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EflltOt Mr-.H .VOLUME 3 .vv n 3 FOR 21 . v. -i 1 1 1 i :i ' , i i ii it t i v ill y. :ii I... im ,.i r. .,, :; J ' v I 1 1- ; I,.. .t : i , ; . r:i ii.n- iniiili-h.-,!: tli.-r.- 'i...u!i::.:; n..- u.-:iii. jii...:nrt- aii.l pr.tit, ' i- i !.r-ii.;ii .i, mi ! -in. iff 'II. r.- i-. in f;i.-t. 11.1 ' i-M;i I ji-irji.x.- ivdicli ;! i-unji.ni' Willi it. ' , i ; . ii - i r i:i . : v in i- i. i- i,f f'i'i. wi:!i jH ii-! r;u inn in r;iri- ! ' - in t r: i.u i. ii - iiri- lie I - t tif A tii.-rictn ' : i'' - 'He.; : l!.iri. :i l.iiiL'ii in vi-ry Ii'ih-df .. iil'f li.i:ni-.;n-iy i'.it,. ii up. You li.i!ilii nol Ilii-s !"-! '''' ' "( 'H i'f i" i i V lilli-.i (.us. 'J "., IIO Fiji! . ( re, A'cr ) 'oik. " ' I ' ' .Ml:l - I I ' A M i l. M M. VISK. .IiIm.k's I ' . I I , C,! I I ; -. ,., v i ,,j,.r- Sl.il, p id fa. "nr. C'.r::.iir-,s all that's ifeir ami J . - ii ;r, .-i.i. iV. jf, 3 '" 'i'"-, Qv.Wo ".'.kI ROCHESTER, FJ. Y. MILL m it: Iff DrnnriA. THE HIGHWAY Dio highway all Larc and brown, A n.iki il line ai n ss ilu- down. Worn l.y a hiiirlr. d hurrying f. ct. Th.- ti.if of I i r. aiui-K it tiuws, A:ia Imsy comm. n (iimi s and Rfif-s. 'h r- one.. Hip cniss Krt-w crwn and Si 1 1, Tlio worM'a fiVrce ui1s-b l-at. AV II for thi- tii-lnvay that it lios 'Jlu- passageway if i: nut cmris! V-l linni its i!ut wii.u voii m cry Vi ires of soft (r..-it Ki-.iwiiiir tilings Tnuiijpl.-d and loin from Varlh which cli'lK Too los.'ly. uniii n i'ivitiK why Its darling liairns must die! My heart's a highway. tro.li!.-n down l:.v many a I ruv h r of r ru n iravo thoiiiit, and luirdcn-boarinc i. . .Is. -t. i stioiii: a l.ii v nu nl 's . nvoy fan-s. Willi laui.hiiii.; ioj s and crow t;i lit; . arcs, AIuiik 111.- road that woildwaid I nice rank with foolish weeds. niad is my heart to hear them pass; Yet so mi times hrcatlos a low alas! The li in! i- sj.i iiini.i; i liins t lull r w The nursling hopes their ii ct destroyed. Sweet i,;in.raiit dreains that youth en joy, d And I 1 .ssonie.l liiere the lontr year through W ould 1 ould have them too! Louise :. tts l-.dwar.is. in I lai lier's Maga zine. 'I'lic lush" was in !iis li.-st liuui.ir lien lie joinoil l!ie en up: ri . .11 p al tln Alfalfa I.ui.im ;iii hotel. lie had . ttouoh f IllOlliilio (.coilcoi-C l.ft i t. inakc Uiin oinw. and 1 cn I 1 1 i lie, I. At the s.mi.c t :111c he ,a.l rtallc.l in upon an i-i.ii::r accn in 11 la t .1 111. ami had al- .-a 1 1 licei .ii u- 1 mi i in to t hat f 1 ieti;! Iv inoil iii. li helps one to rrali.e t hat all UK 11 arc In. it oi is. "(Iiio.I cxciiiiiLT. j;: Hi Icmcn," sail llic lu-li." ami he said it as if it were the Jri'cl.minarv to an (lialioii. 0101I ex -ri t ir. sir; imkmI 'Vfii"nir." r Sj.otule.l "llnr" 1 1 1 li c. w i t Ii a si i h t in-i-Iination of t he Ii.-.ul. Sit iliiwn ami n.aSo- yourself tnis.T :ille." sai.l tl.c litrht 11: Pir th-nt ist. who eoni. 1 l c 1 tainin:' at times. 't ome join the feast of reason anl the tl.iw of soul." ai'tlc.l the l..il; aireiit. h 1 0 11I, I 1M. original, if not i-nter-taii.:ni'. Sure, that's rk'lit." a.hlcl the lii e c lc salesiiian. The "liivh" s. ateil liimsi-lf and :iskrl: "Wei!, oentleinen. what is Ihe siilijcct 11 inter l isciission "We v. cro just 1al! ir,.r about tliecoli! wenth-r. ami savip-r that it niuvt lie pre-.ty tMip.rl, op some people." sau the llLr!lt IlilStT ill' ilt isf . pothini: personal in tiiis. is t'let V" I-' till- "Ill-h." " "ertaitily put." sal t;ie 1 ifrlit l'lntr 'enl'st. Iniiflrn!.'. "I.." Home tiu 'lo!. aid the larL'e lo., aocnt itii'.-.l in a con-crvat i e manner, as if ho feareii to eotnpromise liis profi s-s:-.tial dignity. file lccyclc r.llr!T tliatl was Jilizlcd. did col s.-c why the lamrh came in. m lie set I !c I !-:iok in liis cliair and tried to thin!, it .ml. The task w as lonir a pd i';P'!e!ilt. for lie s,,i,l l,nt a few worils Itii ipir t he remainder of I he evening. "I doi.'t t:ii;k tl.re is so much suf f. rini'. now that t lie w eat lier lias mod erated." s.-id the '-In. h." "I li,iir nnl."s:iiil "line" Home. "It's a tc-rilie thin"- to lie cold and lmnirrv for days at a time. I can tell you that. !f any of you ircnt lemen ever ptt tiiroutrh what I did you'll appreciate I. at fact, too." "How's that. 'n.w?'" asked the "lush." "I thouirlit I Jiad tol.l yon of nivn I'criettce in the winter of Y.7 nnil 'i"i. when I was moose lum t frr with Ceti. l . stcr iij in Canada. No? Well. w h id .t party of fretitlemeii from New York and I'lr Iadel;hia with us. The w.-ithcr was l.itterly cold, but we were lixinar in the jretiorri I's liuntino- l.idL'e apd we mana.ircd to keep com fortalile. One day I w as out w il Ii a party, and we were up on the Sessikooehoe rixer " "Will's the Mini', 'Ioe?' " asked the li;l:l n i uir dentist. "The S -sikoochce India n n.nni.1. yon know. It means 'lofty pines." I had l" o Vcw York vent lemen with me. and we x ere track iiis a 11100-4 had lieen oi the frail for several hours. I crossisl the rixer on the ice to take tip xxhal sceiiied to 1m a nexv Ira I. and I p-nt sep arated from my 1 xx o friends. I suppose I x;s intent en follow inir this trail, and that's w hy I pni.l so little attention to the- xx-oathcr. The first tliinir 1 knexv the snoxv lico.-in to fall, and I discov ered tha the sky xxas overcast, with ecry i nd i.-n t ion of a 11 iza rd. T started Lack alrn;' the trail, hut in ten min utes the air was filled xvifh liiindino snow- and the xviml xvas Llrrw inc a pcr fect hurricane amomr the trees. Of course it was imposs'lde to see erv far in ;ny 1; feet ion. Lnt f kept on. and thought I was roino- toxvard tlie river. I knew if I --truck the river I eoiih! find the house all ri-'lit. Darkress en me on - I had no idea it xvas so late and the xxind e.iuic from the imi tlix- est atul cut lue to the xery Lone. I xvalked and wall ed and walked. Lnt I didn't -ome to the river, and then I realized that ptoliahly I hail Imhmi w alkitt"- a way from it all the time. Of course my inclina tion was to sit down and rest, but I knew I eVdn't dare to do that or I'd freeze to death." "It must liave Leen awful." said the bicycle yotinp- man. "Well, it wasn't any pleasure excur sion. Fortunately I foiiml a hollow tree where I could coil myself. I fjot in there and w rnppisl my fur coat around me. and manacred to keep fairly warm until liiorninfr. T!y t hat 1 ime t he w ind had p-one down :nd the cold was some thinir intense. If I hadn't been o hardy ami athletic I suppose T never would have lived through it. I vrttt out. took my bearing1 from the sun and started out on a run to find the river. I had to run to keep from freezinrr- Of course I still carried mv rifle, and T also bad a lnitttinr knife, but I didn't have any matches to start a fire with. Ab;ut ten o'clock that niorniii'T I shot a rabbit, but of course T couldn't cook it. so I had to content myself with drinking' a. lit tie of the blood" . The bievole vounpr man pasped anl shivered, w hk h led -IJoc" to say : "Vott would have been jlad top't it." "I should think it would be liard work t" rtHi in the snow," -said the liht ninir dentist. "Not if yn hail snow shoes, sual "Doe," with an amused smile. "Oh. I didn't know- you had snow shoes." "1 didn't have any when I sturtiNi. HK 18 A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH EBENSBUHG, PA., Lut I made a icinii itiir out of soii.c U-ng tvxifrs knotted together with a kind of w iry prra-s that irroxvs up there. With this pair of tdioe.s I could make four miles an hour across thi'Mioiv. I kept at it nearly all day, only stopped to re.st twice, if I renu-iubei v-oi recl ly, !.ut 1 was off in my caleui.it ions, for I didn't timl the river. It miih! hive been a mile or it miht have lnen 1." miies away I didn't, know. When il lx f,'an to fret dark afrain I'll tiduiit that I was a little frightened. The only tiiiii" that hail kept me warm all da w as my runniiifr. and. of course, bv t his. time, 1 was more or less tired. Well, sir, it was. a funny thin-r. I had cut t l.roiiirh a lit I le rax i ne and was start iiiy up the other side, when I miw an In dian trapper, in a fur suit, jump be hind a tree altout 10t feet ahead of me. 1 stopMtl short 11 ml yelled to him: 'ix'erly malum! That means in the In dia 11 la hrrunire, 'Come out.' " "f an you talk Indian, too, IW?" " asked t he "lush." "1 knew-a fexv words beloiiiriii-to thi. Canadian tribe of Maxebosha.s, but I ncxer fr:,v' ' thoroneh study to anv Indian laniruajre eSiept that of 1 he S'iou." "Lo. the jMMir Indian." observed tin book ap-ent. "What did this man be hind the tree say In vim'.1" "Well, he waited a few minutes. ai:d then he came out," said "Doe." "1 saw that he had a. fresh haunch of venison s'linir oxer his shoulder, and I decided o have some of it. I xcnt up to him i:n." asked him the way to t he river ami tU,: camp. l!c pretended not to uinh r stand, but I knew belter. lie h n ,k hi s bead ami started to . o iiv.:iv and I iltopxsl my rille ajul ;-i nl'lx'il him. Of course I could ltaxe taken a drop on him. but I didn't want to haxe ;mx shoot inir. I didn't want a ilead In dian. I wanted a live one, ho coul.l show me the way "rack to Ceii. I'.-.st r"s li ii lit i iiT lodjre. First. I wrenched the fun out of his hands, and then wcwet.t al it. He was a V':":t i" statuie and xcry stronir. and 1 was weak fr: tn lack of food ami all that hard travel. 1 ul I trot : hold on him that I had learned in w rest lin-r. and I landed hi 111 in t h;- snow . I leil on top of him. and. diav. inir im Kiiife. I pointed it at liis throat and said: '.Vow, will you obey me?' 1 1- nmldcd that he-'vxouhl. tind so I let him up. knexx that these Indians always can led matches or l!int-s. IwcaiiNc tiicy wele in the habit of i-ookinjr food out in t he forest. I kept this fclloxv cocrel uitn my title and made him build a tiie and cook 1 ne some x ci.ison. w hicii I a t w il !i si.in enjoy incut, y. ay be sure. l'. this time Ihe moon was up. 1 empC -his i'lid iraxo it back to him. ;,i .i t hen I told him to lead me t.i I lie cam p. He struck off through the forest and I followed him. Well, ir, we tlax.1,,1 all niiiht and aliou4 nine o'clock iiet moiiiiuir reached the lodsre. They ha. I ir'xen me up for lost. Yes. sir, all th. eastci n paeis had me dead, but that was one lime I fooled 'em. I leal tic' ailcr I jrnt hack that t he 1 hel iiioihci er had re"islercd 10 Ik-Iow."' "What liecame of the two men who r.tarted oul xxilh you?" asked the lij;ht 11 :tnr dent ist. "Oh. they -rot back all ripht by fol lowiiiir the rixer. A funny t .linjr a bou' 1 hat ej ct ictiie. The I ml ia 11 ema incil at our lodfre a couple of days and be came ery much at tachod to me. After ward, when I went up there, he acted as ir"'de for our party." "Dk " censed talkintr and the "lush" iraxe one look al t he liirht nintr den". 1st. as if to indicate that he was helpless xx it h admiral ion. " The doctor appears to lie a man who Iris hail remarkable ccrieiices." said Ihe book airent, later in the cveniiifr xx hen "Doc" had from to his room. "You don't, half k-ioxv him yet." said the "lush." "He's 1 11 a capitalist, L'oxernmcnt scout, a circus t umbler and a steamboat pilot." "And an actor," added the Iifrhtniiir dent ist. "And an opera si hirer." "And a staire driver." "And an author." "Why he's lieen everything. If you don't, believe it. ask him altout it. lie'il tell von." Chicafro News. SOME LATE NEW THINGS. A nexvly-dcsi-rm-d hanper for shade rollers is made of metal, in sections, slidably fount-clcd with each other, so t.iiat the holder will take any leiifrt h roiler ami the curt:i:n can he held out ward from the wall any thviretl dis ta nee. A current water wheel recently pat ented is com o.scd of two iloals fastened turret her and hold inir a horizontal shaft, to which Y-shaped buckets a re at t ju-hed in spiral lines, a portion of the buckets beinir alxtays in position to receive the w ater. A new medicine timer consist of a metal frame to clasp a t umbler or neck of a bottle, and an uprijrht portion, l.oldinir a number of dials, which can be set at any desired time, also iiudicat inir the size of the dose and lapse of time Itetxveen doses. An apparatus to operate torpedoes for I he bloxvinir upof ships recently f.lt eliled consists of a trolley line ruiiniiip; on the river or ocean bed. on which a torpedo U fastened, sliding aluiir on the wire until it strikes the Itottom tif the vessel. To keep a coat from wrinkl-np and jrettiiifr out of .shape a. new haiifrer is made of txvo sprinir wires crossed X-s!iaM-d. txvo uprifrlit wire Iwuvs con nect .ntr the emls of the spring's, the shoulders of the coat resting on the Imixxs to keep tht iu in shaK. Th ombinution of a curtain pole and bracket recently patented is formed by a lrall to which txx o nwls are fastt tu-d at riir'ht .inirles, the tdiorter rtnl endinir n a wall bracket and I he lonjrer one ritnninir to the other side of the window to hold the curtain. Iloulil Do. An Fnplishnian and an Irishman were one day hohlitirr an arsrument respect it:!'' the nationality of various frreat men who had lived and died. The Irish uiaii had successively claimed each ime mentioned as :i court ryraan of his own. till at le.nrrth the Kntrlishman. somewhat nettled, inquired: "llo-w about Shakes-peare was he an Irish man?" To which he received the reply: "Well, I can't say that he -was alto gether, but at all events he had the abilities of one." Household Words. MAKES FREE AND ALL ABB B LAVES BESIDE.' Fill DAY, MAY 7, HIS "LITTLE FELLER." (JlorifleU and Made lleautlful the Hum ble Home. "I buppen.-d to lie dow n in my cellar the other luornitifr when the ashman cajne arouiwi to collect tiie allies.' tujtl a frentJemau who resides on Second aveni to a Free l'ress man. "I was otcuinr a Larrel of frreat red apples at the time, and when the bifr, duM-cov-cred and ne.-es.-arily untidy man came back with tjie cinptx a.sh barrel I picket! up an aipie and hehl it out to wan 1 him, ayiiifr as I did so: "'Won't you have an apple? "IIe took it tm'erly, sayiiifr as he did so: " 'Thank ye. sir; I've a little feller at home w ho'll le tickled to death tojrit it. 1 must alxvaysfind sotuethiiifr or ot her in the ash barrels to carry lwonie to im at iiifrht, but it ain't often 1 frit aiiyllt'uu' c.pial to this bifr apple. I tell ye the little feller's eyes will Sih'fne when he m es it.' "J don't know lnw many times that day my thoughts were of that bifr. roiifrh-handed fellow, with that apjilc put away so carefully in his pttcket for that 'little feller.' "When eveniiifr eanie I thought of the little feller' who xxas on. the htokont for the Uiir. du.st-coxereil father, with the calloused ami soiled Irands, but with the true heart and the kindly word that made him a kiiifr in the eve-sof that 'lit tle feller. "It must have been a very jtoor and humble home to which the man went n.t the close of hiswcary day, but then there was the Tittle feller'.s presence to make lx.-.tutiful even the lmre walls and floors and to brintr the love lipht to his father's eyes and joy to his' father's heart. "These 'little fellers' irlorify and iM-autify many 11 home in which mver ty abides. lint human afftH-tion can sweetly and patiently endure toil and rtirs and Mtveirty when there is a 'little fclier ttt meet and frreet the father when the lotifr day is tlone." Detroit Free Press. THE FUNNY MtN. lie "I love you lietter than life." -he "Considcritifr the life you lead, I cannot say that I am. surprised." In iiianaMilis Journal. "Do you think opals are unlucky?" impiired the suHTst it ions man. "Yes," was the reply. "My wife wants one, ami it's froiny loiwl nie till." Wash iairlon Star. "I'.ehol.l." exclaimed the frood fairy, "I touch thee with my wand ami trans form thee from befTfrar to prince." Subse.pieiilly, howeier, his U-Ioxed tout hed him without any wand and n.ade him a iH-e-frar afraiu. Detroit lourmil. Chumley "You're a mi-j-hty Kr talker, especially to ladieft. How did you raise the nerve to projH.se to Miss Sweet?" Diimley " aw ; I didn't sa lunch of anythinp:; I handed my linjr to her and she slip-ted it tin her left tinper. and said: 'All riptit, it tits!' " Truth. "Does it really improve whisky to send it across the water ami ltack?" iskml the person with a assion for know led ire. "1 don't know. sah. altout the direct lienelit," said the colonel, "but it sutliidy does irive il a chance to ape. snh. that it miirht not othuwise have had." Cincinnati Fmpiirer. "No. daiifrhter. just tell the younir nian that he can net er take you : leiirh liditifr with a sleepy-looking old horse like that." "Why. mamma, that's false pride." "Not hinfr of t he sort. D'sjipl common sense. It is plain that the horse was chosen simply because he can be driven with one hand." Detroit Free l'ress. FOREIGN CHAT. IKscn's "Wild Duck" ha proved a dis mal failure with the Viennese public. Trinidad celebrated Ihe centenary of it-s subjection to Kiipland by six days of festit ities. beg-inniiifr Februarv 1 I. I'jornstjeriie Ujornson i furious w ith Ibsen for writiiif,- his last play, "John (i.ihricl Dorkmann," which h asserts i-- full of bitter attacks tin his own fam ily life. Ibsen's sou is married to Ujornson's daiifrhter, and the relations between the fathers-in-law hate ben strained for some time, ltjoriison pro toses to slnw lltseti up soon in a Itook. tjneeu lilizaltct h's prose translation, made when she was 1 1 years of nfrc of a poem tif Marfraret of .Navarre called "The .Mirrour tif Sinful Souls," to gether with a praytr composed by the N'ilfrin Queen anxl tne 01 her letters tt her stepmotlur, Catherine l'arr, has teen published in Ixtn.lon from the ei i-rinal autofrrap'u 111 the Iiotlleian li ! ra ry. French royalists and Catholics have tienerally woiked topether in Hil:tics. but at a recent election for a tlcputt at I!rst they dixid.d and bitterly foufrht ea-h other, the Cat holie caiitlitlate tak itifr the "round that the republic must lie recofrnized ow iiir tt the position the Jhmm has taken iu rcfrard to it. I'.rest, which has always Iteen a conertatit i.t roiifrhttid, pave the preference to the church over the kihfr. ITEMS OF SCIENCE. One inch of rain fallinp upon one stpiare mile is eipjixalent to 17.5DO.IMM) gallons of water. Ast ronomers say t hat 1,000,000 "sho.it inp stars" fall intothesun foretery one that comes into our atmosphere. -Moths may lie- kept from furs ami xxool. ns, I'nited Slates KntomoK." ist L. o. II oward eoneliides, by cold storape durinp thesuinmer.it 411 to 42 deprees F. Iiusects are for their size theslroup est memlters of the animal creation. Many lteetles can lift a weipht cipial to more than 500 times the weipht of their own ltttdiew. Microscopical investipation is said to prove that the pores of wood invite the tassape of moisture in the direction of the ti miter's prowth, but repels it in the opposite direction. tilotv worms are much more brilliant when a storm is cominp than at other seasons. Like many other mysteries of nature, this curious circumstance has never been explained. As comets near tlie sun their velocity nlways increases. Newton calculated the velocity of the comet of lst'Ml to le hso.ooo miles an hour. Hrydonne rates the sjieed of the comet he saw in 17T0 2,500,000 miles an hour. 8I.BO and 1S97. HER PHOTOGRAPH. "Watch for the bird:" the artist cries. t itli lifted, waiting finrr: Ttut. heedless of the mirthful call, l'lon tin tamera's mystic pull Her serious glances huer. "Too cravi-!" Her mother takes the word: "Think, darling, for one minute. What can it l.e 4i will say, Ojn-iiitis hU letter far away. To tind jour picture in it?" A liiuk of love and rapture l.l. nt The baliy-fealures put .ti. From parted bps to round.-. I cheek Sxviit dimpl.-s played at hlde-and-scek The artist touched the button. Ah! sunlieam, k newest thou how she Would leave the world so lonely. Thus holdiiiK fast. In drttthh-ss .-race. The s-iuiU. that on her ros, l.ud fact; Hlo.iiHd for her father only? Mary A. 1". Stansbuiy, in Youth's Com- paiiion. THE OPAL SKULL. tlf all places to oppress one with the fruitlessiiess of life there is none like unto the southern Mtrtion of the Colo rado river. There seems alxtays to Ik visible from its banks, if banks 1 hoy can le called, ski me faint blue-pray moun tain "teak off in t he distance, U'votid the plain with its rare primps tif cotton woods and its occasioixil lonely adobe. There was 110 color any tt here. The yellow of the sky was only a pale trlim luer titer the w hiteninrr blue; the irrc.-ii of the trees xxas dulled by the dust and the eveninp twilipht. Thej,. xxas but one house in --ipht, an adobe -liMitards or less from the titer. In amon-r t he w illoxvs by the river xvas a small, catitas-cuxered w a iron. Two thin broncos were hobbled near bv. and a man was pathcrinp ti-ks for a iro. He tvoptleritl if it would be worth his while to make the acipiai n1 a pee of t he "prear-rs" tvhn undonlrti illy inhabited it. They m'pht t.ff-r him hospitaiity for the nlpht; but he had learned bv rxH-rience that Mexican hospitality usually implies dirt, and he tli.s'.i; dirt. It was a tpicstion in his mind whcthur a blanket tinder the wapon would not lie preferable. And w hile he debated the fl.tt lioard door .f the adoln oiei-d. and a woman came out. She was sh-iider, therefore she was- you up so reasoned the man, w ho knew Mex icans. More than that he could not s.e. ft r a time she went back into the house, and he fell to pat herinp st icks. When the moon rose, and he. havini' finished his supper, was sittinir lteside 'he .It inpeampti re. j-acefullt smokinp. the low willows purled, aiul t he pirl of the adobe stood near him. "Ah! I Ik'p your pardon, senrtr: I knew note z:-t you wear hicr." she cried, slartinp back. "It pixes me much pleasure to see yon. Will you not sit here witli me?" He spread a llankit on the rrround near th bright coals, and motioned to her. w it li a d.ep 1 ow. to Im scale.!. She took her lace, and he. st retchinp h;m si If at her feet, leaninp ujifm one liniw . offered her a ciparctte. Her nainte. it trapspired terv so.ui. xtas Anita Aniti Mat.ara: li s. be told her. was Fichard Lotell. They fell a tall inp. arrtl he tli.l what was exjtected of him made desperate love instantly; w hi I,. she did wh it he had cx ctetl her to do. rosjvonde.l with only etiouph re serve to keep, up the illusion of flirta tion. Here, in the half tropic south west, with an unw ise child of pi. of an a morons race, the rather lax code of honor of Hit-hard I.otell fell from him. She told him about her life. T was lntrn hicr." she said, "ecu zat house. Hut w'cti 1 twelf years am. I to San Diepopo to scirnol. an zcre I Fenp lish learn. I spe..k note much llctip Iish now. for zat I have inly my muzer an my bruzzer. who zcy sjtcake but Spanish; an Carlos he can Kenplish speake. but he like cet note." "Who is Carlos, sweetheart?" "He ces my swtet heart, w'at I to marry him am." "W Ihiv is he?" The younp man drew a little away and sat erect. "He ces at ze mines in Coneepcion. He haf one mine for him, an he weel be soi.-.e time reech. lie come to set me ze Sunday. Do you note Spanish steakc talk, sare?" "Xo. Just a few words. And where is your brother?" "He eis zis nisrht faraway. He weel t.vinorriw w.tt h Carlos come back." Itttel understood. He resumed prad ually his iost ure 01 adoration. When the ciparet'es were finished, he held her hands, and in time he put his arm altout her and kissed her. and forpot .-ill the maxims tif wisdom that had ever lieen taupht to him. "W hat is that rinp?" he asked, turn inp and totinp wish the only one she wore. "Ket ces Carlos. He peef cet to me. Weel -you see?" She drew it off. "Kef you weel one match lipht." He struck a wax one and held it to the rir.p. It was an opal set in silver and carted in the shaje of a skull. Ixtrcll knew enouph of stones to understand the difliculty of tuilinp an oal. He knew tlit; skill ai.d i;it:cncc it must re quire to sh;iH it. like this one. There wtis pro! ia LIx not another like it in the world; certainly he had never seen it. if there were. In the llickerinp lipht it pleamed and sparkled Hue, and red. am! yellow tires, and the jaws seemed to contort themselves into a prin. "How wonderful." lie ejaculated. "Yes." answered Anita. lie was scu-ed with a wild desire to ob tain it, and he pliyed tmldly for it. "Do you love nie. Anita, sweetheart, beauti ful? he whistere.l. takinp her fai-e in his h.'uids ami htokinp into her eyes. She uttered a fat at hut sincere "Yes." He kissetl her apain. not once, but many 'times. "If you love me, Anita. you should pive me the rinp to rcmeni ler you by a keepsake, as we call it." She slipped it into his hand. "Ah! no. Ceef eet TO me,' siie cried of a sudden. "Why?" "Carlos, he tell me zat eet ees very w'at you say? note nice lucky." "Then w hy did he pive it to yon?" "He say eet ees for a man. note for a woman, zat eet ces like zat." "I exjtect C'arltts wanted to keep you from pit inp it away." "No. He say zat one man w'at keep eet for fife years, he die sure." "I am not afraid. I would lie plad to die to have yot'r rinp for even a year." "No. (Jeef eet back to me." "Then you do not love me." he said, dejectedly. "You are like all women, you are plad to break a man's heart." "No, no. I lofe you. You can keep II i I iiff J II". tf W, postage per oar In advance. NTJMBEK 18. eet. I weel tell Carlos I loos, . ct." At the iiiotii. ijt l,er mot t . r -..!'. ,1 to her from the .-).. U-. she threw l.er plump arms altout the American's nek and stii.l a elinpinp pood bv. a if her heart, w ere sadly wrut.p. Ami for t he time U inp she was in desperate e in -esL At daybreak he saw two horsemen. Itoth Mexicans, ride up to the house! He puesscd that they were the men" Manara and Carlos; .-,,,,1 he hit, h.-d up 1he team ipiickly and w. tit. in a fash ion that suppested tlipht, takinp the rinp with him. Now it hapMie.V as su.-h t hintr- w ,11 haptt'n in the nXt west -that C.ir!os Valera prew tcry ri.-h within a fexx months and went to lit,- in Sau i,v with his wife. ami that they w. re much courted and .-oupht after, f. r Ya Yra wa pencroiis and well- ma 1. n. i . .1 and i.,. ill-Iookinp. un.l Scnora Yah-ra was b, w ilehinp. .1 type, more than lo.-allv ta- tnous for her beaut v. I" f :i I'li.irin 1I11. . . .. ... 1 - ' 1 1 o w one n 01 tier race who hate lcatt.eil the u-::ire of the world. They kept open h. use. in the pran.l way of the wealthy Spat ish Antciicans tif not so lonir a:ro. Xcx.r a da passed that more than t. l.,1 straiiper was not cut. rtaiiied. thus it came about that, upon a spring cxct ii. -nine teats afier lor n,ai 1 i;. Scnora Valera prc.-tc.l wish lot. I and prace a pu. st whom her hi:'-haul brought horn,, with him. a Mr. l:i. h....i Lotell. of l.os Aiircl. s. but as c.,.,.,. i d him she pi.u.. cd tlotti. at his :..u, Is and saxv tiiat he xxoie the o; :.j skidl. She tuiiicd to her husband and said in Hr.p!i-h that was p. rfe.-t n,.w. though made daii.ty by a slip hi lisp: "Caths. dear, will toll .-ct il 1 left n.-. p:.l-:.ln!-ibatiiiiid ;in on my dMs-im. st.in.lv 1 think I to..1,, it ..ut to wear, aid foi pot it. I i cji'i want it to pt-t h.st li!,0 tl;.. t '. ..; 1 1 . :.l ton pate me i- :, i, were It:. 1 1 It t. I'm afraid tht y are i :.!! . unhic . . ic.,: don't you think s.i.Mr. Lott i. .- .c,od ton mind poinp for it. C::i oc " aict.i i. ;: i h;. room. "Mr. Lo.. !!. take off that rinp while ou arc h. i she .-aid. calmly. T have nctcr takt 11 it off. And I'm sorry that 1 can't il.is.unm." "If Mr. Yaleta sees it. he w ill U apt to kill t on as not. ,. is tet y j. al .11-." "I fancy he has p...,,; reastui." "Kindly keep t our opinions w h. re such unpleasant op.spiopilx b, :.,i,:; - in your own imumicii- n-ss. You will be wis.- t. do as I sax. and to be piick. Do you ktw.xv that t he lit.-t . ats is up to-nipht ?" 'I doubt that sort of super-! itioii. As I told ton before. I'm not aftai.l. I. 1 haps you are. thou-h? It i nitiu.,1 you should 1.-. I will t.!l .,i, i,; t I w ill do. I'll t:.',e t lie rinp d put it in my tt-k. t" - h- slipped it " ai.d 1 . !! it 1 tet ween his thiitlilt ::t.d lim-ei -"if you will kiss me apuln a- you di.i on 11. at nipht." "I will not. You would hate forgot ten that silliness of mine by now. if you ha.l been fortllliale cn..iii;h to lie J pent leinan." "Never: hot all those caresses and protestations. Come, ki- 111,- airain. Mnl I'll hide the rinp." "No. Mr. Vah-ra will tini-h hum it:p for a pin that isti". th. re in a moment more, and if he comes, back it mat- e-. ill with you it certainly wiil if he sees 1 he rinp." "Then ki-s me." "I will not. lie tpiick. I heir him coniiup. Quick!" "Kiss me. You'd better, for t our oxxu sake." "No." "Then don't." "Oh! hide that rinp do. for me." "Kiss ,,,,." "Well, kiss me, then." He put his hands on her shoulders and ltcnt his head. He did n.d s-e Valera step into the Fr.-n.-h wmdoxx. but he knexv that the woman puilcd away from him with a loud "How tlare you: and a scream: "Carlos. Carlos, hi lp me:" And then he felt somethinp sharp driven deep l 1 w een the shoulders, and as he fell back ward Scnora Vaiera praspe.l at the rinp and caeht it fiom his hand. She put her n 11 hand to her throat in tin .accepted fashion of the contention:! faint, and as si.,, did -o. dropped the jewel into the bosom of her p:nvn. Then she lost conscious ness. The story she told her husband was one of unprotoked impert iueiu-e on the part of an ntt.-r stranir.T. a man she had never seen Itef. ire. ami the story he told the world was much th.-same, but sjiphtly n.lM Ilished. It was not plaus ible, yet it pass,Hl. It exciistnl tl-.. mur der without any preat tbflicnlt t . a ml "s was sonielhitip- of a feather in the cap of the lianliful Mexican for this was in the early days. Scnora Valera pround th- opal skull to bits with a heavy stone, and kept the chips in a locket, until one day she found an excuse to drive to the cem etery and scatter 1h.ni tijmn I.telTs Ctate. titvendolen Overton, in San Francisco Arponaut. IN OLD MEXICO. One of the fatorite sweets for chil dren is supar cane. It is sold in pieces alt.. ut is inches long for one centato each. You can buy all the ltcautiful thtwers you cai" carry home in a half-bushel Itasket for an American half-dollar. Dabies and children all wear half sticks, ami are happy with bare leps when northern visitors require oxer mats. The weather is not a subject of com ment unless it is had. It is as a rule so tine that it furnishes no variety of e. nix crs.it ion. The stamp law is very thoroughly en forced, fclte.y form of commercial t r. from check Ut contract, contributes to the r-teiiue. The street car mules make lietter time than in any otli. r country in the xtorld. About half of the time they are kept on a full pailop. Horses with tails more than 12 to is inches lotip are rare exceptions, as the tails of fashionable coacti hordes are invariably docked. Fvcrybody shakes' liands Itoth at neetinp ami tartinp, even thouph the t isit may be on the street corner and lasts only txxo minutes. I'ai.ks are capitalized for immense j funis and hate tcry strict repuiatioiis. j and failures antonp these iiulit ulioiis are pruc-ticall uukiioxxn. AtlvertisingKatet. 1 l".IIiDd Tl'r'i"'tni of tbCw " '''J V.."1 ,oU'ii low rates: !iijua"' - 1 Inch, months..... "oca . yr kZ lDrte, a mintti...... " M I orbed, 1 year .-'."..."" laid ,n-, yr......v.""":::::7 tila v ewnuin, 6 tnonttn.... ...... ia .a S"lnnn. 1 year ..." " "oa lcoiottn. e montiii r.r.ii;ir"r!"." 1 column, I yer 7k.M Haslnoi Hem. 6r.t icp-rtlon, loe. per ltsa atequcot Inwrtiona. be. per lln Anditur'i Nut leer . . ZJ trar and tlmilar Notice".". ".".""7 X M tton f. ubiety and c o.ajoni-.tu.oii hmKhmIM S!,.V .""" n ,n "ny limited or mdl T,daal lotewt a a ,t t paid t.tr an ad Tertlnmeata. .."2.. 1 r-nl'- ' an kind neatly ua don tyoa loncet it. BESSIE'S GREAT SACRIFICE. fr ett sorry for . IUhy ho , o 1K.IL T3.e st.-kinps M,. hut.pupand the b,,j.. u..s u,,. :,rou,, tbe hearth to hear mamma t. 11 the story f the IL-.U- ,.f IVtblehem. sats rhe vt .,rk World. Their small" Ws cx rossd profound stn.pitht when they heard l.tv t lie S.. 4,f as 1- rn . a s,,,;,. ,w j,,. Uy u of -traxx. l,tt lb shixer.-d in the ck.I liii-eiiiU-r ni-ht and l.w His life ai a dati-.-. r fr-.tn :!.ewi. k,d H.-rtHl. Lit tle lU ssi.. s,,.,11)s , u. partieuiariv ;,. pr-ssed. She said t.othnip, Lut' one .t.ul.l see l,.,t sl. ;is n.inkinp hard. When, half at. h..r later, mamma :.me to la ssie's t.., 1 ;ss ,,r niirhl. s.!i. found the child pr.--siiip her doll t. h. r l-.soiu aj,. painir at it witli iii.ult.tabl.. atT.-e--..,,,. As she stoo,.t oxer the U-d Fcssie looked up ad a k.-.l, earnest It : ' Mamma, ain't ..l's babt p-it any doliv ?" "N"" ".plied tht- mother, snii'.imr. l'.cssi.. ,ke,l at her doll apain and h-ntM-cd it. Then ctnitlictiiiir . mot .ns shoxx.il thetuseltes on t ! little fa.-e. After a lomr silence l he child i-ajsed li. r. t. s. which !.iid such an expression a thos,. ,,f ii. maPtyr must hate worn at Uie stake, and stid, firmly: Tak it to Him. mamma." Ciosimr her etc- tipht lassie laid the loll in lu-r mother's hands and buried h.-r face in the pillow to iry to forpet the preat sa.-riti.e sh.- had inade. POWER OF A WOMAN'S WORD. It Oti rrnnw the t r-tk. of aa I nWU( I'lilif-t-niaii. Th.- following pretty story is taken from th. N.-w York Mail and Kx press. m,d is pood e.:t.ije,. u, stand by itself. lb was onlx an Italian fruit-tender. Th. r was notliiiiL' al.mt him at all like ly lo inspire the beholder w it h feelinp. .tie wax or another. He war- not rairped enouirh to ,-all for esnt sy n pathx. nor unkempt etioupti t.i protoke disLut. ,-t to the j d iceman 011 hisi beat he wa.s undoubtedly 1 ho object of considerable at. r-ioii. this wassjiown by the u ardent inp viporwith vtliich the ft uii-st-ticr was purstiet from cor ner to i-orner by t he zealous puanliau of Ihe law. The other day. in a t,. hurrietl re sponse t.i the eterlast inp onler to "mote on." th. j d.li. V ,.;irt was upset, and Ins M-aeiies and peai s werescat-t.-icd ..xei- the proimd and acrtts the street car tia.-k. The enraped . lice man coiii. I Larely restrain the impulse t.i Use hi-- Cillll. "Ihe d.ity h.afer!" tie exclaimed, ""lie Old it on pill (H.se jiist trtitiptO excite .-) I., jiat ht !" "lb- ll..s .slice.led. t hell." said a Soft toi.-e :.! the oiVi.-t i'-. clU.w. and a neat little woman l..pl and l-epan to pat her n;t the scatl.-red fruit. I I.. . . i 's face i. dd. nt-d. He hesi tated a 111. in. -i.t. and then he. too. joined in t iie x 01 k of it storat ion. SUBSTITUTE FOR GLASS. l.t-bttinouii Suttslaii.e spread oc t.alvaa iid Iron VVrti. "The first successful .substitute for plass." ssixs -.111 architect in the Wa!i inptoii Tinn-s, "is t.etorinm. a peJatjn t'lis eoinM.ition. It h;'s not appcaretl in this country :t ail, as yet, but is lw-inp introduced in llurop.. "llns pelatiuous su!staii-e is pitt-n ripidity by lieinp spread on. a pultaa iron web. xthich holds tlie sheet in any desired sjiajte. but dotis iut t.it s'tiiet the (Ktssape of lipht. It istrans-bi.-etr!. but not ! ra lis pu re u t . a nd cti 11 :e stained in such a manner as t.i exactly imitate stain.tl plass. "It cannot lie broken nor softened bv J ie tat s of the sim. but ir flexible and easily lH-t,t into ;iny desired shae. Wh.-n unstained it at tirM is el low. but on exposure to the sun it turns w hit., at the 5ntne t ime ltecomiiip hard er ami more durable. "I.ik plass. it is a poor conductor of h.at. It is l'phter than plasjs. and oil this account is well adapted f.r roofs. I'nless it. can lie made transparent it .an never hojte to entirelv snjHrsi-de plas-s, but. its cheapness and su periority to plass in other direc tions are seeurinp for it extensive sa.ks for factory windows, skyltphts for hot houses, roolinp and like piirtosiei." HERE AND THERE IN EUROPE. Kmile nichelturp. the French trotel ist. is said to haxe a massed Jtoo.tmit in Jd years, by w rit inp sensational stories for lx l'etit .bt-urual. Wheat prow n in tit north of France litis from 1 1 to "ft 'rf tit. less nitropen totis element's in it than titat raised there 5i tears :tpo. accord itor to a re cent leKtrt made to the Academic des Sciences. Saterio Altamura. oik of the last of the Neapolitan romantic sclxail t.f paintinp, has just died. He was a et and an author as weil. He took jtart in the rex.tJuti.m of ls4s and was exiled from Naples until the lUiurlnios were ilrixeu out. A method t.f pre-ipitatinp zinc in a.pieous soiutKiii in the shate tif tlense plates of commercial thickness by means of electricity has Iteen fi.mid at the zinc w orks at I niislierp in I o-rinan t . The process, which is kept secret, w as tiisct.tere.1 bt l'rof. Dicfteidtach. of Darmstadt. The economic difl'teulties in the problem have also Iteen soiled, as the works arc turniiip out '- tons of zinc a month, ami are to le enlarped. NOVELTIES IN SILK. Some rich dark shades of red are ahow inp iu tiKtire c lours. black si!k net with a satin etlpe ia use.1 for thick neck ruche. Itcyoiid tloubt retl- in i.liant and dai k. .s well w il lie the fall color. Ketidish-piirple prounds with white scrolls make st 1 licit foularls. l'a in-colored satin ducht-sse has the call for tiimminps ami combinat ion. Chiffon ribltoiis are in lovely debcate eolorinps, but arc. of course. i-riha-ble. Cream-colored chrysanthemums on a coral pruuiMl make a lovely satin (troche. lace taffeta for liniups next fall will show stroup pink. red. preen and t io let tints. Watercress preen is a favorite shaJe for the cominp millinery ribbon, p-au zes. chiffons, etc. In loi.dou they are usinp a tcry rich make of ieau tie soie tleur de aoie for j-Aeuintr toilets. TTTT Ill