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1 <br />s <br />0•0•00O.0•0.l70s000.000•O.0Isald. "I never walk In on new married,! - Why an Alin's! 4 CONVENIENT CTAS STOVE. Arab Lying. I THE FIERY DRAGON. <br />• folks without givin' 'em warnln' I'm One afternoon, when the it t•. The following characterization of the <br />• <br />0 - 0 a -comm —not at first. Of course they Cdlnburgh and Sir Arthur >a:,r. v Can Be Readily Attached to Ordinary <br />• <br />O 1ihe HONEYMOON O get used to after awhile and go having finished a duet, were slow ; Lfghtlag B <br />• • right on Ioverin' If I do see 'em. Noth• t down to a homely "dish of tea" pro. One of the chief duties of the Invent- <br />• COOK 0In' sults me better'n that!" vlded by Mrs. Sullivan, the compiles or is to devlae some way by which an <br />O <br />2 Prue's face was scarlet, She dared mother, It suddenly occurred to he to article already In use as a necessity or <br />O — 0 , not look at Tom. Oh, why had she start the subject of family names and ornament can be made to serve double <br />• By HARRIET G. CANFIELD • engaged the Bert -Ices of such a silly, titles, which puzzled tbe good lady con- duty. Probably his work was never <br />O — i sentimental creature?siderably. more appreciated and realized than <br />"If you please, mn'am," Matilda con- "Sir," she Bald. "your family name is during the coal strike of last year, when <br />tinned, "I'm goln' home now to get my , Guelph." every bit of lest which could be <br />clothes, and 111 say good night to you "My dear mother," began Arthur. squeezed out of wood coal or gas was <br />and him." ' 'But It Is, Isn't It?" she persisted. made to do Its full duty before It was <br />"Thought we were 'new married "Certaluly;"replied the duke, much Permitted to escape. The oil or gas <br />folks: did she?" Tom said grimly. "I amuse,. "What's the matter with It. store which could not bo utilized to <br />can't isuagiue why. ,She's a good Mrs. Sullivan?" crook a meal of victuals while heating <br />cook,"she added, "and 1 hope we can "Oh, nothing," returned the excellent a room had little place in the system <br />keep her." old lady musingly. "Only I can't un- of economics then in practice, and them <br />"We can," Prue said to herself, "if deratand why you don't call yourself Is no reason why the same arrangement <br />we will meet her peculiar require -by your proper name." should not continue every winter, even <br />ments. But 1'11 not be driven Into any Arthur wanted to explain to her, but though fuel should chance to be more <br />foolistlysoeellecessary display pf affect the duke would not allow him to. ,plentiful than last year. <br />tion." 'There's nothing to be ashamed of to Leaving the question of heating a <br />For three days the Dawsons enjoyed the name of Guelph, Mrs. Sullivan." he room and cooking n meal and taking up <br />the results of Matllda's culinary eft' said gravely. i the subject of lighting, the stunt econ- <br />forts, but a heavy heart will affect the "That's exactly (that I say," persist- omy has been In ptactfce, though on a <br />best of dppeUtes somewhat, and on the ed Arthur's mother; "nothing what- somewhat smaller scale. and -many a <br />fourth day Matilda complained that ever as far as I know, and, that being <br />they "didn't seem to relish their via HO,. why you should not call yourself by <br />tools" and she Incased she'd better it I can't understand."—F. C. Bur - <br />be goln'." nand's "Records and Reminiscences." <br />"Oh, no,",,'rte cried. "No one could <br />suit els better than you do." Genies to the.Dud. <br />"I'Lm glad of that, ma'am; but there's A lady who was "Aunt Kate" to <br />another reason." And she bung her James MacNeill Whistler all bis lite, al. <br />head.' 1 : though not a relative, gives In a Ion. <br />Prue was painfully embarrassed, for don journal a glimpse of Whistler the <br />she could guess the other reason. "I boy. She had known him ever since he <br />hope you Will stay," she -stammered. was A child of two years- She was a <br />• "I'11 think it over till tomorrow, i neighbor of the Whistlers, and after a <br />ma'am, but I fee( as If Hannah hadn't long absence from home she called up - <br />been fair withme, lendin' me to expect on them and asked at once: <br />things was different between you and "Where 1s Jemmte?" <br />him from what they really be." "He was In the boom a few minutes <br />1 Tom came home later than usual that ago," wits the answer. "1 think he <br />night - Prue was in the hall giving must be here still." <br />some-iinstructions.to Matilda when he Presently Jemmle's tiny form was <br />opened tSq'door. Ills eyes looked tired discovered stretched on, the undershelt <br />pd. sad.'she thought She hesitated a of a table.. The visitor went to secure <br />moment—only a moment—tor Matilda the prizlipd asked: <br />""Whafrare you doing there, Jere. <br />rete?" <br />"I'se dworl❑ ." <br />In one small hand was a pencil, per - <br />baps two inches long, sod In the other <br />a morsel cit paper about three Inches <br />square. Yet In these tiny proportions <br />the little artist was even then doing <br />work that showed an exquisite prom- <br />ise. - <br />Hes' and Old Wonders. <br />The seven world wonders of antiquity <br />were: <br />The pyramids, Babylon's gardens. <br />Mausolea' tomb, the temple of Diana. <br />the colossus of Rhodes, Jupiter's statue <br />by Phtdlas and the Pharos of Egypt, <br />or, as some substitute, the palace of <br />Cyrus. <br />The seven wonders of the middle <br />ages were: <br />The coliseum of (tome, the catacombs <br />of Alexandria. the great wall of China. <br />Stonehenge. the leauing tower of Pisa, <br />the porcelain tower of Nankin and the <br />mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople. <br />The seven wonders of the new world <br />are: <br />Niagara falls, the Mammoth cave, <br />Old Faithful, the tireless geyser in <br />Yellowstone park; the big trees (se- <br />quoia) of California, the Grand canyon <br />of the Colorado. the greet fresh water <br />lakes and the Great Salt Inke. <br />• <br />0 copyright, mu, by T. C. Vcclure O <br />0.0.0.0.0•0•00.0.0•0.0.0•O <br />They had been married two years, <br />'long enough," Prue suddenly declared, <br />"to dispense with all honeymoon rho- <br />monstrativeness." <br />Tom Dawson put down his evening <br />paper and stared at ,the pretty little <br />partner of his Joys and sorrows. "I'm <br />afraid I don't understand, dear," -he <br />said <br />"Why, St's very simple. If you know <br />that I care for you—and I am certain <br />that you care for me—all signs of af- <br />fection are quite superfluous; they may <br />be dropped." <br />"Ohl" Tom said dubiously. "Web, <br />what shall I drop first?" There was a <br />• twinkle in his eyes, and Prue saw 1t. <br />"To be serious," she pleaded, "tq be- <br />gtn.wlth, you must not kiss me when <br />you come home to dinner and—and— <br />other times. You must drop"— <br />"Drop you a courtesy instead," he tu- <br />terruptet-her laughingly. <br />"Don't be ridiculous, Tom! You know <br />very well that there are many useless <br />customs that should be abandoned, <br />many things that should be dropped." <br />"Yes," be said, smiling whimsically; <br />"Hannah thinks so, I know. She drop- <br />ped my meerschaum this morning. We <br />must take lessons of that girl, Prue, or <br />drop her. On the whole, I think we'd <br />better drop her." - <br />"It will not be necessary," she said, <br />. with dignity. "Hannah gave notice <br />this morning. I shall have to find <br />some one else within a week." <br />"I'm sorry—sorry, •I mean, for the was present, and now was her gpportn- <br />' family she'll drop down on next. Han- nity to redeem herself in the girl's eyes, <br />nab's 'po feather weight, you know. when she rein to meet her husband and <br />Speaking of dropping"— held up her face to be klksed. The tired <br />mu not speaking of it now. It lsNlook faded from his eyes as If by mag - <br />quite useless while you are in such n lc, and IIq put both arms around her <br />?mood," she sdld indignantly, rising and held 'her close. "IIas my little <br />from her chair. wife come to her senses?" he'asked. <br />Before she could leave the room Tom "Hush!"she answered. "I still think <br />was at her side. "Forgive me, dear," It's unnecessary, but Matilda likes It. <br />he said. "I didn't know you .were lin She refuses to stay unless we are 'at - <br />such sober earnest." IIe stopped to fectfoaate like.'" And she laughed bye- <br />_ kissthe pink cheek next to him but terically. <br />Prue lifted a protesting hand. ,$on't„ "Oh," Tom said. That was all, but <br />Tom!". she said. "You- forget; it isn't there was'a world of disappointment In <br />necessary" • the exclamation. Then he looked be- <br />' "Nb, 'It isn't necessary' "—the words yond his wife at Matilda, who stood <br />came soberly enough now -"only sweet beaming ntt,,him, her, hands clasped In- <br />' and natural." - ecstasy. ")Sell, she'll stay now," he <br />And the next day, when the time said bitterjy. "I congratulate you." <br />came to say goodby, Prue had no oc-, Yes; Matilda had decided to remain. <br />caston to complain of his "honeymoon She came to the sitting room door after <br />dcmonstrattveness." • dinner to announce her decision. <br />"Tom is very sensible this morning," After she had gone Pru) left ber seat <br />• she said to herself, but she sighed as and moved restlessly about the room. <br />she said it and went about all day with Then she sighed .so deeply that Tom <br />n wistful look In her blue eyes. Tom looked nein from his paper. "Head - <br />was "sensible" in the evening also, and ache?" he asked. <br />the next morning he was so very sent- '"N -no," she said. Iler lips trembled, <br />ble that Prue cried a little, but per.- and she buried her face In her 'hands <br />haps It was for joy, Even "sensible" and sobbed ouf,'"It's Just heart ache, <br />people do that. Tom." <br />That afternoon Matilda made her "Heart ache?" he said gently. "I <br />appearance. Hannah came into the thought I had a monopoly of that." <br />sitting room to announce her arrival. Prue came close to his chair and <br />"Matilda Stebbins. is here, }free. Dow- leaned agalust nu am of It. "Tom," <br />son," she s,ald, "after any place. Will she cried remorsefully—"Tom, dear, <br />I show her in. ma'am? She and me will you forgive me and"—her voice <br />used to work together once, and she's sank to a whisper—"kiss me?" <br />a dreadful good cook." ' IIe caught her hands in his and drew <br />'Yes, I will see her,' Prue said. And her down beside him. "To please Ma- <br />in a moment a tall, lank, freckle faced tuda77 be asked. <br />girl was standing In the doorway, ' o <br />smiling at her. "Will you be seated?" <br />Prue asked pleasantly, and the'girl slid be <br />into a chair, still smiling.. <br />"I, hope you'll give, me a try," she <br />. said. "I'd Like first rate to cook for <br />' you and him." <br />• It was Prue's turn to smile. "'Have <br />you had much experience?" she asked. <br />"Heaps of it, ma'am, but never long <br />to one place." <br />"That seems strange!" Prue ex - <br />Claimed. <br />"Well, you sees ma'am, the honey- <br />moons don't usually stretch] ut over <br />.,..," and above six months." <br />"The honeymoons?" <br />"Yes, ma'am. I don't cook and do <br />• for none but new married folks. Han- <br />nah told me about you and him when <br />she first came here two months ago. <br />She said as how she knew you was <br />just married. <br />Prue blushed. "How did Hannah <br />know it?" she asked. <br />"Easy enough?' ma'am. It's like <br />mersles and wbooptn' cough. She <br />could tell by the symptoms. I'd rather <br />lase where there's lovemakin' goln' on <br />continual than read the best novel ever <br />�Tr de up." <br />hts was interesting, but very em- <br />5rbarrassing to burs. Thomas Dawson. <br />wP days ago she would have laughed <br />heartily at Matilda's sayings and have <br />found much enjoyment In repeating <br />them to Tom. But present conditions <br />made the girl's remarks seem almost <br />personal, yet she felt tempted to en- <br />gage her. <br />"Matilda,". said she, "did Hannab tell <br />you the wages e received she rev l ed find the <br />g <br />work she was expected to do?" <br />"Yes'm, sbe did. and I don't tbtnk <br />she'll better herself none sofa' to work <br />In a factory." <br />"Very web. I will give you a lilal. <br />When can you come?" <br />' "I can stay now, ma'am' and get din <br />N, Tom, you know better!" <br />ecause 1f It's to please that girl I'll <br />hanged if I"—. But something pre - <br />ted further speech just then. <br />When the Dawsons celebrated their <br />tin wedding It was with tbe assistance <br />of their honeymoon cool4 <br />An Unfamiliar Dialect. <br />An American woman who was lately <br />in London for the first time Is con- <br />vinced that whatever the language <br />may be which the cockneys speak 1t la <br />not English. One of her experiences •Is <br />related by the Washington Post. <br />- The woman wished to see the city all <br />by herself. Somebody told her that 11 <br />she went to the terminus of some bus <br />lines, 1t did not matter which, and <br />'whited a little she would hear the con- <br />ductor call out the places on the route <br />and then could choose that which she <br />wished to visit. <br />She found n place where buses were <br />Damp Weather and Health. <br />The influence of damp weather upon <br />sensitive people Is remarkable- If there <br />is a sore spot anywhere It hurts more. <br />Latent weakness of any of the organs <br />Is brought out by congestion and Irreg- <br />ularity of function. Suppressed coughs <br />start into activity and neuralgic nerves <br />speak out. Old chronic rheumatism re- <br />news 1 life, while corns are aggra- <br />vated. a pulse Is slow, the 'heart <br />weak, the vessels lack tone, the <br />muscles are flabby, the venous and <br />lymphatic systems become engorged. <br />.'�he mind Is languid and clouded. <br />There 1s a general depression of vital - <br />By. t <br />lien lo' Petticoats. <br />It will probably be a matter of sur- <br />pris_ to the general reader to learn <br />that the petticoat was first worn ex- <br />clusfvely by men. In the reign of King <br />Henry VII. the dress of the English <br />was sotfantastic and absurd that It was <br />difficult to distinguish one sex from the <br />other. In the inventory of Henry V. <br />appears a "petticoat of red damask. <br />with open sleeves" There 1s no men- <br />tion of a woman's petticoat before the <br />Tudor period. <br />arriving and departing <br />Work, <br />ng and welted. "I've just been reading Gladstone's English V■e Too Ruch Soap. "No" f Iron x•111 soda destroy the night Bead- OIIDER TO EXAMINF. ACCOUNTS. <br />She heard .nanny curious names, but life and the work he did. He goo- To the excessive use of sgap the "Then howd0,y`ou know shedoesn't?" l ng In the twilight is Injurious to the — <br />failed to understand much that the bus erned the nation, wrote several books, writer of a letter to the London Times "I watched a French waiter's face eyes, as they are obliged to make great <br />men said. Every now and then the studied two languages, saw a hundred attributes the physical deterioration the other day when she was talking to exertion. Beading or sewing with a <br />man on the step of a bus would call people a day and answered ail his mall, said to be taking place among the Eng- him, and I'll be blamed if he didn't side light Injures the eyes, as both eyes <br />oat, "Moblotch, Moblotch!" and she besides sitting up all night rending Ilsh people. The deterioration, the writ- look as If he had the toothache!" ebonld be exposed to an equal force of <br />wondered what part of London "Mob- , Homer." er proceeds to ezpinin, moults from the fight. Those who wtsb to preserve <br />botch" might be. She had never heard 1 'That's nothing. Have you ever tot- loss of the natural oil provided by Unreasonable. their sight should preserve their gen- <br />London <br />it before, and she had been studying lowed a bride around for two weeks Providence to protect the body from Magistrate nreasely)—Prisoner, how end health by correct habits of living <br />London for six months- At last she before her Wedding?" -Life. rheumatism, cbllls, disease and dirt. did you have the audacity to break into and give their eyes just work enough, <br />ventured to add ss n conductor who I And the Ione be adds, is caused simply <br />_ hlmr <br />STOVE ATTACHED TO 055 JET. <br />Arab penchant for not telling the truth VoIe.t and Medtaesal Descriptions <br />la from a paper by Dr. G. Sn!nt-Paul of the Monster. <br />011 the Tunisians: "Arab lylog le ex- Dragons were important animals in <br />aaperattng. It la absurd and victorious, ancient and mediaeval natural history. <br />It triumphs easily over the critical Until comparatively recent time no <br />sense and the habit of scientific ria- scientist ever thought of questioning - <br />waning, It In sometimes childish. Your the existence of this most formidable <br />native servants will never be oaken of beasts. The annals of Winchester <br />unawares. You forbid one of thein to for 1177 gravely state that "In this year <br />smoke In your dlnioQg room awl you 'dragons were seen et many In Eng - <br />surprise him there with 0 cigarette In land." teener, professor of natural <br />his mouth. 'You were emokinc" 'No,' history at Zurich, gives a detailed de- <br />'1saw yon: 'lmposslhle.' 'len had n scriptlon of the dragon, while Aldro- <br />dgnrctte in your mouth; you arc Mil. vandus, In his "history of Serpents <br />Ing it In your hand; there It Is!' 'Then and Dragons," published in 1610, do - <br />God put It In my hand.' The native votes fifty pages to the monster. A <br />dentes els nys. Taken red handed he, good specimen of a dragon would seem <br />denies. Beneath blows he denies. to have been a beast about rho else of <br />Pain is sometimes powerless to make a sheep, Inensel In a coat of scales <br />hint confess, even nt the point of death, which shone like allyIts back was <br />This obstinacy Is (Inc In part to that serrate( like a enw, t possessed. a <br />high Idea he has of his dignity. 1110 long tall, a pair of bath wings, four <br />pride forbids him n confession, be- heavily clawed feet and a wolvine head, <br />cause the evens) of Ids lying Ie In- the jaw's of which were armed with <br />finitely humiliating In 1114 eye's. The very formidable teeth. The tongue <br />fear of losing 'face' Is all powerful In wns barbed with fire, and fury insets! <br />him. To recognize a fault la mere from the Monster's mouth, and the head <br />shameful than to have committal It. bore a crest. Dragons were the most <br />Hence the peeuli-•tr obstinacy of rho wicked and vindictive of creatures. <br />native in denying, even when (1 would They seem always to have been In a <br />be to his I:dere,t to confess. sn ob• towering gage and spent the greater <br />etina -y not toanlfesied In other ways." portion of their time In rushing up and <br />—Journal of Aluer:cau Poll: Lore. down the earth destroying everything <br />that came In their path. The origin of <br />Cudnc inlrIIlgri.e , dragons was n disputed point among <br />A native of I'eru has vouch• -i ter nlnlla•Vnl naturalists. Some mnlntatn• <br />the following: A native. [whited out el that these snta ars were generated <br />one day n huge white dog that 1` +y be- by the hent of India; others were of <br />fore his wattled house. iii' Ms -Intel opinion that the volcanoes of Ethiopia <br />that Ills dog heti Intelligence of aro nl• used to belch forth the monsters. One <br />most human order. 1Ie said that reme, scientist, John Leo by name, declared <br />when It bail broken n bone In Its ties, We dragon to he s hybrid, a cross be- <br />, he had taken It to a eurgeon end the twec•n an eagle and a wolf. <br />' surgeon had set the fracture and re. <br />tiered It of its pain. Seale Months aft Tempel -no ore and Atmo.pbere. <br />lamp flame and gas Jet have-roduced erwnrd, In theaddle 01 the night Ute That n body can acquire during the <br />good cups o tea, coffee and chocolate surgeon was ,`a'wakened by a great night a different temperature from <br />to.accompany a frugal lunch p pared scratching at hf door and by n thump.. OW of the surrounding atmosphere <br />and eaten In ¢small room by those Ing ns of some henry bo[lp. lie slpped ban been demonstrated by nn EnglistJ. <br />too poor to afford "square" weals on all on n drcesing gown sad went down, to physicist. If n thermometer Is take <br />occasions. Tills class 01 economists find the white dog in hla ),nirlvn with tram the wlndow, wrapped In crottou <br />will probably see the merit of the burn- a brown dug beside It that held one uud Placed ons We ground uta mercury <br />er attachment recently designed, by a leg off the ground. The surge n s de' velli drerend seven or eight degrees. <br />California Inventor and shown In the <br />(Bretton was that the white d"^ had Vegolalles slmll¢rlc 5ltunted, unci be• <br />accompanying illustration. ' brought its companion there for trent- ing bad coillhuctornl, may freeze ut a <br />It has a clamping arrangement, which went Aeconlingly he dresael the leg time when talc thermometer does not <br />grips the burner tube and Imprimis the of the injured animal, unci thee. -n pan mreepo <br />standards depending from the flat w -Ire the two dogs Ilekrd bin hoods with nu the mock idlbo cxperlfencedzing by the plantint—proof may <br />screen at the top. These standards are air of gratitude and departed slowly be entirely different from the tempera - <br />Into the night. side by side. lure of the surrounding air. This low <br />adjustable by looseping the sacra In <br />the clamping member and may be kg- tenipxratnre of plants, however, only <br />ulated to correspond with the size and Rntn, cnoalc and Jnallrr 01,0,..- ot.,•urn tt•ben the night Is clear. since <br />heat of the flame issuing from the Jet. Rufus Choate teas sllllug nvyt h), nt tlils time the plant sheds Its hent <br />throughout space and becomes chilled, <br />whereas It the filght is cloud' the <br />phenomenon does not occur. This <br />gives rise to the popular superstition <br />that plants and buds are frozen by <br />moonlight <br />Judge Hoar in the bar when Chief Jim <br />lice Shaw was presiding and the Set <br />folk docket wits being called. The <br />chief justice said something which led <br />Sir. Choate to make a half humorous <br />and halt displeased remark about <br />Shaw's roughness of look and Illalr mer, <br />to which Judge Hoar replied, "After <br />NOVEL PRESS FEEDER. <br />Enables One Man to Ran Sin Jobbers <br />at Oitee. <br />A California youth has invented a <br />practical device for feeding and deliv- <br />ering paper to and from job pressen. all. I feel a reverence for the oldehlef <br />He has just received the assurance that <br />a patent will be grauted him in Wash- justice." "A reverence for hint. my <br />inglon on his device. dear fellow?' said Choate. "So do 1. <br />The mechanical feeding and dello• I bow down to him as the wild Indian <br />ery device le a small and comparative docs before his wooden Idol, 1 know <br />Ip inexpensive attachment for job lie's ugly, but 1 bow to a superior in - <br />presses, its principal parts being two telllgence."—Ueerge F. Hoar in Scrlh <br />hollow tubes, with five lingers each, aces lingazine <br />jointed like human members and so The way to Float. <br />adjusted as to work with the same <br />This Is the ,:deice of an old swhnmPr <br />reaching and retracting movement as to those tsho cannot swim: "Any ba- <br />the human arm. The finger tips aro man bring who w-!11 have the presence <br />hollow, and through the function of a 01 mind to clasp tbe hands behind his <br />vacuum pump attached at the toot of back and turn the face toward the <br />the press paper adheres to the tips the zenith may, that at ease and in perfect <br />moment they touch 1t and is released, <br />according to a device of the inventor, <br />as peon as the arm retracts and do- <br />scends on the delivery platform. <br />The whole. device Is geared directly <br />from the press, and hardly any extra <br />power is necessary to operate It. Tho <br />ghostly arms are removable by a sim- <br />ple twist of the thumb and can be laid <br />aside temporarily so as not to interfere <br />with the placing of the type. The de- <br />vice makes it possible for ono man to <br />operate six job presses at the some <br />time. <br />Cutting Trees by Electricity. <br />Successful experiments have been <br />made In the various toreste of Franco <br />In cutting trees by means of electricity. <br />A platinum wire Is heated to a white <br />hentsthe electric current and used <br />like a saw;. In this manner the tree <br />Is felled much easier and quicker than <br />In the old way. No sawdust is pro- <br />duced, and there is consequently less <br />waste of the wood, while the slight <br />carbonization caused by the hot wire <br />acts as a preservative to the wood. <br />The new method is said to require only <br />one-eighth of the time consumed by <br />the old process. <br />safety In tolerably still water. When <br />you first find yourself In deep water <br />you have only to consider yourself an <br />empty pitcher. Let your mouth and <br />nose, and not the top of your heavy <br />head, be the highest part of you and <br />you are safe. But thrust 1111 ole of <br />your bony. hands and dawn you go -- <br />turning up the handle Ups over the <br />pitcher." There are reason and logic <br />in this. <br />Tolerance. <br />Tolerance is a calm, generoatt respect <br />for the opinions of others, even of one's <br />enemies. Tole6nee le silent Justice <br />blended wltb s mpothy. Tolerance al- <br />ways Implies wisdom and kindness. It <br />seeks to concert others from error by <br />gently raising them to higher ordeals. <br />by leading them to broader lines of <br />thinking, by patftntly helping Milli to <br />help themselves. Tolerance dove not <br />use the battering ram of argument or <br />the club of sarcasm or the napier of <br />ridicule.—Selected. <br />• <br />Painful. <br />Johnson— Does your wife speak <br />French? <br />Thompson—She thinks she docs. <br />"Yon don't speak 1t do your' <br />Row Well■ Clock !Helices. <br />The great dock of Wella cathedra( to <br />England was built In 1322 for Glaston- <br />bury abbey and ran 2550 years before <br />It was removed to Wella <br />The striking mechanism of the clock <br />is very curious and elaborate. Above <br />the dial is a little baltiemented turret, <br />with four knights on horseback, armed <br />with lances, standing guard round It <br />At some dietnnce from the clock Itself, <br />near the end of the transept, 19 a life <br />size painted figure, quaintly ugly. with <br />a battleax to Its bond. while outside <br />the cathedral 1n n second large dial, <br />guarded by two tall•flgures of knights <br />In armor. <br />When the gift stare point to the boar, <br />the painted figure (Jack lllandlvir, as <br />he is called by the country people about <br />Wells, no one knows why) strikes the <br />quarters by strik ng his heels against <br />TWO bells bchlnd tm and then tolls the <br />great bell of the clock by striking It <br />with his bnttleax. The two standing <br />knights In armor etrlke the outside bell <br />with their halberds, end at the first <br />stroke of the great bell the four knights <br />on horseback over the inside dial start <br />at a gallop and rush round and round <br />the turret In a mimic tournament. 1n <br />which one knight Is thrown from his <br />horse and regains his seat In every <br />revolution. <br />Out of Oboe. <br />A !lino tuner employed by a city <br />firms was sent to a certain suburb to <br />tune a piano. Ile found the Instrument <br />In good condition and not In the least <br />need of atteution. <br />A few days later the firm receleed a <br />letter from the owner of the piano, a <br />lady of musical intention, etathtg Chet <br />the piano had not'been properly tuned. <br />It sons no better than before. <br />After receiving a reprimand from his <br />employer the hapless tuner made an- <br />other trip to the suburbs and again <br />tested ever- note• ski to tend, as be- <br />fore, no fault sotI he instrument <br />This time he told the Indy so. <br />"Yes," she paid, "it does seem all <br />right doesn't it when you play on 1t, <br />but as !weals I begin to sing 1t gets <br />all out of tune ngntn." <br />Costly to Admire. <br />"Why is It that wealthy people bee <br />some so cold and cynical?" <br />"They don't ne•eltanrlly," Inswered <br />Mr. Cumrox. "They have their enth°• <br />slasms. The trouble is that a rich man <br />can't admire anything without being <br />.elicited to buy It" -Washington Star. <br />Postprandial Effulgence. <br />"He's quite n star as an after dinner <br />speaker. Isn't he'd" <br />"Star? He's a regular moon. He be- <br />comes brighter the fuller be gets." - <br />Philadelphia Prtu <br />Corloo, Caac of Mind Reading• He Went. <br />A very curious case Is related In the He -Bo candid and tell me when you <br />Annalist Psychiquos. A child of seven want me to go. <br />years, in good health, lively and robust, She -it's a eonple of hours ton late <br />belonging to equally iheallhy parents, for that. Smart Set. <br />showed a strange facility In learning tyfh'E TO CRhUITOItti. -_-_-- _ <br />all ltmt his mother taught him. He re- 1 <br />clod the whole multiplication table at 1 sudr onlmne.eta.0 /linty or 1ak.ta.-.a. La <br />probate cour. <br />deceased Ater of the estate of Frances 6 Poor <br />Lettere testamentary on the estate of said <br />drees.rd beteg this day granted unto George <br />11. Nichols, of Icier County. Minnesota <br />It la ordered that 110 moult. from and after <br />this date he and the same I. hereby limited and <br />elloned to creditors of raid deceased In which to <br />present their ole),. against. said deceased to the <br />pothole court of .aid oeunty nor •xaminatlon <br />and aliasance. <br />It a further ordered that ata special term of <br />r• Id court, to he held at the probate office. la the <br />city of flamingo, lu .old county. on the eth day <br />of August. a d. nth, at ten o'clock m the fore- <br />noon, all dello. and demands so presented <br />agtlon Id dneeued will be examined and <br />adlu ted by ul, nsurt. <br />Ordered lusher that aid George der to e pub - <br />Halted b- <br />e•nce in a nal, cause fhborderee beks <br />succe come In each week for tem weeks <br />newspaper <br />erly, In The sidings Gazette, a weekly <br />newspaper print,•d and pohllrhrd at Hastings, <br />In call st Has <br />Dated at Hastings, this e911 day of December, <br />a, d. 19m. <br />lir the court. TILOS. ge MORAN. <br />p lrAL.l 1/ t,y Judge of Probate. <br />the first trial, solved Instantly compli- <br />cated problems and made not a single <br />mistake In his first spelling lesson. It <br />Wan soon realized that the child did not <br />,calculate by himself and did not spell <br />of his own ncrord. He Was rending <br />his mother's mind, and be did this even <br />W11011 1410 (yes were shut mud his back <br />turned, provided only that she were <br />near him. 0110 day she had the Idea <br />of Interposing n screen between her <br />imd the child, and there was no more <br />caleulatton, no more spelling. The <br />ecr,,•n wax sulltelent to prevent the <br />child from reading the mother's <br />thoughts. <br />A gloving Sermon. <br />"I once had n parishioner who was a <br />miser," said an English clergyman: <br />"For thea mnn'e benefit I preached one <br />Sunday a strong sermon on the neces- <br />sity of charity, of philanthropy -a ser- <br />mon on the duty and the Joy of giving. <br />The miser, nt whom I gazed often, <br />[teemed impressed. <br />"Next clay I met him on the street. <br />"'Well, John,' I said, 'what do you <br />think of yesterday's sermon?' <br />"'I1 niured inc deeply, sir,' he an- <br />ewerisl. 'It brought home to me so <br />strongly the necessity of giving alms <br />that honestly, sir, I've a great mind to <br />turn beggar'" <br />()B DER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS <br />State of Minnesota. county of Dakota—as. In , <br />probate court. <br />In the matter f the estate of Julius A. H. <br />Schwaoz deceased. <br />On reading and filing the petition of Fred <br />Schwartz and Fred Heuer, dminletnlore of <br />the rotate of Julius A. n. achwan0. demised, <br />representing among other thinge that they have <br />fully odmlatrtered aid elate, and praying that <br />a time and place be eyed for examining and <br />allowing their anal account of their adminnln• <br />tion, and for the assignment of the residue of <br />.aid estate to the person• entitled thereto by law, <br />1t Is ordered that s Id account be .u.min.1 <br />and petition be heard hi the fudge of Oils .05rt <br />on Tur.da•, the Iwt1 day of Jinuer)...d. 1901, at <br />len o'clock a m.. M the probate office lu the city <br />of flamingo. In said county. <br />And it Is further "Wrn1 that notice thereof <br />be glee' tc ell persons Interested by publishing <br />this order once In each week for three .ueoessims <br />Light and Ileac and Eyes. eek, prior to said day of hearing In The Bast, <br />Looking Into the fire is very Injurious v bn h d 5 Ona oc., li r.ia ca utprinted and <br />10 the eye, particularly n coal fire. The Dated at Hasting., tble silt day of December, <br />ellen» las of light and heat united soon '7 i(.ip`e'court THOS. P MOHeN, <br />destroys the eyes. Looking at molten iStat_1 1taw Judge •f Probate. <br />J <br />this t midnight and rob I 1 degree flight <br />looked npproachab At the n,...^- s....),..application <br />n mane house u nwith n due a e o <br />"Will you kindly tell me," she said, 1 "Why do you Insist on sitting near The author of the letter boosts that be Prisoner (piteously)—But your honor, <br />`where one takes the bus for the Mar- the bass drum and cymbals at a grand has not used ee,p for thirty years. last time I ons before Sou you w•ante l <br />hie arch?"to know bow I could have the nutlac <br />operaperformance?" e ce?" <br />P <br />The man looked at Ler pityingly "I don't mind telling you as an did 1 The World's Water pPowen ley to rob a man in broad daylight. <br />tierAmerican accent was thick upon friend," answered Sir. Cumrox. "It's John C. Hawkshaw, president of the When do you expect me to get in my <br />her, and he perceived also that she the only way I can make sure of not Institute of Civil Engineers, bas cal- work? <br />must be deaf. He leaned toward her disgracing mother and the girls by culated tbe total water power of the <br />The Daus Humorists. <br />and drew a long breath. Then be bel- staying asleep through the entire per- world to be equivalent to 10,340,000,000 "Of coarse;' said Mrs, Extrygod. <br />lowed: tormance."—Washington Star. horsepower (apparently annually). To <br />"This is your bus, ma'am!" and be- "you are fond of bright precocious <br />obi$tn thle figure he assumes a rainfall 7 <br />uer if yo'll let me •home for mygun to shout, "Moblotch, Moblotch!" I Freedom, sf ten inches to flow off every square <br />babies?" // <br />7 p go The visitor had let seven "Moblotch" We talk largely of freedom and yet Imhof land and places the mean height "Oh, yes; certr76y:' replied Old <br />I th k' rid tib— t� <br />r o es w en the work's rHan- buses go because she ndv0 once the widest freedom we mayenjoy inBatch, "but I d aw the line on the <br />nab wants to leave as soomas she can ►tr J y it 2.250 feet above sea level. "Oar 'apposed smart sayings made up by <br />nyways" - guessed that that 1s the way Marble this world Is not a whit greater pro• present yearly output of 225,000,000 the parents and loaded off on the poor <br />flat tech Is pronounced In London. portlonntelp than that enjoyed, bya tons of coal would glue that horsepow- <br />And so It happened tnat the honey- <br />moon cook held sway in the Dawson Javape.e Music. white rabbit !n a_wlre fenced city let er for only a little over halt a day" <br />back yard—New Orleans Times -Demo - <br />kitchen when the Owner of the house The Javanese musical instruments • <br />tame home that evening. <br />"You will be glad to he <br />Infants."—Baltimore American, <br />vest No Eneonragement Needed. <br />- are made mostly of bamboo. They also Her Fatber—What? You say pon'ry <br />Ho.pltal For Diseased Metals. <br />that I've pinged upon a pipe or whistle, which The "diseases of metals" are becom- engaged to Fred? 1 thought 1 told yrs, <br />engaged a new The Kia..by <br />girl," Pru said tq him was about three feat long and six An American humorist once said that Ing ens well recognized pe German not le glue him any encouragement?doesn't In the distantly polite tone that she inches across. This sounded like the metallurgists that the Imperial navy Hie Daughter -1 don't He da'sto's <br />had recently adopted to speaking to her. hollow roar of a lion. Another was a "the only way to define a klse Is to.take yard at Wlihelmnhaten regularly sends' need soy. -New Yorker. <br />busbtIp�nd. > bundle 01 tubes of different lengths, one.' Oliver Wendell Holmes called a samples to the dissecting tables of <br />"Ve* glad," be answered, "if she iso which covered the small boy who car- kiss the twenty-seventh letter of the Professor Heyn, who diagnoses the Remember you must die Let this <br />in improvement on Hannab." rtedYt_like-a big saddle. A log hewn alphabet—"the love labial which 1t <br />maladies and endeavors to prescribe not startle you, but let it soften yon <br />. The dinner was excellent, and ata- tit with two strange stretched across ; takes two to speak plainly." . remedies. while there le yet time to do Pomp <br />' tilde was very attentive to her sere' served as a drum A zither of six- Hard to Collect I food in the yvorld.—Schnnlemater. <br />at table, beaming on them as though teen strings and a mandolin of two 'The world owes me a living," said Same Reti•edy Not A.■nabie. <br />she would say, "BlessRev.. Faster—Mrs.• W • <br />akelc tells m <br />you,,when they <br />inside and could outdoor, band, made "1 • <br />suppose <br />ng man. they base n great deal of trouble in get• <br />dean:' Late in the evening, they inside one hear Other music made "I suppose so," said toe old one, "but ting their baby to sleep. <br />were apparently much absorbed in . by gongs of wonderfully pure and you are not so fortunate as to be a <br />reading, they heard a strange Bound, beautiful tone. preferred credor."-Judge. Mrs. Temple -1 +appose It In too <br />half cough, half sneeze, in the hall. i r young to take to church.—Stray Stories. <br />Prue looked tip from the book. "What The human body being lighter than The ?Blight Traveler's Enderleae•. <br />was that?" she said. Tom was 'on his the water of- the Dead sen, swimming There Is no place like home, especiai. Bdtween two evils choose neither <br />way to the door when Matilda entered In it 1s difficult, the head alone tending 17 when you are_rlding in a sleeping Between two goods choose both.—Ed 1 <br />the room, "It was me, ma'am," she to sink in the water. car. -Philadelphia Record. wards. <br />State of Minnesota, county of Dakota—es. 1a <br />probate court. , <br />In the muter of the estate of Angela Slee., <br />deceased. 1 <br />On resift ng and tiling the petition of Nicholas <br />J. Sxia, admtolstrater of the estate of Angela <br />Stein, dectued, representing among other <br />things that he has fully administered mid <br />estate, and praying that ,time and plate be axed <br />for examining .ad allowing hie anal account <br />of his administration. and for the assignment <br />of the residue of mild estate to the persona <br />entitled thereto by law. <br />j It is ordered that said account be examined <br />and petitloo be heard by the Judge of this coup <br />•0 Frid. s the 0500 day or January. a d. 1901, <br />Inoop,lderatc Fellow. o <br />a leo clock a m. a the county. eOoe la <br />0110 said he'd dIQ If I didn't marry the to or uasnlp.•m geld twanty. <br />is furter ordered that note thereof be <br />Audith r a <br />61m:' <br />given de all persons intercath by r puocessae <br />"And still you refused?" this order eons 11 each week for three .00eesdn <br />"Yes. I wished to find out before mc.cprio n.)dday <br />of new. aper ID The Hu` <br />promtstng whether he really loved me 1, blishh at Hastinge, in .aid twc■t . <br />liated as much as that or not. Ob, Harriet, 'ill' <br />d..t Basting., this 24th day of December, <br />I'm p•p•pertectly miserable! He seems g'the court. THOS. P. MORAN. <br />to be wretchedly healthy, and I d -do 'e •' 1,.... p .1,d -. er F.•.' -at• <br />- <br />love him so much!" -Chicago Record- felt's 6QTr t$ !YM sn <br />Herald. Y� Le7�Gi1 G�OYW� <br />Debts In China. <br />In China one can always borrow <br />PENNYROYAL PILLS <br />money on the strength of having a son, <br />but nobody would advance him a cent cit <br />If he had a dozen daughters. The es'i its' <br />former is responsible for the debts of cssae <br />bis father for three generations The <br />latter is only responsible for the dsbta Bab u tri'_ xmdl•�e41)ruxM Be <br />of her own husband.OHICH ieaw IDIiLL fa <br />wed mat■w, box.., .111.9.1110 51N a�sea <br />Tak• na Naar. R04. daa4•■•a■ naYY• <br />aue..o.d 1Nlt.u•.� Boa °"4414 <br />"A moil fiat walks right up to de jr' r .9nd.e, Ie for P.. °Ot =,my, <br />of refon)tln' de whole world." said L'n• tearaalall and n i.g s•e 1WIe4^alaar <br />CIO Eban. "very often balks at so aim- W Drn�a=tel=�L I•'••••rratm°°lm' sotasy <br />pie n• matter as breaktn' hlsself of effitn0a <br />or?O.EY10AL 00. <br />chowlu' toboeeo."—Wnshlrlgton Star. u•' MW"' ter'—' TA' <br />imdmeW <br />etztz <br />r <br />To Cure a Cold in One Day <br />Take Laxative Bromo Quinine T on every Melon boxes .o 41r pt 19 mobs. This /!''av'. ' btu. 35C• <br />COran Grip <br />bt Two Dsys. <br />