IE
Wj Bracknell did sot appear at the
fuuerul. It ic believed or at all events li
was stated that she folt unable to face so
rnel on ordeal; but the truth, as I after
ward beard on excellent authority, was
that she was afraid to venture wlth'n
reach of her husband, who had ordered
bar away from him immediately after the
toy's death, assuring her that he was not j In the autumn that I was niado oware of
nostra of himself, and that she would to Its having taken place, by encountering
well to keep out of his sight for some time Beauchamp himself at a country house in
toeome. So she took him at his word I the north of England, where I had been
and lied down to the country, to the houre invited- to spend a few days. It struck
of I forgot what friend, who undertook to ! me that our meeting was not a source of
somfort her In her affliction. Bracknell I unalloyed satisfaction to him. There was
remained iu Loudon, and, as I was told, even a sort of ehamefacedness in his de
untlnued to go to his club every day, to meaner which I could not at first account
gamble heavily and to drink hard. I for, but which explalued itself at dinner
I called upon him several times, but he time, when Iird and I jidv Kr,.,.vn
was always out) and one day when I
luuiced upon him In the street, he told
n roughly that I need not trouble to look
Urn up again.
"Kindly meaut, I've no doubt," he said;
"but I should be very much obliged to my
friends If they wouldn't be so etc., etc.
fucloug. When I want to be condoled
with I'll let them know."
After that I could only leave him to
himself, liven If he had been willing to
Hsteu to mo, I should have been puzzled
to discover any plausible form of consola
tion; and certainly I should not have bit
npon that selected by my mother, who In
the overflowing kindness of her heart
wrote him a long letter, In which she re
minded him that among other blessings
be still possessed his wife, I believe she
was afterward a little ashamed of having
taken tills bold step, and would never
have let me kuow of it had she been able
so resist showing me Bracknell's reply,
which was brief and pithy !
"Dear Mm. Mnynaid: I told your son
lb other day that I didn't wish to be con
doled with, and I don't. But I must say
that I hunUy expected to be congratulated. I
Lady Bracknell Is not with me just now,
or sue wumu, 1 am sure, desire me to
thank you for shaking of her as a bless-
Big, it u probably the itrst time in hor
use that sue bus been called by that name,
and I should think It would be the lust.
Mliiooroly yours, BltAOimiiM.."
My niulhar shook her head ut this,
"lie ought not to speak so of Ids wife,"
she said. And when I brought forward
certain excuses on Bracknell's behalf (I
would nut shock her by mentioning all
those that might have been moutluued,
nor would she have believed In them If I
bad) she only shook her head the more,
telling me thut I bad no realizing sense of
the suorediieHB of murrlage.
Whether I deserved thut rebuke or not
Is of small consequence, but I might fairly
have retorted thut my dear mother, for
hor part, was a little too sublimely Indif
ferent to thu worldly side of that contract,
aud that by her present conduct she was
in danger, not only of making two people
more unhappy than there was any oo
aaslou for, but of getting herself Into seri
ous trouble as well. However, I doubt
whether anything thut I could have said
would have prevented her from asking
Lady Mildred to come In to tea evory other
day, and tluiu casually getting .lira to
meet her. She had mudo uo her mind
that this couple ought to be married, and
veu thut it was the will of heaven thut
they should be married. It would have
been too much to expect thut the will of
heuveu should be set aside to please Lord
Ntuineg or Mr. Beauchamp, the latter of
whom, as my mother pointed out, mlglitjj
have proposed long ago. if he had chosen.
but hud preferred to go off to Norway and
stub salmon.
And so, during the summer, our house
was made the sceuo of what, to a common
place person like myself, wore very much
tlieuppeurauue of clandestine love mut
ing. Lord Stalnos' suspicions were at length
aroused, and he sent for me to pour
tliem Into uiy ear. It was ou a flue au
tumn day thut, In obedience to his sum
mons, I wulkwl up to Htulnes Court and
was shown Into the library, where he now
sat from morning to night, and whore, iu
spite of the warmth of the wcuther, a lire
was burning. He looked very feeble aud
broken, bunding forward In his chair and
balding up a thin, trembling hand to tht
bbue.
"Muynurd," ho said, "I want you. like
a good fellow, to Bpoak a word of warning
to your friend Leigh. I would rather not
peak myself, bucuuse, as you kuow, he
nus iieen caused trouble aud dlsuppoint
tiunit by our family already, and I should
bo sorry to scum unfriendly to Mm. So
will you Just toll hlui us kindly as you can
that it won't dof 1 see more than per
nups you young folks suppose, aud of
course you kuow what I allude to. It
won't du, my dear Muynard. 1 am sorry
for It; but it won't do."
"Lord Staines," I answered boldly, "I
am not going to undertake any such com
mission. I cun. quite understand your
anxiety to l'oop the Beauchamp property
ki the family, and if you can get the per
sons principally concerned to do as you
wish, 1 dure say It will be in some rcapeots
a good thing; but I don't choose to be a
party to any scheme of that kind. My
point of view Is not the munc as yours.
What may become of tho Beauchamp
proporty is nothing to mo; whereas it is a
good deal to me that Jim Leigh should
have what he wishes for. 1 believe that
Lady Mildred aud ho are attached to each
' other, and, that being so, I ho; they will
atuod up for themselves and marry. "-
I fully expected that this audacious
harangue would call forth an explosion ot
wrath; but my expectations were not ful
filled. Lord dtalucs only sighed wearily
and said: "Uod knows I care little enough
for money or hauls uowl My time is al
most up, and 1 suppose Bracknell will be
the lust of our name. Agaiust Leigh I
haven't a word to say; only, as I toll you
before, It won't do. Mildred must marry
Beauchamp. I am under obligations to
him which can't bediseharged lu any other
way; and he will beakiud husband tober.
We won't argue the point, if you please."
"He will not be a husbund of her choos
ing," I made so bold as to observe, despite
his prohibition. i
. "Yon don't know wli you are talking
about " returned the old man. fretfully.
"The thing must be, and there's no me In
discussing it. If yoa don't see your way
to speaking to your frleud, I mint speak
to Mildred, that' oil." - ,.,
I sold nothing nbout this conversation to
mm whom it concerned, nnd whether
Lord Staines carried out hi Intention of
remonstrating with lady M. red or not 1
cannot tell. Very likely be ,.d not, fori
fancy that he shrank from dj-tressing her,
and he may have thought 11 needless to
take active steps before Beuucbamp's re
turn from Norway.
No news with regard to that event
reached my ears, and it was not until late
i their appearance among several other
guests who had arrived late In the after
noon, and when her ladyship exchanged
meaning glances with my young friend,
after affording him a conventionally polite
greeting.
The Bracknell menage, which for a time
had been threatened with disruption, had
been set ugotug once more (by the kindly
Intervention of friends, as I was Informed),
' and was, to all appearances, being con-
ducted upon much the same principles as
ueretoiore. At ail events, Bracknell
seemed to look with absolute Indifference
upon the renewal of the flirtation which
'he once professed himself determined to
check. The past few months bad worked
a very perceptible change in him; he had
grown stouter; his complexion hod become
pasty and his eyelids heavy, and a few
gray hairs had appeared about his tem
ples. His manners, too, had distinctly de
teriorated. He was bored, and did not at
tempt to disguise Hie fact; moreover, he
displayed a contradictious and quarrel
some teuuency wnicu evidently caused
some anxiety to our hostess.
As for Lady Bracknell, she was bril
liuut and radiant. Her black dress and
jut ornaments threw up the dazzling
whiteness of her skin; sbe looked as if she
hud not a cure in the world; and if. as I
suspect, the other ladles were whispering
to each other what a heartless wretch the
woman was, I cun only say that in my
bumble opinion tkey hud a very good
right to do so.
Probably neither their remarks nor my
opinion were matters of much moment to
her, She was a cold hearted and calcu
lating woman, bat she was capable, no
doubt, of enjoying herself after her own
fashion, and few things can be more
pleasant than to Indulge In your favorite
pastime, while making It Bul'serve a deil
nlte, practical end. This, for the time
being, nppeared to be Lady Bracknell's
enviable lot. The subjugation of Beau
champ wus complete. He remained by
her side the whole evening through; he
scarcely took his eyes off her for a mo
ment; and it may be assumed that be hod
no Ideu of the sorry spectacle that he pre
sented to lookers ou.
Hilda hud a second string to her bow,
In the shapo of a certain Comte, de
Vleuzue, a French attache, whom I bod
met several times in Wilton place. Be
Vlouswe was oue of those seml-Augllcized
Gauls who get their clothes mode in Lon
don, whose talk is of horses and shooting.
and who dlsouss sport with a solemnity
far exceeding that of their models. Being
young, by uo menus bad looking, aud full
oi una commence in the irresistible na
ture of his charms, which is the very last
thing that his oouutryraeu can bring
thotusolves to part with, he most likely
nattereu hiuiseit that lie had made a con
quest of Lady Bracknell, and it wus easy
to see that he found Beuuchainp a good
deul In the way. That Beauchamp recip
rocated his sentiments with Interest was
not less obvious; and while one of the
young mou assumed an aggravating
aunorotUotu mieu aud the other scowled
savagely, HUdu, arbitresa of the contest.
sat between them, displaying her white
teetnanu gently swaying a black ostrich
feather fan. '
Somehow or other the sight of that smil
ing, contented, selfish woman, playing off
hor admirers one against the other, infuri
ated me. I could not got the memory of
poor nine Bunniug out ot my head while
I watched her; it seemed to me that of all
tonus of depravity the most odious is that
which obliterates the natural, animal In
stinct of mutcrnal love. Aud my soul
being stirred within me by the speotacle
of the power possessed aud exercised by
thut woman, who If she hud hod her de
serts would hove been picking oakum lu
Millbank penitentiary, I oould at last con
tain myself uo longer, but , rising from my
sequestered corner, crossed tho room with
the Intent to do a truly silly thing.
I made straight for the sofa on which
Bi-ucknell was sitting apart with his hands
in his pockets, and asked him whether be
didn't want tosmoke.
"Of course I do," he growled. "Why
tho dickens don't these people go to bed f"
"We will give them the slip," said I;
for I was bent npon having a fow words
In private with him. "Now is our time,
while nobody Is looking."
So I got hiin away to the smoking room,
and, asjioon us we had lighted our cigars,
plunged head first Into the middle of my
subject. "Bracknell," said I, "do you or
do you not Intend Beauchamp to marry
your sister P"
I have mentioned already that Brack
nell's manners had deteriorated. Ho
frowned heavily aud adUod me what the
devil that was to me.
"I will tell you," I answerod. "You
must admit, I think, that you haven't be
haved very well to Jim Leigh"
"Good Lord I" interrupted Bracknell,
"are you going back to that old story
again P Why, man, I made him an apol
ogy when ho reappeared in London lost
summer! What more would you havof
1 can assure you that I repent from the
bottom of niy heart of having deprived
him of Miss Hilda Turner."
"I don't doubt it," I replied; "I only
meaut to remind you that you awe him a
good turn. 1 can't go Into particulars, be
cause we shall have the other men In here
presently, but the loug aud the short of it
Is thut Lady Mildred and he are in love
with ouch other."
Ou, indoodl" sold BroakntU. "Well,
really, I don't care." -.!
"Does thut mean." I Inquired, "that
you won't oppose their marriage?"
"It means," answered he, "that I shall
not bother myself about th matter, one
way or the other. Jim hadlbetter fight it
out with the governor."
I ought, I suppose, to have been con-
tented with that. I had not behaved with
the subject at all, and I hod received an
assurance, which, so far as It went,
should hare been entirely satisfactory to
me. But, being so exasperated with
Hilda, and being also curious to learn
how far Hilda's absolute lack of principle
was shared by her husband, 1 must needs
proceed to remark: ;
"You once told Lady Bracknell In mv
presence that you would not permit her
10 entice Ijeauc-hump away from your sis
ter. You have ohuuged your mind as to
mat, it appears."
Bracknell rose slowly from his chair,
advanced to that in which I was seated.
and placed a heavy hand on each of my
shoulders, looking straight Into my eyes.
"Muynara," smu ne, "yon aren't a bad
sort of fellow, taking yon all round, but
you're just as cheeky now as you used to
be at Eton, and 1 may as well tell yob. at
once that I'm not in the humor to put up
witn cnoeic. iJo you remember my giving
you a licking once In Kettle's laner"
No," I milled, "I do not. I remem
ber your hitting me and I remember kick
ing you on the shins, and I remember old
Jim Leigh coming between as."
Well," said Bracknell, "I dare say It
was no bad thing for yon that Jim Leigh
happened to bo handy. I didn't want to
thrash you then and I don't want to
thrash you now; but if you take upon
yourself to interfere with my private af
fairs a second time, by the Lord, I'll
knock your bead off your shoulders!"
This threat, which was embellished by
certain expressions which I prefer not to
transcribe, caused me to reflect I do not
suppose that Bracknell could have knocked
my head off my shoulders, but it is quit
possible thut he might have managed to
give me a black eye; and really I cannot
afford to be seen going about with a black
eye. Therefore 1 resolved to abstain from
further provocation; and at this opportune
moment our interview was interrupted by
the entrance of oar host, accompanied by
a large detachment of his guests.
CHAPTER XIV.
On the following morning I descended to
the dining room to find there Lady Brack -
-Hell, attended by her brace of devoted ad
mirers, and I perceived at once that Hilda
had resumed the gome of the previous
evening. It was a game of which, as I
knew, she nevor wearied. She had the ap
pearance of being well satisfied with it
now; which was more than oould be said
for either of the other players. i .
'Atier ail," she was remarking, as I
entered, "I can't ee why we should give
ourselves oil's becuuse we ride and shoot
better than most other nations. That is
something, of court; but there are so
many other ways iu which the French,
for instance, are our superiors. They Ite
a great deal more amusing to talk to, and
they are more artistic, and they write
better novels Mr. Mavuurd. aren't
French novels much better than ours?"
I sold I must decline to deliver inde-
ment upon that poiut; It was a matter of
taste. ;
"Well, but," broke iu Beauchamo. who
was lookiug decidedly cross. "I never
denied it. I'm sure I don't know whether
their novels are better than ours, and, to
tell you the truth, I don't much core
either. All I said wus that they are not
a sporting people."
"There is more variety of sport In
France than In England," said De Vieuzac
boldly. "We huvo, for example, the wolf
and the wild bour" - -
"And you gallop after 'em in green and
gold coats, with horns twisted round and
round your bodies," interrupted Beau
champ, not over courteously.
"You have perhaps derived your Ideas
of French sport from the pictures in
'Punch,' " observed Be Vieuzac, without
losing his temper. "They are funny,
those pictures, they ure very funny; but I
do not think that the artists have drawn
them from life."
"I have been in France," returned Kie
other doggedly, "and I've seeu a lot of
chasseurs, as yon call them, shooting cock
sparrows on Sunday afternoons."
De Vieuzac slirugged his shoulders.
"Yon will come to it, my good friend,"
said he. "What would you have P We
are a little in advance of you; we made
our revolution a hundred years ago.
When your game laws are abolished, when
your great estates are brokeh up, when
your country squires can no more live
upon their routs then you will see what
you will see. For the rest, the persons
Who, as you say, shoot sparrows on Sim-
days are not of the rank who would shoot
partridges if they were Englishmen; and
you must not ask of a man that he should
ne a good game shot when he has never
tiie occasion to shoot at game."
"At any rate," observed Hilda, rising
and bestowing a gracious smile upon the
speaker, "we all know that Monsieur do
Vieuzao can shoot as well as anybody.
And isn't it time for you to go out shoot
ing now P" .
Beanohamp held the door open for her.
"We are to have a ride this afternoon, are
we notr" I heard him ask eagerly. .
"Of course we arc," she answered.
"Didn't you promise to toko me out P"
Aud then, turning to the other, "Monsieur
de Vieuzac, I am going to be very selfish,
and make you join us. You will have to
tear yourself away from the partridges
and be iu time for luncheon."
The Frenchman raised his eyebrows
slightly and bowed, murmuring some
thing about Lady Bracknell's wishes
bciug law. Possibly he thought that a
ride in company with Ms rival would not
be very good fun.
As for Beauchamp, he did not attempt
to conceal his disgust. '-'Perhaps you will
ride with me some other day. If I'm not
wanted I'd just as soon shoot this after
noon," he was beginning; but the closing
of the door deprived me ot the remainder
of hie sentence, as well as of Hilda's re
ply. However, it was pretty certain that
he would do what she ordered liiin,
whether he liked It or not
. ken oo!thncb.
THE SUMMER COTTAGE.
Ms Growth In Sfge and la lnprtMe
Daring Iteoent Years.
There have been signs that the in-
(Motion known as the summer hotel
has rendimi t.hA heiffht of ifji nnmilantv
nd power in this country, and that it.
fflant down than np. The reason is not
lhat city families are learning to spend
their summers at home, for they flock to
the lakes, the mountains and the sea
shore in greater numbers than ever, bnt
a smaller proportion of them live is
hotels and a considerably greater pro
portion in cottages. At Bar Harbor
several of the largest hotels have re
mained closed, not because the vogue of
Mount Desert has waned, for it was
never so mnch the fashion, but chiefly
because the island is full of cottages and
the "best people" live in them, thereby
damaging the hotels directly by the
loss of their own patronage, and in
directly by ceasing to serve them as
bait
The tendency which is illustrated in
an exceptional degree at Bar Harbor is
generally noticeable in the majority of
the summer places, and a natural and
commendable tendency it is. The part
of the population to which it is most es
sential to get out of town are the wom
en and children, and for them hotel life
even in the summer is decidedly a sec
ond best expedient The American
hotel bred infant, with whom Mr. Henry
James in the earlier years of his literary
industry helped to make the world fa
miliar, is a type which it is as well
should not survive outside of the fiction
of the last decade. Without admitting
that it ever was a very prevalent type,
it is safe enough to assume that the
more American children are enabled to
Bubstitnto the atmosphere of a summer
home for the garish delights of a sum
mer hotel the better it will be for the
manners of the rising generation. ,
Of course it is by no means a new
thing for rich Americans to have sum
mer homes. The growth of moss and
ivy on scores of the Newport houses at
test that Of course, too, a summer cot
tage is a luxury, and luxuries are ever
prone to make their first bows to the
people with the most money. Neverthe
less there are cottages and cottages, and
whenever families that have been nsed
to taking refuge in summer hotels once
make up their minds that they would
like a cottage better there is no sound
financial reason why they should not
eventually have one. The main diffi
culties are to decide where it shall be,
and to bring the family's mind to the
point of giving hostages to return to the
same place several summers in succes
sion. For of course, unless one is rich
enough to have an assortment of scat
tered dwellings, it is an extravagance
to build a house unless he is going to
occupy it or can rent it
No doubt the possibilities of vagrancy
in the summer hotel method constituted
originally one of its chief charmsi It
enabled people to try at least one new
place every year, and ascertain finally
where they preferred to go. But this
very quality in it has helped the devel
opment of cottages, since, after a due se
ries of vagrant seasons, the family is
able out of its sufficient experience to de
clare a settled preference for some par
ticular spot There, the spirit of adven
ture having given place to the desire for
assured comfort, the cottage begins its
growth and finally develops into a true
home, with its accompanying possibili
ties of hospitality and of continuous ac
cretions of grace and strength.
The observer who watches the prog
ress of American civilization must be
both interested aud edified at the spread
of the summer cottage. He finds in it
another sign of the settling population
which is in process, and which makes
the land constantly pleusanter aud
more habitable as it goes on. Harper's
weexiy. .
An Improved Shuttle.
A shuttle manufacturer in Massa
chusetts has effected an improvement in
that mechanism which promises to be of
considerable practical value in the oper
ations of woolen mills. In lien of the
ordinary hinged spindle for receiving
and holding the bobbin of yarn, a short
rigid spindle is employed in combination
with two holding jaws, one above and the
other below the head of the bobbin; the
latter they clasp and securely hold in a
central position, a single spiral spring
being arranged in the base of the shut
tle so as to exert an equal pressure on
the bobbin holding jaws, between which
it is placed. As a result of this nniqne
construction all splitting of the bobbins
arising from the ubb of the long pointed
hinged spiudle is obviated, with a conse
quent saving of wafite yarn. The trouble
from the breaking of this yarn by the
canting of the spiudle poiut in the weav
ing operation is also overcome. New
York Bun. -
' He Followed the Advloa,
A little jobbing oarpenter, unable to
get his account for work done paid by
his late employer, bad at lost taken
action against him. The case came on
for trial, defendant not appearing, and
the plaintiff was briefly narrating the
facte,
"And did yon then call at his house
and demand payment?" asked tea mag
istrate. ididr
'Whatdid hesayf
'He turned me out of doors and told
me to (jo to my grandmother.''
"Uh I And what did you do thenr '
"I came on here for a summons.
A VESPER HYMN.
iVaw near, draw near and praise stsv,
This King all kings above! .
Thy love alone repays bint, -
Whose dearest name is Iiove.
Draw near, draw neat- and bless him.
If life be glad ami free.
With grateful hearts confess hhs.
Who gave that life to thee.
Draw near, draw near unto hun.
If sorrow bow thee down, ,
None, sorrowing, vainly sue bim
lie hath worn Sorrow's crown.
Draw near, draw near with weeptatL
O bruised aud mourning- heart!
Commend thee to bis keeping-.
Whose wandering child thou art
Draw near, draw near Imploring,
If stained with guilt and sin.
He. pitying and requiring-, l
Shall heal thy wounds within; V
Draw near, draw, near his altar.
Though faith itself be lied; ;
Deem'st thou bis love can falter,
Thoua-h tblae be cold and deadr
Brother, or friend, or stranger,
O child of GodI draw near; -
, W bate'er thy need, thy danger.
Behold a refuge berel
Draw near, kneel low before him.
Lift, lift thy heart above,
And reverently adore htm
Thy God. whose name le Trivet
-Graoe K. Changing In Youth's Companion.
Keal Sea Serpents. -The
seas from Madagascar to Panama
and from Japan to New Zealand are thick
ly infested with marine snakes. Dr. Stein
eger, the reptilian expert of the Smith
sonian institution, says they ore among
the most poisonous of all known serpents,
their venom being no less deiullv than Mini
of the cobra and rattlesnake. Further
more, tney are very fierce and owreMAivA
and will commonly attack human beings
if they get a chance. They do not frequent
the shallows unless possibly for breeding,
but live in the open ocean. When full
grown they are from six to eight feet long.
Fishermen in the waters where they are
found are greatly afraid of them. Their
bodies are flat and the Inside of them la
almost wholly filled by the lungs, which
are large in order that they may be en
abled to stay beneath the surface for a
loug time without coming np to breathe.
They have eyes modified for seeing in the
water, so that when they are taken out of
their native element they Beem blinded
and strike wildly. Their fangs, like those
of the cobra, ore always erect Chicago
News.
KaU and Mice and Large Anlmais, '
How many neoDle are there wIia icnnn-
H.n -,.!
.uav cicpuiuiia, ruiuuceroses ana other
large micis ssinned animals have formic
able enemies in rots and miceP These
small, rascally rodents have found that
tne reel of the eleoliant are excellent
ing, and have no hesitation in gnawing at
them when the animal lies down, which,
owing to its confined condition, is not very
well able to defend itself against ite puny
enemies. To protect these vast creatures
it is found necessary in most menageries to
keep terriers about the cages. These little
fellows very soon disnose of the onohv.
derm's tiny adversaries. It was recently
discovered in a well known menaireri.
that the mice and rats had been very busy
with the hide of a rhinoceros. A Smrrh
terrier, Fanny, was put into the cage of
the huge beast, aud in the .first night she
had killed no fewer than twenty-seven
rats. In a few days there were no rata left
to nibble the hide of the noor rhfnruwftK
London Tit-Bits.
' About Afriean Snakea, I
The African cobra Is regarded somewhat
reverently by the natives of that country,
who. once a year kill a cobra de capello and
hang its skin to the branch of a tree, tail
downward. Then all the children born
during the last year are brought out and
made to touch the ekiu. This the parents
think put them under the serpent's pro
tection. The cobra de capello divides with
the horned viper of Africa the question
able honor of being the "worm of the Nile,",
to whose venomous tooth Cleopatra's death
wasdue.
The Kaffirs use the venom of this snake's
cousin the puff adder to poison their ar
rows, and when they have any small quan
tity left they swallow it, having a theory
thatitwill protect them from the bad el
ecta of future bites. The suake tribe of
the Punjab say that the bites of snakes do
not hurt them, and if they find a dead ser
pent they dress it in clothes and give it a
superb funeral. St, Nicholas, ,
Nothing- In IU
J. M. Barrie, popular as he Is on this
side the ocean, is not likely to suffer from
excess of praise from the villagers of the
now famous Thrums. One old lady, with
energetic but. quaint criticism, says of his
-uuie minister:" "it's of ralo true, but
there's naethin in't mere havers uboot
things that's gaen on ilka day and wh
wante to waste their time readin about
sic like. Besides, what kens be aboot the
sojers in Kinie. He's just been makin up
bits here and there oot o' fat he's heard
itberfouk tellin. He's no old euuch o
hoe ouy mind o' sic things." New York
Sun. . - .
&he Had Experienoe.
Mrs. Lenox Hill I wish you would let
me have ten dollars today. I want to do a
little shopping.
Mr. Lenox Hill Yon are the most ex
travagant woman in New York. If I wen
to die before you you would have to beg
for a living.
Mrs. Lenox Hill Humphl I have to do
that now. Texas Sittings.
Woke Him Hp.
Wife (midnight)-Oool Wool Wakenpt
There's a man trying to get in.
Husband (sleepily)-Nonseusel Go to
sleep.
Wife (as a last resort) Maybe he's gpt a
bill.
Uusbond-Whoopl Where's my gun
New York Weekly, i .
Oat of 60,000 guesses on a big cake off
soap oa exhibition In Berlin only two weref
correct The cake was a soapmaker's adf
vertlsement and it weighed 1,128 pounds.
A new cure for hvdronhohla o-ju J
cessfully tried in the Pasteur iustitu
Milan. It consisted of asubcutAiip
jection of the virus uiit "fixed fcy