es
foe os ans
ALL'S WELL WITH THE SHIP,
As the ship speeds beneath the silent
sky,
O'er the vast expanse of the moon
lit sea,
And one lies quiet lstening dream-
ily, :
How sweet it
man's ory:
, “All's well—the lights are burning
bright!" : |
And then to sleep in safety thro’ tae
night.
is to hear the watch-
When the ship fights her
steadfast way,
+ Amid the sounds of tempest and of
rain,
"Tis sweet hear the
voice again,
As one lies sleepless,
day:
“All's well
bright!”
what a
night!
to watchman's
longing for the
the lights are burning
Ab, comfort in the stormy
Three lamps there are—Faith
and Chard
Which may light
souls from harm,
"In our long voyaging through storm
and calm;
And sweet it is,
sea,
To hear
the might,
Whisper: “All
burning
— Mary E.
Times-Democral.
ty,
we to keep our
while on life's restless
the
Conscience, in
watcher,
8 well, —the lights are
bright!
New Orleans
Simms, in
THE LUMP OF COAL.
A Marine Episode That Thrills.
The cattle-boat Goshawk's midday
sights had shown her to be in latitude
346 de
itude,
12 degrees 34 minutes south by
grees 4: minut long
which meant that she was coming up
to that dan f reefs
and rocks
Shoals.
them was
1861, and
ed changes
#ince then
the deep, the coral
Grimshaw was very
vive so long as his
neighborhood. PF
ter-mariner, he de
either Laart
Light itself.
But if the cap!
particular patch
ons relating to
engineer did
"ey west
collection
the
hich
nn a French 1
y amount of unrecorid
have been wrought
ninute
insect, i
much on
ship was in
or, being a wise 1m
pended but little on
or the Abr
Lerous Oo
Abrolhos
covered
own as
chart w
i
survey
as nl
at mason of
aptain
qui
the
3
the
od»
the « hos
iin did not fancy this
of for r
navigation, the
for purposes of his own
In short, ne n the
insurance mouey and a couple of
ared pounds for Limself somew
the vicinity. It was an
cality for a plausible story
CGoshawk rauniong
shoal and sinking as
deep water. So when he was relieved
of his half watch at 6 o'clock bs
chief engineer, he went straight to the
engine-room me table for his tea,
carefully forgetting his blue
where it ng a rail the for
ward side of engine-room bulk
head. Having taken hastily and
sparingly of bad tea and potato
iash supplied, he turned into his own
room, locked the door, and arranged
a pair of trousers to bang so that
of the legs u cover the Key
Then he Kopel not exactly
prayer, his sea chest, and pro
ceeded to unpack it, till at length
reached a small wooden box with a
sliding top. At first sight it did not
appear why his hand should tremble a
little as he pulled the lid aside and
drew from its well-wadded cradle a
very common-place lump of coal
It was exactly like any other piece
of coal about the size of a large fist
say the mate's—and it had all the jetty
sparkle and shine of the newly broken
article. The only difference
it and the other lumps in the bunkers
wag that $200,000 worth and a few
men's lives lay in its nascent possibil-
ities,
On closer inspection. however, it re.
vealed one little peculiarity, a little
square projection such as any lady or
gentleman who does not use a «tem
winder may see in his watch any night
of the week. Tom Tudor's own watch
key, which he now tried upon it
pee if everything svas in proper work
ing order, fitted it exactly as a matter
of fact,
“Another hour and it will be pretty
pearly dark. That will be my time,”
he thought to himself with anything
but a fiendish chuckle. As yet he was
considerably removed from the villain
teres atque rotundus of a sanguinary
fiction. Of a truth he was
at the moment of a curious sickness,
a tickling In his stomach which not
éven the recent potato stew could ac
count for. No,
the sea Cas
third
hoped to ear ship's
hun
here ia
lo
about ti
uncharted
she backed into
excellent
we
on some
¥ »
fin
“%
incket
hu on on
the
par
the
one
ight
Hg hole,
s
though in
beside
he
bet
to
and death—and the captain's daugh-
ter. Curse the captain's daughter!
When he had entered into this nefari-
ous contract with certaln unnamable
people at home, he had not counted
on this disturbing element, That he,
pard-hearted and hard-headed scoun-
drel as he was, should feel this im.
mense tenderness for a pretty ailing
girl, away with Ler father for a voy-
age on account of her health, was an
aberration beyond all calculation, Was
it love? It worried and pricked him,
and it. awakened old unwelcome
chords in the atrophied sense of fit.
ness which had been his consclence,
Yes, it was love, and--bless Alice, the
's daughter!
“If she hadn't been so hard on me
last night I could never have done it,”
ran his thoughts, waking a fierce ten-
dérness in his sallow, handsome face,
“A touch of ber hand and the Gos
bawk would have stemmed the
Thames River again! Suppose the
There are sharks about! I don't mind
sending an old fireman or a trimmer
But the flop of the
her sweet body!
can't do it after all!”
He bent his forehead against the
raised ld of his trunk. “But I'm talk-
ing meeting house rot, The cursed
is calculated to give
an hour. ‘There'll be lots of time
clear except the
from the stokehole. Then the weath-
er's quiet, and we're right in the track
of ships—certain to be picked up with.
in forty-eight hours.”
He dandled the Clack his
mass on
“Five turns of the key, and then five
minutes the explosion, every
turn a minute! If I push the job
through I'll never tackle another. By
the powers I wish we were all safe in
the boats!”
He replaced the grim handful of
doom in its cradle again, replaced it
in its box, and went up to the windy
deck. The heat below laid a fiery
hand on his throat and braino.
A slice of young moon, with
attendant stars, slowly climbed loto
luminance against the last ardors of
sunset, he leaned moodily
against the deckhouse,
How the miserly hour
golden coin of minutes and fled!
‘ime-time, time-time, time, time,”
sang the watch bell monstrously soon.
“It's got to muttered
pefore
a few
ns
the
caught up its
he
as he stepped
moonlight along
be done!”
teeth,
insteadily out of the
the engine-gpoin passage
unpacked the fatal lump.
five fl and
the
once more
turned
Key me with a
heart
engine-room,
breast
descended
the
the
foose
“Hullo,
sang out
the rails and tried the
Tudor. jacket?"
the el
Forgot your
ef, as he stooped over
heat of his bear
ings,
“Aye.” replied tl
hie passed.
Ia the fierce tunnel of light one
of the open furnaces the nude stokers,
and a trimmer piling forward the coal
them from behind, like
nes of some Eastern legend. Poor
1A chatter like the of a
sewing-machine fry in his
breast seemed to chant thelr requiem
He slipped the black thing of evil
of the boilers,
ie third engineer, as
from
seemed
chaps sound
sin the thing
below an end of
caught up bis
Under the shadow
li he
expectancy, awaiting
gone! * * % Three!
Then little
forward out
it
one
and ran on deck.
of of the
sick with terrible
the end with his
jacket
one after
febonts stood,
figure in white came
darkness the
captain's daugh-
a
of the of
poopdeck, was the
ter.
“Is 1
hat you. Mr. Tudor?’ said,
she
sweetly,
“Yeu
minutes
he replied hoarsely. Three
and a half
“1 want to tell
for being nasty
I didn’t mean it’
Alice, Alice!
‘an you love
gone
how sorry 1
yu last nig
You
with Xi
K.
gis for pity’s wake
{
7 Quick,
tired
he evel 4 Lie
That's all «this
Put that
What a question’
But in her he
sweeter than silver
Mr.
pock
hurry about.
wor? wateh
in your
face saw sometring
moonlight
* + * Four minutes
the
which revealed it.
and a half!
With a bound he was in the
in, slipped noiselessly past the
chief, who did him, his back
being turned. caught up the accursed
thing under his iacket, and like a flash
tore up to the deck again.
With all his strength he threw the
Lump of Coal far into the dimpling
and sank the deck, the per
spiration ranning from every pore.
Then with a terrific rattling thunder
an immense flower of fire arose out of
the deep, a great, sudden billow
snatched at the ship, heaved her aloft
like a cork,
into the moonlit
still,
» passage
aga
not see
Reg, on
distances. Then all
was save for the
again,
The whole ship's
peering on deck in
slarm. The captain
bridge beside the mate
some orders unheeded,
But ssbody except the
company
a dazed state of
sprang on the
the shadow of the deckhouse,
came to her, His wild
his sudden question, the
fn his hand, his mad, headlong race be.
low, all was clear now.
Unnoticed In the general panic,
eyes,
She touched
shoulder and he
white face.
“1 know it all, Tom,” she said brok- |
enly. “May God help us both.”
“Ciod help us? You help me,
Your love could save me yet,
haps.”
“I loved you all along.
this" she sobbed.
Presently she spoke again,
“Now get up and go below, This
must never be suspected, even by my
father. It will be safe with me, 1
still love you enough for that” He
kissed the skirt of her dress and press.
ed her hand Ide a benediction on his
head.
When Captain Grimshaw reported
the phenomenal seismic disturbance
he bad encountered In the neighbor.
hood of the Abrolhos Reef, It created
a considerable sensation in the scien.
tific world. And from the records of
the registry in a certain church, with.
in bearing of Bow Bells, there Is the
best of reason for supposing that Alice
per-
But after
lowed the best opportunities for saviug
the soul of the third ehjineqr,
HE LOST ALL.
|
i
| Tacluding that Winsome Crenture
the Lovely Birdy
Jones,
It was the first perfect day of the
| glad springtime. The warm sun bright.
ened the country landscape, aud the
j odor of opening apple blossoms came
{upon the laden atmosphere. The lazy
clouds floated dreamily in the sky
i overhead, chiefly because they could
{not go afoot nor on the trolley cars,
The rural roads were smooth under
the hammer of innumerable wheels,
and Clarence Wheeler had stolen Birdy
Jones from her haughty Soho home
for a ramble on his "87 tandem among
the highways of the township.
Stopping from their run, they
beneath a big oak which over.
hung a wayside spring. Cowbells tin
{ kled in the wood lot below the mead
ow, and little lambs with wobbly legs
three sizes too big for them gamboled
on the short green grass. On a broad,
flat stone that looked down upon the
crystal water Birdy spread the lunch
they carried in the tandem box, and
Clarence brought water in a romantic
can that had been found hard by.
The soft winds toyed with the girl's
bleached tresses, which streamed over
her face like a photogravure picture of
the west wind to Hlustrate Longfel
low's poems. ler cheeks flushed with
the vigor of exercise and robust health.
and when man approached
her from the 1g his whole thought
was centered upon the winsome beauty
of the divine creature
He sat down by le. His soul
drank in the charm of the picture,
She looked up from the can of pot
ted beef that she was opening, with a
smile confident approval her
young face. Suddenly ber eye
and the flush of young
hood gave way to a ghastly p
lip curled in Her cls
was lifted in
“Merciful
young 1
what is t
rested
tree
the young
“pri
her sl
of on
rindi
kindled
woman-
Her
hecd
FOosyY
; sllor,
BOON FRE
anger
heaven!”
“Tell
matter?”
But she stepped back
the at that
the Soho amateur
pointed her
shrieked th
od
@
dearest girl,
he
and, striking
had learned at
dramatic club. she
finger at him and sald In
tones that would wither a load of hay
“All is lost Wheeler: vou
' ; 3 Sr Eth
sitting | th ple!” Pitts
titude lie
Clarence
burg
'»
are
Times, —
An Expensive Lesson,
“My wife has ay of
nemory that | hardly
hy with,” said Smith
smile, ns he filed away his last
il.
“About a
parng to come
me a letter with the
stre and m it at
that | o I promised,
the away in my
don’t forget
i 2
aw
am
with a sorry
month's
gas |
ns 1
down town she
month ago was pre
handed
yon
mail box
put
injunct to Iw
hie
the
ail first
v a fed
came ang
fter
1
"we
‘Now
pocket
called af
she
‘as the letter is ve
‘1 won't,” 1 answerad
away proceeded to
“The ay I «
ing my
surprised coming
that had
four wiore
ahe
Coryroe
iorg
other d hanoeed
through when
by
wife
)
pockets
aoeross the letter
my given me to mall
Ren
very
a
weeks | that
important |
was
wmbering
wad said it
glancowd
add rossed
“1 was thunderstruck to find that it
was addressed to Thinking that
my have taken leave of het
senses 1 tore it open and found a note
that read
Wis
at it to see lo whom 8
me
wife must
thus
“The gas leaking In the base
ment. Please send a man up to fix iv’
“I don’t remember what I said when
I charged home and found that the
gas was still Jeaking., but all the sat
isfaction I got out of my wife was
that she thought I would remember
{to post the next letter she me,
and I believe | will;"—De Free
Press,
is
save
troit
The Fading of the Sabstance,
“John Billus, I found this photo
graph in the inside pocket of an old
vest of yours hanging up in the closet
| I'd like an explanation, Whose is it?”
“Can't you it's an old picture,
Maria? What's the use of stirring up
memories that--"
“1 want to know whose picture that
is.”
“Rather a pleasant-faced girl,
she?”
“1 want to know her name
“No jealous fury in that
tenance, is there?”
“Whose is it?
“It's a portrait of a girl 1 used to
think a great deal of, and"
“Her name, sir?’
“Well, you sat for it yourself, Ma.
i ria. about nineteen years ago. but, to
tell the truth, 1 always did think the
‘pleasing expression’ was a little over
| dome. Put on your spectacles and look
iat it again, mil then compare it with
| the reflection in that mirror over there
and see — what are yon getting mad
| about? Waverley Magazine,
Ree
isn't
coun
Astonished.
“In Europe.” remarked the indignant
immigrant. “such a thing as a bath
tub is unknown in the houses of the
poor.”
The indignant native stood aghast,
“Why, where then, do they keep
their coal In winter?" he demanded,
incredulously.
“The fact is, necessity has ma
those foreigners more adroit in mw
agement than we are.”
|
Discretion.
“Ho you think they'll send Oom Paul
an ultimatum,” sald one diplomat.
“1 shouldn't be surprised,” answer
ed the other, It's a great deal safer
than sending soldiers.’ "=~ Washington
Star,
The American locomotive seems to |
be crowding the American bicycle in
ers. .
It is a good thing to consider the |
humble penny. One cent often can
be made to do much good. The gov- |
ernment should provide an abundance |
of small change,
As illustrative of the power of elee-
tricity and the press, how Ligh would
the peace conference be in the ab-
sence of the cable and the press ?
What is wanted between the United
States and Great Britain is. not an
alliance, but a state of mind.
state of mind at present seems to be
all right.
At the present rate of progress in
railroad consolidation ten years hence,
instead of having nearly fifteen hun-
dred independent railroads, we will
probably Lave two hundred, or a less
number,
On the other si
ie there i3 a univer-
sal wail over the great diminution of
salmon in both English and Beottish
rivers, In the meantimesaliion were
never so plentiful the Columbia
aud other Pacific
in
CORAL Blrealns,
It bas already come to pass that the
was related to the late
war by marriage any other way
uses it as a point yhich to date
events. “That happened before the
war,” and “Since the ex
pressions that appear fre in
her conversation
woman who
or
fi om
witr”' are
ently
1° a »
The §
cost less than
n 1890 cost 811
stood that ¢
rather me
and it
shoul
rat in 1790
The last
it is under
national
27 #3 O00
SO 1H)
«tI
one
he census of 1900 will be
the tone,
it
las
tual
$113
than
estimated
wre limited
therefore
cos
is
any more at least,
art
world
rity in every
uperio
becoming rec
ound, A =
indication
awarded
dispatch from Sweden,
that Swedish
extensively
““the excellence
seems 0
is zed
ar
the
embarrassing
appreciation
i
ninas
states
Rew nas
gh
American skill is give
which
are being
and that
gunterfeit
l
p Ries Were
bank notes
rfeited
of the
prove that the
Aw an"
Counts
made in
eri
ted recently to the
Trade sh
Sere wears en
d
Statistics presen
English Board of
Great Britain th
1881 1,748 954
domestic Servants,
only the lar
but largest
either men
sw that 1a
ployed in
girls as
that not
industry,
industry for
woe an
making
women's
single
or woten,
gest
the
Ata a meeting of
E AlDers:
was decided Parliament to im-
pose a heavy tax on all bac
forty years old, The p
such measure is said t
for the Chamb
resort it
sequently
i %
HEeRY
men
i
id recently, it
mid
:
He.class w
fLireacs, oi
4
to ask
belors over
“Age of any
likely,
ie the chief
Lon
in
as
bet fini
er has be
bachelors
do r
tax would kh
Of
it Lie
dy,
After a convict has served out hi
time in the State prison of Maine ane
bas donned the suit of clothes given
to him by the State Le is required to
sit for his phe tograph, and it is Kept
for futur auld his subsequent
career only
the pi int itment
has has often
been inter
Fears.
®
i
nse, sho
for it
ture taken
been kept,
found of
Heretofore
upon Ct
and
little avail
call
this
in
he Russian government has de-
creed that women having completed
the necessary courses of study aud ob-
tained their diplomas shall have the
right to practise as doctors with ex-
actly the same statue and rights as
are accorded to men. This is a great
event in a country where, up to the
present, the emancipation of women
has been a dead letter,
——— SRR EAS Pa—
The Prussian Government is about
to start sewing schools for the peas.
ants, not the fancy needle -work school
familiar in America, but glove sewing
schools, It appears that while nearly
$1,000,000 worth of gloves are made
in Breslau each year the gloves have
to be sent to Austria and Belginm to
be sewed, the German girls never
having acquired the knack,
The automobile will be a public
blessing if it succeeds in completely
displacing horses 1n cities,
a great deal of sentimental talk about
the affections of man, but it will not
weigh much against the fact that his
disappearance from the streets will
result in bettering the general health
by making it possible to keep thor-
oughfares clean, and that there will
be a material addition to comfort by
rendering city stables unnecessary,
An English youth of fourteen years
batting. His name is A. E J. Col-
ling, and hie isa slip of a Ind who is
batting was 628, not out. It wasn
remarkable performance, and it re.
quired the youngster to bat seven
hours, The highest batting score the
famous Dr. Grace ever made was
400 runs, and up to young Collin's
score the largest number of runs
made by a single batter in a game
waa the 485 of Stoddart, a well-known
player. Itremains to be seen whether
ilins is simply a ‘phenom’ or the
promise of a great cricketer,
The diet of Hesse, the diminutive
ity which has so
long Long maiained a et
putation, Las
requiring
just passed » oi MA
Uachaiors to ay ents ie
per oent, more income tax
married men, The learned conncil-
ors declare that this is not so much
a penalty inflicted upon bachelorhood
ad a remission granted to married
| mor The home, they assert, is the
unit of national life and bachelors can
| not have homes—only domicils. The
men who incur the expense and labor
| of founding homes, and thus con-
tributing to the well-being of the
{state by rearing future citizens,
| should, iw the opinion of the diet, re-
| ceive special consideration.
It seems that, after all. much of the
public alarm as to the danger of the
| spread of tuberculosis throngh
drinking of milk is unnecessary.
some vears the officials at the New
Jersey experimental station have been
observing several tuberculous cows,
formerly part of the station's herd,
| slauglitered, but were segregated and
studied, They find that the milk
analyzed again and again,
it,
| view produced clean
Be
points out
, these cows have
and healthful milk.
on this achievement
though no germs
the milk,
lias never
germs may be
and
another,
100, 1s10t vel pe
effect of t
milk contained any.
found in unsuspected
in one milking and not
The testing apparatus,
riected.
hese investigations,
ever, is to make the public
more comfortable as to its
supply,
COTNErs,
§
HOow-
Id
common school
and
sderstands the needs of the growing
child, says the San Francisco Chron
. Her intimate knowledge o
nature, her tender sympath
young, her comprehension ¢
Wolian
icle
child
for the
Ni
the nie i
thods by which the inf
unfolds, hier
short be all hie
which, in
ciassed nun
ternal in
a Lies
be
HA
ir herent qual
mother, may
bead of the 1
maid or
der
wh 4
stint
LINCS
the
ines
perform the
it On
ninety
are
direction of the ed
yonth, to
onnected with
¥
lone,
not only the
tion of
actual work «
the score of patience a
nine men out of
disqn
our
but
bundred
as teachers
and as a matter
ng men urn from the
repugnance, Jeaving
virtually in undisputed pos
the field.
every
n
aiilied to serve in
common schools,
of fact, most you
vocation with
women
on of
senn;
It is castomary to regard the North
American Indian as in process of ex-
but sulrect 18 ex
amined it is found that he holds his
own, and with each census
imeration a health v rate of increase.
It is expe oe that in the coming one
be will score a record of a quarter of
a million, taking in all the tribes re-
ceiving ihent support,
reach three
tinction, when the
shows
ent
(rover:
numbers may
thousand, In
of the Six Nations exceeds ten thou
sand; at the West4he Choctaws
ber over fifteen thousand, and
Creeks are not behind them, while
the Cherokees, the most civilized of
all, are werous, showing
census returns of more than thirty
thousand. In general, the tribes, in-
ad of diminishing, exhibit a rate
nerease pot differing !
from that of the
around them, The Indian thus sur
vives the buffalo, which was a chietl
»
i
nm
my
the most nun
ste
of
ages, and bids fair to wander
the aisles
Sam is willing
nologically
to support him,
JOKERS’ BUDGET. =
His Pleasant Outing.
I drink the mellowed alr,
I smile at Nature's winsome grace
And all her beauties rare,
usual frown
“4
RO:
What is it smoothes my
And bids the blues to
I've left my creditors in town
They can't afford to go.
— New York Ww orld.
Quite Apparent.
Mattie—I want you to know I don’t
Helen iglancing at
dear; I see you don't
Lier feeti—No,
Chicago News,
A Sure Way.
“lI am just thinking how I ean en
himself,”
“Give him a sharp knife and a
Chicago News,
school
Pleasing Qualities in Men,
ich suitor you
Clarissa?”
can't
like best
and Jack is so persistent
‘Wi are going to ac
“y decide. to save ma,
Harry is timid,
Puck,
His Good Reason.
I guess I'll resign
you, sir.
me,
wy
Tom
with
His Employer
when
my position
But why
You
do you want
to be
are about
gh
Tom
I'm
lecanse it's your dau
to be married to,
Be the Master.
ter
that about
will
Miss Passe—I'll feel
man who marries that
She's got a will of
Pert—Oh,
sorry for the
horrid Miss
her own.
wiste
a lawyer,
break
Ginger,
Miss
np mthy. jie
it'll be st
$
— Philadelp!
you needn't
8 engaged iO
range if he
pian Hed
A Dead Loss.
presume
can't
wore.
¥riend--1
learn to look
ho to No,
You see, there |
you
upon death
physicians
calmly.
never do that.
quite
we can
= Don
yore
af
ait
money to be
is dead. —~
got
New
from a
York
patient er Lie
Journal,
Compulsory Art
A Vish How f«
must be of having his portrait pal
Doctor No fie
those eleven picture im
Injustice.
md § husband
nted?
it; but
You
ents
Detrot
or our
’
hates
HA
were ins who
Free
Putting On Airs.
Particular oYung
seem have
Man—-Why.
1 don’t appetite,
Miss Edith
Her Brother
on should have
any
oh
mil.
ast
{ih thot
.
at break!
y
$4
this
seen her
morning wolfing cold sau-
ily
Following the Advice.
“Hannah,” exclaimed the
“swhat do yo putting
gages Sloper,
sires,
ai
oshes, galoshes and
u
into m
umbrellas”
“Wasn't it
that
day
mean by your
money ackint
advice, mum,
I put away all I could fur a rainy
mum "Detroit Free Press,
Fer ows
Unaccountabie.
he
is
Simply
What
? That
Mother
him
make
and
gays you
sick beth brutal
Yes:
but
and I haven't cooked
russes and
Daughter
him aanyth
or
g chalotte
where he was,
pectation is that he will stay there.
Boiling Eggs te a Hyma
Bishop Paret of Baltimore some time
was the guest of an Episcopal
family in West Virginia, says the
| Penny Magazine, Learning from the
Bishop that he liked hard boiled eggs
for breakfast, his hostess went to the
kitchen to boil them herself,
ARO
first of the well known
“Rock of Ages.” Then she sang
the second verse, the Bishop, who was
in the dining room, joining in. When
it was finished, there was silence, The
| lady herself came into the room a few
| minutes later, carrying the eggs, and
the Bishop remarked
“Why not sing the third verse?
“The third verse?’ she replied.
that's not necessary.”
“1 dont understand,”
Paret.
“Why. yon see, Bishop,” she replied,
“sehen | am cooking eggs | always
sing one verse for soft boiled and two
for bard boiled.”
the verse
hymn,
wx
“Oh,
replied Bishop
Prosrens of the New Woman.
ft Is getting to be no unusual sight
to see a woman seated in a boot.
Black's chair having her shoes shined,
{That has been one of the things that
men do that she has been slow about
trying. It would seem that the one
person in the city who must feel con-
«picuous is the one who is occupying a
big armchair while the crowds are
passing in the street. The woman who
wits thus by the side of the walk to
nave her tan shoes polished always
has a companion with her. Even the
bravest of women doesn't go slone
and read her paper.—-New York Sun,
In seven years’ time, If the present
programme is carcied out, the Mikado
will have at his disposal sixty-five
boats will have a speed of thirt: knots
i.
an hour. “h
:
i
were married. Judge,
Retiring.
First Reporter—I1've begun this politi-
cal statement by saving that it is on
the authority of a person of the first
Second Reporter
name?
First
Why not give his
Reporter—I'm too modest.
Like Hts Father.
“Charley, dear,” said young Mrs.
“ithe baby is trying to talk
“It's wonderful how be takes
after you!”
“What was he talking about?
“I think it must hase been pelitics.
He started very calmly, but in a few
minntes he was az angry and red in
the face gs he could be.”
Injustice.
“It's an nnmitigated libel”
the Filipino.
“What's the matter?”
“This writer says we have a lazy
climate. “I'H leave it to any unpreja-
diced thermometer maker and germ
expert to decide if we haven't one of
the most industrious climates in the
entire gazetteer.” — Washington Star,
A Query.
“1 should think the fire-fiy would
get tired lighting his lamps every min
ute.” said little Harry.
“But be doesn’t-he's very patient
and persistent,” replied Harry's
mother,
“That may be, mamma.” said little
Harry. “but where does he carry all
his matches? Harper's Bazar.
Her Mistake.
“Are you afraid to go down stairs
and look for that burglar?’ asked Mr.
Meekton's wife,
“Certaigly not. 1 am perfectly will
ing to go and look for him. But, Hen-
rietta, I'm afrald you have been mak.
ing a mistake with me all these years,
You ought to have developed my con-
versational powers more. After I find
the burglar 1 won't know what to say
to him. You'll have to stand at the
head of the stairs and do the talking.”
The inadequacy of Statistics
“To prove my love,” he cried, des
perately. “let me tell you during how
many weeks | have scarcely closed
my eyes ia sleep, during how many
days 1 have eaten only"
Here, with an imperious gesture, she
exclaimed
“Statistics prove nething!” she
Ab, but what a cold dictum! It y
like an icicle plunged luto his
bing Wart'-Detrolt Joummal