THE GUF.HT. Lots, who wsa gueat within my Hou i ' Lit. Is strangely become master. Yesterday I bade him welcome, with all honor In, tn poured-qut wine with subtle perfuraee rife. fn feast, in music did I ploy my part Of courteous hot who gives his all and beat Yt suddenly I trembled, and my -t Drew aword anil laughed and laid it to my heart. Now am 1 master here and thou, my boat, No guest " he said, "but slave to do my win And ilavelike have 1 done lit bidding till, Serving him beat when that I feared mm moat. Ah, came never a gentler guest to be So pitiless a master. Pity mc! Theodosia Garrison, in Airwlee'e. ABOUT FIANCEES. What Ben Got For Telling Sam theTrnflj. The men in the store watched the young farmer aaalst his wife Into the respectable looking buggy outside, arrange the packages, spread the laprobe generously and carefully over the young woman's knees and then, himself uncovered, drive away. "Clayton's goin' to take good care o' that there wife o' his," commented the storekeeper. "Foolish of him," declared Wash ington Hancock. "He'll get tired o' wnshln' up that buggy ' his'" nfter a while 'n c'n clude the ole waggln's good enough to come to town to trade In," said Sol Baker sagely. "Course he will," agreed Hancock. "He'll have her out to the woodpile splittin' stove wood, like as not. I've knowed that to happen, too." Baker had the grace to look em barrassed when the storekeeper snickered. "There's wuss thing! than splittin' a leetle nilto o' wood now and then for a woman," ho said. "Anyway, Clayt's wife'll take all the care he kin give her an' then need more. If ho ain't washin' the dishes for her afore long I miss my guess. She don't like no k'nd o' work none too well. She didn't as a gal." "Ain't a great hand to cook, they tell mc," said the storekeeper. '"Most any one o' the other Gals could heat her out when it come to fltin' up a meal. Seems like Clayt 'ud have took 'Llsbelh or Blrdlo if ho v. us set an' bound to marry Into tho I'ani'ly. This un's mighty slRrk mouthed by all accounts. I could ha' told him suthin' on thet score If he'd come to me an" nst me." "Why didn't you tell him, any way?" asked Marvin Parsons. "It's a pity she's slack mouthed," observed Hancock. "It's them kind o' wimmen that gits to talkin' about their neighbors after o while. An' it's a funny thing that it's alius the wimmen that does that. You might set In this store when Rufo an' Sol vhere wus shootin' off their mouths year In an' year out an' you'd never hear them say a word agin anybody not if you wus stone deef. But when a man sees a feller In danger o' bllghtln' his life by taltin' up with a gal that's ornery an' no account he ain't doln' no more than what's his dooty to give him the right kind o' warnln". If a feller's got good sense he'll erpreshlnte a word In sea son o' that sort an' won't git mad about it. Anybody's apt to be a mite keerlcss an' unthinkln' in the matter o' choosin' a gal when he's young. I bet there hain't a married man here but what'U say that's so." The storekeeper nodded Involun tarily and Hancock grinned. " 'S fur's not takin' a word o' good advice klndly's concerned I reck on there's the many a man would tell you that If somebody'd come to him In time an' let him know what he had a right to expect from the gal he wus thlnkln' o' marryin" he'd never have married the gal he did," resumed Hancock. "There's some what does git warned in time. I rlckerleck right well when a cousin o' mine, Sam Hancock, thought o' hitchln' up with a gal he'd met up with when ho was a young buck. He seen the gal an" tuck her buggy ridin' once or twice an' he figgered to him self that she was jest about the fin est young woman that ever set a foot on this green alrth. He couldn't make out that she'd got a fault or a blemish. 8he'd alius acted that away whilst he wus around, so how wr.s he to know any dlffrunt? "There wus one thing, though, an' that wus that Sam had a mighty level hald on him for as young as he wus. He'd slip up on a trado wunst In a while, but he never slipped up twlcet the same way an' he'd mado a many trades by tho time he was twenty year old. No, Sam wuBU't nobuddy'a fool. "Well, there wus a feller lived neighbor to the gal's folks, name o" Ben Crittenden, an' he knowed Sam an' he knowed the gal. He figgered that Sam wus a likely boy an' that it wasn't right for him to stand back an' keep his month shet when he c'd do good by opcnln' it. So he goes to Sam one day and he takes him out behind the barn for a conf'denshal talk. " 'Sam,' he says, 'I allow you know that I'm a friend o' yours an' that I hain't a trouble maker or a stlr strtfe. I've got suthln' to say to you, an' if I say it I don't want for you to git mad an' prance around on your ear.' " 'Certainly not,' says Sam. If you've got anything on your mind you say it.' "t jit's about Berthy,' says Ben. " 'I hain't a-goln' to git mad,' says m", ,'WmU about Berthy?' ' 'tt's thtsaway,' says Ban. '1 wouldn't say nothtn' at all If l thought you'd had the chance to know for yourself jeBt what kind of ssi one wus. But you hain't, an' I have. I hired out to her paw all in-rough one harvest an' I know what i.?1u.,k'Ulk,n' about- That gal'o mighty shlf'leas, Sam, Jest shlt'less ' 'Is that so?' says Sam 'I wouldn't tell you it it wum't o, say. Ben. 'An' I wouldn't say j 18 against hor neither If you wuau t a friend of mine. She'll shirk off an' leave her mammy to do the work if ,he kin, an' if ,ha can't she'll Jest about b'f to do It.' i. 7hat to" baJ'" look In thoughtful. " 'The meals she cooks 'nd sicken yon,' says Ben. 'Harvest time a fel ler hain't psrtlckler, but they sick ened me. An' when she's around the house she's ain't' slicked up the way she Is when she goes to a church soshnbble, I tell yon tbat.' " 'flho!' says Ben. " 'Yes, slree, an' her temper hain't none o the best. I seen her belt her young brother one day an' knock him endways. If you take my advice, flam, you'll drop off.' "Sam studied a moment an' then he got up an' shucked his roat. Ben looked down his nose. 'You hain't mad?' he says. " 'No,' says Sam, a-splttln' on his hands. 'I hain't mnd a mite, but I'm Jest goln' to waller you around a spell to teach you to mind yonr own affairs an' to quit tattlln' on gals'. An' with that he lit tn an' done It." "Did he marry the gal afterward?" Inquired Baker. "Co'se he did." replied Hancock. "Why wouldn't he?" "You said he had a heap o' sense," urged the storekeeper. "Not regardln' them matters," said Hancock. "No man has. But there wusn't no more wrong about that gal than there Is about any gal, an' I reckon they got erlong about as well as most, her an' Sam mebhe better." Chicago News. H OW "THE I,AIES FARM- A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT America's Supply. LORD FERRER'S TRIP TO "TYBURN TREE." Frassnt Park Lmi In London ) Was Tyburn Lane in the Days of Ferocious Murderer of Servant. Park lane, In London, was Tyburi; lane, and It seems as If the gallows described In an old document as "movable" at one time stood at Its east corner. In that case the stealthy burglar of Mr. Werthelmer's snuff boxes must have trodden very near the ignominious dust of many a pio neer in his own profession. But whether it be Mr. Werthelm er's or Lord Battnrsea's house that stands on the site of Tyburn Tree, or that carefully groomed house at the beginning of the Bayswater road, upon whose walls hangs the narrow cage from which a lark's song ascends over tho din of the motor 'bus, tho Marble Arch, Itself a "movable," marks the region of many a martyr dom and many an execution. It was there the ferocious Lord Ferrers was hung In 1760 for murdering his ser vant. Horace Wal pole's vords paint tho picture well. "He shamed heroes. Ho bore the solemnity of a pompous and tedious procession of about two hours, from the Tower to Tyburn, with as much tranquillity as if he were only going to his own buriul, not to bis own exe cution." And when one of tho dragoons of the procession was thrown from his horse Lord Ferrers expressed much concern and said, "I hope there will be no death to-day but mine." On went the procession, with a mob about it sufficient to make Its progress slow and laborious. Small wonder that the age of Thackeray, with Thackeray's help, set up Its scaffolds within four high walls. Ask ing for drink, Lord Ferrers was re fused, for, said the sheriff, late regu lations enjoined him not. to let pris oners drink while passing from the place of imprisonment to that of exe cution, great Indecencies having been committed by the drunkenness of criminals in the hour of execution. "And though," said he, "my lord, I might think myself excusable In over looking this order out of regard to your lordship's rank, yet there is an other reason which, I am sure, will weigh with you; your lordship Is sen sible of the greatness of the crowd; we must draw up at some tavern; the confluence would, be so great that It would delay the expedition which your lordship seems so much to de sire." But decency bo often paraded by those who outrage It ended with the murderer's death. The executioners fought for the rope, and the one who lost It cried tho greatest tragedy, to his thinking, of tho day! Not a thousand miles from this City llvo two charming and attractive women, whose story is full of Inter est. Both are blessed with every social quality, are most engaging In presence and are possessed of that suavity of manner that bespeaks their gentle blood and worldly polish. Tbey met with loss of fortune when barely entered Into the third decade of their years. Seriously put to the task of deciding how best to use the slender remnant of money In their posses sion, they began n thorough exami nation of the business ways and means open to women, and sought to learn the varied experiences of those who had prospered as well as those who had failed. At last they came to the conclusion that with their personal views, inclinations and na tive predisposition to retaining the protection of a home, as well as love of the country, they decided to pur chase a small farm and to work it. Then came the search for the farm, and looking up the details of the sort of farm they would have to learn all about. This took some months of hard study and much gleaning of Information, together with cautious financial calculations. It goes without Baying that family and friends did their very best to oppose the undertaking. They on- i thusiastically pointed out the wreck their young friends would make of themselves phylslcally and financi ally, and held up their social ostra cism as the final terror. To all these tirades the young women gave a pa tient ear, philosophically sure that all women who step out of the rou tine of feminine callings have to en counter that sort of opposition. Finally there came a day when a I suitable twenty-acre property was . found and purchased. It was located I In an extremely desirable part of the I country, within a few miles of a well ' known town, with every advantage to be known, having friends who sum ' mored In that vicinity living In homes I of their own. The house on the prop erty was well built on the Southern I colonial style, and by no means In bad order. Stables and outhouses, In like manner, were In fairly good repair, so that the outlay for repalnt- ing and refitting the whole was far below their anticipations. Their scheme of farming consisted In raising food for a few cows and two horses, and the making and keep ing of a large vegetable garden, to supply a summer clientele. The rals i Ing of chickens and squabs was, how ; ever, to be their chief work, and the I most remunerative, while the selling I of milk, butter and eggs was to be I carried on the year round. In the ! late autumn, all outside work being I completed, the house was furnished with the beautiful furniture of three generations of the choice belongings I Of departed ancestors. This lent a I graceful dignity and air of cultivated ease quite beyond the simple but ! homelike dwelling. A trusty Swiss ' and an Intelligent Norwegian house- worker were engaged to do their share of putting system and order into practice along their personal lines. For the time being the SwIsb I was farmer, dairyman, groom and coachman on occasion. The modern appliance of telephone sewed not only to reduce much labor hut re moved all senso of desolation and helplessness from the lives of these ladles. A name had to he given to the farm, and out of the dozen slips drawn from a small basket on the evening of their house-warming, when a few of the nearest kin were asked out from town. "The Ladles" came out victorious, having been the choice In reality of the farm owners from the very beginning. The kins folk of necessity had to acknowledge the miracle wrought by these wonder fully earnest and clever women, and as they passed from drawing room to dining room, library and small con servatory to tho upper chamber story, fresh and sweet In white muslin and chintz, but fitted with all needful modern comforts, they gave In with frank confession that a modern farm house such as this was a supreme revelation. What the situation demanded of the ladles to do thoy cheerfully did and said nothing about It. They met discomforts as the price they had to pay for blessings that were not to be had unless at that cost, pledg ing themselves never to grumble or find fault with adverse circumstancei that were unavoidable. The conse quence was they were habitually brimming over with good spirits, always quick and alert, winning ad miration and respect from their equals, as well as Inferiors. When the summer farm work began In ear nest these ladles were up at 4 o'clock In tho morning, each wearing a sport ing suit, coat and short skirt, and high boots. For three hours they worked in the fields and gardens. Then home for bath and putting on of a fresh suit. At once began tho putting In order of the entire house before breakfast. Very often a drive to tho postoffice followed, and the settling of outside affairs, while maid and man were left with their share of work to be executed. Every hour of the forenoon was well and satis factorily employed in their farm business, and so on for the most of tho day. In tho late afternoon dur ing visiting hours the hospitable piazza tea table was drawn out to welcome pleasant and friendly visits from neighbors, enlivening by their chatter their hard-worked hostesses. This wbb their daily recreation, and the wise method they adopted to free their lives from a sense of drudgery by keeping in touch with the outside world and being for the time of the world worldly. An early repast and an early retirement was their dally rule at this Beason, re gardless of all the friendly Invita tions showered upon them. Busi ness held them under a willing bond age during the working months that claimed them every year. lit the mld-wlnter holidays they ran off for a dip into the old town life of din ners, the opera and many other at tractions, never once regretting tho step they had taken, but proud of the success and Independence they had achieved. Very hopeful are they of what they may make in the future to enable them to live with quiet dig nity and comfort In their old age. New York Evening Sun. Flats Harm Book Trade. "Flats and apartments damage my business dreadfully," said a publish er. "The minute a family gives up Its house and tnkes to a flat, that same minute It stops buying books. In the first place flat dwellers are cramped for room. Having llttlo enough space for their furniture, let alone for books, they naturally buy no books, and because, In the second place, flat dwellers are nomadB, they move often, and your nomad hesitates to buy a book because he knows It will be a nuisance to pack at the next moving. "We are all taking to (lata and apartments; housekeeping In them Is so much easier and pleasanler. We are all freeing ourselves of needless things In order to have more space In our cramped quarters. Books we free ourselves of first, taking In their place a subscription to a public li brary. "Indeed, thanks to the flat, private libraries In tho future will be as rare as private theatres or private chap lains." New York World. Resurrected Dredges. Some of the so-called worthless Junk left by the French excavators at Panama has been brought back to life and Is now giving excellent serv ice. One of the old dredges, which had been lying in the Rio Orando River for more than twenty years, has been rebuilt at a moderate cost, and la now capable of excavating 120, 000 cubic yards of material a month. or as much as can be removed by four ; of tho most modern nlnety-flve-ton five-yard steam shovels. The various parte which have been used In rebuilding were all of French construction, and were found in the ' jungle or among other abandoned material scattered along the line of the canal. Thus the three boilers, which were found in the jungle near San Pablo, were in excellent condition, being quite free from corrosion. In good shape also were the two cylinders. The engine, which was In place In the hull, was In excellent condition, and could not be surpassed by modern Machinery. Moreover, the copper piping on all the machinery is of very heavy design, and shows more care ful workmanship than Is found in modern machinery. The excellent state of preservation 1b due, In the first place, to the high quality of the materlul, and, second ly, to the fact that it was ull abund antly covered with whito lead and grease when the work was shut down. Chicago News. Scott's Wise Dog. 8o veracious a man as Sir Walter Scott had a wise dog, a bull terrier. Said the novelist once: "I taught him to understand a great many words, luasmuch tbat I am positive that the communlcatlou betwixt the canine species and ourselves might be great .y enlarged. Camp once bit the bak er, who was bringing bread to the family. I beat him and explained the enormity of bis offense after which, to last moments of his life, he never heard the least allusion to the story In whatever tone of voice It was men tioned without getting up and retir ing to the darkest corner of the room, with great appearance of distress. Then if you said 'the baker was well paid' or 'the baker was not hurt, attar all,' Camp came forth from his hiding place, capered and barked and rejoiced." The flesh of alligators, it is said, tastes very similar to veal, and is re garded as a delicacy by many people la India. What is n Man .' "All the constituents of a 160 pound man are contained in 1200 eggs," said the chemist. "There is enough gas In a man," he wont on, "to fill a gasometer of 3649 cubic feet. There Is enough Iron to make four nails. There Is enough fat to make Beventy-flve can dles and a large cake of soap. There is enough phosphorus to make 8064 boxes of matches. "There Is enough hydrogen in him to fill a balloon and carry htm up to the clouds. The remaining constitu ents of a man would yield, if utilised, alz cruets of salt, a bowl of sugar and ten gallons of water." Health Cul ture. , , Ngg Cat Rearing Rabbits. m T A Wareham man named Wellstead found four blind baby rabbits on his holding and took them home to his cat for food. Pussy was nursing her one kitten, and instead of eating the rabbits she proceeded to nurse them, and under her fostering care they are doing well. London Chronicle. .t Cracked Hair. "I don't want my hair brushed oyer my forehead any longer," de clared Harold. "I want a crack in it like father's." Harper's Weekly. Mexico does not yet raise enough cotton to keep hor spindles busy. Mules With "Empire Waists." Three hundred mules with Empire waists and chest measurements of sixty-one Inches are preparing for a tour of .India. A British officer, with an eye to beauty in the mule line, is here picking them up. The party will sail In December, and this will be a chance for those rovers who turn up when the British want muleteers to get a ride In a transport to Calcutta. This Is as far as the mules will be taken by the muleteers, but they themselves are to go up the Hima laya Mountains. India, being a fearfully hot place, is shunned by the aristocratic officers of the contingent of the army there. The poor subaltern spends his leave of absence on the coast, where it is cheap; tho real sweM goes to the Him alayas. There Is where the Mis souri mules are going. Their bag gage will consist of machine guns and ammunition. They will travel In par ties, one carrying a small cannon, an other a pair of wheels for it, another tho carriage and the balance will carry ammunition. The "Empire waist" means a short coupled mule. The British army buy er's rule Is for a "head like a picture, legs like bars of Iron and feet like masons' mells, short In his coupling and intelligent." To this Is added, in the mule department, a chest meas urement of sixty-one inches. Kansas City Journal. Palimpsest Brasses. Tho reformation In England dur ing tho sixteenth century, and tho wave of purltanlsm which followed, resulted in the destruction of much church furniture and ornament In many cases amounting to complete plundering or destruction of what ever was valuable. Among other things memorial brasses were often stripped from old tombs, and It has been thought tbat this was due to general dislike to (he form of record. But lately a number of palimpsest or used over brasses have been found In English churches, and their occurrence suggests that the destruc tion of old brasses did not follow re ligious scruples, but tbat the brass was taken up and sold, often to be turned over and the reverse side en graved lu memory of some person re cently burled. As the brasses are usually engraved with an effigy of the deceased person, and cut to the shape of the engraving, it would not always be possible to alter an ancient mem orial, but often it could be done. A rarer form of adaptation was to nse the brass without reversal, adapting the ancient effigy to the require ments of the time, crests or incongru ous attire being cut away, and new details worked In to take their place. Scientific American. By W. FRANK McCLURE. The greater part of America's salt supply comes from New York Stc.te, which furnishes forty per cent ol the total production of the United States Michigan comes second with twenty five per cent, and Ohio, Kansas and Pennsylvania are next in line. Our States In the aggregate produce near ly a quarter of the world's supply, and this is Baying a good deal, for salt exists In practically every coun try In the world. The total output of the United States annually la close to 30,000,000 barrels. Originally salt was obtained by the ovsporatlng of sea water. In some of the newly discovered beds of Lou isiana It is easily extracted from mounds by mining operations. In the Eastern and Middle States It If often necessary to go down Into the earth 2000 feet before the great bed are reached. Some of these beds un derlie our great cities and cover roller of territory. The diameter of a salt well Is about a half foqt. Into its depts reach two pipes. Water Is forced down one of these pipes and comes up In the par allel one. On reaching the bottom of the well the water mixes with the salt, and on Its return Journey carries a supply of brine to the surfnee, which la Immediately transferred to vats called "vacuum pans." These pans are cone shaped at the top and bottom and of wide circumference It the middle. The vacuum Is, of course, formed by pumping out the air. Heat is furnished within by a system of steam pipes. At the right tempera ture the brine will boll and evnpor lie. Within the vacuum pan, the brine circulates freely, and after the con centration takes place the finer salt falls Into the buckets of an endless belt, upon which it Is carried up and over a wheel which Is In a little room on the roof of the factory. At this point salt resembles slushy snow. As the buckets on the belt pass over this wheel, they discharge thl3 slushy looking salt Into a chute, through which It Is conducted Into bins. Then, when a goodly portion of the moisture has drained off, a very wide belt conveys the product to big cylinders, which are known as "dryers." As these revolve, and the salt Is thrown about within them. It Is simultaneously subjected to contin uous blasts of hot air. The cylinders are on an Incline, which enables the salt to deliver itself nt one end as fast as It becomes sufficiently dry, af ter which It goes to tho storehouse. Still another plan provides for bringing the brine from the wells into a vat 20t70 feet long and five feet high. Heat Is furnished by steam pipes submerged within. The salt. In accordance with this process, comes to the surface In crystals, which later divide themselves into smaller parti cles and settle to the bottom. A pud dlo passing over the bottom draws them off at one end ready for the other operations. This Is known a) the "graining pan process." The packing of salt Into sacks nml barrels employs many men. Barrels are filled In great warehouses, where the piles of salt often aggregate 10, 000 to 50,000 tons. The small sacks of fine table salt are filled automati cally, twenty-four at a time. These sacks are first sewed up, a very small opening being left at ono corner. Each sack Is fitted over ono of the twenty-four small projections of the filling machine. As fast as a sack is filled. It drops Into a trough. The sole work of the operator, who Is usually a woman, Is to put new sacks In place and stack the filled ones in u nearby cart. From the American Inventor. TRAMPS IN NORWAY. New Laws Begnrdlng the Trenlmen of Men Who Won't Work. The Norwegians have passed s spe Ml act which enables the authorities to deal In a wholesome way with able- ' bodied loafers, beggars, tramps, aliens and drunkards who shirk their 1 financial duty to their dependents. An able-bodied man who will not work can now be warned by the po lice against his manner of life and told where he Is to apply for employ- i ment. Thus direct official action Is taken against Idling and Idlers. He is to be prevented coming on the com munity for support, or so acting that his family becomes a charge on the poor law the Interpretation clause to Include even a man's divorced wife and his illegitimate children. This, of course, Involves the providing of work, a task beset with difficulties, but probably easier In that country than In England, an they have im mense tracts of available land which could be brought Into cultivation, and this It Is affirmed would conduce to the prosperity of the country. That the country means business can be further inferred from a sug gested method of preventing escape through the possibility of work being Irregular and Intermittent. A person may be ordered by the police to go to the labor bureau, but not do so, and on the other hand there may not be any work. Both these contingencies are realized, so the Idea is to give an unsuccessful applicant a card which will be evidence of obedience and also state when the next visit must be paid. This is a detail that may be varied, but It indicates the size of the meshes of this official net. Suppose a person refuses to do the work as signed, or leaves It without reason, or Is dismissed through bad conduct and within a year either he or his de pendents come on the poor law for relief In consequence of the return to lazy habltB, then the authorities can send him to the workhouse for eighteen months, or for three years if It is a second offense. The work houso Is an institution between a pri son and an English workhouse, and the chief points are that liberty Is forfeited, begging Is Impossible, and they must face either work, hunger or punishment. The provision with regard to tramps Is most stringent. A person found roaming about and endanger ing the safety of others is liable to detention In the same establishment for three and up to six years. The course Is clear and effective. The Individuals are first watched by the police and then warned that they must get a fixed residence within a given time, and If they do not they are taken in charge. Some option Is reserved to the police as to whether they will send a lazy person to the workhouse or to his legal home, should they find out where It Is, but the decision rests with the police. In this connection it is important to know that the police have certain ju dicial functions unknown to such of ficers In this country. It Is quite pos sible, and even probable, tbat some will be found who are unable to set tle because too poor, and in these cir cumstances they are to bavo a house found for them, the funds for this purpose being provided from money set apart for tho purpose. The place In the first instance is considered by the police, but there 1b reserved the right of appeal to a higher court. From the Poor Law Officers' Journal. TDK WAY IT DIDN'T HAPFKf.J " Mother, said little Willie Jones, " f there's no work to do, I Ike to join the other boys nd so in swimming, too." "There a not a bit of work to-day," Haiti Willie's mother kind; "It's useful to know how to swim. So go I do not mind." "Father," said Willie to his pa, When he had older grown: "I'd like to smoke and wish that I A briar pipe might own." "And so you shall." said Willie's ps, Proud of his manly son; And to the store he went to buy A real expensive one. "Dear folks," said Willie to them all When he wo twenty-three, -" I love Marie, and we're engaged . And soon will married be. "We love her so!" "She's just the girl!" "The one for you we'd choose! " Whirli goes to prove these lines are false And writ but to amuae. Clifford Trembly, in Puck. Hm-bcr Shop Like Roman Bath. Through arrangements which wero completed recently New York City Is to have a barber shop which la to ri val In splendor the baths of ancient Rome, after which part of Its appoint ments will be fashioned. It will be established in the New Pennslyvania Railroad terminal and the rental Is to be $ 10,000 a year. Michael Hochman, who has shaved thousands at the Waldorf-Astoria, will be the proprietor. In the new shop almost ever) tiling is to be of marble and glass. Each chair will cost $150 and will be sur rounded by a camopy and velvet hanglngB. There are to bo ten show, er baths all finished In marble. A department of manicuring, for which provision has been made, will be unique In that each manicurist will have a little glass walled office of her own. Marble benches like those In the Roman baths will Hne the walls. Twenty barbers will bo employed In the main shop. In another shop which Mr. Hochman has leased from the McAdco terminal officials there will be ten barbers.- New York Herald. The City of Maples. The stranger In Macon, Mo., In variably notes the large number of magnificent shade trees tbat border the Btreets of the town. The place has come to be known as "The City et Maples," and the inhabitants tell with pleasure of how theBe trees were acquired. In 1872 John W. Beau mont, a real est ate man, "went broke" and could not pay his taxes, which amounted to $116. He offered the city council in lieu of the cash 10, 000 young maple trees, from one to two inches In diameter, all ready to set out. It was that or nothing, so the council took the trees. By pub lic proclamation the mayor fixed an "arbor day," and everybody who would ugree to set them out and care for them received from six to ten trees. At that time the town was almost bare of trees of every kind. Almost In a day Mr. Beaumont's legal tender for taxes was In the hands of the Inhabitants, and they so faithful ly carried out the mayor's injunction that to-day there Is hnrdly a street in town which is not beautifully shaded by thick leaved trees, suggesting a town in the tropics. Kansas City Star. ArtiNts and Color Blindness, ArtUts are as subject to color blindness as other men. The writer had tested the color sense of a large number of them cclorlsts, engrav ers, Illustrators and found an aver age of one In twenty-two color blind, As a class they are quicker to recog nize varying shades, but a green bltnd artist will place a brown skein of worsted with the green as readi ly as a layman. The possession of an "artistic temperament" bears no oth er relation to the keenness of one's color si as. i than comes from close ob servation and use of color. If an ar tist's eyes at birth do not possess all color-seeing cones In his retina, he canuot develop tbem by cultivation. From Edward A. Ayres' "Color Blindness," In Tho Century. The Satisfaction of Curiosity. I There is nothing a woman enjoys so much as a letter from some mar ried woman that is stained with tears. AUbUwu Ulubo. Belgium's lliO-Pound Ralls. Ralls weighing about 120 pounds a yard are being tried on the Belgian State railways. It Is considered that the present eighty-pound rails are not sufficiently heavy and strong for malu line traffic, In view of the great In crease of weight In locomotives and carriages. Some 100-pound rails ura In use, but mainly at turnouts and crossings. With the now rails heaw ler fishplates are used, and the sieept or are spuced twenty to twenty-four inches centre to centre. Instead of thirty-two inches. The rails are all of the T section. Euglneei. This Tea Didn't Need Sugar. A little maid-of four years was dis tressed the other evening because her father did not come to dinner on time. Her grown-up sister said to her in fun: "Papa Is naughty, and, when he comes, we won't give him any tea." When he did come, the sister sent the teapot out to the kitchen for fresh tea. Tho baby looked on with a troubled face and stole softly to her own room. Shortly she returned with something squeezed up in her tiny fist. Oolng up to her sister si, : whis pered : "Annie, I'll give you all my pennies if you'll give papa his tea." And, opening her hand, she dis played all her carefully hoarded pen nies. New York Times. Houses and Homes. There have been and there are to day In the various lands of the earth many people who have no houses and nothing that you could call furniture, even of the antique variety. But there can be no doubt tbat they are far happier than many who are com fortably housed In mansions which contain everything that money can buy .--Uncle Remus' Magazine. "What luck to-day?" ' We ran down a man." "Did he put up much of a race?" Pittsburg Post. "Is he a man who uses good Juds ment?" "Excellent. But he always puts It to use about a day too late." Milwaukee Sentinel. Beggar "Kind lady, I was not al ways like this." Lady "No; yes terday you had the other arm tied Up." Chicago News. "Jones Is tho most prominent mem ber of our golf club." "Why, he can't play golf?" "No, but he always pays his duos." Cleveland Leader. It doea seem strange, without n doubt. In this great race for tin, A man will never be "all out" Until he is "all in!" Chicago News. Bacon "I see the proprietor of the railroad Restaurant lias just died." Egbert "Is that so? Whom did he leave the sandwiches to?" Yonkert Statesman. "I'll make you sorry you ever quarreled with me!" "What will you do? Go homo to your mother, I sup pose?" "No, I'll bring mother here!" Sketchy Bits. "Tbat fisherman is always talking about the whoppers he caught." "He doesn't catch them," answered Miss Cayenne. "He merely tells them." Washington Star. Barter "I tell you, no man can realize the meaning of eternity." Carter "Oh, I don't know. I spent a week once In Philadelphia." Somervllle Journal. "Woman Is considered the weaker vessel," she remarked, "and yet " "Well?" he queried, as-she hesitated. "And yet," she continued, "man Is the oftener broke." -Truth. He "How can Mrs. Smythe af ford to keep three servants?" She "My dear, she plays bridge with them every Monday and they owe her money." London Opinion. Watch "Eight bells, and all's well." Mrs. Pohunk (feebly) "I guess, .Toslah, he hasn't looked on this sldo of the boat lately, or he'd know better." Brooklyn Times. I give to you this wiolet In token that we two have met. And hope that we already yet Once more again together get. -William Volk Mrs. Wigwag "How Is your hus band, Aunt Mandy?" Aunt Mandy -"Porely, ma'am. He was glttln' along all right, but now de doctah done say he got de convalescence."- Philadelphia Record. Scranton Sammy "No use talkin. pal, I got ter do something to change mo personal appearance; I'm beln' mistook fer Roosevelt too often fer comfort lately." HooBler Hank (faintly) "Well, uv all de vain van ity! How'd yer git dat hallucina tion?" Scranton Sammy "How do youse account fer me beln' tbrun off railway trains four times, beln' In vited ter chop wood on five different occasions, an' once asked If a bulldog could bite ter de bone through tho calf uv de leg, all durin' de past week?" Puck. WORDS OF WISDOM. V. The virtues are not poured Into us, they are natural. Seek and you will fiqd them; neglect, and you will lose them. Chinese (Menclus). That I can pray "God help me!" la a proof that He will help me. Because a prayer can be prayed at all there is certainly a divine car to hear it. It is because I can call upon God in the day of trouble that I am sure there is help for mc somehow under providence. Enthanasy. God cares for everything that He has created; but on the whole earth nothing is so Interesting to heaven as the fidelity of the soul, the fidelity; of a weak heart and feeble will, en deavoring to overcome temptation. All the glory of earth is pale and faded besido the persevering strug gles of such a soul. Ephralra Pea-body. It Is a great lb Ing to feel, In our human sorrows, that It Is not fate that la trying us, not necessity thai Is compelling us, but our dear Father who Is dealing with us, work ing out for us Ills good ends. It Is) the sublime;, t power man ever puts forth, to be able to say, "Not my, will, but Thine, bo done." Thomas Lathrop. What's an Eel? Summoned on Monday for taking fish from, the Thames during illegal hours, Stephen Thomas Bidmead said he was eellng, and that an eel wan not a fish, but a ' frosb water Mr pent," Alter a long consultation tho tench bold that an eel was a fish and ordered Bidmead to pay cost Lloyd's Weekly. The true glory of kindness consists not so much In some signal acta of generosity or charily as In. those kind offices and unpretending ser vices of love, whose constant in fluence is like a healthy atmosphere, unseen, yet indispensable to our hap piness. It consists In those "sweet, small courtesies of lite, which sweet en the cup of existence as wo drink it." Charles Folleu. To our Father, who knows all, ws, i hi speak out. He has no conven tional maxims by which to measure us, no half -Vxperlenc.ii. no harsh ness, no jealous Injustice, such as e.iu.oig men demands to be considered love. He canuul therefore Mistake, j im, we are suro of justice; and it Is J tbat, and not love uloue. which w I ask from lino, u our souls o true. Btopford A, Brooke.
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