: Cupid-Advertising : Agent j By FRANK H. WILLIAMS ' Copyright, lauti, li> K. C. Fan-ells S "What do you think of it?" the man sked th«* girl as slit 1 stood before the ute. Slowly, scornfully, ihe girl surveyed tie house ausl lawn, ouce beautiful, but ow disiktured with large signboards reclaiming tlie virtues of <'hee-Rup treakfast Food. "1 think," said slie forcefully, "that it i simply shameful." "Oh. come now!" said the wan. Don't you think it rather enlivens the eighborhood? This aristocratic section •112 the town had seemed rather dull to oe lately. By the way. how did you •ujoy your trip?" '•Rob.'' said she severely, "dou't try o change the subject. As soon as they old me what you had done while 1 vas away 1 came right over here to •ersuade you to take them all down." "Impossible!" he cried. "I've got a •ontract. You wouldn't want me to ireal: a contract, would you?" No, she wouldn't want him to do that. >ne ot' the nicest things about Bob rvos his trustworthiness. Moreover, she Udu't know whether the law would al ow him to break It. "Oh. Bob." she cried in sorrow, "what nade you put up these unsightly htngs? Can't you see how they spoil he looks of the whole street? From >ur veranda we look directly at that Mg yellow one: 'Why be blue? Eat Breakfast Food nnd he hap »y.'" There were tears iu her eyes. "Oh," she continued, "I was thinking :iow happy I'd be to see the dear old iome again, and then you must spoil tall! Oh. Bob!" Boh felt decidedly uncomfortable, yet appler than he had for several *>utbs. She had been homesick, not, jt course, for him—that was Impossible —but for the town as a whole, and he "I THINK, "sun bHE POIICEE LILLY, "THAT : IT 18 SIMPLY SHAMEFUL." was a part of it. But to show his Joy I night spoil the plau. and it was too I •jarly In the game to risk anything. "So," he said, carefully controlling ! tils voice to the toues of polite interest \ —"so you did miss us!" Miss them! She thought how intense ly she tiad missed them—and him. Yes Bob! 1 mring the three months of her absence she had come to long for the sound of his voice the merry laugh in hi* eyes. How happy she had felt when she saw him at the station the night before! Not that she meant to show tier change of f'eellug toward aim. She had refused him too emphat ically before sailing to willingly ac knowledge tiiat she had made a mis take. For a time she would not ac knowledge it even to herself. Bui she had never thought that Bob would so destroy the beauty of his home, the home she hail learned to love. "Bob." slid she again, ignoring his last question, "why did you do ItV" "I'm leaving here soon." he said, out wardly calm. "Leaving hereV" she gasped. "Yes," he answered nonchalantly. "I'm going to the city to be nearer my business, and as I don't care to sell this place or rent it I thought I ought to think up some way of making It pay The taxes at least." "Oh. Bob!" she cried tearfully, am biguously. "How could you?" Then *be ran precipitately to her own home. Bob gazed after her dubiously. Per haps her father was right, but he doubted It. Of course she had always loved Bob'* place, and her ideals of beauty were both sensitive and mili tant. The house and yard certainly did look 11 sight too. The plan was worth trying. Bob felt that anything that might make her reconsider her answer to the great question which he had propounded to her was worth trying, and the Income derived from the ads. was not inconsiderable. The papers had devoted a j;rcat deal of space to the dlscussiou of the signboards being Installed on such beautiful private property, and consequently the Chee- Ilup food had received a irreat quan tity of free advertising. That night at dinner the girl in formed her family that Roll was plan ulng to move to town. "Ah," «aid her father, "I heard he had 112 yo;r g v.man on the string down there !!• is vt y -entive to her, they ay of rout's" I wouldn't tell you If I tho;;/h: that there w.,s any posslblll iv o, yo.tr on lering the answer you t."i\e 8011 in the s, .iiig. You cant bliitu U • boy fore .:g consolation, a tut ry s.iy that a- i very wealthy." II 1"! Fop-ed hcr-.elf to eat her sain 1 calmly. So that was the reason j.,. i; | , i.,»*n her homecoming so easi ly. Another woman had captured Ida fancy. Well, she would keep her se cret. The next day B »b came over to tha house for a conference with her father. Meeting htm 111 the hallway, she ques tioned hint as to the day of his d» parture. although she hated herself fer dolug it. % "Oil. in about a month!" said Bob In differently and hurriedly. How different from the way he used t<i speak to Iter, she thought. During that month Bob made many Irlps to the city, and each morning the «irl woke up to ga/.e from her windows at the signs w!lh a deep accentuation of the hntre l with which she had re garded them on the first day of her re — To her they bogau to seem the •katlon of the woman that had j from her—the cold, calculat lug business spirit. How she naie those signs! It seemed to her as If she would do anything to get rid of them. Must she live within their sight all her life, constantly reminding her of the love she had lost? The thought was uuendnrable. and she appealed to her father. "I can't do anything," said he. "Bob has a contract with the Ohee-Rup com pany. and he must live up to It. If only you had l>een kind to him this wouldn't have happened. To my mind i it only shows what good sense Bob has. This place has no more attrac tions for him. so why not make it yield J an income?" I The evening before the day set by j Bob for his departure he called. The , girl was seated on her veranda as far ' as possible from the sight of the sign boards. Her parents had gone out for I the evening, and she received Bob with I a strange, sinking feeling. This might i be the last time he would come to see | her—alone. "Bob." said she when he had seated himself at a safe distance—"Bob, now I that you are going away, probably for | ever, can't you do something about ; those awful signboards?" He regarded her quizzically. "1 wish I could." said he. "but you j see the ('hee-Rup company's contract runs for ten years, and the advertise ment has proved to be so good that they would not release me unless 1 paid a sum of money that would abso lutely break me." Ten years! A life time! ; "Bob," she cried impulsively, "I would be willing to do anything to get rid of those dreadful signs!" » Bob looked at her quickly. This was his hour. Iler father and mother had even encouraged him to hope, but. he hesitated at wagering his happiness on a short sentence. Nevertheless he must make the plunge some time, and the present moment seemed ns propitious as any. "So you would really like to get rid of them?" he asked. "Well, I believe we could arrange that with the com pany satisfactorily if you could recon sider your decision of some months ago." She looked at him unsteadily. "Why. Bob." she said. "I believe that you are asking me to marry you again!" "That's just what I am doing," he said excitedly. "What's your answer?" "But that other woman!" she cried, lie gazed at her in well simulated amazement. "What other womau?" lie asked. "That wealthy one In the city—that business woman whom my father said you had on the string." Bob smiled broadly. "You evidently misunderstood in what connection I had her oil the string. We are going to sell her the business " The girl looked at him happily. "If that's ihe case." said she, "I sup pose I might change my answer to that question If you are sure about taking down those signs. You mustn't sacri fice a lot of money to those people. Bob. We'll need some." "No, I'll not," said he as he folded her In his arms "You see, your father and I happen to be the Ohee-Rup Breakfast Food company, although we , are on the point of selling the business to that woman in the city, and so, I guess, there will be no trouble about having that contract annulled." Itullaiia Hnil WlieHt Flour. The Italian housewives of the poorer j classes seem to have one unchangeable ! recipe for a baking. Agents of charita ble societies have found this out by the women always asking for a certain number of pounds of flour, just enough for one baking, in their grocery lists. They make the flour into a number of loaves, which, put into one pan. bake into one great loaf. The size of the family seems to make no difference. It' Xie family is small, the bread simply lasts a little longer and gets a little drier. The bread is very good when fresh. They do not use as much yeast as American cooks, and the bread Is very crusty, something on the order of French bread. The poorest families also use a great deal of "polenta." This Is merely flour stirred into boil ing water, after the manner of old fashioned American "hasty pudding," only that flour Is used instead of corn meal. No pr-ople iu the world are so devoted to wheat flour as the Italians. Whether in the form of bread, polenta or the omnipresent macaVoni, it forms the bulk of their diet. New York Globe. RIFLE SHOOTING. Dcrrlopi Uie Anna, Luiifrn nml Cheat ■ml Trains tlie Eye. It is not only the muscles of the arm which are tested by properly organ ized rifle shooting. It supplies an ex cellent exercise for the chest and lungs. One of the first things tlw young rifle shot has to learn is how to take a leep breath, to fill the lungs with air, and then to hold the breath while the rifle is kept absolutely steady and the linger is gradually tightening on the trigger. A glance at any successful rifle shot will show you a man with a deep chest and full p iwers of breath ing. Any form of recreation which trains the muscles of the arm and exercises the chest and lungs would seem likely to be beneficial to health, but if that is not enough there is the unequaled training which rifle shooting gives to the eye and to the band working with the eye. The writer remembers hear ing a musketry instructor boast that he had lengthened not only his own sight, but the sight of scores of boys whom he had taught how to use their eyes in aiming at a target, by two or three hundred yards, simply by con tinued practice at long distance shoot ing. It is astonishing what results can be obtained in this way by placing a rifle 011 a saud bag raised on a tripod and making the pupil aim as accurate ly as lie can at any distant object. The eye can lie trained, of course, equally well, though the sight will not neces sarily lie lengthened, by aiming at ob jects close at hand -London Spectator. Tfiupfr. Temper itself Is not a bad quality. It Is not to tie destroyed, as we some times say. Without temper a bar of steel becomes like lead. A man with out temper Is weak and worthless. We are to learn self control. A strong person Is one who has a strong tem per under perfect mastery. There is a deep truth here that our mistakes and our sins. If we repent of them, will help in the growth and upbuilding of our character. lair I'roponitiuii. "Don't you throw off anything be cause of the big holes in these dough nuts?" asked the new wife of the baker. "I'll tell you." he replied, scratching his chin. "Eat the doughnuts, and we'll mak-. a liberal allowance when you return the holes " ! r. Ha.n&L>a.y's Tunishment By JOHN J. O'CONNOR Copyright. liiuti, by May McKeon It was October when Tim came to school. The family had been visiting relatives in the west, and he had re joiced in the prolonged vacation. It seemed rather hard to have togo back to school, and it was with laggard feet that he headed, with the rest of the scholars, toward the little frame build iug where the tender mind of district No. 4 was trained. "The new teacher's soft," volunteer ed Tommy English. "The other day Bill Hendricks brought a l>eau blower and shot the teacher iu the back, and all she said was, 'l'lease don't.' 1 guess there's going to be fun. - ' Tim smiled weakly. It was encour aging to know that he could practice his devilments without the risk of a thrashing. The last teacher had been a man, and Tim had had good reason to remember him. for of the younger boys Titu was the ringleader, just as Hendricks was the leader of the older boys. That Bill had eventually thrash ed the teacher and forced him to re sign ju-f before the end of the spring term Was no great consolation to Tim. The trustees had putin a woman UMcher as an experiment, thinking that ; • rh.ips f'-minine appeal might be !. <re poter-t than the hickory switch. Tim rather expected a gaunt old lady, .is c.Ttain .Miss Flint had been, and when lie made his appearance in the schoolromi aiui presented himself be fore the te.ieher he was shocked to find so young a woman. Marion Murtha was only nineteen, and her fresh coloring and the liquid brown eyes made so deep an impres sion on him that for the tirst ten days he was one of the model scholars, and Miss Mnrtha was beginning to eongrat- UENTLV SHE EXPLAINED THAT SHE HAD BEE.V HIKED TO TEACH THE SCHOOL. ulate herself iii.it the boy against whom everybody had warned her was not so bad after all. Iu vain his fellows looked for some outbreak, and liually Tommy English twitted him on his susceptibility. "lie wants to marry her when he grows up," lie jeered. "He'll be bring ing her apples an' candy next. The aiu't afraid; lie's just soft, that's all." The gibe struck home, for Tim had a big apple in his desk that he was thinking of giving Miss Murtha if he did not feel tempted to eat it himself during the noon hour. "I ain't a-skeered of lier," he said contemptuously. "1 was just waitin' till I could think somethin' up." "Yah," jeered Tommy. "I'didn't say you was a-skeered. I said you was stuck on the teacher." The iron entered Tim's soul, aud, with a dark "You wait and see." he raced off to the well. lie came stumping in when the l>ell rang and went to lii« desk with a swag ger that was unite like Ids old time bearing. The desk next him was emp ty, and with infinite rare he twisted two hits of slate pencil into a rubber band and dropped them into the other desk. The unwinding band rattled the pencils around In the empty box with a crash that stopped the Fourth Reader class and directed the eyes of the whole school on him. Tlin tried to look unconcerned, but he could not refrain from casting a glance of triumph at Tommy English, and therein lay his undoing, for die teacher's eyes were quick and her intuition keen "Tim," she said sharply. "You will stay in after school tonight." "I ain't done nothin'." he declared stoutly. "I did not say that you bad," she said quietly. "1 said that I wished you to remain a tier school this evening." "Aw," cried Tim. "that ain't fair!" She said nothing, but went 011 quietly with the class work. Tim had expected her to answer, that he might talk back again. He could not understand this quiet ignoring of the matter and sat silent and uncertain During the noon hour Tommy Kng lisli sought to persuade him into defy ing the teat-tier, but when 4 o'clock came and he made as though togo out with the others a firm hand was laid upon his shoulder, and Miss Murtha's quiet voire reminded him that he was to stay in. To stay after school meant to spend u certain time in study. Tim scuffled back to his desk and sat there swing i«11; his feet idly. He was determined th.it he would not study and wondered vaguely if the teacher would try to thrash him for his disobedience. • Presently the others were gone, ami Mi*s Murtlia went back to her desk. Another scholar had been kept into re write the spelling lesson, and Miss Murtha waited quietly until the task was done, .vt last they two were alone, and she called to hiui. Not once had she noticed him before, and Tim went forward wonderitigly. "ihey told ute that you were a bad U.iv '* «.'!»»» . I ,11,1 ,„,f «1.;.. i. that you would act so toward a worn an." "What's the difference?" lie demand ed. "Vou get paid to teach us. don't you. just like a man?" ' ienlly she explained that she had be-'ii hired in teach the school, but that she could not remain it' site could not handle the pupils, it he and some of the other hoys persisted in being dis obedient, she would have to give iqi the school and they would have de prived her of a chance to earn a living. When she had finished. Tim looked up. "Say," he said penitently, "I'll let you lick me if you want to.l won't flght back " "I don't want to whip you," she said as she stooped and kissed him. "1 want you to be a good boy; that's jiII." Tommy English was waiting for him as the subdued Tim went oul. "I>id she lick you?" he demanded eagerly, "I didn't hear you holler." With a howl Tim sprang at him and thrashed him as a relief for his over wrought feelings. "An' I'll do it again if you say any thing about .Miss Murtha," he promised as he released his victim, "an' I'll lick any of you fellers what makes trouble for her." It took but a week to make that fact apparent, and those who had taken ad vantage of the fact that Miss Murtha did not believe in physical punishment learned to behave. Then came lieu II an way upon the scene, and it soon became apparent that Marion had fallen iu love. The proposition was almost too much for Tim to grasp, but in a vague way he realized that the teacher cared a great ileal for Ren. lie was not jealous, though he resented the lost walks home, with Miss Murtha. because now Ren called for her with his buggy, and Tim was left behind. But the course of true love never did run smooth, and one afternoon Tim came back to the schoolroom to find Miss Murtha. with her head bowed on her arms, her slight form shaken by sobs. Softly he stole out of the room and made for the village. Ren would probably be in the office of the lumber yard, and thither he bent his steps. Ilanwav was working at his desk when the door burst-open and Tim was upon him like a young cata mount. pummeling and kicking indis criminately. The attack was so sud den that it was several minutes before Ilanway could grasp the youngster. Tears of rage stood in Tim's eyes as he struggled to get free. "You lot me alone!" he shouted. "I've got to lick you. I said I was go in' to lick any feller that made Miss Murtha cry, an' I licked 'em all except Billy Hendricks!, an' 1 threw stones at him." "I didn't make her <ry," laughed I railway, though his face went very white. '"What makes you think so?" "You used to drive her home," cried Tim. "an* now you don't come any more, an' I went into the schoolroom this afternoon, an' she was cryin', with her head on the desk, an' I knew it was your fault, an' I want to lick you." Ilanway's face glowed with pleasure. There had been a small quarrel, but so successfully had she hidden her feel ings that he did not think she cared. '•I'll hitch up and go right over to tell her I'm s >rry." lie said. "Will tiiat do?" "If she says yes." agreed Tim. Han way went out. That evening Tim was at the Presby terian social when Miss Murtha and Hanway came in. Miss Murtha bent over and kissed him. "My litile champion." she whispered. "You have made me so happy." . "Then I won't lick Ken again." prom ised the pleased Tim. "I thought you'd want m<* to." The Star uuil Her l'ubltc. Of course materially the star is ex tremely well <>ff. She can, if she has any business Insiinct whatever, easily become a rich woman. She earns, we will say, a week and a percentage of the box ottfee At that rate she need not lie miserly to accumulate a tidy fortune in the course of a few successful years. \ few successful years! Ah, there's the rub! The public is dear, kind, sympathetic, flattering— and tickle. I's regard is immediate and perhaps ephemeral. It adores you tin's year, flocks to see you. bursts its gloves applauding you, warms the cockles of your heart with its ready smiles, its ready sighs, tosses you flowers, sends you notes, makes you walk upon air with gladness. And next year it doesn't care for your play or there is some one new. some oue bewitching, enthralling. Your personal popularity has evapo rated. And you see yourself going the Inevitable way the way that greater actresses and greater favorites than you have gone before you, to their ueg lected, half contemptuously pitied old age to the drummed up Ismetits and the condescendingly bestowed charity. —Ethel Barry more in Harper's Ra7nr. Dangerous. Kind Lady—My poor man. will you never keep away from booze? Rummy Robinson- Well, mum. dcre Is one boose I keep away from. Kind I.ady And what booze is that? Rummy Robinson—Why, de caboose. Dat's where de brakemen ride.- Chica go News. French Sentiment. A French parricide who slew his fa ther and mother and was asked upon condemnation what he had to say and why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, entreated the court to have mercy upon a poor orphan. This talo ts green with the moss of ages and may not be true, but something like it Is true of a woman named Marie ('el vet, sentenced by a Paris tribunal to twenty years' imprisonment at hard labor for the murder of her sister. While in court she constantly wore a long crape veil. "Why do you wear this veil?" asked one of the officials, to which she replied that !-he was In mourning for her sister, showing an affectionate sensibility, the earlier ex hibition of which, however, would have been more becoming to her even than the garment. VndlneovereU Crluie. "Can you point out a man who at the age of thirty lias not committed at one time in his life a crime that would have sent him to the peniten tiary?'* remarked a trusty at the peni tentiary the other day."l do not be lleve that there is a man living, ex eluding, for the looks of the tlilug, the clergy, who hits not done something to bring him here had he received his just deserts. It is not always a great crime that sends a man to the penl tentiary. There are men in here for stealing chickens or clover seed or nothing at all. It is easy to get be hind the walls. There are many men on the outside who should be In here. I am personally acquainted with a few myself. Hut the difference between these people anil myself is that I have been caught and they have not."—t'o lumbus Hispateh. \\ illic \U«i l»Uc«ver». A teacher in charge of the second primary "rule at a penver school was telling Ihe children about Columbus one day n->! lung ago. She told them all about the home life of the dlscov rrer of America and all about his pen pie • 11 is relatives," she said, "were wool colubers." The next day Columbus was discus-, eil again. I'y the way, children," said the teacher, " do you remember what his relatives were?" There was a moment of profound stillness. Then a little fellow In the rear of the room raised liis hand. "You may tell us, Willie," said the teacher. "They wus barbers," said ths CUTTLEFISH FARMS, , Where ti... Ijoeer « tenliirew Are Cnl ti«nte<! (-. tie Milked. ' j I iocs any one know that cuttlefish are cultivated on farms to be milked"i These cuttlefish farms are located oi' the coasts of 'Jreat Britain, and tlie cuttlefish are kept in tanks or ponds to be milked of their ink. The pond of tank is connected with the sea by a • pipe, and a thou and or more cuttle? are kept in a single one. They form a most curious sight a? they move about, trailing their lons arms and staring out of their bulging eyes. They are guarded by screens which prevent them from being scared for if they are suddenly frightened . they will squirt their milk into the water, and it would therefore be lost. This fluid or milk is very valuable, and a cuttle will yield about $3 worth a year. It is secreted in a bag which can b<* opened • id closed at will, the cuttle ejecting the fluid to darken the water so that it may escape unseen when attack' I. The best cuttlefish are procured in China, where for some reason or othei they produce ihe best quality of milk. When the fanner considers it oppor tune to milk the littles he proceeds by opening the sluices of the pond and gently agitating the water. The cut -1 ties then swim around the pond, and ! as soon as ene pass.-s through the i sluice Is closed. The cuttle passes down a small channel into a basin or metal receptacle, and as soon as it In securely th re the water is drained off It is then frightened and at oncu squirts the fluid from the bag. When ft is exhausted it is lifted out, the milk Is collected and the basin prepared fot I another. MODERN CIVILIZATION. h " Its i oui|iil-\i« * . Hurr> it ml Worry Shortening; Our Livcm. Not lonu ago while traveling 1 chanc ed to stop HI a village on the river Rhine, where 1 found an astonishing number of old people. There were a dozen over a hundred years of age and many from eighty years old up to the century mark, yet straight and vigor ous. one woman nearly a hundred | years old was earning her living by I picking hops. Her grandchildren were I middle aged. It was quite wonderful. But there \ no mystery about it. It was merely ihe effect of a simple life ; spent largely in the tields, with plain diet, consisting of a few vegetables ; and frtii's. litt.e me it.and native beer I and wine for beverages. ! Nothing cm!! be more obvious than , that the very complexity of our mod ern civilization is shortening our lives. : But of all the evils that afflict us the ! worst and most destructive are hurry i and worry Hurry drives the body ma ' chine beyond its capacity, while worry : racks it inwardly. Of the two worry Is probably the worse. This might in -1 deed be called the age of worry. Be- I cause of the/intense nervous strain to which we are subjected we do vastly more worrying than did our forbears. The a vera ft* man of today is contiuual . ly surrounded and pursued by phantom i troubles \ hieh. though few of them ! ever materialize into realities, haunt i him c intinnally. ruining his peace of I mind and injuring his health.—Reader j Magazine. ;.e u Man. According to tin* order of nature, | men being equal, ttie!r common voca : tion is il • pr ifession of humanity, : and whoever i well educated to dls- I charge tic- duty of a man cannot be 1 badly | ••<-j. • i-.-ij toon any of those of fices that have relation to him. It matters little to me whether my pupil be cie- : ;:ned for the army, the pulpit or th" bar. Nature has destined us tb the olaet - "i human life, antecedent to our dest nation concerning society. To live is the profession I would teach him. \ 'hen I have done with him It is true he will be neither a soldier, a lawyer n>r a divine. Let him first be a tiiai' Fortune may remove him , frot : •>•■•• r-ti«k i > another as she 1 »li*i ii.- will always i>e found in! his place.—Rousseau. » •! m In !\t rlSit ment. A n ci.:b. :- i.i' p'lrliiuncnt must ue\er j staii! e , vitli 1 !hi lon even if ho j has n !y •• en to speak to the man be- ] hire hit Coming In.going out or , sped hi; \ lie; lie is always hat less, and ' he is ■ lilies lei t less when sitting I •low 112 the speaker mentions ; a '•' I i r i< responsible for ho 1 lifts j . : if his name is mentioned ' • Ffr; his hat Even If he happens at those times to be bare- i headed lie must seize a hat, put it on, j then lift it. Tol>:tc«*o Smoke nutl I lowcm. A remarkable efYe t of tobacco ' smoke on the color <>f flowers may be seen in the case of the field scabla named hotanic.-i)j\ Kuavtia arveusls. s<> i.•»■■,i .ui 1;. »n the hills and com mon- i i Attgu i till October, if its puri 11-! i i ! •• Mn<soms, which form He. -iy < I • ids, are held In the is i of ' ■• ■ their color will soon ' turn to • 1 aim-it the same color i ; iv . 1 Ixclii l nge. I KBiU 7KE COUGH I land ;• rHE LUNGS M I v; ™i:--jrJUBgS 1 jy 1 ii I ft'.vS! " :;-T!0?I P'ice I ;H} f: $ UL-SME . ;<.! 50c&$5X0 I V Free T.lal. I ] Sur- -.t. • <ll li C.iro for all EJ 11A■ and LITN3 TIIOTTB- i I JJEi . oi »iom ST S i-r sr.- 1 •. isW! A. tole SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing Spouting and General Job Work. :>:oyes, Heaters, Ranstee, Furnaces, eto. PRICES THE LOTO! QIiiLITV THE BEST! JOHN HIXSON m 118 E. raiNT BT. THE COUNTRY HOUSE. A It (Mini \|iai l Tlihl Should lie Knunu it* llie "Ottloe." The most privately conducted home , must communicate with increasing fre j queney with tlie world outside. The | con I man.the ice man.the automobile | repair shop must he upbraided or ca-! joled. Report-; must l»e reviewed, ac «omits kepi, bills examined and the J senders occasionally treated with a •hc< k. From a room removed from ; the rest of t!i - house one must speak j wiili (he rail >m\ station, settle with j the ' \|>;>i <>r <|eli)>erate with the j ■ l 4;i titVeur or •••>ae!mian. for none of j these tilings should disturb the Iran-1 cu.ilily of the..nine or the equanamity j of If • house is to minister I I:• 1 1 (lie j: «• ii• i: sof a home it is] I ' lit ■ t's::* sp-ee be devoted to this j 1 of i< : :».u I >r want of a 1 licit i - ! .•! a r-io ii devoted to such a : i . -• lis t\ .• ilc.l the "office" of 1 tl;c ii-i 1 ve the telephone stands) • >;; •- table that !>ears also the mis- | I :s !;• ■ i!-; an.) printed matter: r ' a' • a! wanteil in a house! \ hi thev < iot he found Here are i ■ ■ . ' . . ... i vardcMntr books, diction-1 iu time I;t* i . • iiile a few old! I •: < ' <•' two i.its of Dresden, | re.!;-. I.i a few cherished pho-1 !•• aph-. i ei'eve an otherwise hum-i di i:i oileetioii of i:-essitles. Here pare-!- are placed and the dally ii • >i■ :i< i ! Mysterious cup l;o r.ls tlier' .' e ;• nil drawers with locks •that w >:•!: 2: . loors and Out. ' ~ A CONTRAST. KICM'II itr.il CnuiKli Women it * Tliejr ! ( fns> :« Untidy Slreel. Sec a I'arisien ic cross a muddy; (street. She advances * tiptoe to titej edge of (lie pavement, poises like a, bird ready lor i flight, deftly raises! her dress more th.ui enough to show: her embroidered skirt, the dainty hose j and elegant boilines, and without more I delay she trips a.-r >ss, toe and heel i barely touching and ttie mud refusing J to cling to the I I r\ feet that hardly | leave an impression on it. Landed on i •he other side, sh • gives her fine t'eath- i ers a little shake inlo place and passes 1 on with sin- i!i:i; look as if just put on at that II: • ■••it Wa'-a an K.irishwoman immediate ! ly afterward. S!ie leaches the curb-1 fcioiic. eorr.es to a dead standstill and' stolidly contemplates the muddy road, j I-in illy she M-h-cts a route. Then, j very cautiously, she iifts her dress, i making sure that the tops of her j shoe.- are under cover; then, slowly: advancing. she puts her right foot out. j IMump it g-iethe water oozing over It. . ml then -plash, splash, splash, un til ihe .it her side is reached, when, with soiled skirts "and soaked shoes, she proceeds on her wet and inuddy way Not hi ii-. eoii! 1 l>e more characteristic %i :!ieir respective nationalities, and nothing could be more amusing than their mutual contempt for each oth-1 er's ways. Translated From the French For St. Louis Republic. Tin- l)an»rr(iun I'nrt, "See here." i'ecoli complained the victim after Mi ■ accident, "1 thought you said it was perfectly safe togo up in that o!d e!e\alor?" "Well." replied tin* elevator man,"to j it was »afc togo up. \ou see, the dan gerous part of it was coinln* down."— ! l k hll;i<ielpf)i;t iVosv \ (ionil Patient. First l'hysiciiin lias he got an I hereditary Irouole? Second I'hysiclan 1 —Yes. I hope to hand his case down to my son - Harper's Bazar. It Is well for one to know uioru thau tie says.—l'lantus. 'lore Positive. "Well," ;aid Cad ley scornfully. "I'll bet you didn't do the proposing, it's u safe bet that your wife asked you to marry .her " "No." replied lienpeck. "you're wrong." "•'li are etw. be honest." "'N<>. o ■ '..n't -1. me: she told me ! t> " i'iil I i h . i'ress i j. 1.10 iiOiiie P&D6r i i r ! ! 1 I •w I I j J I Of course you read I i j 112 11| ~|f^ _ j: j;? i • i. 11l P* i EOP'.E'S ill OPULAR APER. ii • ! ! i 1 Everybody K ds It. j I:! PubiisliCi Every JVlor Rxcept : I,! Suiu!a> i i 11 i ! No. II h M 1 R-St. i i > 1 ..i THE HEADLESS BANDIT. C|va<-«T Mor y From flie Arehlvex of i In- \ ienna Court*. Dr. I.'iyc. ,-i Krou'li physician, who i i.v interested himself in the ques tion. "What pusses in the head of a «?cc:ipitiiied human being?"' related the following remarkable story, which he •anted was taken from the archives af the Vienna courts: it was In the year that Sohoeneiiliurg, a well known haiulit, and four of his associates were caught and condemned to death. They were already on their knees ready to !• iv the penalty of- their bloody deeds by submitting to the awful fate of de capitation when Schoenenburg address ed the judge, asking that his four com panion.-- might lie pardoned on certain conditions. "If." asked the bandit, "after 1 am beheaded I get up and walk to the first of my comrades, will you pardon him?" The judge thought that he was pretty safe In complying /.it the request. "Then," continued Schoenenbnrg, "if 1 walk to the sec oiid. the third and the fourth, will you pardon them also?" The judge replied that if a miraculous feat could !».• performed he would obtain pardons fir the other three also. The bandit was now satisfied, and, bending his bead, he received the fatal blow. In stnnti; the head rolled down in the KiiiiU. but to the surprise and horror of :.!1 pre-i>-nt the headless trunk arose an I walked alone. Aimlessly, it ap peared, the body walked around until it paoed the first, the second, the third and the fourth condemned bandit, when it fell down and became motion iess. Query. -How could a headless body think?" totlu:;' In I'aria. "In l'aris only one-fifth of the voteri goto the polls and cast their ballots," said an American who has lived In Paris as a business man for several years past. "This Is not becftuse they cannot vote, but because they do not care to. Everybody in the city is In forested In politics, but when the time to vote comes few care togo to the poll-. The man who wins is most often the man who promises every thing. For instance, In my district last time a man was elected who promised to put a new shed on the market. 1 !ceow of another deputy w'-o w>• ■ i , : n office fifteen years be use . ; ;-o!tnsed t•> add an extra sar dine to t';f- daily rations of the sol <v" TV re iv so many soldiers that i; t ■' ■ a bi>t difference. They did ! He •• 1 ,; t he continued •,ii Ik -;>t o!sir-e." Washing f ' t ; T ACK AW ANN/i KAiLROAD " BLOOiISBCTRH DrVISION Dt:la ware Lackawanna and Wearer: Railroad. In Effect Jan. 1, I'RAINS LEAVE DANVILLE KASTWARD. 7.07 it.in. daily tor Bloomsbitrg, Kuigstoi Wlikes-Barre a».d Scranton. Arriving Scran ton at lU2 it.in., and connecting at Scmntoi with traiiw arri\ing at Philadelphia at S.-P- » n>. and New York City at 8.:i0 p. m. 10.in a. iii. weekly for Bloomsburg. KingMOL vVllkes-Barre..Scranton and interinediaU at a lions, arriving at Scran top at 12.35 p. m aiiO connecting thore with trains for NVw Vorlr City, Philadelphia and Bufl'alo. 2.11 weekly forßloonisbiirg,Kingston, W'llkM Hitrre, Scranton and Intermediate statlon.s arriving at Scranton at p. ir . •i.tii p. in.daily for Bloomsbnrg, l\Ht>y, Piy tnoutn, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, l'ittstou Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving at scranton ;it v 25 p. in.and connecting theri with trains arriving at New York City a: o Si a- m.. Philadelphia 10 a. m.and Baftalo7a tn TRAINS ARRIVE AT DANVILLE 9.15 a. in. weekly from Scranton. Pittsloc, Kingston, R'iOimstairgand intermediate els. i lons, leav:i:'scraa'on at 'i.-i") u. in., where li connects will, Ira n% leaving New York OltJ at'J.SOp. m., I'liiiatleipliiM at 7"2 p.m. an? Buffalo at I'l.SO a. m. i2.tt p. in uaily lioni S;.-rantoii l'ittstoc. i.ingston, Berwick. Bioouisburgantl mterme i.ftte stations, 'caving Scranton at 10.10 a. m, and connecting tliere with train leaving Huff .-tin ;it 2.25 a. in. 4..-,.; p. iti. weekly oin Scrauton. Kingston • •-erwlcU. Biooinsburg and intermediate ata- Uoiif, leaving Scranton at 1.55 p. in., wher-» 11 coiire 1* with train leaving New York < 11> it 10.00 HI . and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. m. ».!)."• p tn. dally from Scranton. Kingston l'ittstou, Berwick, liloomsburg and interme diate stations, leaving Scranton at p. m. where it connects with trains leaving NVv- VorkUltyatl.OOp.m., Philadelphia a! I:! CI ;i. ir. and Hutlolo at 9.30 a. m. I. K. CbAKKK. Gen'i Sap"! T. W. LKK. tleii t'as*. \i:l IIIIIL ft wait to Jo ati tills of Prmtiie Si An a ■! LI'S 111. It 111 SB. : it's ton* I A. well prt::: ; ' tasty, Bill or ' ? \f / ter Head, i'o 4 > A/A Ticket, Ciiv.i' •;» Program, Sn'e ment or Can! (V ) an advertiser..or. for your business, r satisfaction toy JV let Type, lew Presses, , , Best Paper, mW, A ' Promptness -111 y>u can ask. A. trial will make you our customei We respectfully that trial. lit M&U nu-'> No. it I;. Maliunituf Si.. JD IsT T7" XT - . J® t
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