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•fc* rV- f*. ''7% ,--"? '•if ,-?, Wkry IJttt what is better thaw this, my dear,, ,* "What Is better than this 1 The thought of a night which has lost its way Between tumorrliw .and yesterdayj ,, The full of the tide nod the gray of the And a gull that circleth endlessly The breath from a wind which bloweth veil A sail that hasteth new ports to tell It aught is better than this, my dear, I find it not here, I dud it not here, —Blanche Trask in "The Uand ot Sunshine,' JUST A CURTAIN FIRE&l ,JLt W a In & Girls' a School antl Di Complicate a a jj^,4A fire in a s&yeeraper may be thrill in but for dramatic episodes and un expected complications a fire in a girls' boarding school surpasses it. The board in school fire is usually what is known among insurance men as a curtain fire, but a curtain fire in a girls' school is more exciting and causes more casual ties than an ordinary blaze anywhere else. One* evening last week girls, who occupy a microscopic hall bedroom in a ewell up town school, took the globes off the gas fixtures for hair curling pur poses and left them off, because it was easier to do that than to put them on again. Then the girls raised the window a trifle in order to cool the room and dutifully sat down to write home -let ters. The inevitable happened, and when girl number one poised her pen in the air and glanced around the room in search of inspiration she saw the curtains in a blaze. She screamed. Girl number twq looked around and echoed ', the screanxr^Then, with promptitude and discretion, both girls fainted. The screams had attracted the attention of the other girls, rushed to the scene and then did various and sundry stunts, according to their several dispositions. 1 One fainted, several wept, a few ran out of the house, and the rest shouted for the one man on the premises. ''-»J"When he arrived, things looked rather hopeless. Curtains and woodwork were blazing finely. The floor was littered with prostrate forms, and when .three gi] Is have fainted on the floor of a hall bedroom there isn't much space in the room for promenading. The man picked bis a across the prostrate forms and ordered all the girls were not in a dead faint to leave the room, but they didn't go until he lost h}s temper and spoke it a force which isn't common in boarding school circles. Then they fled but, unluckily, there was an ene my in the rear. A vigorous and practi cal woman from Texas had been inspir ed to go after some water. Returning in mad haste with a large pitcherful of water borne triumphantly aloft, she collided with the retreating forces'at the door. The pitcher struck the leader of the retreat squarely in the face and knocked out of her front teeth, whereupon the injured girl made the fainting trio a quartet and the water carrier dropped her pitcher and went into violent hysterics. Hysteria, as boarding school teachers know to their sorrow, is contagious, and the one case touched off the crowd. the time teachers arrived upon the scene the fire as out, but'the survivors were in a bad way. It as necessary to put nine-tenths of the school to bed and order wholesale doses of bromide.' Even now the girls insist that they haven't recovered from the shock sufficiently to do hard studying, and the victims of the water pitcher are both trader the care of trained nurses. A for the man, he gave up his place the naptlla and confided to the cook that TO was going to look for a job in a lunatic asylum, where his boarding' school experience would be of value to N York Sun. Penn novelettes differ from one4' an other in externals rather than in in ternals. The get up of the better sort is neat and attractive. The type is clear, and the covers might even be called "artistic" in the catholic sense of the term. The inferior kinds are indiffer ently printed "on gray paper it blunt type,'' and there are many degrees of excellence between the extremes. All except one have illustrations rang in from the rudest of woodcuts to the smudgiest of "process" plates. Of course the artist selects the most sensa tional incidents for his pencil to adorn. The stabbing of the heroine' svfather by the villain disguised as the hero, the kidnaping of the heroine by Black Tom and his gang of gypsies at the. in stigation of her jealous rival, the horse whipping of the villain by the hero in "faultless" evening dress—these and their like naturally present themselves as thoroughly suitable and congenial subjects.—Blackwood's Magazine. *Y Malicious Interference^'-'feii* "I'll get even with that printer," said the editor of the Plunkville Bugle, "if it takes me the rest of my life." W at printer?" asked his friend. ,/.[ "That tramp I took on while my wife was visiting her mother^ 1 got a $10 write up out of old Hiker, is lay ing his pipes for the senatorship, and I said that some day his little son would make as big a mark as his father, and that villain fixed it that the young 'un would 'be' as big a mark, etc."—In dianapolis, Journa '$W A Useles "Wish. 'had O ," sighed the poetic lady/ I the in of a bird!" "Don't! protested her husband. "Don't wish for the wings of a bird. If you had .them, some other woman would probably be wearing them on her hat before the season is over."—Wash ington Star. '&' well known professor aays that over a large area of central Russia the magnetic needle does not point north or south. I is in one part deflected to the west and at another part to the east, and'at one place it points east a -v •r -The eggs of a bluebottle fly, if placed /in the son, williiatc in boards «He 3#e*£ Antrim Vtot3pni*j N a years a go 1 of the ritter^mj^i^^enera^^otiajle day and Henry Dafetf dj? the & firm of Dater, Jfhompgpn oVOb^jSt as something like ^5 0 rcenfs a^corner^-. so you see it as easy^Eo1r*»" man, to lose* as much as $1.90 in an afternoon: a began after .th Sudbury dinne^ hour, half past 1* and a Th old roosters "became so wrapped up in the" game that 'nothing ahdrt^ of *an earthquake could have disturbed them.. Brokers in N York could do nothing to shake the in is is The game" wasplayed"at'ffte^Kme of the historic Hannibal and St. ner, engineered by Kennedy,'HtEtchinr son & Co., in the interest of theiqt client, John Duff of Boston.. Doubleday was selling the stock short through an Schaick & Co., and at a quarter to 2 on the eventful day he received* a telegram from his brokers advising him*)f the situation. The game as stopped just long enough for him to read it and lay it aside. In 20 minutes a second dis-. patch arrived, as read andtcast aside Doubleday was winning at the rate of 35 cents an hour. W at didshe care about Hannibal and -St..Joe? lLate in the afternoon a third summons came from Va Schaick & Co., and at 5 o'clock a fourth. Then Doubleday arose and remarked: "Gentlemen, a en joyed the game. winnings^are ex actly §1.65. I must say good afternoon, as it is necessary for one to take the first train for N York." The next morn ing his brokers informed him that he could settle for $100,000. At the time the first telegram was sent he could have settled for $25,000 at the time of the second for $50,000, \the" third foi $75,000. had ample warning, but in the thick of the Sudbury game of whist he believed the rise as only a threatening flurry.—New'TEork Press. £&* A E is Novels (r»t- S SCOTCHSIMPLICITY.^:, he Mason, he ^Budding Architec a a Conscienc S Lad. ^'"The Scotch are fond of .telling stories which illustrate the peculiar simplicity of mind of their country people. This simplicity at least saves them from wicked guile. One of these stories relates that an honest mason once had' a contract to build a small house of stone. came, early and began from the inside to lay the stone, working very fast. A noon his young son brought him his dinner, peeping over the waH as he handed the basket to his father. W it honest pride in his eye, the mason looked over to the boy. ^, "Weel, Jock, hoo d'ye think I'm gpttin he asked. "Ye're getting on famous, feyther,," answered Jock, looking at the solid wall, in which there as no break. "Bu hoo d'ye get oot? Th mason looked around, true. had provided the house with no door at all, and he as on the inside. looked kindly and very admiringly at the boy. "Mon, Jock, ye've a grand heid on ye-!" he exclaimed. "Ye'll be an archi tect yet, as sure as yer feyther's a ma son 1" 'Another story shows how unsuccess ful as a theTustic Scot a be. young plowmen went into a gar den at night to steal gooseberries. The bushes surrounded a plot of potatoes, and as one of the lads groped about he got a handful of potato plums, which he quickly put into nib mouth- Then he gasped to his comrade: It was "Oh, Jock, I' poisoned! ..For ony sake, shove me through the hedf, again, for I waudna like to dee i' the auld man's gairden!"—Youth's Companion. Tobacc I E a 1845. W I was a lad, fully half the pop ulation of both sexes, rich as well as poor, the banker equally it the work ingman, were snuflltakers. first schoolmaster always carried his snuff loose in his waistcoat pocket, and in numerable were his dips into it with fingers and a thumb in the course of the day, while the big gauffered frill which protruded from the bosom of his shirt was always thickly sprinkled with it. W used to notice that he never seemed to relish one of his huge pinches so much as immediately after having administered a sound castigation to some recalcitrant pupil. On the other hand, there was little or no open air smoking, except in the case of laboring men going to or from their work. I this respect lucifer matches have something to answer for but for them the practice of outdoor^smoking would never have grown to its present enoimous proportions. Chambers' Journal. !*£&-=«* An Unexpecte Call. t£ are just going out, I "Yes, an important e: W at as it you wanted? "I as about that little debt I owe ." H. ", "Ah yes! Take & seat, I as going to ask you for a little delay" "Oh-Tdgxcuse me, but-I'm already late W ft -*V I say, I as going to^isk you for a little delay I met a fellow paid up at he owed me, a W on earth don't sit down?. Wil you take a glass of wine?"—Pari Figaro. A a*'3ftM* a •^l^'Tit."'' 1 '.. No B"a«h I AnyVUmm^^^ky^ A Josephine is a thorough akep^ "She is??V, ,. she. putsmucilag on he bade of every postage stamp she uses.'' Chicago Record. ^f-.¥»t«n*an***»tPeetl» Elephants have only eight I above and below xXi each side. Al elephants' "baby teeth fall out he animal is about 1 4 a old, -auid^. he S me $£GO or $534, $ '-It '«teaJ!jB^e a in ,ll^Sl»ne., S-£- ,if* O course ^TsUid:%e*fefii3ed bttf|ife!rf a an in nay^business, M, always the loo&ou&for tssj^i ^C-most^of ^em he can circumvent it a ble. ^But go la~aJot of iarotsble &ijsd expense TO layj'fxapst?'and" soraetircres 'they-geten^BCttethiriiffyh^k is new^-aric! effective. suppose that any man^gsQ-? in in to ka vJoe cor- dwelling bouse would be sureS •txHopk o^r.the.jbureaBs and dressing tables in tho sleepjng robrcs. 'It^ras/ this known'prof«sSfenal ha*bit no doubt at iiadsuggeeted the idea-of a trap I camo ajcroas- once, which a a had had built with a view to catching anybody that might 6tand in5 front pf the bureau' in his roomi -*fI a in that this .man must havfe been visited before and been.vexy^niach irritated by it, because he never could have gone to all the trouble "and ex pense be did just for mere protection— there was clearly 3ome feeling in-itL It was a handsome room, promising look-, ing from itsTichness, and when I turned ,my light on the bureau where I went, naturally enough, to begin, I was not disappointed. There as a glitter of glass and silver in the bullseye, and as •I swept the light along it struck a pocketbook that, didn't glitter much, but that looked fat and comfortable, a a watch that did shine, and, take it altogether, it made me think that here was the home of a an .that didn't have to wdrk nights to make both ends meet. An so I set' my lamp down on one end of the bureau—it made me rlaugh, actually, to think that there was so. much good stuff there that I had to shove something one side to make room' for it—an put my bag down on a chair that was there and began cleaning the things off. *Kr 4 7 I just put the eilver hairbrushes in the bag and had turned around to the bureau again to. pick up the pocket book and the watch I heard, or it seemed as though I felt, a little click, and just the faintest touch of a jarring or yielding under my feet, and the next instant, a long time before I could jump or do anything whatever, a piece of the floor under my feet about three feet square dropped out from under me. and down I went. £*{j"Bnt I didn't give up, by a long shot. I was an ablebodied man, and my hands were free—my lamp being then on tho corner of the bureau and my bag on the chair—and I wasn't go ing to give it up yet, if I was going down a trap. The trapdoor was hung on hinges-o the side farthest from the bureau, and I laughed to myself as I put up my hands and thought how easy it as to grab on to the edge of the solid floor running along just in front of the bureau and haul myself up. Truly it seemed like a a of money, all the expense this an had been to to put in the trap without guarding against the chance of escape from it by just this means, and 1 already imagined myself climoin out as I threw up my hands, which I did before- I' dropped more'n half of my length below the level of the floor, gripping that firm edge very tightly. I as going to a sure of that. "And-1 got it all right, but' in about a millionth part of a. second I became conscious of the fact that it wasn't stopping me at all I as carrying it down it me. I as the front edge of another trap cut in the floor, under the bureau, hinged at the back and held up in placo by a spring just strong enough to keep it in position. I held on as hard as I could, but if I had had iron fingers and steel muscles I couldn't have held on after the trap had down straight. I went down like a ton of lead, and the next minute I found my self sliding through a smooth board tunnel not much big^er'n enough to let me slide comfortably, and the next minute I'd been shot into a box or room about seven feet square thiough an other trap in the top of it that closed flush after I came through. "Now there was a situation for you. Me in a square box of' hard pine, ap parently in the cellar of the house, no opening in it anywhere and my bag with all my tools in it up there on the chair by the bureau .and me down it nothing, not a blessed thing, to work it while there's lifo there's hope," and I never should have thought of such a thing*as giving up if.' I could have had a chance. JButI didn^. I hadn't been in the box minutes before there as a slide pushed back up near the top on one side, and a an looked in. I as he boss of the shanty. An in five minutes the -police re there, a then I found they a a or in this box big enough,to get a^man out of. I have seen other traps as elaborate, but none more costly» had to cat his carpet, to begin with, around the traps in thisioom. Of course that didn't cost anything much, but it spoiled his carpet, and then the cost of he traps and the tame contrivance, whatever it was,-that as ..attached, to the a in trap that let, me stand on it for a min ut or before it dropped, and then the shoot and the box a the whole business couldn't have cost a cent leas than $400 or $500. cost me fonr time "—-New York S H0OS1ER Si?ED&RBAN]«)I£ll J,S/ & W Machine O •A Directors: .lie would .™,~. jforera-nrb 1 '^w** A early Arigfo'Saxon custonj^Btri«fr-i followed by newly|m^Erie4^coipleB4 vwas tha^jol drinking dTlu^ed^ioney for 4 3 0 days after marriage "Frpnl in cue-1 torn conies the.wwaoi^TOcto^i«*nr, 3 S •&*^&gw&$$i Per«Sons^w 4bn^t come a of the a to it AU Jrinif Steel ind Wood .Harrow^ Ay«ry Bic|yul S t-Com Cultivator. ft "1 A A |jha*hydiaaisnasflm«mB^ A'GONSrBOSGIES AND. CARRIAGES DEERIftG-SELF BINDERS AND MOWERS' jjtjaj)iv olher-Articles too,numemu$ A :•%£$&> 'to me-ntion." *'*& *"-W* i"* Office mid Store iu Masonic Block IA.sk for the king of all 10 cent cigarsf 'thef* You will like it, for the same reason -that everybody else does. tr ^0T a nickel KE^ WEST FIVE versally acknowledged purest in the world, *c oaly^by .CHn&Q & CO., New Yorfe, Sold py trrccer* everywliere. t% All Diseases of Womentwatod In Diseases of Men, cigar, it is conceded that the hS,«.-„-^, Vritoior Arm and Hammer Bookoftiwhutblc Recipe*—FBXE. \^U:T4U^ m+**mw*\ ^.Mullen Pres. J. H. Vajen, -W. ¥. Sciter, a .W. E Koch, Ass't. The Citizens' Sank uf New Ulih, Minn. H. Vfij^etf T)oehne\ W Boescb, Crone. O. M. Ol8en,%Hi! Silverson nnd M. Mullen. T\\u iniiviHiiiil responsibility of the 27 stockholders is $2,000,000. ThoasandsofdlBeasestOHteyai»viu»n]iethatnvie}8aisu A a a ^WK LvUndUIItVllVll caimotxireatenevr.orKmnst 1Ve.ia«ke e,specialty of A A in alUts forms. 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