PLAYTHINGS. ' Th* 1 are full of human tort, . Wound up for threescore years; I Their springs are hungers, hopes and jojrt And jealousies and fears. r*- They move their eyes, their lips, their hands; They are marrclously dressed. And here mv body stir 9 or stands, A plaything like the rest. r The toys are played with till they fall, Worn out and thrown away. Why were they ever made at all? Who sits to watch the play? —Edmund tloate. oAoAoAoAOAOAOOA0AOAOAOAOAO 1 THE TEST. I K ► 2** * p o -4 How an Eccentric Belle £ Exposed tho Motives ° 0 of Her Suitors. ■< > ofo?oTo?ofo?ooToTo?ofofoTo When the following appeared in tho columns of the daily newspapers, soci ety experienced an absolutely now sensation. People who hadn't known the late Eleanor Stevens Immediately began to Inquire into the history of the woman whose name was cftupled with so singular an announcement, and peo ple who had known Eleanor Stevens forthwith revived long lists of her cu rious fads and fancies, concluding al ways with the declaration: "Well, It's just what you might ex pect from Eleanor Stevens." Personal.—The rejected suitors of the late Miss Eleanor Stevens may hear something to their ad vantage by communicating with Willard Pratt, solicitor, 498 Cheapside, K. C. Now, Eleanor Stevens had been by ! no means either the crotchety old maid or the rattle brained young one that these remarks might Imply. On the 1 contrary, she had been a rarely charm ing and gifted young woman, well born, well bred, the heiress of a fortune —in fact, the possessor of beauty, brains and money sufiicient to equip half si dozen so called society belles. But in spite of these endowments—or, perhaps, because of tlieui—Eleanor Stevens had been an eccentric, and with every year since her debut her eccentricity had be come more marked. At times, for ex ample, she would dance and golf, at tend teas and talk small talk to eligible young men with a persistency and suc cess that made her for the time the sun of society's solar system. Then suddenly and with no excuse whatever, she would withdraw herself, refuse all invitations and spend a month or more In studying Buddhism or In Inquiring into the condition of the poor in great cities. As to her suitors, the most remark able reports had existed concerning Miss Stevens' treatment of those gentlemen. It had been said by some that eacli in turn underwent a period of suspense hung, like Mohammed's coffin, between earth and heaven, at the end of which time he was always lowered to the former element by Miss Stevens' unqualified refusal. Certain malicious rivals had even claimed that at times these proposals were so nu merous that Miss Stevens used printed forms of rejection, like those sent by publishers with rejected manuscripts, with space left blank for the name and date. In the end society had concluded to accept the girl's vagaries as simply "Eleanor Stevens' way." And this formula had been made to cover a multitude of oddities, ranging from the wearing of large hats when small ones were the fashion to Miss Stevens' sudden and mysterious depar ture for the continent exactly two days after she had taken apartments for the summer with a party of friends at a south coast watering place. In deed. when, six months after her ab rupt departure, the notice came of the young heiress' sudden death - unattend ed, except by her maid and companion —in some obscure village in the Black forest, even her friends could find no phrase that so well expressed their shocked surprise as: "Well, that was just like Eleanor Stevens. She couldn't even die like other people!" And now, following upon tlie news of her strange death, had appeared this still stranger notice. Eleanor Stevens' rejected suitors! Who were tftoy? Would they present themselves according to directions? What were the advantages they would gain by so doing? To the last of these questions the public had'not long to wait for an an swer. Three days after tho extraordi nary "personal" had made its appear ance tho announcement was made that Eleanor Stevens had left a will and that this will had been proved. Before this news was 12 hours old the sensation caused by the advertise ment was completely overshadowed by that produced by the following clause, with which it was discovered the will ended: "To each one of my rejected suitors 1 give and bequeath £5,000, to lie paid subject to certain sealed conditions ex actly one year from my death in the li brary of my residence, in Beechwood street, Belgravia." Meanwhile Willard Pratt was deriv ing from the administration of Miss Stevens' will the keenest enjoyment of his long and varied legal career. Be ing a shrewd reader of character and possessed of a large fund of humor, he bad vastly enjoyed being Interviewed by the claimants or the claimants' friends, and. though they had got noth ing out of him, lie had, on the other hand, got a great real out of them. As one after another left him the keen ju rist invariably chuckled to himself: "Smart girl to refuse him. He was after the money; that's plain. But what in the name of all that's holy made her give him £.".000 now?" But his enjoyment reached its culmi nating point when, just one week bo fore tho day appointed Tor the settle- I ment of the will, society was again startled by this notice iu the daily pa- I pers: To Whom It May Concern.—The rejected suitors of Miss Eleanor Stevens are i quested to meet at j her late residence in Beechwood street, Belgravia, on Monday, the 21st inst., at 10 o'clock a. m., I with reference to the legacies due to them under her will. WILLARD PRATT, Executor. "I think that will reawaken popular ! | interest," said the old lawyer dryly. • And so it did. Seven days later, when the hour appointed for the recep- 1 tion of Miss Stevens' rejected suitors drew near, the streets in the vicinity of j her late residence were lined with an i eager multitude of men and women. I As the hour drew near in which they were to stand confessed as members of Miss Eleanor's "army of martyrs" sev eral of the intended claimants had found themselves weakening in their resolve. Those, for instance, who had justified their claim solely on the ground of an admiration felt, but never expressed, saw their courage oozing as the ordeal approached. Others, who | were burning incense at new shrines, j seriously considered renouncing a claim 1 that would decidedly complicate their present prospects. It was a question .whether pride or profit would win the day. In the end, however, the love <if gold won. When Mr. Pratt entered the library of Miss Stevens' late residence at 10 , o'clock on this eventful morning, he ' found the room crowded with a body of men clad in mourning garb and sol emnly waiting in various stages of un easiness'for the approach of the long expected moment. As the lawyer silently took his seat behind a baize covered table the trou- ' ; bled faces grew visibly more troubled, 1 and as he produced sundry important j looking documents and laid them on j the table each countenance was stamp- j i ed with mingled emotions, eager ex pectaucy in many eases being linked : with shame and avarice. "Gentlemen," began the old lawyer, "I must trouble each of you to give me in writing a concise statement of the ' time, place and circumstances attend ing your several offers and rejections, ; in order that I may have documentary proof that you are entitled to the lega ; cies left you by the terms of Miss j Stevens' will." I "Documentary proof!" | At those unexpected words the emo tion that marked the faces of the strange assembly changed to unmis : takable concern. Was this some d!s --! agreeable joke? No. The old lawyer I waited with unmoved face for the ful fillment of his demand. There was a ' momentary hesitation. Then, tiling up j in due order, the applicants, one by i one, seated themselves at the table be- I fore the old attorney and wrote the account demanded. As the last statement was signed the portieres of the library were suddenly drawn back and a tall, heavily veiled i figure advanced slowly into the middle J of the room. Then, as she raised her hand and drew back tho thick gauze that masked her face a cry of terror ! echoed through the house. The woman was Eleanor Stevens! "Wait," she commanded. "Don't be alarmed—l am no ghost. The Miss I Stevens who died a year ago in the Black forest was not the Miss Stevens whose loss you are so deeply mourn ing. "By a stupid blunder of the peasants with whom I was staying an exchange of names occurred between myself and an invalid girl whom I had befriended, so that when she died her death cer tificate was issued under the name of Eleanor Stevens. "Some weeks earlier I had been in fluenced by daily contact with one j I whose life was fading rapidly away to draw up my will in legal form and to send it home to my lawyer, i "When I left so suddenly for the con- I tinent a year and a half ago it was be- I cause of a conversation overheard be j tween several of my seeming admirers i which changed all my ideas of manly i chivalry In affairs of the heart, and which drove me abroad, as 1 supposed, for ever. "It was 1 lint blundering exchange ol' I names that has given me t lie oppor i tunity of meeting you under these In- I teresting circumstances. "Now, gentlemen, my will, in whl£h I you have shown so deep an interest, | stipulates that each of my rejected | suitors shall receive £5,000 after my i death. That bequest will be carried I out to the letter when I am really dead. "In the meantime 1 would gladly rend your documentary proofs, but as I have never in ail my life rejected but two suitors, and as olio of tbese died six months ago, and the other is not here today, I shall be obliged to re i fer you to my lawyer." | And with a sweeping courtesy Miss ' Stevens withdrew from the room.—Ex change. Iliiptint Fifth. "Down iu the south," remarked a man at one of the clubs, "there exists more of a religious atmosphere than there is here in the north. So most of ' the stories they tell have a sectarian flavor to them. One that 1 heard while in Charleston was entirely new ' to me, ntivl it appeared to be so in the circle of gentlemen where 1 heard it. | It ran this way: A dignified old gentle- J man stood on one of the city wharfs i watching an old darky who was fish ing. No word passed between them ' until the ityrky landed a good sized * | fish, iiits was unhooked, and there | was a look of disgust on the face of the fishermen as he threw the fish back into the water. r " 'Why did you throw that fish back 4 into the water Instead of keeping him, uncle?' queried the onlooker. " 'He iio good, inassa.' ? " 'What kind of a fish was it?' | " 'We calls 'em Baptist fish, sail.' ,r "'And-why Baptist fish, uncleV' " 'Ah couldn't say fo' sure, mussa. but Ah spects it's bekase dey spiles soon as you gets 'em out n do water!' "—Cin cinnati Enquirer. WERE GOOD FELLOWS WESTERN FRONTIER BAD MEN SHOWN IN A NEW LIGHT. A Mnn Who Fluiina to Iluve Known Them Suyn They Were Not Bullied and Did Not Saagger Around Min ing Cum pa Looking For Flight. A little group of hotel guests, most of whom hud lived In the west at one time or another, were talking about the passing of the professional "bad man.'* "I knew most of the famous frontier desperadoes of 20 years ago," said one of the party, "and almost without ex eoption they were good fellows when they weren't out for blood. None of them were bullies; lu fact, they had the best reasons for not being. When a man made a reputation as a 'killer* In that country, he immediately became a mark for numerous aspirants for the same kind of fame. They watched him like hawks, looking for some decent pretext to pick a quarrel and shoot him unawares, each anxious to be pointed out as 'the man who killed So-and-so.' The greater his celebrity the more glory there would be in giving him his quietus, and tills ever present danger was fully appreciated by them all. The noted 'bad man* knew that almost any body could murder him, with a fair chance of going scot free, but if, on the contrary, he added another homicide to his own record he would have to estab lish an absolutely tiawless case of self defense. ! "Such a handicap as that had a mighty j cooling effect on the blqpd and made a man think several times before he did anything that might put his head in a halter. The story book Idea that j the famous desperadoes of the west used to swagger around the mining ; camps with chips on their shoulders, shooting holes through people's hats, making 'tenderfeet' dance and spoil ing for any kind of a light Is ridicu lously wide of the truth. Tbey nfay have done so iu their early duys, but after they acquired bloody celebrity they ceased to hunt trouble and were kept busy avoiding it. Of course there were exceptions, and I remember one ru 111 an with a record who ran amuck through u little Colorado town and shot a few dozen window lights en route, but he was crazy drunk, and the ma jority of his clan were sober, serious, extremely quiet individuals who were a great deal more apt to swallow an affront than they were to give one. In fact, the baiting of bad men became a favorite diversion among a certain class of ambitious citizens, and It was one of the most curious phases of a life I hut is now rapidly passing Into mere tradition. "On more than one occasion," the speaker went on, "I have seen some foolhardy tough nerve himself with whisky and start out with the deliber ate intention of 'doing up' this or that celebrity. One uiglit in a gambling house at Dodge City a cattleman nam ed Coulson made a desperate effort to draw Luke Short into an altercation and finally slapped his face. Short had killed several men and was a not -1 ed character, and Coulson had boasted to his cowboys that he would 'put out his light' the first time he got a chance, i When the blow was struck, a dead si lence fell upon the place, and the bar tenders and faro dealers dropped out of sight as suddenly as so mauy mario nettes all on one string. Short looked the cattleman straight In the eye. 'You're drunk, dim,' he said quietly, 'and I won't fight a man that don't know what he's doing. Get out and don't | come lu here again until you come In I sober.' ('unison's hand had been hov -1 ering about his pistol, but the other's calmness cowed him, and lie turned ; around and walked away without a i word. "in the west a blow was generally considered sutlicient justification for a shot, but what Short said übout the cattlemun's condition was perfectly true, and lie knew it would be used against him in a trial. 'I could have killed him easily before he drew,' he remarked afterward, 'but his friends would have all claimed that I took ad vantage of him. They would have said that Luke Short shot a poor, harmless drunkard.' 1 could multiply such in stances almost by the dozen. In the early eighties 'Doe' Ilolliday was one of the most noted man killers in the west. One night in Leadvllle I saw liiui submit iu silence to a frightful cursing from a consumptive bartender who was eager to 'get his scalp' and i become a bad man himself. Later on ilolliday was absolutely forced to draw to defeud himself, but he took pains to shoot the inspiring drink mixer through the arm and not the body. 'I didn't want to hurt the fool,' he said apologetically. Most of the border des peradoes eventually became peace offi cers and made good ones too. They were glad to drift into such employ ment. It put them on the side of the dreaded law." Hurled In Woolen. In 1079 an act was passed requiring the dead to be buried in woolen, the purpose being to lessen "the importa tion of linen from beyond the seas and the encouragement of the woolen and paper manufactures of this kingdom." 1 A penalty of £5 was inflicted for a vio lation of this act, and as frequently people preferred to be buried in linen a record of the fine appears. For exam ple, at Gay ton. Northamptonshire, we find in the register: "1708. Mrs. Doro thy Belllngham was buryed April 5, In Llnnen, and the forfeiture of the Act pnyd, fifty shillings to ye informer and * fifty shillings to the poor of the par | ishe." Pope wrote the following lines on the burial of Mrs. Oldfield, the actress, with reference to this custom: "Odious! In woolen! 'Twould a saint provoke," 1; Were the last words poor Narcissi spoke, j No; let a charnOng chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face. —Chambers' Journal. FACTS IN A FEW LINES. Central New York is practically n dairy country. Bootblacks may not do business in Boston on Sunday. One man in California has two square miles planted with almond trees. The average annual price of an apartment with seven rooms Is S3OO in Berlin, S4OO In Hamburg and S3BO in Leipslc. Dresden is to have in 1003 a "city ex hibition" ut which all German towns of over 23,000 inhabitants are to be represented. Professor Ernll Yung of Geneva has counted the ants In five nests. Their numbers were 33,018, 07,470, 12,933, 93,(594, 47,828. There Is room for 54,000 persons In St. Peter's church, Rome; for 37,000 in the Milan cathedral and for 25,000 In St. Paul's, London. The definition of "to loot" Is very simple. It Is "to carry off as plunder." In other words, It Is stealing on a somewhat extensive scale. Slips of tarred pasteboard are used for shingling roofs In Japan. They are said to be as satisfactory as wooden shingles and arc much cheaper. 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Of course! She's his moth er!"—lndianapolis Press. Caste Among the Element!. Icicle—You are the "driven snow" I've heard of, aren't you? Blizzard—"Driven snow!" What are you talking about? Don't you see me getting hauled off at $3 a load?— Chic ago Record. Kuvloaa Woman. Miss Fairplay—Did you see Miss Snippey's beautiful sealskin sack? Miss Sowergrapes—Yes, but I never let on to her that I noticed it.—Ohio State Journal. Mltrht Fill the Bill. Lady—l want a dog that will look terribly fierce, but won't ever bite. Dealer (meditatively)—l guess you'd better get an iron one, mum.—New York Weekly. Probably. She—The count, you know, can trace his family back 800 years. He —Ah. through the bankruptcy court records, I suppose!— Boston Jour nal. Towhcad. Fellers all call me "towhed," Cor. my hair in white; Wisht at ever' hair I got Wut lot black ea night. My maw sez I needn't care. But you bet I do; Call me towhed when I'm big, Nen I'll lick 'cm too. 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The finest brands of Domestic and Imported Whiskey on snle. Fresh Rochester and Shen andoah Ileer and Youngling's Porter on tap. 98 Centre street. RAILROAD TIMETABLES rLIE DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA AND SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. l ime table in effect March 10, 1901. Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eokley, Hazle i Brook, Stockton, Bearer Meadow Hoad, Bonn and H**lcton Junction at (00 a m, daily except Sunday; arid 7 07 a m, 3 31 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Drifton for Harwood, Cranberry, I'cmhicken and Derinp-er at §OO am, daily except Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m. Sun- Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction, llarwood Road, Humboldt Hoad, Oneida and beppton at ft 00 am, daily except Sun lay; and 7 07 a m, 2 3ft p m, Sunday, j Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Harwood, ranborry, Toruhicken and Derinfer at C 36 a u. daily except Sunday; and 8 63 a m, 4 22 p m, unday. Trains leavo Hazleton Junction for Oneida • unction, Harwood Hoad, Humboldt Hoad, >neida and Sheppton at ft ;J2,11 10 am,441 pm, laily except Sunday; and 7 37 a m, 311 pro, Monday Trains loave Derinfer for Tomhlcken, Cran berry, Hai wood, Hazleton Junction and Roan at I (A) p m, daily except Sunday; and 337 a m, * 07 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt Hoad, Harwood Hoad, Oneida Junction, Hazle ton Junction and ltoan at 7 11 am. 13 40, 6: • p m, daily except Sunday; and 8 11 a m, 3 44 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow Hoad, Stockton, Hazle Brook, Fckloy, Jeddo and Drifton at 5 2ft p m, daily, oxcept Sunday; and h 11 a IU, 3 44 p in, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver Meadow Hoad, Stockton. Hazle Brook, Eckley, Jeddo and Drifton at *4O p m, daily, jxcopt Sunday; and 10 10 a m, ft 40 p m. Sunday. Ail trains connect at llazleton Junction witk •lectric car 6 for Hazleton, Jeanesville, Auden cicd and other points ou the Traction Com •any's Hue. Train icavinf Drifton at 800 a m makes onn-.-ction at Derinfer with I*. H. H. trains for Wilkesbarre, Sunbury, Harrisburf and points west. LTTTHEII C. SMITH. fluNwrtntwwdffiit. eTiigh valley railroad. March 17, 1901. ARRANeKMERT OR PASStNRRR TRAINS. LEAVE FHRKLANIJ." | 5 12 a m for Weatherly, Mausk Ckunk, Allentown, Jtelhleliem, hastoa, Hkila delpliia. New York and Delano and Pottsville. 7 40 a m for Sandy Run, White Haven, Wilkes- Ha ire, Piltsion and Seranton. j 4 18 s in for Hazleton, Weatherly, Mnuch Chunk, Allentown, llethlckem. Easton, Philadelphia, New York, Delano and Pottsvillo. 9 30 * m for Hazleton, Muhanoy City, Shen andoah, Mt. 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