TO PHYLLIS, When clad in silk my PhyVir oes, As sweet as any summer rnd, I think I love her silken clothes, Then, when she wears her brown cash mere, Nothing seems to me so dear, I've quite forgot the silk, 1 fear, And when I see her blue brocade I dare not look; I'm half afraid To see her go so sweet arrayed. But when she wears her muslin white She is a dainty, heavenly sight. I like the muslin best at night. No matter how my Phyllis fares, No matter what my Phyllis wears, No one with Phyllis quite compares. Harvard Lampoon. Raa $B PRERERP RR] w HABE REERETERE FREE ee PEPER PPRRPPrRPPRRREREPEY ALAA 8 “What a good thing it is that there are snakes in England,” said the fessor meditatively. if we had been « lives recreation would have the English Sybil pro- “Imagine, Sybil, mned to pass our how much innocent scientific nde in Ireland, research Now, and been vailable! adder looked from a and butter that blunt-headed thing, that nat up I thick piece of bread “Do you allude to and blunt-tailed death dealer papa?’ “Don’t insult Its poison fangs are The wantonly loathsome in little basket, poor thing, Sybil. self-protection. viper one, seldom although never forgets trod on your, “But think of daddy!" left her place at the tea table and tenderly greatly not bear fondling very full of the joy of Ii then a {She had Was rumpling I the professor's hair, to his i » annovance for he did pric away Everythi comes over “Death, phically, “i of eminence You obser voked ti meat.” “1 wond it up wit? this seemed fan chapter 1 “Then | professor, write book geek “that | publish Alan W “You that 3 tolerate | the county ness of his many valuable hedgehog was Sybil shuddered. She i remembered how the prickly monster had escaped rom the kitchen one night after a meal of beetles and crawled up stairs to her room, only to lose its footing and fasten on to the cat, which was peacefully sleeping by the mat in the hall. “Wyse's lack of enthusiasm is dis- tressing, and-—and indecent. Only the other night he had the impertinence to tell me that | was working you too hard. Too hard! And then——" The professor paused indignantly. “That's a very pretty frock, isn’t it?” eyeing Sybil's somewhat shabby gown with a critical eye. i “Yes, dearest,” said Sybil “lI thought £0,” answered the pro-| fessor, indignantly. “That young man | had the impertinence to tell me you were also suffering for the good of your country. He said I might make you a dress allowance instead of spending all my money on books. He sald that I had no heart, and was a | mere scientific curiosity myself. Me! | A scientific curiosity! Montrous! | wan't it? As if I hadn't been immolat- | ing myself on the altar of duty for the last twenty years. “By the way. 8ybil—you burnt my toast to-night. { don’t like it burnt. | A man who owes a duty to his country | must keep up his strength for the! struggle with such Philistines as Wyse; and when I had my nap this afternoon you didn't pull down the blind. Really, Sybil, I do not wish to blame you, but I am pained, pained beyond expression.” Sybil smiled faintly. Everything must be done exactly as he liked it, or Sybil and her "only general” were gure to hear of it for days to come. No one had the courage to tell the pro- fessor that he was a selfish ola fraud, who ate and drank far more than was good for him-——no one, that is, with the exception of Alan Wyse, who did » mince matters at all, * “1 couldn't leave you to sleep in the | darkness, dearest, with that horrid] thing"--she pointed to the viper's basket—"g0 close to you.” “Pooh! nonsense,” sald the profes- sor, testily. If you'd like to go and me to struggle on without an amanuen- go; I do not object. It would be to stay, but 1 do not object, Never mind me. There is Wyse,” sald am in- sis the things which other girls care for, I'm sure I don’t know why. The other day the man actually want- to him, I said “Yes, daddy. Oh, daddy!” “Oh, I that his selfishness amazed me, and declined to hear him further on the subject for at least two It's a thing,” media “it's a curious thing how inconsiderate young people generally are.” Alan Wyse came in to see Sybil dur ing the evening, while the professor gat in the library endeavoring to sus tain exhausted nature with the aid of a bottle of forty-four port The attitude in regard to questions of this sort was quite un The port had to be taken He sald curious professor's impersonal simply as a means to an end. looked upon it as fuel Thus, another argued the professor, what in man might be considered Sross p when re , admit all-suf d i that ¢ Ir. wait for you a Alan «1 to a safe said SNores, manner, an own convenience her his Alan, hand on ami other adieu speak What is Aren't you well I feel as if something had the heart,” Alan, the heart or--or in the tem to said in you'll excuse me, I'll go home. Some thing has happened-—something rible.” When he had Wyse began to laugh at folly Something cut short, the laugh, and he suddenly set off running in the di rection of the professor's. The viper had escaped from the basket, kicked across the room by Alan. It halted for a moment on the newspaper, and raised itself half off the ground with an angry hiss. The professor had kept it in con finement for two days without food. The viper reached the professor's | chair, and crawled up into Sybil's lap. ter reached the door his coiled itself up drowsily. i Unfortunately, Sybil stirred. The viper's anger quickened. It glided upward to the professor's chest, and, as Sybil restlessly raised one arm, buried its fangs in the girl's soft, white flesh, Wyse burst into the room with a de- | gpairing cry, and broke the vipers back with one blow of his stick. He made a resolute effort to pull himself together, turned up the light, | carried Sybil to a couch and immed! | ately applied his lips to the wound In | her arm. She smiled gratefully up at him. Wyse motioned to the horrified ser vant to run for a doctor. The profes | sor crossly sat up. He was genuinely | room, lest he should by any chance tread upon the viper's writhing body. | Sybil held her lover's hand, and looked up at him with big, frightened | blue eyes. Buddenly she gave a little cry of horror, “Alan! Alan! What are you doing? You will die too!” “1 hope 80,” sald Wyse, flercely. “But my dearest, you shall not die if 1 can prevent it;” and he again applied his lips to the wound. When the doctor qssme half an hour : ) later, he was puzzled and presently took Wyse aside, “She's little the worse for the bite” he sald, reassuringly. “There are none of the usual symptoms. Perhaps it wasn't a viper at all.” A careful examination of the snake's mouth showed that the chan- neled teeth, with which the poison gland communicates, hau been broken off short, in all probability while the professor had been prodding with a stick. Somehow written that work, but portions. Wyse permits his father-in-law to dwell with him on the condition that if the professor wishes to experi ment with snakes, he i8 to lock him self up with them in the garden tool house, and bear the brunt of any mis takes whit Consequently, the professor's ardor has died a natural death, and he clines take any risks which might involve such an irreparable loss to sci- ence as his own premature decease — Waverley dead the professor has never sole h may happen de- to Magazine, NEW YORK'S COFFEE TRADE. Nine-tenths of the Country's Importations Enter That Port. 1 he al tropical increased American demand for and subtropical products forms striking feature Ameri indicated ix the most summary is 1ed partment. } ! we y 1 cal pro 000 000 tea, y sion of American i Rico has had the 1 . inl closer commercial fn ence and Porto mulating th those two islands, both are coffee producers, and the of delivery New are greater than in New York, western trunk Orleans their ] of coffee in Orleans besides which sundry lines have made New arbor terminus for the ghipment of American grain and merchandise to foreign countries and return, and the delivery there of coffee for shipment to the cities of the far and middie west would thus be facilitated. New York shares with Havre and Hamburg only ita importance as a shipping port for coffee. New Orleans, though nearer than New York is to Brazil, is not in such good connection with European ports and, moreover, the largest cof- fee consuming states are on the Atlan- tic seaboard, and of all these states {since Baltimore ceased to be a factor in the market) New York is the great distributing point.—New York Sun. King Edward as a Man Who Knaws Things. enced man of the world that has ever ascended a throne. He has seen life in every capital, he has met every celebrity of his time, he has for long been In touch with almost every class of the community, and he knows the He has visited kitchens,” the “doss houges,” and the opium dens of the Fast End; he has been conducted through the chief manufactories of the “thieves' “ hundreds of meetings, his is the most familiar face at the theatre, at the opera, and on the racecourse; he has been to every exhibition of importance, and almost every work of art with any serious pretension to merit has been submitted to him for his approval. He is popular, he Is an excellent speaker, he has tact and humor, his memory Is phenomenal, and he has been trained by the late Queen to spare neither himself nor any trouble in the exer- cise of his public duties. London Truth. | WE WHY CERTAIN FOREICN LOANS ARE PLACED HERE, Phase to Some Recent Purchases of Bonds in the United States Morgan's Masterful Position, government loans with corporate and individual in the States, which last year, investors began { gays the World's Work. There {8 a very human and a interesting phase i of very thus It 80 which has escaped general attention. first manifested a year when, the land being of | the canton aut quarter that many of in America their new home, and invest foreign bonds or one of desirous of floating a it worities moderate size, was intimated from a friendly the Swiss settled greatly be glad had prospered would part of their the Fatherland, was promptly a some BAVINES the bonds of hint had and, as Hoon upon, been pred rgan fDoias In th That gentieman S308808 oT il leadoerehiis } ties BU il leadership; 1 industrial world the he not 1 un able to count at all upon og-operation men who the finances « greater {ir © companies t SUran ny many the brilliant feats in reorganization and consolidation now standing to his credit would have been impossible of achievemen Summer Man Less Corgeou®. Summer shirt patterns have lost the splendor that distinguished them the Inst season, and the negligee ahirt is not going to be nearly so brilliant as it was. Glaring pinks and vivid blues, stripes of yellow, green and red and solid colors of barbaric tinge have all passed out of fashion confronted by sober blue and white or pink and white stripes, and nothing | more glaring is to be had from the es : tablishments that consider themselves | foremost in matters of style. This condition is a reaction from the de- banch of color that men's summer dress has displayed for the past three (or four summers, Variety this year { will be found only in the nse of the i dark buttons which contrast with the { colors of the shirts and afford some pleturesqueness, There have been no changes this summer in the way of making the | summer ghirts, The best of them will | have the broad pleats down the front. | Bome in plain white are relieved by a | narrow stretch of hemstitching that ! adds variety and considerable ex- | pense, It is quite possible for a man 0 pay $12 for a linen shirt and there {are some to be had for $18 but they are partly silk. All are made with the broad pleats down the bosori-— SARS NA, Lincoln's Birthday as a Holiday, Lincoln's birthday Is a legal holiday in Connecticut, New York, New Jer. soy, Pennsylvania, llinols, Minnesota, North Dakota and in the stata of Washington. ; {| They Are Protected From Blackmail an Their Own Mistakes in Mixing Drugs, One of the latest things in the fidel ity and casualty line is to insure drug- gists against what is called the wrong prescription man. For $15 or $26 a year companies downtown | guarantee druggists against arising from mistakes compound- ing drugs. One of the most ful of these companies has 950 chemists of New York, Jersey City, New Haven its list The idea insuring azainst several damages in BUCCEHR. Newark and {f subscribers on 0 of logs from their in the belief ! of leading pharmacists that they were the victims of made a druggists own mistakes ! originated of a of a gang of pretending had been given { some member of their families, some- | times with serious ts. The | was partly broken up by company which first assumed rogues practice wrong medicines resul ! the re sponsibility of protecting druggists at $5 a year each. | pany says that mistakes a year there are fully in the compounding are 80 many continued, +. he alleged i mistakes { many cines, “there errors in mixing med! and some of the complal for the s« money from Our cx 1 ye 7 fing racing y i ar {8 against ror ori th g UEELS Laen r main desire is to prevent f nart «¢ mrt of I those who want Poisoning From Fillec Women as Letter Writers. No trick of the feiiinine lettor-write: arouses more mirth among postal em- | ployes than her propensity for secrib- bling her last words-—and being a | woman she has plenty of them-—all over the back of the sealed envelope. The number of women who do this is amazing The sealed envelope has gome to be the place for the inevitable P. 8. Formal notes themselves, other- | wise irreproachable in get-up, are not free from it. Such exposures don't im- 0. clerks. They merely stand for the starnal feminine. Of course, the P. O. glerks haven't time to read all that is written on the envelope backs. Unlike 80 many of the practices of the sex, it doesn't even inconvenience them. But did they take the time, what a lot they ight learn!—New York Sun. Mis Birthday. Although unrivaled in the art of eross examination, on one occasion Lord Russell was distinctly beaten by 8 witness, “What is your age?” he asked. “Is it my age you are asking?’ re- plied the witness, “Yes, sir. Now speak up and be ex- pct” “And be exact! Well, of all the" “The court does not desire to hear any comments of yours, Tell the court your age.” “Well,” sald the man, “I celebrated my twelfth birthday last week.” “Don't trifle with the court and re- member you are on oath.” “It's quite true, I was born on Feb raary 29, in leap year, and my birth. day only comes once in four years" Scientists are now talking about ra- Jdium, which is said to emit perpetual Nght. It must be a cowardly colin that tures tail when it's tossed. PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. The Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. Ssm— THE CHESTER COUNTY MILK WAR $32,000,000 Organization in the Mahoning Valley--State Christian Endcavorers Vote for a Pasizsnement of Convention Until 1992 «Fusaway Results Fatally--Other News. furing ith American Lompany spars Iow supg DT OD 1.544 3 citled both ¥ and the | George Nelme, a shoe pect Park, has not taste any kind i SEVEN WY tinucs bench ju though were eating day. He says that the which accempanies an does not trouble him at has often fasted for mal lost little flesh President McKinley following Pennsylva Dawson, Charles J Haven, yt mt Jes at ms bE) ne Thomas W, Elizabeth W. Haselts Ruth; Beaumont, ° €hanceford, C. W. Spring, J. H. Dick Pyle; Kelly Point, El let, M. L. Freeman; R. Petty. . A consolidation of naces in the Mahong Valleys, including Pittsburg and Cleve effected. It is said already bien taken «¢ plas and the capi $30,000,000. David Gough, of ploved as a car ra killed. He attempt car to another and fell J. }. Donahue, of Pi convicted of stealing S S. Vare's diamond in the sesentatives on the nigl made the caucus nominedy States Senator. He was two years in the penitentian The bank barn on the Postmaster William A. Peff lisle, was destroyed by fire. and corients were insured fou Mrs. Joseph Kreidler, of Barre, was severely injured while picking coal on the rail-o)
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