V tc
-t-e'BOY BLUE.
The little toy dog is covered with dust
But sturdy and stanch he stands;
And the little toy soldier is red with rnUt.
And his musket moulds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was new
And the soldier wan panning fair.
And that was the time when our LfttTc
Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.
"Now, don't you go till I come." he af9.
"And don't you make any noise."
Bo toddling off to his trundle bed
He dreamt of the pretty toys.
And as be was dreaming an angel song
Awakened our Little Boy Blue
On. the years are many, the years are lone.
But the little toy friends are true.
Aye, faithful to Little Boy Blue they
stand.
Eafh in the came old place.
Awaiting the touch of a little hand.
The smile of a little face.
And they wonder, as waiting these long
years through.
In the dust of that little chair.
What has be.-onie of our Little Boy Blue
Since he kissed and put them there.
EiiKene Field.
AT THE PLAY.
HOW fun
you!" sal
tie sta
OW funny to be here with
said she.
tarted. The phrase
Jarred him; It was at once inapplica
ble and undignified. He turned to her
with a pained expression. "Delight
ful." "perfect," "entertaining" he
could have condoned expressions such
as these, commonplace as they would
undoubtedly have been. A man may
be tender toward a woman's rhapso
dies alM.ut her lover when that lover Is
himself. But "funny !"
", O. Ol" She clutched his arm.
"What funny people!" The fatal ad
jective again. This time he winced,
winced twice deliberately, lest she
Kbnuld mistake the first signal of dis
tress as a mere physical iutirmlty.
She continued, quickly:
"That reminds nie I don't know why
it reminds me, but It does force of
hiibit, perhaps, because he hates badly
turned out women so Don Is up in
tow n tonight. lid you know I won
der if we shall come across bini?"
"You mean Lord Kllinore's younger
son V"
"You remember Don?"
Her gl:iii-e, meeting his full, showed
some surprise at his obvious ill tem
per. She put her hand out hurriedly,
with a pretty, unaffected gesture of
sympathy.
D.-ar! You're not ill?"
Nothing irritates a man whose liver
Is out of order so much as being re
minded of the fact. The deepening
curves at Cliiunock's mouth grew pusl
tively risld with irritation.
"Of course not. Is anything ever the
matter with me? How your imagina
tiou runs away with you dearest!'
The "dearest" was a dutiful collet s
siou 'jo the situation, but. somehow, she
shrank from it, her ardor chilled, the
keenness of her enjoyment marred al
ready. "We have still ten minutes to wait
before the curtain rises." he said. iHe
regretted his customary after-dinner
coffee.) "What if I took the opportun
ity of explaining to you the motif of
the play? It is a trltle complex."
"It would be kind of you." she said,
wltn a little smile, but. notwithstand
ing, her eyes showed some disappoint
ment as she scanned the house. She
was longing to speak the sweet banali
ties to which most lovers find it pleas
ant to listen: to make her bright little
comments and butterfly criticisms, to
sip to Its full the evening's cup of
evanescent eiijo lucui ; to be. In a word,
herself the creature of the moment,
and his own. She had looked forward
to to-night the first of her emanclp-j
tiuu witn rapturous excitement. "It j
will be almost as good as being his
wife." she had confided to the married
sister under whose chaperonage she
whs spending the twenty-four hours in
tow n. which broke her journey be. ween
a tiloucestershire visit and her travels
further north. "To have him all to my
self for a whole evening! To feel that
I really belong to him as he belongs to
me! Can you imagine anything more
perfect?"
Lady Guthrie could, easily, but she
did not say so. She had only met Chin
nock once, and he Impressed her as a
prig and a bore, and Margot's angry
disclaimers could not alter her sister's
opinion.
"You have to marry him. not I!" she
said, comfortably. "Wlr" does It mat
ter what I think? He'.- .1 off. which
Is something. At least j mi can con
gratulate yourself so far. No one can
patronize you. Your women friends
won't be able to pass you on their un
becoming last year's clothing nor their
husbands stale tobacco."
"You're prejudiced," Margot replied;
"all sisters are." Which in a sense was
true, for Lady tluthrle's sympathy was
openly enlisted on behalf of the scape
grace of the Kilmore family, young
Oil rick, who had adored Margot
biiice she trespassed barefacedly and
barefoot in the Kilmore deer forest as
a little child. Hut Margot, having sys
tematically dominated him for eigh
teen years, already felt the pleasure
light pall if long continued. "He has
been so much to me all my life; It
would be lorlng for him to become
more still during the rest of it. I
know him so w ell-too well," she said.
In excuse for her cold-heartedness.
But at objections such as these Lady
(Juttirle shook her head In stern dis
claimer. "Walt." she said, eagerly, "wait."
And Margot waited.
To night for the first time she saw
something of the reverse side of her
new picture, the canvas-back. Was it
disloyal to wish that Mr. Chiunock be
haved more as one expects a lover to
behave even in public, that he should
s!;uu- !:;! sort of open pride of pes
ses.-io;i. of glad proprietorship? In the
.,v immediately in front of them there
was a :
Imttil:-'
-cadiiiu
into the
'venintr.
-ilia tot I
ay. absorbed young couple.
laughing, looking, smiling
I h-ir own tender meanings
most trivial incidents of the
Margot watched them, fas
:i spite of herself. How dif
ferently tln-y behaved to herself and
: er lover! The man leant slightly for
u a id -li -had got it badly," Don
would have said -every now and then
iiis coat sh-eve touched the little Ini
aioval.Ie white-gloved hand next his
4i:d lingered for a moment caressing
y. Margin's eyes grew tender, ab
i'-:sct. ' ' s pretty, so natural!
It ke 1 r ymp ithy and gave her a
; c.sa.nt iiltle feeling of companion-
'. : a!;aot unconsciously she heiself
i. Hiked a little closer.
"Are you attending? Margot, I don
eiieve you've heard a word I've said!"
.!arg"t started, her cheeks aflame.
.;; I inn:' i ' t.'m in gemrous-apologv.
Iicar. I'm r-o sorry! How dreadful of
i.ie. It's all so fresh, and new. and
Yoiiderful to me. you see. I'm a bli
leatter-biaiucd: such intelligence, as 1
i?ave is limited to only taking in one
lining at n time. Tell me all about It
igain. I'll listen, truly. Do forgive me,
Uichard. uleas"'
Her pleading broke down even Chin
nock's indention. But his shirt front
ooked extraordinarily stiff and starch
ed and white, rather like polished mar
do. site thought, or was It only pupier
atche, and Margot moved lnstlnctlve
y a little further from him as be con
inued: "foremost In the ranks of our latter
lay satirists, James Lee Hoey stands
unequaled. She it was who practically
founded the New School. She stands
alone. Her disciples imitate laborious
fy her brilliant dialogue, her scintillat
ing epigram "
"Her?" the girl repeated vaguely,
"her? Why do you speak of him as
her? Surely he is a man!"
"Do yon mean " he asked. "Is W
possible that a living woman exists who
does not recognize the supreme fact
that this one of our greatest writers I
had almost said our one great writer
honored her sex by belonging to it?"
"I never realized that to belong to
either sex was a question of one's own
volition," Margot said quietly. "I did
not know that 'James Lee Hoey' was
a woman, and, what Is more, I'm not
especially proud of the fact. I don't
admire her. She Is cynical, and hard,
and morbid. I like Rhoda Broughton
far, far better I love her, in fact, she's
so human, and and Mrs. Hungerford,
and dear Mrs. Clifford, and Beatrice
Harraden. and heaps of others."
She choked a little In her excite
ment, trying to keep back her tears. It
was nil so trivial, but she had been
petted and made much of all through
her happy eighteen years, her criticism
asked, her opinion deferred to, and
now Repulsed, hurt, suffering, she
shrank away from him. His kiss on
greeting had been cold: his kiss on part
ing might reasonably be expected to be
frigid.
She sat in outward quietude, her head
avrrted. her thoughts tumultuous. If
this was the beginning, what, O what
would the end lie? When the curtain
rose at length It was a relief, but the
relief passed when it fell again. If an
hour of him was so trying, what would
a lifetime prove? At the second act he
left her to have a cigaret in the foyer.
She sat listlessly. What a fool she had
been! What a mistake she had made!
Was it irrevocable? One't. people kuew
soirething after all; so much she must
ndmit. 'lie had thought him cultivated,
charming. They had met on a northern
visit, and he had been out deerstalking
all day; at night he was too tired to
prose over much, and his prigglshness
had passed for culture. Since their en
gagement they had met for the most
part at big functions, and there It hap
pened that, until to-night, they had re
ally seen remarkably little of each
other.
And what an awakening to-night had
brought! She held her program in her
hand, looking at it with unseeing eyes.
How blurred It was how stained how
like her future life would be, lived out
with him!
A shadow crossed the page. She
looked up. A well-rememlered pres
ence made itself felt.
"Margot! Crying!"
She sprang to her feet gladly, tri
umphantly, catching with her two
hands at the firm, protecting fingers
which gripped hers.
"Oh. Don." she said, brokenly, "take
me back. Please take me home before
he comes again, dear. I can't stand
hlni any more. Talk nonsense, Don;
tell me I'm 'ripping,' and 'a brick,' and
jolly.' in all the rest of the dear, de
lightful, slangy terms. And Oh, Don,
If you love me. dear, make love to me,
real love, for always. Don't ever, ever,
be cultured or superior."
"If I love you," he said.
And before the look of his eyes het
own fell. But it did not matter, for he
took her home. The Ladles' Field.
A Natural Fog Horn.
At the Kara Hones the erosive agents
have worked with queer caprice. This
rock being granite, has been acted
upon by the sea at all levels, and
throughout the long period when It has
leen rising out of The water depths.
Through a long, narrow hole, slanting
and communicating with the ocean,
there conies at intervals a terrific
stream of air, forced by the spasmodic
heaving of the waves against the lower
orifice. The government, which us.s
this island for lighthouse purposes. In
closed the upper end with the nozzle of
a fog horn, and every few seconds there
was blown an ear-splitting brawL
which was heard far out at sea and
above the din of the breaking rollers.
It was allowed to roar only in foggy
weather, but rt was eccentric in that
it would only sound at high tide.
When the ride was low, althongh the
weather might be very thick, the thing
was silent. For lack of Its warning a
ship went ashore upon the Island rocks,
and then it was that the government
abandoned its location on the wind
hole and erected a steam --.Wen, or
rnecha.r.i.-al fog horn, which has since
very faithfully performed the necessary
service. Harper's Magazine.
No I arttaly Use for 'En.
"I don't see why so many cranks are
trying to invent a flying machine.
There's no earthly use for them."
"No; that's true; they are meant to
navigate the air." Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
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"See, grandpapa, my flowerr she criedj
"I found it in the grasses!"
And with a kindly smile, the Sag
Surveyed it through his glasses.
"Ah, yes," he said, "involucrate.
And all the florets ligulate.
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4 pretty specimen h is,
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She took the blossom back again.
His face her wistful eye on.
"I thought," she said, with quivering lip.
"It was a dandelion!"
St. Nicholas.
Parrot, Cat and Dos; in a Cane.
The Chinese must be past masters ol
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A Chlldren'a Party at a Palace.
How time tiled, to be sure! It seemi
haxdly more than yesterday since th
Queen of Holland was a child a merry,
sunshiny little girl, usually seen is
white, a large, broad-brimmed hat
with a white ostrich feather half hid
ing the pretty face, and the long, fail
hair rippling down her shoulders. Now
she has changed Into a tall, slender
maiden, full of grace and royal majes
ty. The new Queen of Holland has been
a very popular person ever since she
was born: and Dutch children nevet
tire of hearing about the time when
Queen Wllhelmina played many a
merry game with her thirty dolls, and
with the little boys and girls who used
to be invited to the palace to amuse
her; never tire of hearing of her warm
love for animals horses especially
and her admiration for soldiers and all
that concerns them, and her great ca
pacity for learning, and her quickness
in seeing a Joke.
And if the young Queen has by thi
time perfectly acquired the art of be
havingwhen necessary In quite a
stately a fashion as the dignity of a
queen demands, she is a very lively and
bright girl, nevertheless; and there is
at the Hague a boy who would most
emphatically convince you of the truth
of this statement. If you were to doubt
it. When, several years ago, he was
about nine or ten years old, be had the
good fortune to be Invited to a chil
dren's party at the palace. His mot het
was glad, but somewhat uneasy, too.
Such a very independent and noisy lad.
her boy was! Surely there was some
reason for her being afraid that he
would not behave so well as she wish
ed him to. She told him to try to mind
his manners, and not to "stamp in that
dreadful way," and not to talk too loud
ly. "And. mind you, don't forget to say
Mevrouw (Madame) to the little Queen
when you speak to her."
But this was too much for Wlllem,
who had been listening attentively. If
a little Impatiently, perhaps.
" 'Merrouw!' " he exclaimed indig
nantly. "I am not goUig to be such a
silly as to call ke.r all that! 'Mevrouw,'
Indeed'. Aud she is cot married, and
uly twelve years old!"
For quite half an hour his mother
took pains to make him understand
that etiquette demanded the little
Queen should be addressed as "Mad
ame." He obstinately refused to be
brought to reason. "It Is so absurd!" be
jaid. "How can I call her 'Mevrouw,'
when she has no husband?"
The attempt to make him understand
had to be given up. He looked a per
fect little gentleman, though, when he
drove to the palace, accompanied by his
little sisters.
Solemn-looking lackeys stood ready
to conduct them to one of the beautiful
old rooms in the palace, where some
other little guests were already assem
bled, and they were welcomed by la
ilea of the court. When all the guests
had arrived, a lackey, opening a door,
xnnounced in a loud voice: "Her Maj
;sty the Queen!" And all eyes were ea
gerly turned in one direction.
A hush, a patter of quick little feet,
then In walked nay, ran Queen Wil
helmina, simply dressed in a frock of
loft, cream-colored silk. Wlllem gave
I quick little nod of content. He liked
hat.
She did not behave or look like a
'mevrouw" in the least; and be clapped
lis hands when she said gaily: "Let us
lave a good, noisy game; blindinan's
juff. or or anything jon boys know!"
nd "noisy" games they bad, several
f them blind man's buff among the
est; and Wlllem thoroughly enjoyed
II in self, and twice caught the Queen
vheu his eyes were bandaged. "I knew
it onee It was she." he said afterward,
as soon as I touehed her sleeve. It
VI t so soft and nice, quite different
from the others. But. of course, I never
ailed her 'Mevrouw.' I Just said 'Kon
:gln' (Queen), and I am sure she liked
t."
Well, what Queen Wilhelmlna cer
ainly did like was to play and to romp
i nd to be merry as well as other ehil
Iren. Perhaps no Putch girl surpasses
icr In her love of skating and riding.
si. Nicholas.
The Sheriff's Joke.
"Talking about neckties," gayly re
narked the western sheriff, as be deftly
arranged the noose, "there's something
Jist is perfectly killing."
Folly never files out of man's reach.
m7
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ST. JACOBS OIL.
TIPFENED MUSCLES.
Oat ef the Months of Babes.
"Mamma,' said a certain little man,
"when yon go to town boy me a whistle
and let It be a religions whittle, so that
I can play with It on Sunday"'
Visitor Well, Johnnie, I suppose
your father thinks the twins are some
thing wonderful. Johnnie Yea, but
(In a confidential whisper) I could lick
m both easy.
A Little boy whose new-born slater
set np a tremendous cry on getting her
bath, exclaimed: "Well, I don't won
der they seat you down here If yon
made auch a noise as that In heaven!"
"Well, Johnnie," said the minister to
a little fellow, aged 6, "I hear you are
going to school now." "Tes, sir," was
the reply. "And what part of It do you
like best?" asked the good man. "Corn
in' home," was the prompt and truthful
answer.
Hi try, aged 5, had bis photograph
taken recently, and when the proof was
sent home his mamma said be looked
too solemn and asked him why he
didn't smile. "I did smile, mamma,"
! replied the little fellow, "but I gueae
j the man forgot to put It down."
"I just think our mamma is an awful
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i little sister, "un, now can you say sucn
a thing?" she exclaimed. "Well, that's
Just what she Is," replied the little fel
low. "Everything I do she runs and
tells papa. A gossiping woman makes
me tired."
"Mamma." asked little Willi, "did
Daniel Webster build the dictionary?"
"No, dear; It was Noah; bat why do
you ask?" said his mother. "Why," re
plied the youngster, "our teacher said
that Noah built the ark, and I thought
he might have got Daniel to build th
dictionary for him If he waa busy."
Tommy, aged 5, and his cousin Willie,
aged 6, had several little altercations,
in which Tommy invariably got the
worst of It. One day his mamma said
to him: "Tommy, to-morrow Is Willie's
birthday; wouldn't you like to give him
something?" "You Just better believe
I would," was the reply; "but. you see,
he's bigger than I am and I can't."
Little 5-year-old Clara's papa had
been away on a protracted business
trip, and her mamma was putting
thlugs in order and making sundry
preparations for his return. Clara
watched her closely for a while, and
then observed: "Mamma, you make as
much fuss as old Mr. Prodigal." "What
ido you mean, dear?" asked her mother.
''I never heard of Mr. Prodigal." "Oh,
Tea, you did, mamma," was the reply.
.Don't you know, the Bible tells about
what a fuss he made when his son
came back?"
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Portrait and Slipper.
A touching anecdote, associated wits
a picture in the National Gallery ai
Edinburgh, is told by an -English lady
In her book. "Pot-Pourrl fnoin a Surrey
Garden." She writes:
Several pictures stand out with pe
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Inside the case was the little white slip
per she had left with the painter to
help htm to finish his picture.
The portrait was given to the Edin
burgh Gallery, and the slipper waa
kept oy the family.
STRONG STATEMENTS.
Three Women Relieved, of Female
Troubles by Mrs. Plnkham.
From Mrs. A. W. Smith, 59 Summer
St., Biddeford, Me.:
" For several years I suffered with
various diseases peculiar to my sex.
Was troubled with a burning sensation
across the small of my back, that all
gone feeling1, was despondent, fretful
and discouraged; the least exertion
tired me. I tried several doctors but
received little benefit. At last I de
cided to give your Lydia . Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound a trial, a he ef
fect of the first bottle was magical.
Those symptoms of weakness that I
waa afflicted with, vanished like vapor
before the sun. I cannot speak too
highly of your valuable remedy. It is
truly a boon to woman."
From Mrs. Melissa Phillips, Lex
ington, Ind., to Mrs. Pinkham:
"Before I began takingyour medicine
I had suffered for two years with that
tired feeling, headache, backache, noap
petite, and a run-down condition of the
system. I could not walk across the
room. I have taken four bottles of the
Vegetable Compound, one box of Liver
Pills and used one package of Sanative
Wash, and now feel like a new woman,
and am able to do my work."
From Mrs. Mollii E. Herrf.l, Pow
ell Station, Tenn.:
'For three years I suffered with such a
weakness of the back, I could not
perform my household duties. I also
had falling of the womb, terrible bearing-down
pains and headache. I have
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DESERVED THE DECORATIONS.
An Knterprielns Bwrajiar Who Bar
led to Bome Purpose.
To the social ambition of burglars
there Is no limit. They bicycle to a
suburban crib which they have arrang
ed to crack, drive dogcarts and wear
gold rimmed spectacles. Another phase
of their desire for higher recognition
among the community is greatly exer
clslng the mind of a respected resident
of Putney, who returned after a brief
holiday at the beginning of the week to
find that In his absence his house had
been vislied by at least one thief, who
appropriated a quantity of plate, a
dress suit, two Greek decorations for
merit of which the housekeeper was
the proud possessor, and a ticket for a
public dinner to an official of a golf
club who Is leaving England for Aus
tralia. This function waa fixed for Tuesday
evening. The excitement of the bur
glary drove all recollection of the ban
quet from his head, and It was only
when some friends mentioned how
charming his representative waa at the
banquet that he remembered the dis
appearance of the ticket, which was
marked, "One guinea; wine included."
Subsequent Investigation showed that
the burglar had not only appropriated
the admission card, but actually wore
the gentleman's Greek decorations at
the dinner, where he represented him
self to be the ticket holder's cousin,
who was on his holidays, and madt
himself ao popular among the company
with stories of his exploits in the late
Greek war that several of them Invited
him to visit their houses.
And now the real owner of the decor
ations is trying to find out all thes
gentlemen and warn them of the dan
ger they run should the false gue:
honor them with his presence, becausi
it would merely be the preliminary ol
another burglary. He 1 not quite sun
whether he has succeeded In tracing
all who were attracted by the house
breaker's bonhomie. London Tele
graph.
In Jail for Ieht.
The King's Bench was the lm-srest ol
all the debtors' prisons. It formerly
stood on the east side of the Hlgl
street, on the site of what Is now tin
second street north of St, GeorgeV
Church. This prison was taken dowi
in 1758, and the debtors were remover
to a larger and much more commodiou
place on the other aide of the stree
south of Lant street the site Is noi
marked by a number of new and very
ugly houses and mean streets. In thi
year 1776 the prisoners had to lie tw
in a bed, and even for those who couh:
pay there were not beds enough, am
many slept on the floor of the chapel
There were 395 prisoners; In additio
to the prisoners many of them ha:
wives and children with them. Ther
were 279 wives and 275 children a to
tal of 1,399 sleeping every night in thr
prison. There was a good water sup
ply, but there was no Infirmary, no resi
dent surgeon, and no bath. Imagine ;
place containing 1,399 persons, and m
bath and no Infirmary! Among the'
prisoners, about a hundred years c
was a certain Colonel George Hanger,
who has left his "Memoirs" behind him
for the edification of posterity. Ac
cording to him the prison "rivaled thr
purlieus of Wapplng, St, Giles, an.l
St. James' In vice, debauchery, and
drunkenness." The general immoral
ltjr was so great that It was only possi
ble, he says, to escape contagion by liv
ing separate, or by consorting only
with the few gentlemen of honor who
might be found there. "Otherwise a
man will quickly sink Into dissipation:
he will lose every sense of honor and
dignity, every moral principle and vir
tuous disposition." Pall Mall Maga
Bine.
gatavnisti Spoken by SS.OOO.OOO.
According to aa authority Spanish 1
spoken by some 65,000,000 people, mns
of whom Inhabit the southern port!
of the western hemisphere and adj.i
cent islands. It la far from bctug ill
language of a decaying race.
Fine feathers often make sorry jait
birds.
Don't parley with wrong.
The fretting; horse galls easily.
ChlldUkeness is not chUdlsbnaa.
rs upht hills. i u '
Satan'a snare.
Man advises
God commands.
Education la a
mental mariner.
Vanity is the
yeast cake
pride.
Beading Is
planting seed
thoughts.
Character Is the
.mirror of thought
Effort converts the Ideal into the real.
Moderation la a check to presump
tjion. " The past ta the schoolmaster of the
future.
Reason Is the dissecting knife of
thought.
Religious Instruction saves from de
struction. Make education a science, and It will
become an art.
It la not right for any Christian to
fight for his rights.
It takes an independent thinker to go
hunting for new Ideas.
Sympathy is the channel in which the
current of a man's thought runs.
With Christ within, it matters little
what are the conditions without.
Some professed Christians would
rather do wrong than suffer wrong.
Some men blow their own trumpets
by praising in others what Is most con
iplcuous lu themselves.
Showing tbe Dead.
A writer describes a curious custom
In Havana of laying out bodies In state
during the night before burial. They
are placed close to an open window
fronting the street, on a couch four or
five feet from the ground. The corpse
Is surrounded by high wax tapers, and
the Whole room Illuminated. Frequent
ly, when returning from a tertulia or
ball. I have been startled to pee the
fixed and rl:id features of some old
gentleman or lady, dressed In their best
attire, and apparently reclining before
the window. It used to appear an un
necessary mockery of death, dressing
out a corpse in a new suit of clothes,
with tight patent leather boots and
white neck-cloth. I remember one
night In particular. I was returning
home through one of the by-streets,
when, seeing the lower windows of a
house illuminated, and concluding that
there was a body lying in state, I went
toward it. There, close to the window,
so close that I could have touched it
through the bars, lay the body of a
young girl about fifteen years of age.
She was dressed as for a ball, with
flowers in her hair, and white satin
shoes on her feet; her hands crossed
on her breast, her eyes closed, and her
pouth slightly opened; and, altogether,
her face and expression was one of the
most beautiful I ever saw.
Coat of I.annchlng a Warship.
The total cost of the launch of a mod
ern battle-ship often amounts to over
$10,000. About five tons of tallow and
over a ton of oil and soft soap are used
Jn greasing the ways that Is, the slip
down which the cradle In which the
vessel is placed, glides into the sea-
No Cause for Alarm.
"Look here," said the barber to the
restless man in the chair, "if you don't
keep still I'm liable to cttt your throat."
"Oh, I'm not afraid f tjhat," replied
the helpless victim, "as long as you
continue to use that razor."
"New occasions bring new duties,"
says the poet. Our little spat with
pain must have been one of the occa
sions referred to.
Mean TbIbbt.
"A dinner such as we have had to
day," said the elderly boarder, "makes
me feel like a young man."
"Indeed," was ail Mrs. Hasheroft
deigned to reply.
"Indeed. When I think of that Iamb
we had for dinner I feel tbat If that
was lamb I must still be a boy."
Washington Star.
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Do not think for a single
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It creeps its way along.
First, you think it is a little
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weight; then a harder cough;
then the fever and the night
sweats.
The suddenness comes when
yeu have a hemorrhage.
Better stop the disease while
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Yau first notice that you
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the chest is lifted. That feeling
of suffocation is removed. A
cur is hastened by placing one of
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over the Chest.
A Book Froo.
It is off the Diaeaaea af the
Throat and Lungs.
M Mm ass Frmmty,
If you hare any complaint whataswr
and deslrs the best medical adrle. you
can possibly receive, write th doctor i
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A system which
has become run dewn
by the try in weather
of the fiast summer
is not in a condition
to meet tbe severe
winter of this dimate
and will easily fall a
prey to disease unless
a prober tonic is
used.
Dr.WiH Urns' Pink
.Pills f or Pale Peoble
are the best medicine
in the world foT build
in a up and strengthen
ing an enervated
system.
Oo not confuse
thcai Hill & uiils nrA
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further weakening the body. They build up the blood and
strengthen the nerves;
Major A. C Bishop, of 715 Third Are., Detroit. Mich., W a wtll-known
civilenVineer. He soys: ''When I had my last apellof sieklieas n4 came
out of the hospital I sra a sorry sight. I could not rr7in my stsvpfftn,
and could not walk ow a block for several week. I noticed unse article
ia the newspapers regarding Br. William' Pink PUls for I-ale People,
which convinced me that they were worth try in and I bought two boes.
I did sot take them for my complexion but for strength. After usingthem
1 fett better, and know they did me world of good. I am pleased to
recommend them to invalids who need a tonic or to Duuo up a nattered a
constitution." Dtlrtil fnt Prttt.
At all dvuddiat vr divect from the Dt. William Mdi- t
cine Company, Schenectady.
WHAT TH ' TvV DECIDES.
Blowing a locomotive whistle loudlj
Mveral times under a bridge ovet
which vehicles are constantly passing
Is held, in Mitchell vs. Nashville, C. &
t. L. Railroad Company (Tenn.), 40
(.. R. A. 426, to be so unnatural and
reckless an act as to create a liability
for resulting damages.
The delivery of a telegram to ths
wife of the addressee when he Is ab
jpnt from town is held. In Western Un
ion Telegraph Company vs. Mitchell
( Texas), 40 L. R. A. 209, Insufficient, as
a matter of law, to satisfy the obllga
iion of the company, but its duty In this
respect is a question of fact.
The liability of a street railway com
imny to a spectator for Injury by some
thing that flew from a target hit by a
bullet at an exhibition of marksman
ship given by an independent con
tractor employed by It is sustained in
Thompson vs. L., L. & H. St. R. R. Co.
( Mass.). 40 L. R. A. 345, where the spec
1:1 tor had come to the place on one of
the street cars and was at the place
provided for spectators.
A verdict of a coroner's Jury is held,
;n Small vs. State (Ga.), 40 L. R. A. 369,
r be advisory merely, and not binding
is a Judgment or possessing any proba
tive effect as evidence In a homicide
case, and therefore not subject to be
reviewed, set aside or quashed In the
superior court.
Evidence of the killing of a woman
by a locomotive or other part of a train
while she was sitting or lying on the
track at night between 12 o'clock and
daylight is held. In Parish vs. Western
& A. R. Company (Ga.), 40 L. R. A.
'M'A, to establish as a conclusion of law
that she was guilty of negligence which
would preclude liability of the railroad
company.
Voluntary exposure to unnecessary
danger is held. In Fidelity and Casualty
Company vs. Chambers (Va.), 40 L. R.
A. 432, not to be shown by sitting on a
bag on tbe railroad track at a highway
crossing, without knowing that a train
was due and after being warned of the
train and starting away, turning back
to get t& bag.
Voluntary exposure to unnecessary
danger within the meaning of an acci
dent policy la held. In United States
Mutual Accident Association va Hub
bell (Ohio), 40 L. R. A. 458, to mean
danger of a substantial character
known to the aaaured, who purposely
and consciously exposes himself there
to. Intending to assume the risk. An
attempt of a traveling salesman to
cross a slough In a road, thinking there
Is no danger. Is held not to constitute
such exposure. With these cases Is a
note analyzing the various decisions on
the subject.
CANTON PIRATES.
In
China Their Bnalneaa Is Neither
Hard Nor Dangerona.
Probably never since Cantos was
pen to foreign trade, t-ays Consul Bren
an In his report on the trade of the city.
has piracy been so rife aa during the
last year. The boldness of the pirate
is, however, surpassed by the apathy of
the provincial government. Perhaps
-he word piracy is scarcely applicable
tc the acts of these adventurous rob
beu. They have no armed craft of
their ewn with which to give chaae and
run down their victims. The usual
plan Is fcr a band of half a doaen men
to go on board a passenger launch dis
guised as (onest men. When a suitable
spot is reached they throw off all dis
guise. oven.we the crew and passen
gers by flouiishlng revolvera, and then
half the partj stand by ready to ihoot
while the rest proceed to search tha
passengers and their luggage, and
when they have taken all they want
they transfer themaelvea to another
boat or land near a friendly village
where a division of the spoil takes
place. They are not devoid ot a certain
chivalrous feeling. Cases have been
known where, after having robbed
some rich passengers and made a good
haul, they have restored to the poorer
passengers what had already been
taken from them. On other occasions
they have overpowered the master and
crew of a launch and "borrowed" the
T!i- Bot Whet-i for Him.
Harrow That's a dandy wheel you
have there, old man. I'll take a little
spin on It some day. By the way, what
kind of a wheel do you think I 'ought
to ride?
Marrow One
of your own. Brook.
lyn Life.
He Waa Kn tea t?er.
Owner of the Show What did you
say your specialty was?
Applicant for Job I am a crack and
fancy shot with pistols.
"Does your act take well?"
"Does it? I have made a hit every
place I've exhibited." Cincinnati Tribune.
Don't Put Off Till To-morrow the Du
ties of To-day. By a Cake of
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H.Y. PtU. i?ty crvt pev boa. W
use of the vessel for a few hours, dur
ing which they have overhauled a Junk
known to have valuables on board.
Having pillaged the Junk, they have
steamed away to their own village, aDd
before landing they have offered to pay
the master for the time bis launch has
been detained. The owners of passen
ger boats are now given to engaging
some old pirate as a detective. He
points out suspicious-looking charac
ters whom It Is better not to take on
board, and keeps in check any of his
Wd friends who may have been pre
meditating a coun. St James Budget.
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The Tronl.le with the Nasabera.
"I have heard," said the pensive-looking
girl, "that poeu naturally apeak In
numbers."
"Yea," replied her father. "The trout
ble la that the numbers never have any
dollar marks in front of them." Wash
ington star.
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