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’ ’I'm failin’ r shouted Minnlklte, shrill with agony. “ I ’m failin’. O, Joe! X The crowd beard her, and yelled hoarsely► “ Hold on! The ladders are coming! Don’t move! Hold the little one up.*” Albert and Maudle crouched huddled up together on the ledge, and kept their eyea fixed In almost despairing “ Well, sadly, “ thete’ll be no on« to trust on Joe’s face. Their breath came B had foar children and a baby , . - ; arms. The names and ages mind yer i f she does.” and went In quick, convulsive sobs. “ Yah! oo wants mipdin’ T Oo and o f the children were respective ” 0. Joe! O -J o e !” ly Anna Maria, aged 7; Minnie Kate, put yer ’«fid in a bag and keep it there! “ I t ’s all right,” be said steadily. aged 6; Albert, aged 4tt; Mand H ar Come along, -Annermlrla, let’s go fer H e had the baby In bis arms, with a riet, aged 8, and the baby, Sarah Ellen, a walk in the park. W e’U ’ave a good shawl well wrapped over Its head to ole time, won’t we?” Just turned 1 year. keep out ¿he smoke. N ext moment “ Y er won’t get a bit fer yer dinner there was a yell from the crowd be He himself rejoiced in the name o f Joseph Webber, and believed himself lr yer do. <> But don’t upset yerselves; low. to be about 8, but his mother was nev there’ll be more for Albert A » ’ Maudle, “ The hook an’ ladder! H ere It * er quite sure. They all lived at the top ’A rriet and me!” cornea!” “ Yah! bury yerself!” was the polite o f a narrow, tqmble down bouse, and “ O, Gawd!” said Joe, between bis Mrs. Webber a rra ys spoke o f herself retort, as the young ladles disappeared closed teeth, “ O, Gawd!” as a “ widdef.” H er first husband bad round the corner. But Joe did not But even as be spoke there came a died “In ’ole Hengland.” the second really feel uneasy, as be was con blinding burst of smoke and flame, fol vinced they had no real Intention o f lowed by one s lrill scream o f agony, here. Mrs. Webber got her living by char stopping away from .school. when he could see distinctly again the “ I won’t let ma beat you. I ’ll bite whole ledge had broken away, and ing, and as long as she was sober al ways managed to secure enough work, 'e r legs if she dor’ a little voice said disappeared into the crowd below. H e but she was an Improvident, thriftless by his side. He looked down grate drew in h il breath. The baby’s shawl woman, and any extra money she fully.. I t was Mauaie Harriet. was already ablase, and one o f his legs “ Y er alius was a good little un,” had been scorched black In the fire. H e might secure either went for drink or was spent on indigestible food, such he said; then added, with precocious clambered on to the sill while the as tinned salmon, and pineapple *or knowledge, “ but, then, they gen’rally crowd shrieked to him In despair. shell fish, which often made the poor Is good when they’s kiddies. I t ’s when “ O, Gawd,” said Joe. “ I f yer can, baby 111 fo r weeks later. She took lit they gets older they gets so rough. I w ill yer ketch us? O, Gawd! O, Gawd!” tle interest In her family, save now mind Minnlklte and Annermlria jest and he hugged the baby closer. and then for a fit o f maudlin senti like lambs.” “ Leastw’y it’s better’n burnin’,” he “ Like me?” asked Albert, looking up whispered, and Jumped. ment over her orphans, but on the other hand was seldom violent except from his mud pies. But he with whom not “ a sparrow “ Now, youYe Jest a fat puddln’ ’ead. falls to the ground without their a fter an extra heavy bout o f drinking, when the chlldfon carefully kept out Put yer cap on at once or I ’ll soon father,” had given his angels charge o i the way, being taken in and given mike yer mind!” over them to keep them in all their The baby began to whimper, and he ways, and they brought them to him. shelter by kindly neighbors. Her one idea o f responsibility was folded her close in his arms and kissed —Chicago Tribune. to try to lock her fam ily in before the little shriveled face. “ Shoo, go ter starting off for her work, “ to keep ’em sleep, Salrey Ellen,” he whispered LIFE IN TH E SEA. out o f mischief,” as she said, “ for she softly, “ it’s a long time ’fore you’ll The Coriona T h in g * th at T h rive la wasn’t goin’ to have her Jimmy’s chil grow up and git rough and saucy.” an A quarium . • • * • * - • dren, rest his sowl, brought up on the Mr. Spencer, tbe superintendent of Some hours later and the children streets an’ kapin’ low companyl” the N ew York Aquarium, a few days But since Joe had been 5 years old sat shivering at the top o f the drafty ago was babying himself by picking he had nearly always evaded this ma stairs for their mother to come home a lot, o f sand fleas from a dipper and ternal forethought, which was not d if and unlock the door. dropping them Into a Jar o f anemones. “ She’s, llte to-night,” Anna Marla ficult, as his mother slept heavily, and As they fell Into the water they before she could open her eyes and said, leaning over the broken down stralghtehed themselves out and then rail. But even as she spoke a heavy slowly dropped to tbe bottom, kicking step came up the stairs. The children as they fell. A few o f them alighted listened anxiously, and Joe at last ob on the body of an anemone, which served: “ She 'asn’t ’ed much. Guess we’ll promptly closed up. One, unfortun ately, found himself, when he bad set be ’er orphans to-night.” In a few moments a woman’s heavy, tled, on the tentacles of one o f tbe bloated face appeared, followed by an anemones. ■ These began to serve the purpose for which they were bestow unwle.^y body. “ Lite ter-nlght,” she said, rather ed upon the anemone, and the flea, or thickly, feeling fo r her key. “ O, well, scud, suddenly found himself inside the capacious maw o f the anemone, turn over noo leaf ter-morrer.” When she had lit a lamp on the ta- and the life wap soon squeezed out o f ble, she sat down on the one sound him. “ A ll Is grist that comes to our 9 1 IIL” chair and began to c^y. quoted Mr. Spencer. “ These were on “ Gimme me blby,” she said at last; “ me little orphan blby—me Jimmy’s a lot o f mussels which came in a little While ago I thought I would chile.” save them. There is life everywhere .. She fell to kissing it, and If woke in tbe water. Look at this!” H e held with a feeble, peevish cry. up a dozen mussels, held together by W ith an oath she pushed It from what appeared to be a . vegetable her, and Joe Just caught it as it al growth. “ That Is an animal growth, most fell from her lap. “ Take it,” she said, “ there’ ll be bet known as serturlaria,” said he. “ In this bunch yon w ill find all sorts of ter company ter-morrer.” H e walked up and down until the animal life There are scuds, or sand Look!” He child slept again with Its tiny bead fleas, and rock craba. held updone o f the valves o f a mussel against his neck, while the woman snored heavily In her chair. The early shell. On It was a sea anemone. “ No winter light was just filtering through tice that reddish coating, “'p art o f Look at It the unshuttered window when Jofe which has flaked off. ‘ YEB JEST TRU8J JOE.’ awoke and sat up. His mother had closely. Doesn’t It look like lace- work? That ia the bryoza coral, the struggle to her feet In the morning not slept in the bed. H e blinked Ms lowest form o f mollusk coral. You the children were all up and away, eyes and looked towards the chair, ’but will find life on nearly everything it was empty. W ith a little cry he taking with them enough money from j sprang out o f bed and rushed towards that comes from the sea. Here’s one her purse to pay for their dinner. of the rock crabs.” H e took out o f In vain she swore and thrashed them I the door, but she bad outwitted him the nest of mussels a little crab, about at nights when she remembered; it 1 this time, and It was locked. That morning went slowly by, while the size of one’s finger nail, and drop was no use, and the same little scene ped It Into a Jar of /water.—New York was enacted every morning. The first ; the children fought and wrangled and Tribune. thing Joe did on ushering his little the baby walled and would not be comforted. Towards evening Joe was brood into the open air was to take ”L08T MONDAY." them to a covered passage leading Into leaning out o f the window showing a little blind alley; here they sat down the baby some sparrows fighting on P o p u la r Feta In Solarium the O rig in o* W hich l a a M ystery. and shared the bread and “ scrape,” , an opposite roof, when there was a Tbe first Monday after Eplphaby is or sometimes the bread without the ' shrill scream behind him. He turned, scrape, which he had prepared. The and, to bis horror, saw Albert stand a fete day throughout Belgium. “ Lost baby had Its milk, and then they fin ing shrieking, with a lighted newspa Monday” it Is called here; exactly w liy no one ¿eems able to explain. Tbe ished up their repast with a drink o f per in his hand. origin o f the fete is lost In the le “ Let go, yer fool!” he shouted. The water—alas, never a wash. gends of the middle ages, but the mod child let go his hold, and the lighted A fter this the serious work o f the day began fo r little Mother Joe. H ow paper fluttered against some rotten ern acceptation o f the day is certainly to get the girls to school, and with the clothing hanging against the wall, and lost to no one here. Like MardI Gras, least amount o f friction; that was al the next moment the whole room Lost Monday Is a day o f general ways the puzzling question. When seemed full o f smoke and flames. Joe merrymaking; every cafe and restau they were younger threats always sprang to the door and kicked with all rant in Brussels keeps “ open house,” served him, but now they were long ~.s might, but it would not yield to and free fare is on hand for all pa y legged and nimble and shrill, and he his puny efforts, and the smoke stifled trons of the establishment, and as a him. There was no water in the matter of fact for many others as had to resort to bribes and cunning. room, and the woodwork had already well who are not regular patrons. " I t ’s nigh yer time, ain’t it, Minni- caught and begun to crackle. He ran On Black Monday, then, as It Is Iron klte?” he remarked blandly, this par ticular morning, as he wiped the ba to the window and gazed out. By the ically called by some o f K ing Leo by’s mouth with his sleeve, “ and I side of the window on one side there,, pold’s subjects not overenchanted with know yer’ll want to be punckshall and was about four feet of broken stone the day, the streets o f Brussels are beat that Eddie Cox with her reg’lar ledge about a foot and a half wide; given over to the people, and the ad on the other side it had crumbled venturous foreigner who, ignorant of ’ ttendance.” the country's customs, ventures out Is Minnlklte leant back and smiled at away. “ Git out o f the winder on to this!” apt to find that the Belgian populace him with long wicked green eyes, and he shouted to Minnlklte. She climbed is no respecter o f persona. On this then she slowly put out her tongue. “ I ’appens to know,” he continued, on to the stone work as best she could day the shopkeepers, sighing behind with weary patience, and dusting the and clung to the side like a little rat. their counters, find themselves com baby’s head as he spoke, “ that there’s Anna Maria followed, and Albert hold pelled to hand over to their custom a noo law pest ’bout children’s bein’ ing Maudle between them. There was ers’ servants a forced contribution, amounting to a certain percentage o f sent prlsson for not goln’ to school no room for more. A crowd had gathered below, and a the year’s purchases, while the bak * reg’lar.” “ What price, boys?” asked Anna Ma man was trying frantically to kick ers, too, have a contribution to offer down the stout oak door, which old In the shape o f cakes specially made rla. with her head on one side. “ I alius go when I can,” he replied, Eli Mathews, the only other then in for the occasion, and offered aa gifts fitting on the cap where it was meant, mate o f the house, always locked when to their clientele. “ and you know I goes every time Mrs. he went ou t Joe watched him with In this manner, says the Brussels Beet ’as no washln’ and can mind the a sickening fear in his heart and mois correspondent o f the ivew York tened his lips. The heat o f the fire Times, the unique fete ia perpetuated, « blby!” “ Well, ma ses she’ll wallop yer ter inside was scorching him, and black though the calendar does not note in death nex’ time the ’spector comes ar- smoke came belching out above his any particular manner the first Mon head. ter 'er 1)001 you. So now.” day after Epiphany. Mother Joe r ' Spring Hum ors Gome to most people and cause many troubles,— pimples, boils and other eruptions, besides loss o f appetite, that tired feeling, fits o f biliousness, indigestion and headache. piste’s injustice. The sooner one gets rid o f them the Nocash (disconsolately) — Tbe rich better, and the w ay to get rid o f them are getting richer snd the poor poorer. and to build up the system that has Friend— W hat's wrong now? Nocash— Miss Fnllpnrse has refused suffered from them is to take me an# is going to marry Mr. Coupon. — New York Weekly. H ood ’s Sarsaparilla and P ills . Form ing in combination the Spring Medicine par excellence, o f unequalled strength in purifying the blood as shown b y unequalled, radical and pel* manent cures of "V . V- iu¡é»um -r iV —- . WUI Smash Him Then. “ He has challengsd yon,” said his friends. ‘ ‘ Why don't yon light him?” " I t isn't tbe right time of the moon yet,” exclaimed the enraged man, grinding his teeth horribly.— Chicago Tribnne. S c ro fu la „ S a lt R heum Jest Suited the Scorcher. S ca ld H ead B elle, P tm ptee And the soul of the wicked one was All K in d s o f H u m o r P soria s is next condemned to fall through space B lood P o is o n in g R h eu m a tism at the rate of e m ile a mínate for 10,- C atarrh D yspepsia, S to 000 years. "B a y .” he shouted as he Aooept no substitute, but be sure to passed the 10,000th ghostly mile post, “ this beats any riding I aver tried!” — g e t H ood’s, and g e t it today. Automobile Magazine. „ A Different Species. “ I thought you said Brown was a regular bibliomaniac.” ‘ ‘ Not on your olile. I said be was a bibulous maniac.” — Baltimore News. Bince w riting for the April Century ‘ ‘ The Evolootion of American Census Taking,” which gives interesting de tails of the magnitude and intricacies of the “ deoennial snap-shot of the na tion,” the Honorable W . R. Merriam has resigned tbe office of director of the census, to become vice president of the international mercantile agency. T o n Can QoS A lin a ’ s F o n t Xasn I B 1 I . Writ# Allen 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y., for a free «ample of A lien ’s Foot Ease. I t ernes chil blains, sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. I t makes new or tigh t «hoe« eeay. A certain pure for Corn« and Bunion«. A ll druggist« mil it. 28c. Don’t accept any aubatltute. One Form of Argument. -* A Denver justice comes to the sup port of tbe New York crusade against wbesliog baby carriages on tbe side walks by saying that if God mount babies fb go on wheels he would have pat wheels on them. FITO PanmoenOT o u n a > • St« e r ■ H O after first dey'« u*. of Dr. Kllee'i line'« Great Harmless infatuation. B ftJ .e e trial bol bottle aad t Restorer. Send for F R E E FJ-OO H. Xuaa. Ltd. . «1 A rc h 3t, Philadelphia.IIS “ Confound these literary clnba, I say. My w ife’ s crazy over Browning.” Ocean Lin ers o f 1880. “ So’ s mine. Bbt I ’ m not .raising B ; tbe breaking up of the 8ervia and any objections. Browning’ s dead.” — the Alaaka there disappeared two of Washington Times. the three famous Atlantic liners whose Mothers wifi firm Mis. 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Such articles should narer be used ex ns eat It. cept on prescriptions from reputable physi 81m peon (p ot finite so JoyfpUy)— The cians, as the damage they w ill do Is tea fold to dickens! That's jost like her, too!—- New York Times. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, »:iiw.'fi;,?rncKr‘s«si2i;,ars,*5r;: and is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’ s Catarrh Care be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made In Toledo, Ohio, by FrJ. Cheney A Co. «Testi monials free. Sold by Druggists, price 788. per bottle. * H all’s Family Pills am the here Oar Aristocracy. “ She claims, I believe, to be de scended from a king.” “ Yes. Before her grandfather struck it rich he was known as the poker king of W hite Hoes Flats.” Worse Than That. ‘ ‘ H e wrote a girl a love-letter once, Tbs Ecclesiastical Tender. and it's costing him a pretty penny i Cashier— In what denomination do n o w »" you want your monoy? ‘ ‘ Breach of promise suit?” Unde Rube— W a’ai, I'm a Methodist “ No, alimony.” — Philadelphia Press. myself, so ye might as well make 'em that.— Princeton Tiger. For forty year’s Piso’s Curs for Con sumption has* cured coughs and ooids. A t At the Horse Show. druggists. Price 26 cents. horse McBrier— Did yes jump foive feet over a fence? Her Plan. *,• McSwatt— Oi’ ve seen ’ em jump four “ I ’ ve been two weeks trying to get feet over. I didn’t know that a horse my husband to give me $50 to buy a new dress,” complained Mrs. Gazxam had foive feet. to Mrs. Wifflea. Wisdom of Age. ‘ ‘ I never do that.” Bess (sweet sixteen)— Did yon notice “ What do yon do?’ r “ I have my dress charged snd leave what a knightly air Mr. Dashing has? Annt Mary— Y e s —-sort of an np-all- my husband to fight it oat with the nightly air. as it were.—Chicago News. collector.” — Harper's Bazaar. CASTOR IA The K ind Y ou Have Always Bought has borne the signa ture o f Chas. H . Fletcher, and has been made under hi* . personal supervision for over 3 0 years. A llow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and «< Just-as-good ” are but Experiments, and endanger the health o f Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Oastoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, P are goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its a g e js its guarantee. It destroys Worm s * ‘ “ eruKness. l t c u r e s Diarrhoea and W in d cures Constipation regulates the natural sleep. The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. The Kind Yon Hate Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 3 0 Years. ▼M« fllRTAUfi I «-«««ai ..... : — -.*• >*• — : . The Author (after the first perform* znoe)— W all, what do yop think of my play? Feminine Friend— It was Inst lovely!. Who designed the heavenly dresses? — Brooklyn Life. R iflf • T R ir r , N iw f e e « cmr. ****** SBAtEgn