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Where the peaceful dead were lying;
Over their rulet and holy sleep
The butterflies white were flytnK.
Ai'd one little child was playing there
In the churchyard, sunny and still;
He'd wandered away. In his Innocent pliy.
From I he little white house on the hill.
"Kutternies. butterflies!" cried the child.
As he played on the grassy sod,
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here
Fluttering up to God!"
Out In the churchyard a place new-made
Waits for the Innocent dead:
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With kisses on Up and brow;
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As she kneels on the grassy sod.
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A MERE SUGGESTION.
BY
HOOD.
Phyllis was jounp anil very happy,
and just a little excited, and Tliap.s jl
trifle proud, U-cause she was eiiffape!
iH'fore her friend Maud, who was at
least three yeats older. ' Hut, of course,
she was very careful not to pive herself
airs, or io unduly Haunt her happiness
in poor Maud's face; iii'lced, she was
really anxious that her friend should 1
as fortunate as herself. At least a for
tunate as was possible, for naturally
there was) only one Arthur in the world,
and he wus to lie her own hiislmiid. itr.t
there were plenty of other men, really
quite nice ones she must see w hat sli-
could do for Maud.
They were sitting- together, Maud had
come to tea with her friend to talk
uhoiit her trousseau and the presents.
"Yes, I am very happy," said Phyllis,
presently; she had leen pivinp Maud a
list of the weddiup; presents.
"Vou must lie!" said Maud. "That
silver tea service is lovely! You are a
lucky pirl." and she sig-hed a little.
Phyllis was reminded of her friend's
lonely state. "I do wish you were as
happy, dear, t.he said. "'Hut I lielieve
you will be very soon, and she smiled
meaningly.
"Why? What makes you say that?"
asked Maud.
Now Phjllis had meant not hi tip defi
nite, she only wished to be comforting,
and vapuely to suppest. There was no
actual prospective lover in her mind;
but she could not War to raise poor
Maud's hopes only to destroy them th'
next moment; so she smiled apain mys
teriously while? she ran over in her
thouphts every probable suitor.
I w ih you wouldn't look so knowinp,
Phyllis," said Maud, impa iently. "Who
were you whom did you mean ?"
"Ah, I mustn't say; besides it was
only an idea n mere suirpestion."
Maud looked disappointed, and it dis
tressed PhylKs kind heart, so she said,
yieldinp to a sudden impulse: "Don't
you think freorpe Strntton seems
rather ? Don't you think so, dear?
It has struck me so several times."
"Oh, nonsense, I'm sure I've never no
ticed anythinp at least " and she
paused and blushed a little, and won
dered if Phyllis had any pood reason for
her suppest ion.
"There! Now you know you have
thoupht so!" said Phyllis, deliphted to
Cuil she had made so . pood a puess.
"Don't pretend you were blind, and he is
such a nice fellow, nearly as nice as
Arthur." .......
"Hut . I ' don't, believe he means any
thinp; you know what men are," said
Maud; and she siphed as she remem
bered the fickleness and iliphtiness of
men. and. she looked wistfully at her
friend, -r- t . -..
Phyllis . answered the look boldly.
"Some men are," said shei "hat not Mr.
Stratton." - .. .
"I . don't know; he "lias always been
very friendly, and all that, and perhaps
if I had encouraped him
"Why, of course; every man wantsen
courapiiwnt I expect he has leen
miserable," said Phyllis. , "And you do
like him? ' '
Maud put down her cup, and arranped
the CMsliions at her back liefore she
answered, and Phyllis felt quite anxious
for her reply. "1 supo8c I like hiin,"
she said at last, with projA-r maiden
hesitation.
"Then why are you so horrid to him?
I expect you've snubbed him dread
fully."
Phyllis was full of sympathy for the
young Aiian of whose devotion for her
friend she was now assured. Maud
lauphed; she imapined she had been
cruel to Mr. Stratton.
"Oh, it won't hurt him!" she said,
carelessly. "I can't help lauphinp at
men when they say silly thinps, can
you? Even Georpe Mr. Stratton."
"Oh, call him (jeorpe. I'm sure you
think of him as Georpe," Phyllis said,
payly. "And I'm sure you would Vie
awfully sorry if he went away and you
never saw him apain!"
"I mipht pet over it," Maud answered.
with the lipht indifference of a con
queror. "No, you wouldn't; you're really very
fond of him. Now do tell me, dear,
when did you first suspect he cared for
you?"
Maud could not pive an exact date;
indeed, had sho told the truth she would
have said "five months apo;" but then
that is what she did not do. She bepan
to believe she had known of tieorpe's
attachment for a lonp while. The femi
nine imapination is such an adaptable
thinp that it can evolve a life
long devotion from the chance re
mark of a friend. So she answered
carelessly: "1 hnrdly know; gradually,
from different thinps. He was always
at the houses I went to, at the Jervis
Oarters, and and everywhere."
"You will lie kind to him, won't you
Mand? Wouldn't it be deliphtful if we
were both married on the same day?"
said Phyllis.
"Oh, there is plenty of time for that;
liesides, he may not care about me now,
though."
"You will have yourself to blame if
he doesn't," Phyllis said, severely.
"Do you really think so? I don't want
to le horrid," Maud exclaimed, with
ome anxiety.
"You must be very nice to him then.
Let him "ee you do care for him just a
little. Oh, 1 do want to see you ai
happy as I am, dear!" cried Phyllis.
"A sensible woman can be just as
happy unmarried," said Maud, who had
dabbled in serious literature.
"Nonsense, you know she can't; and
we're not going to discuss those sill
questions, we had much letter settle
about the bridesmaids and where we
shall live. We'll live somewhere near
each other, won't we?"
"Yes, dear, of course. Chelsea is
nice, isn't it? George has a married
sister there, though that might be a
drawback," answered Maud.
"It would be," assented Phyllis; "Ar
thur likes C'amdeu Hill."
"But after all, Phyllis, I'm not at all
sure I care enough altout George "
"How annoying you are!" exclaimed
Phyllis. "Just when everything was
settled. Look here, Maud; write him
a nice little note and ask him to lunch
or tea, or something; your mother
won't mind, or say you'll lie at home on
Sunday, and then then you can ar
range things, you know. That will tx
the best way, for it is silly to pretend
you aren't in loe with him."
"Shall I really write?" ttaid Maud,
with a show of hesitation.
"Certainly; here are the paper and
pen and everything. Write it here, and
I'll send Jane to the post with it at
once."
Maud succumbed to her f riend's deter
mination and wrote a carefully-worded
note to Mr. Stratton. in which she gent
ly reproached him for not having been
to see her mother and herself lately, and
she said how- glad they would be if he
came to lunch on the following Sunday.
Phyllis was satisfied with it, and
rang the liell for the maid. "Now,
darling, everythinp will come ripht,"
she said. "How happy he'll be! I may
call him Georpe, too, mayn't I?"
Maud blushed and said she supfiosted
she mipht, and just then the servant
came- in.
"Take this to the post at once, please,
Jane," said Phyllis.
"Yes, miss, and this letter has just
come for you." answered the maid,
Phyllis took the letter and the girl
left the room w ith Maud's note.
"Whom is your letter from? I seem
to know the writing," said Maud.
"Only from F.thel Jervis-Carter; she
does write to me sometimes altout noth
ing in particular," answered Phyllis.
She had not read many lines of the let
ter liefore she gave a little cry of dis
may. "What's the matter?" asked Maud, see
ing hT emotion.
"Nothinp," stammered Phyllis. "At
least, nothing interesting; and I don'i
believe it's true."
"Don't be silly, Phyllis; tell me w hat
it is?"
"There; read it!" said rhyllis, and
Maud read
"You w ill be glad to hear of my en
papement to Georpe Stratton; you and
Maud know him, so you will understand
how happy I am. We hope to be married
soon " Maud read more, she was very
pale.
"Thanks," she said, giving the paper
back; "it is very interesting."
"I'm so horribly sorry " began Phyl
lis.
"For having made a fool of me? You
ought to be," said her friend, stonily.
"I never meant " said Phyllis.
"You made me write that wretched
note, I shall never forgive you," said
Maud; draw ing on her gloves, and ris
ing from her chair with the air of cast
ing the dust of her friend's house from
her feet.
"It was a mere suggestion," Phyllis
pleaded.
"It was extremely bad taste."
"Hut ydu agreed with me!" '
"No; it was entirely your doing,"
answered Maud. "However, of course,
it does not really affect me at all."
"Of course not," said Phyllis.
Maud swept out of the room, went
heme, and wrote a second note to Mr.
Stratton to congratulate him on the de
liphtful news she had just heard, and
would he bring Ethel w ith him to lunch
on Sundny?
Phyllis remorsefully resolved that she
would never apain try to provide con
solation for desolate friends. Madame.
CURIOUS CLOCKS.
How 8sa
Feople) of Forelga land.
Keekoa Time.
Neither clock nor timepiece is to be
found in Liberia. The reckoning of
time is made rait i rely by the. movement
and pos.it ion of t he sua, which rises at
six a. m. and sets at six p. m., almost
to the. minute, all the year round, and
at noon is vertically overhead, says
Popular Science News. The islanders
of the South Pacific have no clocks,
but make on ingenious and reliable
time marker of their own. They take
the kernel from the nuts of the candle
tree aiul wash and string them on the
rib of a palm leaf. The first or top
kernel is then lighted. All of the ker
enls are of the same size and substance,
and each will burn a certain number of
minutes and then set fire to the cne
next below. The natives tie pieces of
black cloth at regular intervals along
the string to mark the divisions of time.
Among the natives of Singar, in the
Malay archipelago, another peculiar
device is used. Two bottles are placed
neck and neck, and sand is put in one
of them, which pours itself into the
otlier every half hour, when the bottles
are reversed. Tl.ere is" a line near by,
also, on which are hung 12 rods with
notches from one to twelve.
TotiMso In WlHoasla.
"It is not generally known," says a
Wisconsin man, "that the state of Wis
consin is a large tobacco grower. Of
course, only the lower grades can be
raised in so cold a climate, but we sup
ply the western plug manufacturers
with almoxt all of their coarser filler
leaf. If one cares to see a beautiful
growing crop he should take a drive
throuph lower Wisconsin at the present
time. To all appearances a finer yield
never stood in the fields of that state.
The recent copious rains, coming as
they did just after a good proportion of
the early set had been tapped, insure a
large growth."
Lulled Him to Rout Anyhow.
Not long ago a venerable couple from
a far western town arrived lateatnight
at a seaside resort, and, being weary,
went at once to led. Just as the hus
band was falling asleep he murmured:
"Listen to the surf, Matilda; it's glor
ious, worth the journey, I haven't heard
it for 40 years." In the morning they
saw no sea from windows or piazza. On
inquirj-, the husband discovered that a
I, bow ling alley had lulled bim to rest.
DREoalNU A FISH.
Iks Qalekaat susd Met Mtho4 fos
Baaall Unas.
At this season, of the year many are
camping or living in summer cottages
by lake or ocean. To those w-ho can
take w it)U them t competent cook the
know ledge of a quick met hod cf clean
ing fish may not be of any practical
use: but the real campers a re tiiose who
catch their fish, and clean and cook, as
well as eat them. To these, although
the catching and the eating niay be
most enjoyable, Use cleaning is always
a bugbear.
The quickest and best method for
dressing all small fish like perch, lass
and croppies, is as follows: Put the
fish in a surge nuiaiul pour over them
scalding hot water. Shake them about
in thai for a moment, then pour it off
and rinse the fish in cold water. Now
with a Hi old pair of scissors cut off Uie
fins and tails. With u. sharp knife cut
off the heads and cut through the skin
of each fish in a straight line down the
back. Beginning on each side of this
incHiion. easily and quickly pull off the
skins. Some epicures prefer the skins
left on, but if they has! the scales to
scrape off, they would perliajm chnnpe
that opinion. It really makes very lit
tle, if any, difference in the flavor.
The fish are now reedy to le opened
and denned as usual. Each one should
then be washed thorouphly, inside and
out, in cold water; wiped drj-; rolled
in corn meal or flour; seasoned well
w ith salt and pepper and laid n a clean
platter. They may be set aside in a
cool place or fried at once. When fried
brown and not too fast in hot butter
and lard, one part of each, the flesh is
firm, crisp and delicious.
Wash the tins and knives which have
been used with plenty of hot water and
soap. After the hands have lutd a pood
scrubbinp, if they still have a fishy odor,
as they doubtless will, wash them iu a
little cold water, in which has been put
a half teaspoonful of listerine, which
will entirely remove the odor.
A very nice thing for the woman who
fishes and is the possessor of a delicate
skin is a fishing collar. She may wear
a veil, big hat and old gloves, but the
hot sun and the reflected glare from
the water will get at her neck, do the
best she can. And a red neck is de
testable above all things, 'take any
light wash goods, linen, calico or ging
ham, and cut from it a flaring collar
at least three inches high. Starch it
very stiff. Fasten riblions to the ends
and take it along the next time you go
fishing. Good Housekeeping.
THEY SWING THEIR ARMS.
Thla la the Terrible Charts Brought
AsraliMt Hleyc-la Ulrla.
The queer habit men have of regard
ing women as mysterious beings w hose
actions and modes of thought are quite
incomprehensible, was amusingly il
lustrated recently by a writer who won
dered, through a. column and more,
wbj' -women, when walking, seemed
embarrassed about haw to disjajse of
their hands. The custom of the sex of
carrying purse, card-case, umbrella or
other something was explained to lie
an effort to solve the question of w hat
should be done with her hands. Most
peculiar, so it was averred, and very un
like the habit of men. It is indeed quite
true that the sexes on the streets man
age their hands and arms after differ
ent fashions, but unlikeness in this par
ticular is artificially produced, as the
wondering writer could have easily as
certained if he had taken the trouble to
investigate.
Men of high and low and all inter
mediate grades swing their arms .as
they walk; that beautiful, natural and
comfortable movement is not crmit
ted to a woman or girl with any pre
tensions to pood breeding. Don't swing
your arms is among the earliest of the
appalling long calendar of "IVin'ts" pre
pared exclusively for girls. In fact,
among the very awful sins that conserv
ative people charge against the bicycle
girl is that when off her wheel she
strides "along and swings her arms."
What she should do, according to these
censors, of course, is to glue her el
bows to her sides and to take lady-like
stets. However, athletics is likely
more and more to claim the homage of
woman, and it is more than possible
that ere long convention will permit
her arms to swing as freely as those of
her brother, and w hen that time arrives
one more woman "mystery" will be dis
sipated. Philadelphia Times.
HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE.
The chemical constituents of the
mushroom are almost identical with
those of meat, and it possesses the same
nourishing properties.
For removing grease spots from white
linen or cotton goods use soap or weak
lyes; for colored calicoes, warm soap
suds; for woolens, soapsuds of am
monia; for silks, benzine, ether, mag
nesia or chalk.
Fresh fish, if wrapped in a cl,th
wrung from the brine and kept fiom
contact with each other, will keep
longer than in any other way. Sprink
ling meat or fish with charcoal or thick
ly with red or black pepper has a ten
dency to arrest decay.
One of tlie most simple and at the
same time most effectual wa3'S in which
to remove a fiihlone or other substance
lodged in the throat is, according to
the Medical Times, to give the patient
a pint of milk and 40 minutes after
wards an emetic of sulphate of zinc.
GOSSIP OF EUROPEANS.
Lothair von Faber, of the great pencil-making
family of Nuremberg, left
at his recent death $500,000 to beautify
that city.
Kyvind Astrup, Peary's companion,
who perished in a Norwegian snow
storm last Christmas, has now a me
morial stone 26 feet high erected in his
memory in the forest of Hoimonkolien,
at Cbristiania.
When Goethe was first in love he
carved upon a tree in a neighboring
forest a couple of hearts united by a
scroll, and a little later received a sound
thrashing from the forester for damag
ing the tree.
An English baronet. Sir Saville Cross
ley, narrowly escaped the fate of Lord
Itavenswond in the "Bride of Lammer
moor" recently. He was riding on the
lieach near Lowestoft when his horse
sank in a quicksand. The baronet was
fished ont with difficulty, hut the horse
was lost. . . j .
SHAMEFULLY INEliLEClEP.
Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty in
New York Harbor.
The Splendid Tent I monlal to America
Allowed to Fall Into lleeay - Pres
ent Appearanee of tbe
Ursat Fig-ore.
Bartholdi's Statue" of Liberty is so
sadly out of reiiuir that $15tl.MNI will
lie required to place it in proier condi
tion The gigantic work of art France
proudly pave to lipht and ornament Ihe
harbor of New York is rapidly l-cni-ing
a monument of carelessness. In
stead of iusipring t he admiration of I he
visitor, it gives birth todisapoiiitment.
As you pass Ineath the lirst arch tin
looseness of the brickwork is promi
nently in evidence. The walls are
seamed and scarred. Climbing the
stairs, rifts through which the lipht
streams are observed on all .sides.
These were not in existence in the stat
ue at first, but are the result of the
rivets intended to hold the huge dress
of the goddess in position having fallen
out.
Litierty's dress is literally rapg-d and
falling from her. Some of the copar
pieces of her attire are loose, and so far
from be in p fastened to the next patch
that one can insert one's hand lw-tween
the plates. Kivets that are loose in
other places rattle every time a gust
of wind strikes the folds of the dress
ou the outside, prodiiciup a sound like
a gigantic rattle 1mt.
Whenever there is a fold in the dress,
the turn of Ihe fold has Im-cii subjected
for some r. ason or other to rnslinp a.s
it is called with iron but withcopiier
it is the deposit inp of verdigris. oroxide
of copcr. Many of these rents are
large and constantly growing in size.
Iu one pHfec, aliout half way letwien
the head and feet, 27 rivets have fallen
out in a row, Ieavinp the coint plate
barely hauging and bent outward. A
good push would force an ojiening
sufficient to iermit a man to put his
whole arm throuph Lilierty's watch
locket at the waist.
At the top, where Miss Lilierty's
brains oupht to be, are w inflows which
are really the openings in the crown
surmount inp her head. These win
dows are no longer tight and firm.
Climb up through the hollow arm
that holds aloft the torch. When you
are up in the torch, rou may look out
and flown umii the crown of Miss Lili
erty's head. These six holes in her
skull where the bolts have fallen may
lie observed. Dame Nature is well on
in the work of taking out a plate or
two of her skull, the most pigantic
piece of trephining ever Known. The
rain may pour throuph until someday
she w ill have a tine case of water on the
brain.
As the wind blows against the husre
pile it rocks, sways and vibrates until
only the bravest feel safe. This is pet
tinp worse all the time, and the statue
needs thorouph reinforcinp anil brac
ing all over. The steel lieams 011 the
inside are owerful enoiiph, but they
are thick with rust from the salt air and
moisture that come in throuph the
rivet holes and rents of the dress con
tinually. Once there were electric lights all the
way up the stairs on the inside. The
wires are still there, but the liphtsare'
pone. Now only smoky oil lanterns
flicker and fume, shedding little lipht
but much nauseous smoke. It is like n
climb in a dungeon, except for the light
that eeps through the rivet holes.
Liberty has len descrilwd as much
a Goddess of Light as a Goddess of Lib
erty. Now she is a Goddess of Darkness.
Not an electric lipht on the itis;de.
where once there were hundreds. Once
the torch had six powerful electric
lights flooding the harlior with their
piercing rays. Only one is left from
the ruin. It is in bad repair, and a
man has to lie kept on fluty every night
to climb up anil fix it when it goes out.
"Wish I had a dollar for every time
I have climbed up there," he said, to a
Sunday Journal retiorter. "1 figured
it out the other day, and I have climbed
up those stairs over 6.000 miles."
Not only is the torch almost lierefl
of lipht, but the colored lights that
were once all alut the crown are
pone. Only the places are left when
they used to lie screwed on. Once
more than 50.0O0 candle jower of lights
shone every night from the lofty statue.
Now only one lipht is left, and when
it fails the statue w ill lie enshrouded in
darkness.
Only two men are employed to care
for the statue, and they do little. Tin
reason is that Uncle Sam has no money
for the puriwi.se. What is sent comes
from the lighthouse appropriations, at
the expense of other lighthouses. The
profits of the lioat line running to the
Island are supposed to go to the fund for
the completion of the statue, but then
are no profits. The lxwit is required to
make its regular hourly trips winter
and summer, jiaKsengers or no passen
gers, and the ex pense has been greater
than the income.
"To say nothing of completing the
statue, it would cost at least $i;.(1,(mmi to
do the needed repairs," said one of the
employes at the island. "There is no
$150,000 in sight, for repairs, and not
a cent for completion." N. Y. Journal.
A Little Mlisd.
"George Todpcrs, where have you
been until this time in the morning?"
"Been bavin' lit tie finanshul discushin.
that-sh all."
"Couldn't you do your discussing by
daylight T
"Not thish time ni'dear. I hail to
shtay an" prove that t'other side sticked
its matistics."
"Did what ?"
"Sticked its mixtistics."
"Say it again."
"Course I can sa7 it again. Micked its
st ix tics. Wha's matt'r with that?"
"Well, you go to bed. I'll see that
3our statistics are thoroughly well
mixed in the morning. Climb!"
Cleveland P!iin Dealer.
Eatltled to Cons Iderat Ion.
"My misguided friend," said the fat
man with the puffs under his eyes. "I
w ill admit that I am a capitalist. That
part of your assertion shall go unchal
lenged. But when you say that I am
not a producer you are wrong. I have
been backnig a comic opera company
for two months."
SAY 'BLANK,' " SAID GLEASON.
Then Mus Jonrs Itemd a Mlaalve W bleb
W as All Ulanka Itut signature.
When Mayor G lea-son, of Long Island
Ci ty. entered his oflice in the city hall
the. other morning he found a large
mail awaiting his consideration. The
mayor had Ihh-u away a.-sij;t ing to noni-"
inate the- gold national demovratte
ticket in I udiaimtKilis, and business had
lieen accumulating during his nlisvnce.
After siguing a iiuiiiIht of onit-ial do-u-inelits
and giving interviews to sev
eral of his const it ucnt-s he t uriu-l his at
tention to the pile of letters lying on his
desk. Tire first envelope picked up
w as i square out. Tlu- mayor tik ip
the letter anil smiled sts he n-ad:
"Hum," lie mused. "Wants to t-a-li
in the schools."
The next made the mayor frown at
first. The frown was followed by a
smile that exteinled into a Jwartv "ila
ha!"
"That's a gfx.l one," said his honor.
"Wants to shoot me, floes he? Well. 1
liave lcen down for kIuk ding ever since
I entered Iong Island City public life,
ami I am here yet."
"Kejul that. U me. Miss Jones," said
the mayor, turning to the young lady
ty tiewriter-.
Miss Jones took tlie letter, ami, after
glancing over its two pages of scrawl,
laid it. on the- desk.
"Why don't you read it?" inquires! the
mayor.
"I c.tn't," replied Miss Jones.
"You can read writing, can't you?"
he asked-
"Certainly."
"Well, tlien, why can't you read that
letter'."'
"Because," answered the typewriter,
"there are words there I do not under
stand." The mayor took up the letter and read
it himself. He hesitated several times
while perusinp the lwpes, and. after fin
ishing it. said to the typewriter:
"There are some banl' wonls then-1
don't understand myself." Then he
turned -and winked at his private secre
tary. Taking up a postal can!, the mayor
handed it to Miss Jones, saving that
there could not. lie any "hard" wonLson
a Mstal canl or tlie stal authorities
would not deliver it. Mrs Jones read
the card to herself first and lauglwd
while, doing so.
"Kead it, if it is funny," said the
mayor.
M iss Jonisi read the card. It said:
"Oh, you big robWr! You and your
loblie-r trang arc not fit to lie in t he city
ball. You roblier! You rohlier! I
would like to punch your head just once
for t lie ofr ieople. You robWr! you
raised the city assessment from $15.0H
to J I5.IMKI. You are a robWr and I know
it. Oh. oh. oh. how I would lik- to pive
you just fine punch!"
While Miss Jones was reading the.
card everyliody latnrhed but tlie mayor.
When -she had finished, he said:
"I wish the writer- had sitrtved his
name. I would send him my office hours
for Wing punclred."
The mayor saw a big square envelope
among the others, and. m-lecting it,
handed it to Miss Jones to read. She
took the let ter ont of t he envelope, and.
after glancing at the first line, said to
the mayor:
"Shait I read it. mayor?"
"Yes; go ahead." said the mayor.
"My flejvr "
"Hold on there!" ejaculated th
mayor; "don't rend ttliat one," and he
reached out ami took the letter away
from Miss Jones. Then the mayor took
up another letter, and. Wfore handing
it to Miss Jones glanced at the opening
line. The tyewriter took one glance
at the letter and laid it on tlse desk.
"Why dm't you read it?" asked the
mayor.
"It's full of 'hard won Vs." " reaulod
Miss Jones, blusiliiiip.
"Well, w Wn you come to a hard word
say 'blank,'" set id the mayor.
Miss Jones picked up the. letter and
started to read:
"P. J. Gleason You blank, blank,
blank, blank, blank, blank, blank
"Hold on." broke in the niavor; "is
it all blanks?"
"Yes, sir," replied M iss Jones, "ail but
the signature."
"What's that?"
"Once a fri-iid. now an enemy."
"If tlie change is agreeable to him, it
suits me." said the mayor.
Then he thanked the tyewriter, and
said tliat he would read the oilier let
ters himself. N. Y. Heiald.
A MISSED KISS.
The Resworn why Two Ambtusaador. Loot
Their -aes.
Two anilwissadors have lost their
places throuph their failure to take ad
vantage afforded them to kiss the hand
of the czarina, says the Seattle Post
Intelligeneer. Count MoiitcWllo. the
French aniliassador, lost his place. It
is not made known whether he only
oWyed orders or not, but he had to suf
fer the penalty. It was very unfor
tunate for him that when the French
people throuph their government bad
undertaken to show their friendship for
Kiissi.t by a nnst lavish display of os
tentatious ceremony and the expendi
ture of many millions of dollars the
entire effect should W lost by the fail
ure of tbe chief functionary to press
his lips to the imperial hand.
The other ambassador who lost his
position is Prince Kadalin, the repre
sentative at the Bussian court of the
German empire. No reason is given for
his omission to observe a customary act
of homage. He hadnot the excuse of
Wing the minister from a republic. He
represented a court where such cere
monies are strictly observed and an im
eriil master who is as strict in re
quiring observance of court etiquette
as the Knssian emieror. These pun
ishments should W a warning to all men
never to lose a favorabh opportunity
to kiss a lady's hand. Many a man has
lived to regret that he has not seized
a suitable occasion to snatch a kiss;
there seems to W more danger in Wing
too remiss than in Winp too Isold. Where
the danger lies and how great it w ill W
either in abstaininp or acting is a mat
ter for individual judgment. But it is
sometimes worth risking, it would
seem.
The Way Around It.
"Yes. sir." said the female agitator,
"I Wlieve that women are and should
W recognized as tlie equals of men."
"Not by this country alone," sug
gested Dobhs. "It must W bv interna-
1 tional agreement."
THE CHARM OF RESERVE.
Nothing More IWomln( la at Tms( Girl
Than This Oaaiity.
There, is a great amount of small talk
indulged in concerning the modern girl.
She is supposed to W an entirely novel
t"ie of womanhood. Old-fash kmtd
mot hers look at-kaoco at tbe greater
freedom allowed to tW girl of to-day.
They predict all manner of barm to
come, just as the old-fash ioued moth
ers of their girlhood predk-ted wWa
they were departing from tin- ways of
previous times. These latest mentor
forpet they tWnifselves cast aside the
stately fashions of the days of the min
uet and the lengl lM-ned, stilted phrase
ology in which well-bred dames wore
then wont to express tWir simplest
thoughts. These sentimental, stately
ladies who wept over the sorrows of
Alonzo and Melissa could see nothing
but a revolt apaiiast t W social order iu
tW f leedom of the pirl who read George)
Eliot and t.tiought forWrself. Yet thss
women of that generation have grown
tip and n-arcd tlweir daughters, ahoatu
reaching forward to a ftill broader life
and greater oport unities of uteful
iicss. Who flare say that the genera
tion of our grandmothers or prent
p resit -grand ntot hern w as more moral
than the penerationof to-day? It wu
far more sentimental, and this mawkish,
sentimentality no VouKt weakened tbe
morals more tiian the coarser realism,
of the modern novels, Kunaway
mats-lies among well-bred you up pt o
ple were much more frequent than to
day, and no sja-cial odium mn-uioI to
W attached to them. Clandestine en
gagements were common. Certain sec
tions of rou n try are still pointed out
which were in dispute Wtween two
states. TWre were tW Gretna Greens of
a whole territory, where justices con
sidered ople amenable to no law.
lxea!i-i they were in doubt to which'
state law they tdiould pive. allegiance.
Hurried cerenion k-s of marriage could 13
jierformed there without the nccesi
sity of publishing Wriias, and Wfore the
irate parent of tin-, contracting p&rtiea
could prevent it.
Wc live to-day in a blaze of publicity.
The presence of a ksral paper, eager per
haps for a sentimental paragraph, re
strains many a foolish maiden to-day
from an eloiaenifnt which Wr grand
iiiotlier would have looked upon as a
sentimental episode. Our girls of to
day are not given up as tbe girls of a
few generations ago were to the aJI-ab-srt-bing
pursuit of "husbands." The y
are not engaged in tlie unwomanly ta&k
of "sett inp tWir caps," as the old phrase
goes, for every "handsome stranger"
that appears. They uiut W wooed and
won by some more sterling quality than:
a ban Isonve fate and fine clothes. It
is a great mistake to think that a pretty
pirl arrays herself in dainty pown and
"fetching" colors merely to attract
suitors. She dresses in pretty color, and
graceful, attractive fashion Wcaueslie
is attracted to such surroundings. She
arrays her nfm and fits out all her sur
roundings in tW same way, Wcaussa
she enjoys Wauty. She is pay, Wcause
she is young. SomWr thoughts Wlong
to experience. The danger is that the
modern girl, with all her exuWranee
of animal spirits, may W misunderstood.
She w ill W wiae and she w ill W doubly
attractive if throuph all her payety,
her natural flow of spirits, there be
thrown a certain reserve. Let her toi
lets tie as dainty and Wautiful as she
can obtain. Let her remember to mod
erate the tone of her voice. Let her
cultivate a certain repotse of manner,
which need not interfere with the most
graoeful dancing footfall or the airiest
jot ions.
An objection to tbe old-time maiden
undoubtedly w as that she was too anx
ious to W sought. Her future depend
ed ujon a successful marriage. Is this
the reason why tlusse by -gone loves
were so frequently, if we must Wlieve
story liooks, untrue, and the unhappy
maiden left as. a "blighted Wing" to
drag out knp years of purpoeelet spin
sterhood? Sensible girls and sensible
voting men sometimes find tWy have
made mistakes, and engagements are
broken, in a seiu,ilJe manner without
either jwrty considering it neeewsary;
to vae as heart-broken. Such a mat
ter is always to W regretted, and no
s-lf-resjerting girl should enter ou
such an engagement lightly. N. Y.
Tribune.
HIS NARROW ESCAPE.
It Wa. Loefcy tlae Shrl Looked tsefere
He Shot.
"I was riding along a mountain r.svl
in Leslie county, Ky," said a timWr
buyer to a rejiorter, "and at nightfall
sought shelter at a double log t tibia.
I hat! some acquaintance with the
occupant of the house, and he intro
duced me to three men w ho seemed to
W Warding with him. We sat up that
night and played cards until late, afer
whitfh 1 retired, occupying a Wd with
one of the lioarders, who had been in
t n al ueed to me as Sam Taylor. During
the night it grew so hot I could not
sleep, and I went to the w indew to gt
some air. My host w as Ik-Vow, end level
ing a rifle at me W said:
" Go right lmck thar, Sam, an.' drop
yo dermd foolishness.
"I Wstily called out: 'Don't shoot,
it's me.' and hurried to bed. The next
morning my host ologized.
"'I'm glad I didn't "boot Wfo' I
sMke, he said. Yo see. these gentle
men yo' met las" night is all 'cused of
miinlcr. sah. an' the one yo slep with
has done Wn convicted an waitin ter
go ter Frankfort soon's I kin git time
ter take im. so I watch im party closx
for fear he gits restless. I'm jailer, an
thar ain't "no jail, so they jess lives with
me. and I take 'era huntin and fisliin
and try to W squar with 'em. so they
won't give me no trouble. But that
felltr Taylor's jess sort o cranky.
Killed ten men. an ef he tnkes a notion
a-.rin er feller he jess shoot. em. o I
didn't want im to pit outer that win
dow. He's gittin oneasy. an 1 reckon
I'll hev ter start fer Frankfort with "in
termorrer. " Washington. Star.
Tremendous tsdda.
The biggest Wt on record, according
to G. R. Sims, w as made a few years
back by a young American who was as
sistant at "a main" held in tbe grounds
of a notorious young sporting marquis
now deceased. One bird was badly
crippled and the other was fighting
with terrible force. "Twenty thou
sand to a pinch of muff cn that one,"
said the young American millionaire,
which w as taken. The American wchl
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