T k r * * - r . . 1*0.1, n
• <*ut shows it very
hoii»« for three mm 1
yard* arranged for J.
wr. The house Is 3(J 1
accommodate |„(J j"B
•ay takes but llttl, *
nterlor nnd yet it , 2
all three pens. The |
are of wire netting ^
line that enters at t’h .L
a to fall Into th« p j l
■ In 'ii 1.1 I
nmy receive morn|0, ",
noon sun. The pin, J
(Una to OranRe j udlJ J
lilt? the yard outside s,J
ho space inside the ho,
WEEELY
lis X 9 ^ I A N
i&y
n Ü
all and all winter will i<| *H. R. Emerson, minister of rail-
to become broody. T)| tyi and canals, resigned from the
to laying in the sprint iminion cabinet... .Gov. Johnson
much later In wishingll Minnesota signed the 2-cent pas-
t the early sitter to worq nger fare b ill....T h e Macdonald
igineering building of McGill
our eggs are fertile.
[Diversity, Montreal, destroyed by
It Is the early bird thsj i— Carnegie Institute at Pitts-
worm, and It Is the i
g dedicated.
brings the big price. H|
^Treaties signed at Washington
best to move each hem Ween Great Britain and the Uni-
■ broody to * root
fn States for determining the Ca-
>ther hens. Here she I Mian boundary and regulating
sturbed peace. The roo i fisheries on the Great Lakes.
ither warm, as well art ■ The United States made r e p l
dark. Under such condl antations to Great Britain regard-
will all attend strlctlf| jig the seizure by Newfoundland of
shing vessels. .. .An agreement to
there will be fewer 1
heck emigration from India to
hens leaving their nesa|
anada reached between the Do
ies In general will
minion and British officials.
» higher percentage of ^
of eggs set.—AgrlcultM [■Anthracite coal operators refused
Pi the demands of the m in ers....
Hre at Fort Worth, Texas, de
coyed property valued at $5,000,-
■ t e m o v l n s fl S m all Stl
.United States House of
fastening the chain tod
epresentatlves passed the Payno
roots and bringing It I ariff
bill.
>f the stump, a lew*
ed to take full advail
gtb of the horses.
A
A m
I n ie r lle l* - I
S o i l M o is ts »*
produce any crop it i*
0 500 pounds of water1
1 of dry matter R
soils have a great
and that It Is not l<y
in.
Deep plowing
more moisture and
ons prevent its In* ’ ]
EXPECT THEIR HOSE TO T * aT
H sr ra , I « « « . , . .
►¡¡iHm Penn Issued his famotis
Jumatlon to the inhabitants of
iy Ivan la.
Hudson’s Bay Company e»
Jhshed.
»nlted States mint established
IbiladelpMia.
Lgnuel Una founded the first
ini? post ,n Nebraska,
ipoleon Bonaparte abdicated
a large amountoTyd (throne of France,
yards conveniently lo»J
inited States
adopted
the
Ing is shingled all ov«| (endover" flu*, designed by Pe-
with the heaviest buildti 1 jj Wendover "i New forks
r the shingles, and man
tional gallery opened In Lon-
hed or lathed and ph
Pennsylvanla Legislature
Ued an act for the promotion of
I culture.
C a r ln a r f o r Gropes
•he P ennsylvania Railroad was
les for grapes culture
Irtered.
•iment
station record,!
Idiana militia ordered by Gov.
s Department of Agricd
|rton to prepare for a threatened
e main points In grt,
Ifederate uprising,
tummarized as follows:''
ton. Thomas D’Arcy McGee as-
th a few exceptions grj|J Llnated at Ottawa by a Fenian
usca species, of which Katie named Patrick Whelan. .. .
may be taken as the [arlfg Dickens «avc his lust read-
most satisfactory for] . |n Hoston, prior to his return
lng.
[England.
warm, rich, well drain» loyal Society of Canada founded,
for the grape.
'he Grenadiers reached Winni-
Host all vines should
{ to suppress the Northwest re-
ast eight feet apart,
on.
•ong one-year-old vine«
bill for trade reciprocity with
able for planting,
United States defeated In the
orough shallow cultivate Union Parliament after two
al.
ks’ debate.
[The Newfoundland house of as-
e pruning of the first
ibly adopted a petition to Queen
be done with refer s
m under which the vine] itoria to ratify their convention
ed after It begins frui |th the United States,
he court of arbitration, respect-
his time the vine shou
the seal fisheries In Bering Sea,
rnghly established,
•an its session.
e best time for the
Ing Is soon after the 1» United Mine Workers’ conven-
in at Columbus ordered a general
utumn, but pruning can
ike.
ny time during the wii
[Marriage of William K. Vander-
vines are not frozen.
lt Jr., and Miss Virginia Fair at
Ing consists of pinchh twport, R. I ....T h e New' Bruns-
ches In order to encour _ Ick Legislature rejected a resolu-
>ment o f the fruit and th» in favoring woman suffrage,
I for the succeeding year] itrathcona’s Horse arrived Pt
e long arm, short spur, petown.
ling Is usually the most] Hr Wilfrid Laurler propounded
for the Inexperienced le terms of the Grand Trunk Pa-
the renewal systems ai
: Railway project In the Do*
lion House of Commons.
amended.
•Final settlement of the Alaskan
M a r ly lln tik ln (.
Mindary agreed upon by Great
get early sitting hewj Itain and the United S ta te s....
val of the turbine steamer
: have laid out their I
itorian” at Halifax on her
during the winter or i
ig. Hens that have laid |aiden trip across the Atlantic.
if. C. P. Gillette, of thf
ultural College, hit 0#
Insecticide for the owl
i h u proved effective Ul
he worms, and probtwj
I not so Injurious to i
her arsenical poLont
spnlc Is the name of tWj
It comes cheaper that
}w In use.
TANGLE OF M ATRIM ONV
■'(el L. Wright, president of the
and Pennsylvania Iiasketbull
* died recently after several
f illness.
1 formal Inauguration of the rac-
paton In France took place with
Mining of the Prix du President
1 République at Anteull.
• Columbia soccer football team
ped Harvard by 2 to 0 In a hard
er match. Yale defeated the Unl-
[ ,y of Pennsylvania in the first
nf the season at Yale field 2 to 0.
[I,0r,n «h"iv with women Judges,
' n exhibitors and women officers
^vn ararnged by Miss Ethel Boyd
and will be held at Durland's
A«>demy, New York City, N.
April 27.
r : ' ; ,s Advices from Quantanamo
», Uba' te,,lng of contests In sports
r‘ lh* sailors of the battleships
* compl»-menti of over 3 Q 0 men.
I
neaota won In the rowing
*nd the Idaho In sailing.'
£ Chief, the 5-year-old star In the
°r Thomas H. Williams, the
r* California turfman, has
eclared out of his Eastern en-
y ** °n account of Injuries re-
•wne time ago In a workout.
UT*1' which cost Mr. Williams
L c * 1' expected to win either the
r A or the Suburban.
■ !
Ih .
S b r li ,.
ol
||yB i«.B-
n entertaining crazy-patch quilt of
the ways o* a maid with a min and
a man with a maid could be pieced
from the clippings of the papers of
the uuy In a country like this.
Out of a scant score the following
patches were snipped, and had the
work been carried on farther the num-
ber wouid have been doubled easily.
The first, which comes from Boston,
where
such swashhu.klering
ro
mance would seem a bit inharmonious,
Is thut of a young fellow whose suit
was opposed by the flinty-hearted
mother of the girl. He sneaked Into
her house the other night, chloroform
ed the mother and stole the girl away
from under her very nose.
He was young and ardent and ln-
cxperti'nced.
if he had known the
opinion of the Kansas City woman, ar
rested for bigamy, he might have been
less theatrical.
On the stand she
made no secret of her guilt. "I've had
six husbands and I’m sick of matri
mony. Most of the men I married
were farmers. I would live with them
until I got tired of them and then I'd
leave. They were so tiresome. No;
I never divorced one of them.”
Then the foxlness of the Connecti
cut girl who wits jilted by her lover,
who stole her heart, her jewelry and
170 in real money and decamped,
must be noted. The girl said nothing,
but planned. Seven weeks ago she
left her native town of South Man
Chester and when she came back the
other day she wore a wedding ring.
She told her friends of the ceremony,
and the news filtered out to the runa
way. He thought she had forgotten
and returned home, only to be arrest
ed. The pretended marriage was a
trap.
The limit of folly, though, Is reached
by the Detroit swain whose wedding
depended upon the victory of his home
town's ball club in the championship
series. A girl who has so little ap
preciation of the sanctity of marriage
as to make It hinge on a wager is silly
and vulgar and unwomanly, but what
can be said of the spineless man who
would be willing to take a girl under
such circumstances? Civilized men
will hold him In contempt, and the
savages who used to club their chosen
mates into insensibility, swing them
over their shoulders and steal away In
the darkness, would be esteemed more
highly by all sensible womankind
than this Detroit weakling.—Cleveland
Leader.
GAME WARDEN'S PLUCK.
The extraordinary escape of one of
the game warden's assistants in South
Africa is told by Lieutenant Colonel
Patterson, author of ‘‘In the Grip of
the Nyika." The warden delivered
himself out of the very jaws of a lion
by a good knife, a cool head and plen
ty of pluck. This man was riding
home at dusk through a game pre
serve, when a lion suddenly sprang
at him out of the bushes, knocked him
off his pony and so terrified the pony
that it galloped madly off, pursued by
the lion. The man was picking him
self up when another lion pounced
on him and gripped him through thn
shoulder.
The game ranger was dazed for a
few moments by the shock, but when
he came to his senses he found himself
being carried ofT in the maw of the
lion, whose long tusks went through
and through his right shoulder, and
rendered his right arm useless.
As he was being dragged off in this
fashion, with his heels trailing on
the ground, he gave himself up for
lost, but suddenly bethought himself
of an old hunting knife he carried In
his waist belt at his right side.
The knife was so loose in Its sheath
that it usually fell out on the least
provocation, and even as the ranger
doubled his left arm behind his hack
he had a hopeless feeling that the
knife would not be there. Imagine
his joy when he felt the hilt In his
desperate grip!
In a moment the long, keen blade
was poised, and a blow at the lion s
heart, thrice rapidly repeated, made
the brute wonder what had hurt him.
He dropped his vould-be victim, eyed
him with astonishment for a second
as he lay beneath him, and then stag
gered off into the bush.
The moment he was out of sight,
the ranger struggled to his feet,
climbed a tree, and before he fainted
strapped himself on a branch with his
be*1-
.
1 . . .
No sooner had he done so than Hon
number one appeared on the scene
again, having failed to catch the pony.
He remained at the foot of the tree
until the ranger's dog came up. and
by his barking attracted the attention
of some passing natives, who drove
nfT the lion and rescued the fainting
man from the tree.
, ,
A brief search disclosed the dead
body of the lion that had attacked
the ranger, stabbed to death through
the hearL____________________
S tic k y
Iron ».
To prevent the Iron from stlcklsg
when ironing shirts or collars rub It
over with a little white wax. Take
any odd pieces of candle you m a y have
and tie them up In a square of cot
ton or linen
If the Iron Is quickly
rubbed over with this there is so dam
ger of Its sticking, and It helps to
give the linen a good sit*»
A r r • • ■ r lla l l o t h e V a r i e t y T h a t
f l u y . A l l K in » l a o f Q u e e r T r i c k s .
dou don't seem to be making much
of a display of hose,” said the regular
(aller to the hardware merchant who
was arranging his spring stock on the
sidewalk in front of the store, says the
Providence Tribune.
No, ’ replied the hardware mer
chant, somewhat gruffly. ‘T v e told
you several times that we don't do
much with hose. Nobody can after a
community's got settled down. We've
got two or three shots of hose on
hand In case there's any dem and for
it, but we don't sell much of It. When
a man buys a few feet of hose be ex
pects it’ll last forever and he makes
It last forever, even If It leaks at
| every pore, as It generally does after
it’s been In the cellar one winter. It'll
squirt all over everything and every
body except the lawn, but he ties rags
around the broken places until It looks
as If it had been through a war. and
lets it squirt. He won’t come down
and order any new hose.
"One reason is you can’t get a boy
to water the lawn with a new hose.
A boy likes a hose that'll wet him
through and play all kinds of queer
tricks; the more It leaks the better
he likes It. But If you have a brand-
new hose and you can make him touch
It at all he'll take it out and turn It
on wagons and dogs and people that
are going by, and you’ll have a police
man at the back door In an hour or
two complaining of him. Once in a
good while a man'll buy a lot of land
and build a new house and order a
new hose, but It ain’t often enough to
make It worth while to carry much of
a stock.
‘‘If you wouldn't lean your whole
weight on that vine in that box It
might do better when It comes to be
transplanted,” concluded the hardware
merchant. ‘'Ain't there no more arms
on that armchair in there for you to
whittle off?”
J
COTTON IN CALIFORNIA*
( a p lln ll.t»
S ta p le
T w o B a r k ..
at
Articles of incorporation have been
j filed for the California Cotton Com
pany, whose principal business Is to
grow cotton in Imperial Valley, the
New York Herald's Los Angeles cor
respondent says. The signers of the
application are ranch owners and busi
ness men of Los Angeles and Memphis,
Tenn.
The president of this company will
be Joseph R. Loftus, president of the
Joseph R. Loftus Company in this city,
who was a prime mover in Introduc
ing cotton into imperial Valley. The
others mentioned are J. T. Walker of
Memphis, Tenn., who has been in the
cotton and cottonseed business for a
number of years; W. H. Kindig, M. M.
Dorfmeler and H. C. Chase, all of Los
Angeles.
It was originally Intended to form
a large company, but on account of
the very limited time before cotton
planting It was decided to work along
more modest lines. The capital of
$25,000 will enable the company to
plant from 2,000 to 3,000 acres in cot
ton, and have an experienced p’ inta-
tlon manager as superintendent and
justify maintaining a business ifflee
to handle the products.
There Is said to be an unlimited de
mand for cotton and cottonseed prod
ucts. In California there Is still a cot
ton mill that will use 10,000 bales of
cotton. Cotton mills from Germany
nnd Japan are reported to he nego
tiating for tome of the cotton to be
raised in the imperial Valley. Oil
mills and gins have already been
financed by the farmers. It is ru
mored that private Individuals will
plant nearly 20,000 acres. Money has
been furnished by eastern and San
Francisco capitalists to help the plant
ers, and It Is predicted that with cot
ton growing on a commercial basis Im
perial Valley will attract much capi
tal from abroad.
Ora S tores
France still has eleven thousand men
encamped on Moroccan soil.
Alaska's copper output this year will
exceed four million pounds.
An English physician has placed on
record a case of malaria which re
mained latent for thirteen years.
It has been found that the prevalence
of typhoid fever In India varies regu
larly with the abundance of files.
A writer in the Lancet mentions
lurid incidents at a funeral. A man
was supposed to have run danger of
being buried alive; for when his cdt-
fln was moved a knocking sound was
heard within. When It was opened It
was found that a hammer had been
left in It, and had jolted about so as to
cause the noise.
As a result, It Is said, of the In
creased spirit duties under the British
budget the police have noticed in re
mote districts of Ireland Indications
of a revival of illicit distillation of
liquor. There has also been a consid
erable increase, It is reported, in the
use of spirits of ether as a beverage
since the price of whisky was raised.
A Burlington passenger train coming
into St. Joseph had to stop and re
move a sleeping man from the track.
A brakeman was left to hold the man,
and when the train reached the sta
tion a policeman was sent to arrest the
track sleeper. He was running down
the right-of-way with the brakeman
hanging to his coat-tails with all
brakes set.— Kansas City Star.
Miss Hughes of Toronto, Canada, re
cently conducted a party of 322 school
teachers to visit Boston and other
points of interest In New England.
Miss Hughes' father is the Inspector
of schools at Toronto and her mother
was president of the congress of kin
dergarten teachers at the world’s fair
at Chicago, and for the last four years
has been president of the International
Kindergarten Association.
To what group, If any, the sun be
longs, we do not yet know, but De-
launcey has presented reasons for
thinking that those stars whose dis
tances have been measured (that Is to
say, those which are nearest to us)
group themselves around Sirius, the
Dog Star, in a manner similar to that
In which the Inner planets are grouped
around the sun. If this be correct,
Sirius may possibly be the master sun
of which our orb of day is a distant
satellite.— Harper's Weekly.
Sharks lay eggs which are large in
size, few as to numbers and are de
posited singly Instead of In masses.
These eggs consist of a dark colored,
leathery envelope, and are usually
adorned wtih frills, horns or long
twisted tendrils.
These appendages
serve the purposa of keeping the egg
case supported among the branches of
seaweeds, thus preserving the embryo
shark from the damage It would sus
tain were the egg can led hither a a j
thither by the waves.
I s r i a n t 2 ,0 0 0 A r m
111 I m p e r i a l V a l l e y ,
ygjE WFLY | gCT0R
S to m u ch
and
N erves.
There Is no one living who has not
been compelled with more or less fre
quency to learn by actual experience
what is meant by indigestion, the les
sons varying from the occasional acute
attack, traceable to some unmistakable
Indiscretion, to the condition of semi
invalidism in which many persons
languish, solely by reason of the un
certain action of the digestive p r o
cesses.
In most eases of indigestion, or dys
pepsia, the stomach or the intestines
are at fault; but this is by no means
always so, and great injustice is done
by a failure to recognize that the stom
ach is not the real culprit, but is only
put forward by the rest of the system,
as It were, as a spokesman. It faith
fully performs Its office of lodging a
complaint for the general economy,
and it Is then Immediately dosed and
redosed, with disappointing results, be
cause the real trouble has not been rec
ognized or attacked.
Everyone has heard that It Is best
not to eat when extremely fatigued,
but this is not because the stomach
j itself is tired, but because the entire
system Is temporarily too enfeebled to
send out sufficient blood supply to cope
with the increased work that digestion
! entails. The stomach, In order to do
its work properly, must be fed with
the nervous force that comes from
j good circulation, and this is impossi
ble if the brain is calling for more
| than its share. This, again, is the
reason why brain wfirkers should not
go straight from their work to a heavy
meal, but should take a walk or some
simple gymnastic exercises flr3t, in
order to draw the blood from the over-
supplied brain down to the stomach,
the turn of which to work has come.
The same reason should forbid im
mediate hard work of any kind after a
meal. Let the stomach have its fair
turn.
Much indigestion may be classed as
purely nervous In its origin. If the
whole nervous system Is out of order
and on strike. It would be strange If
the nerves of the stomach should es
cape the general calamity.
In this
type, constant doses of medicine for
"stomach trouble” will do little good,
but Judicious rest and general toning
up of the whole nervous system may
work a miracle.
That most wretched of all the brief-
! er Illnesses known as a “ sick head
ache,” in which, as the name implies,
1 the stomach Is a co-sufferer with the
j head, Is much more apt to be caused
by irritated brain centers than by
abuse of the digestive organs, as is
j proved by the frequency with which
I an attack Is brought on by overuse of
the eyes, or any continued strain or
'xcltement.— Youth's Companion.
The
Snpe,
‘‘That duck was fine,” said the en Two speeches only had the supe—
"Now, caitiff, yield!" the first;
thusiastic patron. “ I can’t Imagine
anything more acceptable than a nice T o r Rome and Gracchus!" followed
this,
little canvasback.”
And in these he was rehearsed.
•‘Unless,” said the proprietor of the
restaurant, "It’s a nice big greenback.” The opening evening came a n ! hs
—Philadelphia Record.
Rushed on with the attackers;
"Now. Katie Field!” to his foe he
A Y o u th fu l I l T t . l a r .
said,
The smaller the town, tbelnore lay-
Samuel Colt was only 15 years of Then yelled: “For Rum and Crack-
ers there are In company cake. I n » sge when he invented his famous re
era!"
—Boston Evening Transcript.
big city like New York, they are satis volver.
fied with only two.
____
Plenty
of men have been through
No man ever loses every hair on
Verr few of us are so repentant that bit head. Death always arrives In all the chairs of their lodge three
w . w H l Promise to he good without
times.
time to spars him that affliction
putting an “ If” to It
W H EN GRASS SH ALL COVER MR. | (laughter’s purchase, she derived un
limited satisfaction from dilating on -
the merits of the dictionary to tha
When the Kraus shall cover me.
other boarders.
Head to foot where I am lytn*;
“ If you ever want to look anything
When not any wind that blows,
Summer blooms nor winter snows, up,” she said cordially, "just drop into
our room and see what the dictionary
Shall awake me to your sighing;
Close above me as you pass.
says. You'll always find It on the
You will say, ' ‘How kind she was.” stand in the front room."
You will say, "How true she was.”
The Culbersons lived in a boarding
When the grass grows over me.
house where dictionaries were a rare
commodity. Indeed, Ruth's was the
When the grass shall cover me,
Holden close to earth’s warm bosom— only one about the house, except Mr.
W inter's edition, which contained only
While I laugh, or weep, or sing
the words in most common use.
Nevermore, for anything.
You will find in blade and blossom,
But somehow as soon as it became
Sw'eet small voices, odorous.
known that there was a large diction
Tender pleaders In my cause,
ary In Mrs. Culberson's room on the
That shall speak me as I was—
second floor and that everybody had
When the grass grows over me.
been given free access thereto the de
sire for knowledge was given a won
When the grass shall cover me!
derful impetus.
Ah, beloved, In my sorrow
Rut the person who found occasion
Very patient, I can wait,
to refer to the big book most frequent
Knowing that, or soon or late,
There will dawn a clearer to-m orrow; ly was Mr. Winter. Mr. Winter was
When your heart will mourn "alas! a grocer. Of course, in his business
Now I know’ how true she was;
-he daily met with many terms that
Now' I know' how’ dear she was”—
required elucidation. Hitherto he had
When the grass grows over me!
found
the pocket edition perfectly sat
—Ina Coolbrith.
isfactory, but after the advent of the
unabridged dictionary, the much-worn,
green-backed little book suddenly lost
Its usefulness and never an evening
passed that Mr. Winter did not rap at
Mrs. Culberson's door and politely re
quest to “ come In and look at the dic
tionary a minute.”
His prolonged visits annoyed Mra.
Culberson at first. His presence pre
vented her scolding at Ruth, and as
-r e -
—**
ho, himself, seemed deeply Immersed
Miss Ruth Culberson bought her dic In soholastlc lore, thus forbidding
tionary at a fire sale. It was un opening a conversation with him, the
abridged and contained eighty thou poor old lady's evenings became sea
sand words printed on one thousand sons o f exquisite torment.
“ I don't know what makes him come
two hundred and eighty-one pages of
heavy white paper. There was no ap up here, so often,” she said, petulant
pendix of weights and measures and ly, one night, after he had closed the
proper names, but then she paid only dictionary and gone away. “ He's an
awful bore.”
nineteen cents for It.
“ It's your own fault he comes," said
Ruth laid the dictionary on the
small table that stood in the center Ruth. "You invited him.”
“ Of course I Invited him,” re torted
of the room, a perfect monument of
ugliness, and without unwrapping it or Mrs. Culberson. “ I invited all of
vouchsafing any explanation as to what them. Doesn't he annoy you?”
"No,” she said softly; "I don’t know
It was she went into the alcove adjoin
ing tbelr little parlor and began to re that he does.”
As the spring days took on the heat
move the dust and cinders she always
carried home with her from the down of summer, Mrs. Culberson became
more fretful. Ruth became younger
town district.
Her mother regarded the package on and prettier, and Mr. Winter studied
the table with increased curiosity. a still later hour each evening in bliss
She felt It and lifted it and tried to ful oblivion of the added heat of the
gas jet.
Mrs. Culberson had long since
ceased sitting up waiting for him to
go, b it bade him good night and went
to bed In the alcove.
One evening In early June, 1 o'clock
passed and Mr. Winter had as yet
made no movement toward going
away. Ruth watched him closely, as'
she always did when he seemed en
grossed wth the works before him,
and she noticed that he had not turn
ed a page for more than an hour.
He looked up at length and thetl
eyes met. Ruth felt her face flushing
hot, and with the realization of her
weakness the flush grew deeper.
“ It's a pretty knotty problem that
I have been puzzling over to-night,”
he said with a sigh.
“ Couldn’t you find what you were
looking for?” she asked softly.
“ I hardly know. I found the word
I wanted. Whether It will ever mean
" I S TH A T EVER TO BE FOB M E ? ”
HE
*0 me what I would like It to mean I
ASKED.
do not know. Here It is. I have been
M
tear off a corner of the paper covering, looking at It a good deni lately.”
He turned the big dictionary around
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but she did not remove the wrapper.
Ruth came back Into the parlor at till she could read the line over which ■” j •' ’
length and sat down near the window. Ills finger rested. There was one word' *t
Mrs. Culberson looked from the pack underlined with a pencil and she , ,
age to her daughter and back again In knew It was the one he wished he
silent agony. Presently she could en to see. It spelled 1-o-v-e.
"Is that ever to be for me?” b
dure the strain no longer.
“ What did you get to-day, Ruthle?” asked.
The blush had deepened Into scnrK
*
she asked meekly.
th.. »
Ruth turned around with a wonder then. For a moment a look of ex
he .V
v' » ’ V ,
ing air, as if not fully comprehending feeding happiness transfigured
A
the Import of the query. Her eyes fol face, but a moment later the old trou
lowed her mother’s to the ugly center bled expression drove It away. Sht.bU
table, and “ Oh, that,” she said, with a turned the leaves of the dictionary till A
she came to the word "mother.”
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smile, "that's a dictionary.”
“ That's all right,” he said, and nod
Mrs. Culberson's »Bsmay could not
have been more complete had she been ded toward the alcove.
Away over near the back of the
informed
that
her daughter had
book her next answer was found.
brought home a boa constrictor.
“ Ruth," called out Mrs. Culberson a
"And what did you get that for,
quarter of an hour later, “ what made
Ruthle?” she asked.
"Because I needed It," returned Ruth. Mr. Winter stay so unusually late
“ It must have been pretty expen this evening?”
“ He was looking at the dictionary,
sive,” hazarded her mother,
"Yes,” said Ruth, "It cost nineteen mother.”
"Did he find what he wanted?” ask
cents.”
Mrs. Culberson appeared relieved, ed Mrs. Culberson.
“ Yes, mother,” said Ruth, “ I bellevs
but not entirely satisfied.
"It seems to me, Ruthle,” she went he did.”—Grit.
on querulously, “that a girl who works
K n n trn ro o M ea t.
for ten dollars a week, which Is the
only Income two people have to depend
In certain parts of New Guinea the
upon, ought not to spend her money wallaby,, a species of kangaroo, are
for a dictionary. If you had nineteen very plentiful, and the traveler In
cents to spare for books why didn't search of sport finds the pursuit of
you buy three or four of those paper them an exciting occupation. Wallaby
backed novels that would be of some steak is a refreshing change from
Interest to me, Instead of a diction
canned meats, and the natives are
ary?”
only too glad to have the remnants
"Mother," said Ruth quietly, "I wish of the carcass. A writer In an Eng
you hadn't asked that. It makes It lish magazine tells an amusing inci
necessary for me to remind you of dent connected with the animal.
aomc things that would perhaps bet
He had been ashore In one of the
ter be left unsaid. Whose fault is it sparsely populated regions of the coast
that we have to live on ten dollars and secured four wallaby, an ample
a week? Is It mine? Did I take what supply for the whole party, native
money my father had left us and guides and servants Included. But he
squander U In dishonorable specula found that, although wallaby Is re
tion? Is It my fault that I have to go garded as such a delicacy that no
had to work ever since I was ten years trouble Is considered too great to ob
of age?
tain It, none of the native boys In the
“ Am I to be blamed because you. In party would touch It.
your old age and sickness, are obliged
This was a mystery until one of
to sit here day after day In this cheer them explained that they had been
less, comfortless room which Is all I trained In childhood In the belief that
can give you except the food that holds If they ate wallaby before reaching a
soul and body together? And lastly, certain age it would stop their growth.
mother, is It my fault that my oduca
These boys all belonged to the part
! cation was so neglected when I was of the country where wallaby are few,
young that I find It necessary to refer and one ran Imagine the crafty old
] so often to the dictionary now? I am folks seated round the festive pot and
not complaining, mother, but you winking at one another as the young
ought not to reproach me for Indulging people declned the succulent dainty.
In just one expenditure In which your
If a girl Is all the world to a
comfort was not considered.”
In spite of Mrs. Culberson's keen hs should marry her, and engaga la
disappointment In regard to her the real «state business.
Proposing by
thj Dictionary
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