(LITTLE MISTRESS SANS-MERCL
BY RUGENE FIELD.
Little Mistress Sans-Meroi
Trottoth world-wide fancy froo;
Trotteth cooing to and fro;
And her co nog is command —
Never ruled there yot, I trow,
Mightier mona ch in the land;
And my heart it Heth whe eo
Mistress Bans-Meroi doth fare,
Little Mistress Sans-Merci-—
8h. hath madea alive of me!
*(3o!"” she biddeth, snd go—
Come!” and I am fain §» come
Nover mercy doth she show,
Be sha wroth or frolicsome;
Yut am I content 10 ba
Slave to Mistress 8 .ns-Morcil
Little Mistress SansMerci,
8he hath grown so dear $0 mo
That I conut as psssing sweet
All the pains her moods impart,
And I bless the litte fo. t
That go tramping on my heart,
Ah, how lonely life would be
Bui for little Sans-Merct!
Littls Mistress SBans-Marei,
Cuddle close this night to mae,
And that besrt which all day long
Ruthless thou hast trod upon,
Shall outpour asoothing song
For its bost beloved one —
Al
Little
its tendoruess for thee,
fistress Sans-Merci!
—-{ Ladies’ Home Journal.
MISS BAXTER'S BLINDNESS.
The dimming car was in a shimmer of
light. The dead white of heavy linen,
the opalescent glare of glassware, and
the quiet gleam of silver trembled to-
gether in the swift motion of
her berth, dropped into a seat and leaned
back a moment, dazed by the lavish
waste of
Of color,
sunlight toek liberties with the dull
with coquettish gold. Thea she hastened
to draw the curtain and
table, sighing as she settled down again,
and all the painful scene of the evening
before came surgiag back.
She fel
on the
glaneed
ring--his
misty.
t half a
table snd cry outright. She
down
ring—while her
She wondered whether
should have kept the ring, now thatit
no longer meant anything. The ques-
tion was ye! undecided when she pulled
herself together with a visible tremor and
turned to the menu card. Dining-car
breakfasts were not timed to wait on the
settlement of subtleties in ethic
ularly after the steward has made his
“last call.’
In the
been in the car she bad not noticed
companions. As she raised her head she
was startied to see a familiar face dimly
taking shape across the table. She had
removed her glasses and was about to
eves
grew
she put them resolutely on again and
looked fixedly through their misty crys.
tals,
“Mr. Woodson,
from?” she demanded
well-known features gradually to
before her
Wood son did not speak at once,
was ot Lic ina n
down in wayward ringlets in sj
efforts to keep it staidly back,
her checks persisted in dimpli
ever resolutely she shut her lips
Then he
“a
did
1
where you gome
ength, as his
k shape
He
yw her hair would tumble
at
ite of her
how
ng, bow
together,
and
*
PrYrL
FOU
my dress suit
York, of course. Does
look as though I'd boarded
the train in these rural precincts? |
thought you kuew the cut batter.”
*‘Do you mean to say that you've been
on this train all this while—after—after
—jast n £7” Miss Baxter asked, with
slightly heightened color.
claimed, taking from her hand the one
she was making a sad mess of.
“Harry, 1 never can forgive vou for
doing this,” Miss Baxter conciuded, after
a moment's contemplation of the whirl-
ing blur of green through the car win.
tdow,
“Well, I never could have forgiven
myself if 1 hadn’t—and there it was,” he
asserted dispassionately, laying the pulpy,
broken sphere of the orunge before her.
It is quite a jaunt from Manhattan to
Manitou; but one morning they ex-
changed the cushioned weariness of the
train for that blue hollow of the hills,
with its gayly-colored roofs and gables
showing here and there up the canyon
like a scattered troop of butterflies,
Then Ile became one long breath of de-
light. What color there was! The
earth seemed hung in some rarer medium
than common air. The yellow cactus
blossoms were like flakes of flame, A
| scarlet flower fairly burned into the
i sight, Grace developed a new enthus.
| iasm every day, and piled her palette
with cobalt and chrome, Even Fleming,
who had preceded them, grunted out
now and then, “Put in your loore pure,
fake her jump.”
So they painted from morning till
sight, keeping two or three studies un-
'r way at once-—putting in blues where
Yoodson saw greens and purples where
» saw nothing but nondescript sand,
of the luministers,
Woodson
couldn't paint,
parriecd Grace's
{ glances by explaining that he
| gotiating to go into the cattle business
a man was going to bring him a herd on
trial.
Meanwhile he arrayed his
figure in cowboyish top boots, blue shirt,
| and slouch hat, which became
sat
He
He
by and chaffed.
He wouldn't smoke
was
of
abe.
idea
tennis suits
Grace was
One day an
“Grace,”
| among the blazers and
summering Manitou.
sorbed and satisfied.
| struck him.
seud
won't
I'd like to have
{ home, you know.
yout”
“Why, of course.
{ Fleming."
“Oh, hang Mr. Fleming!” Woodson
broke in. “Fleming is all right in his
way, but I waat you—your sketch, you
Kno wy,"
The place was quite a distance away,
over the mesa. They set out for it next
| day.
“Here it is,” Woodson exclaimed,
after a long tramp, pointing over the
burping plain to where a row of cotton-
woods were banked against the sky,
tremuious in the vibrant air. “There,
do that; call it ‘A Hundred in the Shade,’
| or something like that.”
*‘It doesn’t seem to compose very well,”
Grace murmured, holding the tips of her
fingers together and inclosing the pi
ture in a rosy frame through which she
i gazed, half shutting her eyes in truly
artistic intentness.
“Well, never mind that: get the char.
acter of it. You know Fleming says
character's the thing. That's what |
| want-——the character-—-the true character
of this beastly country.”
Bo Grace donned her big blue apron
and set to work with her biggest brushes,
But somehow she had trouble.
quality of that sky, burning with light
and yet deep in hue, did not seem to re-
side in cobalt, however fresh from the
tube. The value of the stretch of plain,
tremulous under the flaring heavens, dis-
turbed her, too, and when she came to
put in the airy wall of ¢sttonwoods alon
the horizon the whole thing ended in
painty muddle,
“Oh, I do
| Grace exclaimed, petulantly, wiping her
troubled brow with the back of her hand
aud leaving a streak along her forehead
that intensified her puzzled look.
“Why don't you put those trees in
green I" Woodson asked with a serious
concern, a8 Grace renewed her struggle
with the regulation blues and purple.
“But I don’t see them 50," she mur.
mured, in a moment of absorbed effort.
vou sketch--to
You'll do it,
I'll speak to Mr.
thy
the
cant
“Can't you help me at all?”
“Of course I can, small girl; you're
all right, Nothing shall touch you,” he
reiterated as his arms closed tightly
around ha,
“Oh, silly, can't you see I've lost my
glasses?’ she excluimed, pulling away
from him and flushing red among the
greenery, But he held her tight,
“You don’t want them ; vou see better
without them, blue eyes, Confess, now,
you never really saw before. Give up
trusting in those wretched glasses and
trying to be independent. Come, sed
your career through my eyes.”
But still she held back an arm's length
really deflant. His fingers left a white
chicle where they clasped her wrists, She
seemed ready to ery and then smiled in-
stead: “You'll get my glasses if I prom-
set"
He nodded.
liked
neck she said: ‘I always 3
either lid,
eyes,” aud pressed a kiss on
‘Maybe you were right
she added seriously, “Dut
interfere, need it?”
‘Interfere! Why, I'll tell that
that I've decided not to take his cattle,
and we'll turn the whole herd into paint,”
Melville Upton, in Kate
Washington,
i,
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES,
A Berlin chemist claims to have dis
covered the art of reproducing colors
true to nature with the camera.
It is a popular test of the power of ap
To ascertain the
| limit of a small telescope, having object
i glosses of 2 1-4 to 2 3-4 inches in diam
eter, try to sight the rings of Saturn,
To form an idea of the experiments
| that take place abroad in the way of
| testing new devices in warfare, the sta
i tion at Liege, Belgium, consumes nearly
four million cartridges and forty tons of
powder a year in testing fircarms,
Bis axp Larrie TeLescores. — ‘Great
: was the subject of an ad
| dress delivered recently before the Chi
| cago Academy of Sciences in the Athw
neum building by Professor J. E. Keeler,
formerly astronomer at the Lick Observ
atory, now director of the Allegheny
| Observatory, Allegheny, Pa. A larze
{ and attentive audience, composed chiefly
| of professors and scientists, listened to
the lecture, which lasted more than two
| hours. “The popular idea of telescopes,”
said the professor, ‘is wholly ETTOneOUS,
There is no use of increasing the magni
i size,
Telescopes
tude of the lenses bevond a certain
{| Nothing is gained. 1 have frequently
been able to do more and better work on
a clear night with a little two-inch lens
of my own manufacture than was possi-
bie on a ‘twinkling’ night with the great
Lick telescope. The only real sdvan
tage possessed by the great ts lescope § is
a much higher resolving power
through the great lenses astronomers are
able to distinguish an appreciable dis-
tance between two stars so cluse together
that they have always been regarded as
“The Ligk telescope was an ex
| periment, and the Chicago telescope will
be a further experiment in the same line
In atmospheric conditions Chicago
have to yield the palm to Calif
although I do not doubt that the
observatory, taking advantage of past
experiments, will be the most complete
and perfect in existence
that is,
one,
will
wna,
new
:
Mongolian Camels.
The popular idea regarding
of the desert” is com;
applied to the camels of Mongoli
Pechili, Juvenile natural histories talk
of the soft padded foot for which this
animal is so distinguished, as if a “sandy
bottom” were the only surface upon
which he could walk with comfort. But
the greater part of mercantile transport
in North China is performed by camels,
i te
HI He lel
BUDGET.
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS,
Overlooked the Bait — Couldn't Be
Anything Else—~Cause and Effect.
Difference in Name Only, Ete, Ete.
OVERLOOKED THE BAIT.
Ciara (fishing for a compliment)—This
8 yoer fourth dance with me. Why
don't you dance with some of the other
girls?
Charlie- ~Well, the fact is I dunce
badly I hat® to ask them.
BO
COUDLN'T BE AXYTHING
“*What is that that Maud and
playing on the piano?”
“Tag, 1 fancy."—|Buflalo Quips.
EFFECT
ELSE.
Jack are
CAUSE AND
Now through the woods the partrid
wild
On whirring wing doth fly,
And huntsmen in our gilded bars
Parade the sporting lie.
wi New York Herald,
DIFFERENCKE
Adorer—May 1
oq
&
IN NAME ONLY.
be your
|
’
:
|
|
A HOPEFUL VIEW OF NIA CASE,
A AA HAA
A Remarkable Lightliouse,
One of the most wonderful light.
He is constantly changing his mind.”
“ All the better, Jy constantly
changing his mind, he may get a miad
some day that will have some sense jp in”
~-{ New York Press.
DOWER 710 BED ROCK.
He (fiercely)—Didn’t you promise at
the altar to love, honor and obey me?
Bhe-—Yes, but I can’t perform impos-
sibilities. I can obey you-—that's all.-—
[New York Herald.
HARE PRESENCE OF MIND,
“That woman over there looks as if she
were painted”
*‘Sir, that is my wife!”
“I had not finished my sentence.
looks as if she were painted by taphael
and had just stepped out of the frame," —
(Truth,
ACCOUXTS FOR THE DIG BLOWS,
She
“You came near having a prize fight
“Do ye mean to say,” said Farmer Be
|
|
‘“*Yes, indeed, They called the
“W-a-al, that accounts fur them on.
of life?
Fair Widow --No, dear-—but you
may
be my second mate, —{ Buffalo Quips.
FISHING ARD RELIGION,
Parson—1 have heard, Mr. Pettijohn,
that you would like to attend my church,
but «
Www?
Pettiiohn-—Yes, sir; my
large and my income is small
Parson —But your wife tells me that it
costs vou $1.50 to go fishing every Sun-
day.
Pettijohn—Well, that's all she knows
about it. It costs me at least $2.00,
Judge,
annot afford to pay anything for a
cxpen RCS are
LPF AND DOWN
She-—The butler is becoming very im-
Pp ye ut, dear.
Hi gruilly
She (anxious!
f1 dol
11
him down.
I, call him
And what will
Wel ap
5 you
do, deur, i
Heal
DOOMED TO SILENCE.
!
1
KNEW VHIEKDS,
That Christinas time is near at hand
Btrong evidence | find,
For a
Of
il the girls I know have grown
late exceeding kind.
—i New York Herald.
A LAET
RESORT,
Slitone—Do you notice how
has fallen the habit of
himself on the street?
Chatter— That's ly
has to get in a word since he
ried.
into
the on
{Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A DIP
“Has the
she asked,
thought”
“Yes,” he said, “Whenever [ sec it |
wavs wonder where in the world all the
INTO THE PAST,
oCean no
charm for you?
“Does it g
not sugges
BOTH TO BE PITIED.
Woman (to herself
to death to
at he'll do next
drive thi
wl i
wins ne id
Horse
woman drivir
nt
{10
into evervihing
GLOOMY
don’
It tal
edian now to
bi Perhaps
ihe
r if EF PR
M
audiences
mre
MRgey
En LC h $4 it
New York Weekly,
FROM WHAT SHE SAID
Wool-Chapley went to
Fitz and found her ill
Van Pelt— What was the tr
Wool-—A ppearances indicate
had gone into # decline
is boun
I expect tos
papers any day
“Why. I didn't know he was specially
talented.”
He
the
isn't, but he's
patent
World-Herald
DIFFERENT
a 1
medicin
EHADYS
“Very preity sunset,” he remarked,
she rep ied. 3 100 1
“Yen wonder
shades
wt
£1
LON
people write al
I had no idea ti
14
evening i
shades or
many
matched so nice
ore Were so
that
{ Washington Star
different they
iy.
A CURIOUS ANALOGY.
A correspondent vouches for the a
curacy of the following
said a preacher, “such a man is lik
XIPPED IX TH
I know your face,” said
§ '
office seeker,
A SERIES OF COMPLI
ATIONRS
Hair pins are
cated machine,
ated «
Journal,
made by
y are used by a ver
a Yery comp
:
COM Pi Lon SO
i
ot § 134
calure,
SUBJECT YO DUTY.
Mrs. Gummey <1 learn that the cus.
hicer wanted to
Miss F
Mrs, Gargovie—Gracious!
Mrs. Gummey ~He sid
& work of art
toms « collect duty on
tura from Europe.
What
her con
IYPp on her re
fori
3
a
ipiex
Detroit Fre
On Was
Press
“fo
i with his mother t
“He bh
longue 18 mad
New York Press
a8 No 1
wre thar
YERY COMMOR THINGA
“John,” said Mrs. De Porque,
you will not tell tha
have a cold.”
“Why not
‘It doesn't sound select. 1 tol
Feathiergilt about this morning, ar
1 BAYS 4 lds are dreadfully common
sie
Just now | Washington Star
05Y one ¢ise
34
it
Ledge, near Boston, 5 history has
been one of romance. ‘The greater
party of its foundation is under water
In 1347 askeleton light-
iron was erccted there on
A furious hurricane burst
upon the coast in April, 1851, acs
anxious watchers from the Cohasset
shore thought the structure had been
carried away. jut, as the sun sank,
out shone the light across the storm.
tossed waters, AL 10 p. m. the lighs
a8 seen the last time. At one
hotir after midnight the fog bell wis
¢
ior
daybreak the
blank: the lighthouse was gone.
Knowing that no help eould reach
them, the keepers had lighted their
lamp as a warning to and
their lives had gone out with it
A granite tower now ovccupies the
spot. So difficult was it to lay the
foundation in the sur! that only
thirty hours’ work could be done dur.
ing the first year, but the tower
stands to-day as cnauriug as the ledge
itself
the wa
swayed like a
t ong winter months all
s shut off.
ers. Ab ocean was a
GILNCrs,
issiated pile
Dy the
£
an of stone amid
x +} ie
Which it is
Dur.
COM.
Vos,
ie
ing Lng
Unie
ation with the
summer the visitor is
from his
r, and from
red by pul-
IVS 10 convey one or another of
1
n
oisted in
boat by
Time i
the
rye
ie
Reveral of
five keepers
on them
have be
gone
life
tells
them
they have
than one has attemp
A Welcome Change.
There used to be a
such a fur
when pe
stead
few years ago
eclocution thas
ple m the street in-
asking each other “How do
the usual senseless form o
they inquired, “How do 3
" Men and women paid
106 be alle to read or
ions with facial contortions
Were stuinnosed 20 31d the
! ing exhibition of a
i
fon “o
ieatures
wr ab 1%
et on
of
You do?”
atdroess
elocnte?
¥
one
ul ous prices
two
that
fext, and 1
try!
Senet
Hustrate
reader
Ane iis
f a landscape
rprefation
which
i thers
the mo
expression d
She could
iines.
Now this
the new
with the child and
CXproes-
sion in as
a post-graduate accompiishiment.
3) pi tudies
generally breath
Yarious
In Se
tpecial
is
>
parts of their
oil
one May
sweet oil on the
thorax or back of a wasp: it very soos
dies. For this oil has been
found one of the best things to use
for the destruction of insects
" oon I
Can't Satisfy Him
“No.” said the housemaid, “I don’
throug
DOES In
i a iid
body, and if these are closed by
they are suffocated
lest this by dropping
ny
feason
+3
captain of a crewless vessel on a shoreless
ses. Happy would such a mas be could | : . :
he bring his men safe to land.”—{Tid| DPriggs—Just for a joke, I told Miss
Bits : | Elderly the other day that when she
{laughed it was all I could do to keep
. : { from Kissing her,
Mr. Bronson- ~Did you have an inter- | Griggs—What happened?
esting subject presented for your consid- | RBriooe The next time I saw her
and, except in the immediate neighbor.
hood of Peking, is an unknown |
luxury to this much enduring beast,
How vast is the number of camels thus
employed may be guessed from the fact
that during our day's journey we passed
more than eight hundred wending their
“*Guessed it the first time,”
exclaimed, hitening. +1
{srace, you should have gone
iaw instead of art. You'd
great on cross-examination.”
“Never mind, Mr. Woodson, vou
seem to forget that 1 prefer to make my
Woodson | READY POR HIM.
tell you,
into the
have been
apologize to a man when I throw a
bucket of water down the front steps
to wash em and he comes along and
getsdrenched. I've tried apologiz-
ing, but I've found there's nothing
you can say to a man will satisfy
“Grace,” he blurted out almost before
he Knew it, “I don't believe you see any-
thing. Excuse me, but [ don't ‘
youeverdid 1 don't believe
art: I don't believe your career; |
don’t believe in your independence!
You're simply spoiling the nicest girl in|
sand
§
believe
in your WHAT ABSORBED HER.
$e
ii
she
own career—we ve discussed that before,
however. And so you've been on this
train ever since [ have? she concluded,
reflectively
iv.
“A .
little longer, in fact.
the clothes. But now, see here, small
girl,” Woodson went on with great de-
liberation, shaking out his napkin into
his lap and gazing into the blurred, blue
depth of Miss Baxter's glasses, “See
here, now do you suppose just because a
girl jilts me—" Miss Baxter here inter
repeat it
a girl _.its me, and I have reason to be
lieve is going to the ends of the earth to
get where she will never see me again,
that my sense of responsibility ends till
go?! No, I've made New York unishab-
itable for you and 1 shall make what
nmmends I can by chaperoning you to
Colorado or Kamchatka or wherever it is
you are going. Now, what shall I order
for breakfast!"
‘Harry, you're cruel. You know Mr,
Fleming was going out there for the
color and I thought it wouid be a good
chance to continue my outdoor work,"
“Fleming? That prig! Well, 1didn't
know before that he was going. [I see
there is still more reason why I should
£0 now -—and stay."
“But I forbid you doing any such fool-
ish thing.”
“To tell the truth, Grace, I thought of
staying all the time—of going into some
business there,”
“Why, you never told me of it be-
fore.”
“Well, I never thought of it till after
1 left you Jant night,” Tatu it occurred
to me that I might nto sheep or
cattle or somethin like that, -
“At Manitou?”
“Why not?”
‘it’s a summer resort.”
‘So much the better, I'd only want
~ #0 be there in the summer, anyhow,”
Te maar ph gaphon
+ 1 can an an
wif you'll allow a ox
the world with it. You see everything
through Fleming's eyes. You see things
blue and pUeple because he does; aud
| ho—well, he sees things that way because
There, now, I
don't believe in it, 1'v0
said it, come.”
But it was not arranged that he should
finish what he had to say. He had
looked down to the ground where he sat
ins he spoke of Fleming. When he
looked up Grace was several feet away
from him, hurrying down the hill, with
| her head bow od
“I'm a brute—a miserable brute!"
| Woodson remarked to himself with con.
| siderable. force, as he watched her strid -
{ing toward the half-dry creek. *' But
| some one ought to have told, Her att is
tall foolishness. Look at Fleming,
even.
where he'd be if it wasn't for his teach.
ing. But I'm a brute, just the same——a
heartless brute,”
There was a plum thicket along the
creek, and after watching Grace disap.
sear within it Woodson set about pick-
ng up her sketching kit. This done, it
occurred to him that it would be a proper
penance on his part to wash her Washer
~hie had always hated dirty brushes so,
Gathering them up he started toward the
creek. When he got there he could seo
no signs of Grace. Could it be that any-
thing had happened to her? The thought
made him catch his breath for a moment.
He knew she was impulsive—capable of
any rash move in a moment of excite.
ment, Then he beard a stirring in the
plum Siuleiiut aod he Shine face to face
upon her ina little opening, crying softl
TL. pening, crying ¥
“Grace,” he called, “why, what's the
matter? I know I'm a brute, but I didn't
think you'd take it so.”
“Oh, can't you help me?” she pleaded,
and began ping about and feeling
aimlessly with her hands, ;
He saw that her hair was loosened and
that her wrists and face were scratched
and bleeding in a Pg
“Why, what's the r 1" he queried
again, as she came g toward him
aad stumbled mn
the plains of Chili,
soda-soap, a Kind of animal alkali or lye
found on the borders of Mongolia, and
i pounds. At no time is the camel & pre.
possessing object. But here uature pro.
vides him with so shaggy a covering that
‘his ungainly form becomes even more
hideous.
for padding clothes, is an article of con.
| siderable
{ blasts, the herdsmen of
shear their camels by a process which
| preserves the merit of extreme simplicity,
i pulling out by hand whatever has not
we shed naturally, Many animals are
| wool, but the amount obtaisable from
huge bulk of the producer. A heavy
fleece taken from a full-grown chmel will
seldom average over seven dollars, while
eight dollars is a high price for the picul
of 183 pounds. — [Century
sia
Milk Powder,
The recent invention of a German
agriculturist is attracting attention as a
convenient substitute for condensed milk.
He claims to have solved the problem of
p serving milk in a solid state for an
ndefinite period. His milk powder,
specimens of which have been exhibited
at agricultural exhibitions in Germany,
is Jrepared from skim milk, and it is
said to contain about thirty per cent, of
albuminous matter, or about seven per
cent. more than meat of good quality,
powder is easily soluble in four or
fe) of hot ar: and ean be used
with great case for reparation of
cocon aud other Devore] or incor
porated with flour for confeo.
tionery and the like. In case
the invention turns out to be all that is
claimed for it, this will create au in.
creased demand Jor lik and lauugurate
new industry that o but prove
advan 9 the farmer, —{ American
Dairyman.
eration this morning at church |
Mrs. Bronson—Very., But]
make
couldn't
Record.
SHE SPORE
domesticated.
She That's just it. If
had hysterics. —| Life.
The Loves of Arabs
The Arab loves as none but an Arab
can love, but he is also mighty excitable
An Arab sees a girl
would
ments,
COXCLUSIVE PROOF.
Bulfinoh—1 met your old friend Grey-
neck the other day.
Wooden-—1 want to know! Is he
married yet?
Bulfinch—-Well, yes, I guess he is,
He said I'd find him in the office almost
every evening.~| Boston Courier,
PROBABLY XOT.
Tom-—~When you promised to be a
“gister”’ to me, did you mean it in a
Ethel-How would that be ?
Tom-—To love your brother as your.
self. —([Truth,
THEY DO NOT SPEAK ANY MORE
She yawned, looked at the clock, pre.
tended she was sleepy, and in other ways
had given him to understand that it was
time to go. He felt nettled on observing
these signs of her desire to get rid of
kim, aud determined to have revenge,
“Won't you sing something for mef”
he asked. '
“Sing at this time of night! Why
didn't you ask me boforet hy do you
want me to sing now{”
“Well—er-~the fact is I want to be
reconciled to leaving you."—[ New York
Pw
FOR A RAINY DAY.
Little Tot—Mamma, let us do out and
our money. ‘
Mamma No, dear; it's ng.
Little Tot—But did't you aay We
Should save up for a rainy dagt- [Cloak
a
He thinks of nothing else, cares
dreams of nothing else but the girl
ection, he pines
and dies,
In order to commence his suit he sends
for a member of the girl's tribe 'who has
access to the harem, and first insuring
his secrecy by a solemn oath, confesses
his love and entreats his confidant to ar.
range an interview,
The confidant goes to the girl, gives
her a flower or blade of grass, and
says: “Swear by Him who made
this flower, and us also, that you will
not reveal to any one that which I am
about to unfold to you.”
If the girl will not accept the proposal,
she will not take the oath, but, neverthe:
less, keeps the matter perfectly secret
from all. If she is favorably disposed to
the match, she snswers: “I swear by
Him who made the flower you hold, and
us,” and the place and time of mecting
are settled,
The oaths are never broken, and it is
not long before the ardent lover becomes
the happy husband.
A A
The Hogshead,
It has been that as skins and
hides formerly ! ry 4 hditien and
vessels for carrying liquors,
or hogshide was Sh
same capacity us a lquor-containing ves.
sel made of the skin or hide of a
Others tiiink it may have been ‘ox. i
from which the word was derived As
the Dutch and Scandinavians called this
kind of a cask by some equivalent of
oxhide, there is probability that
a terribly weak condition
Ny appetite was all
Wit tired all the
time, had disagreeable
noises in my
in my stomach.
shout Hood's Sarsaparil.
All the disagreeable ef. ¥e8 W.looa.
and aches, and believe Hood's Sarsapariils is
HOOD’S CURES
surely curing my catarrh. 1 recommend iL te
Gro. W. Cook, 8t. Johnsbury, Vi.
MOODS PILLS cage Constipation by restor
ing the peristaltic action of the alimentary canal,
Young
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Roby Confinement of its
Pain, Horror and Risk,
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