THEIR
INVESTIGATION
B.r Grant CfU'cn
' I . |»i • i.jf . hi liubl I K<Huhu ,
Ol u*i. i st.«od <»n tin* uneven plat
farm •< »l»»* desolate little station
h Ij.l 4 iti«- red !«!is on the rear end
»»f tli** 11 grow fainter anil fainter in
the i i-iK -wil ci.i \t regular intervals
ip ami liotvi. ili«- platform smoky kero
»• tie lall'cru- llia.lv tlull splotches of
jellow ill tlie gloom. alld liel'e and tiiere
tin- tarjre* l imps of tin- switches sliow
ed f»s»l.|# <«.»; ,»f red and green.
l'h»- •;» - i the 10. il disappeared
nr-> IIHI A ir\e. au«L Olmstead swung
tlHiui to ».urve\ the barren little stn
tlon. turning up his i-oat collar as be
dl«i so for lb** night wind had a chill
breath of fro-i in it.
lirswu up • tlx- station was a sorry
looking art near which stood a shab
by man aw :m lustily "Carriage for
the s.'tji Mr ii Hi s way for tlie sani
tarlum"
Olmsteaul tuaiie Ins way thither, smil
ing grimly The four other passengers
"VOMITS MB, sin: KAII>. "DO TOt7 KNOW
WHT I AM HKRE?"
who bad alighted from the train bad
preceded b;ia and were now climbing
Into the barg*
"Sanitarium. sir?" inquired the shab
by man an olmstead came up. "AH
rlgbt. sir ««it right in Let's have your
checks lllit t your baggage."
The checks were baDded over, and
while tlie driver WHS getting the trunks
Olmstead looked over the other occu
pants of tlie barge. There were one
man aiul three women. The man and
two of the women were typical con
sumptives narrow cheated and hollow
cheeked Now ami then they coughed
apuhtnodically They were poorly dress
ed and evidently of tlie class who
availed themselves ;»f the state's chari
ty fund to bring them here.
The other woman was of IIU entirely
different type She was well dressed
and young In the dun light from the
station lamps olmstead could see she
was decidedly pretty Sin- did not
cough, nor WAS »he hollow cheeked like
the r«>sf Olmstead inade two mental
decisions— that she was a pay patient
and that her case was not as yet a
very serious one He felt a sudden
tfcrlil of pity that she should be here.
mo evidently was she at <idds with the
dreary surroundings.
The driver returned with the trunks
and bags on a truck With the station
agent's assistance they were piled into
the rear of the barge and the drive to
the sanitarium was Itegun. It was over
a rough, saudv road, lined with gloomy
plues through which the wind howled
dismally
Oloistead unrolled Lis steamer rugs
and offered them to the women, two of
whom were shivering miserably. The
younger woman greeted this act of
courtesy with a pretty smile of ac
knowledgment that quickened his
pulses
"They might at least have some blan
kets !n the barge." be said.
"It would seem so." was her quiet,
noncommittal reply, and then there was
silence until the sanitarium was
reached
Olmstead paid in advance, received
a hurried examination from one of the
physicians ;tnd was assigned a room on
the second floor At the supper table
he met the young woman again. She
smiled and nodded as he took his seat
opposite her.
"It's not exactly a promising !>egln
nlng. ' she said. Indicating the table.
"I should say not." he replied "I be
lleve this fare would prove the undoing
of a rugged i>erson, tossy nothing of
Its effects on au invalid."
"Shail yon stay?" she asked.
"A week st least," said he"And
jour*
"1 shall stay for a time, anyway."
she returned
After that meal they were frleuds.
They -trolled about tho grounds to
gether Tliej found quiet nooks where
they < -Hild discuss fr«>ely the Inefficien
cy of the i' -tors, the slovenliness of
the nurse-* and the general lack of any
thing like system about the pla<-e
"Why. It's Just a dollar and cents
scheme," she declared angrily one day.
"All they are after Is the money of
these deluded i>eople who come hero."
"I suspected as much l>cfore I came," |
Mid he
"'Th«-n why did you come?" she asked
Quickly.
"I wanted to try it. at least," said he
She l.tok ed at hlin curiously.
"I have my own suspicions about
you," she laughed
"And *hat are they, pray?" said he
But she only shook her head In srnil
*ng refusal to commit herself further.
Olmstead had Itookn aud magazine*
and fruits seut up These he shared
with h«*r and she accepted them with
« grave frankness that pleased him
might i|y
Tbej read together, they walked to
gefbei they sang together evenings In
the so called "music room " Day by !
day Olmstead grew more Interested In
her. and filially the Interest changed
Into something di-eper
lle «tjiv.-d out his first week and his
second \i th«- liegiriniiig of the third
he realized that, consumptive though
■die might l>e. he had found the one wo
man in the world.
One evening lust at twilight they
«itr«..i.i .1 , I, to a little stream that
crossed the ground* The air wa« clear |
and I rost \ I ■•■ hind a fringe of pines
the rkv flared r«s! and gold
•<»f CMII -O. you know it by this time."
said t'liustead quietly
"What;" die a-ked.
"That I love you." said he
She caught her breath. Uer face
grew ver> rosy Stic turned to him
slowly.
"Our condition"- she began.
"Let nit- fell you something." lie said.
"I ain not a tuberculosis patient. Cer
tain mi- iv ory hints regarding the gross
mismanagement of this place have
Iteen whispered abroad I was sent
here by the I tally Star t>» investigate."
She looked across the stream to the
pines and the flaming sky behind them.
"That dears yon, l>nt how about
me?" she asked very quietly.
"I love you." he repeated simply,
"and to love nothing matters "
Not even my my being here';" she
said.
'Not even your being here," he as
serted.
Suddenly she fell to laughing softly.
Her eyes danced she fairly shook with
merriment lie watched her in puzzled
silence. Presently she came close to
him and laid both her- hands on his
shoulders
"Forgive me," she said, "but it is
such an absurd situation. I»o you
know why I am here?"
lie shook his head.
"Well." she said, "those unsavory
hints reachc I further than the Star.
The editor of i: oi's Magazine sent me
hete on i mission very similar to
yours."
The color had faded from the sky.
The wind grew almost biting in its
• hill A group of shivering patients in
one of the pavilions saw a much en
grossed couple walking toward the san
itarium.
"Which goes to show we have dis
covered at least one redeeming feature
about this place." the man was say
ing Hut the shivering patients were
by no menus convinced of it.
W ho Were the Wit of Kluf
A curious case was trie<l in England
about a century ago to decide the ques
tion of ii. -xt of kin. Jolt Taylor, quar
termaster in the Hoyal artillery, was
drowned. with his wife Lucy, in try
Ing to save her after shipwreck. He
hail made a will leaving all that he
possessed to her, but us she did not
live to give the will effect a dispute
arose among their next of kin as to the
proper disposal of the estate, which
was valued at £4.O»X>.
It had been ruled, in conformity
with a principle of the Roman civil
law, that when two perished together
in a common calamity and It was un
certain which was for a time the sur
i vlvor the decision should favor which
ever was the more robust. In this case
the wife had distinctly the better con
stitution, lint as against this it was
urged that, as he plunged into save
her. she probably expired first. After
lengthy arguments the Judge held that,
though strong in constitution, the wife
would probably have been more timid
than her soldier husband and granted
administration to his nest of kin.
"Charnoter" Storiea.
The giving of a "character" to do
mestic servants is one of the severest
tests of the employers character. An
Irish master, being called upon to
write a testimonial for a groom whom
he was discharging for drunkenness,
gave him a good character, but omit
ted to mention one trait. The groom
returned the letter, objecting that It
did not say he was sober. The master
added "sometimes sober." and the man
was content.
The woman who had to recommend
the inefficient cook she had kept for
seven years only because she was
afraid to give her notice went one bet
ter. She had covered three pages with
undeserved commendations She had
placed It In «n envelope and addressed
It, and her conscience prickt-il n.-r t.nd
ly Then she had a happy idea and
broke open the seal, adding to her let
ter us a postscript. "God forgive me!"
It satisfied her conscience, but history
does not relate If It satisfied the other
woman.
American Hotel Life.
At heart Americans still enjoy hotel
life immensely, in spite of much re
proof from foreigners who consider It
In bad form. The American has not
really acquired the country house habit,
although he Is trying to do so It does
not as yet satisfy his longing for a
constant change of scene ami entire lu
deitendence. Hotel life, condemned as
it is by the finely discriminating as un
homellke. Haunting and too public, still
appeals to the average American as a
very diverting Interlude to domestic ex
cluslveness. They even prefer It in
reality to entertaining or being enter
tained after the hospitable, but some
what responsible. European fashion.—
T,on<lon Telegraph.
M. IV* at Sixteen.
It does not seem very clear at what
period the legal age for members of
parliament was fixed at twenty-one.
It is, however, certain that in the
reigns of Elizabeth and James I. boys
of sixteen and seventeen occupied seats
In the house of commons. The poet
Waller took his seat as an M. P. before
he was seventeen. Charles James Fox
took his seat at eighteen and Chester
field before he came of age. This, how
ever. was clearly Irregular, because it
Is recorded that Chesterfield was
threatened with a penalty of £SOO for
sitting and voting in parliament while
under the legal age If be did not cease
his attacks upon the government. Lord
John Russell also sat before he was
twenty-one, and he seems to have been
the last of the parliamentary minors.
An act of William 111., passed In 1690,
made the election of a person under
twenty-one void, but the act was not
very stringently enforced. London
Standard.
A Juvenile Opinion
"I suppose you will marry when you
grow up." said the visitor pleasantly.
"No," replied the thoughtful little
girl; "mamma says papa Is more cart
than the children, so I guess the care of
my children will be enough for me
without the care of a husband."—Chi
cago Post.
Ilia Itearent.
" Woodbj dares his grandfather
descended one of the greatest
houses In K:.gland."
"Ah. yes; I • J hear a story about the
old man faMing otr a roof he was re
pairing once for Lord Somebody or
other!"- Philadelphia Ledger
A hero <-r a g niu.-. or both, is the man
who gue* - v.;!it most of the *Jrne
uud then does it. Louisville Herald.
Grnnl and I'll (toy Admirer.
An Intimate frien I of President
Orant said to him one day, "General,
my little boy ha- heard that all great
men write poor hands, hut he says lie
believes rou are a great man In spite
of the fact that you write your signa
ture so plainly thai anybodv can read
It."
The president took a card from his
pocket, wrote his name on it and hand
ed It to him.
"Give that to your boy," he said,
"and tell him it is the signature of a
man who is not at all great, but that
the fact must be kept a secret betwees
him and me."—Loston Christian U*gl®
ter
HAN ANGEL
UNAWARES
By KATE M CLLAKY
Copyright, lwft. by Kate M. Cleary
The April downpour was at Its tiercesi
when the knock came to the kitchen
j door. It was a timid knock—so timid
that Nan stood with knife suspended
over the pan of apples she was paring,
thinking her imagination might have
played her a trick. It came again— low
entreating.
| The girl crossed to the door and
opened it.
"Good laud!" ska cried. "Come hi
j You poor little soul, whoever you are,
i come In!" And out of the blinding rain
she caught the little black, shrinking
figure and whirled it Into the warmth
and spicy scent of the big kitchen.
She stood and looked at her unexpect
ed visitor, her gaze a curious blending
of amazement and compassion. Such a
frail, old tigure of a woman. The plain
black cashmere gown, the thin shawl,
the close llitl>' bonnet, all were dripping
rain, from die stiff jet spirals orna
menting the bonnet to the hem of the
poor skirt. And the face that looked
up at Nan, dumb and beseeching, was
childishly pathetic In its wistfulness.
The woman held a worn bag clutched
ill one h:llid.
"1," faltered tlie stranger deprecat
iugh "1 g>i caught in the rain!"
N:I.I tb."e>v back her head and
laugiied a girlish laugh, crisp and in
l'e< tious, and the shriveled countenance
of the intruder relaxed into a smile.
"Pardon UJC," cried Nan, controlling
herself; "only It was so evident you
had not been under shelter the last
hour that I couldn't help laughing.
Here, sit down in this rocker near the
stove." She deftly unpinned the soak
Ing shawl and removed the pulpy bon
net. "Dear, dear," she exclaimed,
"you've no rubbers on! And your feet
are dripping! You're Jusr a bundle of
wetness! Whatever will I do with
you?"
She spoke with the air of solicitude
she might have used toward a <'hlld.
Nan was only seventeen, but she had
many burdens on her shoulders, and
she bore them with courage. A year
ago, when she had graduated from tlie
high school, the hope that she might
goto college was strong within her.
But her aunt and cousin had condemn
ed her desire and derided her ainbl
tion. There was no money to spare
for such foolishness. There was work
to be done at home.
The latter fact the girl was given
no opportunity to doubt. The maid of
all work had been dismissed the week
of her graduation, and Nan had been
Installed In her place And silently,
but with fierce inward rebellion, she
accepted her duties. But her father
had been a uian of letters and a pro
fessor In a university, and she had In
herited his love of learnlug So It was
with a heavy heart she saw the days
slipping by and with them the time she
would fain have given to the acquire
ment of further knowledge. Today
many bidden tasks still remained to
be accomplished, and here was this for
lorn creature ou her hands
"I'm sure I'm sorry to be making
you trouble, my dear," piped up the
plaintive old voice. "If when after
I'm rested a bit you'll be telling me my
direction I'll be moving on."
But suddenly she went ghastly white.
She caught her hand shandy to her
side, and her lips turned blue.
"Here," cried Nan, "take this!" !??ie
had gone for a stimulant and was j
back, holding It pressed to the twitch
ing mouth. The old woman swallowed
the liquid and tried to rise.
"Sit still!" commanded Nan. "You're
ill! You mustn't stir!"
Nan stood before her, tall and slen
der in her blue cotton gown, with a j
big white apron belted in at her waist.
The pure pallor of her skin was ac
cented by the blackness of her brows
and lashes. Iler gray eyes were wide
—tth perplexity.
"Walt a minute," she ordered and
went Hashing up the back stairs. She
reappeared with a load of garments
over her arm. "Y'ou're such a xnlte of
a thing the clothes that I've outgrown
will lit you," she said. "Your bag?
Here It Is- safe behind you. There!"
She worked rupldly ns the talked.
"Now you're dry and comfortable any- >
how, If yon do look funny."
The old woman smiled up at her
gratefully. She did look funny In the
schoolgirl gown of red, but the color
had come Into her cheeks, and her
chilled feet were growing warm in the
dry stockings and slippers.
"Now I'll make you some tea and
toast," declared Nau, hanging the wet
clothes to dry. "And then I must get
back to— Good gracious, my cake Is
burnlngl"
She was on hfr knees in a minute
and bad snatched the oven door wide
open. A smoking, blackened mouud
confronted her. And, as 111 luck wculd
have It, at that very moment Helena
Burnet, her cousin and mistress of tiie
house owing to the Invalidism of Mrs.
Burnet, came sailing Into the kitchen, j
"What's this''" she cried sharply. She j
was In street attire, but had been well
protected from the storm. "Your cake
ruined! And that—who Is that person?"
Her cheeks scarlet from embarrass
inent and the heat of the oven. Nan
was hastily removing the cake.
"She's an old lady who got caught In
the shower," the girl explained nerv
ously. "Did Aunt Ellen come, Hel
ena ?"
"No, she didn't." snaooed Helena
Helena starcii from her cousin to the
strange guest and back again.
"Do you mean to say you've gone out
of '.our head, wasting good food on a
tramp?" she shrieked.
"Hush!" begged Nan. trembling with
mortification. "You will hurt her feel
ings!"
"Feelings, Indeed!" She glared at the .
stranger. "The rain is over now. She
can go about her business."
Nan stood before her cousin.
"She Is sick and cold. She can't go I
out of the house tonight. I.et her sleep !
lu my bed. I'll make up a shake down j
on the cot." Then, hurriedly, as she I
saw angry refusal In the other's eyes,
"Don't make me leave you if you value
my work!" ,
"What do you mean?"
"Only that Mrs. Hunter across the i
street has offered me $lO a week as
housekeeper in her home I would have
no more labor there than here, where I
am paid nothing. And I shall accept
her offer today If you make me turn
this poor old creature out!"
"Well, 1 declare!" ejaculated Miss
Burnet. But, aware that Nan was
quite capable of doing what she threat
ened, she made a tempestuous exit
from the kitchen. Overcoming her
apologetic objections, Nan assisted the
| old woman up the stairs. On the sec
-1 ond floor thev passed a bright room,
hung with rosy chintzes, with a Jolly
| (ire rollicking in the grate.
''l wish I might take you in there,"
| she whispered. "Mm that is intended
for Mrs. Franklyn, who is coming to
'stay here You shall have her chicken
j liroth, though," said the girl determin
edly. "She can't need It any more than
| you do "
And when she had tucked the feeble
! body into her own narrow bed she
i brought the chicken broth But that
night when the dishes were washed the
girl climbed to her room she found
her protegee \. y ill. She was feverish,
and the pain in her side was worse.
' Occasionally she lapsed into delirium.
, Nan was frightened, and as the wo
man grew worse she sped down the
I stairs and across the street for Dr.
Meeker.
"Pneumonia." lie said. "Exposure,
eh? I thought so. Practically hope
less. What's (»i n, ehYou want a
lawyer:" He bent to listen. "Poor
' j soul, what have you to will?"
'John Meeker," she panted, "don't
you know me?"
"I'm young I»r. Meeker. John Meek
er Is my father. I'm trying to be as
good a man. If I can build up his
practice that had fallen off I hope to
make a home for this little girl here."
The old woman smiled and nodded.
"You'll get mo a lawyer maybe If
you know that 1 am Ellen Franklyn.
, No. don't call the others. Helena la
i like her mother, cold and selfish. I
1 | heard her for myself today."
The physician did what he could and
hastened away, ills experienced eye
told him she had been ill several days
I and that the exposure of the afternoon
| was hastening the climax. The law
yer returned with him, and the house
hold was aroused. The old woman
I chuckled, exhausted, but triumphant,
as she fell back after signing the will.
"I've left Helena a hundred dollars
! to buy that mourning she was so set
j on," she whispered "You can get
| your learning while he's making the
! home for you. "l'was the line fellow
j his father was, I mind well."
And not all the wrath or lamenta
i tions of Helena Burnet and her moth-
I er availed to impeach the validity of
the will, which I -ft ihe property of
Ellen Franklyn to Nancy Goodwin.
"I shan't hold you to your promise
now, dear," Charlie Meeker said when
I he came to see the girl off to the uui
, versity. You are an heiress now.
\ Kurdish Tent.
The tents of ili#* Kimls. in which
they seek the pasitirage of the moun
tains in summer, vary much In size,
though in appearance and shape they
conform throughout to one plan. The
covering of the tents consists of long,
narrow strips of black goat's hair tua-
I terial sewed together lengthways,
j Along the center of the tent this roof
j ing is supported ou three to live poles,
i according to the size, and stretched
j out by ropes which, made fast to the
| edge of the i o.ing. are pegged secure
j ly to the ground. The poles within tlio
j tent being of some height, usually
j eight to tt a i'II-i, the edge of ihe tent-
I ing does not nearly reach the ground,
| but wails are formed of matting of
reeds, held together by black goat's
j hair thread, which is often so arranged
! as to form patterns on the yellow mats,
j —Blackwood's Magazine.
A MURDEROUS WEAPON.
TLI«* Lxplohlv** IZII rpoon, THE WIIRIC
Itix ll trr'n « K«*liance.
, The explosive harpoon, which is the
: modern whale hunter's chief reliance.
; is a truly murderous weapon, six feet
iln length and strong in proportion,
made chiefly of malleable iron and ad
mirably designed for tlie slaying of the
immense creatures. Its most striking
feature next to the bomb head, which
is operated by a time fuse and explodes
j'ln the vitals of the w hale, is the anchor
like device that prevents the harpoon
"drawing" out of the body again under
the terrific strain of the wounded mon
ster's frantic efforts to free itself. This
consists of four hinged barbs, which
I lie along th" shaft before It Is fired, but
which ate forced apart and Imbed
themselves in the whale's b>)dy after he
is lilt, so that if the prize escapes,
whicli sometimes occurs, it is only by
| breaking the rope.
When "lish" are numerous and there
is a chance of killing more than one in
a day a novel method is adopted with
the first victim. When It is seen to be
dead a hole is bored through Its back
Into its stomach and air Is pumped into
It by a pipe from the steamer's engines
until It is inflated like a great balloon.
| The orifice is then closed with a wood
en plug, and a man is left alongside in
j a small boat to establish ownership,
while the whaler steams off In quest of
other prey. As many as flve whales
have been killed by a ship In one day,
four is not an unusual "bag." and
threes and twos are commonly got. A
single ship killed twenty-two In a week,
and the record year's work for one is
258, an amazing number when it is re
membered that on stormy days it Is Im
possible to cruise at all, as tiie sprays
bury the gun, and that during the win
ter months fishing is abandoned. Dur
ing that period the whales "strike off"
the coast to escape the Ice floes, to
which the rorquals are not partial, be
ing In this respect unlike their arctic
congeners, whose habitat Is now the re
motest section of Hudson bay aud the
channels which strike north from Its
farthest bounds Into the polar sea It
self.—l echnical World.
The Proper-lie* of lorainr,
Travelers in Peru and countries
where cocoa grows chew the leaves of
this plant for the purpose of allaying
the sense of hunger and the feeling of
exhaustion that accompanies It. At
first the leaves were thought to possess
food elements, but now It is known
that the cocaine they contain merely
allays the irritability of the nerves that
produce the sense of hunger. Cocaine
is au alkaloid made from the cocoa
leaf, which lias the effect, of completely
destroying the sensibility of nerves.
The discovery of this active principle
of the cocoa leaf explained fully and
satisfactorily the effect produced by
chewing the leaves. An infusion of the
leaf might I»<• used with good results In
allaying the gnawing appetite that fol
lows some forms of fever or hi cases
where the sense of hunger is due to a
diseased condition of the stomach. Co
caine should never !>e used except on
the prescription of a trustworthy physi
cian. because It is dangerous. The co
caine habit is more readily formed than
either the morphine or the liquor habit
and is far more rapid In its work of de
duction.
l*roof.
"They tell methat Skinner has Joined
the church. I»" you believe he Is in
earnest ?"
"He must be I saw him put a dollar
in the contribution box."—St. Louis
I'ost-f Mspatch
The Portuguese say no man will
make a good husband who doesn't eat
a good breakfast
SNAKES OF SARAWAK.
|li«- Pythons Are and Feed
on I'TN* IIIHI Children.
lii t!»o Sarawak Gazette Is an article
cm the >11■ • I;f's of that part of Borneo.
Of the | M niii'iis reptiles It says:"The
cobra (Nnj.i tripudians) Is a black
snake whl« li raises Its head to Btrike
when irritated, at the same time ex
panding the hood at either side of the
neck. Ii spits at intruders and hisses
like a cat. whence it Is known as
'"ular tedomr puss;" in some parts, too,
as '"tedoug niata liari." The word "te
dong" in Sarawak is apparently ap
plied to ail large snakes which Malays
consider to be poisonous, and, as our
Malays are but ill acquainted with
these animals, quite a number of large
but harmless forms are designated by
this term The hamadryad (Naja bun
garus) is ;i brown snake,-considerably
bigger but rarer than the cobra. It is
rather shy. but when cornered, like
the cobra, it raises its head and ex
pands the hood before striking. Its
food is chiefly other snakes.
"Less dangerous than these najas
I are the vipers, of which the most
common species is the green viper,
j which reaches a length of two feet or
j more. The head is large and shaped
i like an ace of spades. T his creature Is
j a tree snake and very sluggish. The
i 'bungarus' are of several species, one,
| Bungarus fasclatus, of length up to
| four feet, being black with yellow
i rings. It is called the "ular buku tebu'
I (sugar cane jointsi by natives. There
I are also sea snakes of many species.
1 The tail of a sea snake Is flattened
I and oarlike."
Sarawak has other snakes: "Of the
| pythons there are two species. Py
j tlion reticulums grows to an enor
j inous size, over twenty feet. It is
: very fond of pigs, but varies its diet
| by various animals, Including even
j children. The oil of this snake is used
! by Malays as for
' bruises. The other species of python,
j Python ciirius, is interesting In that
j it* llesh tastes like that of fowl—at
least, so Dyaks say, and they are au
j thoritii son snake flesh, for they eut
1 u number of the large snakes."
A PUGELT SOUND NAME.
I'oyiilliiit and the Experience of th«
M»«i» IteixponNihle For It.
The name Puyallup is of Indian ori
gin. :is old as the memory of the white
man. In "Pioneer Reminiscences of
Ptsget Sound" the author. Mr. Meeker,
says that he accepts the odium of in
flicting that name on suffering genera
tions by platting u few blocks of land
Into village lots and recording them
under the name Puyallup. He men
tions Incidentally that he has suffered
from it.
The tirst time I went east after the
town was named and said to a friend
In New York that our town was nam
ed I'uyallup he seemed startled.
"Named what?"
"Payallup." said I.
"That's a Jawbreaker," came the re
sponse. "How do you spell It?"
"P-u y-a-l-l tip," I said.
"Lot file see. bow did you say yon
pronounced itV"
Pout inn out my lips like a veritable
Slwash and emphasizing every letter
and syllable MI as to bring out the
I'euw for Pity and the strong empha
sis on the aland cracking my lips to
gether to cut off the lup, I finally drill
ed my friend so that he could pro
nounce the word, yet fell short of the
elegance <>f the scientific pronuncia
tion.
Then when 1 crrwuwl 'h« Atlantic
and encountered the factors o# the hop
tr.ule in London and was bidden as a
guest to a dinner to introduce me to
the assembled hop merchants, when I
saw a troubled look overshadow the
face of my friend who was to Intro
duce nie I knew what was troubling
him, and my sympathy went out to
him.
"Let ine introduce to you my Ameri
can friend from"—he began boldly and
then hesitated "my friend from Ainer-
Ica." lie continued, and then turned to
me with an imploring look and blurted
out:
"I say, Mr. Meeker, I cawn't remem
ber tb.it name. What is it?"
But when letters began to come to
m« addressed "Peulope," "Polly-up,"
"Pull-all-up." "Pewl-a-loop" and final
ly "Pay-all-up," then my cup of sorrow
was full. 1 am sure, however, that
there will never be but one Puyallup.
Britx'U 'I heft*.
Iniriiig the Soutli African war an Im
niei.se stone monument was removed
at Cape Town during the night, and no
one knows to this day by whom or why
It was taken. Some years ago, in broad
daylight, a clever and bold gang of
thieves carried off a valuable fountain
fourteen feet high from Uxbrldge with
out exciting the suspicions of any one
and quite recently an omnibus was
calmly removed, horses and all, while
standing unguarded outside a public
house In London and has never been
seen or heard of since. It would seem,
indeed, that it Is often far easier to
steal a l»i<x thing than a little one.—
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SIBERIAN HOSPITALITY.
I I'lliiri>ill» ft \i.sil. Willi h Somewhat
Tfrril) IIIK < limits.
Detained :il tlie Siberian village of
Kri vochokovo, M. -Inles I,egran re
-1 membered that lie hud a letter to a
j not >i Me of tin* j riro and liastened to
j present it. M. Guutfer in his book on
itussia describes in M. Legras' own
' word< the cordial hospitality with
1 which he wax cived and also tells
of the dillicult.v which concluded his
; charming visil
"They had nelaiiicd me till 10 o'clock
I i lb • evening." h ■ writes, "by repeat
ing -Why : >■ you in a hurry?" and 1
v\..~- on the i iiit of making my depar
' tin -11• ■:i 1 h ;rd the mistress of the
house - iv in a low voice to her hus
. baud. 'Shall I for the carriage?'
:To wli. ii • i' .died, 'No.' At this word
iit shiver |i s<i | over uie. Doubtless
fiii. ' isi, wii > had made me send away
;iie < >:!chmaii. was unaware of what
; ' . refusal meant, else he would have
: s.ii.! ' > me. Here is a sofa; sleep here.*
"My situation was perilous, but what
i -ould I do? At the end of u few rno-
J nient • I ro-.e to take my leave, and,
having asked if I could get a cab, was
! aiel with the reply that at this hour
' none could be obtained.
"Krivochokovo is a village whose
| population constitutes the very flotsam
; ni\ 1 jet ,i <>f Siberian civilization.
1 Ihe village has neither streets nor
lights iu>r police. It is considered a
cutthroat spot, where honest people
shut themselves tight at night.
"I had neither stick nor revolver, and
1 had on me a large sum of money.
Finally, I was ignorant of the exact
position of my inn, situated over a
mile away. First of all, dogs threw
themselves upon me. I shook them off
and started as I -est I could.
"The night wis inky black. Amid
the irregular i-.iuiers of houses there
was no regular street by which to
guide myself. As I hesitated 1 heard a
'Who is that?' It was a watchman of
a pile of wood who hailed me. He di
rected me. and. giving me a large
branch that would do as a stick, he
said: 'You are wrong, barine, togo
about this way without a revolver.
The place is not safe. May God pro
tect you!'
"As I approached another cluster of
houses a watchman sounded his rattle
menacingly and dogs flew at me sav- \
agely. When this watchman approach
ed 1 induced him to accompany me.
lie informed me that the evening be
fore a traveler who was staying at my
hotel, having started early to catch a
train, had been a -sassinated about ten
paces from there. Finally we reached
the inn. It t>ok a long time to make
them open ihe door, but I finally got In
side and reached my room, trembling
with fever and fatigue, and fell down
helplessly, only conscious of having
I passed an hour and a half whose re
| membrance will remain with me long.
I As for my so amiable host, whose hos
! pitality might have cost me my life, he
; will doubtless never know of this ad
venture."
The !<•«• of Greenland.
The largest mass of ice In the world
i is probably Ihe one which fills up near
| ly the whole of the interior of Green
l land, where it has accumulated since
j before the dawn of history. It is be-
I lioved to now form a block about 000,-
! IMIII square miles In area and averag
j ing a mile and a half in thickness. Ac
| cording to these statistics, the lump of
I Ice I- larger in volume than the whole
i body of water in the Mediterranean.
, and there is enough of it to cover the
I whole if the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland with a layer about
| w.rii it'll' > thick. If It ncie cut Into
' twn convenient slabs and built up
i equally upon the entire surface of
i "gallant little Wales" it would form
i a pile more than 120 miles high. There j
I Is ice enough in Greenland to bury the j
j entire area of the United States a
quarter of a mile deep.—London Globe, j
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Die Rrlwht Side.
"I don't see how I could possibly be i
any worse ofT than I am, sir "
"Then cheer up. You've got nothing i
further to worry about." Pittsburg
Dispatch.
There never was any pariy, faction, !
sect or cabal whatsoever In which the
most Ignorant v. ere not the most vio
lent, for a bee is not a b'isier anluia) |
than a blockh j«l Pope
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AN OR.AN j GROVE-
Ho<l»*rn V|f<|iinU In i (titivating thm
(■ol«l of I tie Orchard.
"S ■»u are certainly entitled to look
through that wire fence and see all that
constitutes an orange orchard. Thera
Mi'' Jiki round headed trees, about
twelve leet in diameter. The fruit
looks immensely as if it had been arti
ficially putin place. Really those
w.'.uhi pass for -<H) Christmas trees.
I)oes nature do tiiis sort of work any
where else? Von forget the cherry trees
In you • northern or<-hnrd. You have be
come >o famll!;ir with the scarlet glob
ule- t'l.M hang all over those trees,
wit'. ori>!e< and robins shouting ap
p rt.il. and tanagers with Indigo birds
si; tine i:i the apple tree overhead, that
you iT.uiiOt fully see and appreciate the
charm. But you certainly have not for
gotlcn the glory of a Mcintosh red ap
ple trr • in October or Indeed a whole
orchard ■>f r!pe Northern Spies, Spitzen
buri < and Kings Vet the orange has a
glory all its own. It Is the gold of the
orchard You thought the trees grew In
groves, "but her • ihey are In long, reg
ular rows." That was a word borrow
ed from the wild . 'autres that in fpan
ish days came up vl-ee they miglit
and were sel lo , i i lanted. They
grew as those \,; ip , iunions grow
at the edge of the orchard or as pines
nnd ncudes gro«v But your modern
orange trees arc own in long rows to
be cultivated with plows and horses.
The real orange tree should stand
about twenty five or thirty feet high,
with a trunk of five or six inches. Its
foliage is dense and a rich green. It is
a srrand Iree to sit beneath at midday
and drink f'te Juices of the fruit Instead
of water It is distilled perfectly. But
these trees are ro inn and low headed,
and one must *to:>p to sret beneath
them '1 hey are made of the grafter
shoots that cam" up around the old
trees after the freeze. They are more
convenient to spay, to protect from
the blizzard, while the fruit is more
easily gathered. You can walk all
about that orchard and reach half the
fruit without a '•« filer. It is a good Il
lustration of how good sometimes
comes out of evil.
"Different shapes!" To be sure.
There are quite as many varieties of
oramres In Mils o-hard as there are of
apples or Hums In most of your north
ern orchards fifteen or twenty, at
least. The grower knows them all by
name and can tell them all bv the
sliap" ivd the quality. He does not go
nt random and pi»*k any fine big orange
for Irs own eating, but he takes his
selection the King, or the ITomosasa,
or the Jaffa, or the Ruby, or Parson
Brown or S:it«uma. or possibly the
tanirerine. lie fills his pocket with se
lected varieties and then goes to that
pine grove over there and peels them
as he lunches, ir is very much as we
do with our pippins, and Swaars, and
Princess Louise, ami Jillidowers.—ln
dependent.
Aakrd nnil \n*»r«»r«Ml.
In the "Reminiscences of Sir Henry
Hawkins" (I.ord I! ramp ton) a story is
told concerning Jack, the pet terrier
which always accompanied the famous
Judge wherever lie went.
On one occasion, when on circuit and
driving to the cathedral of a certain
city for the preliminary religious serv
ice. Jack sat l-eside his master in the
sheriff's coach The sheriff and his
chaplain, a most solemn looking, ascet
ic high churchman, occupied the oppo
site seat.
His lordship in relating the story says
that the chaplain eyed the dog for a
long time with great uneasiness. Then,
as they uearcd the cathedral, he seemed
to R'-t alarmed anit, Inn state of sjrent
agitation, stammerlngiy said:
"My lord, may I—ah—er—ask if the
dog Is going to divine service?"
"Well, I don't know," replied his lord
' ship. "I shail ask him. Jack, would
I you like togo to church?"
Jack growled and lifted his head to
; howl.
i "No." went ou the judge. "Jack says
that he doesn't like dry sermons."
i.arlnK an Karly Foundation.
"Wits it necessary for you to kiss my
| daughter the very first time you met
her?"
' No, madam, not absolutely neces
sary. but I wanted to get on a friendlj
basis with her as soon as possible."—
Woman's Home Companion.
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