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CHAPTER I.
HEN Jim Evans bought the
I'akvlllo Chronicle ami pnid
$T.0i for It people cnlletl it a
"line deal." At tlrst Jim con
gratulated himself, deeming the phrase
a tribute to his shrewdness, hut when
he cam" to view his journalistic prop
erty It occurred to him that possibly
the compliment hail been misappropriated.
.shivered over tne paragraph, strange l
relate they found the sensation rather
pleasant than otherwise, never dream
ing that Oakville would ever have more
than a speetatorial acquaintance with
the fateful .Mary Ellen; yet so It was,
and this was the manner of It:
It was 11 o'clock. The night per
formance had ended, and Evnns was
leaving the tent with Jennie Hamlin
on his arm when a horrible shriek
rang from the tent into the fiarlng
His m sgivlng grew when the Argus. tor0 llhnnlm.(1 n ht simultaneously
Mirk .f-ol i-1 1 . . . r rt. .....I ...1,1. .1. . 1 -
o.n-i-i. i-min- uui me 101
lowing paragraph:
"Old Brown of the Chronicle has
finally nold Ids moribund paper. It Is
perhnps unnecessary to state that his
rlctim is a stranger, lie halls from
Mississippi and Is redheaded. Let us
htve that his llorid locks mav throw at
least a hectic glow on the dullness of
iur i xpiriug contemporary."
"I'm not redheaded; my hair is au
burn. ' said Lvans indignantly. "111
make tbo ChronVle a big success if I
have to work day ami night. Hang the
Argus!"
Amen:"
Evans had supposed himself alone In
came a confused chorus of voices:
"Shoot her!" "Shoot her! No. cut her,
cut her!" "Too late, she's lettln' go!"
followed by a babel of curses and
screams from men and women Ileelng
In all directions.
Evans drew Jennie to one side to
guard her from the crush, and. with
vague guesses at the cause of the panic,
they paused for the excitement to sub
Mile before resuming their way. As
they stood waiting Tom dashed up.
"It's Mary Ellen, the big snake!
She's got out and crushed the 'liv
ing skeleton.' " cried the boy In one
breath, and he dashed back under the
swaying tent which trembled and
the ramshackle ollice. and. turning ab- shook in the gusty light, suggestive of
rnptiy. his glance fell upon a boy of
slxtevn. who met his eve with a smile
half fearful, half impudent
To Evans' startled Inquiry the boy
explained that he was Tom Wilson, the
Chronicle devil, and upon his Insisting
tlwt he "went with the paper' and
could set type Evans re-engaged him.
ami, with his staff of one. the young
editor settled down to work.
The ltin most lauded by Iirown had
beea the Chronicle's "good will." Ex
perience prved th. t this Intangible
thing represented the right to solicit
advertisements and the doubtful pleas
ure of entertaining Colonel Hadhain, a
lecaysl politician, who dropped in dai
ly with a lnttl" of cough mixture to
read the exchanges.
"lces he go with the paper, too?
uiSked Evans of Tom at the end of a
week.
"Who, the colonel?"
Eraas nodded.
"I d.ift know," laughed the boy
"He's a chromo-the colonel. That
bottle of eough mixture is only old rye.
him! he sometimes has the Jimjams.
They sy he drink to forget a man he
once killed. But he's been to the legis
mture, ami everybody else puts up
with him. and I suppose we'll have to
Yes; I reckon the colonel goes with
the paper
.Jim ami his bright eyed staff soon
became comrades, for there was but
eight years difference in their ages, a
ppace that youth and sympathy find
small difficulty in spanning. Other
wise, however, time whs an Item in the
Mitle country otlice, and it excited the
hoy's admiration to see his chief set
ting unwritten editorials to save It.
Hut it was when the clean limbed,
muscular young editor did the giant
swing on the horizontal bar In the rear
af the office that the lad would have
died for hin
Howevt -. This 1-;, of hero worship
not being require.! of him. Tom did
something th::t pleased his chief far
hotter. He introduced Evans to his
preuy cousin. Jenny Hamiln. and ere
long 4!ni lud another incentive to spur
hint on in the race for Journalistic suc
cess.
The Curonlcie otficc faced Oakvllle's
principal street. Evans put his case
ami stoul at one window, and Tom
VVUtsou placed his by the other. The
odltor could look up Mulberry street
and the staff down. This arrange
ment saved the expense of a reporter,
for nothing, from a dog light to a
fciw-tlug scrape, could happen in the
heart of the town but the eagle eye of
ihe Ciiroii!-l" was upon it. and the ed
itor or staff swoopvd down, notebook
In hand.
But there were days and weeks when
ttOiiting would happen when not even
lite dogs would fight days when the
twin fell and the wind sobbed through
the ok! southern town ami the ox wag
ons creaked diri.es. while the wet
sire-ei, littered with soiled locks of
cotton and bedraggled corn husks, pre
sented a vista of desolation.
Tiitise wore trying times.
"it's disgusting." cried 'Join one day
la despair. "XoIkhIv's died, nobody s
married, ami nolnly's been born in
tliree wefcs. Xow's the time for the
cniotie t tak- the jimjums. If the
ooleiiel would only get the monkeys
utw him and hang himself. Just think
how wo might scoop the Argus."
Next wek a circus struck the town
Hiwlfoot's Irat S.how. "nine circuses
combined' ami Tom was In ecstasy.
"Now we'll have plenty of copy." said
the boy srleefully. "There's always a
scrap In Oakville after the night's per
formance. Someliody always get- stab
bed or sliot or something, and then
ihr's ilto trial This circus will Inst
m almost till Christmas."
The circus had been billed for weeks.
Iuamcute ioters tlared up and down
Mulberry street from billboards of un
dressed plank: countrymen and negroes
stared open mouthed at the mammoth
jaws of hug? hippopotami swallowing
hip clouted hiilhen and elephants bran
dishing Hindoo babies In their gyr.-.r.-ing
trunks. But the picture that excit
ed most horror was a lurid representa
tion of the female anaconda. Mary El
. i i:- niMi-i of t jMiSti-r had made
a frv iy f the Laocoon In blue, yel
hm xtiii cwii. and the (iffect waia
l.lotd urdlli.g.
" -fi?. sii-.-'t a .rker!" said the ad
xvMt'i jieut as he posted Mary Ellen's
l:isn-w oa the ij-ianl. "She's not so
awful 1 :g. but she's crushed live men
to d th, SkUil Hind foot wouldn't take
iO.Mr tor her."
Tuta, who was standing near, heard
Jlils ti'i iiitig statement nd wrote a
paragr.:,.!! i.i the Chronicle that spread
Alary lwli u's fame far and wide. But
Hltcii it lin nature of man that, though
iMHJlftte sluhldered at the picture and
an antediluvian mammoth In mortal
pain.
Jim feared that Jennie would faint.
or at least scream as the other women
were doing, when she heard Tom's
dreadful announcement, but f-he did
tteithir. She merely clung to his arm
and trembled.
That no one knoweth when his hour
coj..ctl! is true of other things than
death. It is equally true of l.we. and
quite as veracious in the matter of the
avowal, for what man knoweth when
he is going to propose! Evans certain
ly did not. He had planned It many
times, and had even selected the words
he Intended to say. but at each occa
sion the word and the moment never
seemed to tit. though every day his
love kept growing stronger and stron-
:er and bigger and bigger, till it seem
ed to him he would have to get a larger
body : hold his heart. And now all
suddei'iy. as he felt the arm of the
little woman he loved quivering in his
own. he told his love almost before he
was aware.
As for Jennie, she had long known
that Evans loved her; her only doubts
had been in regard to her own feel
ings. But when in her fright she
id dNvovered the serpent's trail in
he mud .utside. and the men were
;;.!ng to H.-ok her by the aid of pine
i .-lu a d.ii.iuit thing to do. for the
trad u.k laeeil every feu- yards by
ti.o fooipr:;,;s of men and horses. The
reptile had evidently been bewildered.
:oj tu.ic eru many turns in her
course. Finally, however. It took the
direction of Mulberry street and the
heart of the town.
"They'll not lind her tonight." said
Evans, who had Joined the searchers.
"No." said the boy. "and they don't
want to."
Still Hindfoot urged on the search,
and lanterns and torches passed and
repassed each other In ever widening
circles, while the bearers muttered
curses under their breaths and wished
Mary Ellen in the bottomless pit.
By and by, when even Hindfoot was
beginning to despair, some one cried
out no one knew how that Mary El
len had been discovered opposite
Biggs' barroom. At this all threw down
their torches and rushed tumultuously
to the spot.
The report was false. There was no
serpent in front of Biggs' establish
ment, though some of the men about
Its hospitable door had seen many
snakes in their time and doubtless
were destined to see many more.
Among them was Colonel Badliam. It
was probably the colonel who had giv
en rise to the false rumor, for when the
breathless throng arrived at the saloon
the colonel, full of eloquence and
"cough mixture." was haranguing a
group of Jolly bottle mates on natural
history and making frequent reference
to the snakes he had seen "before the
war."
"The blamed old fool!" exclaimed the
angry and disappointed Hindfoot. "I
guess he's seen his share. But if he
meets Mary Ellen on his way home to
night he'll never see another In his
lifetime, for she's as hungry as a wolf,
and I'll bet my biggest elephant she'll
swallow something live, before morn
ing!" to iu: ro.vj i. r i-:i.
A ?A.U IS! AX BEAUTY. CLD BAVARIAN towns. , woman and fashion
MME. TALLIEN. WHO, IT IS ASSERTED.
SNUBBED NAPOLEON.
A IV -.1111:111 IVIune KiitritncIiiK Loveli
ness 1S:i ..!! ICvcn llic Women of
the French Cap I till The Mild nnd
InofVeii.si ve Yoinit? Honnpnrtc.
I Mtriug the dlrcetoiro Marie de' Medl
el's palace became the center ol gov
ernment and Barras reigned there un
der the insjiiration of Mine. Talllen. It
was she who organized all the fetes set hack close to the Inclosing wall
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ami ceremonies which enuveneu ians The ground lloor of these houses ;if.
Mil y of the Smiiller (lues Are .Merc.
ly Wnlletl Km rni Villnsje.
In old Bavati ii) districts many of the
smaller towns are merely walled farm
villages. These settlements of agricul
turists reproduce the ancient laager for
all. Each is built in the form of a
parallelogram, the shorter sides hav
ing each a gateway, with double gates,
over which rise central square watch
towers capped with conical red roofs.
A narrow road or street runs from gate
to gate, with old half timber bouses
Smrt I ineii .S'tiif.
Walking costume-; made of linen in
severe tai'or M vie nmong tlie smart
est of the season and are as comforta
ble and as satisfactoiy to wear as thev
are fashionable. This one Is white, of
the sort known as butcher's, but linen
MONEY SLANG.
AN OPTICAL DELUSION.
I 5
To Sailors IlrooUIyn Ilrhle Is One
of the World '.n Wonders.
One of the world's seven wonders to
the s-iilor is the Brooklyn bridge. Turk
i?h sailors tell of it in the Black sea.
and 1'limish whalemen discuss it in the
Arctic ocean. It is not as a wonderful
feat of engineering alone that they re
gard It. but as one of the greatest opti
cal illusions to be met with during a
seafaring career. Nor is It less wonder
ful In this respect to a landsman.
A .-hip comes In through the Narrows,
a big four masted ship with lofty rig
ging. After all the harbor regulations
have been compiled with n tug takes
her In tow. It is announced that slu1
is going up the East river beyond the
bridge. Then the old sailors who have
been tUere before get out their pipes.
lean over the railings and prepare for
a long comfortable smoke.
Not so the strangers, especially for
eigners. As they see the big structure
before them, anticipating otllcial com
mands, they gather up the necessary
gear for lowering all the tops. One
man starts aloft on each of the four
riggings.
"Come down there," shouts the mate,
"(let for'd. you men. Let alone that
gear."
The men go for'd, a good deal sur
prised. Meanwhile the ship is fast
approaching the bridge. The speed
continues the same and the black arch
Is sweeping down. The men anxiously
regard the topmasts, then cast appre
hensive glances toward the apparently
low hanging bridge.
"What is the blame fool skipper try
ing to do?" growls an old English salt.
Meanwhile the old timers are leaning
against the bulwarks, smoking and
chuckling. What was once keen anx
iety to them is now a huge Joke.
The other sailors are getting bewil
dered. Apparently the brid
strike the foremast Just below
after the Terror, in 17UU the beautiful
Spaniard was twenty-three and had al
ready had an eventful past. The daugh-
tir of a financier named Cabarrus, she
l.'id married at the age of sixteen the
Marquis ile l'ontenay, been divorced
from him in 1 7i3 and had remarried, a
few months after, Talllen, the convcu-
tionni'l.
Arrested May 22, 171)1, she was Im
prisoned in l.cs Cannes, and it was
from here that she wrote the stinging
epistles to her husband which Induced
that wavering spirit to dare ull In the
attempt to set her free. Armed with
a dagger in case of failure and all the
courage he could muster, Talllen on
the famous Oth Thermklor attacked
Kohesplerre in a debate which brought
about the fall of the "sea green monster."
The reigu of terror came to an end,
the prisons disgorged their victims, and
Mine. Talllen received from the people
the title of Notre Dame de Thermldor.
The world was at her feet, and she daz
zled It by her beauty and her charm.
her lovers and her luxury. Even wom
en forgot to be Jealous and acknowledg
ed what all men proclaimed. The fol
lowing description is from the pen of
fords stabling for cattle, and from
these stables the cows are driven out
through the town gates In the morn
ing and brought in at night. Town
ships like this are merely clusters of
la. uses intimately connected with the
farm lands that lie beyond their gates. ;
The peasantry, whether peasant pro- J
prietors or allotment leaseholders, go
iu and out to their work.
In eastern Bavaria, toward the Dan
ube, where the better class farms are
to be seen, one finds farmhouses of !
wood, a great shingled roof covering
as In Holland not only the large liv
ing apartment, with many bedrooms,
but also the stables for the horses
and cattle. On such farms much of
the farm work is done by girls, who
usually wear short petticoats, tight
bodices and kerchiefs on their heads.
Most of the men are either in the army
or working at trades.
SMOKING A CIGAR.
of
Some Thlriira Tlmt Evcrr L'.ser
Tobacco Din's Not Know.
"It's really remarkable, considering
the 12.O0n.ooo.00O cigars smoked In the
1
UOX COAT ANI KlVn C.OHKD SKIItT.
Llllti'd Mates everv ve.ir liou- leu
cine ot her own sex. Mine, de Chaste- ,non ro;llIy ,.now h()U. tQ Klnoke S;I(1 I etamlnes. crash and the like are suita
"'i J1 nromilicnt lnli-i.-cn ilonler "Tlinn. I
.MIDI
Talllen
c.une et-rj u.ij one mistake in mirtteiihir tlmf even i.r.
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vksj.1 1. arras. 1 110 not unniv 11 poiu.u por!t.nc0(1 smokers sometimes make
bio. and various colors are worn, white
and the natural tan. however, taking
precedence of almost everything else.
to be lovelier than this woman was that is in not keeping the tobacco burn-! 'n "- Ink style and can bo
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the
then. I shallxflways see her like a
wiry queen among the rest, her ueau
lit" nl black hair coiled simply on her
head without any ornament, round her
neck a single string of large pearls.
She wore a white underdress and
tunic of Ink crepe, and. sitting on the
ground playing with a child of three,
the son of one of Barras' friends, they
made a group which no classic sculp
ture could surpass."
Barras tells us with great naivete, in
his memoirs, that the "Little C-rsIean
only turned his attention to Josephine
Bcauharnals after a fruitless attempt
to obtain favor with Mine. Talllen ami
that this lady had treated him with
great disdain, telling him "she could do
better for herself.'' This account of
the a tTalr coming from any other quar
ter would be more credible.
A considerable -jvent was now to
take place at the Luxembourg namely,
the reception given to Ceneral Bona
parte after the campaign of Italy. For
this ceremony (Pec. 10. ITSHi the court
yard of the palace was transformed
into a ort of temple, and an altar to
la 1 'a trie erected In the grand entrance
hall. The five directors, with Barras
at their head, attired themselves as
Romans, while Talleyrand, the min
ister of foreign affairs, was prepared
with an elaborate harangue.
The scene was made additionally
brilliant by the presence of many Ia-die-.
whose splendid Jewels and rich
dreses did honor to the occasion,
while their eager faces and murmured
admiration betrayed their Interest In
the young hero. Among these groups
not the least noticeable were Mine, de
Siael and Mine. Becamler "Wit and
B .iiity." as Napoleon himself named
them.
Alone of all the assemblv the future
emperor had assumed no imposing cos
tume. His uniform, that of a general of
the devolution, suggested a charade
of republican simplicity, while his pal
lor. his gravity and quiet deimtinor
seemed to deprecate the ceremony of
which he was the object. The tone of
Ing properly.
"About 00 per cent, I should say. of
all the cigars sold are better on the
outside than the inside. This isn't
wholly to deceive the prospective buy
er. It requires a good quality of leaf
to shape the outside of a cigar, while
the tiller may be more readily compo.-ed
of inferior tobacco. The smoker who
permits his cigar to burn inside the
wrapper loses the best part of It. Prac
tically any cigar Is rank when smoked
through the center. The aroma Is lost I
made either with or without the collar,
while the skirt Is cut iu live gores and
closes at the center back in habit style.
To make the costume for a woman of
medium sisce will be required for coat
V, yards 27. yards 11 or 2 yards
r.2 inches wide: for skirt. .7s yards 27.
Mi yards 41 or 3 yards ."2 inches wide.
The S'ninrt Stool-.
Tor ni Applied to Coin nnd Bank
..e.s In Knuland.
"We may think there is a great deal
of slang in English as we commonly
use it in this country," Mr. J. E. Sora
ghan observe-?, "but In at least one re
spect the colloquial tongue of England
surpasses the wealth of terms we pos
sess in this regard, and that Is the
slang relating t money. The American
uses astonishingly few slang words In
(peaking of pieces of money, perhaps
because he has a greater respect for It.
A live cent piece Is usually referred to
as a ni ki l. but this is practically the
only slang term applied to any of our
money in general use. A dime Is offi
cially a dime, amlso is a quarter.
"But tu;n to thetenglisli appellations
for their money and hardly a bit of It
is referred to under Its authorized and
otllcial designation. A shilling Is seldom
culled such in London. They call It a
'bob.' and a quid,' which means a piece
of tobacco in tin's country, Is what they
term a pound. Sixpence they call a
'tanner.' fourpeuce a 'joey' and a penny
more often than not Is unknown to the
street gamins save as a 'mag.' A cab
man will not tell you a ride will cost
r t t . . .
n siiinmg.s. nut: mat it win renuire a
'hull to pay for It, and a half crown Is
'half a bull.' These are prevailing ex
pressions for the pieces of money wide
ly handled, but proper terms for higher
amounts are kicked aiMe and collo
quial terms substituted for them.
At a race track if a bettor says he
has ventured a 'pony on the probable
outcome of a race he does not mean
that as it would appear to us, but sim
ply that he has wagered 25 on the re
sult. Where money Is handled in largo
amounts it Is not an Infrequent thing
to hear one say of another that he has
a 'monkey' of money, meaning that the
ndividual referred to Is the proud pos
sessor of otX). So you see In compari
son with this plethora of riches our
one nickel is a poor crop of monetary
slang indeed." St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
AFGHAN FEUDS.
Tower of Hefnpre From Which the
Warfare la Conducted.
Iu Afghanistan the people are good
haters. The blood feu J exists In all
Afghan tribes. When a murder oc
curs the avenger does not limit his re-
The newest and neatest Utile stock , prisal to the murderer, but kills any
1.. tit . . it .
to be worn with the tailor costume Is
omNsed of an upright linen collar
with a turnover embroiderv edge fas-
a::d the imioke is bitter and acrid
Tutling on a cigar that Is not burn- b-ncd in front with three tiny long
ing properly only increases the tlit'ii-ul- shaped bows of black velvet. You may
ly. The smoker gets more of the smoke trust a Frenchwoman implicitly where
of the inide leaves, and the whole ii- ! m'" ''''tails of the toilet are concerned,
gar becomes hot from the effects of the ! her sense of the illness. oTlhliigs en-
iii'-reased combustion in the center of
It. The proper thing the onlv thing
abling her to distinguish between thu
addition to lo made to a gown of one
to do under the circumstances is to ' ''uitorial and that intended for another.
light the cigar again, taking care that
wrapper and all are Included in the
lighting. If this plan were followed a
.....I ......... .... ..I
f,'-0 .Miiimnn UUUiUUi. LilililLl'
their brand of cigars so often."
KEAT OF A MACGREGOR.
his siicecli uns eoi:ill- omitct Ills
cro,strees. In alarm they hurry aft, as th,.hu. ,,u. Kk. h(l fdt ," his ,.0limrv-s
t x il.. 1 .i I 1
ui'hi,i 10 u-ijjc.-ii 10 uie pnoi and tne
Mttry JAlai. the bin "tiakc '"
clung to his mitscular arm and per
ceived how cool' he was In all the
panic, his voice as firm as his tlesh.
tin' young editor rose rapidly in her es
teem. However. It was not till she
saw his coolness transformed to ardor
and anxiety as he told her his love and
waited her answrer that her tottering
doubts tumbled and she lost her heart
to Jhn forever.
It was Just as they reached Mrs.
Hamlin's door tlmt the young man's
ear caught Jennie's trembling "Yes."
And then came the hardest act of his
life, for she Insisted that he should
leave her immediately and go back to
otiicers. but those men are complacent
ly tranquil on the poop.
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'wn uui. oi.-iuu iruiH miner, yens
one sailor. The bridge Is apparently
about to sweep through the fore rig
ging, when suddenly It shoots upward
and curves gracefully over the fore
truck. tUly feet above. In a minute it
Is all over. The bridge drops again.
it actually seems as if it had been
raised especially to allow this ship to
pass. To the foreign sailors It seems
a miracle, and they tell of It for the
rest of their lives. -New York I'ress.
scientific conquests and her progns
iu the paths of peace.
Surely no government could suspee
a rival in so well disposed a youm
man. Two years later the coup d'etat
of Brumaire drove Barras from the
Luxembourg, and the first assemblv
which in I ranee has borne the title of
senate, began its sittings In the p::l::ce
- Hon. Mrs. E. Stuart Wortley in Na
tional Ueview.
THE WORD BOGUS.
The
PITH AND POINT.
Old saying: Those who can, do; those
who can't, teach.
You ladles no doubt have tried many
' remedies." Ever lind one that was a
remedy V
When there is talk of a duel both par-
I'um to keep him from becoming the ties are very fierce in the hope that the
prey of "that dreadful snake." lie other will back out.
irted to remonstrate, but Jennie closed We have noticed that the weather is
the door, and with his betrothal kiss either too wet, too dry. too cold or too
warm upon his Hps ho hurried away to warm. It Ls verv seldom just right.
Tom. loading Mary Ellen with marrow
freezing objurgations at over breath.
When Tom Wilson burst back Into
the circus tent the spectators had nil
t'e-1 and Mary Ellen had disappeared
uiiiler a heap of fallen seats and tent
po. which the frightened people had
o -rti:rned. Around this chaotic mass
of lumber the Infuriated Hindfoot was
11 al.ing the air blue with oaths, while a
I; mo! of employees nervously stirred the
timber-:. A glance told that they had
Pon't ever grieve to death if you can
help it. Such a death is very unsatis
factory to the doctors, as it affords
them nothing to cut out.
When they were married they had
two umbrellas and needed only one.
Later on, when one umbrella was all
they had. they needed two.
We wonder If the author of that say
ing. "It is never too late to mend." was
a mother who had to wait till her chll
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110 wish to recover the object of their ,,n'" wt'rt 1,1 Oefore she could get ivarson's Weekly.
search, ami If It were found they would no,u 01 UMr fmtne Atchison Globe.
all Pee Incontinently.
E::ger far com. Tom missed on and I'rom the Dnctor'N View Point
entered the cir us greenroom. It wuh
There Are Severnl IMiniNihle
orle.i lift to ItN Orluin.
The word bogus" Is said by Pr. Ogll
vie to be derived from Boghese. tin
name of a notorious American swindler
who about the year lX'.." Hooded tin
western and southwestern states with
counterfeit bills, sham mortgages and
such like. Others connect the word
with "bogie," a scarecrow or goblin
and so applied to anything fictitious or
chimerical.
Lowell In the "Biglow Bapers" says
'l more than suspect the word to bi
ll corruption of the French bagasse
1111s oagasse was tne sugar cam? as
delivered In Its dry. crushed state from
the mill, called also cane trash, and fit
only for burning, being thus synony
mous with useless rubbish.
Again, according to Brewer, there Is
In French argot, or thieves' slang.
word, bogue, which signifies the rind of
a green chestnut or the case of a
watch, and this also brings us to the
Idea of an outward seeming without
any solid and reputable foundation.
DonUcj-.H In Kfj-ypt.
In 1-Vvnl the women si 111 follow Hin
All odd Illustration once given Emer- ,.! "custom of rldim- 00 ,lonk-or
ti p.M.r'3 lighted place, smelling vilely uon tlH' philosopher, of the fact that Tlll? animals are small and well trahi-
I l..-roe:lc. In the center of the com- ,J1VS disease are as beautiful as :uui Carrv their burdens about with
. : - plat a group of Jaded perform- lUv 1:lu's ' health Is reported In his
r-. Mili in their llohlngs and spnnglort eture on "The Comic,"
were gathered about the anaconda's WJ,S hastening." he says, "to visit
victim. 'ld and honored friend, who I was
"!. s dead." said the clown, and a ,,,'jri'l wa in a dying condition,
ti ar rolled down his chalk white face, w'm" 1 ,1,(,t ,lIs Physician, who accost
made up in a perpetual smile. Itocog- od.,m' 1,1 ;'m,t spJrit.s.
ni.ing by Tom's notebook that he was '"And how is my friend, the rever-
a r. -pi' -en tat ho of the press, the grief 0,1,1 'u' I inquired.
man added: "lie was my 1 snw "lin tills morning. It Is
and that needn't have linn- 11 "sl coriect apoplexy I have ever
been race and hands livid, breathing
utertorous, all the symptoms perfect.'
..vim ne ruuhed his hands with delleht.
for In the country we cannot find everv
day u case that agrees with the diagno
sis of the books."
out remonstrance. The riding undei
these conditions demands no especial
skill of horsemanship. The women
make a great convenience of these lit
tle steeds, riding them to market or to
their shopping as well as on considera
ble Journeys.
-ir! -ken
i-rothcr.
peited. Anacondas eat only once In
:i ii mouths. The snake should have
been iVd btsl week at ('alnesvllle. She
;is hungry; that was all."
When Tom regained the searching
party It had left, the tent Some one
OITcrliili Her a Hand.
The Poet - When would you consider
ls the best time to offer a girl your
hand? Practical Cuss-When she's
getting out of a bus. I should say.--Xew
Yorker.
Wonderful Phj-xlenl Strength Thai
Was l'ed to Cood I'nrpofte.
Sir William Macflregor was the hero
of such an adventure as one expects
ordinarily to read about only In fiction
of a certain hue.
The steamship Syria, with a lot of
Indian coolies on board, struck on a
rock about twelve hours from Suva, tlio
capital of Fiji.
Pr. MacCregor. then acting colonial
secretary, organized a relief expedition,
clambered over a broken mast that was
the only path to the emigrants and
again and again returned with a man
or woman on his back and sometimes a
child, held by Its clothes between his
Ucth.
A man of vast physical strength.
Mac;regor wanted It all for his final
feat. Pown below on the reef was n
woman who had fallen overboard, had
got at the spirits and was mad with
drink. The captain of the ship and a
police otlicer who had gone after her
were being swept out to sea. M:ic
(Iregor slid down a rope, caught the
knot of the woman's hair in his tei th
and with his hands seized the two men
and dragged them both Into safety. Ho
went back to Suva In a borrowed suit
of pajamas, having left all his clothes
and a good deal of his skin on the coral
reef.
.Modest, like many heroes, MacGregor
left himself out of his own report, nnd
it was from the governor that the
queen tlrst heard the whole story.
For instance, she would never wear
with a tailor gown a high lace collar
with a large chiiTon rose in front, from
which depends a shower of little chif
fon buds. vi these airj confections
are often svn on the sartorialh' un
regenerate. !'u in ps the I'nnhlonahlc Shoo.
The adaptation of men's dancing
pumps for women's wear last winter
proved them to be such smart looking
shoes that they have grown to be im
mensely popular. Pue of the chief
reasons for this Is that the shoes have
to be worn iu the smallest jmssible
sizes to enable them to he kept on the
feet in comfort, and any excuse for
wearing small shoes Is eagerly seized
upon fty women. The pttmis are made
in tan, white, green, brown and th
new shade that matches lineti gowns.
An Idenl ytiininer Wrap.
Little jackets of all sorts are greatly
in vogue and make ideal summer
wraps. This one Is worn over a waist
of point d'osprit and Is of antique green
Wocm of an lid i tor.
WIicp a newspaper tells the simple
truth about a bad man who Is trying
to get into a public place where he
can steal, the truth Is called "attack."
If when the same mnn runs for olUce
the facts of his past career are printed
to show the people what they may ex
pect, the editor who prints these facts J
is abused, and the rascal poses as a
martyr. When a man turns out wrong,
as thi' editor said he would. If the edl- j
tin sajs his prophecies came true, the
people accuse him of persecuting a !
man and "kicking him when he Is ,
down." Yet If the paper says nothing :
about bad men who are trying to rob
the people' they say that the editor Ls
bought off and that he has taken hush
money. Eiuporla Gazette. J
(tyhx
, I iff l
1 JL J
relative that comes handy. This, In
turn, calls for a counter attack, and In
time matters become so complicated
that whole families are wiped out.
When the tribe ls called upon to meet
a common enemy the heads of the
families who have had a quarrel bury
two atones side by side In the presence
of the mullah as symbolic of the feud
being put out of sight during the pub
lic danger. When affairs revert to
their normal state the stones are sol
emnly disinterred and the two parties
are free to go on shooting at each other
again.
Every Afghan villager of moderate
means owns a tower of refuge standing
at the corner of his courtyard. These
towers, made of stone and mud, are
perfectly solid for the lower twenty
feet or so, the top being surrounded by
a loophole wall and covered over to
make It habitable. The base Is protect
ed by a gallery, and the only means of
ascent is by a rope nnd a hole Just
large enough for one man to crawl
through. Whenever n man has made
things too hot for himself he takes
refuge in his tower, and by the un
written law of the country he can
never be starved out so long as food
and water are brought to him by a
woman.
A. traveler in Afghanistan tells of
seeing one tower of refuge whose occu
pant had not stirred outside for ten
years. His only amusement was tak
ing shots at the occupant of another
tower, which were duly returned. In
the meantime their wives visited each
other and gossiped and were on terms
of perfect amity.
l.oomlntc 31 1 races.
In what are called "looming mi
rages" distant objects show an appar
ent extravagant increase In height
without alteration Iu breadth. Distant
pinnacle of ice are thus magnified
info immense towers or tall, Jagged
mountains, and a ship thus reflected
from far out at sea may appear to be
twih e or fifteen times as tall as It is
long. Bocks and trees are also shown
In abnormal shapes and positions, while
houses, animal and human beings ap
pear In like exaggerated shapes. Be
fore the sandy plains of our south
western states and territories were
converted into verdant fields by the
ingenuity and tireless euergy of man
mirages were very common in those re
gions, the Indians regarding the phe
nomenon as being the work of evil
spirits.
Imitation Perfume.
"It may seem peculiar." said a per
fumery manufacturer, "but perfumes
ire adulterated and Imitated Just as
diking powder and other things are.
"or instance, we make a high grade car
nation pink perfume from the (lowers
themselves. This, of course. Is costly.
but the perfume retains Its odor, and a
landkerchlef that has been scented
with It will retain the perfume even
after It Is washed. A hot Iron will
bring out the odor again. Now. a per
fume that is just as good to all first
appearances and that for ten minutes ,
will have the same effect can be inado
out of the oil of cloves mixed with nl-
1U.OLSK WJIST A N I I.OI.I KO
taffeta matching the waist, the trim
ming being folds of velvet. The waist
is simply full, with wide sleeves tlmt
are finished with graceful frills of l.ieo.
but Is eminently becoming and suits
lace, net and all thin materials to a
nleetj. The bolero ls cut with fronts,
backs and wide sleeves and Is laid In
plaits over the shoulders that give the
drooping effect. The quantity of ma
terial required for the medium slse is
for waist yards LM, -1 yards 'J7 or
S-T-i yards 44 Inches wide; for Wlero.
2Vi yards 21. '2 yards 27 or 1 yards
4-1 Inches wide.
TrliiiiiiliiK" Kor Gotvn.
Points and scallops appear on many
gowns; even In some cases the horl-
ltellect Intr Lichthou-ies Orirctn.
Accident, not necessity, was the par
ent of the invention of retlecting light
houses. Puring a meeting of a mathe
matical society at Liverpool some
years ago one of the members laid a
wager that he could read a newspaper
paragraph at ten yards distance by
the light of a farthing caudle. This ho
succeeded In doing by covering the In
side of an earthen dish vith putty and
sticking bits of looking glass on it
and then placing his refiector behind
the candle. Captain Hutchinson, a
dock master, was present, and from
this experiment gained the Idea from
which he evolved the retlecting light
house as built in Liverpool.
Chen pi UK-.
In parts of Switzerland the bak"er's
wife carries round the bread in a sort
of hamper, and she has not a fixed. Im
mutable charge, but chaffers for a price
zontal trimmings have scaiiopeii or j with the customers. The old English
pointed edges. Unfiles are arranged in: word for this process was "cheaping,
Fcal.'is. and new laces and embroidery which In many places In England ha
Insertions have waved edges.
Still In Donlit.
Bookie So. seo. If the 'orse starts
cohol. At the end of ten minutes the nt ""w-" to one you get fifteen quid.
odor will be gone." Milwaukee Sen
tinel.
Titles of honor add not to his worth
who Is sz honor to his title. FonL
The Troiid I'npn.
"Baby carriages? Yes, sir," said the
dealer. "What sort of one did you i
want?"
"Well." said Xupop proudly, "you'd
ten to one you get ten quid, five to one
five. D'y'see? The Innocent- Oh. yes.
I see perfectly. But what do I get
If the horse starts at 1 o'clock exact
ly? London Illustrated Bits.
has
been corrupted into chipping. Chip
ping Norton, for instance. Is really
Cheaping Norton, or the place whcni
goods were cheapened that Is. sold by
chaffer.
better give me a six months' size,
only
age.
j , , -Quite likely. And I shoukl Judge
ioWe, ' l)Ut largG fr Ws'that she didt waste more than half
-I luladclplua Press. nn hoilr otI tlob."ii.,n)ers Bnzar.
A Meil ticl Ion.
"ne declares his wife made him all
hat he Is."
Jievrr a Let Up.
"Poor pa's just working himself to
Ceath."
"Why. I thought he had a political
loli."
"He has, ,but it seems as If he rio
sootier getc? reappointed tl'ian it is neces
sary for him to get out and work again
ho that somebody else won't get It next
time." Chicago Uecord-Uerald.
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