This is the Smallest
WICKLEJ^FU^OILSTOVE
POVERTY.
If four blank walls be mine, and every wind
That goes careening through the vasu of aky
Makes free with my shrunk ca>mnt, and my
hearth
Shows but a feeble flame, and the rough floor
lias but the dust for carpet, am 1 poor?
Nay, 1 am very Croesus, that, and more!
For no swart Mode can rob me of the dreams
Wherewith 1 hang a rapt Madonna there,
A face lltirillo painted, drupe rich folda
Of gold shot damask round yon oriel
And heap about me ruga of velvet pile
Deft wrought upon the looms of Kcrmansliah!
Poor! Is he poor who has Cod's gift of dreamaf ,
—Clinton Scollard in New Lippincott.
The
Prosecution
Of Mrs. Dullet
I was ou a visit to my friend Dave
at his mountain home and was stand
ing one day in the courtyard at Lex by,
the couuty town, discussing the possl- j
billties of his re-election to the posi- ,
tion of commonwealth's attorney when
down the street came at a long gallop
an old fellow mounted on a thin, ewe
necked sorrel colt whose long rusty
tail whipped between his legs at every
Jump. Up to the courtyard gate he
clattered and, dismounting, flung the j
rein over the post in utter disregard
of the large printed notice posted on
It that no horses were to be hitched
there. Through the turnstile and up
the walk he came swinging.
"I believe that's old Dullet from
Jaeksborough," said Dave. "He's a
man of influence up there and dead
against me—always is. I wonder what
he wants?"
lie had not long to wait, for the old
fellow strode up to a group and said,
"Whnr's the commonwealth's attor
ney?"
"I ain the man," said Dave. "What j
can I do for you, Mr. Dullet?"
"I wants you to put my wife in the .
pen'tentinry," he said.
"What!" exclaimed Dave; then re- J
covered himself. "What do you want
that for?"
"She's forged my name, and she's
got to go to the pen'tentlary," said lie.
"Well, tell me about It," said Dave,
seeing the gravity of the situation, and, |
turning, he led the way into his office
and offered chairs.
"Well, it's this way: My oldest, gal
Sairy is been a-wantln to marry a fel
ler named Torm Ilackle for gwlne on
two years, and I wouldn't let her."
"Why?" sairl Dave in a professional <
tone, drawing a pen and jwiper toward
him.
" 'Cause Torm'a on t'other side,"
said Dullet.
"Oh!" said Dave, wTltiugulown some
thing. "Go on."
"Well, I wouldn't let Torm come over
on our side. I sont him word of he
did to look out. And SaJry she got |
kind of sick and peaked, and my old
woman she wanted me to do it then, j
and 1 wouldn't, 'cause I had to sign
the dockiment. Then she got kinder ;
worser, and my wife slue wanted me to
go for the doctor. So day before yls
tiddy I went down for the doctor, and
he said he'd crne today, and I staid
at Jim Mlggins' store all night and
yistlddy a-waitln for him, and when 1
got home last night my wife ,<he said. j
'Whnr's the doctor?' And I said lie's |
a-comin. How's Sairy?' And *he said:
'She's done got well. She's got all the
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doctor she wanted. She's done married
Torni Hackle.' Tlow did she done it.'
sys I, 'and 1 ain't signed the license?'
suys I. 'I signed your name for it,'
says she. And 1 said, 4 You has done
commit a pen'tentlary offense, and I
kin put you in the pen'tentlary for It,'
says 1. And she bet me a dollar she
hadn't and I couldn't. And I suys, 'I
bet you .$2 I kin, and I will,' says I.
And now I are gwlne to do It. I kin
do It, can't I?"
Dave reflected, while the old moun
taineer sut still, perfectly passive.
"Well," he said slowly, "there are not
a great many precedents." The old fel
low's face hardened. "Rut. of course,"
he added, "forgery is a very serious
thing, and. ah!" The old fellow's eye
was upon him. "How long have you
been married?" lie asked.
"Twenty year come next month."
Dave wrote it down.
"Wife always been good wife to
you?"
"Ain't got uo fault to find wid her
till now, when she forged my name
an"—
"Ever have any trouble with her?"
"Never at all, 'ecpt, of course, lights
like nil married folks has."
Dave wrote it down.
A liidustrlous?"
"Got no fuult to flud wid her about
dat."
"Help you save what you got?"
"Ain't a hard worklner, saviner
'ooman on the mountain."
"How many children she got?"
"Nine—eight livin. I don't count that
one."
"How many dead?"
"Four."
Duve wrote laboriously.
"Wife good to 'em?"
"Jes' as good as could be. Nursed
'em faithful."
"Sit up with 'em when they were
*ick?"
"Never went to bed at all; nevertfook
her clothes off."
"Go hard with her?"
"Went mighty hard, specially when
Johnny died. He was named after
ne."
Dave wrote silently.
"Go hard with you?"
"Right sort of hard."
"Sort of lonesome after that?"
"Mighty lonesome."
"How old your youngest one now?"
"Gwlne on 3; that's Billy."
"Fond of his mother?"
"Can't bear her out of his sight."
"Fond of you?"
"Sort of—right smart."
"Say Sairy was your oldest?"
"Yes."
"Thought right smart of her when
you didn't have any others, just at
first. I reckon?"
"Umh. Might 'a' done; don't remem
ber."
"Wife cliil. anyhow?"
"Y'os; always fool 'bout her. Oldest
see?"
"She was young and fresh then?"
"Yes; likeliest woman on the moun
tain."
"Bet she was! Used to have good
time sitting up to her, going to see her
slimmer evenings, walking through the
woods?"
"Yes, sir; did that."
"She thought more of first baby than
you. She had more trouble with her
than you—when she was a baby, 1
mean?"
"Oh, yes; guess she did."
"Carried her round in her arms,
nursed her when she was sick ami
mode her little frocks for her?"
"Yes."
"As she did .Tohunv's?"
"Yes." \
"And does little Billy's?"'
"Yes. She's made Billy a little pair
of breeches."
"With pockets in them?"
"Yes; two."
Dave laid down his pen, opened the
code and read a little to himself. "Well,
1 can put her in the penitentiary for
you," he said. 44 'Not less than one
nor more than ten years.' " horead.
Dullet sut forward a little.
"How old is your wife?"
44 'Botlt 50 year."
"I'll draw the indictment. Let me
see. the grand Jury will meet when?
Then the Jury?" He was talking to
himself, with his eyes fumed tip to
the ceiling. "There might lie aouie of
those Ilackles ou the jury. UuCi, that
would be bad " Dullet twisted around
in his chair. "They'd send her on for
the full time, though -teu years,. That
won in be good."
Dullet loaned forward. "Are them
Hackles obleeged to be on that jury?"
he asked.
"No," said Dave; "not at all. Only
they may be on there, that's all." lie
lifted his eyes again to the ceiling.
"That might be all the better. They'd
of course be pretty rough on her. Ten
years. She'd be about GO when she
came out. Umh! They'd have work
ed her pretty hard. Let me see. I
suppose they'd put her with the
thieves, dress her in stripes and maybe
whip her." Dullet started to give an
exclamation, but stopped to listen. "I
suppose little liilly would be sorry at
night at first, but he'd get used to It.
or he might go down to see her once a
year or so for a few minutes in his
breeches if she lived. He'd miss Iter
some. If she died, she'd go to Johnny.
Well, the Hackles wouldn't be sorry.
Yes, 1 can do it, I think," lie said,
bringing his eyes down on Dullet's face
and speaking positively.
Dullet rose with a jump. "Look
a-here, Mr.—Mr.—-What's your name?"
he said. "I'll just be durned ef any of
them Hackles-kin put my wife in the
penitentiary, and ef anybody thinks
they kin let 'em try it!"
Dave looked at him calmly. "I agree
with you," he said, "and I'll help you."
There was a pause, in which Dullet
was reflecting. Then lie asked, "What
would you advise me to do?"
"I don't advise you to do anything,"
said Dave, "but I know what I'd do if
1 was in your place."
"What?"
"I'd go home and send for Sairy to
come over to dinner next Sunday and
tell her to bring that fellow with her
he's more Dullet now than he Is Hac
kle, and every time my wife got uppish
I'd tell her I could have put her in the |
penitentiary for ten years, but I was j
too good to her to do it."
Dullet reflected and then said: "I'll j
do it. What does I owe to you?"
"A good deal," said Dave, "but 1 '
want you to present it to Mrs. Dullet i
for me."
"Well"— He walked to the door, j
paused and then said slowly, "Til' uex' j
time you runs for anything. Jacksbor
ough Is u-gwinv to vote for you." He ;
went out.
Dave was re-elected.—St. Louis Tost- •
Dispatch.
Uußqnp Funeral Cnatomn.
Among tin* Basques funeral festivi
ties were kept up not jiuly after the ,
funeral, but also for eight (lays more,
and on New Year's day, when they
were repeated. In their case this was
a purely religious ceremonial observ- |
aiM'e, even if It originated in pagan
days. For religion has entered into
anil still pervades the funeral rites of
the Basques to a degree now hardly
conceivable. The deceased who was the
head of the family, probably belonging
to the third religions order, was usual
ly burled in the appropriate dress of ;
the order. The funeral was presided i
over by the serore, who was a sort of j
nun. This probably, as O'Sliea says, i
came down from the time when wom
en held high ecclesiastical positions
among the Basques.
The very /easts were relics of days
when an offering of meat, bread and
wine was wont to be taken into the
church or churchyard not only at the
funeral, but every day for two years
afterward, for the supposed benefit of
the deceased, but really for that of the
*lorp*r.
Up to 1706 in Guipuzcon on the oc
casion of a funeral nu ox was taken
to the church door and then killed and
subsequently eaten, a survival, of
course, of pagan saerilioes in primitive
times. In whatever way the habit of
taking tlie deceased to the church on an
open bier arose, there can lie no ques
tion that the tire lighted at the nearest
crossroads and tlie obligatory pater a
l'intentiou da defunt are of deeply re
ligious origin and botli in deed and in
truth appeal to eaeli neighbor to pray j
for the soul of a departed brother,—
Gentleman's Magazine.
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QUEER ETON CUSTOM
FAGS AND FAGGING IN ENGLAND'S
LEADING BOYS' SCHOOL.
Menial Work Performed by Sou* of
Dukea For Their Schoolmate*.
l)ution of a I-'or: —Term cf Service.
Nearly All of the Nobility llnve
Fagged.
Most people contemplating a debate j
in the house of lords from the gal
lery would be surprised to hear that a j
goodly proportion of those grave and j
reverend seigniors engaged in settling j
affairs of state on the very steps of
the throne were adepts at frizzling the j
toothsome sausage and cooking the j
homely bloater. Yet so it is, for close
on half of the peers of England are
old Etonians, and one of the oldest in
stitutions still cherished under the
shadow of the distant spires and an
tique towers sacred to the memory of
Henry's holy shade is that of fagging.
The first or second day of every
term, when the whole school has re
turned, a sort of slave market is held
in each house, at which the upper
boys have the privilege of choosing
from among the lower boys their own ,
particular fag for the next three i
months or so. In some houses, where \
the lower boys—that Is, boys who have i
not reached the fifth form—are nuiner !
ous, an upper boy may have two such j
servitors for his own exclusive use.
The right of selection is exercised
according to seniority, the boys known
to be the quickest and best "servants"
being snapped up first, except in the
case of new boys, when looks have to
be taken as credentials as often as
not, to the ultimate disgust of the fag
master, for the smartest looking boys
are very* frequently the greatest duffers
at their work.
The duties of Eton fags are man;
and various. Not a few of them would
| be declined by their fathers' servant,
j at home as far too menial to suit tin
dignity of the modern James de la
! Pluche. The fag is responsible for got
! ting his master out of bed in time fix
| early morning school—a dangerous and
thankless task to perform on a big boy
who is a hard sleeper and free with his
lists and quick at throwing boots when
once awakened. School over, the fag
has to prepare his master's breakfast.
He lays the cloth, makes the tea and
toast—woe betide him if the latter be
burned or cut too thick—boils the eggs
and fries any extra luxuries in the way
of rashers or sausages his master may
send him to purchase in the town.
The meal prepared, the fag is by no
means free to go and get his own
breakfast, as he has to wait at table
be ready to fetch hot water from tlx
kitchen and if ordered fly off "u;
town" to one of the "sock shops" for a
pot of jam or marmalade. lie is a
lucky boy if he can snatch a clear ten
minutes for his breakfast before tlx
chapel bell begins to ring.
The same round of duty has to lx
gone through again at tea time, the onl;
difference being that there is mor
time to do it in, and fag masters an
generally in a better temper when
school for the day is over.
But fagging at meals is by no mean
the only service which the lower bo;,
i has to render. He has to scrape tlx
! mud off his master's football boots, t
| put his change clothes away a ft :
j cricketing or running with the beagh
I and take notes to other boys in otlu
I houses.
! It is strange to think that if Lon
j Salisbury had only gone to Eton a fe\
years earlier than lie did lie might hav
| had to clean Mr. Gladstone's boots an
! run errands for his future rival. Mi
Gladstone himself was soniewh
j lueky in his fagging when at Eton, a
he fagged for his elder brother Thoni
as, and naturally got let down easie
| than if he had been apportioned to som
strange boy. The Marquis of Bland
ford and Lord Randolph Churchill ba
the reputation of being incorrigibl;
i idle fags, but when they chose to exer
| themselves they were excellent cook
' and as such were much in request. 1
is equally difficult to imagine the dig
nitled Lord Chief Justice Coleridg
making toast and boiling eggs for lib
master, but tradition lias it that lx
was a most, exemplary fag.
In addition to their regular dall\
work for their own master, the lowei
hoys have to fag in a desultory way
j for any upper boy who may wain
them during the day. At the cry <>t
"Lower hoy!" shouted by any fellow
above the lower division of the lifti
I form every boy below the fifth has l<
I scamper out In answer to thesumiHpus.
I and the hlnderuiost In the race Is gen
orally ordered off for whatever duty
has to be performed.
This is rather a hardship when a bo;
is busy preparing his lessons for school
bnt he would rather run the risk of
getting into trouble in school than of
incurring the wrath of a boy very lit
tic older than himself by "skulking."
The head master's birch does not in
flict such wounds as the vigorously ap
plied toasting fork of an Incensed fa:
master.
en the whole Eton boys don't seem
to mind fagging much, and the system
at any rate has the advantage of beiix
the same for all. Every boy know
that, though lie has to fag at present,
he is certain to be able to fag other.-
in a short time.—London Tit-Bits.
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Tr: In loave Driltori for Hnrwood.t ranborry,
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ex tept Sunday; and 717 nm.'l3B pm, Sun
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I rail ? havc iluzleton Juiu titm fur Harwood,
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Train, leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida
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