j The Fllrtlno W kJow.
Jock Anderson was Industriously
wooing a wealthy widow, who was
fair, tat, and forty, with every prospect
of a successful laaue, for his affections
were abundantly returned. But In an
evil moment one of Jock's chums
mentioned that a gentle hint, suggest
ing flirtation on the part of the lady,
would constitute a piece of Irresistible
flattery. This Idea Jock put Immedi
ately Into practice by writing a long
amorous letter which, no doubt, would
have oaptured both the widow and her
money had he punctuated properly.
This Is the sentence that settled
poor Jock's chance:
"I consider you brutal and Jealous
though you may fancy me a little ad
dicted to flirting."
Oo perusing the above sentence the
widow Immediately visited Jock; she
stormed at hiifc, swore at him, and
eventually swooned. Jock explained,
and punctuated the objectionable sen
tence with tadpoles, making it read:
"1 consider you, brutal and jealous
though you may fancy me, a little ad
dicted to flirting."
But nothing could induce the widow
to soe aught but a slight on herself
and her stoutness, punctuate as he
would.
The widow is no longer a widow,
but, alas! Jock is not her husband.
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more and better merchandise than you have ererhadbX? how%oJS I I Overcoats I „ RCfidy-tO-Wear CIoHICS I
HHH keep more ofyour money in your home town than has erar baen kept there before. But, cSH&ffiliiif&J w t ° J 1 "" } n OTPT - mU *- Tk " ar * •" I
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Quarrelsome Musical Minds.
Something In the musical mind
seems to be very primitive and quar
relsome, Inviting doubt as to the celes
tial origin of the "heaven descended
muse," arM suggesting thftt It la a
juice of the basement and not Ichor
from the top stories of the brain. Par
rots and mortting MTds, whell it
comet? to whistling and sfttglng, are
Home success, and are both as spite
ful and jealous as devils and mon
keys.
Anecdote from Real Life.
"Forty years ago I started in Ufa
without a dollar."
"Say on."
"And now I have four hundred dol
lars In the bank, and a Job lot of fur
niture worth as much more."
Maybe Scalp Exercise.
Perhaps beef handlers give their
scalp exercise by carrying meat — to
some extent upon their heads — and
such use of the scalp would seem to
prevent badness by strengthening the
scalp and hair.
Onlonology.
After eating onions a girl should
Immediately sit down and peruse
some work of Action that Is calculated
to take her breath away.—Chicago
Daily News.
| CHILD'S ONE-PIEOE MEM.
Pattern No. 3234. —Spring, summer,
autumn, winter, at aM seas&s, is the
pretty JltUo , t«ie-pleoe dress In fashion,
but wh.eu it can be juadu of seine one
of the new and effective wash fabrics,
then It shows forth at its best. The
pictured modal is box-plaited and
oloses at the center back, a Dutch col
lar In two sections finishes the neck,
and a belt slipped through straps at
tached under the arms gives the lit
tle garment a trim look.
The pattern is in 4 sizes, 3 to 9
years. For a child of 5 years the dress
requires 2 5-8 yards of material 3iJ
inches wldo.
How It Was.
Against an old Georgia negro,
Charged with stealing a pig, the evi
dence was absolutely conclusive, and
the judge, who knew the old darky
well, said reproachfully:
"New, uncle, why did you steal that
PlfT*
"Fie teas« raah pooh family wuz
starvta', yo" honor," whimpered tho
old «*n.
"lfomfiy starving!" cried tho judge.
'®ut thejr told «e you keep five dogs.
Hcwr Is that, unci©?"
"Why, yo' honor," said uncle, re
provingly "you wouldn't 'spect mail
&mUy to eat dem dogs!"— Harper's
Spread of the Movement.
M*. Vwrler- The last time I saw
UUtA, yon were attending a
cooklna- arfcool to learn how to make
▼egvtalnfc fljjflies taste like meat.
Mfta. Oosi»W!y- Yas. but the feel
ing against the trust is so strong now
>«vnlng to make vegeta-
NetfMMM Wt« utterly unlike meat
ROYAL MOT£~ CARS.
Easily Recognizable tn Germany and
In England.
The cars of tho royal family of Eng
land do not bear number plates. Those
of ttte Uvrrnao royal family are recog
nized by their warning signals. They
alone may use the two and three noted
horns.
"The cars used by the German Em
peror and Empress have their ap
proach heralded by three noted horns
and those of the royal princes by two
noted horns. No infringement of this
prerogative by ordinary motorists is
tolerated.
"The fact that the royal cars, both
in. Shagland and in Germany, may so
•aaAgr be distinguished Is an indica
tion of the confidence which exists be
tween the monarchs and their respec
tive peoples," says the Gentlewoman.
"In less happier times it would have
been courting danger to have carried
such marks of distinction, and even
now in less fortunate lands the rulers
dare not traved so openly."
Deep Water North of Alaska.
The chief object of the arctic ex
pedition of Captain Mikelsen, who
recently returned to Copenhagen, was
to settle the question whether there is
land or a deep sea to the north of
Alaska, in March of last year Cap
tain Mikelsen, Mr. Leffllngwell and
the mate imide a sledge expedition
ctver the ice. Fifty miles from the
coast they found crevices, through
which they sounded to a depth of 2,-
MO leet without reaching bottom. Six
ty (Biles farther on the result was the
samo. Turning then toward the
southeast, they found the edge of the
continental shelf. The conclusion is
that deep water exists north of Alas
ka, at least to a great distance.
Qases in Sewer 6.
City people who are occasionally
Bfcartled by seeing a manhole cover
blown from the pavement generally
ascribe the blame to leaking gas
mains. But there are probably many
other sources from which dangerous
gases find their way into sewers, and
one of these is Indicated by an In
vestigation recently reported to the
American Chemical Society by l>rof.
A. A. Breneman. He showed that
the entrance of a mixture of gasoline
and soap into drains and sewers from
garages, factories, and other places
where such materials are employed for
washing, is sufficient to account for
tho liberation of much combustible
vapor, which may play a part in sewer
explosions.
What's in a Name.
Boarding House, A. Hotsell . . ?(! up
Hotsell Hotel s!> up
Hotel Hotsell 514 up
Hotsell Inn $lB up
Hotsell Court s2l up
Hotsell Arms $24 up
COYS' SAILOR SUIT.
Pattern No. 3220.—A jaunty sailor
| «u!t sfuch as Is here pictured, consists
o" a blouse with removable shield and
| knickerbockers, having the fullness
j nt the knee confined by elastic-run
| casings. A deep sailor collar Is part
of the blouse, and the sleeves are
| plaited to cuff depth. A slit pocket Is
; made at the left side of the blouse
! and the knickerbockers have hip
pockets.
The pattern is in 5 sizes—4 to 12
years. For a boy of 8 years the suit re
i quires 3 7-8 yards of material 26
Inches wide, with 58 yards of con
trasting materli'l !sfi inches wide.
|
Amputated His Own Toes.
A German tourist has been found
by a gendarme lying unconscious In a
stable at St. Sulpice, in the Canton of
Neuchatel, Switzerland. The man
lost himself in the snow, and his feet
became frost bitten. He crawled to
the stable, and in his agony took out
his pocket knife, and amputated two
of his toes. Then he fainted, and
is now in a hospital.
Immortality.
Nothing except lire burns and pains
and inflames like intense cold and
frost bites. Neither boiling water nor
cold 200 degrees below zero kills the
sprout in some seeds. Professor Bee
querel found three seeds eighty-seven
years old that sprouted. This sug
gests that life may really be Immor
tal, even to stand the purgatorial and
penitential fires.
" IS LEPROSY CONTAGIOUS? 1
Specialists Still Doubtful Whether
One Person Can Give It to Another.
There is possibly no diseaae the
| presence of which inspires greater
I fear in the public mind than does
; leprosy. This is perhaps in a meas
i ure due to the loathesomeness of the
i disease in its later stages, but it Is In
most cases simply fear of a name.
| The disease or diseases spoken of
j as leprosy in the Bible are popularly
| supposed to be the same as the
, leprosy of to-day, and the evident feur
I the leper inspired in the people of
i old Is held to Justify the dread with
which he is still regarded. The Blbll
i cal descriptions do not, however, fit
j modern leprosy, so that whether the
I fear of the "leper" of olden times waa
| or was not justified it should not be
i allowed to color the view with which
J the loper of to-day is regarded.
J Leprosy is indued an infectious dis
i ease, that is to say, it is due to the
! presence In the tissues of a bacillus,
j after the Norwegian physician who
j discovered It; but whether It Is con
• tagious under the ordinary conditions
' of modern life in temperate climates,
i at least, is held by specialists In dis
i eases of the skin to be very doubtful.
I Of the few lepers known to the phy-
I Blclans In all the larger cities some
j are cared for in hospitals, others live
| at home and visit the clinics or the
■ doctor's office from time to time; yet
j an Instance in which another person
has acquired the disease from any of
| these lepers is unknown.
There are many diseases more to
be dreaded than leprosy because more
rapidly fatal, more painful or more
I contagious; yet none of them except
j perhaps smallpox is more feared.
I The Illogical terror of leprosy may
be the cause of great cruelty to those
j afflicted. There are thousands of peo
: pie who show culpable indifference to
i the enforcement of the laws against
! spitting in public places, although
1 they know full well that the success
!of the crusade against tuberculosis
| hinges largely upon care In this re
! gard. Yet these same persons would
1 fly in horror from any place that had
harbored a leper.
Thunder and Lightning.
Mr. William Marriott, with the aid
of the brontometer, an instrument in
rented by the late G. J. Symons, which
records the sequence of phenomena In
a thunder-storm, obtained a curious
' record of a remarkable storm at West
Norwood, England, on June 4th, last.
Ninety-seven flashes of lightning were
I recorded in 27 minutes, many of them
being of a brilliant character. One
hundred and twenty-three reals of
thunder were recorded in 80 minutes,
j but many were probably lost by over
lapping. The longest duration of an
Individual peal waa 1 minute aad 10
second a.