Rao a VS a
Place. on arid Somer
its strutting bustie and
of hmportancs, But the
lie of other days, lien
ince died oF ioved to quieter
fashionably quarters, bisa
Summer sirest eo | most
n ii tear that
ve fisld, so dear te the her
patriot, the field of Polit
gFment; ond being aniformly |
at length, after a partie.
wppointing catpaign, had
ng only his daughter Mar
ing-—and hin Hite olds
house.
, with all Hs miniature
Sin ware, had tot outgrown
of everybody's knowing
Hod else's business, ami
ty, for the Yory day After |
mart she annie] her |
opening 1 Hower store”
re for Wesindla, but one
the people, 0s they got Hore
nil were brought more and
1 totich with city ways, would
rely, In a few days there
1 2 nest sign over the front
oh Perkins, Flowers * And
ie es with fragrant Lilos
Poser; earnafions and vlolets |
fr The cut foweras eime
kak in a nearly eity, but it
ng before an small grien-
lle back yard did much to
ial,
Ue young men of Westfield
fair wy to bankrunt then
t Miss Perkins’ counter, but
grew accustomed to the
i the volume of trade was
proportions that vould be
iss Perking' store became a
Institution, aud Westfield
ow the town bad ever jot:
without It. It wos such a
abe always int
already knew, but the
fled upon to Assume
of printing news be-
wan ae behind the
ing. arranging a fresh.
of
I¥ of flowers, when two
arrived at the door at
; t, and came bustling in
morning, Misa Clemans,”
iss Perkins, looking up In
“Good morning, Miss Elwell:
mu chicks out a little early this
at all.” replied Miss Clem-
langh. “You know, we're
‘house; I've been to
me? exclaimed Miss Ei
a8 a rather languid cren-
Bure you are an early one.
the world would usual.
this early. but 1 have a
it piece of news, and I
wai to get down tos
1 stopped and looked at
see that she was duly
Miss Perkins went on
WOrs.
now that you are here.” said
‘t's have the news.
ul plece of infor:
ney to icy Her |
sity. Finally) Miss Clem.
Thi girls langle, ana Afiex Elwell
§ maid:
{aroused so 1 won't kee Pp Fou in Kis
pense, Malel's engageniont is :
“What!” eried both her lis
anes Mabel Richey v
{dine her heed in affirmation.
“Of, you're Joking sald Miss Clem.
ans, “she and Harry worn Just devoted
to ench other, Why, nothing conld
ever cone between them, Mabel told
10 sn.”
“But something did, just the same”
Crepe] the bearer of the news “aad
[that something was Miss Margneriin
Datey De Jones of New York”
Miss Clomans exclaimed, “Well, 1
never” and Misa Perkins groaned,
“To think" fim ally snid the older
Renss than that?
fo Um sure I can't tell. Hero that
bold-faced creatures with hier blonde
hair”
“It's blondined, I know,” put In Mis
Clemans,
“Amd her pink cheeks” eaniinned
I Miss Porkine. “vomes to town with
{nobody to Introduce her but the hotel
“1 Kedper, and sets half the men In town
crpzy, aml they do say that some of
her worshipers are not single men
either” and Miss Perkins set down
ithe srinkling ean so hard that the
noise attracted the attention of people
in the street, “It dues best all: Har ry
Martin was such a dee follow, ton?
sald Miss Perkina: and then suddenly
fe asked “When did it happen
iy I's been golpg on for a long
Hime, I guess” said Miss Elwall, ings.
ing some Bowers on the connter, “Lint
te den him my wheel so he caine
straight hbme lael night and told me
It was raining tes bad for yas to aot
iput then, so 1 had to keep it to wir wolf
jal Hight.
Bl they must have bigd an 8 !
Lr He, 1 poeare thet Mise Marmierit
{ Daley De Jones Is going th give a sap. | oo
Ler at the Eotel tanishs ta a jisr of
| vunng fellows. and Mabel beard tha?
i Harry was going, and Hf eotrse (h
mde tronbie, They fast had tin
partes aid she gave him back hl
nel he 100 Tn A wrent hoff. Died we
that Harry never intended going uf
wih, that he wasn't even Invited, bat
when Mabel began to suspect him he
got pogry aod sald he'd go if he nant
sd to, Isn't tt awful?
“Well, 1 don't believe ho was going.”
might to patel It up between then,”
"1 don't think anybody will” replied
Miss Elwell; “they're both as proud
tm Lucifer and as stubborn as—1 don't
know what. Tom says he bets Harry
Hoes away, and I suspect he will
Well, I feel sorry for them, but [ don't
Inow what we're golng to do about
it. Bay, Miss Perkins. what {8 that
fdant over tn the cortier? 1 never xaw
anything like it before”
Miss Perkins told Ler the name of
the plant, and then a commercial tray.
eler, who wanted to sell Miss Perkins
some glass that she didn't need for her
greenhouse cnme in, and while Miss
Perkins was explaining why she didn't
yeanut and conldn't use a thousand
panes of glass, even If It was the
clearest ever cast, the young ladies
slipped away,
CAH morning Miss Perkins who neanl-
be did not give mach heed to the goasin
that went on in her Hitle room, thought
at the lovers quarrel she Lad Sreard
discussed. Both of the youny people
were general favorites in town, and
thelr marriage had been deemed HE
sminently suitable one: it was a shame,
thought Miss Perkins, that a frivelons
stranger with yellow hair should have
the power of working so much mis
elidel,
“I do hope” sald Miss Perkins to
herself, “that those rirls won't clatter
about it all over town, I enzht to
lave warned them abont talking too
ech—pot that it wenld have Aone
jany good, but it might have eased wy
tonsclence a little”
the door, and Harry Martin sprang
@ the pavemont and eame in
“Good morning, Miss Perkins” he
wild In his brisk, whole-sonied manner,
re beauties; how rnuy have yon
‘Three dozsn, only? Well. I want them
ml. Here's my earl. which vest will
tdivp in the box, and send them to
Ixing oa the counter,
ing. Miss Perkins"
LAnd Mr, Martin was out and sway
Infore Miss Perking had hardly recov.
ered Ber breath.
She looked at the address he had
left.
“Miss De Jones,
City.”
Liberty House.
per.
eried, “If he thinks I'm going to send
flowers to that-creature, he's
| arise ken! He's crazy, he 8, 1 won:
{der if bis mother kngws
nd then out of pure vexation she
t down in a back room and haq a
odery,
fow moments later she came out
“Miss Perking eurosity Is potting
"Umamph," sald Miss Elwell nod. |
Indy, “that Hares Martin has no more
What the young men.
of thix day and generation are coming
the break came night Lefore lust, Ma. |
Bets brother Dick told my Lirother Tom |
{ Festerday, aml Tom's heen coRXing Yip
ald Mise Perkins, “and somebody
“Some roses this morning? Ah, thse
“Why, the impudent puppy’ she
been, deeply dn love with
Pasir ad
I guess from what Jig
sf ml won
a new ‘one, which’ she piri in the :
box; -then ‘put it with a half dozen
maller packages, which Nero, the fae. |
atu of her establisliment, would des
J Hyer. Then Miss Perkins regained hes
habitual smile and gentle self | osues
{sion ind went about hamming little
Knatches of Rappy songs and seethed
A one canseits of having dote a
good deed.
. * . . *
Harry Martin was not a happy man,
Indeed be liad been misergble for
thirty.six hours, for he was, or had
Mabel
Richey, and tn reality bind pever heen
troche] ta the paldemhinired gird
wWitiy the thregsectioned pane, until
shinee the guareel with his sweetheart
Bart shin that tempestuous interview,
be loud sought, and ensily obtained an
Wtrdnetion, and had decdded 1a cond
hey tomes for the decoration of the
table at the supper that was rosking
seeeral Weatlield swesthearts Jealous
and unlmppy,
woman,
the sparrel and potion 1s he
morning heinly resolved ty Hie
than show pny signe of
Amd she had gonften thenigt
coding day faivly well; t
that she wanifested aod anasanl teak
Ing being when the pans of Miss Mares
guerita Daisy Ie Jones
Lisniedd In her presenes,
Migs Periing Nero wong fisver very
swt, and #t war Obits the pdddle of
the afternoon before he reachsl the
Hichey restdehos aml left a long box
evidently containing Bowerr, | Mabel
wis In her awn rev, and Jennie, tha
wid, took the bog io her. It i nat
take bor many seconds toa tear the bay
ppen smd seramble aiong the poses
far the card: even before she Wakad
he fot sure al ihe names sho would
fied oo iL and when she read, “Mp;
Hares Martin” she sank down on tha
inughed and erie aed said:
“Oh, a goosa §am!”
bn den 5 ten minnie ehs wan!
Sawn wind frealt frock with th
tear-aigh iowashed away, and hey
fathion’s wishle boy spopding with &
nee to MMe Tiarry Martin.” ated ow
der the etimalios of a poll In advances | enor
“6 Envy,
Was iene
ea
A LIFE FULL OF THRILLS,
DME. NR EMMAGARNER
¥ Smiling. who owns half of
the Larner Westfall entitle
R+ -~ ranch in Navale Cor nt, oa
Sore’ thie Atchison, Topeka and
Rate Pe ait vend, Ling
@ $f. in
ry nl a, sud |
has Lest a por trian § enone ek.
citepiont to Ail
She wits Lara |
went to
when nn pb
#1 Une thine of
mast, When
flovked ta the
dventure. |
| three 3
Hrs of no new soaner. | y .
iy NG ERTL broth faiaagh stor] fais wark.
: : ' excosdi gly ha
ardons, The titemen must Fnow every
font of water for miles out, because
SRiy heads turk close to the surface
fd a Ligh roller might at any moment
Fi up thelr frall boat and lrenk fs
hiadk acrobs one of these fr zgad vngeen
fas, The British stesmiship Virginian
firanded on the Outer Tis mond shoate
: the tied dreaded paint of that dreaded
Viatterne, The stesmer broke into
&, which vires Bald topoihir
fine aif
the boats containing seven mem eng
EB
| wiged bedars Bt sould be eliared froin
torly eal,
cams wih
Ard Mabel Richey wan not a bapoy |
Shoo hmd went all night after
¥URTOT IN,
g stot kp
the exnisa ;
The win
fatniiy
inti fright af the aiinel
Tir sd thio Stir of
er Perse
family Poin
fon nf 4
hed fey 3
uy the dea rg bw
Mrs, £557
ho wlig's side, amd (18 ecennante were
raver, Then the lores fifeboat
Liteen won rssehed the
Isley. uy nd rerichE Lor tha ope
; spy later on Taw o
SLERSE pow ont of water
were the hivldee snd the how, with the
P&E foawing between theo The Fat
whieh 85
$e i
PEF ERY BA
the proosige of apather when be | alo
Fetursanl ly hinrelal
¥ Arey Mardin, for soins regen, had
in
that day,
I frtves oir Thee #
tind roast. find gy
resstior, bined pt an i
rd wives! font apd eft the ofjer
mivigwid on the Frist stone howevip
re be owonkl ga and
Yeu fish and lita
: a Trea wanin: be want
eb Gy pot Bevay from it all, Tha satin
faction he hud expscted to feel in send
Ing a bax of roses to Miss De Jones
Was pot very mich in evidence and |
be heartily wished Be had fever seen
por heasl of that frivolous yours
womnn,
While he stood on the tang wranoed
fn melancholy, which by puncinred
with an occasions). “Deuce, take |
alll” he saw Jack, the Richoy's stable
boy, approaching, wearing a Yroad
grin, karey, from old thine habit, bee
gan feeling with ofc had for a eoin
and hebl out bis gather for the finta,
then he suddenly started and thought
with bitterness.
“What an ass [ awn! He host't an
thing for me”
“Here's a letter, Mr. Martin” said
Jack, his grin wideniog, snd then he
alded In a lower tone, "Miss Mabel,
she told me to hurry”
“Well, hurry back, then,” =ald Farry,
tearing the note open, sod giving Joey
the expacteld coln, “I'l take the oie
FWP,
The note he opened? reads
“My Diprest Hennes
of you to send the reser, Of, vou don't
know how awfolly ushappy 1 breve!
cen! It was go wean in rie to be jeal.
ous, bot 1 know that you forgive me.
When stsall I see you? Yours,
air ¥ oF
5s! FQ
Harry whistled,
i
“Raser! What the dence does eha
mean? PH fost po and see Poor iitle
girl, she’s been all cul ap and ve been
a perfect rate?
While be upbralded himself he was!
sircady taking rapid atebdes tow urd the
Hickey residence, which be pencbod |
long before Jaek did
Pie saw the roses in the drow ing
Cran before Mabel came fn, Lut by
AR she spoke n carriage drove up to
happy inadvertence they got
he eonld not ROOK, nor did he
Lrg to find out when Mabel cane Ley
APM ASR
And he wrote an nddress on a {ng
i
And then Miss Perkins lost hey tem: | or
baad other things of which to talk,
nt oon his way howe, ten bene
biter he dropped Into Miss Perkins
zai pald for the roses,
“Ail ooh, Miss Perking” he sald,
rhont their delivery: wasn't thera
through some inadvertence —a mintike
is Hite
Alium Perking leaked Bim straight in
%
; tiie ER,
“This address. I've loft mother in!
{Be carriage and she's afraid of the
horse, so I'M hurry out. Cood morn: |
UWan there wns all she said Wan
ivy Magazine,
ress
Censared the Bonbons,
The cousorship in Russia continnoes
A. A on wo X x ¢ a Exe 4 ou
Pin De use] bn the vsusl aris TAUY Anan
ser. Une of the mast envious examples
of the vse of the power hos recently
cone to {iz “ht,
A manufacturer of swesls was in the
habit of wrapping vy buiibons in eol
ed paper, which wos covered with
all manner of Hide plotures. One of
these pletures was thit of a landscape
with a storm coming up from the sea
Underneath was the sentence: “The!
“Ya rages; it approaches nearer
Re papers were confiscated by the
cortenr and their farther use forbiddey
under a heavy penalty, as it was!
thouxzlt that they were political pro
pagaria.~London Expres,
i drifts mail Lis foet
Haw very provid
about
Hite
fromtded
At 1
| ner married a Mr Bue
srted Ye wo to
huapisg to 4 %
became ton doen ba the Bo
taine. Thera wero farted
too worn sud Mr Mad
girl fn th qu
On the way Oo
thin Ra wkien the
igeinge and fou
& ow ¥ #
PREEPNY Ruie GO
Men winl weipen
gether with pane
£5 etek In gold evi
rg eanie pravnd pnd
cRInpers that i (hey rena
by they wound ba Ls Tid i LOW
Wen ware maskin a int
timntion of trouble we bx faltinre
the Inst pack tradn to arrive, in Novem
Fioins, Hotum Of tho matures Boon
glarmed and returnsd 10 Santy
leaving Me sud Ms Snsiling gre] thelr
the sivd snd igh
¥
ALE Ged ad pie
Viniheung nino
Hib WORE
aml three esilara pa
tidied together on the brliden
towatebing and bhopdng against
aEsistanee. The pect day the
sorany from the beides snd
into the fovecastle for oll and ta
he owiiely was stored thers aad
ah fanre on the desnerain
made 8 feslids fire Jeanine
J foonlteaet Bitention fron the mental
: far away.
thelr fot, and when morning bros hit
Hops snl dessnir were
gle from the northward the HOT
wk well nigh give un for they
Rize that few boasts conld tive In snoh
va pra, However, by 0 orlosk they
| were astonished to beheld the gleaming
eailn of two surf boats The Creeds
3) beat came to within an fanoth of a
nile of the weaek, and lay te for the
tieras bial, Then a conferences w
A tromondong sex wns Panning
the shoals and to appres: 5 the
nary other way Sor aul Involve
voit was dee
they were to ran to the
4 fire Oncter [rgroand, nad
al
nfest peril Final
sg oH 4
Berney bay
they hind bape thud ry
SRF ly t Sr.
“thsi fon wala.
ore
fp
for shat
them off Trinny
¥ rowed shout for |
to fa hier, as there dare §
wo fd Jando
net in thal oe
rullew sway. When nirht
fal En thy de te rained Po nuke for
eogt before the pour our Front
sheept then sonth, They were witlun
sb amd water aml the evan was
aff with freborpes,
Ri anorning esree at last with a
Bright san and brosre, nnd 1
gail for a few Bours, Bot a stan fide
RIA nat Boal the svnratnr The Suir by
| ber, andl 1h ey hogan to oo short an pied Dil
The Indians ware , bre geny
fell ax had
that rerinn,
at Li way
waz found uncon
YT evey, Tho
frozen wo bi
IBERIA TY
a Tew dave
by soln dow
j pots pn $44
fran it
geath was adit
Hel:
fried Hy
that ty
thn
{ie
She thy
round take hoes
Fe, The miners
fing, pod the
Yer elied,
ECGUIVY, fit
WOre Trey 103
13 the of :
hie party
for Ssuta
find,
wretel i fiw
Pwenty fool dx
Tie fest nig
frying tn Kes
day ga freal
Liuml, Mire 3
of twa Blane
ened and by nightfall the boar wea
ii of water, and Tyieg toa drag
wring Joa and Poih oon
Bardest. Ag the hind
HORNY heal wlthas?
Jalinston lost Beart aud al
is te. he ar odekivions and
thirantensd to jump overboard.
Then Clements, belug the stronger,
LEE prin werd Johnstar vy wad fad him 1533
Boosie ther betta of the twist, an aperation
theater strapless pearly
; KF day arsak ye.
NN
the oars again, andl gr
ther SH, I nis fiir ia @
qravshs,
f fresh roote ard boos
wad the later ad
Imome, Then they
gal in the after.
# Newfound
Moisrath, In
DRYON A THMIABLED STEAMED
art terrier
i, the RB IArTY ine
way nf
i ahd $ fein
sn daes nf ho in i
chil the safery of kis ship
i offal ne balp the Sear.
gol wis towed
covilaned a
Swen nt AE
hia life
i fran
broke
fi 8 Th
he ekelnah! and raked
&* sith oh : MER As
at bis font bo Tainted
would have dial
faliow sailors
vat alr of the
+d severe bilsters on the
+ Toco aul arms,
an cold proceed bo furthers, In five |
days the Posegers reliant to Sad bei
the wmaother aad denghiter barely alive
The party reached Manta Fe on Wi
Ingcton's birthdey more dead thay alive
The men left in the cabin all perishod.
Sm re iin
A DEP-SEA RESCUER.
% the patenLvrd expected the
elie fn or, aml the otfieers foun)
i pedessary to Keop them eked ua the
jEssaise be hin,
An Innovation,
A lady In New York bas had her
builder's teeth filed by a dentist. The
usual practice is to let the dog xi}
them himself with trump. "Tor oreute
Any one ‘Who Las seen a pilot boat | Star,
the sea fy stodded with rocks whose!
F from Vioslinh preven,
Cletnents Geld on une | ; hil
| natived ta be trefabiing excessively,
the baeoiblack,
nhydrous pa-
per, which forma the best casing for
underground telephone cables. became
an important indostry in England. but
the business is pow transferred to
Amiriean factorier becaose of the
corsprative dryness of our climate.
The skoboscople method of Investh
antiin ix being practically appiled to
engineering porposes. This beantitel
spe Be the same ax that well
wn in oomnection with the costrope
anil wimilnr toys. in which & eaves
a of miving obhijects, viewed theonugh
in a redating dram or disk, aps
ve the movements of Hfe
ing a rapidly moving plees
=m with closely swecending
Rexlies of Huht, the parts may be
chrsed to appear as standing still and
any desired stages or phases of orers-
inte ay be stodied minutely ander
all the actual conditions of rapid move.
went,
The Chinese of Ningpo are sucresss
folly Introducing thelr Bami-woven
il fon ponds iy Manchuria, The cloth
Is wminde freon yarsz spin In Chinese
triiibe and from imported yarns. The
Viera pare colores] before helme wien
aie] the dolore are fast and derahle,
The ¢ioth is made in pieces twenty
garda long and twenty five inches wide,
| The price of these goods at Ningno
82 Mexican 81.85 United States: por
piece, The eompany furnishes the
Yirng to the vilingors and poavs them
fp the fant for weavite. Th» work
Chie Gone on Band leeans te the Somes
by wedned and children, whose earn
URS are only a few cents per day,
Many book huvers mst Lave notlond
he rizonrke bie lightness of some of the
eotitined reosntly losned esnontally
The paper, al
thongh of pormal thickness. fs singne
ely lacking in weight. Rome Amer.
ir hooks Ale hegin fo alow hie
charrctertitieo, © In som once fhe
raintive lass of weight. as compared
with aides vealumes of fonnl sige,
spanned fo thirty or forty ner sont
Thee ete In the peesnt adantion for
Eoin of paper made of ssparte
sR Biter, Thie papey
£ the
ER £3
nite Fe eid hy
bse
ver. station
Prartaen
beds al London i ¥
a Brat jaree slectriial
se) eeticaly
POMRE minting to he opera’
by stenvn torbines, There will be (on
turbines, each of THO Race power,
En ftanr Beldmagne pelog are ene
ployed, and the curreat is produced
at 110090 velts potetrial, The gener
ATHY THO 8 1000 revolutions per mine
ute, In consequence of the rapld reve
ointion and the small nmnber of poles,
the diametvr of the dynanmos is only
plae feel whereas It would have to ba
pare than thirty fest, will recipros
Sutin frginss Panning at seventy-five
ret oltitions per minute, as at the metro
politen power statios in New Lori,
Why He Wanted to Kas,
The late General Alexander MeDow.
ell MuCook used to tell this story:
Boye raw troops Were drawn up for
thal first battle. They were off
parzhiy growed, aader fre and ankle
gen an slam, One of the seldiers was
amd his fear might communicate iteelf
to hig comrndes, An officer appriaehed
him,
“Here, wehint ars you trembling for?
Aotgairciad the officer. “Ntop ft ur you
tHilinoralize the company. You are
fier gianre danger than any our ole.
wb bo eB i
ney Hott ae frall™ chattered
wiidier. “1-1-1 had the sone last
aro padding standing still in thie
i 154 =x jong has L-brought it on
4 gb. Wow-wenhin't-tt be 4 29
god hiea te rererun a HElitte sed get
warmdd up New York Mail 21d Ed
Presa,
Wen ems emis
Luck and Labor,
If the boy whe exclaims “Just mp
nek” were truthful, he would say
fat §- at ney laziness” or “Jast my lnat
Tee Ein,
Lak ts walting for something te
Iria Gly
La‘sat, with Keen eyes amd strong
wi turn up seniething,
Lark Hea In bed and wishes the nosts
ran would being him pews of a lege
REY.
Labor torms ont st six o'clock. and
with a busy per or ringing hammer
ays the found-.on of a sompetenos,
Laek whines.
Lalmr whistling,
Laek relies on chanoas,
Lalsir on character
Luck slips down to indigenes,
Labor sivides upward to independ:
eee ~ Northwestern Christian Adve
Cate,
cr ser———————————
The Booiblaek's Betarr,
“Exile! AtEatdda want a shina™
The middle-aged Inlinn boothisck re
forated Ris oy estion so oilen that
ane of ie clerks io i office grew
8 Ve
“et aut and he shonted,
“Dent come valeting us
any mops,”
“Now, why sou say that? exclaimed
“WE¥y not I come in
here? 1 shine shoe. Al rf. I busi
| mess ip lere. I good a3 you. When it
rain I stay homie. 1 work when 1
pease. You pot come, you lose your
Job. Be there.”
And the clerk hadn't a word to say.
—New York Press,