m OLD MAID'S SECRET. 1 1 ko-Be(eKKe!ea m AKY JONES was an old maid. What causes bail led to tbat result it boots not here to Bay, but the fact remains tunt sue was a spinster of 1 the mature ago oJ P I sixty years. But A "in a to re" was , a never the rifrht 1 arp'y ' Ml8S Mal'y But was right She From bor bad been docile, pliant, and , i and now at sixty she sun .hardly grownup. Bhe was i , even dainty, to look at. ! white hair was arranged as t had been at sixteen, and l'-d on readily now as then. " rf Joues livod in a dowdy 'jibrtrb with only one servant, ,tn her herself Betsy Mills. ''fj was, bo report Baid, tho ' of a sea captain, and bad 3'nghl up for a lady;" but : new much more of her than ;lsy Mills wus oloBe, and Miss I not given to gossip, but, as t ynrlauco went, "kept bcrsulf "t womon lived in ono of those 6 four-roomed, semi-ilotaohed ' ideaces" which abound in ,,sble subtuhs, with an unin viting strip of lawn and oyster ,) f i-out, and an equally uu-i:lug-rlddeu plot behind. But I. (jr, who was fond of garden- 'trained a pretty yellow jessa l: f the rickety poroh, and she N oyster-shells beoause "they wi bor of the sea." Betsy " iurd-featnred, tall old woman, ' l a soarecrow, though she was daniant to every ono else, "tko otherwise thau softly to fess. She humored her fads, ,. her weaknesses, and nover n ier except when necessary, u try" the always called ber, list a tender inflection in bor d hence the neighbors also Lke of her as anything else vlss Mary." "tary was charitablo to a fanlt. 0 was a very reiugo to tue '"' IP, it nl,.,l oil l,o :U impostors in tho neighbor ,:e of "relief. No tale was too (c story too disjointed, to im u iu this tender-hearted old p jtsy, who saw through every-tt-jl who was made of material l is Miss Mary's was soft, re '"Srsolf us a shield interposed in to protect her mistress, 3'd otherwise long ago have ( whole substance to a crowd ,,fy beggars. But even she I: f prevent Mias Marv'a con- u:ds on the scanty larder. leave nothing at all for yer- !t grumbled, "if I mdu't look '-like a mother, and bo forever Ok." Marj paid no attention to Mes. ; As long as she had any .ier larder she would share Itsy say what she would; and I. ,VHii her too well to remon ii,liously. So the crowd of beg ilii on coining, till hardly a day Uthoat seeing somo recipient "'ffaiy s bounty. 'Inesitwas a man Betsy per J,,wd men! an "out-of-work," ( ;jin dirty feet all over the pluce; lis an aged female in rusty 'fcriDiug uerselt as "a rela . scion of the late Duke of i On, '5 smelling horribly of gin. :ld persist iu staying through ti , and giving Miss Mary more ugU of her oompany, scion 0 ho were. Or, as if this were l kh, JIiss Mary would ocoa pick, up lost children whom ''.J crying in the streets and ., Ira borne, to Betsy's indigna urjhpr own confusion;' for they r.ueraiiy sit crying after the nil lost ohildreu, and refuse to lil called for by their parents. r ; inu isaine charitable offl - f Mijs Mary once found herself Position of nearly having a par- Banuiea npou Uer altogether, ejue!y reiused to allow, put l0)foot down firmly for once 4 1 nothing but a baby her KM yi, ait," she informed the rueaiit on that memorable nn .i -but the faot was Miss Mary s puni neart even tnan usual 'lihiren were eouoerued. All i(rcnian after her gladly ber li'ko suggested to them tofl'ee sticky joys. Tramps used iicany to invent largo faiuilie 'to on her compassiou; for Miss fas alurge hearted charity that ' Relay " she said, hurrying up aniutor" with tears in ber 'beio's a poor womau come to i..wiUi matches. Khe's irnt , Jbnsband and sixteen children ,,'f the'ia a triplet all of tender 4 1 lifen. bos she? Ah! that's ono 7 can all 'avo'" grumbled u umovnu, as she wended her itairs with her broom. was a diploinaov in BhIsv'h o. ii iiiiss wury would give I DOOr OontAlllft rtr ilia 'it iir not bo there to boo. A 1:Erudy, grasping wretches! n, sbe seized the broom with It r1 pogau to sweep her mis pilrOoin, It was a plain, un lt..bitf4ittle room enough, every , uui very old, the paiut everything, but scrupulously old-maidish, with a sort nf -f vz, its own that bore no re 0) iVll'B. lJnntnn. 'I'lin lo,l vim a scanty blue cotton i1 L)ung over it an antiquated i;. yi napuauis "at. Uatha small book-oase were iiueut and the poems of 1 "Bit ot iJyron. a faded bin i :-f inside the latter; while "icipieoe wore curious such as children love aud a photograph, vel- oi a uandsome yom..; val uniform. Over this n bunch of white everlast a UD the nlinirrnr,l. mnA dderly, laying it back with e guessed her mistress's Tgone jearB, and, though ! lis she bersolf had no sympathy with suoh things, yet, by a strange con catenation of ideas, this knowledge made her more than ever tender with Mies Mary now. "Poor soul! poor soul!" she murmured to herself, as fniut ' sounds proceeded from the kitchen, and Miss Mary's kind voico alternated with profuso thanki from tho mother of tho sixteen infants and the triplet. Yes, Miss Mary had a romance a tondcrly cherished, woll-nurturod romance, which was at once ber de light and ber woe, and which grow but stronger as the years wore on. At twenty she had loved a sailor lad, a handsome young naval lieutenaut, who bad gone out to tho West Indies and bad never returned. Thoro had been a sort of taoit eugagoment; at any rate, Miss Mary bad givon away bor wholo heart so much so that she bad never bud any ol it to sparo for the snitors who came after. Stories, indeed, reached her from lime to time about her love. I'oople said he bad been wild. Some even bintod that ho bad deserted her. Miss Mary, in her fond loyalty, refused to believe those tales, and clung, with n quiver ing lip, to the idea of his early death. Or if he bo wandering about the world somen here," she said once, iu burst of unwonted contideuoe to Betsy, "ho may perhaps come back some day." "Why, yon wouldn't know bim after all theso years, ovon if he was alive," said Betsy. "Know him! of course I slionld, " said Miss Mary. "He will lind me in the old place ho will know where to come; so, dear Betsy, leave tho door s open. But this Betsy firmly declined to do. She was "not going to risk bay ing ber wits frightcnod out of bor by thieves," she declared, "whatever Miss Mary might Bay or do." So sbe drow the line at the garden gate, and alway loft that unfastened. If this ill-advised proceeding gave tramps admittance into the tool-house or coal-collar, why, what matter? "They was Miss Mary's coals; she might do as she liked." Sometimes destitute old ladies would use the coal-collar as a kind of casual ward, and cim- desoond to spend a night there, leaV? ing tho remains of their breakfasts aud a fow of their rags as presents behind them. Betsy bore it uncom plainiugly, knowing what "Miss Mary's trouble" bad been. It was a mercy, she 'thought to horself, "that it didn't take ber in no other way." But to Miss Mary herself the "trou bio," iu course of years, became al most a ioy. It faded from the blood- red intensity to a roseate afterglow. She huggod heiaclf, bo to speak, with tho recollection 01 what had beeu. Her youthful lover became brighter, fairer, doarer even thau ever be bad bceu in tho far-away reality. She envied not tho lot of other women, with husbands, babies, grown-up sons. Their life-partuers were com monplace as compared with bers, glorilied into the regions of romance, "orbed into the perfcot star" of forty years ago. "He was bravo, handsome, chiv alrous," nho would say to herself, mentally comparing ber lover of former years with Mrs. Brown's burly coal merchant, or Mrs. Minns' drunken boor. And as for other women's babies, their charms also palod by contrast with Miss .Mary s "dronm-ohildreu The fond maternal feeling that is tho basis of every truo woman's life found its echo evcu bore, and the little old lady's imaginary darling helped to make her days less empty. "My boy Claudo would have boan just twenty five, my daughter Emmeline just twenty, and bow like bor father!" she would murmur, when in the glimmer' inz twilight she would imagiue theso treasures beside her, in the land of what "might-have-been." But Miss Mary's elation was all for the soli tudo of her own heart. Like ber namesake of old, she bid all these things. Only Betsy knew or guessed at a quarter of ber poor old mistress fancies. Time wore on, and it seemed as . if nothing would ocour to disturb the evon tenor of the two solitary women'j lives that they would go down to the grave iu au uneventful and peaoeful silence. But Fate willod otherwise. One night it was in early autumn Miss Mary was aroused at nine o'clock by a loud knocking at the outer door. It was Sunday night, and she was alone in tho house. The faithful Betsy had gone to ber Primitive Metho dists, aud Miss Mary, who had been ailing of lute with a cough, had not attouded ber usual Mmiday evonin j service at church. Tho loud kuouk iug startled her, as we said she was a nervous soul aud she opened the door timidly. A roub-lookiug mm stood there, his gaunt figure showing black agaiust the moonlight. "For Ood's sake, hido me here for a few minutes," he pleaded, hoarsely, "till the police have gone by. Let me iu, or by Heaven, I may as well throw up tho gaiue." Miss Mary's heart thumped loudly. Tho police! For all her chaiitable ness, she had drawn the Hue hitherto at thioves. But the man's face was white, and she heard a clutter of feet down the road probably tho poliae. Betsy, the guardian auel, was out of the way humanity, as usual, won over prudeuoe Miss Mary opened the door. "You may lia on these rugs in the kitchen, ' tho Baid to bim, kindly, "and to-morrow I will bring you some breakfast, if yon will go uway early before my servaut gets up." The man murmured incoherent thanks, Miss Mary, beiug nervous, forbore to look at bim, and retired to her own apartment, not without some qualms of conscience. Betsy, who came in latei wilh the latoh-key, from chapel, suspected nothing, but Miss Mary's evil fate willod that, towurds the small bourn of the morning, she should wake up hungry. Boing a frail, timid old lady, she slept lightly, and now, remembering that the bis cuits were down stairs on the dining room sideboard, she wandered down stairs in search of thorn. She bad for gotten for the moment about ber last night's visitor and slipped down an noiseless) v as a monso. But what was her horror to see by the faint morning light, at tho half-open dining-room door, a flguro moving! Miss Mary, as she stifled a shriek, recognized the man she bad befrionded. Ho was holding her silver teapot up to the light and inspecting it carefully tho same silver teapot bought by its poor cwnnr during tier brief period ol happiness, forty years ago. She bad invested bet savings in it, prior to ber expected marriage. "Whnt, would yon rob rue?" thought Miss Mary, and ber bearl waxod fierce. Rob bor, who bad so long l)0' friended tho needy and the destitute! But, like Bishop Myriel, with hit silver candlostioks, ber auger was ol short duration. She would let th man go. Probably he neoded the sil ver more than she, and so Btrange are the workings of tho human mind, thai she remembered, even iu that moment of foar, how her mother had always said that brown fourpenny teapots mado tue best ten. She was still standing as if spell bound, afraid to move, when the man happened to turn bis head, and tho light fell full on to his face. It was only an old man's face, worn, gaunt, surrounded by griz.led hair and beard, and marked by siu and crime, with something, perhaps, as many crimi nals' fanes have, that seemed to recall better days: "In the morning light his face for a mo ment Soomeil to nssumn oncn mora the forms ol Its enrllor manhood." Miss Mary looked, looked again, and, like Pbineus of old with the Medusa's head, she seemed to turn to otone. Then her legs tottered under her, the dawn became black before her eyes, and sho fell down on the riokoty stairs in a dead faint. Betsy, coming oautionsly down stairs a few hours later, and prepar ing to scold hor mistress for forget ting to fasten tho shutters, nearly tripped over a little fragile, shrivelled heap, cold and unconsoions, wrappod in its woll-kuown darnod dressing- gown. Miss Mary recovered with Betsy's loving care. Her visitor of last night bad mado himself scarce, and, whether startled by the noise of Miss Mary's Tall, or by a few rays of lingering grace in bis own conscience, bad left the pre cious silver teapot. So, beyond saying that she had had a fright last night, and being reprimanded for not putting the teapot away, nothing further, to all appearance at least, resulted to Miss Mary. But the bright old lady faded and became older from tbat day. Her step sounded less alert, her voice less brisk. The children iu the streets so arcely recognized their benefactress; she seemed to have lost tho joy of life. Betsy was in despair; she alter nately coaxed and soolded her darling. "Do you want to dio," sho com plained, "and leave yer poor old Bet sy? You can 'ave the kitchen brim ful o' tramps, my sweet, if you'll only git well nn' laugh again." Miss Mary looked at her sadly. "No, Betsy," she said, "don't want me to live. I'm sorry to leave you, dear, but it seems as if somethiug had gono bore," pointing to her heart with a pathetio gesture. "Somethiug seems to have snapped iusido mo. Life doesn't seem the same to me any more now. I don't know how it is." Miss Mary did not know, but it bad only happened to hor as it happons to many. She had lost hor romance the love-story which bad boeu the life of her life was gone It bad for so long boon a part of her, eutwined with her very being, that,like the ivy parasite with tho oak, it bad involved iu its destruction the life beneath it. Miss Mary sickonod and died, the local physiciau said of languor. Not even old Betsy Mills, who mourned for ber more than the children aud the beggars themselves, could have guessed at another reason. I Iteaonraes of tlie Fll Iplno. Asked as to the resources at com mand of the revolutionists, Captain Frost, lato Colouol of South Dakota Volunteers, said: "Measurod by the needs of an army like ours or the armies of any of the oivilized coun tries, they have no great resources. But measured by the needs of any of tho Filipinos and thoir methods of campaigning, their resources are prao tioally uulimited. The Filipino sol dier does not need anything to speak of. Take his equipment; for a can teen be outs a section of bamboo, in serts a plug iu one end, and attaches a bit of rope which he slings over his shoulder; his cartridges he carries in a little bag, and with his rille be is ready for business. His food, which is rice, he finds in abundance almost anywhere be goes. Iu every shack he enters there is a sort of bowl mado from a stump hollowed out at the top, and near it a littlo olub whioh is used as a pestle. He takes the uuhulled rioo from the fields, puts it into this mortar, pokes it around a bit, tossos it into tho air to get out tho ohal)', and he has a handful of rioe for bis meal. He does not have to carry his pro visions. There are no Filipino meat or vegetable ratious, such as our army has. It is uuueoessary to establish a base ot supplies or keep up a supply train. The Filipino feeds as he goes, like au animal." New York Post. MASSAGE BY AMATEURS. HINTS FOR THOSE WHO WOULD SAVE PROFESSIONALS' FEES. I,itka Krls'a Sudden ltlaa. On July 19, between 8 and Do'olook p. ui., in tho vloiuity of Frie, Pann., aooordiug to the American Naturalist, the waters of Lake Erie suddenly roso iu a single wave about six feet high whioh advanced upou the share, ami after a few moments quietly subsided to its normal level. Five miles west of Erie the rise was between three and four feet. Three distiuot rises wore observed. Tho first and seooud rises were about fifteen minutes apart, the second aud third about half an hour apart. Fifteen miles east of Erie the riao was ubcut six feot, and but one wavo was observed. Ilnriei Must Quit War. Any kiug who would send his horses agaiust self-propelled batteries of quick-llriag machine guns might nn well quit the game, as did Napoleon after he had sent the rlower of hi cavalry into the sunken road at Water loo. Oonsidorod as a military machine the horse is done for. Automobile Magazine. Dr. Far!, nl the Unlrvralty nf Pnn;1 vama, (HTM Some Frnrtlnitl Hints to Gulria Laymen Who Wonl 1 Use Tills Curallra Afencvr. Dr. Bandolph Faries, the director of physical education in the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, reoeutly pre pared a paper on the masaago treat ment which is clear and practioal enough to teach the average layman enough about the aubjoct to enable him, after paying a little attention to a few of the principles upon whioh tho treatment is based, to pet all the benefits claimed for massage and save the fee of an experienced trainer or masseur at the same time. In the opinion of many medical authorities, exercise and massage are the two greatest curative remedies that nature affords, aud the latter is considered by many as the coming treatment for all those common functional troubles like dyspepsia, ooustipation, jaundice, biliousness, emaciation, nerve exhaus tion, etc, and thorofore a littlo time spent on this subject is time well spent. The amateur masseur should first of all keep in mind two important ob jects of massage treatment. They are, first to assist the blood in the veins back to tho heart, in order to relieve the different parts of the body which have been exeroisod and are congested, and, Beoond, to relieve the paiu in any tissue due to any cause whatsoever. Next it would be well to bftvo at least a slight knowledge of the structure of the body, as well as of its . conformation and contours. Muscles are not to be rubbed in tho same manner that one would rub jointa; therefore a littlo knowledge of muscleB as well as of joints is essen tial, so tbat these may be properly treated by rubbing them when it is necessary, Bubbing may bo either local or general that is, it may be applied to an arm, the back or the foot, or it may be applied to the whole body. Dr. Farios mentions seven different kinds of manipulation. "It may con sist of stroking the body with the palm of tho hand, slapping the body with the open band, beatiug it with the closed fist, striking it with the band at right angles to the body, so that the edgo corresponding to the side of the little finger comes into contact with it; kneading the skin, ruusolos and teudons; grabbing the skin and muscles and squeezing them, and making combined digital pressure over the surface of the body in dif ferent regions." The friction produced by rubbing may be either rectilinear or circular. Either one or both hands may be used to rub the body. It is customary for the right band of the manipulator to be used for the right baud and foot, and the left hand for the left hand aud foot of the patient, if the rubbing be appliod with one band. Both bands are used for the baok, loins, abdomen and chest. The upward stroke in rubbing should always be more intense thau downward, aud the stroke should extend over the whole surface, from joint to joint, oxeroising great care not to chafe the skin. More danger of this arises in making the upward stroke than in matting tho downward. The rubbing should not last so long that fatigue will result. Further, too rapid rubbing will frequently cause pain by boating the skin too quiokly, causing tho hairs of the body to stick to the manipulator's bauds, giving as a fiual result a pulling of theso hairs. Bubbiug should never bo begun stren uously at the outset, but should be started slowly and gently, and grad ually increased, so as to bo adjusted to the individual's foolings. Persons taking general exerciso should take a rub after their bath. In this way they will not only cause tho blood to circu late again through all parts of tho body, but will also prevent or over come the soreness or stiffness that many be present, and, iu addition to this, the tissues of the body will con stantly be kept in abetter condition. It is a good rule to commence rub bing in the neighborhood of the large blood vossels, so as to influence the circulation as soon as possible, aud thus, by sending the blood more quiokly to the neighboring tributaries, iuflueuoe them and the tissues sur rounding them. The inner sides of the upper and lower extremities are where tho largo blood vessels will bo found. When rubbing, if one begius with the lower extremities, the foot should bo well rubbed, then the ankle joint, then the log, after that tho knee joint, then the thigh, and, lastly, the hip joint. Tho rubbing of the upper extremities should begin with the band, then the wrist joint should be oared tor, after that the forearm, next the elbow joint, then the arm, and, lastly, the shoulder joiut. The reason for this is to iufiuenoe the points most remote from the heart aud gradually work toward the heart. The upper and lower extremities may also be rubbed upward and downward. The chest should be rubbed from the insertion of the large muscles up on it to their origin, while tho ab dominal muscles should be rubbed from the right groin, as it is common ly called, in tho direction of that part of the intestines known as the ascend ing, transverse and descending ooloua. When rubbing the abdomen tho fin gers of the manipulator should be kept close together. More pressure aud less care are necessary iu rubbing the back, because the skiu aud muscle are thicker aud more numerous iu this regiou, and the muscles are muoh larger and stronger. Here, as in the abdomen, the rubbing Bhould be from tho origin to the insertion ot the mus cleB. In the upper part of the back the anatomy of the muscles is so vory complicated that it is difficult to un derstand how to do this unless one has studied the anatomical relation of the origin and insertion of these mus cles vory thoroughly. As a general method of rubbing the baok, it would be best, iu order to have all tho mus cles iu this region well oared for, first to rub upward and downward, then crosswise, aud lastly obliquely up ward aud downward. This will suf fice for ordinary purpose and will be of groat benefit for those wUa employ it. , - " ' . Rubbing ts of great service to per sons suffering from ruptures of mus cular fibres, due to exercise and strain. It is also of vast importance and great benefit to injurod joints, such as water in the knee, sprained ankles, shoulders, elbows or wrist joints. Muscles when rubbed for an injury should always be rnbbed from their insortion to their origin. Bubbing should in a general sense begin from the extremities and extepd toward the trunk. This is in order to ascist the returning currents of the circulation. Persons who take exercise for pleas ure and pastime may rnb their own bodies, but it is not advisable for per sons who go in for striot training for a contest of any importance to rub them selves, because in so doing they are expending a great deal ot energy. A rotary movemont may be oombined with an upward and downward, ami this often relieves one of the severest kinds of stillness. Ordinary rubbing will do very well for thoso who exercise and others who haven't enough time to make a thor ough treatment of massage. Variety of manipulation may be combined when rubbing any part of the body. Bubbing may bo alternated with pinchings, beatings and kneadings, and frequently from ono or more of these combinations more good results than if rubbing alone had been era ployed. CURIOUS FACTS. A Kansas barber advertises: 'Whis kers extracted without paiu. Iu certain parts of Africa crocodiles, toads and spiders are oaten. Three out of every 135 English speaking persons have red hair. Oheel, a market town in Belgium, has 10,000 inhabitants, 2000 of whom are lunutios. A cave whioh is rupposod to be larger than the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky has recently been discovered in New Zealand. In Southern "Russia camols aro much used by farmers for field work. They even stand the olimate fairly well further north. There is a rosary in the British Museum made ot the vertebrio ot a snako's backbone. Another is com posed of rats' teeth. It is said to be a Russian remedy for insoinuia for a dog to sleep in the room, and profernbly in tho same bed, with the sufferer. i In Chinese cities streets are never built straight, from superstitious fear tbat processions of evil spirits might otherwise enter and remain. The most curious paper weight in the world is said to belong to the Priuco ot Wales. It in the mummied hand of one of the daughters of Pharaoh. A Persian, six Porto Ricans and a full-blooded nativo of tho Sandwich Islands are among the students that attract espeoial attention at the Uni versity of Michigan. The biggest idol in the world is Dia B u ten, the Japanese god, whioh is over sixty feet high.' The image is made of copper, tin, mercury and gold, and has been worshiped for more than twelve centuries. Snowden is a remarkable township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. With farm property valued at more than hulf a million dollars, the town ship cau boast of neither church, minister, physician, attorney nor saloon. Seattle's publio square is to be the abiding place of' a veritable Alaskan "totem polo" one of those strangely curved symbols of barbarism aud superstition whioh generally graoo tho front of Indian habitations in Southern Alaska. ' A pet monkey, untimely deceased, had a very formal buriul in a satin lined white casket iu Baltimore one duy recently. There were six pall bearers, a eulogistic address, four carriages for the mourners, and several flower designs, including an "tmpty chair" aud a "gates ajar." The Iuvontlon ol Lump. The invention of lamps is ascribed to the Egyptians, In the British Mu seum are two colored glazed tilos which were fixed in the oentre of the ceiling; oaoh has a large kuob pierced through the base to receive a cord for suspend ing a lamp; arouud the base of each is au inscription stating that it formed part of the decoration of the Tomplo of Kammuri at Calah Nimrod iu tho time of Assuru-Abla, 885 B. C. What the lamps were mado of can not now be ascertained, but there is plenty of contemporaneous glass which has been discovered in tho neighbor hood. The sacred lamps in Greek temples, whose undying flamej are perpetually watched by vestals, were probably of metal aud tho wick formed of asbestos, Iu the publio baths at Pouipoii two lamps were used, each to light two rooms. Theso lamps were proteotod by circular convex glasses, fragments of whioh were fouudon the spot. Alms. Homier, Feline Tiirtrult I'alnter. As a painter of cats, big anil littlo, fat and tuiu. aristocrat aud plebeian, Mme. Henrietta Ronner is said to bo without a peer. Her first portrait of a pussy was painted whan she was only sixteen years of age, aud it was bo perfectly done that though she has now been painting feline portraits for over sixty years she thinks that her first attempt is almost as clover as her last ono. Cats are said to be the most diffi cult of animals to portray, but the pussies that gaze out ot Muio. Ro li ner's pictures aro natural euough to pet. They are iu many piolnres, iu groups ntd singly, but her favorite attitudes seoin to be reoumbeut ones. Ccall ICtioilfia' MliovyiiUm, It is said by those who know Cooil Rhodes, the South African magnate, that he has a great versiou to the op posite sex. They siy that white on a recent visit to Louden he diuod at tho house of the Buroneiis Lurdott Ooutts, and later, when he wis discussing the affair with his secretary, tho latter asked: "And whom did you take into dinner?" , "Oh, I don't know. Somo Lady Somebody," was the reply. "But what did you call ber?" "Didn't oall her ouything. Nover spoke to hor." ; SOME LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS. Which Show How Llttla Vlo Knew of Knell Other and of Oar Country. Only eighteen per cent, of all the families in America employ domestio help, leaving eighty-two per cent, without even one servant. If nil the dressmakers known to ex ist iu America worked twenty-fonr hours of each day for a whole year, without stopping for sleep or meals, they would still be able to make only one dress apiece for less than seven eighths of the women of America. Not six per oent. of all the women in America spend as muoh money as fifty dollars per yesr on their olothea. Ont of twelve million American families the income of four million of these families is leas than $100 each per year, and the iucomes of nearly eighty per oent. of the entire number are less than $1000 each per year. There are scores of places in this country where only one mail comes every fourteen days. Ask the average person where the central poiat of area is in the United States and he will fix it somewhere in Illinois. Tell him it is nearer San Francisco and he will be incredulous until he remembers that Alaska is within the boundaries of Unole Ham. Edward Bok, in the Ladies' Homo Journal. WORDS CF WKPOM. Ability without energy is the engino without steam. The sword aud siiear have slain their thousands, but debt halh slain its ten thousands. If you light your lamp bv another's torch do not forgot that, the light yon borrowed is the light you owe. Count your troubles, and you -will fall dowu in the dust. Count your mercies, and yon will get up and shout. Each one has it in bis power to make many rejoico in his birth, or to make them rue the dny on whioh he was born. Failure is merely the leiviug un done, or badly done, thoso things which should have been done, aud done thoroughly. If you would find a i;oou many faults, be on the look-out; but if you want to find them in unlimited mu tities, be on the look-in. There is a distinct ililWrD0 til the difference, in fact, between sciisti and uousense between ability to con verse well and ability to chatter i cesenutly. As you enter upon lii'e choose yonr friends as you would choose guides on the borders of a wilderness. Friends more than anything elso determine the paths which most of us follow. There is a politeness ot the he-.rt; this is closely allied to love. Thoso who possess this pnrest fountain of natural politeness find it easy to ex press the same iu forms of outward propriety. Tho youth who weaves for himsolf a garland in which aro entwined tho cardinal business virtues integrity, sobriety, cheerfulness and industry will find himself wearing a crown of gold iu mature manhood. Our characters are formed and sus tained by ourselves and by our own actions and purposes aud not by others. Calumniators rar.y usually be trusted to time and the slow but steady justico of publio opinion. There are two ways of attaining tho important end force and persever ance. Forcti falls to the lot of only a privilogod few, but austere and sus tained porsevorance enn bo practiced by the most insignificant. Its silent power grows irresistible with time. Sympathy is that fine facility through whioh we enter into tho con cerns of others and aro interested in what they do or suffer. It is indeed, as Bnrke has said, a sort of substitu tion, by whioh we are put in tho place of others auif affected as they arc a.-fected. CKRISTIRN ENDEAVOR TOPICS- NOVEMBER 2G. Our Return for Ihs Lord's Ben-flit. P. ovL 12-19. Thanksgiving Meoilrg. I'erfitL't Contlrience. Perfect confidence is desirable be tween couples engaged to be married, but it is not always that the youug woman has as flue an opportunity to establish it as did a Norristown belle, to whom a wealthy bachelor had been paying assiduous attention. After worrying bpr a good deal about how many youug meu bad been in love with her, and how many sbe bad been attached to, he asked her to marry him, adding: "Now let there bo perfect confi dence betweeu us. Keep nothiug concealed from mo." "Certainly," replied the giddy girl; "let us have no concealments;" aud, jumping up, she snatched the wig ho wore from his head and danced arouud the room with it. In spite of this levity, the couple married, and, irom all accounts, are living very happily, raoro particularly an, by means of using crude petro leum, a nice little crop of soft brown hair is growing all over the husband's hoad. The man had never heard of crude petroleum as a hair tonic outil his wife told him about it, so if she bad not enforced his confidenoe ho would still be bald. Philadelphia Record. Cnrloue Landmark In Walei. A curious barren mound in to be aoen in Montgomery churchyard. Whatever the cause, there is plainly to be seen a strip ot sterility iu the form of a cross amidst a mass of ver dure With the mound a melancholy legend in connected. It is called "Robert's Grave," and the story is that beneath this barren hillock lie the remains of an innooent man who was hanged on mlstakeu evideuce. It is said that while the man stood ou the gallows, with the rope rouaJ his neck, be solemnly declared, as a proof of. his innocence, that grass should never grow ou his grave. And even so it was, and is. Any one who at tempts to fruotrate the fulfillment of this prophecy by sowing graBi ou this spot pays the penalty w'th his life. I.ustances are given ol individuals Who hnrve been rash enough to do so, and have nirt their doom soon afterward, Cardiff (Wales) Western Mail. CoinpuWory Vaccination In .fuii. The Japanese Qoverumeut has de luded to make vaccination compulsory in Japan, and that all children are to be vaocinated before they reach tho a;e ot ten months. They must be re vuooiuated hau they are six uud agaiu wheu t'uey are twelv jeif of age. (A thsnksRlvlna; moetlnR.) Prrlpture Verses. -s. vl. li; xvlll. '9; xxll. 22, 25; xxx. 4. 12; xxxv. 1H; xlvl I. J; Ixlll. S; Ixv. 1; Ixxv. 1: c. 1; c:ll. 1-6; Matt. xl. 25; Mark Mil. 6; Horn. I. 8; 1 Cor. I. 4. LESSON THOUGHTS. A gratitude that lasts only so Ion as there rrmnlns some hope of personal benefit, and Is forgotten as aonn ns the benefit Is reeelved. Is base InRrntltude. How long" do we remember Ood's dally providences with irrntltuile? The very reason why we forget many of Ood's blessings In really the very reason why we should remember them with grateful hearts; namely, bepa'tn they come an regulnr y and unfall.ngl. 8KLUCT10N8. Ah, Ixird. how carelessly we go! Unmindful of thee quite, Using each gracious gift ns though It were our own by right. Tea, and with thankless murmuring For other boona denied. Despising many a precious tr.lng In blind nnd reckless pride. CSrve ua. O thou whose gifts are fre.. The grnce to heed thy enll, Thiit In thy gifts we my find thee. The sweetest f.lft of all. A thnnltful spirit mnken n hnppy llfr. Orent blessings will not awaken gre- t gratitude unless there Is the hnblt of being thnnkful f r small Hcs'nga . . . When the recognition cf Ood In nil na ture about ua becomes n hnliit of lh mind, we nre greatly blessed. Ood l Immanent In all his work. "O Lord, how manifold nre thy works! Ii v:a Som hast thou made them all: Un earth Is full of thy riches;" nnd yd we often forget that this Is true when we think about nature. The eternal ground of thanksgiving: Is to be found In the rlghteoun"SS of Ood, In the consciousness that under all human life there Is a foundation whlett no ninn ran disturb, and thnt life in nn oignnlzed that no man can be happv, restful, or prosperous In d o'ng evil; that at every turn he In smitten with pennltles, and that real hnpplnesn an I satisfaction are bound efrnally to light thinking and right acting. A Horn Palace. It Is evident that the emperor of Germany does not expect the "horse less age" to arrive very soon. He has under construction, In the outskirts ol Berlin, what Is to be, probably, tho most splendid stable In the world. Out wardly It looks like a palace, and In wardly It has many of the appoint ments and characteristics of one. Cer tainly horses were never more pala tlally lodged than they will be here. The stable Is being erected by the Im perial architect, Herr lhne. Ot occu pies a superficial area of more than two acres. There will be roomy and comfortable box-stalls for more thau 110 horses, and carriage-house space for more than 300 carriages. In the centr of the whole will be a two-story building, where the Imperial coach men, grooms, stable-boys, and so forth, with their families, will be lodged. Eighty families will have quarters In the building; the drivers or coachmen will be at least fifty In number. The stable will be provided with horse ele vators, telephones and electric lights, and the walls of the carrluge-housea and other portions of the building will be beautifully decorated with paint and gliding by the beBt decorative artists In Berlin. The cost of the stable U estimated at seven millions of marks, or more than a million dollars. Three years will be employed In Its construction. Not the burden, but the over-burden, kills the horse. 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Iufer s.. 150 it) 150 Koiitiil coomiou 8 0 4 50 Mlddllug 609 70J rauoy 100J J 111 J Ui c STOOC PF.F.F Tiest Deeves 4 30 Q 470 8HKKI 8tH 8 60 Uoga 4 W A lvt FUNS AND SKINS. InUBKItAT 10 0 11 Rawoun . . , 40 45 lied Km. 300 fckmikllliu.lt. 80 Oiionauui 21 24 Mink HO Oitur too NEW TORB FLOUR Southern B $85 4 20 WIIKA T Nn V Kail 7J 7S llYk-VWii.ru lift HO (JOHN No. 'i !f 411 OATH No. 8 80 81 llU'l'lEll MlHta 1 .4 IS E(i(iH SIbim ii'l 28 C14Kl.SK Main U J2k raiLADiLraii, Fl.OUn Southern. . .. tSS m 20 WHEAT No. 8 Hod 08 ' COKN-Na 8 38 f OA'IS No. 8 81 . UllTTElt Htule 24 t-G OB I'euita ft 21
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