THE MILKMAID
im days of old the milkmaid went -
. About with dimpled arms.
In days of old the poet loved ,
To sing the milkmaid's charms.
Io days of old the lowing kine
Obeyed the milkmaid's call
In days of old the milkmaid was
The merriest maid of all.
In days of old the artist took'
His brush and showed us how
The milkmaid went to work upon
The wrong side of the cow.
In days of old the milkmaid's song
Resounded through the land,
And many a gallant's lips were pressed
Upon the milkmaid's hand.
Alas! Old Bossy heeds no more
The merry milkmaid's calls,
For the milkmaid of to-day's a man
In greasy overalls.
Chicago Times-Herald.
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An Act of Providence
j7 ES," cried my friend Amory, as he
Yy rose to go, "the whole world is run
by chance, and no one can make i
me think differently." .
We had been spending an evening at
whist, and now that the game was over,
we four had enjoyed a social cigar be
fore separating.
The talk bad turned upon serious
matters, and Amory, an agnostic, had
advanced his favorite theory that every
thing was governed by chance alone.
Clark, who had studied for the min
istry, but was now in business, had
combated with him for a vigorous half
hour, and as the night was cold, and we
were about to part, it was evident fnvn
Amory's last remark that he had not
been convinced.
vFot myself," said I. also rising.
have listened to you both, and have j
, . . .
said nothing; but If you will come to
my rooms to-morrow night I agree io
tell you a story that bears upon the
matter, and laen you can better decide
which theory is the right one.
It was agreed, and the next right, af-
ter a little supper, my three friend
settled themselves about my open nre
i .t.i . i .
and told me to begin.
"You will remember toy brother-ill
law, Merriam, of the navy? Well, thir
teen years ago, he was in 1'aris, on
leave. He had a good-lookiuj;. smart
vaiei, ior ne Knew out mue u. w.e -
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one to assist him, and he thought he
had a most desirable servant, until one i
night he awoke to see the fellow at his
cash box with a dark lantern at our
side.
Ned Mid not wait, but springing from
his lied he seized the man. and they had
a hand-to-hand struggle in the dark,
for the lantern was overturned the hrst
Merriam was o gcoa size, and It
was evident that he was about
powering the valet when tho fellow
stabbed him, and slipped from his
grasp out of the door and escaped. The
wound was not a bad one, and as he
had In turn given the thief a goo?
pounding he did not follow.
"Upon examining his cash box he
found that the man had only taken
some 200 francs and a handsome nieer-1 small and with flowing hair and beard,
chauin pipe that he had recently 1 wilIl an open, laughing mouth, where
bought, and, feeling himself a stranger jn gleamed a single small gold tooth.
In a strange land, he concluded to call j -it was the pipe that my brother-ln-the
matter square and not to go to the ; iaw had described to me as having been
police at all, which conclusion he fol-' stolen by his valet.
lowed, and he never saw his valet In 1 -"May I seeyour handsome pipe?"
France asa . , -said I."extendin my hand, while my
Vhen"u'e returned home, natural! j j pyes studied the faTe of tbe Frenchman,
he told of the experience and described j -It certainly Is a beautiful one, and very
the pipe to me, as it was a curious one,
and seemed to be the thing that he ;
most regretted losing. :
"It was a Turk's head, small, and
with flowing hair and beard, with the
mouth open, as if laughing, and In the
back of the mouth the artist had In-
seneu one smau go.a tootn tnat could
only be seen if you knew where to look
or
"It was just the sort of thing a na
Tai omcer woum rancy and spnd his
money for, and, as I say, it was the one
article that Ned most seemed to m!s
by the robbery.
"Five j-ears after the occurrence that
I have related, an old client of mine in
troduced me to a gentleman one day by
the name of Dupray. lie was a French
man who had come to England to en
gage in business, and in some way bad
become acquainted with Mr. Leroy.
"Leroy was a merchant, rich, queer,
and with no family but his daughter.
Now this daughter, strangely enough,
was entirely opposite to her father.
"He was homely, she was beautiful:
ho was queer and rough; she was one of
the sw eetest women that I ever had the startled curse, the Frenchman fled be
good fortune to meet. He wanted j fore I could raise from my chair, and
everything his way and she was willing ' Merriam, home unexpectedly on leave,
to do his will in every particular but turned to grasp my band, with a laugh,
one, aud In that I upheld her against 1 aying:
her father, and to his disgust. j " 'How I frightened that rascal! what
"She wanted to marry a young man was he doing here?"
who was a doctor in a neighboring " 'Only some business with my friend,
town, while her father desired that she j Mr. Leroy, here,' said I, with a meaning
should make a grand match with some ; look at the old merchant; 'but I think
one who should raise her from the level ; we are well rid of him, and shall not
on which she was born. seek to follow him. Was it not strange
"A few days after ray first meetii.g 1 'hat you should have happened to come
with Dupray, Leroy came to my office in at the very moment when I had told
in a most merry frame of mind, and in him that the pipe was similar to the one
a few moments announced to me that j which you lost? A lucky chance, I call
the Frenchman was in love with his : It '
daughter, and would marry her if he "'No. sir. It was no chance,' Inter
would allow it. rupted Mr. Leroy, 'but an act of Provi
"Tlrt? Frenchman was willing to set , dence direct to prove to me that I am
tie on her all the property that her . an old fool, and to eave my girl. Ham-
ramer inigui. leave ner, so mat ne was
not after her fortune. ,
'"He's a fine man, too, Hamilton.' . choice, if she marries at all. Good
said the old merchant, rubbing his dayT " New York Weekly.
hands; 'comes of one of the old families, ; s
and has plenty of money. I think we where F-nd. Generate
shall make a good thing of It If Marcia The topographical situation to which
m!!r'b'm'' Kentucky and Tennessee were relega-
'"Well. I suppose she will, of course, (ed Jn flwt ha,f of tne c?n
If son demand it, said I, knowing how . , ... . , .
rtrong was bis control over her. and , the situation that still encircles and en
wondering whether she had given th.. j drones them. Being neither hot nor
voung doctor up. 'What does she say? , i of temperature, they became the
"The old fallow's face sobered. , Jcenes of impact between the North
" That irirl s rhe ai.Dle of mv eve. as
rou know, but she's as stubborn as her
jld daddy. She refuses, unless I can
jroduce what she calls proof of the high
standing of Dupray, and he has sent to
France for the papers.'
"I thought for a moment, and then
aid:
" 'Was the wedding to have been at
jnce. before she made this demand?
" That's it. I wanted her to have
him, and he wanted her at once, for we
were togo to the continent together
and make the wedding trip a sort of
business trip, too. But confound It
you know the girl, -nd she haa simply
backed out until the papers come. It's
ill right, though, and in two weeks the
matter will be arranged."
"I cogitated a little and then said:
" 'Better have the settlement drawn
while you are waiting. I suppose you
intend to give Marcia everything, and
you might make the will and then have
Dupray sign the settlement, or at least
have it all drawn np so that it can be
signed when the time comes. I tell yon
rkat I want to draw tht paper, tSj
white four foreign ofrlaJAw ffliy be
the best fellow In the world, and willing
to promise everything now. I Am going
to pat British law about hit neck, so
that he win have to keep hi promise
by-and-by if he should want to change
his mind.'
"The old man laughed.
M 'I know you were always In favor
of that young doctor, and he's a good
enough fellow, but now that a better
man hascome along and wants my girl,
and she la willing, he's going to have
her. But It's right that everything
should be done in proper form, and I'll
bring Dopray down In a day or two and
we'll fix the things up.'
"Three daya later, one afternoon, Le
roy and the Frenchman came Into the
office. Dupray wae as polite as one
could ask, and yielded a quick consent
to all the suggestions I made with re
lation to the papers to be executed; but,
somehow, as I began to write, I felt
that be was not friendly with me, and
that he laid it at my door that there
papers were being brought to a bead so
certainly before the marriage.
"You may be sure that when that Idea
took possession of my mind, I was stub
born enough to determine that the pa -
pers should be drawn and signed that
day; and when Leroy proposed that
they should leave me to my writing.
t while they went and bad a smoke, I
said:
" 'No, smoke here; and then when 1
want you to sign I shall not have to
run after you.'
"And they sat down.
"Leroy took out some cigars, and of-
j fered one to the Frenchman and one
I to me. I declined, ae I did not like to
! smoke and work, and the Frenchman
I declined, saying that he preferred a
pipe, producing from his Inside pocket a
handsome meerschaum, and proceeded
o fill and light it.
"Remember that this was more than
five years since my brother-in-law had
told me of his foreign experience, and
I doubt If I hr ' thought of It even for
"liKi . i-
11.111 1 11.1 1 i.u.tr.
"Well, the two men smoked and I
wrote, but all the me with that nn-
aaci- f imiI 1 n (T that nTTldtlmpi nftmcMa
are ot , accord w)tn
. srroundInps and ,t wa8 wlth 8atiSfac-
Uon that aft(M. an hour T cp, the
j firgt (lrflft of fhe p3per and ,ad down
; mv to rpad ,t to tne hgh
: . ' .
,u parties.
"As I tv.r.tted in my chair with the
agreement in my band, Leroy threw
away the stub of his third cigar, while
! the Frenchman removed his pipe from
: his Hps and drew nearer to me to listen
parefullT to tne legal bar8 that he knew
; I was preparing to keep him out of the
1 monev. i reit pleased to tninn tnat it
i was so. and perhaps my face showed a
i trace too much of that pleasure.
"As I began to read, the man replaced
Mo. nlna In hla nimith nnd from time to
j , Wew cIouds of wft aromatlc
!amoke ,n face; but.gg , wag
i smoker ,f , determined not to ,,.
. .,,, f ,,,,.., m . . vwri
he intended it to do. but read
; doubt
.taariilv nn When an agreement had
en covered. I would pause and look at
j Troy for hi approval, then continue
to read.
"At one of tbese pauses, for ao
known reason, my eyes turned upon the
pipe held loosely in tbe Frenchman'
hand as he sat listening at my side, and
my heart leaped into my very mouth
; as 1 saw tnat it was a Turk's head
odd. Where did you find ltT
"For an Instant the fellow hesitated,
his mouth twitching, then he handed
the pipe to me, replying:
" 'I purchased It In Paris some years
ago, from a friend who imports tnem.
j 1 thir,k it rather a curio In its way my
i 9ef.
1 -'it surely Is,' I said, 'for I never
: saw but one like It, and that belonged
, t) a naval officer, Lieut. Merriam. It
was stolen from him. I think. In Paris.'
i "The man's face flamed in an Instant.
" 'Whatr he cried, 'do you accuse me
! of stealing this pipe? Do you call me
.1 thief?-
"As he spoke, the door of the outer
1 office swung slowly open, a man entered
; who advanced directly to our group. I
looked up in surprise, but before I could
speak the newcomer said:
" 'No, Felix, he does not; but I do.
Thi is my pipe, and this Is the man
who stole It from me five years ago!'
And with a quick motion he eetzed the
article In question.
'And now will yoO
?'
kindly call the police?'
"It was unnecessary. With a single,
111011, you may tear tnose papers up.
My Marcia will marry the man of her
'"a " aoiiui, me Daiue-grounas or me
Mvll war. They still nurture the abnor
mal to some extent in tbe feuds be
:wcen the Bakers and the Howards, tha
Griffins and the Phillpota, because they
are not inviting to the iron-makers, the
wood-workers and tbe general factor
if the North, nor entirely habitable to
tbe people who lave In the suns of the
South. Their characteristics extend
aver into Arkansas, which, too, la
rugged, and has been more ragged in
some of its people. Yet Kentucky
makes the gallants of American his
tory, because It is on the border; and
Tennessee affords rural homes, which
have been exemplars for the romancer
ind passions for the dramatist, while it
installs in the gubernatorial chair men
ho write verse for their own Inaugural
jdes. --Tennessee Ilea picturesquely be
tween the moonshiner and th an gar
;ane." Ainslee'a.
Words are but lackeys to sense, and
will dance attendance without wages
or compulsion.
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
ft. COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN.
TCREST TO THEM.
ftoaaatala- that Will Interest b Ju
vaalla Member of Kverjr Household
Quaimt Action amd Bright Sarins
f KJ Cate Bad CaMlng Children.
All of our months were named by the
tomans a great many years ago. One
if the months Jooks back on the old
rear, and It looks ahead to the young
r new year, so It was named for a god
rhom the Romans worshiped. He was
epresented as having two faces, look
ng in opposite directions. One of -bis
'ace was old and the other one was
roung. His name was Janus. Can you
ruess which month was named for
lim? Another month was named for
.-he god of war. What was hie name
ind which monh was named for him:
May was named for Maia, a goddess
who was the mother of the god Mer-
ury, and June was named for Jupiter's
rlfe, Juno.
Have you ever noticed that while
nost months alternate with thirty and
:hirty-one day. July and August come
ogether with thirty-one days? That is
lecause these months were named ro r0rld. and it naturally follows that on
:he two emperors, Julius and Augustus j n,pnl the SMIe t.onditions of life prevail
3aesar. It would not have done to give : , on ,hi .artii. and there U no valid
ne a longer month than the other re-,.ell80I1 .nj. human Ix-ings should not
.elved, so both months were given tbir-. ive tuore as they do here.
:y-one days. pmt. Haeckel takes care to explain
In early times the Romans had only(;liat tl)Pre ,IollbUes8 maDJ planets
:en months, with names that meant, t,, temperature of which Is sTich that
irst month, second month, and so on. j .lf . n,i-,,i ., ,,, ...,...
Four of those names are used now. for
nstance: December really means
'tenth month," although it is now the
welfth month. Can you find the other
hree? A man named Numa added the
:wo months of January and February,
shortening the others In order to d so.
It Is said that February is a name
:aken from a Latin word that means ta
jtirlfy, because during that month they
leld what they called the feast of puri
Ication, and that April s from a word
hat means to open, because at that sea
ion the buds begin to open.
Dreaming a Treatn.
'Little girl, little girl, whither so high? ,
ro sweep all the cobwebs out of the tikyij
I should think it would scare you to ride j
like that.
broom, in the clouds, with an
black cat."
A'ith a peal of gay laughter she answer
ed me,
Yon mnstn't believe everything that
you see.
r,,r May' not ,he "ttIe irl w,tch thnt
.. . ' .
)n a broom, in the clouds, with an old
I a" ;' .."".! uur!uch a great distance from Mars an I
Pny irnderatood. :
H was a fine, black Persian cat and j
?ame proudly marching into the house
ne day with a poor little sparrow in
1 1,9 mo"tn. 'or pussies will catch birds.
30 matter how fine their familv blood
aiay be.
After showing his prize Pussy went
;o the front door, and, thinking the mat
:here would make a nice table, com
menced his meal. Of course, he scat
tered a great many feather around
nd made the front entrance look any
thing but tidy, and the cook was not
pleased at the litter Pussy had made
ind told him so, and said the next tim
tie chose to dine there he must turn tht
mat over on tbe wrong side. And, fol
lowing his own text, cook turned tht
mat over.
About two weeks afterward Pussj
brought another bird to the front door
tnd. though the mat was quite heavj
for him, took his claws and turned i
jver as cook had told him to do. Thei
be proceeded to enjoy his feaet.
What the Spider SalO.
"I was spinning a web In the ros
vine," said tbe spider, "and the little
girl was sewing patchwork on the door
tep. Her thread knotted, her needle
broke and her eyes were full of tears.
I can't do it,' she said. 'I can't! I
can't."
"Then her mother came and bade het
look at me. Now, every time I spun a
nice silky thread, and tried to fasten II
from one branch to another, the wine
blew and tore it away.
"This happened many times, but a:
last I made one that did not break, anri
fastened It close and spun other threads
o join it. Then the mother smiled.
" 'What a patient spider!' she said
said.
"TJie little girl smiled, too, and took
up her work. And when the sun wenl
down there was a beautiful web in th
rose vine and a square of beantifu.'
patchwork on the steps."
Treea Have to Bleep.
Trees and plants have their regula
times for going to sleep as well aa boy!
and girls. They need the same chanc
to rest from the work of growing and
to repair and oil the machinery of life
Some plants do all their sleeping In th
winter, when the ground is frozen and
the limbs are bare of leaves. In hot
countries, where snow never falls and
It is always growing weather, the tree
rest during the rainy season or during
periods of drought. They always choos
the time when they cannot work the
best for doing their sleeping. Just at
mankind chooses the night, when h
cannot see to work. A Norwegian
scientist has made some Interesting ex
periments trying to chloroform plants,
and he has found that the fumes ol
this sleep-giver make the plant sleei
harder and grow faster when it wake
"P-
Matte's Composition.
Little Matlc wrote a composition on
the cow. It was very brief, containing
mly the following words:
"The cow is a very useful animal.
The minister called and Matle's moth
er requested her to read the production
o him, which she did, amending it to
tilt the occasion. She read it thus:
"The cow is the most useful animal
fxcept religion."
Johniiy'a Reason,
Teacher Johnny, write upon the
1ackboard the sentence: "Two heads
'.re better than one." No-,v. .folinny. do
ou believe that?
Johnny Tes'm.
Teacher Why?
Johnny 'Cause then you'll sit a job
n a dime museum an' make lota o
noney.
One More Qneation.
"I want to ask one more question,"
said little Frank, as he was being put
jo bed.
"Well," acquiesced the tired mamma
"When holes come in stockings, what
becomes of the piece of stocking that
was there before the hole earner
, Spain's Sunday Schools.
Ia all Spain there are only 84230 dall
drcn in tha Sunday school.
MARS IS INHABITED.
PEOPLE DWELL ON OUR PLAN
ETARY NEIGHBOR.
rbia Claim la Very Confidently and
Soberly Advanced by a Skilled Ger
man Scientist Improbable that Com
muaicatloa Will Ever Be Ratabllahed.
"Is Mars inhabited?" has been asked
very often during receut years, and has
engaged the serious attention of many
astronomers, and especially of M
C'amllle Flammarion, a noted French
scientist and author.
Some new light is now thrown on this
subject by Prof Ernst Haeckel, an em
inent German philosopher, in a book
entitled "World Problems." After
pointing out that men have studied
the heavens for more than 4.500 years
and have only been studying them
selves for the last half century, he says
we may safely assume that the many
fixed stars whose l'ght requires thou
sands of years to reach us, are suns,
and are surrounded by planets and
worlds similar to those we know. We
may also assume, he holds, that thou
ands of these planets have arrived at
the same stage of development as our
:m sustained on them. He thinks it
very probable that there a e types of
iniuials and plants ou some planets
which are not to be found on this earth.
According to him. it is very likely that
:he biogenetic process exists ou Mars.
Venus and possibly some other planets
it out; system, as well us on planets of
rther solar systems, but plants on these
planets have reached a higher stage of
levelopment than has been reached by
itiimals and plants of this earth.
If we assume that Mars Is Inhabited
mil Prof. Haeckel seems pretty well
satisfied that it Is we must assume, he
holds, that the men and women whose
"tome Is on the planet are not such as
we, but of a far higher type. They
aiay resemble us exteriorly, but they
jre free from our physical defects and
?xcel us in strength and gracefulness,
it Is in the intellectual sphere, however,
hat their superiority is most clearly
shown. If there are human beings on
these planets, says Prof. Haeckel, it Is
extremely probable that they far sur-
a.ss ordinary men and women in In
! telligence.
j Anotherquestionoften asked Is: "Will
j we ever be able to communicate with
I the Inhabitants of distant planets?"
Prof. Haeckel's reply Is that there is
very little prol ability of any direct
?ommunlcatlon ever being established.
His reasons are because the earth Is
t :ither planets, and becnuse the condl
Hon of the air between the earth ami
these planets is such as to render direct j
communication by any means at present j
known to us Impossible.
Dialect In England.
"Lonnon," or rather "Lunnon," was
?he usual pronunciation in Oxfordshire
aud Buckinghamshire when I was a
boy there, fifty years ago. It was only
In reading from book or paper that the
'd" obtained recognition. Among elder
ly people many other words, when they
?ame to be read, had a different pronun
?iation from that which prevailed in
ordinary conversation. For example,
in reading, "have" became "hayve,"
"are" was "air," "said'' was turned
Into "sayd," and the "ed"' of a parti
ciple was sounded as a separate sylla
ble. Colloquially a man might say,
"We have err'd and stray'd
like lost ship;" but at church he would
swell out the phrase to "We hayve
err'ed and strayed ute lost
sheep." So, also, the common remark.
"I sed. How ar you?" became in resil
ing aloud. "I eay'd. How air you?" No
loubt these peculiarities have been
noted before; If so, I have not been
fortunate enough to meet with the rec
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POLITENESS
Of Women to Women ae to Feats It
r treet Care.
If anything riles a woman, it Is to
nave some younger woman get up and
0ffer her a Beat In a street car.
This
misplaced civility Infers that the elder
woman is to be considered on account
of her age, when, in fact, there ia ljttle
difference In years between the two. I
witnessed a droll bit of comedy tbe
other day in a Brookllne electric that
makes me smile every time I think of
it. The car was full, with several pas
sengers standing, when in bounced a
stout, well-preserved person, with
white hair beautifully pompadoured.
She was dressed In deep mourning, but
a bunch of violet In the front of the
coat gave a touch of "mitigation" to
her grief, which was quite borne out 1
by the merriment lurking In her mouth
and eyes. The lady grasped a strap
and looked out of the window. Then
suddenly a young person sitting near,
observing, perhaps, that no man in the
car intended to offer his seat, rose and
leaning forward touched the other on
tbe arm, saying:
"Won't you have my seat?"
Are you going to get out?" asked ,
the standee.
"No, ma'am," replied this tactless
creature, "but you are older than I,
and " But the sentence was never
finished. If a glance could slay, that
! young person would have fallen on the
floor dead.
"Thank yon. When I am too old to 1
i stand up, 1 snail nor enier a puonc con
veyance.
That was all. The junior woman
slunk back into the seat, and some of
. . pinn..,t
the passengers tittered. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
She Dicto't Recognise Him.
A parson who occasionally preaches
tn South London arrived to take the
place of the vicar, who had been called
away on account of some family be
reavement, and found an old and rather
asthmatic lady struggling up the steps
which led to the front door. He cour
teously gave her his arm to assist her,
and when they reached the top the
dame asked him if he knew who was
going to preach. "Mr. So-and-So," re
plied tbe parson, giving his own name.
"Oh. dear me:" exclaimed the old lady,
"help me down again, if you please!
I'd rather listen to tbe groaning and
creaking of a windmill than sit under
him," and she prepared to descend. The
parson gently assisted her down stairs,
and sighfully remarked, as he bade her
good-by, "I wouldn't go In either if I
weren't the preacher." London Tele
graph. Keauy Answer.
Everything possible, of course, Is
named for Admiral Dewey in these
days. There are "Dewey" hats,
"Dewey" shoes, collars, neckties, arti
cles of furniture, cigars, and so forth,
to an endless extent, and even certain
dishes at restaurants are named In his
honor.
A guest at a lunch counter on the day
the Admiral landed at New York ob
served "Dewey cakes" on the bill of
fare and called for some.
"Waiter," he said, after he had tast
ed them, "are these yonr Dewey
cakes?"
"Yes, sir."
"They taste very much like the 'Gen
eral rakes' I got here not long ago."
"Oh, no. sir," replied the waiter.
They've got lots more ginger in them."
Other Boy Didn't Count.
"Why, Johnny, what is the matter
with you? You've been fighting! And
I told you to count 10 when yon were
ungry."
"I did, but Tommy Tinker played
roots on me. He didn't count his 10
nntir after he'd planked me In the eye."
The First "Boot"
How many are aware of the origin
of the word "boo" used to frighten chil
dren? It la a ctniuyUou ef "Boh," the
name of a fierce Gothic General, the
son of Odin, the mention of whose
name spread a panic among his ene
mies. Pity Is brief; piety Is long ptty.
WOdDEN INDIANS OUT OP STYLE,
WaldWd Clear Mama Hava Became tha
Vatrae of Lata Tears.
Wooden Indians, bemoans a man who
had carved them for years, have gone
out of fashion and bis occupation Is
disappearing with them. Luckily, he Is
the only one In the business still and
there la employment enough for blm,
although prospects for some years have
been of auch a character that no recruit
have been added to this calling and
with him it will die out of New York.
Tobacco shops In these days are. ac
cording to his experience, not especially
anxious to possess an Indian as a sign
of their business. In case they select
this advertisement a molded Indian
serves their purpose Just as well, and
the former ambition of tobacconists to
place in front of a store a well-carved
presentiment of the native American no
longer exists. Degenerate cigarette
shops uptown call attention to their
business by means of an exhibit which,
compared with an Indian, carved or
molded, seems a lamentable decline In
taste and aesthetics. The swarthy
young women with beaded jackets and
fezes who make cigarettes In the shop
windows still are potent in attracting
crowds to watch them. One who has
seen them frequently must be suprlsed
that the tobacconist business could pos
sibly be Improved by the contemplation
of these young women at work. If any
thing could destroy the Ideas of delicacy
and exquislteness connected with the
Turkish cigarette it would be a sight of
these women.
The wood carver complains that the
tobacconists are not the only persons
who have ceased to demand his handi
work. The circuses, for which he used
to carve all kinds of show wagons for
thestreet parades, no longer call on him
or any other wood -carver, but have
them made by a cheaper process of
molding. If they want such articles. It
is easy enough for any person who has
seen a circus parade in recent years to
j realize that there must be little demand
j for any work in that direction. For !
j fifteen years one circus parade has ex-
: hibited annually the same set of glided
1 wagons, without even the change that
! might come from a little fresh paint.
' New York Sun.
BATTLE WITH A BURGLAR.
' Olrl Tacklee a Midnight Intruder and
Force Him to Take Flight.
Chester can boast of another heroine.
one whose brave conduct in fighting a
burglar prevented the bouse of a sick
friend from being robbed. Her name
is Miss Helen Louderback, aged 18
years, daughter of Prof. Louderback,
of Chester. Miss Louderback was
nursing her sick friend. Miss Alice Pier
son, of Ninth and Main streets, Chester,
Pa. The latter has been sick for
months and her friend has been living
with her in her Chester home for more
than two months. Miss Louderback
; retired at 10 o'clock on Wednesday
' night. She sleeps in tjje same room
j with the invalid. She bad been in bed
! only an hour when she beard a suspi
! cious noise in an outer shed.
The young woman made her way
down stairs to investigate. She went
I to the kitchen, put tbe lamp on the
j table, and proceeded to the outer shed
' In the dark. She opened the door and
i In the dim light of tbe moon she saw
j the form of a man. Almost at the same
; Instant she was seized by both arms in
' a grip that would have made any other
i woman scream at the top of her voice.
On the contrary, she plucklly resisted
' and during tbe desperate struggle that
ensued managed to free herself. Then
with all the force she possessed she
struck the intruder full in the face.
This unexpected attack from the young
trHge gT shattered the would-be
burglar's nerve. Tbe next Instant he
took header through the shed wln-
dow. Just as he turned from her the
young girl sprang after him and suc
ceeded in landing another blow on his
cheek. As soon as the man was out of
the window he disappeared.
Miss Louderback proved herself dif
ferent from other women attain. In-
end of spreading an alarm she fur
ther displayed her coolness by re-entering
the house, locking up the premisea,
and retiring again for the night. Re
cently she related her thrilling experi
ence in her own quiet way, and ex-
? IJiaiutru tltri icasuii ,ui iu uvuiiui
anoui it oerore reuring, saying sue aia
not want to aiarnl her Invalid friend.
whose physical condition she thought
might not have survived such a shock. Jlle of your prayer in the
The modest little heroine shows Indis- j rounK people's meeting is somewhat
potable evidence of her struggle in i marred by your neglect of the old peo
marks and bruises. Her arms are se- ! ple at home.
verely swollen and scratched from the ;
burglar's clutches.
I DIFFICULT CHINESE LANGUAGE.
Lack of Alpha bet and Number of Char
acters IMstlnKUiehinaT; Feat area.
The oldest spoken language now ex
istent upon tbe earth Is the Chinese.
It has an enormous list of words the
estimate of the number of characters
ranges from 25,000 to 2ti0,000. The lan
guage has no alphabet. Each character
represents a complete idea, and corre-
spouds, practically, to the English
word. It is written in columns from ,
top to bottom of the page, and from j
right to left. A Chinese book ends j
where an English book begins. Writing i
Is done with a fine camel s-hair brush I
and India ink.
The lack of an alphabet and the num
!er of characters make the labor of
learning to read Chinese burdensome.
Each character must be learned by It
self. When the student has mastered
5,000 characters the succeeding thou
sands must be learned in the same way.
Those which he has mastered furnish
no assistance to learning the others,
save as practice may have given him a
certain quickness In perceiving the pe
cuiiar rorm which distinguishes each i
character from its fellows.
The grammar of the language Is so j
simple as to be almost non-existent,
The same word serves indifferently as
I a noun, verb, adverb or adjective.
Moods, tenses, persons, gender and
i number are lacking; there are neither
conjugations, nor declensions, nor aux
i lllary verbs. The few Chinese who
! have attempted to master the English
j tongue regard ita grammatical con
l struction aa clumsy and full of pitfalls,
j The Chinese characters give no clew
i to the pronunciation, and no amount of
book study will enable a foreigner to
; speak the language. That ability mtiat
be acquired from the lips of a living
teacher, assisted by months of drill, a
quick ear, and great flexibility of the
vocal organs. Even the moat faithful
effort falls to enable many foreigner
to speak Chinese correctly.
Full often the most advantageous
place for our manhood is that which is
surrounded with splenddi difficulties. -
1 lias
( "J! na. J III M KAJ I 1 I -.
j
. The "Ivory" is a favorite shaving soap because it
makes a profuse rich lather, which softens the beard to
be removed and leaves the skin unharmed.
It costs about one-fifth as much as the so-called
shaving soaps and many who have used it fur this
purpose for years, will not have any other.
The vegetable oils of which Ivory Sonp is made, fit it for many srcial usj
for which other soaps are unsafe or unsatisfactory.
V TMC
TRUMPETCALl.it
Kmmm Hera Sounds a Warning Net
to the Unredeemed.
OMELESS boys
make lawless
men.
Children are
born; men are
made.
A loving apos
tle is a living
epistle.
To triumph
over a tempta- j
tlon is to build a i
temple ont of the I
ievil's stumbling blocks. j
Faith is the soul's ballast In the storm
f fear. !
One man Is but man; two make hu- '
uanity. I
The Christian life is progress by re-
ilstance.
To be always bold Is not always to
be brave.
The higher you sit, the better yor. !
?an drive.
A good boy is worth far more than
a bad man. -
The home is the headquarters of the
humanities.
Time Is God's loan, and character
His Interest.
A golden chain may chafe as badly
as an iron one.
The saloon is our national attempt
to commit suicide.
Consecration is not so much in get
ting as In letting.
The man who does not respect him
self, cannot reverence God.
Some people continue to be offensive,
even when conferring favors.
A man's prosperity can only be meas
ured by its effects on his heart.
According to our measure, John the
Baptist made a miserable fizzle.
The shingles you are going to buy
are not keeping you dry to-day. j
Sacrifice in the home sends the in-
cense of Joy through the house. j
The father who votes for the saloon ,
la whetting a knife for bis own heart, j
Tk I - . . . I
-sue ju&ra uivii pursue are onen dux i
the bubbles blown by their own breath
The measure of a man's goodness is
not the ill be avoids, but the good he
does.
Christ calls for perfection, because
there Is no limit possible to moral
nil a T i rlo a
When you pray in public, don't trv to
include a digest of the daily news in
J your prayer. Remember, God knowetb
1 i.ms
j an inmgs, ana neetis not that any man
nouia tell Him.
Effect or Altltnde.
Perhaps in no State of the Union has
climate so much to do with the charac
ter of the people as In Colorado, is the
contention of a writer In Ainslee'a. He
says in part:
"Go into Colorado; climb the lona as-
cent from the level of the Missouri, and
then as you emerge from the train Into
the handsomely improved streets, and
among the unsurpassed brick and stone
residences of Denver, feel your head
swim with the lofty altitude and the
rarefied air; then realize that the
' miners went on a mile further Into the
air, that they arc working and taking
out millions of dollars of gold to tbe
present day a mile higher in the air, at
j vivea, at leaaviiie and a
dozen other places; it will make you
j pause to think what exaltation there is
j in dwelling there always, what staying
j powers the pioneers must have had.
j Wait a day or ao, until the vertigo has
j passed away, and the exhilaration
: comes to you that always comes when
you have climbed a mountain and stood
upon its top and gazed out over a wide
world that expands below you; then
vou will beirin to feel that .ir.w ..
nervous surcharge, that Indomitable
undiscountable, almost towerine
spirit of elevation and still further ele
vation that makes Colorado almost the
liveliest the most irrepressible, the
most determined element In the Amer
ican body, social and politic"
Arlsona's Enterprise.
There are many ways of settling a
State or Territory, according to Ains
lee'a Magazine: "Look down into Ari
zona, for example; dig under the des
ert and find ruins of cities burled in the
blowing sands; climb up the precip
Itoua walls of the canyons and attempt
to rest among the cliff-dwellers who
sought to escape floods and enemies'
arrows; you will discover why the
traders who were in Arizona and New
Mexico before Fremont'a first entrance
Into California forsook the country and
went further West In the search for
gold, and yon will see what nature of
pluck and enterprise It must now re
quire to make a conquest of those des
erts, aa is being done, wita mammoth
schemes of Irrigation."
MOCTCIt ft GAMftLS CO. CINCINNATI
Guided by Wisitoin.
A public notice was given h, l,,.am.
ington, England, not Ions .-i.-d. which
seemed to indicate that the parish of
St. Paul's had some confidence in Irs
own perspicacity as well as nn unwar.
ering trust in the wisdom of Prnv.
dence.
A special prayer meeting will !.e held
on Saturday next, at half past eleven
o'clock, to entreat the Lord to elve us
a man of His own choosing for tlie pa?
tor of St. Paul's. Such we believe rhe
Rev. U. Linton, of Birkenhead, to he.
Oos't Tobacco Spit and Smok! Your Lite Awij.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be ma;,
retic, lull of life, nerve and vijfor. TaVt No-T
fcac, the wonder-worker, that make weak mea
ftioilg. All druggists. 50c. or ;!. Cure guar
anteed, tooklet and aample free. Addreii,
ttciiiug Kcmctty Co., Chicago or New jr.
There are two modt-s of esUiMi.-Oibig
our reputation; to be prais,-i ! Ii.,n-t
men and to be abused by r..Ki.-s. It
is best, however, to secure the farmer,
because It will invariably be accom
panied by the latter.
Vitality low. debilitated or exha i'-t-d curei
by Dr Kline's Invigorating Tonic. 1?rkk (1
trial bottle for 2 weeks' treatment. l)T K'ine.
Ld.. Btl Arch St., Philadelphia. Founded ''TI
Let us hope that science, commerce
and labor will flourish; for th" shed ling
of blood is a thankless business.
. To Cure Cons'ination Forever
Take Cascarets Candv Cathartic. 10c. or it:.
II C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists efund one
"Golf is such an expensive game thai
i really can't afford to play," sighed
Mrs. Quiverfull. "That's where you
aiake a great mistake," said Mrs.
Bowser. "I found it a great economy.
( don't have to keep a nurse any more,
is the children are always on the links
with me; we don't have any more doc
tors' bills; and besides all that, I don't
aave to buy any more expensive dellca
jles to tempt my husband's apatite,
tie talks so much about his game nt
iinner that he doesn't know what he's
sating." Harper's Bazar.
DrBull'ss
Cures all Throat and Lung AtTcctiuns.
COUGH SYRUP
Gcttheffeauitie. Refuse iub.tittitcs. A
VlS SURE
OVSIPHIPSIA
"For six years I was a victim ot dys
pepsia In its worst form, i could eat noM.i: K
but milk toast, and at timesmy btomuch sutild
m" retain ana aigest even tnat. L,ast Muri n 1
began taking CASCAHETS and since tl i. 1
nave steadily Improved, until 1 am as well as I
Ver WaS m Vax dH MrnPev. NVwarU o
ST trW CANDY
II m. AJ CATHARTIC
Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Io
Bood, ever Sicken. Weaken, or Cm. 10c. iic. 'ix
... CURE CONSTIPATION. ...
Marllac Baata; raaiaas;, rkteasa, Maslrral, arV 111
MO'TO'BAC rM'i1 ,"''r!,r"""'' h
FOR 14 CENTS J
Ws wtan to (sin thla rear Joo.no
uufwiarri, ana nncsofir
1 I k, 1 . 1 1 . n . i.
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Z SarlfRips -abbas Ito j
I - ferl Dinner Onion, lim
I " Brilliant How.rfc.irf. 1 Z
Werth !., r.r 14 seats. fTui
Above
now wnan von once try 9
aa a laiai ST w,, n"T ao wnnont.
m na'iiw "son Prissaon Sailer's imm. rar- 3
SMaarliort Tomato Giant onaarth A C- 'a
JOBS a. SALXIB SSID CO.. La rBOSKK. 1.1s.
Barters UN h
Scientifically mtde-
Therefore THE BtST.
fASTHlVI A POSITIVELY CURED
.. J H?V Y? ""Hll AsTII.MA Ti lt I
B So?, ,''' J' I aaKe m.ilfd free.
j Colums Baos. Mapimwa Co., Hi. I.otis. v.
DR. ARNOLD'S COUGH
Cures onghs and Colds. I t ft
freveots onsuuptloa. 1 1 I KK
All Druggists, XO- VlaLaLUII
DROPSY NEW DISCOVERT: nr.,
iTTl" quick rr it and car. w .rt
vl tsst.nion.sl. sad lOd.r. t.'rt,
- res. Pr. a. X. eatta'S 10. .s m atlaat. a.
I FOR FIFTY YEARS!
i MRS. WINSLOW'S
SOOTHING SYRUP
their children while Teething for over Fift
iv m
rata aa sooinea uie cmid. soitens ta .
gums, allsvs all pain, cures wind colic, au 1
lathe best remedy for dlsirbisa. A
Twenty-five Cents Boi..
If afflicted with
iff
I.
10 Pkra. worth tl.Oi. .ill 0
.' tosstbsr with oar
SrstJstaloir.tllinralls!,ont i
SALIEI t MIUIPN BOllAI POTATO a
nponracaiptofthia nollre lir. Z
stamps. Wfl imiunnH. . ri W
a sj -v.
4alcrr's 7
a. coed example ia tha bast
.Thompson's Eye Water