THE COLUMBIAN. Rl.OOMSftUPa A
THE POWER
OF
WOMAN
I5y t'ni Hudson.
1 stirred niy tea thoughtfully and
l.w.1. ..,4 .. Tl.. lt A . '
She la very good to look at. Is
j .Hilda, and Is a charming widow
i i he first slagcs of consolable alll-
ll.i'.OU.
1 have known Patricia for a very
; time. In Baying this I do not,
i- vever, wish to Insinuate that I'at
v. a is burdened with years. On
::.! contrary, sho Is well under thirty
u;iJ looks even younger than sho
really is. But I have watched her
development from a lanky girl into
a graceful young woman; so, surely,
I am well within the truth when I
lay claim to having known her for a i
lon time.
"The power of woman," I said,
apropos of nothing at all, "U very
greatly overrated."
I confess that t said this not with- !
out malice prepense. ' It is by means
of Just such remarks that I have per
fected in Patricia that splclness of
temper bo charming In a woman.
I was pelasod to observe that she i
at once followed my lead.
"You are entirely mistaken," she
said, perhaps a trifle more aggress
ively than the occasion seemed to
warrant. "Any woman cuu got any
thing she wants from any man if she
nly goes about It in the right way."
This sounded interesting.
"Prove it," I said Judicially.
Patricia was all animation. Her
choelta wore pink, her eyes bright,
and she was very, very pretty. I
confess I ii:n rather Busceptlblo to
beauty In women.
"I will," she said determinedly.
"I will decide upon something that
I want you to do, and then I will
make you do it."
"Of course," I suggested persua
sively "you will tell me what the
'something' is."
"Certainly not," Patricia said
flatly.
"But," I said, bewildered, "if I
don't know what it 13 you want me
to do how on earth am I to d It?"
"You will do It." Patricia told
me, "because you don't know what
It Is I want. If you knew, you very
probably wouldn't do it."
"I suppose," I said, dlscontented
'". "I shall have to see you a great
y.'.lV
"It's not at all necessary," Pat
- fa assured me cheerfully.
Whereupon I Immediately decided
v. it I would call upon her qulto
o.ten. It seemed only fair to give
her every chance In the world, the
more so that It was my private opin
ion that she had undertaken a largo
contract.
It did not appear to me that Pat
ricia was making any special effort
to Induce me to do "something." I
Intimated as much to her. Sho
smiled wisely, and asked If I had
made all my appointments.
I have neglected to state that I
had maanged to secure a rather re
sponsible political position, attached
to which there was considerable
patronage.
I thought that remark of Patri
cia's very tactless and unmistakably
obvious.
"My dear girl," I said stiffly, "who
Is your protege? And which par
ticular post do you wish him to
have? You should have told me at
once, without beating about the bush,
that an appointment was the 'some
thing' you wanted."
Pstrlcia lay back In her chair and
laughed till the tears rolled down,
her cheeks.
"You precious old goose," she
said, when she was able to express
hem:lf coherently. "I don't want a
post tor any one. The thing I want
' r ev l'jishely for icy own 1130 and
plea:-:.: re. Dut I think." sTie went
on, s.lth sudden gravity , "that It la
er horrid of you 'to assume that
i iv ultimate purpose was to work
you for a favor for some friend of
vn'.v.f."
I apologized, and I told her how
nil :i;y pride and pleasure In my re
cently acquired position had turned
to bitterness because of the attitude
of jity so-called friends in respect to
thos:o same appointments. The num
ber of applicants for each place was
positively appalling. And whenever
I was made the reclpent of any little
friendly courtesy, I had come to be
lieve that somewhere hanging to it
I would find that odious and ever
lasting request for a "Job."
I told her, too, what a Joy It was
to know that there waa one person
whose frelndshlp for me was entire
ly disinterested. That seemed to
please Patricia. She let ma hold her
hand for quite a long time when I
bade her good-by. Bhe has a very
charming hand, baa Patricia. I think
It is what a palmist would call a
"rsychle hand." When you hold It
it sends little warm thrills all over
your body. I think I shall try hold-
tag It again. That Is, of course, if
Patricia will permit me.
I think, too, that I wilt cultivate
the habit of sending her an occasional
bunch of flowers or a box. of con
fectlona. While I was ealllng on her
this evening a bos earn from the
florist's. It contained carnations.
Patricia said tbey were a sew varie
ty, .ad very beautiful. I confess I
did not greatly admire them; pal
fusw tney were, vita pink sdges.
Somehow they quite set my teeth on
edge. I suppose it was the Inar
tistic combination of yellow and pink.
And there were so many of them!
They were from a man I particularly
detest, too; and Patricia wrote him a
note of thanks then nnd there, and
actually made me " telephone for a
messenger boy. Sho soeined to think
if of vital Importance that that note
should be delivered Immediately. For
my part, I think it could very well
have waited for the regular post.
Decldodly, as Patricia seems to
be fond of flowers, I shall myself
supply her with thorn In tho future.
And I'll send plenty of them, too! a
regular sheaf of them roses, car
nations, lilies every weed that
grows. I'll outdo that odious Col.
Webster if I have to buy up a green
house to do it.
Tonight as I was leaving my office
the telephone boll rang. There va8
nothing surprising in that, for it had
i
PROVE IT," I SAID JUDICIALLY.
been ringing all day, but somehow
It set my nerves on edge.
I took down the receiver and in
quired In no pleasant tone of voice
what was wanted. It seemed that I
was wanted to dine with Patricia.
All my Ul-rumor vanished Instantly.
The prospect of spending tho whole
evening in peace and quiet where I
shouldn't be tackled for a favor at
every turn wus like a small piece
of Paradise, and not such a small
piece either. I told Patricia so while
we waited for the Qsh to be brought
In. Her answer was characteristic.
"I hate to eat alone," she said.
A dinner without a man at the
head of the table Is very much like
a potato without salt."
I couldn't think of anything suit
able to say In return, but I admitted
to myself that a dinner table without
pretty woman at one end of it was
nothing less than a hideous mistake.
And It occurred to me that It would
be very pleasant to have Patricia
at one end of my dinner table.
So well. Indeed, did I like the
Idea, that in the library after din
ner I asked her to marry me. One
must, to a certain extent, consider
the convenances and there really
seemed no other way in which I
could Induce her to preside, over my
dinner table. But I may as well
confess that I had suddenly found
myself very much In love with Pat
ricia. Her answer was more than a lit
tle disconcerting. She began to sob
violently, and I came to the conclu
sion that 1 had been too abrupt. By
way to atoning for the abruptness I
took her in my arms and kissed
her, and told her how much I lov
ed her. All of which had the effect
of making her, if possible, cry more
than ever.
I was at my wits end.
"My dear girl," I cried distracted
ly, "what is the matter?"
To which Patricia replied, In a
choked voice:
"Nothing."
Now. I have observed that when
a woman tells you that "nothing" Is
the matter you may safely make up
your mind that a very great deal is
the matter.
I kissed Patricia again, and I
thought that she did not particular
ly object to my caresses. On the
contrary, she seemed rather to In
vite them.
"Dear," I said very gently, "is It
that you don't love me?"
She shook her head.
"Then," I said, "won't you marry
me, dear?"
I i o cant," Patricia walled,
he because that waa the 'some
thing' I wanted you to do. And now
I'll always think that you proposed
to me because I made you, and not
because you really loved me."
"My dear child," I said, "that la
utterly absurd. You did not Influ
ence me In the very least I have
acted entirely of my own free will."
And before I left Patricia accept
ed thla view of the matter. At any
rate, she permitted me to take the
meaaure of 'her engagement ring
finger.
But between ua the "power of
woman" la still a much mooted ques
tion. When Dancing la Fashionable
t In Hew York City during the
spring couples in middle life, say
between 85 and 46, kept the danulng
masters working overtime giving
them private lessons at home. These
lessons were not given to the fash
ionable set. but to folka who in early
Illfe had neither the time, money nor
opportunity to learn to dance.
8AY8 HE'S WwMLU'a CHAMPION.
Missouri School Teachor Claims No
Ona Can Beat Him Spelling.
For 22 years Prof. David Jones, a
district school teachor, living a fow
miles from here, has been going
around with a spoiling chip en hid
shoulder, begging anything that tallis
English and walks ou two loss to
coino'along and knock It off.
In that period five or nix spell'i-a
have invaded Lancaster with Moo I
In tholr eyes and dictionaries under
their arms. They left town with tho
explanation that they were out of
practice, or growling at tho protiounc
er. In consequence of which Frof.
Jones closes his letters with tho iu
ecription: "Tho greatest Knglit.ii
speller tho world has produced."
Prof. Jones argues that printers,
stenographers and all thoso having to
do with words, owe It to tholr em
ployers to perfect themselves in spell
ing, and, as the art Is rarely acquired
In school, he thinks an association for
the object of acquiring proficiency in
orthography by tho workers with pea
and paper should bo encouraged.
A Road Mirror.
At Wood bridge. Suffolk, England,
Where three roads meet at dangerous
JCWsu stfitf
m mm
t angles, the Urban Council has erecte l
' tt m rrnr nt eitnh on cir?1 that nrlr.
can see whether the road is clear.
Apples at $100 Each.
In some of the very expensive Lon
don restaurants you can order a spe
cial dessert that will cost you any
where from $25 to $250.
These deserts will consist of dain
ties in the way of fruit, which tho
greater part of the world has been
ransacked to provide.
Of all fruits, Zanzibar apples are
perhaps the rarest. Dozens of trees
together will only bear a few of these
apples, and the time for picking them,
has to be carefully selected; they
must be gathered just a month ber ro
they would ripen, otherwise they will
Tery quickly go bad. .
These apples have been sold In Eng
land at $100 apiece, and, or course,
have to be specially ordered, for no
fruiterer would ever dream of keep
ing them in stock.
Custard apples are another expen
sive luxury. They can be purchased
at prices ranging from 75 cents to $25
each, according to quality, and, accord
ing to those whose judgment in. such
matters is considered to bo absolute
ly correct, muBt be eaten with pepper
and salt
A gentleman not long since went
Into a well-known fruiterer's in Re
gent street and offered $250 to tho
manager if he could provide enough
strawberries for five people that eve
ning. Seventeen gardens provided the re
quired amount of strawberries, and by
6:30 that evening the fruit was deliv
ered at a cost of nearly $2.50 for each
strawberry.
The manager of a well-known fruit
erer's establishment in tho West End
Informed the writer that lots of people
who see high-priced fruit in the win
dow will buy it Just to see "what It
tasteB like," and in this way these
"samplers," as they are called by the
trade, are a considerable source cf
profit' to many of the high-class fruit
erers. Stray Stories.
I v Watch an Inch Thick.
I In these days of watches no thick
er than a silver dollar, which Jewo'.
! era show with pride to their fastidious
j customers, a Umpleco of two centur
I lea agone Is a rare curiosity.
Such a one Is shown in the collec
i tlon of the Bostonlan society at the
I old state house, Boston. It represent
J ed In Its day, probably, tho height of
fashion in watches. Us case of silver
la heavy, and its thick crystal much
crowned, with a flat disc at the top,
the size of a dime. The dial Is sil
ver, as well as the fob chain and seal.
The entire thickness of the watch la
more than an inch.
Thla ancient timepiece was made in
1676, In London, by Thomas Planner.
So well did the maker do his work
that after 228 years the watch prob
ably could be relied on to tell the
time if properly cleaned and repaired.
A Flrst-Aid Motor.
It is a three-wheeled car, clad in
bullet-proof steel. Closed It can trav
el at the rate of six miles an hour.
When its wings are opened, as shown
In the picture, it is a miniature steel
fort.
Irat It queer that only sensible peo
ple agree with you? ,
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THE MASTER KEY.
Ingenious Device by Which All Lock
Are Rendered Helpless. I
An lngcntotiH devlco typifying tho '
locksmith's shill Is Known as the mus
ter key. This key resembles, as near
ly as the cyo can determine, an or
dinary key, and does not by any out
ward appearance seem to possess
any especial utlributo.
Nevertheless It will lock nnd un
lock all the locks In any building for
which It Is especially designed. In
such buildings the locks nre, cf
course, nil of a uniform and prede
termined typo, yet any one of the 4r.."
ordinary keys of tho building In ques
tion will not lock or unlock any lock
but the individual one for which it Is
made.
Occasionally a tenant forgets lila
key or may havo some other reason
for being without his own when he
makes a formal demand on tho Super
intendent of tho building for tho mas
ter key. There Is only one rule re
lating to it, nnd It is that it shall be
returned In five minutes time. Ta'1
ure to comply means simply that a
messenger will be sent posthaste nfter
It or. If the tenant Inadvertently slips
the key Into his pocket and carries it
away a still hunt is at once instituted
and kept up until the precious key is
found. It Is evident that an unscru
pulous person might easily have a du
plicate key made and co bo able to
enter any one of the hundred ofilce3
at will.
Recently one of these mnr.ter keys
disappeared, nnd the mpnngment of
the building rather than talte any
chances had every lock removed and
an entire new series made to take
their places. It requires a highly
skilled locksmith to make a satisfac
tory master key. When a key is in
serted In a lock the tapering tip sim
ply serves to guide the toothed por
tion Into the slot. When In and tho
key Is turned one or more of tho pro
jections comes In contact with corres
ponding movable portions of the In
terior of the lock and a combination
Is effected which turns tho bar.
An exceedingly large number of
combinations may be thus wrought,
yet a single key may bo made by ob
taining wax Impressions of a number
of different keys.
Relic of a Sea Fight.
Capt. G. A. Dean of 45 Howard
avenue, Dorchester, has an interest
ing relic of a civil war sea fight which
revives in memory the sudden and
disastrous assault of the old-time
federal frigate Merrimac on the U.
S. ships Congress and Cumberland at
Newport News. It is a Bible, very,
old, and, by the dog ears on Its mar
gins, much read.
The Merrimac was a 40-gun screw
frigate, built for the government In
1855. On April 19, 18G1, when the
Norfolk navy yard was abandoned by
the federals, the Merrimac and other
vessels lying there were sunk. She
was raised by the confderates, who
cut her down to the berth deck, and
on the midship section built a case
ment of timber 170 long, protected by
a double Iron plating four inches
thick. The prow was of cast Iron.
She was named the Virginia and
was commanded by Commodore
Franklin Buchanan, who on March 8,
18G2, sent her against tho Congress,
a sailing ship of 50 guns, and the
Cumberland, a sailing ship of 30 guns,
both of which she quickly destroyed.
Some time after the fight a sea
man's chest from the fo'c s'le of the
Cumberland floated ashore at New
port News, and inside was tho Eiblo
now ' owned by Capt. Dean. Origin
ally It was the property of a sailor
named Thomas Graham of Albany, N.
Y.
Graham got possession of the Bible
and kept it until Oct. 15, 1887, when
he presented it to a shipmate named
William B. Daley, who gavo It to hH
frfbnd, the late Capt. H. C. Hemmen
way of police station 2, this city, In
1892. Capt Hemmenway gave it to
its present owner.
Pushball Played With Horses.
A game which Is popular in Berlin
and Is being Introduced Into military
circles In England. It Is said to be
almost as rapid as polo. The ball
used Is about 18 feet In circumfer
ence. Egyptian Equestriennes.
Of all the queer and amusing sights
in Egypt there is none funnier than
the Mohammedan veiled woman rid
ing a donkey. First of all she is
enveloped in a habara, made of cot
ton or silk, according to her husband's
wealth, that covers her from head to
heels. This Is nowhere bound or fas
tened except at the back of the waist
line, with a tape or ribbon. A yasmak
covers her face from the eyes down
ward. Her feet are encased In any
sort of coarse cotton stockings, col
ored or white, of European make, and
a pair of Turkish slippers that con
sist of toes and enormously high
heels.
Over Cab With His Feet .Tied.
One of the hobbies of "the Human
Kangaroo," England's champion jump
er, ia leaping over a hansom cab with
his ankles fastened together.
Many a person prepares for a rainy
day by appropriating his neighbor'
umbrella.
Tho Kind You Havo Always
in uso for over 30 years,
and
'Srfj-jt- sonal supervision Blnoo us iiilancy.
Allow no one to deceive you In this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Jnst-as-srond"nro hut
Experiments that triflo with and endanger tlio health of
Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment
What is CASTORIA
Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor OH, Paro
gorlc,'Irops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. lis age is its guarantee. It destroys Wormii
nnd allays Fcvcrishncss. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
nnd Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates tho
Stomach nnd Uowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
Tho Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
JO
Sears tho
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
TMl etMT.UM eOMMMV, TV IU
QUEER FADS 0" SM0K2P.3.
Some Men Throw a Cigar Away Vvhc
Ashes Fall Off.
Men who can afford to Binolio re?.;i:
good cigars have more fads than oil.j
men you meot in a day's wall;," tui
a Broadway manufacturer who ina:.j
a good many cigars to order for lni
customers. "I know men who thra
a cigar away tho moment tho as;lio;
fall off. They believe the taste of U
is ruined then. For such customer)
I make very close-rolled cigars. II
disgusts these men to give no of theli
cigars to a friend who does not believe
in retaining the ashes too long, and
sees him flick it off every few socoada
"Other customers like a cigar roller,
so light that the ashes float off of theli
own accord. They like the red fire
Many men will never relight a clgai
after It has gone out. Nothing could
Induce them to.
"Others relight a cigar five or six
tlmeB before they discard it. Need
less to say they do not get the best
of a good cigar.
"I have one customer who has a spe
cial brand of after-dinner cigar made
for him. They cost him fl each net,
and are of medium size. It Is his In
variable habit to keep the cigar be
tween his teeth half an hour before
lighting it His guests may light up
with the coffee, but he never does. Ha
likes to Inhale the fragrance of the to
bacco to become pornieated with it.
so to speak, before he lights up. Then
the cigar lasts him precisely oum
hour."
Tallest of Schoolboys.
Joseph Schuppers, a German school
boy sixteen years old, is 7 feet 4 inches
high and still growing. As will b
Been from the photograph, he Is nearly
as tall when sitting down on a low
chair aa the ordiuary man ia standlns.
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We heard a nmn nay the other morn
Insr that the abbreviation fur February
T-Kt'b. nu'iiim Freeze every body, anil
that man looked frozen in hU ulster. It
wus apparent that he needed the kind
of warmth that stnys. the warmth that
reaches from head to foot, all over the
body. We could have told hhu from
personal knowledge Hint Hood's Har
parllla gives ermanent warmth, it
invigorates the blood nnd Hpecds It
along through artery and vein, and
really fits men and women, boys and
girls, to enjoy cold weather anil resist
the nttneks of (li-ense. It gives the
right kind of warmth, stimulates and
strengthens at the name time, and all
Its benefits are lusting-. There may be
a suggestion in this for you.
There is nothing more annoying to a
loafer than a busy inun.
The great and crowing popularity of
Dr. l'ieree's Uolden Medical Discovery
is due both to Its ccientilie compound
ing and to the actual medicinal value
of its ingredieiitH. The publication of
the names of the ingredients on the
wrapt er of every bottle sold. (;i vti full
insurance of Its non-alcoholicscliuraeter
and removes all objection to the ue of
an unknown or secret remedy. It is
not a patent medicine nor a hecret one
either. This fuct puts it in a duns all
by itself, bearing as i: does upon every
bottle wrapper The Iliulge of Honesty,
in the full list of its ingredients. Many
years or active practice convinced Dr.
Pierce of the value of many native
roots ui medicinal agents and he went
to great expense, both in time and in
money, to perfect hi own peculiar pro
cesses for rendering them !)th elllcieiit
and wife for tonic, alternative and re
buildiiiM agenU.
The "Uolden Medical "Discovery"
cures weak stomach, indigestion or
dyspepsia, torpid liver nnd hillloiisness,
ulcerations of the stomacu and bowels
and all catarrhal ullections no matter
what parts or orguu may be altccted
with It.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
original little liver pilh, first put tin 4U
years ago. They regulate and Invigor
ate, stomach, liver and bowels. Much
Imitated but never eipuled. Sugar
cnuted and easy to take us candy. One
to three a dose.
The f(ol and his money ure generally
divorced without allmoiiy.
Many kkquksts from Catarrh suffer
ers who use atomizers have caused us
to put up Liquid Cream P.alm, a new
nnd convenient form ofKly's Cream
Balm, the only remedy for Catarrh,
which can always be depended ou. In
power to allay inflainmutiou, to cleanse
the clogged alr-pussages. to promote
free, natural breathing, the two forms
of Cream Balm are alike. Liquid
Cream lialin is wtld by all druggists
;ir.,75.c.!"ts' deluding' spraying tube.
Mailed by Ely Bros., 60 Warren (Street.
New York.
Ely's Cream Balm feM
li Quickly tiiturbod.
Olvet Rbliol at Oi'tj.
It cleanses, soothes,
heals uud protects
the diHeused mem.
! brane resulting from
1 Catarrh and drives
away a Cold in the
lpe the Kenses of H AY FEVER
Taste and Swell. Full size 50 cts., atDrng-
ki or oy man. in liquid form, 75 tent.
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