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(£mmms BP k? mu? tik SUcofd. D. R. Streeter, Publisher LINTON, Emmons Co., N. D. Much excitement prevails among pearl hunters at Taylor's Falls, Minn. John Emery found a shell In the river which contained a large pearl perlectly round and of that peculiar luster which makes it very valuable. Those who claim to know s:iy it is the finest ever found in the west and is worth at least $2,000. 'fe.«l. Outbreaks of typhoid and diphtheria of a most serious charactcr have oc curred at Belfast. In ten days 98 cases of typhoid, all of a severe type, were admitted to the hospital, the total un der treatment being 254 while 19 cases of diphtheria had been admitted in two days. One nurse has died of ty phoid and several others are ailing. The number of doctors and nurses is to be increased. The singing of the favorite hymns ot he late president was perhaps the most remarkable feature of the serv ices held in memory of him, across the Atlantic as well as in his own laud, In synagogue as well as in church. The circumstance shows that. "Nearer, my God, to Thee' 'and "Lead, Kindly Light' express emotions that are felt in every religious heart, be the body that encloses it Jew or Gentile. There was quite a sensation in Rut land square, Dublin, recently, when a Boer flag was found floating from the ioof of the Orange Hall. How it got there is somewhat a mystery. It is surmised that some of the members, remembering that their patron of "glorious, pious and immortal" mem ory came of the same stock as the Boers, took this method of showing their sympathy with the burghers who are still in the field. Owing to the incessant rains the liver Judrio, which flows along the. borders of Italy, Austria, and the dis trict of the Friull, overflowed Its banks one night recently, inundating all the land, the surrounding towns of Romans, Medea and Varsa. Alarm bells were kept ringing, and the coun try people fled in haste to the towns, but eleven persons are reported to have been drowned, and much damage has been done to property and crops. Sven Hedin has discovered a second Dead Sea in the Highlands of Thibet— a vast lake so impregnated with salt that indigenous life is out of the ques tion. It was impossible for him to get his boat close to the shore, so that he and his companious had to wade out two boat lengths before she woul.1 float and this was sufficient to coat their legs and clothes thickly with salt. The entire bed of the lake appeared to con sist of salt, and the density of the life, less water was, of course, very high. Jorevin de Rochefort, who published In Paris in 1671 an account of his trav els in England, tells the following: "While we ware walking about the town (Worcester) he asked me If it was the custom in France as In Eng land that when the children went to school they carried in their satchel with their books a pipe of tobacco, which their mother took care to fill early in the morning, it serving them Instead of breakfast, and that at the accustomed hour every one laid aside his book to light his pipe, the master smoking with them and teaching -them how to hold their pipes and draw in the tobacco." Lud Madison, who was to have been hanged at Parkersburg, W. Va., for murder recently, has been respited by Gov. White for sixty days. Madison claims that he has already been legally executed, and that it is not lawful to hang a man twice for the same offense. Two years ago he was sentenced to be hanged, but a stay of execution wa3 granted, and the state supreme court granted him an appeal. Through an error, the records of the court in l?o which he was convicted showed that he was executed instead of respited. Madison's lawyers claim that, according to the records, Madison is dead and cannot be lawfully banged again. They will ap peal the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. At a regular meeting of Magnolia Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Sharps burg, Md., resolutions were adopted de nouncing United States Senator Wel lington of Maryland, a member of the order, for the remarks he is alleged to have made in regard to the assassina tion of President McKinley, who was also a member of the Knights of Pythi as, The resolutions dec'ara tbat the remarks made by Senator Wellington were most disgraceful, unpatriotic and unbrotherly that he violated the prin ciples of the order, and that he is no longer fit to be a member. They con clude by demanding the senator's ex pulsion from the organization. Moun tain City lodge, Knights of Pythias of Frederick, Md., passed similar resolu tions. Holding her three-months-old baby by Its clothing In her teeth, and with one arm clasped about her four-year old daughter, Mra. Theodore Pria, climbed two Stories down the fire es cape to get away from her insane hus band, after he had attacked her and the children with a revolver. Pria is a Cuban barber, and lives at 745 Tin ton avenue, In the Bronx, New York. .The neighbors' say that he was at one time a well-to-do tobacco grower in Cuba, and that the loss of his planta tion there had made him insane. A "gentleman tramp" has fallen into the hands of the Pari§ police. He was found asleep outside the fortifications and was arrested as a vagrant. At the police station he produced documents proving himself to be the Count de N-—, and the possessor of a largo fortune. Several hundred fr-nc^ in bank notes were sewnup lu his frayed^ add tattereJ jacket.^ He e*Plained that helijfc&dthfs Ilfe' and that he wanted to tw jp iramp reasons best known to JtltOMMr-.Tiie police were obliged to re ICMft TVJT4 Deep in the quiet grave." The rest of the words were surpris ing Salvation Army adaptations of the most characteristic type., -But Frank lin Atherton never heard them. With a bound he had reached the side of the singer—the girl whom he would have asked to become his wife long ago but that he feared to face poverty with her. He had not seen her for nearly two-years. "Margaret! IJow came you with these people?" The' girl looked at him gravely. "When your world—the world which was mine "also until my father died and left me penniless—found no time or space or attention for me I turned to the world in which men and women work instead of play. Not knowing how to work I went hungry. When I was homeless and seeking death be cause no other course seemed open the Salvation Army workers found me. They saved my life—and soul. Now I am trying to save others." The gong of the trolley clanged out at the moment. It seemed like a sum mons to another world. "Margaret!" The words seemed drawn from him. "Leave this life, for God's sake! Come with me." "As your wife, Franklin?" The flicker of doubt and uncertainty in his eyes was so short-lived that few would have seen It. But the girl turned away as though she had suf fered a blow. "No—dear," she answered. "Not now. You are not strong enough to take me just yet. But," sh^ called after him as he sprang aboard the trolley, "we may meet again, some time. When we do, perhaps But he was gone. Three years later Franklin Atherton !r A "How came you with these people?" had also disappeared from the world which- had" once known him. Exces sive haste to he rich, the gambling fevef, an unlucky speculation, these were the successive steps by which he bad reached starvation and despair. For a mail of his temperament all things" seemed ended,:. He was heading for the river when there smote upon his jaded ear the sound of a flagellated drum, the clear note of Conger Wild and Woollp Wo are cultured to the limit in the fa mous Western land, Christianity upon us has a cinch. And refinement in our actiona always Plays a winning hand— We are getting there, dead certain. Inch by inch. As an ornament the pistol is completely out of ilnte Very rarely do we have a shutenfest, Ave ure up with the procession and we mean to hold our gait— It no longer is the wild and woolly AVest. are short of desperadoes, scarcely ever see a tough With a yearning craze for shooting up the town. And the tenderfoot from Jersey when he tries to run a blulT Undergoes a rather hasty calling down. We are drinking better liquor than we •llil in days of yore, And we go about more fashionably dressed: The a-'vance wave of progress quenched our burning thirst for gore- It no longer Is the wild and woolly West. Not a Christian man among us wears his breeches in his boots, And the old wool shirt is but a mem ory now. And we look with disapproval on the ten derfoot galoots Who are sporting big sombreros on the brow. We arc seen at church on Sunday ere the trout begin to bite With a holy Itame alight in every breast. And we're always In our couches at the stroke of 12 at night- It nn longer Is the wild and woolly West. And our ladies, heaven bless 'em, are so modest, nice and sweet, You would think them truant angels from the skies Never sec them dash astraddle on their bronchos through the street, Making hosiery displays for staring eyes. Not a slangy word or sentence ever rip ples from their lips, For a high old time they never go in quest Not a gun Is ever peeping from the pocket on their hips- It no longer is the wild and woolly West. Oh, you bet your filthy lucre, we're re lined to beat the band, We have culture to distribute to the birds. And the brand of fresh morality we al ways keep on hand Couldn't be described in common rhvmy words. We in every moral attribute are strictly recherche, And that same's no pipey visionary jest, And we love the rugged country into which we've come to stay- Two Worlds and Tlieir Children. BY ETHEL M. COLSON. (Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) The trolley car which had been dash ing along toward Chicago stopped sud denly, held upon a suburban street corner by the inevitable coal wagon with a tendency to break down. Frank lin Atherton gazed idly at^the earnest group of Salvation Army workers on the other side of the street. Suddenly in a momentary cessation of the pon derous, drum-beats a clear, sweet, femi nine voice faltered out softly: "Ah! I have sighed to rest mo It no longer is the wild and woolly West. a sllve^ {rum- •a Jti'r-- ..Kr-rfSK* :-v* '0 Pet- Then, as he listened instinctive ly: "Ah! I have sighed to rest me Deep in the quiet grave." It was no dream. It was not the" result of a fevered imagination. The voice was unmistakable, the intonation quite beyond question. His manhood left him suddenly, and he sank down upon the curbstone, sobbing. The clear, sweet voice came nearer. A gentle hand was laid upon his arm. "What is the matter, my brother? What can we do to help you?" Soft, hurrying footsteps followed him "What Is the matter, my brother?" into the shadowy, darkened sldestreet to which he hastened. Again the gentle hand was laid upon his arm. "It's no use, Margaret. Do you sup pose I'll be cad enough to let you help me, after the treatment you have re ceived at my hand? God bless you— good-by." The girl made no immediate answer —In words. Turning, she beckoned to the blue-, coated co-worker who had followed her from the lighter street. "This is a very dear friend of mine, "Lieutenant Caldwell," she told him, with a voice which shook a little from varied emotions, but with eyes which shone and sparkled, "and he is in trouble, In need of assistance. I know I can trust you to do all that you can for him, for my sake as well as for the sake of—the man who is going to be my husband some day." "Margaret!" The man was humbled as neither poverty, slights, hunger, cold, nor rag gedness had been potent to humble him. But there was no bitterness In the humility with which he kissed her fingers, there In the darkened street. "Margaret, you are an angel, and 1 will be worthy of you yet. I Swear it. I will be your husband some day if the good Lord and yourself will allow it—but I'll be a man first, by God!" And the quiet stars) looking, down impressively on the flagellated drum and the throbbing hearts of the men and women around it, saw and knew, somehow, that a new soul had been born. History of the Skdnk* The skunk first appaars in history In ihe year 1636, when he was described in Theodat's History of Canada. He had been a lpng time on earth before species of fossil skunks. The skunks of the genius Chinca range over the greater part of North America and as far'south as Mexico. Other skunks are found in Central and South America* -New York Sun. ...... "Skat" is the card game which boids Berlin in its thrall.':. "Bridge" fascin ates the players of London and New York. .. Si ."... EGYPT AS A WINTER RESORT. Africa Mora Interesting to British Tour ists Than Southern Europe. Every lndicatloh is forthcoming that ihe approaching season In Cairo and on the Nile will be a prosperous one, and visitors will probably exceed the record of last year, when so many English people deserted the Riviera for Egypt. All the hotels promise to ,Je full.^and the newer health reports will nptlack for patronage.1 There 'now includfe Helotian, within half airbiour's railway ride of Cairo, which has sul phur baths, recommended for rheuma tism, and several first-class hotels and pensions, while furnished villas may be hired. Assouan, which Is described as the driest accessible health resort In the world, has two large hotels and an English church, and is growing in popularity year by year, rivaling Lux or, so well known to invalids and others who dare not .face an English winter. At Luxor, also, hotel exten sions have taken place, and no modern improvements are wanting. Assousan is the starting point for the further voyage to Wady-Holfa. Sportsmen in search of big game are making up'par ties for shooting buffalo, giraffe, rhino csrous, hippotamus and elephant In the district lying between Khartoum and Fashoda. The regulations are now somewhat more stringent, owing to the increase in- the number of guns Dahabsahs, steam and sailing, and modernized—for the type of craft goes back to the days of the Pharoahs— provide the most luxurious and neces sarily costly means of conveyance, and the fleet available is always in keen demand for families making applica tion a long time in advance.—London Telegraph. CHINESE NOT DRINKERS. tlie ftarely Seen In Saloonn and Only Loafers Smoke Opium. "We are a temperate people," said a Chinaman of Race street, as he re garded one of his brothers coming out of a saloon with a kettle of beer, "and a sight like that is rarely to be seen here. Joe Kee has a white wife, you know. Maybe the baer is for her. Anyhow, not one Chinaman in ten in this colony would take a drink if you should ask him, and not one in 1,000 would get drunk. Did you ever see a drunken Chinaman? Are there Chinese among your barroom loafers and hangers-on? But you will say with a sneer that we all smoke opium, and that an opium smoker, of course, will not drink because the pipe gives one an aversion to alcohol. It Is true that the opium smoker can't drink,but it is not true that all Chinamen smoke. For no one can smoke and work, and it is only the loafers of Chinatown, the card sharps and con idence men, who hit the pipe. "The true reason of Chinese tem perance in this country," continud the Chinaman, according to the Phila delphia Record, "is one of economy. We can't afford to drink, to get drunk, to be arrested and to be-fined, and therefore we don't do It. But the Chinese as a race would like to be just as intemperate as any oiher people, only they control themselves." OLD CLOTHES FOR GRAVE. jllarylaiid fov judge Gives Directions Very Plain EMneral. The will of Judge Frederick Stump, who for thirty-four years was on the bench in this judicial circuit,-says a writer at Elkton, Md., has been ad mitted to probate. The will is dated Oct. 30, 1900, and reads as follows: "Disgusted with the foolish display al most universally made at funerals, to the great gain of undertakers and to the deprivation of many families of even the necessities of life for,a long time thereafter, I hereby direct that I be buried la a white pl'ne coffin (because the wood decays more readily under ground than any I know of), without any stain, paint, covering-or other em blems of woe on It, and if my friend, Ned Gehr, has not already gone to heaven before I die, I want him to make it. I direct that no embalming fluid or other stuff shall be injected into my body, and that no funeral ser mon shall be preached over it, and that I be buried in a suit of clothes I have worn, as I do not see the sense of wearing old clothes when alive and be ing buried in a new suit, when it is of no use to you. I' desire that my exec utor see that all my wishes are fully carried out." Willing to Oblige. An Englishman at a dinner once told ft tale of a tiger he had shot wBlch measured twenty-four feet jtrom snout to tail-tip. Everyone was astonished, hut no one ventured to-irfsinuate a doubt of the truth- of the story. Pres ently a Scotsman told his tale. He had once caught a^ fish which he said he was unable to pull in alone, managing only to land it at last with the aid of six friends. "It was a skate, and it covered two acres." Silence followed this recital, during which the offended Englishman left the table. The host followed. After returning he said- to the Scotsman: '"Sir, you h^ve insulted my friend. You must apologize." "1 dinna lnsoolt him," said the Scot. "Yes you did, with your two-acre-fish story. You must apologize." "Well, said the offender, slowly, with the air of one making a great concession, "tell' him if he will take ten feet' off that tiger I will see what I can do with the fish."—London Tit-Bits.' Uj&t'&'i'*. A Lesson on Lobsters, i' The methods of public school in struction, as applied in. New York city, do not always meet-the approbation of the parents of the pupils, as .was evi denced the other day. when a German woman of commanding figure strode into the school, and, approaching the principal, demanded: "What. it is, a lobster?" The principal politely ex» plained that a lobster was a species of shellfish. "Veil, how' many legs hasit —dls lobster?" The number of legB was stated. "Veil, I work ine for a hurry, and if your teacher cannot find better dings than, to BBk my boy Jakey how many legs has it, a lotrater, and make him come home to bodder his fadder mit questions, 'What it is,,-ai lob ster?' it. is pad peesneas."—Youth's Companion. -Im Belle*s of Early 2)ajKf The all-absorbing mission ol the beauty of seventy^flve years ago was the. culture of attractiveness and the devices and tricks resorted to in the frantic struggle to be irresistibly at tractive makes the belle of the "early 20's and 30's appear to the girl of to day a most remarkable creature. Our great grandmothers were selfish, ego tistical and silly little coquettes, who studied themselves in the mirror and brewed love potions and scented paste for the complexin, aping to the best of human bent the Idle caprices of Empress Josephine and other fashion able French women of the time. The complexion was a religious study. Ex periment after experiment emanated from Parisian boudoirs to find their way to American shores and to en thrall the belles of Washington and Philadelphia. Exercise Never Indulged In. Our great-grandmothers never ex ercised. It was considered deplorable and ruinous to beauty. They were constantly advised to avoid all excite ments and "Violent emotions, to sup press laughter,- joy, anger, and to cul tivate a sober, genteel life for the sake af the features. When It was found necessary to smile, generally by way of coquetry, it was considered bad form to part the lips to any greater extent than to show four teeth. In smiling the under lip was slightly raised. A hearty laugh was considered •he hight of vulgarity. Tricks for improving the complex Ion were simply numberless. The luice of strawberries was a favorite remedy for a shining, oily skin. An internal remedy was sometimes taken, consisting of a teaspoonful of charcoal mixed with honey. The worst face was eoftened by wearing a mask of quilted cotton, wet with cold water at night. This mask was often lined with a poultice of bread and asses' milk. A compress of this kind was worn nightly for weeks In order to effect the desired change. It is said to have acted like a mild, imperceptible blis ter. The shining pallor of the poet was affected by many women, and most heroic treatment was undergone to ac ERILOUS ORCHID HUNTING probably very few people have any Idea that Orchid hunting, like .lion or tiger hunting, is a dangerous sport. The strange beauty of the flowers and the high prices which they .bring are the subject of common comment, hut the fact that the beauty sometimes fatal and that the price is the reward of labor that is both strenuous ancT perilous is little known outside the trade. On a calculation, of chances,-how ever, it would appear that shooting big game is a safe venture compared with the search for .these lovely para sites' of tropical vegetation. An arti cle in Harmsworth's Magazine gives a, striking story in point. It relates that af eight orchid hunters who left Tam •ttave, Madagascar, to look for speci mens seven perished within a year, while the eighth barely managed to es :ape from the island's swamps with lis health ruined. It Is in such places that the search must be pursued, and men have lost their lives in the work not only in Madagascar, but In Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela and Sierra Leone. Nor are the risks those of climate ilone. It may he necessary to deal with wild animals while on a quest for the wild flowers, and there are gen erally hostile natives. to be placated. All that the adventurers of old under went when they penetrated the new world to seek the fountain of life, and' Fabulous miner of gold may fall to the lot of these adventurers of a later day. The romance is reduced, however, to a plain business proposition. Many of the men are sent out by regular dealers who pay them for their ser vices. For the person who puts the capital into the enterprise there are chances for large profits, hut it is -said that a fortune is more likely to be lost than won in these orchid speculations: The value of the flowers consists large ly. in their rarity, and on a rapidly 3topked market prices may fall from The oldest postmistress in the coun try is Mrs. Mary PaschaP of Trenton, Ind., who was appointed»by President Lincoln and who is now 90 years old. To her women who hold postoffice po sitions today owe much. Her bitter struggle to defend the mails in the early days of her appointment to the office and her ultlmate success foifever opened the field to women. She tells the story of her adventures In a 'spirited manner. "When i'first received my commis sion," said the postmistress,,"I found immediately that my path would be very dllhcult' Not only was there the Imperfect mail system to stumble over, but the will of the. men of the country was against me because of the high feeling opposed to women holding pub lic offices. Not infrequently I was compelled to .remain awake all night watching the mail bags, and occasion ally I had difficulty in securing the mail at all. For when the bag was thrown from the train upon the plat form at the depot the men of the town would seize it before I could get with ing reach and assort the mail to suit themselves. Of. course, the men had no right to disturb the mail, but: they took the. law in their own hands, be lieving a woman powerless. "I tolerated this behavior for a short time, and then purchased a sun. One day Just befoM the mSll traln had 4 OLDEST PflSTMISTR[SS |sfEH?^"f Peculiar Practices to Insure Bea-Uty. quire It. A wash of vitriol was eveB used. It consisted of muriatic acid, 60 per cent, strong diluted in 12 parts of water. When applied it will gradu ally-clear away the coarse outer skin, to give place to a beautiful velvety new one underneath." Dieting was an important factor in the struggle. Still hearty meals were the rule, in spite of the tradition for delicate appetite among our foremoth ers. Coarse bread, made of graham and rye flour, was the imperative rale. No white bread was eaten. It was es pecially avoided as. most fatal to a fine skin. Potatoes, celery, artichoke and salads were eaten freely. The wild tomato or love apple, as it was called, was considered a wonderful beautifier, and whole platterfuls werq eaten at one sitting. Brown bread and molasses was a remedy guaranteed to produce a pink and lovely skin. The fight against freckles and wrinkles was an absorbing combat. Most women sat all day long in seclu sion with their faces covered with court plaster patches over the wrinkled spots In their patient efforts to smooth out the skin. Most heroic treatment was generally necessary, and the face was actually coated with liquid tar and olive oil to iron it out. Freckles and brown spots of all kinds were rubbed out with turpentine. Painted Like a Wax Figure. Strange as it may seem, in spite of continual efforts to -beautify the skin, paint and powder were freely and dar ingly used. Mlladl was as artistically painted for a public appearance as if she were a wax figure. Rouge was heavly-applied, and'the carmine used in artificial flowers often acted' as a substitute.' Washington women set the fashions in the use of cosmetics, and they even appeared at breakfast with their facea covered with chalk and rouge, "their eySb.jws stained with walnut juice, and with tresses touched up with bleaching liquids unless, pow dered white. Powdered wigs were gradually going out of fashion, and a few to whom the white coiffure was becoming covered the head with pow dered starch, sifted through7 muslin, and scented with oil of rose3. Gathering the-Cost* ly Flowers is a .. Dangerous Sport, many pounds to a few shillings within a short period. Queen Alexander. Love for children is a prominent trait of the character of the queen con sort. She was passionately, devoted to her own children, and she has neVer wholly recovered from the death of Jier eldest born, the Duke of Clarence. Several months after her bereavement shei was walking in the laiies near her home, when she met an old woman staggering under the weight of bur dens too heavy for her._ The princess stopped her to speak a few words of sympathy, and learned that .she per formed the duties of a carrier, execut ing commissions between two villages. "The bundles are too heavy for me!" she lamented, bursting into tears. "I never carried them when Jack was here." "Who is Jack and where is he now?" kindly inquired the princess. "Jack's my boy, and he's dead—dead!" wildly exclaimed the old woman. With another sympathetic word Alexandra turned. away, hurriedly lowering her yell to hide her emotion. She could understand the sorrow of a mother who had lost her boy. The next day there was sent to the woman a cart drawn by a. stout donkey. In this cart the old carrier made her journeys in com fort for the rest of her life. The First-Torpedoes. Torpedoes, when first employed by the Americans against the British in the Revolutionary war, were called American turtles, and their use was pronounced infamous and worthy only of savages. v^,-: Expectations.' 'When ayoung man asks a girl to clip a. thread off his necktie., and there is nobody else around, she may be excus ed for being disappointed if that is all' that happens.—Somerville Journal. arrived I went upon the platform, lev elled my gun and declared.^ would shoqt the first ruffian who touched the United States' mail. I was a pretty good shot, having often-gone hunting with my brothers at the old farm in the.wilds of West Virginia,'and when a fellow seized the bag I put a bullet in his leg. "That episode marked the iast of the troubles at the station but hostili ties did not cease at my home. 'At night attempts were made to rob the place, and this necessitated my sleep ing, under theVcounter, -which I did 'for three -months. But I' could not prevent broken windows.- .These cqw- ardly acts -werft ntit done by reputable citizens,' who, nevertheless, tried more effective means of forcing me from my position. Several petitions against me were sent to Washington, but Presi dent Lincoln ..^remained my stanch friend. "After- a few months thechief an noyances ceasert, and the only trouble I had was with the imperfect mall sys tem, for -which some people blamed me." Although 90 years old," the aged post, mistress still retains her position.^ Before the "ehl this year, tele phonic communication! will have. been establish^ Heftreen t&e icitles ol'. Italy and Switzerland. TINTYPE? MAY PREVARICATE. taacoMt and Foreign Label* Stamped on the Cover*. When the tintype man came out with the pictures he asked the young couJ pie, what address they would Ilka stamped on the red paper cover. They didn't seem to understand the ques tion and he repeated It. "I can put on any .place you like," he added. "I am provided with rubber fjtamps, with which I can stamp the name of every town of impprtance from Coney Island to Constantinople, and I can fill in the date to suit my customers. Here is my local stamp. It says, 'In Old Coney Island.' I don't use that, how* ever, nearly so often the seacoast and foreign labels. They come in handy for people who like to put up a "bluB that they have been further away from home than they really have. Thesfl social frauds are a little late in begin ning their deception this-year, owing to the backwardness of the season, but today has brought a rush of business and the Long Branch and Atlantic City stamps have been overworked. The outlook is good for an unusually large crop of pretenders who are going to make their- friends think they have been away this summer. To back them. up In their assertions they are going to lay In a good supply of tintypes. For the last two or three seasons peo ple who leave New York for a day or a week or a month of the year have made a practice of getting their pic tures taken in every town visited, as a souvenir of the trip. All this photo graphing would be expensive if high class artists were always patronized, so in order to curtail the cost the ambi tious travelers look up the tintype men. This habit of economy has been a blessing to me as well as to the stay at-homes. A regular photograph would bear the name of the artist as well as the address, and thus make deception impossible, but most tintypes look alike, no matter where taken, so all I have to do is to finish the picture and stamp on any address desired. In that respect I am the best friend of the im pecunious. It isn't everybody who would take the trouble to humor their foibles, but I go on the practice that a man who has not. enough amiability to ac commodate his customers has no right to be In business, and so I help them whenever and however possible. What place did you say? Coney Island or—" The maid looked at the man sheepish ly. "Let's' put It New Haven," she said. "That will sound better than Coney Island."—New York Press. LINCOLN'S AVENGER. &ome Stories Illustrating Hoston Cor bett's Impulsiveness and Courage. Sallie Bruner Houston tells the Smith County (Kan.) Pioneer a curious story of how she received the news of the assassination of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. She was 4 years old at the date of the assassination of Lincoln, but she remembers that when the news came to her father's farmhouse she "leaned up against the big fireplace and cried," while her mother "wiped her own eyes with her apron." Ol the assassination of Garfield Mrs.' Houston relates this story: "At thai time we were living on our farm six miles south of Corordia, this state. Several of the famuy, including my self, were sitting in the yard with Bos ton Corbett, the man who shot the as sassin of Lincoln. At that time Cor bett lived on a farm near us. While we" sat there my father came from town and brought the news of tha shooting of President Garfield. Every one who remembers Corbett remenf bers his impulsive nature. He was quick as a cat. The news seemed to electrify him. He jumped to his feet, saying: 'I wish I were there.' We all knew what he meant. There would have been no trial for Guiteau. All who ever knew Boston Corbett knew that he would have shot Guiteau oh the spot had he oeen there. It was about this timei that Corbett was ar rested on complaint of some of hia neighbors for some petty offense and taken to Concordia for trial before a justice of the peace. He thought that hfe was not getting justice, so he drew his ever-ready revolver and ordered them out and thus cleared the court room. He then mounted his little black pony and went home. There was a great deal of talk of having him rearrested, and several persons went to his home to do so, but did not have the courage to do so. As they always returned without him, the case was finally, dropped." Anarchists Elected In Borne. The Camera di Lavoro—a body en tirely composed of worklngmen, but recognized officially by the municipal ity of Rome, from which it receives 500 lire subsidy per month, might bs translated into^ English as "trades union." "It has between 8,000 and 9,000 members on its rolls, but only some 2,500 took part In the elections list week. The battle was between the socialists single-handed and an alliance of Republicans and anarch ists, and the result was the complete victory ot the coalition. Five repub licans and three anarchists headed the list the beaten socialists oblaiued only thei three scats allotted to the minor ity. The fact has Its Importance, for It signals thq first appearance of the anarchists in the'public life of Rome— ,less than two years since an interna tional congresb was. held here to de- vise measures for their suppression and just a year after one of their party assassinated the King of Italy.—Lon. ddn Tablet. Honors Basy. She— "You know, John, you promis ed me a sealskin wrap and—" He— 'And' you promised to keep my stock* ings darned, and you haven't done it." She—"Well, you don't. mean to say you'll break your promise on that ac count?" He—"Well, it's Just like thlitf You don't give a darn, and I don't ^lv*1 a wrap."—Philadelphia Press. :*s-. T- rj A aiip JW Compressed "Air. js The latest" application of compressed air to human comfort is seen in a bar ber's shop in* New York. At each of the barber's ,stands there Is a small rubber tufee with a screw nozzle. The. tubes connect. With .a large tank filled' with compressed air in the rear of the shop. When .the barber finishes shav ings customer he attaches the 7 1 1 -•tsv-Avvrwo-r. -,1