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SUSANNA 3I0KT0X.
Jf there was 0110 tiling in all her ex
perience that Susanna Mortou was
heartily tired of it was tho t-vitk-nt and
oontinuoiis purHine of mankind to jier
mit her to remain a spinster.
True he had lieon one so long it
would seem that she should have Iweome
aeeustonied U it; hut by some strange
fatality women that is, the majority
of women never accept, their lot in
this Christian spirit, which has won for
them the endearing' title of the gentler
sex.
And Susanna Morton had put up with
it just as lonjr as she was going to.
Four leap years hail passed her ly,
and she hail submitted gracefully, but
each year less gracefully than sue had
done, the year previously, and there
were moments in tJie hist of the four
when she liecame almost desperate.
Xow that a fifth had come her mind was
made up. She would take the reins of
Cupid in her own hands and drive that
harum-scarum little rascal in a manner
to suit, herself. She knew her good
points, tuie of which was that she was
thirty-five 3'ears old or thereaiwiutx.
and possessed a poise and balance no
man who was hxking for a real sensi
ble woman as a wifeVould afford todis-
rcgard. In addition to this she had
what men seldom disregard a com
fortable fortune.
It was this fortune that had liccn the
real stumbling block in the matrimoni
al path of Susanna, and not any lack of
attractive qualities in her possession,
for she was not homely, nor was she
anything but charming. The fortune,
however, which was hers from her six
teenth birthday, had developed in her
a fear that men soutrht her for her
money and not for herself, an1, never
having fallen in love with any of her
courtiers she did not find it dillicult to
resist advances, believing, n.s she did,
that men were mercenary as a rule,
and that some day the one man in all
the world for her would apjiear and
claim her as his own.
However, he did not appear, and he
continued not to apear, until Susanna
had reached an age and a firmness of
character, to put it mildly, when her for
tune would have to lie at least doubled
to make her as attractive as she was at
twenty.
This knowledge had come to her
gradually, but was nonetheless force
ful on that account, and Mie was de
termined not to let this leap year pass
w ithout results of a lasting character.
Of the men 'n her train there were
Jierhaps half a dozen who were eligible,
and any one of whom would have made
a husband any woman could lie proud
.of. J'.ut they were merely friends: not
a man-jack of them hail ever sugri"es-lcil
such a thing as matrimony to her. and
.ossibly this was why she liked them.
So perverse is the nature of woman.
Among tin half dozen was one who
founj the greatest favor In Susanna's
eyes, the others taking their jKisitions
after him in regular gradation, and t his
one Susanna selected as her victim for
leap year, resolved to try all the others
in case of failure in the first instance.
Truly, Susanna was a desperate spin
ster. And no less spry, for in the course of
his first c::ll in the new year she began
her operations. Hut it. vas a dread
ful task, ami the evening passed with
out a single step taken forward. The
elTort hail Im-oii made, however, and
courage always conies with effort.
When he came again she was so
wrought up out tin work In-fore her
that her eyes sjiarlclcd and her cheeks
glowed in rosy color.
Me was ten years older than she,
aril nlv. ays assumed that Liess-my-soul
style affected by elderly men.
"Oh, thank you. Mr. Culver," she
twitted, "I'm sine yon cnly think so.
I look j'ist as I always look."
"Of course. M iss Susji 1111:1. only slight
ly nioiv so." He smiled, but there was
that in the tone which h:'d the ring of
insincerity, or at least supcrli.-ial and
society sincerity, which is very ncaily
the san e thing, and which made Su
sanna despise ihe flattery of men that
so far had meant to her 10 dissolution
of I lie continuity of her spinstt-rhood.
She was good-natured aluit it, how
evcr.and let Mr.CuIver goon with what
ever he hail to say, for if there was .my
man w ho eouid make flatt"ry any more
palatable to her than any other 111.111
that man wsus Mr. Culver. I'.ut it was
ooii over, ami when tie had fixed him
self comfortably in an easy chair with
which he was familiar he seemed to
have forgotten whether Susanna looked
like a f right or a fairy, and lH-gan talk
ing about all sorts of things, as people
do w ho talk for the mere sake of talk
ing. t At all events, that's the way it pre
sented itself to Susanna, and she felt
the spirit of desjierat :on slow ly creeping
over her. She took a long breath for en
couragement, and tentatively turned
the subject, of conversation upon the
most recent wedding which had re
curred in their circle.
"What :t pair of fools they were anil
are," said Mr. Culver, sciitent iously, "to
marry on nothing but his salary, and
that nor big enough for two."
"P.ut they are happy," argued Susan
na. "I suppose so," Mr. Culver unwilling
ly admitted; "it takes fools to le hap
pv; wise people know too much."
"Are you wise?" questioned Susanna,
nervously, for she felt that she was
launching herself at this point uiion an
unknown sea.
"I'm old enough to be." Mr. Culver
franklv responded, for Mr. Culver's age
w :us too well k nown to lie denied, a nd too
great tole hid under a bushel.
"Isn't there something somewhere
about the old fools lieing the biggest ?"
laughed Susanna.
"Cut I'm not so old a-s that, yet."
"Ah!" and her eyes twinkled. "Is
yours a ease of:
Standincr with reluctant feet.
Where the silly seasons meet?"
Mr. Culver assumed a more serious air
anil tlK re was a smile on his face when
he replied; there was rather a shadow
of regret:
"Yes, Miss Susannna," he said. I do
not stand reluctant, for I think if I had
lieen more of a fool in one regard I would
have been less of a foci in another. That
is to say. a man is a foolto waste his life
selfishl v as I have done."
This "was the auspicious moment
Susanna ha.l W11 seeking. She would
now lead rijflit up to the matter and
find a listener to her proposal.
"Why don't you marry,. Mr. Culver?"
she asj.ed, with directness. "Yoi are
not too wise to vonsider the question,
I hoK."
"Certainly not. Miss Susanna." he
smiled. "I've leen considering it for
20 years."
"Then you ought to stop considering
it and pop it." Susanna laughed an l
Mr. Culver svJso.
"I hardly think I'll ever do that," he
said, seriously. "I wouldn't know how
to go aliout its to make my case half
presentable. I've given myself up, you
know, as a bad job."
'Some of these new women will be
charging down on you some of these
days, teaching you the newer doctrine
that women have the right to say
whether you have the right to do as
you please with yourself. In other
words, some one of tJiem will capture
you in spite of yourself."
"Not much, they won't," asserted
Mr. Culver, with a great show of cour
age. "If there is anything I don't want
lo marry it's a woman with foolish no
tions of that kind."
Susanna's heart went down to her
shoes on the instant. Here was an in
surmountable obstacle in her path, and
with Mr. Culver holding to such an
opinion, what good would a proos:il
lie from her, even if she should 111 lister
up courage enough to make it. The
thought made her mute for a minute
and in that minute a new scheme came,
tine tljat had been there before, too, but
had gone wool gathering while she was
lx-ating alMiut the brush with the new
woman idea.
"I think myself they are horrid," she
said, with an effort to swallow some
thing that would not go down very eas
ily. "Hut there is the leap year priv
ilege. All women, new and old, can
claim that, ami you mustn't forget that
this is a leapyeeir."
"I had forgotten it." he said, mov
ing his chair into the far corner of the
fireplace, but still not so far away that
he was out of the pleasant influence
of Susanna's nearness. He sat there
for an instant lyaking himself shiver
with terror, and then he moved back,
ossibly a little nearer than lieforc.
''Forewarned is forearmed," she. said;
"anil now that I have told you of the
dangers ahead I hojie you will profit by
my advice."
"Oh, I'm not afraid." he. asserted, in
a good voice, "I'm just waiting for that
sort of thing. The custom of trudit ion.
whatever you may call it. is an !'
fashioned cue. ami only an old-fashioned
woman would tJiink of it, and
Unit is the kind I want. So none of
them had lietter try it unless she means
business."
Surely no finer ojiening could lie pre
sented to a young woman in her ino.il
than this, and Susanna gave herself a
shake anil took another long breath
The time had come, and she was not Ihe
woman to loe so glorious an oppo.'
t unity.
"Mr. Culver." she began, in a firm
voice and with great earnestness, "I
hate for n long time been thinking you
ought to marry and I have evVn gone
so far as to select just such a woman as
I think would suit you. I have had two
or three consultations with her, ami
she is willing that I should present the
matter to you, because I know you so
well, and you will understand it lietter
from me than if she should present it
herself."
When she was olmut to proceed fur
ther with her remarks Mr. Culver
how cd sings of real anxiety and arose
o his feet.
"Miss Susanna." he exclaimed, "don't
ay another word. IJeally, I cannot
isfen to it."
"Hut I must say it to you," she in
iste.l. Iiecause. as it seemed to her, that
.as the proper way to conduct a sue
essful courtship, and now that she had
egun it she most .decidedly wished it
o lie successful.
"I tell you I won't hear it. This is
ntircly unexiieeted, and I am sure
lothing in my conduct has ever war
anted you in broaching this subject
0 me."
Mr. Culver was very evidently in
arnest. and Susanna almost chuckle.!
.0 herself, for this was the very wav
fOiing women acted under tin-circumstances
in vhh'h Mr. Culver was placet).
All if. needed now was a little more
coaxing, and Susanna nerved herself
for the final )op.
"l"erlKis you have not thought so,"
she said in her softest voice, "but to me
there has ever been a desire to say to
you what I am now saying. Mr. Cul
ver John," and Susanna came very
close to him, notwithstanding she was
so nervous she hardly knew what to do.
"Hold 011, Susanna, hold on," he ex
claimed. "Confound it!" (that shocked
her, for she knew no girl ever talked
that way under such circumstances,
however much she must have thought
it). "I don't want you to be talking
in any other woman's interest. There
is only one woman in the world that
1 want, and and and " Mr. Cul
ver was getting nervous himself now
and Susanna gasped. "And oh. Sus
anna," he said, desperately, "don't you
know that woman is you? You, Susan
na, llon't yon know it. is you?"
Mr. Culver caught Susanna's two
hands in his and looked into her eyes
with such a pleading, tuithetie, intense
sincerity that all her plans were con
sumed like straw in a fierce blaze and
she simply tumbled into his arms and
Vt him finish the proposal she thought
she had liegun in such a masterly man
ner. And Mr. Culver finished it with glit
tering success, much to the relief of
Miss Susanna Morton, spinster. Hos-
ton Traveler.
Flirnrea In Smoke.
A man, savs a statistician, smoking a
pitKr of medium size, blows out. of his
mouth for every time he fills h.s p.rr
700 smoke clouds. If he smokes four
pities a day for 20 years he blows out
Lo.440.fkiO smoke clouds. Detroit Free
Press.
A Canlue l'eenllarlty.
Everyone has noticei! the peculiar
habit of all dogs in turning round sev
eral times before lying down.' This
idiosyncrasy " believed to be due to the
habits of the wild animal, which found
it necessary to turn round in weeds or
kias several times in order to break
Ihcin tlown for a bed. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Marylanders are "Craw-thumpers,"
a slang name for the lobster.
iHt fc.rut-iH LANGUAGE.
Reaaoa Why It Is becoming the I'nlver
aal Tongue.
"Everywhere in the United States,"
Father Chiniquy says, "the children of
French Canadians, as soon as they ac
quire the E.'iglish language at school,
give up the use of French, except to
speak to their mothers. Hy this proc
ess the French must rapidly d:sapicar.
It is the same here. A little girl came
to me this morning" he was staying in
Montreal "seut by a parent who had
heard ine preach and had promised to
come and see me. She sjHikc to me in
English for some time, and when I said
to her: Mais ue ouvez-vous pnitri
Francais? she replied: t) liion Dieu.
est-ce que je parle Anglais!" There is
a reason for this," the old Frenchman
continued.
"I recently read an article in a maga
zinc aliout 'English the Universal lan
guage, '.lit tle writer did not know ihe
true reason. I am in the midst of it,
and I know. It is liecause they can ex
press themselves with greater ease in
English than in French."
And M. Chiniquy w ent on to make the
startling avowal, says the Con tern o
rary lteview: "When I write a liook,
and I have written many. I write it in
English and then translate it into
French. I find it more easy to do it in
that way. Your expressions are more
direct, your syntax more simple and the
sounds of your language are more forci
ble. Listen." And springing to his
feet the old man shouted: "File!"
"There is some sound." he added.
"What can wo say in French? 'Feu.' It
is lost. xYou can say MIer.dy!' " apain
in a sonorous shout. "With us it is
prct; there :s no sound. 'All aboard !
with us it i.i 'enilKirqucx. but you can
not hear it at ten feet. Yes, sir. Ihe
English is hound to liecome t he univer
sal language."
COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE.
Curious Customs finetlced In Other
I'arta of the World.
Some of the customs ieculiar to
courtship and marriage among the race
of dwarfs who inhabit the Andaman
island are. according to M. tie ttua
.tetages. who recently published a book
called "The Pygmies." about these jm-o-ple,
very ieculiar. Not the least re
markable of them is the procedure of
courtship. The young man who has
made hi:; choice addresses himself to
the parents, who never refuse, but send
the girl into the forest, where, ln-for'
day, she eoneeals herself. The young
man must find her.
If he does not succeed he must re
nounce all claim to her. The wedding
ceremony of these eople is equally
curious. M. Quat refages thus deserilx-s
it: "The two parties climb two flex
ible' trees growing near each other,
w hich an old man then makes to l-ml
toward each other. When the head of
the man touches that of the girl they
are legally married." Turning from
Asia to Europe, we find a very curious
custom prevailing in Koumania. A mong
the iieasantry of this country, when a
girl attains a marriageable age her
trousseau, which has in tlie mean
while liccn carefully woven, spun ::iid
embroidered by her mother and herself,
is placed in a painted wooden Ihix.
When a young man thinks of risking
to lie allowed to pay hi attentions to
the girl he is at lilicrty to open the Imx,
which is always placed in a convenient
position, and examine the trousseau.
If he is satisfied with the quantity and
quality of the dowry he makes formal
application for the girl's hand, but, if
not, lie is quite at lilicrty to retire.
CLUBS BEGAN IN ATHENS.
Athenians Had the Same Eirmra as Men
of To-Dsjr.
Tlie birthplace of the earliest club is
a disputed oiit, but it is well known
that "unia Hoinpilius, the second k 111.7
of Home, who died It. C. P.73. foiuided
trade guilds in Home during hiis re'gn.
similar to t;he guilds of the (-raftsmen
which 1 lay w important a airt in the
history of tl- middle age's. At one
time there were SO of these guilds in
Home alone. Later they spread lieyond
tlie metropolis, for the lioatmcn of the
Seine at Paris and those, of the lower
Ivhone formed chilis of their ow n. The
guilds of Konic, however, scarcely an
swer to our idea of a club, sa j s the
Cleveland Hecorder. We therefore turn
with grt-ater confidence to Athens,
where sucli a. club seems to have orig
inated. The old Athenian cluls were
not in all respects similar to those of
modern 1 union and Now York, but
there was nevertheless letween them a
stiong affinity. Aristotle, who flour
ished H. C. 3S4. tell-s Ur tiuit men of t he
some trade anil memliers of a particu
lar trilie were wont to club toget her for
btisiiss purpi. He goes on to sny
that others combined for the ss:ke of
social intercourse, ami adds that "these
meet together for the sake of one an
other's 00111 pany, and to offer sncr:
fiees; when they meet they loth jxiy
certain honors to the gods, and at the
same time take pleasure and relaxat ion
among themselves." This would seem
to )Oiiit to Athens as lieing tlie birth
place of the earliest club.
REPRODUCED IN OREGON.
The Red Ken Miracle Often Seen In Link
River.
It is a well-known fact that at cer
tain timet of tlie year lank river, a
stieam a mile and aquarler long, which
connects the great water systems aliove
and below this jioint, liecomes almost
dry, says the Klamath Falls Express.
This state of affairs, however, lasts, as
a rule, but a few hours, during which
time people have been known to walk
across the river, 50O feet wide, without
getting their feet wet. The liottom of
the river has been dug out In innny
places by the action of the water, form
ing large iot holes, and when the river
1h- omcs dry these holes are filled w ith
"trout, which are left stranded. At such
times it is a common occurrence to see
men and boys knocking the fish on tlie
I wad with clubs, and in tliis way secure
many a good meal.
There are many traditions regarding
this plienomcnou among tlie Indians
here, but tlie real cause of the low wa
ter in the river is tJie action of the wind.
The course of the stream is southeast,
and the high winds whicli prevail in
tlw spring and fall are from the south,
anil blow up the river. The outlet from
tlie upjier lake lieing small, the force of
the wind keeps t he water back in tlie
big lake, causing the river to become
verj low.
TIUCKS OF MACHINERY.
How People Have Boon Caught
in Elevators.
Their Sadden Refusal to Work Canaee
Consternation to the l'aiuienirers
The Accident to the tirent
London trrrls W heeL
Few of t he- thousands of persons who
each day useclevators ever stop to t hink
what would result if, for some reason,
the machinery should suddenly cease to
work and an elevator remain high up in
the sliaft, with its occupants as securely
imprisoned as if locked in tlie city
prison. Such accidents arc, however,
not at all uncommon. Tlie cosmopoli
tan citizen of New York is, as a rule,
too busy to give such trivial matters
a second thought, always provided he is
not among the. unfortunate individuals
w ho hapM-n to 1ns detained in a car.
Such an accident recently occurrod to
Manager Oscar llanimerstein, who was
taking a party of friends through his
theater, music : hall and i-oof garden. It
was late at night, and almost every body
had left the theater. Mr. Haminerstein,
alter telling his friends of the I eautics
of the new roof garden, suggested that
they go up and see it. The party en
tered t he "'elevator, and Mr. Hainmer
slein started to act as elevator man. He
pulled the roK and the car moved
slowly upward.
When it reached the floor Ix-low the
roof, where there hapjieiis to lie no
door, it stopicd. Mr. Ilamiiierste.iii
tugged at the cable, but without result.
He shoiiU-d. but. no one answered. He
ami his paity were prisoners for near
ly .. minutes.
Arthur Iiamincrslein had startitl for
home when he heard strange, noises
from the elevator shaft. Investigation
levealed the diiliculty, and, afU-r a
long search, one of the engineers con
nected with the building was found,
lie explained the 1 rouble by say ing that
the chief engineer had gone for tho
night and the steam hail lice 11 shutoff.
lea. ing just enough in the cljesU to
send the elevator up the shaft. The
machinist started the elevator again,
and a very disgusted party was brought
low 11 without having hail a glimjise of
the roof garden.
In one of the larger down-town of
fice buildings recently one of the big
elevators hapH-ncd to g t stuck le
twecn the floors, just as business was
closing for tin- day. More than half tlie
passengers in the elevator were, wom
en, and when they realized that t tie
car was held fast la-t ween the landings
and there apiearel to lie no prospect
of an immediate release some of the
most timid ln-gan to grow frightened.
They were reassured for the time lie--ing.
bul when the janitor nptH-ur-ed
with a small ladder and tohl them, that
the car would stay where, it was un
til the mi-ehanics could lie. sent for to
fix it. ami that the only hope of esea
that night would le to climb from the
car over tlie top of the dxr oj-ning
into the elevator well to the floor u!wc.
some of the pretty damsels vowed that
they would remain, in. the car all night
rather than, attempt such an acrolxitio
fent as was suggested. AftT one or two
of the most courageous, however, had
iiiaile the trip in safety, and without
any more, display of hosiery than one
sees on the streets during a rainy day,
they a,U decided to risk tlie short climb
ratlicr than a.ss the night in the car
suspended in mid-air.
An accident which was very funny
to all but the unfortunates, most, in
terested occurred recently to about
4110 pleasure-seekers in Ixindon wlio
were enjoying the sensation of swing
ing around the circle in the big Ferris
wheel at Earl's court. While the fun
was at its height the big wheel sudik-n!-ly
stopptl. From 8: .10 o'clock in the
evening until one o'clock the following
afternoon it remained stationary, and
some of the excrienees of its passen
gers were decidedly uncomfortable.
Every effort was put forth to make
the prisoners as comfortable as ihvs
sible. Few of the' women in the cars
were provided with wraps suitable to
the exixisiirc afc an altitude of 3H) feet,
ami many suffered accordingly .
Two of the attendants clambered
around the rim cf the wheel, carrying
with them rojies, by means of which
iKiskets of provisions were drawn up.
The occupants of one of tlie cars, how
ever, were, the first to secure communi
cation with terra firms, the result of an
ingenious thought of Muts V. Lonsdale,
of Chester terrace. This young wom
an jKtssessed a reel of cotton, and care
fully lowering it from tlie window of
the car in which she was imprisoned,
n stout string was attached. This, upon
lieing drawn up, brought a rojie. to
which w as attached a basket containing
light refreshments. X. Y. Journal.
Cottage (tuilts.
Cottage quilts are now' gay weaving
at a Km- price, which resembles the
homemade efforts of our grandmothers.
These spreads are- esjiecially sold for
summer house use. and the rooms of
young women. Older ones prefer tlu
embroidered white variety. With any of
these coverings are used square white
linen "shams." They have hemstitched
two-inch borders. The liest are hand-
embroidered in white, anil have cent;'
monograms or single letters of whit
from three to five inches in length. .r
other sort of "sham" is on sale for use
with any of the spreads dcscrilied. It'
general, the distinguishing features o'
this season's shams is the narrow hem
f the. sprcadri. the flowered designs
rather than the figured. One looks ir.
vain for that I'ttle cheekerlxxird variety
upon which in childhood. 'with oyster
crackers, we used to play games with
imasnnary opjionents. when we were
too ill to get up. St. Louis I'epublic.
A Pretty Ten Cloth.
A tea-cloth a vanl sauare is mad
from iidchlue linen ornamented by
HenaissiUice lace braid in creoiii white.
These braids nre laid on the stanqH-il
desicii and sewed down aloiwr the
edges. The design itself is a wide liand
in conventional fimires ttait. extern! li
agoiwdly across, the cloth in leaves and
flowers. The same design is trsed in
the eori.ers. Each shle the Rind
1 lw re is anidinued a wide liand of Tor
ehon laee in a lieoutifully open pat
tern. The same lace is useil as a in 11
round, the cloth. The design would
lie prettv for a. ledroom stand-cover if
worked on pale green or canary -coioreu
linen. N. Y. Post-
A WONDERFUL SEAWEED.
Has a Stem Sometimes Three Huudred
Feet Loaf.
One of the most extraordinary sea
weeds among the Laminariaeea- is the
Xereocystis, the stem of w hich occasion
ally attains length of 3oO feet, though
extremely slender, even at the top,
where it is surmounted by a huge float
ing bladder six feet or seven feet in J
length, that affords a favorite resting
place to the sea otter. This plant is
found on the northeast const of
America and the opjiosite shores of
Asia. The filiform stem, which is
aliout as thick as pack-thread, sudden
ly swells aliove, when two feet or three
feet long, into a gloliose bladder, from
the top of which springs a tuft i:f ger
minate leaves mostly rising on five
iietioles. As the plant prows older the
stem increases enormously in enrti".
but only slightly in thickness. The
ploiKKse bladder swells into a turuip
shaKil or retort-like cyclinder. six bet
long and four feet six inches or mor in
diameter in the widest part, the lower
extremity gradually passing ii.to the
stem. The leaves, which at first were
marked with a few faint nerves, fpiit in
the direction of the latter, cover a wide
space by their entangled mass, ard at
tain a length of 30 feet or more. When
the plant grows in any quantity, at
forms large floating islands, and the
surface of the sea Ix-comes imtKissahl-
to lioals. The stem, when dry. is em
ployed by the Aleutians for f.shii;g
ines. some of which have a lei-glh .if
40 or more fathoms. Tlie large bind lcr;
are used by the same eople as syphons
for pumping water out of their boats.
Fishing Gazette.
A GREAT DINNER.
liecause Kn joyed by a Great Ouartette
They Are StIU Alive.
The greatest dinner tlrtit I ever sat
down to, says Watterson in the Courier-
Journal, consisted cf a leg of mutton.
dressed with mustard, a bit jf hot
wheat bread, and some fresh butter,
with half a jug of fine whisky to wa.-;
it down. It was in front of New Hoj-
church in the summer of V.4. Some
one had sent Eustis . leg of mutton.
Some rie had sent Yeatuian a large
pill 1mx of butter. Hragg. Gen. Polk's
cook, had some flour. Erst is and Ycat-
man invited Gov. Harris and nvs- If.
The governor happcrcd to Ltive a key
w hieh fitted Gen. Folk's medicine ca.-e.
All of us united in making the roli'iery
of a vial of Irish whisky, the general
himself lieing absent, and that was the
dinner! Glorious dinner!
Please God. the qur-t tet te st ill s-irv i e
to tell the tale, which they do when
ever (hey meet and txm pet an audi-nni-".
Eust-s is in Paris. aii:b.-iss;,.1or.
th. same cool, self-tiosscsscd man in di
f.lomacy he used to le under lire: ,de,
brave and lazy. Harris touehir.g the
eighties- is the dashing, brilliant, im
ietuous lioy he was 22 years ago and,
silver or gold, or neither. I look to
ward him as I write! Ycalman. obtru
sive only in his courage on the battle
field, lives the life of cultivated leisure
and unambitious rusticity which de
lighted him nost when he w lioth
younger and richer than he is. though
he still has his ancestral acres.
That was a dinner.
NO AUTOGRAPHS FOR HER.
Servant Girl Mad No I'se for the Check
She Received.
A certain family, whose home is in
the suburbs of London, have in iheir
employ, snys Amusing Journal, a
cook, whose ways are invariably so
methodical and hercookingso near jier
fectinn that, were she to leave her present-
Lome, one-half of the mistjt--st's in
the district would le eager to secure
her services. Never by any chance has
dirner lieen late, at the Myrtle villa, or
the joint undcror over done, neither has
any olicemaii crossed its threshold.
Hut. treasure that she is. she came war
to making a charge of resilience at the
close of her very tirst month's stay.
On the morning of the day upon
which her w n-cs liecame due. h.-r mis
tress requested her to step into the
study, where her master was waiting to
pay her. In a few moments she rushed
from the study to the kitchen, where
she had left her mistress, anil in less
time than it Lakes to narrate liad
given that astonished lady notice.
"Hut whatever Ls the matter. Mary?"
inquired her mistress. "What has
vour master said or done to annov
you?"
"He hasn't said nuthin'," replied
Mary, as she flourished a check in her
luistrcss face, "but he's on'y given me
tills for a month's slavery. Not me; I
ain't no ortygraph collector, I ain't."
How the Shah Was Awakened.
An amusing story is told of how the
late shah fell asleep when he should have
been the chief guest at. a rception.
In Persia it is the general N-lief tlmt a
jHrson awakened from a sleep suf
fers grievous injury, and that it is sun
to bring bad luck. What, was to lie
done? No one dared awaken the shah,
and yet, if lie was not awakened, and
thus missed the reception, he would
lie furious, and ierhaps decapitate so mo
one. Finally, a happy idea was devel
oped. A brass hand w as disiatchcd to
the shah's resting place with special
instructions to the liass drum. There
suit was highly successful. The shah
awoke in a few moments, and went to
the reception. Golden Iays.
Plenty There.
A hypochondriac, wlio was staying
with Father Healy. at Bray, in the hope
of obtaining relief from chronic dysjtep
sia. was one day walking along the
lieaeh with his host. "I have derived
relief from drinking a tumbler of salt
water fresh from the tide." said the in
valid, solemnly; "do you think I might
take a second?" "Well," said Either
IJealy, with equal seriousness. "1 doDt
think a second would le missed." San
Francisco Argonaut.
The rhlnanitui'i Nose.
Among the sweltering millions of
China the mother carries her infant in
a kind of a bag or pannier on her hrtcn,
and not, as in other countries, with tin
facts turned outward, but, as prohahly
we ought to expect in China, where
everything seems to po and come by the
mle of contraries, with the faee turned
inward. The result of that is that the
baby's nose Ls pressed "against its
mother's back, , whence, as has l.ceu
evolved in the course of ages, the ie
culiarly flattened or blunted nose char
acteristic of the Cltinaman.
UNHAPPY AUSTRIA.
Her Only Capable Parliamentary Party
Is llrokrn liy ItiMensions.
The cruel humiliation Austria suf
fered in Italy was followed by the
crushing blow at Sadowa. and the not
less painful collatise of a brother's am
bitions in Mexico, says the Sat unlay He
view. If t he d'gi .ity of a Caesar was to
h- saved for the Haps-burgs out of the
wreck, it seemed most likely to lie
achieved on the lines suggested by
Count Heust. The choice once made,
it war. impo-ssihle to turn back. What
is piven as a lxon todistress.il nation
r.Iiiies in the tumie of procn-ss cannot
iifterwani withdrawn on the plea of
prudence. The result Ls pat.lietic, but
there is no help for it.
We see "ni;iis. Uuthenians, Poles.
Servians. Wallaehs av.d the rest of the
hnlf-barbarous hordes cutting one an
other's throats when they ;:re not com
bining to insid; tlie civ iliz.-d Hungarians
aid Germans, whose fate it is to 1
heir neighbors; we sec Vienna itself
iti the hands of a fanatical anti-Semitic
rabble, an J we .-, the ) tower of t he oi1 v
tapablc Kii-Iiaincntary larlv in Aus
tria broken by hop,. less dissensions.
Truly, the domest ic state of the empire
Ls nothing less 1 han pitiable. Its in
J'.ucnce in Hump- is also a t long of tlie
jiast. The Ikilkan states, which were,
its props in the south, have publiclr
pone over to 1,'nssia. and its solitary
remaining pnitettion acainst disniem-1-ernient
is t he all itice w ith Italy, which
covets llaimatia. and with Germany,
w hich is mov ing heaven and cart h t.i es
tablish secret relations with Hussia.
CAPTURING ELEPHANTS.
Sport That the Maharajah (teraslonally
Indnlcifi In.
The enterprise is organized for tlie
.niiuseni. nt of the maha rajah, ami takes
place oiily once in aliout four years,
else the forest would Ik' denuded of bii?
game. A sui.'ill army, consisting of
aliout 5.ini men and j-rhas thn-e ele
phants and a fc-v horses. Lake part in
the hunt, says Chamlwrs Journal, and
they carry tents and pmvisions. just
as if a c:-.n.(Xi:gti against a jiovverf ul en
emy were in ,nv"!'ss. V, hen tlie pad
marks of the elcpiiart arc found lie is
steadily tracked down, atj.l as sion as
!:. is found a trained )irhtrof his own
sjHH-ies is urged against him.
As a rule, hi steadily retreats iijh.ii
slht of his pursuers, and tln-ir oli
yect is to press him so as to t in- him
out. He then stands at bay, and the
tug of w ar commences. The oppit!p
:it.iin:iis butt ;.t one a:iolher with tlieir
heads down, and sNm'.tl one show his
flat; Vs. he is q-.,. l.ly brought to earth.
When finally c-eiqiicn-d. the il l ele
j-hant is trvs.--,.! '-.y his .rsuet-towanl
water, of whicli he L .so much in in--d
af'er his cirti. ns that his hind l-is
can lie shackled ;.s he drinks, lleistlw-n
kept attached by nics to other ele
phants until he graIn:;!!y Ivccomcs ae-cii.-tonicd
to Loiidaiye. and in a few
months he is coirplel.-ly linger emit ml.
The strftrt is a V.l.xxl less one. and the el
ephants when captuntl are most kind
ly tn-au-d.
A WOMAN'S HOUR.
A Man's F.ntire Iay Could Not lie Pilled
More Completely.
"Please, state to the court exactly
what you did ltetween eight and nine
o'clock on Wednesday morning." said a
lawyer, according to the Chicago Chron
icle, to a delicate looking little woman
on the witness stand.
"Well." she said, after a moment's
reflection, "I washed my two children
and got them ready fr school ami
sewed a button on Johnny's coat and
:iendcd a rent in Nellie's dn-ss. Then
1 tidies up my sitting-room and made
two litis and watentl my house plants
and glantvl over the morning pajier.
Then I dusted my parlor and set things
to rights in it, I washed some lamp
chimneys and . united my lahys hair
and sewed a button on one of her little
shoes, and then I swept out my fnmt
entry and brushed and put away the
chl'Jren's Sunday clothes and wrote a
note to Johnny's teaclier. asking her
10 excuse him for not being to school
on Friday. Then I fed my canary binl
and gave the grocery man an onl-.-r.
and swept off the lack torch, and then I
sat dow n ami rested for a few minutes
tH'fore the clock struck nine. That's
all."
"All!" saiil the drLzed lawyer. "Ex
cuse me. judge. T must get my breath
l-eforc I call mv next witness."
A FRENCH INCIDENT.
Cyclist with a llrrtaeu Lest Wins n
Kaee.
A fatal cycling ai-cident happened re
cently at Maison 1-artitte. Two young
Enc-lishmcn. F. Morris, the steeplechase
jockey, and F. Davis, first stableman in
the employ of 1 Holtert. 1 Ik' trainer,
had arranged a bicycle match of six
kilometers I nun the Mai.-on lifiitte mil
way bridge to the Cnix de Noailles and
ltnck. They had almost completed the
nice when Mortis, wlio was a little
ahead. looked lwu k to see how far Hat is
w as. lt. liiii.1. and in iloiog so M Id! hi
machine run arainst the cnrbstoi.e. The
unfortunate rider came to the ground
and broke his leg la-low the knee. Mor
ris, who was following close liehind.
could not avoid his fallen opton-nt and
was thrown hrtivily to tlie pnuuid,
where he n-nialm-d insensible.
Ilisregnnl'ng lnith his ow n broken leg
and his friend lying motionless on tlu
ground. Morris, in his anxiety to w in
the race, mount, d his bicycle and soon
readied the w inning jtost. with one foot
on the jtlal. tlw ot her hanging useless
on the optosite side. Pav is was then
carried home, but he died during the
night.
Inttian Itaskct Makera.
A delegation of Indians from the
Grand IJonde reservation make an an
nual outing trip to Portland. Ore every
year in time to attend the Fourth of
July ceb.'bration. and if possible a
circus. Thoy have tents and come in
. wagons, some having two horses and
some four. The ostensible pnrptse of
their visit is to sclj liskets. These
they make fmm hazel I wigs, heated in
the fire till they are rendentl tough
and pliable.nn-1 the bark jteelsoff earlly.
Pure Philanthropy.
Weary Itusiness Man (hanging to
strap) Why iu creation don't you run
more cars!
Street Car IVesident My dear sir. it
would pain me exceedingly to deprive
courteous gentlemen like yourself of
the privilege of giving up a seat to a
ladv.