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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1901)
OUR Though my way lead through tho lone wood .nd thy way If nil o'er the hill, I feel and I know ' flint vc both liu t go To the tryst which a long love wills. ' it ' l'or after the gloom of the forest And after the gleam on the cre3l, : It cannot but be ' That for thee nnd for me . Cornea the land which we both love best. MRS. MOIiliISON MEETS HER MATCH i "H M Is Impossible, utterly Impossible!" said Mrs. Sidney Molllson. "Tho "(T Idea of thai young sec ond-rate bookkeeper sending iv silver hand mirror as a ChrlBttnuH present to my dnugbtcr! Mr. Molllson, do you hear me?" Mr. Molllson's eyes wore In the even lug paper, but he said he was not deaf. "I should think you would have a higher opinion of Meryl's worth than to sanction such a match." "My dear Dora. I have not sanc tioned the match." "Yen, you nave. You give the young man employment In your olllce, and only last month you raised his wanes 0 $18 a week. That was giving; him cncour'.goincnt." "IIowV" "You know perfectly well. When lie was earning only $15 he had all he could do to )iny ,for his bonrd and clothes." "Well, It was Tom's doing." Mr. Molllson was neither brnvc nor generous, so he sought refuge behind his bachelor brother who was asso ciated with him In the llrm of Sidney Molllson & Mro. It was a retreat skil fully executed, however, for If Mrs. Molllson had one pel purpose In life beside, marrying her daughter to wealth and position It was to coddle Brother Tom so he would remnln a bachelor and leave his share of the estate to her children. Up to this time she had been successful. Hrother Tom was forty and prematurely old. Ife was persuaded that ho had every all meut known to medical science or patent-medicine advertisements, lie sometimes reached bis olllce by 11 o'clock in the morning, but It was with :iu effort and after Mrs. Molllson had served his toast and cofTco In his room. lie said to her often when she brought bis breakfast: "Dear Histor Dora, 1 don't know how I should live a day without you." There was a .streak of laziness fn iilni. "Sometimes 1 wonder," he would add, "If there is another woman In the world who would be so good to Hie." And Dora would answer: "You wicked man! Have you been thinking again of getting married? You know you could not live a month with n wife whom you would have to wait on." "That's so." lie always conceded the point when she made him comfortable. "But, you know, there's uo danger, because I'll never Ilnd auotner woman like you." All this passed through Mrs. Moll! son's mind when her husband shifted the blamo from himself to Tom for the undesirable attention young Mr. Mlylh was bestowing upon iholr daughter. To offend Brother Tom by nsktng for the youth's dismissal or by abruptly forbidding htm the house was not to bo thought of. She remained In a silent study long enough for Mr. Molllson to turn his paper inside out. "Sid," Mrs. Molllson resumed In a softer tone that hinted at a crafty pur pose, "I've decided what to do. It Is a case requiring tho exercise of diplom acy." "You've got plenty of II." "Beryl must give back tho hand mir ror; but to soften the boy's disappoint ment I shall write him about II first and Invite him to come here for dinner next Sunday. Then when Meryl has of fended him by returning his .gift I nhall have a girl at hand to console him Janet Craig. She is that bluc oyod thing whom Meryl went about so much with last summer. She's rather old, I Imagine, and will jump at the chnnco of healing a broken heart If It will bring her a husband. Then we shall bo rid of the bookkeeper and Meryl will be cured of her Infatuation. .What do you think of the plan?" "Looks well on paper." "And It will bo successful." Mr?. Molllson was supremely confident. "I wonder " Mr. Molllson paused to remove his spcctnclcs and regard his wife cautiously before finishing tho remark. "Well?" She smiled patronizingly. "I wonder what will happen when you meet n woman whoso wits arc equal to your own. There'll be a prot ty how-d'-do, I'll wager." "My dear, I have always been able to take care of myself," said .Mrs. Mol- llson. The Sunday dinner that was to bo tho funeral feast of tho bookkeeper'; untimely romauco was planned with perfect exactness. Mut for somo rea- son the plans began to go wrorg b fore tho "blue-eyed thing" was In the house ten minutes. .Tanct on entering ran Into Mra, Mol llson' arms and kissed her. Then. seeing Meryl looking sad, she ran away with her on tlio pretext of removing her wraps, but really to learn what tho trouble was. "Oh!" Her blue eyes opened with horror and amazement when site heard Iho story. "The poor fellow is Invited here to be slaughtered!" WAYS. X strive not lo,reaon or reckon To" parallel' path that divide, ' I Hut thrcaditig the maze , Of the tortuouo ways Wc shall yet journey side by side. ' "Good night," let it be, till "Good mor row j" In love nnd in faith t shall wait, , Tho veil on thy brow And the syllabled vow ' , Cannot niter the purpouc of Fate. New Orleans Times-Democrat. "What can I do. Janet?" "My dear, I don't know. You'll have to obey your mother, I suppose, but " Janet pressed one slender lin ger against her temple In thought. 'find It's such a pretty baud mirror, laret," Meryl wailed. "I suppose your mother Intends him lor my partner at dinner Just to keep him awny from you?" "Yea; It will break Arl bur's heart." "Where Is Uncle Tom?" Janet In quired. "Oh, he's In bed. lie never gets up on Sunday. Ills health Isn't good." 'Health I" The blue eyes snapped. 'He's being coddled to death. Mut he must get up." "Mut Janet, drar, mamma wou't al low It." 'Wo shnll see." The young ladles entered tho draw ing room together, as guileless as two ill lens. "Me as nice as yon can, Arthur," Jauet whispered. Then she hurried over to sit beside Mr. Molllson on tho sofa, and within two minutes had hhu telling with enthusiasm all about the prolits of the business of Sidney Mol llson & Mro. "And your brother's health being so bad, all the work comes on you." The blue eyes were sympathetic. 'Well, ho Is able to do the routine business, though ho Is always com plaining nbout his heart or his liver or his lungs; and that makes It hard oii my wife." "She's so good I" said Janet. "And you are perfectly lovely to give him an interest In the busIuesB when he does so Utile for It." Mr. .Molllson swelled with the pride of a man conscious of the achievement of half a million, "lie wns fortunate in being one of my father s two sons," he said. "Ah!" said Janet, her blue eyes beaming with admiration. Mut under her curly blondo hair this thought sped: "Evidently Brother Tom owns half the business. Ho will do." Then Janet hinted at music, and Mr. Molllson said he never had enough of She consented modestly to play and sing, but her thoughts were soar ing, as the notes of her voice did shortly, awny up the stairs into Broth er Tom's aparlment. "How loud sho sings!" Mrs. Molllson thought. Mut she hesitated to protest. 'Tom will bo raving In ti minute." .Timet was thinking: "He slnys In bed all day, does he? We shall see. Hear thai! Hear that, high note, Mrolh- er Tom? People have said It Is a sweet note. What do you think of it? If you are not a clod you will come down here and go with mo hi to dinner." 'What dors tho woman mean by screeching so?" Mrs. Mollison reflect ed, becoming more tmensy. "She'll rouse the whole neighborhood." Tfie song finished, Janet turned on tht! stool to receive Mr. Mollison's ap plause. She was panting from her ex ertion, and sho felt defeated. Mut, if they desired, she would sing again. "No, my dear; not now, thank you," Mrs. Mollison said with her most hon eyed smile. "You might wake Mrother Tom." "That's so. How silly of me to for get!" Janet bit her rod Hps to show how regretful the was. Mut out of the corner of her eye sho Knw Mrother Totr In a dressing gown approaching tho door from the stairs. Mrs. Molllson was alarmed. "Dear Tom, you never got up nt this hour!" Tom was smiling. "I make an ex ception to-day. Tho huly I heard her sing " Mrs. Mollison was compelled to In troduce Janet to Mrother Tom. "I liked your singing, Miss Craig," Mrother Tom was saying, "and thought 1 must hear it near at hand. Will yon Mug again?" "If you wish." Mrs. Molllson was so distressed when she saw Mrother Tom hanging over the piano that she forgot Meryl and Arthur and left the room In order to hurry up tho dinner and got rid of her guest as soon as possible. Sho now guessed this purpose of Miss Craig's loud sing- ing. Miss Craig was singing softly enough at that moment, while Tom turned her music. "Tho dinner Is served." Mrs. Moll! son returned with worry expressed hi her features. "Mr. Mlytho, will you take Miss Craig?" "No; I'm going to take Miss Craig to dinner, If she will excuso my dress, ing gown," Intel posed the invalid. "Ex ease me, Mlytho. You take Meryl In." Mrs. Mojllson saw the young pair pass before her with bashful awk wardness, and shuddered. "Tho huzzy!" Sho was looking at Janet'H blonde back hair. "She's a mighty smart woman," Mr. Molllson said confidently as he np preached his wife. "Who'll not get tho better of me," Mrs. Molllson was defiant In defeat. Mut Janet was delightfully blind to thu threatening frowns directed at Iter lit f merriment was llniltles-t and Irro slstlblc. It bubbled over, enveloping lite Invalid at her side, and even reach ing the embarrassed pair of young lov ers opposite them. Mrother Tom In sisted upon being served to evety course. "See how happy Arthur and Meryl nre," Janet remarked with artless sim plicity. "I novel' saw Mlytho looking so well,'' Tom agreed. 'And, whal do you think? He gave Meryl tho prettiest silver hand mirror you ever saw for Christmas." "He did?" The invalid began to laugh. Mrs. Molllson could bold It no long '. "I have told Meryl she must mint it the present," sho began. Mut Mrother Tom Interrupted. "Meryl won't return It. That would he cruel, wouldn't It, Miss Janet?" "I quite agree with you." "That settles it. Meryl must keep tVo mirror." "How did she do It?" Mr. Molllscn asked his wife when the dinner was o. I r. Mut Mrs. Molllson wns too angry to explain. Chicago Record. LONGEVITY IN THE I9TH CENTURY, rrofrsilon Coinimrrit 1'lillutopliiTs nml Fnnnrrs in thn Lrnil. 'Has tho past century contributed toward the Increase or tho diminution of human longevity?" That was tho question discussed the other day by a group of French scientists. In compar ing tho statistics of mortality In tho nineteenth century with those brought out by Duvilhtrd at the olof-e of tho previous century It appears that tho average longevity since 1780 Increased by llvo or six years. Therefore the question put by our medical celebrity would seem to bo answered, tho an swer pointing to an Increase of the av erage length of life. Mut the present report Is to rovcnl tho mirage, If mir age there Is, lit tho figures before us, and that Is a thorny problem. Dr. Vacher and M. Mertlllon fix the average longevity In tho nineteenth century at seventy-three years. All things being equal, the number of ico pic who reached tho ago of seventy three was greater In the generations of the nineteenth century than It was In those of the eighteenth. Vacher only arrives at approximations. Ho tried to find out If professions possessed any Influence over the chances of life, nnd he wns unublo to come to a conclusion, because ho found centenarians In nil professions, oven the most unremuner atlve. For all that, ho thinks Hint ho can give the palm to agriculture, be cause It was In the families of farmers that he found tho greatest number of persons who had reached an advanced age. Here Htatlctlcs are In accord with tho most rational provisions. Tho profession which presents a happy medium In the mntter of longev ity Is that of tho scientist. Among the savants one finds as many men who tile young as tho number who die very old. Wo know Unit Fontenello lived 100 years, and that Chevreul was 103. Among those who reached ages quite respectable, although their years were fewer lit number, tiro Humboldt, who died at ninety; Newton, at eighty- three; Franklin at eighty-four, and Muffon at eighty-one. Tho list of those who died very young, like Michnt and Pascal, is just as long. Mut It Includes, unfortunate ly, tho innrtyis of science, thoso who foil upon tho field of lionor In tho ef fort to harvest some now truth Jacquomont and Comtnerson In France, Hnssolqulst and Abel In Swe den, Solokoff In Itussla and many oth ers. Such deaths are beyond tho reach of the massive rules of statistics. It Is uoteworlhy, however, that the cele brated Casslnl family Is about the only one in which the dual Inheritance of longevity and scientific genius lasted through four generations. Courrler ties Etals Unls. l'llollnir on tlm MiSBlftHljiul. "A grown man can't learn thu river," said an old-time pilot, chatting over his experiences tho other day. "lie's got to begin when bo's a boy and get It. soaked Into his brain until all tho tricks and turns of the water become as familiar to him as A, M, C to a schoolmaster. Memorizing it lot of soundings don't do him any good, be cause tho shoals arc changing all the time, it's like this: When :x man has been married long enough ho gets to know the disposition of his wlfo and learns to steer elenr of things that would rllo her, taking his bearings by a hundred and one little signs that an outsider would novcr notice. That's the way with river piloting. A pilot gets to well acquainted with tho dis position and peculiarities and temper of tho old Mississippi that ho learns to keep away from Bhallows, oven if ho hasn't been over tho course for months, and all sorts of changes have taken place slnco ho was gone. They cun't tell exactly how they tlo It them selves, because It has conic w.l.th;thetn to bo more of an Instinct than a trade, and to say that n man can pick up such things from books nnd charts or any experience short of tho experience of it lifetime is all nonsoiifee." New Orleans Times-Democrat. . Willi Flwr. A correspondent of tho Westminster Gazette asserta that Englund is Im i-ensoly poorer In flora than tho Unl ted States. According to his figures the English flora comprises about 1200 species, excluding ferns, mosses and grasses, while ninny of our single States can furnish as many or more. Tim l'rimrnt I'djic. 'The present Popo Leo XIII. Is tho sixth of tho century, and (ho two bun dretl and sIxty-Hevouth from tho he ginning. IS DANCING A PAST FANCY? A ChlruRti .MnMcr Who Think thn Atiumc nrlit I Hrnt-hlnp It Knit. One of the well-known ballet train ers of tho city lit discussing the sub. Joel one tiny last week said: "People win not thiucc at all within a very few years. You see, dancing Is not meant to lie distorted as It now Is. To dance one must bo graceful, but to dance after tho prevailing ballroom fashion one must bo very angular. In the first place, there Is nothing to dunce. Peo ple no longer waltz, ami when thev do waltz they do not waltz well; It Is a kind of awkward whirling around. with no opportunity or design for n graceful movement. All flint was graceful about the waltz of the past has been taken from It lo please the Hopper who would prefer to whirl around on one toe, with no thought of dancing. How can one expect that It would bo any different with this two- step turning every one's head? No one can think to dance well when all tho dances from one month's end to an other Is the two-step. There is noth ing graceful about that. You can't gel any kind of (raining out of It. It is no dnnee. Did you ever analyze It?" Tho muster began to dance, turning from tho evolutions of tho o'.d-fush- loned dances to tho waltz and the two step. With his hands on his hips he gilded back and forth, all tho while smiling cynically. "Can't you see how very foolish it Is?" he said. "Can't you see thero Is nothing to this wonderful two-step? One doesn't have to dance Just take f-o many glides, turn, glide again and again turn. Where is you opportunity for grace? Where is your opportunity for skill? Every man, womnn and child In the country could dothls If -ho wnntcd. Our only good fortune Is that they do not want to." "Mut what difference ddvs It make that tho two-step Is, as you say, a dance any one can do? Does a thing need to be difficult In order to bo pop ular?" some one asked him. "That Is tho secret of the whole thing It docs have to ho Just that. No one wants to dance something every living crenturo can dance, and If they do they ought not to, for It Is a bad thing for our profession. I can't see what tho society masters llvo on with this kind of thing going on, and you know, they do protest. They tried to find some way out of tho difficulty last summer." Chicago Chronicle. Ilnro I'rmonco of Mlmt. Tho ragman blow a mighty blast and then entered to see If there were any old clothes for sale. After he had purchased $5 worth of goods for fifty cents he went to the front anil there let out a yell that turned tho lady of the house deathly palu and caused the hired girl to fall down tho cellar stairs. Explanation camo later. Tho peram bulatfng merchant Is troubled with cold feet. To counteract thin auTlctioii ho used an old Iron kef tlo for a stove with paving blocks for fuel. He kept It in tho front end of his wagon, and when ha canto out his whole cargo was afire. After the yell ho made a flying leap Into tho rickety wagon, thrashed the dejected-looking horse Into a sem blance of animation and went up the street creating a bigger sensation than Men Ilur's chariot race. Shouting boys and barking dogs were In tho train and all the elder heads coincided In a belief that the man who was thrashing his horse, shouting in a for eign, tongue, who fell through a broken seat ns he made the corner, his bond nnd heels being all of him In sight, was, crazy. Mut ho was not. Ills presence of mind was to bo envied by many n statesman, for ho pulled up In front of a hoso house and tho laughing fire lad dies soon conquered tho conflagration. Mlaek, scorched, half drowned, and gazing sadly upon what was left of his rig, tho victim hissed between his troth that ho would suo the city. De troit Free Press. . .. Americanizing Jlomuny. Indian Engineering complains bit terly in a recent Issue that American ideas arc prevailing In Calcutta In stead of thoso of old London. Onn cause of disapprobation Is the Intro duction of lofty tenements, which ap pear to be rendered necessary by tho lack of space for the buildings de manded by tho rapidly Increasing pop ulation. That part of Bombay usually known ns Fort Huge, and tho area lying between the Apollo Bunder nnd the Grant's buildings, which was re claimed by tho Government at consid erable expense, aro now covered with these "lofty American tenement houses," which aro considered qulto ugly. In qulto the samo category Is placed tho skyscruper at tho Apolla Meclnmntlon, known as Mr. Tata's caravanserai, which Is designed to be the finest equipped hotel In Asia, and which "will tower like u trlton among minnows." Another cause for grumbling ap pears to bo tho substitution of an elec tric "lift," or elevator, In the Boir) buy Government buildings for tho "iiurrow, dark stairways." Tho trouble seems to bo that this llfo "had to bo Imported from America." Who AVushlngton Was. At one of the public schools in Wash ington ti portrait of George Washing ton was hung In thu room of tho In fant class last week. On tho morning of its appearance tho teacher called attention to the gift and asked tho children If they knew whom thu pic turn represented, "Washington," responded several. "Who was Washington?" A Utile hand was lifted front one of tho front desks and the teacher asked: "Who wns ho, Tommy?" "Our father from thu country," was the reply. Chicago Bccord. My the time we have got horseless sleighs we'll probably have snowies winters. H was an American who paid ttilv alrlc tribute to "Victoria's qitconllness ns a woman and her womnnlliics) as a queen." Late Mtatlslh'S show that Michigan now leads the world In the production of beans. New York Slttlo long held the first place. It Is announced that Alaska Indian have abolished totems. They have grown tired of setting ' them up for curio hunters lo tote off. England hits slartetl a magnziuo that will consist entirely of supposed poetry. It may seem uncharitable, but we ninnol help seeing Alfred Austin's hand hi this. The decision of the West Point cadets to abolish huzltiR promises to put a happy end to the scandal. The evident truthfulness of the cadets on the stand gives assurance that their pledge, once made, will be kept. Aiii"ilca h becoming mote and more the object of the attention of the for elgn visitor. Last yenr .".0,000 cablu passengers In excess of the year be fore were landed In tin i nl." States. In time Eurcpo will begin to pay back In this fashion n considerable part of the American cash spent abroad. It Is pointed- out that- tho greatest social change of tho nineteenth cen tury was tho "decay of the chaperon." An admirable result of the now order of things Is the attendant strengthen Ing of feminine character. The girl who Is her own chaperon Is slow to Invito eriUcisni by transgressing so cial laws. Scientists have at last, as they he Hove, succeeded in actually measuring the earth. Th?y claim Hint Its diam eter, through the equator, Is 7020 miles, nnd that its height, from pole to pole, is 7800 miles. This demon strates tho truth of the belief that has long existed Hint the earth Is llaltciifd at tho poles. Sofo for breakfast will soon be a tra dition In England. A wall over the disappearance of flatfish proceeds from the London Dally Mall. The price of solo and pin Ice hns doubled Ii llvo years and tho outlook is that It will double again hi another five. It Is the steam trawlers and the destruction of young fish that aro doing the mischief. Tho all-Mrltisli Pacific telegraph et hic Is to bo completed front Vancouver, In Canada, to Australia by tho end of 11)01', at u cost of 58,1)70,000. Tho ea bio Is lo extend fropt Vancouver by way of Faming Island and FIJI Islands to Queensland anil New Zealand, it branch lino taking In tho latter. It Is u Joint enterprise, Cnnndn, Australia and Great Britain taking shares and dividing tho costs and profits. Galveston Is recovering rapidly from Km recent disaster. Over $3,285,000 lias already been spent thero In re building. The relief fund amounted to $1,504,000. Foreign exports last year reached tho valuo of 03,010,304, against 70,(11)2,1252 for 1800. Tho to tal exports of cotton during tho past year amounted to $1,535,232 bales, valued at $73,3:13,301, against 1,528,232 bales In 1800, valued at $52,780,731. Tho tlp-to-thu-waltor agitation will not down In New York City. The lat est contribution to the discussion of tho subject goes to show that a very largo number of tho best customers of the hotel restaurants have been drlv en away from the hotels and Into clubs, and thousands more will go soon unless the hotel and restaurant managers shall make, rules as to tips similar to thoiia which prevail lit the clubs. If anybody wants to eat horseflesh In preference lo other kinds of meat there Is no constitutional provision to pro vent him from so doing. Some people, It Is understood, do lllco It. Others luivo found the woodchuck ami the miiKkrat savory, and there tiro ihose who maintain tho toothsomcness of the skunk. Mut to pnlm off horscllcsh for beef or kittens for veal plo is nn abomination calling for prohibition uti dor tho Revere penalty of thu law. Tho cry is already heard from (ho lips of proguostieators that the twen tieth century will bring no such won derful list of poets, artists, phllosoph ers, statesmen and heroes, as those who have made the Victorian age Im mortal. "Where," they ask, "are the coming Tcnnysons, Brownings, Dick enses, Ellols, Husklns, Macuuluys, Car lyles, who glorified the passing ago?' To ouch use Its own. There Is enough of splendid achievement In 1000 to hip over and lllimtluatu another con tury by the halo of memory. THE STEADY SUBSCRIBER. How denr to my heart is the steady sub- Kcriucr. , Who payt lit advance at the birth of delt vear. Who lays down hi dollar and fifty cents giauiy, And cut 'round the office a halo of cheer. lie never srtjv, "Stop it. I cnnnol nffonl it," Nor, "I'm getting more paper now than 1 ran read." Mut always Kajt, "Send if, the family likes il. In fact, ue nil thin); it a real household need." How welcome In: ii when he steps in tho sanctum, How he insktrt my heart throb, how ho makes m v eve dnnee! I outwardly thank him, I inwardly blcis aim, The htcnily Huherihfr who pays in ad vance. 'is Malison (Iowa) Democrat. PITH AND POINT. She "Don'l let people know wo are on our hoiixymooti, tJeitmsl." He-- Very well. You carry the porlmnu- tc an.' Tll-IJUy. I often wonder wiiv il i, i Hut always find II so. That when I want lo strike maloh The wind is mire to blow. -The l'!iiliiliui "Every barber. It seems to me, Inlkt on iiiuca." "Oh. well, you couldn't 'xpeet a barber lo shave a mnii unites ic has a little ehin."-PlilIndelphla ress. "Might I iiuinire whoso umbrella Unit Is you aro carrying?" nskrtl Mr. orrvrtV lie of Mr. Wesfnnrk. "Yon might. riin 1 won't." Plllsbitr:; ..Iiroulclo-Tclgrapli. Time w a seaudni monprrj Alas! we know it well, Tlmo?h we mav gunvd out- secret, "Old -Time will Mtrrly tell. l-'iin. "Titer? goes a mnn with a very In eivstlnir hls'nrv." snlil ti o clerk In the book ittore. "You don'l fay?" Inquired l liu customer. "How do you know? "I Just sold it lo lilni."-Phlladelphhi Press. "I have compelled my wife to cciimi slrumming on (ho piano," said Mr. Goldsboroitgh to Mr. Bunting, "how did you manage It?" "I Insisted upon singing every time she began to piny." Judge. Clara "I wonder how little Mitttlo came to marry Fred Somcrhy?" ,Mer- tha "The most natural reason in tlie world. Fred had an overcoat that was a perfect mutch for Muttio'B new gown." Moslon Transcript. His Worship (lo prisoner who hn: been up every month for years) "KbenoKor Noakcs.aren't you nshnmcd to be seen hero so often?" "Mless yer Worship, this place Is respectable lor some places where I'm seen." Tlt-Mlts. "I will i.u your life with sunshine," sold lie. '.I'lils while they sat under tho languorous lamps of the conserva tory. The woman shuddered con cealcdly, to be sure; for well she knew what a fright her complexion was in the garish light of noon. lndlauapo-. lis Press. "Yes," said the author, "when I get started writing u novel I do lose con siderable sleep over It." "O! well," ex claimed tho crlllc, who had a neat way of disguising a bitter dose of sarcasm nailer the Hiigar-coatlng of apparent flattery, "what's your loss Is your read ers' gain." Catholic Standard and Times. r ri-flvrntlni: Tit Miirlm. In an article printed In the Toledo Medical Compi'inl it physician has this to say: "Smallpox pitting can be prevented by nnnlvinc to the face antiseptic rent- dies, and 1 think the most suitable is one that Is made of ozone and gly cerine. The glycerine bus tho body t hold the ozone, and also being such u very heavy liquid enables It (o bo worked Into (he pores of the skin and to check lermentntlvo processes that mnko up a largo part of tho ulcera tion. If this fermentation, which Is if part of the ulcerative process,' can bo stopped, then pitting can be prevented. Tho less the iileeratlon.tho less tho pitting. If the ulceration can bo en tirely pro vented there will bo only an exterioV scab, which leaves no pit. "The troubles with grease or oint ments, which aro sometimes applied1 to the face, Is Hint they are not trim antiseptics, and have no chemical iu fluence to stop (lie ulceration. While they lessen the friction ami, therefore, aro soothing, (hey do not check the fermentation process of tho ulqer. What Is wanted Is n true antiseptic tliat will control and slop the cliemt cal ferment. "The treatment 1 have Indicated' should bo repealed dully. If that Is done there will be no pitting. This pitting Is tho worst feature of small pox. Tho deaths from the dlscasi have never been so numerous as Is popularly supposed, but the evil of pitting can hardly ho overestimated. It Is not only an embarrassment; It Is a great Injury." Dhih'Iiik b UiimIii. Thu modern society ball In America Is little moro than a dress promenade, but In a Itusslan ballroom (ho guest actually dance; (hoy do not merely shamble to and fro in a crowd, crump ling their clothes and milling their tempers, and call It a net of quadrilles. They have ample space for the sweep ing movements and ro iipllcntcd fig ures of nil tho orlliodo ball dances, and are generally gifted with sultlcient grace to carry them out In stylo. They carefull- cultivate dances calling for a kind of grace which Is almost beyond the reach of art. The muzurkn Is ono of tho finest of these, and It Is quite a favorite at .balls on the banks of the Nova. It needs a good deal of room, one or moro :qurrcd officers and grace. PHUburg Dispatch.