•• •
*
T
wagons had nut begun tu pass, auu Jacky was*gn>wing taller ami «merer. be seized with a sudden excitement.
•Ch* Da Fouls
BawBas Vaaao.
luiporier» sn4 dealsra In
rftrtM-,
the stream of Trescott yuutb was This sad epiihsle lu bis life ead left a He went to the ringmaster and In a NEW SHORT STORIES
Bowk, N«ws,
Tbe f)u Fonts' vtu powder mills Io
W riling and
weudiug Its wsy toward tbe upper vll- do-B impressiou. and then oue by une commanding manner said: “I want you
all parts of the country from tbe At MONI 11
Ths Paris lalsrvlrwsr.
Wra**loa...
hge by Cold Htreatn curve to meet the tbe years were added, aud all hope of to stop this. It Is an outrage to let that
lantic
to
tbe
Pacific.
AtBoiig
tbe
Dtl
townl
Tbe Paris reporter boasui that be is
■ U*RD aTODS
ever knowing tbe fate of Tilda .van woman go on. She's sick, man.”
Ponta themselves there Is a jBoceaa of
I
taravaa.
StKAW AND U1NDKKS' BOARD
His words were greeted with ap- Imbued with tbe American spirit That selection fur those yliu ar* to have to
They followed far behind, their arms ished from the bsBrts of Trescott, all
SA-S7-AIMIi Firm $t.
plause “It’s Circus Jack!” tb* crowd la, wbeu be Is sent out to get au in <1* With tbe powder works. The
encircling each other, absorbed lu a except oue.
By Stanley
terview be gets it. Sometimes be sees
rm. HAia tea. :<S SAN FKÁNCItM t>
s
e
e
e
e
e
shouted.
discussiou of Tilda's great future.
yuuugsters are watdaBd. and when
bls
mau.
U*t
the
latter
"has
uutblug
Edwards Johnson
But the ringmaster was about to
“I think you jest orter go, TlldB,"
Wb*u the enraptured Tilda had
to say.” Then tbe reporter makes him one shows nervousness In the 1'ace of
larky declared, with solemn earnest feasted her heart ou the wonderful eject him forcibly from tbe place when
say
it, and tbe article appears as an danger be Is placed somewhere else
ness.
feats of the bareback riders and tra- Mlle. Celestine, turning to take her “lu ter view." Here la au Interview [ than lu the powder mills. The rule Is
Copyright, 1902, by 8. E. Johnson
“Oh, I’m so glad, Jacky, tbet you peze performers, she was more con- return journey on tbe rope, suddenly with J. Pierpout Morgau traualated that a Du Pout In |><-rsoii ahull always
approve, for I shouldn't waut ter du vlnced than ever that she was "made swayed. Rhe seemed to have forgotten literally from tbe Echo de Perla, one lead whenever there Is Imminent dan-
her position, and her gaze was fastened
ger A number of Du Pouts first and
NE morning long before tbe anything ag'ln yuur wishes, but I'm ter Jiue the clrcuo.” After the show was on tbe scene below. Then, fairly of whose priueipal men went to aee last and some of them lmi>ortaiit ones
jest
goin
’
ter,
somehow.
”
over
she
asked
to
see
“
tbe
mail
thet
him st tba Hotel Ritz recently: “1
great shows took to the rails
"Got any money?"
bosses the show.” The attendant smil shrieking the words “Jacky Hopkins ! have beeu able tu arize M Morgan as — have beeu killed under this rule, ami
McAlpine's Combined Colos
Oh!” she fell fainting Into tbe net.
there repeatedly have been heroic es lirlght’M Dlacaac and Dlabttea
“
Naw,
I
haln
’
t,
but
I'll
get
it
some
ed
aud
humored
her
whim.
sal Hippodrome and Consum
Many years have passed since Tilda be wae ou tbe point of vaiiiablng up cat»ea from death through thia disre
Tbe manager was also lu a contented
Arc Positively Curable.
tbe
elevator
abaft.
I
said
to
the
great
mation of Wonders was expected to how.”
“Take this." And Jacky shyly held state of mind aud punctuated Tilda’s Vinton, formerly the celebrated Mlle. money manipulator. *8lr, I shall per gard of tbe fear of it.
pass through Trescott. The youngest
Celestine,
returned
to
the
old
farm
In
The
family
rule
Is
a
des|H>tlsin.
and
enthusiastic account of her exploits
mit myself to put to you several que
generation of this village that la to out his band, palm down.
Trescott as Mrs. Jacky Hopkins.
a very strict one. The family always
“Why, Jacky Vlutou!” exclaimed the with guffaws both loud and hearty.
ries about your trip tu Paris, your se
say, all that part of it that could move
Adolph Weskr, the well knuwu plonetr of WO
Another
Jacky
takes
up
tbe
attention
has a head, and what this bead or
delighted
Tilda.
"If
you
alu't
the
t»est
“
Waal,
leetle
gyri,
”
be
said,
with
a
(lreen street, San Francisco, oue ui the fuuud.
on two legs had Is-en anticipating this feller tliet ever lived! Now I’m fixed!”
of that happy household, but as his cret designs aud'— ’Helu! Quol!' ex
chief
aaya
the
other
members
of
the
perceptible
southern
accent,
“
Ab
kind
rlaimed tbe illustrious trust disciple.
era of the Califoni a Cracker Couipuuy, inter
event for fully three weeks, The ma
“But you mustn’t ever tell on me.”
er reckon you would amauuut ter suth- adoring mother looks into his deep blue He makes believe not to bear, but tn family do. This headship does not viewed December 11, lyui :
jorlt.v of the barns and sheds in the
eyes her own grow misty with tbe pic
necessarily
descend
from
father
to
son.
“
No.
Jacky,
never.
But
what
’
ll
your
in
ef
you's
ter
be
given
a
chance.
You
M Will you permit us to refer tv you as oue
bis depths be reflects; then, with a
vicinity had proclaimed the allure
mu do when she finds out? Hhe keeps seem purty peart. We'll try you—give tures of other days, and she Is thank strong accent and a fierce expression, even when there are sous. Sometimes •>f those cured of diabetes by tbe Fulton Corn
meats of spangled bareback riders,
ful
that
some
men
are
faithful
to
tbelr
ma
in
It
goes
from
uncle
to
m-pliew.
the
pouuds?
count o’ all you earn, mean thing!”
you some trainin’ au’ pleuty o’ work
tbe renowned railroad king says to me:
roaring Ilona, snarling tigers, daring
t hor
A
You may. it ought to be known. I have
“But she need not know till fall. By ter do—but you kyaut edzactly jlne childhood sweethearts.
'I will not apeak. I shall uot speak' point being to secure a Du Pont busi-
contortionists and trapeze is-rformers.
told a great muuy about it myself.
tbet time, Tilda, you'll be great!” this ere show. We’ll be a new com-
□o. not one word!* Then I: 'But you oughly competent to manage the
elephants, monkeys and women who
You
found it hard to cuuvince tbelli?
Wall PlaeoB Uahamlty.
York
Jacky’s eyes fairly glistened at the blnatlou when we git over the river,
are conscious, sir, of tbe numerous nesa affairs of the family.—New
Stood Oil tiptoes on the backs of swift
A Only these cured cun believe i asily. You
the
In 1835 Liszt went on a tour In th*
Tribune.
thought.
aliout
forty
miles
In
tbe
Interior.
Now,
cvmmeuta yuur visit arouses. Are any
will have great difficulty iu makiug pwpla be
horses and passed unscathed through
the
Tilda gazed at the massive vehicles you must remember you haln’t any French province«. He arrived at th*
of these true?* Thou the famous Wall
lieve it
Loops of fire.
Americans Abroad.
little
town
of
L
—
to
give
a
concert,
with an air of proprietorship, and lu a thing ter do w ith McAlpine's Combina
W —Had physiciaus diagnosed your case as
street dictator: T have uaugbt to say;
All tills hail been seen and admired tit of veuturesomeuesa she aroused the tion. Will you?”
Tbe mere fact of an American citizen
as announced. But tbe Inhabitants no, uot one word, eveu so small aa
llaiaiteM*
by Jacky Hopkins and Matilda Vinton,
taking
a
trip
abroad
or
residing
there
appeared
to
take
but
little
Interest
tn
Tilda was ready to do anything, and
envy of those about her by patting
A. -Several The kid lie vs were al Ao affected
that” He clicks bls thumb nail back
besides a score of others. Jacky was
I had to sleep with my h ktid under my back to
tbe elephant's huge leg as if It were she s>sin found that she had to do ev musical matters, for when tbe musi ward upon bls teeth. His face la for a short period does not deprive a sustain
me so I could rest
ten years old. and Matilda was four only her pet dog.
native
born
citizen
of
this
country
of
erything. No one seemed to be able to cian appeared on tbe platform be found purple with brutal will. He goes to-
W —How loug tiefore you tiegan to improve?
years his senior. According to the
A.—Il look I io Id slowly it must have been
That afternoon Jacky stole quietly find time to give her any training, but himself face to face with an audience ward the elevator, always escorted tils citizenship, nor does he lose tlie several
weeks.
juvenile gossip of the village, they were fi-uiu the dinner table, having tasted she did have something to eat aud a numbering exactly seven persons.
right to the protection of this govern
<«! liow long liefore you were fully restored?
with our vigorous questions. Then I:
“jest gone on each other.”
A.—At>out u year
place to sleep. Each night when she Liszt stepped very calmly to tbe front 'But will you uot say If you Intend to uient by so doing, If he abandons bls
hardly
a
morsel.
The
show'
was
to
be
Q —( an you recall any you told about it?
Tlie passing of fhe circus gave rise
gin at 2:30 o'clock, so Ttlda had de cried herself to sleep her lust thought and, bowing respectfully to tbe array merge the Compagnle-Traiisatlantlque residence here, be loses Ills right to
A.—Oue was a Mrs. D., a frieud of ours in the
to picturesque ambitions In the young cided to make her escape directly after was of little Jacky.
of empty benches, be delivered himself with tbe other’— Then tbe busy mo- vote just as if be moved to another country Her trouble was Bright's Disease
She, UM), recovered.
hearts of Trescott. The career of that
It
ugaln
by
return
state,
but
acquiree
as
follows:
The little prisoner of the caravan as
dinner. Jacky was to meet her about
—Any other?
nopollzer of industries replies: ’You
patron saint of New Hampshire. Dan
A —A lady frieud in Windsor. Sonoma Coun
“IJulies and gentlemen, I feel ex will not make me speak one word, Ing to this country, Nearly all tlie na-
a mile down the road. Jacky’s father the years rolled on found herself doing
ty, was swollen with dropsy, and 1 seul her the
iel Webster, faded Into Insignificance
claim
the
right
of
tions
on
tbe
globe
had told 1dm to remain at home that the things she had fondly dreamed of tremely flattered by your presence not oue small ejaculation shall I make
Bright's Disease ( ompouud, the s< coud dozen
tn comparison with the attainments of afternoon “ter rake after the cart.”
In her childish ambitions under a high here this evening, but this room la pass my lips!' Aud, with a bound, tbe authority over native born citizens of completely restorin’/ her
W —* hat d<» you think now of the curability
tbe heroines and heroes pictured In
tbelr
own
countries
even
after
those
Tilda and Jacky walked some time sounding name, but sometimes in her uot at all suitable; tbe air Is literally
of fright's Disease and Diabetes?
ralnlsiw colors. Such youthful yearn without saying much. The resourceful sleeping dreams she sa w the green hills stiffing. Will you be good enough to feared billionaire anil Napoleon of citizens have acquired citizenship else
A—Cures await those who will take these
ings for fame are familiar to all who ■Matilda, who had never found her and wandered over the Helds with little accompany me to my hotel, where 1 stock exchanges disappears.'
where—that is, if a native Russian Compounds for a sufficient length of time
have nut forgotten that they were once powers of conversation circumscribed Jacky, and always when she waked will have the piano conveyed? We
comes here and Is naturalized, then re
Pat sad tie Parrat.
Medical works agree that Bright’s Disease
young and are generally of brief dura before, suddenly fouud It a most diffi tlie tears would come to her eyes.
turns to Russia for a visit, tlie Russian and
iliall lie quite comfortable there, and
Diabetes are incurable, but 87 per ecu! are
At a little dinner not long ago a
positively
recovering um|er the Fulton Com
tion.
government
might
compel
him
to
do
When Jacky became a man, be did I will go through the whole of my wager was laid that Marshall P. Wild
cult matter to utter a sentence. Jacky
pounds. (Common forms of kidney complaint
army
service
despite
his
American
citi
“I think. Jacky, my pa an’ ma are was so affectisl that be couldn’t even what a great many enterprising New programme."
arul
rheuiiiutisrii
offer but short resistance )
er, the entertainer, could not tell fifty
. II for the Bright’s Disease aud
;*• for
meaner than the meanest, ’cause they look Tilda’s way.
Englanders have beeu doing for four
The offer was unanimously accepted, parrot stories In succession. He did it zenslilp. This principle was embodied Frio*
the Diabetic Compound John J Fulton Co ,
won’t let me go ter tlie circus termor-
At last Jacky, In view of certain generations — he went west “’cause and Liszt treated bls guests not only without turning a feather, and so many in tbe famous expression “once an Eng 4JU Montgomery street, San Francisco, sole
Fret! tests made for pulieuts.
rer,” said Matilda, “but you can just kinds of chastisements that he had re farmin’ pays out there.” But his heart to a splendid concert, but an excellent of them were uew that the mau who Usliman, always an Englishman,” so compounders.
Dt script i ve pamphlet mailed free.
bet I'm a goin’."
ceived at various times during his life, told him that it was because he waut- supper into the bargain. Next day, came away and told atiout It could re much quoted during the war of 1812.—
Detroit Free Press.
Jacky's little blue eyes widened In broke tlie stillness.
ed to be where “that Hopkins boy” when tbe Illustrious virtuoso appeared member only one.
I to give his second concert, tbe ball
surprise. Scarcely a day passed that
“I’ve got ter go back. Tilda.” Then was never heard of.
It was of tbe parrot which escaped
THE FEMININE MIND.
The Coroner and the Hnttle.
Tilda’s dynamic nature did not seud he discovered a tear In Tilda's eyes and
lie not only succeeded, but he also was not large enough to contain
through a window and perched lu a
The following little scene at an in Some Men Tbliik They Fathom It,
thrills of wonder up and down his added, "Oh, Tilda. I wouldn’t, arter won a new sobriquet. He was known crowd which claimed admittance,
tree. Tbe owner's efforts to capture It. quest upon the body of a murdered
over more than seven states as “Circus
------------------------
diminutive spine.
all”—
bql They Are .Mistaken.
man Is reported by a correspondent of
Jack.
”
I
Appetite
and
Haaaer.
“Why, Tilda, you wouldn’t run off
“I will, too, Jacky Hopkins! I ain’t
A man can very seldom tell what Is
tbe
Anglo
Russian
from
Astrakhan:
down ter Woodbine all alone, would one o’ tbe kind tbet goes back on my
Yet he never revealed the real cause
“Most persons do uot discriminate
The coroner dictating to Ids clerk: "On passing in a woman's mind. He talks
you?”
self any more'n I do on anylsidy else. of ills Interest in tlie circus world, and I between hunger and appetite,” said a
the table was found a bottle— No; with another mau, and he can follow
“Co’se I would, Jacky—that Is, If But. oh, Jacky, you will be true, won’t tlie cowlioys supposed It was his weak- doctor of long experience. “Appetite
liis processes; he gets his point of
stop for a moment. We must ascertain view; he can read between the lines;
ness.
ts what makes a man drink or smoke
I Jest bad the money ter get Inter the you ?’’
Its
contents.
”
The
coroner,
tasting
the
Circus
Jack
had
been
known
to
go
as
and
wliat
makes
most
men
and
worn-
circus with. An’ I wanter jlne It, too;
Now, there had never been any very
lie can make a shrewd guess as to
liquid, dictates: “The bottle contained
I wanter jlne the circus.”
definite conversation on matters con far as 500 miles to see a circus, and at en eat. Many go through life never
how he came to say that or why he
English
gin.
1
‘
erliups
not;
I
am
not
last
lie
liecauie
known
as
tlie
most
gen-
knowing
what
hunger
really
la
I
Little Jacky gasped in amazement. cerning love between tills erring pair.
refrained from saying the other, says
sure;
taste
It
yourself.
”
Tlie
clerk,
“You Jlne the circus, Tilda Vinton! Accordingly Tilda’s remark sounded erous patron of the trade, and the fra- often fast sixty hours and never feel
the Watchman.
having tloue so, replies, "I tldnk it is
You couldn't do nothin’, Tilda. Why, grand and grown up, ami he solemnly ternlty of the ring blessed him and the worse for It. A frieud of mine, a
But a woman's mental processes are
wished there were more like him. In physician lu Brooklyn, goes without
simply strong vodka.” The coroner, not those of a man. Her mental ma
what was you tliinkln' o doin’?”
answered:
time
he
came
to
be
the
personal
frieud
|
food
sixteen
days
at
a
stretch
and
tossing
off
another
glass:
"No.
really.
“Oh, I Jest know I could! Jest let me
“Yes, I will, Tilda; hope ter die, I
chinery is geared differently. You bear
It tastes like gin.” Tlie clerk, tasting what she tells you. You call make lu
keeps up bls work meanwhile. There
git dressed up as them wiuimin be will!”
the
liquor
again,
"I
still
tldnk
It
is
only
isn
’
t
au
organ
that
can
contract
any
au’—an’ sleep in oil sheets, an’ I jest
Then Tilda almost picked him off the
fereuce» from it. They w ill be wrong
vodka.”
disease from lack of food. Most of
bet I could do anything. You know, ground and kissed him square on the
because you do not know how she
The bottle having gradually become came to say what she did; you do not
them do become diseased through tbe
Jacky Hopkins, I can do lots o' things lips. It was the first time that opera
empty, the coroner proceeded to dictate have the elew. Try to guess what she
effort to take care of too much food.
tliet you can't. You couldn’t git on the tion had lieen performed on Jacky ex
They are all In better tone after a fast.
In a decisive tone: “Write: An empty will say next, and you will And that
rldge|Mile o’ pa's barn an’ walk acrost c cept In kissing games. Its effect was
Another thing, hunger Is felt only In
bottle was found on the table, and all you are all at sea. ,
it jest as If It was a tight rope. An* to make him turn directly around and
the mouth and throat. That gone feel
measures taken to ascertain what it
I've shinned up tliet big pine back o’ run as fast as his little legs could car
The man who says that he under
ing that many complain of Is not hun
contained were of no use.”
your bouse, an’ you didn't git up but ry him, and the tears were running
stands woman Is hlniHelf a woman.
ger;
tliat
Is
a
form
of
disease.
If
per
half way. All’ I Jumped forty feet down Ills cheeks.
No man can understand a woman. He
Josiah Wedgwood*« Work.
sons would eat only when they were
from the upper hayloft lu ourbarndown
Tlie sensation of tliat kiss was not
may love her. There may exist be
hungry and only as much as hunger,
Josiah Wedgwood’s work deserves tween his soul and hers that inde
outer the hay, an’ you didn't dast try. even dulled by the chastisement which
not appetite, called for—well, we doc
collecting for special reasons. It is nn finable and celestial sympathy which
’Taln’t ’cause you ain't smart, only I’m followed a few minutes later owing to
tors would have to fast.”—New York
English art. Invented and perfected by is the sweetest thing on earth, but he
made ter be iu a circus."
ills absence from tlie hayfleid. Nor
a native of England. The designs used does not understand her.
She put her arm about the little fel was It even forgotten, many years aft-
for Its decoration were made by the
low’s waist, with all the superiority ter. when Jacky became a man.
Her mental operation, her ways of
best native artists of bis time. It was thought, her point of view, will always
of her fourteen summers. Jacky was
It was not very long before Jacky
It
would
be
a
difficult
task,
If
not
an
made of English clay, by native crafts be as inscrutable to him ns the mental
Impressed. Visions of the wonderful heard, with terrifying Interest, the fa
ImiKissible one, to persuade any half
men, without state aid or subsidy, processes of an angel. Whether wom
exploits he had seen Tilda perform miliar voice of Matilda's mother.
dozen men casually brought together
without foreign Inspiration. All na en understand each other Is not quite
"Tilda! Tilda! Where be you, Til
since the advent of the circus posters
"I THOt.'OHT YOU WAS A BIRD.”
into unanimity of opinion concerning
tions acknowledge bls lifelong services certain. A greater part of the delight
rose la-fore him. There wasn’t a boy da?"
tlie greatest man who ever lived. Most even with u butterfly net, were in vain. to tbe world's ceramic Industry. As that men And in the companionship of
lu tlie village who could do wliat Tilda
Then she came over Into the field, for
He
stood
at
tbe
bottom
of
me
tree
of them would agree no doubt with
his epitaph truly records, “He convert women arises from their inscrutability.
bad done, and lie was the only one where Jacky was It w is generally safe
Lord Brougham that Julius Ctesar was swearing at the bird when an Irishman ed a rude and Inconsiderable manufac You cannot measure or exhaust them.
who had frankly admired her, while to conclude that Tilda might be discov
"the greatest man of ancient times,” came along,
ture Into an elegant art and an Impor
the others had hidden their chagrin ered also. Her bony Anger motioned
Their charming Inconsequence, as
“What Is the matter?" demanded tant part of national commerce.”
but how many of tbe six would accept
by calling her tomboy and other names Jacky toward her, and be came, trem
It seems to you, will never cease to
Pat.
Professor Gardiner’s estimate of Crom
His countrymen are advised to collect puzzle you, and every fresh conversa
Which only delighted her With their bling aud fearful.
"1 can’t catch that darned bird,” Buld
unintentional flattery.
"Have you seen Tilda anywheres “Take thin." Anil Jacky nhyly held out well as "the greatest Englishman of all tbe man, "and here is a dollar for tbe good specimens of Ills work while It Is tion reveals a novelty of attitude or
times?” Each of them, we may be
possible to do so. A time may come opinion.
hi» haud.
Now she had stimulated Ills boyish round here?” she asked.
reasonably sure, would accept Shake man who can.”
when they may find It difficult to pur
fancy, ami he believed she was right.
“No’m,” Jacky answered, with his of many of the greatest artists and
"I am tbe mau!” cried Pat, and be chase at any moderate price. Greater
Makins: It Plain.
She was the greatest living wonder to tongue In tils cheek. That question gained tbe reputation of knowing more speare as the greatest poet, yet Lord started up the tree.
A writer in tlie Lancet, says the Chi
Lytton
once
spoke
of
Milton
as
“
tbe
Britain
and
English
sis-aklng
America
him, and lie longed to help her.
was an easy one to answer, but life about the Inside of a circus than any
As be climbed from branch to branch are already competing.
greatest poet of our country.” And
Wedgwood cago Record lieraid, generously sets
“Guess you’d do, Tilila, arter you’d was fast becoming very terrible to him. man west of the Mississippi river.
tbe parrot did tbe same. Finally they ware has grace of form and charming himself tlie task of giving out valuable
where
will
be
found
two
men
out
of
been trained," Jacky admitted.
Mrs. Vinton passed on. This was tlie
It was also noted by those who occa
neared the top, and the branches began I
™"d
Information ns to the amount of food
"A h ’ it’s real mean ter think tbet 1 tieglnnlng of an agitation which swept sionally went with him that his great Scotland to agree with Charles Mackey to wabble dangerously. 1 be parrot wan 1
one should eat. He proceeds to make
when
be
says
of
Burns
that
be
was
tlon
of
Its possessor.
cau't lie what I was made ter lie. How over the whole community In a graud est Interest was always lu the gayly
moved to speech.
The blue examples have been called the matter plain to the masses by say
d'you s’pose anybody was ever able ter crescendo until It occupied the atten dressed women who rode the horses, “the greatest poet—next perhaps to
"What the devil do you want?’ It de “cold,” but the same objection might be ing:
be anything unless their folks let ’em tion of three adjoining townships. For jumped through tbe hoops and swung King David of the Jews— whom any manded.
"If you desire to know bow much
age has produced?“—Leslie's Weekly.
applied to the Venus of Milo. Tlie
tryF
two days Jacky kept out of sight as and leaped among the trapezes. He
“I beg your pardon,” cried Pat, al Chinese—no mean authorities upon you ought to ent per diem, you must
“I never thought o’ goin' down ter much as possible und passed Ills nights often sought their acquaintance and
ready half way down the tree. “1 ceramics—poetically call one tint of first determine whether you are tem
P.rtaHoath Harbor.
Woodbine, an’ I know my folks In sleeplessness aud weeping. The seemed to be very earnest when In con
There has existed a harbor at Ports thought you was a bird!”
blue on their porcelain “blue after peramentally anabolic or katobolic.
wouldn’t let me. But, then, I couldn’t pressure agalust his conscience was tie- versation with them.
mouth. England, resorted to by fight
rain.
” Wedgwood blue Is a pure color, Then, taking into account your age,
do anything. Now, with you, Tilda, vomlng harder and harder, while the
Tweuty years bad passed and were ing ships from the moat ancient times
Straaaraly Drawa Tosethar,
but
never
tires and reminds one of tbe sex, size, the amount of exercise you
rtlfficultles
of
confession
were
growlug
It’s different You can do things, an’
growing nearer to thirty. In the mean in our history, The Koma us undoubt-
At the University club they are tell
celestial
blue
where the skylark soars.— get and the temperature of the atmos
greater.
your folks had orter let you.”
time “Mlle. Celestine, the world's edly used it when they bad tbelr ing a good story about Professor
phere, you should calculate the amount
Connoisseur.
He observed that if he had come for equestrienne and trapezlenne, tbe won stronghold at Portebeater, and they Henry Van Dyke, who was looked
“Well, I'm Jest a-goin’ ter. somehow;
of food necessary to imilntalu the min
tbet’s all.”
ward with ills Information he might der and admiration of two continents,” appear to have named It Portus Mag upon as a likely candidate for tbe pres
imum weight of the body consistent
Napoleon as a Scientist.
And so Tilda resolved to join the have maintained the |>eace of a hun had passed her zenith, for tbe days of a nus, or the Great Port. Tbe footsteps ldency of Princeton university until
witli the liest health of which you are
circus. The really unfortunate thing dred farms. As It was, the fields were circus rider, even when full of glory, of tbe Roman provincials and of tbe Professor Wilson got ahead of him.
The seat In tbe class of mechanics of capable.”
deserted,
and
Jacky
concluded
that
his
are
few.
about Matilda was that she generally
Hereafter there should be no excuse
Kaxons and Normans may be traced, One day Professor Van Dyke's little the Institute made vacant by the flight
put through all she made up her Juve S ■ckonlng would tie something awful.
Tbe two greatest circuses In the coun and from these times onward tbe name daughter asked:
of Carnot was filled In 1797 by the whatever for overeating or umlereut-
I
nile mind to do, and. still worse, often Added to all this was an awful lone try liad bld high against each other to of Portsmouth occurs frequently In
election of a young artillery officer, Ing-
“Pa. where were you born?”
times she was equally flrm In not do some feeling which be rightly attrib secure her services. In the midst of our history. Tbe place had attained
Napoleon Bonaparte, just returned
“In Boston, my dear.”
uted to the absence of Tilda.
ing what she did not want to.
from bls Italian campaign covered
her exciting career she would occa some measure of importance In tbe
“Where was mamma born?"
Tlie Discovery of Florida.
His little face was a picture of grief sionally loug for her old life, but such reign of Henry I. Richard Cœur de
Their delicious speculation on the fu
with glory. The first consul paid much
“In San Francisco, my dear.”
Juan Ponce de Leon, sailing from
and
escaped
no
one,
but
It
was
set
ture was Interrupted by tlie Inqieratlve
favorable attention to the Institute, Porto Rico in search of new land, dis
yearning was only momentary.
“And where was I born?”
Lion set sail thence when last be left
down to the fact that lie loved Tilda,
summons of Jacky's mother.
and it continues to this day very much co ven*« I Florida on March 27, 1512. lie
Both unknown to herself and to Cir tbe shores of bls kingdom, and In tbe
“In Philadelphia, my dear."
"There’s your ma a callin’," Matilda or. as the neighbors put It: "Poor little cus Jack the pair had many times been time of his successor a naval estab-
“Well, pap, isn't It funny bow we I 88 it left his hands In the new con- landed near St. Augustine, planted the
sneered. "She's alius coddlin’ you. Jacky! He did set great store by Til under tbe same canvas together, which Usbment exlsted at the port.—Loudon three people got together?”—Pblladel- stltutlon which he gave It !■> 19M.
cross and took possession in the name
You'll never grow up If von don't git da ” So they forbore mentioning the was not surprising, for there was but G lobe.
phla Press.
I He exhibited his admiration for tlie of tii«‘ Hpnotoh monarch. In 1763 a
outeni her Way. Arter I've j’fned the girl in his presence.
—-------
I pure sciences and bls dislike to. the treaty ceding east ami west Florida
little in Mlle. Celestine to suggest tbe
circus I'll git a chance for you ter sell
Bur at last It came out. Mrs. Hop- whilom Matilda Vinton of Trescott.
*■
T«ehai«litl»s.
speculative sciences, philosophy and to Great Britain, in exchange for Ha
Practical laqairy.
lemonade.”
kins had taken to putting him to bed,
A determined woman came Into tbe ethics by the expansion of tlie conven- vana mill the western part of Cuba,
The town council of a thriving burg
But now Mlle. Celestine earned a
“Oh. good, Tilda! I'd do jest any “for the little man Is that tneaehiu',” small salary on the strength of her In the west of Scotland recently ac room of the bouse committee on peu tlon’s first class and the entire suppres was rat hied. In 1781 part of Florida
thing ter go with you! An’ don’t ferglt she said, So after bls prayers bad been former fame. She could do only a few quired a piano for their town ball and sions not long ago.
slon of the second class, thus creating was needed to Spain, and in 1783
ti r be up by 4 o'clock tennorrer Bo’s said lie turned himself to the wall In simple feats, and even In these she of ap|H>Iiited three of tbelr number to In
“I want to Inquire about the pension four classes-sciences physiques et Great Britain ceded east and west
ter see the circus go through.”
mathématiques, la langue et la littera- Florida to Spain, (tn Feb. 22, 1X19,
an agony of tears aud blurted out:
ten came near disaster. What was to spect and report on tbe purcbaie. The bill of John Blank,” she said.
it was a long time before Jacky went
“That bill Is dead.” replied tbe clerk, ture françaises, histoire et littérature east and west Florida were ceded to
become of her In later years was a councilors were uot musical experts,
to sleep that night. He was haunted
“Tilda's ruuned away ter the circus!” question.
“What do you mean?”
anciennes and beaux arts. It was Louis Hie 1’nited States by treaty und pur
but one—a joiner—bending down and
with the mingled desire to help his
Mrs. Hopkins comprehended It all In
“1 mean the committee will not re XVIII. who, In 181G, restored the old chase, Spain receiving $5,(X mi , doo .
Tlie combination of which Mlle. Celes applying bis eye to the several corners
"girl” to fulfill her ambition and tlie a minute. She did not wait to give tine was tlie chief attraction was wend of the Instrument, remarked, "I'm nae port it out.”
I names of the academies to the four
“How long will it stay there?”
| classes of Napoleon.
temptation to contribute thereto by en Jacky his deserts and left him In a ing Its way across the Texas plains, judge of music, but I'll warraut ye a’
The Way lie Gloated.
“Until tbe end of this congress, and
dowing her with all Ills worldly wealth, storm of tears, in which be sobbed where the cowboys went awny disgust tbe boards are plumb.’*
Two buses Were traveling down Re
then It dies with tbe congress."
.
just $2.47, which he had made "plum himself to sleep.
gent street In close proximity when
ed that they had been faked by tbe
laconslderate Words.
“Now, see here, Mr. Man.” said the
mln’.”
It was hard for the little fellow to show. Besides walking across the tent
Wo Satisfying Her.
the conductor of the foremost one t<s>k
It
Is
very
evident
that
many
are
not
Jacky had an account in the bank, hold up his bead during the next few on a tight rope, Mlle. Celestine did
“Women are bard to understand." woman, “can't I get It out with a writ aware of the painful wounds they are off Ids badge and dangled It in the air,
of habeas corpus?”—Washington Star.
and after the berry season each sum days. "That Hopkins boy” became none of those things which were ac
“Think so?”
constantly inflicting upon others by to the obvious annoyance of the rival
mer, when he had purchased a pair of quite as much a part of tbe history of corded to tier repertory In the adver
“Yes; I told her she carried her age
■„Pl, Besr and Saasas*.
I
Inconsiderate words. This Is manifest driver.
shoes to wear In the winter to school, tbe town of Trescott as Tibia herself. tisements. Tlie rlngmnster Invariably well and she was offended.”
“What did you do that for?” asked
Nearly
90.000
yards
of
sausage
were
Censures which they pass upon
a necessity he dispensed with In tbe The world looked very solemn to animuncisl that she was Indlsjiosed.
“You don't say!”
a passenger.
devoured
In
tbe
eleven
days
of
th*
nH**
1,8
that
of
which
they
tlieui-
Summer, he put the rest In the bank. Jacky, but It was |M>sitlvely frightful
“Yes; and then I told her she didn't
"Why,” said the conductor, pointing
Circus Jack listened to the accounts
| selves are guilty. It is difficult to listen
He was allowed to keep the money In when the truth became known to him of the Inferiority of the show, but he carry It well, and she wouldn’t speak." bock beer aeason at tbs liofbrsuLaua
lu Munich tbe past spring. It iiwith au Impartial ear to one's own a derisive thumb nt the Infuriated
It seemed that the circus had a made no exceptions and with a few —Philadelphia Record.
bls possession, but once It got Into tbe
speeches. They do not impress them driver, ” ’Is father was ’ung.”—London
102.5O0 suusagea.
bank It was never allowed to come out. novel way of escaping creditors, which of his friends was found on a certain
selves as they do others. They are not Tit-Bits.
Never
Fol
11
a*.
But this sum seemed great wealth to Involved an entire change of mime at August afternoon sweltering on one of
able
to place themselves In the exact
Wifely Appreciation.
Sister—What Is tbe best way to re
tlie little man. lie wanted it to start stated |s*rl<sls. This generally liap|>en- the upper seats of the tent.
DlSn't Caaat Is the Bill.
position of others. Hence, though they
“There’» one tiling I will say aliout
tain
a
man's
love?
Tilda ou her life work, but somehow ed w lieu It moved from one state to
Dr.
Jalap
—
Well,
you
may
thank
When the time came for Mlle. Celes
Brother—Don’t return It—Chicago your fine constitution for pulling you do not mean to violate the Golden Rule, Charley,” anl<l young Mr», ’lorkln»;
he could not quite Justify his con- another. So McAlpine’s Combined Co tine to appear, the heat had become
they are yet continually doing It “be lias a lovely <ll»|>onltloi> even If lie
science to It.
lossal illpiHsIrome and Consummation almost Intolerable. She stepped lan News.
through. Nothing else could have
through a want of consideration.— doesn't always dlHplay It at home."
Perhaps his dreams contributed In no of Wonders emerged when It crossed guidly lnb> the ring and feebly acknowl
saved you.
Christian Instructor.
A
woman
does
not
begin
to
command
"How <lo you know?”
small way to his final decision, for he the Connecticut river Into Vermont as edged the applause. Then she turned
Tbe Convalescent—But I cannot set
“1 heard some of hl» Wall street
saw his lieloved Tilda ¡icrfortning all Fontaine's Equine Aggregation and to the ringmaster, holding out her until she has promised to obey. 8* i that you have made any reduction In
Aa Impression.
K>< V
stile Post-lntelllgencar.
the various feats advertised In the Grand Galaxy of Marvels.
your bill for my fine constitution’s
hands nppenlingly, and was answered
“Now, 1 have an Impression In my friends'talking about him T'b“.v
great show. When he waked, he sprang
The elti qs people said they bad In nn undertone roughly. She then
It has been discovered that the build share in tbe cure.—Boston Transcript. head,” said the teacher. “Gan any of he ia a perfect lamb.”-
out of lied with all Ills boyish eager nothing whatever to do w|th McAl grasped her wand and ascended the ing In Richmond. Va., where Poe edit
Three hundred million feat of logs
you tell me what an Impression la?”
ness to see the show go by. The cages pines show, which was true as far as rope. It had already become evident ed tbe Southern Literary Messenger Is
Congreve would prepare a drama
“Yee'm. I can,” replied a little fellow Wire cut on the Penobscot river la st
Were all closed and the wonders hid their bills went, and they ktigw noth that she was ill. Circus Jack, almost I still lu existence, snd it Is proposed to for the stage tn a week or ten days, at the foot of tbe class “Au Im pres season. This Is the largest harvest
ing of such a person as Tilda.
den from view, but It all seemeil real.
unolmervtsl. had stepped down and was I place a suitable commemorative tablet though four or Ove times this period slon Is a deut tn a soft spot/’
ever known, and nearly one half of It
Tilda was uu before him. The great The mouths grew and the year ended. approaching the rlug. He seemed to on its walls.
was spent tn revision
Is for the manufacture of uausc^
CIRCUS JACK
PAPERS
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o
MERCHANT
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