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^sFw^' \l B* Balance on hand January 1, 1906 Fines Penalty and Interest March Apportionment October Apportionment Special State Aid, Rural Schools Distributed to Districts Balance overdrawn January 1, 1906 Balance overdrawn December 31, 1906. Balance on hand January 1, 1906 Warrants issued 1906 Warrants paid 1906 County Bonds, dut June 30th, 1907 County Bonds, due June 17th, 1911 County Bonds, due June 2nd, 1917 County Bonds, due June 30th, 1919 County Warrants unpaid Total Taxs for 1906, County Funds Taxes for 1905 and prior years Excess of Liabilities over Assets Total Totals. Ind. Dist. of Bemidji. 9 Ind. Dist. of Farley. 79 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91 92 93. 94. 95. 96. 97- 99 100 101 102 103 106 107 GENERAL SCHOOIi FUND. Italance on hand December 31, 1906 770.48 INDEBTEDNESS FUND. BBalance overdrawn January 1, 1906 $ 140.81 Tax Collections 1906 Balance overdrawn December 31, 1906 REAL ESTATE FUND. GENERAL DITCH FUND. Balance overdrawn January 1, 1906 $ 2,655.35 Tax Collections 1906 Balance ovei drawn December 31, 1906 WARRANTS ACCOUNT. Warrants unpaid January 1, 1907 129,863.97 $310,268.90 ASSETS AND INABILITIES O BELTRAMI COUNTY. Liabilities. Assets. Due from State, care non-resident smallpox patients 1,500.00 Due from State for wolf bounties paid 947.9(1 Due from Clearwater County (Taxes) 5,000.00 Due from Clearwater County (Claims) 26.37 Due from Hubbard County 87.65 Real Estate: Lots 5, 6 and 7, Section 19, Tp. 147-32 1.000.W CITY, TOWN AND VILLAGE. Village'of Bemidji. Northern Bemidji Lammers Eddy. Moose Greek. TurtleJLake. Nebish Bear Creek-. Port .Hope. Maple Ridge Copley Eckles Liberty Grant Valley Summit Langor Blackduck Winsor Hagall Itasca Buzzle Turtle River Jones Prohn Sinclair Dudley Shevlin Roosevelt Hornet Benville Village of Turtle River. Alaska Battle Cormant-- Baudette Spooner Kelliher Lee Lakewood McDougald Moose Lake Shotly Taylor Hamre Wabanaca Quiring Birch Villjage of Blackduck... Durand Paid by error, returned to Treasurer. Paid to State Treasurer, account of State Loans. NUMBER OP DISTRICT 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 26 30 31 32 34 35 39 40 41 42 43 44 46 48 49....... 51 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 65 66 67 68...... 69 70 71 72 74 76 77 Total Debit $13,477.68 14,248.16 wm sac 140.81 2184 71 Balance Ja n. 1, 1906. Or. Court house, jail and grounds Credit Poor farm $ 779.05 90.00 2,437.16 3,461.20 5,138.76 2,342.00 $ 140.31 Debit 2,949.11 Credk $ $ 2,949.11 $ 2,949.11 $ 2,949.11 Debit Credit $ 1,163.61 1,491.74 $ 2,655.35 $ 2,655.35 Debit Credit $101,188.45 209,080.45 $180,404.93 $310,268.90 $12,000.00 6,000.00 50.000.W 32iH 129,863.37 $251,863.97 $ Jf.jJl'Mg 15,000.(8 $ 86,575.92 165,288.05 $261,863.97 RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF CITY, TOWN AND VILLAGE FUNDS Credit Bal- ance Jan. 1st, 1906. Receipts from Tax Collections and Licenses 26215 57 $ RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDS Receipts from state apportion ment&tax col'ections Dr. 28 24 14 46 18 74 287 64 15 26 903 49 66 357 54 919 66 82 23 29 81 90 88 140 00 26904 41 470 08 84150 1176 77 2027 35 1527 70 310 65 542 23 1 46 552 90 105 78 850 82 12 00 6708 16 468 61 1 131 62 530 92 1139 92 2448 88 390 462 09 1 28 14 68 14 53 12172 40 85 12 16 39 26 472 16 42 78 277 31 38 Furniture and fixtures, court house and jail Furniture and fixtures, poor farm $ 14,248.16 Debit Credit $ 33.49 107.32 28400 28 $ 27431 14 Paymen ts toi Treas- urers Payments to State Treas. on acct. of St. school f'nd TOTAL 28 24 14 46 164 96 19 2348 69 2513 65 19 846 62 27192 05 485 34 1744 99 1177 43 357 54 2730 98 141 02 573 19 896 45 1439 72 640 2 51 682 80 896 13 72 673 95 2038 28 13 84 359 62 690 43 27 45 6 13 1361 27 1239 69 1436 61 915 81 10 07 30 99 2336 84 1686 73 310 65 1004 32 1 46 552 90 120 46 850 82 26 53 6829 88 509 46 13 99 131 62 570 18 1612 08 2491 66 390 2 77 314 07 350 82 275 82 518 86 483 78 872 80 13 72 170 56 54 81 13 84 120 14 668 82 27 45 6 13 253 47 401 06 134 98 650 60 10 07 30 99 309 49 1'9 03 26879 54 468 88 802 59 1175 87 181132 58 79 543 38 805 57 1299 12 640 2 51 643 40 8 98 39 40 1667 83 40 41 422 14 663 61 1107 24 640 2 51 642 36 8 503 39 1983 47 473 12 1780 73 239 48 21 61 1107 80 838 63 130163 365 21 96 35 15 92 1874 16 1177 49 310 65 300 03 1 46 526 61 100 78 850 82 11 10 5956 47 288 95 1 58 131 62 391 35 1138 86 2226 25 390 314 07 333 98 266 15 518 86 477 69 84142 16 84 9 67 609 142 72 453 29 491 56 509 05 539 57 288 91 397 19 1319 69 89 04 558 94 2807 89 408 50 513 05 145 90 496 14 246 86 275 07 11192 444 35 340 15 1088 84 741 14 133 04 92 34 94 94 58 14 44 48 102 60 142 453 491 537 539 300 397 28 61 11 91 1319 89 558 2807 408 513 145 559 246 275 111 -444 340 1088 741 133 92 94 58 44 102 84571 63 09 20 02$ 7348 071 77223 638 AS^^X^j? -I-*. Inventory of County Property A Old Time Alderman. Several patrons of the restaurant at Broadway and Tenth street were lunch ing there a few days ago, seated at a table between the corner windows on the second floor which commanded a line view down Broadway, which makes a sharp turn at Tenth street. Said one of them: "Do you know that this bend in Broadway was made in order to save a tree? Well, It was. As originally planned, Broadway would have cut a slice off the lawn of Hen drik Brevoort, who ran a tavern in the Dutch farmhouse which stood where Grace church now is. He was an alderman, like many of his profes sion today, and, not only succeeded in saving the magnificent tree in the shade of which his customers lingered over their pipes to watch the traffic on Bloomingdale road, but about 1849 al so prevented the opening of Eleventh street from Fourth avenue to Broad way, which would have necessitated the tearing down of his tavern."New York Sun. Poll Parrot as a Game Bird. While the parrot is a bird of beauti ful plumage, as a table delicacy it Is not to be recommended, as I know from sad experience. My first essay at eating a parrot was attended with mod ified success. The bird must have been comparatively young, and after several hours' boiling became soft enough to masticate and finally swallow, leaving behind it an impression that we had lunched on the sole of a rubber boot Arthur D. Temple in Field and Stream. TOTAL 159 98 801 87 585 56 775 24 1 38 33 37 889 76 906 70 909 87 00 345 00 307 71 1177 92 1240 00 245 00 Payments to Treasurers 159 98 801 87 585 56 862 24 1 38 33 37 889 76 1151 70 909 1545 63 1724 90 13 48 450 70 1200 39 876 56 1510 66 997 59 422 73 2 41 1200 15 24 28 432 03 689 05 680 14 815 91 2 55 1 41 26 07 795 88 1199 98 59 73 3 06 1096 51 377 85 817 45 660 92 47 82 941 82 81 84 4 28 311 62 193 69 317 99 957 67 32 41 30 97 68 84 706 73 125 86 970 77 1724 90 13 48 450 70 1200 39 876 56 1510 66 997 59 422 73 2 41 1200 15 24 28 432 03 689 05 680 14 815 91 2 55 1 41 26 07 795 88 1199 98 59 73 3 06 1096 51 377 85 817 45 1900 92 292 82 941 82 81 84 4 28 311 62 193 69 317 99 957 67 32 41 30 97 68 84 706 73 125 86 970 77 The foregoing statement, prepared by the County Auditor, is approved by thia Board, and respectful ly submitted to the taxpayers of Beltrami County. Dated at Bemidj i, this 8th day of January, 1907. WES. WRIGHT. J. H. WAGNER, F. O. SIBLEY. A. W DANAHER. GEO. GUNDERSON. Credit Balance Jan. 1st. 1907 159 98 801 87 585 56 811 24 1 38 33 37 889 76 1151 70 9 09 125 73 260 00 731 76 1724 90 13 48 450 70 1200 39 876 56 1510 66 997 59 422 73 2 41 1200 15 24 28 432 03 689 05 680 14 815 91 2 55 1 41 26 07 795 88 1199 98 59 73 3 06 1096 51 377 85 817 45 1410 92 292 82 941 82 81 84 4 28 311 62 193 69 317 99 957 67 32 41 30 97 68 84 706 73 125 86 970 77 51 00 428 14 490 00 969 14 Balance Jan. 1, 1907 Dr. 23 36 13 50 2088 15 846 62 Cr. 17 78 206 44 732 39 219 06 19 114 23 312 51 16 46 942 40 1 56 357 54 955 15 100 61 47 05 116 88 170 48 108 00 104 00 115 96 162 00 40 44 13 72 200 83 257 55 13 84 151 27 674 51 27 45 6 13 253 47 448 20 237 44 603 53 10 07 30 99 362 68 289 24 112 00 1107 80 713 49 991 17 208 28 7S00 208 00 104 00 100 00 220 00 212 00 275 91 307 27 236 38 518 86 430 70 792 53 492 29 16 00 9 01 19 68 15 43 600 00 120 00 273 41 100 51 12 41 120 00 58 83 473 22 245 41 20 00 2 77 6 88 31 28 20 00 18 00 23 55 21 44 32 00 32 00 142 72 453 29 434 74 455 07 484 80 266 34 355 21 1127 49 89 04 558 94 2807 89 408 50 485 60 145 90 486 13 220 22 246 41 111 92 444 35 340 15 1003 18 726 93 133 04 92 34 94 94 58 14 44 46 102 60 $ 72306 67 21 OS 48 ST 39 00 60 20 37 26 17 46 17 8B 22 39 17 51 17 02 41 98 192 30 27 46 73 10 26 64 8 16 20 50 41 88 43 78 14 21 2855 8 17 78 9306 W $100,000.00 7,000.40 8,000.60 3.000.W $118,000.00 Pretty Ciose. A certain elderly lady was in a fairly good position and lived in one of the suburbs of a large town. One morn ing she went to her butcher with a basket filled with wooden skewers. She told him she had saved themthat they had been weighed to her as meat and that she had brought them to receive their weight bajk again in meat! Is there a man bold enough to carry econ omy so far? Perhaps the meannesses of mean people are more often actuated by feelings of avarice than by those of economy. It would be difficult, for in stance, to find a worse case than the following: An old man once wrote a letter to a friend, and, wishing to save his stamp, he ordered his servant to take it to its address. It was raining, and the girl wore a new dress that she was afraid of spoiling. She looked into the street, saw a boy she knew, and. calling out to him, she said, "Deliver this letter for me, and I will give you a penny." The miser heard the offer and said, "Give me the penny, and I will carry the letter myself." What is more, he did so.London Captain. Knew Him Too Well. The late President Chester A. Arthur, although he was a man of warm friendships, had a high sense of per sonal dignity that would brook no un due familiarities. A lifelong friend of Mr. Arthur, who had accompanied him on one of his hunting trips, was telling an acquaintance some of the incidents of the hunt. "I know it's the general impression," he said, "that Mr. Arthur is a cold, self centered sort of man, but it isn't true. He is one of the most genial and com panionable of men when you become well acquainted with him. I thought I already knew him pretty .well, but I came to understand him better while on that trip than ever before." "I suppose you know him well enough now to call him by his first name," ventured the other. "On the contrary," was the rejoinder, "I know him well enough not to call him by his first name."Youth's Com panion. Desert Plants. Plants of the desert, as a rule, pos sess few leaves, the cactus, for in stance, being mostly spines. There is a very good reason for the lack of leaves in desert plants. The object is to check the transferation of moisture by offering as small a surface as pos sible to the dry air. For the same rea son the roots of desert plants usually run deep into the soil so that they can suck up all the available moisture. In some instances the leaves assume a vertical position and thus avoid the direct rays of the burning desert sun. On the other hand, the leaves of trees in very wet countries are provided with pointssuch as the maplefrom which the rain drops off. Were the leaves flatter the rain would collect and make them rot. A Surpris e. A cook at a cheap boarding house played a little game on a grumbling boarder by serving him with a piece of sole leather instead of beefsteak. "You've changed your butcher, Mrs. Hascher?" said the boarder, looking up at the landlady after sawing two or three minutes at the leather. "Same butcher as usual," replied the boarding mistress, with a patronizing smile. "Why?" "Oh, nothing much," said the board er, .trying to make an impression on the steak with his knife and fork, "only this piece of meat is the tender est I have had in this house for some weeks."Strand Magazine. In a German Law Court. A German law court was the scene lately of an amusing incident. The magistrate, a tiresome and long wind ed person, was deciding a small case in which the plaintiff claimed damages for abuse. "To call a man a 'pig' or a 'dog,'" replied the judge, "is certainly an insult, but to say that he is a 'pig dog' is offensive, for no such animal exists." The plaintiff glared at the bench. "Schweine-Hund!" he remark ed, with bitter emphasis.T. P.'s Lon don Weekly. The Innocent Joys of Youth. "Gracious, Fanny!" exclaimed a mother to her little daughter. "Why are you shouting like that? Why can't you be quiet like your brother?" "He's got to be quiet," replied Fan ny. "He's playing papa coming home late." "And who are you playing?" "Oh, I'm playing you!" Harper's Weekly. Always on Guard. Friend (to draper in his shop)I no tice that all your assistants squint most horribly. Couldn't you have got some better looking ones? "I chose them purposely. They are most useful In keeping a watch on peo ple. My customers never know on which side they are looking."Nos Loi sirs. Baby's Mamma. Sister (teasingly)Mamma's more my mamma than she is yours. She was my mamma ever so long before she was yours. Baby (stoutly)That don't make any difference. I'm the littlest, and the littler a person is the more mamma she is. The Honor of Brave Men. "You refuse to fight me?" "Certainly." "I believe you are a coward." "Of course you do. Otherwise yoa never would have dared mention the matter." Elephants are always drawn smaller than life, but a flea always larger, Swift Fighting For Fire. A great ceremony in Jerusalem is on Easter Saturday, and commemorates the ancient tradition of the celestial fire that was said to rise from the tomb of Christ. The Greek patriarch tnters the'sanctuary of the sepulcher, the door closes behind him, and the surging, tossing, tumultuous multitude await the coming of the fire. Suddenly out of the right hand window in the wall of the sepulcher shoot flames of fire, and in an instant every one of the thousands has produced a candle and dashes madly forward to light it at the mystie fire. The light thus taken from the holy sepulcher is instantly carried to all the Christian villages round about Jerusalem, and fleet footed young men vie with one another in being first to light their local shrines with the i divine flame. The writer has seen two rival runners put down their candles and indulge in a sanguinary battle with knives and sticks until the light of one of them is put out. There is no joke meant here, but each is striving desperately to extinguish the flame of the other.Travel Magazine. A New Orleans Dish. The greatest, the most toothsome and sustaining of all dishes is the gombo file one encounters in New Orleans not at public eating houses, but in pri vate residences. It is a strange yet halcyon compound of five different in tegers, each cooked separately and aft erward joined in a most delectable and fragrant mess. There are fried chicken, broiled bacon, stewed oysters, peppers and smothered onions, all pre pared with unutterable skill. These one by one are emptied into a pot of most celestial "stock," and then when the conglomeration Is complete for service the presiding genius of the kitchen pours into the ecstatic confec tion a shower of fine green dustthe powdered leaf of the sassafrasand there you have a plate that would have made Lucullus gasp in simple wonder. There is none like it nor shall be till our summers are deceased.New York Sun. Hammers. Hammers are represented on the monuments of Egypt twenty centuries before our era. They greatly resembled the hammer now in use, save that there were no claws on the back for the ex traction of nails. The first hammer was undoubtedly a stone held in the hand. Claw hammers were invented some time during the middle ages. Il luminated manuscripts of the eleventh century represent carpenters with claw hammers. Hammers are of all sizes, from the dainty instruments used by the jeweler, which weigh less than half an ounce, to the gigantic fifty ton ham mer of shipbuilding establishments, some of which weigh as much as fifty tons and have a falling force of from ninety to a hundred. Every trade has its own hammer and its own way of using it. Queer Weather Forecasting. One of the rites performed by the French peasants on New Year's eve is the forecasting of the weather for the coming year by means of onions. When the bells ring for midnight mass they scoop out the middles of twelve onions, set them in a row on the kitchen table, fill them with salt and name them for the months of the year. Then when they return from mass they examine the condition of the salt. If it has melted in any of the "months," those months will be rainy if the salt remains dry, it indicates drought if half melted, the first fortnight of the month will be wet. The peasants have such implicit faith in this means of foretelling the weather that they plant their crops in accordance with the prophecy of the onions. The Iron Law of Caste. As an illustration of the exclusive ness of caste, which a native of India will do almost anything to preserve, it might be mentioned that when money passes between a low caste and a high caste man the coin is thrown on the ground by the one and picked up by the other for fear of defilement. They may not stand on the same carpet or entea the same room. Neither must the low caste man cross the threshold of his superior's house or hut. If he wants to communicate with him he stands out side and bawls. An Invitation. "Mabel," he said, "I love you. I place my happiness in your hands" "For goodness sake," she cried plead ingly, "don't do it now!" "Why not?" "Because I'm quite sure I'll need both hands in a minute or so to keep you from kissing me."Philadelphia Press. An Adage Vindicated. "Where there's so much smoke there must be some fire." The boss was speaking. He had just detected the office boy consuming a cigarette on the premises. The adage was verified immediately. The boy got the fire. Philadelphia Ledger. The Very Worst. Schoolmistress Now, tell me the truth, Johnny Jones. You know what will happen if you tell a lie, don't you? Johnny JonesYes, ma'am I'll go to a bad place. SchoolmistressYes, and that isn't the worst of it. You'll also be expeHed from school. Man's Character. According to an old French saying, "A man's character Is like his shadow, which sometimes follows and some times precedes him and which is occa sionally longer, occasionally shorter, than he is." There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.Seneca. High Game and Fools. "Never eat game high," said an anti quary. "People will tell you that high game is tenderer. What rot! Of course it is tenderer, but would you want your steak or your chop spoiled in order that it might be a little softer to the teeth? No, never! Highness In game is an anachronism, a relic of the past, a relic of the days of stage coaches. In those days it was impos sible to deliver game to the cities fresh transit was too slow. All game was high, and men ate it high because oth erwise they couldn't eat it at all hence to eat game high nowadays, when there is no necessity for it, is to b a fool."Cincinnati ICtmniraE. FOOLS OLDLfiNDLADY How Major Crofoot Got Out of Paying Back Board Bill. CREDITOR WAS DETERMINED. But the Grand Promoter and General Organizer Was Equal to the Occa sion and Came Out on the Ground Floor. [Copyright, 1906, by M. M. Cunningham.] Major Crofoot, grand promoter of grand enterprises, sat in his office with just enough fire in the stove to keep the Ironwork warm. He had counted the money in his pockets and knew that he had exactly 80 cents. Had his financial standing been figured it would have read: "Assets, exactly 80 conts. "Liabilities, about $4*J0. "Expectations, unlimited. "Nerve, same as usual. "Pigeons, scarce." Major Crofoot was waiting to pro mote somebody or something when "THE DOOB OPENED AND THE KNOCKEBESS WALKED IN." there came a knock on his door. It wasn't the knock of a woman suffering with the toothache and who wanted to inquire for the dentist upstairs, nor yet the knock of a creditor who was com ing in to say that if his bill was not paid that day he would begin a lawsuit. It was a knock that bothered the major for a minute, and before he could make up his mind exactly what to do the door opened and the knockeress walked in and bowed coldly and sat down. The major recognized her at a glance as his old landladyone of his old landladies, one of the ones to whom he was in debted in the sum of about $30. His mind was instantly made up. He gave her no chance to refer to his perfidy in walking off as a debtor, but said: "I see, my dear Mrs. Russell, that you got my little note of yesterday and are here on time. I am glad to see such promptness on your part. It shows me that I have made no mistake in ap pointing you secretary of the Great American Economic company, capital $3,000,000." Wants Money Due Her. "I got no note from you yesterday," she replied. "I haven't heard from you since the day you walked out of my house, and that's two years ago. I saw you on the street half an hour ago and followed you. You owe me over $30, and I want it!" "No note from me! Dear, dear me! The messenger must have gone to the wrong house. I wrote to ask you to call at this hour, and all night long I was thinking of what a pleasant sur prise I had in store fen* you. It surely must be the hand of Providence that guided you here." "You may as well leave out the blar ney and fork over my money. I have got a lawyer who will put you In jail if you don't pay." "My dear, dear woman," said the major as he fixed himself anew in his chair, "there was a time when I was in financial straits. Such periods are some times referred to as a person being stone broke or on his uppers. I had the ambition, but not the opportunity. While waiting for the opportunity I wandered into your well kept caravan sary. You cast your bread on the wa tersthat is, you took me in without money and without price, trusting to my honor to pay you in the future." "I never did anything of the kind, sir!" exclaimed Mrs. Russell. "I told you the front room upstairs and board would be $8 per week, and you said it was cheap enough. I couldn't get a cent out of you, and after four weeks you skipped out. You are a bilk and a deadbeat, sir, but I'll have my money or know the reason why!" "You had confidence in me, my dear woman, when others had not, and I determined that when the time came I would repay you a hundredfold. That time has arrived. I could draw you a check for $3,000, but I propose to do even better than that. As I said, I have just organized the Great Ameri can Economic company. I want a sec retary at $15,000 per year, and the place is yours. As you leave this of fice for home I will accompany you as far as the Twenty-eighth National bank and there open an account for you to the amount of half your first year's salary. Tomorrow we will see about your horses and diamonds. I shall want you to drive to and from the office, and the larger diamonds you get the better I shall be pleased. Do you write a sloping or back hand?" Won't Stand For Blarney. "That's nothing to do with the case," she retorted. "You owe me a bill, and I want it, and all your blarney will go for nothing. I shan't take any check either, but want cash." "Mrs. Russell, do you know the value of the waste in this country every year?" asked the major after consult ing a battered city directory for a couple of minutes. "I know that such rascals as you beat me out of at least $200 every year." "The money value of the waste is a hundred million dollars every year. The Economic company will save as much of that waste as possible. It will gather up castoff clothing, boots and shoes, foods, played out umbrellas, bottles, tin cans and so fQTtjj^ In one year "we shall gather up waste to the amount of $10,000,000, two-thirds of which will be clear profit. After the first year we shall pay 50 per cent divi dends right along. I shall not only pay you $15,000 per year as secretary, but let you in on the ground floor for a large block of stock. Among my mail this morning was a letter from King Edward of England, in which he says he will save at least a million dollars' worth of old shoes for us every year. It is the biggest, richest thing in the world. All the gold mines of Colorado put together can't equal it. Can you dictate to a stenographer?" "I'd IV&e to know what all this talk is about!" angrily replied the cred itor. "I tell you, sir, it won't do. You played the sneak and skulked on me, and now you've got to pay that bill. Will you do it now?" "My dear old landlady, it pains me to observe this aggressive disposition on your part. You sheltered me. You trusted me. You had confidence in me when the rest of the world turned coldly away. I am a man who can never forget a kindness, but now, when I would requite you" "Why didn't you come back and pay up like a man?" "Months and months ago, when the tide had turned with me and the mil lions were rolling in, I started 5or your house with a check in my pocket. I anticipated taking you by the hand and telling you how glad I was to be able to pay my debt. Almost at your door I met JonesJones of the cock eyeand he told me that you had mar ried a French count and gone to Paris to set up a steam laundry. That was the sole reason why I retraced my steps. I have tried in vain to get your Paris address. Are you just in on the steamer?" Her Last Request. "You know better. You know that you are lying to me. I ask you once more and for the last time, will you pay that bill?" "Certainly, my dearcertainly. I only wish it was larger. Do you re fuse the secretaryship?" "I do." "And you don't want horses and diamonds?" "I don't." "And you won't come in on the ground floor?" "No, sir, nor any other floor. I'll take the money for that bill, and then I'll leave youno check, but the cold cash." "It is hard, womanit is hard in deed to have one's financial honor doubted, but I must forgive you. As you will not take a check I will run upstairs and get the photographer to cash it. I suppose $40 will straighten the matter out?" "Yes, sir." "If any one calls tell 'em I'll be back in three minutes," said the major as he disappeared through the door. The landlady waited fifteen minutes and then began to shiver with the cold. She waited fifteen more and then be gan to walk about. When three-quarters of an hour had passed she looked out in the hall. At the end of an hour she kicked over two chairs, tore the calendar off the wall and knocked down the stove pipe and went downstairs. Some folks might have waited all winter, but Mrs. Russell knew when to let go. M. QUAD. Innocent. Timothy Coffin, who was prominent at the bar of Bristol county, Mass., half a century ago, once secured the ac quittal of an old Irishwoman accused of stealing a piece of pork. As she was leaving the courtroom she put her hand to her mouth and in an audible whisper said: "Mr. Carfin, what'll I do with the por-ruk?" Quickly came the retort: "Eat it, you fool. The judge says you didn't steal it."Woman's Home Companion. Resourceful. "Dou't you know that this is not a smoking compartment?" "Never fear. I'll hide my pipe when I see the conductor coming."Fliegen de Blatter. __ The Madrigal. The word madrigal sounds very formidable to a beginner In music. More than once have I heard the ques tion, "What is a madrigal?" Strictly speaking, a madrigal is an elaborate vocal composition in from three to six parts, generally sung in chorus. The melody should not be carried through a single part, but should be dispersed in phrases through the different voices in the conversational manner peculiar to the music of the sixteenth and sev enteenth centuries. The true madrigal has no accompaniment. This form of song is considered English, but is thought to have had its origin in the Netherlands. The exact derivation of the word Is not known. The first madrigals are believed to have been morning songs, shepherds' lays or songs in praise of the Virgin.Circle Magazine. A Very Practical Christian. A benevolent old man who lived on his farm in Iowa never refused shelter to any who might ask it of him. His many friends remonstrated with him about this characteristic, knowing that many unscrupulous hoboes would avail themselves of the opportunity and that there was great danger of the old man being robbed. To these remon strances the old man replied that he believed in "practical Christianity." "But," said one of his friends, "this seems very Impractical. Suppose one of these men took it into his head to rob you one night?" "My dear young friend," was the re ply, "I bid all enter In the name of God, but I prove my belief in practical Christianity by locking up their pants ctartne, the nisrr