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HOST OF THE VAN VLEETS.
NCIKNT n 1
weather-beat e n ,
the Jiou.se of tbe
Vn Vleots stands
on n Mil. It wns
r;.o;y tnnnsion
ia thtj days R"ie
,y, sod, nntwilh
etnnding ft hint of
,ilnpiilation here
in d there, it null
vrul oiut of renpeotahil
ro modern houses
""xi .... i it lint, little hv
wu'
iinoney has slipped
"lot's grusp until there
riftinc sum nnd the
it old-insbioned
to I
N.
Hlil
'llii;
;ili h
1" i.
Hit, e Van Vloct lives in
'ly t too with hor one ser
11011 .English mastiff, but
, r solitude is enliv
''k1'1 at the timo of our
1 "'l-I-.,. rvoftt.ninri of
r u w , k '"
Van
ud ft young man who
of Miss
cousie
i'Li bright, sweet-nalnred
nil-! F who had been lured
001 T
an entrancing ad
r.n, fle,1 "Iioarn and take
'wi t (the was earnestly
Ijirflpby. and Aunt
liiued ft safe aud con
for tbo htllo country
!,
. T.' 1 . , n I mnnMnn rl
mzt fins quietly nnd rest
ti pordinf; to medical ad
iluo iiid no plnco quito so
ri (rtable as his consiu's
iimene could unite rural
" possibility of an cany
'"""fnor to tho metropolis.
" irally be snpposod that
"folks thus thrown to
'.r' havo enjoyed cacl
,uPt'iy; I'orinou ro
, ..'iitU a friendly indifler
liat poor child, was too in-
l-t Uiea lo nonce now ue
ruci-io bo frank, Kittio was
shabby. Allhcrgnr
1 '".jkile by her own uu
and Poruian missed
"lie saw in the profes
kth whom ho cume in
early in May Kittio
Helon rurkes, sat by
Tatfaing the names,
.-ire, ertRi'ossed in his
iss ',"iu Vlcot had Ion
, V1.ju om. uuanu, runt
uL Cnld scoin as if it must
re. I menu to ask Miss Van
II. c.
"10 oi dou't enre anything
m bui," warned Kittio. "I
ut:pnnn aud bIio was very
'id sho was nlouo here
j") BQalto it cither snfo or
t 't ve suoh a Btory get
K then tlaey fell to telling
mijlil tuo Buppresaed yawn
liajroiuinded then of Lis
iilovca! oxolaimed Kit-
' jKO bed at ouce, but
1-Pri tn t in Icili.lian l'n
undlfl from tlio closet
d into the dark hall. A
refBntl naivoring. "i'horo
le snij, tiuskily '"I saw
111!
t rcjdyj but stood star
doorway.
aid Form an.
raiBall; "notuiua; is there.
iJ!f talked ghost no mnou
'"jreaiiy to belieto any
L 'i
saw something tall and
as c ing nnatnim.1
,(k pro' jly," ho said
c v -l L ... I .
ii' aer mrnea nor
'. , it ph jly by the candle
was tit fuco of nothiug
iCBiuwion Aitue sank into
slogan -srecping bysteri
run -
po (jirl' fright was too
IT s.'Oidcd or rensnnml
t until tho first faint
n uppeared ia the Fust
arl'i,:oito go upstairs,
jf,ea Bach other iu quick
(l) Bill by and by she could
.h whu ii Formao teasinaW
te p'm.
n, iuouru sue in
He i Into ir( Ror,
iljruiiigtvoma
fu. hey huX a lo
J'fra ii that
Juairi,.Mon did not nnd
.ifMiro up the thing nhe
M into ir Roptember For
a concert with
ona walk, for
thnt vt.ilnii.
l;u out. nn l.iu mi
j ! 1,,., . i"L-J
;;f'"U tUercd tho gurUeu
inn iilni Key.
'ainmiod, "I don'
,1, . ). must wako Kath
i'1" l; aS after twelve,
- an ft i. instant, glancing
-l.lrt HI t,A .11.1 .
r ' bo, una was
f"'ueii li:,'htinth
Bum- landing. w eotl
imrcy of tho linl.f i
nit ivutthon gr.jw bricht
bl lt .- ...... "
w vm wore oroiniT n urn;Ha
( r i uiuo
"") upward, monnin
a he saw who was
KW Was Hl anr
"4 ns if chained to
In:
OP! up tho stair
niapt ry of white;
sooUets aud na iu
';, piuehud and
;!e a look of gro
passed, the light
iul he stood thmo
1 hoiiHu. Bhaking
uljeet fear, ,
'.' he whisporflil,
fts if anxious only
u tho thiiig and
uud fled till he
d ho had left a few
he inoetiug avo
idioulous position
nnd also way of roluf from his dif
ficulty.
"Harris!" he exclaimed, grasping
that gentleman's hand with olTnsive
cordialitr. and sneaking quickly and
prmmlv. "von re inBt tlio follow i
want. I've lost my key don t like to
to disturb the house would it be
convenient to have me npond the night
with yon?"
'Certainly: come ric-nt along; hnt,
cood craciousl Von Vleet," he said.
as the Htreet light shone on Forman's
face, "you look as if you had seen a
gllORt."
"Only tired ont from running nna
the conoert," ho replied. "A uight's
leep will fi mo all up."
Aud so it did. It is remarkauio
how brave we can be in the broad day
light and away from tho objoct of our
fears. Tbe next morning he coutrt
not understand his oowardly Might of
the previous night, though, liKo Kittio,
he was perfectly sure ho had seen
something with whioh he did not care
to come in oontsot agaiu. He Inngod
to have the matter investigated, but
he dared not mention it, to Misg Van
Vleet, and so there was no one to turn
to but Kittio, and ho determined to
tell the girl at the first opportnnity,
never stopping to consider that it was
unkind to awaken hor fears.
Not until Saturday afternoon did tho
longed-for clianco occur; then ho saw
her take chair nnd mending basket out
into tho garden to make tho best of
the lingering warm days. Ah ho np
proached Kittio he noticed for the first
timo in his lifo that sho was pretty.
Her toilet, too, was now all that could
bo wished.
"Kittie," ho said bluntly, "I saw
the ghost the other night."
Oh," she said with the shghtost
hint of triumph in the sweet voice.
you ve seen in yonrsolf, havo you?
Then, of course, tuoro must uo a
ghost.''
'There is, ho nnswored solemnly.
"and I don't wonder yon wero fright
ened. I never knew what real fear
was until that moment," and then he
sat down cn the grass' at her fuct and
told her the whole story.
It was littlo wonder that, as they
entered tlio dark hall together, Kittie
turnod to him with the nppenl:
'Tlcaso don t go out to-night, For
man, and leavo uu alone; I shall bo so
frightened."
"No, I won f, ho answered, sootu
ingly. "It was awfully selfish, of mo
to want to tell yon."
That wns the first of many ploar.ant
evenings that they spent together, for
ho did not hko to think of tho girl nt
home frightened nuu nervous, and
only business could succeed in get
ling him to leavo her. Even rehear
sals wcro ruado as abort as possible,
and ho. hurried homo, kuowiug that
sho was lislouiug for bM footslaps,
aud euro of meeting her glud faco nud
warm wclcomo at tho door.
rscitunr uaa again seen tuo uppari-
tion, but it was not forgotten. They
subjected Miss Van Vloct to a sones
of nncstions about their ancestors.
but in vain. The career of none of
the family hnd been marked by ei imo
or tragedy. lint so mo one else had
seen tho ghost, for it began to bo
rumored abont the neighborhood that
tho houso was haunted. Ouo Huuday
morning as Miss Van Vleet aud Kiltie
were returning from church loud talk
ing reached them from tho side of the
hill below the garden, where a group
of rough-looking boys had gathered
"Boys," Bald Miss Katherinu, as
sho approached, "I am glad to havo
you como up hero if you enjoy it, but
you mustn t bo so noisy.
"we was iust talkm' about the
ghost," wns tho reply.
"What ghost?" she asked, iu amaze
moot.
"The ghost that haunts tho hill up
here."
"Nousense," said Miss Katheriue.
"Oh, yes, thero is a ghost, put in
Bob O'Leary'; "ray pop he seo it. It
was tall aud w'ita mid had big holes
where it orter havo eyes, aud it went
along quick.
"Pshaw," answered Miss Vau Vleet,
"you know thero is no such thiug as
a ghost."
"Oh, yes, there is," said Tom, star
ing in round-eyed wonder at such bo
lief; "why, mj pop says in Ireland
" Aud then there followed such
indubitable testimony that the lady
stood silenoed.
"Very woll," she said; "if there is
a ghost up hero it is ray ghost, and I
don't want it interfered with," aud
then she walkod away, while the boys
gazed alter nor too astoniuuea to ro
ply.
Kittie repeated tho talk to Formau
that oveuing.
"Aunt Kathcrine was so annoyed
about it that I am suro sho knows
somothing about the ghost," sho added
Ono evening as Kittio was return
ing home sho met ouo of For man
friends, who jokingly asked her what
had become of him iu thoso riaya.
"He Bays ii's bud for his voice to
go out much in the night uir, but
guess there aro'othor reasons, eh?"
The remembrnuoe of the seertit bo
tweon them brought a hot Hush to
Kittie's face. .
' tie came hero for his bealtb, you
know," she answered evasively.
"Aud Huils both health and happi
ness," was tuo playful reply.
I here was no mistakini; the woman i
meaning, and poor Kittie's mind was
in a tumult. Bhe wus sure that For
man's attontiuns to hor wero prompt
ed by mero kindness, and she was not
sure but she wished they meant moro
and she blamed herself for being
blind to what people would think
Hhe would Btop it that very evonin
by going out herself.
After dinner, when tho curtuiiiB
the sitting room wero closely draw
aud Foriaau Bat there iu tho cheerful
glow of tho fire, waiting for Kittio to
come in, be caught tho sound of
light step iu the hall aud the rattle of
the chain and bolt that fastened the
front door. Hurrying from the room
he faced Kittie, who stood in hat and
wrap, with her hand upon the knob.
"Where are yon going?" he asked.
"Iam going over to Helen's," she
answered, half apologetio aud half de
fiant. '.'And leve me," he said, rolmking
ly, "whon I have remained at home to
koep you company?'
"IWlly, l ormau, yon ninsi noi io
that any more," she said quickly.
"Yon have been very kind to tne and
I am grateful for it, but I will try not
to bo such rx goose and you must go
ont more. Your friends nro nsking
about you, nnd people w ill toll;, you
know."
Hho talkod on, loo embarrassed to
ston, but whon sho paused from sheer
lack of words ho stooped toward her
and said gently:
"No ono but yon, dear, shall 'have
tho right to say whether I shall spend
my evenings with you or not. I am
ore you will stay home with mo to-
nifrhi."
Miss Kalhcrine heard them talking
in the ball and then enter tho sitting
room together. Tlpy were still there
wo hours later. Min van Vloet be-
ievod in tho golden rulo nnd. al-
thonih she would not dinit over hav-
ng bad any expeneiico li'.-vt would
avo acquainted lid with tho proper
coiirno of conduct to bo pursued by a
third pnrty undor tb circumstances,
she bail, novrrthelesM. ulUrieut tact
to withdraw to her rooiu.
Tt is a trillo uiiusiial, but every ono
seemed plunged with the match, nnd
Miss Kathoi'ino insisted that, n-i tho
ttlo romance bad bi'gr." uncW hor
roof, it nai fitting that she sbonld
ave the privilege of mnnagiu Iho
simplo wedding.
Ono morning just a wecu lierorotho
mportnnt day Miss Kuthciino'salten-
tion was called to a disagreeable erup
tion ripidly spreudiug over Kittie's
chin.
I gncss wo can soon heal that,"
said the lady briskly. "I had some
thing of tho samii sort a few mouths
ago, and I mado up some of grand
mother's ointment and worn this every
ljrht until it disappeared. And from
ber bureau flie produced a faco mask
inndo of white cotton, and hold it np
to her face.
"Mercy, Aunt Kulherine, what do
vou look like?" exclaimed Kittie, for
sho instantly recognized in tho hollow
eyes and queer-shaped noso tho ap
parition sho had Been ou tho stair
way.
I was a fright, that's true," was
tho reply; "but you may be suro Iwas
careful to lot no one see mo. On two
occasions I was almost caught. After
I had the thing on and my face got
warm I was afraid to take it o(T and
co into a chilly plnco for foar of tak-
ngcold. The first timo I went mto
ho kitchen some one passed through.
tho hall while I was on tho stairs, but
I hurried to niv room very much re-
ioved to get away unnoticed, lhe
second time I did a still bolder thing.
It was about the time our pours wero
being stolen that I hcavd voices ont
ii? tho garden. It was abont 12.30.
Forman was not home, so I took tho
ilog and went myself. I bow no one,
but sonio ouo must have Been me, for
just about that time there bogan to be
talk about a ghost, and 1 must nave
looked liko one in n whito dress and
uhnwl nud '.hat mask."
When Forinan caino home that even
ing Kittio told him tho story, but ho
was not to be convinced. As if Kath
cnuo in that ridiculous rig could
feeze him into tho awful terror ho felt
that nicht. ' Sho might bo what Kittie
saw. but his ghost wns a veritable
spirit. Aud she, wisely, did not con
adiet or oraue. but, looking up at
him, her soft brown eyes full of ton
der feeling, sho said:
"Novcr mind, dear; it was a good
chost. since it brought ns together."
Chicago News.
Wnrn't elnnd In nil tho klo
Not any wintry wnrnln'i
Sun rls up sn' ruhhsd Ills oy
An' 'pennid to say "Good mornln"!
Jest brlns yer roses to my sluht
An' I'll jest kiss 'em red and white'."
Th rlvor wnnt s,-crawlln' 'long,
8o drowsy nn' so Inr.y!
1 monkln' bird broko out In sons,
A dewdrop found a, dnlsy,
An' nlRli tho water llllc swlsliln'
J. toiler sorter dreamod o' llnliln!
reared like tlio worl was drowned In
llglit.
An' In tho bins nbovs you
Sou saw ynr sweothenrl's tyo so bright,
An' heard hr sny, "I lovo you'."
Twus spring n winter dowsr an' song,
Sunslitnu nn' lovo t lie wholo day long!
Lord r.uniloliili ClmrnlilU's I'mplincy
When the Duke of Marlborough was
marriod to Mrs. Hammersley by May
or Hewitt he mot soon alter tho cere
mony several distinguished men, ol
one of whom ho nsked if he had evei
mot his brother, Lord Randolph
Churchill. Upon being told that Lord
Randolph aud this gentleman had been
brought togother by Mr. Jerome,
Lord F.andolph's father-in-law, the
Duke spoko quito freely of his
brother's political career. Ho was
nsked by ono distinguished Amerioau
why it was that Liord liundolpli Had
so suddenly resigned his office as the
head of tho British War Department,
Tho Duko of Marlborough hesitated a
moment, and thou said:
"My brother diBooverod things there
that wero appalling. J I ever the cover
is taken off that box aud the inquiry
and incompetence that aro inside of
it aro revcalod, it will not only de
stroy any administration that may bo
in powor at tho time, but may bring
England dangerously near something
like revolution. My brother could not
faco the gravo responsibility, ond ruy
only bono is that there will oome a
punllcation Detoro Ltreas isi.iian is
cutauglod in a desperate war.
. That confidence revealed by tuo
Duko has beou brought to tho mind
of tho gentlemen who heard it many
times of late. rhilndelphin Tress,
Now York Letter.
1 L. A '. .'
1 Xvw
To I'ljr In Your l)roain.
Thero is a peculiarity about the
flying dream that seems to be oou
stunt. Of all those whom I asked
abont tho matter, and who nro con
scious of tho flying dream at all, not
ono has ever kuown hiiuscif to make
nuy high flights iu his drcoins. One
always Hies low, with a skimming
mauuci', slightly but, only slightly
above tho heads of tho pedestrians.
Anl one's critical altitude in a dream
toward olio's own performance is ill
ways interesting to noto, both iu re
gud to this particular class of dream
ami even more toward one of the
other classes. It is an attitude that
is well brought out in "Alico in Won
derland," where Alioo is mude to ex
clairi or to think while sho is fulling,
"IIoW bravo thoy will ull think of me
at homo uot to mind a great fall like
this!"' Longman's Magaziue.
Tlio Teleiilionn Htirvlue.
A 'newspaper in a Michigan town
hqvu nf its local telephone service that
it is oiuethiiig liko tho hnrso thut had
only .two faults the first, that it was
hard to catch when iu the pusture, and
tho other, thut it was uo good after it
wan (taught. Eleotncal HovieMf
I Lieutenant Swash's Love. I
N love, lieutenant!"
I cried, almost start
ing from my scat, so
greatly had ho sur
prised me.
My friend Swash
generated a great
clond of smoke in
his pipe, and it so
enveloped his head
that I oould not see
his faco, doe ply
flushed ns it must
arSjTv tho cloud of gray
VSV.iisiiiStTH::! vapor cnino tho gruff
"Ics, in love,
confound it!"
"Oh, how interesting!" exclniraeu
my wife dropping hor mr.gazino nnd
looking up at my friend and myself,
whom sho had always previously de
clared to be tho 'most uninteresting
when wo got togothor over our pipes.
It is not very ploasaut tor me,
muttered Swash. He was greatly cm-
oarrassod aud fixed his eyes pouaivcly
ju tho floor.
"What is her nnrao?" I asked.
"I don't kuow," ho answered
brusquely.
Where doos Bho live? renturoa
my wife.
"Don t know that.
"Whoro did you meet her?" said I.
"Cau't tell that either, Dockboy.
Don't think mo disagrooablo. If I
could I would gladly answer your
questions. Iudced, I wish that I was
able to."
Your case is truly a straugo one,"
I said. "Is this young woman pnroly
nn idoal, a mental creature of your
own? You have boon melancholy
enough of lato to have boon sighing
for something moro material.
"Sho is not a mere creation of my
imagination," replied the lieutouant
loleinuly. "Sho exists whoro I don't
know. I saw her onoe a great way
off. and she realized all my ideals of
the woman I would make Mrs. Swush
And when I saw her, for an instant
though it was, I cried to myself:
'Here, Swash, is the woman you have
dreamed of all these years. That soft,
intellectual faoo, those soulful cyos,
they belong to the woman you have
been waiting for.' Then she was
gone, from whore and whither I don't
know, for I cau't tell whero I saw
her."
Swash sent a bountiful ring of smoke
circling upward toward tho ceiling.
ind on it he fixed his eyes, watching
it as it swung away into the air, be
pome thinuor and thinner aud finally
ilisnpposrod, and where it had been
he kept his gaze fixed so that it seemed
.-bat bo was looking oil into space, an
conscious of our presence. My wife
glancud meaningly at mo, as though
he susnocted that our visitor s miud
was either permanently or temporarily
deranged.
"Your case is really most remark
ibie," I said. "Explain. Dou't sur
round yourself with suoh an air of
ravstory. It would relieve you to con
Qde your troubles in ns. Toi-haps
wo could holp you.
"Yes, indeed," oriod my wife en
;husinstically. "Porhnps we can holp
you."
Swash started.
"Ah, yes. Where did I leavo off?
Terhaps you can indeed, yes."
"Perhaps we can assist you," I ro
peated.
"I think not, Dockboy," he said,
having rocoverod himriolf. "tor my
ease is tmoly remarkable. I have
wept the skies with a telescope and
cannot find her, I have walked the
streets day and night, scrutinizing
thousands of windows, aud still have
not a traco of her. You see, I suw
her under tbe most peculiar circum
stances, bnt see her I did, and lost
my heart. From a satisfied bachelor
of fifty I have been metamorphosed
into a lovelorn, disappointed, un
happy I cau t get a word to nt my
case.'
"Your use of a tolosoope is queer,
I interrupted. "I have suspected all
along that you saw her in the skies,
"You have guessed my secret," he
said mournfully. "It happened that
one night about a month ago I was
walking down Broadway on tho way
home to my boarding-house," oon
tinuod my friend, "it seems to me
that I had boon np here to seo you.
At Fortioth street, as ill luck would
have it, I ran across one of those
itinerant astronomors who had sot up
a telescope on tho pavement and hung
out a small sign calliug attention to
tbe faot that Saturn aud ita rings
coulJ be seen for five cents. Busi
ness looked dull and I kind of pitied
the poor fellow. It had never beou
my fortune to gaze at Saturn and
her rings, bo I stepped up, gave him
a nickel and fixed my eyes ou tho end
of tho instrument. At first all was
blaokuess. 'I cau't seo out riiics.
said T. 'The lens is not adjusted,'
replied tho astronomer. And with
that ho begun to turn a lot of screws.
The blaukuess gave way to a hazy,
gray light, that I suspected was from
a theatre across tho street, but I said
uothing aud strained my oplio nerve
to make out tbe planet. It was of no
use. I withdrew my cyo aud com
plained. The astronomer thou (lis
oovered that the telesoopewas pointed
wrong, aud ho looked through it, low
ored oue end aud gave it a turn.
"My eye was at the iustrumont
again, but' no change was visible iu
the make-up of tho heaveus beyond a
marked moroaso of light. Once more
I complained, aud tho man declared I
must be nearsighted. 'Look harder,'
he said, giving the machine a little
twist. And I looked harder, but in
stead of Sutura I bow clearly a worn-
am my ideal, sfie whom for years I
had pictnred in my smoking moments.
There she was, sitting nt a window,
one prm resting ou tho sill, hor hand
on hor chin, her eyes looking directly
into mine. Even iu the half light
every feature was clerly disccrnable.
Thero was tho soft black hair waving
across a white forehead, the eyes deep
aud full of immeasurable good thiugs,
tho nose, the mouth everything
that I had been seeking for, , I gave
on exclamation of joy.
" 'You soo her now, sir? Does the
rings show up good?' This remark
from the astromer brought to mind
a forgotten fact. I saw her through
atolescopc. Where was that window
that I could seok ber ont? I had
found hor. Better never to have seen
her than under snob appalling condi
tions. There sho was gazing calmly
at mo from the other end of a Ion-
tube. I could almost touch her, aud
renchod out my hand.
"'Hold on. there!' cried the as
tronomer. 'You'll npsot tho ma
chine.' "My involuntary movement to em
brace what was not thero did indeed
disarrange the apparatus, nnd so bad
ly that she disappeared, nnd whors she
bad been a star was wiuking at me.
As if I cared for stars!
"I paid for one more look at fiat
urn, bnt could find nothing. In vain
I swept the skies and the housetops
anil windows with tho telescope and
with my nakod eye. Sho had van
ished. I went borne disconsolate. As
suroly as I sit uere, l'ocnooy, l saw
her. It was not a hallucination. She
was sitting in a real window within
the range of that teloscope, bnt where
dou b know and perhaps never
ill know. My ideal has become a
reality, but under what trying cir
cumstance. Do yon wonder that I
am miserable?"
"I surely do not," I said, "if whnt
you have said is true and not a mere
maginntion.
"How romantic!" cried my wife,
Lieutouant Swash sighed.
"Come," I said, rising from my
choir, "we will go together, and per
haps 1 cau help you. I will have a
look at Saturu."
Not long aftjrwards my friend and I
wore at tho corner from which ho hal
viewed his ideal in the flesh. The itin
erant astronomer was there, too, with
his telescope pointed hoavenward in
readiness for uso. He greeted my
companion pleasantly and apparently
had been expecting him.
"Maybe you 11 soo that planet
you've been looking for to-night," he
said. I ve cleaned oil tho lenses so
thoy'll work better."
' Planet 1 Beautiful luminary
rather," muttered tho lioutonant,
btopping aud screwing his eye luto
an ond ol the teleecope. "I can boo
nothing but darkness now. Lower
the other eud just a littlo there."
He began adjusting screws with the
skill of one iutimated into the mys
teries of the heaveus. WUilo he
searched tbe skies above and tbe
housetops for miles about I scanned
tbo heaveus, the housetops and the
windows with my naked eye, and with
my nuked eye I accomplished moro
than he.
"Allow mo to try the glass," I snid.
"My dear fellow," he cried, "it is
of no use. If I can't find it, after
searohing every night for weeks, you
cau't. There is nothiug In sight. It's
ouly a question of patience, of waiting
until it ngnin appcors."
"Let me try, I said peremptorily.
He acceded to ray request. With the
assistance of the astrouomor I got the
instrument iu the dosired position,
fixed my eye to it and focusod it.
"Pshaw," cried Swash, impatiently,
'you're looking right down Broad-
wuy."
Thorns electric lights, sir, not
planets," ventured the ustronouicr,
politely.
lhese remarks had no olloot ou me.
I bided my time. At length it came.
"Swash, don t be exoited, I Bold,
but just fix your eye horo."
"It's she again," ho cried beforo he
had his optio thoroughly adjusted.
"You re right, Dockboy. we've got
her. Now mark whero the telesoopo
points to. Dou't loso it. Get the direction."
"Havo you read what is bolow tbe
window?" said I.
"Jove!" ho muttered. " 'Miss Mnrj
Mumps, the actress, writes, "I havt
used Dr. Hoaxer's harmless half tonic
and find it perfection." '
'We'vo got hor Swash. We'll spot
a window with that sign why, con
found it, she's gone!"
Swash straightened up and seized
my hand.
"Dockboy, he whispered so tue
astonished astronomer would uot hoar.
"I've found her, thanks to you. I cau
spot her window by that sign if it's
within ten miles. Mis? Mary Mumps,
tbe actress-"
"Look again," I said quietly, "and
tell mo what you seo."
Once more he looked, but only for
second.
'Confound it!" he cried. "Am J
crazy? I saw a girl on a bicyole and
under it letters saying that if you bike
you should ride a Duster,"
"Gentlemen, " interrupted tne as
tronomer, "I'm afraid you aiu t seen
Saturu nor no otlier planet. You was
lookiug at that advertising canvas
down Broadway.
Lieutenant Swash has gone to tbe
countiy for a fow days.
HUMAN HIBERNATION IN RUSSIA.
Tlio Toornr Pvwannlii Hlorp All TVIntaf
I.IIca the llanri.
It, has been recently bronsrht to
light that the Russian peasant, iu cer
tain districts, suffers from A chronio
stato of famine, which occurs annually
and is more or less severe, according
to circumstnnces. In tho official re
port given by tho Bnrenu of Statistics
of the Department of Pskov, some in
teresting foots are brought ont, which
seem to show to what extent man
adapts himself to diverse external
conditions in tho struggle for exist
ence. In those districts anffnring from a
lack of crops, which has become al
most a chronic state, the inhabitants
have elaborated a mothod lor adapting
thomsclves to the want of provisions
which is perhaps unknown in other
ports of the civilized world. TliiV
means is called in Russia "lejka,"
signifying lying down or state of re
pose. It is in fact a kiud of hiberna
tion, as will be seen from tbe descrip
tion which has been given.
In those cases where the head of thl
family sees, toward the end of autumn,
that by a normal consumption of his
supply of wheat it will not last him
until tho end of the igrioultural year,
ho mokes arrangements to diminish
the ration as much as possible; bnt,
knowing that in this case it will bo
dillicnlt to preserve tbo functions nt
their normal height nnd to maintain
tho health and especially the physical
force necessary for tho work of the
spring, he nnd his family plunge
themselves into the "lojKn," which
means that evorybody simply goes to
bed, lying down upon the flat stove,
according to the proverbial Russian
custom, or iu the warmest corners,
during four or five mouths. He gets
up ouly to replenish the stovo, or ti
eat a piece of black bread dipped in
water. Tho peasant tries to move as
little as possible aud sleep as miioh as
he can. Stretched out upon tho stove,
he preserves the most complete im
mobility. His ouly care during tho
long winter is to expend os little as
possible of his animal heat, and for
that reason he tries to cat and drink
less, move less, and to diminish in
fact the vitality of the body. Eaoh
superfluous movement is translated
into a corresponding diminution of
energy, which in turn inoreaBos the
npri tite and obliges him to exoeed the
minimum of his rations; this minimum
being regulated by tho quantity of
provision that will carry him over un
til the next harvest. Thus instinct
commands him to sleep as much as
possible. Obscurity ond silouce reign
in tho hut, where in the warmest
places, cither singly or crowded to
gether, the inoinbers of tbo family
pass the stato of hibernation.
During tho course of tho famine
of this year, the press has several
timcu noted cases of this kind, hut up
to the present ti iae it has been gen
erally unknown that the lejka was uot
a temporary or accidental afluir, bnt a
regular system elaborated by a series
of generations of peasants, who aro
acenstomod to consider the half-ration
ns the rule, a sufficiency as an unat
tainable ideal, and huugor as an in
convenience to which he can "udapt"
himself by the winter's sleep. It
would be interesting to obtain further
details as to this state of hibernation,
as, aside from the moral question in
volved, it is of interest from a physio
logical and psychological point of view.
niodorn l'nrls UnspeitkKbly Lovely.
"In the Latin Quarter and in the
Faubourg St, Germain windiug streets,
dingy old houses, narrow footways
aud finely carved portals and case
ments give a hint of what old Puns
must have been," writes a .traveler,
from Paris, to tho Ladies' Homo Jour
nal. "Old Paris may have had its
attractions, but modern Paris is un,
speukably lovely. Tbo Fronch are
essentially classical iu their tusto, and
love order aud form, and ntraight,
strong lines. No Quuou Anno houses,
skysorupers, nor gingerbread work tot
thorn! The houses are all of -gray
stone, all of ouo height, and every
oue of them is almost equally as flue
as its neighbor. Ono reason for this
uniformity is that the French mind
cannot eudure irritating inequalities,
but a mora cogent reason is that whet,
Louis Napoleon was rebuilding hit
capital he wanted everything vorj
splendid, and so he put such au enor
inous tax on all buildings thut did uot
oonform to a oortaiu standard ol
height aud eleganoe that the builden
found it chuuper to follow the royal
regulations than to pay tbe tax,"
WORDSOF WISDOM.
A man's faith is truo only as ho
obeys it.
Couscienoo tells us to do right, but
It doos not tell us what right is.
Our bolief in the future is false in
proportion as it is circumstantially
exact.
Commercial morality nnd society's
morality are each a couipop.nd of vioo
and cunning.
Tho church's business is not. to
accuse sinners nor to excuse siuuers,
but to save sinners.
A pnroly intellectnul belief is im
moral; the true belief is tho at son t of
tho moral instinots. i
Tbo function of faith is to purify
the couscienco nud the function of the
conscience is to purify fuitb.
No man gets good treatment from
his wifo uuless hu almost breaks her
heart about onoe every thre weeks.
Tho object of religion is not to regu
late conduct, but to develop tho con
science so that conscience cau regulate
conduct.
To sec the truth, to believe in the
truth, to obey the truth, these tbreo
hath God joined together, and let not
man put usunder.
Au honest conscience is the best
orthodoxy; it clears away the non
essentials and will not believe simply
for tbe merit of believing.
Whon a girl thinks a man looks
like be wants to kiss her she covers
up her eyes so she can't boo whether
he really is going to or not till it is too
lato.
It's n funuy thing that a woman
ofteu knows a raau who reminds her
of her husband, but a man never
meets a woman who remiuds him of
his wife.
Tim rint .leu-lull I'enr.
Lord Rothschild has just celobrated
his Ufty-niuth birthday. His lonMiip
is tbe male hoir of old Mcyor Aiu
schel Rothschild, tbo founder of tho
wealth of the family. Tho lattor's sou
became nn English subjoot, and the
father of Lord liothscbild was tho
grandson of old Meyer. For twjuty
years 'Lord Rothsohild sat iu tho
House of Commons as member for
Aylesbury, nud in 1883 he was pro
luoted to tho peernso the first .lew
to recuivo the honor. It was Mr.
(tladstono who created tho innova
tion, but Lord Rothiuhild is now a
follower of Laid Salisbury.
A Vry Younit Viii-ainftii.
A boy of twelve, though he looks
older, in Chicago, who is named George
Stem, is foreman of a huge workshop
ill a manufactory, and has control over
some eighty mou uud boys, none of
whom suenrs to resent the youth of
thoir responsible foreman; iudeed, it
suys much for Stern that he is greatly
retipected by tho hiuuII army of work
ers under him, and that his employers
aro perfectly satisfied with their some
what tluriug experiment of placing so
young u lad above bo muuy fully grown
uieu. There is ouly one boy iu his
workshop who ia his junior.
AN AUSTRALIAN PIGEON P09T.
Tho I'lKoongntm llyatom Hot Boon of
r,allrml HonoAt.
Of all the accomplishments credited
to tbe homer, probably none has been
of such practical benefit 'as that of n
number of birds of the Great Barrier
Island Pigeongram agency, says For
est and Stream. These creatures nrc
trained to carry messages to and from
the Great Barrier Island and Auck
land, New Zealand, and the system has
expanded so much that It has now
become a very Important mrans of In
tercourse between the Inhabitants of
the Island and their friends and busi
ness connections In tbe city. At the
time of tbe wreck of the steamer
Walrarapa on the Great Barrier Island,
It was four days before news of the
calamity reached tbe capital and this
fuct gave rise to the pigeongram sys
tem. At first but a few birds were
available for the purpose, but In 18i6.
with the Increasing population on the
Island, It was found necessary to re
enforce the feathered army, and at thr
present time large numbers of mes
sages are dally sent from the Island
to the metropolis and vice versa, by
this means. In the first place, 2s. per
message was charged from tbe Island
to the city and when a team of birds
had been trained to fly from Auckland
to tbe Island,, messages were sent at
a cost of Is., nnd the messages to the
city were reduced to Cd. each. Tin
reason of the extra expense from Auck
land to the Islund is the dllllculty ex
perienced in getting birds to leave th
city on their Journey across the water.
No messages for tho island are sent
from the city nfter 10 a. m., as the Is
land is often enveloped In a fog after
that hour. Some Idea of the dlBpatch
with which the birds deliver their
messages may be gained from the fact
that they average (bud weather and
head winds taken Into consideration
from sixty-five to seventy minutes,
which Journey Is nbout fifty-seven
miles. One bird will carry as many as
four messages at a time. The mes
sages aro written on tlssuo pa
per (qunrto size) with carbon leuf,
the tissue paper being perforated
down each side, and on being
folded Is sealed with the pigeongram
stamp, which secures the privacy of
the message. The messages are then
wrapped round the pigeon's leg and
covered with a water-proof legging.
This protects it from wet In case .of
bad weather, or from the bird pecking
It off during transit. To open tho mes
sage the receiver cuts through the per
foration. There are Just 100 birds en
gaged In the service. At both termini
the UBiial trap for homers Is used, on
entering which the wires fall back and
strike an alarm. This notifies on at
tendant, who removes the messages,
and tbe bird Is permitted to enter th
main loft.
Klinpn Trees When Trimlnc.
In pruning trees, especially if they
are young ones, tbe one who is doing
it should always prune so that tbe tree
will have some shape. In pruning
while the tree is dormant and before
the exhaustive process of pollen secre
tion takes place in the tree, one can
hardly go amiss by cutting tb
branches so that tbe tree will have A
well-rounded shape and free from use
less "suckers," which not only destroy
tbe symmetry of tbe tree but absorb i
great deal of tbe tree's needed strength,
No doubt the main reason why
qninoe trees do not bear a large'
amount of fruit than is their averag
is this laok of pruning, for the quince
needs this perhaps more than any
other variety of fruit by reason of its
tendency to grow so many laterals. -
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