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Mea go down to the a under fell
fcwlng c&nva. In fewe r and fewer Bum
f m. the "tin kettle" trump now doing
tt old clipper's Work, but Neptune
till esacts hi toll from tho square
figged ships that are fated to float out
upon the oceans, bound 10,000 mil'' or
no re, and never again bo heard of.
Ten big sailors thus vanished In 1901
liit yiAr sight wind .latum, rs of largo
burden were worded on thf world's
of mifwiu ships. One was nn
American, the four-masted Port C.eorge
f 1.770 net tons, and tlvr are few
enough of ours left. Most of them are
wallowed on (ape iloin voyag-.
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A l-lltlr Too Hasty.
In the scramble that followed a pre
mature discharge of dynaailte In a
building lot. says a writer In the New
York Sun. a stout man lost a scarf-pin.
After he began to search for It he no
ticed another man poking round In the
dust and debris. He Immediately grew
suspicious, and at last spoke.
"I do not wish to give offense," he
said, "but I must aak you to refrain
from assisting me in this search. I ap
preciate your willlngneas to help, but
as a means of self-protection I long
ago made It a rule never to allow
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lost article."
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'You have no objection to my looking
on, I suppose.'
He sat down on the , curbstone and
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overturn stones. After twenty minucos
of painful stooping the stout man
found a scarf-pin.
"But it Is not my pin," he Bald, de
jectedly. "No, It's mine," said the other jnan.
"I heard It strike somewhere herea
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you were for the Job I let you go
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Community of Interest.
Profiting by the mistakes of others
the two explorers, each of whom had-
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other, held a conference.
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ture togetlu-r. fine of us will do the
oratorical stunt and the other will
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rxroHi nr. to coi n
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"Tliul s where you pmh the wrong but
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Quit turning your face away!"
Where llr'd He.
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Mr. McSosh Oee, you gotta mean dls-
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"Father," said the small hoy with the
thoughtful, Intellectual faro, "how do
you differentiate between an ambassa
dor and a minister?"
"Differentiate!" g-isped the father,
struck all of a heap, but recovering
himself, "we pay the embsssidor about
IS.&OD more salary, my son, that we di
the minister."
1 1
if
The Quest of
'etty
Hy MAlGT)A.
JJ Copyrlfht, 1909, by W. 0. Chapman. Copyright la Great Britain Q
rilAT'TRR XXVI (Continued).
"So they went to India and
look up their residence In tbo hills.
One il-nijjiit.-r was born to them, named
N.iri-lH.ie. ipt. I)n I.'Knilos died tho
following ycnr. Wlien Corlsse was
only eluhtecn slio was married to Har
old Ilareourt, whom she had met while
on a visit to Calcutta. He was a per
sonable fellow, of good family and my
aunt thought her only child was mak
Ini? a ginid match. The resemblance
between these four women my Aunt
Marie, and her daughter Narclsse,
whom you know as Mrs. Harold Har-
court, and my mother and her daugh
ter, tVrlsse Wayne, tny sister, was ap
palling. Tlioy all hud the same color
ing, the same features almost to the
fraction of an Inch, and the same re
markably exquisite coloring. Yet I
am mire that not until to-day has Mrs.
Jlarcoiirt known that Cerlsse Wayne
and ulie were full-blooded cousins, as
Aunt Marie brought her daughter up
In Ignorance of the relatives In Africa.
Aunt Marie's Idea In this was to pro
tect my mother from my father's
wrath, as ho had forbidden mother to
tell us of our aunt, and Indeed we
were so young when Aunt 'Marie de
parted that we soon forgot her. Motn-
r and Aunt Marie never had any com
munication after Anut Marie left for
India. My mother died when I was
about nine, and Cerlsse not quite eight
years old. Cerlsse hud always been
father's favorite and after my mother's
death home would have been unbear
able to me except for Tyoga. We hud
excellent tutors in the house, and later
father sent Itenoni and mo to Kuropo
to study. I took a doctor's degree In
feldclberg at a remarkably early uge,
thanks to the previous Instruction I
had received from my father, who was
an exceptionally brilliant man. Benonl
studied with mo, for while father had
subordinated Tyoga and her child, my
mother had dealt fairly with them In
the matter of wealth.
"I was at Heldelburg when Aunt
Marie came to visit me. It was the
year that Narelsse was married, and
three years after Cerlsse, a madcap
girl of seventeen, had been sent home
In disgrace from a' French convent
after a flirtation with Hackleye, who
had followed her to Africa and mar
ried her there.
"Aunt Marie had gone to Africa In
search of her sister- With her daugh
ter my aunt felt she could safoly seek
out her twin sister after the lapse of
all these years. She was grlef-strlck-
n over the news of her sister's death.
nd unwittingly let fall before my
father that In the Tlougaley region
were some extremely valuable diamond
lields, the secret of whose location hud
een made known to her husband, Cupt.
Do IVIOnclos, by an Arabian servitor
of his. Aunt Marie's fortune hud felt
the touch of years, and she had made
a Joint reason for her African Journey
an uttempt to lot-ate and work these
mines. Father, his avarice all stirred
again, strove to force her to tell him
where they were. Aunt Marie knew
him of old and refused, learning I
was at Heidelberg, she proceeded there,
and stopped with Ilenoni and me for
iivcr a year, giving mo tho pnly happi
ness I hail known since my mother's
death. She spoke freely to me of my
young cousin Narelsse Harcourt In In
dia, asked mo to befriend her if ever
she needed It, and showed mo her min
iature, so like that of my sister Ce-1-lane
that I could but gasp.
"I went home that summer and left
Aunt Marie In Paris planning to re
turn to India in tho early fall. Later
the news came that she hud perished
in a horrible conllagrutlon at u churlty
bazaar. This was a severe blow to me
for I hud loved my aunt, and my heart
went out to my unknown cousin
"Cerlsse hud tho heart of a fiend.
Hackleye had taught her that she was
the most beauU.ul human existent. A
whim of hers was to fancy herself the
i-einearnatlon of Venus herself. Ce-
rissu did not take kindly to the news of
her cquully exquisite cousin across
seas, especially since her children, of
whom by now she had two, were, with
ull due respect to their father, whom
Ihey resembled, not particularly come
ly. To satisfy herself Cerlsse made a
Hying trip to India in disguise, and
there began the tragic end.
"Father at this time became cogniz
ant that ; I knew how to reach ;he
Tlougaley mines. Aunt Marie had be-
sought me w 1th Her farewell breath to
keep this intelligence from him. I kept
tny faith with her. And as a penalty
for that faith iny father subjected me
lo the most cruel tortures that foi-tv
Uends might have devised. He becan
I In the castle and ended with them in
the Jungle. And when I was nearly
dead from pain and distortion, he real-
Isied that I was dying and the secret
with me. Then be put forth all his un
funny and exceptional surgical skill,
and dragged me back to life but such
life such a living death for no be
ing so deformed and taunted out of hu
man shape as 1 ever before walked the
earth.
i triune went 10 inula. rino saw
Narelsse and hated her on sight. Nar
i-lsse bad a child, too, by then, and
ner our uauy was as loveiy as Cerlss ! s
two had been plan. What Is more,
Cerlsse becume violently Infatuated
with Harcourt. Narcisse's husband. She
made herself known lo him one day
is he walked beneath the trees in the
garden, while Narelsse sat In the house
and rocked her baby to sleep. After
Ihe first start Harcourt became Inter
ested. I know not what wilee Cerlsse
lised, but this Cerlsse soon had liar-
lourt bound hand and foot. Narelsse
eas ousted from her husband's heart.
Cerlsse hid forgotten her home and
rhildren.
iioui t erlsse and Harcourt stopped
at uctual murder. They began to pUy Mrs. Harcourt. I did not know but
k royal game. The resemblance be- that In an arier rage Harcourt might
Iween Cerisse and Nitrclsse made this not destroy her. too. I did not know
easy. They kept Narelsse under the what the papers were, but feared they
Influence of the loco blossoms drugsed might rcuct on my cousin's safety. I
her poor mind almost to Imbecility, followed Mrs. Morris to Mrs. Har
When Narelsse lay stupefied from the court's room and ran Into her as she
flearly powders Cerlsse paraded beforn was rounding the corner on her ra
the world as Mrs. Harcourt. Cerisse turn. She struggled to free herself, but
was always Jealtws of their child, the I held her fast. 1 wanted to discover
little llaroia. jr.
."One day Harold, Jr., fell by aecl.
I lent into the lily pond. The poor drug.
Lancey
r. WEST
ged mother was watching him at the
time and sat by the window too stu
pefied to move or rescue him. Har
court tried, but he was too far away
at a distant corner of the garden. Har
old dead, he decided It would be best
to leave India. Hackleye nud father
were growing suspicious of Cerlsse's
lung absences, mid Mrs. Ilareourt's
friends In India were becoming unduly
exercised over the changes that appar
ently had come over her, for of course
this strange exchange of personalities
was known to none. Ko Harcourt gave
out that he was lo travel for his wife's
health. In jny pitiable shape I could
do little to protect my cousin, but I
tried to travel closely enough In their
wake to prevent their ever killing her.
For my aniictinn Cerlsse felt no pity.
She loathed the Bight of me, and her
evident hutred soon drove me to allv
myself In spirit with my sadly Injur.-d
brother-in-law and cousin. Hurcourt
and Cerlsse had planned to spend the
summer, here. She was to go to live
In lodgings till she could find a home
In which to remove with his wife, and
then Cerlsse would join them, and the
same old farce was lo have been re
newed. To that end Harcourt' leusL-d
the Flunders housi "
A distinct "Ah!" ran through the
court room and Harcourt simultaneous
ly uttered a denial.
"To that end," continued I.e Mal
hcureux, "Hurcourt leased the Flanders
house. For some whlni or other he
took It under the name of Hamley
Hackleye. I think Harcourt had In
tended to make an end of Narelsse
there, for ho knew that Hackleye was
close on the trail. Then Cerlsse was
to have stepped Into her cousin's shoes
and Hackleye would have believed
that It was his wife who had died. Ce
rlsse took rooms at the Desterle's and
almost Immediately a secret doorway
was cut through. I tracked Harcourt
to the. house at 94 Hrlarsweet place the
night of the murder. 1 'waited till I
had a chance and secreted myself In
the house. I saw him remove the
plaque and climb Into my sister's room.
I followed, hiding In the closet.
"Cerlsse and he quarreled nearly tsll
evening. Cerlsse in one of her petu
lant moods was provoking him beyond
endurance. She was becoming wear
led with him. The letter that was
found on the floor urging her to live
up to the demands of womanhood and
to return to 'H' hud been recently re
ceived by her from Hurcourt, and she
mude it the pivot on which to torn
many a Joke und Jeat. Finally she told
him she was tired of him, and thought
Bhe would go back to her husband.
They squabbled and wrangled till final
ly Cerlsse made ready for bed. Har
court started to go home, but at length,
fully dressed, threw himself down on
the bed and began to smoke, nt th
same time chiding Cerlsse for using so
many cigarettes. Then she usked him
for money, claiming that her losses ut
the races had, as she termed it, "laid
her flat.' He said he had no money
and then she turned on him with r;
proaches of an over-fondness for rou
lette, i ney Dickered about monev till
nearly daylight and till Harcourt would
not talk any more. Cerlsse dropped off
Into n doze, but Harcourt lay then:
smoking in moody silence. Cerlsse
roused and asked him to get her
drink or water. Jle refused at first,
but she kept at him. Finally be cot
up, went over to the stand, fumbled
there for a moment and came back,
handing her the glass half filled with
water, and said, 'Never ask me for h
drink again
Cerlsse lay back on her pillows, and
apparently fell Into slumber again.
Harcourt resumed his place by her side.
1 was uboul to go, wishing to make
my way back home before the dawn
broke, when suddenly Harcourt turned
over on his elbow und moaned like a
whipped lioness.
"What have I done, what have I
done?" he tiled over und over again.
"My temper, niy temper! My awful
jealousy! Cerlsse, I have killed you.
killed you!"
"He kissed her again and again, and
wept and dug his nails Into his flesh,
The sunlight came in at the window
und the breakfast gong clanged in ths
hall. Reality came buck to him. He
cautiously slid from the bed and made
hia way back into Hie house, lie knew
that safety lay In flight.
"Handicapped by deformity, I knew
1 lou,u nomine, oui i relied on
""lB,lr- jogeiner i inougnt we
might take the body away with us
mrougn mai irap tioor. i went over
t0 lnB l"'1 ttnU aHsured myself that Ce-
nsse w'is quite ucau. i smelted of the
Klass and from the lack of odor and
tnc condition or cerlsse s body guessed
that Harcourt had depended upon bis
ma '"ena. tne ioco puini, to end her
life. Perhaps he had given her tho
dose meant originally for Narelsse.
"Then I went In search for Hack
leye. It took me longer to find him
than I thought, tor It was very late,
nearly noon, when we returned to tho
room. 1 had not told him she was
dead. He was fearfully shocked. We
had Just entered and were figuring how
wo could get the body Hway, when we
heHrd the trap door fastened behind us.
Kvldently Harcourt had come in and
I noticed it open und. fearing be. had for-
gotten to close It in his wild flight of
the morning, made haste to remedy the
oversight. There we were, Hacklcyo
and I. locked In the room with the
dead body of his wife and my sister.
Five minutes later Mrs. Hesterle burst
in the door. There was time to get out.
as HacKleye has sal it. while tliev car
ried Mrs. IVsterle to her room.
"I was In the hotel perilled on the
fire-escape above the room occupied ty
Miss Lancey, now Mrs. Morris, that
samo night. I was keening guard over
what she had done, and to see If sha
I had the stolen naDers hidden about
Iher, and If so, what they were. In the
contest her waist was torn off and her
nose began to bleed. Then she fainted
from fright. I cirrled her from the
hotel to Hackleje's rooms, intending to
take her to her lKme In the morning.
She grew steadily worse and by morn
ing was having convulsions. I hold
high Europenn degrees ns a physician,
and ss I knew the cause of her malady
felt the only Just way to the girl would
be to treat her myself. Together with
Tyoga and Hackleye I got her to Ban
Francisco and took her to Africa with
me. I had to do it. There was no oth
er way. My only safely lay In flight.
Her only chance of recovery lay In the
medication 1 could give her, for I alone
knew the cause of her complete mental
prostration. Tiie later complications
of her Journey I had not foreseen, but
she is here now. safe and well, and,
may I not say it? all the happier for
her trip."
Harcourt bad risen and staggered
from his feet toward Francis Wayne.
Harcourt walked like a drunken man,
and quicker than anyone could divine
his purpose he had unveiled the shrink
ing figure of Lie Malheureux.
Shrieks rose from all sides of tha
court room. Hcfore them stood The
Man-Aperllla!
High and clear rang Narelsse liar
court's voice:
"My poor cousin! My poor, poor
cousin!"
CIIAPTKR XXVII.
They hanged Harcourt within tha
month. And the British government
did not Interfere. It was glad to shift
the riddance of such a human pest en
Undo Sam. Hackleye went back to
England to be with his children, and
pntch out the rest of his life as best
he could. Narelsse Harcourt and rhll
ip Hartley married.
The papers Francis Wayne produced
bore out his story; which was farther
attested by the old French Cure, and
by Itenoni. They also told of the fright
ful treatment Francis Wayne had suf
fered at the hands of his unnatural
father, and how his repulsive shape
was In reality a perverted triumph ot
science. For old John Wayne out there
In the African Jungle had forestalled all
continental research In the graft of
body on body. When through his tor
tures his son lay before him scarcely
more than a heart and a brain, John
Wayne bad grafted to him bodily the
hugest gorilla the jungle furnished.
The human brain and heurt and soul
still beat In kinship, and the beast's
body thrived and made for the mortal
soul w ithin it a torture.
After the trial Le Malheureux, dis
daining the pleadings of a hundred
scientists, went back to Africa with
Mela and I'.enonl. There he has sunk
his identity In a wonderful laboratory
for electrical research, from which an
nually Issue bulletins that delight and
astonish the scientific world. Before
L,e Malheureux sailed he said, in self
justification: "Only once have I let the inclina
tions of the beast that is part of me
overtop me only once permitted Us
physical characteristics to conquer my
Immortal soul. That was the time
when, penned in the death-chamber of
my sister, with tho trap-door locked
behind me. and open escape, such as
Hackleye took, barred from me because
of my unmerited affliction, and when
I knew no one would believe my story,
that I might keep free for my cousin's
sake, hunted and sore, I'jlbbered and
fought and played the beast I look."
(The End.)
COST OF LIVING IN SOUTH.
(ioiMl Accoiiiiiuiilnlloiia Much Illither
ut Hotels Than In the North..
In the Mobile Register of Feb. 7
appears a news item from Washingtou
to the effect that as shown by sworn
statements the expenses of the trav:l-
ing employes of the .department of
agriculture average between $1 and
?2..'0 a day.
This la absurd, says Traveler in tha
New York Sun. First class accommo
dations cannot be secured as cheaply
in the south as in other parts of thfe
country. I am a native of New York
city and have traveled In all of tha
Atlantic seaboard states during tho
last eight years, and I am of the opin
ion that I know something about -no
traveling proposition.
The minimum rate of a. country ho
tel in the south is $2 a day, and with
in the last two years where there 'a
no i i-mpelition many of them have
'gone up to $2.50, and the food yoi
get at most of them beggars doscr'p
tion. If you had supper in Jesup, Ga.,
and by an airship route could break
fast. In China Grove, N. C, you would 1
get the same meal. I
There are places where accommoda
tions can bo secured at $1 a day, and
no doubt they are patronized by
worthy people, but 1 was never aware
that- a goverrktient employe ate such
"humble pie." I know quite a few per
sonally. I have put up at some country hotel
in New England, and well, compari
sons are odious. However, it is suta
dent to say that there Is mtle more
to he desired for $2 a day.
Then again, please consider that the
South has to import much of what it
eats from sections of the country
which, according to aforesaid govern
ment employes, are more expensive to
live in.
In a first class hotel in a large city
In the South, a hotel which rank
with a second class hotel In the East,
you cannot secure complete acconwio
dations for much less than J5 a day.
Ily way of comparison, you could
get more for $5 a day In Boston than
in Atlanta. In a pinch you could live
very cotpfortably in Boston for $4 a
day, much lxdter than you could In
Birmingham, Ala.
In the matter of housekeeping a
family can live more comfortably with
in a moderate distance of Boston, New
York or Philadelphia on the same
amount of money as would be spent
under Ihe same circumstances on the
outskirts of Atlunta. The most eco
nomical city In the country, by the
way, Is Baltimore.
These figures from the sworn state
.nients of government employes do not
constitute a proper commentary on the
differences in cost of living in hotels
in different sections of the country.
They jump from a dollar a day back
woods hotel, where hog and hominy
the cuisine, to a flrst class hotel in
Boston, where you can get Barker
house rolls and real buckwheat cakee
and real maple sirup for breakfast.
As they stand the figures are valueless
and misleading.
Some people are so fond of ill luck
that they run half way to meet IU
Douctaa Jen old.
GOOD SHORT
STORIES
A country bridegroom, when the
hride hesitated to pronounce the word
"obey," remarked to tho officiating
clergyman: "Go on, mister; It don't
matter. I can make her."
She was Just three years old, and It
was her first visit to the Zoo. When
the towering form of the elephant ap
peared in sight she drew back, clutch
ing at her father's hand. "I won't go
too close, daddy," Bhe whlppcred. "I
might frighten him."
The popular opinion of a critic Is
of one who has not learned any sci
ence or succeeded In any art, and Is
therefore empowered to sit In Judg
ment on those who have. "Can you
sing?" asked the maestro of the aspir
ing pupil. "No;" "Can you play?"
"No!" "Then I don't sen anything for
you but to teach music."
A uinn who has been three times
married and as often left a widower
was reported to he thinking a fourth
time of entering into the blessed and
comfortable eiitate of holy matrimony.
A friend ventured to ask whether
there was any truth in the rumor and
received this sagacious reply: "Na,
na; what wl' marryin' them, and
what wl' buryin' them. It's ower
expensive."
Richard Le Galllenne, tho poet, was
entertaining a group of magazine edi
tors at luncheon In New York. To a
cdmpliment upon his fame Mr. Le Gal
llenne Bald lightly: "But what is po
etical fame In this age of prose? Only
yesterday a schoolbow came and asked
me for my autograph. I assented
willingly. And to-day at breakfast
time the boy again presented himself.
'Will you give me your autograph,
sir?' he said. 'But,' said I, "I gave
you my autograph yesterday.' 'I
swopped that and a dollar,' he an
swered, 'for the autograph of Jim Jef
fries.' "
He was a doctor and was patiently
waiting for his first patient. Thought
he: "If the mountain will not come
to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to
the mountain. And as patients will
not seek me out I must needs seek
them out." He strolled through the
cheap market and presently saw a
roan buy six nice cucumbers. "Here's
a chance!" said he, and followed him
home. Patiently he waited for four
long and lonely hours and about mid
night the front door quickly opened,
and the man dashed down the steps.
He seized him by the arm and cried
earnestly: "Do you want a doctor?"
"No!" replied the man roughly. "Want
more cucumbers!"
She was the lady of his choice and
he took.no pains to conceal It. "I'll
bet you don't know what day to-morrow
is," she announced suddenly.
"Wliy, Tuesday, of course," he an
swered In a puzzled tone. "Oh, I don't
mean that kind of a day. I knew you
didn't know," "I don't know. What
do you mean?" he replied helplessly.
"Well, I guess I'll have to tell you."
She pretended she was hurt. "It will
be my birthday." "Congratulations,
Alice. Congratulations," ho exclaimed
enthusiastically. "And how old may
" "That's for you to find out,"
she answered, laughing. "Well, I bet
I know." "You do?" "Yes, and I'll
tell you what I'll do. I'll send you a
rose for every year of your life. How
will that do?" At the florist's he
found the assistant unoccupied. "Send
Miss Casey eighteen of your best roses
to-morrow mbrnlng. You know the
address. Eighteen. Your best. Un
derstand," The boy understood. Half
an hour later the proprietor was Iqok
lng over the order book. "What did
Mr. Graham order to-day?" "Eighteen
roses, sir," answered Willie. "Eighteen?
He's a pretty good customer. Throw
'n a dozen more."
What Cinderella llcnllr Wore.
Doubtless In reading the parchments
of the old French chroniclers many
mistakes and misunderstandings oc
curred. The manuscripts were so
dingy and difficult and undecipher
able! Of all such errors, one made by
Charles Perruult la the moat evident
and the widest spread. When he was
writing his fairy tales to amuse the
seventeenth century courtiers of
France, he had, naturally enough, re
course to the old French chronicles.
There he read that Cinderella or
whatever her name was In those by
gone days went to the ball in slippers
of yair, the royal fur of that time,
miniver, as it is now known.
But Perrault, misreading the text,
decked out his heroine in slippers of
verre glass a very different thing.
The real Cinderella probably glided
softly down the dance in thoBe point
ed, curving, fur-bordered shoes of
medieval days. Thanks to good Mon
sieur Perrault, however, she will for
ever click-clack down the corridors
of time, for those little clattering glass
slippers belong to her as much as his
swaggering shoes of leather to Puaa In
Boots.
An Objevl Defeated.
"Why do women wear such extrava
gant headgear?.", asked the Chicago
man.
"To be frank with you," replied hra
wife, "It Is to attract the admiring
eyes of the men."
"Then why do you proceed to put
out the men's eyes with hatpins?"
Washington Star.
Detail Wnnteil,
"How did you win your wife?"
"Win my wife? How does any
man win a wife?"
, "There are various methods. I have
seen wives that looked as If they
might have beeu won in a raffle."
Washington Herald.
lie Wonder.-
"Shad Is a good ileal like marriage."
"As to how?"
"Both are flue things, but some
times I wonder if either is worth the
trouble." taulsvlWe Courier-Journal.
He who knows a woman ha solved
great mystery.
Ever notice how easy it U to be
fooiUkf
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A Carlyle Retort.
An empty headed duke once said to
Thomas Carlyle at a dinner:
"The British people, sir, can afford
to laugh at theories."
Carlyle, scowling, replied:
"The French nobility of a hiyidred
years ago thought that they could af
ford to laugh at theorists too. But a
man came and wrote a book called
'The Social Contract.' This man was
Jean Jacques Rousseau, and his book
was a theory and nothing but a theory.
The nobles could laugh at his theory,
but their skins went to bind tie se
ond edition of the book."
llackeheeali.
Upgardson What impressed you most
during your trip abroad?
Atom The touches I got everywhere 1
went, of course.
hatb Ton a rortin, or coi.nf
If ao lae at onr Allnn'a l,nns Ital.tim ant watrh
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QTJEEB VILLAGES.
gome Peculiar Ones That May Be
Seen In England.
The English village is very dear to
the hearts of poets and painters, and
thousands of them are certainly charm
ing. A few, however, are more amus
ing than anything' else as, for la
stance, one which consists entirely of
old railway carriages, even the chapel
being composed of four horse trucks.
Another vlUage, with a population of
1,100 and taxed at the valuation ot
$8,000, has neither school, church nor
other public building, the only thing
of the sort being a letter tx$x on a
pillar.
Villages with but a single Inhabi
tant are not unknown, one of them
being Sklddaw, in Cumberland. , The
single villager complains bitterly be
cause he cannot vote, there being no
overseer to prepare a voters' list and
no church or other public building in
which, to publish one, as the law re
quires. The lonely rate payer In a
Northumberland village has declined
to contribute money to maintain the
roads, remarking that the one he has
Is quite good enough for Us use. In
the Isle of Ely Is a little parish with
about a dozen inhabitants that has no
rates, as there are no roads or public
institutions of any kind and "conse
quently no expenses.
Kenipton, near Bedford, can prob
ably lay successful claim to the dis
tinction of being the longest village
In the world, as It straggles along the
road for a distance of seven miles.
Sometimes a village will entirely
disappear, having been built either on
the edge ot the crumbling cliffs that,
make part of the coast line or over an
ancient mine. One of the latter class
Is In Shropshire, and each year one
or more of the cottages tumbles as
the earth sinks beneath It. Harper'
Weekly.
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