CUPID IN THI RAIN,
Just a lttle cloud with
Casting shadows o'er the blue
liae
Where they stood
“It “deal,
Let us
in the wood.”
whispered,
here
will rain.” he
find a shell
Then the siivery drops came down,
Yq
Smote t
GF the tree;
But the suugl
Watched the
Lovingly
he swaying
And he held her th
Why? True lovers i
This 1 know
When the sun peeped
Pretty
f.onth to &
from t
malden seemed so shy
ere the tw
After birds began to
For an hour
And she wlhis
“Who Eunows,
Anothet
“Pid you ever give
medic Dr. phe rs
kim as at chat
gery, where
me to man)
his early carve
most medica
that Kind at
Macpherson
“1 do not
once
LAC,
Wer
gave ut
I had |
lookir
of the
body
ces, aud |
bility tha
Jain,
When [I oped
ft was
Soy, breathl
thar [ wus
address
that
iL
he
hous
half an
have
rivals
“The boy looked sut
» the only
sald, wh
for it tended to
conring known in
“(yf conrse,
the lad
he knew
ing
that
rivals
started, ©
on the f ]
cessary. includn
which I might
my patient in ore
pot imn.cdinte
“I had
were mad» necessary by)
and RE Nn
ther:
ths
|
fusTare he went
“As | approached the
surprised to find it in comp
pes, and I could not help
whether I had been m
of a practical joke, especially when my
pine ut the bell remained unanswered
I bad expected to find the house lighted
up, and everybody on the alert. await-
ing my appearance; and I was pre
pared with dn apology for my intrusion
when [ heard steps descending the
stairs and coming along ball in
answer {o my second ring
“I'he door was opened by a genial
looking ell gentleman in a flowered
dressing gown, who carried a lamp in
fis hapd, and Irs fist words set my
mind at rest so far as my fears of a
hoax were concerned.
“ ‘Oh, you are the doctor, I suppose?
he sald, ‘Will you walk upstairs,
please? 1 am sorry that you bad to
come so far. 1 thought he would be
able to iad a medical man much nearer
er. Surely there are some?
“Yes, but your messenger did not
gppear to know them,’ | answered; and
the od gentleman murmured some- |
thing about a doctor always being
ready for a new patient, as he led the |
ly red
concluded
pace] wel
fare, getting to the adidre
boy had oi
copied down in
Yen on
AWAY
MMR I
dark
wondering
ide the vietim
3
the
way into a room on the first floor at |
the back, and placed the lamp on the!
table. 1 glanced around the place
quickly. expecting to sce some sign |
of the person I had to attend, i
“rhe room was comfortably, almost
pandsomely, furnished ax a sitting
oom, and contained a cheerful-looking |
fire, before which two armchairs were
4rawn up, with a small table between
‘hem, containing two glasses, a syphon
of soda water, besides a box of cigars,
But there was no sign of a patient.
= wrake your great coat off and sit!
down, sald the old
lean put your things
F suppose you will not
f root? 1 can recommend
“He had seated
armchairs as he
‘Pardon me, |
fhiment, ‘hut
gentleman;
the table,
« hject to a che
(it
the cheroots
himself in one of the
in Ke
said, in considerable
had |
ilo
looked up, ans if surprised at my
DeLLer Dot sey
stonis
before | anyvihing olwe
» tient
todd In greater nry than
ir he looked quite a pleture of
and
You Ww
he smiled good-natured
ill sit down 1 1 tell
health
‘i you
% the matter wit
clidly as before
an standing w
vou do no!
will eateh cold
You docto
exer
wv bs dong
=i ii
and plain liviz
one af
Cheroots indeed, ox
cellent
‘At the end of
But
me
half an hour I re
pleaded
aA ent
we 16
or
go
with
my st pation
range
#0 earnestly to an
other fee and stay half
that
him
an o
ie heart
A fresh idea occurred to me.
‘I will stay condition,” 1
sald; “that you lie down and let me try
to get you to sleep.” 1 felt that if |
could succeed in doing =o | should have
done something to justify my visit
and should be able to get
I scarcely had ti to leave
on one
ing a possible remunerative patient,
place of his chair.
am off” he said, and, feeling pretty
“{ began by reading aloud to him in
a soft, monotonous tone which 1 bad
generally found effective, and at the
gemioman jumped up, wide awake,
and, fishing in his pocket, produced an-
other half sovereign.
“You must not forget your fee, he
#aid, as he lay back again at full length
on the couch; ‘please go on, It 18 ver,
soothing.’
I wan getting desperately sleepy my-
self, and more than ever anxions to
succeed and get away, when my pa
tient roused himself again suddenly.
* “This won't do,” he sald, quite anx-
fously. ‘If I go to sleep, how on earth
shall 1 know what | owe you?
me, I said
the reading
Hike compiets
HA
trust that
continuead
Yon
shortly,
oan to
nid
again, with what seemed
till ut o'clock
jumped up as lvely ne over
ith u
fle
pre tinte
NIC ORN, patient
to present
Hie Ww
iy fourth fee,
witht of sts
vitd 1 wa
deeply the promise
me from
his fate
}
ii
leaving th
and
getting
sponzes Are Rising
f *he war in
Mas
#
af t
uban
alsin
fiw
RIMSII ew
tha furnis third eof
the cur
fo put
advancing
os gi: 2
hat
helps
bey
» KPOnges tis
of that
prices that
pi.ment supply
have
Supply
y from Florida, Cols, Nassau,
Mexico and the Mediterranean, Ordi
narily about two-thirds of the supply,
in value, comes from American waters,
The demand for sponges has ine
creased paturally, while the world's
supply hax not Kept pace with it. It
has within recent years actually di-
owing to care.ess methods
of fishing and to overfishing to supply
the increased demand,
The sponge of slow growth. It
takes two or three years for it to attain
a commercial size. In all countries in
years The of sponges
In
Inwe against the pulling of litte
sponges until they have reached a cer
against the taking of lobsters and of
some fishes under specified siges «New
York Journal,
A New Telephone.
Edison's new telephone, a sam
ple of which he has given to Li Hung
Chang. does away with the receiver,
and permits a business man to carry on
a conversation at a distance of a few
feet from the instrument, which is
placed against the wall of a room,
without leaving his desk or touching
the instrument, which works automat.
ically.
The town of Marblehead, in Masan-
chusetts, gained its name bécause the
white Jmutz which is so plentiful on
the headlands Jooks like marble from
a distances,
#
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
« representod
Profes
Homan Cat
105,000,000)
The leading religions ai
hy
the following figures
(Christian
1
stint
OH HNN (HN): 10
(rock Cnt!
O50. 000.000 total (Third
Helrrows
100M) HY
Fotal
tins, HO
Mohnmmedan
S10. 00M)
JIMMIE NG
ical
Hon-t nt
Wasldngton
glect, for whic
New York ase
Jackeon county
CIrTONeGiEs
i the early democrats
responsible, there is 1
in this Nate
4
Germany i= inereasing x production
Rome of its coal is sold in the
markets, to
Colum
Australia, Japan and Great Bri
Indian and Japanese coal i= said
conntry
and Oregon
iritish
from
Far East. They are both inferior
steam producers, but are very cheap
make a
as
Russia is trying to sap
ply her Black Sea flec: with coal from
Khe bas a duty of 40
mported coal, but even
that rate is nnable to keep it out of the
country.
One result of the increased attention
paid of late years to the ariny aml na.
vy is that it is Jess difficult to keep the
ranks full, and full, too, of the best ma.
terial. The army lacks less than 400
of He full quota of 25,000, and the same
number ix to be made up to secure to
the navy Hts 12.000, Tie admiral in
charge of the enlisted men in the navy
states nlzo that not since the early days
of the navy has there been so large a
percentage of the men American citi
zens, while the personnel is far higher
than it bas been, and the enlisting offi-
vers find it mush easier to keep the
lists full. When all the now ships are
complete there will be nesded 16,000 in-
stead of 12,000.
The Chicago Inter-Ocenn says: It
would appear that at length a remedy
has been discovered for lebrosy. It
consists of powder from the bark of a
tree known as the hoang-nah, which
grows only on the mountains that sep
amte the kingdom of Annam frora the
Chinese province »f Jeos Jt js weing
used with much soccess and offi
in the leper hospitals of the
nutes tl
wit
he SUrprise
ned when Seo
i oniiestants
socomds of win.
ince bis advent
he
arateur tour
veel +1
ircles this season brie
entered in pearly all the
eastern Ohlo and western
and generally carries
away a large share of the prizes
At the annual bicycle meet in 8Bharon,
Penn. on Aug. 25, be rode a half mile
on a heavy track io 1:07. Scott gov
SINS by two large hooks
that are tightly elasped to the handle
pars and firmiy attached to bis stubas
of arms, He has wonderful control of
his machine. and an handle it with
the same skill as an expert who i=
physically sound. In guiding his wheel
he does not depend so much on the
use of his artificial arms as he does on
the artful movements of his legs and
body. Beott has issned a challenge to
ride any armless bicyclist a series of
one, two, five and ten mile races.
A HT HMA AAA
Whiskers at Fourteen.
Fd Jenkins ia a fourteen-yearold boy
living in Garrard County, Kentucky.
whose claim to distinction ix based on
the fact that he has a fully developed
black mustache that many a man of
thirty would be proud to boast. The
boy was hardly ten years oid when the
fur began to sprout on his upper lip.
Contrary to the usage of boys he did
not ehcourage its growth by surrep-
titiously shaving. He never put a
razor to his face, but the hair needed
no encouragement and continged to
grow and become darker, tintil the
mustache was thick aad long. The re
markable feature is that the boy is
not particularly developed beyond his
years in any other way. He is not
ahove the average in height or weight,
fie sill wears knoe “pasts” and it is
a ’ weer sight to see the kid fumbling
« Js mustache and curling the euds,
Liz hicycie
Ta
uf this
e
enith Heo that
Care of your BABIN,
ir Ylood is pure petite good and allthe
rans in a henithy Hood's Bares
ariiin is and blood
{
the great ul Tigi 1
ino and arefore it ly the
ine med
Ng med)
medicine (0 ta. fn this fall, when the
sphere 15 laden with &isease gonns (rom
ving wert gid
ing vegotatl
tie
Sarsaparilla
fae hee 8
Hood's Pills is res family cathary
Napoleon's Attempt at Suicide,
Sympathy and
+
thes he wears
the wearing ap
Never judge a man
form your estimate
pare] of his wife
BRAVE SPIRITS BROKEN.
be §
ge
r
How often women wake up in “he
morning cheerful and happy, deters
mined to do so much bejore theday
ends, and yet
Before the morn-
ing is very old, the
dreadful BACK-
ACHE appears,
the bravespirit
sinks back in
affright; no
matter how
hard she strug
gles, the
“elute” 8
upon her,
she falls
upon the
couch, ory.
ing:='* Why
should 1 suf-
fer wo?
What can 1
do?"
Lyi in E
Pinkham's
“Vegetable
Compound ”
will stop the
torture and
restore courage.
All such pains come from a derangsd
viernes, Trouble in the womb blots
ont the light of the sun at midday to
®& vast number of women.
Be advised-—do as many others have
done and are doing procure Lydia EB.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound =
ohee, and commence without delay to
realize thapelief it is sure tobring you
i