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rHAPTEIt XVI.-Continued.) She grew nearly desperate when she bean! herself announced, and found her self walking inlo the room with Miss Kay In her wake. Walking Into a room in which there were only three people a gentleman and lady, whom lie took to be the host and hostess, and Captain M gl eam b. Nerving herBe!f to the effort, she swept np gwiftly to the lady, who was leaning in an attitude of careless grace against the roaatelpiece, and was beginning to tie have as a guest should, in spite of the gross negligence of the supposed hostess, when an exclamation from the latter checked her. "Jenifer". Hugh, just imagine Jenifer being bere and not letting us know she was coming! Why didn't you tell me?" Mr. Hubert Kay continued, abruptly turning to Captain Edgecumb. Then, as Effie looked Jenifer nil over and questioned her closely as to the rea son why of her being at Mrs. Campbell's now, when, on a former occasion, she had refused to come with her (Mrs. Hubert). Captain Edgecumb and Mrs. Hatton got over their meeting and greeting unobserv ed. "You thought Mrs. Hubert Kay was my sister, didn't yon?" he asked, half laugh ing at the mistake she had made. And Mrs. Hatton. who was intensely mortified at having made it, answered, less smoothly than usual: "I took it for granted that, as we are at leant an hour after the time put on fcer cards, Mrs. Campbell would have keen ready to receive her guests." j "Be!!- often late, I tell her it's bad form in her own bouse. Hut. you see, most people w ho come here know one an other so well, thiit it doesn't make much difference to them. You'll fail into the flow of the thing when you've been here two or three times. Do you know, I'm awfully glad to see yon here to-night." A little, vindictive gleam flashed from her eyes: bnt he was looking away at Jenifer, who hud ts-en drawn to the far nd of the room by Mrs. Hubert, ami Jidn't notice it. He only heard the tones, which were soft and smoothly pleasant. Meanwhile. Ellie had catechized her sister-in-law. "Who's that woman you came with. Jenifer"? Yotf i:vo in in-r houie, do yon? Flora always s:i:d Mrs. Campbell got queer people about her. I m J you si-e she thought I was doing the honors and re ceiving Mrs. Campbell's guests? Wasn't that a deadly blunder on her part? A woman wo could make thai mistake would do anything. I stood like a stone, and never moved a finger; yet she would have Eo'tc en smirking and pilnvcring her way toward introducing herself if I hadn't '-ailed out to yon. 1 ,00k at Cap tain K.igei-umb flirting with her now! Have yon thrown him over, and is she ratch'r.ig him in tiie rebound?" "I haven't throw him over, but I think she is catching him," Jenifer said, in liifTcreiitiy. And then the room began to fill rapidly, and preiti;;.v Mrs. Campbell wns gliding about among the guests, giving to one and all the r:g;it words of welcome. "I suppose that man has just painted a picture or written a book, as Bell Camp bell is erecting triumphal arches for him?" Effie aked, contemptuously, and some one standee near told her: "That's the aew American actor. Josiah M. Whittler." Then a hum of approbation arose, as the American actor had agreed to give a recitation. CHAPTER XVII. "I hate recital ions, don't you?" Kllie said, shrugging her shoulder disapprov ingly, as she saw the crowd swaying in the direction of the large drawing room, from one end of which the talented Amer ican actor was going to declaim to a de lighted audience. "Come with me, Jeni fer, into the ante-room or somewhere away from this herd. I've hundreds of things to say to yon." ( "I do like recitations, and the hundreds f things could hnve been said before, am can wait now." Jenifer replied. "No, that's just what they can't do; and len't be huffy about my not having been te-r to sen you yet. I literally haven't lirtsl a moment's time to myself since I left Moor Koyal, and I have been more worried in these weeks than in all my life put together before I married." "What has worried you? Is .Mr. Jer voise wrtrse?" Jenifer asked, allowing kerseif to be drawn aside by the almorbing Xfle in spite of her desire to hear the reci tation. "Oh. no; old Jervoise keepa about the atae; It wonldn't worry me very much if tw were worae, to tell the trnth: he'a no aleaiarc to himself, and he's the reverse rf OM to Flora and everybody else. fWa'a good and kind aa she ran lie; 1 it Weren't for her I should never hare I It's dreadful for poor Hugh to be an snort of money. (If course If we hadn't been driven out from Moor Koyal e could have gone on living quietly there, making very little ready money do, till things arrange. them sehes; but. as it is. we have tieen driven out by Jack's marriage and other things, and the end of it is that we can hardly pay our way from day to day, and are geuing rearrully in .lelit liesnlcs. I never heard of a girl being ao badly treated al together as I've been. And Hugh's fam ily don't help him at all. All the help we get comes from my side of the house." Jenifer winced under these words. Keenly as she felt the injustice of them, there was in them just enough surface truth to hurt her sharply. On the face of it there was a certain amount of hardship in Kffie'a lieiug so soon deprived of the home for which she had married. That she had been no deprived wag partly her hushanri fault and partly her own. Nev ertheless it was hard. "I'm afraid Hubert's aide of the house is in rather a pitiful plight, Ktfie; my poor mother has so little for herself that she can't help her on." "When are you going to begin to make money by your ainging?" Kflie went on. in her graceful, ruthless, unconcerned way. "Lessons are all very well, but if you don't utilize the lessons they're no real good, are they? If Mrs. Campbell would only ask you to sing lo-nlght, the right people would hear you, and it would be ever so much easier for you when you do come out. If you bad come with me instead of wiih that person who blundered the minute she came in. I could have ar ranged with Bell Cnmpliell that you should be asked to sing. It's such an op portunity lost! But. as I was saying to Hugh to-day, the Hays have the knack of doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. Isn't it dreadful-awful for me, a mar ried woman, to have to go to my sister for every penny I spend?" "I didn't know things were so bad with Huliert." Jenifer said. "You didn't know! How should you know, when you've gone off and never taken the trouble to inquire? Bad with Huliert? I should rather think they wore bad! It makes me quite ill every time a bill comes in, and I buy nothing for my self out of the money be gives me. Sure ly your mother might let him have a lit tle money, till he can screw some more out of that horrible Mr. Boldero." "Would you take anything from my roor mother's pittance? Wonld Hubert do thai?" "Of course he must if he can't get it anywhere else." Kttie retorted, angrily. "I hate the lodging I'm in now. Lodg ings are horrid, the lwst of them, and ours are not the l-t by any means. It's much nicer, and I 'believe quite as cheap, staying at hotels; but Hugh is getting so grumpy that I have to put np with being poked into any hole he hapfx-ns to think suitable. Jack's behind hand with bis rent for the home farm, too. Isn't that shameful?" "What can I do?" poor Jenifer asked in sudden, despairing rage. "Everything was left to Hubert. The rest of us are penniless and powerless. "Wp all know that your mother must I e robbing herself of nearly every comfort she has, in order to keep yon in town for your pleasure. Lodgings in 1'pjn-r Ham ilton plnce are a cruel luxury for you to indulge in, if your mother pays for them And with this parting shot, Mrs. Hubert Kny rose up and walked off, leaving Jeni fer alone with many uncomfortable thoughts. "Yon alone here! I've been huut'iir al! over the plnce for you." It was Captain Edgecumb who broke into the midst of her miserable reflections, with a look of such genuine delight at having found her, that insensibly she brightened back into her better self. 'I saw Mrs. Hubert collar you ami car ry yon off, and bitter experience told me I'd better not interfere with any little nf fair she might have on hand, ao I bided my time." 'Hided it with Mrs. Hatton, didn't you ?" "No, I got beyond her borders ten min utes ago. She wanted to hare the Amer ican actor made known to her. he being the newest star shining here to-night; so I caught Arch Campbell, delivered him and his vri'A np to her. mid freed myself." Then she told him that Klfie contemplat ed applying to her mother for aid. and added: "Her aon are making themselves thorns In her flesh, and I hate no heal ing power. Poor mother! poor, dear mother!" Then all In a minute it was done. How it came to him to be so eloquent he never understood himself. The words seemed to form themselves, and pour themselves out with a fervor and fltting- a penny in my pocket. ne that astonished him. la a few sen tence. sp.,krn with inconceivable rapid ity, be made Jenifer anderstand and fee. mat nere. i.y ncr sile. a man rraclv and eager to brave all life's evil fur her, if inly she would let him. Aud Dot on for her, but f..r her mother also. If Jen ifer would ouiy take him for a husband M s. Hay should never again lack til. a attention and consideration from a son hen be ceased speaking she rouse herself, and the effort she made to do so wa apparent to hiui. There was uo sur prise, no agitation, no trembling happi nes in the manner in which she an swered: lou have said a g.nJ deal about the devotion aud consideration, the respect ana teuderucs., with which you would treat my mother if I marry you. Do you quite mean It all? My mother is so mu to me, she has had such suffering aud di apfMjiutuient through my brother lately that I am bound to make any bargain I cn that may add to her happiness." Hound to make any 'bargain! " he re Iatert, deprecating!-. "Oou't ieak of it as quite such a business transaction." 'But it Is; that's what 1 ought to make you understand that's what I must mak iiear to y,m la-fore I cau agree to what you ask. I like you very much, but I like my mother very much more. And if I thought she would be happier, if I thought you'd even partly till the gip my brothers have made in ber life. I'd marry you to morrow. Iu t It better that I've told you this.' , ... ... u iruiT, ii on me top or it you tel! me that you can love me well enough to try me. ""' think 1 know very much a!.out love. Captain Edgecumb. I believe I was beginning to think a little alw.ut It when my father died, bnt his death knocked all that kind of nonsense out of me." "And those were the kindest thought you had ever given to any man, do yoi mean me to infer?" "You didn't belong to the present order or thing-., am) you seemed to have for gotten all al.out me till quite lately. I tuougtit you didn t care to have a girl wiih wanted to be a public singer, for friend." ion were right. I want her for my wife, be said; and Jenifer smiled at him and marveled at herself for uut feeling more emotion than she did. .icnirer felt very grateful to Captain Edgecumb, her consciousness of having promise.) to be his wife slipping away into quite a secondary position by the side of her consciousness of his having promised to dutifully consider and protect her moth er, in tact, the one feeling of anything approaching to pleasure which the girl had in her oddly-arranged engagement was this one that it would often out a brighter and more hoieful vista for the woman whose sons had made her life a dull, arid plain of monotony and disap pointment. CHAPTER XVIII. Mrs. Hatton was getting through the hours of the night very satisfactorily. She had not joined the crowd which had undulated and swayed round Mr. Josiah H. Whittler during his first recitation. But some of the cadences and inflections of the American actor's well-managed voice fell ukjii her ear, aud she knew, from the irresistible war in which his au dience burst now and again into simulta neous peals of laughter, that he made bis points well. It was an opportunity not to le lost. Here was a distinguished man. whom to know would be fame in her now limited circle, and by making a little effort she might know him. She felt suddenly that she was the cen ter of attraction and observation as Mr. Campbell made way for her to pass into the circle, and tried to gain Mr. Josiah II. Whittler" s attention, For one instant she glanced round triumphantly, feeling that a becoming dress, excitement, and the sense of being of temporary importance, were combining lo make her look almost as pretty as of old. Then she turned her eyes on the American actor, and all the pride and glory, all the harmlcss-almost piteous self-satisfaction went out ab rapl'y. leaving a frightened, helpless, mis erable woman in the place of the bright. Naming, self-complacent one who had come up to be crowned with Ihe sM-c:al honor .if an introduction in Mr, J,iah Whittler. "I'm ill -in pain; lei mo go back!" she stuttered out. withdrawing her hand quickly from her host's arm. "No. no; don't come with me." sin- added, hurried ly, as be followed her. "1 must g home. These attacks- " She sank down half-fainting on the nearest chair, but roused herself again directly, under the influence ,f the ngon ized dread she had that Mr. Ciiniplad! would call some one to her. and make her the subject of general remark. "IM me go without a word." she plead ed, with a ghastly smile. "Don't come down with me. Tell Mis Kay I am ill and gone home, but don't don't speak of nie to anyone else." Mr. Archibald Campbell promised read ily; and then the K,r stricken woman hurried away as fast as her trembling limbs would carry her, shivering as one who had received a death-blow. Ann met her at the door. and. after one glance at the pallid, wretched face, led her mistress in silence to her own lied room. There was not a word spoken by either of them until Mrs. Hatton looked up Into Ann's sorrowful face, and the scalding, nnrelieviiig tears rushed from her own eyes suddenly. "You've met your 'trouble' again, I see. 1 lie servant murmured, sympathet ically. "Yes, it's a living one still; but, oh. Ann. he didn't see me to know me! Per haps he'll never find me out. Oh, I never knew what peace there ha been in all this poverty that I've passed through; I never knew how I hated him till to-trighl." Then she told Ann how in the celebrat ed American actor. Mr. Josiah II. Whit tler, she had recognized her own worth less, cruel, vicious husband, who had de scried her years ago. "He didn't recognize me! He may never find me out!"' There was a fervent thanksgiving breathed in the first sentence. There was a passionate prayer in the second. No fiercely worded denunciation of him could have betrayed such profound aversion, loathing, contempt, hatred, and fear for and of him, as did these tremblingly xik eu sentences. Iler hope wns fallacious; her prayer was in vijin! Mr. Archibald Cnmpbell had hnrdlv re gained the drawing room, after seeing his suddenly Indisposed guest do nstnirs, when he was assailed by inquiries as to the reason of her nhrtipt departure. She looked as If she had seen a ghost," Mrs. Cnmpbell said addressing au audi ence; and I had bee a taking her for Miss K.iy all the evening, and when 1 ss ber looking so ill 1 asked for any brother, and found she was not Mis Hay after all." "Who jour unknown guest?" Mr. Whittler asked, affably. "Mr. Campbell tells me that the lady was. up to the line nieiit of her departure, extremely desirous of ts-iiig iiitrodtn-ed to me. I shall do my elf the honor of calling to inquire for her. if you will kindly favor me with ber name and address." Captain IMgeeiimb. who had jnst joined the group with Jenifer, gave the lady's name and address in perfect good faith, aud Mr. Josiah H. Whittler entered it in his note-book with American rare and m.nclut lance. But in spite of his being inch a con summate actor, more than one of his fel low guests, whose eieriences of Ameri cans at home and abroad had been many and varied, said of hitn: "Whittler the only American out w ho forgets his Americanisms in moments of excitement; his accent and English an irreproachable, w hen he doesn't remenils-t that they ought not to lie either." Jenifer was not very long in following Mrs. Hattou home. The girl wa neither I agitated nor excited by the step she and Captain Edgecumb had taken this even ing, but she was preoccupied by consid erations as to whether she had do-ie wise ly and c!l in taking it at all. (To be continued.) HIS DISAGREEABLE JOB. Bob Crawford' Pe Hilar Men ol Karnintc Livinic. The last two years of hard linn have developed a large number of peculiar inethisls of making a living among th. poorer ixipulatlon of thin city, say th San Francisco Examinee. (Hie of tbf queerest of these ha lieen adopted by old Bob Crawford, who ma tinge to get I living out of the bottom of the cli.ni lie! by fishing fur tilings that lmve beer lost overboard from vessel. It is a most iinilesiralile Job, anil brings in tin smallest kind of an income, but Bol sticks to It mi iiccoiint of its delliitfu' llIlceltHitllv. Bob cflll lie seen on the wharf nlollg the siile of the channel almost any day keeping hi eyes on the different vea sels. A noon a one of them leave bet lionh Bull watches the place until tin tide goes down, and then climb under the wharf and commence to "fish." He uses a rake of lib own inn inifacture that bn a long handle and teeth very clone together. With this he scraiches around In the foul smelling black ooze, and If It strike any wirt of n ban) substance it I soon lifted to the ur fiice. Soinet lines he only gets a teasMoti ot an old knife, und Muiiictiines not even that. But there are occiisions when lit finds such thing as hn iiiincrs. chisel. saw and other tools that lmve lieen lropped by men working on the side of the craft. Bob will st1-k to anything he can gel. If it' only a rusty tin II. In addition to obtaining lost article. Bob often get a goodlzed crab or an ovKter that hn fallen overboard from the hi homier of the Morgan oystei company, and he due not take lung ti swallow It. He has been n round the liannel wharves fur over a year, and the only money lie has been known tc earn was 'Z" cent, which a in plain gave blin fur timling a cupper sJHH epnii cook had lost overlsi.i id. Advertising on Trees. One of the must disagreeable of spi-c- tacles nloiij; village streeis mid coun try road I the sight of noble trees dis figured by flaring advertisement and notice of various Hurt. A splendid oak. which comma ruled the landscapc oiig before the revolution, and arouse the sciiiiiuetii of veneration in the mind f any one w ho has, a love for the beau- tlflll relics of the past, receive no re spect from the village people. To this tree a lm-al tradesman attach es a hideous advertisement of a cloth lug slure. Below that the advertise nienl of some feltilizcr, rudely primed on cotton cloth. Hap in the wind, of fending Ihe ryes of human beings a n frightening passing horse. rpon the great elm Hi a village green are lacked nil manner of iiiiiioiiinv iiicnts of local i-onoeilK and meetings, of lost breastpins and Ju.kkiiives and of miction sal Its gray ami venera ble sides are f,.-rowed and defaced by the nails driven tin te i.y several gen eration Seeing a tree served in Ihis maniiei. j the corresiiuiident of a cotiteiniiora rv I lias proposed that a placard to read ' ""-refure cannot be too ea.ly commene follow 1m- added to the rest; i LOST! THE DHiNITY Ol-' THIS THEE THKOI OH THE DISKESPECT OF THE TOWNS PEOPLE. This Ill-treatment of old trees Is gen erally Ihe result of thoughtlessness, and not of deliberate Intention, and It I possible that such a placard might lead people lo think. There should certainly be a convenient place In every tillage for such announcements as those de scribed: but that place is not the most grncefnl and venerable tree In the town nor. indeed, any tree at all.-Youlh' Comp.'i tiloii. I'lneit Tor niack lltlng. A trade union which blacklisted the men employed by a London firm of builders during last year's strike has been permanently enjoined by the Court of Appeal from continuing the practice, and ordered to pay .VMI da in. age to the employer. Nurse Lose Hi Joti. Ml. Ida Kuhn. of Baltimore hud her husband arrested for abusing her. She swore she paid liltn $1.2.i a week lo take care of the children while she worked a a seumsiress. Ho made a good inn so until he got to drinking. "Can jrui give me change for f.1?" in quired the usually Impecunious friend. "Certainly." wa the unguarded an swer. "Then lend me Ihree." - Wash ington Star. - Every mnn feels the need of a g.sid niitni'cil woman to grumble to. The patient horse that pulls the load IieM-nds on us to build the road. Men who have couscien.-e, smooth track; Brutes ply the whip across hi back. bi( Good Komi la Louisiana. The aprons worn by horse bearing a protest again! the conditio!! of the street of the city have become ex tremely popular among the owner of waguti and cart. Mr. Harry II. Hodg son, while dlsctisMiiig Ij-ngue matters yesterday, remarked that within two days he had distributed Mt of these apron, and there 1 still a steady de ma ml for them. Yesterday Mr. Hodg son ordered out an uddltlolial hun dred, which will arrive during the week. The gKid result of their use hav shown theuiselvc In two ways. It has attracted the attention, of the entire city to the League and made them pay further attention to the real condition of the streets. The leoplo have been looking alauit them to a greater extent and see now how hud the streets really are. Then. too. the use of thi'se aprons, bearing an Itiscriptiou that a desire for guoil road I In existence, ha caused many rider to join the league, where they paid but little attention to the re quest of League member lieforc New Orleans Picayune. Good Roada and Markets. It Is no uncommon sight to see at many of the Western shipping point numerous wagon loads of grain stand ing nJl day and oftentimes at night, b.- cause of the lack of transportation fa cilities to carry off the accumulation with which the various warehouses aro already tllli-d. ludeed, instances havi.' Ix-en known, where wagons were thus obliged to wait three or four days be fore they could tie unloaded. The rem edy for much of this congestion Is to be found In the construction of good roads fif such u character aa not to be easily affected by the weather. Some rail road companies, appreciating the value of such const ruction, have offered to haul the necessary material from the quarries or other source of supply, t ) the various distributing jmiIm at ex tremely low rates, and in some cases without charge. It Is probable that the adoption of a rule of free carriage with in reasonable limits by nil roads would prove a profitable undertaking. The advantage of a regularly distributed delivery throughout the year would largely offset the extra expense Incur red by such a regulation. If to the free ' transMirtiitloti of materia! could be add- oil the employment of criminals upon the roads. Instead of using them lu competition with the artisan outside of our penitentiaries, an uddltlolial beu- Hit would result. It Is, of course, ad j milted that the adoption of this plan would Increase the expense of the maintenance of the various Institutions of correction and punishment throiigh- out the l.'nited States, but that wonld I cheerfully lie met by the property own : ers. in view of the larger advantage growing out of rund improvement. It i would also do away with the coiupeii iiuii hot Veen criminal nod other labor, j a competition that U now hi some quar ters severely felt and bitterly nsOalled. ! This question I one which should be generally taken tip by the local paper of each community. It is believed that raily malingers are sufficiently ad I vised of the advantage of such a move- men! to willingly co-operate with (he l loenl authorities wherever any well-dl- r"' u" "'r,'r1 """'' The work will progress, and It I-"" '"''' maKe slow SCHOOL A HUNDRED YEARS AGO Kiald Discipline Little Mary "Kalr.'ax Was Culled 1 pon to CnilerBO, li wns not lu this Joyous fashion, however that seho.il prosi-utod Itself lo another, and far brighter, little glr. Mary Fairfax, who was Imjiu over a hundred years ago, and who after war 1 became Mrs. Somcrvllle and one of th" most learned women In England. Marv was fort ii wile, enough to live the fin.; ten year of her lire by the seashore, the happiest, wildest, shyest child that ever played all day long on the yellow Kinds, mid made huge collectiuiis of shell, and weeds, and pebbles, and other treasures brought her a play thing by the waves. When It rained, and her mot her would not permit her t run out, she read oer and over again the three bisiks which formed ber library-'The Arabian Nights." "I'obln soil Crusoe" aud "Pilgrim's Progress.-' Now and l hen her father, who was an iitllcer in Ihe English navy, came home from sen; and finding his little daugh ter a Ignorant us a child could lie, he made her read aloud to him every inoru Ing a chapter of Humes "lllslory of Engla nd." Thl wa nil her education until sh.i was ten years old. w heir, one dreadful (lay, her parent sent her to a hoarding school, a small and very expensive Isiardlng school kept by Miss Primrose, who was so stately and so severe that her pupils used to say they never saw htr smile. Thanks to the henlthy, oat d'Hir life she li,.d alujj) Led. llUk' Mary wa straight aud strong as young Indian, but that did c t ave her from the Ingenious tort'ires dei,;r.e-l for stooping children, and uhiih she dcicrijwn for u lu her memo'ra. "A few days after my arnvi.l I was cticlo-.-d lu stiff stay w itti a steel busk in from, while, above my frock, band drew my shoulders hack till the shoul der l.ladea met. Then a steel rod. with a semi-circle which went under the chill, wui clasped to the steel luil; i-t my tuy. In thl constrained stale I aud most of the younger children, had to prepare our lessons." Think of It. you luxurious little !' pie w ho prepare your lesson lolling oa rucking chairs, nestling In sofa corner, or lying comfortably on warm hearth rug liefore cheerful tires! Think of studying a whole page of Johnson' dictionary every day, sdliug, defini tions, even the very position of each word lu the long columns, and all the while unable to lean backward or for ward, or turn your head from side t side unable even to see what the girl next to you wa doing! That was a discipline which must Lave made home and the dear shilling occnu sands a pic ture of Paradise, of Paradise I.ost, t sior, tired, timid Mary Fairfax. And the worst of It was. she learned so little at Miis Primrose's school that, when she -capcd for her first holidays, she covered herself with disgrai-e by writ ing bank knot for bank note, and waa severely scolded for being so Idle, and wasting such golden ops.rtun!tles. She was taught to sew, however, very neatly, aud lu after year she grew ao passionately fond of study, of real, hard, severe, uncompromising study, that It was necessary, when she was fifteen, to take away her caudles, so that she might not sit up half the night over her book. Even then she used to arise at daybreak, wrap herself In a blanket -not being allowed a fire and work away at slgeiira and Latin until breakfast time. She w rote a number of valuable work on scientific subjects and she lived to ls ninety-two year old. proving that neither hard school nor study are certain to shorten our da vs.-St. Nicholas. Chinese Private Life.. Here are some hints which may useful to some of our cooks: They have a huge screen before the doorway which gives privacy sufficient for their need. The window sashes are closed either by a aort of Jalousie or thin matting. They do not surround their domesti cities with the same mystery and se cret precautions with which we en velope these proceedings. Human nature, they argue, hag to sleep, and here Is the mat on which It stretches llself. Why conceal It? It also wants to eat. and It satisfies appetite, no matter how many eye are gazing. Tell a Chinese cook you are hungry, and he will Immediately fetch his cook ing utensils, his provisions, and cook under your very nose. He bus no idea of concealing his op erallons In some faraway region styled n kitchen. He squats down anywhere, makes a tire on or in anything n basin, dish, pun or pot; there Is no limit to his In vention. He will cook In the middle of the street, or In the center of his guests in a resla lira nt. I'poii one occasion, when on board a Junk, I noticed a man cooking his own and his neighbor's f.wid In a tub, an earthenware saucer containing the charcoal. Wonderful creatures thev are. these despised Chinese, with a deftness of linger a 'id Ingenuity of patience unsur passed by any under the sun. "Old Hickory." Three explanations are given of the soubriquet "old Hickory," applied to lien. Jackson. According to Parton, he was flori called tough, in nllimlim to his pedestrian powers: then "tough a hickory," then "old Hickory." An other story derives the name from a huge hickory cane the (ieneral carried for many years, and a third shite that the name came Into use during the In dian war. A.-cordlng to the last, one very rainy evening n shelter for the 'iiiTiU waa made of hickory bark. A drunken soldier, stumbling along, fell against the rude shauty aud overset ft. The enraged (ieneral emerging from the ruins of his shanty was saluted by the tipsy soldier with "Come out of that. Old lllckorv." Paul Uut Her Cash. The denth of Fraiichl, who waa for merly Mine. Pattl's private secretary, recalls a scene In Philadelphia during one of Pattl's tours. Colonel Maple son was to pay Paul live thousand dol lars a night In advance. II possessed only four thousand dollars, aud .Minn. Pultl good-naturedly undertook t come to the theater ready dressed for "Ln Travliita." all save her shoes. Eight hundred dollars more was scrnped from the lsix-ofilce, and Klgnor Fran chl ile lured: "You are a marvelous num. Mapleson. She would not do It for any one but you. Mmo. Pattl hn put one shoe on." Nor was the other shoo worn until the odd two hundred dollars was forthcoming. Two .Mile a Minute,. An untamed i wallow, which had Its nest In a farm near Chetwynd, lu Shropshire, was caught and taken In a cage to Iuidoti, where it wan released. It returned to Its nest In eighty min utes, having accomplished n distance of 14.1 miles at the rate of nearly two miles it minute.-Manchester Oiiardhin. To lleatroy Miller. A device for ditroylng millers and preventing the. spreading of fruit worme: Ik coming Into ulte general use among cranberry grower on Cape Cod. It consists of a torch mounted ft Ide, which la left burning through the night. The millers are attracted by the blaze and fly luto M.-Fleld and Farm.