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A title of a hall In In sn.i-n,
A unrip of n jrown thnt wai worn,
A ennlMwite's news of a henrthronk,
A lovdr's pugs, tnttered and torn;
A xlill'l' painful hrin.l thnt was Riitdnd
To triii-M out It lint word of love;
A miiuir of birth ri nl ot sorrow,
A brlJul souu;, srnlod with a dove.
TIiot flutter and drift from their nioorlnff.
Llko wlille thoughts thnt quiver Hud
lilne,
Droppod deep in tho linnrt of forever,
Tim iit. thnt wns tultiu nnd In mlu.
Ay. ashes ot rison, I senttor
Vonr momorlos, nvnr tha same,
Av. Huhunot rosrs, old letters,
I Ifty your white Inmrts In thn flume.
Virginia Fruzar Doylu, In Book man.
BY PKRC1VAL RlDSDALLi.
i HEY had been talk-
iua about tha dif-
8
i" 1. a nf A A n
, -,yi iviww .w
the love of man and
the love of woman,
and, an they were
U very young and
Kiore or less iui
nressionable, the
conclusions were
iuterestiufc. Haw
linn, who had said
little nnd smiled
rlU iiziu;r)y asked, wheu the
wd nearly exuausieu:
Inn r
id a
vimr,
'I hi
hear of Dick Pol-
I8
'"' . h-;.I la chorus.
' Iia iAmn1lrAil nt..
ui, w ......... ,
I Lis chair; "because that
lull
an,
Is.!?
uftt.le. Anyuow
wh iiavt) it flllod again?"
letisou, who was aeousotl of
Ai: remnants of a conscience,
'm" imagined OTery allusion
Ulli'Vat him,
lv l trry, Tommy," said Kaw
)y contracting bis brows
'';ort of thought. The ex-
'"I" bets accorded hint a few
.r" dramatio silenoe.
. e said, at length, "it may
i f es a bit an to the creature
niivinnd if you want to
tip j
t ii
'ta
c.vica of
call hint
'Let's have
Dick
aud
was getting close to the
j.tk'jka most of you yonng
ry, A gone around the circle
eii 1 1 ttuii was getting the bad
wo.- if boing a confirmed flirt.
"i settled his attentions on
" lice u girl as you could
'' ' lowu and wise beyond her
"'"fcra, we all or rather the
,'isaid 'Poor Kitty.' Now
.Jn Was attentive to a girl he
IVtjjnt:vB. He didn't care a rap
.j Ir; be devoted all his time
m Jjto the one. We thought
jik'.the aCilr of a month or so
p-'t'tt it wasn't, and when it
jJ. j for three or four months
" and Dick were growing
"r'')loner friends all the time
1 1 lo talk.- The women said
jv'; (titno had come at last, aud
.... fed for argument's snke,
. us who knew him well
ltu haif an eye, thot ho
And .when a mnu like
-in lovvit's the one lastincr
""I his life. He gave his
ri to tlm girl, and she was
; uch in love as Dick,
e oamo wheu it was said
jngaged; but there wasn't
utU ia it. They had been
heedlessly euough, see
or frsquoutly, to the ex-
li.- jverybody else, for thoae of
-astouy called on Kitty
ln way to give Dick a oleur
jbe silly gossip about their
",t reanhtd their ears. thw
ey must see less of
t
ln:Qi tUsy talked the mat
,i;)iensihljr enough, agreed
- list ts good friends aud nil
'" i ,sr each othor more
I I At 1.-1
'p i iuoy couia no
frow themselves the fact
olo town it was a small
eac insidered the affair
thu
louucemeut expeoted
id thoo they each made a de-
n.
iudied myself for the last
i ,' Dick said to her, 'till I
bije-'eryeornorof my heart
KjKitty, on're the one girl
jrlJ iur uiu, and whatever
"u will always bo. I've
j?olf in love with many
s J ve only lately found out
really is. You might love
Idonie one olse, but for all
,fou,a itwayshave mv hom-k
i 1 1 . " .
4
18 8 llDOr lilt
a
marry
a shirtless fnllmr
ling star. With tou
make somothino' nf
I aRlc vnn
-I'M you i Mn mgke
"'J"'"f will you
1
Kill v had oy.,i..i ii
U kuo Dick pretty thor-
' ',".' ""wer to what she
rouKi .,y haj 008t Ler woru
;i u;i,s, igilti but8he gaUl
H) trembled aud tears
own U'.T cheeks.
h' t'... ...
''K tnnn o,.l t
MUU
for a t.
.riok- Vet is no man I like
you - yerbnps I shall never
i like u. well, i ilft
f l'c Bol But I am n'ot
-w ..ysolr. you are going
youh.Ave seen much of isrJ?
l-l in your habits, and
iK')yiiqr heart. Y i,
1 want to know myself.
fv ". Dick. I'm only
f.eea little of life. I
' ' a. to kuow them, be
1 1 mi to be so sure of
n that nothing can
you give ni flv
sautime wo must see
In
li.,
.1 .1 - .
"oia, we must make
at we are but ordin
there is nothing be-
1 wake no promises;
by nothing, so that
do now, you can
eud of flve years
! your wife, just as if
ked me before.'
J?eak for a long
time. Finally he said, 'Kitty, yon
are a sensible ai.-l. I want you to be
sure of yourself; to think of me as I
do of you, but I cannot wait five years.
I cannot live and work as I should
without seeing you frequently. I
might wait for a short time, but for
five years five years, Kitty will
break my heart!'
" 'It will be hard for you, Dick; it
will be hard for me, but it must be.
You will work hard, yon will beoomo
a famous writer, a great, novelist. You
will dory in your profession; the
years will soon pass, and, please God,
our hearts will be true to each other!'
" 'There is no doubt about mine,
Kitty but five years!'
" 'Dick,' she said, tenderly, 'it must
be; it must be.'
" 'God bless you,' ho cried. 'You
are breaking my heart.'
"Give me a fresh cigar," said Raw
lins, as he settled himself more com
fortably in his chair. "Do you want
the rest of (he story?"
"Is it mo your asking?" queried
Delaney.
"As much as the others," said Raw
lins, laughing.
"Small good it will do them to
bear, the rapscallions," aud Deluuey
soowled at the circle, "but tell 'em,
Rawlins, nud it may teaeh 'em a les
son. I'm going home."
"I euvy you," said Rawlins, smil
ing up at him.
"Rawlins," said Delaney, with
mock gravity, "I thought you were
old enough to know bettor."
"Oh, go on with the story," cried
Tomlinson, who was feeling eusier.
"Well, Dick came close to the truth
when he said that waiting would
break his heart, for he gradually lost
all ambition. Not a very energetic
or hopeful tran at auy time, he grew
less nud less so as the days lengthened
iuto mouths and Kitty kept her re
solve to see him but seldom. She,
with a woman's shrewdness, did not
want the town people to see them to
gether. As Dick saw less and less of
her bis spirits fell; he neglected his
work, and, moping bis days awuy,
passed gradually out of our little
circle, away from the amusements
that a lot of us shared togother, aud in
a very short time he lost all of his usual
attractivoness. At the end of a year
ho bad given up going to see Kitty,
becauso when ho had chance to go
she had always arranged to have n
number of young peoplo there, and
Dick, who was longing for a few
words alone with her, could never got
the opportunity. Then ho lost his
position. It was some time before be
got another. He did not hold that
long, and drifted and shifted about
uutil he became positively seedy!
"Kitty kuow of it, aud asked soma
of Dick's frionds to cheer him up.
Those who tried were received coolly,
aud to one Dick broke loose:
" 'Don't you see,' he cried, 'that
lifo is nothiug to me? I cannot keep
up. I want to bo near her all the
time.'
"But Kitty would not send him the
words thnt would havo made a mau of
him. The five years passed and on
the very day that the time expired
Dick received a note from Kitty, ask
ing him to call. He went haggard
with the dreury years, careless ns to
dress and appearance, not at all the
Dick of five years ago. Dimly bo saw
her as she had bidden him good-by.
She was not the same, perhaps a lit
tle more radiant nud with a tinge ot
warmth in her voice that he had not
known before. Her bauds clung to
his straugely as she welcomed biin,
aud her eyes were dimmed with tears
as she waited for him to speak.
" 'It is fivo years ago, Dick,' she
said at last."
" 'Five years,' said Dick."
" 'Aud you think yju feel that
you '
" 'Kitty,' hn said, nnd he took both
her hands aud gazed deep iuto her
eyes, 'ever since I told you so 1 have
never ceased for as much as a moment
to love you with all my heart and
soul.'
" Oh, Diok,' she said, 'I am so glad.
There were times whon I doubted it;
wheu I looked forward to this night
with fear, for I ' "
'-' 'With fear, Kitty?" ho asked, with
a catch in bis voice.
"'Yes, dear; for in the five years
that have passed I have found myself,
and that I cau love only you. I did
not know then, but it has not taken
me five years to find it out.
" 'Kitty, dear Kitty. Wait; I want
to tell you somethiug first something.
How I love you! But Kitty, I cauuot
say what I expeoted to say when
when this time oaine. How I have
waited for this, how I have longed for
it. At first with a longing that nearly
drove mo wild. I lost hope, ambition
every thicg except love aud aud I
oh, Kitty, I am not much of a mau
not to have borne the waiting and the
pain, as a man should bear up under
the trials of life. I am not worthy of
you. You see what I m a wreck
a pitiful wreok. Fivo years ago, denr,
I should have been strong, had you
married me. I oonld havo won my
way iu the world; but, why talk of
this? I am not worthy of you.
" 'Dick,' she cried wildly, 'Dick,
you do not kuow what you are saying;
you oauuot mean it. After all these
yean of waiting, aftor all these years,
for me as well as you oh, you cannot
mean it.' Her faae was very white.
"He put her away from him gently,
'It' too late, dear,' he said tenderly.
I cannot ask anybody to share my
lifo now.'
" 'Dick' sh said again, Diok, thin!
i i
a moment, ion misjnage yonrseu.
If you are not what you might be it is
my fault. I am to blame. It is not
too late yet. You are not "old, much
of life is before you. I will help you.
Let me make reparation for the past
for my mistake. 1 am strong, I cau
work. Let ns begin life again to
gether.' "But Diok was firm. 'It is toe
lnte,' he said. 'You would not be
happy. I oonld not make yon happy.'
"She sat down and bid her face in
bur hands. lie let his band wnndot
over her hair, nud wheu ouo of hem
stole up nnd held his, a tear trickled
slowly down his cheek. Hn shook it
away with a toss of his bond.
" 'I want to tell you,' be said brok
enly, 'that as long as I livo you will
always have my love, God bless you."
"He looked back at her as he was
half-way across the room, aud seeing
her shoulders shake with a sob that
gave no sound, stepped back quiokly,
and kissed her hair. She did not hear
the door close, nor the firm footfalls
as he passed out and dowu the street.
When at last she walked quickly up
aud down the room holding hor hands
over hor bosom, sho uuddonly saw
herself iu tho mirror. Her faco was
pale and drawn nud strango liuet
wore about tho eyes. She ga.ed at
herself lor a loug tiiuo aud then she
sank down close to tho tire, aud shiv
cring, wept."
"Is thnt all the story?'' nkcd Tom
1 i ii son.
Rawlins shook the ashes from hif
cigar and laughed.
"All," he said; "well, perhaps I had
letter finish it. The story is one that
I'll call him Dick had in one ol
the magazines. It was true as gospel
up to the poiut where the girl asked
him to wuit live years. She did ash
him, but Dink was uot tho kind of
follow to wait."
He paused and puffed his cigar.
"Then," said be, quietly; "then
Dick, believing that she loved him,
wrote tho ntory and took pains to see
that she read it aud saw his name at
tachod."
"Woll?" asksd Tomlinsou.
"Oh, she sent for him at once."
" 'Dick,' she said, 'I am afraid ti
wait. I do not want to wait. I think
I lovo you now as woll as I cau evei
lovo anybody nnd that is a very great
deal. If if I am am mistaken "
".'I'll take tho risk,' said Dick.' '
About Hi Wily Itnor.
I spent quite two years going about
from farm to farm with wagouloads of
miscellaneous goods, bartering thorn
for ostrich feathers, ivory, bides,
wool, live stock, or whatever I coulo
got. I have elsewhere related my ex
periences on one of those expeditions,
and must here confine myself to say
ing that I (scarcely ever exposed sam
ples of my goods nt any farm without
attempts being made to purloin ar
ticles that could be readily concealed.
All took part iu this, old and young,
male and female; and coustnut watch
had to be kept. I once detected a
young girl, the daughter of a Boei
who was then and long afterward
a prominent member of the Free State
volksraad, trying to secrete a case ol
watches under her. apron. No shame
is evinced on detection; the matter is
treated as a good subject for laughter.
In purchasing horses aud oattle the
greatest oaro had to be exercised. No
Loudon horse-coper could compete
with the average Boer in the art ol
passing oil' broken-winded horses oi
sand-cracked trek oxen as sound an
imals. Dishonesty extouds further
still than to matters of this kind. A
Boer, whoso namo is well known to
tho world, many years ago, when act
ing ns president of a laud commission
for apportioning out farms ia the
Leydenberg district, "did " my part
ner out of 3(1,000 acres of land by as
barefaced a piece of knavery ns could
be conceived. George Lacy, iu North
.I'.nericau Review.
Frowned I pon ProR-rein.
"I have called on yon to-day," said
the professional humorist, with glad
smile, as he approached tho desk of
the great editor aud made himself
oomfortublo in tho precarious office
chair that onco had a cane bottom in
it, "to propound to you a scheme
that seems to mo to be up-to-date aud
well worthy of consideration."
"Umph!" growlod the great editor,
Thus eucouraged, the humorist pro
ceeded: "For some tiino past, ns you have
doubtless observed, tho progress of
the world has devoloped a peculiar
phase, which may be spoken of as that
of lesseuitig. It seems to bo the am
bition of all inventors to add the word
less to everything that has been in
vented in tho past. Wo now have
smokeless powder, painless dentistry,
horseless carriages, wireless tele
graphy, and many other things Lave
undergone n change that may be sim
ilarly described; but I will not trouble
you with a complete list. Now it
seems to me that the time is ripe for
a similar stride forward iu the field of
humor, nnd I have corao to you to-day
with a bundlo of specially prepared
pointless jokes."
And in less time than it takes to
write this n hatless nud breathless hu
morist was fleeing wildly down the
cheerless street. Harper's Bazar.
The Title ol Dnwugor.
Tho title of "dowager" seems likoly
ill the near future to beoome obsolote.
Queen Victoria's eldest daughter was
the first to resout the tit lo of dowager;
and is now known by virtue of a royal
decree ai "Empress Frederick."
Queou Wilhelmina of Holland has
been much disturbed by the idea of
her mother being looked upon as
an old lady, aud has caused to be
published a decree commanding that
henoeforth the former Regeut is to be
styled, not "Queen Dowager," but
"Queen Emma of tho Netherlands."
Even the old Empress of China, wish
ing to be iu the fashiou, has oouseuted
to this reform.
Soldiers and Gum Ironically Labelled,
Au amusing story oomes from the
Cape and is told by the London En
gineer. The station master at a junc
tion ou the way to DeAar was notified
of a, "goods train" arriving. It came
and disgorged, do goods, but armed
marines. Later on steamed up an ar
mored train with bluejackets and hav
ing guns covered with a tarpaulin aud
irouoinlly labelled "Fruit."
EMPIRE UNDER THE SEA.
CHEAT BRITAIN PRACTICALLY CON
TROLS THE CABLES OF THE WORLD.
In Case nf a Nel War rolon of
Ihe Submarine Telegraph Lines Moke
r.very Mrlllnh Hattleehlp Worth Five
Mlilpe of an Enemy Destitute of Cenlpe.
HE Transvaal war," said a
naval officer tho other even
ing, "is presenting one
tartling object lesson which our
Bountry would do well not to over
look. It is, perhaps, rather a side
light lesson, but it is nono tho less
improssive. Put iu broad general
terms, the proposition which tho les
son demonstrates ' is that in case of
war between two naval powers the
one which controls a system of sub
marine oables with which to inform
its fleets of tho strength and move
ments of the enemy, will be mistress
of the seas. There is nothing espec
ially new in this.
"Writers on naval mattors have
time and again pointed out that in the
twontieth century n nation, to bo a
lea power, .would havo to control
cables as well as fleets. But tho
Transvaal war is making this truth as
obvious to tho lay mind as to the pro
fessional. It has opened tho eyes of
tho people generally in all civilized
nations that England has got practi
cally n monopoly of all the cablos of
the world. As I said, this fact ap
pears in a sort of sido light reflect
ed from the vory glaring fact that not
one word of tolegraphio news gets to
or from South Africa which English
authorities do not choose to let
through. That has set people to
thinking a little and they have discov
ered thnt what England is doing in
South Africa she could do nearly all
over the entire globe if she felt so
disposed.
"There is already a lively discus
sion of the matter in Europe, partic
ularly in France, and it ought to
move our own peoplo and Govern
ment to lose not a moment in getting
our own distant dependencies from
Puerto Rico to Hawaii and tho Phil
ippines strung togethof ou electrio
wires all our own, which we alone
would control. The Frenoh are gen
uinely alarmed on the subject. The
impression prevails among them that
war with England is rather more than
one of the remote possibilities of the
future. They know, of course, that
it would be very largely a naval war
and thnt it would be fought all over
the world, from tho French posses
sions in China, Siam and Africa to
the French possessions iu the West
intiies. And irom an these posses
sions, save from the insignificant ones
iu the West Indies, England could
instantly cnt off all tolegraphio com
munication with tho outside world.
Frauoe's fleets would move as com
pletely iu the dark as though the age
of electrio cables had not come.
Euglaud's would know just where
they were going and what they would
find when they got there. Our own
war with Spain aud our efforts to cut
Cuba off irom communication with
the world set tho French thinking
and writing on the subject. Tho
startling Transvaal object lesson has
revived the discussion and given it a
tone of earnestness which ought to
produce results.
"Only a few days ago, 51. Depol
ley, an authority ou tho subject, pre
sented France's helpless position iu
this respect so clearly and convinc
ingly that his article, published in one
of the leading French periodicals, has
produced a profound impression.
"If you will study a cable map of
the world a little, you will see what a
tremendous power for control of
oommuuicatiou is pewer and a vory
high order of power England has
quietly built in tho forty-two years
since the first cablo message was sent
by tho President of tho United States
to Queen Victoria. From that day
until this, silei.tly aud ceaselessly.
England has built up a system of
submarine oables which to-day covers
the entire world and holds it fast iu a
sort of immense spider's web, of
which London is the centre. You
will notice in studying tho map that
this marvelous system divides itself
into three great brauohes, each of
whioh has its subdivisions. For in
stance, a trunk of no less thau ten
cables connects Great Britaiu with
this country aud the British posses
sions on the north. From this diverge
various wires, as to Bermuda and tho
West Indies.
"From London, by way of Spain
and Portugal, three more lines stretch
to Brazil and spread out through the
West Iudies aud to Central America
on the north, aud down the coast to
Montevideo on the south. From
Montevideo, across the South Ameri
can continent, thero is an English
land line to Valparaiso. From Val
paraiso northward thnre is a double
line, touching at all the principal
points on the South American Pacifio
coast up to Tebuantepeo, from which
there is a laud line to Vera Cruz and
Tampioo, wheuce cables go across the
Gulf of Mexico to Galveston.
"So in that vast mesh of the
spider's web all North and South
America with their adjacent islands
are held.
"From England toward the Medi
terranean, Africa and tho Orient four
cablos are strotohed. They touoh at
Gibraltar, Malta and Egypt, and
thence pass down the Red Sea to
Aden, Adeu is a great cleotrio nerve
centre aud distributing point which
to-day is of much interest, for through
the office there filters all the news
England allows to be known about the
military operutions in South Africa.
The Africau filament thrown out from
Adeu touches Zanzibar, Mozambique,
Delagoa Bay, Natal aud Cape of Good
Hope. Up the west African ooast
creeps another -Hue not iu service
jnet now touohiug twelve coast
towns, tho last one being St. Louis,
until it lands at last at Cadiz, Spain.
Thus you see the entire African con
tinent, with all adjaoent islands of
any oonsequenoe, is caught and held
fast iu England's electric lasso.
"Three oables reach from Aden to
Bombay, and thence the meshes
spread iu all directions to China,
Japan, our Philippines, Australia and
New Zealand. And over all this vast
region England has no opposition that
cau be called such. A conple of
Frenoh lines to thisoouutry and down
through the West Indies by way of
Ilayti to the east South American
coast that is all. Hers and tkero
are short French lines as, for in
stance, from New Caledonia to Aus
tralia bnt these are mere little feed
ers to the English lines, aud are en
tirely without international conse
quence. "Bnt even this system, enormous af
it is, docs not satisfy Great Britain.
A number of her cablos land on for
eign soil. Thnt will not do. Iu ad
dition to all this earth-grabbing com
mercial spider's web, thero must bo
au imperial wob whioh will reach
around tho globe hung from English
land alone. That systom is actually
iu course of constrnction. An impor
tant link of it is to reach from British
Columbia to Australia. Still another
link will reach from Gibraltar to the
islands of Bathnrst, St. Helena and
Ascension alt English to the Cape
of Good Hope. Thenco another line
will be run to the island of St. Maurice,
which will be a groat imperial tele
graphio distributing statiou with Hues
reaching to India, China and Austral
asia. Of this system, ono block is
already completed from the Cape of
Good llopo to Bathurst Island. The
total cost of the entire imperial sys
tem will be about $23,000,000, and
the Government will bear all the bur
den. " 'It is nn oxpenslve job,' say the
English. 'It will cost enough to
build five battleships. But when it is
done it will make each and every bat
tleship we have five times as efi'ectivo
as now.' 1
"Certain law" control English
cables which make them absolutely at
the control of the Government. They
are all subsidized, as you know, ami
iu return for tho subsidy John Bull
makes bis own rules. Every employe,
for instance, must be a British sub
ject aud the lines can never bo under
the control of any foreign Government.
In addition to that, Euglish Govern
ment dispatches have precedence over
all others at all times, even those of
othor Governments no matter, how ur
gent the latter may be. In case of
war England can seize nil the cablo
lines and operate them entiroly with
Government employes.
"In other wcrds, Johu Bull has
built for himself an empire under the
sea where he rules with undisputed
sway. Whether Britannia rales over
the waves has yet to be determined;
that she rules under them is beyond
question. Other nations are getting
restless under the sway, and it is tiino
we were making a strike for relief
from it. Germany has already a plan
under way for a cable system to this
country. As I have said, Frauoe in
just uow greatly agitated on the sub
ject. Surely, Uncle Sam ought to
get a move ou and put that wire down
to the Philippines by way of llawnii
and Guam." New York Sun.
CURIOUS FACTS.
Until 1776 cottou spinning was per
formed by the hand spinning wheel.
Redlauds, Cat., has a giant mowing
machine which cuts a strip of wheat
fifty feet wide.
One quart of milk and three-quarters
of a pound of beof contain about
tho same nourishment.
In India the native barber will
shave you wheu asleep, without wak
ing you, so tight is his torch.
The men-of-war of the Romans had
a crew ot about 225 men, ot which 171
were oarsmou working ou three decks.
The speed of these vessels was about
six miles an hour in fair weather.
The finest furs in all Russia are laid
asido as tribnto, and become the prop
erty of the crown. So highly aro
these furs esteemed that no person
below a certain rank is allowod to
wear them.
A trained rat is a pet in'the family
ot Forbes Baker, of Steuben, Me. A
Maltese cat oaught it last winter, and
brought it up with a litter of kittens.
Iu time it learned to catch mice, and
is a capital mouser.
In Oermany potato bread is used
by the natives of Thnringia to feed
their horses, especially whou thoyaro
worked hard iu very cold weather.
The animals thrive on it, aud their
health and strength are excelleut.
In Milwaukee, Wis., recently nine
teen aspirants for the position ot
keeper of a city natntoriuin were re
quired to plunge iuto tho tank iu
their street clothing and swim. It
was part of a civil eorvice examina
tion. The hurricane that wrcught such
destruction iu the West Indies in
August proves to have beeu tho loug
est ou record. It can bo tiaood over
the North Atlautie for thirty-six days,
and seems finally to have disappeared
off the coast of Provenoe, whore it
caused a rough sea and northwest
gales on September 9 to 11.
A mystery with whioh every nailor
is familiar is the formatiou of dust at
sea. Those who are fumiliar with
sailing ships know that, no matter
how carefully the decks may bo
washed down in the morning, and
how little work of auy kind may be
done during the day, nevertheless, if
the decks are swept at nightfall, an
enormous quautity of dust will bo
collected.
Ilex Wanted a Tie lladly.
Children get queer associations ot
ideas in their bonds at times. A little
lad on Capitol Hill has a playmate of
his own nge iu the sou of a poor
neighber. The sou of toil visited bin
richer friend the other day wearing it
gorgeous red tie. The son of wealth
eyed the tie enviously for a while and
then asked Benny where he got it.
"My mamma dyed it for me for a
birthday present," lisped Benuy.
After Benny went home Rex playod
listlessly about for a time and then
leaned on his mother's knee, thought
fully studying the pictures in the Urn.
"Mamma," ho said finally, "Benny's
tie was awful pretty, wasn't it?"
"Yes, dear."
"Mamma, won't you' kill me a tie
like Benny's when I get a birthday?"
Washington Star,
"Brick" a a Term of Kndearinent.
A correspondent talks to us seri
ously of our etymologioal error iu de
riving the term of endearment "brick"
from the "well red" undergraduate,
The real origin of the word, it seems,
is the proud reply of a king to an in
vading enemy who mookod at bis un
walled towns. "My troops are my
walls," he answered, "and every sol
dier is a brick." London Globe.
LUCKY COUNTRY EDITORS
Why Tbey Are the Ilappleat l'eople In
All Newapaperdotn.
If I wero to bo asked who might to
be tho happiest man in newspaper
iloin, I would auNwer, without hesita
tion, the man who rnns a good coun
try pnpor in a live town.
In tho first place tho mau who runs
n country paper is a power whoro it is
published. All connected with it are
.uiown and their work is appreciated
by the community nmong whom they
move. Unliko the man who writes
editorials on tho big city dailies tho
editorial writer ou the country jour
nal can stamp his individuality on his
page. Even though he does not sign
it every subscriber knows that it is
his. He is a power iu locnl politics
nnd no mean factor iu State politics
either. If there be a lint casupaign
who is so welcome on the stufeip its
the editor of the couutry paper? To
him comes all the plums' of advertis
ing. To him comes also the grand
sense of individuality. He is not lost
iu the paper for he is the paper. Every
day is brought to him tho truth of tho
Raying that it is better to bo first iu
tho poorest Iberian village thau to be
second in Rome.
How different his lot from the news
paper worker in the big cities. The
editor of the city paper walks around
the streets and hears his work prait cd
and blamed in public places, yet he
cannot clnim it wheu praised or dis
avow it wheu discredited. Iu these
days he is simply nobody, Tho paper
is everything.
His profession to the city journalist
has but littlo of a future to promise.
Ho is in his decline at the time when
men in every other walk of life are at
their prime. The highest prize he can
attain by bard and earnest work would
be laughed at by any successful busi
ness man iu the community iu which
he works. He commences his career,
if a clever fellow, by making so much
inonoy that he is envied of all his
young friends, and bo often ends it
with occupying one of the hospital
bods of the Press Club and by boing
buried at its expense. If the city jour
nalist prosumes to make himself
promiueut iu politics or in any other
sphere he will soon find out that he is
not indispensable.
How different it is with the mau
who has a good, sound country news
paper. He is the center around which
a little world revolves. He can ruu
tor office, if he wants to, and there is
none to say him nay. He bas friends
in the community, aud with his paper
at his back be has a good show for
anything he may reach after.
And thero is money in the well
conducted country journal. The men
who rnn country papers at the close
of the century are not advertising
their poverty, as was the custom at
its commencement and well into the
seventies, for the simple reason that
in these days it would be only au af
fectation and a foolish one at that.
Tho Journalist.
How a Claim l'ald.
"There are more ways of making
money ofT of a claim than panning it
out," said an Alaska miner who had
some luck with his pick aud shovel.
"For instance, I knew a man of means
iu tho Dawson district who had a
cluiui which had failed to bo as profit
able as expected, and ho didu't know
just what to do with it to get his
money back, uutil he had devoted
considerable thought to it. And it
was simple enough wheu he knew
how. He quietly went to the gold
commissioner and announced that he
wished to pay his ten per cent,
royalty on the product of his claim
for a year, which was 800,000. The
commissioner accepted the SG000
royalty aud gave him tho usual re
ceipt, stating on its face what it was
for, with tho number of his claim,
location, etc. Theu he 'waited
patiently about,' liko Mary's littlo
lamb, aud one day, iu the course of
humau events, au Englishman came
along looking for a good thiug for
some people who had money to spend.
He asked Mr. Blank, among others,
what he bad to sell, and the smooth
gout told him ho didn't know exactly,
bnt ho would show him his goods.
They looked over several claims that
were practically uuworked, and then
in a casual way Mr. Blauk iihowed the
Englishman his receipt for royalty on
claim so aud so. 'And, you know,'
he said, with a wiuk, 'that a man
isn't paying royalty on any more than
ho con possibly help.
"The Englishman was right on to
that little game, of course, nnd be
sized up the $(!000 reoeipt, looked
over the claim in a general way and
oudod by buying it for $150,000."
Wushiugtou Star.
lllne Jay Tree Plantera.
Au old-timo Arizona woodchopper
says the blue jays have planted thou
sands of the trees now growing all
over Arizona. He says these birds
have a habit of burying small seed in
tho ground with their beaks aud that
thoy frcquont pinyou trees and bury
large numbers of the small pine nuts
in the ground, many ot whioh sprout
and grow. Ho was walking through
the pines with an Eastern gentleman
a short time ago when ouo of these
birds flew from a tree to the grouud,
stuck his bill iu the earth and
quiokly Hew away. Wheu told whut
had happened tho Eastern mau was
skeptical, but the two weut to tho
spot aud with a kuifo blade dug out
a sound pine nut from a depth of
about au inch and a hnlf. Thus it
will bo seen that nature has plans of
her own for forest perpetuation,
-s
Calleae Uutler.
Homo seven years ago the first State
college for women iu the South was
opened at Greeusborough, N. C, and
culled the Stato Normal and Industrial
College, It has beeu au original aud
progressive iiutitutiou under the tlireo
tiou of Dr. Charles D. Mclver. He
has just added a new feature of prac
tical instruction by which it is hoped
that a buudred girls may support
themselves while pursuing their
studies. It is a dairy farm. The col
lege has attaohed to it about 160 aores
ot fine farming laud. This has boon
atooked with fifty bend of fine Jersey
oows whioh are to be milked by the
college girls. The dairy will not only
be self-sustaining, but, it is hoped,
will bring money to the institution
from the butter the milk-maidens will
make. The butter is to have the oollega
stamp on it and orders have already
begun to come iu.
f'Irat f'nmn, t'lrat Starved.
Don't say that yon nonldn't gut tha
vnlitsnle proniMit offered with "Beit
Cross" nud "IIuMngar's B""t" foundry
larch; your grocer has thorn for ymi;
k him for n noiifin hook, which will
nnbln you to grt ono tnrirs 10o. pank
Hirn of "Hod Cross" "Inrnli, one Innr
10c. pnoksRe of "flnhlnirr-r's Diwt"
tnreli, with the premiums, two beaufl
ful tthnkospenrn panels, prlnlod in
twlvo ImmitKul colors, or one Twen
tieth Onlnry Olrl i-alonilar, nil for 5c.
Sailors' troupers, or "trombou
ppnts," as they hnvn sometimes been
called, expand In hnll-shnpe at the
bottom so as to bo the more easily;
kicked off In esse ot the wearer's fall'
Ing Into the water.
Dran.tr Is Blood Deep.
Clean blood rrn-ans a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarels, Candy Catbar
t .! clean your blood and kern it clean, by
Mirrinti tip the lazy livor and driving all im
pitritirs from the body. Ileum today t
l.'i.nixli pimples, boils, blotches, blackhrada.
oiul thnt sickly bilious complexion by tskiiur
( iiwnrrts. henuty for ten cents. All drug;
gialu, sutibfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 60c.
Onvrrngr Nash, of Ohio, Is an authority
on tho lih-ttiry of that Male, whioh ho una
inado n lifelong study.
"A Thread Every Day
Makes a Skein tn a Year."
One small 4iscr,c germ carried by the
blood through ihe system imll convert a
healthy human body to a condition of m
vatidtsm. Do not wait until you are bed
ridden. Keep your blood pure and life-grv-ing
all the time. Hood" $ SarsapanU
accomplishes this as nothing else can.
vrwr. it. .rj.m
mug'f:iii,TTn;
When It Was Dark.
The Clevelnnd Plain Dealer says an
educated colored man addressed thn
students of Adelbert college the other
day. He told about his experience in
his chosen profession. thBt of a lawyer,
asserting that on but one occasion had'
he ever met with discourtesy at too
hands of white men during his leeal
experience tn his native state, Virginia. .
This happened In a backwoods hamlet,
where the general Ignorance of the In
habitants was 'some excuse for their
boorlahness. In the courso of his re
marks he perpetrated nn unconscious
hit of humor that brought n smile tr
the students' fares nnd drew a lnugh
from the speaker himself as soon as hn
resitted thn suggestion in his state
ment. "I started out In my profes
sion with somewhat gloomy anticipa
tions," he said. "When I reached
Alexandria, where there were 7.000 col
ored people, everything looked dark."
It was at this point that the smile ran
around.
Making- liar Happy.
Sunday-School Teacher Have yon
made anyone happy this week? Little
Girl Yes'm. Mrs. Highupp has a baby,
and It's a awful squally, red-faced
little brat; but, we n I met Mrs. High
upp yesterday, I told her she had tbe
sweetest, prettiest baby I ever saw.
havo boon relieved ot
female troubles by Mrs.
Plnkhant's advice and
medicine.
The letters of a few aro
printed regularly In this
paper.
If any one doubts tho
effhlenoy and saorodly
confidential oharaotor ot
Mi Sm Plnkham's methods,
write for a book sho has
recently published which
oontalns letters from tho
mayor of Lynn, the post'
master, and others other
city who havo made care
ful Investigation, and who
verify all of Mrs. Plnk
ham's statements and
claims.
Tho Plnkham claims aro
sweeping. Investigate
them.
THIRTY YEARS OF CURES
P S Ll EP L IE S
"11 jr wife bad pimp Ira un her farr, but
she hn boan l.ikinii UASCAKKTS anil they
nave all illHappearod. I hud beun troubled
with conn I pal inn for Homo time, but after tak
ing tho It ml CancuiiH 1 Imvn bun no trounla
with this uilmont. We cannot hik-uU too high
ly of Ciisoarrts." I-'huo Waiithan.
6708 Uermantonn Ave., rblladelnhla. Pa.
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