VOL* xxxvii
HUSELTON'S
Spring Footwear
The Very Finest Shoes Ever Shown in Butler for Men.
Women and Children.
Every New Idea Women's Fine Shoes,
That has merit in it as to style. Lace or button at 85c, $1,51.25
comfort and service in footwear and $1.50 —up to the minute
develops in this store. j in style.
Women's Shoes Business Shoes.
made especially to our order; St)lish footwear for business
dainty in appearance, of sub- men; tan bcx and Russia calf,
stantial service and full of style fine vici kids, velour calf, pat
as to shape of heel and toe, $2, cnt calf that have ease and
$2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 in Tan, comfort as well a.s wear in them
kid and Russia calf, black kid j at $2, $2.50, $3 and $3.50.
skin and patent leather. Men's Patent Leather.
Our Girls Shoes Full dress affairs at $2.50,
in ta:i and black, iace or but- $3-5°- $4
ton kid shoes, sizes 11J to 2, at have to be well dressed; shoes
75c, sl, $1.25 and $1.50; that go into the very best soci
to 11, at 50c, 75, $1 and $1.25; ety and feel at home there.
6 to 8 at 40c, ;oc, 75c and sl. Men's Working Shoes
Shoes for Boys, in oil grain and heavy veal,
Including patent leather, vici two sole and tap bellus tongue,
kid, tan and Russia calf, sizes atsi, $125 and $1.50; Box
2.J to $2. at r JOC, SI.OO, $1.25, toe at $1 50. $2 and $2.50; ir,
$1.50 and $2.00. fine satins for dress at SI.OO,
$1.25 and $1.50.
We are sole agents for the famous "Queen Quality" Shoes
for Women, of this city,
B. C. HUSELTON'S,
Bntier'n heading Shoe House. o|>not»iie Hotel l.,wry.
BICKEL'S
» SPRING AND SUMMER STYLES. *
The time of the year is here when yoj want a nice pair of dress
shoes for summer wear. Our stock is extremly large, showing all
the latest styles in fine shoes and oxfords in all leathers.
We are offering some big values in footwear and it will pay you
to see us before buying your summer shoes.
A FEW OF OUR PRICES
Men's Fine Tan Shoes & 1 *) ()
Light shade, Lace or Congress at.. ™ J M
Boy's Fine Dress Shoes— & 1 () ()
Box, Calf or Fine Vici Kid, light or heavy soles.. ,p *
Youth's Fine Calf or Vici Kid Shoes— Of»
Either Russctt or Black at..
Ladies' Fine Dongola and Russett Shoes i- 1 A(j
Lacc or Congress, latest styles last > at.. *
Misses' Fine Dongola and Russett Shoes— (f (4
Spring heels at.. '
Children's Fine 3hoes— .'{/)(•
Patent Tipped, sizes five to eight at..
Men's and Boy's Lawn Tennis Shoes - A I i { .
And Slippers at..
Your Choice of Men's Working Shoes— & j ( k ( I
Lace, Buckle or Congicss, heavy soles and good uppers at
Men's Fine Calf Dress Shoes— w I ()(}
Round toe, tipped at.. * '
Ladies' Fine Dongola Three Point Slippers - 3»)C
We invite you to call and see our stock of SOROSIS SHOES
and Oxfords,the latest styles for summer wear. They are very hand
some Vou will like them.
All sizes—2\ to 8.
All widths—AAA to E.
JOHN BICKEL,
128 SOUTH MAIN STREET, - BUTLKR, I'A
Spring STYLES r« ,yrf
v il
Men don't buy clothing for the pur/?;" •*_) lu./ 1 1/ jyP") Jjf
Jjtpose or spending money. They desi/ |u L jlj'') &
to get th'.: best results for theJ&- 1
TKm'Mvy exj<cnded Not cheap go<*l<r?r.' / 4\>' J jfjrf jf/ \
-jk.hu t go»»ds ■''* cheap um they can 4m I 1 •
3jsold fir n<l made up properly. |
vftyou want the cor rect thing at the cor- yV- j1 1
JMLrect price, call and ••xainine 1 " \ { |
stick of SPRING WEIGHT* % \ f I jj
*rLAIMST fcTYLBS, SHADES ' ASltlfr I \ | K Tfl _
Fits and Workmanship * ( | J
Guaranteed. [f s
G F. K6CK,
42 North Main Street, Butler, Pa
Out of Style. Out of the World!
Our (; arm cuts have a style that is
; VT* easily distinguished from tlu* ordin
(*. . ary. They are the result of careful
study and practical application of the
ideas gathered by frequent visits to
I l ' ,c as '" wn " llllcs . -nid by personal
with the leading tailor, and
■1 ? W M / fashion authorities of the county.
,<*»•*" / 'W They are made in our own woik
™ jjj shop by the highest paid journey
ill men tailors in Butler, yet it is pos
sible to (and we do) give our patrons these first -clav. clothes at tin
price you would pay for the other sort. We believe we have given
good reasons why our tailoring i. the best and cheapest and would
.be grateful for the opportunity to show you our haridsorre spring
stock and give you prices to prove them.
f\ 1 maker OF
MEN'S Clothes
When You Paint.
If you desire the very bet re- '^*l#
sti'ts tlx least expense you
MfHt
■SH t. I< VV IX VV II IIA MS' ~
Cov«rn I/xik- li---1 Wear- P'
hy ''
REDICK & GROHMAN,
109 N. Main St , Butlef, I'a
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
Thon»an<t» arc Trying It.
In order to prore the great merit of
Ely's Cream Bfiliu. the most effective core
for Catarrh and Cold in Kjad. TVC have pre
pared a generous trial size for 10 cents.
Get it of vour druggist or send 10 cents to
ELY BIIOS., 50 Warren St., N. V. City.
I suffered from catarrh of the worst kind
eTer since a boy. and 1 never h'-r-' I for
cure, hut Ely's Cream Halm seems t-j do
even that. Many acquaintances Ua"- u- (1
it with excellent results. —Oscar Obtruui.
43 Warren Ave., Chicago, 111.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
curVf'-ir catarrh and contains no cocaine,
mercury nor uny injurious drug. Pri e,
6C centii At drug.:i -ts or hy m^il.
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
p UFFALO, ROCHESTER &
* PITTSBURG RV. The
new trunk liste between Pittsburg.
Butler, Bradford, Rochester and
Buffalo.
On sod after Jan. 1, 1!<K). passenger
trains will leave Butler. P. A: W. St a
tion as follows, Eastern Standard Time:
10:12 a.in. Veftibtiled Limited, daily,
for Dayton, Panxsntawney. I)n-
Boif. Ridgway, Bradford. Buffalo
and Rochester.
":22 p.m. Accommodation, week days
onl}-. Craigsville, Dayton. Pnnxro
tawney, Dnßioa, Falls Creek.
Cnrweneville. Clearfield and inter
me<Hate stations
C:4"i a.m. W<(k days only: mixed train
for Craitfsville. Dayton, Pnnxsn
tawney and intermediate points
Thi« train leaves Panxsntawney at
1:00 p.m. arriving at Butler at 5:45
p.m , stopping at all intermediate
stations
Thousand mile tickets good for pa>
sage between all stations on the B. K.
& PR'y and N Y. C. R. R. Penn'a.
division) at 1 cents p<-r mile.
For tickets, time tables and furthei
information call on or addren,
W. R. Tl RN'ER Agt.
Butler, Pa., or
EOWAIUJ C. LAPEY.
Tien 1 Pass. Agent
Rochester, N. Y.
I*., lleHsemcr & L K.
Trains depart: So 14, at 9:15 A. M:
No. 2, at 4 50 P. M. Butler time
Trains arrive :No. 1, 'J.SO A, M; No.
11, 2:55 P. M. Butler time.
No. 14 runs through to Erie and con
nects with W. N. V. <fe P. at Huston
Junction for Franklin and Oil City,
and with Erie Railroad at Shenan
KO for all points east. No. 2 rnns
through to Greenville and connects with
W N. Y. & P. for Franklin and Oil
City, and at Shenango with Erie R. R.
for points east and west.
\V. R. TuKN'EIt, Ticket Agent.
|)HTSHUKG & WESTERN
* Railway. Schedule of i'as
frnger Trains in effect Nov. 19,
1899. Butlkr TIME.
Arrive
.»l«<*gli«uy Accommodation . ..... ft 2"* A.M 07 A u
Ailfgltttiiy Kxprew Ho.'> " 'J 30 "
N*w < uaU>- Accommodation...... 11 W 44 ®o? 44
Akron Mai J * Oft a * 7 03 f M
AlHtbeuy KhiA KiprtM ft* 44 12 1# 4 *
AlMk' u / K*pr«rt *■* 4t' I'"'
tCxyrtx*......... . 340 yu* 12 l* li "»
AJI«-gl»«ttjr Mail UN) 44 71. pttt
All''xh«ruy and Now A<<oui ft Ut *' 703 "
Chfe*** UmiUrf 6 ft) " "7 a M
Kftti«a(t<l Dradford Mail Wft A m 2 W) I' M
' larU»n AonßißiodiliM. . ...... 1 **» ftt 't 40 AM
C1«V«lHII<l ftiut Hilisko KxpreM... ft 2ft am
KCNUAV TRAINM.
Allegheny E»|»r«-« K 06 A M 'J u ;> a.m
A'com modal low ft -Vl i*.M ft 03 (Ml
N>* < Acorn inflation ho.» A m 7 'J3 44
riiUmu'* K*pf«w».. 3 40 p.* ft 03 am
AII*/(htmy Accommodation 7 03 pw
Tr«i4 ATHVIck At 5.0!j 11 fit * I!, & (I. dfj/ot
Ittuhurg at 3.2 ft I'.m and I*. A W. t Allegheny at AX*
p. m.
On ftatoid*y<t a train, known a« tl»« th'*atr* train,
will leaf ft«itl«r at b.'At p. m . irrlving at Alli-gln-ny
at 7.20; rc'urniaff 1< »v»- All'*li«ny at 11.30 p. HI,
I'nllman «l*?«?plug *ai« on Chicago K%prwaa Utwwn
I'l tt ah org and Clik*|D,
For through tickHa Co all poioto In th« *t«t, north-
WMt or wxiuiK'Mt aii'l information regarding root««a,
tlmi of train*, «t< apply to
W. It TV US Kit, Ticket Ag«»t,
K. fi UhYXOLim, Hnp't, N. 11., ISutfar, l*».
Butler, I'a. (.'. W. UAH - KTT,
fi. P. A., Alhgh"-y, I'a
II O DLSKI.E,
Hup' t. W A I*. I>iv.. Allegh«n« I'a.
PENNSYLVANIA K i.
WFsreKN Pennsylvania division.
H< HtuvLf. is fcrrr. f Jfof, 20, Ikf^i
MOUTH. , WEEK DAT* ,
AM A M A M IV M I' M
Bt'TLKii I.«-»*«• « jtr. >. oft io fto 2 r> <#r,
Haxofil/nrx Arrifr '» II '•'» <W r » 2M
li'»M« » Juim Hon . '* 7 if 7 i '3 II to v. 'i t ft h.'.
liutlar JncMtlon. .Lfip l 7 .'JI i 6»'J II it Jj/i ft«'J
Natrona Aitl*« 7 4o 'J 01 IZ 0| !J il li
Tarnntum 7 41 ;♦ «/7 lz Of. « 07
Hprlntt'lal* 762 ?# Ift 12 l'» U ftZ ...
Clar«tnf/rit.. fir v> \i '\h i it*, ....
MMlfpl'O r (Mil !# .'Kt 12 4M 4 12 ft 32
All«jrli«ny. h 24 I 04 4 .'/» 4'i
A M A M I' >1 I'. M I' M
OI7MIIAY TItAIHM 1.-m« Untl.-r f-,r AlJ.k»i.ii>
< it> an'l piin-i|*l ln»« rmiyli;it«i •Utlona at I '.Vitk »n ,
*n4 ft;'*) p. »«.
NoliTH ——WKKK I#A VM
A M A M A M I' M I' M
All«*h<*r»jr fJlty. ~l«av« 7 - W> 10 4A :J I" ft 10
itliaipal'iHK ....... 7 12. IMrt.tO A 7
f..4ii-in-nt .. ... .... II "t
nnrinK'lal** ~ ... II I* ..., ft .17
'lai'fnlom 7 .*J7 '< -il II 't I'. 0 4'i
Nati./na 7 II '# !i-! II .il i ftl
ltntl«r Junction, ..arrtv* 7 4'* •» 47 II 4 1 !i .'i*« 7 00
lititl**f Jll n't ion ,|wi»«- 7 4»- >47 12 !»• 4 o<, 7 '*»
Mkconlairg * 1% 10 MM* 41 4 . 724
UIJTI'KJI arrlv « 4rf» 10 !I2 1 10 f# W# 7 Mi
A. M.'A. M r M I', I- M
HWIIAY THAINH. l.«-av« AU»«h«ny 1 Ity for Hot
l«r ami prin<l|>«l InturSMdiato utatlonn at 7 |f> a rn. an«l
'J'iVt p in.
rnu TIIK EAhT
Wnnkii l/a',lh Hun'la/K
AII A M I' M \ M I' M
111 . ... If K 'Li In 'ii L :i", 7 Ki ', '<•>
Hatter J'«t nr 7 .rr il io :i vsA *»» • v,
lltllloi J~t It 7 II <1 I .'!>■ * 'il >s <K'.
rr->-|.,1l nr 7 .1 II I', tin H 'i'l H
Ki«k ilium t*» J t , 7 fto II 60 4 4 *7 h 2'» f II
Irf'M
I'aulton (Ai*A\„).. *' M 2«. 12 22 4 40 H ftM h |^
Maltalnre " H T,I |2 4 # OH (# 2i V
Klairavlll* „ V 'II 120 r, 41 »ft2!i 40
IllaifwvilU Int.. M '■> " I U ftO l<» <"»
Aliooi.u M 11 aft 1..', Ml ft 16
If an fafturif ' 110 jlO in# Iho i•• l* >
I'hii.t i< Ipliia •. 11 I 2 4 2ft t 2ft
1\ M A M A M A. >1 I' M
Tlirougli tmiua Ibr (Jw «mt |h»v« ritul>urg (Union
*iHti>>ii), ni» follow*.
Atlantic y.upfm, Oally 2 A M
l'< DHMIfMMM Limit 'I
l»«y 44 .... 7 ."/> 44
Miiin I.ina K«!f»r«aM ( ** **
llarrlal'Urg Mail, M ...... 12'4ft f.M
I'MU I'-ipliia hiprtM, ' . . I/O
MAII ftwl Ki|rr«i I • * 1
Tlironirli tfiiflft no roa* I 7 'Hi "
E.trl. , U i.«pt«-M, ' 7 10 "
i .r' I. I
HIIW/um UidlM, -l-ijiv Ajtii tlirough • «m »•< *
to N« * Vo/k, all. plug < us i" *f«w > rk,
italtiiuoK un J WitaltingUm »»nly So nuiti•
Jar ■ 'lli 11,1 m train Io 00 "
I httl I.i Mil), Koodfll * oi.,y |1" m
Vor Atlaiillr i 'Hy (via IU vt«r lljl'lk* - , all
r»nl nwfa i 100 A || 4 Ml | • . I I
Koi <l*f«tl«fl information, Tlioa K. Watt, |'ar«
Wi«t«on l>i»irkt, <"oin« i Kiitli Av«nu« and Hmltli*
n« l«l hlro-i ( I'lttil'urif, I'a.
J 11, 111 t» lllrON, 1 H
'toitnrul Mauatft-r. 'i#in'' "•urn*. An«'tg
Practical Horse Shoers
w .1 ROBINSON,
Pormerly 11 or w Sli'«-r at llur
W*i;k l»«ur<- liun OfHrtH'l liiitii
iH'MM in a whop in tlic ri-ar <>f
the Arlington Hotel, wlit-rc
hr will '1 <>' llwf-Sliocinjj In
lli«* ni'ih! Hpjirovwl »lyl«-.
TRACK ANU ROAD HOSRES
A SPECIALTY.
| Wcsl Winficld Hotel,
00 W.G. I-.USK, Frop'r.
xK) i'irit Clmh Table uivl
fc-. llf i an<l S]>rinv{ Wal'-r all
hdtue.
* wl) (l«*jdbUbling.
BUTLER, THURSDAY, MAV 10, IQOO
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A TALE OF LIFE IN THE
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Then a new time.
Before us there were three courses
possible—to go mad, to die, to sleep.
We take the last course, or nature
takes it for us.
All things take rest In sleep. The
beasts, birds, the very flowers, close
their eyes, and the streams are still in
winter. All things take rest. Then
why not the human reason also? So
the questioning devil in us drops
asleep, and in that sleep a beautiful
dream rises for us. Though you hear
all the dreams of men, you will hardly
flu'l a prattler one than ours. It ran so:
In the center of all things Is a
Mighty Heart, which, having begotten
all things, loves them, and, having
born them into life, beats with great
throbs of love toward them. No death
for his dear insects, no hell for his dear
men. no burning up for his dear world,
his own, own world that he has made.
In the end all will be beautiful. Do
not ask us how we make our dream
tally with facts. The jflory of a dream
Is this -that It despises facts and
makes its own. Our dream saves us
from froing mad. That Is enough.
Its peculiar point of sweetness lay
here. When the Mighty Heart's yearn
ing of love became too great for other
oxpri -sion It shaped itself Into the
sweet Hose of heaven, the beloved Man
«od
Jesus, you Jesus of our dream, how
we loved yon! No Bible tells of you as
we knew y ti. Your sweet hands held
ours fast Your sweet voice said nl
v.ays "I am h'-r". my loved one, not
far off. Put your arms about me and
hold fa>t."
We find him In everything in those
days. When the little weary lamb we
drive home di • it' feet, we seize on
It and e;>rrj it with Its head against
our face Ills little lamb! We feel we
have got him.
When the drunken Kaffir lies by the
road In the sun. we draw his blanket
over his h -ad and put green branches
of milk hush on It. His Kaffir -why
should the >i:n hurt him?
In the evening, when the clouds lift
them.'-elvcK like gates and the red
lights shine through them, we ery; for
In Ktieh glory he will come, and the
hand that ache to touch him will hold
him. and We shall nee the beautiful
hair and eyes of our God. "Lift up
your heads, ye gate 1 -, and be ye lifted
up. ye everlasting doors, and our King
of glory sluill coiue in!"
The purple flowers, the little purple
flowers, are his eyes, lookiug at us. We
kiss them and kneel alone on the flat,
rejoicing over them. And the wilder
fuss and the solitary place shall be
glad for him. and the desert shall re
Joicc and bio om a* a rose.
If ever In our tearful. Joyful ecstasy
the poor sleepy, half dead devil should
raNo his l,i .id. Ave laugh at him. It !s
not his hour now.
"If there should be a hell, after all!"
he mutters. "If your God should be
■rue!! If there should be no God! If
you should find out It Is all Imaglna
Hon! If"
We laugh at him. When a man sits
In the warm sunshine, do you ask him
for proof of It? He feels; that Is all.
And we feel; that Is all. We want no
proof of our God. We feel, we feel!
We do not believe in our <.od because
the Bible tells IIS of hill). We believe
In the Bible because he tells us of It.
We feel him. We feel hlui, we feel; that
Is all. And th<' poor half swamped
ilevll mutters:
"But If the day should come when
you do not feel?"
And we laugh and cry him down.
"II will never come never!" And
the poor devil slinks to sleep again
with his tall between his legs I'leree
assertion many times repeated Is hard
to stiind against. Only time separates
the truth from the He. So we dream
on.
One day we go with oir father to
town, to church. The t vnspcople rus
tle In theh silks and i '».• meii in their
sleek cloth and settlr themselves In
their pews, and the light shines In
through the windows on the artificial
flowers In the women's tymnets. We
have the same miserable feeling that
we have In a shop where all the clerks
are very smart. We wish our father
hadn't brought us to town and we
were out on the "karroo," Then the
man In the pulpit begins to preach.
Ills text is, "lie that belleveth not
shall be damned."
The day before the magistrate's
clerk, who was an atheist, has died In
the street, s|ruek by lightning.
The man lu the pulpit incut lons no
name, but In- talks of "the hand of
Cod made visible among us." lie tells
us how, when the white stroke fell,
quivering and naked, the soul fled, rob
bed of his earthly filament, and lay at
the footstool of God; how over Its head
has been poured out the wrath of the
Mighty (me, whose existence it has
denied, and, quivering and terrified,
It has fled to the everlasting shade.
We, hm we Kitten, luilf Htnrt up. Kv
ery drop of Mood In our h«ty l». : . runli
<•< 110 our bend. lie lien, lie Keg, lie
Hen! Thai 1111111 In the pulpit 1 I«-M ! Will
tin one MIOJI hi in? Have none of them
beard, <lo none of them know, that
when the poor dark KOIII idiut It* eye*
on earth It opened them In the Mill
light of heaven; Unit there In no wrath
Where liMl'H fnee Ih; thill If one eoilhl
OLL' e creep to the foot "tool of (Sod there
IK everlasting peaco there, like the
fre-li iitlllnr x of the early morning?
While the nlhelal lay wondering ami
afraid <lod henl down and t<nld: ".My
child, here f am I, whom you have
not known; I, whom you have not he
llevet] In. I am here. I went my men-
HengeT, the white *heet lightning, to
eall you home. lam here."
Then the poor NOIII ttimed to the light.
MM iveakitewi and pain were gone for
over.
Have they not known, have they not
heard, who It IH rule*?
Tor a little moment have I hidden
my face from thee, hut with evcrbtM
lug klfidneHM will I have mercy upon
thee, Kilth 'he l,onl thy lledeemer."
We mutter on to OUI i-lve* till Home
one pull* u« violently hy the arm lo re
mind ui we ore In church. We HPO
nothing hut our own hlcim.
I'ri -ntly every one turn* to pray. I
There are <V»I HOUIN lifting thcuiwlve*
to the Kvei hi-ting I.lglit.
Itelilnd ti* xlt two pretty hidlcN. tine |
liamlM her wflll holtle Moftly to the j
other, and a mother pull < down her
little glil'i' froek, One lady drop* her :
handkcrehlef A gcliticuiuti pick* It up
Mhe hlu«lii The women In the eholr
turn nofily the ICHVCM of their tune
IXIOI.H lo he ready when the praying In 1
done. It In HN though they thought
more of the singing than the Everlast
ing Father. Oh, would l! not be more
worship of him to sit alone in the "kar
roo" and kiss one Utile purple flower
that he had made? Is It not mockery?
Then the thought comes. "What doest
thou here, Elijah?" We who judge—
what are we better than they? Rather
worse. Is it any excuse to say. "I am
but n child and must come?" Does
God allow any soul to step In between
the spirit he made and himself? What
do we there In that place where all
the words are lies against the All Fa
ther? Pilled with horror, we turn and
floe out of the place. <>:: the pavement
we smite our foot and swear In our
child's sou! never again to enter those
places where men come to sing and
pray. We are questioned afterward.
Why was it we went out of the church?
How can we explain? We stand
silent. Then we are pressed further,
and we try to tell. Then a bead is
shaken solemnly at us. No one can
think it wrong to go to the house of the
Lord. It is ihe Idle excuse of a wicked
boy.. When will we think seriously of
our souls and love going to church?
We are wicked, very wicked. And we
—we slink away and go alone to cry.
Will it be always so? Whether we
hate and doubt or whether we believe
and lore, to our dearest nre we to seem
always wicked?
We do not yet know that in the soul's
search for truth the bitterness lies here
—the striving cannot always hide It
self among the thoughts. Sooner or
later It will clothe Itself In outward
action. Then It steps in and divides
lietween the soul and what It loves.
All things on earth have their price,
and for truth we pay the dearest. We
barter It for love and sympathy. The
road to honor Is paved with thorns,
but on the path to truth, at every step
you set your foot down on your own
heart.
. v '-',
Then at last a new time—the time of
waking, short, sharp and not pleasant,
as wakings often are.
Sleep and dreams exist ou this con
dition that no one wake the dreamer.
And now life takes us up between
her finger and thumb, shakes us furi
ously till our poor nodding head Is well
nigh rolled from our shoulders, and she
sets tm down a Utile hardly on the bare
earth, bruised and sore, but preter
uaturally wide awake.
We have said In our days of dream
-1 ig: "Injustice and wrong are a se«-in
in;r. I'aln Is a shadow. Our God, he Is
real, he who made all things, and he
only Is love."
Now life takes us by the neck ami
shows lis a few other things newmade
graves with the red sand (lying about
them, eyes Hint we love with the
worms eating them, evil men walkin
sleek and fat, the whole terrible hnrly
burly of ili<' thiiiK called life and she
cays, "What do you think of these?"
We dare not say "Nothing." We feel
thern They are very real But we
try to lay our hands about and feel
that other tiling we felt before. In the
dark night In the fuel room we cry to
our beautiful dream Rod: "Oh. let us
come near you and lay our head
against your feet. Now In our hour of
need be near us." But lie Is not there.
Tie Is gone away. The old <|iiestlonln>{
devil Is there.
We must have been awakened sooner
or later. The Imagination cannot al
ways triumph over reality, the desire
over truth. We must have been awak
ened. If H was done a little sharply,
what matter? It was done thorough
ly, and It lunl to be done.
VII.
And a new life begins for us, a new
time, a life as cold a:< that of a man
who sits on the pinnacle of an Iceberg
and sees the glittering crystals all
about him. 'l'he old looks Indeed like
a long, hot delirium, peopled with
phantasies. The new Is cold enough.
Now we have no God. We have had
two tie- old < lod that our fathers
handed down to us, that we hated and
never liked; the new One that we
made for ourselves, that we loved. But
now he has flitted away from us, and
we see what he was made of the
shadow of our highest Ideal, crowned
and throned. Now we have no God.
"The fool hath said In Ids heart,
There Is no IJod." It may be M>. Most
things said or written have b*>n the
work of fools.
This thing Is certain he Is a fool
who says, "No man hath sahl lu his
heart, There Is no God."
It has been said many thousand
times In lnarts with profound bitter
ness of earnest faith.
We do not cry and weep. We sit
down with Cold eyes and look at the
world. We are not miserable. Why
should we be? We eat and drink and
sleep all night, hut the dead are not
colder.
And we say It slowly, but without
sighing: "Yes; we see It now. There
Is no ilod."
And, we add, growing a little colder
yet: "There Is no Justice, The ox dies
In the yoke beneath Its master's whip.
It turns Its anguish filled eyes on the
SUIIIIKIII, but there Is no sign of recom
pense to l«» made It. The black man Is
shot like a dog, and It goes well with
the shooter. The luuocclit are accused,
and the accuser triumphs. If you will
lake tlio trouble to scratch the surface
anywhere, you will see under the skin
a sentient being writhing In Impotent
anguish."
Ami, we say further, and our heart
Is as the heart of the dead for coldness:
"There ts no order. All things are
driven about by a blind chance."
What a soul drinks In with lis moth
er's milk will not leave It In a day.
From our earth- i hour we have been
taught ttint tlx' thought of the heart,
the shaping of the ralucloud, the
amount of wool that grows ou a
sheep's back, the length of a draft
and the growing of the corn depend
on nothing that moves Immutable, at
the heart of all things; but mi Hie
changeable will of a changeable being
whom our prayers can alter. To us,
from the beginning, nature has been
but a poor, plastic thing, to be toyed
with this way or thai, as man happens
to please his deity or not. to go to
church or not. to say his prayers right
or not, to travel on a Sunday or not.
Was It po-- ible for us In an Instant to
see nature a she In the flowing vest-
men! of im unchanging reality'/ When
a Hon I hrcnk* free from the arm* of a
Nilpei'Mtl(h, ll, lilt* of the chiWM and
taloiiN hreak theniNelvc* off In lilui. It
IH not the work of a day to Hipjeezo
them out.
And no, for tin, the humanlike driver
and guide !•>■ :)£ jrone, all existence, as
we look out at It with our chilled, won
swell of shifting waters. In all that
weltering chaos we can see no spot so
large as a man's hand on which we
may plant our foot.
Whether a man believes in a human
like God or no is a small thing. Wheth
er he looks into the mental and phys
ical world and sees no relation be
tween cause and effect, no order but a
blind chance sporting, this is the
mightiest fact that can be recorded in
any spiritual existence. It were al
most a mercy to cut his throat, if in
deed iie does not do it for himself.
We, however, do not cut our throats.
To do so would Imply some desire and
feeling, and we have uo desire and no
feeling. We are only cold. We do not
wish to live, and we do not wish to die.
One day a snake curls itself round the
waist of a Kaffir woman. We take it
In our hand, swing it round and round
and fling it on the ground—dead. Ev
ery one looks at us with eyes of admi
ration. We almost laugh. Is it wonder
ful to risk that for which we care
nothing?
In truth, nothing matters. This dirty
little world full of confusion, fnd the
blue rag str- tihcd overhead for a sky
is so low we could touch It with our
hand.
Existence is a great pot. and the old
fate who stirs it round cares nothing
what rises to the top and what goes
down and laughs when the bubbles
burst. And we do not care. I.et it
boil about. Why should we trouble
ourselves? Nevertheless the physical
sensations are real. Hunger hurts, and
thirst; therefore we eat and drink. In
action pains us; therefore we work like
galley slaves. No one demands it, but
We set ourselves to build a great dam
In red sand beyond the graves.
In the gray dawn before the sheep
are let out we work at It. All day,
while the young ostriches we tend
feed about us. we work on through the
fiercest heat. The people wonder
what new spirit has seized us now.
They do not know we are working for
life. We bear the greatest stones and
feel a satisfaction when we stagger
under them and are hurt by a pang
that shools through our chest. While
we eat our dinner we carry on baskets
full of earth, as though the devil drove
us. The Kaffir servants have a story
that at night a witch and two white
oxen come to help us. No wall, they
say, could grow so quickly under one
man's hands.
At night, alone in our cabin, we sit
no more brooding over the fire. What
should we think of now? All is empti
ness. So we take the old arithmetic,
and the multiplication table, which
with so much pains we learned loug
ago and forgot directly, we learn now
in a few hours and never forget again.
We take a strange satisfaction lu
working arithmetical problems. We
pause In our building to cover the
stones with figures and calculations.
We save money lor a Latin grammar
and an algebra and carry them about
in our pockets, poring over them as
over our Bible of old. We have thoiiglft
we were utterly stupid, incapable of
remembering anything, of learning
anything. Now we find that nil Is
easy, lias a new soul crept Into this
old body, that even our Intellectual
faculties are changed? We marvel,
not perceiving that what a man ex
pends In prayer and ecstasy he cannot
have over for acquiring knowledge.
You never shed a tear or create a
beautiful Image or quiver with emo
tion but you pay for It at the practical,
calculating end of your nature. You
have just so much force. When the
one channel runs over, the other runs
dry.
And now we turn to N'ntusu. All
theso years we have lived l>csl«le her,
and we have never seen her. Now we
open our eyes and look at her.
The rocks have been to us a blur of
brown. We bend over them, and the
disorganized masses dissolve Into a
many colored, many shaped, carefully
arranged form of existence, here mass
es of rainbow tinted crystals half
fused together, (here bands of smooth
gray mid red methodically overlying
each other. This rock here Is covered
with a delicate silver tracery, in some
mineral resembling leaves and branch
es. There on the flat stone, on which
we so often have sat to weep and pray,
we look down and see It covered with
the fossil footprints of great birds and
the beautiful skeleton of a llsli. We
have often tried to picture In our mind
what the fosslled remains of creatures
must be like, and all the while we sat
on them. We have been so blinded by
thinking and feeling that we have nev
er seen the world.
The fiat plain has been to us u reach
of monotonous red. We look at It,
and every handful of sand sturts Into
life. That wonderful people, the ants,
we learn to know; see them make war
and peace, play and work, and build
their huge palaces. And that smaller
people we make acquaintance with who
live In the flowers. The bltto flower
has been for us a mere blur of yellow.
We find Its heart composed of a hun
dred perfect (lowers, the homes of the
tiny black people with red stripes, who
move In and out In that little yellow
city. HJvory bluebell has lis Inhabitant.
Every day the "karroo" shows us u
new wonder sleeping In lis teeming
bosom, on our way to work we pause
and stand to see the ground spider
make Its trap, bury itself lu the sand
and then wait for the falling lu of Its
enemy. Farther on walks a horned
beetle, and near him starts open the
door of a spider, who peeps out care
fully and quickly pulls It down again.
On a "karroo" bush a green fly Is lay
ing her silver <-KKS. We carry them
homo and see the shells pierced, the
spoiled grub come out, turn to a green
lly and flit away.
We are not satisfied with what Na
ture shows us and will see something
for ourselves. Under the white hen
we put a dozen eg«s and break one
dally to sco the white spot wo* Into
the chicken. We are not excited or
enthusiastic about it. But a man Is
not to lay his throat open. He must
think or something Ho we plant seeds
lu rows oil our dam wall and pull oue
up dally to see how It goes with them.
Alladeen burled her wonderful stone,
and a golden palace sprang up at her
feet. We do far more. We put a
brown seed In the earth, and a living
thing starts out -starts upward why,
no more than Alladeen can we say -
starts upward, and does not desist till
It Is higher than our heads, sparkling
with dew In the early morning, glitter
ing with yellow blossoms, shaking
brown seeds with little embryo souls
on to the ground. We look at It sol
emnly from the ilnto It consists of two
leaves peeping above the ground and a
soft white root till we have to raise
our faces to look at It, but we find no
reuNou for that upward Mnrtlng.
Wo look Into the dead duck* and
lit in I• i 111 the evening we carry tlielil
home, Hprend new«p»|M'iH on the door
and lie working with them till mid*
night Willi a «t art led feeling near
lllflli to e. law.V we open the lump of
Ih li en I led ii IN. lit and llml little doom
and hlrlngM IIIKIIIO We feci them ami
put the heitit away, hut every now and
then return to look and lo f< c| them
•••"■ln Whv we like tlielil NO we eon
liardly tell.
A gander drowns itself in our dam.
We take it out and open it on the bank
and kneel, looking at it. Above are |
the organs divided by delicate tissues; i
below are the intestines artistically i
curved in spiral form and each tier j
covered by a delicate network of blood ,
vessels standing out red a* .mst the ;
faint blue background. Each branch .
of the blood vessels is comprised of a j
trunk, bifurcating and rebifurcating '
into tile most delicate hairlike threads, (
symmetrically arranged. We are j
struck with its singular beauty. And, ;
moreover (and here we drop from our
kneeling into a sitting posture), this ,
also we remark —of that same exact i
shape and outline Is our thorn tree j
seeu against the sky in midwinter; of i
that shape also is delicate metallic
tracery between our rocks; in that
exact path does our water flow when
without a furrow we lead it from the
dam; so.shaped are the antlers of the
horned beetle. llow are these things
related that such deep union should
exist between them all? Is it chance,
or arc they not all the fine branches
of «ne trunk, whose sap flows through
ut all? That would explaiu it We
nod over the gander's Inside.
This thing we call existence, is it
not a something which has its roots
far down below in the dark and Its
branches stretching out into the Im
mensity above •*i»ich we among the
branches cannot see? Not a chance
jumble, a living thing, a One. The
thought gives us intense satisfaction.
We cannot tell why.
We nod over the gander, then start
up suddenly, look into the blue sky,
throw the dead gander and the refuse
Into the dam and go to work again.
And so it comes to pass in time that
tiie earth ceases for us to be a welter
ing chaos. We walk in the great hall
of life, looking up and round reveren
tially. Nothing is despicable; all Is
meaning full. Nothing is small; all
Is part of a whole whose beginning and
end we know not. The life that throbs
In us is a pulsation from It. too mighty
for our comprehension, not tno small.
And so it comes to pass at last that,
whereas the sky was at tlrst a small
blue rag stretched out over us and so
low that our hands might touch It,
pressing down on us, it raises itself
Into an Immeasurable blue arch over
our heads, and we begin to live again.
[TO EE cosTnturo.J
Tliat Srrnm to lie tin- Proper Ckprr
on ICnisllah Itnllnaya.
"No American can ever travel on the
railways of ICnglund In comfort," said
the New Yorker, who had crossed the
Atlantic a score of times. "In the tlrst
place you've got to piny hog If you
get a compartment by yourself, and In
the next It's an even question whether
you get your baggage at the end of
your Journey. Everything Is piled
upon the platform, and every pusseu
ger must pick out his own. If you are
two minutes late, there Is nothing to
prevent somebody claiming your bug
gage. I never urrlved ut a terminus
without witnessing a big row between
passengers, and I never talked with u
fellow passenger who had not lost
trunk or satchel at some time or other.
In three months of traveling about I
saw my trunk claimed by others at
least i! 0 times for assaulting the
porters. This 'assault' consisted solely
In abuslnu tUo railroad companies
about the bugguge system. I finally
got so mad about the thing that I spent
two days In securing an Interview with
a railway magnate lit his olllce In Lou
don. 1 straightway asked him If h»
hud never heard of n baggage check.
" *1 have, Kir,' he replied.
" 'Don't you think It a good sys
tem V
" '1 do, sir.'
" 'Then why don't you adopt It?"
" 'ltccause It's a Yankee Idea, sir!'
"I told him It was also a Yankee Idea
to eat oysters and nsked him why he
followed suit, und ho was us serious aa
a Judge as he replied:
" 'Oh, but that's different, you know.
You Yankees swallow your oysters
Whole, while wo always halve and
sometimes quarter them I' "—Exchange.
A llllnd HUM'S Cnlcnlallon.
When (jfiiiMii became blind, lilt* only
amusement consisted In making calcu
lations of a curious and somewhat pe
culiar nature. These sometimes lasted
for days. When more than 80 years
old. (Jaiiss computed the amount to
which $1 would grow If compounded
annually at 4 per cent interest from
the time of Adam to the present, us
mutilug this to be years. This, If
In gold, would make a cubic mass so
large that It would take a ray of light
traveling almost 2,000 miles a second
more tlmn 1,000,000,000 years to Jour
ney alongside of It. This mental com
putation Is so sturtling us to be almost
beyond belief, yet the conclusions of
this eminent mathematician are cor
rect.— Kt. IJOUIS U lobe-Democrat.
"I'oor ICmcnse," ICtc.
"That Kllins Is tho most resourceful
fellow you ever saw. Ills girl has a
pretty cousin stopping with her, and he
told his particular that he had hired
nn orchestra to serenade them Thins
day night. As lie hud done nothing of
tie' kind and forgot all about It, und us
sin- had made arrangements to treat
the scrciuidcrs, Nllms caught It hot and
heavy when ho next called, llow do
you suppose tho rascal sijuurcd him
self" 7"
"Haven't the slightest Idea."
"Told the girl that tho orchestra
struck on him because she sang In
cliurch and didn't belong to the union.*'
«-l>«'trolt Kree I'ress.
t"HE THIALS OF JERE TATE.
NltW Ihere HU Irrepilah Tate,
WIII.MI I'll waa mm to i»miiiUcf«U.
In potitlM 't*« tier liln fate
To root for iho louts* < •militate.
Wtionrrar tie to apeinlalo
tin hotit tli" aurk, uml lu< paid th« (might.
Al. train* tic wna olwaya a minute late.
If lio went a flahlng ha loat tila lalt,
II ui,kr.| to a ploy lie fm((ill tlm .tale,
Ilia clotl»a wore out at a Irtrlblo rate,
111- never rould 111 I lila tin kI la llralglit,
lie lniv.it lila tma to Itijulilala
1111 tin .oat t imk nil lila "mall rat at*,
Tlilavia i arrleit away lila alltrr plat*,
lie tmale.l friend* oho proved lmralr.
Ami lliry broil* up Jeremiah Tale.
When he fell 111 I..**, ho wa* alwuy* iroMod,
Ami Mm I !" M M ulwuya loat.
llv hla bedroom window every nlulit
The iietstiliorlional rata all met to light.
it m* . -I IN I ITI a «|.IN .HI MM pMs .
S'ime thief would ||. aure to at ml hla hlk*
Mi. .1.-, on Ms n. . k twist «i wf y**r.
AIM] In luat lila ha* ting In MM ear.
Thua mote ami mora iinforliinal*
It. i ante l-mr Jir inlali Tale.
tVeary al hial of tho eraaeleaa alrlfe
111 tcanlvc.l In elnl lit* wretched life
II waa .lark ami eohl, Imt forth ho went.
Ilia way lo a Jul Unit |it«r he bent.
Nn fan-well «|iecih he |iaua*il lo mak*,
lint plunged 111 • I ton-moat In Ilia laka-
Or oil I lie Int.- 'lwaa covered o'er
With I" Iwrlio 1 111 hea tilt, k or mo*'.
Ilia In ail waa lough, yet lea la Inuglttr,
ll.it hla wool rap a. I.'l aa a buffer
A wall Mill '•(. |.|«r" had Hen him lump.
ll*d heard him airik* tho lee, k*r lhum|i.
11l- fnllowed him, 1-llmlied down, and then
lie logg"l TI 1 111 op to Iho ahore again
No 1u11, ,110 Injury «aa found,
Anil Ihe m*i Idling doctor* brought him round I
And an, though amrly agalnat hla will,
lli'a tiling and up agalnat It al 111,
Tho iport ol an unrelenting fate,
'l lm BKllie .lid Ji lemlßh Tale
—Chl' *gn 'lilhun*.
PARTS OF THE BODY.
MODELS THAT ARE USED THE
STUDY OF ANATOMY.
They Are Taken I'rom Subjeels In
the MorKuei and Ho»|ilt«tla of I'aria
and Are Colored Exactly to Repre
sent Nature.
lu the window of an oculist up town
is a display which is grewaomely ftis-
I ciuiiting. It is coursed of papier
i muche representations of parts aud or
gans at the human body, colored simi
lar to uaiure. Some are life size, such
as a pair of lungs and a stomach, but
! others, an eye and an ear for instance,
i are large enough to have belonged to
the giant who was knocked out by
Jack. A weird model of a head dem
onstrates unpleasantly how you would
look if your skin were peeled off your
face. Every veiu aud nerve and mus
cle Is carefully outlined aud colored.
A figure displaying the entire iuterlor
of a torso, colored to represent nature,
shows us that all sorts of tints go to
make us up iuslde. One is apt to think
of oneself as being of one harmonious
red interiorly, but this Is all wrong. It
appears.
Studying these figures sets oue won
dering where they come from and who
models them. It would be an occupa
tion cougeniai to few. one would sup
pose. A gentleman who came to the
door for a moment courteously answer
ed a lot of questions asked by an in
quisitive person.
"These models," said he, "are all
made in Germany aud France. There
are none made In this country. Yes,
the manufacturer's assistants make
their originals in clay, working direct
ly from subjects obtained In hospitals
and morgues. Azou of Paris is the
largest manufacturer of this line of
goods. They make models of sections
of animals also. For instance, we now
have an order for a deer. Come Inside
and let me show you more of the
things." A glass case In the rear of
the store was tilled with all sorts of
parts of all sortß of animals, human
and otherwise.
"Isn't tills a beautiful heart?" said
lie enthusiastically, exhibiting a life
size organ of papier mache, divided tip
luto little hinged parts nud colored
red and tail and pink and blue.
"It sells for s!>. A little throat, sim
ilarly colored and divided, would cost
you $8 If your fancy ran to that kind
of bric-a-brac. A beautiful little bit
of mechanism composed of papier
mache, bone and wire, Illustrating the
nerves connectlug the tongue with the
ear, and various intricate auricular ar
rangements you can buy for f30."
There wns a shelf full of brains and
another full of animals' legs and stom
achs and livers and things. Altogether
It was a pretty bloody looking kind of
show on account of the quantities of
red paint used tXi Illustrate large sec
tions of muscle. Then standing up In
one corner was a life size figure of a
man composed of Innumerable sep
arate pieces, so that any part could be
taken off and Individually studied. One
side demonstrated the muscle forma
tion und the other the veins nud nerves
and arteries. This figure ciui lie bought
for s.">oo by any oue who wishes such
an ornament.
Then there were genuine skulls and
skeletons. The French excel us also
lu the preparation of human bones
for the market. An articulated skull
of American workniiinshlp would cost
SO. A skull of French articulation
was priced at and the work was
admirable. All the most delicate little
bones were carefully preserved and ar
ranged, and It wus subdivided Into
many small parts, held together with
tiny brass hinges. The top of the skull
wns suwed evenly off, so as to form a
sort of cap, but the other openings
seemed irregular and dovetailed. This
was explained thus:
"Do you know how they separate a
skull Into its various parts? Well,
they pack It full of sawdust, which
they then wet. The sawdust expands
und bursts the skull upnrt along Its
natural joinings or sutures. These are
thou hinged ami wired, as you see. It
all requires most delicate manipula
tion by mi expert. Trumond of Paris
Is tho leading artist In skulls and
bones. The business of modeling these
papier mache organs and of artlculut
lug bones is not an overcrowded one,
us there Is not n large demand for
such things. Schools and colleges lire
the chief buyers of the article!. Tlicro
are precious few studeuts, its you muy
Imagine, who can afford to Invest so
much money In models for private
study."
Any henrts and lungs und livers that
come to this country other than by
way of the barge office, It may lie add
ed, must pay 40 per cent duty to Undo
Sain.—New York Commercial Adver
tiser.
A II «• tnrd y For Sciatica.
Here is a really old fashioned reme
dy. It Is u grandmother's remedy,
and the grandmother who believes lu
It Is alive and recommends It personal
ly. It Is for sclntica.
Take equal parts of flour and red
pepper and mix with vinegar. Muku
u paste of It and move it from plaeo to
place- with tho palu. "And If thut does
not help you then I tun mistaken,"
concludes tho grand mother. New
York Times.
HnAlr UivrfMcd.
Pusher—Gusher Is not very happy In
Ills choice of adjectives.
Usher— Why so?
Pusher—Miss Gumms fished for a
compliment by asking him wlnt ho
thought of her slippers.
Usher—Aud what did ho say?
Pusher—He said they wero Immense.
. —Collier's Weekly.
Geese are the embleins of conjugal
bliss 111 China, and a pair of geese ore
considered a handsome present from a
gentleman to the lady of his choice.
Bill I see u new law In Mlssotttl
compels barbers to undergo mi exam
ination before tliey are licensed ts
practice the tousorlul art.
Jill In It an examination lu elocu
lloii, ilo you Ktippom*? YonkiT*
niuu.
Made For Ihe I'laoe.
While traveling lu a coal mlno dls
trlct, miys Dr. Cuyler, i noticed how
very dingy the town appeared. The
ikiil dust seemed to blacken building*,
trees, shrubs, everything, but as a
foreman and 1 were walking near tli'i
mines i uotlccd a beautiful white Dow
er. Its petals were as pure us if it
were blooming lit a daisy field.
"What cure the owner of litis plant
must take of It," said I, "to keep It so
free from dust and dirt!"
"See here," said the foreman, nud
taking «p u hnmlful of coal dust threw
It met the flower. It Immediately fell
tilf and left the flower ns stainless as
before.
"It has an enamel," tiie foreman ex
plained. "which prevents uuy dust
from clinging to it. I think It must
have beeu created for Just such a
place."
No. ID
j " SINCE THREE'S A CROWD.
To parks and plajrs she's gone with :na
I For eighteen months or more;
I've found her best of com pan J
In trips asca, ashore.
And yet of love she's never framed
A word for me, I*ll own.
Yet for this lack she can't be blamed—
She's Doily's cha|ierone. t
She never views in listless way )
At flower shows the prize;
Bhe quite appniUtcs a play—
You act that in her eye*.
Her sphere of action's limited*
The es« 1 rt's not her own,
But unobtrusive, be it said.
Is Dolly's thaperone.
Bhe's twenty-five if she's a day.
And Dolly's but nineteen;
Her eye* are blue and Dolly's gray—
Hlue eyes are true, I ween.
Since "three's a crowd" 1 think, mayhap,
I'll woo a maid alone;
I've half a mind to set my cap
For Dolly's chapcrone.
Roy Farrell Greene in Detroit Free Press.
! HAD A TENDER HEART.
An Incident of Lord Lawrenee's Sea
IVuyatfe to Indisi.
Lord Ijiwrence, viceroy of India,
was a blunt man of action. Impatient
of contradiction ami thoroughly self
reliaut. Vet, like many of th« truly
great, lie had a heart as tender as a
woman's. The uight ou which he
started from I.oudou to govern India
he gathered all his family In the draw
ing room and made each child repeat a
favorite hyuin to him. His youngest
sou. 10 years old, nestled In his fa
ther's arms. Suddenly the strong man
burst into tears.
"I shall never," he cried, "see Bertie
a child again!"
It was not of the hardships before
him or of his own death he thought,
but of the fact that Bertie would not
be a child to him ou his return.
On board the steamer with the gov
ernor general of India wus a lady with
her infant child. She neglected the
baby, which revenged itself by crying
day and night. The passengers com
plained In language more forcible than
polite.
"Steward, throw that baby over
board!" wns petulantly shouted from
sleepless berths.
At last I.ord Lawrence, seeing that
the child was left motherless by its
own mother, took it on his knee. For
hours he would hold It, showing it his
watch and anything that would amuse
it. The child took to the great, strong
man ami was always quiet when he
held It.
"Why do you, my lord," asked one
of the relieved passengers, surprised
to see the governor general of India
playing nurse to a crying baby, "why
do you take such notice of that child?"
"Because, to tell you the truth," an
swered Lord Lawrence, with a merry
twinkle in his eye, "that child Is tho
only being In the ship who I can feol
quite sure does not want to get any
thing out of me."—Pastimes.
Ntorktnu Hnprratllloni,
On the Welsh border It used to be
considered that the surest precaution
against witchcraft was to wear the
left stocking wrong side out. This
leads us to another kind of superstition
connected with the harmless, necessary
hose—their value, when properly worn
or arranged, as charms or as protec
tions against sickness or pain, if you
will only take the trouble when you go
to bed to cross your stockluge and
shoes, you will be quite safe from the
grip of cramp. Again, If you hang
your stockings crosswise at the foot of
the bed, with a pin stuck In them, you
ueed have no fear of nightmare; tho
hag has a holy horror of cross and pin.
Wiseacres have also beeu heard to de
clare that If you will always put your
left stocking und shoe on Ilrst you will
enjoy Immunity from toothache. This,
however, the most superstitious of mor
tals will likely take leave to doubt.
Toothuchc, that "hell of a' diseases,"
as llurns calls It, Is no respecter of per
sons nor assuredly of stockings or legs.
—Notes aud Ouerles.
liilmil l» I lie Oceanian.
People do not often make the mis
take of giving too much. A certain
woman who not long ago entered u
Glasgow church was an exception to
the rule—at least she thought so. She
passed the collection box at the door
ami dropped In sixpence. Then she
took her seat In the church and waited <
until the preacher appeared.
To her disappointment the official
lng minister was not tho Dr. 11. whom
she had come to hear. On Inquiry she
found tlint she had entered the wroug
church. It was not yet too late to hear
the preacher of her choice, but the six
pence was another matter. To leave
It In the box would be clour loss. The
woman was equal to the occasion.
Slowly descending the gallery stairs,
mlio requested her sixpence back und
received It from tho ottlclatlug elder.—
Youth's Compuulou.
Nuiiilolons.
Mlmh Mntlldii Snow fluke? sat At tho
piano and sung "All 1 Wants Is Ma
Chicken r
/.eke Darklelgh, who had paid a
nocturnal visit to Miss Hnowlluko's pa
pa's henroost I lie week before, squirm
ed uneasily In ills sent und dually usk
ed in anxious tones:
"Is is dey anything pussoual Intend
ed In dut song, Miss Matilda?"— Balt
imore American.
1<"«M Competvat,
Brlggs—You don't know what you
are talking about when you call mo a
donkey.
Dlgge—l'd like to know why I don't
1 once owned a donkey for three
months.—Chicago News.
Horses were introduced Into ISgypt
by the shepherd kings less thau 1700
B. O. No horse figures appear on tlio
early monuments uf Egypt.
A woman's logic comes out even In
her sharpening a pencil. Shu makes
her point in such queer ways.—Phila
delphia Times.
Il« la.
"llow do you pronounce Splon kopY"
"I cull It 'detective.'"
"Detective!"
"Yes; a spyln cop Is a detective, Isn't
bet"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wstcktsl.
"I see Bnnkster hits failed for $5,-
000.000, with no assets."
"lie always nim a great hand to tako
advantage of his opportunities."—Chi
cago Times Herald.
of the Apple.
The apple enters more largely luto
folklore iiud legend than almost uiiy
other fruit. In Knghtud there was of
old ii peeullur dunce In honor of tho
apple tree, and various songs wero
snug and bowls of elder emptied to SO*
euro n good apple harvest from tho
fates. In (Jermuuy the girls "snap ap
ple seeds" ou New Year's ovo to see
from which direction n lover Is com
ing lu Austria a girl cuts an apple In
two hi one blow and counts tho needs.
If there lire as muiiy lu ouo half as In
the other, slin will marry. If tliey are
odd, she will lie nti old maid. If A
seed Is cut 111 two, she will qiWIToI
wick her liunhuud and bo separated
from Llia.—Pittsburg Dispatch.