og y 5 iy . 1S ———— gis ASE TY $much the worse for wear—>Martin by - however, neat, refined and attractive, ome whose genius we admire, whose wit always refreshes ns, and whose “character we love for its unselfishness. with a bright idea and the conscious | possessed the power of breeding other ‘explain a great deal. et scp shaped cavity the size of a small orange, in which lay a pebble about as pebble continually grew larger, and that : - bedstead in it for the head of the house, deem it a bardship to be obliged to live. © — “‘The Peasant State,” Dicey. ly known. It was built with the money was a cattle rancher in Deaf, Smith birthmarks that hds ever been reported in the medical journals. Patton’s mark, i ® San Francisco Examiner. EE er a | hye is looking characters at cards, was rough, vuclean, shabby and ®%The other, poor in appearance, was, He was Charles Lamb. The two men played and played and long into thé night, and while! ¢ antl something stronger fon und th er | NT Comes down th oy aty | t throats Lamb kept up' lus castor ved | broadside of wit. The night passcd into the only maorn- ing, and yet they played. Luck kept favoring Lamb, when to ward the close of their game, seized ness of the dirt which the morning light | | seemed to reveal more clearly i in the ap of his companion, he said, “ Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!” hold!” a —— About Stenes. 7 There was a curious. superstition | which prevailed in Essex half a century | ago. It was believed that certain stones stones. I remember being teken bya man of the upper laboring class to sen a well known breeding stone which lay on the sward by the side of a lane in the of South Weald, near Brentwood. | It was seemingly a water vyorn block of | sandstone, or possibly, I have since thought, of pudding stone, which would It was larger than a man’s head, with | big as an acorn: I was tcld that this it it were removed the breeding stone would begin to breed ancther. It was evident that the man firmly believed what he told me, and he got quite angry when I ventured to cast a doubt upon The Way the War Debt —— Paid. © No nation ever took a braver coarse did the United States in deliberate- ly beginning the reduction of that enocr- mous war debt. The will to rednoe it way, and the payment went | ‘by leaps and bounds. ' The policy was oall in high rate bonds as scon as d them by others So immense was a date as 1907 was worse oobi of 1882, which lier issues, were wisely ¢' the government's op- years beginning with] 28 §, the reduction rate of a little under Pri yearly, which would be $3,250, 2 month, $175,000 each day, hour 2nd 4131 each minute a The Bulgarian Peasant. = In » Buldarian peasafft’s cottage the floors sre of mud. The kitchen fronting the street is also the living roora. Be- hind there is a sleeping room, with a A$ the same time, there was no single} dwelling which, given the habits and oustoms of the country, could be fairly described as unfit for human habitation. : Queer Story About a Church. In connection with the church of St. el, where the marriage between »de France and the Duke of Aosta there i} a story not general vertél Jew named Raphael the building was completed had a dream that he would die Be a week after the combecration of O'Neal Paton, who at last accounts Tex., has one of the oddest has given him the nickname of a perfect figure of a rabbit on hand. The mark is slightly and is a perfect image of a rab- ‘even to the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, body and tail In 1889 Mr. Patton Chicago with several carloads of . from his ranch, and while there RAE men offered him a salary of 500 per year to exhibit the hand the curious mark. The offer ny but firinly declined — sl Hh Goblets with stem and stand 1iE@those we use today were employ® in Troy 900 B. C. Among the valuable objects was a golden Dus express a positive opinion an- | about. ik Jettecsly vadersinnd wha you BALLAST FoR SPIDER CRABS. A Difficult Problem Solved In Time of © Flood at the New York Aguarium, In one of the tanks as the New York aquarium there are eight spider crabs. The spider crab is the decorating crab grown up. The decorating crab plants upon its back little sprays and stream- ers of various marine plants, which it snips off with its pineher claws. It car- ries these first to its mouth; where it seems to keep a supply of waterproof: glue, and thenes to its back. It is sup- posed to do this for protection from its enemies, for, half buried in the mud | and with these things rising from its back, it is practically invieible. It is. possible also they the % uses the gprigs for adornment, as it Often selects growths of bright colors. In its larger growth, after it has come to be called a spider orab, it ceases to decorate itself, though somefimes the seeds of marine plants settle on its back and grow there, but it never loses the handy use of its pincher claws. The largest of the spider crabs at the aquarium is about 8 inches in length. From side to side its legs spread about eight inches. The bottom of the spider | crabs’ tank is covered with gravel. The tank was cleaned the other day and all but about three inches of the water drawn off. When the refilling of the tank was begun, all the crabs gathered around the intake. Crabs and fishes in captivity usually do this, welcoming the fresh incoming water as a man in captivity might welcome an incoming current of fresh air. The flow of water through the intake pipescan be regulat- ed at will. Here it was permitted to run in at ite natural force, which was about that of water flowing from a hose. The flow was broken somewhat by the wire strainer over the dpening of the intake, placed there to keep little fishes and crustaceans from getting into the vipes, but it was too strong for the spider crabs to face. They began to set- tle themselves down into the gravel and to pile gravel upon their backs, appar- ently to weight themselves down fo that they could withstand it. On a sandy or muddy bottom they could have buried or partly buried themselves. Here the work was more difficult, but they were equal to it. They would work their legs down in- to the gravel and then lift thm, dis- placing stones in that manner, and with their pincher claws they would pick up stones. Sometimes a crab would pick up two gravel stones at onoe, one in each claw, and place them both on its back. | It might tackle a stone so big as to re- quire both clayrs in the handling of it that and put it on its back. stcmes would roll off down crabs’ legs, but they were not for they helped to build up around, and the crab would go ahead and put up others on its back. When the tank was full and the in- flow cut off, the crabs went walking about again ns usual —New York Sun. GENERAL THOMAS. He Might Have Been a Sonthern Soldier : but For His Wife. General William Mahone of Virginia sat in Chamberlin’s, deeply interested in a well bound volame of snbstantial ‘size. ‘To a reporter who ventured to ask the title of the book the general cour- teously said. “It is made up of ‘Papers of the Mili. tary Historical Soeiety of Massachusetts’ and contains critical sketches of some of tbe leading Federal and Confederate generals. I was at that moment engaged on the sketch devoted to General Thom- ge. It is a very fair and interesting ac- count of his character and services. “I knew Thomas personally, for he was born and reared in my section of West Virginia. He was a military man of excellent parts, rather slow to act, - but never able to grasp the idea that he | had been whipped. His bulldog tenacity | { more. It was only a question of time was a strong characteristic. “1 know a good deal more than thi book about Thomas’ predilection for the southern cause. In pissing through the state on his way from Texas to New York at the time that the legislature was deliberatingon the question of se- cession, Thomas said, with emphasis, ‘There is nothing for the south to do but to fight.’ It was well understood that his sympathies were with the peo ple of kis native section. “1 was empowered by the govesnor Tr position created for him and tendere: it yi the full expectation that it would He married a Miss Marcy > New York, and it is no doubt true {| that his wife's influence had much to ‘do with keeping him on the Union side. ’’— Washington Post. : The Spent Cannon Ball. General Shermam’s reminiscences of wartime are very entertaining. Ome the most magnificent specimens of maun- hood 1 ever saw, said he, was a soldier who was constantly laughing at the poor r fellows who became fatigned by lou marches or who sank under seemingly trifling wounds. His courage, health: and strength seemed invincible. Orne day a heavy projectile from the enemy's cannon—what we call a spent ball— came rolling along. The temptation to put cut one's foot to stop such a ball was irresistible. The soldier I have men rioned yielded toit. With a merry smile he put out his foot, and in an instant i’ was cut off, and he sank to the ground a maimed, shattered cripple for life, weeping like a child at his awful mis- fortune. For Humanity's Sske. Young Man (boastfully)—I am going to cross the Atlantic in this 20 foot bout ‘with no companion but this dog. Good: by, friends— Humane Officer—I must Sop you, sir ‘Stop me?, And what for, pray?’ 3 ‘*‘ Humanity’ Ji ‘‘Humanity ! Haven't I a right to risk my life if I''— 4 ‘Oh, that’s all right, but I must in- A riore. The dog can’t go. ""—Cleveland Plain Dealer. are im New York 229 hotels, exclusive time, amd who are seen very little in tion the engineer borrowed a shotgun ‘possible, he dodged behind a tree, and ‘tle, but the presumption jis that the elk standing in the aisle éagrabata 4 | offender, ‘‘1 am not. I am anewspaper pounds each. They are nearly 13 English HOTEL READIN NG ROOMS. Their Principal Patrons pations In New York Peo- ple Not Guests at the Hotel In one respect at least New Yor k dif- fers from all other American cities, and that is in regard to the importance of the reading rooms of its hotels. There of apartment houses with restaurant at- tachments. Every hotel im New York or elsewhere~—cvery genuine hotel, that is—has a reading room, and in it are to be seen gathered the most important ac cessories of a hotel—the newsstand, the telegraph office, the telephune offic and the railroad and stemmboat ticks office. In a comntry hotel the reading | room is the seat of ‘great activity, and | it seems to be the bonnden duty of the transient male patrons of the hotel, as | well ax the regalar mde boudérs to be possible between meals, and nonally a Jate comer is chliged tw wait his turn! | for a sent at one of the writing desks ar | tables or for a chance to read one of the | newspapers which are kept on file. According to the observations of all hotel men throughout the country, the smaller the town the more important the hotel reading room; the larger the ‘town’ the Jess important the hotel read- | img room. It is apparently in corrobora- tion of this rule that the reading rooms | of most New York hotels, though for- wished in attractive style and well cal-| culated to serve the convenience of | guests, are usually deserted, or if not | deserted are patronized chiefly by per- | -gons not guests of the hotel. In other | words, men riot stopping at the hotel, but meeting friends in its main corridor. utilize the conveniences of the reading | room. Added to these arga few of the transient goests, who e most part | come to New York on bdfiaess or pleas- | nre from great distances, and especi ally i from interior towns. Boston mea, Phil- adelpbia men, Baltimore men and Buf- falo men aro not Font patrons of the reading rooms of New York hotels, but transient guests from the small towns of the country are, and some of them sit for hours at a time conning the back numbers of newspapers er writing me- chanically and then nerfously destroy- ing letters to friends and radations. The paradoxical thing about hotel | reading rooms in New Ydrk is that though ostensibly maintained for the nse and convenience of the hotel gnests they are at the service ia nearly every case of persons who are not only not guests of the hotel, but’ who, further- | more, are resident New Yorkers. Nearly every hotel in the city hms a"large num- ber of patrons who are known as ‘‘regu- lars,” who stay for several months at a the hotel corridors or in the reading room. Occasionally a patron of a New York hotel, perhaps ene of its oldest guests, will find it necessary to write a letter or to consult a mewszpaper file, aud when Be does he is usually compelled to wait uptil an eutside person not a guest is ready to take hfs departure. — New York Sun. . faved by an Hk. ‘A curious story of adventure comes from Montana. While 8 freight train was lying over at a small mountain sta and started out for a hant. He was about returning to his train when a cow made her appearance. Before he realized that there vas any danger the animal made a rush at him, and he ran with all his speed. But the esW was a better racer, and in a few minutes caught him by his clothing, splitting his coat from waist to collar and to im into the air. (Fetting to his fost’as quickly as then to his dismay found that the gun! barrel was bent so as to be nseless, i The next ten milutes were very live: | ly ones. The cow chased the engineer | round and round the tree, and when he | got a chiauon to hig her with she gun | barrel it only seemed to enrage her the | when he wonld succumb to fatigpe, but | | a diversion occurred that saved his life. | An angry snort was I , and a big elk appeared upon the s , head down | and prepared for a fight. The cow was | 80 mad by this time that she was meady | for anything, and in another moment | ‘the two animals dashed as each other. | The engineer watched he combat for a | few minutes until prudence suggested | that he should make a retreat while he could. He regained the wedn in safety and never knew the omtoome of the bas- was the victor.—Exc n His Ocoupation, The street car was crowded, and as it turned a corner sharply a mam who was strap, but missed it mvoluntarily embraced a sharp faced young woman | standing near him. ““Oh, I beg your pardoa, "* he said “Sir,” she exclaimed, '‘you are a boor. *’ ‘‘No, ma‘lam,’’ rejoimed the penitent 1 “You are, hey?’ was the contemptu- ous rejoinder. ‘What do you do about a newspaper office, I'd like te know?" “I am the pressman.’’ The sharp faced young woman turned a little redder, but she ane say any- thing more. —Chicage i Fag Ax Bells In Chima. hme. ‘Besides hundreds of bells weighing from 10,000 to 25,000 pounds, Nankin, China, has four bells which weigh 59,000 feet each in height, an are almost 23 feet in diameter. The metal in these man- | sters averages about § i imches in thick- ness sirvagacu, being about 8 inches on the lower lip, orrim. Im Peking there | is a chime of seven bells, each of which | weighs 120,000 pounds. —St. Louis Re- public. The total amount of gold coined at our mints from 17983 to 1893 was §1,- 582,000,000; of silver daring the same ‘period there have been $657,000,000 | and of subsidiary coinage ¢f all denomi- | nations $24,000,000. THE TROUT BROOK. Half bidden by tall. amdow grass that sn with every Lireeze And running through deep, silent pools we under spreading troes] Now stealing through the quiet ways of voli tary wood, And now beneath a timbered arch where moe an old mill stood; Across the fields and to the brow wher yal leys fall away Them over beds 1 ehelving rock ita waters “dance and play, And pow and then, as though in joy of mech a Hgnitys i fun, ng } into a waterfull that gliste ne is the | And ot ex round and roand about in striamge fantastico glee, i Then stoadies down and flows away sedstely to the sea . AT I. Bweet in Bt. Nicholas SKETCHING. 3 : 2 : | Jts Practice Essential to the Success of in the reading room os log a time ae | the Student In Art. Originality and skill in inventing or | telling a story and in expressing “the | passions depend, like everything exe in | art, on a painter's powers of observa- | tiop, and the difference between the greater or less painter results very nwch from this—that the first thinks of his art everywhere and at all times, the lass in. . his painting room only and at set hoors } Hogarth, describing his own Lahits, says: ‘Be where I would while my eyes | were open I was continuady at my studies and acquiring something useful | to my profession; ’’ and St sthard’s sketeh- books were filled with groups of figares | | and scenery made without selection, but | | merely of what chance offered to his no- tice while traveling—sometimes objects | | which the windows of an im presented | | while horses were changing, and some- wy |KNEW THE IE COLONEL I was sojourning in og in the land of the far | Bouthwest and contentedly loafing, as particalarly snits the climate and a sec- ond lieutenant, when the office door was lopened slowly and a head covered with (on old Grand Army hat was thrust in, | The evesof the head peered around from ander their ragged eyebrows and took on | a look of keen disappointinent. The lips moved but made no sound: then the head was withdrawn and the door ale i most ghut. It opened again a very little | way, and disclosed part of a bine clued | figure some six fee, in heig Then it closed again oe DPE serind as hae | fore, only somewhat wider, 1 swung | round in my chairand waited to see + what would happen. The man came Il §> the room. but kept one hand om the | knob, to facilitate his escape. if neces | Bary, it appears. : I held my peace and watched him. He | was worse than nnkempt: he was, in fact, about as seedy an individoal as 1 have ever seem covered by a Grand Army coat: his eyes were red and kis hand shook badly. I suspected at once what | the trouble was, knowing the failing of his class I let him decide to speak first, how- ‘ever: bat he took his tine. Reconciling himself to the shutting of the door; and pelinquisinne zr his grasp on the knob a8 last. he took off his hat and - sat at the | extreme edge of the chair. He studied | the window panes intently ani chéwed ‘his tobacco in a meditative fashion. There were no telling how long this might last, 2 I faced about to my deals ' again. and began to write, times what he saw from the top if a stagecoach. Students shonid be assmred thar the | : i practice of redeeming spare moments of time - by sketching whatever j= thrown | in their way is an invaluable one. T hose who adopt it will be sure to be rewurd- od by often finding memoranda so rgade | | { of far greater interest than they had | imagined, and it will correct tiie habit always fatal to originality, of going to nature for things only that resemble what they have seen in art. Among the drawings by Raphael collected by Sir Thomas Bawrence were many evidently of what chance presentad so him. One | in particular was singularly elegant, of | threes or four young men in the dress of his time sitting at a table, and their at- titndes but very slightly varied—dn ac- cidental group in all probability a! his} pupils. In the works of Michael Angele we meet with very many attitudes that hear the stamp of being adopted almost im- mediately from nafure, and indeed raost of the noble range of his prcphets and sibyls have this look. A subject happily | adopted from nature should nof deprive the painter of the credit due to iaven- | tion, for indeed the mere faculty f in- | venting an incident is far more corainon than the nice and quick perception of that in natore which is fitted to tho pur- poses of art, and which ordinary ob- servers would pass by or reject perhaps as trifling or unworthy. Burns tarped up a mouse with his plow anc was heard to say by a man who was at work with him, “I'll make that mouse im- ‘mortal.’ And he kept his word. —Lon- don Architect The Widely Distended Skirt. Our prayers have been answered ! The i heavy, widel} distended skirts will very i soon be a thing of the past. They are an abominatien and ought never to Lav been allowed to become fashionable. | Why, it would take four hands t) ma- nipulate the folds in such a way as to keep the skirt out of the dust, and when | a woman tries to accomplish the with two her gown in soon forgotten in | her cramped fingers and she gives iv ap in despair. How anything so totaly un- i | { i | fit to be worn in the street ever Degeme | i a fashion is a mystery to every one, ex- | cept, perhaps, those who manufuct ure | the hairclath. But physicians have de- nounced the heavy linings as injurious’ to health, and this, with the good smse | of long suffering and heroic women, who Pave patiently tried to endure the burden for fashion's sake, has brought | about a decided reaction against them, and the heavy skirt must go.—Philadel- phia Times. Looking Forward. The girl pianist in the next flat who had sprinted over the teeth of the tor- ture box for hours at a time was going to be married. The society columns of the Sunday papers had given it a two stickful no- tice. The face of the weary man in the next flat lighted up with joy, but as he looked out of the window and saw a’ tired eyed woman wheeling in a peram- bulator a fat, husky baby, charged full of holler, cow's milk, baby food and ugliness, his face hardened, and he hissed between his clinched teeth, ‘‘Re- venge !' '~Minneipoiis Journal Doctors’ Language. : Patient~1 8’'pose, doctor, you make out your prescriptions in Latin so that your patients won't know what it is? Doctor— Possibly. Patient—- And vou make out your hills in Bnglish so that your patients wi il ‘know what it is? Doctar— Exactly. — London Answer. Reason Enough. ‘“Why are you making such a din?”’ asked the bald eagle, who sat ir. the front row, addressing himself to the | erows, who occupied the gallery. *‘Oh, caws!”’ replied the saucy birds | in chorus. .—Pittsburg Chrunicle-Tele- graph. : The United States has all kinds of { climate from that of the Sahara in the | sandy deserts of Arizona to that of the Amazon in southern Flerida and that fof Greenland in porthern Idaho and . Montana Missouri fam ol according 4 the ast census year, 308, S07 bushels « of! ge | from 24.253 acres. i { j i Fully ten minutes elapsed before the | | silent figure gave any sign. “Pm busted again,” it began. : The anuncuncement evidently calied | for no expression of surprise. - I gave none, “Yes? 1 amswered. “Th-hu.” I went to my eopying again. Five mose minutes. “Where's the Colonel at?” “He's sick.” “Oh! he is?’ This in a tone of a child reading a primer. “What's the mattes with im?” “He's got the grippe.” “When's he coming back?” “In two or three weeks, perhaps.” “Oh, damn!” Quite as youn or I might mildly say ‘pshaw.” The veteran continued to look at the window and chew. *% wanted to see the Colonel.” “Is there anything that I can do fa you?’ “Nope.” A resumption of the window and tobacco. “I'm busted again.” : “80 you said.” “I've been drank, t00.” : “Well, you look rather like it.” “Do IV’ He examined his hat amd bands and boots. ‘‘I recken Ido.” He smiled genially. ‘Queer, ain't it, how you most generally can tell.” “Very queer,” I agreed. “Now. I thought I looked pretty aol bus I reckon I was off.” “You might be worse,” 1 consoled him. “Ive seen them look worse.” “Yes. so've I.” His knowledge of the ‘world was evidently as good as mine. | The panse was repeated. “I told you I was busted, didn't I? Well, what in blages do you Stppous I told you for? +I really can’t say.” “Can't you. really?” I felt that I was e the target at which fine, sarcastic arrows | were being aimed. “Wasn't you ever boasted?" With a truthfulness far greater tham might generally be felt, I repliad that I rask | Bud been, sonietimes. Only a second | Leutenant like myself can appreciate the | honesty ‘of my answer. “Well, what do vou generally wang when you Te in a hole?” “Money.” “That's whit I want.” The deduction was S3lagies a and ob- | | vious that I felt like a child who had | { been given to reason om some such axiom | “May I ack what it was?" fot ep i itl aothr trom 3”. was that?” : : “ it's a blamed long thing wo “Never mind: I want to hear.” “Well. will yon give me a quarier 21 tell you?” * “What will von do with it? “(ret two drink«.” All eh; £2 so om.” He sat ¢v on further npon the edge of i Ms chair an! held tie shaky arm on: straight. 1 wondered if he might lo verse. “That « how I got that arm.” “What arm? 1 inquired, looking st the member. | “That. Don't you ses I can’t bend it” I moticad it now for the first Sime and be | Pose in my estimation. “The piece of | ghell cut through my srm and along in here.” placing his palsied fingers on his side. “The Colonel sot an awfal Jot of | store by that brother of his. His mane was Kingsley, and he wast’t mons's 18, He was a mighty fine fsller, too, and they told a lot of stuff about his havin’ 8 young wife up there in the North. They sez she was the very girl the Col- ome! was mashed on. too. 1 dunno how Bex. becanse the Colonel ain't never mag ried, and onct when he had the fever he done a lot of talkin’ about some woman named Dora. an’ that was the name { that Kingsley toll me his wife had. ! The Colonel's a good hearted cus, ain't he? — replied with conviction thet he : he? it had been me an’ my brother, Pd have wanted him killed off, I guess; but the Colonel Be like to have wes ‘ eragy every time the youngest got in the hot part of a fight. He sex to him omct =I heard him—'1f you should be shot, | got a letter myin’ that Dora had a little girl. The Colonel told Kingsley then that he'd have to take more care of hime self than ever. Kingsley. he just laughed. He was a brave feller, kind of bot headed, and I guess he wasn't as onel was.” The story came to am abrupt end herve. In course of time he went on: “Onet, just before the baby was bora, Shere was a fight and the Colonel couldn’ He jest langhed and went right inte the Colonel, he was charging around like a hen that's hatched ducks and sees 'em swimmin'. But he couldn't get near his of trouble. ‘Bout tem minutes Inters shell bustad near us and I got in fromtof Kingsley. That's all.” : That was all. It certainly didn't sound like much. as the laconic old fellow put the last degree “battle scarred,” as the soldiers say; at his nervous bands and wavering eves, his filthy coat and shape- less hat. This was all that was left of a her;—a man who for a mere friend had risked death and endured worse than death. Iadmired a character I could not snderstand. Then, with the sophistry of small souls, I condemned his weak Bess, : He was disgnsting: a dirty old drunk- for a dime to get a drink with; lost to sll pride and sense of shame. It was men of his kind who gave old soldiers pi a hard name: and then I remem- had composed our army: who bad “made 8 thoroughfare for freedom and her 1 thoroughfare for destiny and a pathway | om eternit ¥. | lavel by degrees. He was quivering with | anticipation and the hand of the good { a8 "Green apples make boys sic k John | arm was lying on his kmee, ready to be | ste green apples. John is sick.’ The | stretched out at a moment's notice. I | old soldier wis evidently pleased with ! assumed the air that went usually with 1 { i i i | Sie impression he bad made. I felt my ! | merves trembling and fell Wenkly inte | | the net. some? “Nope. but I wast you to give me “Oh. do yon? Doesn't ii strike you | that you are a bit cheeky?” “Nope. You've going to give me | some, ain't you?’ “Well. I really cam't see why 1 should.” “The Colonel does.” ~ I did not doubt it; the Colorel’'s ul usnal poverty was ascribed in the regh ment to ju that sort of thing. “The Cocionel muy have some reasos for it. Besides, how do I know he ‘does?’ “I say so.” The tone was above dis pate. “Very good; but as I said, the Colonel | probably has some reason for it. Hew often do you go om sprees?’ : “When I get my pension.” “And do you spend every cent? “Generally; yep. “And does the Colonel act as yous paymaster whénever you are hard . “Yep. “Might I inquirewhy he supports vou' 1 im the path of destruction?” “Huh?” “Why does he halp you go to the **It does him more good than it dom me hurt, I guess.” The depth of the sentiment was ap palling: moreover, it was exquisitely convenient. From a physical standpoint it might be true enough, but looked at | from the view of temporal comfort, the argument was bad. The Colonel was! not one deliberately and in cold blood te | care for the cultivation of his soul; there must be some other reason and J | said so. “J reckon there is.” “What is it?" : - “I done him a service once.” : +] suppose you want me to lend 3. | the act of SWastitig men into Uncle Sam's | service, and which is the nearest one to | gevera and unimpeachable virtae that a ; Hentenant can command. “What makes you drink like that? I gel that the role of reformer did not seit | me. {+I like it.” “But why don’t you try to stopl” | “Can't—now.’ “You could Fore once?” “yen. “Whatever made you start 1 of “The pain from the wound. Li avunk to stop it, and by and by, when had stopped for good, I couldnt let wp Ain't you done askin’ questions yet® want that quarter.” Now, 1 have no doubt that I waa guilty of an infringement of the lawsof. the State of California in sasisting to Sue Stu drunkenness and disorder—if that the powers that be would have been rigors of Montana weather, because I was helping one who drew the pension which the Government kindly gives to | ita disabled supporters, and who was the inmate of a soldiers’ home. to bring dis- eredit on his kind; but my comscience for a week, nor did it even when, two hours later, I saw him taken in a Hmp and senseless state to the station house. I told the Colonel and he paid the vet- eran’s fine—for the thirty-first time, he { informed me.—San Francisco Argonaut, Duty as Directed. Dr. Pilllem—Did youn administer the opiate at 9 o'clock, as I directed? Mrs. Gamp (with a sniff) —That I did," | wir. But it seemed a pity to have to | wake the pocr man cut of the first sound slaep he's had in four fap no gine him dT ME ATT — ! going to declaim or Tepeat. some ancient true it was bmt | reckon it wasn't all ft ‘ud jest end Dor’; and one time they much in love with bis Dora us the Col- The veteran was thinking over his past. make Kingsley stay where it was safe. fuss as soon as he could get there. The brother. He was by me for a minute = and he sez to me to keep that fool boyout BR. I looked at his face, which was te of my race and kind, the mighty virtue ard, a beggar, too: a man who would ask bered that it was mens of his kind whe “train” a thoroughfare which no fifty by | three hundved miles can measure—a However, I came down so his mental pot legally, morally—and I also realise sk a no A SR ON a a SH
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