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THE GIRL WITH A MILLION By D. C. Murray CHAPTER V. (Contlniied.) Ha carried the little secretaire up tairs and there, locked in tits own room tin wrote a letter which was destined for St. Petersburg, but traveled in the first Instance to the care of one Dr. Brun, of llollington place, London. In the soli tnde of his own chamber Mr. Zeno per mitted himself an accurate and intimate acquaintance with the French language, tittle of it as he allowed himself for his present purposes to know outside. t ,, ... .liennwnne t Dings were going more pleasantly in the garden. Angela, with a little twinge of conscience, had Informed Austin that Major Butler would be de lighted to meet him and had expressed toi great regret that he had been unable make the call he had contemplated that The fact that the major had charg 8. her with this message did not help her winch, for she knew its hollowness. The najor rather dreaded the ndvpnt of a man who wrote books and regarded Aus tin as a. fellow who would be likely to fcuw a lot of things and expect other pople to know them also. "Oi'd meek wun of the porty meself," raid Eraser, with his own invaluable sang fruid, "but oi've meed up me nioind to brick to-morrow." ro-tuorrow?" said O'Rourke. "That's a little sudden, isn't it?" "I wish you'd come, O'Rourke," said Maskelyne. "But Major Butler is a dreadful Tory, and I am not sure that you'd care to meet each other." "Major Butler might convert me. per- naps, said O Rourke. "No, no. Clearly I am impossible." ITe spoke with so per fwt a gayety and good humor that he nurt nobody. But a little later he con trived to get Maskelyne apart, and to fluestion him about a matter which had puzzled him a good deal. "How does your dreadful Tory's niece contrive to be fa miliar with Dobroskl, when a mere Home Ruler like myself Is quite too terrible for the old gentleman? I call him the old fcentleman with no dishrespect," he added, with bis delightful smile. "And, of course, "he may be a young gentleman, and still be the lady's uncle, though, ftjrain, he is her guardian, and probably elderly." ""Dobroskl and Miss Butler's father ww dear friends," said Maskelyne, re peating what he had heard from Angela. "When Dobroski escaped from Siberia he landed in England without funds or friends. Miss Butler's father found him out, maintained him, so far as I can i Cearn, for years, and was a stanch friend t "him. She has known him from child foooa, and has a great affection and ven eration for him. It is a difficult posi tion, for he and her uncle are at daggers now. But Dobroski seems to worship her." ; Tes, I can see that," O'Rourke an swered. "A charming girl," he added, jwrftty, and in so natural a way that Mas nceJyne supposed him to be ignorant of Jils own interest in her. "There's ro mance in the situation, too," he continued, In a lighter tone. Maskelyne, with a mere -nod in answer, made a move in Angela's direction. "No," said O'Rourke, putting an arm through one of his. "You don't -acape me in that way.' I have something to say to you. and I know that you will b.ilty and evasive and underhanded 'r!niyOT ways until I have said it. Let me wcwak, old fellow. We shall both be naaier. I can't tell you what I think and feel atiout that splendid loan of yours. I was really desperate. I don't know what 1 should have done without it." ""Very well," said Maskelyne, pressing Ta?s trompanion's arm with a gesture of aifection, but speaking very dryly ; "it is ver now?" Xo, my friend of outward marble and toward tenderness, it is not over. And it ever will be." "Once for all, O'Rourke, bury that con founded thing, and" have done with It. "Well, there, the thing is buried. I'll nay no more till I can pay you back again. Hut I suppose you don't forbid me to think of It in the meantime? It was the only kindness in that way I ever had or er wanted. I sha'n't forget it; that's 1L And now It's buried." Oa the following day O'Rourke took a quiet walk by unknown ways across the fields. He was a born townsman, and had but little love for rural tranquillities by nature, but he was already weary of the ork of the session, and was glad to es cape to fresh air and silence for awhile. One gentle little hill after another drew him on. He would see what lay beyond thin gentle eminence, and then he would ee what lay beyond the next, and In this fashion be sauntered on until he came in ?-ht of a most exaggeratedly castellated Jwuse of gray stone standing in the midst a dark pine woods. The building was rfT . moderate size, but its peaks and tur eer dwarfed it, and from a little dis tance made it look at least as much like a ciiilT toy as a dwelling house for real people. This was the chateau of Roufoy, and the present residence of Major But- The wanderer, who had fairly good taste in most things, stood for a moment to smile at this preposterous edifice, and then walked on again. It was a day of cloudy soft light, and the air was won derfully sweet. The woods were in the freshness of their greenery, and the dark boes of the contrasting pines set off the lighter foliage. A few hundred yards he Core him lay the first link of a river which went winding in a rounded zigzag until it lost itself to view behind the nhoulder of a wood-clad hill. He strolled down to the river side, and there cast himself upon the grass, and ctared op at the soft motionless clouds. Tae stream ran through narrower banks than common near where be lay, and kept up a pleasant drowsy gurgle. Listening to this, he lay there enjoying all the de lights of leisure after labor In every fiber of hia body, until he fell Into a light dose. From this he was awakened by a ruartle and the sound of an execration gretly breathed. Bitting up he was aware of a gentleman of British aspect, florid, tardy and well set, who stood on the cbar aid ot th river, rod la hand, per suasively pulling at a fly which had lodg ed in one of the branches of a bush. Ly ing down he had been hidden from the angler, who, seeing him rise, gave some thing of a start. "Pardon me, sir," said the stranger, in labored and very English Bounding French, "cau you detach that fly for me?" "Major Butler." said O'Rourke to him self. "Is this Major Butler, I wonder?" He answered, also speaking in French, that he would do his best, and walked to the bush. O'Rourke secured the branch to which the fly was attached, and cut it away, after which he disentangled the hook, and the angler and he raised their hats to each other. Major Butler, for O'Rourke's not un natural guess had hit the mark, express ed his obligations with some little diffi culty, and O'Rourke, who was Paris bred, responded that he was infinitely delighted to be of service. If this were Slajor But ler, thought .Vt. O'Rourke, it would be good fun to conquer his prejudices, and apart from the amusement, it would be agreeable to have a country house to call at during his stay. Then he thought of that charming girl. He began by asking after sport, and the qualy of the stream and the fish, and the major, who was an accessible and friendly soul when once the ice was brok en with him, displayed his take, and floun dered on with his French in a very cour ageous and adventurous manner. Presently he hooked a half-pounder, who behaved in a very lively manner, and was finally grassed workman-like. O'Rourke looked on with interest. "They give plenty of sport," he said. "Capital sport," replied Butler, heart ily. "They're not feeding well to-day. though. Two or three days ago a young friend of mine, an American, who's stay ing at my place, fetched out seven pounds in half an hour. Used a fly quite strange to the water, too. a gaudy American thing, but very killing." "There can't be any Americans over here." Only one that I know of," said the major. "Maskelyne." He had time enough to think that this was the novel ist, ten to one, and a very different sort of fellow from the man he had expected. Pleased to meet you," he said. "Shall be glad if you'll look me up." "Thank you," said O'Rourke, sweetly. 'Thank you very much indeed. Maske lyne and I are very old friends." "Xot the novelist," said the major, si lently. "Of course not. Spoke much too ntimately from the first mention of him only to have met him yesterday." "You are Major Butler?" asked O'Rourke. There are" ways and ways of putting this sort of interrogatory. But ler bowed assent. "Maskelyne told me with whom he was staying. My name is O'Rourke." "Oh !" said the major, blankly ; "you're not the " "I'm afraid I am," answered O'Rourke, with so admirable a good humor that But ler could not refrain from a smile. "We needn't talk politics if we differ, as I dare say we do." Honestly, if Major Butler could have withdrawn his invitation he would have done so', and he was a little annoyed with himself for having given it. But he bethought him, the man was a friend of Maskelyne's, and Maskelyne spoke of him in the very highest terms. But then again, there was something about people talked they said the Irish members were here to make terms with that infamous old scoundrel Dobroski, a rascal who thirsted for royal blood and wanted chaos to come again. "Do you stay long?" asked Butler, with a diplomatic purpose. "Yes, a week or two, perhaps more. A friend of mine I dare say you know him he's really a very distinguished man Farley, the novelist is staying in the same hotel with me at Janenne, and so long as he stays I shall stay." Angela and Maskelyne were each a good deal surprised half an hour later to see Major Butler coming down the avenue toward the chateau side by side with O'Rourke. Perhaps at bottom the major himself was a little surprised, but he was certainly vanquished. He confessed that he had never met a pleasanter man in His life than this Home Ruler, whom in ad vance he bad been prepared to detest. CHAPTER VI. Dobroski and O'Rourke sat together in a chamber of the Cheval Blanc . "You thought my scheme a madman's vision when you heard it first," said the old man, in his tired and tranquil way. "But now? Speak without fear, and with perfect candor." "I see a practical possibility in it," returned the other. "A bare possibility, but still a possibility." "Possibility enough to make it worth while to strike when the time comes?" "Possibility enough to make it worth while to strike when the time comes. Yes." There was something in O'Rourke's manner of repeating the phrase which made the repetition seem weighty, reflec tive, and full of respect for Dobroski's years and qualities. "But " He paus ed with a look of thought, and drummed upon the table with his fingers. "But ?" said Dobroski. "We must not lose the cause. We must not lose for want of a little candor. You have laid your scheme before me given me facts, names, numbers. You tell me that I have your perfect confidence, and that I know now all you have to tell." "There are details," answered Dob roski "countless details. But the main facts are yours." "I am not disputing, sir," said O'Rourke, with a amile which seemed to say how impossible that would be. "I am only recapitulating. But you see, Mr. Dobroskl, I get these things from the fountain-bead, and I am assured of their verity. But when you ask me to be your emissary at home you forget that I have neither your years, your first-hand knowl edge, your history, nor your authority. In short, I am Hector O'Rourke, and you are John Dobroski. If I carry this pro digious schema to tha men la England and In Ireland who would be ready to receive it and to take part lu It what credentials have 1?" Dobroski turned his mournful eyes full upon O'Rourke and regarded him in si lence for a time. O'Rourke bore th semtiny with nn admirable candor and modesty. "That does not speak well for your opinion of the scheme," said Dobroski, after a noticeable pause. "I know, and no man knows better, that when we strike we strike for life or death. I know that a single indiscretion may min us. I have weighed the chances and counted the cost for years." "I recognize the dangers, too, said O'Rourke, "but we must face them and outface them." He spoke lightly, but with an underlying resolve so clearly iuda-ated that there was no doubting him "No, it is not the danger of the schema that gives nie pause. But it needed all your close and intimate knowledge, all the authority you carry in your name and your career, to make the existence of so vast a plan seem possible. I accept the scheme," he said, vividly, half rising from his seat. "I bind myself 'to It without reserve. Win or lose ! But, except upon the fullest exposition, I would not have taken it. Except upon the loftiest au thority, I would not have given credence to it. No, Mr. Dobroski, you must come yourself to England. Leave me behind to work as your lieutenant there, if you think me worthy of the post, but come yourself and bear the news and make the first appeal." "I will go," said Dobroski, "if you think it needful." "I think it actually needful." O'Rourke answered. "I will write and will make arrangements. We had better not travel together." "Good," said Dobroski. "I will start to-night. The longer the interval be tween my going and your following the less cause to suspect that we have a com mon errand. Perhaps I cau be doing something in the meantime. I may tell your friend Mr. Frost that the plan car ried your adherence with it? Your entire approval?" "That it carries my entire approval with it," O'Rourke answered, slowly and weightily ; "because it promises nothing precipitate, because it promises cool and cautious preparation, and good generalship." "You think he stands in need of that warning?" "Most of us stand in need of it," said O'Rourke. "We are too eager. We frit ter our chances on affairs of outposts. That has always been our trouble." "I understand," said Dobroski. "I will not forget your warning. Rut now, sir, I will say farewell. We shall meet again n a little while, I trust. We have not seen much of each other as yet, but I am not slow to read a true man, and I know that I have done well in trusting you. I have fought in this war for now this forty years and more. We have done but little. but at last the hour is coming, and all will soon be done or undone." When he first said farewell he took O'Rourke by the hand and held him so until he had spoken his last word. O'Rourke looked back into the sad and passionate eyes that gazed into his own, and his glance was affectionate and wor shipful. The little toy train at the toy railway station at Panenne was getting- up steam to be gone, and was making as niiich noise of preparation as if it had a thousand miles before it. Dobroski emerged from the doorway of the Cheval Blanc, followed by a stout female domestic, who bore a portmanteau in either hand. The old man caught siht of O'Rourke and bowed to him. O'Rourke returned the salute, and turning round when Dobroski had disappeared, saw Austin at his open win dow. CAN PHOTOGRAPH THOUGHT. "I got scared out of a year's growth I yesterday," said the counter clerk, con fidentially, to the young man la the glove section. "I told you how It would be If you did any practlcln' around the house," said the young man In the glove sec tion. ."If it was anything else but a cornet It would be all right." "Oh, cut It out about that cornet!" said the tie counter clerk. "That don't bother anybody but you and It wouldn't bother you If you heard It I'm getting to be a swell performer. Besides, don t practice daytimes. No, It was 'Whiskers.' " "Ain't your sales comln' on?" "It wasn't the sales ; It was Fan. He saw me huggiu' her and he told me about It." "Well, that's all right He don't pay you wages for that." "If he did I'd just as soon work over time once In a while without extra pay," said the counter clerk. "Ain't she the little cutie? All the same, I nearly got heart failure. I didn't no tice him until he'd started down the aisle and then I didn't want to break away like I'd been stealin' sheep. But thinks I, 'This is where I get a short- week envelope.' Here he comes, whis kers standing o-L stiff on both sides and eyebrows bunched and cheeks puff ed out and neck swelling over his col lar. Ain't he the awful sight, though? "'Ain't you busy?' he says, glaring at me. " 'I haven't any customer,' I says. "'I see,' he says, "Not having any customer, you find time hanging heavy on your hands, eh? You couldn't get your stock out and dust It and put It back again, I suppose? There ain't nothing you can do to create the Im pression that you're earning your sal ary?' "'No, sir,' I says. "He swelled up some more and his neck got redder. 'Is there too little room for you behind that counter?' he says. 'Do you feel cramped for room that you can't stay there? Would you like to go out on the street and walk Plato So Irnaltive that It ItewUtera tho Ml nd Hit Heeu Invented. A photograph plute so sensitive It registers thought has been Invented by Dr. II. Travers Cole, a Chlctigoun. This sensitized plate of mysterious composition will, when placed In utter darkness near the forehead of one man, register his thoughts by pulsations of light, changes of color, and rhythmical vibrations, changing as his thoughts about? If you would, just say so and , " , , J " , i 1" I'll fix it so you can.' " 'I've got plenty of room there, sir,' I says. changes are easily perceptible by an other. It Is a simple device, but It seems to " Then get back there,' he says, 'and Prove conclusively that thought is an I .. l,.,. fniua 1 1b-A slontrloHv Hint don't let me see you on this side of It again. Miss Pheeny, If he bothers you and Interrupts your work again Just you report him to me.' " 'Yes, sir,' says Fan. "I got back and began wrastllng boxes and he struts off to Jack some body else up. Phew 1 I ain't got over It yet. I thought he was going to eat me alive. He got after one of the warehouse men about a week ago and he's still sick abed. I had a little fever myself and I'd be shaking yet If I hadn't seen his wife." "Whose wife?" "Whiskers'! She was In the store this morning, and he got his, all right all right. He was standing by the door when she came In. He had his stomach pushed out and his thumbs looked be hind his back, and say! When he saw her he shrunk four sizes. Honest, his J waistcoat bagged on him, and he turn-1 ed pale. " 'My dear,' he says, 'I forgot "She ain't a big woman. You've seen her, ain't you? There's material enough In him for four of her and soma rem nants, but If you'd heard hLm say that! What It meant was, 'Bring out your boiling oil and your red-hot pinch ers. I'm it Hanging's too good for me. I own up. I'm a worm and a yellow pup, all right. I'd like you to overlook it If you could, but I don't hardly hope for It' His sideburns were as limp as a rag. " 'Yes, you forgot,' she says. " 'Would you mind stepping this way a moment, my dear?' says Whiskers. "She stepped, and he took her Into the office. I don't know what happen ed In there, but I've got an Idea that he didn't have a very comfortable time. And you've noticed the thermometer standing at 02 degrees, ain't you?" "What's that got to do with it?" "Nothing, only after she'd gone he sent the boy for a No. 17 collar out of the stock and put it on. He needed it too." Chicago Dally News. active force, like electricity ; that every thought has Its own form, color and motion ; and that the rhythm and color of thought sent out from the mind may be recorded upon a plate yet more high ly sensitized, no that It may be read by another long afterward. Should Dr. Cole's discovery admit of further Improvement, he believes that PHOTOGRAPHS THOUGHTS. X t f Short t..t- . .a-.t, iff, ,t, t,., ii ii aa p aga ag ty ii jf" GOOD I torles An English tourist traveling In the north of Scotland, far away from any where, exclaimed to one of the na tives: "Why, what do you do when any of you are ill? You can never get "Farlev," he said. "I believe our old ; a doctor?" "N'ae, sir," replied Sandy. revolutionist is leaving us. He has just gone off to the station with a couple of portmanteaus. Has he said nothing to you about it?" "Nothing," said Farley, smiling. "Doesn't he take his fellow-conspirator into confidence?" "Well, you see," returned O'Rourke, smiling also, "I haven't asked him for his confidence. And even if I did, he might prefer to keep it." "Likely enough," said Farley, smiling still. "Hillo ! Here are our friends from iiouioy. Meet tnem tor me, tnere s a good fellow. I'll be down in two min utes." (To be continued.) Frenzied Finance. Joax (at the phone) Hello! Is this Dr. Plllsbury? The Other Yes. Joax i nis is joax. i wisn you would come up at once and see what you can do for the baby. The Other What's the trouble with him? Joax He's financially embarrassed. The Other Financially embarrass ed!" Joax Yea He just swallowed a penny. Merely a SiiK('Mloii. His mother-in-law had been with them for three long weeks. "To-morrow," said his wife, "will be mamma's birthady. I wish I could think of something appropriate to give her." "Why not give her a ticket back home?" suggested the husband. Needed a New One. "That story," remarked the man who had been listening to his wife's latest bit of gossip, "strikes me as being made of whole cloth." "So much the better," rejoined the wife of his bosom. "All the old eossln We've Just to dee a natural death!" A man who is always on the lookout for novelties recently asked a dealer In automobiles If there was anything new in machines. "There's a patented Improvement that has Just been put on the market," replied the dealer. "A folding horse that fits under the seat, for use in emergencies." A city man went hunting. After he had banged' away for some hours wlth oi succors two boys who had been fol lowing him approached him and the older said: "Say, mister, If you're out for sport and ain't afraid to pay for it, my brother"!! let you shoot at him for two hours for a quarter. A little boy told his friend, another youngster, that his mother was accus tomed to give him a penny every morn ing so that he should take his medicine in peace and quietness. "Well, what do you do with It?" Inquired the little friend. "Mother puts It in the money box until there Is a shilling." "And what then?" "Why, then mother buys another bottle of medicine with It." President Itoonevelt at a Gridiron Club dinner Is said to have reported this Incident: "Two women," he said, "were discussing some new neighbors who had moved into one of the most sumptuous houses In their city. 'They seem to be very rich, said the first. 'Oh, they are,' said the second. 'Shall von call?' 'Decidedly.' 'You are sure, are you, that they are er quite cor rect quite er good form?' 'Oh, my dear, I'm positive,' m tne second woman. They have thirty servants, eighteen horses, twelve dogs, eleven automobiles and one child. " "That was rater slighting," said Sen ator Beveridge of a certain speech. "It was like the speech of the old Adams butler. When I wus a boy In Adams In the neighborhood has been worn threadbare." Jnat the Thin. "When I was young, my dear, girls were not allowed to sit up so late with young men." "Then, papa, why do you allow me to do so? It would be so much more interesting If you would only forbid If Judge. Nolaeleaa Serearaa. Edyth Jack Hugglns actually had the Impudence to kiss me last night Maynie The Idea! Of course yoo tried to scream? Edyth Yes every time. 'County, Judge BlanK was taken very 111. The doctor called regularly, but the Judge kept getting worse, and final ly the crisis came. The morning after the crisis the doctor rang the Judge's bell at sunrise. 'I hope your master's temperature Is lower than It was last evening,' he said to the butler anx iously. "I'm not so sure about that' the man answered. 'He died, air. In the nlghf" Dad Kevra for Criminals. Cumulative sentences of Kansas courts for two separate Crimea, even If the trials are at different terms of the court, are held to be valid by the Supreme Court In affirming the de cision of the District Court In Finney County in the appeal of Ormal W. Finch, says the Kansas City Times. Finch was convicted of manslaughter In Finney County in 1904 and was sen tenced to a terra In the penitentiary for two years. He appealed to the Su preme Court in this case, and while at liberty under a bond broke into a house, was detected and convicted of burglary and larceny In 1905 and was sentenced to fifteen years In the peni tentiary, the sentence to begin when the former sentence expired. He ap pealed to the Supreme Court on the ground that there was no statute which permitted cumulative sentences except when tried for two offenses at the same term of court. The court held that the two sentences were not concurrent In an opinion of Justice Smith. The points Involved In the case are much the same as those decided by Judge J. C. Pollock of the United States Circuit Court In the Capt. Klrk man case. Kirkman was convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer In the army by two distinct courts-martial He served one sentence and then tried to get out of the penitentiary under a habeas corpus on the ground that the sentences were concurrent and not cumulative. it will be possible to bring about men tal correspondence without the aid of speaking or writing, through the fixed impressions upon a sensitized plate re produced like a photograph of things material. To gaze into this little dark cham ber which Dr. Cole has Improvised so that the sensitized plate he has Invent ed may be In utter darkness, and watch the small point of light, faint and soft as that of the glow worm, change from pale star color to red, then to pale blue, then to violet, growing larger and smaller with a rhythmical tide of Its own, and to think that another being sitting several feet away with a small . tube In his hand Is producing those changes of rhythm and color by his thoughts, Is to feel one's self groping on the confines of the soul. It Is an eerie feeling. But It is sci entific, and It may be that this modest Investigator In Chicago has found a new path Into a more luminous field of life than has hitherto been traveled by the greatest of scientists. Chicago In ter Ocean. OIL PORTRAIT OP LINCOLN. BALL PLAYERS' DIET TOO HEAVY, Chief of Plttabnra; Team to Try New Plan to Cot Down Meala. In that It has been decided that base ball players eat too much Just because they don t have to pay for It, Pitts burg has decided ou an innovation In feeding Its ball team which may cause a change In the present system all around. Players of the rittsburg base ball team will be compelled to eat on the European plan while on the road this season Instead of getting their food In Job lots, as has been the cus tom heretofore. Barney Dreyfuss, chief of the Pir ates, has seen the light He says base ball players eat too much when others pay for It, and In consequence they do not keep in the best of condition. In an interview Drey fuss Is quoted as saylny : "I think the players eat altogether too much at noonday meals. Not that there Is any objection to the price, but It gets them out of condition. "Now, my Idea for the coming year Is that the player be put up at some good European plan hotel and allowed to feed themselves. Give them $3 per day for food, which will be as much aa most of them will want to spend, and a lot more than some of them will spend, I am convinced. "When a hungry ball player falls down before a menu card at an Ameri can hotel and knows be can eat every thing on tnat card be Is likely to eat more than be should, especially If he la going to play ball that day. "Our Idea la an experiment: If It doesn't bring good result w will re tarn to the old style of forglnf.' JelTeraon In a Koaclnnco Coat and Other Rellca In Fay Collection. James Fay, an antiquarian among whose art objects collectors have been wont to delve and burrow, has placed bis entire collection on exhibition In tho former building of the Harmony Club In West Forty-second street, says thu New York Herald. Among the paintings the most con spicuous Is a life-size portrait of Lin coln In oils. It Is well known that Lincoln never sat for an oil portrait But this is by William Mathews, who was the choirmaster of the church that Lincoln attended, and it is assumed that lie had opportunities for making sketches from which the portrait was painted. For years it bung In the Cor coran gallery. A marble bust of Lin coln was his own commission to O. Lazzerenlnl, and was presented by Lin coln to his friend, Morris Ketehum. There Is a portrait of Thomas Jeffer son wearing the fur-lined coat given by Kosciusko. From the Jumol mansion Is a high, curious combination of secretary and sideboard of mahogany, with a falling shelf and drawers and cupboards of different sizes above and below. From the Tuckorman house, In Washington, Is a colonial couch, which Is vouched for as the couch the pleasant duty of which It was once to give casual repose to the father of his country. An un usual variant of the Empire chair, but railed the "Washington chair," Is seen here. Its mark Is the glided head of Washington, almost half life-size, which finishes each of the arms of tho chair. Large square Jacobean and Flemish clothes presses, oak chairs with the :rest of Henry Clay and many similar objects of curious and historic Interest complete the collection. Hotv It Slrnck Her. "You seem greatly Impressed," said the minister, "with my description of liow they brought the head of John the Baptist before the king on a salver." "Y'es," sighed Mrs. De Style; "I was thinking how much hotter they trained servants in those days. Now, mine, when tbey bring me things, are forever forgetting the salver." Louisville Courier-Journal. Snarareatl ve. "Mabel," said the girl' mother, that young man has been calling upon you every evening this month." "Yes. mother." replied Mabel. "And I'd like to know what hi In tentions are." ' "Well er manrmn," replied Mabel, blushing, 'we're both very much In the dark." Philadelphia Ledger. A Poke at Her. Miss Knox I don't like her. She's forever talking about herself. Miss Wise (pointedly) Well, that' better than talking about aome one else. Philadelphia Ledger. Too t rue. Dreamer Do you ever see pictures n the flames? Realist No, but I see coal bill. Broadway Magazine.