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White Hand f A Tela of the Early Settlers! cf Louisiana. X BY AUSTIN C. BURDICK t CHAPTER XI.-(Continaed.) Coquslla blushed and bung down her bead when aha taw the people gazing upon ber, and her companion trembled violent!. But they were not left long in suspense. Stung Serpent was absent; 'but the Qreat Sun stepped down from the elevated seat that be occupied, and from one of the attendants be took a bow and an arrow, and a crown of feathers, to which was affixed an oak twig. The latter he placed upon White Hand's head, and the weapons he placed in his band. Then to Coquslla the old chief gave a laurel twig and an ear of corn. "My son," then spoke the Great Sun, . in a solemn and impressive tone, "I, as the eldest male relative of the bride, do now bestow her upon thee. Thou hast ' been crowned with the plumage of the soaring bird, which signifleth the power of command you shall exercise in the household. The twig of oak tells us that the depth of no forest can prevent thee from procuring food in, times of need; while the bow and arrow in thy hand signifleth that even unto death thou wilt protect her who Is now given nnto thee for a wife." Then the Great Sun turned to the bride: "Coqualla, In thy hand thou boldest the twig of laurel the emblem of purity. So wilt thou ever remain pure and unsullied, that the green laurel may be no more pure than art thou. The ear of corn thou hast also assumed. Never let thy household want for food whilst thou art thus provided." Then the chieftain resumed bis seat, and the same old man who bad led White Hand to the temple stepped forward and delivered a sort of sermon, after which the couple were hailed as man and wife. In the midst of these rejoicings, the en trance to the house was darkened, and In a moment more Stung Serpent stood within the place. He looked upon White Hand, and his brow darkened, but a close observer could have seen that the look was assumed. , "Who hath done this?" he demanded, In a loud tone. "I, my brother," answered the Great Sun. "They loved each other well, and I gave thy child away." Stung Serpent bowed his head a few moments, and when he looked up again his brow was clear. "Then my promise Is made void," he said; "for no man can harm the husband of his child. White Hand, thon art safe with ns; but remember thine oath!" "The husband of thy child will not break his promise," spoke the White Hand, solemnly. "It Is well. I am In season for the fes tivities." And thereupon the festivities commenc ed, and they were kept up till late In the evening, and then the newly married couple were conducted to a dwelling that the king himself gave them. It was just back of the house of Stung Serpent, and was within the line of the great circle of " dwellings, but its post of honor was marked by its nearness to the abode of the Great Sun. After the newly married pair had been conducted to their dwelling, the youth felt a hand upon bis arm, and on turning be saw the Great Sun. "White Hand," he said, "follow me, for the Great Sun of the Natchez has much to say to thee." Full of wonder, the youth followed tlie king from the place, but he did not fear, for there was only kindness in the tones of the monarch. On they went until they reached a gigantic oak that stood in the very center of the village, and here the Great Sun stopped. "White Hand." he said, in a low, sol emn tone, "thou bast sworn to my broth er that thou wilt not betray' thyself to thy countrymen, nor leave the village of the White Apple without our consent. Only six miles from here is the fort and village of the white man; so thou seest bow great is the trust we repose in thee." "Yet I will not break my word," said the youth, while a spirit of awe crept over him. There was something grand and sublime in the scene about him, and he could not shake off the impression that a sort of mystic fate was being worked out In all this. The heavens were without a cloud, and the myriad stars were twinkling like tiny eyes of fire away off in the dark vault. The broad, smooth . plain stretched off like a mystic lake, while the huts of the Nat. hez were dim ly visible in the great circle. "White Hand." resumed the dark . monarch, "I do not think that the Great Spirit of our people Is the same God that made the white man. The country away beyond the great salt lake, they tell me, is full of white men, and your God has given them laws not like onr laws. They pray to their God for vengeance on the Natchex, and the dread vengeance comes. Like the swift storm at night, and like the bound of the beast of prey, It comes upon us. My ton, thou canst pray?" "Yes," murmured the youth. "Then wilt thou not pray for tht Nat cheaT Wilt thou not pray that He will tend no more calamities upon us? Thou art good, and true, and noble. What say-, est thou?" A strange truth now flashed npon the youth's mind. The Indians, In their sim ple dread of the white man's God, bad believed that If they could possess one of the true worshipers of that God, and persuade him to intercede for them, tht calamities that resulted from the prayers of their enemies might be averted. Yet White Hand did not wonder, for he kntw bow simple were the ldeat that the red men entertained Of their own Deity. And, moreover, he kaew that the Indians had often heard tht monks praying, and when bt remembered bow direct and common were tht tppealt thut made, ht did not question tht influence It mutt hsvt upon those who were wont to regard Deity at a being to bt propitiated with gifts and outer show. The youth's first thought Was to try and correct tht error Into which tht chief had fallen; but when ht came to reflect that In tuch a work ht thonld havt to uproot the prejudices of a lifetime, he resolved to do as was ask ed of him. "Great and mighty king." said tht youth, In a tone that gaveeTldenc of hit truth, "I think God will answer my pray ers as quickly as those of any of my peo ple, and to far as the Nan-bet art In tht right, will I pray for them." "And thou wilt tell him all the wrongs wt suffer, and til the indignities tbst art leaped upon n?' "I will." replied White Hand. "Then thou shalt be tht well-beloved of the Natchea. Let us return now, and as wa go, I will tell thee more. Tb white chief at Rosalie It called Cbopart. He is a bad man, and a liar. I dare not tell the all tht evil bt hat dont. But be bat robbed nt of onr cattle, and wt can havt no reires. Ht bat eacroa heJ upon our lands, and wa cannot drlvt him off. But O! the day of deckoning must come. Beware, my ton, that thou lettest not thy sympathy run with these bad men, for the hour is nigh at hand the hour of vengeance and retribution!" The king spoke no more, only to bid White Hand good-night when they reach ed the dwelling and soon the youth was with his princess. Truly his situation wss a strange one, and that night ht prayed long and fervently, but bt dared not let his wife know all his prayer. CHAPTER XII. On the very evening that White Hand reached the village of the White Apple a party of Chickasaws stepped upon the northern shore of Lake Poutchartraln, They were ten in number, and with them was a prisoner, who now reclined against a small hickory tree. Her silken gown Is torn and soiled by the thorns and bushes through which she has been led, and tht thin shoes are worn through till the feet have become sore and bleeding; for the way sht has come has been a bard one, and many sharp bramble has bestrewn the path. But she rests now. The flames dart op from a fire near at hand. Sick and faint, sht sinks down upon the soft mossy bed at the foot of the tree, and ere long all ber dangers and troubles art forgotten In sleep. The fair prisoner ever and anon starts up with frightful dreams, until at lcngtli, when the night is far spent, she Is arous ed by strange sounds near at hand, amid which she can distinguish the clash of arms and the hum of angry voices. The Idea of escape breaks upon her mind. A moment she gazes around, and she sers men In conference about her, with weap ons drawn, and voices raised as if in an ger. She moves only a step, and a band is laid upon ber shoulder. A stout Chick asaw holds her fust and tells ber she cannot escape. In a moment more the Chickasaw is pushed rudely aside, and Louise looks up into the moon-lit face of Simon Lobois I "Ha!" he cries, with well-assumed as tonishment, "and was my suspicion cor rect? Have I found my beloved thus dragged away by ruthless savages? Early this morning a runner brought the news to New Orleans that a white girl was be ing carried off by the Chickasaws, and that their trail bent towards the great lake. A mystic voico whispered thy name In my ear. Why it was I know not; but I started, and I have found thee. Look up, sweet Louise, for thou art safe. Thon art rescued I" The maiden's first emotion wined to be to shrink from the white man, but in a moment more she gave him her band. ""And am I free from these savages?" she asked, gazing first Into Simon's fare and then upon the motley crew about her. "Ay, thou art, Louise. Do you not see that they are all quelled? Heaven must have directed me to this spot. Fear no more, for thon shalt be safe with me." Under any other circumstances, Louise might have been frantic with joy at such salutation, but now she was moved by so many conflicting doubts that the coming of the rescuers seemed to move her but little. By the bright moonlight she could see the crew about ber, and they did not look like deadly enemies. No one was wounded, nor did any one appear to be hurt. To be sure, there had been the sound of strife, but it may have only been a mock battle after all. At any rate, so ran the maiden's thoughts, though she kept them to herself. "Come," continued Simon, after wait ing some moments for an answer that he did not receive "come with me now. The savages will not dare to hurm you more, nor win tney flare moaest us. Louise suffered herself to be led to the shore of the lake, and there she found two boats In waiting. She had been seat ed in one of them when the chief of the Chickasaw party came down and called Simon back. A bitter smile stole over the maiden's face as she saw this, and her suspicions were well confirmed -wh'. n she saw Lobois follow the red man up the bank. But the cousin returned in a few moments, and having seated himself by the side of Louise, the boats were manned and shoved off. 1 "The red dog wanted me to promise that I would not eiposo his crime to the Governor," said Simon, after the boats had got well into the lake. "I would have made them all prisoners, only that I feared you might be harmed in the melee. You did not notice how we came upon them, and what first occurred, did you?" Simon gazed sharply inlo his companion's face as be thus spoke, as though he would read any suspicion she might hold. "t saw nothing until I was grasped by the shoulder," she truthfully replied, "for I was sound asleep when you came." "So I thought. But I will explain: One of the men who accompanied me knew the various trails that lead to the lake, and he guided us here. We landed, and we found the Iniliaus asleep, all save one; but they were upon their feet by the time we were np with them, and I saw that some of them had guns. At that moment I espied you a Bleep upon the ground. In an instant I forbade my men to fire, for I feared you might be hit I told the leader of the Indians that be was discovered, and that if be did not give up his prisoner, I would have tht wholt French force down npon his peo ple before another sun had set. And I furthermore told him that if ho would quietly deliver up the maiden, we would not harm him. A scuffle ensued between some of the red men and two of my com panions, but we quickly stopped it, and the Indians agreed to give you up if wt would let them depart in peace. I con tented, and yon know the rest Was it not fortunate that I beard the report this morning? and was It not very fortunate that heaven whispered to me that you might be the prisoner?" "It was very fortunate," returned Lou ise. "And perhaps you think it was strange," added Simon. "But yet I bad lomt ground for the fear. The runner told mt that tht Indians were on the Tlckfah trail, and I could think of no place from whence they could have brought a young wbita maiden captiva In that direction tavt from the estate of our father. I tay our father, for surely be has been a father to me. The more I thought of the matter, the more con firmed my feart becamt. A Fren. h ship Isy In tht river, and I easily hired some of her men to come with me. O, Louise, do you realise how great Is the blessing thns fallen upon you? What must have been your fatt bad I not found yon as I dldr But tbt maiden did not reply. Sht wat thinking bow flimsy and improbable was the story her companion had told, and she wondered if he thought her such a simpleton as to believe all he said. "Do you realize what a fate must have been yours?" 8imon urged. "A dca:b of torture, or a life of misery." "I know tht Indians are sometimes re vengeful, but I do not think they would have murdered a defenseless girl," said Louise. "Ah, yon do not know them. You do not know thett Chickasaws. They art monsters of cruelty!" "Aad yet they have been very kind to me." "Kind, Louise? Then why are yon so' pal and wan? and why so feeble?" "Beoatw I am not well. I am sick. Last tight I bad a severe fever, but my captors prepared tome medicine from roots that they found in the earth, and it relieved ma at once." "Ah, that was but to hold you up on your journey. But you are tick, even now. Let me fix a place for repose." Simon spread a blanket upon the boat's bottom in the stern sheets, and fixed it so that Louise could lay her head upon one of the thwarts, and when this wat fixed, Bbe availed herself of the oppor tunity for rest thus afforded, for she was in truth sick and faint, and ber bead ached. It was not all the result f mere fatigue or fright, but disease hod abso lutely fastened upon her a alight cold, perhaps, at first, but now verging to a fever. Yet Louise slept, and when she awoke, she found the sun shining down full np on her, and tht boat bad reached the southern shore. She was assisted to laud, but she could not walk. However, horses were at hand, and when she was seated in the saddle, the party started across the land towards New Orleans, which they reached before noon. Thj place contained not more than a hundred dwellings, and those were humble and primitive in form. The territory of the town had been laid out into squares, sixty-Bix in number, of three hundred feet each. These squares were eleven in number upon the river, and six In depth; so that with all the obstacles of the nat ural state of the land, its geographical position had marked It out la the mind of its founder as the nucleus of a mighty city. His quick and comprehensive mind understood the advantages of the position in a .commercial point of view, for he saw th.;t here was the natural point between ocean and inland navigation. To a low, wooden house on Bourbon street was Louise conducted, and at her own request she was at once shown to a bed, and a physician sent for. An old negro woman, named Loppa, came to wait upon her, and in a little while the physician came. He was an old man, and well skilled in drugs. He examined the patient's pulse, her tongue, and ask ed numerous questions, and then an nounced that with care she might be well In a very few days. During the rest of that day and the following night, Louise saw no more of Simon Lobois. Her head ached much, but finally the old doctor's potions quiet ed the nervous action, and late in the evening she sank Into a gentle slumber. On tin-- following morning she felt much better, so that the doctor smiled when he came. In three days from that time she was fairly recovered from her dis ease, though she was very weak, partly from the severe shock she had received, and partly from the effects of the medi cines she had taken. At all events, the physician deemed It not necessary to call again, and only ordered now that his pa tient's diet should be strictly attended to. As Louise thus began to regain her strength, she wondered when Simon Lo bois would take her home. She had ask ed him once, but had gained no direct an swer. (To be continued.) GOAT IS WORTH A BIQ SUM. Two Thuand Dollar la Asked for a 1 ocj Mountain f peel men. Mr. Pugh, of Vancouver, B. C, has the only Kooky Mountain goat ever captured alive, and he wanls $2,000 for it. It Is the opinion of many that the animal Is well vorth that sum. Mr. Tugh is a hunter, trapper and taxidermist, and when, two years ago, the Vancouver "zoo" offered ?2,000 for a live specimen of the Uoeky Mountain goat be resolved to win the prize. Oth ers bad spent thousands of dollars In trying to fill the zoo's order, but In vain. The mountain goat, the shyest, but among the most beautiful of ani mals, resisted all attempts at capture. Finally a kid was secured and nursed for a month on a bottle just where It was caught, at a very high altitude. It grew lusty and was safely landed In England. Then came Mr. Pugb's suc cessful attempt, from which he has Just returned. Ills plan was a novel one. He and two companions traveled into a land of eternal snows,, forty miles up Squa mlsh River, British Columbia, where no white man bad ever been. As antici pated, he found that the wild animals goats, tears, wolves, marten, fisher, etc. did not fear mnn as much as each other. He soon caught seven kids, but the beautiful creatures all died when they struck the lower atmosphere. His only hope was to capture a yearling. At last, after stnlklng one for three days, be drove It onto a ledge two feet wide running along a perpendicular cliff. His companions then tied a rope around bis waist and lowered him to the ledge, 500 feet below. The goat trotted along until the ledge pinched out. Then, standing on Its bind legs, It clawed the air like a waltzing horse. Below the beast-was a drop of 1,500 feet, with nothing even for a mountain goat to cling to. On one side was va cant space, on the other side a man. Mr. Fugh allowed the creature to lire Itself out pawing the air and the side of the cliff above, when It deliberately crouched down at his feet, and, look ing pleadingly Into his eyes, waited to be devoured. Mr. Tugh held the goat unresisting in his arms and goat and man were haul ed to the top of the cliff. A dozen other unsuccessful attempts were made. In some cases the goats leaped 100 feet and escaped from their pursuers. The kids captured leaped 30 or 40 feet In their attempts to get away, but In their youthful folly landed In the deep snow. The goat captured became tame before reaching the valley and ate out of Its captor's hand. The More the Merrier. At a certain country manor In Hon. byshlre there lived many years ago a1 jwutiu o'iuiic, uiucu is uiucu lor nis love of a good Joke as for his sporting propensities. Being out hunting one day, he rode so well that tbe only rider In front of him was his servant, Sam my. He, however, soon disappeared, as. in vaulting a hedge, he' dropped into an ! old disused quarry on the other side. The squire, close pn Sammy's heels, Immediately followed. He fcund Sam mv shoutins: warning as hnril m lungs would permit, but he stopped him with: "Snm! Sam! Fnm! tha' silly fool; in." London Spare Moments. Memory. From 123 answers to questions pub fished two or three years ago, .Tess;s. V and C. Henri find that a person's flrt memory mey be of an extt nt occurring as early as the age of 6 months or as late at 8 yeara-2 to 4 years being tht usual sge. LrSJlfo: i . rP J OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Shall We Fly by 1904? THE United States Commissioner of ratenta declare that In bla opinion one ot the chief problems In progress to be dealt wltti In the coming years Is aerial navigation. Experience, he asserts, baa "dem onstrated Its practicability;" and he ventures the prediction that when the difficulties that stand In the way are overcome, American brains will do the work. This assumption may be rather far-f etched, for It must be confessed that the greatest advance made In this direc tion has not been scored by a citizen of the United States, but by a young Brazilian, Santos-Dumont. But the head of. the Patent Office doubtless has In mind the numerous applications for patents for flying devices which have been made by Yankee Inventors, and It may be that sooner or later, the nation which has done so much to forward use ful invention will succeed In solving this problem also. At any rate, a generation which has just seen trans Atlantic message exchanged without the medium of wires should riot be uuduly skeptical regarding future achieve ments. Whether really useful flying machines are de vised by Americans or foreigners Is a minor matter. The possibility that within the next twelve months some ma terial advance may be made toward their construction is one of the phases which promises to add to the Interest of life "during that period, Philadelphia Bulletin. r When Should a M&n Marry? NOT, When should a young man or an - old man or a middle-aged man or any astronom ical edition of man marry? but, When should a'man marry ?- Marriage presumes youth. The bride particularly Is never old. The groom mny have white hair, but, bless your soul. It's the violet under the snow that tells the season. The widower with six children who Is going to marry the widow with five may seem mentally superannuated, but who can say? Matrimony despises calendars and age distinctions. ' All people about to marry are youngand that ends the first part of the discussion. Now the second part Is more prosaic. General Corbln still pleads that army officers should not marry too early. Love, he Intimates, cannot thrive on a lieutenant's pay. A bishop stands before a conference In the South and says preachers should avoid early marriages. In four recent articles we have rend rich men advise the Juniors to go slow on the matrimonial market. So It runs. Some of these advice-givers married early, and when brought to book by that fact, think they save themselves by declaring that conditions nowadays are different. But It Is a million to a cancelled stamp that If they bad it to do over again under modern conditions they would be ahead of their first records. When should a man marry? About half -past after be falls In love. Baltimore Herald. I The Proper Use of Leisure. TIME, as somebody has said, Is the stuff that life Is made of, and we ought to keep a strict ac count of bow we spend It The evening is the leisure time of most men, and leisure should not be wasted In Idleness, but should be turned to use: Every man and woman ought to read tome good book for an hour or two hours each day. Hav- lng resolved to do this, a man ought to make It a solemn duty, as It were a religious office, to stick to bis resolution. SHE KNW HISTORY. How an Indiana Girl Snrprlted Yonnn Man in Chicago. At the athletic Club the other night this was George Ade's contribution to the stories that went around tbe table: "Dear papa struck a gas well down on the Indiana farm," said he, "and Maybelle and mother came to Chicago to see life. The first night dear May belle went Into society she made good with a young fellow who was home from college for the holidays. His father owned four or five banks and a few railroads, and he was the catch of the season. He bad his name down on Maybelle's dance card so often that all tbe other girls began to talk about her. About the time they began to call for carriages Archibald said he wanted to call at ber hotel the follow ing night. " 'I must ask mamma first,' said she. Mamma said she was foolish to grab him and hold him tight. Wise mamma bad sized him up as a catch. Maybelle had a scheme, though, and told bim be mustn't call for two days. "Then Maybelle hunted up her dear est Indiana friend, and asked what she ought to do to make herself solid with Archibald. Maybelle was a little shy on polite conversation and she wanted pointers. " 'He's a college man, and I must be careful what I talk about," she de clared. "'History is always a good topic," said her friend. Tut in all your time from now until to-morrow night read ing some history. English history is a cinch. ' "Maybelle got an English history and never let loose of It for two dava and most of both nights, and by tbe ttroe Archibald was due she could tell the date of everything from the relsn of Alfred the Great to the Boer war and back again. "Well, Mr. Archibald called. M.: telle was a trifle disappointed when, ln- steaa or putting on a lot of dog, he seized her hand and shook it like any ordinary person, without assuming tbe txpectea abstracted air and running his fingers through bis hair. In fact, he started right In giving Maybelle her own bunch of talk about what a pretty dress she bad on, and bow he liked her dancing, and rearetted thst aha did not have blm call the previous night as well and a lot of tbe regular line that she would have enjoyed down borne. "But Maybelle bad not read English history without an object, and she never budged even when the strangle hold got Archibald's conversation for a minute. But Archibald got hie sec ond w;ind pretty qnlck and continued the hot air until suddenly be was all in. "Then came Maybelle's chance. She had listened for twelve and a half min utes to Archibald's commonplace, and now she was minor ta show him that she knew a thing or two. So in the middle of a painful silence she gazed conqneringiy at Archibald and ex claimed: "Wasn't that awful about Mary, Queen of Scots T "Archibald started, stared, and stam mered: " 'Why! What about her? "'My goodness! Didn't you know that the poor thing had her bead cut OUT asked Maybelle proudly. thing to do. San Isult of their gled In this lng, but with Into operation, and guaranteed freedom division on an present time and laboratories, shall divide their men and women. Instruction Is all other sex Is not around. Pittsburg Press. I rtous than a cut 1 lng quickly, and way-would seem more probable of the typhoid bacillus. to cut himself as Lancet "And then Archibald asked for Ice water." Chicago Inter Ocean. . THE PLANTATION MULE. He It Sagacious and Qnlck' Wtttad in Manv Beepecta. "Tbe plantation mule has a curious aud interesting way of calling out the time of day," said a man from Mia slppl to the New Orleans Times-Dem ocrat, "and with men who have spent any considerable length of time on a big plantation In any section of this country south of Mason and Dixon's line I suppose the1 observation Is very common. Mules are wonderfully saga cious and quick-witted in some re spects. They are particularly apt In learning things which have to do with bodily comfort; such things, for in stance, as relates to feed time, water ing time, and so forth. But the par ticular thing I bad in mind was tbe habit of mules along about turning in time at the noon hour, and la tht evening. They have a way of tell ing the time, and when more than one mule is to be found in tbe field, they have a way of calling out to each other. They bray at eacb other. One curious fact In connection with tbe habit Is that they are never be hind time with their braying. At the noon hour they never wait until the time for the dinner horn to sound. They call out to each other, and in a short while yon will be certain to bear the horn blow. As a rule they are only a few minutes ahead of time with tbelr braying, which shows bow accurately they reason with respect to tbe time of the day. This habit furnishes a part of the music of the big plantation, and It may be said that tbe mule Is the leader of the farm orchestra, for the negroes invariably follow the first call of the mule with a halloo pe culiar to tbe negro farm hand, and the sound Is taken np again and again un til every mule and every negro on the place bat joined In tbe strange orches tration. You can Imagine what this means on a plantation containing thou sands of acres, and where many mules and many negroes are scattered over a vast cultivated plateau. It Is an In spiring sort of thing to the man not familiar with plantation life, but a man long accustomed to It becomes dead to the sounds, and scarcely no tices them. The point I had in mind, however, was the shrewdness, and good sound sense of the mule with respect to matters Immediately con cerning his welfare and comfort He is a wonder in tome respects and it not to be judged by tbe dullness of bis appearance." STARCH HAS A HISTORY. First Male In Flaadera aad' Invaded England In Ellaabatk'a Tim a. "A package of starch T" asked the intelligent and learned grover, and at he wrapped tbe package up be talked. "Starch originated," be said, "In Flanders. It was introduced into Eng land with tbe big ruff In the time of Queen Elizabeth. It was like our starch of to-day, except that It was made in colors red, yellow, green, blue. The effect of this was to tint delicately the white linen to which tbe starch might be applied. Before Queen Elizabeth's time raf fles and ruffs were made of fine Hol land, which beqnired no stiffening. Then the ruffs of cambric cam and j Nothing should be permitted to Interfere with hit reading. If, on any day, he must be otherwise employed during his reading hour, let him make It up at some other time In the same day. And If be cannot read the full time to day, let him make up for It to-morrow. Perseverance will make reading a habit and a pleasure. Tbe keenest pleas ures of life are drawn from books, and a man that has tbe reading habit would rather have It than fifty thousand dollars. . . . The expression "killing time," la abhor rent. Why should we wish to kill time? Time Is given us for a purpose. We ought to make the most of It. The man who says he has nothing to do Is Ignorant or negligent of his duty to himself the duty of making himself a better, wiser, broader-minded man day by day. Killing time la Intellectual and moral suicide. Moments are precious. They are not to be thrown away. There Is alwayi some Francisco Bulletin. Co-Education. THE University of Chicago will hardly regret lta decision to separate the sexea In their pur- studies. They have hitherto mln great Western Institution of learn Jan. 1 tbe "segregation" system went women students henceforth will be to enjoy all the privileges of the unl verslty. Tbe new plan will. It Is said, permit co-Instruction only In those courses offered to junior college students for which the registration Is not sufficiently large to warrant economical basis. For example, at ( the one-third of all tbe courses offered to Junior college students, roughly speaking, will be offered to men, one-third to women, and one-third will be open to both men, and women. As students Increase, tbe number of courses retained as co-lnstructlonal will be diminished. The plan makes necessary the provision of separate classrooms and Implies that officers of Instruction time with approximate equality between This seems like a sensible reform. Co- right, probably, in kindergartens and prl mary academies, but when young men and women bare attained the age and the habit of thought of university students It looks like an axiomatic proposition that each sex will give, the curriculum better attention when tbe The Risks of Shaving. IN spite of tbe fact that those wbo use the razor frequent ly cut themselves yet It Is rarely that anything more se- follows, the slight wound generally heal- the risk of septicaemia arising In this to be almost nil. In the majority of cases therefore It Is clear that the' razor blade must be bacterlologically clean 1. e., free from septic matter which may be attributed to the fact that probably It Is dipped Into hot or sterilized water before Its use, or else that tbe soap lather Is antiseptic. The latter explanation seems the the two. The amount of soap rubbed on the skin Is considerable If the shaving is to be In any degreecomfortable, and soap has considerable antiseptic powder, a six per cent solution being sufficient to destroy ... In a word, soap In the opera tion of shaving not only facilitates the process but plays tbe same valuable role when the shaver Is unlucky enough does the antiseptic In surgery. London these must of necessity be starched." The grocer, consulting bis memoran dum book, resumed: "It is recorded that 'when the queen bad ruffs made of lawn and cambric for her own princely wearing there were none in England could tell her how to starch them, but tbe queen made special means for some women that could starch and Mrs. Gullham, wife of tbe royal coachman, was the first starcher.' "In 1584 a Flanders woman, Frau Van Der Plasse, came to London, and established there a school for the teach ing of starching. The school succeed ed. The Flanders frau got rich. She charged 5 a lesson and an extra 20 shillings for a recipe for the making of starch out of wheat flour, bran and roots. "Yellow was the most fashionable color In starch among tbe nobility. The fact, racing set went in for green. The puritans used blue starch, though at first they had been against tbe stuff al together, dubbing It 'A certains klnde of liquids matter which they called starch, wherein the devlll bat willed them to wash and dive their ruffes, which, when they be dry, will then stand stifle and Inflexible about their necks.' "Starch Is made from wheat, corn and potatoes and starving men have of ten subsisted on It, finding It nourish ing, thought not tasty."--Phlladelphia Record. An Absent-Minded Painter. An authoress of note was In Naples and very much- tdesired to- know Mo- relit, tbe famous painter, but could find no one to act as Intermediary. At last she resolved, to Introduce herself. When she paid ber visit she found tbe studio door open, and, pushing a cur tain to one side, stood before the art ist at work, wbo, looking at ber absent-mindedly, said: "These lines seem to be all right, what do yon think V And to ber rxmrmured response went on: "But tbe eyes of the nuns do not suit me; prsy sit down a moment yours are just the thing!" With in ward delight the lady sat down and acted as model for an hour and a half, during which time the writer and the artist talked as though tbey bad been friends all tbelr lives. Suddenly Mo- relll stopped, took off bis glasses, and peered At his bnndsome model. "But, excuse me, who are yon?" he asked. Safe Offer. "What's the price of cheese?" "Fifteen cents per pound" "But tbe fellow opposite sells it for ten." "Then go and buy It there." "But he hasn't got any." "Well, then, tbe kind of cheese 1 haven't got you can have here at 10 cents a pound also." Vlklngen. Worth Ixtuklng At. First Reporter I'm sure of one thing. 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