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' I mMfy ,,-- MILLIE OF THE RIEIONS. : ; Back in Two Klveri Millie Duncan tad had a pleasant home and the ex i lactation that her liDes would fall in fcleaaaut places. Hut a bolt came out If the blue. Millie'i father died sud sWnly, and just at the wrong time, Bot only for himself, but for his fam y. tfih i fared the necessity for earn ing her own living, and, leaving the younger children and her mother to depend upon the small income that remained to them, ahe made a bold entrance into Chicago which cared nothing about her boldness, but only bellowed at her like an angry bull. If Millie wan frightened she did not how it. She found an ugly little room, made it as attractive as aba could, cooked her own coffee morn lnga, contented herself with 10-cent luncheons, 'and indulged in a hearty meal only at dinner time. For thia function-for such it was to Millie ahe made a careful toilet and entered the dining room of the rather fash ionable boarding house with the air of a princess who was amusing herself . by an experience among the common people. This was her one luxury it waa in this fashon that she kept a bold upon sociability. This gave her ahecr for her work and sustained her Tivacity. It amounted in fact to a ne cessity. jL Now one of the grentest afflictions t had come to her at u time when afflictions seemed to be pouring thick and fust upon her was leaving the vi cinity where Allen Harrow lived. They were not sweethearts; they had not aeeo much of each other. But it hud been his presence that hud made, a party em really festive to her. It wag the last meeting with him casually on the quiet streets of Two liivrrs that had cuiiscii hoT heart to leap. It wua he she, thought of when she put on t new gown. Or, if she did anything un worthy of her best self, it was he she thought of when she put on a 'new gown. Or, if she had anything un w -thy of her be ,clf, it was he she remembered, blushing ut her own baseness. If she was generous Oi courageous in any unusual way she turned to thoughts-of him with joy, thinking that he would ie pleased il he knew. iShe hail not said good by to him when she left home. She had not tha desire to burden him with the detail of her misfortune. How could he un derstand, who had ulways lived an easy, luxurious life, what responsibil- tie she had been called upon to face? How could he appreciate the sinking of the heart which she felt in leafing the rt fined, easy life, the books, the lay hours at the piano, the charming circle of friends, for the work and friendliness that a poor girl must knw in Chicago? .She put her drcunts bravely behind her, therefore, and left without a word of farewell. Hie was rather glad when she found that her work in the great-dry goods liiotiKe, where he influence of friends f hail secured her a position, was to be among 1h' ribbons. She rioted in the color about her, ami, making up her mind that anything that wa worth dHiing at all was w rth doing well, h not only studied to be most aidious in her service to those who came in purchase, but she took the greatest pride in arranging her stock attractively. So original were tba fashions in which she set forth the bolts of gleaming satin ribbons that it was much noticed. A gruff floor walker ventured to compliment her; other girls at the ribbon counters were profuse in their praise. And .Millie began to know the satisfaction that comes from work well done, though the task be insignificant. Shi liegau to look at life from a different jfoint of view and to rejoice that ahe was among the worker and that work wa a pleasure to her. In short, be ing a wholesome young woman, ahe put regret behind her and rose to meet the emergency with all the gallantry iu her tin lure. One day she was putting her pa tience to Its full test with a trying customer, who could not be suited, and who would not go away, when a young man and woman entered and took chairs side by side and began looking at white satin ribbon. They want it for a wedding, I'll wager," thought Millie to herself, look ing behind the nodding plumes of the fretful customer to where the two aat and laughed together. "I suppose they mean it to run up the aisles of the church. I wish this tiresome old thing would go and let ine wait on them. But the tiresome old thing would V- not go. She stayed on, asking for . things she did pot want, and Millie, with a politeness which continually trew more frigid, continued to supply her demands, liot, meantime, she kept glancing in the direction of the laugh ing pair, and feasting her eyes on tbt gav.ttire and the happy face of the girl who sat partly facing her. Golden hair and blue eyes, 'a brilliant golf -cap and a nonchalent little turban, made up a pleasing whole. Millie hoped the young man was aa good looking, and made up her mind that ahe would get a glimpse of his face before he left. Just then he turned, and looked at her, and she perceWed with a poignant blending of pain and delight, that it was Allen Darrow, She had no desire then to wait upon the pretty girl or her laughing com panion. Her one thought was to get way. Hut Allen Dsrow had recogniz ed her, mid, with a word of apology to the girl by his side he hastened to Millie, holding out his hand for a kearty greeting. "Will you not lei me Introduce Hiea Ferguson?" he inquired. Millie gar onsen t, and the two girls chatted to- Clber with every outward appearance cordiality-n cordiality which waa M doubt genuine with Miss Ferjn- m. "You were looking at the white eatin ribbon," wntircd Millie ai MDflh, with a sort or obstinate pride aW ber vocation. "I;il you wish to Tfnrchase some'.'" 1 A covert smile fluttered about the ' TOting nuin'c II, -s and then Millie Unshed at t! I.n I, dge of the trsna Jmrency of I III. US, Aa usual, ilten Darrow underMooil ,,ci .iifect j. Formerly this had been a picas jre; now'' she would have preferred a indulge in reserve. "Yes," Miss Ferguson replied to M1V je's question. "We want some white latin ribbon for for a wedding. Don't we, Mr. Durrow?" "Indeed, we do," he responded aughingly. "A wedding in which one r the other of us is much interested. t won't say which one." 'I should hope both of us were ia terested in it," cried Miss Ferguson, jaueilv. Thev got the ribbon and went away, Hid after they had gone the sense af her poverty and loneliness and need :or monotonous work ruslnd over Mil lie, and swallowed up all her cheei ind youth for the time being, aa a ;old storm of tl.e night seems sud- lenly to extinguish the summer, and to leave only brown leaves and dead fields behind it. '1 hut night she could not bring herself to dress for dinner, and to indulge in her usual little dis sipation in the way of conversation with the young men she met at thi boarding house. She got a dismal lit tie meal on her oil stove, and went te bed early, to toss till dawn and so, arising late, was behindhand at th tore. The work had never befors seemed so repisive. She fancied her elf getting horrid little tricks of man ner like those of some of the ol4 :lerks, and imagined that she was al ready growi lg plain and dull. In the midst of this dep depres sion, when all the store looked graj mil confusing, and the words of hei 'ellow-workers sounded strange and foreign to her ear, she heard someoni enquiring for her. Jt was an American District Telegraph loy, with a pack age. A sudden shaft of anticipation pierced Millie's leaden heart. Sin jigned the book with trembling fin' gers, arid broke open the strings on the box. Within were exposed to view The most glorious American I'.euut roses she had ever seen. They wen not like other roses. They were glori Bed flowers, and in the midst of their a little white note. "My dear Miss Duncan," it read: "Am I not to have the great pleas ure of culling upon you? I confess J have not tried to find where you wen oeeause I was really hurt and ofTend d when you left Two liivers withou saying good by to me. or letting nit mow that you were going away. I'm now that 1 have sern you I can fee, no offense. 1 think I can uiidcri.tanr' the motives that led you to do as yoi lid. I do not know how to be suf ficiently thankful that i went wit) diss Ferguson to buy those wedding lands. I am to be best man at hei vedding, which is to occur next Sat irday. She is to marry one of my ties, riends. and I am fond of her um' ;lad that you two met. But how i mi running on! You see I wa it si 'liuch to talk with you that I e.innt, lop. Kindly let me know where m v hen I may call, and I will be .'ran: uwi confess that my call is not to li lie of ordinary importance to u ; l 'l will lie the most important visit ver made to anyone, I nm lild a nee wiih anticipation and dread. I In t will not let the dread get upper nost. I insist that my heart shal ting. Insist that my fate is to h 'ort unate, and that after the visit ' hall be even happier than 1 am nov -and I am happy, for 1 have fouu you again. Yours, always. "Alleii Darrow." When Millie looked up from rerii1 ng the letter the store was no longi fray. A sort of golden glory res'e iver everything, and she turned wit eagerness to u customer. "liiirnt orange ribbon No. 5? Ye :iia'um, we have a fine piece I slum; 'ike to show you." Chicago TriUuu I African Polaourd Arrow 1'rofessor Itobert Koch, a Germ.-i icietitist, recently brought from Fx; Vfricu some poisoned arrows, whiei lie handed over to 1'rofessor l'riege. ihe director of the Berlin Instituti for Infectious Diseases, so that In might make a thorough examinnlioi of them. The arrows have batnboi shafts and are tipped with iron. It i in these iron tips that the poison lies Professor Hrieger eitracted a quan tit v of this drug, and after a carefu analysis discovered that it acts almost wholly on the heart. He says t tin t i it be administered to a cold-bloodei or anaemic person it will cause thi heart beats to become very sluggish whereas if it enters the system of i warm blooded person it will product many of the ordinary symptoms oi poisoning, such as difficulty in breath ing. cramps and finally death. The drug is apparently of a cry tnllinc mi tu re, and it is so powerfu that a very small quantity is sufficient to kill a strong man in n very few minutes, (.'erinun physicians are ot the opinion that medical science msj be greatly benefited by a knowledge of this new drug for the reason that though poisonous in itself, it maj prove useful , just as other poisonoui drugs have done, its peculiar actior on the heart lias especially interested them, and they are hoping that some woy moy be found of rendering il serviceable as a tonic. The fact that the drug has been used for centuries in Fast Africa la in their opinion, rather a. point In it! favor, for they cannot help remember ing that quinine waa used by natlvei for a long time before Its sal liter properties became known to Wester physicians. New York Herald. y ftroirh Retlrenre, A story illustrating the reticence of the Scots regarding their privation! la credited to Ian Maclaren. A .train was at a Rlatlon when porter put his head into a carriage, and called out: "Anyone here for Doiin?" Chsnn for Doun! Anyone for Doiin?" No one moved, and in a few mlnutea the train was speeding along, not II atop again for nearly an hour. Then an old .Scotsman turned to lady sitting near her and said: "I'm for Doun, but I'd no tell thai anan so." l'earson's. A motor car passenger aervlee It Booted between Pretoria a ad tM Traaavaal, CLARK'S SEOEET WEDDING 1 There dwelt at the town of San Cristobal, situate in the evening lhadow of Pike's Peak, a man whom ive cannot do better than to call by ihe name of Clark. He was a bach ;lor, perhaps approaching the age of 10, and extremely popular. But though a man widely known ind of many friends, he was singu .arly averse to publicity. if be Sought a new horse, it was usually a iionth before he could induce himself to drive it, and when he got a new tuit of clothes, he would always send t to a brother in Denver, who would wear it a fortnight to take off the 'new" and return it to him. Naturally, when Clark found him lelf in a position to contemplate his wedding day, he became somewhat nervous. He had always been rather fond of attending other people's wed iings, and it occurred to him that ha had never been backward about be tow yig such delicate attentions as may be encompassed in a handful jf rice; and he shook his head as he remembered that he had once helped trap ii)) a friend's trunk at t he rail road station with white satin ribbon. Ihe recollection made him shudder; it brought a vision of his own trunk wearing white satin ribbon and he could almost feel rice rolling gayly jfT his hut-brim and tumbling down the back to his neck. What made the prospect worse was that, while per loiiully he would gladly have been married by telephone, he knew as well is anybody the inborn love of a wed Jing, as opposed to a plain marriage, whiijj abide! h in the soul of woman, liut he was to be agreeably surprised DU this point. When he visited his future bride that evening, he said: "Dora, what do you say to a very ii m pie wedding, or a er just a sort f getting married, you know quiet no display rice. You remember 1 lon't like rice much." "I know," answered Dora. "I dis covered it at Malicl's wedding by the way you threw it." ''iia! ila!" said Clark, in a weak ttempt at laughter. "That's good; though you threw as much as 1 did. Out that was different you sec. Now ivlint do you say ?" "Well. I'm not particular about a wedding," answered the young lady. "'Arrange it just to suit yourself, dear." "We can announce a wedding, you know," went on Chirk; "and then the Jay U fore we can just get. married, mil go away, an i and leave 'em Witli the rice on their hands!" The detaiis wire accordingly very craftily arranged later on by Clark, lie set. the hour ut lo o'clock in tht morning. "It's pretty early," lie said; "bill it'll have to lie at lhat time so we can catch ihe 1 0: :;u train, i will call foi you, and we'll jii:,t, drive around tc the dominie's ai d have ii over with in five iii.'inites. I'll ...ml my trunk tc the station the nigi I bciore, and givt it out that I'm gi .ing up to Deuvei on bin incss; and I can telephone ear ly for an expressman to call for youl trunk. We can scud hack announce ment cards !rfn Denver-unit J'll just have engraved down in one corner. 'No liice.' " Hut of course the (dan of the in genious ( lark got out. This was at inevitable as the rising of the morn ing sun. It got out, though to (hit day no man knoweih exactly how it got out. liut Clark has always sa gaciously Mispcetiyl the hereditary enemy of lovers - the girl's sinah brother. The night before the day set for the clandestine marriage, one or two hun dred of Clark's friends held a secret meeting downtown in a hall. ;Mabel'i husband presided. Most or those pres ent had the advantage of that exu berance which go.f with youtl or early life, and they hud all along breathed the exhilarating mountair atmosphere of Colorado. Jvotbing wai forgotten. The next morning, when Clark after a hasty toilet, glanced out of th window, he observed two scoundrel!) looking men wearing pasty clothes who were posting bills with great in dustry on the fence across the street He thought he caught his own naini printed in big red letters. lit snatched up an opera glass and read: o ( : Secret Wedding Of t ! JIM CLAHK : : Today at 10 o'clock. You are in- : : ited. Hring a basket of rice. I : See Small Hills. i o e Mr. ( lark with difficulty kept front fainting. Hut he pulled ' himself to gether at last, and started out. There seemed to be nothing to do but tc see the thing through. A small boj was throwing handbills in all th front yards, and gave one to him, U( stopped and read: "The many friends of the justly popular James MeC. Clark take pleas lire in announcinc lits absolutely anr profoundly secret marriage today at 10 o'clock. Twenty-five per cent re duel ion on rice at all grocery stores Per order Committee." He hurried on down to his office Newsboys were crying the morning "All about the secret weddin' of Jim Clark!" lie caught glimpses on thi first page of "scare heads" over lon artiides presumably giving the detaila One of the big, red posters was pasted on his office door, lie went in ant! tried to look over his mail. At hulf pnst 9 he returned home The streets were deserted and omin ously quiet, lie got his carriage ant) drove around after his bride. To gether they proceeded to the clergy man's. They went in, and the simpll but beautiful ceremony was soon fin ished. As they stepped out of the house they found the street blocked with their friends. The rest of thi population of the town whs comln around the corner in a long procea alon. Two or three brass bandl seemed to be somewhere about thi neighborhood. The horses had bees taken off the carriage, and a lon trooe attached. Thev took ihrlp am wining nanus of irleuda drori J ikeui tow the station The crowd followed. All of this time the air re mained foggy with rice. At the station they found the traja) waiting. Their trunks were soma what conspicuous on the roof of the baggage car, so decorated with bows of white ri' ' "tat they looked Ilk chrysantf Aa they mounted the car platiorm the engineer sound ed a long blast on the whistle, and the crowd gave three cheers for Jim Clark. Then there was a call for a speech. A pint of rice rolled oft of Clark's hat as he removed it and sim ply said: "I thank you. I will never try it again." The-train moved off, and the rice rattled on the car r ofs and againBt the windows. Clark's quiet little wed ding was over. Ilaydeu Carruth in Harper's Magazine. . HF.COKUS OF DIIOI III. ftlalUIIra of llalufall lu fiew Kugland lor Kai-b Yr Sluee 1818. The Springfield Republican pub lishes some carefully collated drought returns for that city and the west ern part of the state. An oflieial rec ord is kept at the United States ar mory there, showing the amount of rainfall in inches for eacli year since 1S4X, With the exception of lb4 and H9"), both years of drought, the first ten months of lS'JO have had the least rainfall of any year since lslH. The dry weather this j ear really begun in April. Since that time, up to the first of the present month, the precipita tion has been 21.09 inches, against inchi's for the same months in ls'JS, a decrease of about thirty-five per cent. The rainfall to date, includ ing the first two days of November, has been 33.73 inches. The rainfall for the whole of last year was 51 .05 inches, and for 189T it was 55.44 inches. All this has had Ha efTec" upon veg etable growth and manufacturing, though us has been remarked, our food staples have not suffered greatly. The hay crop is short but good, wl ''e potatoes, apples and several othci fruits and vegetables are much more than sufficient for home supply. The Ilolyoke Water Power Company fur nishes at a liberal estimate .40,000 bores power, used by the mills. Of this, between thirty and forty per cent lias been cut off by the shutting of the head-gates, which has occurred for cigliteeti-hour periods, two or three times a week, for several months. This has not crippled the l. litis as much astbe figures might imply, as there are other kinds of ower which can be made available ..hen the water is so unusually ' n. In southern Herkshire the small mountain brooks vanished some time : go, and the Ifousatonic iiiver, which depends largely upon these tribu taries, is so low that it cannot sup ply power enough for the factories itlong its bunks. The town of Great Harrington has a triple water supply. A part of this is Green iiiver, iminor Ulizeil by Kryant: "And thev, whose meadows it murmurs through, have i amed the stream from its own bright ! ue," meaning the green clay bottom. v, hich shows up distinctly through tne pellucid water. Yet in manj ; laces one can now jump neioss ' -r iver. The Mansfield lake, given bv Mr. Searles of Great Harrington am Methnen for nn additional supply, ha. ecome worthless for power pur oscs. Northern Berkshirfe is betfiN v-iT. but here, too, rain is greuth . ceded. Probably this exhibit, with motions, reflects the general situi- i on over all .New Lngland, for whiel e hope the present month will fir : ish the much needed relief. Husio 'i ranscript. A trlllplDO Amazon. A Manilu newspaper called Freedm. i lints this story as part of an in.cr licw with a Spanish prisoner escapei "rum t lie Filipino lines: "One tiling not generally known i hat a saddle colored Joan of Arc i. leading a brigade of the ragtag army, h lie is described as being about thirty Hve years of age, a pure Filipino ami very plain looking. She was dressed In trousers, high boots, short khaki jacket, and carried a handsome bel: with two revolvera attached. "She wore one of the Fnited Slal erviee hats, and on her shoulders the drops of her rank. The natives gave iier every honor and said site was p'T- cetly fearless on the field. "Her husband, whom she was with wlim he was killed near linns, was a major; when he fell she seized his re volver and tried to re-form the flying giigus.' but in vain. For this she was commissioned in her husband's place, mid has since been promoted for brav ery to a brigadier." What He'd llo. They had been talking about the meteors and the probable end of the world. "Now, Kinney,' said Baker, tapping the palm of his left bund with the forefinger of his right, "if you were positive the world was to come to an end tomorrow, am I not right in be lieving that your first thought would be to do something to go some where? Kinney whs silent a moment. "Yes," he replied finally, "I guess you are." "Well, I hen," pursued Huker, "thai point settled, now comes the nest: Where would you go; what would you do?" Kinney wag less long In answering. - a go out and have a drink," he said, "then I'd borrow all the money 1 could get from my friends, and get such a lovely load aboard ! wouldn't know when the crash came " Of course, discussion stopped there,; TT. ...... . 111. 111.. I IUIT I Mil Oil 111 IIC VTIIII U I IIUI1 UM.V that?-Detroit Free Tress. To cheek premature grayness the hair should be well brushed morning and night with a brush hard enough to produce n feeling of warmth In the akin. The bristles should be fat enough apart to go through the hair, j and they win penetrate me peuer they are of uneven lengths, X ODE FAMILY OPAL. I cannot remember how the opal came into the family, because so many' conflicting stories have been told by various ancestors concerning this part of its history. Hut long ago 1 regis tered the vow that if it ever should become mine I would either destroy or dispose of it forever, ani rid the family of its baleful influence. j My great-grandfather was the first one of the family to become a posses sor of the opal. He was then a wid ower for the third time, and it was the desire of all his connections that he should remain in this state to keep his worldly goods from slipping oot of the family. I suppose, the opal must have been aware of all this, because it immedi ately set about to indulge its prover bial weakness. At this time, and to the,astonish ment of all who knew him, he fell in love with one of Ids old second cousins, whose white hair and corrugated face were sufficient to make such a hap pening seem altogether impossible. And when she accepted him what did he do but have the opal set for an en gagement ring and placed upon the finger of his smiling relative, my old Aunt Cornelia. After he had given her the opal en gagement ring he suddenly rallied from a recent indisposition, and was told by the doctor that lie might stop his long walks and resume his pipe and the glass of punch before retiring. When this change took place my great-grandfather was so happy and contented that he wondered why ho should ever have engaged himself to Aunt Cornelia, or to anyone else, for that mutter. And the more he thought the matter over the more he was puz lled. t It was then that Aunt Cornelia con cluded that the old man was cooling off in his attentions, but she didn't blame him; she regarded it all as ill luck, which she attributed to the opal. Now, another curious feature of the case was that my great-grandfather's eyes, from looking long and fondly into Aunt Cornelia's, had suddenly ac quired a peculiar habit of incessantly whirling- her only infirmity. A day or two later she noticed that my great-grandfather's were whirling, and thought that he was mimicking her and making light of her optical peculiarity. She would listen to no word of explanation, but broke the en gagement on the spot and handed him back the opal ring. That night he made a misfep on tho way upstairs and sprained his ankle, and on the following day a railroad was wrecked, and the stock lie held in it dropped from 100 to 00. He then had the opal set in a scarf pin and gave it to one of his nephews for a birth day present. : Suddenly Hill's salary was out down in the fullness of its bloom. His hair began to fall out, and the doctor, not knowing just what the matter was, or dered a sea voyage on general princi ples. Fearing shipwreck, Hill gave tha opal scarf pin to his brother before sailing. Hill went to sea and returned with a full head of hair and his salary restored. 1 After Hill hud sailed, his brother, who went to the wharf to bid him good-bye, started up the street, when his hat blew off and went spinning along so fast that he could not over take it, and a street urchin started tha cry, "Stop thief!" Others took up the shout, and finally a crowd followed in hot pursuit, un til he was overtaken and arrested. His .explanation was laughed at. the police theory lieing that he had fled from the scene of his crime without his hat. So Hill's brother was locked up over night, find had the morlific.il.ion of seeing his name in print, in the morn ing, when he was discharged. , So he gave the opal to Tom, and Tom was glad to have it, and lost no 'time in sticking it in his scarf. Hill's brother, on the way home, picked up a $10 bill on the sidewalk, and when ho Jarrived at home found a man waiting to make arrangements to mortgage his property to him for $.1,000 at 6 per cent. -a gilt-edged investment, which siinde him believe that the other man had been presented with an opal. Tom bought a turkey on the way home, and left it in the train rack when he stepped off. And when he ,wcnt into the house he was horrified (to learn that, his wife had been cajoled nto purchasing $2 wortli of glee-club tickets. "1 am surprised that you should yield to the arguments of those fiends. Indeed, you are a jewel of consisten cy," he said, with biting sarcasm. "Talking about jewels," she replied with n vim eoual to his own, "f be lieve that opal you have there has changed our luck, Where did von get it?" "Cousin Luke gave it to me." , "That explains it; Luke would never give yon or anyone else any thing of any value to himself. What time did he give it to you?" asked his wife. "At 2 o'clock this afternoon." ' "And it was at 3 that I bought those tickets. I didn't want them at, nil, because I needed the 2 they cost to buy some velvet nnd other things to cover my old hat and make it do for winter, nnd thus save the price of a new one, nnd give yon n ch'ince to buy nn overcoat. Hut I couldn't re sist. Have you had any bnd luck to day?" I left a turkey on the train." said Tom. "Of course you did," snapped hia iwife, "and I suppose yon had counter feit money palmer off on you in clinnge. Just take out your money and see." He fished some silver out of the pocket in which he carried his smnll change, nnd, sure enough, there was a Jead 50-ccnt piece." J hat about cancels my pua-chfise' of the glee-club tickets, it?" she seldom said, with an air of equaled in a buttle at your bills." "now look I He thrust his ha into his vest pocket and found tha .it had been cut OIJOIIBK tJuitili lC-fnre; nW ft out to'en rnoncy a all. She liuried her face iu tier hands Hid sobbed: "Oh, Tom, why did you sell ma iliose ticketa'.'" "1 didn't," Tom protested. "Yes, you did, and no one else did, and " She was interrupted by a cr- u The cook appeared, frightened ov ot her wits, and shouted hysterically. I "The boiler's burst, and all the h..ir is scalded off poor little Fido." I So Tom rushed out and met me, "Here's a beautiful opal scarf pin," ho said, "would you like to have it?" i thought of the ill luck it had brought my poor great grandfather and Aunt Cornelia, the antique virgin, with the whirling eyes. 1 was almost afraid to accept the proffered bauble. I did summon up courage and took it, however, determined to dispose of it in such a way that it would not be likely to cause any more trouble in the fam- So I entered a jewelry shop aiid, tossing the opal carelessly on the vel vet pad that lay on the glass case, said: "Will you kindly appraise this so-called precious stone, this opal? You, as a dealer don't share the super stition that possesses me, and will therefore probably purchase it at a fair valuation. It has made trouble enough for me and mine, and I want to rid myself of it at any price." The dealer examined the stone for a moment, and said with a smile : "Opal, your grandmother; this is not an opal at all; it's a cat's-eye!" The Criterion. LAST OF IIIK HUE OF PHARAOH. Mummy of An Kj llau Priiic-ec t an not be Found. Prof. Groff, the Egyptologist, writes from Gliixch about Pharaohnic mum mies at the (ihizeh museum, confirm ing the tradition that the scenes de scribed in the first chapters of the Book of Kxodus took place under the reign of Jtatneses II and his son, Me rentah. The Pharaoh's daughter of the Bible was Princess Bent Anta, and the great magician of that time, Damns, another son of liameses II. The mummies of the latter had been discovered, but it was thought that of Manius was missing. Mr. Groff now has identified one of the mummies as that of the prince and magician Ilaimis and verified the writing on the shroud as "l!a-la-mus." "After having opened the case in which the mummy is kept," he says, "and carefully removing the outer cloth covering, there appeared written on the shroud, just over the breaut of the mummy, 'His majesty commanded in the seventh year, third month of the season of planting, sixth day, to be put in order the mummy of Prince Humus.' This proves that the ob ject of my research was correct, that the name is not Kahamus, as hereto fore supposed, but Ilamus, that of the great magician with whom I had al ready identified the mummy." Thus, with one exception, all the mummies of the principal royal per sons spoken of in the first chapters of Kxodus liameses If, the Pharaoh of the Exodus, Humus, the great ma gician, are still extent at Ghizeh. There still lacks the mummy of Prin cess Bent Anta, Pharaoh's daughter, the foster mother of Moses. Certain indications, on her snrcoplir..- " load one to suppose the mummy had been destroyed, but it is probably in some tomb in the valley near Thebes, hid den with other princesses and queens. major Logan-and Sir Oilier. y The cabled accounts of the death of Major John A. Logan in the far-off Philippines and the American news paper comment upon the tragic fate that befel him with his face to the foe. have done full justice to the soldierly fidelity and earless fighting spirit of this son of a distinguished father. A3 one correspondent puts it, "Young Lo gan died a hero, and in his death re deemed his life." The Free Press would take nothing from the generous eulogy of this ex ample of heroic devotion and daring; but we would suggest that the praise fill sentiments which it has inspired might be broadened to take in the unknown and untitled heroes who went down to death with xviajor Logan in the sharp engagement at San Jacinto the "six privates killed," as the dispatch from Manila puts it, with out, hint of the names they bore, the homes they came from or tv.c hearts that will be broken when the casualty list come. ' We expect the official advices to be particularly terse and unemotional in .dealing with the fate oi fhe brave fellows in the ranks; but let us take care that our tributes to the nation's fallen s' liers are not, determined by the rank or influence or station of the slain. ; Mr. McKinley hastened to wire the bereaved young widow a tender ex pression of his sympathy. "His splen did qualities as a soldier and high courage on the firing line has given liim a place among 1 lie heroic men of the war,' the president telegraphed, "and it will be some convokiCoit to you to know that he died for his coun try on the field of honor." j And six others! Detroit Free Presj. When KInllnjc -uiri. The action taken by on Indian.! church in excluding Kipling's works from the Sunday school library be cause they contained iinp-per lan guage has led to the comp. --it ion and 'general circulation of the following: The prim and cultured stripling Will piously declare The world would swear by Kipling If Kipling wouldn't swenr; Yet while hijt fancies break red And lurid from his brain, Some hold that Kipling's sacred Although he be profane! i The admirers of Kipling have been more numerous, to , as a ''i-snlt, of the attack upon his writings, nnd one of )iis newest defenders claims that he only swears when there is positively Nothing else to be done. Chicago Inter-Ocean. 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