ABSOLUTION. By Arthur Ketchum. Whan all the And the Night steady stars are Ht light sleeps stands spread To give her pardon und to Earth creeps so near to heaven That s¢ may mark they with pit ing arcely one Where are twain The benediction of tt Ainslee’ 1 . o52seseseseseseseseses? An Old 2 - HOLT LT ATA TL. eh LTATAT max The two angry, with blazin one another, but can't but can't ——— “You you gince what wia pend sau what you never haven't we moon. €iranger six month of me happ erable r for a face, he in the Then a . his heart. If could leave did not, never “You will course,” he remain with me or I are still my wife-yvou ¢ «till Bound be good enough not to jean proud i she could him, then, had loved him, please yourself, whether me answered, but you 10 Ime, that” lien soarcely Crotaed he het against her, ‘Bhe kis with 2 ad never: sald her never lov me” he bimsell, “never, go! He found his way to his study, sat bert him for papers | his and his before his floor Then staring blankly a while, and scattering heedlessly on the head dropped upon his hands, aves were wet As trembled Mary the him the door closed accepted he did S expected plead ng wiat had forgive him: she had thought, indeed, hey might "He loved herself did him hi RO indeed, not had ons; situation! she meant to begin again never me,” she sald to not mean to leave now: 1 owe my pride to go now She dragged her steps to her she must things Where know put her should go she and did it matte: th him sl Hd There tant oney not How woul miniature I pret face wi heard seen would have wore worag imbled acy wad sOm while Mand Meadows CURIOUS HOBBIES. Man Found a Fortune in Pursu ing a Fad at His Home { the aame in a small ) curious thea mee near London it ing mirrors of all kinds Bruit this form of lighted bia friends invention, if oh COnn of #0 au can be called, was turned to sreial and purposes, found very much in demand for shops and restaurants An enthusiastic Sheffield dentisi has preserved a monument of his sikill In the dental art, in the form of a pyramid covered with the teeth of his patients. One thousand eight adorn this strange obelisk, in men Another tradesman’'s hobby is that and trieveles in his time, all the parts being made of the wares In his shop. Galvanized von | duetor piping makes the frame of a bicycles the bias forms wheel tin the pipe rims, the | ting spoons, a bell; nul and clothes pegs | pokes are pit | forms plo plates, 1 h $44 his novel hobby tion was that of Oakeley, the mu jan, who had a complete set of cathedrals of the world tructed eminent architect, an and delicate are 15 of noble buildings supervi much work, RE KISSING 18 UNKNOWN. Diff.rrent Endearment. kindly touch How Peonle of press Feelings of A cir t kis i Bad Break tha dolla and hope made up bel One of the lay the remar) the with good work with $25. hame, ‘but your bo tart brother, God ho don’t know the YOu, your gald chairman, bless and may doubled during the year” Much his a laughter followed hall, which a brother up in front platform and whispered “Why, Mr. Blank, a promi nent undertaker of the town" Lip may uginess tonishment, a burst any in when 4] of the from m war oxplained the that's To Get a Splinter Out, When a aplinter has driven {nto the hand it can be extracted by steam, Fill a wide mouthed bottle nearly full of hot water, place the in- jured part over the mouth and press it slightly. The action thus produced will draw the flewh down, and in a minute or two the steam will extract the splin. ter, the inflammation Tey It and convinced. ~~Natlonal Maga. tine. boon algo be In France for the privilege of wear ing men's trousers the government imposes on women a tax of fifty con | mes por annum, SIDELIGHTS OF NEW YORK REE a NEW Yourx Ci commissioned will be opened hool in Washing outse 16 contin Injures North Careliea Cotton. Va The two weeks are reported { Special) heavy y have seriously injured crops in East- n Virginia and North Carolina, par- icularly cotton in Eastern North Caro- fina, and it is feared that cotton grow- srs in that section will lose heavily as x result, New York (Special). Sweeping re- ductions in the salaries of-various offi cials and employes of the Equitable So- jety were announced by Chairman Mor- The decreases will amount to 20 per cent. on all salaries over $15,000 pet wnnum 3 15 per cent. from all annual sal ries between $0000 and $i5000, both inclusive: and 10 per cent. decrease from all salaries above $2,500 and below $0,000 per year, These changes become operas tive on August 1 next, and effect a sav. ing of from $150,000 10 $200,000 a year. i 5 n 20.000 fs. at Cal yunted to $16,000,000 in 1904, of win 3,000,000 worth went. to States has erected a huge building gidis, » ~whoile fami wided for. But t advantage of this hospitaliy more 1 five times in three months ple pra \ hay The Zuni Indians will not eat bread that has not been crushed and ground ap by stone implements, They say tha the grain by itself denotes goodness and the stone means truth, so that it by a meeting of the two that the fullest benefit comes, There are about 25000 persons om ployed in the watch {actogics of Swit land, not including several thousand en- gaged in the “house indusiry i are G27 factories, 218 of wh 3 facture complete watches, hands, sprin; jewels. ete HEALTHY TOWN. wale palientiiy, once again, DEFINED ropy, my son, ue SOMO prompts relieve PHILANTHROPY Ww fo--What is Father-That which We tad" Gan. 1and feeling, we awfully which 1 spl $ akl somebody elise 10 New body ug Io him Yorker HAVE BEEN WORSE DEFEATS feel 0 who is al of “Rojestwonsky edn’t bad.” remnr) tizen sorry for the misfortunes WAYS othere “Why “Well, boat. Dewey ws ud 9 not lost a 1% » didn't Togo small torpedo even do that" BADLY MIXED. “Gentiomen of the jury,” queried the clerk of the court, “have you fully agreed to disagree?” “We have,” answered the foreman of the bunch “The lawyers have tangled the case up so that we don't know any more about it than they do Chicago Dally News Homeless children in parts of Aus tralia are sont to board with neigh boring families, the authorities pay ing for their maintenance.
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