THEE AMERICAN.
IN THE SOUTHLAND.
Afar t Ut dr old IWhlaad,
Wfcora waont and wttart mtV
Imm art bloomtnt In btitf,
nbin birds ting soft and twt
JtfiT s tkt Jrar eld Snu'.lilsad,
ht wtiu, my RuUinftlar,
What lb Habit art whit with hlooanma.
And naught bar tit doth mar.
Afrl tbt dear nil Rniithlind,
po by tli mtmmr ifa.
SOIIg h Is sinking ftly,
Flostt OTr tha itn to me.
MISS 8PAKKLKS.
She hud the brljrhloni cyot and iho
sunniest tmile to bo found within the
four tea hs might have her mo
menta of depression, as wa all have,
and the might at timet flume out Into
rage whoa thing went wrong and
htr blood wat up, but thin only re
deemed hr from iho monotony of
cheerful nas and gave hor the variety
that belongs to a rich nature. Uf the
darker, the more sullen passions, aha
bad not a trace, nnd the worst that
could be laid of hor wan that the was
"soon up", and "somotimos down."
But Id general she was Miss
Sparkles," and the name expressed all
that the world loved or cared to know.
She had occasion enough for tho
axerelse of her brightness, for she
u an orphan, with no greater pro
tection than might be found In a
ouple of flne-henrtod brothers, one
of whom was on a Texas ranch and
the other In one of her majesty's
hlps as lieutenant in the Australian
nous. Either of those men would
have protected her with his heart'
blood; but with all these mllot be
tween her ana them, they were not
-very efllclent Grouthoart and poor
little Miss Sparkles had practically no
one but hersolf as her' guardian and
oarolnker. For yours she had fulllllod
certain duties In the house of an old
friend. She had beon as the adoptod
daughter of tho widow who
loved hor, truBted to hor, and found
her own happiness in the association
which gave herself a .loving compan
ion and Miss Sparklet an affectionate
home. But troublo had come between
the two and an enemy had sowed
tares, as oncmlos have Iho trick
of doing. Anne, tho old servant, who
had lived with hor mlslroBS these
twenty ydars gone, had never quite
liked the close association of Miss
Sparkles with the mistress.' She
grudged the cares that were glvon on
the one side and the protection that
was granted on the other. She thought
that Miss Sparkles would be a vaHt
deal bettor oraployod gotting her liv
ing In somo qunsl-monlul way that
would toaoh her horpluoo, rather than
living here as the daughter of the
house where never a daughter wat
wanted. What did Missus want with
a young person hanging around whon
he, her old Anne, was there to look
after her comforts and see to hor fads
nrwl fnnnlna' And If sho did Want
any one, why should sho'Tiot have hor'
own niece Grnolo, sb.tor Janes oldest,
as fine a girl us ever stepped? Sho
wus bigger and tailor than Miss
Sparkles, and quite as good a compan
ion; nnd she was tho oldest of sevon,
and it woull bo "the worlds" for slater
June to find her such a good situation
us this of Missus' would be. .So sho
sot herself to work to try and oust
MIhi Sparkles from the place and wrig
gle hor niece Grade into it
Heaven knows whut she said, but
she said something that proved quite
efficient for its purpose; and for tho
first time In thoir joint lives together
the kind old friend and quasl-mothor
began to doubt; to suspect, and find
fault with her adopted daughter. The
home which had once been like a soft,
warm nest lined with down, became
now a cold, hard, prickly perch, where
footing was not too secure. Miss
Sparkles, who In times gone by had
never been known to displease, could
now scarcely please the lady. Mrs.
Grahama who In times gono by had
never spoken a harsh word to hor
bright eyed companion, now scarce
ever spoke a kind one. Poor Miss
Spurl-les cpenod those bright eyes of
hers to the widest but she could not
understand what was passing about
her, and Mrs. Grahame did not' ex
plain nor did hor old maid Mr
Anne. Whon Miss Sparkles, poor
dear, all in angry tours and vivid flush
of eager scorn, . besought Mrs Gra
hame to toll her how or why or where
she had offonded, that lady put on her
iciest look and answered primly: "You
have not offonded me, Maria. Have
1 made any complaint?" "
' No," said Miss Sparkles vehement
lyj "and I only wish you had! It
would be more satisfactory to know
what had displeased you than, to be
treated with this odd coolness so un
like your formor self."
"Am I to be taken to task for my
manner?" asked Mrs, Grahame, in re
ply. "Do you hold that to bo a very
dutiful or rospoetful thing to do from
yon to me, Maria?"
And poor Miss Sparkles, baffled at
each turn and every endoavor, felt
there was nothing for It but silence,
patience and doing hr best to recover
tha affection sho hud lost lost she
oouldnot toll how.
Some deaths are mercifully twlft
end others are painfully slow and lin
gering, The moral follows the physi
cal law, and in the death of friendship
are repeated tho tame conditions as
thos which surround the gradually
weakening vitality of tho body or
those which out tho tlo between breath
and spirit with a stroke a sudden as
a lightning flash. Ever Influenced by
Mrs. Anne, the old lady's lovo for her
favorite gradually died, tilt at last the
psychological moment 'cama tho
time were fully ripe, and Grade
mltfht be elfflotually Introduced. Dat-
tined to bo the tuncetior, there now
onlr wanUt-i tho .ccHlori Mix
Sparklet mutt ha dispossessed, but she
must bo Put in tho wrong, arid In a
manner mode to out bar own throat
It wot only a llttlo thing. Tha larjf-
H aranla gtnr,lly da hang an
Utile thiol and Iragwllat which flit
tha world spring from Initial ctrcura
stsnos ao btggnr than a mustard t4
Among tht domiitlc duttPt which
Mi Sparklet had performed with
SUeh signal 1UIHHMMI Waa that of Mi cam
of lhi linen. Mrs, Grahama had a fin
lock of llnrn, and at proud of It
a a good housekeeper should bo Pur
log tha danR-hler Ilka r-pocn of M!t
Sparklet' mnttsmt'Hl no reasonable
fault could have been or ever had
boen found with Iho mnnner In which
tha had fulfilled hor chnrga. Hut
now, when Anna'a tilnca Graclarama
In as the tiHrior. ud(hnly, crlo!
crac! at tho French sny, I ha Kcyt of
tha linen closet were demanded, and
tho care of tha linen was hamlod ovor
to the nuweomor, I
How have I deserved this?" tnld
Miss Spiirktcs, naming, at wat not tin
natural. "1 liavo done my duty. Why !
do you dispossess mo P" j
"That It my affair," tnld Mrt.
Grahame. "Surely I can do at I Ilka
with my own?" Woll, tho bright-eyed
little irlrl boro thlt hor first snub
direct In favor of a rival with as much
patience nt tho could command
which, truth to say, was not an over
whelming amount She did make it
rather uncomfortable, for her rival,
and thow 'her tempo with perhaps
lets discretion than honesty lost
prudence than slncorily. At all
events she gave the occasion that wot
wanted, and put herself to much la
tho wrong that Mrt. Grahame found
the fitting for the shaft the wantod to
throw, and gave Mist Sparklet her
conge. , ' 1 ;
So now, turned out from tha toft
warm nost on to the bare and prickly
perch, the poor little girl was oast
into a space, and if she foil to the
ground altogether, neither Mrs, Gra
hame instigated by Anne, nor Anne
influenced by greed and jealousy and
tho worst form of nepotism carol It
was the fashion in the house to speak
of Miss Sparkles as ungrateful, wild
tempered, neglectful, impossible It
was the fashion to pretend that all
and sundry had borne many things bo
cause of her furious passions because
of hor neglect of duty; and that thoy
were all woll quit of hor, an Incubus
as tho hud become And Graoto took
her place gallantly and played into
her aunt's hands, us it was lntondod
she should.
In tho neighborhood whore this
little story wus unnoted lived a
wealthy man not only, but a greut
dual older than Miss Sparkles. He
hud always admired this bright vi
vacious, olevor llttlo girl, with hor
ready wit and, untiring helpfulness,
hor good humor, general ability,
keen perception and perspicacity, lie
had admired and loved her, und in
some sort envied bis neighbor, Mrs.
Grahame, for the possession of such
a pleasant llttlo tinging bird for whom
he, too, would have boon fain to find
a suitable onge. Hut it never oc
curred to him to disturb existing ar
rangemontsand ho kept himself too
tightly In hand to allow himself to re
gret, doslro, to plan. When, how
ever, the pretty girl wus dispossessed
and so unfairly and so unceremoni
ously treated, he roconsldorod his
own position nnd hors, nnd thought It
ovor within him ho If, wondering if it
would bo possible if it would ba
wlso if It would bo rlghtP But,
nothing venture, nothing win, and at
least he might sound Miss Sparkles
horsolf, and hour what sho thought
about tha mutter. Would she? . Could
she? He was 30 years older than she,
but he was bale and hearty, and at 60
he matched hor 25 with not too bad a
graco. At all events, he loved her
and was willing to give bis name and
his fortune, if so be that she could
love him and content horsolf at hit
wifa
. And when he asked hor, the little
girl, bruised and tore and desolate at
the was, unprotected, friendless, home
less, turned to him with that gratltudo
which, when mixed with respect and
porsonul liking makes no ill substitute
for love, and said, "Yes, sho loved
him well enough to be his good and
faithful wife, and she would spend all
her strength and energy in making
him happy, so that he should never
rogrot the trust he had placed in hor. "
And thus, as is often in life hor
troublo became her wellsprlng of Joy,
and hor fall wat the platform on
which the found hor prosperity. The
marriage turned well in all rospectt
grandly welL Miss Sparklet, with all
her brightness and her vivacity,
brought the sunshine of youth and
gayety into hor husband's erstwhile
gloomy house. Loving, no one else,
she loved h Ira with her whole heart
and never know the moment she re
gretted her marriage. Nothing could
be more harmonious than her Ufa
nothing more prosperous nothing
more perfect It was a round of
pleosantnost and an uninterrupted
flood of sunshine; while poor Mrs.
Grahame, between Anne and hor niece,
was at grltt between tha upper and
tha nether millstone - iron between
tha hammer and tho anviland could
no more call her very tout her own.
And - hor beautiful atore of linen
dwindled strangely and rapidly, and
what was hift went into decay and waa
left to ruin unrepaired. Thlt wat her
punishment for listening to malevo
lence and being weak enough to be
lieve evil reports unsubstantiated by
facta or proof. London Queen.
Tha onajnn.
Hoi "They wore married through
a matrimonial bureau, and he telected
her by hor photograph."
Shoi "And now thoy'ra off on
their bridal tour?"
He: "No; be't gone to kill tha
photographer. "
To ttprnt lit fllf.
Among th most extraordinary
plucks of symbolism known to bava
been uud by tha early Asiatics waa a
donk'jy'a bead used as a reprotanta
tlva of tho deity.
DITKNMINID CLItNT,
A Wa ra
, Mr r '
Xly ftrtt rata. aald a wall-knowa
ltartam lawyer to a Naw York Adw
tlu! nrantllva M a' Uhlq'.lS
onv An Irish family I ma nama oi
Murphy, living up n the rwkt of ona
of tha font-disappearing remnants of
hhantyiown. were fraud ui.'iitiy ovlotad
from their tumbledown cabin by a ra
callr landlord. Tha practical head ;
of tho houtuhotd wt tho wlfo, and tut of the St Louis Giotto-Democrat
tha determined to fight tha matter out. ttumts sponsor for Iho following story
"For thwo weeks the Murphy ohlU told by Lou lopurd, a sugar plantar
dren, furniture and all lived tn tha of that vlomltyi
bark-yard of their former home with 1 - My plantation had, since tha war,
nothing botwoen Ihem and heaven but Won for tha most part uncultivated,
a lllnisy tnt mado o' old thooU, whllo only tho tract lying mtnreat town hnv
Mra. Murphy tramped around town' lug been rented out to small planters,
looklnir for a lawyer who would taka while the ncroi bordering tho river
thoir case for nothing.
One dav she charged Into my office
nnd told mo her ttory with tho stereo
typed exactness that oomes from fre
quent rt petition. The caso teemed tdf
he a worthy one, and at I wasn't over-!
burdened with work 1 agreed to takaj.
It free of charco and reinstate tha-
Murphyt In their dilapidated homov
stead.
She wanted to got out a free sum
mons against tha landlord and waiv Uma hunting my roady-nmde pre
several other small but neoestnry exv serve Una day I had hud an un
pento but I told her it would ba mora! usually successful day of i'.and wosre
pollle to pay these, as tho total would) turning home with my bag of small
I not amount to '. i'
" 'Folve dollar' she cried; "dlvU a,
olnt have the Murphyt teen tlnoe me
husband losht hit iob wan month ago, L
and tha losht blissed thing thlra pawn
brokors '11 take they've got already.'
"When I offered to loan her tho
money the went into tuch a rago that hind it to the landward, and the river
I apologised abjectly. J' conconlod by it on the other. It was
"Be the power' the exolalmed, j growing lute, too, and whon presently
after pacing the floor for about tent I hoard a piercing scream behind me
mlnutos, '1 forgot wan thing! Walt ! it sent tha blood to my heart in
mlsthor, an' I'll be back in an hour.',' quicker beats, for tho sound was an
She kept hor word, and just at I evil one under the circumstances,
was closing up shop for the day she I "Hut a moment's thought told me
reappeared with hor hands full of sil- it was tho voice of an animal I heard,
ver, which she poured upon my desk. ; and as It was some distance oil, I
"Mr Murphy, 'I queried, -where , jogged seronoly on, dismissing it from
did you set this? I thought your lost my mind, as it never occurred to mo
valuable had boen pawned?' , that the scream had roferenco to mo,
'Yis,' she replied, with a gloam ofybut in another minute or two I hoard
triumph in her gray eye 4vory thing ; it again, and this time considerably
exolpt the goat I took old Nanny, ' nearer me. It sounded again and
wnose milk mo chlldor hat lived upon, ' Viiln, each tlmo drawing olosor, until
over to the Konnoy and thoy lint mo ."'it struck mo all nt once that tho
(our dollars an' nlnety-slvln ctnts on , animal might bo attracted by my
hor. Thore't the money, young man, , door. I looked behind mo, and saw
and now, be the luv of Hlvln, go in ;thut the buck was still bleeding a
and bate McCarty!' . "j little, and that the drops of blood fell
"I take pleasure In ttatlng that Mo- Unto tho dust of tho road as I traveled.
Carty waa 'buton.'" T 'jWhen I perceived this I was certain
. . j 1 1 i ', V the wild cat was trailing mo,
QOROEOU8 PARADES.
rurnlshal Br EIphaaM of Anolaat Days
In India.' -
It was In the proceislon and page,
ants that elophants made the finest
apponranoe, says St Nicholas, fitted
with magnificent trapping and
marching slowly along, as. If con
clous of thoir fine looks, One of tha
most remarkable shows was that at
most romarKaoie snows was mat y
th8 Nodding X61 Vizier- All in 1795.
Here 1, '200 elephants were in line, all
richly costumed. Uf these 100 had
howdahs, or castlos, covered with
Bllver, while in tho center sat the
nabob upon a ' very large elephant
whose howdnh was covered with gold,
set with jewels.
The dally parade of tho elephants
of the Court of Johanghlr wat a won
dorful display. Tho elephants were
bedecked wltii precious stonea, chains
of gold and tilvor. gilt bannort and
flags. The first elephant called the
Lord Klophunt, hud the plates of hit
head and breast sot with rubles and
emeralds, and as he passed the king ha
turned, droppod upon his knees, and
trumpeted loudly not in loyal fra ma
of mind, exactly, but because tho
driver pricked him witn a-sharp prod i
uit) at the right time.
Silly people,
however, bolloved that
the elephant
was showing respect for the king.
To-day, the elephant is still used ia
India in pageants, as a laborer, espec
ially in the lumber districts, where it
It taught to carry long timber and,
at bat been said, forms a corps in tho
British armyi but in active warfare it
Is not useful only in few cases, ana .
can never De empioyeu so irequeuu
as in ancient tlmos.
Told the Truth About It.
Ket," said the man, "yos; lt wat
the sama old story. Ho wat a
fine-looking young follow, ambitious
to rise in his profession, the soul of
honor, and entirely without guile, and
the scorned to be gontlo, winning and
refined; in short, all that a woman
ihould be. How could it have been
othorwlse than that he should be at
tracted toward hor? He fought against
this passion, but it. was usoloss. Una
flay when they were alone he told hit
love, and the"
I "And tho," broke in one of the party
j who had listened to the speaker with
baled Dreath, 'unusne reruseu mm,
nnd he turned about with a groan and
loft her forever. Ills Ufa wot crushed;
be"
'"Not a bit of it" tftld the narrator;
"sha accepted him and thoy wore
married two or threo months after
wards, and have ovor since lived a
happy, contented, humdrum tort of
lifo, ' '
Oil and Ma ion, '
This recalled one of hhoridan't talet
of an Irishman who met a Briton of
the true John Bull pattern,, standing
with fa Mod arms in a contemplative
mood, apparently meditating on the
greatness of his little is I if, n 4
"Allow ma to differ with of ax.
claimed tha Celt
"But 1 have tald nothing sir, " ra-
plied John Bull
I "And a man may think a U at woll
at publish If pertlsted tha pugna
cious Hibarnlan, .
"I'arhapt you are looking for a
fight?" queried tha Brltoo.
"Allow ma to compliment ft on tha
atilckness of your porciptlon," tald
ill. t t ..L. 4 1. . m t rw. Antmn 1,1.1 tuuti. unA
jthan they pitefcad io. Washington
I Pott
FIOIITIXU A WILDCAT.
A BATTLK WON BY A SKILLFUL
STRATKOEM.
Il.tal art a WraponlM Man Wttaa
1a-r Wat Kolhlat ttlltt
Wtilrh la IH-rail lllm.alf
A Marra Karapa.
Tha Lak Chariot. La, correspond.
wore left to nature, so that whan I
bought It I had considerable work In
clearing it again, 1 founl it overrun
with wild boasts rabbit doer,
swamp foxes, and others of tho lest
olTouslve sorts, and enough wild cats,
panthers, and raUlosnukos to make
tho tusk of clearing it a lively one.
My hands carr
ted
their guns to tho
field as regularly
as they did their
- Mioos, and i myself, put in a very good
gume tied to my saddle, while behind
me on my horse was as fine a buck as
you ever saw. My rood was a lonely
one, which had been newly out and
ran beside the river for a mile or more.
On elthor tide of It wat a dense un
dergrowth, with a lino of timber be-
and looked to my gun to toe
vlf It wat loaded and at hand. I antic-
ipated no trouble with tho creature,
i at I expocted it would presently loan
tho ,UD(ior(rrowth lintl i would
have time to lire upon it ere it reached
me,, Hut it did not appear, and X
hoarfl no other scream, so I had just
ihegun to think that the animal had
determined discretion to be the better
t valor and. given up the chose, J
hon. wltll0Ut anV warnlmr. the oat 1
that had crept upon me from behind,
her volvoUshod loot making no sound
In the dust of. the road, sprang upon
my back. Tho attack was so very
unexpected that 1 was folied from my
wm by lt lind rollo(1 to tho grollnd
,wr,n tno creature sim clinging to me,
,whllo my gun was knocked from rny
hand and lay somo twonty foot from
me. The horse; scared out of its wits,
broke into a run and yiim out of sight
In a mlnuto, carrying tho door with
him. I was loft alone to wrentlo with
the cat und a rather unenviable situa
tion it was, for without a weapon and
worn out with a long day's hunting, I
was hardly a match for the animal a
young ono, and excited by hunger and
the smell of fresh blood.
My falling on it also seemed to be
''.onntrund as a declaration of war. and
'tilnrr mi rn b.u.V u-hleh n (nar.
I ully lacerated by tho creaturo't pow-
eriui claws, it new at my tnroai doiopo
I could regain my footing. I throw up
my arm to guard my throat which
wat exposed by my hunting shirt and
Llio cat fastened Its teeth in the flesh
w lle0W tno 0n,ow
I struck it with
all the force I
m other i,ftnd with
could muster under the circumstances,
but the only effect of tho blow was to
cause the beast to sink its tooth deep
er Into my flesh, until I fearod it
would break the bone. Yelling for
help, I lay still for sevoral minute
but when no answering shout greolod
my eart 1 concluded that if anything
was to bo done J was the ono that
would have to do it. With a sudden
jork 1 tried to throw tho cat off my
body, but thlt proved a signal failure,
and, though tho creature lot go my
arm, lt was to make a snap at my
face. I averted thlt by again1 inter
posing my arm. which it sci.od in just
abut the same place.
I wat at a loss to know, what to do,
but that something had to bo done was
becoming more evident every moment
fn I wat not only in agony with that
boast's noftdlo-like tooth mumbling at
my arm, but 1 was also growing faint
from tho loss of blood. Canting about
for torno lucky idea, for I realized that
my only hope lay in strategy, my eyet
foil on tho dusty road, and like an In
spiration oamo tho thought that under
providence saved my life. In my alt
engaged hand I caught up as much of
the dust as it would hold and flung it
Into tho eyo nearest mo. Tho cat
gavo a squall but before it could
tprlng up I was voady with another
handful of tho dust which I throw
into the other gloaming eye, Blinded
and lorrlliod by tha lost of Its sight,
tha cat leaped several font Into the
air, howling with pain and clawing at
itaolf in a vain altornpt to , rid lu eyes
of tho scalding powdor. Taking ad
vantage of the respite I run for my
gun, and, aiming carefully, fired upon
the rolling, plunging, screaming anU
(r.al and
d killed ft
Frbmdof playwright--"'!! ma, now,
what do ytin wtinUUir your gr Ut work ?
flay wrl lit -"iiutttiiK y plsy awti'ttd
f,ar tbty ra written. "If Ion 'iratt-acrtpL
SLOW HV FIVE rEIT.
Tha Oia rrarmar Wain IUa tta all
Hli;at f't lilt Nana,
"Threa or four yaart ago." tald tha
anglnoor lo the iMrolt Fraa 1 '( ra.
portor, "I was running a passongar
train up Norlh. Kvnry other night at
8 o'clock we were duo at a oorlwln
country orosnlng. night I Jut
shaved a borne and buggy at tha
c rowing and tha mim in tha buggy
Veomed lo bo mora than half drunk.
On the aoiund night 1 birely mU.od
him again, and on the third occasion
I do bellevo w j knocked a spoke out
of hit hind wheel Next day, on the
down run, ho came up to the engine
as wo lay at tho town about threo
miles from tho crossing, waiting for
tho ox pros to pat, and tnyt ho:
'Look-a-hore, olu man, you can't
do ltl Ye huln't smart 'uuff with yer
old tnortcr to run ovor mo!'
"Are you tho man who crossot at
Dunn's at 8 o'clock every othor night?'
I asked.
" 'l bo. I'm tho very chap. It't
jest my hour fur gotlln' homo from
here with a big drink o' whisky bo
hind my vost'
" 'Well, you want to look out for
yoursolf or you'll certainly got
killed."
" 'Don't you worry about me! Jlst
crack on steam and let 'er go and
never mind whore I am. If my old
hots can't beat your bller on wheelt
I'm wlllln' to be Mated.'
, "It was no use to talk to him. He
was bull-headed and conceited and the
very next run ho was there again. I
spoke to the conduotor about lt and I
believe tome of the officials tent the
man word that ha must stop or they'd
have him arrested. He didn't stop,
though. He was there on my tun at
regular at clock work and he always
had a lling and a laugh at me. This
had boon going on for more than a
month, when one night as I was try
ing to pick up lost time, I caught him
right in tho center of the truck."
"And that was tho end of him,"
observed tha reporter.
"It was a quoor thing," said the en.
glnoor, "Tho horse and buggy were
Hung dear over the fence, killing the
horso Instantly, while the old man
went forty foet high and came down
on the roof of the fourth car back.
Wo came to a stop und found him and
got him down, He had just about a
minute to live, He recognized me,
and signed that he wanted to speak.
When I boot ovor him he whispered:
. "Did It Anally, didn't ye, but do
you know whyP The old hoss had
collo and was Ave foot slow!"
morel In (tatn. '
" Bank director I am surprised, sir,
to learn that you drop into our bank
every 'day and whisper tips to our
cashier. Don't you know the infor
mation must be a great temptation to
him to use the bank funds to specu
late with?
Wealthy banker Yos.
"And yet you are a heavy stock-
holder In our bank,
"JUBt SO."
.:v-T c?;(
"Then, in the name of c6mmon
sense, what's your motiveP" 1
'Well the fact Is, I don't kno w
whether your cashier is honest or not;
but if ho isn't honest, and if he does
use the bank funds to speculate with,
I want him to keep on the right Bide
of tho market See?'1 Buffalo Ex
press.
The Himixh of Common,
The speaker of the house of com
mons draws a salary of 5,000 a
year wniie in otiico, ana wnon ne re
tires ho is raised to the peerage, and
receives a pension of 4,000. The
deputy speaker receives a salary of
2,500.
FEMININITIEb.
Without noble desires no man can lead
a noble life.
Mr. Kemp Sanderford, sr. , aged 83
years, and Mrs. Susannah Nobles, agod
70, lovsrs holt a century ago, were mar
ried near Flora, Miss.
Motlior, reading: "A machine has been
Invented that will fling a man 1,500 feet
into the air." Protty daughter: "Horrors!
Don't lot pa hear of it."
CliHiincey Dopuw said in the course of
his addreon to the Fellowship Club in Chi
cago, that after a man has passed 40 year?
of age be makes no new friend '
Employer: "I'd fngage you fer the
place at once, only I must have a married
man." Applicant: '"Keep the place
opon for aa hour, sir, and I'll easily tlx
that."'
Ooligbtly: "I am sorry you and Ethel
have fallen out." George: "It Is a mat
ter of no consequence, sir." "It is to ma.
She hasn't bad a young man In years who
burned to little gas,"
In the tenth century, to eat off ths
tame plate and drink out of the lama cup
was considered a mark of gallantry, and
of tha best possible understanding between
a lady and a gout loin an.
Mother: "Ooodness me! Is that Irene
at the piano?" Little son: "Ye ma."
'Well, go ask ber 'what she is doing. If
lie is practixhig she can keep on until the
hour Is up; but If she is playing tell ber to
stop."
"I want you to paint us a big motto in
gilt letters," b said to the sign artist.
"Yet'm. What U tha text)' "It Is mora
blessed toglvt than to receive." -un, 1 1
we; tha ladles are getting ready for an- ;
other church fair.
Young wife: "My love, I have a de
Ilghtful surprint In stora for you, Yon
can not guims what It Is!" Young hus
band, full of pleasant anticipations;
"Wlmt It It, darling!" "I've Invited
mother to p"d a week with os."
"Y, she Is so modest that sha will
hardly let me squeeze her bund, although
I liava li eiKgd to hr over year."
"Indeed! Who ft that man with whom
sha it wslt?lfig" "That's a stranger to
whom sha was tiitrortueed thlt evening. "
lilg Wtri "OI:k, I wish you would go
arid l Mr, Shsefellow a giant of wator."
Mr. NI'fllow: "Y, my y, and here's
a dime for you," ll k: "Thank yoo; I'll
go prt.y soon. Mamma tald I shouldn't
lava the purl'tr until tha cams bayk."
Auntl't, vWtfiigln tn country) "What
a bxavunly morelng It l, HHm I feel at
though I ahonl1 Ilka to muka aomaoria u
vrmimtyhHVVf to-day I" Nina, catching
tha same fl)ils('. "Y, auntie, and to do (
L It's go ail frateh ths plgt back." j
A SYMBOL Or LIBERTY.
Wteara tfc I.IWartjr C n Orlflaataa aac
Wkf It Was aaaataa,
I have ofun bmtti asked why tha
"Liberty Cap" it used tn American il
lustration when It originated and
why it was adoptod. tayt a writer in
the St Lou l Hepubtlc At first I wat
Inclined tit give tho subject no partic
ular atittti..iv and really never did
ulvo Hateiious thought until good
forlttna put a railed State cant of
17;i;l In my hand In thlt rare piece
tho head of Ltoorty ia turned to tha
left Sha has a pule ncroM hor loft
shoulder, surmounted by a conical
poke, which Is Intended for a Liberty
Cap. Huro indeed was an oddity, a
subject for immediate Investigation.
Turning lo my "Dictionary of Phrase
and Fable ' (an odd place to look, sure,
for a Liberty Cap is neither a phrase
nor a fable), I found the following
under the head of -Cup of Liberty."
"Ths Goddess of Liberty in the A van
lino Mount was represented as hold
ing in hor hand a cup, the symbol of
freedom. In Franca tho Jocoblnt
wore a red cap; iu England a blue
cap with a white border is a symbol of
liberty, and Brittania is sometimes
represented as holding such a cap on
the point of her spear."
Here were some pointer but no real
information ai to the organization of
the symbol Delving deeper Into
"volumes of forgotten lore," I found
that the cap was a symbol of liberty
and freedom in the time of the Roman
Emperors. When the Romans manu
mitted a slave his head was adorned
with a small red cloth cap. As soon
as this wat done he was known as a
libertnu or freed man, and' his name
was registered among others of tho
city's "tribe." In the year 263, when
Saturninus invaded the capital , he
hoisted a cap on the polntof his spear,
to indicate that all slaves who rallied
around this standard should bo free.
Whon Marlus incited the slaves to
take up arms against Syllo, ho em
ployed the same' symbol, and when
Cicsar was murdered the conspirators
marched forth in a bo ly with a cap
elevated on a apear, in token of lib
erty, i
DRUIDICAL RELICS.
Th
Wroth" Mo u-y of Warwickshire
Its HUiorr and. Orlqrln.
History books confidently assert
that the Druids have long ceased to
exist in England. " Doubt is thrown on
this assertion by a quaint custom held
in the , Btormy dawn of a recent'
morning around the remnants of a
British tumulus which exists at
Knightlow in Warwickshire, whore
the Duko of Bucoleuch, as lord of tho.
hundred, exacted paymont of certain
tributes which date from the misty
times of our Druidtcal ancestor The
duke did not himself appear in tho
character of a Druid to collect tha
dues, but was represented by his
agent . Payment is made by twenty
eight parishes of the old Hundred of
Kniirhtlow, the tax" being called
"Wroth silver."
What lt was instituted for nobody
knows, says the London Telegraph,
and nobody knows exactly why it was
maintained. It only produces about
nine shillings, but if any parish neg
lects to pay the clulce has the right to
exact from it a while bull with rod
noso and ears. The representatives
of the different parishes mum assem
ble at the tumulus march thrice
around a hollow stone, saying, "The
wroth money," and deposit the trib
ute in tha cavity, from which the
duke's representative gathers lt up.
A philologer after the school of Dean
Swift's "Greek and Latin Derived
from English," might explain the
meaning of the name by saying the
parishes were "wroth" at having to
pay it; but this etymology is at once
nulifled by the fact that the inhabit
ants of the Hundred who care to get
out of bed bo early, are entertained in
a neighboring hostelry by His Grace
at a substantial breakfast, coming to .
twenty times more than they pay in
"wroth money." It is a curious cus
tom, linking the distant past with
nineteenth century civilization.
Owned the Earth.
A good story is told of a distin
guished American who made a tour of
Europe last summer. In Belgium he
walked into a shop and oalled for a
cigar. Several were thrown on the
counter.
"How much are they worth?" he
asked.
"Three for a quarter of a dollar,"
answered the shopkeeper, glibly.
"Why, you must take me for an
American?"
"Of course I do."
1 'How came you to guest my nation
ality to easily?"
"Because whon an Englishman
comes in here he asks for a cigar, payg
for it without asking any question
and walks out"
"Well?"
"Well, whon one of you Americana
coma in hero, you walk up to the
counter, and call for a cigar just as if
you owned tho whoe blessed earth."
: Amoplcan threw down the mon.
The American threw down the mon
ey, picked UP the cigars, and walked
out without a word. Sat Evening
Pott' -'
Twice Fortr. .
A teacher wat drilling the children
in music;
"What does it mean when you ton
tho letter f over a bar or stave?" th
asked.
"Forte, " answered ona of tha pupils.
"And what doet tha character ff
mean?"
There was a thort period of deep
tboughtfulnoss on tha part of tha chil
dren, and then ono of them thoutod
triumphantly:
"Eighty." Tld-Blta.
Uniting- Har
Cubbage 1 wonder why thoy art
paving thlt street?
Itubbago Thoy probably iotand to
put a tawar down as toon at tan pa?
log lt dona. F.poeh,
