Pittston Gazette

              0 . ' ——— ESTABLISHED 1KSO. ' VOL. XUUI. SO. 10. f Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSiON, U ZHIiM: CO., I'A., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2.!, I8C)2. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. j #1.50 PER ANNUM t 1X ADVANCE. A SERVIAN SONG. sat oil a bench in the rear of her and about thirty feet away, and by and by I noticed that she was writing a note with pencil. She did it 60 deftly that one sitting in front of her could not have told what she was at. Beside her was a large shade tree, and as near as I could make out she disposed of the note, when folded up, somewhere about ttjp tree. When she left I followed her for a short distance, aud looking back I saw a young and well dressed man occupying the place vacated by her. An hour later, when I could examine the tree, 11 found a hollow in the trunk just about on a line * ith ht-r shoulders as she sat on the* bench. One not looking for it, would have sat there fifty times and dis- j covered nothiirsr. HIS TERRIBLE F.EVENGE some IsoneM t.r; ie or bar-Jcr?ift, just (is if LUNCH IN r HE FIELDS. on every one, word or gesture, and the knowledge that he still retained tender memories of the dead would have caused her tempestuous anger. CARELESS HOUSE OWNERS. GOING TO "THE OPRY" Vain was tho man, and faiso as vain, wbo said Were he to live hi J long career of life again He'd do as lie Lad done. The Tierce Cruelty ef a Modern AilonN they Were the children C f Mine  man who had only left behind him a certain sum to pay I r I ho CCaut ;iiion of his offspring. If, however, tiny ilie 1 is found to display ext Blue »ky and and. noontide. And reft from the rt-ajiluK. And .ill in tli() wljjjjjt e«rs theBooth wind Its WsfrrSflpes sweeping. Mother, a C]CD&r little lad Alone through the fs creeping; Ho has lost his way ami is sad; 1 hear him bitterly weeping. I know be is coming to me; Go to the door and see. Kkposed Men Who Will Not Take the rains to Head I quote the above from Sanders' Fourth Reader. W& irmild not do as we have done, and jot that is what we would have done. Eacli of us is placed here for a purpose. Weakly we wander ou; not knowing what that purpose is any more than the carrier dove knows, when she speeds homeward in obedience to her own blind wish to be back in the cool shade of her home, that she bears with her a message of war or peace, of lovo or defiance, to break the hearts of millions or to thrill with joy a thousand souls. We are as ignorant of the great policy of heaveu as the average voter ia of the ultimate success of the tariff tinker. Dickry ttr-abled into liir» chair at tlio club window with u High that was heard clear ont in the billiard room. Dumnde no louder dared to keep the urn in a conspicuous place. It was quietly and secretly a third time removed from its quarters and reverently stored in a spare room iu tbe mansarde. Matters grew better as time wore on. Peace antf happiness reigned with the young couple, and more than once Durande, in this atuiosphert of renewed content, was on the verge of unbosoming himself and confiding to his wife the mystery of the urn. Alas! his courage always failed him. A gentleman who had *¥•*"*"* t-he city for several moiiOis called at the office of thr fin- insurant" eompauy which liuCl issued his policy, tin* other day, to sop aitout a renewal. The clerk to whom he applied huppenerl to know hini, and was aware that he had been away for a time. Xlic-ir latin runt-r I'ollrlci, BILL NYE RELATES AN INCIDENT for n profession, such ns iKUiil capacity White is the bread tuat the master Shall have* for I he taking; Coarse is the loaf that their hunger Finds sweet iirthe breaking. rN HIS'TRAVELS, "Ah." said a voice from the next chair (the men are so (small anil the chairs so large at Dickey's clnb that it always seems as though the chairs were talking and not their occupants). "Ah," Te peated the voice, "I observe, me deah boy, that you have been wejected." Iliac ho would gain distinction therein tti« trustees n't penso Ju his training for such profession, ami may even, if they think it. desirable, trench on the capital of his share, but if any one child, owing to continued ill health, shoulu be incapacitated from earning his own living, the trustees may apply part of the income of bis share to his maintenance. On attaining the age ol twenty-tire years each soa and daughter is to receive hi3 or her share in the testatot's property, the payment of which, how. ever, amy bedefemd if circumstance*demand it for another two years.—London Telegraph. [D gure promise Daughter, woman's undoing Ib to be won without wooing. When she meets her lover half way. He holds her favor light As the cap he drains hy day, Or the lamp be burns at night. Mother, no more. But open the door;  I hare his heart, he mine; He most be housed and fed; I will give hint kisses for wine. And my eyes shall light him to bed! —R. H. Stoddard in Century. lit IK t 1 to spare no ex *■ Party of People from a Cheese Town Golden the vase and the flagon ULs red wine i.s spilling; Undo Ls the cup for their drinking. The flask for their filling. Who Mistook Hig Little Show, for Some- "I passed your house tin- other day," he Raid to the gentleman, "and I noticed that it was ail what up." thing Grander anCl Butter—The Girl Who Played on tlie Piano. Hi* is tho cool anil the shadow. The gold and die tmerdon; Theirs is the tieroe dew of labor. The heat auCl the burden. [Copyright. 1892, by Edgar W. Nye.] Last evening quite a party came by team from a small cheese town twenty- Eve miles away to our unparalleled entertainment. They were disappointed in it. Tliey said they thought it was an "opry." We carry quite a line of printing, and it is showy and beautiful, 1 must say. We have everything from little dodgers in Dale pink and blue up tn the three and ten sheet posters, rhe papers are kind to us, giving our agent desk room always while he writes the criticism of our performance, and so suburban and outlying towns at times get the impression from our air, and not from anything we state at all, that we carry thirty people and a stud of fin# horses which we introduce at each perfonnancet"Yaas'" answered Dickey dreamily. "Did she let yon down easy or—or Wr.s it in the u iclinre of a cyclone?" "Yes," replied the other carelessly; "I hired a cottage at- the shore for the sum mer and took the servants alonjc." "Bottfc" answered Dickey; "but, oh. I am going to have sweet revenge. I will not be cheated ont of uiy revenge." Yet while the great sky Rives blessing, Tlie wiiie fiimmer weather. No odds of fate arc they asking— They are together! —Harriet P. Spoffurd in Harper's Bazar. "Who took charge of your city house?" askeCl the clerk. In due time a son was to the honse of Durande, and Mme. Durande found it necessary to clear out and use the room where the urn lay forgotten. As for Durande himself, the joy of a new made father dissipated all remorse in his heart, and to celebrate the christening with due pomp and splendor invitations were sent far and wide for a magnificent dinner. "Why, nobody. I simply had the doors and windows securely fastened and went away." My theory was that she had an accomplice—the young man whom I had seen. The hollow in the tree was their postoffice. Nest day I was at the park half an hour before her usual time, and behold! the young man was occupying that I ench. As she appeared he got up and took a seat a hundred feet away, and by watching closely I saw that she took a note from the tree. Before leaving she wrote and "posted" one in replj\ and after she bad gone I saw him get H. ' was now certain that I was on the tight trail, and I went to Mitchell to  some particulars I wished to I tC.;Cl hiia i had a clew, but  veal which way it led. I learned from him that the combination of the vault door had four numbers, and he alone kuew it. It had been changed about a month after Mrs. Gray's arrival, and he hesitatingly admitted that the word was "Aiuie," wlxich was her Christian name. He would not, however, admit that this fact was known to her. OVERCONFIDENCE. "Tell me abont it, deah boy."' "Well, I have loved her ever nnce vre were babies,ol(lchap-:-temblyriD7M;iii tic. "Let me Ree your policy," said the clerk. After examining it he handed it back to the mail. And so I watch sadly from across the hall the playing of Madeline on the accursed old rosewood feed cutter, the demon of unrest with the ghastly smile among its white and black keys looking out at you like the smile you see in a dentist's show window where teeth can be bought as low as four dollars per set. Ten years ago in a certain good sized town in Pennsylvania there lived a family whom I will call Mitchell. The family consisted of husband, wife and two children, the latter being a boy aged five and a girl of seven. Mitchell was a private banker, known to be honest, respectable and worth a clear $100,000. 1 knew little or nothing abcmt the family until certain incidents occurred. One day his wife was fatally injured in a railroad collision at a point alxDut fifty miles from borate. WkCvt learfwd her, in response to a telegram sent by a stranger, he found she had been removed to a hotel and was being tenderly cared for by a woman who gave her name as Mrs. A. B. Gray, of Philadelphia. She was on the train, but suffered 110 injury. Mrs. Gray, as I might as well tell von now, was petite, good looking, a good talker, and in a general way captivating. The fact, of her taking charge of Mtb. Mitchell as she had done proved her tender heart. She told Mr. Mitchell •he bad been a widow eighteen months and wu practically alone in the world, and though he was burdened with grief sod anxiety, he did not forget to thank her for her great kindness and to take her address. She resumed her journey, and he took his wife home to die of her injuries. It was three weeks after her death that I came into the case. After everything was over the husband snd- We were born on the wan uaD Forty miles from Pott An '.sta, gpen cer*a gulf, south Austr.-Uia, in an immense deposit of iron, reaching a height of soma 800 feet above the level of the plain, which promises in point of extent arid quality to eclipse any of the wonderful "mountains of iron" w hich from time to time are discovered In the United States. The colonial ferriferous elevation, which h:is been ap propfiately christened the Iron Monarch, was, it seems, acnuircd two or three yeanago by a syndicate, not for the iron which It might produce, but for the silver »vhic,i experts believed muat-iie noeierthe ferric surface. The sanguine expectations of the company were, however, never destined to Aii Iron Mouutaiu In Australia* HIS FIRST'S ASHES. know, atul she lived next door to "Did you ever take the trouble to read it?" he asked. used to gDD riding in the samel When the wife of Durante, captain in the One Hundred and Twelfth cuirassiers of the line, died, he was sorely stricken with sorrow, and would not lDe comforted. In fact, ho had hardly had time to enjoy his happiness or appreciate his treasure, for they had been married only a month, when she was token from him ij\ii''.e midst of their wedding tour in • vNo, I can't say that I did." "\\ '-11, then, just let me show you an in telvsting clause." riage—beui riding with her eyer tince. But, you know, girls get about five year* colder thsn h fyllah ot the same ag« when they are Mtvoutefn and alvr.it fivu years youftger than ;i fellah of the s:uue age when they arc twenty-three. Well, day after tomorrow 1m ortr eighteenth birthday, but she thinks I am a laire boy, don't you 1uh«v, aud that !~he i.s .•» mature yoiffig tidy. 'Bo when •! piojkwed "But, uiy dear," said liis wife as he came in from the barracks the day of the great event, "don't go to your dressing room till you have seen the table, the flowers arranged with my own hands." Tin* clerk pointed to the following This entile jtol'cy, unless otherwise provided' by agreement. indorsed hereon and added hereto, hhall be \oiil * * ' if « building herein described, whether intended for occupancy by owner or tenant, lie or become vacant or unoccupied, and so remain for ten days. Will sho be a buxom wife in Smear Kase, following the customs of her neighborhood, spanking the golden butter and six or seven boys into shape? Or will she be the wife of a rich merchant or the leader of somo great movement? I do not know what she will be. I only know wtTrff cTiSvm n(ft be. She will not be a musician of any kind whatever. So these young people residing at the cheese town had somehow got to thinking that we had an "opry." They caine ai*a in arm from the train with bright, expectant faces to the opera house. Their eye3 just danced with expectation. Onr manager is to blame for this, for his bills are alive with pictorial action. He forgets that people who are not profound expect that the "attraction" is going to place himself in all these attitudes. Arranged! A great heaping cluster of blood red roses—in au antique, strangely familiar Roman urn, which held the place of honor on the sumptuous board! "That means," hfr added, "tbat if your UouC*D had burned during ycur alisenueyou would have lost your iusurance." she actually l&ogked ,at me, old  and told uie to go lD;:ck to ray nurs«." Just about returning to Paris, she fell ill in Rome and died of fever, in spite ofitlie many physicians called to attend lier and the devoted care of her husband, who never left her aide till she breathed her last. "Great Scott!" exclaimed the man angrily, "what must a man do, stay at home?" be ri'iili/cl Duraude bent closer. His wife saw him start. By and by they all goto the "opry." It is not quite what? they thought it was, beiDg more quiet and subtile, and as I heard a man about town at Fostoria say, "the persimmons were a little too high for their pole." "Uwaeious!'' Kai«l the voice from the 1'he Irtm Monarch kooo showed tbfit it "But I aia going to huvf my revenge,'' said Dickey. chair. was not going to iielie its i:ame, and that its superficial show vtrs nn accurate. reflex of its it; tenor—In short, t lint it was ntvei Intended by nature, an its anxious explorers ■have fondly imagined, to proven rival to the famous Rruken Hill. It is nevertheicr-s probable that the Iron Monarch will, in the course of lime, become a? groat an iron mine, or rather quarry, m "Yes," said she complacently, " 'tis yours, you dear old stupid, to throw away as you have done the handsomest thing collected in your trip to Italy! It was up in the garret filled with dust. Heaven knows how long it has been there!" "Xo, thai isn't necessary; bat he must either have souietxxly guard his property or else make some arrangement with us. There is goal sound reason for that condition, which appears in most policies. If the house in and » .small fire is accidentally isUn W the house is likely to burn down, when as, if somebody is in the house, t he chances are that the fire will be extinguished before it has done much damage. When people go away for a few weeks only we usually allow them to leave their houses untenanted, but they must notify us and get the permission in writing, or we won't be responsible. When people go away for months the same privilege is rarely extended." "What's it going to be?" asked tliv Conscious to the end, she bravely sought to console him. voice, "It was not given to mortals," she suit!, "to bo happy for long. Our joy has been too great; it could not last. Do not weep, dearest," she cried; "let me pass away in peace, without the memory of your distressed face. Smile; do not look 60 sad!" and she raised her trembling hand and caressingly laid it on his cheek. The young people put up at the hotel for tea and sat in the parlor and conversed till the ineal was ready. For two weeks after receiving this ir. formation I hardly got sight of Mrs. Gray. For some reason she remained very closely at home. I found out from Mitchell in a roundabout way that the money needed to pay the men at thD- coal mine and also at a large factory was deposited with him on the 14th of every mouth. It was simply passed in to him to be locked in thu vault overnight, as it came up from Pittsburg by messenger. I reasoned that Mrs. Gray would work this information out of hici in some way, or that her accomplice would discover it, and that if she had the combination of the vault she would make her strike on the night of the 14th. On Aug. 12 she exchanged notes at the bank, also on the 13th. On this latter date I shadowed the young man for three hours and became satisfied that he was from Pittsburg and a ''slick un." Among the things he did was to go to the depot and inquire about various night trains, and particularly one which passed over the read half an hour after midnight,. "Weil, I am going to have a swell birthday party. Everyone knows that ■he and I were born oil the same day. Bnt instead of if 8 being my eighteenth birthday, old chappie, it's going to be my twenty-eighth birthday—see? And I just lDet she'll tear her hair out whet she hears about it. By the way, it's aw fully pretty hair." "Play something, Madeline," said Grace, who was a large, powerful girl, with tight shoes and a slight stoop in the back, but one could see by her muscular frame that she stoops to conquer, for I thought when I saw her that she was the village blacksmith, who 'neath the spreading chestnut stands, with strong and brawny arms, God wot, and whiskers on his hands. the celebrate; 1 bill in New South W.Mi-e wiih the disreputable title is n sil ver mine, which is equivalent to tuiving that it will eventually be the largest irou mine in tht " Wi-with dust!" stammered Durande, white as death, "and—and what did you do with it, the—the dust?" ♦'Threw it on the rose pots, dearest— tbat is, what the wind didn't scatter. Put the effect—isu't it lovely?" woi Id. At present tie owners of the Iron Mon arch are undecided with respect to the probable best markets fur their ore, w hich is sail] to assay from !)."D to 07 per cent, of iron oxide. But negotiations are it progress, and the full development of this remarkable mine in apparently withii measurable distance of consummation.- Iron. "Gwacions!" said the horrified voir* from the chair.—Tom Hall in Life. "You are a soldier," pursued she; "death should have no terrors for you. I have loved you only; do me, then, one last little favor. I wish to be uear you always, even iu death. I beseech you, cremate me, then; reduce mo to a little heap of ashes that you can carry always with you. I shall never disturb you. How strange it seems to call a heap of ashes '1'—ye't so it will bo. You will sometimes glance »t me thus, and can never entirely forget me!" "Very, very lovely!"' murmured the Boldier, with a strangled sigh. And in the fresh, fragrant flowers, whose petals parted softly, like the lips of a young girl to the lirst kiss of love, Durande believed that ho saw the tender smiles and blushes of his dear, dead wife.— Short Stories. Probably very few New Yorkers know of the clause quoted aUjve, and yet it appears iu most fire insurance policies. Nearly every company will allow a policy holder a certain amount of freedom from the restraint, but a good many circuni stances are considered before a company will make itself liable for damage to an untenanted house. If the house is in a good neighborhood, or has burglar alarm wires, or is located in a very public thoroughfare, the company considers the risk less than if the Neighborhood is poor or deserted and there is little chance of fire being detected until it has gained great strength. There are probably hundreds of tenantless Rouses in New York during every summer, and their owners hare nf idea that their insurance would be for feited in case of fire during the time the) are vacant. Did. It Himself. "Play something, Madeline," again came the pleading, yet deep, rich, manly voice of Grace. denly discovered that his dead wife's* Jewelry was missing. She had with her when the accident took place about $1,000 worth of diamonds. They hat! disappeared, and when ho came to run irrer events in his mind he could not remember that they had come home with fear. Mrs. Gray had turned over to him Mrs. Mitchell's purse and a few other things, bat a pair of diamond eardrops, two rings and a pin were missing. I waa employed to proceed to the scene late accident' "race the occurred wn. Peoassure. i jewelry The landdoctor♦ive. and out I resell that e taken and in"igoron.-ly re"Oh, Bhet up!" exclaimed Madeline. "I'd druther talk or play some game till sapper's ready. Give us a rest!" she added petulantly, for one could see that she was the spoiled darling of the cheese town and wore mauvo suspenders over a draddy tay gamp. FINE WEATHER WE'RE HAVING. Trout Pumped Up. A Fact Apjircci ilcil by u Young an Extfiiwtve Vwaimlarr, Mail uilt C. D. Brooke, who lives a half a mile or so east of Oak park, has a fine trout stream running through his land. A couple of (lays ago his pump threw out a trout several inches long, and Mr. Brooke thinks he could have lots of fun bobbing for tront if he had an open well reaching down to the trout stream that flows beneath that locality. We have a young, society man in Detroit wo are j.'vowl of. IIo is a society man who etu bo something else when he wants to be. and he wants to l»o quite frequently. Fie is a dry wit, and ho delights in prodding society people  capacity is limited to society. Most of all. he is against society talk. During the firs-t week in October he was in New- York and attended a reception, or nftlier a tea. at 5 o'clock. Nevertheless when Durande returned to Paris he v.ts a changed man. He was thin and haggard; his eyes had lost their luster, his step its elastic spring and confidence. MADDIS PLATS FOR LEONARD. "Qh, play something for me, Maddiel'" said a tall, lithe young man with a knob on his throat, which rose and fell like the price of wheat when he swallowed. "Play something for me," he said, swallowing something with a sound that reminded one strangely of the hanging of Mrs. Surratt. "Play 'Bonaparte's March,' Maddie." Hereafter vfo will sell "books of the 'opry,'" which will make it easy for those who wish to take our home treatment first, and thus be prepared for the' 'opry," which is just as classical as it can be, yet with a comic vein in it. "Wliy doesn't Bridget bang this pur rot up after she is through cleaning hini?' "Courage, cour; are, ruy boy!'' his colonel would Bay to 1 im. I promised Mitchell that a climax would soon be reached, and then staked my all on what might happen on the night of the 14th. At 8 o'clock on that evening I threw a piece of "dosed" meat to his dog from a neighboring yard, and at 10 I softly climbed the fence to find the canine in his kennel and sick enough to remain there. I lay down within ten feet of him. hidden behind a bnsh, and it was an hour and a half before anything happened. Everybody in the neighborhood was in bed and asleep by that time, and I was not greatly surprised when a female figure, which 1 knew to be that of Mrs. Gray, suddenly appeared and passed me five feet away going toward the bank. "Be brave, my friend!" repeated his brother officers. There can be no doubt that a subterranean river of considerable volume runs through that gravel section, for a few years ago W. L. Willis, who lived in the same neighborhood that Mr, Brooke does, pumped up a number of monntain trout. This stream seems to run down toward the Cosumnes, as trout of good size have been taken from pumps »t Sheldon, many miles south of here. But joy and brightness had gone out of Durande's life. Tlie once brilliant soldier was a broken man. The same rule applies to country houses, and yet many of the finest and costliest summer houses of New Yorkers are simply fastened up and left vacant during the winter. Of course special arrangements cau always lDe made whereby the insurance will not be forfeited for non tenancy.—New York Sun, There was a wistfnl look in his eye, and he leaned forward toward her till she could almost feel his hot Bermuda onion breath on her cheek. "It's a charming day," observed the swell yonng woman he had met nliortiy after he had entered the room. Mrs. Kendal's Stage Carver. Among the living actresses Mrs. Kendal (Madge Robertson) has played the greatest number of parts. Like nearly all great, players, Mrs. Kendal was born in the pn* fession, and began to perioral nearly as soon as she could walk and talk. Her first appearance, at the age of four, was at Chute's theater in Bristol (where her mother was acting), as an angel in "Unci* Tom's Cabin." "Both my father and mother," says Mrs. Kendal, "were on the stage; so were my grandfather and grandmother; so were my great-grandfather and g.'eat-grandmother; so were my aunts and uncles, my greataunts and uncles, my brothers and sisters, and my nephews and nieces." Mrs. Kendal in the course of her busin all descriptions of dramatic work from tragedy to burlesque and excelled in all. though light comedy is that In which her talent is universally recognized as supreme.—London Tit-Bits. No one on arrival was allowed to touch his luggage, and he himself, with caro and weeping, drew from his satchel an artistic little vase that he solemnly charged his brosseur never ou any account to lay hands upon. "Yes." he admitted, because it was * charming day He was of a deep, passionate nature, inclined to the sanguine bilious. His father owned the livery stable under whose auspices they had come. "\Vu have been having very lovely weather for some tirne,"ebe continued. Inlands of the British Empire. This stream probably comes from Lake Tahoe, that being the nearest mountain lake of sufficient capacity to keep up the supply that is known to exist beneath the surface in this vicinity. Scientists have long been of the belief that there is a subterranean outlet to Lake Tahoe, and as none other has been discovered it is reasonable to suppose that this may be it. That it is not a mere pond, without source or exit, is evident from the fact that the trout that have been pumped up were without the peculiarities that distinguish fishes taken from underground reservoirs or the waters of deep caverns, and evidently had not long been on the journey to this point.—Sacramento Record-Union. Tlie British empire is the largest owner of island territory. To begin with. Great Britain and Ireland comprise, iu addition to the Isle of Man and the Channel island:) more than 5,000 islands and islet*, by fai the greater number lDeiug uninhabited and in very many instances mere rocks. In the central Mediterranean Great Britain pos scsm/s Malta, with Cominoand Gozo; in the southern Atlantic ocean, Ascension, the uroup of which Tristan d'Acuula Is the chief, Inaccessible island, the Falklaud and Nightingale Islands, South Georgia and St. Helena; on the west coast of Africa, Lagos; in the Indian ocean, Socotra, Mauritius and theSeychelle islands. "Yes," be responded, with the air of a man Who knew what lie was talking about and proposed to finish tho subject completely before he was done with. "tt,nd the Ion;,' m.C !1 of Hear v ..Ui'r in Is fair to "A toTcefl of poor niadame?" the man ventured to ask. "Play something for me, Maddie. Play 'Bonaparte's March,'" exclaimed the tall, young man, leaning still farther toward her and regarding her with a look of heart hunger iu his eye that reminded one in spite of himself of one who had been searching for the open polar sea and boarding himself. assertion that "Yes, a token," Duraude responded; before 'which, the wlim Roman urn that held all that was left of his poor wife's remains, lie knelt and wept bitterly when alone again. At night it stood in full view upon a cabinet beeide his lf-d, that hia eyes might rest u\«ju it when not closed In sletj,! riiiU bj* ■rtar. When hi., leave had expired and he had returned to duty, he was distrait, a stranger to his comrades, joining in none of their pleasures or amusements, seeming to live onlyill tho memory of his lost wife and that urn—which might be knocked over. ■Diness, and it I saw or me in , w .. , .eference vti mad* to my previous work, but fresher and other troubles bad come to Ubl A month after the death of his wife he bad opened correspondence with Mrs. Gray, and the result was tbiit she had come to take charge of his house. Be was without relatives, or at lea«t without those vho could aid bim in liis situation, and she claimed to be free in her movements. You will suspect just •a I did, that she had captivated him, bat he fought shy of any acknowledgment of the sort. I haven't told you about the bank. It tou situated' just a square from his and exactly in the rear of it. The house fronted on onAtreet dKd the bank bn another, and there was no alley between. Indeed the rear yard of the bouse led right up to the rear door of the bank, and Mitchell used to come up and go through the yard. In the rear of the banking rooms, divided off by the usual railing, were the private offices and the vault. A borgiar alarm wo* connected with the front doors and windows, but none with the back. A large and ravage dog guarded the rear, having a kennel close to the door. What the banker wanted to see me about was this: He bad not only missed money from bis wallet at night, but on two occasions considerable sums of money had been taken from a small ?afe which stood in his office outside the vault. One of the mysteries was in the taking of the money. He employed a teller and a bookkeeper, neither of whom had a key to safe or vault, unless it was a duplicate made without hirflcnowledge. Neither had the word of the combination of the vault, and it seemed impossible that they could have taken the money, even if so inclined. Both were perfectly honest,so far as anyone knew, ■ad Mitchell was all tangled up over the middle AU uitu. last a day tjr two Tlie Uigb She stopped at the kennel to speak to the dog, and then opened the rear door and entered. I did not move from my biding place until she reappeared about twenty minutes later. She carefully locked th» bank, and as she passed me on the way to the house I followed quickly behind. The keys she laid on the bank stops, softly opened the side gate, and 1 let her reach the street before I brought matters to a climax. She was only out of the gate when she was joined by a man, but wheal rushed to seize them he got the alarm and was off before I could grab him. I got her, however, and she had a bundle under her arm which I took charge of—a bundle captaining about $1U,000 in greenbacks.ill covtDr the 3latrD8 ea.-tt of the MiiiaifiMppi, with its obiter rC?ft ing or t'.ie A. mi ne co»f-t, if, inclimuion to iwkhi off. Ti.i.s area brought lancb colder weather into rhe lake region:) and the New England and midrtla Atlantic states on B&tnrlay night, lu northern New York and Xev* England frosts occurred. In this city yesterday was fair; highest official temperature, 6i)degs.; lowest, 4Hdegs.; averdity. 50 per cent.; wind, northge velocity, twelve miles an pressure arc -thi«g for Leonard, even if yon sour on us." She then rose and escorted Maddie to the piano as Sandrow would have escorted the child wonder to the door for a good spank. Reluctantly Maddie went to the piano, and aside from the flutter of a tiny mother of pearl suspender button on the real brussels carpet and its low buzz as it spun across the ziuc under the baseburner, there was no sound. With Grace there was no monkey business. s "Yes, do" said Grace, "play some- Iu the east, are many, including Cyprus, the Andaman and Nicolvtr islands, Ceylon and the Maldlve and Laceadive groups. In Canada (ireat Britain owns i'rince Ed ward island, Vancouver, the Queen Charlotte inlands, Newfoundland, Cape Breton and Auticosii. The countless islands, islets and isolated rocks included in the West Indies, with the islands in Oceania, and, not least interesting, the group of 225, known as the Fiji islands, belong toGreat Britain. —Brooklyn Eagle. ODDS AND ENDS. He hail placed lior portrait in eveiy room iu his lionse, and by a strango parados of sentiment it was here, among all these tender recollections, that he passed his least miserable hours. All silly women are not pretty women. Cardinal "Wolsey was the son of a butcher. Chloral was discovered by Liebig in 1831. - He Was Too Perllte. "JuEt like everything else about this house—if I waut it done right 1 Lave to doit myself." Two bomely and tittering maidens and a stout and aggressive wife comprised lils flock. Ho was a small man, with a pointed beard and a solicitous air, and he marshaled the party in front of the dining room door on a Champlain steamer ten minutes before dinner war served so as to "be in time," and when finally they headed the procession to the tables there began a volley of solicitor enquiries that well nigh broke the appetites of neighboring passengers. The small man sat at the head of a table, and he held the bill of fare and doled out inquiries. "Vf ill you have chicken or beef soup, mother?" west; avera Lour." The girl save a slight gisp and looktd at him appealingly, but he was pitiless. By degrees, through steady contemplation. IX'rhaps, the sight of the Roman uru produced a less painful effect npon the dwonsoliito widower, and no longer cause i him the cruel heart pangs of the first days of bereavement. Madeline looked up dreamily to the wall, trying to think of the piece. She then touched the keys with a technique that was like the heavy footfall of a wounded buffalo. The father of Niebuhr, the historian, was a farm laborer. ft The closer a man lives to the ground, tha more he loves to talk about himself. They call a bicycle "the devil's chariot" in Turkey, and the sultan forbids its use. "1see by the United Suites signal service forecast," he went on, the indications are for New England generally fair and warther weather, probably followed by showers Monday ni ;ht in extreme northern portions of Maine, New Llainp.-shire and Vermont; wind shifting to southeast. For eastern New What a nervy woman she ntl She just simply laughed a bit as I led her up the steps and rang the bell to aronse Mitchell, and when I had told him all and had the money and the keys to prove it she jast looked up at him with asinile and asked: Tennyson's Last Days. ■ ■ '■ • rvv\uv\ \ ■ \'* ■ \ wm "It is sad enough to contemplate fallen greatness in any form, but the decline of a great intellect is perhaps the saddest," says an English correspondent, writing of Ten njreon'adecay just before his death. "It may be accepted that the hour of intellectual labor is over for Lord Tenuyson. It is now his turn to lie still and be taken care ol like a child. When the sun shines he  carried out and laid in a bright spot U]Don a carpet, enveloped in rugs and shawls. Here he sleeps aud reads. The object ol all his Interest is the heir, his baby grand sou. Where this small great personage is concerned nothing can lie done without consulting him. He must inspect aud choose feeding bottles aud hoods, and superintend all his daughter-in-law's maternal cares. Lord Tennyson, in fact, seems to have renohed it time of life when it is'a relief to betaken out of one's self, and when placid unstrfviug meditation anil simple family interestsare the lira its of possibility as they are the alleviators of pain. It i-' sad, but inevitable." "My patience," she exclaimed, looking lit her fingei-s suddenly, "this piano ain't been swept since Adam was a ye'rlin!" lit! was now able to picture his darling an bhe had been in the zenith of strength anil beauty, gay, Kmiiing.ehann- A man of science iu Germany maintains that all oar diamonds come from meteors. A girl who is vain of her little feet doesn't worry much about the size of her head. xw^y Merry laughter from the delegates of ;he rennet village greeted this sally. "Well, what of it?" York, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jt tog Again anil again be recalled anC? lived over the moments of that honeymoon jonrney, and grew happy himself , posthumous revival of The "what of ii!" was a corker. Mitchell couldn't let the public know thift his bank could be so easily robbed, and he couldn't let society know that he had b»-en du}Ded by an adventuress, and after ;i consultation he actually gave that little adventuress $2,000 in cash to clear out. She went, and as I left her at the depot she said: "Give the old man my love when you get back to the house, and ask him if he never heard of Tony Wdiet's advice."— Columbia Pe#t ai.d Delaware, fair and warmer wind shil'iiug to (southeast. For the i)if trict ot Columbia, Maryland, Vir^f The piano was poor. It was not what It had once been, and it never was mnch. It had been taken out of four burning hotels within fifteen yeais by misguided people who thought that a piano ought to be preserved. It may be as well perhaps right here for me to admit that 1 believe the time is coming when pianos will bo sold as one sells a good horse, for whatever it will bring. There are generally two or three people in a century who can get music out of a piano, asthere is a man who can walk across Niagara falls on a tight rope every hundred years, but there is a growing feeling among grownup men who own pianos, and who keep thera in repair, and who get nothing in return but poor playing, perpetual practice and apologies, that they will some day unite and demand some other instrument. Some daj the piano will follow the aquarium, with its sour crumbs on top and its gasping little goldfish dying of malnutrition at the bottom, and they will go hand in hand into the great starless night of obliviou.Newfoundland is rejoicing over the catching of 400,000 seals by her fleet this season. in this sww;t iuia. railiatit liours A company of Japanese actresses are preparing to start on' a professional tour in Europe. warmer; fair; winds shifting to south For we;item New York, western Penn gylvauia and Ohio, warmer and fair, probably followed at lake stations by local showers during the afternoon or night; southwest winds increasing t» force. Fair weather continues in all districts,except in the upper lake region and in the Dakotas, where local showers are reported. The area of high pressure has moved almost directly southward from the lake regions, and now covers the Atlantic coast from New England to the east gulf states. The slight depression which was central north of Montana on Saturday evening has moved eastward to'Lako Superior, and a second disturbance is apparently advancing from the region north of Montana, tho barometer being relatively high over the Rocky mountain districts. It is much cooler in the middle Atlantic states. The temperature continues low in New England and New York, where frosts occurred this morning, And it is warmer in the upper lake regions and in the tipper Mi-C sissippi valley. Generally fair weather will coutinun throughout the central valleys and in the districts on the At- When at work the urn stood on Lis writing table, and he thought how iu life and in that bygone time he had written ui d pondered and she had sat quietly beside him reading or sewing tranquilly, silently, without disturbing him. "Cliicken. Edward." "Kitly, dear':1" "Beef, pa." "Beef for you, Mary?" "Chicken if yon please." "Yon will all have tisli, I suppose,"be v» \\ Representatives of the French government are buying horses in Ireland for their cavalry. America lias already sent over 24,000,000 pounds of grain to the distressed peasants in Russia. Six months passed, lengthened to a year, and now and then it happened that Duraude forgot the nrn and left it 011 his table at night instead of carrying it to his bedroom. Finally he ensjirined it for good on his office table. Not that the memory of his wife was less than at iirst, but because in time it was borne in upon hiiu that a funereal deposit like this was unsanitary, unhealthy in a said. "None for me," said his wife doc ididly. One of the girla also voted against fish, and then he beat tho waiting eardrums of the white aproned attendant with an order that was changed five times. At last as the boat oeared its lestination a generous array of viand® had appeared, and the 6mall man's solicitude grew dreadful. Nails may be driven Into hard wood without bending double if first dipped in lard or oil. He Wwn't Exalted. They were rehearsing for the wedding The organ had ceased its roaring, and the bride and groom stood with clasped hands before the altar. There was f stillness throughout the sacred edifice, and the solemnity of the sanctuary exalted almost all the hearts of the gronp gathered at the chancel. Ten pairs of twins arosaid to have bee* born to the wife of a resident of Tompkins, N. Y. John Middleton, bom Rt Hale, In Lancashire, in the time of James I, was 9 feet 3 inches in height. Consumption is believed to be more prevalent in Ireland than in either England or Wales. Four limes more Irishmen reside in the United States than Englishmen. It is more difficult- *-o believe the statement that 60,000 people in the Emerald Isle speak Irish cfnly, or another, that there are 40,00( mud cabins in that country consisting of but a ningle room. Vet this is the country in wh!"h we are told suicide is less prevalent th.Cn in any other—which speaks volumes for Pat's light heavtedness.—Chambers' Journal. Facts About Ireland. sleeping room, "Mother, do have some beets." '•I don't wish any." The most notable exception was the heart of the professional master of ceremonies.Biff! "Some fool forgot to fasten in the bottom of that cage."—Smith & fjrav's Monfhlv. Nevertheless every day it was surrounded, as usual, with lilies and roses, his wife's favorite flowers. The mealie crop in the Orange Free State has been destroyed by the locusts, causing a loss of over $1,000,000. the mystery. He hadn't talked to mt five minntes when I would have taken my solemn oath that Mrs. Gray was the guilty party, bnt of course I didn't drop a hint of my suspicious to him. She was shy, prudent and apparently all right, and I had put in a month on the case and made no discovery when the outside safe was robbed again. A deposit and aome bonds had ooine in at the last moment and had been placed there for the night. The whole thing amounted to •boat $900, and bonds and greenbacks were missing next morning. The safe had not only been opened with a key, bat the bank bad been entered by unlocking the rear door. No one could have entered by the front without "Tako some corn, Kitty, dear. Pas« the celery to the gentleman next, Mary. This beef is excellent, mother. Can't 1 give yon a bit of it? No? Have n, piece of bread, dear? What, Kitty, are yon .aking pie ami ice cream together? Remember Montreal, my child. Wife, do #at that chicken: won't you, my love?" The one year lengthened to two, and Dnraude liad returned to his bachelor life. Bad light, had ventilation and nnsanitary conditions, with a low standard of general health, increase the myopic tendency.It was not exalted to any appreciable extent. Ilrcaklnj the Nenn to m«» ftnltiui "Do yon take this woman to be"  The master of ceremonies critically contemplated the happy pair. "yonr wedded — don't squeeze hands—wife?" In 18S9, when tlie hat' inker Varna, nobody would venture to break the news to Mnhmoai], The vizier, Khosrew (at that time Heraskier nnd general in t he army), was to Lave undertaken this duty, os befitting the dignity of his rank, (in meeting the sultan he detected signs of a gathering storm, and feeling that the moment was unprupitious lie confined his remarks to subjects of trivial importance and took his leave. On coming away he met Abdullah Effendi, physician in ordinary to the court, inquired in what mood he had left his" majesty. "'Tis wrong to bury yourself alive thus," said Lis friends and his wife's relations; "begin, go into the world With this statement I bid adieu tc good society and become a great coarse outlaw; also glad of it and defiant. On a recent SuDday there was a 26-mile foot race in Brittany under a scorching gun. The winner, on crossing the  drank a glass of lemonade and fell dead. agaiu." Finally Madeline got started, with a mouthful of popcorn, and played "Bonaparte's March." All looked around proudly to see if the other guests at the hotel were pausing, awed and elevated, in the halls and corridors of the hotel but they were not. Only one "town lady" halted near the parlor and looked at Madeline with a steadj* gaze and said The groom's lips moved. "Don't open your month too wide." The groom looked scared and whispered something. Durande yielded, once more went out, freqiK-uted the quarters of his brother officers, joined in their jollifying, and actually one evening carried them all home with him to a banquet iu lift own apartments. Tlio Avine was good, the champagne sparkling, laughter, songs, uproar the order of the uight; when the supper euded they nil adjourned to the private office, where the mortuary fchrine stood alone upon the table, severe and mournful. Revelry ran riot, in the midst of which Durande suddenly recalled the "presence of the dead," as he was wont to call the urn. caught it up hurriedly. The stout woman glanced at the few remaining passengers bolting fina! uiouthf uls, and then 6he clearcd the bits of chicken from her voice and said in no uncertain tones: A steeple jack working on a chimney in England was killed recently by a sheer fall of 200 He alighted on a heap of stones and bricks at the feet of a crowd that was watching him and a companion. The senate is a great place for chums. Deck and Allison were such a pair, as were Don Cameron and Butler, Vest and Plumb, Edmunds aiul Thurman. Another notable case of congressional Damon and Pythias was tiiat of Tom I teed and Bourke Cockran in the house.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Modem Damons and PythiaseK. I ail tic coa«t, witli warmer wmthwesterly wiiuls from Virginia, northward to New 1 land "Look pleasant, please—do you take this man to be your wedded—the chin a little higher—husband—eyes not quite 60 much obscured—there.'' Then tie smiled s have heard what tii tetly and wonld prirl had to say "Edward, you hain't eaten no dinner." "Yes, I have." "You haven't. You've buzzed around too much to get a spoonful into youi mouth sideways." A Wonderful Machine. "I ftm thankful to say," Khosrew promptly replied, "lie lias taken it bctto than J exp»cl«)." iibout it, lint she didn't have anything C. M. Spencer, Those inventions soir« time ago much simplified the making of screws, has, with A. H. Eddy, invented and completed a machine which is believed to lDe aC* far ahead of his other inventions as they were ahead of the old hand machines. The new machine is in successful operation, and every test of it has proved highly satisfactory. Human ingenuity, it would seem, . can develop screw machinery no further. The bride trembled and ga6ped unin telligibly. to say she v id he passed New York State's llfg Vote. "Hum! Oh, yes; t»lie is one of the crowd from Smear Kase. Come down to see the 'opry.'" And she passed by on the other side. As Boon an tiifc doctor entered the in. dience chamber he i:«id, with an air and in a toCDt Fjnipathy, "Sire, th« Almighty does all tilings well, and we fcliall ! . ve to •ubrnit." , on to the next out Detroit Free Press. luiliiig lis Wove.— "My dear," protested the small mac deprecatingly. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president of tbe United States iu lfciGO he receiveCl 1.805,1)13 votes in the thirty-two states which then constituted the Union. In the presidential election of 1SS8 the total vote of New York state was l,3"JU,10!t.— •bonding an alarm. No stranger could have entered by the back on account of th« dog, who was wide awake and all "Will yoa cherish, protect—a little more on the right foot—and defend— look to the altar—until death doth—not qnite bo much bend in the knee—part?" A legion «Du Milk Drinking "Your hear," she insisted, "and now we're almost there. You just drop the perlite business. Edward, and rustle fer the meat and pertater like you was hi borne. Hear?" Few people know that there is a pnoej anil a had way of drinking milk. The had way is that which they generally follow, once. They were a gentle, simple, happy crowd, and you could see by the sly way they joked about the rough road and how "Herman had to hold Grace in the seat to keep her from falling out," and all those little jokes, that the "opry" was only an excuse for coming, and that it was a very small part of the entertainment.right t When Mitchell sent for me to give me The groom nervously signified that ho wonld. "What has hnppeuedf" wiiil Maiimoud, rather surpriwil. , to swallow u larg9 ijuaulily the news I wae perfectly satisfied that Mrs. Gray wae the guilty party. I believed she had the nerve to enter bis room in the night, secure the keys and then slip through the back yard, enter the bank and open the safe. When 1 learned that the dog was a great favorite of here this belief was a certainty. 1 couldn't, for reasons already given, say • word to Mitchell about this. He wantad to snspect his two employees, but when he had canvassed the matter he When inilk goes into the stomach it is instantly curdled, and if it is curdled into one big ni/uss, the juices of the stomach can work on the outsiilu of New York Sun. UaUly Hurt. "Will you love—don't be thinking how your dress hangs—honor and— don't get too close to the groom—obey?" "For the sake of a hair plucked from the lion'H mane there is small imd to shout darted from the room and deposited it in an upper chamber, piled with a bachelor's litter of old books, boots and He did.—Now Vorlt Tribune. Ifrs. Wade was in on* respect a "tornientersorue" woman to live with, as her husband expressed it. She had no "imagination," he said, and "would ask the queerest questions." The machine will take the wire from a coil, head the screw, cut the thready cut oft the screw from the coil and make the slot.. No machine has been invented before that would do all this. It does without any additional handling of material what before this present invention was always done by two or three machines. Besides, it separates the finished screws from the shavings, depositing them clean and bright in a receptacle placed to receive them. All other machines have to be fed with iho straightened wire, the rods being about ten feet lo/ig. The last two or three iuchcs of every rod arc wasted. With this machine the only waste is at the end of each coil, two or three inches, and the coll nay be 400 or 500 feet long. victorv J ills Tliey Needed Change. "Yes," ventured the bride "Wbat do you mean? self," tbe sultan here broke in impatient "It was written"  Explain your is the reason that many peoples ho like Ciilk, and to whom it should lDe of the utjnost, benefit, cannot drink it. They say it Rives them indigestion, and they are right. Let them give it another chance. firearms Dr. Curem—1 see you have ordered a cumber of your patients to the country. They needed change, 1 pre- "Don't make the responses too confidently—whom God hath -joined let no man — don't exchange glances — put asunder." Nest morning, determined that profanation like that of the previous night should not happen again, he resolved to turn this lumber room, where ho had temporarily deposited the precious remains, into a mortuary chapel, and gave instant orders for a cathedral window and a niche and altar to he placed he- I sometimes wish, looking on such *resh and beautiful, kindly joy and a digestion which only asks for employment, that I could be placed back ther# for a week to forget the glimpses of the aad and the bad of this world, which have been the reward of mv curiosity. J would not care to go back to Smeai Kase and remain the balance of my life, but I could manage somehow for a week. tr 8 . "Speak. I tell you!" shouted Mahmoivl with h terrible voice. At the supper table Mr. Wade mentioned a tragic circumstance that he had read that day in the newspaper. A passenger on a transatlantic steamer had fallen overboard in inidocean and had never been seen again. "Sire, notwithstanding the unbeliever have taken Varna"  Dr. Cigfee—Awfully, left —New York Weekly suine, Hadn't a cent The organ roared again. The party wended its way from the church, but tha exaltation was iu a measure abated.— Detroit Tribuue. But this time they must sip it slowly, not taking mow than a good teaspoouful at one sip, and taking at least four minutes to finish the glassful. Each little sip thus boootwa curled tip by itself when passed Into t he stomach and the digestive juice* percolate, freely around it and it speedily becomes assimilated. C),ne of the best re Mtoratires known after excessive fatigue is a glass of hot milk. The beat seems to lighten it and to deprive it of much of the sweetness which is so cloying to some "Viiriia takeol" howled the sultan "Varna taken!" and with a kick he seni Abdullah spinning an tlip ground. The downy vizier afterward taughtC1 at tbC- cnccess CDt Li" CH Nano'l Minnie—I simply cor.ldn't have refused Jack after lie offered uie this lovely engagement ring. Had Heen Tented Ilefore. was made to see that it was altogether unlikely that either of them was guilty. Indeed he was alone in the bank when the bonds and money came in, and he •lon« knew where the deposit wan placed. "Was he drowned?" aske&.Mrs. Wade. A MHIU Supposition. There the urn was again enshrined, lint the lilies and rosea had given place to immortelles. Home days later, perceiving thafc these had lost color from lack of air and light, Durynde had them changed for garlands of Sevres and bisque of the costliest character, and thus the urn 'stood iDeacefully in this nonth it "Oh, no, of course not," said Mr. Wade. "But he sprained his ankle, I believe."—Youth's Companion. A remarkable curious will has just been published—so remarkable, indeed, that it might well 1D9 added to the already copious catalogue of eccentric documents of this nature. The testator was a wine merchant of Bristol, who left personalty valued nt a little less than £1(1,000. lie bequeathed one-half of his property in trust to secure an annuity of £150 to his wife during her Widowhood, aud directed that the other moiety should bo divided into as many shares as he had children, for whom, until they respectively attained the age rf six teen years, the trustees are to provide "plain food, simple clothing and bare necessaries," together with a sound practical education at a day school or boarding school. A Bealljr interesting Will, Gladys—Yes. Jack has al ways placed great reliance iu that ring.—Chicago1 News-Record. OIT, to shuck this false and artificial society life tliat I lead, with its assumed gayety; its rich apparel by day and pajamas at right; its rich victuals three times a day aud the widening of our circle of acquaintance, thus giving one more people to be jealous of and to strive to imitate! The large boned domestic with a broad, thoughtful brow answered the bell with a fin de siecle promptness. Servants Are Uuman. The advantage of feeding from a coil ii not only in the saving of waste, but also in the saving of labor. Put on a coil of wire, start the machine and it will attend to it self. The operator can attend to other duties if he likes and when he returns h« will find a lot of completed screws, the little machine being still at work and attending strictly to business. What did I do? I turned to Mrs. Gray again, and in about a week something happened to prove that I was on the right trail. One of the street car lines of the town ran down to the railroad depot. It was Mrs. Gray's habit of an afternoon to ride on this line with the little girl aa far down as a certain park, and to sit near the fountain and read while the girl romped about with other children, i had closely watched her while in this park, but no one had ever come near her and her demeanor had Easily Solved tastes. User. New York Commercial -3 Jvl-i- Watts—A man wears suspenders bocause he needs them, of course; but 1*11 be switched if I can imagine why a woman should wear them. "Mary," remarked the "did I hear you say to a man in the kitchen last evening that you would uiarry him?" Caraway—The elopement of Cheney's wife whs in the nature of a boomerang. As Jt Neemrd to Iliui calm retreat Two years C f widowhood lengthened 0 three, and Dnrande took unto himself 1 second wife Why, he couldn't have old you. Certainly it was not a catfe of desperate love, though the new Mine. Durande was a charming woman. No, he had but one excuse for refilling tne empty mone in ms nre—Mine, uuissed vo'i? rande the second was exceedingly like Clara—I wondered what my tianc* Mme. Durande the first, with one exwould think if he knew it.-New York ception- h- was jealous. A jealousy Heral'l that caused her to look with suspicion Potts—Becaosw she doesn't need them, of course.—Indianapolis Journal. Sometimes I wish that I was back there at Smear Ease, a hungry boy eating everything I could overtake, from a gallon of preserves to corn in the ear. But 1 would have ahead of me the whacks anil stumbles and jolts of maturing years! 1 would have to learn again to use tobacco! That makes me content to stay where I am. I would have to run again for the legislature. The elephant has to be seen, even If he step thoughtlessly 011 whita Ave are looking at him. wasn't it The domestic bowed icily. "You did, mem." Simplicity is the ruling feature of this machine, and the impression produced in watching it work is the wonder that no one invented it before. In other machines the wire is revolved rapidly against the tools and die. In this the wire is held in the same position throughout the proecsa and is carried by an arm against the different instruments, which operate upon it until the completed screw la turned out— I Hartford Courant. Hook —Hoy 11 t(;h Priced Work. \ LaCly—What makes these fashion publications so costly? Caraway—She returned tb nost day "■Was it the Mine young man I heard you say you would marry the night before, Mary?" -Truth Dealer—The plates, inadam; the picture*, you know. Lady—Anybody can draw bats and Gentleman—Ilow do you sell tLose ehieketifl? IICP Reflection* The girl tossed her head in haughty scorn. Dealer—Eighteen cents a pound. Jack— What did yCju think when ] dresses. II. afternoon after the rob- Gentleman—Ob, 1 thought probably' fou sold them by the head.—Harper » Bazar. At the conclusion of their scholastic oouree tbe boy a are not to lmre any pay ment made on their behalf, excepting such as mar be raamsite for teach imt Uu!^ Dealer—Ah, yes; but it takes a great artist to draw faces that will look well with them.—New Y«Crk Weekly. "It was not the same, mem. I would remind you, mem, that servants is human beings."—Detroit Tribnne. Led her nsnal seat for an uDTitling happening:. J. ' •