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!
P POLLY LARKIN 1
hat lie hud done the right thing,
but it is never to lie in his time.
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I'lu- residents of Epiiraiui, I Tail, cer
tainly know the May to a child’s lieart
und Hie Iiest way to bring out gtsid re
sults. There has never been a time
when the announcement that “tickets
for .elmission” to some entertainment
would not arouse all the boyish enthu
siasm pent up in the heart of the small
ls>y. Nothing Mils too irksome to gain
tin- reward, even If it was to some very
ordinary show and not worth the paper
tin- tickets were printed on. The ls>y
w hose back was, to use his expression,
“nearly broken in two” by currying a
couple buckets of water or an armful of
wood into tbe kitchen for his mother,
would steal away from school and
cheerfully carry a dozen buckets of wa
ter any distance to appease the thirst of
the elephant ami receive a ticket for
the circus, not counting the little re-
waril he usually received when he got
home for playing hookey from school.
<'lia-liseinent didn't count when a cir
cus was in town 'I'lie residents of
Epliraiin lielieved Hint tlie ticket of ad
mission might work witli the grown-up
boys as well, so they announced tliat
they would give a series of entertain-
ineiits, the first to lie a dance, and the
admission would lie half a bushel of
grasshoppers. As n result seventy-five
half bushels of grasshoppers were pre
sented to the ticket man at the door,
and the evening was spent merrily
enough after the «lance. Ti e “society
hoppers,” as one of them expressed it,
gathered round an immense bonflre
into which were tossed the seventy-five
bushels of grasshoppers for cremation.
A standing rewarit of $1 a bushel was
ottered by the city otticials for the
young grasshoppers. Everything pos-
si hie was done to catch the young in
sects liefore they began to fly, an«l Hie
citizen- banded together to destroy
them and prevent a repetition of last
year, when tin- grasshoppers swept
Ephriaui, the agricultural center of
•San l’ete county, of all verdure. They
liave taken novel methods to exter
minate tlie pests, and it seems to lie
working like a charm, and men women
and children are all taking a hand in
til«- good work.
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TH Fur Tat.
In the ¡icuce cuugress ut The Hague
Lord Pauneefote uttl'acted tlie atteu
tioii of the delegates by taking notes
with a fountuiu p<*n the handle of
which was formed by the shell of a
dumdum bullet. One day the represent
alive of a foreign power, excited by
the heat of the discussion iu the inter
eats of eternal peace, said to him
sharply:
"My lord. It isn’t right for you to use
that murderous shell in this congress
The instruments used by jstsous are
almost emblematic. They can become
a part of themselves, an expression of
their ideas and of their personality.”
Lord Pauneefote smiled, but said
nothing.
The following day his critic, wanting
to write something, turmsl to Hie Fug
lish diplomat to borrow a pen. The
embassador pulled out of bis pocket an
old fashioned pen made of gr.-i V gOOHC
quill, and after the borrower had tin
islied said:
"Monsieur, It isn’t right for you to
use such nn instrument In this eon
■as. The instruments used by per
is are almost emblematic, They can
ome a part of themselves, an ex-
ion of their ideas, of their per-
ity.”
GETTING AWAY FROM HOME
The «plrlt nt Heslleswnew« and
De«ii-e Fur t hiiuge.
the
Judging by a good deul of the con
versatlon of the present day, there are
it large number of people who have a
positive horror of home. This curious
revulsion of feeling Is taken by many
per-ons as a sign of social deterlora
Hon. For our own part we find It ditfl
cult to take it quite seriously or to see
in It anything more than a passing
w lilui.
Nobody nowadays likes monotony,
Change is wluit people desire—not per
Imps any great change, but lots of
small change; not necessarily for the
belter, but for Its own sake. Now,
there Is a great sameness about one’s
own four walls, be they ever so Initial
some. We all feel at times an overpow
erlug desire to look at something else.
We cannot change the patterns or the
pictures on them every day. and neither
they nor ttie home furniture ever seems
to alter in expression.
Again, there is n terrible sameness
about one’s own cook. Experience ena
bles us to foretell the taste of every
thing at home, from the soup to the sa
vory if we are rich mid from the mut
ton to the cheese If we are [HMtr;
whereas if wo dine at a restaurant
everything down to the salt Is differ
ent, and the restaurant is refurnished
dully with new faces.
Then, again, the music and stir going
on around one avoid the necessity for
much conversation. and conversation
in the home circle Is sometimes diffi
cult mid sometimes dull. It does not do
always Just to say what one thinks. It
Is such bad practice for dining out,
and. this being the case, it is not easy
sometimes to think what to say.
Nowadays we get, socially speaking,
tired of our friends ami even of our ac
quaintances. We want them to pass
continually before us like a street pro
cession. Instead of Hint they rather
resemble a stage crowd and keep com
ing up again. There is a limit to those
we know, a limit even to those wo
should like or should be likely to know
even by sight, and ut u restaurant this
latter limit is disregarded. Tlie burrier
of good milliners which forbids that
those w ho are acquainted with one an
other should speak is sufficient to pro
tect our station or our dignity, but it
is not a very high fence, and it is one
which it is amusing to look over.—Lon
don Spectator.
WASHINGTON LETTER NEW SHORT STORIES
[Special Correspondence. J
—.Mis. Meredltb's Present.”
Tbe presidential parrot objects to
the remodeling of the White House.
\\ lien the workmen assaulted the roof
of the conservatory and began remov
ing Hi«- glass, the bird liecame wrathy
ami abused the mechanics. She has a
fluent vocabulary of vituperation, but
her choicest epithets were learned in
Cuba and are expressed in elegant
Castilian, so that the finer feelings of
tlie workmen were not too much
shocked.
Still at every unpleasant
noise Polly vociferated. Shut up!"
Finally the bird took to careering
through the conservatory and fre
quenlly in its rage biting off tlie small
er branches of the plants, She was
captured and tethered by u short string
to a remote pereli. Polly seemed to be
humiliated, as heretofore she has had
tlie free range of tlie conservatory.
After she became a chained prisoner
her vivacity deserted her.
When strangers approached, no vio
lent language was used. Polly hid her
head under her wing or drooped it be
tween her feet and simply muttered
her wrath. This parrot is a native Cu
ban and was sent to President Roose
velt about six months ago.
-The tragic death of the novelist Paul
Leicester Ford has recalled to those
who knew him many anecdotes of bis
ways and somewhat quaiut sayings.
Kate Douglas Wiggin, who was one
if his most Intimate friends, both of
them being associated In work in the
college settlement and tlie day ii uraer
les. says:
"I remember when Mr. Ford first
moved over to New York, Before that
he had lived at his father’s home in
Brooklyn, where I have frequently en
tered the great hook lined library only
to think the servant must have been
mistaken who bad told me that the
master of the house was at work there.
He was so diminutive that it did not
take a very high desk to hide him com
pletely from view.
Well, when he
moved over there it was ’Janice Mere
dith’ that had made him the money
sufficient to build the bouse on Sev
enty-seventh street, and he always re
ferred to that home as ’Miss Mere
dith’s present to me.’’’
Another of the man’s queer habits
was that of having three or four desks
in the room where he did his writing.
Whenever he grew tired of his work,
or when perhaps the inspiration ceased
to move him. he would get up, light a
cigar, move over to some other desk
and go ahead with fresh Interest and
success.
THE GREAT JOKE, DEATH.
Funny Side ut D.lna O't.-n Tr.al.d
ot In Literature.
"Death." said a publisher, “lias been
treated humorously In our literature
often. Indeed I am quite sure that a
i-olleetiou of many thick volumes might
be made under tl.e title of ’Death's
Funny Side.’ Thomas Hood was one
of our liest writers of tlds sort of
verse, IKm't you remember his ballad
on the young sailor who died heart
broken over his girl's unfaith? The
last stanza was:
There is nothing Hint adds to Hie at-
t rui’tiveness of a place more than trees,
flowers and shrubbery, and yet you
fl nd so many places lacking this beauty
ami comfort that can so readily be
acquired, particularly in I 'ahlfornia,
where the different seasons need not lie
taken into consideration. I liud occa-
"His death, which happened In his berth.
Al forty odd befell;
sion t>> visit a sc I khi I in tlie vicinity of
They went and told the sexton, and
oik -of <>ur prosperous country towns re
Tlie sexton tolled the bell.
cently, anil I was surprised at tile
"llood did another ballad on the sub-
change tliat had Is-en wrought in a few
ject of a soldier who lost both legs In
battle, who was in consequence Jilted
months’ time. Vines ami roses were
h.v his sweetheart and who then
ciamliei iiig up and over tlie |a>rch cov
himself. Now. that is rather trag
ered with sweet-scented blossoms and
it not? It has a bizarre but none tétet
making it shady and comfortable. As
less poignant tragic note.
Guy ele
if vicing witli the roses, a wealth of
Maupassant indeed once handled al-
sweet pins of all colors and varieties
most this same situation, but he han
clambered towanl Hie roof of the school
dled it from the opposite viewpoint,
house clinging tenaciously to the al rings
and don’t you remember bow he nar
that iiiul been placed for their aeeom-
rated the llrst, the crucial, meeting of
the lovers after Ben Battle's double
tuodation by tlie teachers anil scholars.
amputation ?
I'lusters of lilies gew beside the pump,
"But when he called on Nellie Gray
and geraniums, roses,chrysanthemums,
She made him quite a scoff,
A Tnmhle.
ox.ills and mignonette grew luxuri
And when she saw his wooden legs
Everylaaly
knows
tlie
story
in
"The
Began to take them oft.
antly ,n Hie yard, while the pink ivy-
Texas St«-er” of the applicant for ottice
"This treatment drove Ben to de
geianium and gay velvety nasturtions
who began by living at tlie finest bo
Not Quite to tit pl I men I n i-y.
spair:
ran riot over the fence. I’p tlie flag
tels ami smoking twenty five cent ci
A very ordinary looking nurse
"So round his melancholy neek
polesweet peas twilled themselves and
gars and filially landed III the cheapest
exhibiting Hie new born sister to
A rope he did entwine
many of tlie dainty-winged lilossoms
And
for the second time 111 life
joint that lie could find. The story is
year-old Bertie.
Grant and Pettua.
Enlisted
In the line.
bore
tlie
colors
of
Hie
slurs
and
stripes,
very nearly duplicated by the case of
"Look nt the sweet little baby, m.v
An interesting war time story is told
n witness liefore one of tlie senate by Senator Bacon of Georgia. It is
a fitting standard for “old glory.” In
dear! Is she not pretty ?"
"And there he hung till he was dead
committees wlio came here from Cali about Senator I’ettus of Alabama,
But Bertie, who has been made pain one little uook was planted our na
As any nail In town;
For. though despair had cut him up.
fornia. lie traveled in style and upon
fully aware from the servants of the lio.ial flower, tlie California poppy. ît
It could not cut him down.
arriving in Washington secured the
household that the new arrival will was an ideal playground forthechil-
"There is a tremendous literature of
most expensive quarters ut a fashion
usurp his past privileges as an only dr« ii, und they snowed their apprecia
humorous epitaphs. There must be. I
able hotel. Hi- drew $170 for mileage
child, exclaimed with secret exulta
te» i in the care they took to avoid in
fancy, 10.000 of these, but two of them
and expenses and proceeded to have a
tion:
ar«- all I can recall. The first goes:
good time while he waited for the com
“Auntie says that pretty babies glow juring tiie plants. The garden spot
wu- the entire work of the teacher ami
"Here lies the body of mild Maria;
up ugly.”
mlttee to examine him.
Presently,
She went one day to start the tire,
however, liis money was all gone. He
“Maybe they do,” assented the nurse, cli idren aftersclusil liours, the scholars
But the wood was green,
appealed to the senate officials in vain
tumble to forbear a smile.
taking turns'iii assisting tlie teacher in
So she used kerosene.
And now she's where the fuel Is drier.
for another advance and then discov
But the smile was lost upon Bertie. cain.-g tor I item. Tlie water lied to be
“The other is grimmer:
ered Hint liis daily expenses were
He stood for a moment In meditative pu iipeil ami carried all over Hie yard,
ulioiit tliree times as much as the gov
mood, und tlien. glancing up from Ills bu Hie boys had st rung arms and will
"Life is a lie. and all things show It;
I thought so once, and now I know It.
ernment would allow him The rapid
contemplation of baby's features to
ing hearts ami considered it a pleasure
“Then there are songs on the side
those of the uurse, he said with child
it,v with which Hint witness gave up
rather Hiun a duty. Bovs who hail
splitting aspects of death, some of
Isli confidence:
his expensive quarters and sought a
which liave caused tender hearted la-
small back room in a cheap lodging
"Nurse, you must have been a very never eared for flowers liefore grew to
love tlie buds ami blossoms. Tlie first
pretty baby!”
tiles to double up with mirth. ’Johnny
bouse was a caution.
year the teacher wus in a quandary as
Jones ami life Sister Sue’ is one such
Solid Old Floor«.
song, and I bet Hint six people out of
A Urownlnu Anecdote.
to what she would do in regard to the
"The tearing up of the floors of the
ten in America know it by heart.
In the Cornbill Magazine, in an Inter plants during tlie vacation. She was
east room of tlie White House prepara
"Yes.” the publisher concluded, “uu-
— estillg
g, g-e«
paper
j . y-
ej»tit|c,|
- u. .
Olin
„ leu ......
tory to the improvements In the build
going aw ay, and undoubtedly tlie plants
der Hie title of ’Death’s Funny Side’ an
XW^wUmnsilists.
the writer tells an would marly all perish belore school
The ^lexlcnn Heaven,
ing lias uncovered many indications |
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anthology of many, many volumes
amusing story of Browning and how
The ancient .Mexican Idea of ’.leaven, of tlie age of the building." said an at-
>p- lied again, but the scholars came to
“June Bride”: You say you threw
could be made. The anthology should
lie received certain flowers from a lady,
hell and tlie after state of souls is ex tache of the executive mansion. "l-'or
tin
lescile
and
removed
all
her
doubts
your bridal Istuquel and it was caught tremely curious ami Interesting. Ac Instance, tlie planks of th«- floor of the
be bound in black pigskin, with grin
' who, on being pressed to give their
ning skulls and crossbones tooled iu
English names, shyly confessed t bey an-1 fears by promising to look utter by two of yolir ilearest friends, und you cording to their notions souls neither east room must liave been put down
were culled "bloody noses.”
1 hap tin m of theii'.iwii free will, She knew want to know w hich one shall claim good nor bud. or whose virtues and niauy years ago. and I don't suppose
gold on It.”—Philadelphia Record.
pened many years ago to lie staying in that (hey would not abuse their trust the bouquet or shall they draw for it. vices balanced each other, were to en Hint new tl<a>ring lias ever been put in.
n country bouse when Browning told ami gladly gave her consent, The re Of course the Imuqiiet has had its day, ter a medium state of Idleness and Tlie flooring was held to tlie Idg gir
A Matter of Principle.
this story in his Inimitable way, and suit was so gratifying thut now »he but thehoneof contention lies in regard empty content. The wicked or those ders by means of iron ch-ats, which
“Why is it.” says the girl, "that In
be ended with the following lines, never gives tile yard a thought «luring
giving mi account of an accident they
to who shall carry otl' the honor of be- «lying any of a long list of different somewhat resemble a formidable mod
which I then and there committed to
ern nail
Tlie bead is like that of a
n I ways give the age of the person In
her summer oilting except to woudei ingthe next «bride who is supposed to modes of death (which list was sacred
memory, and which will, I think, inter-
1 must decline to answer .”
jured? I can see the sense of their
ly kept by the priests» went to Meitlan. railroad spike, but tlie body is rather I
what
heudway
they
will
make
during
fall on the lucky party who catches the
est your renders:
a distant hall within tlie bowels of tin slender. There is no doubt that they | who, as everybody knows, was a gal- talking about blonds and brunettes, a
lier absence. Sliesuys she is invariably the hoiiqiiet thrown by the bride as she
deck my love with posies,
mustache or full beard If it is a man
earth. The souls of those struck by were put in to stay and to hold tlie lant officer in the Confederate army,
cover her with roses;
suiprisedat their growth ami tlie per takes her departure.
lightning or of those dying by any of flooring. In other parts of tlie east
In one of the battles before Vicks- or a red, green or blue gown if it Is a
Should she protest
fect order in which she finds every
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a given list of diseases, also the souls room liave been found liatalmarle nails, burg Senator Pettus, tlien a colonel, woman, for that is a means of identifi
I'll do my best
thing, for tlie little lads ami lassies
To give tier bloody noses,
The young ladies will have to try of children, were transported to a re- '1 lie present gem ration does not know was captured and carried as a prisoner cation for acquaintances and friends
seem to exert an influence over tlie
—London Spectator.
liow a handmade nail looks. There is before General Grant.
who mnj’ be interested. They don’t
again, ‘'.lune Bird,” for the omen was mote elyslum called Tlalocan.
“Colonel,” said Grant when the pris- even put the age in the death notices
plbnts, ( liarming or coaxing them into
Tlie actual heaven was reserved for a great demand for souvenirs from the
lost
by
your
friends
catching
the
bou
For Ingrowing 'Foe Anils.
warriors who fell In battle, for women xvork in tlie east room, but the fore- oner wus brought before him, “what now, lint if yon meet with an accident
renewvd < ll'orl. She. says one of Hie
By fur worse than corns, the ingrow- best «lav's work she ever did was vv lien quet togel her.
out it conies ill all the papers in towu.
who died In defense of their children, man will uot allow anything to be tak- ar«- those troops out in front of me?”
btf
mJJ inakcS-lU’e miserable for the she started tlie flower garden around
for thoeo dfl'uru.l a, a «¡aoi-lffi-e iu the on nway ”
“General,” replied Pettus, “1 must But they will never publish ujlue. 1
man or woman, und no relief seems to
temples and for a few others. Alter
Tin- President off Duly.
decline to answer that question.”
have it on my mind every time I cross
BRIEF REVIEW.
tin- little schoolhouse, ami believes tlie
come from paring the nail or in wad
death, according to their belief, the
Tlie president will not go away from
General Grant looked him in the eye tlie street, and when there is a particu
flowers
liave
a
relining
influence
over
sou) passed immediately to the '‘house Oyster Bay for nny considerable length for a moment. “You are right, colo- larly bad crowd I say to myself, "Now,
ding it witii cotton. To give instant re
Cause ot Baldness.
lief to siidi pain a mixture used by tlie th«- ehiMren, and so does I’oliy.
of the sun.” tlielr chief god. whom of time until the last of August, when nel,” lie said. Then, turning to an rcmeinlier. if you are run over here, no
Among the common causes of bald they accompanied for ii long term of lie will visit Maine and New England officer near by, Grant said, “Take this mutter how badly hurt, you are to re
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best physicians can be made as fol
ness- those which stand apart from years in his circuit around tlie sk.v. states. Iu September he will be on gentleman to the rear and treat him mem tier never to tell your age. it'* a
lows: Procure of the druggist one dram
One of the most dismal and forlorn actual disease of the hair Dr. Andrew
of muriatic acid und one dram of nitric
honoring him with song, dames and railroad trains a good deal and also In kindly.”
matter of principle.” — New
York
places I have ever seen was a hand Wilson places in the first rank the
acid und one ounce of chloride of zinc.
other forms of revelry. Then, being October. His vacation, with the ex-
Senator Pettus has never forgotteu Tinies.
Have these mixed thoroughly by tlie somely built mansion of gray stone and habit which many men acquire of wet reanimated in the form of birds of ceptlon of a few weeks early in Sep- that Interview with General Grant.—
Rejected Fortunes.
druggist or perforin tlie operation your not a flower, tree or shrub in the vicin ting the hair every morning in their brilliant plumage, they lived ns henu- tember, will practically come to an end | Washington Post,
self and apply one drop to the affected ity. “What is Hit style of person you batt or when washing the face. What tlful songsters among the flowers, the last of August.
Professor Bell hail a strenuous time
fwrt once a iliiy. It will not only give would think liven there, Polly?” asked happens in such eases, he says, is that among the stars, sometimes on earth,
.Mayor William C. Maybury of De
over Ills invention of the telephone. He
Mairlc In a Name.
relief ut once, but it will hist nil <l.-iy.
troit. accompanied by Senator McMil
a friend. “A man soured on the world, the natural oily secretion of the skin of sometimes In heaven.
The old saying that the good which took the first working model of bis
lan. saw tlie president tbe other day men do is oft interred with their bones instrument to John A. Logan and of
cross and crabbed and hating his
the head is removed by the w ater, and
and completed arrangements for the I does not hold good with tbe memory of fered hint a half Interest for $2.5OU,
The OrmiKv In Spain.
Portiigiieke Kind to Animili«.
neighbor as he does himself, and de
visit of tbe latter to Detroit upon the 1 tlie • late
■ Amos
-
— • .
It Is considered a very healthful thing testing flowers and everything beauti the hairs are therefore deprived, to a
Cummings,
as two mem saying that It would do away with the
Drinking fountains for man and
large extent, as also is the skin, of the
occasion of the convention of tbe Span hers of the congressional delegation telegraph ami that there would be mil
to eat an orange before breakfast, But
beast
are
numerous
In
nil
towns
in
the
ful that could bring joy and refinement
natural pomade, ns it were, which the Azores, writes a correspondent to the ish war veterans in that city iu Sep which went over to his funeral can lions In it. Logan replied: "I dare say
who can ent an orange well? One
your machine w orks perfectly, but who
must go to Spain to see that done. The into his unenviable life.” I replied,“You skin supplies. There are thousands of Baltimore Sun, and on all roads, and tember. The president will arrive in I testify.
señorita cuts off tlie rind witli her are right.” He replied, “That mini little glands in the skin called seba the laboring animals are well fed and Detroit Sunday morning. Sept. 21. go
These members, hailing a cab up- would want to talk through such a
silver knife, then, putting her fork into is soured on the world. Just after he ceous glands, which produce an oily freely watered. The influence of the ing there direct from Cincinnati, which towu in New York, were driven down thing as that, anyway? 1 advise you to
the peeled fruit, she detaches every built this place h is daughter fell in love sulistanee, keeping the skin supple, and Moors is certainly seen in this regard city lie will visit Sept. 2(1. Tbe presi to the Cortlandt street ferry to take a save your money, young man.” Bell
dent will remain iu Detroit until Mon train for Washington. The cabman then offered a tenth interest to an ex
morsel with her pearly teeth and con with the nicest kind of a young man.
us these glands open into the sheaths of for the welfare of the mule and don
11 lilies to eat the orange without losing He came of a good family, was indus
key, and in no country save tlie home day afternoon, the 22d. He will re charged them 13. They protested, and aminer In the patent ottice for 1100 iu
the
hairs
we
may
very
naturally
be
view the parade of tbe Spanish war the dispute was referred to a nearby cash. It was refused. That tenth in
n drop of the Juice and lays down the trious, and was climbing up in his posi
lieve that they contribute to he hairs of the horse the laud of burnoose and veterans and has promised to address I policeman. The officer decided iu fa terest was worth $1.500.000 In fifteen
tore with the fork still in it.
sheiks—does one see animals so kindly
tion, having the respect ami confidence
some sulistaneeintended for their nour
the convention.
vor of the cabman. "Pay the $3,” be years.— Pea rson's.
treated as they are there. The Portu
of Ins employers. In fact, his only fault
Octopun For Dinner.
ishment and preservation. If, there guese have a saying: "He who has no
said to the two statesmen, "or I will
The M ímníiik Word.
was
his
poverty.
When
the
father
saw
Octopuses are pretty plentiful in Jap
Mr. Loudenslager of New Jersey take you to the station.”
fore, through any cause the natural oil compassion for animals has no lieart”
Rather Airy.
■ lies« waters and have been known that all Ins persuasion and threats of the scalp is removed—say by fre
wanted to put some lettering on the | The two representatives became an
"There Is an acquaintance of mine.”
wi
iilil
not
turn
his
daughter
from
her
A <li 11 rclimn n*n Wit.
to attack fishermen in their boats,
door of his committee room on pen grier every minute. The policeman r marked the doctor, “who gives biui-
quent washing the hairs, lieing de
When this hideous monster assumes purpose of wedding tin- young man,
Wayne MacVeagh, Archbishop Ryan sions. The house carpenter had just I was firm, “When you come to New self airs because he was given up to
prived of their nourishment, tend to
the aggressive, the only chance th«- after a stormy seelie one night lie
and George B. Roberts, president of bung two tine swinging mahogany York for a good time,” be said finally, «lie thirty years ago und has kept him-
fishermen have is to lop off the tenta tinned her out of doors, throwing her full Olli.
tlie Pennsylvania railroad, were fel screen doors, such as all the other “you must expect to pay for It.”
self alive till now by takiug oxygen.”
Failing this, the clot lies after her ami disinheriting her.
“Good time?” echoed one of the con
cles of the beast,
low guests ut a banquet given in the chairmen of committees are having,
"How old is lie now?" asked the pro
Why We Shake Hands.
boat may be upset and tlie men She was far from any place and had to
Union league several years before the and the bouse painter was then called gressmen. "We came over here to fessor.
To shake hands with a person Í8 re-
dragged under. The octopus is highly
death of Mr. Roberts. .Mr. MacVeagh in. The doors were not broad enough I help bury our ohl friend, Amos Cum-
“Over eighty.”
find her way the itest she could in the garded as a token of amity, but very
valued in Japnu as an article of food
at the time was the legal adviser of Hie to write out in large letters the entire I mings.”
"He’s what you would call an oxyge-
dark to the nearest house, wtiicll was few know how this custom arose, Ac- “Pennsy.” ‘Some chati' in tlie vernacu name. Ou the left door the painter In-
“Amos Cummings,” repeated the po- nariaii. Is lie?" said the professor, look
i
sonic
three
miles
distant.
The
daugh
cording
to
a
French
ethnologist,
when
Tlie Explanation.
lar of railroading marked a passage in scribed, “Com. on" and then went liceinan. “God bless him! Cabby, take ing nt him with half shut eyes.—Chica
i
a dollar and get away from here go Tribune.
Kuox—1 sat down in my easy chair ter was the idol of the mother’s heart, ever two men met in former times they the conversation of the evening, und away to lunch.
last night and picked up that new novel who hail long been an invalid from were accustomed to hold up their right Hie lawyer, following up a compliment
Scores of people stared at the pe- quick!”
An Appropriate Name.
of Scribbler’s and 1 didn’t get to lied heart disease. She liegged and im hands in front of them as a sign that paid the prelate by Hie president, said: culiar words. They thought it might | So the congressmen gave the cabby
"Your grace, in return you might be “come on” and were wondering I a dollar and came home.
"It Is s pretty name.” the Impres
until 4 this morning.
plored her husband to bring her back, they had no Intention of attacklngeach
n
sionable traveler murmured, "but tell
Cox—The Idea! Why, 1 thought it and at least wait until morning liefore other. This mark of con 11 deuce, how give the worthy Mr. Roberts a free whether a green goods man ba«l been
pass to heaven.”
awfully tiresome.
me why do they call you Manlta?”
established
inside
or
whether
it
was
Door Opened the Wrong Way.
driving her from home, lie sent her to ever, did not prove sufficient in all the
"I should willingly do so." responded some sort of n bospitabl«- invitation to
Knox—Exactly!
It was nearly I
There was an arch smile on the bhv -
This story fs told of Miss Evelyn
her room with curses and barred the ca-es, for a man may hold up his right his grace, "but for one reason—I should
o'clock when I woke up in my chair.
llvaik in.
Millard, an English actress of promi age maiden's face.
doors for fear she would follow the girl. hand, anil yet, if he keeps it closed, may not cure to be the means of separating
"Evidently.” she said as she signaled
Later tbe painter returned from bls nence:
He need not have taken such precau have a weapon concealed in it, and, him from bis counsel in tlie world be lunch, and on the other door he wrote
She was playing in a melodrama, and to her brothers, who were concealed In
tions, tor before morning death swept therefore it became the custom for the yond.”—Philadelphia Times.
nnother word, which gave the sen in one of her scenes she was alone with th" brush with clubs, "you do not
Diamond fields In India were known
aside all barriersand set tlie imprisoned two right hands to grasp each other, as
tence a different turn
It then read, the villain, who locked the door and know onr favorite food.”
from the very earliest times. In tin
"Rule Rritnnnla" Variations.
soul
free.
The
daughter
was
not
nl-
“
Com.
on
Pensions.
”
then announced in the usual style,
only
thus
could
full
assurance
be
given
saered books of India eight localities
One of the English papers gives the
Su.peeteal II,
“Aha, proud damsel, you are in my
ConKi'oimlonnl Clin nite«.
are mentioned as yielding diamonds, lowed to gaze on her beloved mother's ! tliat no weapon was concealed in either
i
answers of certain board school hoys
New faces will be numerous In tbe power,” etc., etc. Miss Millard rushed i Cashier—I can’t honor that check,
teatun - (or (hi- l:i-t time, tlie only of them. Formerly, therefore, tills ges-
and of these three have been identl
who were asked to write down tlie
Your husband's account is
fled at the present day—Mntang.-i (Kist
11 Visiting In r tun-, now tin- tokM Of loyalty and ol whole or part of the chorus of “Rule next house delegation from New York. at tbe door, beat upon it violently and madam
Three veterans, all goo«l business men was immediately precipitated out of I overdrawn,
na and Goduvery), Bulimia (Chota Nag grave, for the old man cannot deny her friendship, was one of reciprocal peace.
Britannia.” One of them gave tlie first — .Mr. Stewart, a memlier of the Dis sight of the audience, while a voice in ' Woman—
— Hull! Overdrawn. Is it? 1
pur) and Vena Gunga (Walrngbar). access to ‘(list’s acre.' After tlie funeral
line as “Royl Brick Tanner. Brick Tan trict committee; Mr. Emerson nnd Mr. the wings said loudly, “Bless me, I suspected something wus wrong when
The diauionillferous area of India, so th«- old man moved his lied into the
Between 40,(MMI and ftO,<MM) women ner rules the way.” a second began it Llttnuer— were thrown Into one con- forgot to warn the lady that that ’ere la- signed this check without waiting
fur ns Is known, Is perhaps more ex library und, save tlx- kit-lien and din
for me to get tbe hysterics.
pass annually through the prisons of with “R oh - Britanier,” while n third gresslonal district by the Empire State I door opened the wrong way!”
tensive than that of the rest of the
att<-mpte«l a whole verso. This was bis
ing-room, every other room in the
legislature.
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world, and nine-tenths of the famous
England and Wales. Taking the fig
version: “Th«- nations not so blest has
house is locked anil he never enteis
Mortarairea.
Emerson, who Is the wit of the New
Potato Souffle.
Jewels are Indian stones.
ures for lust year, it appears that 72 per he hut still In stern but still stern to
them. The daughter is a widow with
Did It ever occur to you bow much
To make potato souttle, add to two
cent bed lieen previously convicted, 42 God most all this was tin- ('belter tbe York contingent, and Stewart have
Discovery of Iron.
two little children in a near-by town
yielded. They will return to their large cupful» of smooth and well seasoned po- 1 harder it is to lift u mortgage than It U
Teacher—Johnny, can you tell me and supports ilieni by taking in sew per cent live times and more, ami 1ft Chelter of tile stall and God in Angles manufnctiii'lng enterprises.
Mr. Llt tatoes yolks of two eggs: stir over Are to raise one? Boston Transcript.
per
cent
almut
7000
women
—
twenty
sang
the
Strang
Bulblatnnyn
blntnnya
how Iron was first discovered?
tnuer. the bond of th«- grant establish until eggs are heated through; when
ing. Iler father Ims never seen her
wove* tlie waves for Itritr.ins never wil ment for the manufacture of gloves. I cool, beat in lightly whites of
times or more.
Johnny—Yes. sir.
eggs
Ever notice that when you particu
since the night lie turned her out of
i
be slain.”
"Well. Just tell the class what your
will have the nomination.
| beateu stiff; turn luto pudding dish larly try to be entertaining you gos-
doors, hut
Hie
enibitlensi
inan
Information is on that point."
Dr. Max Haeshofer of tlie Munich
■ nd browu I d hot oven.
CARL SCHOFIELD.
Up mure? Atchison (¡lobe.
E mj E iiouk I i .
“I lieard pa say yesterday that they thut lie is in that old funeral idle of I niversity says Hint society may Is-
Mr.
Harry
de
Windt
In
rocks
witli
Ills
book,
only a t'hinaiiiaii to ever
smelt it.”—Spare Moments.
At a Discount.
The Little ThlB<a.
Keeiilna < It With Fate.
held responsible, though only to a lim “Finland ns It Is,” tells of
a mot of
break 'he silence, There is not a eat,
’ Edward,” she sighed, "when 1 read
■ You will be married within n year.’
"That great matters are not always
ited extent, for certain conditions of Amlrec, the arctic explorer, ■lust be-
bird or «log iiliout the premises, only
Oh, So Polite!
> itiiiui «1 • the fortune teller
"Dear your notes my hopes are raised toward the most important is evidenced.” re
life created by it, into which it intro fore his last voyage he was ilrl von to
happiness."
"Polltest people I ever knew down in cows, and horses to do the work of the
in«-!' exclaimed the Indy, w ho was al
marked the stork, “by the fact that
duces tlie individual and by which it distraction at a dinner party by a talk
"Yes." he answered moodily. "I never my fame and reputation are due solely
that fever and ague country." remark place, and they are used to the curses
ready imnried. ’"I shall have to begin
stive
neighbor.
wiis able to raise unytbing on niy notes
ed the traveler. “In other places they and snarls that fall from Ills li|m. oilers occasion to tlie degeneration of
to my strict attention to very little
“But how will you know, professor. divorce proceedings nt once.”—Boston except hope.”
shake hands when they greet you. but It could Is- inade into a grand old place human impulses.
Pi
ist.
things.’’—Colorado Springs Gazette.
when you have really crossed the north
down there they shake all over."
with trees, flowers, slirulm and velvety
At Newcastle (Englnndi assizes Jus
The raising of the instrument sheltc.
Don't brood over the past nor dream pole?” was one of the many silly ques
Cte.allnc th« Doctor.
cago Post.
lawns, and the joyous laughter of his of tlie future, but seize the instant and tions.
tic«-Itldiv.v Imposed n line of 150 on tbs °t
weather bureau Iu New York
Mrs.
Trotter
—I bear that Mrs. Bar
“Oh. that will la- simple enough, nil- court nttemlant for failure to bnve ths city from an elevation of 150 feet
little grand-children could make the get your lesson from the hour.
The time comes when one feels
low's three children have the measles.
dame,
”
replied
Andree
with
liis
well
■
'«in
i
io
-ill
sufficiently
lighted.
A
threat
above
the
street
to
an
elevation
of
300
ns
nt
long silent mansion ring with their
need of the slumber of dentil,
Mrs. Faster—Yes: so I understand.
know n dry humor. “A north wind will of tilt aille kind h.v Justice Lawrence
has caused an apparent lowering
end of a toilsome day one feels
chihlish glee, stirring liis withered old
BetWeeil friends frequent reproof
They’re so poor they ba ve to economize
liecome
a
south
one!
”
at
I
t
t
.ls
assizes
led
to
prompt
illuinl
of
tbe
mean
annual
temperature
of
Ueed of another sleep.
heart into new life with a «’onscieiis- iiinken the friendship distant.
ou the doctor by all getting 111 at once.
tut Li-tn
I degrees.
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