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T--I. a r-'eeittt of J-i.T.it fi wuptin inyn-- ::;e above Bicvcle. ecnrely crated, iff" d. hr-.rv Money -etnnded if pot is -..1 i'- r irrnil and examination. e wii pnip 'w--V.'.-;n;. v- ft . ir:i:n.itlon. for 00 and coutn . " :ti 1 t If r as a soarantee of cod f .nth. l-'s-'hnj arrant v itb ea h Hicycle. This is a TiiifV-n'f aa 1 y -;i canriot afford to let the oppor-i-" iJJrr? iIl't.HTS to CASH BUYERS' UNION. kiest Van Buren Street. Bx Co6. CHICAOO. ILL. . e fcId to cen.tiraeri fur I yeara. r itfii Ibo dealer's pr.tuc. We art the -1 iin-i Lrvet iuanula:n:rcrs in A mcr . V'c'ii,-! ad Harness this way h i:---. -t- e.Tiir.nne before any money Is v"f ..7 froik'tit noib waTSif nt sansim V.'arrint fr '1 yenr". Why pay an aentilll i- r-:T f--r y..ii? Write your own order. : c'ree. We take all risk of dftmaue in " ' wholesale prices. :? rirrj Wagons, S3I to SSO. "iuaranteed . i- -t ,i f..r.t..asi. Surreys, $65 to SIOO - .-,e a.' ii f.T t:C0 to K1. 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We have repeatedly refused mid have therefore defeated windmill combination, a to join, nd have. since 'Bo. reduced the tost of wind power to 1 what it was. ,.?-,, Through gratitude, and because we are price Si'.iufcrA safest to deal with, and because we are th makers, and arel I i the sole oneinatorsl i ot an that is good in trie modern steel windmill lower, THE WORLD HAS GIVEN US I . b oeneve We make short f best seamless I brass tube cylinders, lower than iron om ty, x ib men at a I Send now for a a '-. We nrenav freight to m branch houses. beautifully illustrated eataloene of up-to-date ideas, as J a have in jr f mis appears but once. Oar imitators may not print our latest plans. No one knows the uiu, rump or rTice until no knows ours. FOR ARTISTIC FBS1MTIMG TRY THE FREEMAN. A pampb!e of Information and ab- i K . "V . ... ..f , li.w. ttli...l..tf flow ln5 -vsv Miiru, u-prnirau, .cm ra. l TX .... - HAZER AXLE Best in the World Set the Genuine! GREASE Sold Eierortp-re! WAMTPn RY SAM'L VELLS & CO.. 67 VINE ST., CINCINNATI, O. i argEST EXPORTERS OF CIBSENG IN THE U. t JOB 3 1 lirondway. in- A.WOTTJIM Tark d Ay $ Proprietor. CHILDREN'S EYES. Did you ever look In a child'H clear eyes. And feel the heaven that lay In the innocent depth Of the open soul. As yet unsoiled by clay? Oh! a holy thins In a child's cle ar eyes. And tender the hand should be That touches the flower Still wet with the dew Of Heaven's own mystery. It was said "Of Old" That the demons that strove ' For the doom of the race that fell. If meeting the look Of a child's pure eyes Sank down to their native hell. And the truth that hides In the myth "Of Old" Breaks as a star doth rise; , For the inmost heaven ' )f Innocence dwells In the trust of a child's sweet eyes. And this Is the look That the God-man loved. When He gathered them close to HI breast. And, laying His hands On their shining heads. Pronounced them forever blest. And the angels sent From His kingdom above. To watch, and to guard, and to stay, ro always I w hold "1 he face divine Of Him who spoke that day. Are we worthy to share The holy charge? Ix-t us fold our hands and pray; lest we merit the doom Of those who cast " Offense" in the little one's way. Emily R. Dickenson, in N. T. Home Journal. CAPTAIN NAIJB. IIT JAMES IICCKHAIW. Great was the seafaring' fame of Capt. Xabb, irt the. little village Iwtok tmorif' the Connecticut hills, from which he had first pone forth with his bundle slung- on astick. Since that day, ."0 years jwist, when he had set forth to seek his fortune, the captain had leen four times around the world, 1 tvioe in his ovvn ship, and had visited al most every known port in civilized arxl uncivilized countries; had command ed the. largest merchantman in the West India trade, and had won the repu tation of first rank among1 expert and daring navigators. What- wonder, then, that all Top sliam was agog when the captain, one fine evening in June, lurched out of the rocking old stage and announced in hearty tones to his former townsfolk the majority of whom were assem bled at "the store" that he had come home for a two months vacation. It i t rtainly seenicd like an act of unpar ft lei led condescension on the part of the great navigator, and Tojshain felt duly honored. It did not take the boys of the village long to discover that Capt. Nabb was a jolly soul, and particularly oj'n to ad vances from them; and soon, in spite of the great man's awful fame, they proceeded to take ossetruon of him, t'.ll it was rarely that flie old man's sturdy figure cruised aliout the village without lieing attended by a fleet of his lioyifch admirers, hanging to him as closely as native canoes under the bows of a South sea trader. Thus it naturally- came to pass that, when Penny Honrtlman and his younger brolher, Carl, liecame the owners of a small sailboat on Duck pond, the first thing that occurred to them was to ask Capt. Xabb to accompany them on their maiden cruise. The old sea man consented, after a glance at the four points of the compass, and an in quiring sniff of the fresh inland air. I'ut first, he said, he must go for his sou'wester, and his oilcloth suit, and certain other things. There was no telling what sort of weather might blow tip Ijefore night. .t the upHintel time Capt. Nabb cr.me down to the little wharf at the head of the pond. lie carried in his arms his waterproof garments, a large, iite-jo'nted spy -glass, a compass as tig as the palms of your two hands, aspeak-ing-trtiiiiict and a sextant. "I never go to sea without my tools, boys." he said, "even though it lie in a washtub." He. stepped down into the little cut boat, deposited his burden and himself in the stern, and proceeded to instruct the ltys in the art of making sail. After considerable bungling, lien and Carl got up their mainsail, the capta'n cast off. and away they skimmed before a fresh breeze down the bay. It wasn't much of a sheet of water they were cruising on. to lie sure. The pond was aliout a mile long and half as wide, perhaps; very irregular in ihajie, with many little bays and sloughs, where the water set Iwvck nmong wild oats ami swamp-grass. Near one end a large brook entered, after devious windings through the marsh, and at the other end a brook, as like the feeder as tire next pea in a f-ol, formed the outlet of the pond. It would le hard to say which was which (for neither brook had any perceptible current), unless you observed the sur rounding shore;. On the whole. Duck 1'ond was not pretty; but it was use ful, for it was full of pickerel and bass, and in the shooting season the marshes teemed with w ild fowl and plover. Capt. Nabb showed the loys how to tack and jile, how to come up into th wind, luiw to reef and cast anchor, how to handle the helm and stow rojie.s, tie a sailor's knot. Iall-st the boat, and steer when meeting, parsing or cross ing the bows of another craft. He had v, , tnl nnutienl code at his tonirue's : end, and the practice of seamanship in his finrrer-tins: and if the bovs did not learn all he hail to teach them, it was ltecausc- the limitations of a catlioat made it imjHissible. "Why! hlews my eyes!" exclaimed the captain, suddenly, as lie finished an exciting tale about a walrus hunt among the ieelK-rgs of the North sea. "What's Ix-come of the sun? "It's set,' replied Ttenny Boardman. l saw it go down behind the pine hill, half an hour ago." "Are yon sure?" cried. Capt. Nabb. leveling his five-jointed telescope to ward the pine hill. "It can't le more than four o'clock." "But I heard the whistle blow for six, long ago," ventured little Carl. "Bless mc! the loys are right!" ex claimed the old navigator, as he pulled out a huge silver watch, almost as large as a saucepan. "We must be getting under way for home at once. Now then all ready to go about!" 'BR 18 A r HERMAN WHOM THE TBSTH MAKKB FRKK AKD ALL ABB BLATK8 BKEIDB.' EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, The captain threw over his helm, and the little loat caqie slowly up into the light breeze, which had leen stead ily falling for an. hour. It was almost a minute liefore the lazily-filling sail drew on the opposite tack. Capt. Nabb looked anxiously to windward. "Con found your land breezes!" he said, somewhat testily. "I believe, we are going to have a desul calm." And so it proved. In ten minutes more the little sailboat lay liecalmed in the center of the ond. Slowly the twilight gathered, veiling the distant hills, and obscuring the outlines of the marshy shores. The old seaman fumed and fretted. He placed his big com pass on the thwart in front of him. and fixed the homeward course by the needle as well as he could, after studying vari ous fading landmarks with his glass. I! is lips were shut very tightly, lest any strong nautical language should eseaiie them in the presence of Benny and Carl. But finally, as darkness closed around, the necessity for utterance so grew ujion the old man that he seized his Seaking-trumiet, and, in tones that made the shores reverberate, roared out: . "Topsham, ahoy! a-h-o-y!" The lioysj listened in awed silence, but there was no reply to the stentorian hail, though thrice ami four times re peated. But as if the echoes, circling the pond, had stirred some sluggish cur rent of air and set it flowing again, a slight breeze In-gan to stir the sail of the Mermaid, and she moved slowly for ward in the darkness. Capt. Nabb's face bcaicd with de light, and, tiller in hand, he leaned over the big compiles and sailed away on starboard tack. "Give us a song, my hearties!" he cried, gayly. to Benny and Carl. Then, straightening himself up. he roared a stanza of a rollicking sea luillad, beginning: Oh. Nancy was a sailor's lass. As fair a lass as e'er I knew! The captain was alout to start up the chorus, when there came a swish ing sound across the bow of the Mer maid. "Look out, captain! We are running nshore!" cried Benny. "See! we are in the. swamp-grass." "Shiver my timliers!" shouted Capt. Nabb, in amazement. lie jilied the Mermaid, anil she rushed through the shallow water and the liending marsh grass till filial lj- she brought up on a muddy spit and stuck fast, while all the ballast, including the captain, the two deck hands, and the nautical in struments, pitched forward and brought tip in a heap in the Imjw. "Well, well!" panted Captain Nabb, as he finally struggled upon athwart. "That's the first time I ever lost my reckoning." "And it's the first time I ever lost a tooth!" sputtered Benny, as he leaned over the side of the boat. "Dear me! That's too bad!" said the captain. "I don't see how it'happened. According to the compass we should lie in clear water, steering a st raight course for the wharf." "But, captain, you must remember that the pond is crooked," suggested Bcnnv. "Bless me! that's a fact!" cried the old tar. "I never thought of it." They all got out into the shallow water, and after much pushing and hauling, floated the Mermaid again. Then Capt. Nabb took an observation of the stars, replaced his compass on the thwart, and ventured upon a new course. This at length brought them into one of the two large brooks, but which one they could not tell, as the water was dead, anil it was impossible in the darkness to tell anything of the surrounding country. Then the great navigator, who had lcn around the world, scratched his head, and made another calculation; the result of which was that, after sail ing, as it seemed, for hours, these night explorers found themselves in the slug gish mouth of the other brook, quite as uncertain as before which end of the iond they had arrived at. Thereupon Capt. Nabb seized his speaking trumpet and lelIowed again, and this time he sent forth a less defi nite and confident hail: "On shore! Ahoy!" "Ahoy yourself! Don't deef-en a fel low. What ilo you want?" eameagruff reply out of the darkness, not 50 yards away. Capt. Nabb lowered his trumpet rather sheepishly. "We have lost our reckon ing, friend," he said, addressing his re marks to the unknown in the darkness. "Will you kindly give us our bear ings?" "You're just ten rods up Dead creek," replied the hoarse voice of the unknown, "and I wisht you'd back' out and quit sewing the pouts." "Dead creek! Why. that's 'way at the further end of the pond!" ex claimed Benny. "It's a mile from here to the wharf, apd I don't believe you can ever sail us there in the world, cap tain." "Right you are, youngster!" cried the navigator, heartily, though it was a sore blow to his nautieal pride. "Can't ye find your way honae?" 4?ame the voice out of the darkness. "No!" replied the globe-girdler and the two boys, in mournful chorus. "I'll come aboard and sail ye there for 75 cents." The projiosition was mercenary but practical, and had a . welcome, ring of assurance in it. Capt. Nabb hesitated, looked up at the stars, then at the shivering boys. "Iay aloard!" be said. shortly. Half an hour later Benny ami Carl were crawling gratefully into led, and Capt. Nabb was pocking1 his big black chest, moved by a sudden, inextinguish able longing for the open sea. Outlook. Camels In RpaJn. Camels have domesticated themselves in southern Spain the only spot in Ku rojie where they may lie seen in a wild stale. Some 40 years ago a herd wa brought over from Africa, and as no use could lie mcde of. the creatures they were turned loose to shift for them selves. The camels flourished and in creased, and now seem quite at home iu the district lieitween Seville and Cor dova. The Field of Lie. The Field of Lies was the battle fought by Louis . the Uood-Natured against his three sons. The unfortunate monarch was deserted by his own army; he was t wice shut up in a cloister, twic? compelled .to do public jienance, and twice released to pacify the guar re Is of his family. . ' . Tlfrlt'S COMPENSATION. The Fellow That Flayed the Mouth Organ Triumphed mt Lauit. "Some fellow tells us in poetry," said the judge while they were enjoying themselves in the tent after a hard day's fishing, "how fortune plies her Sjiort-S when she liegins to practice them." This trip recalls an illustration from real life. "I fished in this same lake 33 years ago. I'd tell you something about my luck that summer, but all men are put down as liars w hen they venture on fish ing exjierienees. A party of us put up at an old farmhouse, and in the iuhuIht were half a dozen girls, full of life and mischief. We kept the fun going with a rush, and one of our chief sources of amusement was a shock-headed young fellow living in this ncighliorhood. "I can see that chap yet playing n mouth organ. He threw his IhxIv around promiscuously, tosseil his head in every direction anil blew till his face looked as would that of the man in the moon if painted red. He also performed on the accordion and made as much work of it as pitching hay. When he sung 'of the bonnie lasses of Scotland he was innocently persistent in calling tlu-ui the Mioney" lasses. lie roared alMiut the days of 'Old Long Sime, and knocked harmony into smithereens as he rendered 'Off on a Still at Night." "The girls made a fool of him. They praised his singing and playing until he imagined himself a musical prodigy, and his hat was sizes too small for him. When he took them out rowing they would talk so admiringly of his st rengt h that he almost pulled himself in two. He danced all over the girls feet anil wrenched them unmercifully in hust ling them through the figures; but I hey were always talking of how divinely he danced. I joined making game of him. but I can recall now that he and I did a good deal of 'swapping, for w hich he Ecemed to have a mania, and that in re turn for my watch, a diamond scarf pin and a fancy fishing tackle 1 had a lot of old traps and calamities that were not worth carrying back to civilization. "The young fellow proposed to the gayest girl in the crowd, and w hen she laughed him from her presence without one word of regret or sympathy he seemed to realize the situation, and left with a look that years of his old life would never have produced. lie's now the multi-millionaire speculator that holds a big mortgage on the magnifi cent home of the Widow Dainty. She is the woman that made sport of his love 30 years ago." N. Y. Telegram. IN GOOD FORM. Points Pertaining; to Fhyslra.1 Perfec tion. Why not lie in good form? Not in the conventional sense of doing the right thing in the right way, but in the phy sical sense. It is far more largely a mat ter of habit and training th;n is gen erally snpiosed. Unless there is acl uai physical deformity any intelligent per son may cultivate such a liearing, walk and carriage as shall make every move ment graceful. There is beauty of form mid liearing as will as of feature and or couiiteiiauce, and certainty the beauty of figure and movement is not less ini portanl lliau the other. Besides, as has Ih'cii very sensibly said, "an erect bodily attitude is rf greater importance to health than many persons imagine. Crooked positions, maintained for any length of time, are always injurious, whether in a sitting, standing, or lying position, whether sleeping or waking To sit with the body leaning forward on the stomach or to one ide, with the heels elevated on a level with the hands, it is not only bad taste, lint very detri mental to good health. It cramjis tin stomach, presses the vital oigans. in terrupts free motion of the chest, and enfeebles the functions of various or gans, and, in fact, unlialanees t he cutire muscular system. Many iersns are made round shouldered or humpbacked by sleeping ujKin very high pillow.. When anyone finds it much easier tc sit, stand or sleep in a crooked ositior instead of a straight one, rest assured that the muscular system has been abused, and at once take steps toward rectifying the damage already done." (iood Housekeeping. News of Fatatiion. Many of the autuuin silks have a faint mottled ground figured with small brilliant Persian designs. The silk wai&t, as a set-ofT and com plement of a separate skirt of some handsome description, has taken an other lease of life. Most of the new tucked evening gowns of gauzy material have rows f handsome lace insertion between, and this forms an exceedingly pretty addi tion. With many of the new velvet. Iioleros and jacket-bodices will lie worn loveiy broad collars of Venice jioint. point ap plique, or of very sheer batiste em broidered in quaint and beautiful Flem ish or renaissance jintterns. Fawn colors, silver grays, nnd soft nun's grays, with a touch of cream In them, apjiear among the fall sample lists of some of the most lieautiful taf fetas, lilierty satins, lustrous corthd silks, mohairs, alpacas and sheer silk warp wools. Chicago Record. Antnmn Millinery. White and black combinations in.mil linery for dressy wear will lie very prv clent this "autumn; black and white la:es, aigrettes, ostrich tips, black vel vet riblion overkiid with whit? lace in sertion, black and white satip-strified ' ribbon, black velvet loops lined with white satin, and tiny evening toques of soft velvety white French j'elt gar nished with black and white tube, doves wings, white birds with black wing-tips, and breast plumage, white satin liows, and white velvet poppies with block hearts. N. Y. Post Two Kinds of Light. What kind of light do we receive from the sun?" asked the teacher. "Solar light." replied the bright pupil. "Right. And what kind of light do we get from the moon?" "Satellite." Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.', Onions for Children. A prominent phpysician claims that there will lie no diphtheria, scarlet fever nor worms for children if they tat plentifully of onions every day, es jiecially when there is a scarcity of fresh fruit. He buys onions for his young folks, and they are served in every imaginable form. St. Louis Re public j , 8I.50 and 1896. AGAINST HIS WILL. The editor was disgusted and no won der! It was the dull season and the Scru tator was coniM'llcd to resort to much padding in order to fill the daily measure, expected by its 6ubseriliers; it was even obliged to print copious extracts from other publications a thing only to le done as a last resource by any pajier of spirit! Yet at this particular time a celebrity, a real celebrity, came for a few days stay to Oakhampton, and refused to lie interviewed! - Why he came was a mystery, but that he had come was a fact, though from the editor's point of view 1m- might just as well liave stayed away. The celebrity's unobliging disjxvsition on t lie subject of interviewing had preceded him; he was jierhaps the only i.mn of note in two continents who had not rubmitted to the ordeal. In moments of self-depreciation he was won to say that that was his greatest claim to distinction; but even this reputation had not daunteil the hoics of our editor, who felt con vinced that the surliest disinclination must give way liefore thechnrm and tact rf the most valuable niemluT of the Scrutator's staff. But the tact, the charm, had no opportunity of producing their usual effect ; they might as well have Im'cii nonexistent. CVlcbrit v. f rom 1 he privacy of a hotel sitting-room, sent down a curt message of alicolute re fusal. No wonder, then, as we said liefore, the editor was disgusted. As he meditated on the provoking ness of things in general anil of the cel ebrity in particular, he found his thoughts running into such eloquent dnd well-rounded periods that he in-f-tinctivcly drew en ami paper toward him and wrote an editorial, which, if the celebrity had read it, would have made him feel very small indeed. The article clearly- proved that what t lie Public demanded it must have (for the public sielt with a capital P was as sacred to the editor as Humanity (spelt with a capital II) is to the followers of Angnste Comte. The individual as such exists not for his ow n sake, but for the sake tif the Public, in one case, or of Humanity in the other. The article further demonstrated that celebrities would not exist wit hout a Public. (How could anyone liecome celebrated on a desert island, for instance?) If. then. it is to the Public that the celebrity owes his licing. anil the Public manifests a cu riosity as to the opinions fin things in general of any celebrity in particular, the Public has a right to know thoe opinions, and how could it know them lrf-tter than through the columns of the Scrutator? But our editor was not always in this displeased frame of mind. As a rule he was the most genial of men, and such he looked tlmt same evening as he sat smoking his cigar on the gallery of a handsame house in Clarence avenue. Bis companion was his niece, a young girl w ith a pretty fae and figure, and a mischievous look in her dark eyes which was particularly fascinating. She was discoursing aliont the dearest wish of her heart that she should lie come a regular writer for the Scru tator. But her uncle pooh-poohed the idea; she was too yoflng, too inexjieriericed, too pretty, and at any rate it was impos sible to liecome a writer by simply talk ing alxiut it. "Why," continued he, "do you not write something and show me w hat you can do?" "I have written several Ftories. as you 1-now. but you won't look at them," re plied t he girl. "Oh. no. the Scrutator does not want stories. Write me an article on some subject which will interest the public." "But, what subjects do interest the t ublic, uncle, dear? You only laugh at nie if I suggest one." "Oh, come now vou can't expect a ioor editor to suggest subjects for you as well as read your art icles. Make your own'elioice. The world is all before you . here to choose." ""That's just, what liewilders me; it is so hard to choose. If only I hail some thing definite to go upon or if (coax ingly) you would just look at one of my stories." But the editor vouchsafed no reply to this, so his niece went on: "My firm conviction is that I should make a splen oid interviewer. I should enjoy it. too. At college I could always get the girls to tell me anything I wanted to know." The editor laughed. "Why not liecome a detective at ence?" said he. "I wish 1 could," sighed thegirl. But her uucle was not attending; he was looking at a cyclist who was spinning rapidly ast the house. "That's the man!" he exclaimed, "that's Camlierton!" "Oh, that man!" for Kittie knew all aliout the editor's grievance with the celebrity "he passes here every day. I have met him several times lately when I have lieen out on my morning I ide. I wondered who he was." "Well, I must go now," faid her uncle, as he glanced at his watch. "Good night, child," and then, as an after thought: "Tell you what. Kittie, if you can manage to interview Camlierton 111 do anything you like," and with a laugh as though he had made a tremendous joke, the editor departed, leaving Kittie to lier thoughts, which, as the jioet says of" the thoughts of youth, were "long, long thoughts." II. Early next morning two cyclist!? might . have lieen seen wheeling up Clarence avenue. The one in front was a man, big and distinguished-look'ng a man whom to see was to rememlier. The second cyclist was a young girl, who kept always at aliout the same distance from the man in front. After awhile the man turned from the main avenue into a road which led into the country. The girl followed, and when the few houses in the road were iassed she began to scorch and was soon ahead of the man, who noticed with admiration the erect way in which she sat in spite of the sjieetl at which she was going. She wore a dark skirt and pale pink blouse, which made a pretty bit of color in the landscape, the man thought, as his eyes traveled from her to the far blue distance. When his gaze sought the fair cyclist again he found that she was seated on the road, her wheel lying beside her. The man wondered how she had man postage per ear In advance. NUMBER 41. aged to fall, for the road was good, and she hat! senied to lie perfect mUtress of her bicycle. No one else w as in sight, so he must jierforce dismount aud go to her assistance. "I hope you are not much hurt," ho said, with grave solici tude. "Oh, I hojie not." said the girl, with a smile, which she managed to make pa thetic. "I feel very much shaken, aud I think I have strained my ankle a lit tle, but if I rest for a few minutes 1 shall lie all right," So with the man's assistance she got up and seated herself on a tree trunk lying near. "May I," he askexl, courteously, "go to your home and Kend you sortie a feistance?" "Oh. dear no," in a tone of alarm, "it would frighten them to death. I am not much hurt. If you could kindly wait a few minutes and then help me to mount I don't think I could mount alone. I feel nervous." "I am at your service," replied her companion; "your wheel, at any rae, is none the worse." For, ardent cyclist that he was. if his first look hail lieen for the rider, his sec ond had lieen for the wheel. "So much the better, lint see bow t have torn my skirt, I must mend it, or perhaps it would catch and throw me again." So saying, she drew from her jiocket a dainty little case, from which she pro duced thimble, needle and thread, and then liegan sewing her torn skirt. The man watched her nimble fingers with admiration. She was a graceful little person and looked very demure as she sat with lient head, her mischievous eyes fixed on her work. "I love cycling!" ehe exclair.M-l "don't your The man confessed that he did. and she displayed such interest in what he said "that he told her the story of a cycling trip he hail token last s-umnier. and from that, encouraged by her gentle questioning-, he sjioke of many things, and the girl listened intently. But at last she felt that she could rememlx-r no more, ami that made her realize that she was equal to her return trip, so she prettily ex-plained that she felt quit recovered from her fall and asked her companion to lie good enough to help her to mount. He aejueseHl air most reluctantly, for it had been a pleasant half hour to him. She paused a minute. "I don't know how to thank you for what you have done for me." She cast her eye lo ii. for they were full of laughter. She was wondering what the editor wouid say. "You make too much of it." he saiiT, for how could he know what was in her mind? "I am glad I was able to lie of my assistance to you. It was a for tunate thing that I happened to lie so close liehind." She did not think it. necessary to tell him that but for that she would not have fallen! "I am wrry to say that I am leaving the city this evening." the man went on, "or I would venture to ask permission it call on you." "You are leaving this evening? I am sorry, too." But the dimples in her face liclied her words. A courtly liow. a word of adieu an 1 she was off like a bird. He watebed her out of sight, and as he mounted his own wheel it vapuely oi-eurred to him that from a strained ankle, however slight, she had recovered very completely. Her little feet did swift work with the liedals, it is true, but when she reached home her pen traveled iilmnsi more swiftly over sheet after sheet ot paper, as she wrote with marvelous cor rectness the opinions and remarks of the man who had never lieen inter viewed. Afler all. he found himself unable to leave the city that evening, but the first train next morning carried him away. The lioys were calling the papers on the station platform, and so a copy of the Scrutator found its way into his valise. When he looked at it his own name caught his. eye. In lettering so big that it is usually reserved for a presidential eloetion or for the chances of a war with Great Britain, to his own vast amaze ment he saw: "INTKHVIETVED AT LAST. Mr. Chambcrton's Opinions on Cycling. What He Thinks of Our City. As he read, his look of exasrieration gave place to a smile, for he was one of those fortunate ones who can enjoy s joke at their own expense, till finally he burst- into a laugh so hearty that his fellow passengers wished tliey could en joy the joke with him. "The little jade." he muttered; "if ever I trust a woman again. I'll lie " But the expression was so utterly un like what one would expect from a cf-lebrity that it had better remain un recorded. N. O. Times-Democrat. Caar Donn't Pay for Coronation. The impression that the expenditure in connection with the coronation at Moscow was paid by the czar out of his own jiocket is erroneous. Kvcry rouble in the ioierial treasury is supposed to lie at the absolute disposal of the czar nd he draws Uion the treasury at dis cretion. In addition, he is the owner of large estates in different parts of Rus sia and is well able to pay all the bills .ncurred during- the coronation cere monies if he felt so inclined. N. Y. World. t uuv Plant. Tlie cultivation of the cassava plant has lieen liegun in the United States. It is a shrub from six to eight feet tall, and bears large tuliers underground. These are first heated to drive off ti e poisonous hydrocyanic acid, and they are then made into tapioca find dex trine. It is said that the lat ter can Vie more evsily manufactured from this plant than" from corn. Chicago Inter Ocean. One million standard gold dollars weigh 1 9-10 short tons, w hile the stand ard silver dolkir weighs 2"J 3-7 short ton: jier $1.0O0,(KO. One million dollars of the silver ten-cent piece weigh :i9 5- short tons; of the five-cent nickel, 110 1-5 short tons; of the one-cent bronze piece, 312 6-7 short tons, ami of. the "old corppor cent, 1,85 5-7 short ton. The general fineness of our silver coins is from 89 to 90 per cent., except the three-cent piece, which contained 5 per cent, of alloy. The rarsre aad re!' iM elrrolatlea of tae itii Funti e amende It t tae raveraala oonflderatien of art emer wkeew UfanwlUie innerted at the folic wing low rateas 1 iDrh, I tlniee.... ........ i in 9 ltnrh,S month 1 lach. a kobUii - 1 Inch.! year ....m.m. J-JJ X lnrhee, 6 month ..... ...... - llncbee.l year a inj.v.M a mAnt)i . a.av lnrhe. I Tear -. I-4 Si, rolnmn, month . H column. 6 muDtaft w. rear , 1 column, month!., i i i zz ZZ 1 rolama.'l Tear hi Ta.a Baelneef Items, flirt f rl iwa, Po nbeqoeDt Insertions, ee. pe Use Admlautrator'iaod ExaonVart JWXaaV.Ti Auditor'! Notice " Stray and (tmllar JSoUees - -KeoiotKra or procaoar&e-s o4 amy fan-para Uod or society and communloattons designed t rail attention to any matter of Untied or tadl Tidual Internet man be paid lor a adrertlFmaata. bock and Job Pricttn of all kinds neatly aad exealuiuiy flora tad at the loweoa pztoaa. don'tyoa lorget It. ANIMAL WAIFS. A horse died at North Andover, Mass., the oilier day. ia w-boewe stomach, was found over a jhhjimJ of nails, Bamum's trick horses are fairly I t cn by a team of old work horvs in Wesley, Me., that the driver left maiid ir.g in the. field for a moment, hitched to a nunvver. Iu his aliscuoe they cut two neat swath-, completely around the. field, witJni:t missing a. sjar of grass, turning the corners aecurat-eJy. All efforts to trtw-e the cajiercalzie and black game inipirtil in Aroostook, Mi-, from old Sweden iast spring have proved fruitless. Nw and t hen conies a rumor that tlu y have luN-n s-een or lM-ard- They hare; doubtless ret rvut-d to the deep (.'aiiadi.m pine forests, and the lnne fits of their iniHrtatiu will lw reajK-d i.i future yifirs. Few hunters have returned from the wmuls with more satisfaction titan that f It by Miss .lei. nie HIiot, of South Se lnc. Me., who rccetitjy saw two deer grazing in her f ai tier's mowing field, and succeed. -d in getting an excel lent photographic s-nap Jnt at tlieni. In the picture one of the d-er is in t lie Attitude of leapitii. all four of its K-ga ln-intr off tlie ground. A swirdfi.h strayed away from home and friends a few days ago and lost his life while exploring the old b.iin in s'ule of the old breakwater at Block Islaml. R. I. Whu his presence ls-ame known half a dozen men. oee with a harpoon, went on the breakwater, and. w hen the fish f.s near the instrument was thrown, with the desired result. It is said that this i the first fish of the. kind ever known to have been seen in the liasin. WRITERS OF VERSE AND PROSE. Dr. Jameson Ls said to le occupying his time in prison in compiling an ac cmntof his connection w ith the Trans vaal raid. Another legacy of loO.Ooo francs has lii-en left to the French academy, the in come of which must I e awarded to au tliors of moral w-orks. Traineleft a lot of manuscript jatry, now in the poss,--sim of M. lt" lleredia. of the Frvnrh academy. wh.'ili justice to the historian, wi!l allow no one to n-svd it. The prize of $vxi for tlie liest pirn to In-, read at the oja-nintrof tlie centennial eKiit.ioTi. of Tenucsxee. has lieen awarded to Mrs. Yirginia Fraser Boyle, of Memphis. In fear, apparently, that his fame will son pa sis away, some of Robert Louis Stevenson's admirers are already tirir ir.g tliat Lis fctatue lie set up in F-din-burirh. Ilvnri RochcfortV autobiography hasi iust Im-i-o completed in five volumes in French. Tlie author is now at work on the two-Vfil.ime I Jiglu-Jicdit inu. !.p-cial-Iv edited by him :uid translated for Ai;irlvS.ian readers. The account by Dr. rvmaldson Smith, the American trawler, of his recent ex plorations in Africa, will lear the title "Through Unknown African Co-ju-tries," and will U- profusely illustrated from the author's own photographs. STYLES IN HATS AND GOWNS. A new waist has tlie yoke made of narrow, close pi'fhug. The lower jior tion of the waist has the effect of the material Wing wound around the waist, the end beinrr fastened with rosette liows on one side of the front. The sailor hat seeiirs never to go out of style. It has been remarked, how ever, that niany sailor hats are used for bicycle, and yachting purjioses. Sailor hats are also profusely trimmed with riblions ami flowers and worn on dressy occasions. Poke lionnets arc assuredly coming into fashion and some of the autumn styles are extravagantly pretty. They an made of rotitrh straw in dark colors, and are trimmed with satin riblion and plumes after the manner of tlwiseseen in old picture s. A novelty collar Ls of satin in two colors. The out side is dark and elalior ately braided; the inside is of some light. In-coming tint. A very full r'iflle is liox-plaited and stands up alout the throat, the inside Wing of satin, the ourtside covered with braiding. A stylish waist has tlie collar and very short jacket fronts made of close braid ing. These fronts extend only to the sleeves and underarm seams. The sleeves are close fitting, with row ujMin row of braiding. Over tlie close sleeves are deep loops of the material, which is gathered in at the tojis of the shoulders, SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS. , Argon has at last lieen com bind with water by Prof. Villard, of the Paris Koole Normale. It requires a pressure of 20.0 aljiior-pheres to do so. A method of nickeling wood has lieen levifel by tlie German cliemist LangWin, the wood Wing covered by a thin coating of metal by erither dry or wet process. Prof. Norton, of the Massachusetts In st it ute of Technology, has succeeded in gvttinfT Roentgen photograpris of the liver, heart and lungs sufficiently plain to admit of imilical examination. A French chemist lias made a blue soap w hich will render unnecessary the bluing- in tlie laundry. In ordinary soap he incorjoratc a solution of anilin green in strong acetic acid. The alkali of the 6oap converts the preen into blue. FROM GAY PARIS. Tart of the Boulevard de Yaugimrd in l'aris has Wen rjecbristened Boule vard Vasteur. . Next year is the centennial of the tore-pipe hat, which first came into common use in Paris in 1797. Horseless carriage are admitted to all the privileges of the ordinary Palis fiacre by a recent decision of the prefect of the Seine. l'aris swells are wearing the Mores hat this fall. It is a broad -brimmed gray felt, such as the marquis wore w hen he wns killed by the Tuarvgs. Leprosy In Iceland. There are lepers in Iceland about 200 in all. Now an enthu.Mastic priest has determined to follow heroic Father Damien's example to devote himself wholly to the care of the unfortunates. Already he has raised 10.000 francs and is promised enough more to assure the early erection of a comfortable hospital. . --no umKRAT.f.V. ii
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