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KiitabiiNlu'tl 1850. | \ UJU \ \ il. No. AS, J Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1897. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. \ C#J .OO i»er Year j ill AtivuilCrf. A STRANGE PUNISHMENT. an elderly mail named aoinsay, whonau the repute of being extremely wealthy, although this rumor, like all which concern eccentric personages, may have been partially baseless. Mr. Rothsay had several servants, and lived with a degree of quiet style in a house twice the size of Frank's. He rarely went to town, and passed a great deal of his time in the superintendence of a farm that covered about ten acres. He was a large man, with an iron-gray shock of hair, a gaunt shape on which dun? clothes that seemed the very extravagance of bad tailoring, and a pair of eyes that you saw. when they restlessly lit on you, to be a veiled, yet tiery hazel. Mr. Rothsay had been represented to Frank as a man of terribly violent temper. but his neighbor soon became disinclined to admit the truth of any such t-harge, since whenever they met he found himself treated with a good deal of rough though distinct courtesy. tongue in an unwonted way ana set him talking with hot vehemence of Roth.suv's insolent behavior. deemed admissible for her to meet him. His inalady was of that peculiar and delicate kind which the least emotional Hurry would have increased, and perhaps with results promptly fatal. At last, however, his recovery became a matter of complete certainty. The sensitive organism of the brain had finally yielded to medical and surgical treatment. Frank felt like one who was ne nC'« suiun ho ha THE COLORED SHIRT THE RUSSIAN CENSUS DRESS PARADE. THE LISTENER. euros of nervous A Profanation of Goo*l Taste and tb« The Dnke of Argyll has been in possession of the family titles and estates for 50 years. BY EDGAR FAWCETT. He declared to Adela that his plans were fully formed. Matthew and himself were to take turns in keeping I guard over the vegetable garden all night for the next three weeks. Either ; of them would be armed with a pistol, and the HrM. head of cattle that showed | itself on the Amory ground should rej ceive a bullet in its brain. Adela silently shivered as she heard i of this resolve. In her weak and oversensitive state it was cruelty unques- I tionuhle for Frank to speak as he [ did. Still, he was no doubt guiltless of ' the least really unkind intention. And | yet apart from alarming Adela. his eon! duct woundeil her to the core. After i dinner he lit a cigar and left her, ap! parently quite oblivious that she had : seated herself on the little pi:\/.za, according to custom, and was waiting for his presence there at her side. Adela strove to console herself with the | thought that after all it was not half so bad as it mitrht be. True, Frank ha.* mig-ht effect sou eh t what helpful tenet Young Man'* Kneniy. Cities Sliown by the Enumeration, A Large Increase In the Population of La vender blue and the deeper iris purple blue are two very fashionable colors just at the moment both in dress and millinery.[Copyright 1890, A11 Rights Reserved.! HE neighbors all looked upon it as a very happy marriage. A year had passed since Frank Amory came with his delicate, goldenhaired wife to live in the little chalet-like cottage just at the foot of the bilL The physician at ful of 1 In writing of "The Offense of tho Col ored Shirt." Kdward W. Bnk In The La Russia is one of the few countries of Europe in which statements of tho population are based not upon official enumeration, but ii)Don estimates sometimes inaocurato. While, therefore, the population of a cit.v, province or district of Russia has been kn.iwn in a general way, an exact and dotailed record of the number of inhabitants at any given time, such as is kept in London, Paris and New York, has been lacking. Recently there has been taken a census of the population of the large citios of Russia, and the Novoe Vromya of Moscow gives details of the preliminary count. own Hut Prince de Sagan, the Ward McAllister of Paris, has had a stroke of paralysis. He is 64 years of age. uler present development iolent colors with Decidedly novel and pretty gowns of I white silk etamihe made in revived Louis XVI stylos have been worn by bridesmaids at recent weddings. of t John D. Rockefeller has presented to Vassar college a library of 3,700 books purchased in Germany. awakened from a long, drpwsy dream, lie had never been really insane: a kind of stupor had veiled actualities for him, and through the disparting mist of this prepossession his new interest and joy in life burned out with ardent intensity. with perfect suciw —as an absolute offense against good Many of the colors and combinations worn in shirts by men of good repute," he asserts, "have been borrowed from the sporting element—gamblers on the race track and followers of the prizefight, who for a long time had a monopoly of this style of wardrobe and were known Fran V bittC pnnish- tusu There has been a steady demand this season for fancy mohairs, and these the manufacturers have produced in a very attractive variety of patterns. Frederick Miller, a telegraph "messenger boy," of Branford, Conn., is 87 years old aDd can walk long distances. nrn-nt t one than hi Hi.--1D '.V iD ilrea Viscount Royston, who has become Earl of Hardwicke by the death of bis father, is a broker on the London Stock Exchange. and fli ai «-)indt'(l The dainty little Louis XVI pelerine with long scarf ends and the picturesque Marie Antoinette fichu complete many of the iKMitic summer toilets designed by Parisian nrtiBts. To ttee Adela again was a delicious experience. They met at the sanitarium. just before his sanctioned departure. Adela could scarcely speak for her tears. But she found voice enough to answer a few of Frank's questions. is-a boy. then," he said. never :e upon 1 And by their shirts of wonderful design, as well us by tlieir clothes of loud and larye 'chucks.' Too many of our young men consider themselves well dressed nowadays with the lurid colored shirt, us part of their toilet. If they eould, however, seo themselves with the eyes of others, they would Fifteen years ago the population of Russian citics was returned as follows: St. Petersburg, 845,000; Moscow, 755,000; Wtirsaw, 430,000; Odessa, 240,000; Kiga, 170,000, and Kharkoff, 165,000. These were the six cities in Russia having more than 150,000 population each, according to the estimates made at that time. Hy the census just completed—the first regular census taken in Russia—it is seen that St. Petersburg has a population of 1,250,000 ar very little less than the city of Vienna, and more than Tokyo, Japan. This puts St. Petersburg seventh in the 1ms oftiJiee of the world, London being first, the enlarged New York second, Paris third, Hsplin fourth, .Canton fifth and Vienna sixth. Eugene Georges, the coachman who exhibited such bravery during the Paris Are, has been rewarded with the hcJnor of knighthood in the Legion of Honor. been keener tl i r ra Adela Amory scarcely be wo:uk mother s as it is ai- may Iridescent mohairs are still favored for stylish traveling costumes, and if tbejaoket and skirt style is chosen it is a pretty way to have the silk shirt waist en suite match one of Lho colors in the mohair. had been the daughter of a New York clergyman, and some of her recent associates here in D said of her that she was quite too prim and puritanic to suit their ta*te at all. the bar Galen Clark, who has been guardian of the Yosemite valley for 84 years, has re- v signed on account of age aud infirmities. He will oooupy a house in the valley. "Our child .i tl wilier Yet Frank at length had reason to reverse his decision. The modest little vegetable garden at the back of his house was separated from a large meadow of Rothsay's by only the most insecure of fences. Within this meadow the Rothsay's cows were left all day to gmze. and more than once they broke through into Prank's domain. The result, as usual in such cases, each time proved disastrous. Frank's man remonstrated with one of Rothsay's numerous men. and several times the fence was repaired. But in so slovenly and haphazard a way was this reparation performed that one particular little short-horned cow with a wicked black eye found slight difficulty in committing fresh pranks of demolition. And at last Frank determined to see Mr. Rothsay and settle the matter, if he could, both amicably and permanently. £ very speedily cnmo to a different conclusion. A young limn can least of all profit no good taste in dress, no matter how general a foolish fad may tieeome. Ho is always being judged hy some one older than himself, and many a business man judges a young man's character hv his dress. The colored shirt of violent color or design is not the young llmn's friend. It is his enemy. He doesj not impress peoplo with his good taste by wearing it. On the contary, lie shows the weakness in his character of u tendency to unwise imitation. The quiet, gentlemanly garb is his, and ho should adhere to it. Employers look not for the latest styles in a young mail's dress, but for a sense of neatness Tfailor m-»d -v.tn of white, pink, oreara and pale ecru linen have five or seven gored skirts, completed by a plaited norfolk waist, with which are worn very handsome belts with buckles and trimmings of solid silver. e 13 Eugene Merrick of Chicago, now 44 years old, entered the army as a drummer boy when be was 19 years of age, and says he was the youngest soldier in the war. M. Chauvin, a doctor of laws and lecturer in the law faculty of the University of Paris, has beeh forbidden to give bis law lectures on aacount of his expressing publicly socialist opinions in politics. A STREAK OF VANITY. Hut here they were indeed wrong. Adela was merely shy and reserved Why the Kodak Is Worth More Than a rift 1 n!j in Cuba. "I sometimes think," her husband would say to her. "that you are never just your real self except when you're with me." One of the segte' rVyns of the Spnnis'a army forbids the taking cf photographs without a permit. For a shot at a formication with tho camera the penalty is espocially severe. Nevertheless it is the universal testimony of American newspaper correspondents that while traveling in Cuban camera is a better protection than a passport. This is because no nationality is fonder of posing in uniform before the lens. The Spaniard, ollieer or soldier, writes \V. 11. Stevens in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, never misses a chance to be "taken." Permission to photograph a fort will be refused with a very positive shake of the head, but a request, to be allowed to snap the garrison drawn up with the fort us a background is always met with smiling acceptance. A captain or a lieutenant will turnout his command and put ft in any position suggested if he learns that a picture is wanted. If a susjiect or a real insurgent is brought into camp, the, detachment which has made the capture will enter heartily into a plan to pose in a way to reproduce tho scene of Its efficiency. The prisoner will lie brought out and made to kneel while the soldiers and the officer in charge of them take positions. On one occasion the whole scene was reproduced in such realistic manner that the jtoor prisoner clapped his hands upon his eves and for a few moments underwent all of the mental torture Soft and delicate lightweight silks fig ured with a tiny dot on satin of a contrasting color are made into charming toilets with bodice cut down in corselet style and completed by a guimpe of sheer India silk or shirred silk batiste. s j. % rv'-: Then Adela's blue eyes would kindle, and perhaps she would remain meaningly silent, perhaps she would jjentlv answer: "So tan# as that is true, Frauk, I've no reason for complaint." The next largest European city «rit»r St. Petersburg is Constantinople, the population of which has always been somewhat conjectural, for a detailed enumeration of its inhabitants has never been made, and, moreover, the number of transients in Constantinople Is at all times considerable. The second largost city of Russia is Moscow, the population of which was returned by tho recent census us within a small fraction of the million mark— 997,937. Moscow is a much older city than St. Petersburg, and it was for many .years the chief city of Russiu, but that distinction belongs to it no longer; though, as may be seen, tho population of tho old Russian capital is largely on the increaso. The third largest city of Russia is Warsaw, with a population of 550,000, and Odessa is fourth, with a population of 350,000. Two Russian cities whSh have increased very largely are Kiev and Lodz in Poland. Fifteen years »go the population of Kiev was 120,000, hut it Is now 200,000. Fifteen years ago the population of Lodz was 110,000; it is now 150,000. Nineteen Russian cities are returned as having upward of loo.otK) inhabitants each. Thirty-flva cities in the empire have more than 50,- 000 population. Samarkand and Kokand occupy higher places in tho list than such ancient and important couters as Tyer, Kursk and Poltava. Speaker Gully of the British house of oommons has just oast his deciding vote for the first time since assuming office, there being a tie vote for the second reading of an unimportant bill. It is 30 years since a speaker has voted. New French jacket bodices, so closely fitted that they serve also as dress waists, are short and very fancifully finished. Most of these are made with open fronts and a blouse or vest, the fronts turned back with pointed revers. Still it nettled Frank a little to think that people should imagine his wife dull and uncompanionable. He waf himself the soul of vivacity and liveliness; a young, athletic fellow, with a short, dark curling beard, eyes that were black stars and a smile that could somehow warm your heart before you heard his voice, lie used to say of himself that he was by instinct a loafer but by profession a Wall street stockbroker. though it was reported of him that his proceedings among the purlieus of hazard implied anything rather than laziness. Daring the first few months after their marriage they had lived in New York, for though Frank's means were variable, they were still in no sense meager. 15ut at the end of a summer sojourn in ID Adela had begged her h us band to stay on in their pretty cottage throughout the winter. Senator Wellington of Maryland interests himself while the senate is in session in looking over newspaper clippings about himself. He subscribes to a news clipping bureau and reads everything that is abeut him with a great deal of interest. Congressmen Lanham of Texas and Pierce of Tennessee, who occupy adjoining seats In the center of the Demooratio side of the hall at representatives, are seldom, if ever, absent from a the house, whether that session be for flvo minutes or five hours. and fieconjingiK'88. "Dress cheerfully. At 20 we need notdress as if we were 50. There is a happy medium between tho black tio and the violent cravat of rainbow hue. That is where good tasto comes in, and a young mun must exercise it. The colored shirt is possible for him, but within limitations. The pin dot or stripe is not, offensive. On the. eontary, it is becoming. Rut brilliant cravats, fancy waistcoats, loud and large 'checks' in clothes and extreme colors in shirts are not for the young man of taste, refinement or (if future standing. Vor are they one whit in better taste for tho man of mature years. They are offensive and bespeak the man who affects them." A cream serge suit is equally satisfactory to nine out of ten women, blond or brunette, who select it for dressy demidress uses. The various silk blouses, vests or shirt waists worn en suite with the jacket vary its effect wonderfully. CI.A8PING HER HUSBAND'S NECK WITH BOTH A KM 8. "I'm glad of that. Tell me. Adela, does he look like me or like you?" He called upon his next-door neighbor one morning before going into town. He had heard that Rothsay was given to occasional fits of intemperance, and felt therefore not quite so surprised as he might otnervvise have been to find him pacing the floor of a rather vulgarly-furnished sitting-room with bloodshot eyes and a morose mouth. Still, whatever may have happened on the previous evening, he was by no means in his cups now. Hut he chose to treat Frank very uncivilly about the In the exhibit of simple but elegant French goods of the season, the black and white silks and satins, sheer wool fabrics, grenadines, etc., the striped silk and wool materials, which impart length and slenderness to the figure, are in great favor.— New York Post. HE WAS TALKING IX THE MOST EXCITED "Like you, Frank." she answered. "At least I—1 think so. I—1 am not « uite sure." W A V evidently drank during the day, and those subsequent glasses of claret had not by any means cleared his brain. Hut now. thank heaven, he was here at D and not in New York. This evening she would try and persuade him to go to lied early. Then * to-morrow morning he would be a changed man. dreadfully sorry and contrite as he always was after similar follies. "Why didn't you bring him with ou?" queried Frank. "I do so wish John W. Gulteau brother of President Garfield's slayer, is connected with one of the largest insurance companies in the oountry and liveB in New York. Mr. Guitenu is one of the high priced employees and gets a salary of $8,000 or $10,000 per yew. He is a most estimable man. ' lat you had brought him! Still, I'll i e him soon, shan't I? tie must bo oW -real old, by this time?" "Yes, Frank." "He can walk, can he not?" "Yes." VALUE OF LATIN STUDY. Qneen Victoria's ••Coronation Koll," First.—It appeals to the memory and strengthens the powers of acquisition and retention by linking the English with the Latin, one aiding the memory to recall the other. In The Century Florence Hay ward deserilies the official record that is preserved on a parchment roll of Queen Victoria's Bishop startled Talbot of Rochester, England, M»e borough of Houthwark by through Its streets early one morning In full vestments, with nd cope. He had to open a church, preferred to walk to it from tbe here he bad dressed rather than Jownes, who has been United consul general at Amsterdam last four years, has decided 'or the Roman Catholic priestohe American oollege in Rome, native of New Haven, of whioh tvas city clerk during tbe mayor- Joseph B. Sargent. CHISEL AND BRUSH. "How sadly you seem to speak of him, Adela! I hope he's well. You don't mean that he's feeble or sickly, do vou?" "I can't be expected to spend a small fortune, Mr. Ainory," he said, "for the purpose of protecting a few of your potatoes and cabbages. That fence has already been repaired three times." fence. So Adela sat there, building her little castle of hope, when Frank suddenly appeared and demolished it as though it had been a child's house of cards. Miss Havwurd says: The 'coronation roll" is wonderfully and curiously complete. It sets down every detail with minuteness and elaboration. The "coronation roll 'of Qneen Victoria is like tho roils of all her predecessors since flic time of Hiciuird II—a huge. Iiulky roll of parchment. It is what the lawyers would tail a deed poll as distinguished from an indenture. It has its preambles and recitals and its obligation, ull of which are quain'4y set out in stilted phrases on n scries of pieces of sheepskin, each 15 inchcs wide, fastened together by loose stitches, until tho wholf attains the length of nearly IN lineal foot. walking weekday She had had her secret reasons for putting, forward this plea, and Frank more titan vaguely realized them. Certain things had happened during that tmvn life of theirs which had bitten indelibly into poor Adela's memory. There had been evenings—there had also been a fe«v midnights—wheD Frank had come home as he would not have cared to see himself could he have done so with a sober gaze. To Adela these episodes had been fraught with an almost delirious horror. In vain Frank bad told her that what had happened to him happened to hundreds ol other men. He might have tried to convince her that ira. thunderbolt had plunged through the roof of their cozy little Lexington avenue house the catastrophe would have been only a trifle. coronation Second.—It awakens Intelligent interest from the nicety of arrangement and the exactness of construction. Every effort stimulates the pupil with a desire to accomplish more. miter a: of an execution The guards on an armored c:ir will climb on top uf their traveling furl and pet into position any time at the suggestion of a desire for h picture. They will Clo it with alacrity and manifstation of good feeling, as if a compliment had been paid them. The fact that he may never see the picture and that it is going where uo one will recognize him (wins to make no difference to the Spanish officer or soldier. If el Americano wants the picture • nough to aak for it. bo is willing to accommodate. The more realistic of war the posing1 enn lie made the mote heartily the Spaniard ent«n into the proposition. For him the camera has a fascination, Hank cuts no figure, Colonels as well as cor (Kirn Is are susceptible. and he "No." And then Adela burst into a passionate flood of tears, clasping her husband's neck with both arms and bewildering Frank by what appeared to him the most causeless emotion. The complete results of the Russian census will lie made known by the end of August. The marked growth in the population of Russian cities is ascribable in considerable measure to the increased development of Russian railroads and to the Improved methods of communication throughout the empiro. The total population of Kussia, urban and rural, with colonies included, is far in excess of 100,000,- 000, and the rate of increase is rapid.— Now York Sun. take a cab. house w '•I'm going over to the hotel for a little while." he said. Edward States "And very badly each time," said Frank, with a thread of ire in his voice. Third.—It concentrates the attention, which is usually hard to get and difficult to hold, but when secured the object sought will surely be attained, for when the attention is directed theiuind is ready toact. "Besides, if it had been repaired a hundred times, Mr. Rothsay, and always "Over to the h Dlel!" repeated Adela with the color dying out of her face. "Oh, Frank! You'd better not!" to study for the It was a lovely spring1 day when Frank came home to the cottage at D . For some time he and Adela talked together in the old familiar sitting-room downstairs. Then suddenly Frank remembered the child. hood at He looked at her somewhat annoyedly. "I shan't be long." he said. "I heard John Trafford had come up for the summer and I'd like to see him." Fourth.—It calls into requisition the power of observation and teaches the pupil to look before he leaps and to think before he acts. He is a alty of city he He walked away, pulling his cigar, while Adela watched him with a quickthrobbing heart. He hat! never left her like this In-fore. Once or twice she was on the verge of flying after him to the gate, but something restrained her. It was not pique, for of that she was incapable—at least toward I im. PEN "Adela!" he exclaimed, "tn my happiness at being near you again I've forgotten him." It can lie perused only by unrolling from one end or the other, and is so unwieldy that the seeker for any information of which the precise location is unknown must invoke the aid of no end of manual ; assistance to attain it. The script is in the highest style of the scrivener's art, and is an excellent examptoof the engrossment that is still Considered necessary in England for wills and deeds, which, as there is no general system of publicly recording such instruments, are kept in "strong boxes'' under lock and key. Speaking generally, the result as a whole is over 100 square feet of sulid reading in one breath ami in a language that is a mixture of legal, mediietal and court phrases, but 1 eacTi Mho (jives one a glimpse not to be 1 had otherwiseof the intricacy, dignity and significance of the coronation ceremony. Fifth.—It gradually instills into the mind of the learner certain linguistic laws, which, without license, are as-rigidly observed as that which guides the morning glory to climb the slender thread. —CD is a life■ho wrote "Tbe llffh." Knrl vhn Ten Dollars Out. One size pa "Ilim. Frank?" When a citizen who does not get ont of humor more than once a year went to the telephone the other day, theru was blood in his eye. "This is the third time I've notified you people to get your wires out of my tree," he shouted, "and now I want it attended to. What's that? I don't care whether they're guy wires or not. You seem to think I'm a guy, too, the way you're acting. I've been reading up on the subject, and I know that wires in trees kill them. I wouldn't take $1,000 for that shade tree, and if you don't take the wires out tomorrow I'll have them cut out. That's the word with the bark on." The order was not obeyed, antt the »ood citizen's wrath was at concert pitch. He informed himself that they had waked up the wrong passenger. Corporations might run such things as markets and legislatures, but they couldn't run him. He inounDed his wheel and scorched to the nearest hardware store for a wire cutter. On his return he let the contract to the first workiugman that came along and he hel{Ded boost him up the tree. Just as the man was ready to begin execution be camo down through the branches with a swisb and made a hole in the sod where he landed. "Yes—little Frank—our son. Where is he? Can't I see him? I want to see him so much." Sixth.—It develops and rectifies the judgment, which must be directed with intelligence to be valuable and which is exercised at every step. Only once in such journeying did the little black l«Dx f:»il as a friend maker with the S]ianish troops. That was during a visit to n camp of roconcentrados. Views of naked and ragged children, of crowded huts, of concentrated misery in general, had lCoen taken without any attempt at ooncealment. The mother of a pair of twins bad just persuaiii-d the cherubs to face the camera when the oflicer of the dny, a serious faced captain, appeared and looked upon the smiling group of reconC*»nt«nVw He wanted know if a permit had been obtained from the commandant®. He dearly loved her, and at length made her a solemn vow that he would never touch wine again; for, although days of perfect self-control would enter by protracted periods into his life, he would be sure sooner or later to cross that boundary which divides continence from excess. But even this promise, after awhile, lost its potency. One day. feeling rather jaded and ill, he took stimulant, "just as a medicine," and that which had now become the unusualness of the draught provoked sudden and strong craving for more. Adela suffered anguish once again, and Frank made no concealment of his bitter repentance. Adela slowly rose from her husband's side. Frank rose, too. and stared at her wonderingly, because sh" had grown of a sudden so unaccountably pale. That evening was exquisite, and she sat on the piazza until the heavens had become whitely thronged with stars. By degrees she grew more and more concerned about Frauk. Nino o'clock changed into ten. and yet he did not return. Finally she decided to visit the hotel grounds herself: they were only a very short distance off. Night breezes were whispering in the boughs of chestnuts and locusts as Adela stole along the lawn of the hotel. 1'reserii.ly she 8a** « flood of light pour out upon the gloom, and in an apartment underneath the great portico she discerned a group of men. Among these was Frank; he seemed wretchedly intoxicated: his gait was staggering, and he held a glass uplifted in one hand. His voice came to her indistinctly, and yet she knew he was talking in the most excited way. Seventh.—It inculcates the habit of thought und brings into actiOD the ing power. "Margaret, the nurse, is—is with little Frank now," stammered Adela. "I— I will find her and—and tell her to—to bring him here." Eighth.—It forms a taste for and gives an appreciation of the meaning of English words. "AND VEKr BADI.Y EACH TIME," SAID Ninth.—It enriches the vocabulary by giving the root of 35 of every 100 words in use in the English language. Tenth.—It leads the student into the fertile fields of Latin literature, pregnant with thought and reason.—Professor C. JE. Bjrd. FRANK. insufficiently, that would by no means remove from me the right to make my complaint.*' As his wife left the room. Frwnk asked himself what her agitation could possibly be caused by. She did not remain away long. On her return lie sawthat she was trembling and that her eyes glittered with unshed tears. oommons. Aubrey Beardsley, has been iq bad health for some time, Is rapidly improving. He is now in Paris and able to resume work. He has just completed several sketches in black and white, and looks forward to accomplishing a good deal during the summer. Herbert Spenoer is keeping five secretaries busy at bis hired home in Brighton trying to bring his biology up to date. It is a great task, especially as he himself can only give about an hour's work a day even he feels his best, and muoh at the time lie can't do that When he linraed that the formality had been overlooked, he said it would lDe necessary to go at once to the htt4C]aart«ni. With« wore of tioys following and tho guido looking frightened, the liue of march upon the oomiiiandufito was taken up. What might have happened hud that official been awake will never be known. It was the siesta hour. The officer of the day onuld not think of arousing his sujierlor. lie seemed » little in doubt how to prC*:eed and accepted an invitation to go to the hotel, witli such promptness that it wan evidently a relief to a drained situation. Atthn hotel the officer of the day wan made as comfortable as circumstances would permit. His taste was consulted as to the proper manner to exchange international courtesies, and when he went away it was with the observation that a later hour would do very well for the call ujion the commandanto. The next time tlie officer saw the coinmandante he found that his prisoners on parole had preceded him. Some letters had liccn shown and good relations had txCcn established. Rothsay shrugged his solid shoulders and scowled a little. "Oh, it woulcln't?" he muttered. "Making a complaint and having it listened to are not exactly the same." W«Drked an Old Trick. "Adela!" he exclaimed, and caiirht her in his arms. "You're suffering, my dear, and I think I can guess why." "In my time," said a broker to his friends at Delinonico's the other day, " 1 havo observed muny sad and touching scenes, but never one which affected me us much as tiie one I witnessed last week. HOUSEHOLD SPICE. All the way along we more or less waste oar strength by smiting when tbe iron ia cold. At the same time he told his wife that complete abstinence would not, in his case, by any means prove possible. He had hosts of business and club friends who were forever tempting him: there were certain times, in fact, when for him to drink nothing would amount to an uncivil act; he had thought the whole matter carefully over, and there was only one thing for him to do. "They are the same in a matter of this sort among gentlemen—always," returned Frank, feeling his nerves tingle, as he spoke. "Passing along a busy thoroughfare 1 paused for an instant in order to read aDd reflect ujwn the miseries of a man who bore the legend ' Deaf and Dumb,' picturing to myself my own condition tinder like circumstances, when the following remark somewhat startled me: She let her head droop against his breast. "No, Frank, no. I'm sure you cannot guess." Sensitiveness is a natural quality. We oannot destroy it if we would, and we would not if we could. "Poh," said his host, with a toss of his unkempt head, a sudden thrusting of both hands into his pockets, "it's the opinion of my man. Peter, that your man, Matthew, weakens his repairs at uight just so that, sooner or later, I'll have to put up a new fence." Was it about Rothsay and the fence? She could not be quite.sure, but certain words almost convinced her. Soon afterward she recognized Rothsay, and then she became aware that a bitter quarrel was in progress. And oh. it was so horrible to see the drunkenness of Frank! He scarcely bore any resemblance to his former self, and yet the likeness, after all, was unmistakable. His face had a bloated look; his eyes rolled wildly; he tripped and stumbled. Adela felt as if her heart would break. She wanted t~D cry out. but dared not. Then again it seemed to her that she had the courage but not the power. "Our little one. Adela —" She lifted her head and stared into his eager eyes. It docs not hart a drum to be beaten, but a harp gives up its soul of sweetness to the touch of dimpled fingers. "I'm struck by lightnin," he moaned, and this time the telephone was used to cull an ambulance. Before its arrival the man was on his feet, but apparently iu a shaky condition. The good citizen was glad to take a receipt for $10 as payment in full for all claims for damages, and heaved a sigii of relief when the man disappeared around the corner. Madder than over the householder had just hunted up a pair of big woolen mittens with a view to the safety of the next man ho would seed into the tree when some men from the offending company apjieared and had the wires out in five minutes. What mokes the good citizen swoarand gnash his teeth is that there was not a live wiro in tho tree. He was smoothly swindled out of that $10, and there is no possible way of getting even.—Detroit Free Press. We fence off our Christianity aDd deem it meet to drape ourselves in ghostly garb when we enter the sacred inclosure. "Yes—well—what of him?—what of little Frank?" "He is deformed—or blind, perhaps." "Not blind." she said, biting her lips. "Not blind—ho." " 'Say, Jvmmie, here's a poor deaf and dumb man. Father gave mo & cents to speud, but I think I'd better give it to him. He needs it more than I do.' FOUR BALLS. Tremulously Adela asked him what that one thing was. She had a thrilling dread lest he might be about to mention an asylum for inebriates; shC remembered having heard that theft are r.uch melancholy and mysteriou. places in existence. Take aim before you shoot. Otherwise your charge may go crashing in among heartstrings and still their quivering forever.The Chicago Baseball club is making a tour of the country. Perhaps next year they will play ball.—Bloom ington (Ills.) Leader. "Your man Peter wouldn't dare say .uch a thing to me!" cried Frank. "This was followed by the clink of a coin in the tin cup. 'Matthew's as decent and honest a fellow as ever breathed." As those words were spoken, n step sounded in one of the doorways. Frank and Adela both turned. It was the nurse, Margaret, with her charge. Adela at once dismissed her, taking little Frank's hand and leading him toward his father. "Deformed, then?" "Instinctively I turned to the boy who had mado this remark to his companion und said: The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light, and the children of light are often wiser about everything else than about the light itself. Uncle Niok Young might obviate all the difficulty by permitting the several baseball teams Co do their own umpiring.— Washington Post. Science goes mad when a professor invents a gun to take the place of a baseball pitcher. With the inventor chasing around the youth at bis play, it may be seriously questioned whether life is worth living.— Springfield Republican. At this Uothsay showed a set of somewhat dingy teeth in an almost sardonic .mile. "I've a good deal of confidence, -jyself," he drawled tantalizingly, " 'Noble boy, I overheard your generous words. You want for the money. Here is a dime.' Hut Frank bad meant nothing1 of this gloomy sort. "I'm convinced, Adela," hi now declared, "that I shall have to go on, with my jflass or two of claret at dinner and my one or two 'nightcaps' afterward. just as I did a few weeks ago. I've often heard, darling, that twearing-off is the worst thin#- a man can do, and now I clearly understand why. So to-xnorrow or next day—as soon as 1 can get over this hateful, 'seedy' feeling —I'll recommence the old life." "in "They were taking pictures of the camp," said tho officer, indicating tho American and his companion. the moral principle of Peter." "With a courtesy and 'Thank you, sir,' ho ilt d. Some hearts are all outdoors, and some are a labyrinth in which, unless you get a clew thread, you may grope forever without discovering the secret chamber where the Presence sits enthroned.—Gail Hamilton."What a rowdy I've got to deal with," silently reflected Frank. But aloud he said, with terseness, and no little selfrestraint: "It all comes to this, I think, Mr. Kothsay; the fence is yours, and your cattle break through it. In order to prevent such proceedings either proper repairs should be made or else a new fence built altogether. Which of these two things are you willing to do?" Frank raised his knotted fist and shook it in Kothsay's face, liothsay "My" God!" faltered Frank, sinkinf* into a chair and gazing at the child with horrified eyes. "That—that staggering walk—Adela, what does it meau?" "They have letters. They are all right," the commandanto replied. With thai the incident closed, although the look which came over the face of the otlicvr of the day did not indicate complete resignation. "I turned to the deaf and dumb man The muscles of his faoe seemed to lie working to a degree rarely seen in u man bereft of those important senses. Unable to contain himself longer, he blurted out: oO$?£-- Quite an excitement has been caused by the invention by a Princeton professor of a baseball pitching gun and its successful test, but the higher civilization will not really be advanoed till human Ingenuity has presented the world with an automatic umpire impervious equally to reaaon and abuse.—Baltimore Amerioan. The child in his movements of body, limbs and head, suggested an almost imbecile state of drunkenness. Hi-- face was not misshapen, but its expression seemed completely bereft of intelligence. The affection was a nervous one, and had already provoked the wonder of several medical men. Her .night of vigil there on thtf hotel grounds had dealt to Adela so frightful a shock that its results had manifested themselves thus grotesquely and piteously when her child was born. " 'Say, you're dopey, worked that racket before, is made of lead!' That kid has That ll'pcnco A Live Mouse In the Gamecock's Craw. THE JEWELER'S ART. IDnrned, but Kecciit ric "I always knew that game roosters wore thoroughly up to date in everything and always ready to fight unything, whether it be a circular saw or a lialdheaded eagle," said Chief Clerk Koomeof Assistant Manager Fay's ofiice in the Southern Pacific building, "but it was a revelation tome Co see a gamecock act the part of a rat terrier. I saw a black breasted rod a duy or two since wade into a covey of mioe that Dr. Mercier had corralled for the bird's Amusement, and inside of six minutes the rooster had killed 16 of the rodents and had eaten 8 of the covey. Tho doctor says that bird has a particular fondness for mice and never seems to get enough. Hall clocks in carved hard wood cases strike the hours and half hours and show the phases of the moon on gilt dials. Professor Lincoln of Ilruwn university, whose death occurred a few years ago. used to tell amusing anecdotes of Neander, the great professor and historian of the Christian church of the IJerlin university, uudor whom he studied for some time. "I went home and communed with my self."—New York Times. He did, and at first with signal success. Hut one night, at a Dclinouico dinner, he wholly lost his head, and thus it happened that Adela saw him still again in a state which it dealt her acutest torture to look upon. Rothsay threw back his head and stroked his chin with a most irritatingly ruminant air. "I'll—er—consider," he began. "I — ** Cardcases and purses made in moire silk, to match in color the costume of the wearer, are handsomely mounted in gold. Oh, therfl'- AnCl tlier jur in the kitchen, trustor*? iu the lu vll, u ami poriciiluub, every wall. JEWELRY JOTTINGS. Neamlerwas accustomed w hen lecturing to stand U hind a curious high desk, with an open framework and with holes and pegs for letting it up and down. His costume was a very long emit, coining down to the tops of his great jack Units, and with a collar which readied almost as high as his head as he bent over his desk, and with his arms extended forward twirled in his lingers a quill pen. If this quill dropped, there was a hiatus' in tlie lecture" until some one would pick it up anil place it in his hands, and then the wonderful (low of learned discourse would proceed. The hard metal silver plated ware, silver soldered in every joint, being practically lodes true ti bio, recommends itself to provident housewives. "Please do consider," struck in Frank, very sharply. And he rose, hurt and stung to the quick, passing forth at once from the house. Earrings are again bronght to notloa with the revival of Victorian gifts. Pearls are if possible more popular than ever, being worn alike by maid and matron.8he conceived the idea that if they should pass the winter at D Frank would Ik* more tilled with a duteous domestic sense on the one hand, and less visited. on the other, by those allurements which were constantly calling to hiin while in town. His friends would recollect that he "lived in the country" and so leave him out of their bauqueU and other merry-makings. J*st thej f a tiptC* effects of ire To repair a punclmeil tirel For fat her i; Amethysts of all grades and sizes are in request. The finest are employed in gold jewelry, and those of less value for the embellishment of silverware. All that day, while in town, he felt a temptation to drink. It is the fault of our too perfect civilization, perhaps, that comparative trifles will afflict us with an extraordinary discomfort. Frank felt, now and then, as if a burr were sticking in his mustache, and he had been forbidden to comb it out. "Oh, I have suffered so!" she sobbed, kneeling at her husband's feet. "Oh, 1 have so dreaded this hour, Frank! The There And The I i m« kets on the doorknoh, i/ldle's on it tiidl. Charmingly effective is a star brooch with rays of green and red enamel and diamond sparks. The daintiest thing out in purses is shaped like a tiny chatelainc bag. It is in white leather, mounted in silver gilt and designed to be worn with a white leather belt.—Elsie Bee in Jewelers' Circular. •Thci tail liUe hail, "Some time ago. after a diet of tlie mice, tho rooster grew sick. He lost his appetite and seemed about to give up tho ghost, and'the doctor was greatly worried because of this fact. After treating the fowl for a couple of days he chloroformed him and dissected his craw. To his astonishment, he found thri-e mice in this portion of the bird's anatomy, one of them still ulive. Tho mouse had gotten its tull into the small entrail leading to the bird's gizzard, and consequen.My had put a stop to the digestion of the rooster. The mouse must have realized this and that it was his sole chance of life, for when the doctor attempted to withdraw the tail the mouse N't iipan awful squeaking and feebly objected to the process. To make the matter more interesting the gizzard had gripped the end of the mouse's tail and would not let go. A popular design for scarfpins is th« crossed gold bunting crops, with a diamond horseshoe passed over them. kes of wire, SHE CEOrOIIED WITH HER lU KItAND'S As f To r n punctured tirel All through those long and rather lonely mouths Adela had no cause t regret her new plan. A certain trail brought Frank up from New YorU every evening, and except for an occa sional whist party at the house of oik or two of the neighbors, he woulu k«*-p indoors from then until bedtime Last summer he had not behaved hall so well. The spacious hotel rose only about a quarter of a mile distant, and while that was open and in full flare oJ summer gayety he was dangerous! fond of loitering about itB huge piazza whence the journey to its barroom would mean but a few facile steps More than once Adela had wept hot tears over what happened in the careless company of Frank's hotel friends. HLKKDINO UKAI) IN 1IKK I.AI' Oh. t ho 1 Very pretty are the little handkerchief bags made of knitted silk and embroidered in oolored heads. Their value as well as beauty is increased by the gold olasp with which they are mounted.—Jewelers' Cir- But he resisted all desires to win forgetfulnesss of Kotlisay's affront. That same night a new depredation took place in his garden and with more destructive effects than ever before. When the news was brought to Frank he was at breakfast. Adela saw how pale he turned, and broke out worriedly: glowered and had the mein of one about to strike. Frank stood defiant, and the words that his wife heard rinjr out from his Hps were packed with insult. The next instant he appeared in the broadlit doorway, followed by tlieman whom he had just so hotly addressed. It is said that wbi*n Ni-ander went to Hcrlin he Impprmcl, in from Ills home to t.lie university for the first time, ■■ '■ins likC' i(s last :»nlf 1hC- s.ickom, TIRE PUNCTURES. re fu*t The average bicycle girl toils not, bnt you ought to see her spin.—Somerville cular. some errand, took h most circuitous route. Keander jiursued this roundabout course lp thC nvor Journal. 7^ L800YC To learn to ride the wheel may be difficult to some, but It will rood be as easy as falling off n log compared with learning to dodge It.—New York Press. POPULAR SCIENCE. f that there was a shorter wav fur rlcuiiinK The next transit of Venus oooun la 8004. . Rothsay caught Frank by the shoulder. Adela gasped as she saw the tvvo men now front each other. And then a (Treat horror took hold of her. fur she perceived that her husband's nssailanl bore a pistol. Frank was reeling; he envisaged Rothsay, and his hands were clenched. Flis condition was pitiable: he could hardly stand He shook off the hand of Rothsay. however, and glared fierce challenge. It was'evident that his opponent had also been drinkingOn nne occasion, being jostled on crowded sidewalk, In order to jutss by tho crowd he stepped olT into the gutter with one foot, keeping tho other foot on the curbstone. When the crowd was passed, Miles "Oh, Frank, don't mind it so much! There's no use!" A German has invented a gun that will scatter tacks for three miles to prevent a charge from troops mounted on bicycles. Such a weapon would be handy in putting down carpets.—Cedar Rapids Gazette. The tall of the great comet of 1848 waa 200,000,000 miles long. "No use," he replied. And then he gave a little curt, dry laugh. "Life isn't worth living if we've got to bear such insults as these." Sow li h pumping! t\nci through the The normal temperature of man U about 98degrees; of the snail, 76; oyster, 82; porpoise, 100; rat, cat and ox, 102; sheep, 104; hog, 105; chicken, 111. in this curious fashion, and when lie reached home ho complained of being fatigued from the disordered condition of the streets. An acquaintance wllo had followed him was able to explain his fatigue. — Youth's Companion. To tin ijuhcUu With his mill fiithur I tire An experienced bicycle rider says that one should take a long breath Into the lungs before attempting to ride up hill and th.Cit only a slow, Blear1 v gait should be maintained. Steep inclines should be walked up. as that rests the whole body after a steady "spin." lie left the breakfast room and went out into his garden. What he saw there made him turn paler yet. Happening to let his eyes stray across the broken fence, he perceived Rothsay, who stood in converse with one of his farmhands. ■Cluoago Record, "Between the two the rooster earae very near dying, but upon the mouse and tail being removed and the craw sewed up again the bird speedily recovered, hut now it runs from a mouse as if it were a bull terrier."—New Orleans Times Democrat. Dr. George F. Shrady says In The Forum that though consumption Is contagious the chances of infection to a health/ person are so slight as not to merit mention, much less cause alarm. Tlie German Kluprror Mr. Northsidc—Don't you think that the German emperor is quite old for his Now, when another spring came ruuuu, laetiowiUK mr gamea oeus aim putting little tufts of feathery jrreen on the willow tree at the pate. Adela began to have new visitations of dread. Everything had gone on so well through the winter. What if rammer should change it all? "ADKI.A, what does it mean?' truth had to he told you. and yet then seemed such brutality in telling it!" Tliat Wan ItiU'crriit Frank went nearly as close up to the fence as its bars would allow. "Oh. my God!" thought Adela: "will poor Frank be mad enough to faee thai pistol?" A page with a note entered the document room of the house the other morning, says the Washington Post.. He had an order signed by Page Morris for a book. The clerk looked at it with disgust. gat her yo Mr. Shadvsidc I don't know that I CURIOUS CULLINGS He'd Show Her! Frank had begun to realize just how hideous that truth was. lie soon stooped down and clasped the child to his heart, while tears of uuspeakuble remorse choked him. Mr. Nt o8 years old, ts like* C10.—I'itt.sliurg Chronicle Ho is jOR "Your intention might be of the best," said the preacher, "but bicycling on Sunday is a sin. Remember, the way to sheol is paved with—or—tacks." Not on Iler Route. Mrs. Potts—I see your husband has bought a bicycle suit I thought lie was determined never to wear one. "Mr. Rothsay," he called buh he Telegraph A Georgia jury ruecntjy brought, in the following extraordinary verdict, "We, the jury, Ami the defendant almost guilty." Either having previously feigned not to see Frank or in truth not having seen him. Rothsay now turned, with a cool "Well?" and a slight, arrogant flutter of the eyelids. Then a report Rounded, and Frank fell. Adela srave a wild shriek, rnshinjf forward. People hurried from the barroom. They gHthered about her while she erouehed with her husband's bleeding head in her lap. Mrs. Watts—I got him to get it by telling him he was too old to wear anything of that kind.—Indianapolis Journal. "J'upu Muirial" ho exclaimed business bas it page sending a note tor n book? Toll hiiu to stop his impudence "What Kniftiug tin* Wind, A strange custom prevails in Siam when a fmu ral is passing. The femalo ohswvfrs take down their hair and the men feel in their pockr ts for a piece of metal Co place between their teeth. "But I'm going to church, sir," she said.—Ne-v York Journal. And then she tried to take comfort in 'the thought that her husband had shrank and would still shrink for weeks yet. from dealing her the slightest pain. Not that he ever really wanted to do so; Adela knew just how deeply he loved her and could not fail to see the poignancy of his remorse after each act of folly and weakness had laid resolution low and cast its insult upon his manhood. But as a certain very sweet and tender hope grew in both their wedded hearts, it had surely flung about Frank's a spell of the kindliest consideration, vigilance and chivalry. Adela's wistful face, with the new expectant look in its eyes, would have risen almost palpably to haunt him if while absent from her he had felt the least untoward impulse. And so moderation ruled all his ways, with never a single hint of trespass. Fate had been merciless. There (•ontinned no change for the better. Frank perpetually saw in the blighted little being Adela had borne a stern and implacable reproach. The child remained an apparent semi-idiot and preserved that same unique aspect of rebuke and reminder. He mailt his father vow never to taste wine again, and keep his oath. In this way Frank's affliction was fraught with a certain agency of blessing. But Frank often told himself that his punishment had !Deen undeservedly bitter. And perhaps lie was right. Still, it would be hard to state what worse clouds of calamity might have drifted over the fortunes of Adela and her husband if even this darksome visitation had not occurred. Nature sometimes proves a Nemesis to us; but by no means always. In a certain way Frank defeated her seeming sternnesa of revenge; for the love which grew up in his heart toward his little unfortunate son took the form of a gentle con- The motl Her bit t 1 at dawn, and nsk a member to get the book for him." owr XUL NATlQyy^ of the Globe for "I have only this to tell you." rang Frank's next words. "If any of your cattle cross into my land again I will shoot them—and shoot them dead." The messenger looked aghast. "Ho is a congressman," he exclaimed. "He isn't a page at all. His name is Page Morris, and he is the member from Dliluth." I they can Judging From His Actions. "If all the earth were mine to give Frank lingered between life and death for several weeks. They strove to keep Adelu from his bedside, but without effect. She insisted upon nursing him. Rothsay was arrested, and only permitted to leave prison when It was decided that Frank would undoubtedly recover. He hail been ill a month when Adela's child was born At first his immediate recovery had been thought certain: but afterward it was found that Rothsay's malevolent bullet had plowed deeper than the physicians had supposed. Frank became the victim of a cerebral trouble that threatened his reason and prostrated him for many weary months. Poor Adela was too sick herself to know the exact time at which his Wall-street friends bore him from the cpttajre in D anil placed him under the care of specialists. The mourning customs of the Arabian women are curious. For eight (lays they stain their hands and feet with indigo, and during that time drink no milk. They declare that the color of milk does not bar monize with their mental gloOm. It should be thine!'' quoth he. "Why, I'm surprised, for as I live I thought 'twas yours," said she. —Cleveland Leader eumatism; iALCtIA and similar Complaints, prepared under the stringent I ■MAN MEDICAL LAWS J tori bed by eminent phyBiciansi^H Tl.en ■s ii turn He walked away, almost fearing to remain there longer, lest he should quite lose control of his temper: and on Adela's account this would be an event keenlv undesirable. grunted the clerk, aud then lie t ride at ulL got tlio book jiini Of puuiiuiiK in tilt ew York Journal Throughout the Solomon group of islands one constantly sees human skulls hung up either in or outside the houses, but it is from New Georgia and the adjacent islands that lDead hunting is carried on to Its fullest extent. Among the natives it appears to be a perfect passion. Tlie Only Question. Tiie great thing in life is to lie In earnest. Say what you mean, not, what you think you ought, to say, and strive for the thing you want, not for the thing which the philosophy of the moment has made fashionable or the emotion of a day has made a little tumpting.—John Oliver Hobbes. Kurnest ne*«. "And do you think you can mako my daughter a happy woman?" asked the futher. He omitted to bear in mind during that same day. however, what an undesirable course it would be to let liquor gain with him the least headway. It is always very easy to drink in Wall street if one is so inclined. To the habitual drinker, indeed, abstinence is a difficult ordeal, since he is at every turn assailed by old convivialists who crave his company. What Sli«* Got, Nonle —How did Nettie come out in her "I guess so," replied the young man. "What make of wheel does she prefer?"— Yonkers Statesman. brcu. h of pit I Da ura Ob, tho jury guvo her u now Nonfo—Whot was thntf Ijiiura—the marble heart, you know.— We Only Toil, The Vaudeville Age. i with Ti NTftCO., Pittsburg News, Why nre we weighed ujton with heaviness And utterly consumed with sharp distress While nil things else Imve rest from weariw-ss? All things have rest. Why should w« toil alcne. 'Ti* well that Shakespeare's good and dead— Shattered 1C1«'IL]H 'Twould 1«- a harsh mischance To see him have to Oil rn his bread By doing a song and dance. i, AWj I never could see the Kiivily Satisfied. —Chicago Record. neb Homes. Own Glass; Endorsed & recommei: & Peck. 30 I.uzerne Av . Glick. SO North Main Houck. 4 North Main Pitttston, Pa. Frank narrowly escaped missing his usual train that afternoon. The moment Adela looked at him she felt that something was wrong, tie had of late always drank claret at dinner, and now he drank it more freely than ever. These fresh potations loosened his A uiun forming strict ideals Of the woman lit- will marry. The way she must cook his meals, itln-r way. Just tliink wluit tnxtM 1 must jmy! We only toil, who are the first of tilings, Anil make iDerpetual moan, Hi ill from one sorrow to another thrown, Nor ever fold our wiiiffs And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brow* in slumber's holy halm, During the early days of May, however. a little cloud of annoyance revealed itBelf. At first it was a very firm" cloud indeed, though gradually it assumed orach larger proportions. Directly next door to the Amorjra dwelt For if A Practical Suggestion. For with very few exceptions He enters married life And eats entirely different meals With a very different wife. —t'hitudelphin American. "Can you tell me, professor, if this amber jewelry is genuine?" For many months Frank lingered at the sanitarinm whither he had been brought. Adela suffered tortures of suspense and yeaminjr. but it was not solation. He became so passionately Oil, mil I do not want the earth For if "fwas lnino I'd have to jwiwn it; But I would spend my days in mirth, if 1 j list held a niortgugo on it. —Philadelphia Press. Nor hearken what the inner spirit sings, "There is n'» joy but calm." Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of tliinira? "Oh, that's easily determined. Soak it in alcohol 24 hours. If it's genuine. It will Ihen have disappeared."—Fliegeude Blatter. attached to the child that its infirmities 1 no longer shocked him. And yet, one
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Masthead | Pittston Gazette, Volume 47 Number 43, July 16, 1897 |
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Title | Pittston Gazette |
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Volume | 47 |
Issue | 43 |
Subject | Pittston Gazette newspaper |
Description | The collection contains the archive of the Pittston Gazette, a northeastern Pennsylvania newspaper published from 1850 through 1965. This archive spans 1850-1907 and is significant to genealogists and historians focused on northeastern Pennsylvania. |
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Full Text | KiitabiiNlu'tl 1850. | \ UJU \ \ il. No. AS, J Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1897. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. \ C#J .OO i»er Year j ill AtivuilCrf. A STRANGE PUNISHMENT. an elderly mail named aoinsay, whonau the repute of being extremely wealthy, although this rumor, like all which concern eccentric personages, may have been partially baseless. Mr. Rothsay had several servants, and lived with a degree of quiet style in a house twice the size of Frank's. He rarely went to town, and passed a great deal of his time in the superintendence of a farm that covered about ten acres. He was a large man, with an iron-gray shock of hair, a gaunt shape on which dun? clothes that seemed the very extravagance of bad tailoring, and a pair of eyes that you saw. when they restlessly lit on you, to be a veiled, yet tiery hazel. Mr. Rothsay had been represented to Frank as a man of terribly violent temper. but his neighbor soon became disinclined to admit the truth of any such t-harge, since whenever they met he found himself treated with a good deal of rough though distinct courtesy. tongue in an unwonted way ana set him talking with hot vehemence of Roth.suv's insolent behavior. deemed admissible for her to meet him. His inalady was of that peculiar and delicate kind which the least emotional Hurry would have increased, and perhaps with results promptly fatal. At last, however, his recovery became a matter of complete certainty. The sensitive organism of the brain had finally yielded to medical and surgical treatment. Frank felt like one who was ne nC'« suiun ho ha THE COLORED SHIRT THE RUSSIAN CENSUS DRESS PARADE. THE LISTENER. euros of nervous A Profanation of Goo*l Taste and tb« The Dnke of Argyll has been in possession of the family titles and estates for 50 years. BY EDGAR FAWCETT. He declared to Adela that his plans were fully formed. Matthew and himself were to take turns in keeping I guard over the vegetable garden all night for the next three weeks. Either ; of them would be armed with a pistol, and the HrM. head of cattle that showed | itself on the Amory ground should rej ceive a bullet in its brain. Adela silently shivered as she heard i of this resolve. In her weak and oversensitive state it was cruelty unques- I tionuhle for Frank to speak as he [ did. Still, he was no doubt guiltless of ' the least really unkind intention. And | yet apart from alarming Adela. his eon! duct woundeil her to the core. After i dinner he lit a cigar and left her, ap! parently quite oblivious that she had : seated herself on the little pi:\/.za, according to custom, and was waiting for his presence there at her side. Adela strove to console herself with the | thought that after all it was not half so bad as it mitrht be. True, Frank ha.* mig-ht effect sou eh t what helpful tenet Young Man'* Kneniy. Cities Sliown by the Enumeration, A Large Increase In the Population of La vender blue and the deeper iris purple blue are two very fashionable colors just at the moment both in dress and millinery.[Copyright 1890, A11 Rights Reserved.! HE neighbors all looked upon it as a very happy marriage. A year had passed since Frank Amory came with his delicate, goldenhaired wife to live in the little chalet-like cottage just at the foot of the bilL The physician at ful of 1 In writing of "The Offense of tho Col ored Shirt." Kdward W. Bnk In The La Russia is one of the few countries of Europe in which statements of tho population are based not upon official enumeration, but ii)Don estimates sometimes inaocurato. While, therefore, the population of a cit.v, province or district of Russia has been kn.iwn in a general way, an exact and dotailed record of the number of inhabitants at any given time, such as is kept in London, Paris and New York, has been lacking. Recently there has been taken a census of the population of the large citios of Russia, and the Novoe Vromya of Moscow gives details of the preliminary count. own Hut Prince de Sagan, the Ward McAllister of Paris, has had a stroke of paralysis. He is 64 years of age. uler present development iolent colors with Decidedly novel and pretty gowns of I white silk etamihe made in revived Louis XVI stylos have been worn by bridesmaids at recent weddings. of t John D. Rockefeller has presented to Vassar college a library of 3,700 books purchased in Germany. awakened from a long, drpwsy dream, lie had never been really insane: a kind of stupor had veiled actualities for him, and through the disparting mist of this prepossession his new interest and joy in life burned out with ardent intensity. with perfect suciw —as an absolute offense against good Many of the colors and combinations worn in shirts by men of good repute," he asserts, "have been borrowed from the sporting element—gamblers on the race track and followers of the prizefight, who for a long time had a monopoly of this style of wardrobe and were known Fran V bittC pnnish- tusu There has been a steady demand this season for fancy mohairs, and these the manufacturers have produced in a very attractive variety of patterns. Frederick Miller, a telegraph "messenger boy," of Branford, Conn., is 87 years old aDd can walk long distances. nrn-nt t one than hi Hi.--1D '.V iD ilrea Viscount Royston, who has become Earl of Hardwicke by the death of bis father, is a broker on the London Stock Exchange. and fli ai «-)indt'(l The dainty little Louis XVI pelerine with long scarf ends and the picturesque Marie Antoinette fichu complete many of the iKMitic summer toilets designed by Parisian nrtiBts. To ttee Adela again was a delicious experience. They met at the sanitarium. just before his sanctioned departure. Adela could scarcely speak for her tears. But she found voice enough to answer a few of Frank's questions. is-a boy. then," he said. never :e upon 1 And by their shirts of wonderful design, as well us by tlieir clothes of loud and larye 'chucks.' Too many of our young men consider themselves well dressed nowadays with the lurid colored shirt, us part of their toilet. If they eould, however, seo themselves with the eyes of others, they would Fifteen years ago the population of Russian citics was returned as follows: St. Petersburg, 845,000; Moscow, 755,000; Wtirsaw, 430,000; Odessa, 240,000; Kiga, 170,000, and Kharkoff, 165,000. These were the six cities in Russia having more than 150,000 population each, according to the estimates made at that time. Hy the census just completed—the first regular census taken in Russia—it is seen that St. Petersburg has a population of 1,250,000 ar very little less than the city of Vienna, and more than Tokyo, Japan. This puts St. Petersburg seventh in the 1ms oftiJiee of the world, London being first, the enlarged New York second, Paris third, Hsplin fourth, .Canton fifth and Vienna sixth. Eugene Georges, the coachman who exhibited such bravery during the Paris Are, has been rewarded with the hcJnor of knighthood in the Legion of Honor. been keener tl i r ra Adela Amory scarcely be wo:uk mother s as it is ai- may Iridescent mohairs are still favored for stylish traveling costumes, and if tbejaoket and skirt style is chosen it is a pretty way to have the silk shirt waist en suite match one of Lho colors in the mohair. had been the daughter of a New York clergyman, and some of her recent associates here in D said of her that she was quite too prim and puritanic to suit their ta*te at all. the bar Galen Clark, who has been guardian of the Yosemite valley for 84 years, has re- v signed on account of age aud infirmities. He will oooupy a house in the valley. "Our child .i tl wilier Yet Frank at length had reason to reverse his decision. The modest little vegetable garden at the back of his house was separated from a large meadow of Rothsay's by only the most insecure of fences. Within this meadow the Rothsay's cows were left all day to gmze. and more than once they broke through into Prank's domain. The result, as usual in such cases, each time proved disastrous. Frank's man remonstrated with one of Rothsay's numerous men. and several times the fence was repaired. But in so slovenly and haphazard a way was this reparation performed that one particular little short-horned cow with a wicked black eye found slight difficulty in committing fresh pranks of demolition. And at last Frank determined to see Mr. Rothsay and settle the matter, if he could, both amicably and permanently. £ very speedily cnmo to a different conclusion. A young limn can least of all profit no good taste in dress, no matter how general a foolish fad may tieeome. Ho is always being judged hy some one older than himself, and many a business man judges a young man's character hv his dress. The colored shirt of violent color or design is not the young llmn's friend. It is his enemy. He doesj not impress peoplo with his good taste by wearing it. On the contary, lie shows the weakness in his character of u tendency to unwise imitation. The quiet, gentlemanly garb is his, and ho should adhere to it. Employers look not for the latest styles in a young mail's dress, but for a sense of neatness Tfailor m-»d -v.tn of white, pink, oreara and pale ecru linen have five or seven gored skirts, completed by a plaited norfolk waist, with which are worn very handsome belts with buckles and trimmings of solid silver. e 13 Eugene Merrick of Chicago, now 44 years old, entered the army as a drummer boy when be was 19 years of age, and says he was the youngest soldier in the war. M. Chauvin, a doctor of laws and lecturer in the law faculty of the University of Paris, has beeh forbidden to give bis law lectures on aacount of his expressing publicly socialist opinions in politics. A STREAK OF VANITY. Hut here they were indeed wrong. Adela was merely shy and reserved Why the Kodak Is Worth More Than a rift 1 n!j in Cuba. "I sometimes think," her husband would say to her. "that you are never just your real self except when you're with me." One of the segte' rVyns of the Spnnis'a army forbids the taking cf photographs without a permit. For a shot at a formication with tho camera the penalty is espocially severe. Nevertheless it is the universal testimony of American newspaper correspondents that while traveling in Cuban camera is a better protection than a passport. This is because no nationality is fonder of posing in uniform before the lens. The Spaniard, ollieer or soldier, writes \V. 11. Stevens in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, never misses a chance to be "taken." Permission to photograph a fort will be refused with a very positive shake of the head, but a request, to be allowed to snap the garrison drawn up with the fort us a background is always met with smiling acceptance. A captain or a lieutenant will turnout his command and put ft in any position suggested if he learns that a picture is wanted. If a susjiect or a real insurgent is brought into camp, the, detachment which has made the capture will enter heartily into a plan to pose in a way to reproduce tho scene of Its efficiency. The prisoner will lie brought out and made to kneel while the soldiers and the officer in charge of them take positions. On one occasion the whole scene was reproduced in such realistic manner that the jtoor prisoner clapped his hands upon his eves and for a few moments underwent all of the mental torture Soft and delicate lightweight silks fig ured with a tiny dot on satin of a contrasting color are made into charming toilets with bodice cut down in corselet style and completed by a guimpe of sheer India silk or shirred silk batiste. s j. % rv'-: Then Adela's blue eyes would kindle, and perhaps she would remain meaningly silent, perhaps she would jjentlv answer: "So tan# as that is true, Frauk, I've no reason for complaint." The next largest European city «rit»r St. Petersburg is Constantinople, the population of which has always been somewhat conjectural, for a detailed enumeration of its inhabitants has never been made, and, moreover, the number of transients in Constantinople Is at all times considerable. The second largost city of Russia is Moscow, the population of which was returned by tho recent census us within a small fraction of the million mark— 997,937. Moscow is a much older city than St. Petersburg, and it was for many .years the chief city of Russiu, but that distinction belongs to it no longer; though, as may be seen, tho population of tho old Russian capital is largely on the increaso. The third largest city of Russia is Warsaw, with a population of 550,000, and Odessa is fourth, with a population of 350,000. Two Russian cities whSh have increased very largely are Kiev and Lodz in Poland. Fifteen years »go the population of Kiev was 120,000, hut it Is now 200,000. Fifteen years ago the population of Lodz was 110,000; it is now 150,000. Nineteen Russian cities are returned as having upward of loo.otK) inhabitants each. Thirty-flva cities in the empire have more than 50,- 000 population. Samarkand and Kokand occupy higher places in tho list than such ancient and important couters as Tyer, Kursk and Poltava. Speaker Gully of the British house of oommons has just oast his deciding vote for the first time since assuming office, there being a tie vote for the second reading of an unimportant bill. It is 30 years since a speaker has voted. New French jacket bodices, so closely fitted that they serve also as dress waists, are short and very fancifully finished. Most of these are made with open fronts and a blouse or vest, the fronts turned back with pointed revers. Still it nettled Frank a little to think that people should imagine his wife dull and uncompanionable. He waf himself the soul of vivacity and liveliness; a young, athletic fellow, with a short, dark curling beard, eyes that were black stars and a smile that could somehow warm your heart before you heard his voice, lie used to say of himself that he was by instinct a loafer but by profession a Wall street stockbroker. though it was reported of him that his proceedings among the purlieus of hazard implied anything rather than laziness. Daring the first few months after their marriage they had lived in New York, for though Frank's means were variable, they were still in no sense meager. 15ut at the end of a summer sojourn in ID Adela had begged her h us band to stay on in their pretty cottage throughout the winter. Senator Wellington of Maryland interests himself while the senate is in session in looking over newspaper clippings about himself. He subscribes to a news clipping bureau and reads everything that is abeut him with a great deal of interest. Congressmen Lanham of Texas and Pierce of Tennessee, who occupy adjoining seats In the center of the Demooratio side of the hall at representatives, are seldom, if ever, absent from a the house, whether that session be for flvo minutes or five hours. and fieconjingiK'88. "Dress cheerfully. At 20 we need notdress as if we were 50. There is a happy medium between tho black tio and the violent cravat of rainbow hue. That is where good tasto comes in, and a young mun must exercise it. The colored shirt is possible for him, but within limitations. The pin dot or stripe is not, offensive. On the. eontary, it is becoming. Rut brilliant cravats, fancy waistcoats, loud and large 'checks' in clothes and extreme colors in shirts are not for the young man of taste, refinement or (if future standing. Vor are they one whit in better taste for tho man of mature years. They are offensive and bespeak the man who affects them." A cream serge suit is equally satisfactory to nine out of ten women, blond or brunette, who select it for dressy demidress uses. The various silk blouses, vests or shirt waists worn en suite with the jacket vary its effect wonderfully. CI.A8PING HER HUSBAND'S NECK WITH BOTH A KM 8. "I'm glad of that. Tell me. Adela, does he look like me or like you?" He called upon his next-door neighbor one morning before going into town. He had heard that Rothsay was given to occasional fits of intemperance, and felt therefore not quite so surprised as he might otnervvise have been to find him pacing the floor of a rather vulgarly-furnished sitting-room with bloodshot eyes and a morose mouth. Still, whatever may have happened on the previous evening, he was by no means in his cups now. Hut he chose to treat Frank very uncivilly about the In the exhibit of simple but elegant French goods of the season, the black and white silks and satins, sheer wool fabrics, grenadines, etc., the striped silk and wool materials, which impart length and slenderness to the figure, are in great favor.— New York Post. HE WAS TALKING IX THE MOST EXCITED "Like you, Frank." she answered. "At least I—1 think so. I—1 am not « uite sure." W A V evidently drank during the day, and those subsequent glasses of claret had not by any means cleared his brain. Hut now. thank heaven, he was here at D and not in New York. This evening she would try and persuade him to go to lied early. Then * to-morrow morning he would be a changed man. dreadfully sorry and contrite as he always was after similar follies. "Why didn't you bring him with ou?" queried Frank. "I do so wish John W. Gulteau brother of President Garfield's slayer, is connected with one of the largest insurance companies in the oountry and liveB in New York. Mr. Guitenu is one of the high priced employees and gets a salary of $8,000 or $10,000 per yew. He is a most estimable man. ' lat you had brought him! Still, I'll i e him soon, shan't I? tie must bo oW -real old, by this time?" "Yes, Frank." "He can walk, can he not?" "Yes." VALUE OF LATIN STUDY. Qneen Victoria's ••Coronation Koll," First.—It appeals to the memory and strengthens the powers of acquisition and retention by linking the English with the Latin, one aiding the memory to recall the other. In The Century Florence Hay ward deserilies the official record that is preserved on a parchment roll of Queen Victoria's Bishop startled Talbot of Rochester, England, M»e borough of Houthwark by through Its streets early one morning In full vestments, with nd cope. He had to open a church, preferred to walk to it from tbe here he bad dressed rather than Jownes, who has been United consul general at Amsterdam last four years, has decided 'or the Roman Catholic priestohe American oollege in Rome, native of New Haven, of whioh tvas city clerk during tbe mayor- Joseph B. Sargent. CHISEL AND BRUSH. "How sadly you seem to speak of him, Adela! I hope he's well. You don't mean that he's feeble or sickly, do vou?" "I can't be expected to spend a small fortune, Mr. Ainory," he said, "for the purpose of protecting a few of your potatoes and cabbages. That fence has already been repaired three times." fence. So Adela sat there, building her little castle of hope, when Frank suddenly appeared and demolished it as though it had been a child's house of cards. Miss Havwurd says: The 'coronation roll" is wonderfully and curiously complete. It sets down every detail with minuteness and elaboration. The "coronation roll 'of Qneen Victoria is like tho roils of all her predecessors since flic time of Hiciuird II—a huge. Iiulky roll of parchment. It is what the lawyers would tail a deed poll as distinguished from an indenture. It has its preambles and recitals and its obligation, ull of which are quain'4y set out in stilted phrases on n scries of pieces of sheepskin, each 15 inchcs wide, fastened together by loose stitches, until tho wholf attains the length of nearly IN lineal foot. walking weekday She had had her secret reasons for putting, forward this plea, and Frank more titan vaguely realized them. Certain things had happened during that tmvn life of theirs which had bitten indelibly into poor Adela's memory. There had been evenings—there had also been a fe«v midnights—wheD Frank had come home as he would not have cared to see himself could he have done so with a sober gaze. To Adela these episodes had been fraught with an almost delirious horror. In vain Frank bad told her that what had happened to him happened to hundreds ol other men. He might have tried to convince her that ira. thunderbolt had plunged through the roof of their cozy little Lexington avenue house the catastrophe would have been only a trifle. coronation Second.—It awakens Intelligent interest from the nicety of arrangement and the exactness of construction. Every effort stimulates the pupil with a desire to accomplish more. miter a: of an execution The guards on an armored c:ir will climb on top uf their traveling furl and pet into position any time at the suggestion of a desire for h picture. They will Clo it with alacrity and manifstation of good feeling, as if a compliment had been paid them. The fact that he may never see the picture and that it is going where uo one will recognize him (wins to make no difference to the Spanish officer or soldier. If el Americano wants the picture • nough to aak for it. bo is willing to accommodate. The more realistic of war the posing1 enn lie made the mote heartily the Spaniard ent«n into the proposition. For him the camera has a fascination, Hank cuts no figure, Colonels as well as cor (Kirn Is are susceptible. and he "No." And then Adela burst into a passionate flood of tears, clasping her husband's neck with both arms and bewildering Frank by what appeared to him the most causeless emotion. The complete results of the Russian census will lie made known by the end of August. The marked growth in the population of Russian cities is ascribable in considerable measure to the increased development of Russian railroads and to the Improved methods of communication throughout the empiro. The total population of Kussia, urban and rural, with colonies included, is far in excess of 100,000,- 000, and the rate of increase is rapid.— Now York Sun. take a cab. house w '•I'm going over to the hotel for a little while." he said. Edward States "And very badly each time," said Frank, with a thread of ire in his voice. Third.—It concentrates the attention, which is usually hard to get and difficult to hold, but when secured the object sought will surely be attained, for when the attention is directed theiuind is ready toact. "Besides, if it had been repaired a hundred times, Mr. Rothsay, and always "Over to the h Dlel!" repeated Adela with the color dying out of her face. "Oh, Frank! You'd better not!" to study for the It was a lovely spring1 day when Frank came home to the cottage at D . For some time he and Adela talked together in the old familiar sitting-room downstairs. Then suddenly Frank remembered the child. hood at He looked at her somewhat annoyedly. "I shan't be long." he said. "I heard John Trafford had come up for the summer and I'd like to see him." Fourth.—It calls into requisition the power of observation and teaches the pupil to look before he leaps and to think before he acts. He is a alty of city he He walked away, pulling his cigar, while Adela watched him with a quickthrobbing heart. He hat! never left her like this In-fore. Once or twice she was on the verge of flying after him to the gate, but something restrained her. It was not pique, for of that she was incapable—at least toward I im. PEN "Adela!" he exclaimed, "tn my happiness at being near you again I've forgotten him." It can lie perused only by unrolling from one end or the other, and is so unwieldy that the seeker for any information of which the precise location is unknown must invoke the aid of no end of manual ; assistance to attain it. The script is in the highest style of the scrivener's art, and is an excellent examptoof the engrossment that is still Considered necessary in England for wills and deeds, which, as there is no general system of publicly recording such instruments, are kept in "strong boxes'' under lock and key. Speaking generally, the result as a whole is over 100 square feet of sulid reading in one breath ami in a language that is a mixture of legal, mediietal and court phrases, but 1 eacTi Mho (jives one a glimpse not to be 1 had otherwiseof the intricacy, dignity and significance of the coronation ceremony. Fifth.—It gradually instills into the mind of the learner certain linguistic laws, which, without license, are as-rigidly observed as that which guides the morning glory to climb the slender thread. —CD is a life■ho wrote "Tbe llffh." Knrl vhn Ten Dollars Out. One size pa "Ilim. Frank?" When a citizen who does not get ont of humor more than once a year went to the telephone the other day, theru was blood in his eye. "This is the third time I've notified you people to get your wires out of my tree," he shouted, "and now I want it attended to. What's that? I don't care whether they're guy wires or not. You seem to think I'm a guy, too, the way you're acting. I've been reading up on the subject, and I know that wires in trees kill them. I wouldn't take $1,000 for that shade tree, and if you don't take the wires out tomorrow I'll have them cut out. That's the word with the bark on." The order was not obeyed, antt the »ood citizen's wrath was at concert pitch. He informed himself that they had waked up the wrong passenger. Corporations might run such things as markets and legislatures, but they couldn't run him. He inounDed his wheel and scorched to the nearest hardware store for a wire cutter. On his return he let the contract to the first workiugman that came along and he hel{Ded boost him up the tree. Just as the man was ready to begin execution be camo down through the branches with a swisb and made a hole in the sod where he landed. "Yes—little Frank—our son. Where is he? Can't I see him? I want to see him so much." Sixth.—It develops and rectifies the judgment, which must be directed with intelligence to be valuable and which is exercised at every step. Only once in such journeying did the little black l«Dx f:»il as a friend maker with the S]ianish troops. That was during a visit to n camp of roconcentrados. Views of naked and ragged children, of crowded huts, of concentrated misery in general, had lCoen taken without any attempt at ooncealment. The mother of a pair of twins bad just persuaiii-d the cherubs to face the camera when the oflicer of the dny, a serious faced captain, appeared and looked upon the smiling group of reconC*»nt«nVw He wanted know if a permit had been obtained from the commandant®. He dearly loved her, and at length made her a solemn vow that he would never touch wine again; for, although days of perfect self-control would enter by protracted periods into his life, he would be sure sooner or later to cross that boundary which divides continence from excess. But even this promise, after awhile, lost its potency. One day. feeling rather jaded and ill, he took stimulant, "just as a medicine," and that which had now become the unusualness of the draught provoked sudden and strong craving for more. Adela suffered anguish once again, and Frank made no concealment of his bitter repentance. Adela slowly rose from her husband's side. Frank rose, too. and stared at her wonderingly, because sh" had grown of a sudden so unaccountably pale. That evening was exquisite, and she sat on the piazza until the heavens had become whitely thronged with stars. By degrees she grew more and more concerned about Frauk. Nino o'clock changed into ten. and yet he did not return. Finally she decided to visit the hotel grounds herself: they were only a very short distance off. Night breezes were whispering in the boughs of chestnuts and locusts as Adela stole along the lawn of the hotel. 1'reserii.ly she 8a** « flood of light pour out upon the gloom, and in an apartment underneath the great portico she discerned a group of men. Among these was Frank; he seemed wretchedly intoxicated: his gait was staggering, and he held a glass uplifted in one hand. His voice came to her indistinctly, and yet she knew he was talking in the most excited way. Seventh.—It inculcates the habit of thought und brings into actiOD the ing power. "Margaret, the nurse, is—is with little Frank now," stammered Adela. "I— I will find her and—and tell her to—to bring him here." Eighth.—It forms a taste for and gives an appreciation of the meaning of English words. "AND VEKr BADI.Y EACH TIME," SAID Ninth.—It enriches the vocabulary by giving the root of 35 of every 100 words in use in the English language. Tenth.—It leads the student into the fertile fields of Latin literature, pregnant with thought and reason.—Professor C. JE. Bjrd. FRANK. insufficiently, that would by no means remove from me the right to make my complaint.*' As his wife left the room. Frwnk asked himself what her agitation could possibly be caused by. She did not remain away long. On her return lie sawthat she was trembling and that her eyes glittered with unshed tears. oommons. Aubrey Beardsley, has been iq bad health for some time, Is rapidly improving. He is now in Paris and able to resume work. He has just completed several sketches in black and white, and looks forward to accomplishing a good deal during the summer. Herbert Spenoer is keeping five secretaries busy at bis hired home in Brighton trying to bring his biology up to date. It is a great task, especially as he himself can only give about an hour's work a day even he feels his best, and muoh at the time lie can't do that When he linraed that the formality had been overlooked, he said it would lDe necessary to go at once to the htt4C]aart«ni. With« wore of tioys following and tho guido looking frightened, the liue of march upon the oomiiiandufito was taken up. What might have happened hud that official been awake will never be known. It was the siesta hour. The officer of the day onuld not think of arousing his sujierlor. lie seemed » little in doubt how to prC*:eed and accepted an invitation to go to the hotel, witli such promptness that it wan evidently a relief to a drained situation. Atthn hotel the officer of the day wan made as comfortable as circumstances would permit. His taste was consulted as to the proper manner to exchange international courtesies, and when he went away it was with the observation that a later hour would do very well for the call ujion the commandanto. The next time tlie officer saw the coinmandante he found that his prisoners on parole had preceded him. Some letters had liccn shown and good relations had txCcn established. Rothsay shrugged his solid shoulders and scowled a little. "Oh, it woulcln't?" he muttered. "Making a complaint and having it listened to are not exactly the same." W«Drked an Old Trick. "Adela!" he exclaimed, and caiirht her in his arms. "You're suffering, my dear, and I think I can guess why." "In my time," said a broker to his friends at Delinonico's the other day, " 1 havo observed muny sad and touching scenes, but never one which affected me us much as tiie one I witnessed last week. HOUSEHOLD SPICE. All the way along we more or less waste oar strength by smiting when tbe iron ia cold. At the same time he told his wife that complete abstinence would not, in his case, by any means prove possible. He had hosts of business and club friends who were forever tempting him: there were certain times, in fact, when for him to drink nothing would amount to an uncivil act; he had thought the whole matter carefully over, and there was only one thing for him to do. "They are the same in a matter of this sort among gentlemen—always," returned Frank, feeling his nerves tingle, as he spoke. "Passing along a busy thoroughfare 1 paused for an instant in order to read aDd reflect ujwn the miseries of a man who bore the legend ' Deaf and Dumb,' picturing to myself my own condition tinder like circumstances, when the following remark somewhat startled me: She let her head droop against his breast. "No, Frank, no. I'm sure you cannot guess." Sensitiveness is a natural quality. We oannot destroy it if we would, and we would not if we could. "Poh," said his host, with a toss of his unkempt head, a sudden thrusting of both hands into his pockets, "it's the opinion of my man. Peter, that your man, Matthew, weakens his repairs at uight just so that, sooner or later, I'll have to put up a new fence." Was it about Rothsay and the fence? She could not be quite.sure, but certain words almost convinced her. Soon afterward she recognized Rothsay, and then she became aware that a bitter quarrel was in progress. And oh. it was so horrible to see the drunkenness of Frank! He scarcely bore any resemblance to his former self, and yet the likeness, after all, was unmistakable. His face had a bloated look; his eyes rolled wildly; he tripped and stumbled. Adela felt as if her heart would break. She wanted t~D cry out. but dared not. Then again it seemed to her that she had the courage but not the power. "Our little one. Adela —" She lifted her head and stared into his eager eyes. It docs not hart a drum to be beaten, but a harp gives up its soul of sweetness to the touch of dimpled fingers. "I'm struck by lightnin," he moaned, and this time the telephone was used to cull an ambulance. Before its arrival the man was on his feet, but apparently iu a shaky condition. The good citizen was glad to take a receipt for $10 as payment in full for all claims for damages, and heaved a sigii of relief when the man disappeared around the corner. Madder than over the householder had just hunted up a pair of big woolen mittens with a view to the safety of the next man ho would seed into the tree when some men from the offending company apjieared and had the wires out in five minutes. What mokes the good citizen swoarand gnash his teeth is that there was not a live wiro in tho tree. He was smoothly swindled out of that $10, and there is no possible way of getting even.—Detroit Free Press. We fence off our Christianity aDd deem it meet to drape ourselves in ghostly garb when we enter the sacred inclosure. "Yes—well—what of him?—what of little Frank?" "He is deformed—or blind, perhaps." "Not blind." she said, biting her lips. "Not blind—ho." " 'Say, Jvmmie, here's a poor deaf and dumb man. Father gave mo & cents to speud, but I think I'd better give it to him. He needs it more than I do.' FOUR BALLS. Tremulously Adela asked him what that one thing was. She had a thrilling dread lest he might be about to mention an asylum for inebriates; shC remembered having heard that theft are r.uch melancholy and mysteriou. places in existence. Take aim before you shoot. Otherwise your charge may go crashing in among heartstrings and still their quivering forever.The Chicago Baseball club is making a tour of the country. Perhaps next year they will play ball.—Bloom ington (Ills.) Leader. "Your man Peter wouldn't dare say .uch a thing to me!" cried Frank. "This was followed by the clink of a coin in the tin cup. 'Matthew's as decent and honest a fellow as ever breathed." As those words were spoken, n step sounded in one of the doorways. Frank and Adela both turned. It was the nurse, Margaret, with her charge. Adela at once dismissed her, taking little Frank's hand and leading him toward his father. "Deformed, then?" "Instinctively I turned to the boy who had mado this remark to his companion und said: The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light, and the children of light are often wiser about everything else than about the light itself. Uncle Niok Young might obviate all the difficulty by permitting the several baseball teams Co do their own umpiring.— Washington Post. Science goes mad when a professor invents a gun to take the place of a baseball pitcher. With the inventor chasing around the youth at bis play, it may be seriously questioned whether life is worth living.— Springfield Republican. At this Uothsay showed a set of somewhat dingy teeth in an almost sardonic .mile. "I've a good deal of confidence, -jyself," he drawled tantalizingly, " 'Noble boy, I overheard your generous words. You want for the money. Here is a dime.' Hut Frank bad meant nothing1 of this gloomy sort. "I'm convinced, Adela," hi now declared, "that I shall have to go on, with my jflass or two of claret at dinner and my one or two 'nightcaps' afterward. just as I did a few weeks ago. I've often heard, darling, that twearing-off is the worst thin#- a man can do, and now I clearly understand why. So to-xnorrow or next day—as soon as 1 can get over this hateful, 'seedy' feeling —I'll recommence the old life." "in "They were taking pictures of the camp," said tho officer, indicating tho American and his companion. the moral principle of Peter." "With a courtesy and 'Thank you, sir,' ho ilt d. Some hearts are all outdoors, and some are a labyrinth in which, unless you get a clew thread, you may grope forever without discovering the secret chamber where the Presence sits enthroned.—Gail Hamilton."What a rowdy I've got to deal with," silently reflected Frank. But aloud he said, with terseness, and no little selfrestraint: "It all comes to this, I think, Mr. Kothsay; the fence is yours, and your cattle break through it. In order to prevent such proceedings either proper repairs should be made or else a new fence built altogether. Which of these two things are you willing to do?" Frank raised his knotted fist and shook it in Kothsay's face, liothsay "My" God!" faltered Frank, sinkinf* into a chair and gazing at the child with horrified eyes. "That—that staggering walk—Adela, what does it meau?" "They have letters. They are all right," the commandanto replied. With thai the incident closed, although the look which came over the face of the otlicvr of the day did not indicate complete resignation. "I turned to the deaf and dumb man The muscles of his faoe seemed to lie working to a degree rarely seen in u man bereft of those important senses. Unable to contain himself longer, he blurted out: oO$?£-- Quite an excitement has been caused by the invention by a Princeton professor of a baseball pitching gun and its successful test, but the higher civilization will not really be advanoed till human Ingenuity has presented the world with an automatic umpire impervious equally to reaaon and abuse.—Baltimore Amerioan. The child in his movements of body, limbs and head, suggested an almost imbecile state of drunkenness. Hi-- face was not misshapen, but its expression seemed completely bereft of intelligence. The affection was a nervous one, and had already provoked the wonder of several medical men. Her .night of vigil there on thtf hotel grounds had dealt to Adela so frightful a shock that its results had manifested themselves thus grotesquely and piteously when her child was born. " 'Say, you're dopey, worked that racket before, is made of lead!' That kid has That ll'pcnco A Live Mouse In the Gamecock's Craw. THE JEWELER'S ART. IDnrned, but Kecciit ric "I always knew that game roosters wore thoroughly up to date in everything and always ready to fight unything, whether it be a circular saw or a lialdheaded eagle," said Chief Clerk Koomeof Assistant Manager Fay's ofiice in the Southern Pacific building, "but it was a revelation tome Co see a gamecock act the part of a rat terrier. I saw a black breasted rod a duy or two since wade into a covey of mioe that Dr. Mercier had corralled for the bird's Amusement, and inside of six minutes the rooster had killed 16 of the rodents and had eaten 8 of the covey. Tho doctor says that bird has a particular fondness for mice and never seems to get enough. Hall clocks in carved hard wood cases strike the hours and half hours and show the phases of the moon on gilt dials. Professor Lincoln of Ilruwn university, whose death occurred a few years ago. used to tell amusing anecdotes of Neander, the great professor and historian of the Christian church of the IJerlin university, uudor whom he studied for some time. "I went home and communed with my self."—New York Times. He did, and at first with signal success. Hut one night, at a Dclinouico dinner, he wholly lost his head, and thus it happened that Adela saw him still again in a state which it dealt her acutest torture to look upon. Rothsay threw back his head and stroked his chin with a most irritatingly ruminant air. "I'll—er—consider," he began. "I — ** Cardcases and purses made in moire silk, to match in color the costume of the wearer, are handsomely mounted in gold. Oh, therfl'- AnCl tlier jur in the kitchen, trustor*? iu the lu vll, u ami poriciiluub, every wall. JEWELRY JOTTINGS. Neamlerwas accustomed w hen lecturing to stand U hind a curious high desk, with an open framework and with holes and pegs for letting it up and down. His costume was a very long emit, coining down to the tops of his great jack Units, and with a collar which readied almost as high as his head as he bent over his desk, and with his arms extended forward twirled in his lingers a quill pen. If this quill dropped, there was a hiatus' in tlie lecture" until some one would pick it up anil place it in his hands, and then the wonderful (low of learned discourse would proceed. The hard metal silver plated ware, silver soldered in every joint, being practically lodes true ti bio, recommends itself to provident housewives. "Please do consider," struck in Frank, very sharply. And he rose, hurt and stung to the quick, passing forth at once from the house. Earrings are again bronght to notloa with the revival of Victorian gifts. Pearls are if possible more popular than ever, being worn alike by maid and matron.8he conceived the idea that if they should pass the winter at D Frank would Ik* more tilled with a duteous domestic sense on the one hand, and less visited. on the other, by those allurements which were constantly calling to hiin while in town. His friends would recollect that he "lived in the country" and so leave him out of their bauqueU and other merry-makings. J*st thej f a tiptC* effects of ire To repair a punclmeil tirel For fat her i; Amethysts of all grades and sizes are in request. The finest are employed in gold jewelry, and those of less value for the embellishment of silverware. All that day, while in town, he felt a temptation to drink. It is the fault of our too perfect civilization, perhaps, that comparative trifles will afflict us with an extraordinary discomfort. Frank felt, now and then, as if a burr were sticking in his mustache, and he had been forbidden to comb it out. "Oh, I have suffered so!" she sobbed, kneeling at her husband's feet. "Oh, 1 have so dreaded this hour, Frank! The There And The I i m« kets on the doorknoh, i/ldle's on it tiidl. Charmingly effective is a star brooch with rays of green and red enamel and diamond sparks. The daintiest thing out in purses is shaped like a tiny chatelainc bag. It is in white leather, mounted in silver gilt and designed to be worn with a white leather belt.—Elsie Bee in Jewelers' Circular. •Thci tail liUe hail, "Some time ago. after a diet of tlie mice, tho rooster grew sick. He lost his appetite and seemed about to give up tho ghost, and'the doctor was greatly worried because of this fact. After treating the fowl for a couple of days he chloroformed him and dissected his craw. To his astonishment, he found thri-e mice in this portion of the bird's anatomy, one of them still ulive. Tho mouse had gotten its tull into the small entrail leading to the bird's gizzard, and consequen.My had put a stop to the digestion of the rooster. The mouse must have realized this and that it was his sole chance of life, for when the doctor attempted to withdraw the tail the mouse N't iipan awful squeaking and feebly objected to the process. To make the matter more interesting the gizzard had gripped the end of the mouse's tail and would not let go. A popular design for scarfpins is th« crossed gold bunting crops, with a diamond horseshoe passed over them. kes of wire, SHE CEOrOIIED WITH HER lU KItAND'S As f To r n punctured tirel All through those long and rather lonely mouths Adela had no cause t regret her new plan. A certain trail brought Frank up from New YorU every evening, and except for an occa sional whist party at the house of oik or two of the neighbors, he woulu k«*-p indoors from then until bedtime Last summer he had not behaved hall so well. The spacious hotel rose only about a quarter of a mile distant, and while that was open and in full flare oJ summer gayety he was dangerous! fond of loitering about itB huge piazza whence the journey to its barroom would mean but a few facile steps More than once Adela had wept hot tears over what happened in the careless company of Frank's hotel friends. HLKKDINO UKAI) IN 1IKK I.AI' Oh. t ho 1 Very pretty are the little handkerchief bags made of knitted silk and embroidered in oolored heads. Their value as well as beauty is increased by the gold olasp with which they are mounted.—Jewelers' Cir- But he resisted all desires to win forgetfulnesss of Kotlisay's affront. That same night a new depredation took place in his garden and with more destructive effects than ever before. When the news was brought to Frank he was at breakfast. Adela saw how pale he turned, and broke out worriedly: glowered and had the mein of one about to strike. Frank stood defiant, and the words that his wife heard rinjr out from his Hps were packed with insult. The next instant he appeared in the broadlit doorway, followed by tlieman whom he had just so hotly addressed. It is said that wbi*n Ni-ander went to Hcrlin he Impprmcl, in from Ills home to t.lie university for the first time, ■■ '■ins likC' i(s last :»nlf 1hC- s.ickom, TIRE PUNCTURES. re fu*t The average bicycle girl toils not, bnt you ought to see her spin.—Somerville cular. some errand, took h most circuitous route. Keander jiursued this roundabout course lp thC nvor Journal. 7^ L800YC To learn to ride the wheel may be difficult to some, but It will rood be as easy as falling off n log compared with learning to dodge It.—New York Press. POPULAR SCIENCE. f that there was a shorter wav fur rlcuiiinK The next transit of Venus oooun la 8004. . Rothsay caught Frank by the shoulder. Adela gasped as she saw the tvvo men now front each other. And then a (Treat horror took hold of her. fur she perceived that her husband's nssailanl bore a pistol. Frank was reeling; he envisaged Rothsay, and his hands were clenched. Flis condition was pitiable: he could hardly stand He shook off the hand of Rothsay. however, and glared fierce challenge. It was'evident that his opponent had also been drinkingOn nne occasion, being jostled on crowded sidewalk, In order to jutss by tho crowd he stepped olT into the gutter with one foot, keeping tho other foot on the curbstone. When the crowd was passed, Miles "Oh, Frank, don't mind it so much! There's no use!" A German has invented a gun that will scatter tacks for three miles to prevent a charge from troops mounted on bicycles. Such a weapon would be handy in putting down carpets.—Cedar Rapids Gazette. The tall of the great comet of 1848 waa 200,000,000 miles long. "No use," he replied. And then he gave a little curt, dry laugh. "Life isn't worth living if we've got to bear such insults as these." Sow li h pumping! t\nci through the The normal temperature of man U about 98degrees; of the snail, 76; oyster, 82; porpoise, 100; rat, cat and ox, 102; sheep, 104; hog, 105; chicken, 111. in this curious fashion, and when lie reached home ho complained of being fatigued from the disordered condition of the streets. An acquaintance wllo had followed him was able to explain his fatigue. — Youth's Companion. To tin ijuhcUu With his mill fiithur I tire An experienced bicycle rider says that one should take a long breath Into the lungs before attempting to ride up hill and th.Cit only a slow, Blear1 v gait should be maintained. Steep inclines should be walked up. as that rests the whole body after a steady "spin." lie left the breakfast room and went out into his garden. What he saw there made him turn paler yet. Happening to let his eyes stray across the broken fence, he perceived Rothsay, who stood in converse with one of his farmhands. ■Cluoago Record, "Between the two the rooster earae very near dying, but upon the mouse and tail being removed and the craw sewed up again the bird speedily recovered, hut now it runs from a mouse as if it were a bull terrier."—New Orleans Times Democrat. Dr. George F. Shrady says In The Forum that though consumption Is contagious the chances of infection to a health/ person are so slight as not to merit mention, much less cause alarm. Tlie German Kluprror Mr. Northsidc—Don't you think that the German emperor is quite old for his Now, when another spring came ruuuu, laetiowiUK mr gamea oeus aim putting little tufts of feathery jrreen on the willow tree at the pate. Adela began to have new visitations of dread. Everything had gone on so well through the winter. What if rammer should change it all? "ADKI.A, what does it mean?' truth had to he told you. and yet then seemed such brutality in telling it!" Tliat Wan ItiU'crriit Frank went nearly as close up to the fence as its bars would allow. "Oh. my God!" thought Adela: "will poor Frank be mad enough to faee thai pistol?" A page with a note entered the document room of the house the other morning, says the Washington Post.. He had an order signed by Page Morris for a book. The clerk looked at it with disgust. gat her yo Mr. Shadvsidc I don't know that I CURIOUS CULLINGS He'd Show Her! Frank had begun to realize just how hideous that truth was. lie soon stooped down and clasped the child to his heart, while tears of uuspeakuble remorse choked him. Mr. Nt o8 years old, ts like* C10.—I'itt.sliurg Chronicle Ho is jOR "Your intention might be of the best," said the preacher, "but bicycling on Sunday is a sin. Remember, the way to sheol is paved with—or—tacks." Not on Iler Route. Mrs. Potts—I see your husband has bought a bicycle suit I thought lie was determined never to wear one. "Mr. Rothsay," he called buh he Telegraph A Georgia jury ruecntjy brought, in the following extraordinary verdict, "We, the jury, Ami the defendant almost guilty." Either having previously feigned not to see Frank or in truth not having seen him. Rothsay now turned, with a cool "Well?" and a slight, arrogant flutter of the eyelids. Then a report Rounded, and Frank fell. Adela srave a wild shriek, rnshinjf forward. People hurried from the barroom. They gHthered about her while she erouehed with her husband's bleeding head in her lap. Mrs. Watts—I got him to get it by telling him he was too old to wear anything of that kind.—Indianapolis Journal. "J'upu Muirial" ho exclaimed business bas it page sending a note tor n book? Toll hiiu to stop his impudence "What Kniftiug tin* Wind, A strange custom prevails in Siam when a fmu ral is passing. The femalo ohswvfrs take down their hair and the men feel in their pockr ts for a piece of metal Co place between their teeth. "But I'm going to church, sir," she said.—Ne-v York Journal. And then she tried to take comfort in 'the thought that her husband had shrank and would still shrink for weeks yet. from dealing her the slightest pain. Not that he ever really wanted to do so; Adela knew just how deeply he loved her and could not fail to see the poignancy of his remorse after each act of folly and weakness had laid resolution low and cast its insult upon his manhood. But as a certain very sweet and tender hope grew in both their wedded hearts, it had surely flung about Frank's a spell of the kindliest consideration, vigilance and chivalry. Adela's wistful face, with the new expectant look in its eyes, would have risen almost palpably to haunt him if while absent from her he had felt the least untoward impulse. And so moderation ruled all his ways, with never a single hint of trespass. Fate had been merciless. There (•ontinned no change for the better. Frank perpetually saw in the blighted little being Adela had borne a stern and implacable reproach. The child remained an apparent semi-idiot and preserved that same unique aspect of rebuke and reminder. He mailt his father vow never to taste wine again, and keep his oath. In this way Frank's affliction was fraught with a certain agency of blessing. But Frank often told himself that his punishment had !Deen undeservedly bitter. And perhaps lie was right. Still, it would be hard to state what worse clouds of calamity might have drifted over the fortunes of Adela and her husband if even this darksome visitation had not occurred. Nature sometimes proves a Nemesis to us; but by no means always. In a certain way Frank defeated her seeming sternnesa of revenge; for the love which grew up in his heart toward his little unfortunate son took the form of a gentle con- The motl Her bit t 1 at dawn, and nsk a member to get the book for him." owr XUL NATlQyy^ of the Globe for "I have only this to tell you." rang Frank's next words. "If any of your cattle cross into my land again I will shoot them—and shoot them dead." The messenger looked aghast. "Ho is a congressman," he exclaimed. "He isn't a page at all. His name is Page Morris, and he is the member from Dliluth." I they can Judging From His Actions. "If all the earth were mine to give Frank lingered between life and death for several weeks. They strove to keep Adelu from his bedside, but without effect. She insisted upon nursing him. Rothsay was arrested, and only permitted to leave prison when It was decided that Frank would undoubtedly recover. He hail been ill a month when Adela's child was born At first his immediate recovery had been thought certain: but afterward it was found that Rothsay's malevolent bullet had plowed deeper than the physicians had supposed. Frank became the victim of a cerebral trouble that threatened his reason and prostrated him for many weary months. Poor Adela was too sick herself to know the exact time at which his Wall-street friends bore him from the cpttajre in D anil placed him under the care of specialists. The mourning customs of the Arabian women are curious. For eight (lays they stain their hands and feet with indigo, and during that time drink no milk. They declare that the color of milk does not bar monize with their mental gloOm. It should be thine!'' quoth he. "Why, I'm surprised, for as I live I thought 'twas yours," said she. —Cleveland Leader eumatism; iALCtIA and similar Complaints, prepared under the stringent I ■MAN MEDICAL LAWS J tori bed by eminent phyBiciansi^H Tl.en ■s ii turn He walked away, almost fearing to remain there longer, lest he should quite lose control of his temper: and on Adela's account this would be an event keenlv undesirable. grunted the clerk, aud then lie t ride at ulL got tlio book jiini Of puuiiuiiK in tilt ew York Journal Throughout the Solomon group of islands one constantly sees human skulls hung up either in or outside the houses, but it is from New Georgia and the adjacent islands that lDead hunting is carried on to Its fullest extent. Among the natives it appears to be a perfect passion. Tlie Only Question. Tiie great thing in life is to lie In earnest. Say what you mean, not, what you think you ought, to say, and strive for the thing you want, not for the thing which the philosophy of the moment has made fashionable or the emotion of a day has made a little tumpting.—John Oliver Hobbes. Kurnest ne*«. "And do you think you can mako my daughter a happy woman?" asked the futher. He omitted to bear in mind during that same day. however, what an undesirable course it would be to let liquor gain with him the least headway. It is always very easy to drink in Wall street if one is so inclined. To the habitual drinker, indeed, abstinence is a difficult ordeal, since he is at every turn assailed by old convivialists who crave his company. What Sli«* Got, Nonle —How did Nettie come out in her "I guess so," replied the young man. "What make of wheel does she prefer?"— Yonkers Statesman. brcu. h of pit I Da ura Ob, tho jury guvo her u now Nonfo—Whot was thntf Ijiiura—the marble heart, you know.— We Only Toil, The Vaudeville Age. i with Ti NTftCO., Pittsburg News, Why nre we weighed ujton with heaviness And utterly consumed with sharp distress While nil things else Imve rest from weariw-ss? All things have rest. Why should w« toil alcne. 'Ti* well that Shakespeare's good and dead— Shattered 1C1«'IL]H 'Twould 1«- a harsh mischance To see him have to Oil rn his bread By doing a song and dance. i, AWj I never could see the Kiivily Satisfied. —Chicago Record. neb Homes. Own Glass; Endorsed & recommei: & Peck. 30 I.uzerne Av . Glick. SO North Main Houck. 4 North Main Pitttston, Pa. Frank narrowly escaped missing his usual train that afternoon. The moment Adela looked at him she felt that something was wrong, tie had of late always drank claret at dinner, and now he drank it more freely than ever. These fresh potations loosened his A uiun forming strict ideals Of the woman lit- will marry. The way she must cook his meals, itln-r way. Just tliink wluit tnxtM 1 must jmy! We only toil, who are the first of tilings, Anil make iDerpetual moan, Hi ill from one sorrow to another thrown, Nor ever fold our wiiiffs And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brow* in slumber's holy halm, During the early days of May, however. a little cloud of annoyance revealed itBelf. At first it was a very firm" cloud indeed, though gradually it assumed orach larger proportions. Directly next door to the Amorjra dwelt For if A Practical Suggestion. For with very few exceptions He enters married life And eats entirely different meals With a very different wife. —t'hitudelphin American. "Can you tell me, professor, if this amber jewelry is genuine?" For many months Frank lingered at the sanitarinm whither he had been brought. Adela suffered tortures of suspense and yeaminjr. but it was not solation. He became so passionately Oil, mil I do not want the earth For if "fwas lnino I'd have to jwiwn it; But I would spend my days in mirth, if 1 j list held a niortgugo on it. —Philadelphia Press. Nor hearken what the inner spirit sings, "There is n'» joy but calm." Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of tliinira? "Oh, that's easily determined. Soak it in alcohol 24 hours. If it's genuine. It will Ihen have disappeared."—Fliegeude Blatter. attached to the child that its infirmities 1 no longer shocked him. And yet, one |
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