Sm FAILURE. oy I. M. Montgomery, count it failure if in vain with earnest self-forgetful- 1 Ol But did not win the guerdon of suc CES: tt my poor know effort I would not But If I won it by a self Straining en ¢ vy OL one attainment attainmens dire that Clashed in a Gab. Assumed That Proxx- I. + How IL an Idios yn oOrasy ised to ana fu Do rative, Tred 3c A Mr. Re Wai happy old characters who some laugh ments This w lng how sapable y of REL was one Qi out loud inopportune he was thi easy was for man ¢ from His head was His jeweled aver was their my wall The ¢ the re the Importer business nd n iiamon r had d there 3 The scene was Broadway Fifth avenue. A bril- liant throng jostled and pushed under the electric light advertisements. Every one was going somewhere Appar ently nearly much hilarious visi Mabel and one anti pleasure from the Warner walked alon a my face. By her side stalked Billy with an equally gloomy they They to death with or exchanged gloomy seem to be r great extent a mean udden old oem- “He gays he wouldn't let you me if I observed Will, The id acute indignation in he “He says he'd sooner to a hodearrier,” continued Wi deep dejection, “A hodearrier!” grasped marry earth” was the only hittarle a.’ exclain Mabel “He says I haven't any nerve him I had of it. He if I'd prove that he might reconsider ais decision He told hie was going to Ger: many next week to try the baths there, and he said he didn’t want me to call lots said away. “A hodearrier!” repeated Mabel. The idea seemed to fascinate her. "But then, you know, Uncle Roger is a bit queer at times,” she explained, “1 know it,” replied the other, "1 know it. I've been thinking this thing over, I have, and by George, I'll show him how much nerve [ have, I'll show him!” Here again, it might be concretely get forth in passing that when a young man starts out to show an old one, the young chap frequently finds at the lass moment that he is making a show of his own youthful self that has all the essential earmarks of a howling side splitting farce comedy, The Oceanle, tired out with her long %rip, indolently allowed herself to bo warpes into her pier. The dock was noisy home, wore with hysterical cries of welcome From the boat cockney accents wafted back such are only acquired after a month's painstaking effort. Family were shouted back and forth in a manner to make a man blush. The panting straining tugs was aeard but faint. wve the tumult vessel finally stairs as secrets bashful the Inid rolled at rest, moveable were up to ed triumphantly down Old Warner the sleps. waddled down all by h mggll over million whi ng a of di ds." he naneete al 3 Line nor 2 ai ICoKIng personage i down the dock and took Warner with lete Anot rm Warner by the left 3 the { right arm | comj srahiy tical look! ersaip. Cal I00KID { sonage t k | S0N3Ze LOOK come ai tenly and u gain ad ording to Billy cane, programme ; According » was going to be a Homerl right Billy was going to p the two abductors (they had been aid heavily in this) then triumphantly rescue the v The programme halted i quiet, No one tried to sat on his box to progr here i and ictim, advance for The a statue out. get iiKe to peep inside, but the curtains were tightly drawn. He tried cautiously en the foor a little bit, but the doc gave unexpectedly, and Billy lur i He found himself face with Warner The latt bound and gagged and his face was a truly “So you're the one who planned ail iis, are you?’ demanded the old gen- man, as soon the had been removed, “Planned what?” aske ily, Klinoly OLN to oD nside to r was tight! wonderful color t 3 1 £5 a ti as sag mum frend mimicked vy the vi “Planned what?" $Y ERT sy 0 $$ eve urls fre m, with t& iL pn non hieves p pockets they laughed and didn’t take my the herol | cuer might get his hands on it, | did they mean by “heroic rescuer’? “Who, indeed?” inquir:d Billy, blankly ge two villa said if they wallet of the cab?” demanded Warner, “Shut he exploded. “There i 840.000 worth of unset diamonds in | that wallet,” he moaned, His voice broke again. He swallowed hard for a { minute or two and then suddenly grip: i ped his cane in both hands, A desire to impart lasting knowledge took vio lent possession of him. “I'll teach you!” he shouted as he advanced upon the miserable Stafford. Down in Second avenue two medi. cal looking gentlemen whistled In pleased amazement as they shook a cascade of unset diamonds from a prosperous looking wallet. Up in Maiden lane, a certain dia. mond importer stands in his office win. dow, day In and day out, vainly wait- ing for Mr. Roger Warner to turn up. ~«New York Evening Sun, A SHAVES TWENTY MILES. avi fH i Ups Man's Razor Travels Over Mis Face 2.000 Feet Each Year. It when vou mest your mnstarhs. | | i adorned friend you tell him he shaves five feut two-fifths inche mile ight of accuse a day, or over year, he will probably you of romancing, but such is fact. The distance a ian shaves in an average lifetime, ot + distance his razor travels over his most per- , of course, differs to a more nt with count of i in the be a surprise 1 individual, personal whether a each taste man ith or fermines : hiskera w A mustache haven upper 1 and t . oy growth of hair tha jecide how many times over hir al the con Of with the healgh rowth KH Mis Word For it Mrs. Brown is a woman equally markable for dness of he roe and wa? art absence of mind One day she accosted by a and her stout healthy appearane led even o doubt of caae Peyt = oul) ha Darity sappliant, have been dumb ti years.” man! } Mr: Erow ing bh g home she m and remarked, thing it is ¢ or an afMiction exclaimed *" | n, opening her and har im a quarter return smntioned the oc “What i of dreadful 0 be deprived it how.” asked her daughtar, “Nd youf know that the man was deal and dumb?” “Why.” was the innocent Youth's Companion Forecasts on Letters, The Mexican postal department has fective means of distributing weathar bulletins given out by “weather men, Every passes through the office ia stamped with the Indications for the next twenty-four hours at the same time as the cancellation of stamps is mala and also az the receiving stamp is placed on the envelope. Soma time ago this plan of disseminating weath- er bureau findings was discussed in the United States, but notwithatand- ing the fact that it was agreed that such an Idea was a good one, it was never done. it remained for the officials of the progressive Mexican government to first adopt the plan which will be such a handy thing for the general pubile, When a poet's verses come back to Him ba meats with ravarsoa the admirable = = OB Ms to Young Girls, attractive As the large drawing it js ull with a wool and silk fabrics the as it is Lo f£ 1 wh of white m YorRe oi ace, but soft are ap- ax well as cotton propriate linen ones, I The waist i= made over a fitted foun i dation which closes with it at the back | the waist proper is shirred and ar | ranged over it at their upper portions to form con tinuous lines with the waist, and again between the shoulders and the elbows, flustrated, or In the Jong bishop style, as shown in the small cut. If a trans. parent effect is desired the lining can | be cut away beneath the yoke and be- ! neath the full portions of the sleeves, | The quantity of material required for the medium size ix three and one-fourth gards twenty-seven inches wide, three vards thirtytwo inches wide, or two and one-eighth yards forty-four inches wide, with five-eighth yards of all-over face, Tuck shirrings are greatly In vogue "and are peculiarly desirable for the i gowns designed for young girls, The | axstemely graceful and pretty skirt shown In the large drawing includes ‘a yoke and flonnee effect, with addi tho The but pliable well, plece which hetween desirable I muslin BOLL, equally red on Indl Traveling Gowns, Woman's Hlouse YWalst, with It among the latest original is made of shep jaid louisine piped with black, ! and combines with It, materials are ite, amd many com suggested, A plain jal, or figured embroidery, all « used. » over a fitted lining he yoke at the tucked un soft folds be is laid In belt and give The lin. re closed separately at ut the bertha ia § at the left sleeves are new full puffs At the neck is ombines “3 ather ni oe The that back to form that ¢ i ior is fire $sui 5 3 FOE ack form ation quantity of material required for i¢« five vards twenty. inches wide, four and three-fourth medinm «i BLOUSE WAIST, yards twenty-seven inches wide, four and three-fourth yards thirty-two jnches wide, or two and one-fourth yards forty-four inches wide The if main wre requires money away amass it amass ii. Sir Clements Markham Royal strongly the Geographic —— to tha deprecates if tions wh the varion without He out in rivalry co-operation North Pol uselesa for useless fro: scientists on them £0 at 4 moO warm to the faster rape throug! produces the Arabs say \ fantasia. In this state motorists would run down those nearesi 3 lcar them as unhesitatingly as though they were so many animal and {2 takes f them In an article on irrigation Year Book of the Deparim: nt euliure, Edward A Weather Durean more than seven mil i Bet of irri gated lands in the United Stat The total cost the gal systems of the country 864 288 001 he value of the Irrigated crops the single year of 1899 was $84 453.438, or 30 per cent. greater than the of the irrigation plants. The number of irrigators was 102819, which gives aearly seventy-one acres to the farm. According to the Denver Republican the current of immigration to the Uni ted States is unusually strong, but a comparison shows that in proportion to the population it is nol 50 great as that into Canada. Although we are receiving new people at the ra'e of about eight hundred thousand a year, this represents oniy about one per cent. of our population, whereas at the pros. ent rate the immigration into Canada will amount to two per ceat. of the population of that country in the course of a yoar: the are of irr en and for O08
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