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LAURELED, MARSHALL FIELD’S DAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND. Back from the strenuous wars he comes to me, He is my son, grown brown, with strange scarred hands; The months of blood and death in alien lands Are in his face; his boyish will to be Is four fold won. 1 glow ami weep to see The trodden meadow blackened with the bands Of bearded, marching men whom he commands. With being rearranged he comes to me. Whut Some of the Often Spoken Terms on 'lhange Mean. I, small beside him. try to utter prayers; I, honored for the laurels that he wears! God knows, God knows I stand with empty arms. Ami lonesome heart no meed of praises wa rms. 1 crush the laurel branch. Oh, God, 1 miss The soft-mouthed baby I can never kiss. —Bookman. :: WHEN FEAR REIGNED D . -++++Í-+++++++++++++++++ ■+++ FINEST CCUNTRY HOUSE IN AMERICA. WALL STREET DICTIONARY. Captain David Beatty, of the royal navy, was recently privately married in Ixindou to the only daughter of Marshall Field of Chicago. Captain Beatty entered the royal navy in ISSN and served in the Soudan campaign io ISOS with the naval brigade under Kitchener. He was mentioned in the dispatches and was decorated with the distinguished service and the Soudan medals. The Khedive bestowed upon him the order of Medjidie. He wns wounded in China and in valided home. His promotion lias been singularly rapid, but it appears thoroughly deserved. Being only 32 years old, he is one of the youngest captains in the British navy. Captain Beatty is a man of small means. He has little if any thing besides his pay, but if he remains in the navy it is certain that his ability will lead him to attain high rank. He ia held in great esteem at the ad miralty. Watering—To increase the quantity of a stock without improving its qual- ity. Carrying—To hold a stock with the expectation of an advance. Irish Dividend—An assessment upon stockholders. Tip—Private Information in advance of the movement of a stock. Hunch—A tip based on one's instinct or impression. Big Board—The New York-Stock Ex change. On 'Change—The floor of the Stock Exchange. Bucketing—To execute orders in stocks without dealing ou any regular Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay are building the most beautiful country exchange. home in America. Nearly 1.000 artisans are at work upon the place amid the Lamb—A new speculator without sunny slopes of the headwaters of Hempstead Bay, near Roslyn, I.. I. 1 he kuowledge of the market or its meth country home of the Mackays will resemble in its general lines the renowned Chateau Lafitte. Its walls will be pearl gray stone, on one side of which wifi ods. Bull—One who has bought stock, ex be a distant view of the ocean and on the other a view of the sound. Not far away are the Wheatley Hills, in which nestle the mansions of a score of well- pecting an advance. known American millionaires. The cost of this superb palace will be about $5,- Bear—One who has sold stocks and 000,000. The structure will be of granite, 238 feet long from east to west, and who gains by a decline. 100 feet wide from north to south. The main entrance consists of three large Short—One who lias sold stock for a doorways and three smaller ones. The house will be furnished very richly, espe decline. cially in the apartnieuts which will be occupied by Mrs. Mackay, and the third Long—To have bought for a rise. story will be fitted gorgeously for the exclusive lodging of visitors. The grounds will be in keeping with the dignity of the house itself. An army of servants Loading—To buy stock heavily. Pool—The stock and money contrib will be hired to maintain it. uted by a clique to carry through a cor several transports with returning vol ner. HOW THEY RAISED HONEY Covering—Buying stock to satisfy a FOR THE CHURCH. unteers to stop at Yokohama, and so hundreds of American soldiers visited short sale on the day of delivery. Young women members of the Ep- that city and Toklo. One of them hired Block—A number of shares bought wortli League of the First Methodist a bicycle, and was taking a ride about or sold in a lump. Church of Mattea- the streets of Yokohama when he ran -f Averaging—Buying or selling stocks wan, N. Y„ pledged down an elderly Japanese man. The on a scale. themselves to earn soldier rang his bell several times, but Slump—A sudden decline In the price $1 each and con the Japanese apparently paid no atten of stocks. tribute the money tion to it, and the American found him Boom—The opposite of a slump. toward the liquida self promptly arrested and taken to Bottom—The lowest point or price tion of the church court, where he was fined 10 yen (85). reached by a stock. debt. At a socia He protested that he had done every Top—The highest quotation of a ble the other night thing possible to avert the accident, stock. they told how they and asked why the man made no at Insider—One who causes a move had earned the tempt to get out of the way. The po ment in the stock market. money. Due said Scalping—Buying or selling stocks liceman then told him that the man she earned 50 cents was blind. The soldier looked dozed on slight fluctuations. by washing her for a minute, then felt in his pocket Piker— A small speculator. father's pet pig, and brought out a $10 bill. ‘Here,’ he Plunger—One who deals heavily In nnd more by sell stocks, taking great risks. said, ‘it’s the last I’ve got, but he can ing kisses at 5 have it,’ and he turned it over to the Blind Pool—A close corporation; one cents each. Two blind man. The Japanese were deeply which does not issue any statement of young women had touched, and that same day a delega expenses or earnings. made the rounds tion of policemen hunted up the soldier Crazy Market—One which fluctuates of the town with a and gave him back his fine.” violently without apparent reason. hand organ. Some Collateral—Any security given in sold flowers. One TOMB OF GEN. GREENE pawn when money is borrowed. said she stole veg Squeeze—A sudden movement of the etables from her Haa Been Recently Discovered at Sa market which forces the bulls or bears vannah, Ga. grandfather's gar to close out their stocks at a loss. After many years of speculation as den. She Justified Bulge—The upward movement of a the theft on the to the burial place of Gen. Nathaniel stock. ground that the Greene, the illustrious soldier of the Break—A sudden decline caused by a money was for the revolution, the searchers have been re stringency In the money market. warded by finding his bones in an old church. Unloading—To sell out stocks which vault in Colonial cemetery. Savannah, have been carried for some time. Back to Cannibal Islands. Ga. Gen. Greene was burled in 17811, Just forty-two years ago the Rev. and until the discovery made by the SOME NEW INVENTIONS. John C. Paton, who Is now visiting his searching party recently his burial brother In Glasgow, Scotland, first set place has been a mystery. Col. Asa t A device to prevent theft of rings foot on the New Bird Gardiner went to Savannah from from exhibition trays has been recent Hebrides Islands. New York, representing the Rhode Isl ly patented. The tray differs slightly At that time all the and Society of tlie Cincinnati, and en- from those now in use, having a sliding inhabitants of the fra *ie set in the bottom, with fingers islands were canni crossing each ring slot at right angles bals. They had no to locil the rings in place. In opera written language tion, If the person who is showing the and lived in great rings wishes to take one out, by sim degradation. Every ply moving the slide a little more than widow was burned the width of the opening the ring can on the grave of her be removed and the slide Immediately UH, I'ATOX. husband and canni pushed ill again, making everything se balistic feasts were frequent. There cure. When the slide is in a closed were twenty-two islands, inhabited by position the projecting ends lie flush as many different tribes, and each with the surface and are hardly no tribe had its own language. For the ticeable. and a secret spring lock may TOMB OF OEX. OBSENB. last fort.v-two years Dr. Paton and his also be used to advantage to make the colleagues have been permanent resi gaged the services of a local committee slides more secure. dents on the islands. They have made A new game of indoor baseball, which more than 18,000 converts, have re to assist in tlie search for the liody. resembles the national game almut as duced to writing all the twenty-two Ineffectual efforts had been made in closely as possible, has been invented. languages, and have taught the natives years gone by to find tlie body, but Col. A board of any desired size is provided, the ways of civilization. Dr. Paton had Gardiner was sure that the General ami on this is marked the diamond and his satchel stolen while in London, and had been buried in a tomb known as the other Hues, together with indicators declares he is anxious to get back to Jones vault. He was rewarded in his for the stations of the several players. his Islands, where his life and prop search by finding a coffin plate upon At the home plate Is located a rubber erty will be safer than they are In the which he could traee the word band stretched between two posts, and English metropolis. During his stay "Greene.” and some continental but a pair of curved spring arms, these be In the New Hebrides and before the tons. Gen. Greene's skull was of un ing used to drive the ball across the natives were brought under the influ usual size, and this was well preserved. field for a fly or foul, or if the ball i ence of Christianity Dr. Paton was His hands were encased in silk gloves lodges between the arms it is a strike, placed In peril of his life more times that were still intact when found. The aud if at the third strike the ball re than he can remember. At least fifty bones of Ills son. wlio was drowned In mains in this position it is said to tie times his fife hung in the balance, but the Savannah River, were found by his caught by the catcher and the batter each time he came out without seri side. The few remaining bones have Is out. If it should chance to bouud ous injury of any kind, lie loves the been placed in separate boxes and de outside without crossing the line the Islands and the people and will start posited in a safety deposit vault for batter has run to first. Propelling the soon to return to them after bidding a such disposition as may be arranged ball or batter's disk over so many fines last farewell to his native land and bis later. They will probably be buried under the Nathaniel Greene monument counts for a corresponding numlier of kinsmen. in Savannah. bases, and thus home runs can Is1 made. « U8T before the civil war broke —II out, 1, with my cousin, was lu New York. We had many friends In the city, but being both of an inde pendent turn of character, we preferred Living by ourselvuH, no we looked alxiut for a boarding-house. The one we hit upon was situated in the best part of my cousin, looking round the room for long enough to tell the story. She had Fourteenth street, and was a tine something to place against the window, been left for dead by the monsters, brown stone building, with a most pre my eyes fell on the firelrous, and a who decamped after their deed of tentious portico, and a flight of some bright thought entered my head; 1 blood with all the valuable they could twelve steps up to the entrance door. would place the shovel against the And. And it appeared that two new Now, to understand what follows, it is fastening of one window, and the tongs servants Mrs. Maynard had engaged necessary the reader should know the at the other, In such a way that, a few days before were in league with position of tl>e room we engaged. should anyone open the windows from the robbers, and had assisted them In As you entered the hall, the reception the outside, these things would fall the commission of their crimes. The parlor, as it was called, lay on your down with a crash. To the French servants were arrested, and. finding it right hand, and was a very tine room; window I placed the head of our sofa was all up with them, the youngest, at the eml of ft were two doors which bed. thus effectually barricading that. who turned out to be no other than our slid back and led Into the room which Bertha was much amused at my pro Margaret, confessed to having been we were to occupy. These said doors ceedings, but she let me do as 1 pleased engaged In no less than fourteen bur were ground glass half way down, with alMHit It, for she saw I was nervous. glaries. The band had several women flowers on It, but so thick as to exclude "The fact Is, Nettle,” she said, "the in their employ; their part was to get any view of what was passing In the horrible stories we have heard to-day places, and by that means let the men other room, unless you pressed your have alarmed you; but it’s all nonsense, Into the houses. Moreover, she ac face against the glass, and then It dear, and I have no doubt very much knowledged that their motto was would l>e but nil Imperfect vision. Our exaggerated. Having now fortified our "Dead men tell no tales;" so they gen apartment was large, and had three citadel, come to bed." We always left erally added murder to robbery. The windows, two only half-way down, but the gas burning a little all night, so whole band was broken up after that; the third, a French one, opening on to after attending to that 1 got Into bed, but we never forgot the escape we had tlie wooden balcony that ran along the and fell asleep, I forgot to say the had and were most particular after, back of the house, with a flight of steps doors in the reception-room were of while in New York, to have our rooms down to a piece of ground. Our room course secured, aud also the one out upstairs.—New York News. had also another entrance, a door lend of the little lobby leading to the hall, ing Into a little lobby, very convenient but the one from our room Into the Advantages of the Doctor. for putting our trunks, dresses, etc., in; lobby we always left open. Physicians, like clergymen, are con this had again another door Into the 1 was awakened by a most terrible cerned in trying to make their fellow hall. crash, the tongs had fallen down on a men better, but they have a great ad The dining-room was situated In the little marble table, on which were the vantage over the clerical brethren in basement, on a level with the kitchens, debris of our evening meal, aud the being able to shape their lives accord as were also the servants' bedrooms, shutters were open. "Anette,” said ing to tlieir whims and necessities with three In number. The house wns sev Bertha, "get up, child; they are getting out undue criticism from their fellows. eral stories high, ami either by chance, Into the room,” and she bounded to We prefer that our doctors should lie or because the purses of the other the door into the hall and opened it. As good men. We insist that they shall boarders were, like our own. not too for me. 1 was paralyzed with fright, have a high degree of professional heavy, two or three floors above us expecting each moment to see a white honor. We expect them not to be un were at present unoccupied, and the mask ent *r the room; whether the noise duly mercenary, and not to grudge a other boarders slept ou the top of the alarmed them, I know not; however, fair measure of their time to the public house. Thus we were cut off from they did not do so; and Bertha, whose service. But we don't concern our the rest of the community by a lot courage mid self possession never left selves about what they eat. or drink, or of empty rooms; this did not trouble her, turned up the gas to its full ex smoke, or how they choose to have us, and all went on well for some tent, and refastened the shutters. "An their share of sun, says a writer In weeks, but In the middle of Novemlier, ette," she said, "dress us quickly as you Harper's Weekly. We don't even In when the season wns lit Its dreariest, can,” herself setting me the example. sist that they shall practice what they our landlady, who had not the best of More dead than alive, I did as she de preach, and we should be disappointed tempers, fell out with her servants, sired. All was silent for a little time, 1Y we did. for though doctors spend and they one and all left her at a day’s perhaps for ten minutes, although to us their II vi>s in efforts to induce people to notice. Now, ns everybody knows, do it seemed hours, when we heard the J take care of their health. It Is unusual mestics in New York are rather diffi servants' window open, aud a whis for a busy doctor to take even ordinary cult to obtain, so the render can Im pered conversation carried on In men's care of himself. His sleep is broken, agine tin* dismay of Hie mistress of the voices. Another danger menaced us; bls meals are Irregular, he overworks house. For iwo days we managed In they were In the house. As I sat watch himself; very likely he smokes too some way or other; but the boarders ing the door from the lobby Into the much. But as long as our confidence In grumbled, ami the merchant said he hull, which Bertha had unlocked, the his skill is unimpaired we don’t criticise must leave unless he got his meals Idea flashed across my mind that they him. Doctors are supposed to know what properly; so, driven to her wits' eu<l, would enter from there. "The door!" Mrs. Andrews engaged three servants I sal<i Bertha understood me, ami flew is good for themselves, and in their to it and fastened It Not one moment I hands we leave the responsibility for who applied for her place. They had only Just landed, they said, too soon! for. as she did so, the handle | their own eases ns well as for ours. To to account for their having no charac wns turned,mid ii muttered curse greet be sure, we scoff a great deal at the ters. mid. with the fear of losing her ed her ear. However, they were not to medical profession, carp at its contra boarders, it would not do to be too par be battled so easily, and thinking, no dictions and remark upon its limita ticular, mid the women, who. by the doubt, they «ere all safe, began picking tions. but In the long run the good doc tors get the credit that is their due. way. were all friends, entered on their the lock. of course, our only chance lay lu even though Its arrears may not come duties. My cousin and myself pos sessed several articles of tine Jewelry; alarming the house. "Scream. Nettle, In until after they are dead. these things I saw the new housemaid, ns loud as you can," said Bertha, and To Prevent Burial Alive. the day after tier arrival, when tidying she seized the bellrope, pulling it fran Several Insurance men were talking up our room, examining very minutely, i tically. Fright lent me power, mid cer yesterday almut new wrinkles in their 1 did not think much of It nt the time. | tainly the horrible yells In which 1 In business. "1 firmly believe," said one. dulged were enough to awaken the putting It down to curiosity. This "that Insurance against being buried girl's mime was Margaret, mid 1 must dead. The servants ran up after a alive would pay. It is surprising how say n more unprepossessing looking time, luit we would not open the door many i>eople have a dread that suspeu.l- To put out a player making the round person 1 have seldom seen; not that to them. At last the landlady and the ed animation may be mistaken for of the bases it is necessary to strike him other boarders were aroused, and she was ugly, but there was a cun death I know a woman who has with the ball thrown by an opponent. nlng light in her gray eyes, which she knocked at our door, and we let them i actually made her husband promise and, as tlie board is of considerable 111. When Bertha opened the shutters never raised to give you a fair, honest that if he survives her lie will stick a size, this is a difficult matter in most look. mid an evil expression In her face there wns the window up, the pane hatpin through her heart liefore she Is Instances. The rules governing this that would have gone against her In Just above the fastening cut away. We burled to make sure that no spark of game differ but slightly from those ap any court of Justice; Imt It was nothing told what had happened, and our lie- life remains. In certain parts of plying to the outdoor game, ,he ball to me. mid. beyond remarking to my llef that there were robbers at that mo Europe they have wliat are known as being snapped with the lingers, and ment In the servants' room. Margaret cousin Bertha that the girl wns not mortuary-houses, where the dead are players may become expert by prac pleas Hit balking. 1 dismissed her from and the cisik turned as pule as death taken aud subjected to various tests to tice. at the remark; and when the two gen my mind. tlemen went to search the house, they make sure that death Is absolutely cer MI hhh I n Chance. The third day after the ndveut of the atisul with their back to their chamber tain. I believe there Is a bill provid "I am satisfied now that I have made new domestics we went to spend the ing for a somewhat similar course now day with some friends who lived at doors, daring them to enter, and they before the Massachusetts Legislature. a professional blunder in your case." the physician said, noting the symp Brooklyn; there the conversation turn did not. If such a mortuary building Is estab All the servmits were discharged the toms of his patient. ed on tin* numlier of burglaries, nearly fished multitudes of people would glad "A blunder, doctor? Don't I seem to always attended with murder, that had next day, aud two weeks after the ly pay, say. to l»e Insured In a lately tn ken place In New York, said whole of New York rang wltli the story company that wotikl guarantee to make be Improving fast enough?” "You are Improving too fast. Your to be c<aiimltted by a gang of ruffians of one of the moat horrible murders the necessary teats before burial or malady had begun to interest me ex who wore light linen masks, and who that had ever been committed. One cremation." ceedingly. and I wanted to see what It hnd mil tinged to elude Justice. This of the victims was not quite dead when "But suppose the alleged corpse description made a great Impression the crime was discovered, although should come to life under the treat would develop Into If allowed to run. but I stupidly gave you a prescription on lue; the Idea of waking mid seeing she expired a few hours after the fear ment?” asked a listener. • a white mask bending over one haunt- 1 ful lujurlea she had received. But she "In that case," said the man who had that has knocked it entirely out of your ed tile all the way home We were lived long enough to lie the means of previously spoken. "It ought to be system,"—Chicago Tribune. too late for anything to ent when we j bringing the dread band to Justice. A worth something to the company."— Athleticism. widow lady, with her two grown-up arrived at our Isiardlng house, for din New York Mail and Express “ I understand that your boy Joslar daughters, three younger children and ner was the last meal, and that was 1 is a good deal of an athlete," said a Casualties In France. served at seven, now It was nearly ten; their governess, resided lu one of the neighbor. Statistics are at hand showing that so. feeling rather hungry, we got Mar- ' new streets uptown; they were corn "Yes.” answered Farmer Corntossel. fortably off. and the lady, whose name gnret to go out aud get ns some rolls, . In the first month of the last quarter of "I'm kind o’ worried about Joslar. made a frugal meal, and then prepared was Maynard, was In the habit of keep 1900 in France horses caused 9t¡7 acci Ing rather a large sum of money lu her dents. with SB fatalities. The railways Sence 1 saw him Jumpin’ over parallel for tied. bars an’ turnin’ somersaults Jos’ for desk. What induced me 1 cannot tell, but j In the same length of time caused 145. Her bouse was broken Into by men of which S were fatal. The automobile the fun of IL I’m downright afettrd he for the first time since we had occu ; will work hisaelf to death when he gits pled this room I examined the fasten ! with white masks, and the whole of was the cause of 38. with 2 fatalities, here on the farm where there’s practi Ings of the shutters, and found them , • he family slaughtered with the ex and the bicycle was responsible for cal business to 'tend to."—Washington very frail. Much to the aiuuseuieut of ception of the governess, who lived 11®. with 6 deaths. »tar. Paid for Bali es to Baptize, New Zealand Landscapes. I The Rev. Dr. Richard Harcourt, pas Almost every New Zealander lives 1 tor of the People's Church at Reading, within sight of the mountains or the Pa., announced that on a recent Sun ocean, or both. Its landscapes show day he would pre long ranges and solitary giants tipped sent to each child ; with Alpine glow; there are waterfalls brought to him on everywhere, some of them among the that day for bap finest in the world; luxuriant country tism a gold dollar side, golden farms, lakes, geysers, vol to be placed in a canoes. forests with miles of pink, savings bank to the wliite and red-flowering trees In spring, child's credit, where and there are fiords of the sea thread it is to remain un lug their way around the feet of moun til he reaches liis tains crowned with glaciers anil per rkv . uh . hahcovrt twenty-first birth petual snow. The scenery is a synop day. On the appointed day fifteen chil sis of the best in Norway, Switzerland. dren were presented for baptism. Aft Italy and England. er the Ceremony was over Dr. Har court placed in the hand of each babe j Automatic Postal Weighing Machines a gold dollar, saying as he did so: "I i To overcome the difficulty caused by present you with an offering of gold. ; the loss of time and the reluctance of God bless you.” Dr. Harcourt explains postoftice clerks to weigh letters, the that be Is simply following the exam French authorities are installing small ple of the wise men of the East, who automatic weighing machines in post- brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh otfiees. You place your letter on that to the cradle of tlie Christ child at part of the balance which corresponds Bethlehem. He believes it would pro with your idea of the weight of your mote thrift among the people if the letter, and if it Is too heavy a laliel con same custom should be generally taining that information comes into adopted. The deposit of $1 at 3 per view. cent compound interest would amount Couldn't Spare It. In twenty years to a snug sum. and Easterner—Why don't you build your it is believed that at the same time courthouse over there? young people would be encouraged to Westerner— Why. if we did we’d have save their money and add to this nest to cut that tree down. > egg "Well, what of ft?" American Soldier's Generosity. “What of It? Man alive, that's the A writer in Alnslee’s Magazine tells only tree in this neighborhood fit to thia story; "Our Government allowed lynch a man on.”'—Philadelphia Record.