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1 CHAPTKK XIV. (Continued.) "So. o you were spying " me!" rri(,s ho, In little KM"- "What brought you, ch? Thnt door below was locked has boon looked for fifty year. Is there a conspiracy against me, then, thnt you enn thus force yourself into my presence, in spite of bolts anil bars?" "The look gave way." stammers Vera; "it must have been old, broken by ape. rusty. I hud nothing to do. It was by the merest chance I came here. 1 am sorry, sorry." Her voice dies in her throat. "I don't believe it; there Is more that you keep behind. Speak, girl; speak, I command you! Who showed you the way here?" "1 have told you," says Vera, tremu lously; "you must believe me. If 1 had known I should not have come. I I am sorry I have no frightened you, but " "Who says I am frightened?" He turns upon her with a bitter scowl and a pierc ing glance. "Why should I care about being distutbcd when I was merely idling away a dull hour by looking through my owu will?" "Yours?" asks Vera, innocently enough. "Ay, whose else?" he asks, with a snarl of auger. "What do you mean, girl? Do you doubt my word? Whose else should it be cb, eh? Go. leave me," cries lie, furiously; "and cursed bo the day you ever saw my house!" He waves to her to leave him, and, more unnerved than she has ever been In all her life before, she retreats behind the heavy curtain and runs with all her might down the dnrk corridor without, down the steep stairway, and so out into the passage into the hall. CHAPTER XV. Going to where Tom Peyton is dili gently weeding, Ciriselda takes him to task. "Why didn't you tell me your sister was the sweetest woman on earth?" de mands she, in quite an aggrieved tone. "Because she isn't." says Tom, striv ing with a giant dock that has treacher ously concealed Itself beneath the spread ing leaves of a magnificent dahlia; "you are that." "Nonsense!" says Grisclda; and then, "Oh, Tom! what do you think she Is going to do at once? She is going to make an effort to induce Uncle Gregory to let Vera and me stay with her at The Friars! Only fancy if she succeeds! Wasn't it perfectly lovely of her to think of it?" i "Oh, she isn't bad," says her brother, broadly; "but may I ask how she pro poses tackling the old gentleman?" "Through Seaton." "If Seaton helps her " The words die on his lips, his jubilant air forsakes him having turned a cor ner of the secluded pathway they had chosen, they run right Into the arms of Seatou Dysart! For a moment the two men gaze blankly into each other's eyes. "What is the meaning of this masque rade?" demands Dysart presently with an angry frown; "what brings you here, Peyton, in that dress, and with my cousin?" "You certainly have every right to ask," says Peyton, with a rueful glance at his damnatory clothing, "but surely you might guess the answer. The fact is, I'm In love!" lie makes this con fession with a careful artlessncss not to be surpassed. "In love?" exclaims Dysart, frowning still more darkly. "Quite so," amiably; "five fathoms deep. And your father being so so ex clusive," making a hard fight for a civil word, "I couldn't manage to see her in any orthodox fashion, so I took service here." "Her? whom?" asks Dysart, changing color. A sudden light flashes Into his eyes; to him, as to Tom Peyton, there is but one "her" in the world. "Why, Grisclda," says the latter, as if amazed at the other's stupidity. "And what do you suppose will be the upshot of all this?" sternly. "That, my dear fellow. Is what I have never yet gone into. Hut marriage, I hope." "Pshaw!" says Dysart, Impatiently; "i-.nd what of (Jriselda?" "Griselda lms confessed that she likes me a little. I say, Dysart," with a sud den change of tone, "you won't tell your dad ch?" "I am much more likely to tell your sister," says Seaton, angrily. "You needn't. She knows. She was hero just now, and ii full of a desire to kidnap Oriselda and carry her away to The Friars. I say, Dysart, my sister de pend upon you to make your governor give his consent to the girls going on a visit to her; you won't disappoint her, eh?" "I'll do what I can," gravely; "but I shouldn't advise you to be too sanguine as to the result of my Interference." True to his word, Seatou managed, af ter a hard fight, to secure his father's consent that Vera and (Jriselda might pay a two weeks' visit to Lady Itivers dale. It Is quite five o'clock when they ar rive aud enter the spacious hall of The KHars, that now is filled with a delicate, somber light. A crimson stream from a painted window, somewhere in the dis tance, casts u ilood of glory, blood-red, at Vera's feet, and a comfortable tinkling of spoons clluking against china smites their enrs. At the top of the room, reclining in n rather listless fashion on Homo velvet cushions, are two little girls, qu'te lovely enough to arrest the gaze of any casual observer. They have given In to the cu riosity attendant ou the entrance of the new guests, and fix their large wide eyes on Vera, who, in turn, looks back on them with a certain Interest. Lady Itlversdnle, by a word an In tensely proud, fond word had Intimated tliat they were her children. The young er, taking her courage In both hands, slips her Uttlr slim fingers under the narrow gold bangles that adorn Vera's wrist, and begins to push them up mid dowti with a childish, dlllldent gesture. "What's your name?" asks she, gravely. "Vera." "Vera!" ltoth children repeat the word with a sort of gratification. "Hut tell us you have another uanie, haven't you V" "Dysart," confesses she, softly. "Why. that's Seaton's linnie," cries Dolly, brightening, and looking up at the tall young man who is standing near them; "isn't it. Sen ton? Why, you must be something to him. Sister ch?" "No," says Vera, shaking her head. "You can't be his mother?" hazards the youuger child, uncertainly. Vera laugrs lightly. "No," she says again. "I have It! I know It!" exclaims Dolly the wise, glancing up triumphantly; "you are his wife!" This innocent bombshell spreads dis may in the camp. "Who Is that pretty little girl over there?" Vera asks, with a wild longing to change this embarrassing conversa tion, poiuting to where the girl who had first attracted her Is sitting, "quite oppo site, in the red-and-whlte gown? Do you see her?" "Oh! thnt is Mary Butler. Don't you know her? Everybody knows Mary Itut ler. We love her, so does everybody else." "Mamma says Seaton does," snys lit tle Flossy, mildly; "perhaps that's why he won't marry you." "It was true, thwn," thinks Vera. A great sense of disgust rises up within her, swallowing nil other thoughts. Aud yet he would have forsworn himself! Would have nay, he would do so still. Oh, the shnmelessness of it! Perhaps something of her secret scorn communicates itself to him, because even in the midst of his apparently engross ing conversation he lifts his bead abrupt ly and hU eyes seek hers, and read them as though he would read her soul. And then a curious light Hashes into his face. He makes a uiovemeat, quick ungoverned, as though be would rise aud go to her, but, even as he does so, some one steps out from the shadows behind her, and, bending over her, holds out his hand a young man, tall, well favored. smiling, with an air about htm of sud den, warm delight. "You remember me?" he says, so dis tinctly that Seaton can bear him across the room. "To think that 1 should hare the happiness of meeting you here to dayand after so many vain Inquiries. How It brings back the past to see you. Venice, Home, that last carnival. Vera, say you are glad to see me!" Some people walking past them, and suddenly standing still, obliterate them from Seaton's view, but when next he looks the stranger is sitting beside her, and Vera, with flushed cheeks and bril liant eyes, full of an unmistakable wel come, is murmuring to him in low, soft tones. "Who Is ;he man talking to my cousin?" asks Seaton, Indicating Vera's companion by a slight gesture, and speaking in a tone so changed that Miss Hutler Involuntarily lifts her head to look at him. "Lord Shelton," she says. "George Sandes he was. Don't you know him? Great hunting man. He came in for the title about eight months ago. That brought him back from Lis big game Lu the East." CHAPTER XVI. In the last four days Peyton has mys teriously disappeared, no one knows whither, except perhaps Uriselda, Ills sis ter and two others. "North" he was go ing, he said to Inquiring friends. To-day, however, he has turned up again, admira bly dressed as ever, and as radiant us a good conscience should make any man. "I'm so glad Tom has got back in time," Bays Grlscldn. "I quite feared Uncle Gregory would be too many for him. Vera, what makes you look like that, darling? Now tell me whut it is that has annoyed you." "I must be mad to be annoyed, says Vera, with angry self-contempt. "Seaton again?" "It is always Seaton," with an Increase of her Irritation, "when It isn't his fath er. Was there no other path into which fate could have flung me, except this Yes, It is Seaton." "Hut why thluk so much about him? He cannot Interfere with you now, be his father never so persistent In his Idea of murrylng you to him, because all the world can see he In us good uh engaged to Miss Hutler." "I pity her, then, with all my soul! What a futility to enter! She is too good to be sacrificed so cruelly. I believe he is employed by his father to watch me, to report all that I say or Ah!" she breaks off abruptly, aud points almost triumphantly to the pathway outside, where indeed Seatou stands. That it is one of thu most public walks at The Friars, that Seaton might have, nay, indeed has, come this way without Intention of any kind she does not alluw herself to believe. "I told you," she says, vehemently, "It is to spy upon my every action he Is here! Ob, fool that I wus, to dream of being free for even these few days!" She hus come a step or two forward; a scarlet tide of indignant humiliation has dyed her cheeks. She still points toward Seaton with one trembling hand, while he, advancing slowly, looks with some anxiety from her to Grlscldn, who lu sore ly troubled, as if to demuud un explana tion. "I think you must be mistaken, dar ling," she says, nervously, laying her bund upon her sister's arm, "1 feci sure Seatou would not undertake the part you bavo assigned him. Seaton, speak to her; tell her It is Impossible that you should do this thing." "What thing? Of what does ihe ac cuse me?" his brow growing dark. "She Imagines or, of course. It Is all n mistake but she hns somehow got It Into her head thnt you are here to to watch her." "Is that how It strikes you?" snys he, slowly; n sudden, short, miserable Inugh breaks from hlin. "So thnt Is how you look at It? tirvnt henveii, to think how I hnve loved you such ns you so poor a thing! It shames me now to think of It!" He draws his breath sharply, though she writhes. "No. you shiill bear me! I lime heard much from you, tirst nnd last this shall be the Inst. I swear! Here, even now, in this moment when I tind you so altogether - contemptible a creature. It Is my misery to know that I still love you! Day after day you have heaped Insults upon me. Your every look hns been an n (front. I hnve snld too much." he continues, wenrlly; but with a little eloqueut gesture she renders him silent. "Oh, not too much, hut pcrhups enough" she smiles ngnln, that cruel smile thnt hurts him like the shnrpest stab "surely It would be hard to expect you to find another Insult to-day. To morrow, perhaps. And uow let me say one little word. Have 1 no cause to doubt you?" "None, none!" declares he, vehemently. She throws out her hands with n lit tle expressive movement. "1 leave that to your own conscience, to your own sense of right nnd wrong," she snys, shrugging her shroulders, liuely. "Hut once for all," raising her voice and throwing up her head. "I wnru you. Itntber than marry you," making a slight gesture of horror, "I would accept the first man that asked me!" A faint rustle among the bushes out side, a footstep and Lord Shelton steps Into view. "I hold you to your word," cries he, gnyly; he steps lightly within the llower crowned archway, and looks strnight at Vera. He is smiling, but underneath the smile lies n longing to be taken seriously. "You give me a chance," he nays; "I here, before witnesses, declare myself it suitor for your hand" his expression is still wavering betwixt mirth aud gravity, and he holds out to her both his hands. "You are not, however, the first to ask her," says Dysart, in a voice vibrating with tunny and deep emotions. His brow Is black, nnd anger fights for mnstery with despair In his dnrk eye. Vera, pale ns death, but with a little Indignant frown, steps between the two men. "What does it all mean?" she asks, contemptuously; "would you make a tra gedy out of a farce? If so, at least be good enough to assign me no part in it." She sweeps both men out of her path by a slight imperious gesture, nnd pass ing them, walks swiftly away in the di rection of the house. (To be continued.) ' THE FILIPINO SCHOOLBOY. lie Learns Very Little About tbs United State. It has been frequently remarked that the Filipinos could hare no conception of the extent and resources of the Uni ted States or they never would have been deceived Into the hallucination that they could successfully combat us. In going through their school here I found a little manuscript volume In which. In less than a hundred manu script pages, was comprised nil of syn tax and geography that was taught the children here. And It must be remem bered that Malolos, before the Insur rection, was an Important city In this part of the world, and one where the children would be expected to receive the average education. Turning to one of the pages In this book that I picked up, I found the United States of Amer ica discoursed upon. Immediately after Nlgrlcl.i, and Just before Mexico. Hero Is the entire lot of Information given as to the United States, In the form of questions and answers: "Where Is this country (the United States) situated? In North America. "What are Its boundaries? To tho north, British America; to the east, the Atlantic ocean and the Bahama chan nel; to tho south, the Strait of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, and to the west, Mexico and the Grande (Pacific) ocean. "What Is the form of government? It Is a federal republic. "Of what H this republic composed? Of forty different States. "What are Its rivers and mountains,? The most notable rivers are the MIs Islpl (lltoral spelling), the Niagara, the Missorl (ngnln tho literal spelling), the Colorado and the St. Lawrence, and tho principal mountains are tho Cumber land and Hookies. "What U the capital? Washington," but tho most important city Is New York. "Protestantism prevails, but there are Catholic archbishops." And this Is tho sum total of what the average Filipino boy has been taught about our rather considerable nnd somewhat prosperous country. Manila Letter In Leslie's Weekly. ftliltc anil liggs Hd Diet. "People over 30 would do well to give up milk and eggs lu nny form ns a diet," said u well-known physician. "These nro tho structure-forming food of animals which mature In a short time, and when taken lu quantities by human beings whoso structures have already formed they tend only to the hardening nnd aging ot the tissues. I hnve seen people who were beginning to find stair climbing difficult, nnd who were losing their elasticity, much bene fited by eliminating these articles from their diet That there has been a great Increaso In the duration of life below tho ago of 30 statistics prove, but be yond thut period there has been no Im provement In my opinion, tho person over 30 would have ns good a chance to preserve llfo ns tho child Just begin ning Its struggle with existence If ha would only suit his diet to his years." A Unrein Car, Central Asian railroad managers try to meet the desires of their public A harem car with latticed windows has beon constructed for the Emir of Bokhara. The population of the world Increases 10 pi cent, every ten yeans. HERE'S AN INTRICATE MACHINE THAT CAN UTTER DISTINCTLY ITVE VOWELS. A remnrknbio triumph In iiiechsnlrnl Invention hns Just been achieved by )r. Marnge of London, who hns succeeded In constructing a machine that ran utter plainly nnd distinctly the live vowels- n, e. I. o. it. This rcnuirknlilo result is achieved by passing currents of nlr through a series of receptacles, tho Interior tinpri of which are exnetly llko those of tho hmnnn month when It pronounces tho vowels. The first Illustration shows the machine, nnd the second shows the waves of vibration of various vowel sounds. Although many nttcmpts lmvu been made, it Ii only now that success hns been attained, nnd before long we mny expect to hnve a mnchlnu thnt can really tnlk. Of course, thu phonograph Is not n talking mnchlnr, becnusn It merely Hives off a record Hint hs already ben made UMin n cylinder by nil actual ho m nu voice. Dr. Marngo'i machine, however, cruntrs tho vowel sounds at first hand. This machine, ns will be seen by the Illustration, hns been constructed so ns to reproduce the Interior of a person's mouth while pronouncing tho different vow els, using the plastic substance employed by dentists. These fnlso mouths, ns It were, nro mads of plaster of pnrls and are fitted to irrns giving the appropriate combinations of sounds. Dr. Mnrugo then sots his machine in operatlou, and tho vowels nro produced synthetically. Dr. Marngo purposes to modify the steam sirens used on shipboard so thnt they will Imitate the vowel sounds. Thus different phonetic syllables miy b obtained which may bo used as nn International alphabet. IN A MORALIZING MOOD. The Children Hnve n Hunt Time of It According to Tills. How useful children me! When I tun Ill-tempered I don't swear any more 1 simply spank one or the children, snys n writer In the Yellow Hook. Now don't sneer nnd set mo down ns a mean, contemptible man. You do It yourself. If you have any children, nnd If you have not you hnto them till on general principles. Come down off your pedestal. Illustrious sir or iiiailiiiu. mid analyze your actions with an X ray. There, now, didn't 1 tell you so? Thnt conscience of yours doesn't look very well lu print, does It? However, let us return to our chil dren. They nre Just ns useful when we ure lu n sclf-satlsflcd mood. When I feel like swelling out my manly bos om nnd am nenrly bursting with pride I don't tnlk about myself ns I used to. I Just blow about tho children nnd make myself dlsngreenblo without laying myself open to the charge of conceit. And whnt slaves children are! From morning till night they nre bossed nround by everybody from their mlgtity father down through the descending acnle of elder brothers nnd sisters, ser vants, neighbors, tradesmen, street cleaners, policemen, to their own moth ers. Think of the "Don'ts" a small boy liwirs In one day. All the'books "Don't" ever published wouldn't mnko up the sum of "Don'ts" my smnll boy hears In the waking hours of nny twenty four. How In tho world ho ever accom plishes anything. In spite of such nn nvalancho of "Don'ts" I fall to see. Hut ho docs, sturdy littlo Titan that he Is. Heboid him now. He Is playing foot ball with his baby sister in the title role. I suppose I ought to stop and yell "Don't" nt him. Hut there, his mother has saved mo tho trouble. And baby sister Is madder nt the Interrup tion than he Is. How esscutlnlly femi nine! The same chord has been touch ed that makes n woman mad when you Interrupt her husband while he Is beat ing her. Hut stay! I must not begin to moralize about women. That Is a task that would take a lifetime. ENDED UNPLEASANTLY. Baseball Argument Between Two Nclghbora Ilndn In n Quarrel. Mr. Mixer and Mr. Hrlggs were visi bly agitated. They had been friends nnd neighbors for years, but now tho roots of brotherly affection were In dan ger. "I'll tell you," said Mr. Mixer ve hemently, "that It Is all nonsense to siiy that a swiftly pitched ball can be bat ted ns far ns u tossed one." "Much you know nbout It," said Hrlggs hotly. "The resiliency In the fust ball when opposed by a swiftly moving but naturally " "Hot!" cried Mr. Mixer. "Anybody with half sense can see that a slow ball " "Itubblsh!" snorted Mr. Hrlggs. They glarrd at euch other. "Sny." said Mr. Mixer, "let's get the Hnmmond boys to go with us to the vacant lot buck of my bouse mid I'll show you Just where you ure off your base." "Agreed," said Mr. Hrlggs. Ten minutes later Mr. Mixer with a bat In his hand was fuelng Ted Ham mond In the vacant lot. "Gimme a slow one nbout here," said Mr. Mixer, ns he Indicated a height from the ground of some three feet. Along cume thu ball a slow nnd aggra vating twister. Mr. Mixer smilingly awaited It. Then he limited back and swathed a great gash In the innocent atmosphere. "One strike," yelled Hud Hnmmond, who held the sphere in his big mitt. Mr. Mixer expectorated on his palm and there was blood lu his eye. Again be swathed the quivering utmosphere. Again Ihe giggling Hud called a strike. Hut tho third time ho lilt tho ball. It went directly upward, nnd when It nl most reached terra llrmn was nabbed by the clever Hud Just n foot Inside the diamond. "My turn now," said Mr. Hrlggs with nn air of poorly concealed triumph. "Your record with tho slow ball Is Just twelve linear Inches. Gimme a hot one." Tho hot one came, but Mr. Hrlggs yfOB not reudy for It. It Ucw by blm and struck with ii dull thud In Hud's mitt. Another hot ono was eqtinlly fortunate. "Oh. hit tho ball." said the disgusted Mixer. "Foul It or something." Mr. Hrlggs did foul It. He fouled It with such signal success thnt It Hew from his lint lit a merry tutigeiit, aud, cnlchlng the mulling Mixer under tho Jaw, almost tore his bend loose from Its fastenings. Two minute later any passer-by with ordinary eyesight might have seen a tull. thin man with a base ball bat In bis bund wildly cavorting around that two-acre lot, with a vl-clous-looking fut man In hot pursuit, followed closely by a boy with n big in 1 1 1 nnd another boy with no special mark of distinction. Around and around the lot they went, until tbero came n blesed Interruption. "Pa," shrieked Utile Jane Mixer over ttip back fence, "supper Is ready." Tho inerry-go-rotind reused, the two princi pals walked away with glances of limit, ternble contempt. And the great scien tific problem remains unsettled. Clcvo luud Post-Dispatch. CLUBMEN IN AMERICA. Tlicrr I ii Very Hituill Cln nm Yet nf Professional Iillera. Nothing better proves thnt thin town In n community of busy men than the peculiarities of tho clubs. In all tho great capitals of Kuropo tho clubs an) frequented nt nil hours of tho day aud fur Into tho night. Most of tho New York clubs nro nearly empty during business hours, nnd few of tlicin nro open long after midnight. The class of professional Idlers Is relatively so smnll In New York that they mnkc up a coiislderablo proportion of tho mem bership of very few clubs. In the large clubs they are an Insignificant fraction of tho membership. Most New York clubs hnvo nn enrly breakfnst hour, nnd In nenrly nil of them there nro members who would llko to hnve tho hour earlier than It Is. On nil business days most of tho club habitues breakfast between 7:30 nnd I) o'clock. After 10 o'clock tho breakfast room usually hns three or four occu pants. A few men of lelsuro breakfast later, but between 10 o'clock und 11!:30 It would be hard to find n score of men In any one of tho great clubs unless wimo special occasion had brought them together. Within the Inst ten or twelve yenrs luncheon has become an Important meal at many up-town clubs. It used to be thnt only a few men of leisure took luncheon nt their clubs. With the up-town movement of business, how ever, hundreds of men hnve adopted the habit of taking luncheon nt some one of the clubs between -'Otli street and GOth street. A good many clubs, Indeed, owo n considerable part of their member ship to the fnct thnt they nro con veniently situated for business men who prefer luncheon nt their club to luncheon nt a restaiirnnt. Men estimate that they enn literally save money by Joining a club that furnishes luncheon nt n moderutu price. Tips given at 300 luncheons equal two-thirds tho annual dues of the ordinary club, and food nnd cigars nre a littlo cheaper at a good club than nt n good restaurant. The club luncheon hour v un unusual ly pleasant one, very different from the same hour nt a down-town restaurant. Hut most men do not linger long even nt the club luncheon. Tho business bnblts of the town assort themselves oven hero. New York Hun. Tyburn, Tyburn wni tho place of execution In Loudon for felons, and wns used for this purpose from the relgu of Henry IV. 1309 1413 Tho bodies of Crotn well, 1 ret on, and Hradshnw wore ex posed nt Tybur'i, Jan. 30, 1(101, The last execution nt Tyburn took plnco In November, 1783, Miiilio's Library. M mile's circulating library In London hns 3,000,000 books constantly lu cir culation, nnd employs I"? people. Locomotive Ft uros. In fifteen years a locomotive will run 2-10,000 miles nnd earn JIIOO.OOO. Konttlo Ai-sny Olllco. The Seattlo assay olllce has hamllod $55,000,000 slnco Us eslabllshmeiit. ninod In tho Human Itoily, The amount of blond In tho human body Is 1-13 of the body weight. WON'T 8ELL TO AMEMICANB. I'lUpluo nt Hun 1'rrMiiiidit Oppimcil lu Viiuliro lliislnrxN Men. American enterprise In Ihe Philip pines Is meet lug with opposition at sumo places where the natives lmvu Hupped lighting, but nro evidently not ready Tor Yankee business methods, one of these places is Han Fernando, capital of l.u Union province, In thu Island of Luzon. Ihe city bus n population f nhniit 1:1,000. nnd Is 171 tulles north of Mnulln, with which It Is connected by wagon road. The province Is fertile, raising much rice, coin, tobacco and sugar cane. Hold Is found In the sands of the liv ers of the province, but It Is conrse. San Fernando has a good niirnor on urn western const of l.tl.oti. Naturally some of ihn Americans In the Philippines have been attracted to this fertile purl of Liiaon. which Is peaceful now, hut their reception. In a business way. has not been a hearty one. nconllng to 11 correspondent of tho Manila I'rceilotn. Ho snys: "The effect of American Justlco nnd discipline Is very noticeable lu this province nnd In adjoining districts, llverybody Is at pence with his neigh bors, und Americans pass through hern often without arms. "Tho natives are thoroughly con vinced that bamboo canoes with tin cans iitnl chunks of barbed wlro nro no check to American soldiers, but they nro stubbornly opposing American oc cupation und enterprise by refusing to lease or sell vacant land In lot for building purposes. "I know live American citizens who hai. been trjlng for more than 11 month, two of Ihein for two months, for 11 locution upon which to erect busi ness buildings. The presldento Is thu chief monopolist und succeeds very well In discouraging Americans mini locating here. " This place has a tine harbor -me ho! 1 here Is on the western const, with possibly one exception. It has line until nil drainage, Is the gnteway to tne gom deposits of lleiiguel and Lepnnto prov luces. San Fernando Is the shipping point for the famous Nlgtillllan tobaecu district. "If the civil commission will look up the titles to term llrniii about hero it will perform a benellt which will bo appreciated by nil well-illspiwed per sous residing here. Oh. for nlxitit 75.000 Tagil logs from the vicinity of Manila to soldo here nnd tench tho doglnthe- iiuuiger llocnnos what civility and prog ress are. "With that number of energetic Tnga logs planted In this province, with Its iinturiil nilvnntnges. It would become the garden spot of the archipelago." "I'lpC-OlO CIllllllltlH. "Have you ever noticed." said an up town physician the other day. "the number of young men who nre nursing soro chins? Some hnve swellings on one side only; the majority have them on both sides. Not one In llfty of those young fellows knows what Is tho mnt ter with hlin. Most of them linnglim that their blood Is out of order, and go dosing themselves, but tho disease still slays. Do joti see this?" And the man or medicine pulled 11 smnll bulldog plpu out of bis emit pocket and placed It In bis mouth. "I put the pipe to the right side, nnd note where It rest. The bowl almwt Invariably comes In contact with the skin Just at the forward bend of the chin, and the heat of the lighted tobacco acts like a poultice nnd draws to a bend whatever Impurities mny be In tho vicinity. I hnve treated some twenty cns'S. nnd ns soon ns the short style dhudeen wns abandoned for the straight stem variety, the trouble ceased. I think that I am the original discoverer of tho malady and hnv called It 'plpoosls clilniillla.' "-I'lilla-dolphin Ilecord. Poverty nnd Prldn. Tho Woman's Aid Society of this dry has many cases of Improvidence on rec ord, nnd one of the best of them is the story of the woman whoso husband was In Jail nnd whoso family hnd hecn supplied with food ami clothing by the society. To tho woman herself they gave $10, thinking she would know the wants of her destitute family better than un outsider. A week lifter the gift a deputation of members called at lite tupiulld home to see the results. They found no betterment lu tho condition nf the home, so one uskeil: "Well, Mrs. Nolan, how are you get ting along?" "Fine." Mrs. Nolnn snld. "Did the clothes lit?" And did yon Und 11 place for the money?" "Sure. The clothes lilted flue, aud, d'ye know, they looked so nice that I had nil the children's pictures title with tho money you gave me, mid I'm going' to have me own taken this week, to send to the old folks In Ireland."-Now York Commercial Advertiser. Didn't bum 10 Itlslc II. Inhabitants of a Minnesota town re member libun Jones, the crabbed mill ionaire lumberman who hired nil the mill bauds himself. One day a Hwedo applied to the Irritable old man, and se cured a place on the saws. I As be was leaving ho said. "Mcstor Yones, In dees yob you gcef me doaller I an hallef a day. Besides dut, do you oat I me or do I cut myselef?" 1 "Oh. eat yourself!" replied th old man. "I have dyspcola," Ills Privilege, An author wrote to his publisher; "Can I hope for any royal Ilea fm ray book this year?" The publisher replied: "Yes: you can hope. There'B Hothmg In the world to hinder you." Atlanta (Jenstlttltlon. A shiftless man Is always boasting t what he would do If he had money.