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We believe i' I We make short t I best seamless K M Vi x 16 inch at p .f '' . iv low prices, hit;h crades and larce sales. bend now for "V io;eas, as have in &3f' Our imitators may not ans. - No one knows the ice until he knows ours. FOR ARTISTIC 0 13 TRY THE FREEMAN. AGENCY or i A pamphiwt of Information and ab- '.f ig -JnicHl t:H t.-rs,BUiTwi.rf i(..w toA -NJLftra rftUK"4 tat iJm fryp .-..,-V aj i ixrx uvtn j, i.;-t. BSt!ata2Ycr!iJ! Eet tbs Genuine ! Sold EYEnwtarB! SAfVTL VCLLS & CO.. 07 VINE ST., CINCINNATI, 0. I aRGEST EXPORTERS OF CIKSENG IN THE U. S flbLTS r&ilLU.(.k . SAMPlf C Arr LA ..cou. feast.. StKrJw, It X v w:.--T-r-7i - -TT r AXLE DEBIT AND OrttuiT. Come, little Paul, and lot mo tell about this thing which I have done This net of debt which round my life lor your dear baby sake I've spun; Sit on my knee and hearken well, for you, I know, are worldly wise. And I'm prepared to follow out what course of conduct you advise. First, there's a mortgage, full of terms and clauses ponderous and grim But likewise there's a piant tree with one particular, long limb Which reaches out to beckon ust to leckon you and beckon me To come and build a wlng and play be neath the prandiy spreading tree. Then there are notes, a bunch of them. I pledge my purpose and intent To pay i hem off at sundry dates at rather vigorous per cent.; Hut also, l'aul. there is a house whose roomy attic was designed For rainy days, and little loys and blocks and toys of divers kind. And. Paul you follow me. of course there is an abstract and a deed Which are the driest documents I ever had the woe to read. I think I signed them, but erhaps I did not sign, but, only scaled. Then there's a great, green lawn which sloies to westward to a stubble field. A great, green iawn where you will plaj : I'll buy a comrade dog for you; And there'll lie plenty romping-room, and hide-and-seek locations, too: And in the evening I'll come fast hasting on the choo-choo car. And we'll explore that stubble field, where pretty summer flowers are. Then there are bonds of rigid sort; I pledge and swear myself to these, Hut, on the other, credit, side there Is a wealth of cherry trees: Moreover there are legal forms filled out with words most monstrous big. I5ut. also, there's a corner where you'll take your wooden spade to dig. So, come, my boy, imprisoned in this city flat from day to day. And in the wisdom of your years proceed with what you have to say. A chuckle for my answer? Ah, you don't believe my bargain bad. Then prove your glad approval. Kiss your jolly, debt-encumbered dad. Chicago Record. THE CAPTAIN'S STORY. IY ALKF.KT DKLPIT It. was just aftr the sonn1aI at our club, ami a little protiji of us were t.ilk inr jn a very animaUtl way of the af fair. Capt. .Jouhert lil not join in the convorsat ion. . tuul did pot even sevm to be listening1 to us. "What will you take for your tlmutrliis?" I said to himsit last. "Oh! they are not worth much. I was think mir just then of an incident liich occurred once at a eluli in a small provincial town where I hajened tole stay in?." "Toll us about, it!" exclaimed one of the other men. ami the captain lipht " d a eijraretto" and. putting- his el!xw on the ir.a.iitel-shcl f ajrainst which he had Ih-i-ii leaning, ln-pan his story : "Well, it was when I was in jrnrri- K.in ;:t. M . one of the dullest and R'oyt stUMitl of provincial towns. There was rothinfrin the world for a fellow to .-! with hin:self there, no theater even, eidy a low music-hall. "When I was ofT duty I pradually jjot into t he habit of turniufr in to t he I'uion clul), which, hy-t he-bye, was the onJy one the town possesied. "II was called the Tnion. I sliould ipia-ine I t-cause there was always a (lis, tit? of t'lno ki:;d or another poin;- on tht'rc. There was very little Uy at lliis club -xcejit at the time of tin-th-rce ar.niinl fairs, each of which last ed a week. One autumn afternoon. jvs,t at the opening- of one of tin fa!i- , 1 Iiappetied tat irotothet-lnb rather early. Tlicr;' were a fair number of men there that d::v who were strangxrs t me, v i:;!l!iy farmers of the neiphborhood. who rarely came into town, arid the nriftus owners of the country houses round. " 'They are playing- hitrh to-day,' said ore of the habitues of the club to me. I turned round towards the table to watch the tTJHiie, and was so siirj r:se at the siidit of one of the players tluat I :lnust exclaimed. "It was a young- man of some 22 nr years of ape, whom J knew by sip-'nt. I was very much interested in him. for his father had fttuplit conr-:.i".-ous!y at M:urenta. and had leeii killed tn the field of latile, leaving his w 'alow -anil son by no means well provided for. The young- man came very rarely to the club, anil I had never '-en him touch a card liefore. I wa stu)ef'ii'd therefore N see him hold-iii-; the bank, and a pood bank it was 1-to. for there were plenty of notes anil fold coim. heaped tip in front of him. " 'How much?' called out .one of the players. "Oh!, lauphed a wealthy farmer, 'M. de Merteivs I in luck's way; he can ;-af'-ly keep his bank open. -I noticed that the younp man's face ua? tlejplly j ale, ami there was an ex cited look in his eye. (l n bank,' he said, and it seemed as thoiiph the very words had chanped The luck. "Ten times runninp Mertens losU and in a quarter of an hour his bank wiiS cleared out. Another man tok his place and the play wept on. It pot so excitinp that I, too. was fascinated, mvd joined in. There was, no room to sit down at the table, so I continued sl.'indinp. holding- my hat in my hand ;trd throwinp my winninps into it. I had a run of luck, and went on playinp in tk; must excited way nn-til I was startled by some one callinpout: "Yon are leinp robl-d, captain! "I started, and instinctively seizel a hnnd which had knocked npainst mine tiiroierli my s-tidilen movement. It was M. de Mertens hand, nnd he held the 40 note which he had just taken out of my hat. The wretched man's face wa-s convulsed with emo tion. Our eyes met; his were dilated with terror, and there was a look in them that seemed to hold me spell bound. . "M. de Mertens is my partner, I said, hauphtily. to the man who hail warned me; 'and 1 am .surprised that rmi should dare to brinp -nich an accu sation npainst a pemlcman wl.ose rep utation is bj wel! known. "The individual who had called out had never been to the club before, and did not know M. de Mertens at all. We had J.d been f&tamlinp round the table, close to each other, and on seeinp another player put his hand into my bat, it was very natural that the man should have thought it his duty to warn me. On hearing' my explanation he apologized most nummy to M. tie Mertens, and several of the acquaint ances of the latter gathered round and expressed their repret that such an in sult should have lieen offered him, "We then continued our play, ami M. de Mertens soon after left the club. Three days passed, and I heard noth inp more of the younp man. In shield inp him as I had done, my first tlioupht had been of his father, and I hail deter mined to save from disprace the name of the brave soldier of Magenta. Of course, 1 could quite understand that the you up man should now shrink from seeinp me again, but still it struck lie as rather strange that in some way, ?ither direct or indirect, he did not at tempt to express his thanks. "One evening, however, just as I was 2-oinp out to pay some visits, my order ly informed me that a lady wished to see me. I went into the drawing-room, ind there I found a woman of about 45 ,-ears of ape. She was very dignified looking, and there was an open, hon est expression about her face which fascinated me. " 1 am Madame de Mertens, she said, simply. 'My son told me everything about the attair at the club, and I have come to thank you with all my heart for having preserved for us intact the honor of our imi me. " 'Madame , I began; but she in terrupted me in her emotion and nerv ousness. 'My son had pot entanpled in vari ous ways, and in desperation had taken to play. It appears he had lost every enny he possessed that night. You know the rest, alas! "I felt very much embarrassed, for the poor mother's grief was terrible to witness. She was still standinp there in front of me, her face was deadly pale. ami the tears were trembling on her lonp dark eyelashes. 'lie is younp. madame; you must not take it to heart so. I stammered. 'It was just a moment's weakness. I will see your son. and " " 'No, captain. she said, shaking her head, sadly, he is no longer here he has enlisted, and is already on his way with the regiment. 9 We had all liecn listening attentively to Capt. Jouliert's story, and when he stopped speaking there was silence for a few minutes. "And what happened to M. de Mer tens, captain? asked one of the group. "Did you ever hear? 'He is dead. Six months ae-o I received a letter from Kelunp a piti ful little letter written with very pale ink, and on a sheet of paper that was all crumpled and yellow with ape. There were only a few lines for me to read. I know them by heart. They were as follows: I am mortally wounded Admiral Courbet has just broupht me the cross; but I am dying. I am sendinp it to you, my poor cross for you saved me. and I should like you to wear it "This is why, my friends, instead of wearintr the decoration which I re ceived from the chancellor, you always see me w ith the serpeant's cross w hich oor Mertens sent me. Poor boy! To think that he started as a thief, and died a hero's death at Kelunp." Strand Magazine. BESIEGED BY NUNS. Wonderful Tale of av Conqofrea Mon astery on the Canary Inland. A curiotis tale of a besieged and con quered monastery Itelongs to the early history of the Canary islands, and is re told by Charles Kdwardes in his descrip tion of the isles. In the early part of tin- eighteenth century there lived in Orotava. on the Island of Teneriffe, a convent of Dominican nuns, w ho, after stmie years of ease, had the misfortune to be burned out of house a nil home. They went into tenqxtrary quarters for a year, but lx-came d's-satisfied with such unconventional walls, and began looking alntut for u iermaneiit abiding place. At that time thire was in Orotava n house of Jesuits which had loft its former inqiorVince, ami, though commodious and healthful, pave lodg ing to but two men, the rector of the house and his assistant. On this mansion the nuns cast cvetous eyes, and soon resolved to ap propriate it. One morning about 40 of them advanced against it, by strategy induced the Jesuit brother to open the outer gate, and then, trooping into the courtyard, fell on their knees, thanking God for thi3 preliminary success. In vain did the two monks reason with them on their scandalous conduct. They merely held their ground, ex c'aiming: "Father Andrew, this is a large cape for nn few birds!" Some of the more reasouable members of the sisterhood explained that they were really in need of a dwelling as spacious as. this, and that they did not propose leaving it. The rector, in despair, fled into the sacristy, from which retreat lie exerted his colleague to lie of good cheer. "Patience, brother," cried he, "ami do your best to extricate yourself from those ladie-.!" That, however, was more easily said than done, espe cially as the nun-, were becoming so excited that they might momentarily have been exjK-cted to resort to the ar gument of nails. The siege lasted for three or four hours. News of it new about t lie town, and bands of younp men, scrupulously neutral, watched proceedings- from the bars f the outer gate. Eventually the Jesuits yielded, ami the nuns occupied the house until a new convent, entirely to their taste, was erected for them. Iondon Globe. LITTLE MISCELLANY. At the Drnmmonil castle disaster nearly all the. bodies found had life lelts on and only three persons were saved. The mayor of Flint, Mich-, receives no alary. The late mayor, who reoently letircd from ofliee, was so highly es teemed that the common council voted tn appropriation to him. They awarded him one dollar. A Pelgian jiedestrian walked from Antwerp to P.russels, ?S miles, in two flays, w alking ten hours a day. The en tire distance he walked backward. His hoes had slight heels under the toes. Two pretended Cuban patriots se cured dollars for the war in Portland, T!c-. by the old dodge of selling what I hey rsiM were smuggled Havana cigars. Purchasers since have been expressing the op'nion that, cmoked in Cuba, the c'gr.rs. would be of more efficacy than "insurgent aiuracnition. A 1m-w jr ii.t.r'nini. Old Lady Appeared in a Tlalon at the Time of Her Ueath. A gentleman took a house in Ireland for six nvontlis ami was accompanied thither by his wife and daughters, says Kealni. The house was furnished and had plenty of bedrooms. Therefore it was decided not to use a certain large, long room with euplioards along one tt'de (which had all been rock-d and scaled up with tape) in which things be longing to the owners of t lie house had l-eeii put away. One evening one of the daughters going to her room saw an old lady wrapped in a shawl walking along the passage, in front of her. The old lady appeared to know her way and hurried on without herftafion into the unused room. The girl called her sister ami they followed the dame into the room. Put all was silent; no one was there; the dutit lying about showed no signs of footprints. Shortly after the same young lady was reading on the hearthrug by fire light. Ijooking up she In-held the old lady standing in the doorway watching her. Greatly frightened, she sprang up and, rushing downstairs-, was found fainting at the drawing-room door. At last the family returned to Dublin. One day when a friend was calling the curi ous incident w hich I have narrated was referred to. The voting lady very un willingly toid her experiences. The vis itor seemed much struck and asked for an accurate description of the old lady. "For," said slie. "that house lx-longed to two old ladies, sisters, and when they let their liouse they went to reside at Geneva, One of them, answering ex actly to the description you have given, died at the time you saw her apeu. A STRANGE ADVENTURE. Cnrloaa Case of Catalepay at Hospital de Poat-rEreqae at IteaoTllle. The Teiiis reports a curious case of catalepsy which for several weeks, has been engaging the attention of the doc tors at the Ilopital de Pont-l"Evequ. at Deauville. report t Ik- New York Herald. On the morning of July 25 last a young man. quite naked, was found on a seat at Deauville sleeping soundly. It was found impossible to awaken him ami he w as carried to the hospital. During three weeks lie remained in a cataleptic condition at IVouville. Pho tograplis were taken of him and circu lated in the district, but without lieing recognized. On Thursday evening the unknown man awoke ami, surprised at finding himself in a hospital ward, questioned his neighbors as to how. he came to lie there. "Hut it is imjiONsible! he exclaimed, on being told where, lie was. "I am in Paris ami I have never left it. Only ye-.terday I was working for my em ployer, a packer in the Fauliourg du Temple." He stated that his name was 7Lonis P . aged 21 j-ears, living in Paris with his father. l"on a telegram lie ing sent to the. address given the fa ther replied by sending money and clothing for his son. I .on is P has returned to Paris witlkout solving the mystery of his strange adventure. AN AMBER FISH. A riih Well Known In Ron t hern Water, lint One Karely Seen Here. The amluT fishes there are several sjiecies of them lielong to the family that contains the crevalles, the jkjiii panoes, the banded pilot, the horsefish. and the threadfish. In shae they are nearest like the pilot fishes; they bear a general resemblance in shae. how eer, to the bluetish, though not nearly related to that fish. They are rapid and !owerful swimmers and great travelers. The amlier fishes are found in nearly all tropical and temjierate waters; in the Mediterranean, the waters of the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico, and in various parts of the. Pacific ocean. Some of them are excellent food fishes all are shapely and lieautiful. The larger of them may attain a length of four feet or more and a weight of 50 pounds. Iirge amber fishes are common on the coast of California, where they are e.mong the most celebrated of the game fishes. On this coast, says the New York Sun, the amlier fish comes as far north as Cape Cod, but rarely; one taken in a pound net in Graveseml bay in July ol the present year is )Mrhaps the first of its particular species of which there is recor.l here. This fish was a little more than 33 inches in length, and it weighed nbout 13 Kunds. DOINGS THE WORLD OVER. W. 11. Mallock is to edit a new London weekly nmdeled after the Sectator, but to lie sold for half its price. New Zealand's legislative council has just voted to exclude the Chinese and all other Asiatics from the colony. In commemoration of the thirteen hundredth anniversary of the estab lishment of the see of Canterbury, it is projKtsed to erect a statue of Theodore of Tarsus, the only Greek archbishop of Canterbury. Hy a fire in the IlumanzitfT museum at Moscow the Panin hall, containing the public library of the city, was de stroyed. The collections in the ad jacent KtinianziefT and Dolgorouki gal leries are damaged by water. Kohinson Crusoe's island, Juan Fer nandez, :s said to have disappeared in the earthquake which shook up Chili lait March. The Chilian government has sent a vessel to verify the story. In the banks of London are detosits to the amtunt of A.' 0,5:3.017. which have remained unclaimed for 30 years. During that time the depositors have not. added to -their accounts, nor drawn ijHin them; consequently-they are sup osed to lie dead. THE SOUTHERN CONTINENTS. Chili has just had the first presiden tial election in its history without a row. In Central South America eggs, 'ocoaniits and cliocolate pass as cur rency of the realm. . ' A farmer in the little settlement of .Hay. New South Wales, with the aid of Ids three sons, poisoned 16,000 rabbits . in one night. Coal is dearer in South Africa than in tiny ot her part of the world. It is cheap est, in China. Indian elephants cannot live in Cen tral Africa, the home of a larger and more hardy species. A ijiaLE CJtEW. 11 Y AKDEX. "Now which one?" asked Polly,. arrrl she stood on tiptoe that she might de termine the jioint. She was a plump Polly. She wasttshort Polly, ami the mantel piece was a high one, so that there was no other thing to do than to stand on tiptoe while she gazed at two fact-s and wondered: "Which one?" They were not female faces, but Polly, though young, was old enough to take a -ery jiositive interest in masculine faces. She had already decided which one she would like to marry, and would she have iM-cn surprised if some day, out of that "urfnee of paK-r on the mantel-piece, Imd broken a voice: "Polly, my dear, as love you, will you marry me?" Rut he hail maintained n grave silence because only a picture, for which reason nobody could claim credit for unusual discretion of six-cch for a man. Yes. dumb, dumb, and that gave Polly's warm affection a chill. Then he was her "first cousin Joe." and a kind of a brother, was he not? That gave her marrying fever a still colder chill. Thi--young man was very handsome. His ?yes were as expressive as Polly's, ami that is saying a good deal. Her eyes were black, soft and loving. Anyone that had eyes as handsome ns Polly Kicker's owned an excellent piece of property. His features were, very reg ular. The lines of his month showed firmness, yet tenderness, and Polly, first looking round to Fee if Aunt Nabby were "peekin." had kissed tire picture the very day of our storj Aunt Nabby was not given, though, to "jieekin." That very room, nt she wa.s frying doughnuts liecause Polly Irked them. The other picture on the mantel piece wa.s that of an honest, reliable soul; but Polly had no affect ion far him. She was a visitor under the roof, cind iu the two weeks that her visit had stretclntl across, she had learned very much about the history of lcinps whose only presence was that of pict tires. Had not Aunt Nabby said that this piciin. sensible face Irelonped to a sailor, a young captain? "Oh, the other is a seaman only; but I had rather iisarry a handsome sailor than a homely, stiff captain," was Polly's opinion. She sighed. She was thinking that the hamlsom sailor was only Cousin Jte. She hesi tated a moment, kissed the photinriaph again, and then went dow nstairs lo look out- of a window fronting the sea and to pity sailors. Everylnidy in the neiphlorhood had somethin.? tok w ith the sea. w hit h w as only o bit of a way off. and kept i.nnd in? night and day on the rocks, making all the fuss it could to attract as much Attention as possible. To keep this un ruly sea in any kind of subjection v-ry one must do something. I'nele lvonal l Ilicker was the keejier of the yellow Tfe snving station on the rim of th gray sands. Uncle Ronald was a big. burly, good natured, kind of a fellow. Aunt Nabby was a slim, slender woman, whose thoughts were quick moving, darting out like swallows wings, and her eye sparkled like a run of brook, water the day the spring has lifted the lid of ice covering it. Said I'nele Ronald lo Aunt Nabby. in the hearing of Polly at the window: "I'd like to have you. Nabby. clean up at the station, if you will, sweep round and so on. Nothin doin there in sum mer, but I want, to keep things sort of slicked up, anil I'll "low you the pay for it. I've got to le oft to my tater-jiatch t'other side of the back pastur." "I will. Ronald." Ronald Ricker left the room. "Polly. Ftton as I have finished these ere doughnuts then come on!" cried Aunt Nabby. "We will run that life savin station this forenoon. They shall have a female crew to-day. You get the brooms ready. It is a worn-out thing down at the station. We'll le lively and start soon." A small but sprightly broom-brigade soon charged upon the station and cap tured it without difficulty. Windows were thrown up, the brooms set to whisking, and the dust routed. The living-room below, the men's hendquarters by day, seedily was swept. The lioatroom, with its appara tus of surflioat ami breeches-buoy, life car and Lyle gun. rockets and signals, received prompt attention, and this floor also was thoroughly swept. Aunt Nab by remained to ilo some "cleaning out" behind the door where one of the ol her but less particular crew had left a heap of tlirt. Polly, singing away, went up stairs hopping like a robin from step to step, landing on the threshold of the masculine crew's quarters by night. "The leds look all right," said Polly, eying six iron l-eds, neat I v covered with bedding and set in two prim rows along the northern and southern walls of the room. "Yes, they look all right, but 1 know Ihosc men didn't sweep under the leds. N-o, liefore I sweep. I'll take a look -off from the look -nut on the roof." This was a plat from on the roof, railed about, and supporting a flj-gstatT. Here on clear days a watch was kept by the surf men. If need le. a signal could W run up to the top of the staff, and any needy craft on the water promptly in structed. "Guess women's eyes can see as quick as men's," murmured Polly, "and we will have it so to-day." On her way up a short flight of stes to the lookout she halted in a little re cess and examined the Imx of signals kept there. Since her arrival she had been very much interested in the signal department, and. instructed by I'ncU Ronald, felt that she con hi now handle those signals as readily as the keejier himself. "Don't T wish that Cousin Joe. whom I never saw only in his picture. wereofT on the water and needed some signaling from the shore!" If she had followed the promptings of her hear nrd the -'"" ' ' "tirT-v rter- One box gelatine.dissolved in a kitch en cupful of water. In one hour'd time our on this a cupful of lioiling water. Stir until melted, then add two cups of sugar, a stick of cinnamon, the gra ted rind of an orange and a lemon, the juice of three oranges and a lemon and a cup of sherry. If one objects to th wine more, lemon juice may lie substituted. Strain through a cloth ami pour int molds. Brooklyn Eagle. there? Whoever it was. a signal of "distress" was fluttering above the ves sel. Should Polly run and get I'nele Ronald? When in summer during the season of closed doors ami vacant rooms at the station, any disaster might hap jien on the water, the proper procedure was to run for the keeper ami notify him. At the head of ns many of the old crew as he could gather from the corn fields and fish-houses, the keeper hur ried to the station, ojierating as might be. advisable. Uncle Ronald, though, w as off on a "tater-patch." a mile aw ay. In the meantime the whole United States navy, ducking their heads one after the other, could sink off this very station. "Wasn't a female crew running this station to-day? soliloquized Polly. "I'll answer that signal myself." The schooner was so near the shore that if her sails had liecn set the appro priate signal would have lcen the JD of the international code of signals: "You are standing intodangvr."butthis vessel had dropped her canvas, as If meaning to halt anyway, and then she had a suspicious look, as if sinking. "I'll let them know they are recog nized, and that they may expect help," thought Polly, working swiftly. Turning away from the staff, at whose head now fluttered this signal like a tongue of cheering speech, Polly ran down the short stairway into the crew's night quarters, then down the stairs, tlropping to the kitchen, and cried, in jerks: "Oh oh! zounds! auntie quick! Danger!" "What?" "Quick!" She was npw darting through the outer dtor. "Git your uncle. Tolly!" "Too-too far off! Come!" And Nabby sprang after Polly. "I-t's take uncle's boat. Aunt Nabbv!" "We go off?" "Yes yets! You can row; so can I." "Good "for ye!" cried Aunt Nabby. "I am with ye," They rushed uncle's boat down to the firm, shelving sands. They pulled it through the low-running surf, and soon were alongside the schooner in distress. "Quick quick!" said a sailor, bring ing a box to the vessel's rail. "We ran on the rock in the night, lost our loat. though we cot off the rook, started a leak, and have leen settlin ever since there, 111 go lack with ye. Then IT1 pull off and get another load. Cap'n is in the c-ibin gettin things up. You are pood to come off women, too. Ready? Hum iow? All together. Pull!" The ooat was rowed ashore, the box. precirvis with papers and money, car ried tp the sands, and then tie sailor said: "ljHnme go back alone. I will make more room for the next load, with cap'n or anyone that comets." "I won't marry that captain, running on a rK-k. thought Poll v. "He must tie stupid and homely. Give roe a hand some sailor." She thought of Cousin Joe and the homely captain ierchcd in state on the mantel-piece at the house. As if looking lehind and discovering her thoughts, the sailor remarket!: "It wa'n't the fault of our cap'n that we were on that rock, or naryliody's. Things will happen, you know." "I wouldn't marry him anyway," si lently resolved Polly. As the lioat was rustling through the surf. Aunt Nabby said: "Now, Polly, we are the crew to-day. you know, and must do jest as the crew does to the shipwrecked. I'll start a fire iu the kitchen stove in the station. I saw some coffee and sugar down there in the jvantry, and III git some milk ami cake and bisk it. We'll fix em. You watch by the stuff, as it comes. Rest of the crew is agoin to the station." Load after load was safely broupht from the schooner, which all this time was settlinp. With the last lioat-load came the captain. Polly started when she saw- h:m step on the sands. Why hadn't she seen it while he was in the Ixtat ncaring the land? If Cousin Joe's picture had left the mantel-piece, ami. turning up. had stepped out of the lioat, she could not have been nv.re tur prised. This was Cousin Joe himself. She sprang forward. "Why. Cousin Joe. is it you?" she cried, this short surfman flying up to him. reaching as high as she could and throw ing her arms about him. "I I 1 " stammered the young man, blushing, though not displeased. "I I thank you with my whole heart for helpintg us so nobly, but I am not your Cousin Joe, sorry to say!" Not Polly's Cousin Joe? "Why. why!" she murmured, in con fusion, starting back. Another voice, thougli. was speaking somelmdy from the station ami laughing heartily. "Dick "Warner. I tlo decJai -ha, ha! Glad to see ye hum! Polly. Polly, dear, come here! This is Dick Warner." "I thought it wa.s Cousin Joe that picture on the mantel-piece." said Polly, blushing and hanging low her head. "No. no." screamed Aunt Nabby, "you made a mistake. Cousin Joe is t'other picture ha. ha! He'll be hum soon!" Yes. the real Cousin Joe came- home soon, and just in time to hear of the en gagement lietween-a certain young fe male surfman and Capt. Richard Warn er. N. Y. Ledger. FADS AND FANCIES. Young men of Pittsburg. Kan, have formed a club on an agreement to keep their heads shaved during the summer. Ixtmlon society was startled on a re cent Sunday by seeing half a dozen jinrickashas drown hy coolies at the church arade in Hyde Park. Forty Carthage, Mo, girls have start ed a local fad by having a breakfast picnic and wading arty, as exclusive as Diana's bathing parties before Acteon's advent. The German empress possesses a unique tea service. The tea tray l as been beaten out of an old Prussian halfpenny, the teapot is made out of a German farthing, and the tiny cutis are made from coins of different German principalities. ' r Isrresn of Penalty. The old penalty against a German sol dier or sailor of the standing army or navy who left the Fatherland was a fine of -i'O marks or 40 days imprisonmenL That has now lecn raised to 1.O0O 'marks fine, or imprisonment for four months. MUSICAL NOTES. Dresden now has a conoprt hail oa the model of the new Gewandhaua at Leipzig that will Beat 1.400 iH-rsooa. Mascagni in composing an opera oa a Japanese libretto by Big. Illioo for the fall season at La Scaia, Milan. Wagner's violin teacher. Robert &pp, w ho is now 90 years of age. waa prea ent at this sunimer'a perfiTii&oce-i at Hayreutih. Reginald de Koven. who haa act to music a number of Eugene Field po ems, is writing "ew music for tome of the poet's later lullabiea. Laralle. the Iwritone, who. It wa snpjiosed. had left the stage, will ap lear in "The Flying Dutclunau" at the Paris OjicraComique next winter. Vienna w ill celebrate the hundredth, anniversary of Franz Schubrt next jear by an exhibition of object con nected w ith the composer and a aerie of K-rformances of his worka. Paul Dresser, the song writer and atitlior of "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me," has written a new pi;cecUtd "Don't Tell Her That You Love Her," which is to appear in an early edition of Ev"ry Month. Paderewski has written a new minuet for the piano. He has dedic&ted it to his American admirers and calls it "Menuet Moderne." in contradistinc tion to his famous "Menuet a I'Anr tlque," which was written in 1393. Queen Elizabeth of Roumaoia, Car men Sylva. has written an opeia libret to in French on a Turkiah plot for M. Massanet- The (jueen is proliably the only living author who has written, verse in four languages, French. Ger man. Swedish and Roumanian. NOTE AND COMMENT. The wife of Li Hung Chang is aatti to possess 2.0ui frocks and baa half that number of waiting women la. at tendance upon her. The late Jules Simon library con tained about 23.000 books, to which, he could go. he insisted, with his eye a closed and find the exawt volume wUicn, he wanted. A suit of armor has been d'scorered in the old Chateau di la Tour l Picon, w hich is thought tobt the one ordeied for Joan of Arc by Chark-a VII duric-r the siege of Orleans, and presented to her at Itourpes, It ia said to correspond exactly in the description handed down and was made for a woman five feet three inches in heighL . The girl who at as model for Sir John Millais "Cinderella," "Callin Herrin " and "Sw-etest Eyes Were Ever Seen" is now a married woman, residing in a pretty home in Richmond, where one of her tit arest prizes is a signed proof of "Ciutlcrella" on the wall. She also ofst-ss.-s a beautiful gold locket given hr by the artist ns a remem brance t.f the famous picture. England is taking quite good-na-turwlly the fact that a l-old snap-shot artist .-aught the prince of Wale rnd Princ-ss Charles of Denmark recently and W now exhibiting them through the mediem of the cinematographc, in which the prince gravely lifts his h"t f ron his head and strokes his hair mich as Ty man does, while the charming prii-eef- calmly adjusts the ruftlesebout hei throat in exact imitation of all her sisters w ho with to know that tlier are "all right." STAMPS AND COLLECTORS. rSeltrium haa issued a railway pactsit stamp of 60 cents, lilac and black. y Cat of Good Hope. 2ipence is jow blue, and the two shillings yellow. In Ita'y a new jiootal card is to be issued, on the occasion of the inaugura tion of the monument to Victor Eman uel. It will be of the value of ten cen times, and liear the effigy of that mon arch. Stamp dealers give valuable aid to government officials in capturing stamp thieves, but, of course, solely on their own account. If they can make thb thief disgorge, or iay for their plunder, they drop the matter right there, where ps the government never forget or for gives. The ancient feudal castle of A bin. near nuy, in the province of Liege. Bel gium, which was Isold some years ago by Count of Looi-Cosw a rem. baa been pur chased by the heirs of the count. One of the curiosities of the castle U a room lapered entirely with old Spanish stains of nineteen cuartoa, which are now very rare. Philadelphia has a Philatelic society, with nearly a hundred active members. It meets twice a month throughout the year, and at the meeting the Uaue of new stamps are discussed, also the fluc tuations in values. Very rare atamps are occasionally exhibited, aa many of the members are advanced collector, and some have priceless aibuma. LONG RANGE OF CANNON. One of Kropp's tUnna Carrlea She O-ratr Fifteen Ml lea. The longest distance that a shot haa been fired is a few yards over 15 mi lea. which was the range of Krupp 130 ton steel gun, firing a shot weighing 2, MiO toumls, says Spare Moments. The 111-ton Armstrong gun has an extreme range of 14 miles, firing a shot weighing l.oo iMtunda, and requiring !60 pound of powder. These guns, however, proved too expensive, being unable to stand firing loo times, and their manufacture has practically been abandoned. The 22-ton Armstrong gun hurls a solid shot for a distance of 12 no ilea, and the dis charge of the gun cannot be heard at the place where the twll strike. From 12 to 13 miles is the computed range of the most powerful guns now made, and to obtain that range an elevation of near ly 45 degrees is found to be necessary. Quick-firing guns are more to tie de pended upon at t he present day than ex treme length of range, and in this re stieot v hat is considered the moat won rterful or guns, tierhapa, ia one of the Maxims, which can fire as many as 60t) shots a minute, and yet is o light that a soldier can carry it strapped to his tack. What It Mesa. A little maiden of seven year at tended the wedding of anelder brother. The Episcofial sen ice. beard for the first t:me. made a deep impression on her mind. A few dat a after she called to see the britle. and found her sitting on her husliand'a lap. Looking at them wistfully for a few momenta, she ex claimed: "Oh. yes; I see to have and to KokL" N. Y. Journal. V ir ii
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