REWARDED, A Fugitive and a Romance That Started at the Mine. By ANNA R. COVINGTON. '.Copyright, 1003, by Associated Ldteru-y Press. J He had come up into the land of the unsalted seas with a look in his eyes as of one pursued. He sought and ob tained work underground as a miner. He had but one purpose—to avoid rec ognition—and this pluce seemed so safe he did not mind the weariness and the monotony of the hard labor. One night as the man car shot up from the underworld Into the shaft house, Its tier upon tier of dusky faced men, with their lamp lighted hats ris ing weirdly out of a dark throated tunnel, he was the last to leave the car. His usual first furtive glance fell upon a young woman with the form of a goddess and the face of a Madonna She stood near a light, with Its rays ffull upon her. She turned and made her way to the outer door. He opened It for her. She thanked him and pass ed out. It was dark, with the early darkness of winter, and the sky was moonless and starless. She stood for a moment, bewildered by the strange ness of the scene. Then she started In the direction of a light streaming from an office window. She came J back to him as he stood In the door j way. "I beg your pardon, but 1 am a si ran | ger here. Will you please direct 11 • to j the main street or to the main office?" j "You should go that way, | . t tr ( engine house; llien cross tho i.il!r tracks lo tlir- street beyond." 'Thank you. I shall know my way : us soon as 1 reach the street." "It Is rough walking here. If you will permit me. 1 will walk with you. I have a lantern." "I shall lie very glad if yen will do so," she replied gratefully. They walked in Indian fashion until they had left the mines nnd had gained the beaten track of the highwaj. j Then he walked beside her. "It Is all so wonderful to me here." she remarked. "You do not live here, then?" "No. I live near Boston. I am on a ! visit to my uncle. Captain Sloan, of | tho mining company I wanted to sec 4 nRSI'SIiAIK (IMP ON THE DITECTIVKS ASK I.E. the man car come up. but 1 missed nncle nnd came alone. You weren't •on that car were yon?" "Yes. I work in the mine, getting out food for the furnaces." "Isn't It a hard life? You haven't always bewi a miuer?" she half queried. He felt a little thrill of Joy—his first in months. He had not, then, lost all trace of former environment. "No." ho said slowly. "Only since !ast September. One must live." "Won't you come In and let my uncle thank you for your kindness to me?" she asked ns ho stopped in front of the captain's big while house. "No. thank you." be replied serious tj. "But t'ie kindness was on your part in letting mo come." "I am going back to Boston tomor row." she replied. "But I expect to spend next summer here, and I hope I may see you then." She extended her hand as she spoke, and he touched it reverently. When she had gone into tile house he noticed something while on tin- ground I proved to be an envelope which had evidently fallen from her muff. By the light of his lantern he read the address. "Miss Marie Sloan." As it was empty, he could see no harm in keeping it. Every night thereafter, when I lie man car came up from Ihe depths, tie felt n little thrill ol" remembrance of his first glance that night when In had beheld her. His heart throbbed with the feeling that compels every man to strive anew > work out the best that is in him. It had seemed natural—almost ordained—that she should speak to him and that he should walk beside her. Their words had been commonplace. He scarce re membered them, except that she bad known him to be above tils work and that she was coming back next sum iner. He began to fonuulato new piaus. Later he left the mines and went to a distant city, where he stayed for a week Then, beardless and dressed in correct clothes, he returned to the city of the nilues. lie applied for the p(v sltlon of bookkeeper, and was engaged to fill a vacancy. When summer and Marie arrived he had made good In the office and had won a firm footing In the social strata of the community. By taking the tide In copper stocks at Its flood he had se cured a fair sized egg. When he was IntiflLuccd to Captain Sloan's niece sh.- had not the slightest remembrance of him. As the summer passed their friendship grew, linked by thougftts. Inspirations nnd Interests in common. At the Grst tints of autumn their en-' remeut was announced. Look us<> she hart tolil him of the miner who had been so kind to her and of the deep Impression he had made upon her. Once she had gone to see the man car come up, but she bud fillip to pee him again. "Some time," he thought, with a dread foreboding, "1 must tell her nil. but uot now—not yet." One day Bam Pack, a detective from Chicago, slipped quletl.v Into town In search of a man who had Eluded him for a year. In the afternoon he saun tered into the mine office. "How are you, Lowden?" he said to the head bookkeeper, with a noticeable hesitation before the name. He turned quickly and breathed qulverlngly for a moment. "Can we go somewhere for a private Interview?" "Yea." said Jack dully. "I think I'd like to visit the mines while I am here. Couldn't you take me down?" "Yes," replied Jack heavily. "Come this way." They were joined by one of the men and conversation was deferred. "Oh. this is the way you go down?' said Pack, when they came iuto a shaft house and he looked with some dismay at the sliding steps that came and went In regular rapidity. "I thought there was a sort of cage or car?" "Not in this shaft. The car is for tho nieu. It's very simple if you step as it couies. Step whenever Ido and only when 1 do." There were wild plans revolving in Jack's mind, and lie welcomed this de scent into tile lower regions. The de tective didn't exactly like the situa tion. but li • was brave, sure fooled and ashamed to back out. As tliey began the descent be stepped precise ly and fearlessly just us his guide did three or !'• nr ii:i.es. Then —he never knew just how il happened—be hesi tated. lost his head and his footing at the same time. Jack's strong right arm. backed by the muscle of a miner, caught the un fortunate man by the ankle just as he was going down. With his lithe and sinewy left arm Jack clung to the beam, maintaining a desperate grip on the detective's ankle. There was an agonized space of time while he stood in this perilous position before the ma chinery stopped and tile others came to his relief. With aching, straining muscles. Jack walked hack to the office and waited until the detective should revive. When he saw him coming he went outside to meet liitn. "1 am quite ready togo with yon." he said, with a queer smile. The detective stared. "If you were guilty do you suppose I would take you after what you did down there in the mine? I didn't come to take you. Your father engaged me to find you a year ago. Your brother confessed and is paying the penalty. It wasn't necessary for you to hide all these months." "Still," said Jack, with flashing eyes and leaping heart, "I am glad that 1 did." Got His Money's Worth. A lady palmist was recently prose cuted, and an amusing incident was noted in connection with tho case. One of the witnesses called by the police was an Individual who did uot appear to be overburdened with Intelligence. During a smart cross examination de fendant's counsel asked him: "On first going into the room did you pay a shilling fee to the defend ant ?' "Yes." was the reply. "What did she tell you in return for the moneyV" •Oh," t>aid the witness, "she towld me lots o' things, some on 'em true, Some on 'em half true an' some on 'em loss." "Now," continued the counsel after tie laughter had died away, "this Is the point 1 wish to get at: Was there any nttempt at imposition? Did you lady impose upon you at all?" "Oh. dear, no!" was the response. "I kiciwed it wor all gammon, so there couldn't be no imposition. Resides, it wor a had shillln' ns 1 guv her, to start with!"— London Tlt-Blts. The "Sillinger" Stakes. It only takes a few hours to get front any part of England to Doncas ter. see Ihe race for the St. I.eger and return home. Yet in the coaching times a journey from Londou to Don caster occupied a couple of days. Taking its name from a famous Don caster sportsman. Colonel St I.eger— properly pronounced "Sillinger"-the race Is tho second oldest horse racing event in the country. It was founded in 1770 and always arouses the great est enthusiasm in the north of Eng land. In fact, in the prerailway days laborers living fifty miles away would save up their shillings for weeks, walk to Doncaster. see the race, have a bet and walk home again. John Scott, who in his day was vis iicd by peers, lawyers, poets and au thor* of all degrees, trained sixteen St. Leger winners. There have beey many memorable finishes to the race, and on one occasion a horse named Thi'i tlore. against whom the odds were quoted at 1,000 to a walking slick—officially 1,000 to s—won hand soinely. Tl.e largest field was thirty, in 1825. and the smallest four, in 17S3and 1785. A h irse named Ninety-three won in 1705. London Saturday ltcviev A Reply to Gladstone. "Gladstone had no great scientific knowledge." said an English writer, "and at a dinner, when Faraday de scribed an Important new scientific discovery, the premier showed Indlffer euce. " 'After all." he said, hiding a yawn behind his band, 'what use will it ever be'/' "'Why.' said Karada,v, 'there's every probability, sir, that some day you'll bs able to lax it.' " A Turn Down. . Snaggsy—Beg pardon, mister; I'm a stranger In dese parts. Farmer Har row—Well, I dunno of anybody that wants to jrit acquainted with ye. (Turns away.y— Itoston Transcript. True Enough. Iriitated Citizen -Aren't you asham ed of yourself, going about with that street organ and leading such a lazy life? Street Organist—Lazy life? Why, sir. life with me is one long daiiy grinii. - Echo. JEWISH FARMERS' FAIR. Federation Holds a Convention and Gives Exhibition In New York. Much Interest has been aroused j among the large Jewish population In New York city by the first annual -on- I ventlon and fair of the Federation of Jewish Farmers of America, held in | the Educational Alliance building. For ; several years a well defined movement to lake the Jewish immigrant from the sweatshop to the farm has been in progress, nnd the fair was one evidence of Its success. The Federation of Jewish Farmers of America was organized last Janu ary. The purpose of the federation is to Improve the material and social con ditlons of Jewish farmers and. what Is still more significant, to stimulate an Interest In farm life among the Jews of the large cities. The membership of the federation Is made tip of Jewish farmers from all parts of the country as far west as North Dakota. Most of these farmers formerly lived In the congested districts of New York city. There are about 5.000 Jewish farmers In the United Slates. Corn, wheat, rye. alfalfa and sun flowers from Massachusetts and Con necticut: melons, squash, pumpkins, peanuts, potatoes and oiiullflower from New York: eggplant nid asparagus from New Jersey and linseed and mil let from North Dakota and Hercules gourds from somewhere else were some of the exhibits made by the farmers. Homely Women. Plain women exist and fori i a def inite factor in our social economy. Not all of us are blessed with good fea tures. soft eyes, a tine figure and a clear complexion. Some of us are born with dull skins, wide months and snub noses and not all the arts of dress ami 'ollet can make lis pretty or even presentable. But. all the same, plain wome 1 ' live and thrive and now and then make brilliant marriages. In fact, one h»s only to use one's eyes to see that some ugly women have for men quite a weird power of nttrac tion. History teaches lis this, for we are told in several Instances of un comely women who have ruled the des tinies of men and nations. Catherine of Russia nrd Mme. de Maintenon had no looks, and Mary, queen of Scots, who lias gone down to fame as a beauty, app-ars in her picture as thin, small eyed and hard featured. In deed. only > ne portrait is said to exist ill which she Is shown as fair haired and lovely, and this bangs in Dalkeith palace and belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch.— London Strand Magazine All on Account of the Boots. As a sergeant was bawling out his orders in a barracks in Dublin and watching the line of feet as the ravs recruits endeavored to obey the word of command he found, to his astonish ment, that one pair of feet, more noticeable on account of their extra large size, never turned. Without taking his eyes off those feet the sergeaut bawled out a second order. "About face.' ne could see that v\U the feet except those he watched turiMxl In obedience. Bushing up to the owuor, a little fellow, he seized him by the shoulder, shouting: "Why don't you turn with the rest?" "I did!" replied the trembling re cruit. "You did. eh? Well. 1 watched your feet, nnd they never moved." "It's the boots they gave me, sir." said the poor fellow "They're so large that when I turn my feet turns Inside of them."— I<ondon Answers. How Whitman He'ped Childs. Tho poet Walt Whitman was, as Is well known, dependent during most ol his life upon the kindness of his friends and admirers for support. A few year* before Ills death one of these friends called upon him in his little house Ir Caiudeu. "Well. Walt." he said, "how goes il this wlntei V Any subscription needed for Christmas?" "No." said Whitman; "no. I'm al work now. I'ui in the employ ol George Chllds. He pays me ?•"■(> a month." "You al work! May I ask what is your occupation?" "Why. I ride in the street cars. I fall Into talk with the drivers and con ductors and tind out which of then; have no overcoats and guess at thelt size and notify Childs, and then b« sends the overcoats. It's not bard work." said the poet thoughtfully "And then, you know, it helps Chlldi along." Tho "Copper" Versus the Plodge. Chicago policemen are having a hard time of it under their new chief. Colo nel I.e Boy T. Steward, who has an idea thai patrolmen ought lo stay so ber at all times. The word has gone forth from the chief's office that, if Colonel Steward can make it so. the force will lie a teetotalers' brigade One day recently the chief had six men "broken" for drunkenness, and the crusade is i<. be carried on vigor ously. with the fate of the six held up as an example tot he rest of the men "Many outrages against citizens have been committed in the past by drunk en policemen." says a Chicago news paper. "Even the most superficial ob server ought to know that not alone the drunken policeman, but the police man who drinks on duty, is n peril Therefore, while the civil service com mission is weeding out the drunken wearers of uniforms it must punish with proper severity policemeu who drink while on duty." Answered. Village Minister to crofter's wife)— Well, Klrstie, how's your husband to day? IClrstle—He's just like yerset'. no has plenty to dae, but ho wlnna rtae It.—London Answers. Hi» Affliction. She—Tour brother Is a writer, Isn't he? He—Yes. She—What docs ho write for? lie—Goodness ou'y knows. I guess It's a disease.—Judge. Just the Same. "What Is your name?" asked the ,ft:dn of the prisoner "Casey, yor honor." answered the prisoner. "Your full name?" asked the lodge "Ju«t the same, yer honor." nu*wi r r<] Hi - prisoner, "full or sober."-I.n dies' Home Journal. I. P. MAN'S NEAT ART DEAL. How He Outwiited France In Buying Famous Tapestries. OUTBID FRENCH GOVERNMENT American Financier Calmly Said "Too Late" When France's Art Minister Tried to Purchase —Fabrics Bought For New York Metropolitan Museum. How J. I'lerpout Morgan, the banker, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York outgeneraled France in the recent purchase for S"U.UOU of three famous tapestries of the Charles VII. period was told the other day by Jacques Sellgmun. antiquarian aud art connoisseur The story of the deal illustrates not only the unique charac ter of Mr. Morgan as a financier, but what ati almost Irresistible magnet American gold has become In drawing Europe's richest art treasures to Amer /" " I \) J. PIERPONT MORGAN, lea. Mr. Seligman'R home Is In Paris. He goes to New Y'ork city for short visits. "Art Center of the World." "New Y'ork today Is Just beginning," he said, "what promises to be an art conquest of the old world. Your col lectors of urt objects are increasing so rapidly and are offering so much gold that the time will come when this city will be the art center of the world. It will swallow up nearly all the finest works of Europe that are not already locked up In the great civic museums. "Already American wealth has prov ed such a powerful lure that such a time honored Institution as the Louvre finds it extremely dilHcult to add really valuable art objects to its present collection. The Metropolitan museum's acquisition of three tapes tries formerly owned by Siglsmund Bordac Is the most striking Illustra tion of this westward drift of art. "It happened this way. 1 speak fraukly. for. ulihough this is news to Americans, most of the facts are known to the art circles of Paris. After we iiad purchased these tapes tries some of the patriotic people of France started an agitation to prevent their exportation to America. The tapestries were of the time of Charles VII.. historical documents of rare value, because they illustrated with such undoubted accuracy the costumes and customs of that remote period Morgan Was Eager to Buy. "A director of the Louvre according ly called upon u>e aud Inquired the price He asked if ths Ixmvre might have an option on the tmieslrles until July ".1. when It was 1K,® 8 .! the minis ter of tine arts would give his sanction to the purchase. The option was granted, but meantime Mr. Morgan heard of the (lending transaction He also came to me aud said: "'if Frauce decides not to buy those tapestries at that figure. 1 will. "The day before the expiration of the option we were asked by u l-ouvre director to exteud it another week Hu explained it was hoped that by lhat | time ihe minister of tine arts would give his sanction. I replied: "'Mr. Morgan hus offered to buy Ihe tapestries tomorrow If me |j»tn te does not tuke them "The director was so persevering that I asked Mr Morgan If be would stand aside, so I'rance might have au other chance. His answer was: "'lt Is not the habit of the Metropol itan museum nor Is it my habit to prevent such an Institution as the Louvre from obtaining what It de sires of the art works of Its own coun try. I will most gladly consent to the extension of the Louvre's option.' "At the end of another week the minister of tine arts still delayed his sanction, lie contended the price was too high. Mr. Morgan bought the tap estries. Ten days later the Louvre di rectors made overtures to Mr. Morgan to buy back just one of the fabrics, which one Mr. Morgan himself might decide. Mr. Morgan said he was very sorry, but It was too late. "Ninety per cent of all the works i>f art bought in Europe with Ameri can money comes to New York city. Americans are especially desirous of jetting hold of ihe older things." As the Periston antiqunrian talked ho was frequently Interrupted by ca blegrams from representatives of his firm stationed in various art eenteri of Europe. A Startling Hat. A lady's hat which would rx> doubt create as great a sensation today us it did ut the time of its first appearance in 1 wns lhat worn by Blanche de Bourbon, queen of Castile, wife of Peter the Cruel, it cost £35 aud was made lu Paris. The hnt Itself was composed of de chypre and relieved with great pearls, garnets nnd enamel work. Children, carved in tho whitest of Ivory, were depleted picking acorns of pearls from the oak aud scattering them to the swine below. Birds were singing in the trees, aud at the foot j were bees stealing honey from the \ dowers springing up from the verdure. SETTLERS FOR HAWAII. Special Session of Legislature Called to Start Land Law Revision. I A proclamation nulling u special ses sion of the territorial legislature to ! consider amendments to tln* organic j act of Hawaii has been Issued b.v Gov ernor I'renr. Among the changes ree oin mended are amendments to the land laws to encourage settlors to taUe op homesteads and increased pay for legislators and federal officials of the territory. The governor desires to restrict pub lic lands so thai any single homestead er may take up to eighty acres: mso to bar out aliens from horuesteadlng. to enforce residence on lands pre empted and to distribute land by lot tery Instead of by auction. The legis lature is expected to pass an act OD these lines which will be submitted to congress. When congress approves it, it Is ex pected that large numbers of g'Xid set tlers will come to Hawaii. The Intelligent Mule. "Some people think mules haven't much intelligence, but I know they i have,"was the way n commercial trav- | eler interrupted u story teller. "Now, take the town I come from. While 1 was home on a visit last year the place ! was all wrought up over the systemat- ! Ic stealing of flowers from the graves In our leading cemetery. The thing i had been going on some time, and the j people were shocked, of course. I'inal- j )y a guard was posted and the thief I ; captured, and the thief was a mule. | "It didn't take long to get at all the • S facts. It seems that a certain woman i living near the cemetery had held up | : the mule's owner, who was beating the j J animal, prosecuted him for cruelty, ! I then bought the mule and turned it | out to pasture. The mule was so grate- j ! ful to the woman that every night it : ! would Jump the pasture fence, go into | i the cemetery, pick up the freshest j I bunch of flowers it could find, carry j [ them to the woman's house and de j po«K them on the front stoop, where j | she would find them In the morning | Now. when you tall: of Intelligence in | animals"— I "Good night." said the man whom j j the commercial traveler had interrupt- | ' ed.—New York Globe. I He Needed the Clerk. Wheu Tim Campbell was in the Flf- ! I tleth congress he stole a clerk from j J Congressman Scott. Scott was a new j j member and was made chairman of a ' committee which gave him a clerkship, i ' IK- knew nothing about the clerK ! ! Campbell did. Through some means j ! or another he had the clerkship trans- | | ferred to bis own committee. Slit | mouths later Scott learned of the trick ! Meeting Campbell, he said: • "That was a nice piece of petty lar j ceny." | "Tut. tut, Mr. Scott,'' said Campbell: i J "my committee needed a clerk worse j ; than yours." Then, with twinkling j i eyes, he continued. "You are a mil 1 lionalre and can afford to hire half a j dozen clerks, while I must go to tin ! government for clerical assistance." j The ready reply amused Scott. The ; j two men were always the best of i i friends thereafter. Armed With a Saber Hilt. ! When William L. Koyall of Fau j rjuier county, Va.. was seventeen years j old be became a Confederate soldier \ In his "Reminiscences" he says that the feats performed by the Confed- ! j crate cavalry in the early part of the | 1 war were remarkable, because not one | company in ten had any nrms that : \ were fit to fight with. I "When 1 joined my company," he j 1 writes, "they gave me a saber which, ! 1 I think, was used in the Revolution, j : and this was the only weapon I bad. 1 1 One day, while my regiment was j ; standing in a road, 1 bantered a com rade to see which of us could cut the largest twig from a tree 1 made a ' powerful cut. and the blade of my saber broke off at the hilt. "In a short lime we were dismount ed and ordered to clear the Yankees out of a piece of woods in skirmish formation. We marched through the | woods, but fortunately no Yankees were there. I have often wondered j what I should have done, armed with that saber hilt, if I had met a Yankee ' armed with a Springfield musket." A Viceroy's Plain Living. In Miss Juliet Bredon's book about her nncle, Sir Robert Hart, the "grand old mau of China,"for many years | In charge of the imperial customs serr- Ve. is the following story: •••'»«,» (,f the most influential of Sir ! . ' '• Chinese friends was the great j \ i.i iiui— Clung The diplomat liked | j !.!'* household »112 'he simpilc* ; : In he found there no wearisome ' I —1 at •, • but ti«h and perhaps I j v dlsli ' ii< :• w'Mi i ice. Incau j tiousi> l , .i-. *i:• \c praised this t i frugality 10 his own ('Liiu'se servant, j for the rem 'rk reached l.i's ears In a | distorted I'.-t-tn. Next time Sir Robert 1 •vent there he lia.l to face a grand cer j emonial banquet. "'Y'ou shall not have the chance to 1 go away again and say that you have j beeu fed like a cooly In mv house,' ! i said the viceroy proudly a? the end j of the banquet | '"Nevertheless the very simplicity! 1 of your hospitality was what I most j appreciated.' Sir Robert replied. 'Rut. if you believe that I could have made any such remark aud If you persist iu altering the style of my reception I shall not como to lunch with you again.'" Unchanging Sport. The sport of deerstalking is stilt . the most natural and most nenrly at lied to the hunting of primitive man thai is to i/v found In the Rritlsh J Islands. The difference between the actual hunting of the hungry Plct and , the stalking of the owner of a modern deer forest 's little more tliar the J weapon. —Field When He Feels Safe. Bacon A man teels more secure when his views are indorsed by oth ers. Egbert -Especially so if the man In question is a baseball umpire.—Yon kers Statesman Doesn't Work. "Cheerfulness is riches." "Oh, no! If you can't pay a bill. !••• ing cheerful about It only makes ihe j other man madder."—Detroit Free • Press. CHAPEL IN EVERY HOUSE. Fhiladoiphian's Novel Suggestion For : the Frivate »Vorship of Cod. The novel suggestion that a chnpet j he set apart for the worship of tjod 111 every home tn America has been made by a Plilladelpliiau and lias met with the hearty and even enthusiastic approval of uiauy of the most distin guished churchmen and heads of edu cational institutions lu the United States. Canada and ICnglnnd. The suggestion Is made by Joseph R. Wilson, a member of the Phliadel phia bar, who resides at Overbrook. Mr. Wilsou bad a chapel « by 5 feet In his former home at 4.530 Cedar ave nue. where his children said their morning and evening prayers nnd where he says he himself gathered in spiration for bis daily work. In his present home at Overbrook he has a temporary chapel, but Intends building an extension for n permaneut one. MAXIMS FROM BEVERIDGE. Indiana Senator Gives Some of the Rules That Guide Him. "I never knew any other way in | politics except to trust the people, go ! right to them with my story, and to h— with the bosses!" ! "In politics be for the things you 1 want your son to remember, take them to the people and let the consequences 1 take care of themselves." | "The business of the men In politics \ 1 Is to make the lives of the vast masses i j of the people easier." The Crab In the Whale's Ear. 1 When the whales were still frequent | I along the lines of passenger travel | | across the Atlantic nothing was more j 1 common than to see the great beasts j ! hurling their bulk clean out of the 1 waves and.after a flight through the j J air. falling back into the sea with an j i enormous splash, a spectacle never i i failing of interest to the ocean tourist, j I but not due to any sportive disposi- I j Hon on the part of the leviathan of the | | deep—quite t lie contrary. The breach- j i Ing of the whale is no fun for the j ' boast. It Is a frantic effort to rid himself of tlie torture of earache. ! There Is 11 marine crustacean which j pesters whales to the verge of endur | ance, and there seetns reason to be -1 Hove that some whales have been drlv ' en Insane by these tiny parasites. It I Is a crab of about the size of that j which is found in the oyster. When ' it lodges on the whale it infests the inner surface of the eyelids and the ' ear. By swift rushes on the surface j the whale is able to clear its eyes, but j | the crab In tlie inner ear cannot be dislodged by any such means. The Alligator's Tongue. j On one occasion when traveling I along the west coast of Africa with an j old skipper who had known many ] missionaries, but "did not see ilie us° J of them," Bishop Taylor-Smith WHS obliged to endure a string of taunting | questions, such as "What was the j good of spouting at Exeter hall V"and | "What did missionaries know, any way?" At last the bishop could stand it no longer. Turning to the skipper, he I said: "1 know you are an expert. Can j you tell tne the length of an alligator's j tongue?" "Certainly." was the reply, "but It 1 depends on the length of the alligator." "Very well, then; given an alligator ! fifteen feet long, what would be the 1 length of Its tongue?" "Three feet" was the answer. But the bishop, who had kept alli gators and -vutched their ways, knew i better, "it Is evident that you are au | authority OD the west coast of Africa," | he said, "but It Is also evident thut j some people see more in ten minutes | than others lu twenty years. Let me • tell you that an alligator has no , tongue." Bjornson'e Advice. There is a story told of Bjorustjerne BJornsou that, arriving at a late hour at the town of Bergen, which was en fete to receive him. lie vouchsafed to the expectant people no finer words ( ot wisdom than u general recommen | Jalion togo to bed lu vain tl:e> appealed to hitu for "soug or sentiment." . te great Bis tnareV. said he, gave the same advice j ucder conditions all similar, nnd what ! rrns good enough for Berlin must suf 1 th e for Bergen. Three yenrs Inter, on visiting the ! fown for the second time, the master \ novelist found n deserted city Not a j light burned In the dismal railway station, no banners waved, no address j is were read by portly burgomasters. ! In vain Bjornson asked for u cab "They have ull gone to bed." was ! the reply. And so Bergen remembered Girls With Boys' Names, i Girls nijh boys' names and bo*« j with giri» have received them In i mauy Instances 110 doubt by accident. ( It was so in the case of George Anno Bellamy, tin* fatuous eighteenth cen I tur* in tress who played Juliet to j Gar rick's Borneo. Born on St. George day, she was to be called Goorgitiia. but somebody's blunder at the time of her christening split this into George Antie. The "com law rhy i uier," F.benczer Klliott. had 11 dint :11 ler named Noah, whoso passport is j said to have given her much trou' !e | abroad But here, as in the cr.se of I other girl Noahs, it was only other ' people's Biblical ignorance that was nt fault, for turu up Numbers xxxvi. 11, and you will tlnil that Ma blah, Tir znli. Hoglab. Mlhah and Noah were the daughters of /.olophehaU. l..melon Graphic. Th-c Thirst For Gore. Unsophisticated Onlooker - I ihitiki : this is a hrst rate place See wlirtt 11 j fine view we hr«ve of this car < .suing 1 Seasoned Spectator- Fine view .'Mille sticks! Nothing over happens on these straight stretches, not oven a broken ! leg. Come on down to the turn and wait for the fun —Puck. Must Love Them. "Is he a lover of children?" "1 should s») he Is. He's even glad to have bis wife's sister's little ones about Ills house.''—Detroit Free Press. Public Schools For Blind Children. The New York city board of educa | tion has opened i!s first classes or I schools for the blind. The blind chil dren are received 111 any one of five j buildings in Mai hattan and Brooklyn ! nnd study the I'tnille system of raised ! letter reading nrd writing. A FAMOUS StiMIENCE. Steele's "To Love Her Was a Liberal Education." Tlie remark which Steele made la reference. an l:« generally supposed, to Lady Elizabeth Hastings bus often Iteeti quoted and almost 113 often quot ed Incorrectly. Steele wrote. "Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold ber Is an Immediate check to loose behavior; to love her was a liberal education." There are two curious misquotations of this bright and famous sentence, which Thackeray declared to lie "th» finest compliment to a woman that perhaps ever was offered." One is In the essay on Pope contained in James Itiissell Lowell's "My Study Win dows." "Was It not in this age," says Mr. Lowell, "that loose Dick Steele paid to his wife the finest compliment ever paid to womnn when he said 'that to know her was n liberal educa tion?"' Here are two distinct error* committed by so careful a writer a» Mr. Lowell. Yet he Is not nlone In this. Arthur Helps In his romance of "Ueal :nah" has this sentence: "Steele did not ill describe, though briefly, the charm of being with a woman whom he greatly admired when he said 'that to lie much with her was In Itself a liberal education.'" We are also told that Leigh Hunt once in quot ing the remark incorrectly ascribed It to C'ongreve Here. then, are three dis tinct writers of high rank who have shown how in a moment of careless composition they were led astray by an Inaccurate remembrance They had no desire 10 misquote their author, I and they gave the substance. Hut i 1 hey grievously failed In the words j themselves and one of them nt least In I their application.—Argonaut. LEARNING HOW TO WAIT. Art of Tending Table Gracefully Taught at Chicago University. There is now a school for waiters at I the University of Chicago. Forty young men, who combine a deep knowl edge of psychology and ethics with a gift of breaking dishes and spilling soup oti professors, are being taught the gentle art of serving food in au ultra-cultured manner at Hutchinson hall the university commons. Wants to Be Hanged. William Stevenson, claiming he has 1 a thirst for blood and is dangerous to society and who is to bo hanged at Luverne, Ala.. Oct. 22 for murdering his young wife and daughter, is oppos ing efforts ot friends who seek com mutation of seuteuce. Worked Eleven Years For $lO. 11. Buckley of Spokane and Fred S.i denberg of Seattle have reached Port Towiisend after prospecting eleven years for gold 111 the interior of A'aska | without seeing civilization. A small ipack of furs and a spoonful of nugget* worth $lO are all they have for tli-tr • eleven years' work. Prstars to Select Jurvn-eo. ■) To improve ti.e «•!»>.* of Jurymen i'>>» I couft at NV: Veslinrre. Pa. II.H~ a-. t | clergymen of (lu* county t> send i t j lists of men they recommend '!"!<• pastors will send in names picked fi ' > their congregation and expect to elim inate politics from Juries. Rough. "I scraped an acquaintance with Jones today." "Yes. And he says your method* need honing."—Cleveland Leader. Mended His Manneis. A certain English otlicer is noted for his ready wit and quickness in rep artee. In the very early days of his career he was ordered to Bombay and was attached to the staff of the then commander in chief as A. D. C. } Shortly after his arrival, at n tutu | tlon at the government house, a new military secretary who. In the con scions pride of his new position, had a hearty conlempt for subalterns of all degrees, with a glassy stare through his eyeglass, offered him two fingers to shake The A. l>. C.. quite unabashed, look ed at him for a moment or two nn<l then said genially: "Hang It all. inn jo r. the governor gives me ihree:" The whole room was convulsed, ami the mllltar? «<•< rotary, now n colonel, profited by the hint and metuled his manners, but he never forgave the A. D. O.— I*onii"ii fit Bits. Fooled Tner.l. I Rrer> liraiiii-H'i at i liauthuqua I." required in till out a pilpel answering a number uf UM-essaiy and utiueeossii ry question* One rear Micro was,l remai Uably handsome male member of the faculty in whom all the girl stu deuis were nm< h interested. is he j married or unmarried 7" became au all j absorbing question. Finally some of ! them lirnl the courage to approach tin ! college secretary and ask if the flic | might be looked over. And there th* ! handsome professor, anticipating per S Imps some such investigation, had re I corded his matrimonial pretensions at follows: "Married or single'/ Yes. ' sliraTin A neliafc>io TIN SHOP for all kind of Tin FTooflna* Spoutlne nnd Ceneral Jolt Work. Stove*, Heater*, Itmcu. Furnaces, «to- PRICES THE LOWEST! PUT* THE BUST! JOHN IHXSOtf NO 11» E FRONT «r.
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