versify is rolling high; friends who
WASHINGTON LETTER CHOICE MISCELLANY HUMOR OF THE HOUR FACTS IN FEW LINES
w ill go out of their way to smooth the
rougli places for you; friends wlio w ill
(Special Correspondence.)
A South Sea Huuiaut-e.
Golhrr Good M mm (..isr.
•
The Chinese name for Port Arthur 1»
live up to tile Golden Rule and judge
Count Cassini, tlie Russian ambassa
tears ago there came to the British
“Sir,” he began us he entered th« Lushunkow.
PUT ON THE BRAKES.
you as they would w ish to be judged dor, and Mr. Takahira, the Japanese colonial governor of Fiji a man in a couuty clerk's office almost us soon ai
'1 he most common fonn of color
themselves; friends who are willing to minister, have agreed to a treaty of tattered white suit, a typical "beach the door was o|iened for business tlie
Ilox tv. nr lt«-r«>re You Know It !'«>•
blindness is an inability to distinguish
share your sorrows as quickly as tiiey iieace. Under the rules of diplomacy rauiber.” After a private interview of other morning. "I am in love with a red.
Mur Bi- 11« the Track.
would the joys of life; friends who will ft would ba it gross breach af etiquette some duration the governor was jx«r person of tlie opjtosite sex.”
The limited goes sixty miles an hour,
According to the latest returns tc
“Meaning a woman,” remarked the
la tlie smoker men joke and play cards
smile and stretch out tlie helping hand for either to recognize the other while Hii.iih-«! to put a sailing boat at Ids bat
the territorial board of equalization,
“Polly, 1 am really iosiiig all faith while others frown and turn away. It tlieir countries are at war, but they tered visitor's disposal to take 1dm tc clerk us be looked up.
ami t«-d risque xtorles. The duy coSCh-
"Meaning a woman, sir, und one of there are 237,606 cattle In Arizona, val
M are <-rowded and comfortless. The Mid confidence in human lieings,” said is all a mistake to turn aw ay from tried have continually met at the state de an island which he bad named. Tht
ue« I at $1,578,1125.
bt-giy sleepers ax they sway So ami • little friend tlie other «lay. “It is ami true friends tss-ause you have lieen partment. These encounters became man said lie was by right of desrent the nicest women on the face of this
Great Britain's public revenue from
?ro make only a gentle rocking f«w the this way,” she continued, “ I have disap|«iinted in a few you trusted. The embarrassing, and to put an end to twentieth Barou Somerville, but Le had terrestrial globe. 1 not only love her,
April 1 to the latest date at hand wua
them it lias been agreed that wlienever setthal down with a dusky bride In n but 1 have asked her to be mine.”
people who chat and read and nap. never hail a friend, particularly among
"And you waut a license to get mar $18,312,535 less than lust year and e®-
Crash.' Engine and cars and fiesli and tlie girls, wlio ever proved loyal to me, false friends are like thorns and thistles, Mr. Takahira has any business at the Polynesian paradise, wus perfectly
they grow rank and are of no value, state department lie will call in the happy and had no desire to take the ried. of course? What name, please?" pemlitures $16.483,820 less.
bhxxt are ground up together in a
.«md I don't understand it. I don’t like tlie sincere friends are like the violets, morning, « bile Count Cassini will visit status that belonged to him. The gov-
The Lewis und Clark centennial will
"Sir, my name is Schuyler Jenkins
shajieh-sa, horrid mass. Off the track!
So goes humanity's train. Here Is a everybody, but when I docare for any that send forth an invitation in tlieir Secretary liny only in the afternoon. ertior was skeptical, if soft hearted White, but I don't desire a license. I commemorate tlie acquisition of the
boy who got to running on a fast one, I love them with my whole heart; wealth of fragrance for you to seek for Tlie afternoons were given to Count Tbe epixixle passed into the realm of have called here to say to you that any only territory possessed by the United
schedule. He began by pilfering from notiiing I would not gliully do for them, them as they nestle coyly in the green Cassini lieeaus«* he is un ambassador, tlie half forgotten. News came to this law demanding a marriage license is a States the title to which was obtained
by discovery.
liix father’s till. As he grew older he and no matter what it may be they ask, leaves, and which even after the life while Mr. Takahira Is only a minister. .country r«s-ently that "Hugh Somer relic of the dark ages.”
At one of the meetings of the two vllle." eldest son of Hugh, rightful
"Y-e-s.”
More than 3.000 experiments on liv
made faster time, Lown grade he if it is a iMwdble tiling to carry out tlieir has gone out of them retain tlie sweet
ministers ut the state department cur lw« 'itielh Lord Somerville, had arrive«!
"To force me to publish to the world ing animals were made for British gov
gix-s, and soon comes the crash. News- wishes it is never a cross, but 1 take the
boys cry a murder and a suicide. The greatest pleasure in attending to it. In odor that is a reminder of happier days. ly in the war they met face to face in in Cooktown, Queensland, from some at large my intention of making eminent departments of public authori
crowd halts for a moment. IIlx friends my life I have, beginning from my This is a beautiful old world und when tlie diplomatic anteroom, where a num where ill the iieighborliixxl of tlie Solo Amanda Jane Bllokerborn my wife is ties in 1903 and 1,313 for the tubercu
we make up our minds to throw away ber of ministers and attaches were as mon Islands anil was seeking means nothing short of an act of barbarism, losis commission.
murmur, “I never thought lie was so
Liverpool's death rate—thirty-nine In
bad!” A young man is off the track! childhood, had just seven friends whom the blue glasses and accept it in all its sembled. Mr. Takahira bowed before to enable him to come to England and and I don't propose to put up with It,
A young girl thinks her mother Is J fairly worsbijied. One after the other sunny phases, taking all the joys and lie thought. Count Cassini inclined his clajm the title, He la ilescritied as a sir not for a moment, sir. Even If my a thousand is more thun twice that of
too alow for these record breaking failed to prove their friendship, or happiness that it brings with it in head very slightly and frigidly left the young man of twenty-two, tall anil I feelings cannot be respected, hers must London. Much of the difference is due
to tlie extraordinary loss of Infant life
times. Mother Is “old fashioned.” The rather transferred their affections to grandeur of scenery and picturesque room. Mr. Takahira afterward explain handsome and with a complexion | be.”
I'm sorry,” replied the clerk, as h« in Liverpool—from 107 to 245 in a
girl g<x*s to places her mother has somebody else. They never gave any surroundings, if you cannot catch the ed that lie bowed to the count as dean bronzed to the tint of copper, ob-
of the diplomatic corps and not as Rus vioiisly of partly native descent, but I thought of how much hard coal hi» thousand.
warned her she should not frequent. reason, but just gradually drifted out of
The people of the Caucasus are said
Tbe bloom Is brushed from the fruit. my life. It all happened so quietly glory and lieauty of the sunset as it sian ambassador. After that the two well mannered and pleasant spoken I fee would purchase.
"But that makes no difference to to tie concealing Imported arms by
• • • One day a brazen, drunken crea that I did not realize it at first, then melts into tlie darkness, you will fail di|>lomats agreed not to see each oth and fairly well educated. No details
to see the stars that s|umgle tile heavens er when they met.
of his claim are given.
I me,” continued Mr. White, as he got burying them in coffins, with tlie usual
ture, cursing and shrieking, is loaded
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I more voice on him. "I find that I can- funeral ceremonies, the police not no
Capitol Alteration«.
Into the patrol wagon. A woman Is one day I woke up to the fact that we witli its millions of lights, or the moon’s
were strangers — that there was a silvery rays that light up tlie dark
Commune« <>« Veauvin«.
I not marry in Detroit without submit- tiling that the death rate is rathet
Considerable attention was attracted
off the track!
Cotninunal ownership of Vesuvius I ting to indignity and insult. There- higher than usual.
A man gets In a hurry to be rich. barrier between us. No explanation places of earth, for it is all night in iu Washington some days ago by a
Ills father went slowly, carefully, suc was ever given. It was a shock to me your tem|>est-tossed soul. Be good to statement made by William 8. Eames seems rather ridiculous—that the flam- I fore”—
An angry man who called a telephone
cessfully. But father’s methods will and I shed many bitter tears when I yourself and look on tlie bright side. of St. Louis, president of tlie Ameri Ing mount, with its beacon glass burn- I "You won’t marry at all.”
girl a "sheepbead” over tlie wire in
not do. Wliat's tlie use of moiling and was by myself, for 1 loved them dearly.
can Institute of Architects, bearing on ing through all the known centuries, I "But I will, sir. I am now about to Nuremberg, Germany, lias been tine«)
toiling when a quicker way may well Strange to say, they were all blondes, No one else can do tills for you.
tlie question of eapltol alterations. Mr. should be the appanage of a village proceed to tbe home of my fiancee and $< 25. A Viennese who called the wo
If
we
aim
high
and
work
for
that
end
do tlie business? So-and-so has spec
Eames said that “whatever plans the and terrene patch on its slope, but tliHt start with her for Buffalo. Upon man operator a "Chinese” in sltniiat
and
now
I
avoid
people
with
golden
we will find that we haven’t time for Joint commission, which Is now consid is the present claim. Four communes I reaching that city, where no license is circumstances lias suffered to the ex-
ulated successfully. Surely I am us
shrewd as he. • • • A pistol shot. A hair and blue eyes that suggest little jH'tty annoyances.
It is tlie ering the enlargement of the eapltol, — Resina, Torre del Greco, Bosco Tre-I required, we will be made one. Not tent of $8.
forget-me-nots when you look into Jieople who are not content witli tile recommends to congress should be car casse and Ottagano—are competing for only that, but I «hall Invest $1100 in
man is off the track!
Thera is a young woman in New
Our age is a rapid one. Business and their azure depths; at least 1 never present and never strive to advance ried out in staff construction in order its overlordship and have gone to law that towu and become a resident. De- York wlio makes her living by acting
society go at a sixty mile clip. Rather allow myself to become interested in wlio fall into the way of fault-finding that it may be seen just how it would about it. Tlie dispute will not make troit not only loses that money, but a ns valet to lap dogs. She charges $1 ii
than be sidetracked for a time men them. My experience with my friends, and taking offense at little petty annoy look before the actual work on the per any difference with the mountain, thrifty, law abiding citizen and a we«'k for her services and visits the
Pompeii anil ll«'i< ulaneum may have widow who can make muffins to melt dogs each day, combing ami brushing
will drive their trains into the ditch. however, has embittered me and made
manent structure is undertaken.
Many of them run wild. There are me distrustful. 1 gave them the best 1 ances that are trilling in themselves,
If congress would appropriate $100,- had a similar one for all tliat Is known. In your mouth. That's it, sir, that's it, them and sometimes taking them out
and grow when they are constantly
Vesuvius, like Niagara and the Yosem and now you
frequent collisions and wrecks lunu
had to give and received so little of harjied upon. Such unfortunate ¡ample ihhi such a temporary enlargement of lte and n few other natural features I law can go to and your old barbaric for a walk.
vcrable by getting off the track.
the eapltol might be made in all its de
Texas, and I will pro
Patrolman John Bentley of Staten Is
Look out, thriving but venturesome their love in return. They were not find it very hard to hold tlieir friends. tails and with exact reproduction of of unusual sublimity, belong to the I ceed to efface file name of Michigan land, N. Y„ was kicked off the running
sincere,
and
when
they
were
weighed
merchant and reckless young woman
the color effect by contrast with the great world and to time and can ad from my memory and forget that I board of a trolley ear by a mule tied
and gay young man! The race Is not in the balance were found wanting.
older stones, which such an enlarge mit to no other possession. Funnel's ever dwelt within her confines and had to the rear of a wagon which the ear
BRIEF REVIEW.
to the swift alone. Put on the brakes. When I first found them out, one by
ment would actually produce. The as may own the farms, as Emerson says, my neck under the heel of the despot.” passed. It grazed the hind quarters ol
surance that this would give of the but none among them nor all together —Detroit Free Press.
Slow up, or before you know It you one, it took all the brightness out of
the mule, and instantly tlie animal's
success of the plan might prove to lie can own the landscape. The Vesuvian
will be off the track.—Milwaukee Jour life, and while I have recovered from
heels were Hying.
Lost
on
Ice
on
Lake
Erie.
villages are pushing too ambitious a
A Sure Thlu*.
eventually worth millions of dollars.
nal.
the effects it has left me unhappy and
While women are allowed to vote in
No landmarks can be seen—there is
claim and might almost as well ex
Chevy Cha«e Club Ilald.
inclined to keep people at a distance
Australia, no disposition Is shown to
it
to
the
sky
overhead,
which
in
tend
nothing by which to direct a course.
THE PERFECT NUMBER.
No little amusement was caused in
elect them as legislators. The most
until they have been tried. You can
A man may easily be lost and wander official and social circles of Washing deed is tine enough to Justify covetous-
popular woman candidate at tlie last
From Time Immemorial Three H um have no idea what a difference it lias
ness
if
that
could
be
of
any
avail.
until overcome. Too often this has ton by the recent seizure of liquors
eleition received only 30,000 votes us
Hail Innuual SiKuIflcanee.
made in my life. Strange to say, I love
made by Maryland authorities at the
against tbe 80,000 of the man lowest on
The perfect number of the Pythago every one of those girls still, and try as happened, and hardly a winter has t'lievjr Chase club, This club is locat-
Will the C*nr Hold Ont
the list of competitors.
passed
without
some
such
disaster.
A
rean system, expressive of beginning, 1 will, I cannot shut them out of my
We cannot hnd any evidence that the
cd in Montgomery county, Md., just
For cutting down witli his sword and
middle and end, was the number three. heart, even though they have proved man so lost will often trust to the in outside the District of Columbia, and bureaucracy or tlie czar or any real
afterward stabbing a drunken man
From time Immemorial greater promi ungrateful for past favors, and have stinct of the dogs to find a way home numbers among its members many controlling force in Russian life Is
who had Jeered at him a German ser
nence 1ms been given to it than to any
through the bewildering storm and high government officials, members of tired of tlie war. Tlie military party Is
geant has liiH-n sentenced to forty-five
other except seven. And as the symbol forgotten their old-time friend for gloom. Sometimes, however, even the the supreme court and diplomats. bitterly hostile to any arrangement
<1 iys' imprlHoument. The sain«* <ourt
of the Trinity its Influence has waxed others. Should anyone of them come animals have been at fault. In a re Among the frequent golf players of witli Japan previous to an acknowledg
sent to prison for four months a pri
more potent in recent times. It appears to me to-day for a favor, in spite of cent ease a fisherman with three dogs this club is Justice Harlan of the su ment of defeat by that power, and the
vate who had neglected to feed his
over and over again in both the New their change in heart toward ine I
military
party
in
Russia
counts
for
a
was overtaken on the homeward way preme court of the United States,
horse.
nnd Old Testaments. At the creation should grant it just as readily, and with
great
deni
more
than
it
does
in
any
while Justice McKenna Is often seen
The Canadian maritime hom'd of
of the world we find land, WHter nnd as much pleasure as 1 ever did in the by a sudden tempest of wind and snow. following interesting matches. Several other country in Europe, hardly ex-
trade recently passed a resolution re-
sky, sun, moon nnd stars. Jonah was past. There is where 1 am weak, and To see even a few feet must have been of Washington's best known clergymen ceptlng Germany.
questing the government to place such
three days and nights in the whale's fail to hold my own, and they realize, impossible, and even the dogs must are among the golfers wlio frequent
So long as the czar, tlie bureaucrats
iv iti'ii tions on manufacturers as will
have been overcome with fright or the club.
belly, Christ three days in the tomb.
the
military
show
no
desire
to
and
compel them to mark plainly all wool
There were three patriarchs, Abraham, to my humiliation, that I am like putty found tliat they were unable to guide
the
war
we
may
safely
assume
stop
Uwe For Old Newipapera.
en fabrics with the proportions of
Isaac and Jacob. Abraham entertained in their hands, and will yield in spite themselves in the right direction. Ntill,
Among the recent visitors at Wash that all speculation as to terms of
pure wool and adulterants contained
three angels. Job hnd three friends. of my good resolves to retain my dig two were loose, but they did not desert
pence Is purely futile, Wliat has hap-
ington
»'as
Leopold
Hausmann,
Unlt-
In them.
Samuel wus called three times. Sam- nity and pride. That in my own mind the man. When the searching parties
e«l States vice consul at Batavia, Java. pened to Russia so far is really only
hoii deceived Delilah three times.
1 have said time and again, thus far
The Tacoma smelter, controlled by
wliat
happened
to
ourselves
in
the
Mr. Hausmann had been on a trip
Three times Saul .tried to kill David and no farther you shall go, but they found him on the following day lie was
earlier stages of the Transvaal war. I “I know how the Japanese could be D. O. Mills mid associates, is making
around
the
world.
He
is
studying
the
dead,
frozen
to
death,
but
tlie
dogs
with a javelin. Jonathan shot three ar have only to approach with out
$24.<XM) a month by saving precious
of what Americans do with Like ourselves they made too light of | made to retreat.”
rows on David's behalf. Daniel was stretched hand of friendliness and witli him were alive. One dog, which question
metals that have heretofore been car
their enemy, their arrangements were
"How?”
their
cld
newspapers.
He
says
that
thrown into a den of three lions be good-will, love-light shining in their had not lieen unharnessed, was mad,
grossly defective, as were our own, and
“Let the czar go to the front and ried away in smoke from its furnaces,
the
E
lglisb
newspapers
and
people
cause he prayed three times n day.
owever, and had to be killed at once. save their old papers and send them they now find themselves faced with | tell them the bright things his baby The smoke is passed through a cooler
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were eyes and a smile to make me a traitor
and then strained through light can-
to their colonies to be used as wrap the necessity of making efforts which
rescued from a fiery furnace. ■ The to myself and all my good resolves not
vas. The result is a harvest of gold.
anticipate
at
first.
—
Lon-
they
did
not
Big Collection of Shells.
ping paper, lie thinks that such a
commandments of the Lord were de to yield to their friendly advances, for
don Saturday Review.
sliver, copper, etc.
An Unfortunate Oml««lon.
scheme
would
lie
useful
in
this
coun
l
’
erliajis
the
finest
mid
largest
collec
llvered on the third day. St. Paul in my own heart I know they have a
Hicks—There is one thing that these
Only two obstacles are met. say Ger
speaks of faith, hope and charity, favor to ask when they come witli ban tion of sea shells anil deep sea growtli try. and he will suggest the plan to
Double« <>t Great Personasea.
I schools of elocution ought to teach and man papers, in the employment of big
American
newspapers,
which
have
Three wise men came to worship ners of peace and good-will unfurled. is to be seen at the office of the East
Nearly every well known personage don’t.
sailing vessels. First, it is hard to se-
thousands of copies left over after
Christ with presents three. Christ Past experience lias taught me that. I Coast Fish Company at the railroad
has a double who by careful dressing Wicks—What’s that?
cure assurance of a sufficient cargo,
they
get
through
making
up
tlieir
cir
spoke three times to Satan when lie am disgusted with myself for my weak wharf. The collection is the highly
does his best to keep up tbe flattering I Hicks—They don’t tench their pupils and, second, it is difficult to secure a
culation statements.
was tempted. He prayed three times
Illusion. King Edward has several, but I when they ought to decline positively crew of sufficient skill, These obsta-
prized property of H. W. Seward, a
Habblt*« Foot For I'renldent.
before he was betrayed. Peter denied ness whenever I yield ami meet them
the one with the strongest resemblance I to give a recitation.—Somerville Jour- cles are Important, because sailing ves
member
of
the
firm.
Mr.
Seward
has
half
way.
I
am
distrustful
not
only
of
Tlu'ough
Secretary
Loeb
President
him three times. He suffered three
lives in the east end of London. The I nal.
sels In order to be able to compete
boon on tlie lookout for rare specimens Roosevelt lias acknowledged the re kaiser’s double is a tailor. King Leo- I
hours of agony on the cross. The su them but everybody else.”
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with steam must be much larger than
ceipt
of
a
finely
mounted
rabbit's
foot
This young lady did not have to tell and he certainly lias succeeded in get
perscription was In three languages,
pold of Belgium's is a pickpocket, who I
“Sport.”
heretofore.
and three men were crucified. Christ me that she had allowed the falseness ting together a display that would be a sent him by John W. Frasier, register takes advantage of the likeness to Stubbs—After all, this shooting at
It will require five years to construct
of
tlie
city
bureau
of
surveys
of
Phila
appeared three times to his disciples of a few friends to embitter her whole creditable feature of a Florida exhibit
practice tils rascality upon smart I clay pigeons isn't so exciting as firing the Ratcliff'-Rotberliithe tunnel now
delphia.
Mr.
Frasier
vouches
for
the
and rose the third day.—New York life; you could read it in her dissatisfied at the World’s Fair, had there been one.
crowds on public occasions. President at live ones.
being built under the Thames. Its
fact that the rabbit was shot by a
Herald.
and unhappy face; you eould read it in Tlie collection includes several hundred negro preacher on the seventh day of Isjubet. it was shown the other day, I Twist—No. There’s little fun shoot- length will be 6,883 feet, with mi ex
her manner of meeting new friendsand shells, no two of which are alike. Most the seventh week of the year ui^ler the has n double in Paris. M. Combes, the ing at things that can't feel it when ternal diameter of thirty feet, which
PAYING IN CENTS.
French premier, is the exact likeness | they are hit.—Boston Transcript,
will allow a carriageway of sixteen
acquaintances. It looked to Polly as if of them were obtained near tlie inlet, full moon in a graveyard at midnight.
of an old general of the empire, while
feet and two footways four feet eight
Creditor« Mny Iletune I.arge Sum« nt ail tlie sun-ligbt lia«l gone out of her where there is a great variety, if one
Indian Relics.
M. Pelletan, the French minister of
The Coant.
mid a half Inches wide. When it Is tin-
Small Change.
Mr. James Mooney of the bureau of marine, is doubled by a bookmaker and
«•\i-1:«innii«l she had retired into the only knows where to search.
Mndge—Are you sure the Russian islied there will be three tunnels undar
Ordinarily when a debtor appears be shadows of sorrowful memories. She
ethnology lias returned after an ab a cab driver.
count was intoxicated?
the Thames at Ixindon.
fore n long time creditor there Is no did not look lieyond for a little rift in
sence of nearly a year in the west
Billiard Tables in France.
Marjorie—Positive. He couldn't pro
The hardest fare that six young men
questioning of the United States coin
among
tlie
Kiowa
and
Cheyenne
tribes
Lucky
Ln
borer.
the clouds Hint would disclose the sil
nounce his own name.—Town Topics.
Taxation enables many curious tallies of southwest Oklahoma, the object of
and a boy of fifteen ever kept alive on
in which tlie debt is to be paid, but
A
laborer
has
picked
up
what
is
be
was the daily menu of the Wimlover's
the wide possibilities possessed by an ver lining. She was all wrong, for in of statistics to lie compiled. It would ids trip being to obtain a full history lievcd to I«« a genuine "Strad” nt a
When Daddy Was a Boy.
arbitrary creditor in stipulating Just her dispair at losing these friends ujion probably puzzle tlie ixist of English sta of tlie shields and tepees used by these sale at Holme Eden, near Carlisle. I'm very, very naughty, and I play most survivors, who were cast on the Irish
const near Kilsegg. They lived for six
what coins nnd in what amounts he whom she had showered a wealth of tisticians to guess even approximately Indians. He brought back to place In Stringless, brlilgeless, pegless and cov
awful tricks!
will receive payment are enough al- love and who had time ami again at tlie mmilxT of billiard tallies in use the National museum a collection ered with dust and cobwebs, it was My daddy says he wasn’t half as bad teen days on stewed rope yarn, without
a crumb of anything else to help di
when he was six.
most to discourage borrowing.
proved their unworthiness, she forgot in England. There is no such difficul which is probably the only one of its knocked down to him for 6 shillings. He never
ran away from school nor broke gest it except water, ami, though It
You can't force a mean creditor to the friends tried »ml true, who would ty in France, where tile billiard table is kind ill the world.
He knew something of tlie value of
his pretty toy—
take more than 25 cents' worth of nick have loved her for herself alone, and
The shields of the Kiowa warriors fiddles, however, nnd disponed of ills They simply couldn't do such things when made them ill. they kept alive on it
a taxed luxury, and its relative fre
mid did not waste away very much.
daddy was a boy.
els or 25 cents' worth of copper cents.
are
symbolic
and
are
supposed
to
pos
purchase to a dealer for £600. The
not tlie Health ill dollars mid cents thnt quency in communes of all grades of
An American Pullman, with Its
If you could get as much as $5 worth
sess a sacred power In preserving the dealer, it Is said, tins now sold the fid It's “Baby, don't do such naughty,
crowded and unavoidable intimacies.
of old silver three cent pieces of an counted more than tlie pure, true |xipulation amt wealth is made tliesule wearer from harm In battle. The de dle for £1.6oo. The violin is Iieliev«*i1
naughty things as that!
other generation you could unlond #5 friendship of their life-long friend. ject of I'alcuiations as elalxirate as they signs are drawn not by the bearer, but to be a “Strad" which has been miss Baby, let doggie be! Don't tease the pus Is n decent nnd polite hermitage com
sy cat!"
pare«! with a packed coach In Japan.
worth on him, just ns he would have to They had simply grown out of her are ingenious. In ail France there are by a shield maker, who gathers tlie ing for at least n century and has at
It's "llaby" this and "Baby” that and All sorts of unexpected things happen.
take $5 worth of the silver five cent sphere, not intellectually nor as far as 89,676 billiard tallies, divided among ideas of the symbols from tlie dreams different times lieen thought to lie in
"Baby, don’t annoy!
pieces and $5 worth of tlie obsolete as true worth was considered, tint they 18,601 communes, and realizing more1 I of one of tlie head men of tlie tribes. London, France, Germany mid Ameri Your daddy never did such things when Daring ablutions are performed mid
complete change of raiment Is fre
daddy
was a boy!”
twenty cent pieces, which made so liked the gayer set. They forgot the than £40,000 in taxes.
There are 120 of these models, most ca.
quently effected, the constantly recur-
much trouble in the late seventies. But modest little violet that had lieen reared
of them decorated with gay feathers
They never put a scuttle full of coals on
ring tunnels serving to screen the as-
you can pay out $10 in sliver dimes so carefully and tenderly, and who
kitty’s tall.
A "Itoynl" Teetotaler.
nnd painted gaudily with yellow and
Valuable Load of Oil.
and sliver quarters nnd silver half dol
Colonel John Sobieski of I.os An Or tackled dogs to empty cans to hear tonlshlng character of these pro
roil.
them yelp and wall.
lars. The trade dollars, of which there still remained in the same atmosphere,
Henry Traux recently brought into
Present« For the Prenlilent.
geles. the direct descendant of King Or stood the cat tn walnut shells to see grammes.
Of the 56.675,000 acres which form
are a few still coming into the treasury unchanged by contact witli the outside Fennville the moat valuable load of farm
Several exhibitors at St. Louis have John III. of Poland, the great warrior
her Jump for Joy,
of the United States for redemption, world. Had she known the real state produce ever marketed in Michigan. expressed a desire to the committee In nnd statesman of that country, a vet Or cripple frogs, or anything, when daddy Great Britain, exclusive of foreshore
was a boy!
nnd thlal water, over 32,225,000 acres
are worth nothing, while the standard of affairs she would have found one or The total value was $11,963.75. The charge Gf the Jiutrlbntlon nnd return rear« of *hp idyl) war is an Implacable
dollar Is an unlimited legal tender, ns two of these girls who had lieen her
of
the
exhibits
in
the
Philippine
res
foe
to
liquor
and
spends
most
of
bls
Then what's the use of pussy cats or are under crops nnd grass and 12,675,-
000 acres are accounted for ns la-lng
coals or cans or dogs.
Is the old "dollar of our duds,” the first companions through childhood's pntlw load consisted of nearly two tons of ervation to the islands that tlieir dis time In temperance work. Colonel Bo
or of walnut shells, or croaking, mountain nnd heather land used for
of which was coined in 1794 and the way ha«l departed entirely from the peppermint oil. Tlie oil sold for $3.56 a plays, which have lieen greatly admir b' kl won his military title in the civil Or kittens
thrilling frogs?
|K>und. Mr. Traux has a peppermint
grazing, while 2.675,000 acres are <x-
-last in 1878.
fife she Was used to mill goilc out into farm of Ins own, and a large part of the ed by world’s fair visitors, be present war, fter which he studied law and And why should not my Sunday clothes cvn.h«d by wo«!« >iml nlnntntlon«. and
Coins that virtually have disappear
be freshened up with ps.'-ir?
ed to l’reaMeht kixiseieil. Mis. il.x.s, was admitted to the ’.ar. If. 18(W he
the
highways
of
life,
finding
its
vices
ad from circulation are gold three dol
load came from there. He is also an velt. Miss Alice Roosevelt nnd Secre was a memtier of the Minnesota legis But daddy never did such things, for dad 600.000 acres are covered by Inland wa
dy was a saint!
ters. Only 16 per cent of the surface
lar und one dollar pieces, the trade dol nnd gradually succumbing, until they agent for the oil there, nnd hnd gntli- tary of War Taft.
lature. Later he took up the Prohibi
lar of silver, the nickel three cent felt their un worthiness to associate witli ere«l some from other farmers in the vi
The presents to President Roosevelt tion cause, in which he lias labored But if they never lost themselves, nor remains to tie accounted for.
greased their hnlr with glue,
The first steamship that made tli«
piece, tlie copper two cent piece, the her. They had guarded tlieir unenvi cinity.—Detroit Journal.
will include photographs of the is ever since.
Nor speckled sister's frock with Ink. nor western trip across the Atlantic was
copper half cent and silver three and able secret well and then sheembittered
lands, a bamboo basket nnd a bamboo
chopped themselves In two.
llctalum’« Public Ifonse Heeoril.
five cent pieces.—Omaha World Hcr- by their change toward her, groped
hat, a handsome stationery case of fine
Nor stirred the beehives up with sticks, tlie Sirius. She sailed from Queens
Panama Not So Small
Belgium, where public libraries are
town April 3. 1838. nn«l crossed to New
aid.
nor howled for very joy,
native woods and a handmade curtain
blindly on never realizing the truth. It
almost unknown, enjoys liai.isin pub I wonder what on earth they did when York In eighteen days. June 10. 1897.
Panama, little as it looks upon the of pineapple fiber.
was
lietter
for
charity
to
throw
her
daddy was a boy!
Icebergs as Indlcstora.
she was lost off the south coast of Ire
The gift to Mrs. Roosevelt consists lie houses. Thnt means one public
map, has the area of Maine and the
In the investigation of the currents mantle over thescene, mid even though |>opulation of the District of Columbia. of a set of handsome embroidered house for thirty six inhabitants or one X s'pose I'm very wicked, not fit on earth land. In May of this year the wreck
she
wept
tears
of
disappointment
over
to stay
round tlie const of Newfoundland it
was raised, and now most of her metal
handkerchiefs, while some of the hand public bouse for twelve men above
has been observed that there is at their change ill heart, for her never to Its |>eople are nearly colored or Mesti somest and rarest of the displays in seventeen years of age. the publican In fact, If I must be so good. I'd rather is being made over into steam fittings
fiy away.
zo;
40,000
of
them
are
Jamaicans,
in
times a wide difference In the direction have learned tlie truth. They arc not
the liberal arts department exhibited Included. 1 Hiring the hist fifty yenra If all that daddy tells me Is the truth and taps, Iler crank shaft, of solid
of the drift of icebergs and that of lost lieyond all redemption and it may color Hack and by allegiance British by Filipino women will be presented to the population has Increased SO per
without alloy.
brass, will be sawed Into small disks
the flat or pan ice, which, having no la« her hand that will guide them liack, subjects. There are JIIOO Chinese.
cent and the numtier of public houses I guess they didn’t have much fun when which will tie suitably engraved for
Miss Alice Roosevelt.
daddy was a boy.
great depth, is governed In Its mo »ml aid in throwing down the barriers
258 per cent.
souvenirs.
CARL SCHOF1ELD.
—New York Tribune.
It is a goisl thing to l<*>k on the
tions by the surface currents and the
Book«.
that
separates
them
from
the
gixxl
and
An ln«nrnn<-« Slory.
Poathamana Kdltlona.
Ton Much Athletic«.
winds, whereas the icebergs, the lar-
bright aide, and if you can’t find a
nr the thtngs that tunke for bappi- They tell this story down on Wall
•'Did you ever see anything to equal
Many physicians now claim that the
• ger part of which is submerged to a the true.
bright side go at the side next to you ness the love of books comes first. • • • street: Tlie executive officer of a great
the way some of these live young an
Again, why should we mourn over
great depth, follow only the movement
with a lot of elbow grease and polish it A book, unlike any other friend, will insurance company, happening one general health Is hurt rather than ben thors turn out books?”
efited
by
athletics,
that
muscle
build
of the ocean water ns a whole and are false friends, who have betrayed our up till the refection cheers you.
wait not only upon the hour, but upon day to meet a friend in tlie street,
“Well, they can’t compote with some
unfnfluKiccd by the winds. In conse confidence or for no rhyme or reason
tlie mood. It asks nothing and gives found himself violently iipbraidisl be ing Is not necessary to good health, of tlie dead ones who keep on getting
quence a huge berg may often be seen have transfetred their affections to
that to bring about a perfectly train
much
when
one
comes
in
the
right
The man who liVes within liis in
cause his company refused to invest ed condition has a severe effect on out new volumes every year.' .” New
majestically maintaining its slow ad some one else, or jcrchnnce have let the
way. • • • Is your world a small
vance tn opposition to the wind nnd tale from the slanderer’s li|>s poison come may not have as much excite one, made unendurable by a thousand in the hands of an enteqirlse with the nerves, that a built up muscle has Orleans Picayune.
which Ills friend was connected.
ment, but he lias much more satisfac
across the general million of the field»
a tendency to degenerate and that the
petty cares? Are the heart and soul of
Payins Trials.
The Insurance man stood It a few heart, being a muscular organ, shares
of flat ice surrounding It. The scaler» their nMnd ? Stop amf think how full tion than the other fellow.
disnppoint-
you
cast
down
by
hitter
Gaggsby—Jones is very wealthy, bit
the
worlii
is
of
goo«i
and
true
fieople,
minutes,
then
said
carelessly,
as
if
he
often take advantage of this fart bp
In thia danger.
ment? Would you leave it •II, If only
be says his life I* full of trials. Wagga
It is hard to tolerate the self right- for an hour, and come back with a new were ordering a fiox of a new brand
mooring their vessels' to an Iceberg In with truth mid sincerity shining
by —Yes; that's what makes him
of
<
lg*rs.
"(th.
well,
seni
me
up
a
mil-
Blessed la he who has found his
order to prevent a drift to leeward.— ser«*ely from tlieir eyes ; friends who isius attitudeof the mail who has never point of view? Then ojien the covers of
lion and ■I half of them."—World's work. Let him ask no othsr blessed wealthy. "How so?" "He’s a law
Kouttfs Companion
will staitil by J'ou w lie» tlie tide of ad- lieeti found out
a book. -From the "Master's Violin.”
*
yer.*’—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
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