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"He looks as If he were one at tjie
statues, Just a part of tlite wvrus?rftil
Dieture of the old Italy and the n«v
illed Into one," mused Penelope Gar
ler "He is really more than life
e —six feet four If he is an inch."
:er aunt, Mrs. Ilamroell, swung
jund sharply.
'Who? Oh, that guard? It is his hel
et, my dear child, and his high heeled
oota. Wouldn't you think lie'd be
;amed to pose like that at the head
the grand staircase? Did you ever
-n much gilt braid and shiuy leath
one human being?"
Hammell's voice had executed
uil crescendo, and Penelope
"orth a protesting hand,
speak so loud, auntie, dear. '
understand."
great, square shouldered tlg
ittering uniform stood as im
js the knight in the old Gobe
itry before which Mrs. liatn
hl enraptured, thongii she cou
o criticise the king's guard.
.i's just the difference between
soldiery and what we see abroad.
,-ery one of our lads holds posslbill- I
ies of doing big things. Foreign sol- j
Hers are mere puppets."
Penelope replied with conviction:
"I don't agree with you. That man i
lias the face, the bearing, of one who ;
.will some day do things that are vsorth I
while. He makes me think of that tap
estry knight, setting out to fight for his j
true love."
Mrs. nammell gasped and closed her I
Baedeker with a snap.
"My dear Penelope, I am amazed! If |
you behave this way over the first i
handsome man you see in uniform, j
how will you feel by the time we have j
attended a few receptions and met the j
real nobility, rising young diplomats j
and all that sort of thing?"
"Thoroughly disgusted, I presume," j
said Penelope coldly, "and I hope we ;
shall not goto any receptions where j
tiny men, with waxed mustaches and
mincing steps, will look through my j
backbone to daddy's newly acquired
bank account. It Is because that man I
is so big. so Htronff uncl looks as if ho j
could move heaven and earth to 1
achieve for the womun he loved that I
was studying him. It is so seldom that !
I meet a man whom I could look up
to," ended I'enelope, with a sigh for
her five feet eleven Inches of graceful
cdenderness. "I was considering him
only as an abstract quantity, a hypo- j
thetical man, so to speak."
"I should hope so," was her aunt's
indignant reply. "Why, these special
guards of the king are gathered In the
north of Italy solely for their height, j
the guidebook says, and no doubt he I
was found grubbing In some wretched
farm or vineyard. In New York lie 1
<would be working in the subway."
Penelope turned and started to crosi
the great throne room where through
an open window the soft Italian sun- j
'light beckoned to her. The martial ;
•figure at the entrance so close to the ;
•Gobelin tapestry had not moved the j
•half of an inch, but above the gold j
braid on his collar and rising up the !
peak of his helmet was an untnistaka- 1
ble flush.
Penelope paused, frozen in her tracks,
hot the man looked straight ahead, j
She crossed to the window, resting her I
head wearily on her gloved hand. Her !
glance traveled over th«» great court
yard of the palace, while Mrs. Ham- j
meil completed her tour of the tapestry
hurg walls.
"He understood English—every word i
we said. If -v intolerably of us! j
And auntie i.l he probably grubbed I
on a farm! Xo wonder these foreign- :
ers think we Americans are rude. We |
•are so secure and sin;ln our Igno
rance of their 1 nn•;tinge that wt» cannot !
believe they understand ours."
The sunlight waned, and Penelope j
knew that out on the Applan v y ten- i
der amethyst shadows \ • tling. i
Why could not her aunt be satisfied
wtth Rome's beautiful outdoor life, Its j
drives and walks? Why must she j
spend days and days in musty churches '
and hideously garish palaces? She I
looked back into the room. Lovely '
shadows softened the gflt frames and !
■furniture, red and blues bhrndi-d into '
jpurple, and the uniformed figure right
fmnxl abruptly. He had dared to
watch her as she stood thus at the
window: Well, It served her right for
talking about human beings as if they
were statues or curios.
That night she wrote in her diary:
"Slient entire afternoon In the royal
palace. Tapestries remarkable, but
rather boring. Bedrooms reserved for i
various royal guests reminded me of
Waldorf-Astoria. Were not permitted '
to enter royal suit, of course, but j
beard laughter of royal children
through folding doors, und a hurdy
gurdy playing In what must have been
the nursery. Italy Is a place of disillu
sions. The natives are learning Eng- !
llsh, the better to do you, my dear!"
Penelope Gardiner held off the plate j
card at arm's length and studied it j
critically.
"Ifs lovely, Pen you ought to
charge more for your work. You could
get it, you know. Rich women love to
patronize girls like you"—
"Who once ate otT their plates, in- !
stead of painting plate cards for them? i
I think 1 will charge Mrs. Fitch half a
dollar more for each of these cards.
They were done to match her Italian
viDa dUting room, you know."
"What I do know," pursuer] Penel
ope's caller, "Is that you are going
wtth me to Archie Hunter's studio tea
this afternoon. The way you have
shut yourself off from all of us, Just
because your father dropped money In
the wrong copper mine, is Inexcusable.
Pen—there are so many who loved you
in spite of yonr money and love you
more now because you haven't any
won't you come 7"
St. Anthony himself couldn't refuse
you, ICathle," said Penelope, pushing
®skle her work. "I am going, and
what is more, I shall wear my new
spring frock, made over from one that
last year I might have given to my
maid."
Penelope couid say such things with-
out a touch oi Ditteruess! sue seetnea
rather to glory In the fact that she was 1
self supporting, able to face the world '
which had promised her so much and j
then withdrawn Its hypocritical smiles.
Through the open door of Hunter's
studio came the click of teacups and a
confused murmur of well bred voices.
"Jolly glnd to see you," exclaimed
Hunter, looking up Into Penelope's
gray blue eyes. Sometimes he had
thought that if he could have looked
down Instead of up, she might have
said "Yes," Instead of "No."
"Isn't It a good crowd today? Y'ou
see, I had something speclul to bring
them. You haven't met Lecca yet,
have you? Hello there, old chapl I
want you to know Miss Gardiner. You
wouldn't think he was an Italian, eh,
Pen?" Hunter rattled on. "Who ever
heird of a six foot Italian, with blond
half at that?"
"My friend Hunter said that he
would not make of me either a Hon oi
.vet a curio, but listen how ho talks."
Some one turned on an electric light,
and before Its flash the soft shadows ot
the studio disappeared. Peuelope gave
a little gasp and slowly from Lecca's |
face every vestige of color faded.
Penelope recovered first.
"Ah, there is Dorothy Kent pouring ;
tea. I know It will be worth drink- |
lug." And Lecca, dazed, watched the
trail of a shimmering ciel blue voile ■
•kirt across Hunter's priceless rugs to 1
(lie tea table. There for several min- ]
irtes s'ae stood with her back turned
full rpoti the group around her host j
and his guest of honor.
She was tho center of another laugh- j
ing group whan she felt his compelling j
garo drawing her away from the chat- j
ter. ITr.'.iter was speaking to her in a
tone which the tense, nervous girl did j
not realize was one of renunciation.
"Lecca has been unpacking some of '
his traps in my farther room. He j
wants to know if you would like to j
see them, it's an honor, Fen. Even j
I have not seen the picture be expects j
to exhibit at the academy next month. ;
He's a fine fellow. Met him last year j
in Paris. Awfully glad he has taken j
a shine to you."
Without speaking Penelope passed j
through the door whose hangings Lec- i
ca drew aside for her. He crossed to
a canvas and threw back the drapery
which hid it
"I have named it 'The Old World and ,
the New,' " he said simply.
Penelope looked with widening eyes, j
There was the tapestried wall of the j
throne room In all Its old world color- !
ings, faded, In places almost obscure, I
while against It, vital, full of grace j
nut I vigor, was tho llgure of an alert I
American girl clad in navy blue broad
cloth, a velvet picture hat on her soft
brown hair and a great bouquet of
Roman vf&lets at hor belt.
"You see, 1 have done what you said
—something worth while—and, having
done It,l have come to show It to you
and your people. I wanted you to
kuow that you had made it possible—
It Is not for sale"— He drew himself
u\i proudly, and she reached out her i
head pleadingly.
"And If It-was—l—l could not buy It. j
Much has happened to me siuce the j
day—ln tho throne room We— we have i
lost everything."
"Ah!" The man drew a long, deep |
breath. "Fate has indeed been kind: ;
otherwise I might not speak! 1 was |
a foolish boy, unworthy son of a gifted '
father, proud of my authority in the |
royal guard and my toy uniform-- j
faugh—until you came and the man in !
me cried out in shame. You said I
could do it. Have I done it well '
enough to please you?"
She bowed her head and then raised
it again. Yes, without the helmet and
the high heels, he still towered above
he«, aud then her eyes fell before his
earnest gaze.
"That day -It was the same, the ;
glance, the flash, you will forgive me,
the message of love. In our country
love does not wall Yet for five years
I have worked for you. All I am you
have made. Today 1 may be artist to j
our king Will you come?"
"To my king—yes."
And. though his uext words were of
ills own country, the girl understood. ,
for the language of love is the same ,
in the old world atld in the new.
Men as Boarders.
A woman who has made a modest ;
competence by running a private ho
tel says she would rather have women |
as boarders than men. Perhaps they
are a little inquisitive about one an
other's affairs, she admits, and dis
posed to find fault oftener than they
are Justified In doing. On the nther
hand, they usually voice their com
plaints either directly or in such a
manner that the criticisms soon reach j
the landlady's ears. Men, on the con- I
trary, don't lodge so many open com
plaints, but they make bitter remarks
one to another, and it Is seldom their
remarks are repeated to the hostess
until too late to offset their bad effect.
This woman puts herself on record as
saying that when men are Inclined to
be at all disagreeable thev are much
more difficult to deal with than wo
men. One can always soothe disgrun
tled women by a little extra attention
to their comfort, she says, but the ;
male boarder or hotel guest who un
dertakes to criticise a place harshly Is
a hopeless case.—Kansas City Star.
Oh, Yes, of Course.
Of the many children and women In
Nazareth, Palestine, who have picked
up a little English all have a way of |
saying "of course" instead of a simple j
"yes " The expression which French ■
people catch up as characteristic of
the American and Englishman Is alt
ways "Oh, yes!" A correspondent, who j
has cycled down the Rhone valtoy, j
about Provence and along the Riviera,
found himself greeted with "Oh, yemr
by the children in the streets of nearty
every town. And he discovered when j
his attention had been called to the !
point In this way that "Oh, yes!" was !
really what he and his companions
were always saying.
Drunkards In Norway.
In Norway drunkenness Is .punished
by imprisonment. When a man Is In
carcerated he has a loaf and wine sup
piled to him morning and evening. The
bread Is served In a wooden bowl full
of wine, in which It has been soaked
for an hour. The first day the prisoner
swallows his allowance willingly
enough. The second day it seems less
pleasing, and at the end of the eight
or ten days men have been known to
abstain altogether from the food thus
presented. Except in rare Instances
the drunkard is cured by this treat
ment.
I The
'Professor's
Way._ •>£%* |
CtrwUjhU 1907. tyy E. C. ParctUs.
Professor Sweetzer, naturalist for a
certain New England college, was a
little man. He was round shouldered.
He was awkward on his legs. He
wore goggles for his weak eyes, and
he arrived at the age of flfty-flve with
out having loved. As between bugs
and beetles and women, the bugs and
booties were ahead. It was only on
rare occasions and when under the
stress of excitement that he took the
slightest notice of the other sex. Even
when he did sit up and take notice of
them he could not have recalled half
an hour later what he said or whether
they had red hair or black.
On a certain day It came to the ears
of Professor Sweetzer that a portion of
the vertebrae of a whale had been
found on a farm la Connecticut. He
arrived on the spot next day and veri
fied the find. On an occasion thou
sands of years before an old bull whale
hail decided to take a trip inland and
through some error of Judgment had
left his bones in a gravel pit. A piece
of the backbone six feet long had been
uncovered. The professor wanted to
excavate for the rest. Where there Is
six feet of whale you can take it that
there is more. lie engaged board at
the Widow Webb's and hired a man to
wield the pick and shovel and thus
went to work.
The Widow Webb was fat and forty
and childless. She was worth a stony
farm and s<>oo in cash. '+\ still older
sister lived with her, and the farm
work was done by a hired man with
the good old fashioned name of Hiram
Stebbins. Hiram was thirty-five and
drank nothing stronger than cider, but
he thought deeply. One of them was
that if he married the widow he would
become the possessor of the farm and
SCOO. He had been thinking of this
and taking the farm work easy when
Professor Sweetzer put In an appear
ance. Hiram looked at him and grin
ned. If any one had told him that
within a week ho would be Jealous of
that little dried up and humpbacked
specimen of humanity, he would have
roared with laughter
As soon as the professor had Inspect
ed the bone and become enthusiastic,
he was a changed man. He became a
fluent talker. He became fatherly to
ward the widow. He called her "my
child," and often took her hand and
held It while lie tried to make her un
derstand that a whale was a cachelot
and that a cachelot could stand on his
tall In the water as well as on his head.
When Hiram witnessed the hand
holding act, he quit grinning. He was
mad all that day as he hoed corn. He
was mad when he cauie up to supper.
He was mad when one of the cows
kicked him at. milking time. While
the professor took a ramble In search
of beetles, Hiram carried the milk into
the kitchen and began:
"Wldder Webb, how does it fuel to
have a baboon holding your hand?"
"Hiram, what do you mean?" was
demanded.
"I moan that I have seen you and
that little runt of a man squeezing
hands a dozen times, and neither of
you seems to care who stands by. Fell
in love mighty quick, didn't you?"
"Look here, Mr. Stebbins, you have
no right to talk to me this way. You
know who the professor Is. He's a
great man. He has taught me more
about whales In the last three days
than I knew In all my life before. He
also knows all aliout birds and bugs
and bees. It's twice as interesting to
hear him talk as it is to hear a ser
mon."
"Has a feller got to squeeze your
baud to talk to you about whales?"
asked Hiram.
"He hesn't squeezed it. That's sim
ply his way. II? is a fatherly man.
When lie gets to talking he don't know
whether he has got hold of my hand
or the leg of u chair. You ought to be
ashamed of yourself to talk as you do.
I always thought there was a mean
and jealous streak In you, and now it's
come out."
"Oh, it has, eh?" muttered Hiram.
"Perhaps If I went around looking for
the bones of an old whale, I'd be all
right."
"I guess It would be better than
grunting nroupd. You don't care for
educated folks, but I do. 1 was born
that way. If 1 was to ask you about
whales, you couldn't tell me anything."
"But the professor could?"
"Yes, sir, he could. Iliram Stebbins,
do you know that the Lntln name of
whale is Physeter macrocephalus? Do
you kuow that we get spermaceti and
ambergris from Its body? Do you
know that be sometimes reaches the
length of seventy or eighty feet? Yon
stand there with a mean look on your
face, and yet let me tell you that the
sperm whale can swallow a man at a
gulp. There are no teeth hi the upper
Jaw, but the lower one has from twen
ty-five to thirty on each side. The eyes
are small and placed far back in the
bead."
"Well?" grunted the hired man.
"Well, the cachelot feeds upon fishes
and cepbalopodoUß mollusks. You prob
ably thought he fed upon turnips. The
whale is gregarious. Five hundred or
more have been seen in a single herd.
Terrible conflicts often take place
among the males, and it is not unusual
to flud the lower Jaws deformed. The
left eye is said to be smaller than the
right, and the whale caunot see behind
him."
"All from the professor!" sneered
Hiram as he bowed and walked out to
fasten the hencoop for the night.
When the professor wasn't assisting
iiis man to dig for bones he was hunt
ing bugs and bees and butterflies. To
his great Joy, he discovered a seven
spot bumblebee. As all of us kuow, a
bumblebee Is of dark color, with yel
low spots on his back. There are of
ten from Ave to six spots and only
rarely a seven spatter. This bee, along
with a dozen others, was placed in a
pasteltoard box. and when the house
was reached the box was deposited on
a window sill of the veranda The
professor had told the widow all about
whales. As soon as he had a little
spare time he meant to tell her all
about bumblebees. Two days had gone
bv when the moment came. The bone
fgjj iig Tabors of tne (lay mm over
anil supper disposed of when the pro
fessor and the widow took chairs on
the veranda. He had found the shell
of a small turtle In the gravel that
day, and be set out to first explain
about that. Hiram Stobblns was greas
ing his boots and chawing the rag In
the kitchen and could hear evory word.
He also knew all about that box of
bumblebees on the window sill.
According to Professor SJweetzer, tur
tles had hearts and lungs, Impes and
aspirations. He would even go so far
as to say that turtles loved and were
loved In return. They did not sing like
a bird nor bellow like a frog, but they
were supposed to have musical ears for
all that. In his earnestness the man
got hold of the widow's hand. It was
only his way. If he had got hold of
her ear It would have been the same,
lie had called her his dear woman and
iiis dear child linlf a dozen times, and
in his lecture he had got as far back
as the turtle's markings when Hiram
Stebbins could restrain himself no lon
ger. He saw red. lie thirsted for
gore. He rose up to do murder, but
checked his onslaught and walked soft
ly Into the sitting room. The window
was tip and the beo box before him,
while the backs of the sitters were to
ward him. lie lifted the cover and
stepped back.
The dozen bumbles had been hopping
mad and calling each other names for
the two days. The cover was no soon
er oil' than they swarmed to get room
to square off. As they caught sight of
the professor and the widow, however,
the hatchet was Instantly buried.
There was a wild swoop, followed by
tvllder yells. Old seven spot led In tho
fray. Ho it was who lifted, the pro
fessor over the veranda rail and let
him drop among the hollyhocks while
the rest were paying tie widow atten
tions. The professor r.in and was fol
lowed, tile widow shrieked and was
stung again and again, It was not un
til Iliram rushed out with smoke and
ilauie that she was rescued and a
neighbor woman sent for to treat the
lumps auil I>umps and put her to bed.
The professor returned not. Old seven
spot wouldn't let him. No news came
from him as the homs of night wore
on, and Iliram wondered, but next
morning tho widow received a note
reading:
"My dear child, please send my
satcltel by bearer. I'm off after more
bones. The turtle, as I meant to have
told you. Is utterly without ambition."
"Waal," said Hiram to himself as he
worked In the cornfield that day, "there
was the professor and me and the wid
der and the whale and the bumblebees,
and If I hain't come out top _o' the
heap, who has?"
The Ship's Log.
The ship's log consists of a log chip
and a log line. The log chip Is a piece
of board, shaped like the fourth part
of n circle, loaded with lead on the
round side, so that It will stand up In
the water. The log line Is 150 to 200
fathoms long. It is wound upon a large
reel, so held as to let It run out easily.
The line is divided Into equal parts by
bits of string run through It, each
marked by the number of knots in it;
hence these divisions are called knots.
The log chip when thrown Into the wa
ter stands still and draws out the log
line us fast as It unwinds, and the
speed of the ship is shown by the num
ber of knots that run out in half a min
ute. The usual length of a knot Is
47.3 feet. When it is known how many
of these run out In half a minute, it Is
easy to calculate how many would run
out in an hour by multiplying by mo.
The record of the heaving of the log.
as well as all important things happen
ing on shipboard, is made In a log
book.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Open to Conviction.
No rock was ever more firmly fixed
than were Mrs. Manser's opinions, but
she considered herself of an extremely
pliable disposition, with a mind open
to conviction on all sides.
"It's the strangest thing to me, the
way the rest of the family talk as if
1 were set In my views," she said one
day to her nephew William's bride,
with whom she had been laboring on
the subject of calling cards for more
than an hour "It seems to me you're
sort of taking the same tone," she con
tinued. looking sharply at the young
woman, "and I don't want you to.
There isn't anybody in this world
that's readier to !>e convinced she's in
the wrong than I am by people who
know more than I. All they've got be
fore 'em. ever, is to prove to me that
they do know more than I—and I <*C
you, my dear, there hasn't one of 'em
ever been able to in this family!"—
Youth's Companion.
The Koran.
The Koran, or A 1 Koran, the sacred
book of the Mohammedans, was writ
ten about 010 A. D. by Mohammed. It
is a prose poem of 0,000 verses, the
object of which was to show that God
had told everything that was worth
telling to Mohammed and thai those
who doubted It shonld be slain in this
world and turned over to Allah to be
eternally damned In the world to come.
There are today some 200,000,000 of
human beings who profess to believe
In the Koran.
Hon- He Told It.
Papa—ls the teacher well satisfied
with you? Toby—Oh, quite. Papa-
Did he tell you so? Toby Yes. Aftex
a close examination he said to me the
other day. "If all my scholars were like
you I would shut up my school this
very day." That shows that I know
enough.—ludianai>olis Star.
Had llfard It Before.
Mamma—lt is strange that girls have
not more sense. Grandpa—l think you
Inherit that opinion. Mamma—What
do you mean? Grandpa—Well, It Is ex
actly what your mother used to say
twenty-five years ago.—New York
Press.
English and Scotch Golf.
Although golf was played in Scot
land at a uiuwh earlier period, the hon
or of the first club rests with Eng
land, where the Itoyal Blackheath was
organized in 1608— possibly by James
VI., possibly only as an outgrowth of
that convivial "Knucklebone club."
The Edinburgh Burgess Golfing socie
ty, with more social than sporting
predilections, dates from 1735, and St.
Andrews, popularly regarded as the
alma mater of golf, was founded in
1754, while the Honorable Company of
Edinburgh Golfers set up links at Mus
selburgh in 1774
WANDERING WORKERS.
Many Bkilled Mechanic* Like to Travel
Over the Globe.
In New York may be found skilled
mechanics who have been wandering
over the globe for half a lifetime.
There are few trades In which a skill
ed man with the mastery of several
tongues cannot earn a living In almost
any considerable city of the world.
Most of the mechanics who move
thus freely about the world are conti
nental Europeans. Woodcarvers, stone
cutters, electrical workers of various
kinds and garment cutters are among
the mechanics that move about most
freely.
The great temptation to such a wan
derer Is the trip around the world. The
thing Is not really difficult. He can
cross this continent profitably In a few
months, with a stop at Chicago and
perhaps another between Chicago and
San Francisco. A stop of a few weeks
or months at San Francisco will put
| him In funds for the voyage to Aus
tralia.
There are four or five Australian
cities In which a skilled man Is sure of
profitable employment. After Austra'
11a there are the great Anglo-Indian
cities.
The Journey to Europe can be made
with a stop at Cairo If one chooses to
make a little detour, and then Paris
awaits one only a few hours beyond
the end of the Mediterranean. Here
are cheap living and good wages. In
a few months one Is more than equip
ped for the voyage to New York.
One has only to keep sober and know
how to save money in order to make
such a journey around the world with
entire success. It does pot mean un
comfortable liviug. In fact, the jour
neyman must be well dressed and
must present a good appearance to get
on. At the height of the season hardly
any city has enough skilled garment
cutters, for example, and the wander
ers are always welcome when they
reach a new town. —Washington Post
Daguerre's Process.
The photographic process devised by
Daguerre was substantially as follows:
A sheet of planish copper, plated with
silver and well cleaned by treating
with diluted nitric acid and washing
with water, was exposed to the action
of the vapors of lodine. By this expo
sure a thin film of iodide of sliver was
formed on the surface, certain mechan
ical precautions being taken to insure
that it should be uniform in all parts.
The sheet thus prepared was then plac
ed In a (jamera substantially tho same
In principle as the photographic cam
era In use today and was exposed to
the object for from eight to ten min
utes. The plate was then covered and
removed from the camera to a dark
room, where It was exposed to the ac
tion of the vapor of mercury, aided by
the application of gentle heat, by
which the Imnge was developed. It
was then fixed by immersion in a solu
tion of hyposulphite of soda, which dis
solved out all the unchanged silver
| iodide. Washing with water followed,
and the finished picture was protected
by a cover of glass and suitably in
closed In a frame, one that could be
closed, to protect It from fading under
the action of the sunlight.
Planting a Garden.
God Almighty first planted a garden.
And. indeed, it is the purest of human
pleasures. It is the greatest refresh
ment to the spirits of man. without
which buildings and palaces are but
gross handiworks, and a man shall
i ever see that when ages grow to cMI
! lty and elegance men come to build
stately sooner than to garden finely, as
If gardening were the greater perfec
! tion.—lx>rd Bacon.
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The X«tare of Oath.
Some years ago a case was on trial
before the judge of a court In a city
adjoining Boston In which among the
numerous witnesses for the defense
was a decidedly Ignorant appearing
and shiftless looking colored man
named Jones, who was to testify as to
an alibi.
He was finally called, and the usual
oath was about to be administered,
when the attorney for the prosecution ;
arose and addressed his honor, sug
gesting that Mr. Jones be interrogated
as to his understanding of the solem
nity of an oath. The judge therefore
asked the witness if he understood the
nature of an oath, to which he replied,
"Yes, sab."
j "Well," said his honor, "what Is It?"
J To which Mr. Jones immediately re
| plied, "When you tell a lie, stick to it."
i —Boston Herald.
The Elegant Mrs. Adams.
I An old Washington lady used to tell
with delight of an occasion on which
•he went, with a kinswoman, to dine
with Mr. and Mrs. John Quincy Ad
! ams. The table was beautifully set In
| the fashion of the time, and at Mr.
I Adams' place lay a four tlned sliver
| fork. The other persons at table had
1 merely the two pronged fork then In
use. Mrs. Adams apologized for her
husband's little eccentricity, saying
that In his long sojourn In France he
I had acquired the habit of eating with
his fork, a habit of which he had been
unable to break himself. "And, my
dear." the old lady used to say, with a
twinkle In her eye, "the elegant Mrs.
Adams and the rest of use ate with a
I knife."
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