most pur embroidery, although the 1 portion
wait I ever had. Every man and wo
A mounted policeman (unmounted
uteil to him did not permit of precise
post's.
But nothing escaped his eyes, which outlines the front is really all the
man of the soo or 1,000 in that church
enumeration. Smoking a pipe by the for Klondike service) joined the group
and he could compress more within a trimming necessary. .ffly material that
was
as
still
as
death
almost.
I
sup
lends Itself to tucks is suitable to the
trail side or lounging around the stove, and heard Ituber’s wish repeated. He
pose the darkness did not last a minute, sentence than most men could convey mode.
men made rough estimates of the num was a stalwart young fellow, broad
in
a
quarter
of
an
hour.
but it seemed to me to be an hour,
bers that bad perished at bis band. shouldered, deep chested, legs clean
The great Duke of Marlborough when
When the lights again leaped out there
Artificial Flower Trimmings.
They had beeh whites, all of them, built and stretched wide apart, and.
was a sigh of relief from every person receiving reports from his generals
Artificial flowers are more fashiona
tall
though
lmber
was,
he
towered
these poor murdered people, and they
would
produce
his
wateli
and
say,
“
I
in the church. I guess they all felt as
ble this season than for years and are
had been slain singly, in pairs and In above film by a head. His eyes were
queer about it as I did.”—New York will give you a minute." And it was worn for many different occasions, but
cool
and
gray
and
steady,
and
be
car
parties. And so purposeless and wan
likely to go hard with the officer who especially for evening wear. The love
Press.
ton bad been these killings that they i 1 ried himself with the peculiar confi
did not observe the limitation. To his ly, graceful sprays of these flowers
dence
of
power
that
is
bred
of
blood
had long been a mystery to the mount
staff the Duke of Wellington was al (and one may have any favorite flower)
HORSEHAIR FOR BOWS
ed police, even in the time of the cap and tradition. His splendid masculin
ways more or less a sphinx. A nod or are charming arranged on low corsages,
tains, and later, when the creeks real- ity was emphasized by bis excessive
Only Black or White From H unn I o or a shake of the head was often the only
beginning at tlie right shoulder and ex
Germany I n I Ned.
lzeil nnd a governor came from the boyishness—he was a mere lad—and
response they could get from him, and tending across the front of tlie waist so
bis
smooth
cheek
promised
a
blush
as
Dominiou to make the land pay for its
There is a vast amount of horsehair when once he was asked what in* con ns to give the desired “long line.”
willingly as the cheek of a maid.
prosperity.
annually used in the United States for sidered tilie best equipment of a com Again, a band of small flowers en
lmber
was
drawn
to
him
at
once.
But more mysterious still was the
making and repairing violin, violon mander lie answered, “A long head and masse is effective arranged in bertha
coming of lmber to Dawson to give The Are leaped into Ills eyes at sight of /C
cello and bass viol bows. All of the a silent tongue.”
effect, small buds and dainty foliage or
himself up. In was in the late spring, a saber slash that scarred his cheek
hair comes from Germany and Rus
Von Moltke almost rivaled Wallen feathery grasses forming a fringe.
He
rah
a
withered
hand
down
the
sia, in which countries the tails of stein in taciturnity. He never opened Changing tlie flowers for different occa
when tbe Yukon was growling and
writhing under Its lee, that the old In young fellow’s leg and caressed tlie
horses are generally allowed to grow ills mouth if a gesture would suffice, sions makes a complete transformation
He
smote
the
broad
swelling
thew.
dlan climbed painfully up tlie bank |
much longer than here. The foreign and when the news was brought to of a single gown, especially if it be
chest
with
his
knuckles
and
pressed
from the river trail and stood blinking
hair is also coarser in texture ami him that the French had declared war white or black.
atid prodded the thick muscle pads that
on the main street. Men who had wit
tougher than that which grows on the he simply said to the ahl-de-camp, "Sec
nessed his advent noted that he was j covered the shoulders like a cuirass.
American horse, and these qualities ond pigeonhole on the right, first tier,”
Coat» and Wrap».
wisik and tottery and that he stag- j The group hail been added to by curi
make tlie imported article more valua and turned round to sleep again. But
There nre coats of all styles and
ous
passersby
—
husky
miners,
uioun
gered over to a heap of cabin logs and
ble than the domestic product.
lie hail said all that was necessary, for lengths for day wear this winter, Some
sat down. He sat there a full day taineers and frontiersmen, sons of tlie
There are only two kinds of horse in the pigeonhole indicated were com- are sack shaped and trimmed with
long
legged
and
broad
shouldered
gen
staring straight before him at the un
hair suitable for making bows, and idete plans for tlie campaign which woolen lace and quaint buttons, while
ceasing tide of white men that floialed erations. lmber glanced from one to
they are of white and black varieties. closed In brilliant victory. Von Moltke others are tight fitting, with long
past. Many a head jerked curiously to another. Then he spoke aloud in the
The former is ust*d for violin bows, used to say that one verb in tlie Ger basques, large velvet revers and cuffs.
tli«> side to meet Ills stare, nnd more Whitefish tongue.
and the latter, which is heavier and man language was worth all tin* oth For evening wear a beautiful model is
than one remark was dropped anent ( "What did he say?” asked Dickensen
stronger, is tlie best material for mak ers put together, and that was “tliun” made In black velvet lined with chin
W oiiiuii ’ n Aversion to Indrxea.
“
Him
say
um
all
the
same
one
man.
the old Slwasli with so strange a look
ing bows for cello and bass viols, be —“to do.”
chilla and adorned with a collar of rare
“Talk about the inclination to study
dat
p
’
liceman,
”
Jimmy
interpreted.
U|s>n ids face.
cause it bites the larger strings better.
The worst thing his enemies could old lace. In a different style are some
the envelope to discover tlie sender in
But it remained for Dickensen—Lit- ! Little Dickensen was little, and be
The imported hair is put up in hanks say of 1’regident Grant was, “He won't little taffeta coats for theaters. These
stead of opening tlie letter being a trait
th' Dickensen—to be the hero of the oc cause of Miss Travis he felt sorry for
which
Is
Uve
COIl-
of thirty-six inches long,
talk because lie has so much to
do duty charmingly when accompanied of womanhood,” said a Brooklyn man
casion. Little Dickensen had come I having asked the question. The police
or six indies longer than the standard coal,” and yet it was precisely in tbls by a plumed picture bat of lace and
the other day, “it Isn't in it with a
man
was
sorry
for
him
and
stepped
into the land with great dreams and a
violin bow. A hank is sufficient for silence that Grant's real strength lay. tulle or a flowered toque of smaller woman's aversion to indexes,
(Jive a
¡MM-ketful of cash, but with tlie cash into the breach.
one violin bow, while two hanks are re- His orders and dispatches were (lie proportions.
woman a book of poems like those of
“I fancy there may be something in
the dreams vanished, and to earn his
quired to hair a cello or bass viol bow. briefest ever penned, and when once a
Burns, for instance, anil she’ll turn the
Faith Inna hie Party B urn .
passage back to the States he bad ac his story. I’ll take him up to the cap
There are about one and a half ounces charming young lady playfully asked
pages for twenty minutes or more to
The
wonderful
beauty
of
the
wide
cepted a clerical position with the tain for examination. Tell him to come
of hair In a hank, which is worth from him wliy he would not talk to her he
timi the piece she is really after rather
brokerage firm of Holbrook & Mason. along with me, Jimmy.”
20 to 30 cents, according to the quality answered, “My dear, don't you know sash ribbons has won them a promi than look in the Index. Suggest tlie in
Jimmy
Indulged
in
more
throaty
Across the street from the office of
of the hair.—Philadelphia Record.
that silence is one of the greatest arts nent place. The soft, heavy satins dex to her anti she'll say, 'Oil, I'll find it
brocaded In blurred flower or foliage
Holbrook & Mason was the heap of spasms, and lmber grunted and looked
of conversation?”
in a second.’ and away she'll go, turn
cabin logs upon which lmber sat. satisfied.
But it has bien the same in all ages. designs or in velvet garlands nre made ing tlie pages again.
THE ART OF BOXING.
“
But
ask
him
what
he
said.
Jimmy,
Dickensen looketl out of the window nt
up into bags of all kinds anil into cases
Charlemagne
was
a
perfect
miser
of
“Tlie other night by actual timing it
him before lie went to lunch, nnd « hen and what lie meant when be took hold
Fistic Combats Were lllahly Esteem
wools, holding, with Confucius, that for kerchiefs, gloves, veils, etc. The took my wife twenty-two minutes to
he came back from lunch lie looked out of my arm.” So spoke Emily Travis,
ed In Ancient Time».
marvelous
piece
brocades
are
utilized
“silence is a friend that will never be
find '.Mary In Heaven’ in a copy of
of tlie window, and the old Siwash was and Jimmy put the question and re LHnouvt and wonder showed in am lace.
Pugilism, the practice of boxing or tray;" Hannibal was a "man of mono in the same way, and the most stun
ceived
the
answer.
still there.
ning party bags of the season are made Burns, for not only did she lose actual
fighting
with
the
fists,
was
a
manly
art
syllables."
anil
Julius
Cii-sar
was
nick
“Him say you no afraid." said Jim From tlie paper it comes, through my
Dickensen was a romantic little chap,
of the shadow silks, which are heavy, time turning tlie pages, but if she'd
and exercise highly esteemed among named by his soldiers "The Oracle.”
eyes, into my head and out of my
and he llkenetl the immobile old hea my.
soft silk, superb in quality and with a come to anything she liked, such as
tlie ancients. In those days the hands
Even
great
statesmen
and
writers
mouth to tins*. Tims it comes."
Emily Travis looked pleased.
then to the genius of the Siwash race,
solid
foliage or flower designs shading 'Holy Willie’s Prayer’ and ‘Polly
of
the
pugilist
were
armed
witli
the
who cannot suffer from any lack of
“Thus it comes? It be there in the
Stewart,’ she'd dally over them awhile.
"Him say you no skookum. no strong,
gazing calm eyed upon the hosts of tbe
from
light to dark in one color.
cestus, leather thongs loaded with words have often been among the most
Rarely do men do that. The first
invading Saxon.
Tlie hours swept all the same very soft like little baby paper?” Imber’s voice sank in whis lead or Iron. This form of athletic reserved of men. Of Addison. John-
tiling they go for is the index.”—New
Illaek Cloth Costume».
along, but lmber did not vary his pos Him break you, In um two hands, to perful awe as he crackled the sheets be
sport
was
at
first
only
permitted
to
external
manners
son
says,
"Of
his
Tailors and dressmakers are turning York Press.
ture, did not move a muscle, and Dick little pieces. Him t'ink much funny, tween thumb and finger and stared at freemen ninting the Greeks, but grad- nothing is so often mentioned as that
ensen remembered a man «’bo once sat very strange, how you enn lie mother the characters scrawled thereon. "It ually it wiit taken up as a profession tijnorous or sullen taciturnity which out more black cloth costumes than
t'nlque Fanillg Circle.
ever, anil they are for both old and
upright on a sled in the main street of men so big. so strong, like dat p'lice- be great medicine. Ilowkan. and thou and lost much of its prestige,
A small town In Bavaria can boast
his
friends
called
modesty
by
too
mild
nrt
a
worker
of
wonders.
”
where men passed to nnd fro. They rnan.”
As an illustration of its early use we a name." According to Chesterfield, young women. The smooth tinished of what may be described as a unique
"It be nothing, it be nothing,” the
Emily Travis kept her eyes up and
thought the man was resting, but later
find
in Virgil’s fifth -Eneld the record he was "the most timorous and awk black cloth gown is considered much family circle. A shopkeeper resident
they found him stiff and cold, frozen unfaltering, but her cheeks were spray young man responded carelessly and of a match between Dares, "with nim ward man I ever saw," anil even Ad “smarter” than the rough texture, how there includes among his household
to death ill tlie midst of the busy street. ed with scarlet. Little Dickensen blush prldefully. He read nt random from ble feet and confident in youth," and dison himself, speaking of his own ever fine. These gowns are both plain three living mothers-in-law, each with
To undouble him, that he might fit ed and was quite embarrassed. The po tlie document: “ Tn that year, before the Entellus, tlie veteran champion, “strong deficiency in conversation, used to say. and elaborately trimmed, short for a mother of her own; Ids own mother,
Into a coffin, they had been forced to liceman's face blazed with his boy’s break of the lee, came an old man nnd and weighty limbed,” when ,Hie com "I can draw bills for a thousand street wear or long for carriage use. his third wife and four daughters in
a boy wlio was lame of one foot. These
lug him to a fire nnd thaw him out a blood.
batants—
pounds, though I haven't a guinea In They may be “brightened” if desired their teens. The twelve women are re
“Come along, you,” he said gruffly, also did I kill, and the old man made
by contrasting furs, lace accessories or ported to live on terms of the greatest
bit. Dickensen shivered at the recol
Their
arms
uplift
in
air,
their
heads
with
my pocket.”
setting his shoulder to the crowd and much noise’
dashes of color on the hat. in plumes or amity, and the shopkeeper himself, who
lection.
draw
Dryden
was
unutterably
dreary
as
a
“It be true,
I
” lmber Interrupted Back from the blows, and, mingling hand
Later on Dickensen went out on the forcing a way.
rich velvet flowers and milage.
is fortunately In good circumstances,
companion.
"My
conversation
is
slow,
”
with hand.
Thus it was that lmber found his breathlessly, “He made much noise
sidennlk to smoke a cigar and cool
professes to be perfectly contented not
he once wrote, “my humor saturnine
Provoke the conflict.
nnd
would
not
die
for
a
long
time
But
way
to
the
barracks,
where
he
made
A Rnlnty Wnlnt.
off, and a little later Emily Travis hap
withstanding that he Is thus the thir
Pugilism lias been a typical English and reserved, and 1 am none of those
how
dost
thou
know,
Ilowkan?
Th.
full
and
voluntary
confession
and
from
Blouse of cream louisine, shirred and
pened along. Emily Travis was dain
titee
sport from the days of King Alfred, «Tío endeavor to break Jests in com puffed at the top and bottom. The yoke teenth of his family. The incessant
ty and delicate and rare, and whether the precincts of which lie never einerg- chief man of the white men told
banter to which he is subjected he phil-
pany
and
make
repartees.
”
And
Shad
but
its
golden
age
as
a
profession
dates
mayhap? No one beheld me. and him
U of guipure, cut in blocks at the edge ost iphically r welcomes ns tending to
In London or Klondike she gown«*«l her ed.
from the accession of the house of well tells how lie once dined with Dry
alone
have
I
told.
”
•
•••••
self as befitted the daughter of a mil
ward the bt
I tter advertisement of his
den, and from the beginning to the end
Howkan shook his head with Impa Hanover.—London Standard.
lmber looked very tired. The fatigue
lionnire mining engineer. I.lttle Dick-
business.
of the meal the poet "never opened
tience.
"Have
I
not
told
thee
it
I
m >
ensen deposited lils cigar on an outside of hopelessness and age was in bis
his lips except to eat.”
l.ltlitK anil Wurklns.
there In the paper. O fool?"
window ledge, where lie coniti find it face. His shoulders drooped depress
tlltru Modern < hlld.
Thomas Carlyle was a "hoarder of
Few people outside of lioltoes and In
ImbOT stared hard nt tlie ink scrawl
itigly, and his eyes were lackluster.
again, and lifted his hat.
Margaret's mother numbers among
ed surface. "As the hunter looks upon dians not taxed really live without the gold of silence" and would sit for
They chatted for ten minutes or so. His mop of hair should have been
her friends several schoolteachers, and,
hours, putting away at bis pipe, with
working.
when Emily Travis, glancing past white, but sun and weatherbent had tbe snow and says, 'Here but yesterday
although she is not yet five, Margaret
Those who work without really liv out uttering more than a grunt or a
there
passed
a
rabbit,
and
here
by
ti.e
Dickensen’s shoulder, gave a startled burned and bitten It so that it hung
has observed some tilings, Not long
ing nre much more numerous, includ gruff monosyllable. Leigh Hunt, his
little scream. Dickensen turned about limp and lifeless and colorless He took willow scrub it stood and listened and
■go a family of kittens made an entri*«
ing, as they do. billionaires and seam neighbor and intimate, once wrote to
heard
and
was
afraid,
and
here
It
turn
to see and was startled too. lmber no Interest in what went on around
Into Margaret’s home, and she was
stresses with more than six small chil a friend: “Have Just spent a pleasant
had crossed the street and was stand him. The court room was Jammed with ed upon Rs trail, and here it went with
most anxious to keep them all. Her
hour with Carlyle. When I went in he
dren.
ing there, a gaunt and hungry looking the men of the creeks and trails, and great swiftness, leaping wide; anil
mother objecti'd on the ground that
In tlie perfect day, when the lion growled, 'Halloa; here again!' and nt
shadow, his gaze riveted upon the there was an ominous note in the rum here, with greater swiftness and wider
they were all girl pussies and would
parting be snapped out, ‘Good day!'
and
the
lamb
shall
walk
together
and
Icapings,
came
a
lynx;
and
here,
where
ble and grumble of their low pitched
girl.
eventually grow up into mother cats.
and that is the sum of the conversation
the
rich
shall
go
down
to
the
college
the
claws
cut
deep
into
tbe
snow,
the
"What do you want?" Little Dicken- voices which came to Ills ears like th
"No, they won’t, mother," said Mar
lynx made a very great leap; and here settlements and play bridge with the lie honored me with. But how elo
growl of the sea from deep caverns.
sen demanded, tremulously plucky.
garet very earnestly. "I won’t let
quent Ids silence is! I just sat and
He sat close by a window, and bls It struck, with the rabbit under and poor, we shall all doubtless Isith II ve
lmber grunted nnd stalked up to
them be mothers; I'll train them to be
looked at liltn and came away strength
rolling belly up; and here lends off the and work.—Life.
Emily Travis. He looketl her over apathetic eyes rested now and again
teachers."- Brooklyn Life.
ened for fresh struggle.”
trail of the lynx ■lone, and there is no
on
the
dreary
scene
without.
The
sky
keenly and carefully. Especially did
I’hll May's Habits.
more
rabbit'
—
as
the
hunter
looks
upor
he appear Interested In her silky brown was overcast, and a gray drizzle was
A Senatorial lilt.
The all night and next day habits of
tbe markings of the snow nnd says
A ninnterlnK King.
hair and In the color of her cheek, falling. It was floodtime on tin' Yu
Senator Reagan of Texas when he
rtlL May, the artist, have fundsh.Nl
thus
and
sod
I,ere.
dost
iiiim.'
Ti*>.
Of King George 1V. Thomas Cree-
faintly sprayetl and soft, like the kon The ice was gone, and the river
was in the w*n*ile“stns tviiv of tin- turn
look upon the paper and say thus and material for many a story. Joo Tapley, vey, who lived in the early part of the
downy bloom of a butterfly wing, He was up tn tne town. Baek and tortb
who strongly objected to tieing Inter
the singer, said that he came across
so
and
here
be
tlie
things
old
lmber
nineteenth century, tells this story:
walked around her. surveying her on the main street, in canoes and poi
rupted. On one occasion Henry W.
May one night nnd heard that the hit
hath done?"
The
king
had
appointed
tlie
bishop
with the calculating eye of a man who Ing boats, passed the people that never
Blair, then a senator from New Hamp
"Even so,” said Howkan. "And no« ter had not been to bed for four nights if Wlrcbejs'nr to •idwJnHUT to hlBUl"’
stnd.les the Urtes itP"'l which a b*>rsf* .rested Often he raw these boats tura dii thou ‘listen and keep thy woman's and days, lie renidnslr'ateu.' iimi .uiiy
shire, tried to ask Iteagan a question
lacrament on one of the Sundays altout
or a boat Is built. In the course of aside from the street and enter the
during the Tatter’s spieech. “1 do not
tongue between tliy teetli till thou art said: "Never mind. Joe; we'll make a Easter. The bishop was not punctual
ron EVENING WEAB.
Ids circuit the pink shell of her ear flooded square that marked the bar
want to lie interrupted,” said Reagan,
bargnln. Don’t you lose any sleep on
called upon for speech.”
to bls time, and when he arrived the and bordered with an applique of green “but I will listen to a question.”
came between hfs eye nnd the wester racks parade ground. Sometimes they
my account, and I promise that as soon
Thereafter nnd for a long time IIo«
king, in a great passion at linvhtg been velvet ribbon. Six little buttons orna
ing sun. am! he stopped to contemplate disappeared beneath him. and he beard
"It is not exactly a question, but a
as I feel tired I'll go to bed!”
kept waiting,' abused anti even swore ment thn front.
Rs rosy transparency. Then be re them Jar against the house logs and knn read to him the confession, and
statement." said Blair.
lmber
remained
musing
and
silent.
At
it him in the most indecent manner, on
turned to her face nnd lookisl long and their occupants scramble In through
“Tlien I refuse to yield,” said Rea
The full sleeves are finished with rif
The Boston Girl.
the end ho said:
intently into her blue eyes. Ho grunt tlie window.
After that came the
"Will you marry me?” he asked which the bishop very coolly said he fles of guipure. The girdle Is of green gan.
“
It
lie
my
talk
and
true
talk.
Iiut
I
must be permitted to withdraw, as he velvet.
ed and li»ld n hand on her arm midway slush of water against men's legs as
"Well, the senator has missed an op-
bluntly.
tietween the shoulder anil elbow. With they walk'll across the lower room and am grown old. Howkan. nnd forgotten
portunlty of greatly improving his
"No," replied the Boston maiden. But lercclved his majesty was not then In
things
come
back
to
me
which
were
Skirt* For Evening.
his other band h<> lifted her forearm mounted the stairs. Then they ap
speech,” remarked Blair as he ambled
she added coyly: "I am not endowed a fit state of mind to receive the sacra
and double«! It back. Disgust and Won peared in the doorway with doffeil hats well for the headman there to know with sacerdotal power. Put your qties ment, and should be ready to attend on
The short cotillon skirts nre trimmed toward the cloakroom.
First,
there
was
the
m?m
who
cimie
tome future day, when he hoped to find with flounces and some of them look
der sbowis! Ill his fac,'. nnd he dropped and dripping sea boots nnd added them
over the lee mountains with cunning tlon properly. Ask me If I will become Us majesty In a better state of prepa very much like the skirts which were
her nrui with n contemptuous gruo’ selves to tlie waiting crowd.
A lln.l Time to Confess.
your
wife.
”
—
Philadelphia
Tress.
traps
made
of
Iron,
wlio
sought
tbe
syl
Then la* muttered a few guttural
‘
ra tion.
worn by the belles of ISOO.
And while they centered their looks
“Here,” according to the Warrens
beaver
of
tlie
\Vhiteflsli.
Hlut
I'slew.
lables, turned his back on her nnd nd on him, and in grim anticipation en
burg (Mo.) Journal-Democrat, "is the
• An Eloiin.nl Objection.
Labor Sot Ing Device.
Her Kmrrgrncy Fnnd.
And there were throe men seeking
dressed himself to Dickensen.
joyed the penalty he was to pay. Im-
way a Benton county man confessed nt
Mrs. Newlyblessed—But you certain
"Yes." said tlie boarding school tench
“I put $10 in tlie bank today.
Dickensen could not understand bis tier looketl at them and mused on their gold on th«’ Whitefish long ngo. Thein
a revival: He had lieen pressed to re
ly don't object to such a wee little baby er, “I think that is a model letter for George.”
speech, and Emily Travis laughed. ways ami on their law, which never also I slew nnd left them to the wolver-
as that? Janitor Oh, It ain't tlie size you to write your fiance. But of course
“You'll have a tidy little sum ther? pent and finally got up and said. 'Dear
Imlier turtwd from one to the other, ■lept, but went on unceasing in good ones. And at the Five Fingers there
ns counts, mum—it's the principle t
you will copy it. leaving out those nu If you keep on. Going to buy some friends, I feel the spirit moving in mo
frowning, into both shook tlieir bends. times and bad. in flood and famine. was n man with a raft and much
to talk and tell what a bad man I have
the thing!—Exchange.
nierous
spnees?”
meat.
”
®
,
thing nice with It?”
He was about to go away when she through trouble and terror and death,
been,
but I can't do It while the grnnd
---------------------- ------ B" ” ■
At
the
moments
wlioli
lmber
paused
"Oh.
dear,
no!"
replied
the
girl.
"Those
“Mercy, no! That’s my divorce *ut
calk'd out:
rareatei *niicita<ia.
and which would go on unceasing. It to remember Ilowkan translated nnd a
•re for 'dearest.' I have It on a rubber plus In case I need It.” — Cleveland Jury Is In session.’ 'The laird will for
"Oh. Jimmy, com«' here!”
seemeil to him, to the eml of time.
The Mother- Don't yoo.think the ba
give!' shouted the pr*«cher. ‘I guess
clerk reduced to writing. The* cojirt
tUmp.”—Detroit Free Press.
rialn Dealer
Jimmy came front the other side of
A man nippl'd sharply on a table, room listened stolidly to each unndorn by hail bettor go to kindergarten, dear?
that's right,’ said thg penitent, ’but bo
th«' street. He was a big. bulking In and the conversation droned away Into
Father—Isn't be too young? The Moth
ain't on the grand Jury.' ”
oil
little
trngisly
fill
Inilier®
told
of
■
Excess
nt
Attention.
It
Is
not
what
a
man
earns,
not
the
dlan, clad in approved white man silence. I miter looked nt the man. He
>r— Yes. But he never sees either of
‘f>id her father show you the door?" ■ mount of bls Income, but the relation
style, with an El Dorado king's som seemed one in authority, yet lmber dl reil haired man « hose eyes wt<e cross us long eBough to learn how to talk
“He did flettt'r than that. He show- of bls expenditures to his receipts that
Discontent Is the want or self rei!-
brvro on his head. He talked with Im vined the square browed man who sat oil nnd « hom lie had killislAvlth n re And don't you think be ought to know
•
Bl me flic door, the front gnte and the fietertoines his poverty 0» Wealth
■ III«*
If Is infirmity of will.—Enter*
ber haltingly, with throaty spasms. by a desk farther back to be the one lunrkably long shot.
how.?-
ToWt*
Topics.
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Imls r's hend drooped once more. n:N
Nirner drug store two blocks awav " I Anon. 9
»on.
Jimmy was a Sitkan, posscss«*d of no I chief over them all and over the malt
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