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The State of Massachusetts in 1809 collected $3,330,03G.21 from franchise taxes on corporations. Doctors declare that grip is caused by flying dust. It is sometimes cheap er to keep streets clean than to pay influenza bills. It may turn out that the only groat find memorable military reputation to rise out c? the South African war on either side will he that of De Wet, the crown and flower of Free State chivalry, and a Iloland for any Oliver which the invading empire over seas can send against him. At a recent card party in Washing ton it was announced a dollar had been found. Four women came for ward to claim it. each declaring that she had lost a silver dollar. Strange to say the lono dollar found was a paper one. And j T et they say women are not financiers. The cost of maintaining the life-sav ing service during the past year was $1,535,930. The amount of property it saved was, in round numbers, $7,- 500,000, in addition to 2007 lives. Such a record as that would seem to justify better pay and better care for the men engaged in such difficult and danger ous work. Learned women as university lectur ers in science and literature have been known from old times in Italy. Now a woman renews the tradition of Por tia. Signoriua Labrlola, daughter of the Socialist Professor Antonio La brlola. through her appointment as do cent in the philosophy of law, becomes the first woman to serve on the facul ty of the University of Rome, and the first to lecture on jurisprudence in Italy. Paris has a municipal debt of $350,- 000,000, nearly half that of all the cities of France, twice as great as that of London, and one-third of the local debts of all England. Every Parisian owes SIOO more than every Londoner. In Paris government costs $25 a bead, the highest rate in any city in the world. As an offset, it claims to be the best governed, and, while the conten tion may be disputed, it is certainly •econd to none, affording an example of administrative efficiency never sur passed in the urban history of any period. Hut Berlin is not far behind, and government there only costs $0 a head, while in St. Petersburg the job is done in tolerable fashion at $2.50 a head. America's commercial rivalry has been forming the basis for long analy tical articles in the Loudon Daily Ex press and the London Daily Mail, written by engineering and other ex perts, which retail the results of re cent trips to the United States under the headlines "Wake Up, England!" "Why Are We Falling Behind?" etc. The authors reiterate that the British manufacturers lack initiative and are absurd in their conservatism. Their argument is summed up in the follow ing paragraph in one of the articles: "If the foregoing facts are unpalata ble, it is better they should be known than that the nation should continue to dream on in a fool's paradise until the next cycle of bad trade, when we may fi: d our markets in the possession of others." The traveling men of Kansas have succeeded, after sevcial years, in rai ing funds sufficient to erect a suitable monument over the grave of Captain J. H. llarr, oi Humboldt, who kept 3 ho tel there and was a friend of ail the drummers. He was affectionately known as "Beefsteak Larr." The new French stamps are subjected to much unfavorable criticism in France. [DESPERATE CASE OFFERGiVAL.J Percival felt that the world was come to an end for him and he was trying to convince himself that he didn't care a continental if it was. He sat in a chair that seemed incompati ble with any sort of discomfort, his pipe was between his teeth and he had been notified of a raise in his salary that very week; nevertheless the the chair could not hold him in its padded embrace, and he got up and paced about the room in the regulation style of the caged panther; his pipe had gone out long ago, and as for the salary, what to him was salary. He felt in the breast pocket of his /oat and drew out a letter, or rather a note, which he read with a scowl corrugating his brow. Then with a succession of angry jerks, he tore it across and across and dropped the pieces, fluttering on the hearth. A moment later he gathered the pieces in a heap, and, striking a match, set fire to them. As the flame gradually died out from the rustling tinder a thought seemed to strike him and ho felt in his breast pocket again. This time he took out a pocket book and extracted a small package wrapped in tissue paper from a special compart ment; this also he laid on the hearth, and, with the same expression of an gry determination on his face, struck another match and held it to the paper. It did not burn as freely as the other for a minute, but suddenly It flared up so that he had to start back to avoid the flame. The next in stant there was nothing on the hearth but ashes and a particularly unpleas ant smell permeated the room. Percival drew a deep breath and re mained staring moodily at the black ened fragments on the hearth for sev eral minutes. Then, with what seemed to be an effort, he rose and began to whistle. What did it matter, after all? What did anything matter? No girl was worth a moment's worry. In accordance with this decision he sat down again and struck a third match with which he lighted his pipe. He puffed away with preternatural calm for a little while and then took the evening paper from the table and turned to the theatrical advertise ments. "I might as well enjoy myself," he said. "That's probably what she's doing. I'll simply devote the rest of my existence to having a good time. If she ever hears of me at all it will be as a light-hearted man about town. Let's see what is on. No, I'm not going to afford her the satisfaction of seeing me droop into an early grave. My harp doesn't hang on any weeping willow tree. I'll tune her up and pick out rag-time tunes." The paper dropped to the floor and he continued with a melancholy eye on the engraving of Napoleon at St. Helena, which hung on the wall: "I'll dissipate; that's what 1 11 do—fill the cup that clears today of past regrets and future fears—whoop 'er up Eliza Jane. I believe I'll drink a bottle of beer before I go to bed tonight, just as a starter. They will go to her and tell her what I'm doing, and then may be she will be sorry. I don't know, though, why I should care whether slio Is sorry or not. I don't suppose I really do. My mind is naturally dis turbed now. just as it would be if I suddenly broke myself of any other habit. In a week I shall be wonder ing what I ever saw in her and I shall be ahead so much experience. I sup pose every man has to go through it once, just as puppies get the distemp er, and I ought to be thankful that I found out in time how callous and frivolous women can be. I've had all I want of them, that's one thing sure." He got up and walked about the room and then suddenly sat down again with an impatient exclamation. "I don't see why I can't simply dis miss the matter from my mind and let it go at that," he said. "I won't go out; that's one thing dead certain. It would be a confession of weakness to 6eek distraction. I wonder if she won't write and ask me to come again. I guess it's too soon for.a letter, but sho might send a messenger. Then 1 could coldly express my regret that I was unable to see her and suggest that it would perhaps be better that our correspondence should cease. That would settle the matter and it would be a satisfaction to know that It was actually settled. I guess it's settled, anyway. "I wonder how that trial balance Is coming out. Hosier is going to get fooled on this guess. They want to get some ink that won't clog on the pens the way the last did. I don't believe in the economy of buying cheap ink. There's going to be plenty for us to do between this and Christ mas with the annuals and the holiday shipments, and it won't let up with the new year. Well, I shall be glad to have plenty of work to take my mind off this business. Work! That's what there is before mo now. Good, honest, hard work and no fooling. Not that I would r" have worked just as hard for her. There was our home to work for then. Now it will be just money grubbing. Well, I'll grub to beat the band." He laughed a harsh, sardonic and dissyllable laugh, the sound of which reminded him of a villain in a black cloak whom in happier days he had guyed from a gallery seat. He felt that he had misjudged that villain's art, but at the same time he ceased his Eolilonuy and lit his pipe again. It was easier to stop talking than to keep from thinking, and his thoughts went wandering off to the little home they two had planned. There prob ably never had been a house built just exactly like it, and there prob ably never would have been, but it had grown very familiar to him in the first half-waking hours of morning —particularly the room where they would sit together. Her face—! Castles in Spain! Money grubbing now; a deadening of human feeling, a self-contained, self-sufficing existence that would harden his heart and set his face in lines that would scare chil dren. He took a savage satisfaction in the contemplation of his future self, but caught himself softening at the picture of this adamantine millionaire, yielding to the appeal of the love of his youth and raising her from pover ty to affluence; so he picked up the newspaper again and tried to interest himself in the partition of China. The door bell below suddenly rang and Percival started to his feet. Could it be the messenger? He half opened his door and listened. He heard his landlady say, "I think he's upstairs in his room now. You can go up and see; it's right at the head of the stairs." and then he retreated to his chair, choked with emotion. It was the laundryman with hia weekly bill. Would she have written that note, aftei all? Suppose she could have ex plained. And would it not be better to give her the opportunity to explain? Of course she could. She could make him look like a fool in one sentence, but he was not the man to allow any girl to twist him around her little finger. He would show her that. A trivial cause, perhaps, as some people might, look at it, but what could there be trivial in their intercourse. Look ing back he could remember other in stances, slight in themselves, but were they not as floatiug straws show ing the ebbing tide of love? But to return to the Chinese ques tion. Oh, hang the Chinese question! Yet it should be a matter of human in terest. Great nations were playing a great game there; armies were gather ing. How would it be to enlist. Here was a subject worthy of serious con sideration. What could life offer him hero but the prospect of a dreary slav ing over account books. Was that a career for a man with blood in his veins and strength in his sinews? On the other hand, strenuous activity, the joy of conflict, the thrill of danger— and then a glorious death. She would hear of it and perhaps her blinding tear 3 would fall fast upon the printed page where his name would appear in capital letters in the list of the slain. They might perhaps bring his mortal remains back in a metal cas ket. They have done that for the boys who fell in Cuba, and while Per cival thought at the time it was a piece of idiotic sentimental extrava gance, now it seemed only the proper and decent thing to do. The services would he held at the church, of course, and there would be pathetic allusions to the young hero, who animated by sentiments of the loftiest patriotism, responded gladly to his country's call and laid down his life on the sacred altar of—er—of that country. The chances were good for a swooning at that. But after all It would not bo well to go away with bitterness in his heart. She must understand that though Fate had spoken and an eternal separation must be —that it was his unalterable determination that it should be —yet ho would be faithful to her memory. He would release her formally from her engagement—very formally. She should understand, yet lie would place an icy barrier before her —and then he would bid her far* (veil for ever. Perhaps a letter would be the best way. No. Letters were only letters, lia ble to misconstruction, and there should be no mistaking his firm in tention. Yet it might be put better in writ ing. But then there was always the dan ger of a letter falling into the hands of a third party. The old man might open it. Just as well to call tomor row evening. Where was the sense of putting it off? If it had to bo done it might just as well be done at once. Percival put on his coat and went out. Perhaps ten minutes had elapsed since the eternal farewell had been spoken and the young man and the girl were seated 011 the sofa talking it over. They were not yet separated —far from it. "You might just as well have given me another," he said, plaintively. "Then all this misery would have been avoided." "I had given you enough—more than enough," she answered. "Enough for you, perhaps." "Now don't begin again, Percival. You know papa was getting awfully impatient. And one wouldn't have sat isfied you anyway. I don't want to give you so many that you won't car# for them." "Try. Give me one now." She gave it to him. Presently he said: "And you'll give me another lock of your hair?" "You don't deserve it." she replied "but I suppose I'll have too."—Chicago Record. Tim*ltry. "Your wife's book is a success, iau't it?" "It was. It has b'ien out over three months." —Brooklyn Life. The New rocket hooks. The newest pocketbooks are oblong in shape and only about four inches broad. They fasten deep down on one side, with a jeweled stud, and much re semble card cases. Duke'i* American Grandmother. Mrs. Yznaga, grandmother of the Duke of Manchester, lives, it is said, on a plantation of two thousand or three thousand acres in Louisiana, about eighteen miles from Natchez. Her unpretentious home is a frame structure about two miles from the Mississippi river. In appearance she is a brunette and very tall, being near ly six feet in height. She lives alone, except for her superintendent and ser vants. The Cliiinning Woman. Is tactful, because she says the right thing in the right place, at the right time to the right person. Is thoughtful, because she antici pates what might be agreeable and keeps in mind the Golden Rule. Is low-voiced, because there is a certain magnet of refinement about her, which is brought unobstrusively into evidence by her tones. Is intelligent, because she attracts her hearers because of her discourses being those of common sense. Is agreeable, because one feels at ease with her.—Philadelphia Record. Getting Hid of n Double Cliin. A woman who had more flesh than she ought to have for health perse vered in diet and exercise for a year and a half and was rewarded by be coming much thinner. She found the assurance of her physician to be true that the slow process of reducing flesh is the only one that neither injures digestion nor wrinkles the skin. She says that the reason nine-tenths of the stout women fall in their endeavors to remove their flesh is because they de mand immediate reward for their ef forts, and finding they do not become appreciably thinner in a month or six weeks relapse to a normal diet or grasp at some new device for reduc tion. SuncenHful Women Inventor*. There were 574 women patentees of the 26,000 applicants at the patent of fices during the last year, and the in ventions of these women proved most, successful. The main reason for this success is that the women inventors havo called in the aid of a practical man whose business it is to make the invention go. They were wise enough to realize that they had not the com mercial capacity or opportunity to pull off the thing unaided. Most of tho in ventions were for the improvement of small niceties that add to the luxury or comfort of life. The great question or dress prompted 149 inventions, and there were 40 patents for cycling improvements.—London Express. Th Plan of Winter Gowning, The general plan of winter gowning Is most attractive, especially in the realm of costumes for every-day wear. The tailor gowns are smart, and as a rule artistic. With but few erratic effects and with great scope for selec tion, both in fabrics and styles, skirts are either severely plain or they are decorated to suit personal preference, individual forms, and special occasions. They are in circular form or shaped, with from three to seven gores, as tho ease requires. Regarding waists, there never was a season when a greater va riety of equally fashionable styles pre vailed. Many show the simple tailor finish, others have picturesque and novel decorations on tho sleeves and fronts of the waist; and, again, for demi and full-dress wear, are creations of the Parisian or deft copies of French models —no two of which are alike— that are intricate and fascinating in design and elaborately trimmed. The American " Seeker." Tne American saleswoman with neady wit has christened these neck ornaments of all kinds neckers, and if you ask for a "neeker" in any shop in New York City they will bring you out an assortment cf stocks and other neck trimmings. With the necker generally goes the bow for the hair, for the hair is lightly and prettily trimmed this winter. A necker that is perfectly charming consists of a hand of black velvet, over which there are ten gold cords drawn and fastened. The whole meet in the middle of the front under a gold pin. Below this pin there hang ends of vel vet finished with a gold tassel. This style can he carried out with silver cords, upon aluminium satin, with the soft silvery result so much liked. Silver cords are more than ex cellent upon white satin and afford a very dressy finish to the waist. For second mourning black chenille is knotted around the throat, over a lin ing of black taffeta, or if tho mourn ing be third mourning, over a band of Jetted satin. / Fa.litnnnhl* Shade., The various shades of blue that arc fashionable this winter require to be quite carefully chosen in order to get a becoming shade, for blue is a cold coior for winter, and must be just tho right tint or otherwise will seem poor and very trying to the skin. The diffi culty has been obviated on three or four of tho new models for street gowns by introducing some other color —warm red, or a pinkish mauve with a good deal of gold and silver. All this somehow seems to give the light and warmth that are needed. The stitched velvet revers and fronts, or the col lard and revers and fronts of some plain color covered with lines of black and silver, or black and gold braid, make a coat look exceedingly smart, as do also the gold and silver buttons that go with this style of trimming. It is not necessary to introduce the color on the skirt. Indeed, it is a mistake in most instances to trim any skirt with a color, unless some inconspicuous braid be used, for the beauty of a skirt should depend upon its cut and its de sign.—Harper's Bazar. Where the ])ren Money Corn. Do you know where goes the money you pay for an expensive gown? It is divided in a manner that may surprise you, unless you are initiated by some one, as I was by a bookkeeper of a large New York establishment which affects ail that is extreme in fashion and expense. A six hundred dollar creation was taken as an example. You pay SGOO for the gown, and the money goes into a number of hands. Those who performed the labor in put ting the dress together after it left the cutter's hands do not get more than sls. The material will cost $l5O, while the administrative, originative genius at the head of the establishment receives SIOO for imparting his con ception to his staff. This staff of men and women, with suavity of manner, business experience, tact and talent that will satisfy the judicious as well as the frivolous, will got $l5O. Then about $lO is for interest on capital and money outstanding, to which must be added $55 for bad debts. Those who do pay must pay for those who do not pay, and no establishment Is too fash ionable or too high toned to have un paying debtors on its hooks. Now we have a cost of $5lO, which, when de ducted from the SGOO you paid, leaves S9O net profit.—-New York Herald. Mower Fud Are Fleeting;. "Fads in flowers, as well as in other things, are subject to change, and a blossom which is a prime favorite with fashion's devotees one season may find itself superseded by another in the next," said a Brooklyn florist, authori tatively. "There are, however," said he, re flectively, "a few kind 3of flowers which are always popular and appro priate for all occasions. Roses, car nations and violets, for example, are always in demand, and may therefore be classed as universal favorites. The call for them is not spasmodic, as it is in the case of most of the other kinds of flowers, and dealers, as a rule, find little difficulty in disposing of all that they can get at good prices. The rose would probably he pre-eminently the most popular hothouse flower were it not for the fact that roses are more expensive than either carnations or violets. "But there is another point which purchasers of flowers are apt to take into consideration, and that is the last ing property. For this reason the car nation is favored by many. A bouquet of carnations which will last for eight days in a vase of water is considered by many buyers to be worth a great deal more than one made up of flowers which under the same conditions will remain fresh only half or less than half that length of time. A rose fades rapidly if worn in a corsage bouquet or held in the hand, but carnations used in a similar manner can be speedily revived by placing them in water. "Heliotropes, forget-me-nots, japoni cas and several other kinds of flowers are grown in the hothouses to meet special demands, but the calls for them are by no means as frequent as for the staples. "Violets of all kind 3 are popular, but those which are perhaps the best known in Brooklyn are the California single and the English double violets. "Florists do not, as is sometimes be lieved, ever attempt to augment the odor of the violet by the addition of some artificial perfume. As regards the value of a carnation, it all depends on its size, strength, fragrance and lasting qualities,"—Brooklyn Eagle. Shopping bags of fur, mounted with silver gilt, are one of the novelties. Pulley belts of gold have pearl ring's and Persian ribbons in red and yellow to draw the belt together. Shoulder knots of panne velvet made with the ends finished with gold agtiil lettcs are used on both day and even ing gowns. The newest turnover collars are of crepe do chine with deiecate embrol derd edgc3. They come in white, pale pink, lavender, green and ecru. Chinchilla hats continue in fashion able favor. One has a crown of the fur and a brim which rolls back from the inevitable soft pompadour. The brim is faced with pink panne, and is caught up high with a bunch of pink roses. Various designs in gold effects are made for the hair, and tied prettily at one side with narrow black velvet rib bon. The tendency is toward more rather than less decorations, and for the flat, broad effects. Applique trimming on evening gloves is the latest development of fashion. The applique consists ol either lace or silk embroidery. White gloves are decorated with black, and black with white, while gloves of pale gray or the most delicate tan. which is really fashionable shade of the hour, have either black or white. The effect is novel and not unnleasing. LCVS, | I.nvo is trust!in:, love is waiting, I.ove is liopt. light, despair. . l.m>- is loudness, love is hating, i.ove is curk'sstiess aud care! i Love is wine and love is lioney, i.ove is pain aud love is joy. Love is everything—but money dust keep that in mind, m.v boy! i | —Chicago times-Herald, HUMOROUS. I Loftcr—Why do you think golf is a sleepy game? Wigwag—Oh, 1 hear so j much talk about bunkers. ' Hoax —Women arc poor conversa | tionalists; they never stop to think. ■ Joax—Worse than that; they never i think to stop. 1 Wigg—l consulted a fortune-teller i the other day, and she gave me a spirit • message from the grave. Wagg— Written on rapping paper, I suppose. ! Mrs. Jones—What's the matter with your husband? Mrs. Malaprop— The doctor doesn't know, exactly; but ' he says he thinlm it's conjecture of the lungs. ' Newpop—What's good for insom nia? Oldhand—Try counting 1000. That's what everybody tells me, hut, confound it, the baby's too young to count! "My heart is rent!" wailed the ar dent youth who had unwisely taken his engagement seriously. "All right, Willie," responded the cruel, coquette; "hut you'll liavo to get some other girl to collect it." Tommy—Pop, what Is a breach of the peace? Tommy's Pop—Well, my son, when your mother takes a piece of my old trousers and makes them o-or for you she makes breeches of the piece. Now run away and play. "Pardon me!" began the map who wanted a match. "Application for pardons," responded the other, rae j chanically, "must be filled out before the proper authorities and then filed." "Who in the dickens are you?" "i am the governor of the state." "I should like a slight increase in my salary." remarked the sad-looking young bookkeeper; "I have a largo ■ family to support." "Why, you've only . been married two years." laid hie cm ! ployer. "1 know that," was his r ply: I ' hut nono of my wife's people have i done anything since." , The absent-minded man was nenv '■ lug the railroad station. "There! I knew 1 had forgotten something," he exclaimed to his wife." "Why, I'm pure we have everything," she replied; i ' what is it you've forgotten?" The ab sent-minded man pressed his brow. I "Bless my soul!" he cried; "I've for ; gotton where we intended going." TAKEN BY SURPRISE. How a " Mali-It for a Million" Win Itroualu AH uil. | "Xlad I caught my train that night." laughed the man who has had nothing . to do for a quarter of a century hut to j sit and watch pine trees grow to swell j his hank account, "I would probably i be a farmer now trying to raise a mortgage and a few other things. I had gone to a little town in lower Wis consin to see u colt that a man there wanted to sell. I was a good judge of stock and pretty shrewd on a trade, but a greener country lad never broke into a town. I would have walked back to the farm after I had found myself too late for the train, but I saw a handbill announcing a show that night and couldn't resist the temptation to | see it. though it did cost a quarter. | "In my hilarious appreciation i was more of an entertainment than they j had on the stage, especially as I was j utterly oblivious of the fact that I did 1 not lcolc like any one else in the audi i enee. Toward the end of the perform ' unce a huge fellow came out, tossed cannon halls in the air, held men out at arms' length and lilted heavy ! weights. "After this showing of his prowess he offered $lO to any one whom he could not throw inside of two minutes. I was the crack wrestler in all our ! section, though none present knew it, and I felt as though the challenge was i aimed directly at me. 1 turned hot and i cold during a few seconds of extreme j silence. Then 1 Fprang up and as 1 came out of my old blouse shouted, | 'l'll go you, b'goeh.' There was a roar of laughter, and then some one of those | about me urged me not to go up there j and have my neck broken. But one old man told me to go in and do my bent. It was a tough job, but I finally ; threw the giant almost through the I floor with a liipiock. There was a little I hesitancy about giving me the $lO, hut the crowd shouted until I got it. j "The old man took me home with , I him, and in a week I had charge of all the teams in his lumber camps, in • time I became a partner, and he cleared, I the way to mako me rich. That was • really a mutch for a million."—Wash . I ingion Star. ' { Klin Thought It Wan Seal Siinnl.lne. ! it is thought nr.d attention bestowed , upon details which give some houses ; the indescribable charm that others, ; furnishings, can never ijope to attain. ■ I This was happily illustrated the other | day at an informal luncheon party. The ' j day was dark and rainy, but as one the :; guests stepped into the dining-room • i she ejaculated, "Why! I didn't know >j the sun had ccrna out!" Then when ' j Ehe saw her mistake tnere was a p!eas | ant laugh at her expense. The bright ;; effect had been produced by placing a [ i large hunch of brilliant yellow foliage [ | plants on the sill of the broad Eng > lish window, and the silken pillows II lying on the window seat had caught . | aud held the sunlight in the various i j golden shades. A largo vase of nas , j turtlum vines and flowers Eerved as a 11 centrepiece for the table.—Pittsburz j Dispatch. • 1
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