The Judgment of Nathan;! Or, the Story of How He Selected the Right Woman For a Wife. . "Set right down here, Nathan," Bald Daniel. "I'll have to see what Joel Wlckerson wants. Ho i always bother ing aroun like an aggravatln' fly. What's eatln' you, Joel?" "I want a gallon of your best oil," aid Joel; "what It worth today?" "Fifteen cents." answered Daniel, bustling about as If the atore were crowded with patrons. "Let's have your can." 'H'a only 14 cents at the White Front," protested Joel, holding his can obstinately behind him. "Fifteen here t regular customers," replied Daniel, meaningly. Joel sighed. "Well, then, give me a gallon, an" a dime's worth of eatin' tobaorer, an' a pound o' Caroliny prunes, an' put it on the book." "Californy prunes," amended Daniel. "Caroliny," Insisted Joel. "I reck on I know what I want How are you Nate?" "Ain't well," said Nathan crisply. "Rheumatiz?" Nathan nodded his head, willing to admit what was not altogether true , tor the sake of discouraging conversa tion. "Miss Wlckerson allows that rheum a tlx is only another name for laziness. I ain't just prepared to agree with her an' yet I never heered of It keepln' a man from anything but work. Don't operate agin' goin' flshin' does It, heigh?" He chuckled his audience in the aide and leered knowingly. Nathan bad little use for an observ ation that approached too closely to the truth, and Joel, being notorious for Just such observations, there was noth ing to do but retreat in as good order as possible, so he got on his feet and trolled carelessly toward the door. "You can look at that cow any time, Daniel!" he called back, over his shoul der. "Walt a moment, I'll go right now. Where's Dave?" Playing dominoes for the cigars up to Andy Wlggfns's," volunteered Johnny Henly In his cheerful treble. "I see him." "Pick ye out a handful of candy," commanded Daniel, magnanimously, "an' run an' tell him I want him his tle now!" Dave soon appeared at the back door and having dusted his shoes, parted his hair becomingly and adjusted his necktie, took his place behind the coun ter and assumed an attitude of care ful attention to business. Dave was considered very stylish, wore broad shouldered clothes and high collars, sang In the church choir, and played a B flat cornet In the MlUvllle Band. As auch he had quite a following among the boys and was also much Admired by the fair sex. A number of the girls would walk several squares ont of their way after school to pass Freeman's store because Dave Marcus was sura to be out In front about that time, leaning gracefully against the awning post, swapping reminiscences with Elmer Jordan, who had but lately returned from Manila, and who still affected a military carriage, wore his leggins and army hat, and smoked with Ws cigarette drooping raklshly trom his lips. "Come along, Nathan," said Daniel, threading ms way between uncle Billy Barlow and the cannon stove. "We'll go out and look at the cow. Did you ay you wanted a cheese sandwich? Here it is Jimmy Henly picked up a crumb of cheese from the floor, wiped It on his leave, and ate It. Uncle Billy Harlow got up on his chair to reach for the Mlllville Weekly Clarion, and In do Ing ao stumbled over bis dog, who was always afraid he was about to be left behind. Rebecca Poulson came In to buy a pattern trom Dave Marcus, and In the general excitement Joel Wlckerson managed to abstract a cou ple of dill pickles and a handful of crackers, and. to make a triumphant Kit with them and his groceries. "Let's go up the mill race," suggest- dp Daniel. It was not far to walk. Just across the railroad bridge down the steep side of the grade, through a forest of Spanish needles, between the sagging wires of a fence and then you struck a well beaten path that ran along the bank of the race to the mill. Two sy camore trees, . as spotted as leopards. locked arms and leaned together far out over the listless current, and some one had rigged up a board between the trunks which made a very good seat and a capital place for the wayward mail boys to smoke cigars and play cards. Nathan picked up a stick and opened bis knife with a click. Daniel re-llt his cigar, flipped the match in to the water and settled his back lux uriously against the tree. It was a b&zy day in mid-autumn The first frost had come and gone ana the forest had begun to don its Jo seph's coat of many colors. , A flock of crows flapped leisurely along overhead. A jay screamed harshly In the thicket. A red-bead rapped officiously far up in the syca mores, and a squirrel whisked out to protest against the Interruption. The school bell rang for recess and the shouts 'of the playing children came loud and soft by turns with the ebb and flow of the gentle breeze. The lo cal freight arrives and stopped at the tipping water tank. "Nathan," said Daniel, solemnly, "I'm a-going to get married. His companion's jaw dropped as sus anly as U soms concealed spring had snapped. "Why why, you can't mean It, Daniel," he stuttered. I most certainly do," replied Daniel. with an assumption of nonchalance that he was far from feeling. H but at your age!" "Never too late to mend," observed Daniel blithely. "I don't know if mend la the right word for it," Nathan shook bis head dubiously, "and If it Is it seems to me that If I'd a got along to the ripe old age of sixty-three unmended I'd a sort a felt m natural that way that I would not a bothered about the repairs." I ain't but sixty-two," objected his friend. "As good as sixty-three. I know when your birthday is by reckoiln' from mine. Don't you remember, I had to He about my age so's we could en list In the same company?" "Well, then, have it your own way then. do. Sixty-three ain't old." "I'm not so sure. Now I am a great grandpa at that age an' you just a startin' In, but who's to be the happy Mrs. Freeman?" Daniel blushed until his mottled face resembled a variegated pincush ion. "There's two of them I'm a hesl tatln' between," he answered, looking vaguely at a flaming sumach bush on the opposite shore. "Well," prompted Nathan. "Two of 'em," repeated Daniel, bring his index finger down upon the board with a thwack and staring hard at It; "one Is one Is" ho shifted his gaze to a thistle close at hand, and picking up a switch, threshed it vigor ously. Nathan whittled away without the least appearance of interest. "One is Abby Bell" Nathan nodded his head In corro boration, somewhat disappointed at s revelation that was no revelation, be cause MUlvllle bad been daily expect ing their marriage for thirty years. "And the other Is confound that bee, he's again' to sting me yet." "Well, for heaven's sake," ejaculated Nathan, "say it say It Is who?" "Ann Elizabeth Tompkins," Daniel blinked his eyes, inflated his cheeks, until they resembled a bellows, and blew out the name as if It were a plug. "The mischief!" gasped Nathan. 'Now, what have you got against Ann Elizabeth?" demanded Daniel, with an injured air. "A widow an' a gossip, an equal suf fragist an' a social purityite, a soul- feeder an' a sanctified person, an' to marry you! Lord! Lord! The saint and the sinner, the hawk an' the dove, the sheep an' the goat yah, yah!" The old man grasped his knees in his hands and rocked to and fro In an ecstacy of mirth. 'Go on!" cried Daniel. "Pile it up. Insult your best friend if you will, but don't drag her in; don't you say noth ing about her until she's present to de fend herself." 'I wouldn't dare to then," said Na than, earnestly. "Why, Dan'l. she's a match for any two men in Mlllville, an' you know it. Six feet tall an' two hundred If a pound. Who-ee! Don't you sit there an' admit that you're con slderin' her. Back track, Back track! Climb a tree; swim a stream. Any way to spike the scent, my boy. I hope it ain't too late, comrade. I hope you haven't gone and committed your self beyond recall." An acorn rattled from bough to bough in a neighboring tree and struck the ground with a thud. Dan iel dodged with a quick duck of the head and glanced apprehensively over his shoulder. "It ain't went that fur," he admitted. "I'm only a-ngurin", as a fellow says." "All right, but dont you figger too close. Looky here, Dan'l, I ain't got a thing against you marryln', but after having been so uncommon deliberate, let's not get in an all-fired hurry all at once. It's mighty easy to get mar ried. It s as easy as it is for a rat to get Into one of them patent traps, and marriage has got its bars, too, as well as its bait Now, to continue the argument, we will say, my boy, you're a-marryln' to better your condition for the purpose of becomin' more com fortable; an' I judge that's all a bach elor thinks of when he's marryln'. If such be the case, an' I think I know you pretty well, don't you make the mistake of marryln' a widow of strong convictions and mature age. . My brother married a widow. He was about your age when be did it too. an' out of consideration for his feelin's an' in the hope of bavin' a life of ease the rest of his days be selected what be thought was a rich widow. Well they hadn't hardly et their first meal together until he realized he was tied up to a wbited sepulchre. Yes, sir, for a fact She took all her money and put it into a costly monument to her first husband, an' George W. bad to cut right out an' dig foe a llvin'. "He tells me it is a mighty handsome stone, with two angels carved on it, clasping hands, an' right below the words, 'Till we meet again.' 'Many's the night,' says George W., 'that Tvs laid awake ealculatin' Just where I'm supposed to be whilst they are a-meet-ln' an' claspln' hands.' "Dan'l, a widow either makes a club or a clog out of her first husband. You are either a whole lot worse or you're never quite so good as he was, an' the longer he's buried the better he gets. "Another thing, too, Dan'l, there is no such thing as romance in a second , marriage. Love' la a plant that don't hloosa more than ones for aay oaa. d when a widow decides she needs another helpmeet she sizes up the can didates with a mighty cold, ealculatin' eye first, while a wldowCT acta as If he was afraid the supply would run out before he got a chance to get one. "To my mind, there's one time, and one time only, for marriage. It's when you're young an' In love, so young an' co much In love that nothing else mat ters at all. A second marriage Is II ks a set of false teoth a more or less passable substitute for the first accord ing to fit, but dreadful hard to writs poetry about." "You're powerful set against such things, it seems," complained Daniel. "Now, I want to know what you'd do In rase you was left? Wouldn't you turn an' marry again?" "Mnybe I would. Maybe I would, Dan'l," Nathan sighed. "A man an' moth has a habit sometimes of a cut tin' loose from everything an' flying plum In the face of Providence." "Do you think I ought to marry Abby Bell, then?" "Umi perhaps. She ain't so old but she might be older. An' she's proba bly so unselfish that she'd marry you for your own good. Yes, Abby could likely scrape up enough romance to be happy herself, an' she'd be so perfect ly proud that she had got a man, after all, that she'd pamper you up like a young lord an' that I Judge Is what you're looking for." "Now, Nathan" Daniel leaned for ward and put his hand on his friend's shoulder "as man to man, as the man in a light to a man in the darkness, is it the thing marriage? Can you. In the face of your knowledge and expert ence say so to me!" Nathan cleared his throat huskily. "Comrade, don't you gather from what I've ever said to you that Zerelda hasn't been a good companion to me. I've talked mighty triflin' about my wife, which Is a thing no man ought to do, but I've got the savin' gracs to be ashamed of it. When she left her home to come out here with me it was a sore trial to her. She thought s heap of her mother, an' she bid her good-by roallzln' that she could never hope to see her again. She Jest put her hand in mine and set her face to the west an if she ever looked back, like Ixrt's wife, I never knowed It Ws didn't have much to come to. Only a log cabin In a clearln', But love glori fied It Into a shlnin' palace, an' It was not long until there was a curtain at the window, a flower in the garden an' a babe In the cradle three things to make a man happy." "We've raised four children an' bur led two, Dan'l, an' If ever a woman done her duly by her family it was her. it's only lately that she's had any time to devote to the cause of suffer In' hu manity in general. A houseful of chil dren will keep a woman out of lots of devilment. Dan'l, I use tobacco, fish a good deal, an' play cards whenever I get the chance; while Zerelda 'tends churcb an' prayer meetln", feeds preachers and delegates, wrestles with the demon rum, an' pretends to sancll flcatlon; an' now that I come to think of it, I reckon, after all, its simply dif ferent ways we have of enjoying our selves, an' she's as much right to her way as I have to mluo. An' I'll go further, and remark right here, that If any other man would say the things of my wife that I've said of her, I'd bust his head open. I would." "Nathan," said Daniel, hoarsely, "It's It's a-goin' to be Abby." The two old men clasped hands, and looked long and darkly Into the waters of the race, that, like the stream of life, could never turn backward. The two sycamores alike bound to gether swayed and bent low in the breeze, appearing with outspread arms and rustling foliage to be whispering a benediction. A golden leaf fluttered loose, and, turning over and over, fell gently into the water, and the ripples spreading in slowly widening concentric circles seemed at last, like life and love, to reach from shore to shore. Allen 0. Garrlgue in Indianapolis Journal. He Paid His Debt Promptly. A train was just starting to leave a suburban station, says the New York Tribune, when an elderly man rushed across the platform and jumped on one of the slowly moving cars. The rear-end brakeman, who was standing by reached up just as the man got aboard, grabbed bis coat tails and pull ed hlra off. "There," be said, sternly, "I saved your life! Don't ever try to board a train that way again." "Thank you," said the old man calmly. "Thank you for your thought ful kindness. It Is three hours till the next train, lBn't It?" "Three hours and a quarter," said the brakeman, "but it is better to wait that length of time than to be killed." The long train, meanwhile, had been slowly gliding by, slowly gathering speed. Finally the last car appeared This was the brakeman'a car, the one for which he bad been waiting, and with the easy grace born of long prac tice, he started to step majestically on it. But the old gentleman seized him by the coat, and with a strong Jerk pulled him lack, and held him until it was too late. "One good turn deserves another," said the old gentleman, with a smile, "You saved my life, I have saved yours. Now we are quits." An Extraordinary Feat Admiral Togo's report that In a re cent engagement be arranged blsshtp in a formation representing the first letter of the Japanese alphabet, leads a London paper to say most unkindly that we nave all been doing the Jap anese alphabet a great Injustice If It contains letters into the shape of which a fleet of ships can be arranged without bending them. CHRONOMETERS ON ICE. ONE OP THE REMARKABLE THINGS SEEN AT THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY. The Importance of Absolutely Correct' Tims en Shipboard Tests Bssed on Purely Scientific Principles Work Exceedingly Technical. One hundred ship's chronometers kept In cold storage Is one of the many remarkable things to be seen at the United States naval observatory at Washington. To the layman It would appear that the authorities were ap prehensive that the timepieces would spoil." One more experienced would reason that the process had something to do with regulating their time keep ing qualities. Neither surmise is cor rect. The fact of the matter Is the chronometers are allowed to go tick ing merrily on In their own way and time. No one hurries them, and no one tries to diminish their speed. Yet so important Is absolutely cor rect time on shipboard that a differ ence of four seconds means a mile In longitude or latitude. And a mile In longitude may mean a warship on the rocks. . While no one corrects the "running" of these chronometers, a most ac curate record Is kept of their manner of "running" under different tempera tures. This why they are kept on Ice. The regular annual chrnometer trial begins on January 2 and ends June 22, and during this period there Is scarcely a minuto of the day that the time-keepers are not under the closest observation of experts who can tell their variations to a hair's breadth, all of which are carefully, noted on a rec ord, and, at the completion of the test, banded to the commander of the vessel to which the instrument be longs. The temperature varies at different, times of the test from 60 to 90 de grees and the losing or gaining qualities of the chronometers under these conditions are accurately kept Thus with a chart expressing In curves just what he may expect from his chronometer under different condl tions of climate, and, with his thermo meter and barometer close at band, the sailing master may calculate to a nicety the correct time and get his location to a certainty. The Importance of a central station where navy chronometers and other navigating Instruments may be stand ardized Is not appreciated outside of those directly Interested, despite the fact that millions of dollars and thou Bands of lives are wholly dependent on the efficiency o fthe service in this line of work. It is essentially neces sary that chronometers should be re gulated by a common standard, and, in order that this may be done suc cessfully, the same person who trans mlts all over the country the standard time should have charge of them. In other countries there are several naval authorities that do the work which the Washington observatory is practically doing alone. In France there Is a great central observatory at Paris, with branch naval observa tories at Toulon, Lorlent, Cherbourg and Rocbefort. The same method of dividing the work Is adopted In other countries. The policy of the United States, however, Is to combine all the en ergles and talent at the central obser vatory, for instance, between $40,000 and $50,000 worth of chronometers are tested during six months each year, and many others all the year round. The teats are made by the most ex perlenced men In the government ser vice, and the room was constructed after years of study and experience, There are a transit-house and a clock- roam, which are considered the finest In the world. To establish duplicates of these arrangements In four or five different points along the coast would nearly quadruple the first cost of the plants, with a proportional increase for maintenance, and at the same time would abolish that exact com paratlve test and standardising of in struments which is today one of the strongest points of the present sys tem in this country. It is recognized, however, that the great area covered by the UnltcM Stat. Is too vast a field to be attended to ex clusively at one point. A sinnll naval observatory has, therefore, been con structed at Mare Island, California, from which the naval vessels in the Pacific receive tholr supplies of navi gating instruments all of which are first standardized at Washington and receive the correct time. It is probable tbat before long another sub division will be established at Tutulla, Samoa, to facilitate the work of navi gators. The test of chronometers Is based on purely scientific principles. The temperature room 1b constructed so carefully that the thermometer does not vary one-half of a degree In a week. The room Is 20 feet long by 10 feet wide and eight feet high. It has double walls, quadruple windows, and warm water pipes surround It. Below it Is a big refrigerator holding 300,0 pounds of Ice. A perfectly ad justed thermograph keeps a record of the temperature. If It- becomes too warm the expansion of metal on a deli cate Instrument serves to turn down the gas heating the water In the pipes surrounding the room, thus giving scope for tbo action of tho cold stor age plant If, on the other hand, It becomes too cool, the metal contracts, and the gas Is turned higher, beating the water and raising the temperature. In this way the temperature of the room is kept at aay degree desired automatically. As already mentioned, the time of i the chronometers is never changed here.' Sometimes 1 chronometer Is al lowed to run for Tour years without the slightest alternation being mads In Its time keeping qualities. Some times It Is fast and sometimes slow according to standard time, yet the sailing master knows the exact time. This he calculates from the curve table, furnished to him by the naval observatory. The manner of making these tests forms one of the most In teresting studies at the observatory. The work Is exceedingly technical, and in no department of the government service Is more scientific knowledge and experience required than here. Brooklyn Eagle. SOME FAMOUS DOUBLES. Men Whose Resemblances to Nota bles Were Startling. The Emperor Napoleon III. had a double of about his own age In the contractor for public fetes during the Second Empire. His name has es caped my recollection. He had also contracts for soldiers' shoes and uni forms, and he kept his stores at the old Hippodrome after the lease to a circus company fell In. Ills likeness to the emperor startled me the first time I saw him. This happened at the ticket office of the Passy railway station. When I scanned him more closely I saw that he was not Louts Napoleon risen from the grave. No double will bear scrutiny, however well made up, as this particular one would have been. He knew of the re semblance I had noticed, and gloried In it The Comte de Paris also had a double, or what looked one at a dis tance. The likeness, strong enough to have been the pivot of a tragedy of errors, disappeared greatly when hs took off his hat The Comte de Paris had a pointed head like the German Emperor's; the person I speak of as resembling him had a full forehead projecting near the roots of the balr, I often saw old and young Indies extremely like Queen Victoria. The former moRtly came from Frankfort or part of Franconla, near the Duchy of Coburg. The sister of the late Mrs. Moses Levy of the Dally Telegraph, could, had her complexion been sun burnt, have easily passed at the age of 80 for the late queen. Louis Phllllppe's double, an Italian named Chlapplnl, emigrated to tho Capo. His grand-son-in-law Is Mr. Rudd. the associate of Cecil Rhodes. The resemblance was even stronger between Louis Phllltpo and Chlapplnl pndre. I have somewhere a letter dictated by the late Lord Newborough to tils son, and addressed to mc, in which his lord ship stated that the first time he saw the Citizen King he exclaimed: "What an Image of Chlapplnl!" and could not keep his eyes from following him for s whole evening. In history we have the false Smer dis. Different impostors passed them selves off as Sebastian, King of Por tugal, who was believed to have beef killed In a battle with the Moors in Morocco. Miss Jane Porter early In the last century revived the legend In a novel. She sided with those who held Sebastian to have been wounded only, and hunted down by Philip IL of Spain, who seized on his heritage. Three "false Joans of Arc" appeared In the six years following that of be, execution. Two of them avoided everj one who had known her. Paris Cor respondence London Truth. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The proportion of policemen to population is one to 307 in Paris, one to 408 In London, and one to 458 In New York. Since the use of wire fences has be come so extensive, the number of cat tle killed each year by lightning has greatly increased. Norway's coast line 1700 miles in a straight line becomes 12.000 miles if followed round the fjords. In these fjords are over 150,000 Islands. In the last few eeks since the planting of trees on the Government forest reserve In the Diamond River I Valley In Nebraska began 300,000 trees have been planted. I Tximbard stret In London took Its ' ur.mo from the Lombard merchants I who. comlnp: from the Italian republics ; of Genoa, Lucca, Florence, and Venice, I settled in London In the reign cf Ed ward I. It is asserted by a sculptor that the human font Is becoming smaller. The masculine foot of 20 centuries ago was about 12 Inches long. The average man's foot of tcday Is easily fitted with a No. 8 shoe, which is not more than ten and seven-sixteenths Inches in length. Geographers tell us that In places the Pacific is more than 29,000 feet deep, In other wcrds, if the loftiest moun tain on the globe, Mt. Everest, 29,002 feet high, were placed In the Pacific ocean at its greatest depth, the summit of the mountain would just about reach the surface of the ocean. South Australia Is said to be suffer Ing with a great invasion of mice. The cause la tho recent bad weather, which caused more or less of a failure of the wheat crop, and the farmers allowed much grain to remain In the fleldsr This fell to the ground in time, and so furnished much food for the mice, Brains Lara and Small. A mouse, it annears. has a compara tlvely larger brain than a human be ing, but the brain of man has an ad ditional development of the frontal lobes, and therein lies the difference. Higher apes , with very large brains have frontal lobes smaller than the lowest human idiot. uaon Mail. WHAT'S IN A NAME. la the mnrnlnst he' a pirate, with S eat la nd sn ; t , And we tmnhle l the stalling of nil ere i HI HRiiie. m tie Inform tit, It SO BW-ln- M'trlng mie : "tort! I viillntuitu Itnderlgo Ouy I" Ity ten nVliH-k our pintle hst renounced hi (fitrj trade ; In armor mm, ht hit a lane and xliMil : II snllnmly ailvnncea to defend a helpieM tnnld, And we know that bold "Blr tjtunrelott haa tb Held. And next, s skulking ihvarc, he I hirklnf In the tmll. Moat slnrmliiK In hit feather war srrsyi But he itrn'-litualy (lniirrt un he will tn awer If we re.ll "Illawnthn, Mndjekeewl OJIbwsyl" At "llnrstln Neltnn pewey" tae't tn admiral of Hurts. And In nt In nil hla dialogue of name cornea the Terr elmitie title under wnirn he riilea unr In aria, for when he Bound talrep he' merely "Jnmea !" fan nan . FcrnaU In 81. Xkholat. JUST FOR FUN "Bo Mr. and Mrs. Jones have quar relled? Why doesn't Bhe make up?" She dtjes. dreadfully. That's why they quarrelled." Judge. 'Oh, ho! I know what's the matter with yon. You're seasick." The Girl I'm not seasick at all, Bobby Brown. I've felt like this cn land lots of times." Puck. Wife (quoting) A man's work's fin Ished with the setting sun; a woman s work Is never done. HuRband (brute) -Quito right, my dear. I've often re marked the omission. Punch. GaggHby Jones Is very wealthy, but he says his life Is full of trials." Waggsby "Yes, that's what makes him wealthy." "How so?" "He's lawyer." Cincinnati Commercial Trlb- ue. Blinks What did yon say to your wife when you got home late last night? Jinks My Denr. Blnks Is that all? Jinks Yes. She began talk ing then. Cincinnati Ccmmerclal T.lb- une. "Very well, sir," said Dr. Quack after bis quarrel with the undertaker, "I'll make you sorry for this!" "What are you going to do?" asked tho un dertaker, "retlro from practice?" Philadelphia Press. Wife (who has been away) You must have liked that breakfast food, James dear. There Isn't a single box left. James Yes, darling. It was great (sot to voice) to start the fire with, mornings. Judge. Barber Did Weaver give you any security for the money he borrowed of you? Draper No; he said It would be secure enough In his possession. Bar ber Como to think about it, I guess it will be. Boston Transcript. Wife Do you believe that marriage Is a lottery? Husband No, I don't Wife Why not? Husband Because when a man draws a blank tn a lottery be can tear It up and take another chance. Chicago Dally News. "He's writing a novel." "I suppose he was out of his mind?" "He Is and he thought It would be more success ful If he wrote while In that condition, It's to be of the regular popular order, you know." Cleveland Plain Dealer, Bortha Ycu don't mean to say you have refused Frederick?" Edith- had to. He told me he bad never done anything he was ashamed of. I never could think of marrying a shameless man, you know." Boston Transcript "Say old man, I want to sell you ticket for our social club's private theatricals." "Not me. I haven time to go to those things. I "Nobody asked you to go. I merely want to sell you a ticket" Philadcl phla Press. "A public official is the servant of the people," said Sunator 8orghura. "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne; "and sometimes he's the kind of servant that carries a market basket every time she goes heme from her place of employment." Washington Star. "See here, old man. what in thunder did you mean by advising my daugh ter to go abroad to study music? She's no phenomenon, and I can't afford it. You knew all that." "But we're on the Bame flat aren't wet I know when I've had enough." Detroit Free Press. She Did you send verses to the girl you were engaged to? He Yes; that was the whole trouble. I Bee, she didn't like them? On the contrary, Bho did like them. But she discovered that another fellow wrote 'em, and sho married the other fellow! Yon kers Statesman. Barnes Hcwes Is a pretty good sort of a Tellow. Bhedd Yes, but he hasn't got any tact. At the restaurant the other day he asked me if I was fond of cats, and I was eating rabbit stew at the time! The Idea of asking such a question at such a time as that! Boston Transcript. "So you don't care for pcetry?" "No," said the eminent Inventor. "Only the other day I beard a young woman singing 'had I the wings of a dove.' Now the wings of a dove wculd be wholly insufficient in atmospheric resistance for any practical purpose whatever. What she really wants Is a tetrahedral kite." Washington Star. Lsbaudy's List of Titles. The London Express gives the fol lowing 'complete list of Lebaudy's titles: Jaques I, Najln-al-Den . Emparor of the Sahara. . Commander of the Faithful, King of Tarfala. Duke of Arleuf. Mace of Chal-Huln. KEYSTONE STATE GULL1NGS BOY HUNTERS START FIRE. Flames Dettroytd 300 Panels of Fencs and SO Tens of Hay lr Stack. In n riot nt Mndderns' Hull, m ar . Dunbar, 20 Slavs wero Injured. Paul Smith of Monarch and Jacob Pollnn der of Continental have serious knlfo gashes about the fnco and body and will likely die. Tho trouble was started by nn un known Slav, who was enrnged be cause others danced with his sweet heart. When he attacked one, friends came to tho aid of both, and 200 pres ent joined In the fight. When odlcf-ra arrived blood was flowing In stream about tho dancing floor. Twenty of the wounded were left under the care of physicians, while IB were arrested. Informations were mntle before Justice of the Pence Duncan of Dunbar against 25 more of the rioters. Park RoRS, of Sprlngboro. near MeadvHIc, was killed by a train to night. Roes hod carried tho suit case of a young woman to the Bessemer depot, and after assisting her on a car, he stood talking to her until the train pulled out. As It did so, Ross's overcoat caught on a car and he was drawn under the train. Ills legs were cut off below the knees. A sperlul train was sent to bring Ross to the hospital here, but he died as the truln reached Springboro He was 21 years old, and the only son of a widowed mother. The body of a man of refined ap pearance wns found In the woods above Mahanoy City, stripped to the wnlRt. There were no marks of violence about the body, nn signs of a struggle, and no valuables or money In his pockets. From letters and re ceipts taken from his coat and vest It Is believed to bp John T. Doyle, of Puterson, N. J. Tho authorities be lieve tho man was foully dealt with. The Pittsburg & Washington Coal Company, which has just completed a mine In Independence township, bus let the contract for DO houses to be occupied by employes. The mine I on a branch of the Wabash. Within a few weeks the company will begin opening another mine. Tho company is controlled by littpburg and Wash ington capitalists. Chief of Police S. J. Anslll of Cali fornia bus been arrested on a bench warrant churned with accepting fpes illegally. It In alleged thnt the chief urrested persons nn petty charges, al lowing them to so free upon the pay ment cf a sum of money. AnslU'a liiends Hay that his arrest Is the re sult of spite work. Ho wntved B hearing and was hound over to court In tho effort to dislodge a rabbit while hunting on tho farm of Ells worth Cnthcrs, near Rogersville, Greene county, boys Ret fire to a brush heap from which the flames quickly spread. Threo hundred panels of fenco snd 20 tons of hay In stacks wero destroyed. Mr. Cath er'B buildings narrowly escaped. Near ly 100 acres wus burned over. Engineers of the Pinnaylvanla rail road have begun tho survey for a branch from the Berwlnd-Whlte coal operations at Foustwell to Hoswefl and the new fields being opened In Jenner, Stony Creek and Quemahonlng townthips, In Somerset county. The railroad will be In operation by next spr'ug. The Baltimore & Ohio Is also building a tout field extension. Tho official voto In the Twenty third congressional district wns as follows: Fayette county Cooper, R. 10,530; I'hl, D., 0,080; Hocking, P.. 1.632. Somerset Cooper. 2.2R2; Ubl, 2,770; Hocking, 100. Totals Cooper, 18,200; I'hl, 10.597; Hocking, 2,226. Cooper's plurality was 7,609. The Boyle Coal Company, composed of John C. and Washington Boyle and others, has sold Its mines and hold ings at Milliards on the Pittsburgh, BtRRciner & I.nUo Erie railroad to a company composed of Harry and James Humilton of Milliards, Ilow & Miller of I'nlontown and others. The consideration Is $18,000. "Bert" Robinson, 25 years old. went to sleep besldo a fire nt New Castle, and was probably fatally burned. Mrs. Mary Lowls, 21 years old. is missing from her home nt New Castle. Her family Is alarmed as to her safety. John Hendricks and Frank RIsb were slightly hurt In a head-on col lision between two street cars at But ler, Pa. The accident happened in s heavy fog. Charles Lean wus nrrested at Oil City, Pa., and was taken to Sharon to answer to a charge of embezzle ment. Lean was a representative of the Fifth Avenue Library Association. Frank Ccfoli, of Ilrookvlllc, Pa., an Itallnn. was convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of a countryman named Pellcgrin. Rob bery was tho motive alleged. Joseph M. Marquis. 35 years old, supposed to have come from Cross Creek, Pa., was killed by a train at Canton. O. Ho was about 35 years old and hud $191 In his pocket. Five horses and II cattla were ere mated In a tiro which destroyed (Jeorje Norwood's barn near DuucanB ville. Tho Iohh amounts to about $7.O0u, with no Insurance. John Haiioman, of Wlndber, was probably fatall) stabbed. John Zak ucr.yn. his allc god ucsulUint, has been arrested. fho Cnblo House at Meuilvillt., managed by Thomas Magoe, was closed by the sheriff. The executions will amount to about $4,000. Mugee curne from Sharon and was a promi nent politician. After deliberating for almost 13 hours the Jury returned a verdict finding Dr. J. C. Miller, of Jeanuette, not guilty of an operation causing the death of Dollle Tygor, of Gypsy, In diana county, at Barnesboro lust May. Ordera have been Issued to start In full the 255 coke ovens of the Monas tery plant at La t robe, Pa. The works employ about 600 men.
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