AN ARDENTSWEETHEART.
For twenty yearn my sweetheart hat
' been courti'ig me she can
tie the ardent effortt of tho uioat effu
i aive uittu;
la these year the't tried to wiu me by
the art tliut love displays,
Aud I confess cthe pins in by tlie tweet
uest of her waji.
She hna do hesitation to embrace me or
to kiss
Me on my lip a hundred timet am I
wrong in telling tula?
She't a wooer moat affectionate and the
alwaya nay tbut the
Wouldn't take the trouble of thlt living
but for me.
I ought to fall In love with her, and I'm
certain tbnt I would
If I were but at honest aud as true blue
at the't good;
For true enough the It to me my only
bright aunsliiiiH
My aweetheart Ih no other than that geu-
tlo wife of mine.
Denver Newt.
A Sentimental Journey,
rj T was about 4 o'clock one after
II noon In February, and Hlppesley
was sitting on the veranda of the
Cafe de Paris at Monte Carlo. Ho tat,
deep In thought, hit ears mechanically
listening to the strains of the little
Hungarian baud a few yard away
from him. He wat thinking of the rea
son that had brought hliu to the place.
He had been abroad for twelve years,
jet, within a mouth of big return, he
had left again and hurried to spend a
few days on the Klvlera before taking
Bteamer at Marseilles
It was absurd, he knew It, but the
longing to see her face again was Irre
sistible. He would not seek an oppor
tunity of speaking with her the
scheme on which their lives had been
worked out made this Impossible. He
simply had an overwhelming desire to
see her. Then he could go back to his
lonely life, not happy-he could never
be that, but with a fresh picture of the
one woman he had ever loved
He noticed a smart carriage draw up
before the broad steps of the Casino,
and, almost simultaneously, a man and
a -woman came out of the building. The
man was middle-aged, a trifle heavy In
build and faultlessly dressed. He
handed the lady Into her carriage. IIIp
pesley, as he caught sight of her face,
gave a start, and clutched hold of the
table. She was a young Englishwo
man, magnificently beautiful.
The color left his face, and he riveted
his eyes on her. He watched her smil
ingly say "good-by" to the man on the
steps, then the carriage turned and
drove rapidly away. As It vanished
from sight be sank back In his chair,
his mouth twitching. Ills throat seem
ed dry and parched; he stretched for
ward and drai'k some tea at a gulp.
Then the voices of two men talking
just iK'hlnd hint reached his ears.
"That was the Princess Zandra -she
Is living at the villa Erondel, at Beau
lieu." "Enormously rich?"
"She was till a day or so ago." The
man lowered bis voice. Hlppesley
found himself straining for the next
words. "I happen to know," came ill
almost a whisper, "that the late prince
was sufficiently Ill-advised to Invest
nearly all his money In an enterprise
that has recently come to the ground
with a crash, and the princess, who
never had the slightest suspicion of her
affairs not being In a satisfactory state,
has suddenly been told that another
year at her present rate of expenditure
will leave her penniless."
"What will she do?"
"Go on living as she has done and
marry again! Women with such beau
ty can pick and choose there are no
hard places for them. Rumor says It
will be the man who has Just left her.
He is not a good man, but he is pas
sionately In love with her, aud a mil
lionaire twice over."
Hlppesely rose from his seat, and,
making his way round to the terrace,
sank Into a seat. He felt he could
hear no more. It was all so curious,
so startllngly strange. To think that
the girl he had left living with her
father on the outskirts of a quiet
English country town should have de
veloped Into this wonderful Princess
Zandra, whose beauty was known
throughout Europe. And they had
loved one another! He had gone abroad
with the hope of making a name for
himself, of being able to claim her. But
Ill-luck had dogged him, aud the time
had never come when he could write
to her. He had left her free, and as the
years went by, bringing nothing but
persistent failure, he knew that It was
not for hlni to possess the only thing
he counted worth having. Occasionally
scraps of Intelligence as to the course
her life had taken drifted to him. ner
father had died, aud she bad gone to
live with a wealthy aunt In London.
From stray papers that reached him he
learned that her beauty had caused
quite a sensation In society. Then at
last came the news that she had mar
ried a foreigner of great position,
Trlnce Zandra.
He wondered If she ever thought of
him remembered the night he had
confessed his love to her. Not a day
had passed In those long years of fail
ure but her Image had been before him.
Now, at length, when he had achieved
some slight success, it was too late. All
that was left for him was to take the
absurd little Journey of sentiment
Early next morning he traveled to
Reaulieu. He got out at the railway
statlou and, following the path that led
round to St. Jean, passed the tishlng
village, and galued the point There he
sank down on the ground, and gave
himself up to his reflections. It was a
perfect morning, a cloudless sky, the
air soft aud pregnant with the perfume
of the roses that grew right to the edge
of the tiny cliff. Some thirty feet be
low him was the sea, not a ripple cn Its
smooth surface, the clear -blue tints
gleaming in the sunshine.
Presently he was aware of a woman
gazing curiously at hiin. The next mo
ment they bad recognized one another.
She weut suddenly pale and her lips
parted In wonder.
"Ralph!" she gasped.
He looked it her mutely. He was face
DEIS HARK S THREE
Co,
The Danish West Indiet, which Don
mark has been notified mint not be sold
to any other power but the United Statee,
are three little islands lying Immediately
east of Porto Rico at the gateway of the
Caribbean Sea. Santa Crus It the larg
est of the three, and coutalnt teventy
four square miles of territory, more than
uve-tlxths of which It under cultivation.
Its total population it 20,000, uioit of
which it of uegro descent. St. Thomat It
the second In tize, aud la the flrat In im
portance because of itt titnation and line
harbor. St. Thomas also containt the
commercial metropollt of the islands, the
town of Charlotte Amelia, which la bet
ter known at St. Thomas. Charlotte
Amelia It a town of 12,000 Inhabitants,
and the total population of the island It
ouly a few hundred! larger. St. Thomat
containt but thirty-three tquare miles of
territory, moat of It too rocky for culti
vation. The third island In the bunch
for which the United Statet now propose!
to pay $3,240,0000, It St. John, a little
rocky islet on which lest than a thousand
people live. Altogether the purchase
would add but 34,000 people and less than
110 tquare miiet of territory to the Unit
ed Statea.
In 1807 Secretary of State Seward
made an attempt to buy theae Ulandt for
$7,500,000. The Danish government
agreed to make the tale, provided the
people of the islands were agreeable to it.
The Itev. Dr. Hawley, pastor of the
church which the Secretary attended at
Auburn, N. Y., wat tent to St. Thomas
to supervise an election held to give Uw
people a chance to expreaa their views.
On all three Islands hut twenty-two votet
were cast against the proposed anion
with the United States, several thousand
being recorded in its favor. The tentl
ment of the people was almost unani
mous. But the plan had many opponents
In Congress. Chief among these was
Senator Sumner, then the head of the
committee on foreign relations. He
pigeonholed the treaty and prevented Its
consideration for a long time.
A good many years later another at
tempt wat made to buy out Denmark's
possessions In the Caribbean. This time
the price was fixed at less than $5,000,
000, but, In spite of the reduction, It
came to nothing. Meanwhile King Chris
tian and the Danish government have
been growing increasingly anxious to
sell. Denmark is not and Is not likely to
become a great naval power, and the
chief value of the islands lies in the fact
that St. Thomas has a good harbor and
commands the gateway to the Caribbean
Sea. Besides, the islands are not self
supporting. Whatever the Islands may lack In any
other direction they are strong in his
toric and romantic interest. They were
discovered by Columbus on his second
voyage to America, in 1403. But Colum
bus was not looking for a' few little scat
tered islands, and when he found how
small they were he hoisted sail and went
away after naming them the Virgin Isl
ands. Then for more than 150 years
they lay unvisited by white men. In 1057
some adventurous Dutchmen sailed into
the splendid harbor of St. Thomas and
started a little settlement there. That
lasted for ten years. Then the Dutch
gave up the attempt, and a few years
later the Danes took their place. Since
then the English, French and Spanish
have alternated in the control of one or
more of the Islands, which finally passed
under the permanent control of Denmark
In 1815.
But the chief romantic Interest which
attaches to St. Thomas lies in the fact
that it was for years one of the headquar
ters of the famous pirates and bucca-
to face with her at last and the blood
went throbbing through his veins.
"Yes Just Ralph!" he said mechani
cally. She held out her hand, and be took It
awkwardly.
"And to think it Is you after all these
years!" she said softly.
Hlppesley did not speak. Hla
thoughts had flown back a dozen years
to the night when he had left her. An
Indefinable Idea came to him that she,
too, was thinking of the same thing.
"I won't He!" he said, abruptly. "I
am not here by chance. I heard you
were on the Riviera, and, after all these
years, I wanted to see you again Just
to see you. I bad no notion of speak
ing." She gazed at him steadily, as If try
ing to read his thoughts.
"You have loved me all this time?"
she asked, slowly.
He bowed bis head. She turned away
with a little sob.
"And you never wrote!" she cried.
"Oh, why didn't you write?'
"I was a failure such an utter fail
ure I could not write to claim you," he
said, hoarsely. "You did well; I wasn't
worth waiting for."
She looked at him, the tears glisten
ing In her eyes.
"What a Jumble Fate made of our
lives!" she sighed.
"It did not matter; you are the Prin
cess Zandra."
"Oh. I am tired, tired to death of it
all!" she cried in a tone of weariness.
"To have to live in an artificial world,
among people who are not my people
there Is no one left to me now and to
have to begin It all over again." she
added in a half-sorrowful, musing tone.
He understood. He remembered the
words he had overheard at the cafe. It
was all true then. She looked up at him
quickly with a smile.
"liut you, ttaipn--what have you
done? she asked, gently.
"For years nothing. Now, at last. I've
got a small estate in Ceylon. It's a fair
living whilst I worked hard not a bad
life, too, for a man who has lost his am
bltlons." s
"No, not a bad life," sUe repeated.
A lonely one. toougn. She gave a
little laugh there was an Infinite note
of sadness In it. "As lonely as mine has
been!"
She lifted her head, and their eyea
met He read something in ber gaze
LITTLE ISLANDS
neers who so long Infested and ravaged
the Spanish Main. Before steamships
were Invented St. Thomas waa more than
It It to-day, a roadhouse of the teat, a
tort of ocean half-way house between the
continents. Into Itt great harbor Span
ish galleons and heavily laden slave ships
ran for shelter, aud the buccaneers bang
ing close about were certain of good pick
ing. Sometimes the pirate shlpt even
purtued their prey Into the land-locked
harbor, and under the eyes of the towu
captured It.
All three of the Islands are thought to
be the topt of what were once volcanic
mountains. In aparance they are typi
cally tropical. When a ahlp tallt Into
the harbor of Charlotte Amelia, for in
stance, the passenger seet a fringe of low
white houses along the shore, shining
against a background of glossy green,
while behind and above towers a Hue of
etstely hlllt, covered for most of their
height with thick, tropical foliage. Al
most all the houtet have bright red roofs,
and the whole landscape It a riot of vivid
color. Charlotte Amelia la remarkable
among tropical cltiet in that it it ex
tremely clean a fact which must be laid
to the credit of the Danes. Its straight
etreete, lined on either tide with two
story wooden houses, are paved with as
phalt, with wide gutters on either side.
When rain falls on the hills swift cur
rentt of water rush down through these
streets, washing out the gutters and mak
ing It easier to keep the town clean.
Almost every house has a balcony across
the front of its second story.
One of the most picturesque sights to
be teen at St. Thomat is the procession
of coal carriers, which Is ceaselessly
passing from the docks down Into the
holds of vessels lying alongside. The
coal carriers are ail stalwart negro wom
en, who carry great baskets filled with
coal on their headt. They work in day
and night shifts, and after darkness falls
they ting weird tongt at they work. In
spite of the fact that the Introduction of
steam has taken much business away
from St. Thomas, It Is still a busy place,
and as a result its people have little of
the tropical lassitude and laziness about
them. They do not even stop work to
take a slests In the middle of the day.
Prior to 1848 both St. Thomas and the
larger Island of Santa Crus produced
large quantities of sugar. In that year
Denmark freed all the slaves, and as a
retult most of the negroes left the plan
tations and gathered into the towns. The
sugar planters could not get sufficient la
bor to work their plantations, and the
Industry almost disappeared. More re
cently It has been resumed on a consid
erable scale, particularly on Santa Crus,
where there Is a great quantity of fertile
land. On this Island many of the former
slaves have set up aa the proprietors of
small plantations, and Its annual produc
tion of sugar Is now 12,000 tons, a sup
ply sufficient to supply the wants of the
United States for two days.
The temperature of the Island of Santa
Crut ranges from 00 to 82 degrees. It
has many magnificent driveways, leading
through avenues of palms, tamarinds, and
bananas. There are two towns on the
island Fredericksted and Christianized.
Neither Is of any importance from a com
mercial standpoint. Practically all of the
20,000 Inhabitants of the Island speak
English, and the only sign of their alle
giance to Denmark Is the flag and a lit
tle garrison of about 100 Danish soldiers.
Fredericksted Is a tumble-down town of
stucco-covered, two-storied buildings, the
fissures In the walls and the tumbling
walls being a result of the sack of the
city In 1878, when the negroes on the
Island revolted against the Danish gov
ernment
a something Wat. sent mm ireniunug
from head to foot
... . . 1 L I.I V. 1 I
"Mv God. Esme!" he cried. "If If
you were not the Princess Zandra!"
He saw her eyea suddenly ahine, the
color rush to her cheeks.
"Remember only that I am a poor
woman again!" she whispered. "That
I've never forgotten, never could for
get " Her voice died away.
His brain was In a whirl It seemed
hardly possible.
"But the life!" he cried. "Think, af
ter ell, you've "
"I only loved once It was you I
thought had forgotten "
The low. Boft voice came to a stop.
They stood looking Into one another's
eves.
"Don't send me back to the old life
again, Ralph," she murmured. Gilbert
Dayle, In Mainly About People.
EAGLE FIGHTS A MAN.
Fierce Attack on a Maine Farmer by a
Bis Feathered Kobber.
One of the fiercest battles between
man and bird of which there Is any re
cord In Maine took place the other day
In a Washington county barnyard.
Rufus Berry, of East Machlas, and an
eagle of great size were the combat
ants.
The eagle, whose wings measured
eight feet from tip to tip. had previously
visited the barnyard and carried off one
of the farmer's sheep and had returned
for more mutton when Berry happened
to be around with a gun handy.
Berry'a first shot knocked the big
bird over and thinking the eagle was
dead he ran to secure his prize. That
was where Farmer Berry made a great
mistake. No sooner bad he touched
the bird than It rose upon him. clawing
and pecking fiercely at his eyes find face
and finally sinking Its talous deep Into
the flesh of his arm, so that although
more than willing to call It a draw, he
could not get out of the -ing.
For half an hour Betty stood the
pecking and clawing and gouging and
the fearful beating of the eagle's wings
and then backing up to a fence be man
aged to get hold of a club with which
he killed the bird.
The eagle was mounted by a Bangor
taxidermist and sold to a Milwaukee
man, who placed It In a museum
Eagles are common In the eastern and
northern parts of Maine and when at
tacked are very fierce.
HOUSE SHOE STYLES.
THEY ARE GREATLY VARIED IN
DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
Nona Can Equal American Makes for
Utlfity and Merit of Workmanehlp
Many Kindt o: Iron Footwear In Viae
In Lute Year. -
On Twelfth street near tne new cltT
hall, Is a show window that holds many
attractions for horsemen and lovers of
the curious, says the St Louis Globe
Democrat. It contains nothing but
rusty, discolored borseshoes, but such
Is the variety and character of the col
lection that It Is surpassed by but one
other In existence. Shoes ranging In
stylo aud beauty from the dainty rac
ing plate that has been worn by
thoroughbreds In record-breaking per
formances to the antiquated patterns
used more than 150 years ago are In the
collection, aud about each shoe some
thing of Interest can be told by F. C.
Snow, the owner of the collection.
Probubly the oldest and most valued
of the collection la a shoe known to
have been made by a Poutlac Indian In
1743. The shoe was for years an ex
hibit In the Detroit Historical society's
headquarters, but cume to Ha present
owner through a member of the Case
family, lu whose possession the shoe
has been kept for generations. Con
sidering the tools and the period, the
shoe is really an excellent piece of
workmanship. The calks, or toes, as
people unversed In shoeing lore would
term them, are small, the whole shoe
showing that, with the exception of the
Improvement In manufacture, the gen
eral conception of the horseshoe of that
period Is still the basis of manufacture.
Other shoes of Interest rarely seen In
these days are those for oxen. Each
ox wore eight shoes In the old days, one
on either toe on each foot Like the
horseshoes of the early part of the cen
tury, those for oxen now used In the
west have been changed but little In re
cent decades.
The smallest shoos In the collection
are those of burros from the Rockies
and old Mexico. In contrast with them
the huge shoes commonly used In Eng
land and Belgium are most noticeable.
Both the larger makes are clumsy and
exhibit poor workmanship. The aver
age size of English shoes Is greater
than that of any other country.
Comparison of American horseshoes
with those of other countries easily
gives the palm to the manufacturers
In this country. A specimen of the
French shoe of the variety known as
"country shoe" shows clumsy work
manship on a poorly shaped shoe with
which square-headed nails are used
From Arabia Mr. Snow has secured
two speclmeus of the shoes URed upon
the famous steeds of the deserts. One
is a rough-shaped plate of hammered
iron. From this blank the shoe Is
shaped to provide what horseman know
as "roller motion." The toe Is turned
up at an angle of 45 degrees, the ends
being shaped and fastened together
with a rivet Instead of being welded as
in this country. Such a shoe would kill
a horse if used tipon the cobble stones
of St. Louis.
Probably as odd a shoe as Is found In
the collection is one that was used In
Ireland. The iron shoe proper is of
common pattern, save that It has two
lugs, or projections, pierced with screw
holes. By means of screws the shoe Is
fastened to a board platform two In
dies thick and about twelve Inches
square. When It Is desired to use the
horse upon one of the peat bogs the
wooden platform Is screwed or bolted
fast to the horse's shoe. Despite the
awkwardness of such footwear the wear
ers soon learn to avoid stumbling and
make surprising headway. Similar
shoos are worn in the peat bogs of
California.
Among the new varieties of shoes are
those with a rubber heel plate or cush
Ion, designed to break the concussion
of the heavy blows struck by horses
when moving rapidly over granite pave
ments. Such shoes are worn by the
horses In the city ambulance service
Among the other curious In the collec
tion are mule shoes from Havana and
Santiago, one from Guayamos, Porto
Rico, near which battery A came bo
close to a baptism of fire. Shoes from
Australia and from a dozen other coun
tries, all of which are little better In
workmanship that those used In this
country half a century ago, and not
equal to the shoes worn by the average
dray horse In this country. Though
many nallless shoes have been Invent
ed, they have never been successful.
CHINESE TEACUPS.
They Are Rapidly Growing- in Favor
In Weatern Countries.
Although It Is several centuries since
Occidentals adopted Chinese tea as a
dally beverage It Is only of late that
they have begun to use the Chinese tea
service. Like all Mongolian lnstitu
tlons, it Is the opposite of our own. The
service consists of a metal stand In
which rests a large cup. Over the cup
fits a saucer and alongside of it Is sta
tioned a little cup scarcely larger than
an egg. The metal stand is of brass or
bronze, though wealthy mandarins use
silver and even gold. The large cup
should be of the handsomest porcelain,
It is very rarely plain. The commonest
variety have a nionocrome field on
which are enameled leaves and flowers
In color. Another beautiful variety Is
made of crackle ware, on whose sur
face Is wreathed a bronze dragon
Swatow cups are generally decorated
with little crabs, iflshes. beetles or lo
custs In natural color and high relief,
while Nanking cups are tinged with
sang de boeuf, Imperial blue, or impe
rial yellow. The saucer should be of
the same material, according to the
tastes of the owner.
The service Is placed before the
fi-uests at the beginning of the meal A
iemall quantity of tea leaves Is thrown
Into the large cup, covered with boil
ing water. To keep the steam in the
saucer Is Inverted over the cup. It is
allowed to stand for two minutes end
then the guest, holding the large cup
with the thumb and middle finger and
guiding the saucer with the forefinger,
strains and pours the fluid Into the lit
tle cup. It seems simple, but until a per
son has practiced repeatedly it Is a very
difficult task. The average Occidental
caida hla fingers and drop the tea on
the table, and often lets fall the cup
and saucer together. The large cup will
fill the tmall cup three times, and then
boiling water Is again poured over the
leaves. If tho leaf be of tine quality
the second drawing Is about as good as
the first. After the second drawing la
finished the cup la removed, the spent
leaves are thrown away and a fresh 3
aupply 1 put In their place. The ser
vice is a very Important element lu the
Chinese household. The cheapest aet
costs ten cents In China and twenty-
five centa lu New York. The figure
run up from this limit, and when crack
le ware, porcelain and silver stands are
employed they reach $3 and $0. New
York Evening Post
GOOD
j Short Storle$
The painter Mokart, who was some
times as taciturn as Von Moltke, sat
for an hour one evening at dinner next
to the soubrette, Josephine Gallmeyer,
without volunteering a word. Finally
she lost patience, and exclaimed:
"Well, dear master, suppose we change
the subject"
Tho. following unique claim Is posted
on a mine In the Grand Encampment,
In Wyoming: "We found It, aud we
claim it by the right of founding it. It's
our'n. It's 750 feet In every direction
except southwest and northeast, aud
there Is 300 feet on each side of this
wrltlu'. It's called the 'Bay Horse,'
and we claim even the spurs, and we
don't want nobody jumping on this
Buy Horse that's what's these trees
Is arouud hero for, and we've got the
same piece of rope that we bad down
In old Missouri."
During a confirmation tour In the dio
cese of Peterborough, the late Bishop
of London put up one eveulng at an
old manor house, and slept In a room
supposed to be haunted. Next morning
at breakfast the Bishop was asked
whether he had seen the ghost "Yes,"
he replied, with great solemnity, "but
I have laid the spirit; It will never trou
ble you again." Being further ques
tioned upon the subject, the Bishop
said: "The ghost Instantly vanished
when I asked for a subscription toward
the restoration of Peterborough Cathe
dral." Tim Murphy, the popular comedian,
saw an old colored woman sitting un
der an awning fanning herself, when
he was In Washington, D. C. "It's
dreadfully hot, isn't It mammy?" ask
ed Mr. Murphy. " 'Deed It Is, chile,"
said the old woman; "'deed It Is.
'Taln't right for It to be so hot thls-a-woy.
I tell you, forty years ago, when
the blessed Lawd made the weather,
we didn't have these stewing days,
honey, no, 'deed, we didn't; but now
these blggety men up at this here
weather office has the making of the
weather, they does send us anything
they please, and they ain't skillful,
chile, they ain't skillful."
Lord Ratbmore has told a friend how
he once took "Oulda" In to dinner and
how disappointed he was to find that
the novelist devoted herself to the
dishes rather than to Intellectual re
freshment He said at last, In despair
at having only been able to get "Yes"
and "No" In answer to the different
subjects he Introduced: "I'm afraid I'm
singularly unfortunate In my choice of
topics. Is ther? anything we could
talk about to Interest you?" To which
the chronicler of Society's shortcom
ings replied: "There Is one thing which
would Interest me very much. Tell me
about the duchesses; I have written
about them all my life and never met
one yet."
Not long ago an American professor
attended a reception in the royal pal
ace, given by the Kaiser to an associa
tion of scientists, at which William ap
peared In the gorgeous robes of royalty,
preceded by liveried chamberlains
bearing the crown and Insignia. It was
a most impressive display, and when
the professor came away he said to a
friend: "I am a republican to the back
bone, but I believe that if monarchs
ore necessary they should be monarchs
to the last bit of gold lace, Just as
William is Kaiser." The next day bis
friend had an audience with the Kai
ser, and in the course of the conversa
tion told him what the American pro
fessor had said. The Kaiser laughed
heartily. "That Is exactly what I be
lieve," he said; "Dom Pedro of Brazil
illustrated the folly of trying to be a
republican on a throne."
How You Spend Your Life.
Did you ever stop to Inquire how you
actually occupy the hours of your life?
Supposing you are an average business
man, how will your account on the book
of time appear when It is balanced at
the end of three-score and ten years?
The largest Item will be sle-p, whleb
has consumed twenty-flve jea-s--a lit
tle more than one-third of your life. It
counted rapidly during childhood, less
rapidly In age, and was at a minimum
during the working days of middle life.
Those working days will count twenty
one years, and In the course of them
you will read for two years and write
for a year and seven mouths. The next
Item will be that of pleasure, which
will have consumed nine years, and
your walking will have consumed six
and one-half years more. Then your
eating acounts will show that you
have sat at the table, stood at lunch
counters or cuddled elsewhere for five
years. You will also have a dressing
account of three and one-half years,
which will have been devoted to but
toning and unbuttoning remember It
is a man who is being considered. In
this dressing account yon will find eight
Charged to bathing account and seven
months to shaving. New York Herald.
Seattle's Proposed Canal. 0
Seattle purposes to build a canal
eight miles long from Puget sound to
Lake Washington, which Is twenty
miles long and 200 feet deep, and will
make an Ideal harbor.
A good many women too good to gos
sip take care to invite several lively
gossips to their parties, in order to
keep the guests from going to sleep.
The man who never forgives a favor
or forgets an Injury isn't apt to mak
a desirable friend.
SUPPOSE WE SMILE.
HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM
THE COfIO PAPERS.
pleasant Incident Occurring the
World Over-Saying that Are Cheer
ful to Old or Young-Funny r-elev
tlon that Everybody Wilt Kujoy.
"Yes; she rejected him after accept
ing attention from him for a yeur."
"I thluk he waa entitled to more con
ilderatlon." "O! I don't know. I thluk she was
considering him all the time." Puck.
After tha Hot One.
Huskluby (chuckllngly)-It wuz 12
below aero by my thermometer at 5
o'clock this mornlu', nu' III Badgely's
on'y showed nine below at thet hour.
Rubenhay (disdainfully) Huh! Mine
registered twenty-three below at that
very time.
Husklnby By gosh! How much will
yew take tew boot au' trade? Puck.
Inalde tha Man.
First Grip Germ Ugh! What's
wrong with this man's protoplasm any
how? Second Grip Gertn-Oh, he's taking
ten grains of qulnlue every throe hours;
let'a vamoose. tlhlo State Journal.
Hut.
McSwlgan-I don't like that goat thet
comes Into our back yard.
Mrs. MeSwigan But
MeSwigan Exactly; that's why I
don't like It. Ohio State Journal.
Irate Householder Say! If you'll
stop playing "Hot Time," I'll give you
a nickel!
Antonio "Holy City," five cents;
"Hot Time," ten cents.
Insurance Paper Pleme Copy.
'I should think it would be pretty
hard for you, with such a large family,
to live on such a small Income."
"But," replied the family man, "con
elder how much harder It would be for
my family If I were to die on It." Phil
adelphla Press.
Her Opinion of Compliment.
"No," said Miss Cayenne, "I don't
care for people who continually pay
compliments."
"But it shows an amiable disposi
tlon."
'Perhaps. But to me the habit re
minds me that some people are willing
to pay only what costs them nothing
and what they don't really owe."
Washington Star.
Girl Ueiially Do.
"Have you Moore's poems?" Inquired
the sweet young thing.
"I think so, miss; I'll look In a min
ute," replied the clerk lu the book
store. "By the way, here's a fine new
story Just out. It's called 'Just One
Kiss.' and "
"I want Moore," she Interrupted
haughtily. Philadelphia Press.
Might Kesnlt Fatally.
Woman If yon will saw that wood
for me I will give you a good, square
meal.
Tramp I would, lady, but I had my
fortune told yesterday and the gypsy
said heart disease was going to carry
me off, so I must be very careful.
For the Landlord.
Rlgby Was the banquet an enjoya
ble one?
Sturgis From the landlord's point of
view, yes. He got a big price for a
mighty poor layout Boston Tran
script. Friendly Intercut.'
"She fell in love with me at tho last
Covent Garden ball, old man!"
"Really? How were you disguised,
old fellow?" Scrape.
Hard to 1 eclde.
"How that woman glared at you?"
"Yes; I've either bowed to her when
I don't know her, or else I know her
and haven't bowed to her."
Won d Like Some.
"What do you And in that stupid old
paper to keep you so busy?" petulantly
asked Mrs. Youngcouple.
"1 was just looking at the money
market," he answered.
"Oh, do they have a money market?
Are there ever any bargains?" Indi
anapolis Tress.
Qualified.
Section Foreman Do you think you
can boss a gang of men?
Mr. Bear I think so; I've had my
own way during thirty years of mar
ried life. Ohio State Journal.
Welcome Heady.
The Boss Mr. BJonson, If you can't
keep up with your work better, we
ahall have to look for another man.
BJonson I'm glad to hear that. Pre
been thinking all along that I was do
ing enough work for two. Indianapo
lis Press.
Professional Rate.
t Erenln It tTp,
"They have a new barber ihon !a
Baltimore where every feature Is run
on antiseptic principles."
"It's a Dlty they cannot carry It to
the point where some of the patron
could be treated to an antiseptic Lata
before entering the place." Cleveland
Plalu Dealer.
He Wa One. j
Snappy That's what Jars me. )
Sappey What'a that?
SuaiiDv Oh. some neoule are never
satisfied to take things as they are,
but always want to know tho why
and wherefore.
Sappey That's so. I wonder why It
Is. Philadelphia Press.
Shocking.
"Tlr ffiim! if the women in ther cltT
ain't so bold an brazen that er modest
one hez ter hang out er slgu telllu er
bout It."
Another Chance.
Susan I Just hate these conundrum
fiends.
Kitty Indeed! Why?
Susan Because the other evening
Mr. Stubbing asked me "Will you be
my wife?" ami when I said "Yes," he
said he would give me another guess.
Detroit Free Press.
Love in a Cottage.
"Will you be satisfied with love In
a cottage?" he oaked.
"Yes," she replied, confidently, for
she had heard that the cottage was
located at Newport Philadelphia Rec
ord. The Unconqnerable.
"Why don't you discourage him If
you don't care for him?"
"Oh, he won't be discouraged. He
is really In love."
Characteristic.
"Woman has no se,nne of humor."
"No; but she seems to have an awful
sense of being humored."
Mr. Tattered Hedges Howdy, Bill,
whatcher think of me uew Raglan
overcoat?
Well, Weill
"Old Crouch went to the masquerade
the other night disguised as a bear."
"Did anyone recognize him?"
"Nobody but his wife." Detroit Free
Press.
Present Need.
"Yes, that's a beautifully bound book
of your sermons, Mr. Straltlace. Well,
no, George hasn't read It yet, He only
has time to read at night, you know.
Yes, he understands it's for the saving
of souls. But George Is so practical.
He thought he'd rather save his eyes
first." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Correct, if Not Grammatical.
Johnny Pa, Aunt Hannah says bolls
are healthy. Shouldn't she say "health
ful?" Wise Father Well, your aunt didn't
mean to be grammatical, but I guess
she was this time. It is the boil that
Is healthy, .not the fellow who carries
It around. Boston Transcript.
Wise Hird.
"Give us a proof of your boasted
wisdom," cried a lot of chattering
magpies to the owl.
"I will," he said, and flew away.
Philadelphia Times.
Her Triumph.
"She seems so happy. Did she marry
him for love or for money?"
"Neither. She took him to spite a lot
of other girls." Chicago Times-Herald.
No Chance to Talk.
Black Mumsey Is not a good conver
sationalist. White No, he was the only boy In a
family of nine children. Cleveland
Leader.
Invented by a Lunatic.
The resident physician of one of the
largest lunatic asylums In Great Brlaln
stated, as on Instance of the cleverness
of lunatics, that n very valuable Im
provement connected with machinery,
and now in daily use everywhere, was
invented by the inmate of an asylum,
well known to everyone by name. As
the Inventor was afterwards quite
cured, and became a prominent man,
the physician did not give any details,
but the Invention, designed and model
led as a diversion while absolutely In
sane, has brought him In thousands of
pounds. Another lunatic Invented a
simple automatic contrivance for the
head of a lawn-tennis racquet, to pick
up the balls and abolish stooping. It
acted perfectly, and the asylum doctor
advised his friends to secure a patent
for him in case he should become cured.
. Can't Iat Forever.
Hopely "What seems to trouble your
baby?"
Popley (wearily) "I suppose It trou
bles him to think that eventually he'll
have to go to sleep at night." Philadel
phia Press, o
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