A DALLAD OF THREE KISSES,
BY POST WHEELER,
When first I kissed you, ‘twas full on
your mouth,
Red as a blackbird's cherry.
recall,
"T'was spring, the soft gir smelling of
the South.
The whole world gay and you
most of all,
You laughed that low, sweet, tender,
bird-like trill
Which made the
still,
You
gay
very bobolink be
When next I kissed you, "twas upon
the cheek,
Molded just round enough.
autumn then,
And you were graver grown,
not speak,
But seemed In
of men.
And vet you smiled. So
it was
That
us.
"Twas
and did
wonder at the
Vays
dear a smile
it seemed sudden summer over
When last I kissed
of-Gold,
My lips just brushed vour forehead
You
And it was winter
old,
fut at
vou, dearest Heart
were sad,
the love swelled
fierce and glad;
then 1 felt yon
fall
Two great, slow tears.
best of ali!
touch, my
For tremble, and saw
Ah, that was
The Ghitian’s 0am.
The city of Valparaiso is one of the
most important upon the Pacific coast
Take them altogether, the
Chili
seem best adapted for reg
ernment of any in South
the common people are of a
vengeful nature,
find favor In thelr eves
eyed
and Yankee sail
\
people 0
show the mos uterprise
dark
and few foreigners
But with the
maidens of Chill it is dif
ws always like
iio “Valperais for a cruise
we, and ar hanny I
generally
Ned Wilton
1
, wr, which
Intnded
had
and stove in her qu
the South Pacific. It
Job to refit, and, as
“Old Man”
shore, Ned
drink,
Wis a two weeks
Nedd was a man to
be trusted, the
froo
of a
gave him a
ran wasn't
man to
was
on mucl
108
aml most of his
ime spent in rambling about
the beantiful mountain slopes, gettin
getting
acquainted the
on
with dark-eved beau
ties of the city and country, aud enjoy
ing himself generally.
exploring the country
One day while
ten miles to the
he
tracted by the sound of volees loud in
north and east of the city was nt
dispute, and thet came 1 woman's ory
for help.
Ned
where
Dashing through the bushes
came out in a little open space,
he saw a beautiful girl, whom
he had met at a fandango In
raiso, struggling in
dark-looking Chilian.
not a villain, ought
quarrel with his face,
“See here, my man,” said Ned.
better drop it, or you may
#et yourself into trouble.”
“That advice might be as well ap
plied to yourself, senor,” replied the
man, with a dark, savage frown, “If
you will take my advice, given in the
friendly take
off and busi
your
Valpa
the grasp of a
who, if he
to have had a
was
“you'd
chance to
inost spirit. you will
attend to
which
yourself any
ness of Own you
No
Godena
may
chance to man
have
interfered with
who did not repent it.’
“I'l have to leave it to the young
ltdy.” said Ned, quietly. “If she says
tat I am in the way, I'll walk off, as
you say, but not before.”
“No, no!” eried the girl. “Do
leave me alone with this man.”
“That's all right,” said Ned. “You
#ee that the senera claims my help,
Mr. Manuel Godena, dnd I'l have to
trouble you to get up and travel”
The man drew a knife and made a
dash at him. Ned knocked it out of
his hand and then and there gave him
such a thrashing as he had pever re
ceived in his life, Then, stripping
him of his weapons, he kicked him
industriously down the slope, for it
“riled” him to have an man draw a
knife,
The Chilian at last took to his heels
and when once out of reach of Ned's
number eight boot, turned and shoog
his hand him ln a menacing man-
ner,
“Hear me, Americano,” he hissed.
“1 vow to the saints not to take rest
or sleep unt I have revenge on you!"
Ned answered with a contemptuous
laugh, and, whirling on his heel, went
back to the lady, who was trembling
with fear, ® :
“Let me escort you safely from this
place,” he said. “You are hardly safe
liere”
“Thanks, senor. That man is my
cousin, and this morning he under
took to escort me to the house of my
vncle, who has a cattle ranch over
yonder. But when we reached this
place he seized me and swore that he
would carry me to the haunt of the
bandit, Rosas, and there keep me un:
t.1 I promised to marry him.”
“He Is a land pirate,” sald Ned, “and
deserves keel-baullng if ever a man
Ga
hand
Manuel
On
(YPr
not
“I do
not understand that, senor.”
"
| will go with me to my uncle's house.
“I am quite at your service’
way you wish to go.
“This way, senor.”
She struck into a forest path,
a glance at the manly face of
Yankee sailor, That glance
enough, for it showed her that
was absolutely safe with htm, no mat
An
ope
after
was
ter where she might choose to go.
hour's ride brought them
ing and on the slope of the tablado
before them they Saw a fine ranch,
| swrronnded by buildings and
for caitle,
“This Is
canon,”
to the
yen”
“I don't want any thanks for an act
wich man could have refused to
perform; but I will go In. Will
give me your Mine Is Edward
Wilton, and 1 the
brig Vesper.”
“And
member
to an
Amer!
not
the Senor
said,
house and let
place,
“Will you
my uncle
cone
thank
she
no
you
name?
am second mate of
Mendez, 1 re
with
mine is Isola
danced
Valparaiso,
sehor. I
fandango, in
You,
you &¢ the
last week.”
They the house,
met by Mendez, the
Isola, He heard her story, and thanked
the young American warmly for the
part ut Ned
and
uncle of
entered were
Nenor
he had performed I
stopped him
“1
slight a
do not
“I will try
thanked for so
Nid
say auything more al
aunoys me to be
“Please
out it.”
you in
service,” sald
and thank SOI
other senor,” sald the ranchero,
warmly,
with
WW ay,
“Now, you must minke a stay
business will allow
me, if your
it, and I will try to make it pleasant
for you."
“1 have
sald Ned,
your
a week of liberty on shore,”
then | off, 1
invitation pleasure,
‘and must be
accept with
Three or four days passed pleasant
hero doing his best
the
rie
ww pleasures for young
Isola was a pleasant com
ana Ned was very sorry
drew far
day of his stay the two rode
panion
the time him to leave
Fhe last
oul amoug
near
the foothills, aml it
plain to see that they
As they
Were very
hati]
brevzy canvon a
ly in love
‘nt n a dozen
suddenly surrounded them
seinen
a gallant fight, and shot one
made
his assailants, and mortally wound
before he
ed another, was overpowered
of these mountains
Manuel Gode
that I
revenge, acem
Isola
horse the
leader
ii i ga ognized
*“f told
t:l I had
ano,” he hissed "NOW,
you would not
pn |
But the girl, gi
rein, broks
Her
Yet
sttddden
of the men who surrounded her, f«
they had taken no trouble
her, and set off at a may gallog
2 3 ‘
em se
pursuea 5
But th
four or five of the 1
A% Dot 8 man in
could ride with Isola Mendez, and, as
»
ley passed could
and
out: of sight. all
we that she was gaining
rapidis
was likely to escape A cry of rage
burst from the lips of Godena
“Now, ten
girl,” he
should w
thousamd the
cried uy
itness my puni
CLuIMSs
thnt
On
men nt she
shiment of her
Yankee lover: but at least we have
Place the
with and feet
Make that he
fall down.”
him him against
rock there, his hands
bound, hin fast, so
cannot
The
mounted with a
Neil, held in
lnoked
vancing a
men obeyed, and Godena dis
pistol in his hand
his his bond,
Ad
1
4 Lit]
place by
boldly in
pace
him the face
the miscreant a
at him, changing his aim from time to
time to distress the prisoner But
Ned did not give
fear At
the ball
of his shoulder,
the slightest sign of
inst the pistol exploded, and
tore through the fleshy part
“One!” sald Godena, producing an
other pistol. “I am going to hit you
on the other side.”
Again be fired, and the other should
er was torn by the ball
“You black-hearted bound!” eried
Ned, “if you think to wring a single
ery from me you are mistaldip, Go on,
savage, complete your bloody work.”
Godena, with the grim of a flend,
of one of the men. Again he fired, in
tending to plerce the arm of the
young sailor, but this time he missed,
“Poor practice,” sald Ned. “Try
again, my dear fellow.”
‘gave a start and shiver, for his left
arm had been plerced. Godena was
very angry, for in spite of the torture,
from the gallant young man,
his pistol carefully, he stepped close
to the prisoner, and again and again
cocked pistol over the heart, upon the
| forehead, in every vital part, but he
{did not flinch.
| “Why don't you end
| dog?” cried Ned.
: “I will end it,” replied Godena, step
| ping back a single pace. “Thus Man-
uel Godena avenges himself,”
| He raised the pistol in his right hand
to a level with the heart of the prison.
Ler and was about to pull the trigger
| when a rifle eracked on the mountain
| side above them and Manuel Godean,
| shot through the heart, fell upon his
| face, dead. At the same thme a score
of stockmen and rancheros chased
down the canyon, and the bandits
turned in fight, pursued by the herd
riders, led by Senor Mendez. Then
it, cowardly
k
[ Nea fainted from loss of blood, and
when he came back to life his honds
had been removed, and he lay upon
| the green sod, his head pillowed upon
ae knee of Isola Mendez,
“Do move," she said,
{I love you.
recovered
not
“Yo te nmol"
|
| Ned Wilson
from his
|
the Vesper. Instead, he never
of his wife was once Isola
New York News,
MEDICINE MEN'S LORE.
the name
Mendez,
A Secret Formulas That is KnowsQaly to
Une Man.
Mrs. Harriett Maxwell
honorary chief of the Iroquois Indians,
who Just returned from a coun
| ¢ll meeting of that tribe at Cattaragu
gus, has succeeded In Inducing the In
dians to their knowledge of
herbs of financial by preparing
thelr wedicines for sale, As honorary
chief, Mrs, Converse attends the coun
Converse,
has
make
use
cll twice a year and is a member of the
secret medicine society, which sits in
the four thoes a year—when
strawberries ripen, when the deer puts
on its summer coat, when the last
fruit Is ripe, pnd when the deer puts
on This soclety exists
lodge
ts winter coat.
Heretofore the Indians have stead
fastly refused to make their medicines
for sale to the white people, but Mrs
that opening of
ainong
thelr
medical
are
Converse thinks the
them Is of
future de
formulas
a new industry
great mportapee in
Their
and
velopment
are cowritten passed down
orally from generation to generation
I'he enough of
barks
Iudians gather just
roots for their
The
matter
The
to do
the and own re
quirements gathering of these
instina
knows
almost of
child
a out or the sting
herbs is a
th them Indian
what for
The Httle ones even of the
“1 ibes are taken into
and fall and
distinguishing
haracteris medicinal herbs
The India
ingredients
medicine whose
* Ole
are sald to be Known by
only living -a white
the Alle
known ax
tradition
One person
now
haired old medicine
shsoaryy
ZUeny
¥
i
man on
reservation Fhis is
he sacred and
that =a
dark night gulded out to the
prit
er certain Fools,
barks
medicine man,
the
medicine,
AYN medicine chief was one
woods by
the Great S and directed to gath
and
the
twigs, plants
When properly mixed by
who was inspired by
these constituted the
That
down
Great Spirit,
medicine favored chief
sei ret
Tr Wrote the formula,
his mind until he
ade it
grew
Known to hi
down
Oli
many distant
that the secret of making ti
Mrs, «
s
pone has hee
cine is lost, and onve
that undoubtedly
i her
quantity then
# century i= abont
remnl
ing of the
but so sparingly i= ft" used
expected to last for forty or fifi
the powder, a
kept in bags made of ths
The medic
forts of a
It is in
ears of leer
ne chief of the Cattaraugus
reservation has a few ounces
possessor of the secret formula is sup
posed to give it to his probable sus
cessor when he feels that his life is
nearly ended
Another secret of theirs is the prepa
ration of parched corn. Their raoners
in old times lived on it exclusively on
their journeys, and found a small por
for their
that often covered days,
tion sufficient longest
hey earried
pound of it in a little pouch
and when
ball of It
perhaps a
3}
around the walst, hongry
would mix a ting with water
from spring or river, throw it into the
mouth and run on
he tribe ix to
the Pan-American
held in Buffalo next year, and the In
dians will prepare the corn exactly as
they do in their homes. New
York Tribune,
have an exhibit at
Exposition, to be
forest
Must Learn the Life Spots.
The first task of a Chinese medical
student upon entering the Imperial
| College at Shangha! Is to learn the
J00 “life spots” in the human body.
says the New Orleans Times Demo
erat. A “life spot” Is supposed to be
a place through which & needle may
| poseasions, and thelr doctors do a good
evil spirits that are causing the sick
iness, | was called (n to see one poor
fellow who was dying of jaundice, and
counted over 80 punctures in his chest
and arms.
{of exits, but be declined to depart.
When a criminal Is executed the na-
tive doctors are nearly always on hand
to secure sections of the body to use
in compounding their medicines. A
powder made of the thigh bones is be
Heved to be a specific for the disease
known to science as “miner's anse-
min,” which is caused by a parasite
and easily controlled by proper reme.
dies.
Ee ——
Wise Iceland.
Teeland, In the eleventh century one
of the most learned countries in the
world, Is soon to have easy and quick
communication with the modern out.
side world, The proposed cable from
Copenhagen to leeland will be Jel
miles and will cost $850,000,
NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX
FEMININE TOPICS,
Earrings of Pearls and Brilliants- Erin's
Joan of Arc Librarians in England
When One Is Traveling Mourning in
England—Etc, Ete.
Earrings of Pearls and Brilliants.
Awong the earrings which are ngain
{ becoming essential to the tollet are
pearl acorns set into cups of small
brilllants. ‘This shows the tepdency to
| ward hanging ornaments, and where
{ they will end time alone can tell. May
hap on the shoulders as In ye olden
dnys.
Erin's Joan of Arc.
Miss Maud Gonne, the beautiful Irish
girl who Is regarded by a section of
the Irish Nationalist party as the Joan
of Are of Erin, lives France
| than in Ireland. Her gift of eloquence
added to her beauty has naturally en
the French, Women
have always played a very considera
ble part in Irish politics, but of late
only
more in
deared hier to
has been the
personality
Nationalists, Gonpe is,
old
numbers
distin
years Miss Gonne
prominent feminine
nected with the
all the
Irish name,
On
knows, a good
Miss Gonne
Any
ne world
and
among her forefathers
guished soldiers
Librarians in England.
By The Woman's Year Book, it ap
pears that 1554
prominent library position
Britain. This is the
remarkable, the 1
States
no woman sinoee ins
i occupied n
i tireat more
because In nited
there ure fewer wen than wo
who are filling head
Hbrarians, There are wany poorly paid
Eugland
men positions as
women assistants in
imum salary given there being about
equal to the minlmam salary here,
When One is Trave ing.
soft, gud pliant elt hat is
wolnan's ward
fit
essential of every
robe. For the journey there is no end
r ¥ p
af comfort to be taken in it and for
windy and stormuy weather it has no
rival. Quite a new
shapes is
thing In travelling
ga round hat, which Is genet
ally becoming snd which is finished
with a
#
Oi
unrrow velvet ban
jaunty
Nome
ind a palr
quills stack fn the side
are in a delicate cream tone,
others in
reds,
and «16%, blacks, browns
oaf sar
g Bower
ik
and weirs In a sort
shape are decorated with bi
Hike rorettes of velvet! at %
Mournine in Eneland
A friend of ours who visited London
recently expressed astonishment at the
sbsence of deep mourning
Why” she said. “1
expected to see almost every third [rer
in our parks
amd promensdes
son wearing deep black
fearful losses in the war
that very deep mourning is he
few
almost
after
rare Vers Went erape
the rat ir or five weeks of
bereavement Even widows wedds
have now become so modified that one
hardly recognizes them as
the usual
wesddn™ In
meaning of that
Ax to
shrank
work's
rather curl
widow's
little
morning «eap
ous expression
cap, It has
mald-of -all
the
the
How into #
mald-of-all-work’s morning cap
Mourning seems to be actually going
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Eniown a« ap
peared at a bazar just a fortnight after
her husband killed at the
the front, and she wore a black chiffon
thickly jetted: and a black chif
toque with
trich feathers replaced the
otit of fashion
one of our best {PORE
had been
Mas
{ fon trimmed j#t and os
usnal
Hay
More
widow's bonnet
Madge” In
per's Bazar
Felt and Velvet in Winter Mate,
Felt will be a good deal used
smart millinery
ns velved:
for
through not so much
amd, In some cases, the soft,
low crowns of toques, with
rolled brims of black tulle
spangled, are of pale pinks
mauve long-haired felt. A
| shade of pinkinsh mauve —-a pale plum
color—is much affected for felt. A hat
with a slightly waved brim of black
velvet has a beret crown in this manve
| felt, drawn up at the top through a
| Jet buckle. The trimming of this hat
| consists of a bunch of satin roses in
several shades of the same color,
It will be seen from the preceding
that pivmage is by far the most usual
trimming. and thet the choice in
this line of decoration is large. Be.
sides the kinds mentioned above, some
{ ume Ix made of large balls of clipped
| ostrich. 1 have taken note of two
| models fritomed with these, They first
| Is a tricorne, which has a soft, full
| crown of grayish-green velvet; bent
{up against this in three places is a
wide brim, made of double layers of
black net closely cross-barred with
black chenille, Three balls of black
clipped ostrich ornament It on the left
side,
narrow,
richly
blue, or
particular
waving of the narrow brim; this. and
felt. About the base of the crown is
twisted a plece of gold galon tied In
a small bow in front, On the left
side are two balls of clipped brown
ostrich, surmounted by a ¢lipped ail
| grette to match. Millinery Trade Re.
view,
2
i
Women in the Klondike,
Miss B. A, Mulroney, of the Key.
‘ wtone State, has becowe rich in Alaska,
| '
tell for all It is worth, After three
years of gplendid work she is returning
home for a vigit,
She Hyves in Dawson City, runs a ho
tel, bus a mine, superintends her own
“gang” and has made a name for her
self,
Miss Mulroney is n
markable energy.
woman of re
Nhe possesses n
business foresight that would do eredit
to any business man the
Klondike at a time when the chances
for making money
did not hesitate In Lranching out,
the result that
stripped those of the sterner sex
have been connected with large bax
Going to
were numerous, she
and
has out
who
has been she
ness enterprises on the outside
Faith and daring are not wagting in
her plans for all future operations, It
is due to these qualities, and a rapid
execution of all plans mapped out, that
tony without a rival as
the most woman of
Klondike in mining, hotel management
and other large enterprises.
People passing up and down Upper
Bonanza this summer were surprised
to ind a woman, in the person of Miss
Mulroney, of Pennsylvania, actually
engaged In the work -
ings of Securing a
lay on a
whe stands
sucessful the
superintending
her placer
rich fraction
nine
between 25 and
she had in her em
and was taking out
26 above Bonanza,
ploy twelve men,
fully $1,000 a day
Ax she expresses if “1 like mining,
and have only hired a foreman because
it looks
man is running the mine; but
ix that 1 look after
myself.” — Philadelphia Re
better to have it sald that a
the truth
the management
ord
Winter Ribbons.
Ribbons, except slightly as a
gar
have been rather in the back
ture
ground for several seasons past it is
this
renewed favor
ganze,
prog}
promised, however, that winter
will see them again in
Velvet effects In
handled,
Ince silk
ally
Among those
and
most artisth are
nent promised to be most
fashionable, Then usually the velvet
3
ix of some light tint on a background
of biack, white some shade of yel
Extremely ones have nag
black velvet
i $
ow retty
row alternating
®Iritnes
fy 1 in colored
with Powmpadour Ix
Satin or =ilk
Eanes
delicate shades, with #
velvet or satin in relief
siriking designs among
MIs
OTe
y .
an odd concel
Nox, 30 and 40, used there for millinery
garniture in large choux or fm
bodice adjunct in long loops and ends
from the walst line in back without
waist band
dot
rounded by
These ribbons have a »
vel the size of a
about
gold or
ming rays, Bisck an
out any additional color
preference Rash width
double-faced
watin, moins
velvel, with handsome
fringe woven
the ends, will be
afternoon and evening
1 he
will be worn
gowns this win
all Kix
ack velvet
the fore
fer dthe of
narrow Ww
particulary
Some new effects are to
stock ribbons in ganze, with a
line forming
more elaborate Kinds in
plain
double bark and white
the edge,
tiny plaid checks
guard designs
and
Pompadour and Ja
“Lady Scent Farmers.”
The lady market
London Mail
in a
the
may shortly have a rival
gardener, says
sweeter amd more attractive
branch of agriculture People who
ought to know say that there is
great opening for lady “scent farmers”
and growers of sweet herbs
The dea should be essentially
the
conjures
pleas
ing to the feminine mind; very
.
name of “scent farmer’ up
a dream and cor
tainly the
the rose
mary should than
cutting cabbage and digging ap pota
of fragrant perfume
cenit of the
tending of the
attractive
sweet lavender
and modest
be more
fowew
All that is wanted Ix pinck and a
small amonnt of capital, Most modern
women possess the farmer and the
latter is not impossible to raise. Land,
of course, ix the principal diffically, as
rents are high within striking distance
of London.
For the rasing of lavender the soll
should be a nice, deep sandy loam, pre-
ferably overlying chalk, Forty pounds
is the sum required fo lay out an acre
and prepare the young plants. The
will yield $250 in a season, English
amd the demand for if Is great,
a hardy plant, and needs bat Hitle cul
tivation. ;
There is a typical scent farm at Wal-
to the Lady's Pictorial, there is no
question of its financial success. For
miles round the Crystal Palace to the
Epon Downs are fields of blue-purple
lavender,
The growing of rosemary and
more plebeian peppermint is, too, an
| ocenpation with money in it
{ Pe ee WV
Royal Widows.
Queen Marghefita constitutes a very
| notable addition to the extraordinary
long lst of royal and imperial widows.
In facet, it may be asserted that there
is hardly a court in Kurope where
widows’ weeds do not form a consplien-
ous feature, destined in a way to re-
mind its members that above all the
brilliancy, the pomp and grandeur
which characterize it there hovers al-
ways the shadow of death, In Russia
we find the widow of Emperor Alex-
ander 111, playing an important politi
cul role, while the morganatic widow
of the murdered Alexander 11, Prin
of Youriefiska, lvyvex in exile
abroad
in Germany there is
Emperor Frederick,
CONN
the widow of
whose political in
impaired by falling
health, and who, Indeed, ix reported to
be critically ill with Bright's disease
Spain ix wisely and carefully govern
ed by a regent who Is the widow of
King Alfonso XI11., while iu the neigh
fluence hax become
widowed Czarina at St Petersburg,
to bead a species of opposition to the
court and government of her son
The widowed Queen Emma of Hol
land surrendered a little than a
year ago to her now grown-up daugh
ter, Queen Wilhelmina,
government, which
regent during the minority of her
child, and near by, confined as a luna
tic in the Belgian Chateau of Bouch
out, is the widowed Empress of Mexl
nore
reins of
had held as
the
% le
co, who hus been bereft of her reason
ever since her husband was court
martialed and shot in Mexico thirty-
thiree years ago.
The
times
Conrt of 8 Jdntnes hax
ROE
been descrilv«d as “the court of
widows,”
only Queen
daughters, as
law,
ladies-in
owing to the fact that not
Vietoria and two of her
well as a daughter-in
the
WHITING, are
but likewise majority of het
widows, while
among other royal and wid
imperial
ows may be mentioned the Empress of
thie
French, the Empress of China, the
hhedive's 1 her and the widow of
f via, who was
iurdersd
i INES
Cssentials of the Latest Modes.
Blouse effed in :
“ia *
are
hold its
strong position
Many
triple shoulder
new ia
Great vogue
all metallic
Many
dren's
ry
Faffels
taffeta
KEITIE much fav
ConpeM ion Ww
ith a fancy waist
afternoon house wear,
the coarser kind
BIKER IY
4 3
¢ * JUOre In ox
pure
Gimp i braids wit
flowers f gtin anti
~ & i
JOST elle il
[ie west
Roman effect
potted
3
fringe
FessY gowns
ined
bust wider and wider ones being con
stantly Introduced, straight, round
full one
ised Tou
touching at every point
spring
prom
next
Paune, leather-finished
fab
Crys
orescent changeable silks, fancy
ries on Louisine grounds, crepe
tale, crepe de chine and rich metallic
off ed i% In brocades, the
predicted smart
winter silks,
Canuvas effects the
tive of the
promising to be
underlying mo
season's dress goods and
?
f
vogue by
volle
the height o
next spring. Canvas in cotton,
or grenadine in wool and Louisine in
«ilk very correct as dress goods
New shaped guimpes, directoire ef
fects, bertha designs, draped busts re
lin
beautifd
ween]
lieved by choux of dark velvet
gerie sleeves, pretty 1a0es,
appliques, vests amd yokes of
pearl, embroiderad mousseline de sole
some of the trimming features distin
11k waists
guishing the latest
Startled by the Telegram
A noble lord, as proud and fond as a
man should be of beautiful wife
was just rising to speak in a debate
when a telegram was put into his
hands, Ie read it eft the house
jumped into a cal. drove to Charing
Cross, and took the train for Dover.
Next day be returned home, rushed
into his wife's room. and, finding her
there, npbraided the astonished lady in
no measured terms. She protested her
ignorance of having done anything to
offend him,
“Iver what did you mean by your
telegram?’ he asked.
“Mean what | said, of course. What
his
“Read it yourself” he replied.
She read: “I fee with Mr. X. to
Dover straight, Pray for me.”
For the moment the words would not
come; then the suspected wife quietly
remarked: “Oh, these dreadful tele
graph people! 1 telegraphed simply
‘4 tea with Mrs. X in Dover street
Stay for me. "TH -Bits,
Farmers to Mend Churchyard Wall
At Eglwys Commin, in Osrmarthen:
shire, Wales, there is 8 cudlous custom
of maintaining In repair the parish
into as many parts ax there are farms
in the parish, and cach farmer is sup-
posed to keep in repair his portion
The custom possibly throws a ray of
curlons name of the
church, “Cwmmin’” is only & form of
“common,” and may be refers to the
erection of the church on ground that
wag common land. Cardiff Western
Mail
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