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CHAPTER aESW',
It was at the Liverpool railway station
that Lord Kildonau confronted his wife
and Crosraont, the sickly light of a flick
ering gas lamp high above falling on hia
figure, on what could be seen of his face.
The words froze on their guilty lips; the
blood leaped up, and then seemed to stag
nate in their veins as the cold eyes pierced
them. Crosmont stopped, and stared up,
as still as a dead man, shattered, con
founded, without a word, without a cry.
Lady Kildonan, with a hoarse and broken
shriek that rang in hideous echoes
through the huge bare station, staggered
back, back, with starting eyes and strug
gling breath, until, before they could stop
her, before they had even time to realize
the danger she was in, she reached the
edge of the platform, and with a .last fatal
backward step, fell with a moan on the
metals. Lord Kildonan sprang'down line
a young man, lifted her in his arms, and
stared into her fac-e. When Armathwaite
joined him, the old Scotchman’s face was
all broken up with passionate anxiety, his
voice broken and weak as a child.
“I Inua not killed her, Frank, have I?
Speak, boy, speak!” he said in a husky
whisper, as he lifted..the head that hung
limp and powerless oixvia shoulder.
Armathwaite, whose Itrofissianal in
stinct had given him back all his rcim at
the moment of the accident, looked at
her, touched her.
“No,” he said, briefly; “she is not dead.
We must get her on to the platform!
Crosmont!”
This call to the young man, who was
still standing like a statue with dull eyes
and leaden limbs, woke him to life and
action. He would have helped to raise
the prostrate woman, but Lord Kildonan,
in his coldest, harshest tone, forbade him
to touch her. The latter, with the assist
ance of Armathwaite, lifted her on to the
platform just as the Branksome train
steamed slowly up towards them. Frank
suggested that she ought to remain in
Liverpool that night—that it would be
dangerous for her to travel. Her head
had fallen on the metals; no one could tell
yet what injury she had sustained. Lord
Kildonan was immovable,
i “She must go home!” he said, briefly.
“And if it should kill her, my load ?”
“We can still perhaps save her reputa
tion,” said Lord Kildonau in his coldest
tone.
But he was deeply moved, tie never
took his eyes off his wife’s white face as
they carried her into a compartment and
laid" her on the seat. Crosmont still stood
on the platform, and Armathwaite went
back to him, and laid his hand on his
arm.
The agent was shivering like a man
with ague.
“Come,” said Armathwaite, “you must
come back .with us.” \
, “N'o, no,” said Crosmont, hoarsely.
After some few moments’ appeal! warn
ing him
11' 1:1 1
fHat jflOf SMUfUIiItSC
5.1 ’’per- j
induced him to take
38&88!thc next compartment to that
VflMMn., husband and wife, weirdly
traveling. Then, after ex-
Kildonan anil j" r^TW
lt was a tf "Me efwn hours
ing nil the without move-
Lady Kudo-aim b y muttering a few
meut. from time tl or opening
words to herself mcohcrei , |
WOIU'S u. ~y blank stare <*
her eyes vs d' l . ain automatically
only to close the V impression,
without having taken in > Februa ry
At seven o'clock ou ™*Jj a into Brank
morning, the trP gtol j paße roused Lady
some station. , d u and looked
Ivildonan; she Surug* * ' incoherent
vacantly about her, mutten >8 she
ly that It . w . a f_| at “vlthout noticing her
should be late—b’ J put her veil over her
companions, ria t her> t 0 which
face and fastene p accept
she made no An &1 .
ed his suggestion to . the station,
lowed him to lead . u s u was her
apparently ancon u- - ker t&tter .
husband who er si de. Sne turn
ins footsteps on 0 direction of the
ed instmctivel} m Uvedi and
house wheie Anne street they
at the opening covere d cart waiting with
found a small c treacherous
the woman who bad b £* maUlwaite reCog
accomplice inside it. first t hat she |
n'i/.ed her at once, - herself, and sec- 1
looktxl a little as^m^herseu, mrf
ond ’ b ;..-eM when “she saw how ill the lady
rT? They lifted her into the cart;
looked. | n( -> . , . lace beside her,
r ,.
an 1 n, That he might prescribe for her i
Mu hi”"iS "*
Or f SS ; Matthews Who drove herself
stmw'd at the bottom of the private path
stopped at her custom; and
to The Or - Kildouan,
th h >TTs noT gTowing'excited and fever
who 1 . ..." a, tVio npivi+p
.'the hill, through the private gate,
1 • h Tas open, and into the house by
which was I , T hioh Lord Kildoimn
bad Tn,Tn a narrow private staircase,
opened upon _ a* at the top, by
donail’s apartments unobserved by any
body except her ladyship’s maid.
With the assistance of this woman
K ild ! ,na
CU ,!?‘°L?. £ „ tont an ' hour, at the end of
xvith tier about an uoui,
"T U ' h r tTiefTherlo"'am of 'her hus-
T'idkly
TuThow this terrible event would affect ,
‘lfvTTrTuTTlie reached the agent’s ’
house it was half-past nine. the >
Liverpool and would not be back until
the afternoon.
Alma, hearing the doctor’s voice, came
out into the hall, tie told her that some
thing very serious for Ned had happened.
He knew her husband had returned from
Liverpool, but the servants had not seen
him...
“He lets himself in with his own key,”
Said She. “He may be in his study. Come
with me.”
They went out together, going by some
instinct so silently, so softly, that their
footsteps, their movements scarcely made
a sound as they went from end to end of
the old house. At the study door they
stopped, and, with a loud-beating heart,
Alma knocked. There was no answer.
She did not knock a second time, but
looked at the handle with a pale, fright
ened face, as if she did not dare to touch
it. Armathwaite came forward and open
ed the door.
Sitting before the grate, which was lit
tered with scraps'of a torn letter, and in
which the gray ashes of the previous
night’s tire yet remained, sat Ned Cros
mont, his legs stretched out, his head on
his breast, his arms hanging loose at his
sides. Alma had often seen him almost
in that attitude, and it reassured her. She
came further into the room, calling softly,
“Ned!” He did not answer, he did not
move. Armathwaite thought she knew
tlro-tasilh. Not having been prepared for
some sight unusually shocking, it did not
occur to Alm-y. that death could come so
suddenly and ym o quietly. She came
close to him with *."*id steps, thinking
that he was lost in miscJ n We brooding,
put her arm round his shoulder., -nd tried
to draw him to her, kindly, com terylv.
His head had rolled heavily against he,
breast.
“Ned, Ned, never mind,” she whispered,
feeling, with a thrill through her gentle
heart, that at last the moment she had
expected had come, when he did not re
pulse her, when he was glad of her sym
pathy; “I’ll comfort you, Ned—l’ll console
you. Never mind what it is, I’m sorry.
He is dead,” she said, solemnly, raising
her eyes to the doctor’s face.
Then the tears began to gather in her
eyes, and, bending over the dead man,
she put her lips to his forehead, not in
sorrowing love, but in pity and forgive
ness.
“Come, come away,” whispered Frank,
who saw that the struggling emotions of
horror and womanly regret and irrepressi
ble. relief were trying the sensitive lady
beyond her strength.
She let him lead her out at the door,
which Frank dosed softly behind them;
but before she had made three steps along
the passage she suddenly drew away her
hand from his arm, put it up to her head,
Ilf LUH 4.IVJIU Ul3 CL I Lit, i'll L L ujr IV CIX-C
and, with a low cry as of a prisoner who
sees the dungeon doors flung suddenly ,i
open, she reeled and fell to the groundj
l''rankgatheredhjW^^jJg®rt|rtM|Mß
work and
to'the drawing room. There
carried her down, but seating h'.m
he dad not put he w j n( Jow in the
self in an armchair by me he
full Maze of t e mi)ment s tenderly
rocked her fo f ha(J been a child,
“ue .eyes shone with hope and
I,i !^ an r d lXttieonf,’’ 0 he e 'wluspered into.her
‘•Poor wMow; you have
deal ears. wronging no
.T S tt°e snatched a passion ate kiss; but
silent, he snatc touched hers, the
the instant b jJ r fa( .e, and her brown
color her i . of
eyes met Ins w h a sou l. From
the wakening of a si 1 S known
rTnk r S her to her feet, and gently
support of his arm, said
gr^tlnk d y™e y better now, modarm
If ouM suggest Tour remaining here, while
IZt 35 'lT a iT WE
for them to know, and prevent tneir ui=-
tU wr>mnk°vcu. You are very kind,” said
T 7- in- with her eves on the ground.
Sh w f th S f wia bow, and without another I
. her Frank left the room. But I
1555 tera s? sss'tss
su
'was there, each almst able to hear the
was tn , to£ the other. But
beating o pUvnk of wood be
there was omy a tin P bgen a
tween t he whole world. And
ba T' e T a en. StW away to his work and
T\tv and she to the woman’s part of
patiently waiting and °a
SdTng o h f%tX! but with a solemn
requiem.
Ctq BE COSTIKUF.D.)
_ ~
Moral Suasion. j
c™tipr'aa—Do you mean to sav j
that your tethers never thrash jou? |
Ll Sn ß °atTur e "hool. Old Gentleman |
What’s that? Boy-Oh, we get kep ,
and stood up in the corners ana ,
locked out, and locked in, and made to ,
1 -T one word a thousand times, and ,
”’S,a”
Editor's Rural Teleplton* System.
A Missouri editor has had erected,
equipped and connected with his pn t -
in& office an estansive system of tele- t
phone lines, going not only to near-hy ,
t wvns but. also to numerous farm- ,
houses His original object was solely i
Jo gain news more easily tor his paper
The enterprise has developed untU ,
now he has an extensive rural tele- •
phone system.
Jl the linen shirtwaist,
Porter’s Xinen Now Employed in a De
lightful "Way by the Dressmakers,
The embroidered shirtwaist of port
er’s linen needed but to come and be
seen to achieve unconditional surren
der to its excellence. Porter’s linen,
by the way, is another example of a
plebeian material put to patrician uses,
for the French shirt makers, observ
ing the fine wearing qualities and good
color values of the blue homespun
linen blouses worn by the railway
porters, promptly began utilizing the
stout and simple goods for their
patrons’ easy little, summer waists.
The linen, which is woven with an
uneven thread and other careless
work in order to simulate the ine
qualities of the handloom, comes in
two colors: a pure rich deep blue and
a lighter blue that seems to have a
white bloom on it. These are called
washed and unwashed blues, in imita
tion of the fine true color the porter’s
blouse possesses when new and first
worn worn and the effect of water
and sun on it after many washings.
With the color and texture the sim
ilarity ends. Most of the smart blue
linen blouses are enriched With hand
needlework, laid over the bosom only
or scattered over the entire length and
width of the garment. In many in
stances the collar and belt are made
to exactly match. . On the expensive
waists this needle work decoration
serves as a substitute for tucks.
Not, however, that tucked shirt
waists are in the least losing their
vogue, regiments of pale brown batiste
and cliambry and madras waists
tucked solidly have appeared on the
counters. The newest of those are
very finely tucked and then embroid
ered in white, or decorated directly on
the tucked surface, with pale cream
colored lace applications, which run
over their broad sailor collars and full
fronts.
The albatross shirtwaist, that fast
ens down the back with a row of close
set fiat pearl buttons, or fastens up
the front only from neck to bust, and
is put on over the head, has been
claimed by the woman who wears
short skirts. She prefers it in blue
with a black satin Kaiser stock, hav
ing the decoration done in applied
; bands of bright Oriental cotton em
broidery. Both the albatross and the
cotton embroidery improve under the
laundress’s hands,—New York Sun.
The Unselfish Garden.V
Every unselfish person’s Jgai'den
should have a corner from wicli to
gather flowersfor giftstoone’s flmnds,.
use in the house and for peAonalJ
the s cb a place' can ,
SOW the odds and ends °f seeJtleft
after sowing the garden befeJM !
seedlings may he transplanted I.)
at thinning-out time. Here
from the window garden may bfc put
out to root, and they will flower m
due season, thus helping to frmsh a
•n-eater variety than annuals alone
will be able to give. Such a “cut-and
. come-again” corner is often the/most
, delightful part of the garden. Among
: the desirable plants for it whici can
, not he obtained from seed are helio
tropes, carnations and tea roses. H
1 will pay the woman who loves choice
flowers to invest a little money in each
of these. They will bloom throughout
the season and afford a vast amount of
pleasure at small expense Old plants
of carnations are more desirable than
young ones. Those you have wintered
in the house may be used here to good
advantage and new ones grown on tor
next season’s use. Heliotrope is easily
grown from cuttings. Tea roses cost
ing from five to ten cents a plant will
soon grow to flowering size.-Aew
; Tort Commercial Advertiser.
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Hints to'Needle-Women.
Never use long basting-threads, es
i necially in the basting of waists, nor
think to save time by taking long
1 stitches. Pins should be used plenti
t fully while fitting a garment on the
i fi^ ur e but they should be replaced im
mediately with regular basting the
moment the garment is removeu. The
position for hooks or buttons, and toi
the corresponding eyes or button-ho.es,
should be carefully out-lined with
thread in preference to marking witn
! pencil or soapstone,
i When curved seams to l>
: stitched up on the machine, fine bast
. | juc.-_i.e., by means of short stitches
1 ! becomes imperative if the seamstress
1 | would avoid puckering in her work. 11
such curved work be around the foot
of a skirt, as in the case of a flared
ruffle the hem first should be basted,
lightly sponged, and carefully pressed
before the stitching is done. The ama
-1 teur dressmaker is sometimes troubled
I over a slight bulging at the point of
la dart in the skirt or bodice, when
I otherwise the garment fits most satis-
I factorily. Generally this may be ob-
I viated by lightly sponging the part
I in question, and pressing w ith hot
j iron so that a quick shrinking follows.
—Harper’s Bazar.
liaising ol- Belgium Hales.
Two women in Ashtabula, Ohio, who
started a rabbitry little more than a
rear a ; o with three Imported Belgium
hares, costing §IOO apiece, have now
besides the original three a hundred
others, worth as a whole not less
than SIOOO. In addition, to these tMj
ihave sold over §3OO w o-th of stop
i fluring the year. In a recent interview
one of these women declared -hat qo
i
more delightful occupation fiNm theirs
could be found for won/Xi. “We
feed and water the hares twice a day,”
she said, “although some authorities
think that once is sufficient. We have
never had a case of snuffles, slobbers
or sneezes in our rabbitry. Keeping
track of their pedigree gives us no end
of bookkeeping.
“Four litters a year, and sometimes
six, is the rate at which Belgian hares
multiply, and the number of babies in
each ranges from five to nine. The
price that the animals will bring de
pends mostly upon age. Full blooded
stock is worth from $lO to $25 up to
six months old. After that a;je they
bring more.”
V
Women Have a Darning; Club.
The women of Centralia, Mo., have
organized a darning club. Men’s socks
are a specialty in their new organiza
tion, and it has been denounced as an
encouragement to baelielordom.
The officers of the club are the most
expert menders and they assist the
rest by showing how to mend the
worst holes. “She who cannot darn
cannot join” is the club’s official mot
to, but exceptions have been made in
the interest of uninstructed sisters and
the motto no longer has the force it
had at first. Meetings are held fort
nig'htingly and the club boasts of hav
ing darned 144 pairs of hosiery at a
sitting.
Members only are admitted to the
afternoon sessions, but in the evenings
admiring husbands are permitted to
attend and to watch their better halves
at work. No charge is made for the
sock darning and those bachelors of
Centralia who expect to live elsewhere
in some period in their lives are very
anxious that such a useful institution
as its darning club shall he imitated
as widely as possible.
Simple Morning Gowns,
Morning gowns are most essential
now to the comfort of every woman
who likes to he well gowned, and by
the term “morning gown” is not
meant to include matinees, tea gowns,
or similar loose flowing garments, but
rather trim little costumes of cloth,
linen or cambric, as the season may
warrant, and made in simple style
without elaboration, so that they are
equally suitable to be worn in the
house or out-of-doors. The simple
morning gown for the city should
serve for marketing, for household er
rands, and for other utilitarian pur
poses; but is not at all like the plain
tailor gown, which, of course, is quite
feasible for any morning wear out-of
doors. These gowns have, as a rule,
waists to match the skirts, although
the skirts are made so they may be
worn with shirtwaists.—Harper’s Ba
zar.
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Oddities in Ribbon.
A new departure in narrow ribbons
has tiny pin spots all over on white
or contrasting grounds, and tubular--
that is, woven double. These are in-
j.-,q f or cravats, and there is an
fancy w
enodd"w aSTarbled ejects in
s -irUns,
Tffiey d are P< in facfreproductions of the
years ago’, but very pretty in thmr new
treatment. Meet edges figure
many of the new ribbons.
Pretty little coats for children are j
of grass linen, made up over
color. lf
Color combination's In the net" gd
gloves, especially m taitans,
strikingly handsome.
L aro-e pearl buckles of different de
signs “are the prettiest of anything o
the kind for children’s coats.
White lace, with an applique of pom-
T^srszsrsxss:
a ucauwxv.
-street gowns. , _ <
Fe it outing hats are trimmed as .
sr-— 00,
ors, the kumchundas.
T ittle lawn jackets for children are
made in colors and have a- U
The lower part is pleated and seem eu
to the yoke hy a beading of " h *te. |
The "old embroidered veil is tne lat
me , showing lmes of
t S lr c ctried out“in tinsel ,
thread is supplemented by gold spots
i on the plain net.
Vs the fad for going about Dare
- headed in the country will " nd °" b
3 > lv be followed this year, much care
f | win naturally be taken in dressing the
t . . A n sorts of fancy bows and
1 combs will he used for this
\ .-.t.,*s?iir fucked all
Annie "Teen glace silk tucked an
satin liberty should accompany this
V Simple and serviceable long cape,
--he front, sloping up slightly, is 0
SaeU Hn,S *
Simply stitched with wlme It J #
little more than knee lengt . . .(
little more uis.itn „ w fnl
garment which would he useful
many purposes. _ ;‘®-
Chief among the
toilet at the moment are wa£. fuJ
Some are most artistic,
stones inserted m wrongs e
ver or gold.
enamels linked tiro
; ing chains, wii®p
, kind will be JF
SOME SPIDER STORIES.
Proctor Knott’s Story of the Spider Tba
Cauglit a Mouse.
It is a curious fact that floating
threads from the webs of spiders will
take the bluing off a gun barrel. I have
been unable to find out why. The
threads of the big tropical spiders are
distinctly bitter to the taste, but
though the first thought a man has
when he tastes anything bitter is that
it must be good for medicine, the only
use the healing art makes of spiders’
webs is to use them to stanch the flow
of blood. The kind of web used for
that grows under the counters of gro
ceries, and it was one of these spiders
that caught a mouse. I will admit,
right in the beginning, that this looks
like a pretty large story, but it is sub
stantiated by no less a personage than
the late Proctor Knott, who was then
Governor of Kentucky, though his
greater claim to fame was his speech
in Congress about Duluth, “the zenith
city of the unsalted seas,” as he hu
morously called it, which is very far
indeed from being anything nowadays
but a plain statement of fact, as he
lived to see. Governor Knott made a
statement of the event and sent it to
Professor McCook, whose authority
on the spider question nobody will dis
pute. Pie saw the spider shortly after
she had snared the mouse by the end
of its tail, and while it was still alive
and struggling half-way off the
ground, and he saw it after it had been
hoisted nine inches from the floor and
all "wrapped up in silk. He calls par
ticular attention to the way the spider
kept stirring up the mouse by biting
it so as to get another line on it. I
can just imagine that spider after she
had worked all day hauling on lines
and hallooing “o-hee!” to her children
that were helping her—if, indeed, they
didn’t stand around and let her do all
the work. “Law!” she gasped when
the prize was finally landed in the nest,
“I’m just done out! But, my! ’Twas
worth it! Phew! Why, come in, Mrs.
Linyphia. Hain’t seen you I don’t
know them. Children, get up and let
Mrs. Linyphia set down. Ain’t you
got no manners at all? Bun along
now and don’t he gawking at the com
pany like you never seen nobody be
fore. Yes, I done it all myself, and -t
just about tuckered me, Mrs. Linyphia.
I don’t know’s I’ll ever get over it. I
strained my back terrible lifting so
hard, but I thinks to myself, ‘l’ll meb
by never git another chance to git so
much neat in to once, and my family
Is such turrible eaters.”— Harvey Suth
erland, in Ainslee’s.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Fitaltforces are seldom visible.
All tricks come back to the trickster;
Hasty judgments are apt he
harsh. /
Some flowers oust f Alt their
seeds may fall. jV-
The flowers of honaßprCom in the
soil of humility.
A man may have iBSm mind//!
H. man ■ - anT
out a cutting rfBQT
unwilling to me,, .auuro
never secure success.
The best proof of a man’s character
is taken in the press of Me.
He who talks of to neighbor s mote
iT to hide his own team.
The man who revolves around him-
s q f -will never get anywhere.
LI worth depends on what you
J and uot on what you have.
AU men have equal rights but not
equal resolution to reach them fl
Chaff may be ground as fine
flour but it will not make
The assets of character 1G
vou are and not what you hat e.
y . nnd tears promises
lowing in pain anu i-*-
the reaping in plenty and triumph.
I=-"S”rrs
tion" __ni usually wince on the 1
sp ttThere W L US c-c y icnce is most
W Z only man who * di,
seminate his thoughts
j concentrate them.—ham
. Aluminum IVire.
' mn.ro are three separate transmi -
- ci -cu ts from the Niagara power
Sl ° + ’Buffalo Woof which are
house to Buffal same pole
?m P e Pe The thhd circuit is strung upon
S-SSHfri 1
i same resistance as each ot
1
I of thirty-seven strands. At the pr J
er^to'useAluminum 3
t-here the conductors do not have to
he insulated. The conductivity of alit
minum is less than copper, and h
m-ice per pound is greater, but tre
puce i f aluminum if
-1
1 of the metal. When therefore re
ance per pound is taken as the ua,
for comparison, aluminum is _
he cheaper.—Cassier s Ha„a_
Abating-.
Good Effects of frujt tJj
The apple is suchh its remarkaf
few are familiairties. Everybc|(
efficacious -mat the very best till■
1 ought to # to fat apples just befd ]
: they e."' tbe ai S*t. The apple is f i
1 retfh b ™ ln f °od, because it hi i
i r Phosphoric acid in easily digest
?t ex ?> a “f Uy othei ’ vegetable know i
it excites the action nf fha
m + aetlon of tlj e liver vi
motes sound and healthy sleep’ ar
thoroughly disinfects the mouth P Th
surnl if ••/ he aPPIG WutSZJS
su plus acids Of the stomach, helps il
Mney secretions and is one of t
best preventives known of diseases!
me throat. -D r Searlec h t
Agriculture. *’ 13 3ou ™4
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OUR BUDGET 0E HUMOR
LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.
On the Bridge at Midnight— Art Cookery
—Needed Explanation—Calmer Topics
A Leading Question Extenuating
Circumstances, Etc., Etc,
I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clock was striking the hour,
And I wondered what the hour had done
That the clock should strike it twelve
times one,
Within the old church tower.
. —Philadelphia Record.
Art Cookery.
“What lovely brown biscuits she
makes!”
“Yes; in colorature cooking she is
quite unexcelled.”—Puck.
Needed Explanation.
Mrs. Homer—“My oldest boy is get
ting to be just like his father.”
Mrs. Gadboy—“ls that compliment
ary to the boy, or otherwiste.'”—Chi
cago News.
Calmer Topics.
“Our next-door neighbor is getting
old.”
“What do you go by?”
“He’s quit talking baseball and gone
to talking garden.” —Detroit Free
Press.
A Reading- Question.
Hobb —“I put one hundred dollars in
the bank for my baby the other day,
for his majority.”
Nobh—“That’s good. How long are
you going to keep it there?”—Harper’s
Nazar.
Extenuating Circumstances.
She —“You know we are told to love
our neighbors as ourselves.”
He —“Yes; hut when that was writ
ten it wasn’t known that I was going
to have my mother-in-law for a neigh
bor!” —Yonkers Statesman.
Could Peep Over It.
I entered the place trustingly, as is
my wont.
“I should like to l<sok over your col
lars,” said I.
“Alas!” giggled the haberdasher, “I
fear your neck, is too short!”
For, in despite of our vast commer
cial expansion, there are still among
us those who would rather be bright
than succeed in business.—Detroit
Journal.
Aii Optimistic Confession.
“Don’t you think- you are a little ex
treme in your optimism?”
Foss'ibly, But it is due to my love
of originality. This world has so
mfiny conspicuous faults that there is
no use of trying to make any impres
sion by pointing them out. But if you,
can call attention to anything
in the least degree praisej^telfr the
chances are that be hailed. as
a discoverer. -^ ington stai ,
Eslendly Tr latment Bad Enou „ h .
-file— *i i i i xi,„ x
-■ _ T hate to have that man
for ari enemy.”
Browne —“Who is he?”
Tovrae —“I don’t know, hut he
punched my head once.”
Browne—“ Well, if he wasn't an en
emy I’d like to ”
Towne—“Oh, you see it was all a
mistake. After he punched me he
said, ‘Excuse me, Buddy, I took yer
fur a friend of mine.’ ’’—Philadelphia
Press.
An Objeotor.
“I nearly fainted during the cere
mony,” said the bride.
“Really! Why so?”
“Well, you know, when the minister
asked if any one knew any reasons
why the couple should cot marry?”
“Yes.”
“Well, in the intense hush that fol
lowed. Mr. Longwed leaned over to
Jack Davis and I heard him whisper:
I ‘I do; tliousands and thousands of
I ’em.’ ’’-Indianapolis Sun.
I .
flashed.
Thcfeautiful Griselda beamed radl
antlyfpon me.
“I p not care for potatoes unless
theyl'e mashed!” said she.
■ywing,” said I, “that woman’s
' lovf for the most part responsive.
men •
Ife the waiter came with the beef
st|, smothered, and as we filled our
f J with these our conversation be
ef: naturally less philosophical and
& desultory.—Detroit Journal.
Sweet Conceit.
mere was moonlight and the waters
ihe lake glimmered like molten dia
|hds. A thrush sang sleepily and
dm a botit rocking on the bosom of
f placid waters came the faint tinkle
a guitar.
“What would you say,” he cried in
w, husky tones, leaning toward the
linty vision occupying the other end
the boat, “if I were to tell you that
think of you day and night, and
■en dream of you?”
“Well,” she replied, with a soft-stop
irgle, “I would say you were capable
J. HUUIU OUJ J ciu tU'iC CilJJcllUltJ
f)t most beautiful thoughts.”
After that he rowed viciously.—
•Denver Times.
A Cautious Millionaire.
> Mr. Midas (about to make will)—“In
'disposing of my estate, while I am
anxious that my son should liaVe the
benefit of a goodly share of it, I do
not wish him to become possessed of
it in bulk.”
Lawyer—“ Excuse me for saying it,
but the inference of that instruction
Seems to do your soil injustice. He
has always seemed to me to he a
young man absolutely free from any
tendency to dissipation.”
j Mr. Midas—“ Very true, but you can
(not tell to what channel ambition for
(notoriety may lure him; he may take
Jit into his .head to become a United
States senator.”—Richmond Dispatch.