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Yamhill County Reporter r. H. BÀKNBÀMT. Publisher. «eMINN VILLE...................... OREGON. An exchange says: “Machine guns are deadly on boarders.” So Is bash. The reigning styles of moral raiment In Madrid do not appear to Include the mantle of truth. Those who are working foe a new national anthem might enroll thetn- Belves as a branch fn*h air society. France is in a dilemma. The pesetas that have gone incline It to S[ioln and the dollars that are not coming Incline It to America. The Lonoke (Tenn.) Democrat soys the girls of that town now wear star spangled shirt waists. Round to make the boys see stars, evidently. No matter whether the United States Is represented at the Paris exposition of 1900 or not If Paris gets up a good •how Uncle Sam will see It. A new York paper lwis discovered that the hostile was on the whole a comfortable place. Now let tbe "Black Hole” of Calcutta tie given a clean bill of health. There is one column of tbe daily pa pers that, even in war-time, is never printed in large type—yet the “mar ried” announcements look large to the June brides. A Chiba go mule run against by a •corcher klckisl him into hospital. This animal is not going to see himself knocked out of the way by the L4<-.#*le without a protest. A scientific exchange says: “Artificial legs are to tie made with pneumatic feet, to lessen the Jar on the body when walking.” After this, lovers will not have a monopoly of “walking on air.” Paris pr»“»s lioetlle! Americans boy cott men milliners and dressmakers of Paris. Men milliners and dressmakers see the point and likewise see business managers of Paris palters. Purls pa pers gradually assuming a more friend ly tone. The Boston Herald asserts*: “The Dewey cocktail Is CQinposed of red rasplierry juice, white maraschino ami blue creme yvette. A rather queer concoction, but tbe colors appear to be al) right” But what if color blind ness should follow drinking? There are seventy active volcanoes on the Philippine Islands, anil earth quakes have yearly play spelts In hop ping from one to the other and gayly shaking up the Inhabitants. There is probably i^> livelier lund on the foot stool. Esteemed contemporaries that per sist In talking of “the old veteran” can keep right on. After the close of the present war we shall have another army of veterans that will have to be distinguished In some way from the survivors of the civil war. We con call them veterans and refer to tbe heroes of the '00s as "old veterans.” It ts beginning to tie plain tltat fhts war with Spain marks the beginning of a new military epoch for the United States. It Is reasonable to believe that for garrison purposes alone we shall nets! not less than 50JXM) men. Viewing the situation In this as|Ms-t, It ts freely predicted that the peace establishment of the army will hereafter be not less than what it has been made for this war—alsiut 70,000 men. This increase will lie consistent with the history of the army, which shows that every war sines* the revolution lias left the nation with a larger army. A few months ago a Spanish warship tn New York harlior required some re pairing on Its machinery, and the bill presentisl when it was done was two hundred and fifty dollars. The officer I d charge told the mechanic that tils bill would not do. ami ordered It en larged to eleven hundred dollars, so “it would go around.” In spite of the spoils system In our own land, there can lie but one comment on such cor rupt practices, and the nation that tol erates them contains the sun* seeds of decay. Tlie present is a time of gnxrt oppor tunities. it Is testing the pre|«ussltH*ss of a large number of men. They see Just the openings for which tliey have waltisl for years, but they And too often and too late that they are not prewired to take advantage *nf tbetn. Men. and etqteclally young men, an* too apt to argue that all they need ts the opportunity. The preparedmvM. they imagine, will come of Itself. They And out their mistake when some quiet man who has spent years in thoroughly drilling and training himself steps tn and takes advantage of tin* o|x«nlng for which many have waited but haw not prepared tlMunndves. A town improvement club offers a so lution for tin* problem of paiqiertam by providing work for tlx* deserving, and if adult able-bodied men and wumec will not work they should not be fed by charity. Outside work has Issti n*g ulated as follows: A yearly tax ot one dollar la aMeiwed all taxpaying ptwtpie and Is cheerfully responded to. With this fund are purchased for one Item— dower seeds for distribution among tbe school children. Prises are offered for the best dlsjilay at the annual flower •how. and the town blossoms like tbe rose. The setting out of stuuh* trees, drinking fountains, seats for the weary in parks and in shady spots* and a HER CARGO OF ••SALT.” Ailent he could have served the worid doctor told her she probably lost It, DEWEY AT ANNAPOLIS« street «denning department of children, aud that an advertisement would bring are some of tbe featurer of this most How u Famoua Filibuster Iieoelved and himself better as au active [xiliti- cfan. Americana apiiear to be uncon Naval Officer Had a Quick Temper and its return. Tbe lost and found column commendable enterprise. Altruism ol the Revenue Otiicers. Often Got Into Quurrels. scious of this unrest, which grows out was freely used, but without any re this sort pays. Among tbe several small vessela, of the desire to liecome wealthy or As Admiral Dewey, U. 8. N., com sult. The doctor had lost all hope, w I kbm * tlUtniau-rliig exiK'dhlous to Cuba eminent Each man And« his owu dally manding tlx* Asiatic squadron, has when, the other morning, he received Three hundred towns and cities of have occasianed this gwenmxmt so the United States, moved by more tlmn much annoyance and expenae, few work commonplace, and fancies that come very prominently, “aud deserv- through the mall tlie missing watch three hundred tragedies of Juvenile have been the subject of as much be could show higher qualities iu hte edly so.” Into the public mind, it may and a letter, which rend: "Dear Doctor be Interestlug to know that he und —Inclosed And watch that I stole. On «■ring*, have recently onlaineil tliat chil watchful laws, or kept customs <-ollec- neighbor’s place. There is truth In this criticism; but Commodore Henry L. Howlson, com looking la case I saw your picture and dren shall come home at night at the tore awuke at night us frequently, as Is the characteristic rxiinted out p«*cu- mandant of tlie ltoHton navy yard, trere surmised that it was a gift from you signal of a ao-call«*d curfew bell. at 8 tbe WoodalL classmates. llar to America and the Americans? to your sweetheart. I guess you don’t o’clock In winter; at 9 In summer. TTx* This trim little vessel has been inter The academy class to which they be rememb«*r saving the life of a man who ancient curfew applied to <dd and cepted and overtuiuled several tinx-s; MUSTACHED WOMEN. longed entered in 1X54, and four years had no money, but I do, and I can’t young alike; the moalern curf«*w Ism her cargo and ekaiiance pajiers were later was graduated wtth Afteen mem And it in my heart to keep the watch. only the i»sgic remwnliraniv of being subjected to tlx* severest scrutiny; ami Queer Race Inhabiting the Island bers. A Grateful Man.” T1 m ? doctor, who Is Yeeo. an even bell. Government is the co- though government officials knew, by Commodore Howlson recently Inti ojMontlvv act of parents, who act to- a sort of Intuition acquired by customs The w*orld of science has just been mated that Dewey was a boy with a tiote«l for his charity, says he has no reeoll*x*tlon of the case in question.— g«*ther In ci ths and villagis. Nowhere officers tbocked by Boating runx.rs), roused to unusual interest by a reixirt can curfew be established exceirt at the tliut the Wotxlall was not the Innocent of the Commercial Geographical 8o rather quick temper, and lie was al Philadelphia Record. request of parents expressed in tiallotn. «raft she prentended to be, nothing clety of France, giving derails concern ways clean and well set up. His tem- ¡x*r led him frequently into little es Tlie law no more interferes wtth pa-' could ov,*r be proved against her. ing a race of mustached white wonu*n trangements, but he had a name for be rental rights and personal liberty than! A story told by a machinist, anent an who inhabit the island of Yeso. ono laws on compulsory education and esca[<ade of the Woodall at a time of the northwest of the Japanese group. ing ready ubvuys to take his own part. child htbor. The school und the curfew when her [xscullar actions first attract The facts which tlie report furnishes He was plucky. When the class grnduated Ilowlson bell are equally JustliLed os aif«*guanls ed government attention, might throw are those learn**«! by A. M. Klabukows- and Dewey were on excellent terms, of public morals. Laws forbidding the considerable light upon a subject kl, an explorer and delegate of the so sale of liquors and tobacco and corrupt whose mystery has baffied the wit of ciety, who has recently returned from a which. It seems, cannot be said of Dewey and others. literature to minors Ixive long since il many a clever oAiclaL visit to tbe strange p«*ople described. There are left of this class in tbe lustrated the duty of tlie state to Im» The existence of tbe Ainos, as the “I suppose you know all atxrut the mature youth. Gladstone says that It bayous and inlets running up from Ver race to which these people belong Is navy four on tbe active list, and two Is the purpose of law to make It os hard million Bay, not far from the salt calkxl, has long been known to ethnolo on the retired list, In this order of Tlie value of the estate left by the as [»osslbLe to do wrong, ami as easy its mines of soutlx*rn Louisiana, where gists, and Mr. Klabukowskl has the rank: Commodore John A. Howell, possible to do right. No intelligent President Cleveland g«x*s hunting?” honor of being the Arst explorer of commanding the north initrol of the late James Payu is a little over £8.000. Richard Harding Davis’ novel, “Sol view of personal liberty Justiti«« turn ix*gan tlx» machinist. “Well, I bad been modern times to ix-netrute the country coast defense Aeet; Admiral George ing infants loose to play with poisons doing some work at the salt mines, and look uixin it and its people with Dewey, commanding the Asiatic squad diers of Fortune,” has gone Into its Af- ron; Comnxxlore Henry L. Howlson, ty-slxth thousand—which means a re and razors. The most Inspiring watch when word came that a vessel was the k«*en eye of the ethnologist. commandant of the Boston naval sta word of reform is, “Give the toys a down In tlx* bay wanting all the tnen it He is believed to be the only white tion; Coinnxxlore Albert Kautz, com- markable sale. chatMe!” Tlx* testimony of cities which could get to loiul up. Word comes from tlie Macmillan man who has gained reliable informa mandant of tlx* Newport station (re have tried the curfew is uniformly fa “I went with some other men. A tion concerning the women, whose tired); Capt. Allen V. Reed, now a company that “The Pride of Jennico” vorable. The law lias not destroyed few were turned back, btrt most of us mustaches are equal to those ever worn Is to lx* dramatized. The story is a suc nx*mber of the Menocal court-martial, cessful venture in historical romance, ctvl liberty, nor promoted communism; were put on to the Job of loading sacks by any member of their race. Brooklyn navy yard (retired); Capt. it has not proved difficult of enforce of salt on to the Woodall, which lay and it should make over effectively for These women are massive in appear ment, and has teen well observed. It out in an arm of the bay as close to ance, and. in fact, appear to better Joshua Bishop, lately assigned to the the stage. Norfolk navy yard. lias checked hoodhimlsm. A chief of shore as she could get. physical advantage than the men. They G. W. Cable has gone to England, Admiral Dewey ranks second on police who opposed the ordinance at “It was common enough for lwats to have high chtiek bones and are distinct the list of officers now in command of where he will stay for some time, and first repented as he heard tlie steady run up tn the bays to take on salt or ly Caucasian. squadrons or divisions, according to give readings. Messrs. Hodder and patter of little feet, homeward bound, lumber, but what I thought queer was They do not have that ghastly yellow Stoughton will publish immediately his date of retirement, the list being: passing his office door at each ringing a lot of lx>x-<xirs laying up in the ish complexion characteristic of the novel, “The Grandissimes,” with a Miller, retires Nov. 22, 1898; Dewey, of tbe bell. woods on a temporary track. How they Chinese and Japanese, but rather bear Dec. 2(>. '98; Schley, Oct. 9, 1901; Samp short introduction from tlie pen of Mr. every appearance of white women who son, Feb. 9, 1902; Howell, March 16, Barrie, between whom and Mr. Cable In a time like tlie present, when the come there an' what they come for I have lived much in the open air. Their 1902; Remey, Aug. 10, 1903; Watson, there is a fast friendship. ties that bind nations In friendship are wanted to know. It wasn't so long till mustaches, when natural, are always Aug. 24, l'.KM. Amherst, Mass., with a population of often stretcht-d to a dangerous tension, I did. “We hustl«xl that salt on board lively. black and silky, and are Invariably With regard to the report of Dewey's 4,800, claims to be better supplied with even the slightest manifestations of I tell you. It wus hard work, but go«xl turned up at both ends. work at Manila, Commodore Howison free library faeiftties in proportion to good will are not without influence in pay. Saturday the Cnp'n come along It seems that not every one can grow says: Its population than any other commun preserving unbroken relations. How an’ says: ‘Boys. I got a job for you to a mustache. What is the cause of this "No man could have done a more ity of which the record is available. much more potent and impressive then do, an' every man that ain't willing to fact no one apparently knows. gallant and daring thing than Dewey The Amherst College library contains must have been that scene in the Pic- swear he'll keep his mouth shut can There te not even a native explana is believed to have done. Tlie perform 70,000 volumes, the State College libra pas Cemetery on Memorial Day when tion. except the one found in the state ance Is Just what I should expect from ry 19,000 volumes, the two free town li the American colony In Parte gathered gif “We all swore. ment that the mustache is an indica him in such an opportunity. Like a braries 9,000 volumes. about the tomb of Lafayette. garlanded “ ‘See them box cars?’ he says, point tlon of the caste or rank of tile owner thorough American sailor, he went it wtth dowers and listened to the eu Some days ago a Syrian youth not ing to the track tn the w«xxls; ‘I want thereof. right Into the harbor, with his bridges more than 16 years of age walked into logy of that unselAsh patriot delivered every last one o’ them carloads stowed more The peculiarity is all the cut behind him, so to speak, and gave the office of S. W. Marvin of tbe by the American ambassador. Upon' in tlx* Woodall before Monday morn strange for the reason that the Ainos and took like a man. All his communi Charles Scribner’s Sons’ Publishing whichever side may lx* the sympathies ing. Kin you do It?’ whole are a decided hairy race, their cation was cut off; he had absolutely of the French people In tlie Spanish- "Of course we could. Ixxlies being generally covered with nothing but the deep blue sea to fall Company. He carried a letter of in- American war, they cannot tie insensi trtxluctlon In his hand and a portfolio “Well, sir, the Arst load was a sur Ixick on—but everything to look for of drawings under his arm. In very ble to such an exhibition of loving re prise. Tlx* Woodall haxl a false lx»t- hair that is naturally soft and silky. If. however, one of the women passes ward to. He risked, it would seem, a good English he asked Mr. Marvin to gard for the great Frenchman who tonj as long an' near as wide as her gave his services to the ennse of Amer self, laying up there ready for the the age of 14 with no trace of a mus good deal to gain what he was after, rend the one and glan«?e over the con tache appearing, her parents take it and by superb and exemplary general ican freedom. Tlx* honor dors* the mem cargo. for granted that Nature has talxx>.*d ship, hammered the enemy until he tents of the other. Mr. Marvin did as ory of Lafayette was also expressive requested. The appearance of the boy “Salt! Well. I should smile! Smelt her so far os mustaches are concerned, was master of the situation. He did of the gratitude and regard In which mighty like powder, an’ looked mighty the defect, in what Farragut did and would have interested him; his large dark eyes and and proceed to supply America has ever held the French na like guns an' ammunition. We worked olive skin made him remarkable amid tion, and out of which have been form- an’ sweated all that night an’ all day appearance at least, by the aid of tat- done. Dewey served under Farragut.” his American surroundings. The boy tooing. id “those nnbr<mkable tlee lietween tbe Sunday an' Sunday night We was sat modestly by while hte portfolio was Tlie skill which th«*se people possess two p»*o|J«*s" so feelingly alluded to by nigh dead for sl«*ep. only snatching a being examined. It wns found to con by these of imitating the mustache Ambassador Porter. The custom of minute’s rest now and then, an' goin’ tain a collection of most striking orien m«*ans is remarkable. Indee«l. at a dis celebrating Memorial Day should be at ft agin. We sprinkled the empty 1x>x tal designs for lxx>k covers. When Mr. come ns firmly established among cars with salt an’. In fact, we wasted tance, it is almost impossible to tell Marvin had run his critical eye over whether or not tlie mustache is genu American colonies in foreign cities good salt promiscuous around there. them the boy asked bitn if there were ine or imitation. wherv there are honored dead ns it Is any that he might find worth using. “Monday loomin' ns soon as they in th«* United States. Americans should could gtt to us, down come the custom Ring Came Rack. “Have you any more?*’ inquired Mr. never miss nil opportunity to show that house officers. Got wind about extry “No one else will ever wear this ring'. Marvin, to which the boy replied that the nation rememliers hs brave defend hands and rushed job. an' they was «Iere it g<x*s!" said Charles Bkxxlgood all he had were there. “I will take ers of other lands as well as those bound to find out the whole of it. William Tyler, while passing along them all," said Mr. Marvin, “and when to Miss Eliza Turnbull, standing up In among Its own citizens. Especially "Down in the lx»ttom of the bay lay a boat one Juigust night in 1896, and the road on the Pennsylvania side of you have any more bring them along should It do such honor to the memory that cargo of powder nn' lead, nil' we tossing their engagement ring into the the Delaware River saw something and I will take them also.” The de of Iulfayette, wliose patriotism was of was Just loading tbe last few* sacks of Susquehanna River, near Unadllia. fiasli across nu open space In the woods signs are certainly striking, and re the loftiest order. He had no selfish salt on to the Woodall. They had come from the Berkshire just ahead of him and disappear in the mind one, not unnaturally, of the de purpo««* to serve. He had no possessions "Steam was up nn' everything ready Hills to visit mutual friends and had I hollow end of a log. He walked to the signs of oriental stuffs. Only one was liere to defend. Tills was neither his for a start. Tlx* officers took a look at quarreled while returning home from I log. and. taking off his coat, tied tlie Amerlcanlz«xl, and that was the least native land nor his home. His sole in tlie empty cars nn’ then went on ixxtrd a picnic. After their return to th«* Berk loose end of one sleeve with liis sus successful. The Syrian said that he spiration was fix* love of liberty. Each and overhauled tlx* cargo. Nothin' but shire Hills they were reconciled and penders. Placing the arm hole of the had rfever studied the art of design, but siiciMsslIng Memorial Day should And satt! sleeve over the hole, he gave two or had simply picked it up. married. his tomb strewn with flowers—fragrant “At Inst they wont nwny. lookin' dis- Recently some fishermen “bobbing” I three kicks against the side of the log. tribute« of American dwellers in his na satlsAed. an' one of ’em says to me: through the ice for pickerel In the Sw- The animal that had taken refuge with Discovery of the Phonograph. tive land. ‘Looks like you fellows wasted a heap queluinun. n«*ar Windsor, forty miles in ran out into the sleeve. Tyler «itffck- Mr. Edison states that he discovered o’ salt around here.’ south of Unadilla, made a large catch. l.v closed the other end of the sleeve the principle by the merest accident. One of the conspicuous elements of “ ‘Salt's eheap.' says I. A cousin of Bloodgwxl, one of tlx* Asli- and had the animal captive. On reach “I was singing into the mouthpiece of tlie torpedo’s value is the fear which its “ Twarn’t no time before the Wood- ermen. In opening one of Ills tish. found ing home he investigated to see what a telephone, when the vibrations of the use excites. The fact that its location nil had that false lxittom up an' in tow a gold ring. He burnished it up. and he had captured. It proved to be a voice sent the tine steel point into my Is secret and Its attack well-nigh irre down tlx* bay. Inside the circle discoverisl the initials squirrel about the size of a red squir Anger. That set me to thinking. If I sistible. says a contributor In Frank “'Where was she goin'?’ Ask me of Bl«xxlg<xxl and Miss Turnbull. He rel, but as white as snow, with eyes of could record the actions of the ixiint, Leslie's Monthly, gives It n power of in somethin* I know."—Leslie’s Weekly. sent the ring to his cousin.—Susque a deep pink. Some years ago a man and send the point over the same sur timidation out of all proportion to its hanna s;xx*lal to New York World. named Rathbone captured a squirrel face afterward, I saw no reason why actual potency, and makes fleets un I exactly An Example Worth Imitatinir. .ly like tills one in the same local- the thing would not talk. I tried the willing to face It. It caused terror and Continuous Lanahter. A church In Philadelphia Is contem experiment Arst on a strip of tele demoralization at th«* liattle of Lissa, plating the purchase of a farm ns a Strang«* as It may seem. John Breinet ity. Tliey are the only two of the kind ever seen iu the valley. graph paper, and found that tbe point atid later. In the Franco-German war of place of outing and recreation for tbe falls Into convulsions of laughter lie A number of ruffed grouse spent the made an alphabet. I shouted tbe 1871, the French Aeet was actually ixx»r of the ixirtsh. The one under con cause a clot of blood te pressing his frightened out of Prussian ports by the sideration contains about a hundred spinal cord. At least the doctors ait- winter in an orchard In the rear of the words ‘Halloo! halloof into the mouth rumor and belief that numerous torpe acres. Eight acres are woodland. In tribute Ills laughter to that cause. For aid Woodbull homestead, in the town of piece, ran the paper back over the does had been planted for their recep which the parish boys could camp. A thro* hours one night recently tlx* man Monroe, I’a.. roosting in the apple trees steel point, and heard a faint ‘halloo; tion. A striking Instance of the effec vineyard occupies an acre; and the rest laughed upr«*irlously without a mo anil even venturing to the dooryard to halloof in return. I determined to pick up crumbs. The birds Ay away make a machine that would work ac tiveness of tlx* torpedo Is found hi the Is under cultivation. The main dwell ment's hesitation. sinking of tbe Blanco Encnlada in Chill ing house contains twenty-one rooms, Two weeks ago Rreiner was taken to the mountains during the day, but curately, ami gave my assistants in from Injuries thus Indicted during the thirteen of which are bedrooms. An sl«*k while at work in on iron mill. return to the orchard toward night. As structions, telling them what I had dis revolution of 1891. The whole of Presi unfailing stream of water runs through Since then lx* has lx*en conArusl to his it is the nature of these shy and wary covered. They laughed at me. That’s the whole story. The phonograph Is dent Ralmareda’s fleet present had the place. There Is an nbundance of lx*d. Il«> has almost lost the power of birds to make their winter hauuts In Joined the Insurgents, when suddenly fruit, the location is high anil whole sixx*ch. and ts unable to utter a wonl. the wildest and most Inaccessible the result of a pricking of the linger.” his two swift torpedo vessels, the some. and in an exceedingly good But hte laughter is free and apparently places, tlx* presence of these particu Austria's Emperor at the Play. O Lynch and Condell, arlved at Valparai neighborhood. It Is. moreover, hoixxl natural, a.s If he were Intensely amus lar grouse within a few rods of a The Emperor of Austria takes his so. They were armed with two four- that by Judicious farming the prod ed.—Bethlehem (Pa.) special to New house, where people are almost con amusements publicly, much unlike teen-pounder guns and four torpedo stantly moving about, is unaccounta Queen Victoria. He believes that his ucts of the place will pay most of its York World. tubes. They Immediately attacked the ble, except on the supposition that the subjects like to see him among them, exix*ns**s. The older members of the Musicil Kitchen Utrnsils. Blanco Encnlada. and the Ironclad was unusual number of foxes and wildcats and when he goes to a theater be takes parish who could not otherwise leave Building genius in Portland. Ore., has taken completely by surprise. She had tlx* city for even a week or two during devised a utilitarian plan to make tlx* in tlx* mountains this winter led the a prominent position in full view of the no protective net out, and no guard the heated season will enjoy a visit to new aluminum musical instruments birds to feel greater safety in the prox house, and the cons«*qu«>nce is that the boats were patrolling, while a portion imity of mail than iu their natural royal box is Ute center of attraction, of tbe crew wns on shore. After two the farm. Tlie boys can go there for a convertible Into kitchen utensils. By haunts of wood aud swamp. the actors playing to It “for all they are week, while a held on the place would, making the keys and strings detach or three futile attempts tlx* Lynch ap worth."—Boston Post. with a little work, make an excellent able be proposes to use rhe mandolin proached the Encnlada within Afty BREAD UPON THE WATERS athletic ground, which might lx* open for a stewpan .the guitar for a ham yards and discharged a torpedo, which Value of Superstition. struck the Ironclad abreast the engine to them at nil times. The plan is high 1x>iler or tish frier. and to cook tlap- Physician Rewarded by a Thief Whose “You seem to have lost all your su Life He Had Saved. room. Tlie explosion was tremendous. ly commendable, nti.l if Judiciously car Jacks on the banjo. It trill readily lx* perstitions.” A rising young physician of West Many were kill«*,!, and the ship keeled ried out cannot fall to lx* suceessfuL seen that a piccolo could serve the uses “1 don't read ’em now,” said the ex Why nut adopt It in other cities? of a ix>ker without any detaching, and Philadelphia recovered his Aancee's over and sank In Ave minute«. Tlx* tor- the conversion of a saxophone into a stolen watch recently In a remarkable actor. |x*do us«*d carried a charge of about A Traveler'« Opinion. "No? Are superstitions of particu soup ladle would have advantages too Afty pounds of guncotton. Neither of It Is seldom one meets a man in manifest for comment.—New York Sun. way. The timepkx*e was a present lar vnlue to the theatrical profession?” from the doctor, an«l was a beautiful tlx* attacking boots was Injured, and America who Is quite satlsffed with his “They are, if you can get them pub- specimen of tbe jeweler's art, tlie cases this fact and the demonstmtlon that own position. The colored man who House Built of Hats. being blue enamel, thickly set with ltehe«! in the papers.”—Cincinnati En six*h a charge of guncotton striking a waited on me In a Boston hotel wanted An ingenious hatter of Paris con quirer. v«*s»x4 In a vital part ts Irresistible. com to be a cook, and so get higher wages. structed a house of felt made out of diamonds and pearls. On the Inside of the case was a picture of the giver, bined to give to tlx? torix*do a i»rotnl- The headwaiter In the dining-room 24,’XMI old hats. This house consisted Children are becoming so smart these nence In naval equipment and warfare seemed a better educated man titan Is of parlor, dining room ami bed room, photographed diretly on tlie case, and days that they are graduated from the engraved words: "From Ralph to school while they are still young It had not before p>ss«*s«<sL usually found In that position, and he also a kitchen. It was erected upon a Grace." The young couple attended a was anxious to lx* a teacher. As I platform upon the plain of St Denis, theater, and at the close of the play enough to be spanked. Wind on the Grampian Htlla. traveled through the country, I found and could be tramqxirted from place to jointxl the merry throng that was on We know of a man who has worried The violence of the wind on ths the farmers' sons, as a rule, eager to go place. Chestnut street. Several times up and six months over a trouble that be could Grampian hills is so great that on sev Into business In the towns. A young Ax in an hour. oral occasions It hss brought to a stand Providence takes care of some fools down were made, and It was very late broker whom I met wished he could when they arrive«! at the young wom still trains traveling from Perth to the by giving them wives to look after Most people make a mistake in think have given his life to the study of sci an's home. In order to be sure of the ing unfavorable comment 1s preferable north. ence, while s physician, and a sclentlAc them. time the girl felt for her watch, which to no notice at all. The man who can acknowledge a mis she usually wore h«x*ked on her coat, Tbe professional wheelman Akes a man of high standing, conffded to me long and narrow rosd. but tbe rx«w be that circumstances had tirgesl him into take without blaming it on some on« and found It gone. Of course she was We hate a man who boasts that be his present work, and that be was coa- else bas true moral courage. ginner prefers • short and wide oue. I horrified, and started to cry, but the gets up early.