sisi ny og [GREELEY AS A BOY. LOVED TRUTH AND WAS WAL- LOPED FOR HIS INTEGRITY. Weisman iiest Fasoous Jotrnalist Acquired Knowle | ‘ edge Farly Through Grest Tribulation. || Scaggs, “a Child of the Devil,” Was Kind | to the Boy Who Wanted to Learn. Ih : : i The oft told and pratseworthy story out the sterling quality of George Washington's truthfulness when a lad . and the straightforward confession, “I etmnot tell a lie, father; I did it with my little hatchet,”’ that have mado the Father of His Country the idol of boyish - ear#s stands not alone as an example of American youthful integrity. Another lad, when punishment as © keonly dreaded confronted him and a father more irate than George's parent #f ever pictured to have been, stood bold- 1y forth when questioned and acknowl edged himself the culprit. This other hoy was Horace Greeley, and the story i: on interesting ono. ; I happened in the town of Erie, Pa, whe» Horace spon’. a great part of his Doyh: 4. The Jad was unusually preco- * ofous :~d at the age of 10 years was onside: 1 the prodigy of the town. Ze was 8 great reader and eagerly devoured amything in the way of useful litoratare hat came 1+ his way. His father was a poor man, a:d Horace had not many “@hances for me stal-culture, but so keen was ths boy's ive of study and ambi: tion for knowlege wo thas he veed to visit | By stealth an old ighbor who possessed | ‘x handsome end fi ly stocked library. This old fellow was, to the mind of Porace’s father, the cesence of all that was irreligions His name was Scaggs " =Nathaniel Scaggs—and despite his quiet mothod of living and bis acknowl | Sew honesty of character he remained, ‘Mr. Gregley's ining, a vile and bard ‘ened sinper. Old Seagge rarvaivea tended. amy place of warship an! nn vieasant, Sanday afternoons conil always 0 seen sitting in his front garden boldly smok-. #hg his corncob pipe. These were the esuses of Mr. (ireeley’s condemnation, "amd ho dubbed the old scholar *‘a child of the devil.” : : But Scaggs had taken a fancy to the ght faced Horace and invited the boy his home. After the first visit and a impse of that wonderful storehouse of 4 Horace could not stay away. He w bis father hated old Scaggs and eatled him a ‘‘lost soul,” and be real- if his visits to their neighbor reach- his ears that his father would in- .'stantly prohibit his calls. At the same time old Scaggs’ kind- 3 nog had won his ‘heart. His wisdom gained bis admiration, and he felt the injustice of bis father’s dislike to- ward his old fricud. Besides the old ‘man was teaching him Latin and open- jng daily to the boyish mind fields of _ thought and speonlation and pointing amt with care and patience pbilesophio truths so eagerly listened to by young Horace. : Once in the middle of a sentence of | @loero, while the two were engaged in _ tivefr dunily reading the boy stopped short | and exclaimed: ‘Mr, Scaggs, my father ‘ doesn't like you. He says you are a . ohild of the devil.” Tho old man was silent for & moment and then burst ont laoghing. : “Why does your father dislike me, Horace?’ he asked, ; “Well, you don’t go to meeting, you know, sir, and then you smoke your - pine on Sunday.” abd + “Yes, 1 do, my boy, but I did not know that was s great sin. I sm sorry ‘your father dislikes me, my son. Lot vs | go on with Ciera.’ And the reading oomntinved. That night Horace Greeley made up his 7:ind to speak to his father amd make a ploa for old Scaggs’ friend- Accordingly, just before bedtime race accosted his father: : “Father, is not God forbearing?’’' he *Yes, my son. Why do you ask?’ ~ “Does be not forgive much to those who aro kiud and intelligent?” “Why do you ask?’ still inquired the father. : Lr ; Well, I think Mr. Scaggs is both Mud and intellectoal, and [ somebow Soped the good Lord would overlook his smoking and not going to mecting.” The old man at once grew ster, gro tioned young Elorace re-.v ug bis so- Heitnde for their neizh or, an! eventu- ally the secret * the boy's visits and studies was brov oh: 9 lignt. Mr. Gree- ley forbade his ton to go near old Scaggs ng.in, ¢emonnoid Latin books as im- pins reading nod threatened the lad | vith the stra). : Horace Uirgelty, after bo got to be the “editor of a big New York newspaper, regular quarry holes bearing every evi- jly with potatoes, barley, millet and at | : : i stylish carriage, conclhunan atid {ootman ‘on the box, and in the carriage a rotund, ped faced man, past middle age, and be- ' pide him a richly areyed svoman trying Ir "BADGER AND SUCKER. A VICTH4 TO ETIQUETTE. FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE. | The Way Niinols usd Wisconsin Came to fn Artist's Cucomilurtable Experiences - Life's Moving Panorama Iliincraied 1a " i Get Their Nicknames. ek a Roysl Banquet [uo Korea. | “If there bad been nd badgers in The rigid etiquette which prevaila in “Wisconsin wold not be known as the conve cont for strangers, whose un- the name becaas: badgers were there, CXC say standard. An artist, makirs a There were very few white people in gay ia Send, wae bidden to a royal Wisconsin territory in its early days {east at the Ling's palace, to his niingied military posts, the missionary and trad- | toms ho anpesled to Mr Go; the Sng ing stations, ard the lead agining ro | lish consml, to gidde Lin through {he gions inthe southwestern part of the ordeal The one thers unpresaed upon territory. The niiners were of to him was this: “It iso great insalt to ve- classes, men who worked the mines all ! fue what 18 offend you at table tud a the year round and men who cams 9p greater insult 1: fo eat all that ison from the Illine's country in the spring your plate.” and worked until the fall, when they Wo all sat down gayly, end the feass returned to thoir prairies and groves began All the maduets of the The miners who were permanent dviell- | seemed to have on eooked and pat be- ers in the region didn’t bother to put up fore me, incloding meats, fish, honey, cabins or even huts. In fact, material eweots, vegetables and sauces, of which, | for such dwellings was not abundant. mind you, we had to eat ‘‘moontains’’ | They simply dug holes in the sidis of piled on our plates Young pigs. in the | the hills large enough to give them puppy state, were also there and were | room to sleep nnd cook in. Nowzdays much appreciated by my princely enter- those burrows vould perhaps be celled tainers. : the subterranean homes of the badgers however, not being provided vith an they were prom stly called badger holes, ever expanding digestive « HEY and the miners who occupied them wore my friends of Chevsen, 1. Cla oy if 1 called badgers : : 1 were snfToeating. A ~ Any che who cares to tramp throngh | T mised mv eves pleadingly to Mr. G., | that part of Wisccnsin today will come but he shook his head sternly. The derv- apon deep excavations in the rocks~— ants, seeing me hesitate, plied me bes | dence of having been made long ago. Jeast half a bushel of beans. And so they wer. Some of them were After vainly praying for courage and preavated 60 yeani ago and more. They dexterity to slide the food under the were the work of the lead miners who table I mada desperate inroads upon th i went up from Illinois in the spring to the heaped up vegetables. Once again | mining region, They, being there only polled my eves in dumb entréaty toward for a short season, did not mine by dig- the consul, who once again shook is ging shafts, ns the permanent miners head, this time with a sardonic gn did, nor did they five in barrows. They which made me determine to ges throat Blasted the surface rock, making 'arge the feast somehoir, bat in silence pits by their work, seeking what was After this I war treated to lily brs called the flont ad and ore that was and radishes dipped in the vilest 1 ensily obtained near the top. They oc gauoces, besides a lerge portion of a | cupied the pits they made, us the other pe pig roasted and fruit in profi miners did their hillside burrows, with foreign aud mative wines “Owing to the similarity of tho mi: Jength, when T felt that with the: grations of thise quarry miners to those meathfal I ghonll groan alond, tix of that familiar fish which goes UD was reached. Thiit nohappy meal 1 stream in the spring and down again in gt neon and was brought toa elo tho fall, they soon became Knowm af 7p m, . : : suckers, and their pits in the rocks were, To those who appreciate the pleas: called sucker holes. In the course of of eating, Jot me recommend a ro years the names badger and sucker came Korean dinner. No pen can doseribe( to be applied to the entire people of agonies I endured as Iwas carried hor Wisconsin and Illinois. Many of the jn my green sedan chair. For Ans original badgers nnd suckers became the garcely ate a mouthful, and to this d. lending citizens of their respective 10- the might of » puppy pig is unbearabl calitien ‘and helped make the country’s _ygath’s Compusion. history. When Wisconsin wis admitted | Yiu ma ; : : ber cont of arme in recognition of this tin iii ih fact, and it was from the miners Who When He Wantvd Candy and Peanuts, quarried in tha rocks of Wisconsin that, They Wern Not to De Had, i Illinois got her name of the Sacker Just as Mr. Stuffer was starting for i State. ''— New York Sun. | the railroad station with Lis wife and | TL i children to take a very losg journey, | Wants Generally, _:. " Mrs. Stuffer exclhimed: An anecdote of the groat Worth’s| +See here, John. Wo can never go gonorosity has ben going the rounds away without soma fresh broken cane Just ‘whers the generosit? comes in. dies. No one ever went on a railroad however, i+ what | have failed todetest. jonmey who didn’t bave a lot along.” | It was during the dars of the mppire * «And I * pot in Miss Delia Stuffer, i that a lender of fushion in Paris, (nd: goed 7, ‘insist on somo peanuts and | ing that she Lod overdravis her hus gongh drops.’ re 1 ‘band's munificsnt allowance, and hata | «That's all right, ” said Staffer. “Wo | | Wisconsin,’ said a native of that state, Koreo 4 to corenionions banquets is tu. | Badger State, and yet it did not receive trad aed | petites are searcely up to tha the population being confined to the joy and despair. dgaor it of i ostivie cas New York Street Bien, | A living picture of life's moving pan. ! | orama was presented @t Broadway awd Twenty-third street one day last wien It was a procession. It woe a procession | formed by chance, but the utiaost delib- | "eration conld not have made it tell a) | plainer story of life. | {First came a wagon piled high with | | baby carringes—freil little vehicles to! { carry frail “inches of Humanity’ as | they began the uncertain journey over the tortuous ways of this world. | $ two laughing bogs advanced only far | | enongh in the great highway of life to | realize that there were roses in the path. bat not to know of thie thorns : { bellad Ce boys, in a dogeart drawn | by a high stepping cou, vere two yonths on ihe threshold of manhood Oze wore on tle lapel of his roat a college pin on a bit of blue ribbon, the other a pin of different design on nh yellow knot of ilk. ‘hey were cuguged in carmest | conversation, apparently suggested by ‘dugonts, but ok they closely yesembled | When I was bat half way through, | & highly eclored theater peter reproseni- ing a young woman who wns advertised to appear (nh some stage. A clan -ing gong was clope behind, and a cable ear crowdad with impatient | business poem was hurrying its load to | their posts to makethe daily start in the wild roce for money. : Next a hance ne pair of horses, a to appear to be on the sunny side of that midille line, Proooverity wis written on every part of the cquipage. Then came #0 coli cart, and its dust, borne on the vin, reached and annoyed | the oovnpants of he carriage. The driver | walked at hic her's head, bowed, but not swith years, aud nis fero bore the i marks of toll that bad extended over hus | life sine early oath Close belt boa ae esrt, with Linck, "| horses, black joo oes and a solemn vis +1 aged driver, cane 5 he arse —-- New York ~ | Herald © A Meneiicirr Of Fi Species. Frau von Bee, well koown for her 1 kindness and po onerosity, was waited lopon the otber day by un well dressed | gentleman, wlio ~pok. to ber as follows: | “1 wish to draw yvor attention, | | madam, to the sad case of a poor fam. ily. The father is weak and advanced in | years, the mother is budridden, and their five children wre clamoring for bread. Tie poor creatures are about to Le turned ipto the streot with their | wretched belongings unless somebody will undertake to pay their arrears of | rent, amonnting to 10 marks." Frau von S—— at oucs went to fetch the money. Handing it to ber visitor, she said: : ; “Now, sir, 1 should like to know who you are, 8s yon seem to take so warm an interest in these poor people.’ “1 am their lasdlord, madam!''— Wochenblatt. His Sensible Patient. Dr. Abernethy was habitually rude to | his paticuts and particalarly disliked | The Destruction of ¢ Leves In Louhdasw | | © Then followed a pony cart carrying + | lent ringing of the big plantation tell a 4 vores priest | SPONGE GARDENING. ide Prevented by a Noble Animal rm : : Your correspondent met a gentieman PROFITABLE SEA FARMS ALONG ia yesterday who given the follwing at- ‘FLORIDA COAST. count of a most singular evidence «f in-. ~~ a. talligerion on the part of a horse belonz- Interesting Fuets Not Glenerally Kuows ing to. K. Ix Moore of this parish The! Comeerting an Article of Utility horse's name is Dixie, and Moore 14istd | snes Rendered the Indastry by the Gews™ him from a cols and is much attached to ernment's Fisk € pal the animal, During the spring of 1504 : Dixie's knee wus hart while employed Ever since the sponge fisheries of the i in repairing levees, and for sone sfecks Bahamas and the gulf coast of Florida thereafter he was uit able to work ut showed signs of becorniog exhaasted ef- lall and was allowed to run loose in the forts have been made to enltivate sponges on farms or artificial beds, and more res pasturs and about the place. One morning, when the hands were nll 2 : . e ’ : ; semtly science in the fields at work and Moore himse!(f . "a 4 has tried » imitate the was riding after them, they heard a vio w SH Jtikle by Sorting the soft fiber of ocoanut leaves anid shel Is back at the honse. Thinking something. into sponges of commercial vale dripdfyl had happpened to his wife or chile perhaps, Moore put spurs (0 ' his horse, and calling to the hands to | follow galloped up to the hoose, When ' he got there, he found Mra Moore and the children safe ‘and sound and very much atoused at old Dixie, who had | mnraged to open the yard gate and was pulling on thé bell rope like a crary thing. All thelr earta to drive the horse away had been in vain. He only continned to ring the bell more londly. Moore began to snapect that Dixie might know what he was about, after all, and went opt to investigate, When the horse siw his master, he let go the bell ron med van Gff toward the pastuge, locking back and tosang his bead at av- ry “Le, na il to say, Come gat’ Moire moon save that something annson! had cevarred sod followed - after Dinie As fast ‘ag he coahl The heres made “wtynioht for the fe ve af the Yewrer vd of the pasture and stopowed short Chi oeton Wood (Toe When Moore casas up, what 57 astonishment to see i litt lovee, with the water trickling tb Quickly soumigniog | breach was soon hedled, ut for Dixie's timely warn, haw. aver, the levee wonid have pote and the whale place world have teen ove 1 flowed —Bedford (La y Cor Palidnl- | phia Times : : CATS HARD TO TRAIN. | Years of Patience sud Plenty of Kindmims Before They Will Learn Tricks i + An English exhibitor of trained ani. | mals, Mv. Leoni Clarke, is reported as | saying that, though he has educated zl {sorts of saimals, from lions downward, | he has found that the most difficult of 1 them all is the cat. He has to treat this | creaaurs with extraordinary care. A dog | is sensible, a monkey accormmnodating, 1 and a rat either forgives or forgets—but { scat! She isa hopeless bundle of seusi- bilities. Strike her once, if only by ac- cident, and she will never perform aguin. | Kindness is not only politie, it is abso- lately necesmry in the training of cata. Althongh 30 cats are sufficient for his i thromeh the winter, where the masses of entertainment, he has 60 or more with i him, for cats are very skittish creatures, and when they take the whim io ther heads it is useless to take them on the | stage. When Mr. Clarke enters the sti!” the mewing is prodigions, and he is 1 stantly buri~d in a moving mantle of Sponge farming is now a saccessful in- - dustry, ind hundreds of acres in the gulf of Mexico almg the Floride const are planted with “sponge cuttings” snd sweds. The work is not dicimilar iv many nebects to oyster calizre. The young sponges are plants 1 in water along the coast varying fro. one to five fathoms in depth. : A few years ago tha fish commis gioners had thedr attention called to the . sponge fisherics off the Florida const, and after finding that the beds were be- ing rimidly depleted of the best stock, an exnmination of the fisheries wes made to. ascertain some way of preserving them. ‘The specimens of sponge taken to Washington in tha aatumn of the year were foand to be reproductive if the proper _oomditions were sapplied. The sponges) in the autnn were found to de velop masses of jpeotoplasm or spores, which in the enring of the year were lib- © epnted. These spires contained the small reproductive particles from which the sponges developed. Some of the rponges “s axperimented with did net rearoduee their k'nd at all, and it vas found that in ordar to enltivais the spong iw it was neomeary to plant sponges thst pro- droll certain cells that contained the on or peg and others that represented ETT IRAtozon : A smiall sponge farm was eatablished ‘at Washington, afd then othen slong the Florida coast as experiments. These proved successful, so that grivate indi- viduals went into the basiness There are many serves of spongy farms near | Key West, and others at Anche, Fis, and pear Tampa. These farins were first commissioners, bat now they are ob- | tained direct from the sponge. fisheries In the autumn of the yes: the varions kinds of sponges are purchased by the sponge: culturise, who generally takes an 'assortinent that is sum to sepply him {'with both the male and female cells The beds, or farms, are usually locat- [ed nt some well protécted place slong | the coast and fenced in with natural for- | maticos and artificial dams.. The sponge 'gseds are kept in small “pounds” | protoplasm. develop and grow. Early in | the spring these spores are literated in ' the Luger body of water, where they | soon #wim around. The eggs continue to | grow rapidly, and in a short time attach | themselves tn the rocks or coral forma- i tioz 1 the bottom of the wate. - : sapplind with their seeds fron: the fish following prayer: great fancy ball was fnimidme, Went 10 gan buy all thos things on the train. | the loquacity of women in describing to Lire her a ooslgme, ‘dients bad never come in his line. The grype Whatever else happens to tho off her shoe and stocking without say- Finally tho priy os of beauty prevailed. 4 those commnditied”” in Blut she was to wear a costume entirely | But when they boarded the train the Joes Abate thy Jooked; of his devising. army of peanut. venders, cough drop | *“Bite.”’ He dressed her as the flag of Paris. geglers and fresh broken candy mer- | Cat?’ The tricolor fluttered in her skirt, ob chants was nowhere to be seen. Ordi-| “Dog.” her shoes, in ler enameled eaxrings. parily the traveler was pelted with © Madam," be said, ‘‘you are the Her hair was dressed to represeiit 3 these goods until he had to buy and eat | most sensibly woman 1 ever met.’ stormy sea in which rode the fuIoUS gone in self defense. On this occasion, : Ea thres masted galley bearing the arms of however, not a single peddler was in THE DAYS AND THe YEAR. Paris. The lady was enraptured. The sight. ‘1 What is the world, my little ha? great man only charged her 1,500, “Outrageous,” said Stauffer to the | Our world belongs to that clock, the san. francs. The des was hers for one inductor. ‘Do you mean to say that Bteady it spins; while the clock beats true * SE P ) ; Days and segsons for me and you. Mghtauly — the compuny has ceased to provide iB | L,4 tok, tok, tock, goss the mighty clock, A Railtoander’s Prayer. | patrons with fresh broken candies and While time swings on below, : recently roasted peanuts? What uss bo- | Now left, naw right, now day, sow night, A railroad nan is responsible for the ne of the fellows who chu: ied apples With a tick, tock to and fro. i and oranges on your lap and funny | The pussy willow in coat of fur, 0 Lord, tow that 1 have flagged nll Suis and things? Iu this concern | A swoel pink rose in the wind astir, thee, lift my fleet from cft’ the road of run by railroad men what?’ A maple leaf with a crimson blush, : i : a y : . Then falling snowflakes and winter's bush. life and plant them safely on deck of |. Mr. Stuffer," replied the conductor, Sy oe BO a da aol the train of sulvation! Let me vse the ‘the last time you traveled on this road And the world swings on below, safoty lamp known as prudence, make ki a4 i i Budding, blowing, shining, snowing, i : jcked because the trainboy biffed g. blowing, shining «il couplings im the train with the To in ros oye Sa an apple oy he With a tick, tock to and fro. strong link of thy love and let my lamp oi 0q to dispose of and made yournose | A little sony when the hart is glad, be the Bible. And, heavenly Father, bleed with a packet of cough drops A Hitle sigh when the way is sd, keep all switches closed thas lead off on = a mv 831 | Whether tho shadows or sunbeams fall, yup wi Jciing e ., which he shied at you with a little tod | Sweet rest and dreaming at bast for all, the sidings, especially those with a blind 10, force. You said you'd sue the | While tick, Hek, tock goes the mighty clotk, end! 0 Lord, it it be thy pleasure, Sie company for damages tor sault and And the world swings on below, avery semaphars block along the Line to battery. The company got scared as | Smiling, sighing, singing. crying. show the white light of hope that [ may | your shrbate’ sud had the boys taken With a tick, tock to sad fro. make the run of life without stopping. | + on 8 i» the way, my own little one, And, Lord, givi us the Ten Comiand- | The traveler burst out into a t at. Onur world belongs to thai clock, the sun, ' va | And the hand that somewhere keeps the J a 9) whedsle sa uhen § evel of invective. ‘‘Blame the bloated ocor- . . Is the same sist holdeth youn and me,’ ludy prayed. Tie great man denied. traveler, he's never allowed to run short | jug a word and held oot her foot in &i- : ; I A cnrions feature of te show is the wav postom for the sponges to fasten them- some of his animals before he oonid pil laeation for an ideal sponge hed An them upon the stage. A parachute ¢at, gem of the sea where the salt water which climbs up a rope to the roof of flows in freely that has » nataral hard | the theater nod los down by parachitc. Dhottom is the best. Rocks, stones and is the second which hus done the trick. | other substances can te dropped at the | in whichy the cats wilk over a rope Of | selves to. The lagoom is them i rats and mice and panaries, stepping | up, 80 that when the seed is putin gingerly between the little Buttering Pit cannot float out 10 ses again. bodies. This mighty forbearance #|gimply throw their spmnges in ‘brought about by training up the cats | lagoon in the fall of the year snd from kitts in the Fame cage as the | protoplasm devélop there Uindér proper rats and birds. There nre only six of bis | enltivation the sponges this raised are cats that Mr. Clarke ares trast smo | gaperior to those foand in the swe Only the rats. The rats and mice come {101 | the best varieties are propagated. : Java. — Exchange. : - | “sheepswool'’ is the choicest, witha Yea and Egge. © | sell for from $1.50 to $8 a pound. Treen] a colored wisiter at a queer lit-| “yeilow"’ sponge is nest in quality, tle hotiil in Alabama. who asked a trend | its price is much less than the “ of mine: : : ; © wool" The “grams” : “Will yoo have toa or coffes?’’ very limited, fo: its valine Pog to pay one for the trouble **Qtare rea or sasser tea?’ After the sponge farm is anos started “What's that?’ : there is little mare to do with it sxceps “Store tea or sasser teal’ at Larvesting time The sponges grow “What d'yve mean by sasser tea?’ slowly and usually three yearsolapse be- “Qassafras tea—good for de blood.” | fore any are puiled up. Then nly the “(vive we store tea | want meals. | choicest, fall grown anes are gathered. aot medicine *’ Tho others are left to produen new seeds - And another who asked : ant to reach a larger size. The picking: **How you have your eggs’ of spomges in a farm of this nature is “Boft borled : much simpler than “to raise them from The waiter disappeared aud returned | the deep waters of the gull. Armed with “Boss. I don’t believe you'd care for! a Jong leaded pole a boatman can easily ‘dem oggs boiled. Better have ‘ain mixed haal up the sponges that he needs, and in the course of a day he oconid gather ap wid a ham omelet No eggs were ordered —Polly Pry in| thive times the quantity pulled up by : eats. It took him foor yearsto tre) 14 is very difficult to get the right 4} : tho great oan ni illiner and prayed him There are about ten men who spend | heir ailmesigs One lady, knowing Lis | | : fo i : a 3 their me marcaipg through the FATE © peculiarities and having a wounnd that t : Fie was shoukidd, Such mean eXpe- glling fresh brogen candies and cough | peeded attention, went to him, pulled | White tick, tick, tock gost the mighty clock. | New York Recorder. thy regular sponge. o hermen off the const. The wate is comparatively @ tions!" he yelled. ‘‘That’s the sort |. Alia Yea , ¢ day, now nights : ; Now left, now right, now day, nov migh Boston Politeness. “After being forbidden old Scaggs’ : jonship,’’ he said, ‘I went aud told the old mun about it He seemed _ grieved, but told me to obey my father The next day 1 was with my teacher at the usual bour, and after promising him | would tell my father of my visit our lesson wert on as usual Then I ‘went home and told my dad, and he wal- oped me! For a whole week I contin- wed my visits to my old preceptor, and each night [ received a thrashing—more severe each time! As the end of the week | kad fo est my meals standing up Tien. my father locked me up for a few days, and we lefs Erie for Vermont in jess than a fortnight. Yea [ slipped out and badd old Seaggs goodby. The oid man vas tearful and gave me the worn volume of Cicero as a parting gift. Of course | got a licking for that visit also, but | had sven my old friend | and had my beloved Latin reader bot- | toned tightly beneath my waistcoat. 1 honored my father always,” Mr. Greeley concluded, “bat 1 beover forgave him | ghose lashings, He was a blue Presty- | tfrian and could not tolerate Sabbath * Mbeaking. He was a mighty good man, but when 1 think of those whippings™' | and then Mi. Greeley used to squirm, much to the delight of his listeners — Now York Redarder. 3% The mosaic on one Pompeii floor is Jib to havi abet $72. the Universe, say with a smile: ‘Well . the government wiil be in complete con- Ja Oe Sera] hagpeniay, Ne in the rear of ‘the car and began some ‘Equal to the Emergency. . | An old adzaival well Bh tie hi had sighted or, the starboard offiug.-— : mi = A Jor, R18 New York Herald. | power of exaggeration way descriving a Held to the Habit. oyage at supper one night’ “While | ) ii oh in or Pacific " > said ras] 1 oan’t let you have any mane, | 7 assed an is and which wis positive ily b that's flat,”’ said the new woman. ! red with lobsters. i '¥ i pe a hig i i i v | *“But,'’ said one of the guest, smi gathering in his limpid bine eyos i ‘Because,’ confessed the breadwin- i mnsil boiled. Of conrie not,’ replied the un i danntod admiral, ‘bat this wag a v i eanie island with boiling springs | Peagson's Wee ily. sale down at Cuttem’s, and they are . selling the loy:lisst spring trousers ever geen for $2.08. 1 thought I had got over the bargain counter habit, bat’ this ia Baldness. i apolis Journal Hen bocome bald mare frequently | The Correct Thing. | than worsen because of the closines: of | She (from the newspaper )—Colorado the hats they wear, which keep the head makes failure to support a wile a nus too het, induce perspiration and wealvu | demeanor. a aitig | the hair. The boys of tha famous Bias | He (serionsly)—I should think it t Osa schools of London, who never wear | 2% bats, never become bald late in life. | Press. : Robesvierre had a thin face, sharp | Cambric was firss introdooed into nose, narrow forehead and stall mouth, {England during the woign of Wu with thin lips. He always dressed pest: Elizabeth. The first piece imported was { ly and was «ftsn mistaken for a depart rvsoied $ the yas Queen to male v * i t¥ A ment olerk ¢r hookkeeper. | OF Rap 2c death, may thou, the Superintendent of from them until the day comes when | } doe, thou gocd and faithful servant | trol of all the transportation interests.’ | { Come and sign the pay roll and receive | pon he went back to Mrs. Staffer | heated remarks about a millennium ' something whith it wis understood he | asked the husband, tears | ing incredulons ly, ‘lobsters are not red; yr 4 a : 8 : y y Fey ner shamefaceldly, “there is a bargain | xomething 1 annot resist. "Indian. | ‘would be a mrademeanor, — Detroit Free | With » tick, tock to and fro. —~Harriet F. Blodgett in St. Nicholas. A Dilemmas: { Friend—Have you completed your | novel? Author—""o$ yot, I am sorry to say. “1 have made six couples happy for lif, but I have still got an old general and | a shoemaker's widow on my hands, and | somehow they won't match. —Fliagende | Blatter. Saari) : i . /mmed to tell the story with much feeling. | time pulled into the gruat station of ‘of a ballad and waltz that we shall got | And the world swings on below — srw { | i ! /Estheties Run Mad. | O’Kief—Why did the Newsplices move? : : McEll—The wall paper on their old i flat didn't harmonize with the new baby’s complexion, I believe. —Brook- lyn Eagle. : “ow rn at Lo - wo m— SECRETS OF THE HEART. Deep down neath sara of the coonll - i Unsounded by phamet or line, Af peace fram the storm and commotion That rages o'er its billows of brine, Thers are so¢rots that time shall not fathom, There are jewels nnksown to carth’s mart. As deep, as true and as procions In the voios of the fond, Daihful heart : — Jassie Burtiets Davia The “great bell’ at Moscow weighs 443,732 pounds, is 19 feet and 3 inches i high and measures 60 feet inches | gronnd the lower rime. The bell metal An it is worth $300, 000 l 1a dttle over 750 cents ah low over the artificial beds, snd not dis- The Observant Citizen of a Boston | turbed by tides, floating debris or winds dail? witnessed an interesting incident | It is also very clear and pelineid, sothat in a Bostem electric. A young man was | ope can see the bottom for a long dis- seated reading in a crowded olectric car, | tance down. Oecasionally one: finds 8 and a fashionably dressed, elderly wom: | gponge farm where dep sea Sponges are an entered, accompanied by a pretty opltivated, and it is necessary, them, to girl The young man never locked up have a diver to gather them. Hore again. antil the elder lady, touching his shoul: | (he work is made easier. The diver rons der, said, honey sweet, “Wonld vou go risk from sharks, tides or other in- kindly give my daughter your sent?’ |omveniences that daily beset those off The young man looked at tha young wo | thier CORSE. : i wan, who looked by no means ill or | ‘The value of the sponge farm ipcredses feeble, then raised hig hat and said guiet {every year despite the annual harvest lr, ‘No, madam.” Si that is taken therefrom. The new = Ss : sponges are spreading until every square ; He Waan't, : | neh of the bottom and sides of the pond “You oppose every movement of Wo |e aovered with young and old sponges. man in polities,’ said the fair lobbyist, | pr no digouses or enemies got into the “and yon speak sneeringly of tho "Uew yey the sponges will then yield enor. woman.” Are you a misogynist?’ | ums crops vear after year. The annual “ 'M—no,"’ replied the representative ore from a good “sined bed ranges i{ from Egypt, scratching his chin. Lm | Brean 21.000 to $10,000, according to its a bimetaliist. "—Chivage Tribune. «ize, location and age —Philadelphia . 7 : Times : oo The Musqnito coast received ite nume | mm Sr from the Spaniards in allasion to the An English View of Tt ef ; | astonishing abundance of this pestifer-| Mrs Smith—1 think it dreadful that Ons Insect your divoree laws in -America should rT — he so much more lenient than they are Bunyan pad what was called a per Enlai : . suasive vice He never soolded in his Mr. Van Rensselaer— Well, yom see, mrmors. | my dear madam, in England divorce 2 A hunting hern cost in Spain in 1627 8 luxury, while with us it i necessity, «London Panch.
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