FIRST LOVE.
Tow doos a womun love!
Though life forever its loss deplore;
Deew in sorrow or deep in sin,
One king reigneth her heart within,
Une alone, by night nul day,
Moves her spirit to curse or pray,
One voice only can call her soul
Back from the erasp of death's control:
Though lovers beset her or friends deride
Yea, when she siniles another man's bride,
Still for hor master her life makes moan—
Onee is forever, and once alone,
How does a man love! Once for all,
The sweetest voices of life may call,
Borrow daunt him or death dismay,
Joy's red roses bedeck his way;
Fortune amiie, or jest, or frown,
The cruel thumb of the world turn town;
Loss betray him, or love delight,
Through storms or sunshine, by day or
night,
Wandering, toiling, asleap, awake,
Though souls may madden, or weak hearts
reak,
Hetter than wife or child, or pelf,
Once and forever, he loves—~himself.
--Rose Terry Cooke.
tl A A ——
THE CONCEALED LETTER.
“You, madam,” he said. “Yes you,
If you please” for she hesitated and
tooked about her. ‘May 1 beg you to
ome this way?"
Stiil the girl hesitated.
“Madam,” said the hypnotizer, *I
sed in you a wonderful subject. We
have never met before, but if you will
honor and oblige me with your pres-
lully assist ma."
Al this the girl arose and advanced
with dignity. She was pale, and her
features had the regularity of a Greek
statue.
Mr. Nouchette asked her soma gues-
lions in a low tone. She seemed to ro-
ply in the affirmative.
Then Mr. Nouchette drew a large
arm-chair to the center of the stage.
wid gloves seated herself therein.
ward?’ asked Mr. Nouchette.
A sudden thought occurred to me. 1
would forestall the coming confederate,
and offer myself. I rose to my feet
making a joke. 1 expected to be de-
clined with thanks, but on the gon-
trary Mr. Nouchette smiled upon me.
*“I'ne very man,” he said. ‘Ladies
Comet, is known to many here uo
doubt. Like many here, he never be-
fore met the young ludy who has been
vo kind ——"
“Never,” I said, bowing first to the
lady and then to the audience. **Never,
upon my honor.”
“Will you permit this gentleman to
bold your hand, madam?” asked
Nouchette.
The lady offered me
once. It was small,
put a ring of any sort.
“Now,” said he, ook at me, and
aeither speak or move.”
He placed the tips of the fingers
ais right hand on my left
eft hand fingers upon the
her hand at
white, and with-
ti of
his
lady's right
temple,
ter of the forehead of each subject. |
do not know how long he continued
this performance, but at last he
the dy :
“Madam, tell Mr. Hallendine, if you
please, what he has in his vest pock-
of”
The
tones.
“Sir,” she said, “I am very sorry,
but I cannot tell you. I am not in the
least a clairvoyant."
“I am disappointed,’ he sald, evi-
dently speaking the truth. “I will
bry again.”
As for me, my eyes were shut, and 1
tried in vain to open them. Yet I saw
the lady plainly. 1 saw her from
head to foot. Moreover, I saw not
only the stitching on the outside of her
coat pocket, but its interior aud all its
ontents
“Hullo!” said I. “I say, Mr
Nouchette, something has happened to
me. I see the lady's pocket, and all
that is therein.”
“Ah!” eried Mr. Nouchette. “Is it
possible ?” You are the clairvoyant,
then. Well, what do you observe ?”
“I see a black silk purse with gold
beads,” said L
“Is that 50?” asked Mr. Nouchetta.
“Here it 1s,” said the lady.
The audience applauded.
“I see a handkerchief and a letter,”
1 sald.
The audience roared again.
lady must have produced them.
“And,” sud I, “I see a glove-but.
toner.” "
Again a roar of applause.
“Anything more?’ asked Mr.
chette.
I kept silent. 1 saw something else,
but astrange power forbade me to
name it. 1 had read tho folded letter
It contained these words:
“To THOSE WHO FIND MY BODY: Lestan
innocent person should fall under sus I.
cion. 1 desire to stats that I have co t-
ted suicide. 1 have no friends on earth.
I must beg or starve, since I caanot get
honest work. I believe that God will for-
give me for coming to Him before Ha
called me. “Estusr Grav.”
In the same pocket I had also seen.
a little bottle marked “Poligon.'’ Is
was certainly not safe to let this
young moman disappear.
lady answered in regretful
Nou-
others rose to go, and | followed her
rapidly. I felt us though I had koown
this girl for years. In some strange
way Whe maghetizer whom Thad be-
lieved to be a mere trickster, and who
I still believe had traised his confed-
erates in their little snowballing seene,
in their weeping and fighting per
formances, hid placed me in en ra
with the forlorn Miss Gray. 1
iow,
new ber and of her vaguely.
had listened
1 could not ; a8 1A J
0 a story am nterruptions.
As I stood upon the corner of the
street, J Savugit: From tas conntry
an or s persecu y somé one,
robbed.” Her memories had in a
measure become mine. I y
read them when I read the fol lets
ter, as 1 held her hand. But they gave
me no clew by which to follow y
Chance did that. A white object lay
upon the pavement It fluttered to-
ward me. Iw and pinked it up.
It was a lady's handkerchief, fine and
old, and in the corner was s name.
Esther Gray.” It was hers, for this
wis the name that I Lad seen at the
bottom of the letter I had read so
twas. She Lal tara wo the rie
then. I had this small claw, and 1 hur-
»isd on more hopefully.
Official duty ordered me back to the
j office with my veport. Other duties,
&nd those imperative, it seemed to me,
commanded me to find the yubappy
girl and save her, if possible, from de~
| struction.
Happily, at this moment I saw thai
{ was at the door of a telegraph and
, city messenger office, and hurrying in,
i sent my copy to the Comet by a boy,
and felt my conscience lightened.
As 1 passed out of the door it occur
j red to me to puta question to an owl-
y eyed urchin who lingered thers,
“Young fellow,” said I, “have yo.
noticed a lady passing? a slender lady
in brown?’
| **Awful white and scary?" asked the
boy.
| “She may be frightened, being
{ alone,” I said
| “One like that turned wp alongside
the new buildings there,” the boy said.
| “Awful white she was.”
| I gave him the first coin my fingers
closed on as I thrust them into my
pocket, and hastened up the street.
flat houses, only partially finished. A
; thick-set old watchman, with
stick.
“Have you
Slender, tall i”
{ ‘Pass?’ he answered. *‘Ah, sure, it
{ was a lady then!"
{ “What do you mean?” I asked.
“Sure, said
up and down, swinging a thick
{ “Good-evening,” I sald.
seen a lady pass?
|
ever seen since I
and didn't [ wake
the whitest face I
wus born,
ghost?
came. ‘Patsy
geen a ghost. I'm in a trimble.
“I've no orders in regard
ghosts,’ says he, ‘but if it's a woman
gps
I, I've
"
Hogan," says
“Where is she?’
“Up above,’
“] must find
{ “Which way?"
“I'll go wid vou,” sald ha, “Wait
Patsy has orders in regard to wimmin,
t I'll call him.”
He struck his club on the pavement.
Another answered him from afar.
policeman was with us in a moment,
and the watchman's lantern shoue
along the stairs
other.
I asked.
said he.
her at
sald L
once,”
At last he uttered a cry.
‘*Here is the woman,” he said:
crouched in a corngr, with terror
| her eyes, I saw the girl for
| was searching. . Her face was white,
| heaven knows: her were pas
i sionately clasped together
j “Not even
even here!”
“What do you mean by this? Come
along!” said the policeman, adv ancing
toward her.
But 1 interfered,
“Officer.” sald 1, ‘this
woman is slightly out of her
She has run away from home.
followed
u little wh
» her.”
“And who may you be?”
policeman.
“Her husband. There is my card,”
said I, offering one.
“Ah!” said the policeman; *1
pose it's all vight” He held it 0
| light of the lantern, and added: “Lead
; the way, John. You might get a fall
i here easy, and I don’t want one.”
i Meanwhile, I stooped over the young
wom n.
“I lied for your sake,” I whispered;
“1 didjpot shink you wanted to go to the
station-house.”
She made no answer, but suffered
me to lead her down stairs Once
in the street I kept fast hold of her.
When we were out of heariog, I said:
“Do you remember me?”
“You were on the platform at the
hall,” she said.
“Yes.” I said; *when I fell into the
curious condition in which I saw the
purse, the handkerchief, and the let.
ter, I also saw a bottie labeled “Poi-
son,’ and the contents of the letter. In
it you spoke of your intention to com-
| mit suicide, and your faith in God.
| God has chosen to answer by sending
youa friend. Look upon me as one;
believe me, that though there are vil-
lians in this world, sn honorable man
always stands ready to defend a lady
in distress.” I took her hand in mine
A strange thrill ran through me.
“Miss Gray,” I continued, “command
me."
“How do you know my name?" she
asked.
“I read it in your letter,’ [ answer.
led. “You are from the country; you
i were robbed; some one insulted you.
| Poor little soul! you are safe now.”
“Oh you are so good’ she said,
bursting into tears; ‘so very good to
me!”
At that instant, I. who had eaten a
good dinner at six o'clock, began to
{ feel the moss torturing sense of hun-
ger. I understood it at once. It was
not I who wae starving, it was Miss
Gray; and I now quite understood why
she was so nale.
“We must eat before we do any-
thing else.” 1 suid, and shortly we
sat together at the tuble of a restaur-
“ot
i I saw the color return to the sweet
girl's face, I saw that she was herself
(again. Suddenly she turned to me.
i “I must tell you my s she
#aid. “I don't want you to think me
{an adventuress. I am the daughter of
{Owen Gray, a clergyman, who died
five years in Michigan. M
| mother had already passed away and
went to live with my married p from
“Six months ago she died also. 1
never liked her husband, but I stayed
with fio children until"
‘He offered himsell to you,” said L
“Yes,” she sald. ‘Then I went to
teaching school. He persecuted me,
and I fled. I had some money with
TE enn
and
in
bands
here!” she cried. “Not
young
mind.
I have
sight of her
1 will take charge
her, but lost
le ago.
asked the
SUD
the
“With n'' my credentials,"
on; “I cou 4d rot no work.
| arein-law bud spoken falsely of me in
' my native town. I knew I must starve
or beg. 1 preferred to die. There,
ou have it Except that I was at the
i lecture by accident. The door stood
open. I entered and took a seat for
ln was way yeury. No ove noticed
n
she went
y broth-
*Miss Gray,” I said, “will you
me that Httle bottle and the ; "
Tw yy
“I will leave you here
decent hotel attached to this restan.
rant,” 1 said “Will you assure me
that you will remain here until 1 see
you again? I shall then be prepared
«0 place you in a good position.”
“God certainly sent you to me,” she
said. ‘I promise.”
Ileft her in the landlady’s care, and
went post baste to the Comet office.
In the early morning hours I sought
my bed, and there the thoughts that
had been floating through my brain
condensed into a resolution that I would
marry Esther Gray.
And go I went to the hotel next day
with a rose in my buttonhole, and found
her fairer than ever, sweeter, more
lovely.
I wasted neither time nor words in
placing proofs of my respectable posi-
tion in life before her, and offering her
my hand and heart
She was startled but the idea did not
shock her.
Shortly I took her hand and held it,
{and in the strange old fashion, read
| that the influence that drew us togeth-
er had the same power over her hear!
| that it had over mine.
i “You must write to people I will tell
| you of; you must make sure I am what
| I say,” she said.
{ But] only laughed and kissed her.
| And so we were married that very
! day, and no couple could be happier.
!
i
It is a curious fact that I have still
only to hold my wife's hand in order
{ to read her every thought; and it is a
| delightful one, that knowing this, she
is always ready to place her palm in
{ mine,—Mury Kyle Dallas,
i a
:
Ideal Music,
There is no sound where there are
{ Bo ears, we are told, and the sweetness
{ol we call musie, oer
tainly depends in great measures upon
the susceptibility of the listener. In
{ Mr. McCook's "Tenants on an Old
| Farm" there is a discussion about the
| singing of crickets.
Une good woman called the cricket's
| musical effort a ‘discordant, ear-
| piercing creak.
“Oh, no,"
sounds, what
On the contrary 1 love
| chirrup, and think it very sweet music.
{ But there 18 no accounting for tastes.”
This lust remark, though not espec-
{ally new or original, made an imme-
| diate impression upon Dun, the negro
servant
“Dat is jos’ so!"
markin' dot t
saved dar wahn't no m
shell, Now. fer my
sald he
usc
part, wen
field, an’
barn-yard an’ blows dat conk
fer dinna, an’ de 100.t00-100
a~roliin’ over de fiel's, it 4
inrs no music out ob Canaan
swoeter'n dat. Dat's de kin’ ob
nm de hear! dal suits my taste —jo
dem times." -—Youth's Companion.
of horn
COmoes
0 me
ot's
eke
seem
-
Persians Flower Worship.
A recent traveler in Indin gives
i the
as practiced by the Persians in
bay. A true Persian, !n flowing
of blue, and on his head a
hat
Kar-Kal — would saunter in and
and meditate over every fluwer he saw,
and wiways as if half in vision. And
iwhen the vision was fulfilled, and the
ideal flower he was seeking
uatil the setting of the sun, and then
fold up his mat again and go home.
{And the next night and night after
night, until that particular flower faded
sway, be would return to it and bring
his friends in ever-increasing troops
to it, and sit and play the guitar or
Rule before it. and they would all to-
gether pray there, and after prayer still
| 8it before iL, sipping sherbet and talk.
{ing the most hilarious and shocking
i scandal late into the moonlight, and so
iagain every evening until the flower
idied. Sometimes by way of a grand
{finale, the whole company would sud-
(denly arise belore the flower and sere.
nade it together with an ode [Irom
i Hafiz and depart. —~Cassell's Journal,
; Co — -
An Oklahoma Bomanes
. There arrived in Chicago the othet
day, says the Chicago Herald, Mr. and
| Mrs. Sehoenzenbeck, Katrin: Freund
and Haoneh Kritzlor, on their way to
{Uginhoms City, Indian Territory,
{ Where the two unmarried women will
marty two friends of Schoenzenbeck.
{Some time since Schoenzenbeck and
{ his two prtners, who conduct a gener
ial store in Oklahoma City, came to
the conclusion that single blessedness
iwas a failure. Therefore it was de
{ eided that Schoenzenback should go to
Wurtemburg, Germany, for the pur-
0 of selocting wives for all three,
I'tiis he did, snd married his own be-
{fore starting back. When the party
{arrived at Oklahoma City the marri-
ages of the two German maidens were
joyously celebrated.
IAA,
The Incandescent Bog.
A somewhat singular inquiry has
{ recently been sent to the secretary of
the treasury. It refers to the ques
tion of whether an importation of
lightning- bugs would have to pay duty.
It seems that in Cuba these in A are
large and very luminous, and it is in.
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INTERESTING FACTS.
There are 2,750 languages.
A square mile containg G40 acres,
Envelopes were first used in 1839.
Telescopes were invented in 1590.
A barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds,
A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds.
A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds,
A firkin of butter welghs 66 pounds.
The first steel pen was mads is 1830.
A span is ten and seven-eighth
inches.
A bhaad (horse measure)
inches.
Watches
1476.
A storm moves thirty-six miles per
hour.
A hurricane moves eighty miles per
hour.
The first iron steamship was built ia
1830.
The first lucifier match was made in
1829.
Gold was discovered in California in
1848,
The first horse railroad was built in
1826-7.
The average human life is thirty.
one years.
Coaches were first used in Englano
in 1569.
Modern needles
in 15645.
The value of a ton of pure gold is
$602,799.21.
Ouoe million dollars gold coin weighs
8,685.8 pounds avoirdupois.
The value of u ton of sliver is $37,-
704.84.
One million dollars silver ooln
weighs 568 029.9 pounds avoirdupois
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1826.
The first newspaper was published
in England in 1585
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1652,
Until 1776 cotton splaning was per-
fommed by the hand spinning wheel
Glass windows were first lotroduced
mito England in the eighth century.
Albert Durer gave the world a
prophecy of future wood engraving io
1627.
Measure 200 feel on
you will have a square
inch.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented
1844,
The firsg steam engine on
tinent was brought from England
17563.
is four
were first constructed in
first came into use
each side and
within av
nore
iin Eogland
ib
The first knives were use
and the first i
France in 1554,
wheeled carriage
The present natiosal colors
United States ro
Wi Hot
a a
Which Road.
If vou could go back to the forks of the
road
mues
oad ;
Back to the place
cide
By this way or that
abide;
#
through your life
Back to the place where the future was
fair
If you were there now, a decision to make,
Oh, pilgrim of sorrow, which road would
you take!
Then, after you'd trodden the other long
track,
Sappose tha’ again to the forks you went
After you found that its promises fair
Were but & delusion that iad 0 & saare
That the road you frst traveled with sighs
and unrest,
Though dreary and rough was most gra
ciously blest
With balm for each bruise and a charm for
each ache
Ih, pligrim of sorrow,
you taki
which road would
Chicago Herald
it ian
Some Curious Chinese Slseg,
Some of the ordinary expressions of
the Chinese are very sarcastic and
characteristic. A blustering, harmioss
fallow they call a “paper tiger.” When
s man values himsell overmuch they
compares him to "a ret falliog into a
scale and weighing itsell.” Overdoing
a thiag they eall “4 hunchback muk-
ing a bow.” A spendihrift they com-
pare 10 a rocket which goes off at vnoa
Those who expend their charity on re.
mots objects, but neglect their family,
are sald ‘to hang a lantern on a rope,
which is seev afar but gives no light
below.”
——— we ——— So ——
Clever Swindle on Jewelers,
The great jewelers of Paris have just
been the dupes of a singuisr frand
practiced upon them with extraordi-
nary success. The swindle has been
sccomplished in the simplest way, and
all it needed for its execution was ad-
dress, audacity, and a little capital.
French jewelers dress their windows
with consummate taste, exhibiting as a
rule, only 8 small portion of their
stock, but of the Hightn gaality and
they called in.
dows the patterns of pieces selected to
They were chiefly rings
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SMALL SHOES—BIG FEET. |
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FEMININE RUSES TRANSPARENT
TO EXPERIENCED CLERKS.
Marks That Mislead and Teles That De
Not Deceive,
“Yes, we find a good deal to amuse
us in our line of business,” said a dap-
per shoe clerk to a Washington Sunday
Herald man, “even though our work
is sometimes pretty tough on us. As
in every other business, I suppose, it is
easier to suit men than women in
shoes. Naturally women take a good
deal of pride in their feet, and one
great difficulty we have is that they sre
afraid we will think that their feet are
large, and try to impress you with the
fact that last year, or before they were
married, they always wore shees two
sizes smaller. 1 have sold shoes for
many years, but have vet to sch a shoe
to a woman that was too large for her.
“A good method of marking shoes,
and one that has often proved a god-
send to the salesman, is that of the
French shoes sent to this country.
Here is one of them now. Notice the
manner in which it is marked inside.”
The reporter saw a double mark, 2
and 42, the first placed sbove the
second,
“When this shoe is shown to a lady,’
continued the salesman, “and the size
inquired, she can see for heself thst
| it is a number 2 shoe by reading the
upper figure. But the salesman, who
bas examined carefully the foot of the
lady, knows the proper size of the shoe
from the numbers below. Thus 2-42
means & number 4 shoe, 2.52 would
| mean a number 3 shoe, 2-22 means the
shoe is a number 2, and properly
marked. Should a line be drawn be-
neath the lower numbers, such as 2-52,
that signifies the half size, 3 1-2,
See?”
« But I should think the size of the
she e itself would give the thing away 7”
“+ Not so: first, becanse a new shoe has
{ always an extremely neat and shapely
. appearance that makes it look smaller;
second, because the purchaser herself
is willing and anxious to believe she
| can wear smaller shoes than she really
| does. Ladies with small feet fre-
| quently come in and announce the size
shoe they wear with much satisfaction,
| but will often insist on trying on »
half size or size smaller,
“Ladies with large feet seldom If
ever know the size shoe they wear, or
{ at least they never tell the clerk, and
| he must rely upon measurements made
| with the eye. Sometimes these ladies
{ with large pedal extremities state that
they wish to buy a pair of shoes for a
servant, whos? exact size they do not
know, but will look at the shoes, and
will probably know in that manner
what will be suitabe; and isa 6or 6 1-
2 too small for the general run of ser-
| vants' feet. They look them over care-
| fully and critically, noting the size
and frequently purchase these servan +
| shoes at a cost of $7 or $5,
“It is queer, but the shoes sold in
Washington are smaller than in any
i other country, as any big manufact-
, urer ean tell you. What in Northern
! and Eastern cities are sold as boys’
| sizes are run in here for men’s. These
| wizos run from 4 1-2 to 61-2 on an
AVOrage.
“1 have clerked in Eastern stores
where the average was from 7 to 11,
but have yel to sell a pa’r of shoes in
size above 10 in Washington. With
| the women here it is different. Their
| sizes run as high as in the East, the
{ average being from 3 to 5.”
«Where ate the largest men's shoes
! worn?"
“Throughout the West. There the
sizes to a Washington man would seem
enorinous.”’
Another clerk who had been em-
i bad large feet, replied that it ungues-
| tionably was. The average sizes worn
| were from 4 to 7 1-2. He also stated
{that in St. Louis, Omaha and Kansas
City, the averages would be about the
same as in ° hicago.
{ ra ———
Visited by the Catacombs.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
ns Am.
Well began is half done,
Eve didn't kpow the BeTPEnt was
loaded,
It is only they who stand that cu
fall.
The only cure for ce’ fishness is
fice.
Money by any otlier name would ge
us fast,
An honest man is the nobles: work
of God,
A silent tongue is an enemy to the
fenst,
A man who is full of himself is al-
ways empty,
Economy ‘s wealth of a very disagree
able type.
FACTS
No man 1s a free man who has a vice
for his master,
All philosophy lies in two words,
“sustain’’ and “abstain,”
Why 1s happiness so rare? Too few
engaged in producing it.
Economy 1s simply the art of getting
the worth of our money.
Those who are greedy of praise prove
that they are poor in merit,
Ex ¢ ybody seems to despise a hypo-
crite - God, man and the devil,
The man who treats his fiiend often
doesn’t always treat his wife weil
A man who Is not ashamed of
self need not be afraid of his early
dition,
hilm-
CO
The advantage of wealth the
leigure It allows, Weare all
Sunday,
is In
rich
on
A minister is excusable for
more of the lambs of his flock than
the doze,
thinking
of
When the admiration of men becomes
necessary to a woman she belongs to the
devil.
still
of
It cannot be denied that virtue
some Uncture has of vice, and vice
virtue,
To be agreeable in society it is nec s-
sary not tosee and not to remember
many things.
At a swell marriage curious people
walch at the church door to see the Led
go out,
but
like
Vanity is often mistaken for wit,
it is no more like it than gravily is
wisdom,
If wan would help some of us a little
more, God would forgive usall the soon-
ér perhaps,
The only cure for unbe jel is to shake
off the ague of doubt by doing Clirist’s
bidding,
The greatest and most serious fault
of the modern chuch is ils Jemency to
ward its members,
3
w
The devil doesn’t care two staws for
your profession, Ail that be is afraid
of is your practice,
Proverty 1s no disgrace to the
trious, but itis hardly a git edged
Lestimonial of ability,
frac yas
HC US.
kind
it
Ecovomy is wealth, but it is a
of wealth that the neh man fAods
bard to transfer to his son.
Wise men are like 2 watch - they have
open countenances, but don’t sho v their
works in their face.
A man always trying to gel some-
thing that does pot belong 10 him will
go out and borrow trouble.
The wealth of a pwson should be
esl mated, not by the amount bie has, bul
Ly the use he makes of it,
The miser and glutton are two face
tious buzzards—on + hides his store, and
the olher stores his hide.
Politeness is the sciencs of getting
down on your knees before folke with-
out getiing your pantaloons dirty.
Our wise t thought is the one whict
we always lack wordstoexpress. Fool
sh tho ghis find easy expression.
When you feel that you can't gel ac
quainted with a man it is a sign thal be
voesn’t like you, and never will,
A willingness to divide with Las cap-
tor has protected more thieves than the
jaw has hone L men,
On» way of congratulating a yo ng
man who is to mary a girl for money
is to Jet him have anything be wan #cu
i
}
| Did I understand you to say yon
{ were in Europe this win er?” he asked
| es
} mer across the aisle.
} “Yes sir.”
| “Were your in Rome?”
“I was there for a month, sir.”
: ‘Ah! I am glad to have met you. 1
{ wanted 0 ask about Rome. You
visited the catacombs, of course?”
“Didn't have to. They visited me.”
j “How do you mean?”
i “Why, I never stirred oul of the
: hotel that they weren't striking me for
{ alms. Never saw such an infornal set
in all my born days.”
“Don’t you mean the Iazaroni?”
lagyrony are the same thing, only
toatacomb’ is the Italian of it and the
other is the English. If you haven't
been over I'd advise you to f you
You don’t know
how much a trip abroad will broaden
and liberalize your mind.”
And the other sank back and hia
over looking pale for the next thirty
miles.
The Ohjec.ion ward,
. Billus—Maria, I don't like to
that dude of a
neon the house.
come to in?
d en-
{0
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-
i
credit,
A loafer is a good deal lke cork.
| that has been pushed into a bolle. It
| does no good where It is and 1s not vorth
| fishin; out,
Men no doubtowe much of Lieir su -
cess in this world to chance; bul chan.
ces don't go for a man — the man wust
go for the chance,
euple have got LO be shivekad to wake
| them out of old absured routine. 1's
raralyzes us to a'most every injustice.
| When people are shocked they beg nt 10
| think aud Ing ire
| Don’t be Inquisitive about he affairs
{of even your most intimate fitends.
| PAow many veglect their own flekis to
i inspect the farms of their neighbors,
Work to-day, for you know not how
much you way be hinder-d to-morrow
Keep your heart che rial, and you
will soon have a face to match it.
The man who knowingly does wrong
is the biggest of ull cowards,
Charact r Is something other poop e%
lives have brought out to us.
A barefooted soldier 8 not wurh ac
count in either marching « r Ceiling.
He who causes his own Geath isa vic
"tim who meets his executioner and kilk
hw,
Happ ness
and is not to
n
at ourown fio wiles,
pleked in strangers’ gar
to be headstrong
to understand
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