Cnnicbn Journal.
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CA&RI80N,
KEB.
SanguIIly U decidedly slow In an
aoaneing that be will take to the lec
tor platform.
The fastest locomotive in the country
ia numbered "1313." Of course two
negative make an affirmative.
The interior texture of steel is like
granite: the texture of iron is rather of
a thready nature, or of regularly ar
ranged crystals.
An electrically driven bicycle Is now
made. An electrically operated motor
carriage ia running in Toronto, with
enough electricity to go fifty miles.
It la announced that the Greek In
Xew York City havs decided to "rally
around Rev. Agathotlorus Papageorgo
poulus." It will take a great many
to do it
A Xew Jersey man la said to have
found a diamond worth $500 In a bod
of coal the other night We hardly see
how the coal trust can afford to do it at
present prices.
In a recent speech Lieutenant Peary
aid that with $150,000, a few picked
newspaper men and some Eskimos he
could find the north pole, but he did not
state why he needed the Eskimos.
The Spanish Government need not
abandon the proposed reforms aimply
because the Cubans won't have them.
It Is quite possible that some of them
would fit Spain herself and be agree
able. The Boston Globe remarks editorially
that Neal Dow's 100th birthday will
come March 18. 1894. It may also be
added that unless death intervenes Mr.
Dow will be 500 years old March 18,
2304.
A Boston editor complains because
the compositor turned "exalted purist"
Into exalted parrot" Some of the col
lege boys who are struggling with lan
guage lessons will think the charge is a
flash of genius.
People who wish to see old Egypt
must hurry up. for a new one is coming
fast A concession has Just been grant
ed to a company to run an electric road
from Cairo to the pyramids. The day
of the donkey boy will soon be over.
The work of civilizing, or at least of
overrunning, Africa Is going forward
so rapidly fears are expressed that the
elephant will soon be exterminated. It
Is estimated that over 45.000 of them
were killed last year. It is a bad out
look for the circus business.
The best part of one's life is the per
formance of one's daily duties. All
higher motives. Ideas, conceptions, sen
timents in a man are of little value If
they do not strengthen him for the bet
ter discharge of the duties which de
volve upon him In the ordinary affairs
of life. -.
An old darky at the Tuskegee con
ferenee the other day said of his race:
"We holler and shout too much, and
jump np like we are crazy. It is a
sad thing to preach the Gospel the
saddest thing this side of the grave.
Our churches are plumb full of hypo
crites. If a man preaches the pure
Gospel they don't want to hear him."
A New York writer has Invented a
highly descriptive term for "penny
dreadful" fiction. He calls it "sub
merged literature." There are two aw
ful examples of daily Journalism In
New York which are gtting them
selves excluded from decent libraries
and decent homes at a rate that will
entitle them to be spoken of as "sub
merged newspapers" before long.
Hungary has a sort of , Admirable
Crichton in its leading novelist, Mau
riM Jokai, who in thirty-two years has
written 200 romances. Innumerable
short stories, plays, essays and trans
lations, edited two newspapers, served
in Parliament and distinguished hlm-
eif as a gymnast fencer, hortlcultur
if;f. carver In ivory and painter. No
doubt when be feels Indisposed bis doc
tor advises him to take more exercise.
A writer on the literary landmarks
of Florence says the beautiful Italian
city Is "still Illuminated by the reflect
ed lights if Its four fret fixed stars-
Dante, wDn-ros there; Boccaccio, who
Waxed there; 1vonaroK who suffered
there bis cruel eclipse, ad Galileo.
who there peacefully, set." Among its
other literary Stan, watt Byron, Shel
ley. Landor, Alfleri tad VlUorio. The
site of Amerigo Veepued's birthplace
Is occupied by a hospital that be erect
ed.
M me. Adam, the French writer,
thinks that the emancipation of the
atklxXa class women received Its great
at K.yCM la France darts fit is
af Parle at nrtteb tiast r7 hwed
tie ritac eearar rtfr-ta, ehar.
tf axl wa fcirtrj C; turn
a rcr
th iofttacks are nt. lead yet. how
ever The New York fun has recently
denied that there Is any such science
as sociology. It likewise has an abid
ing faith In Jack the Giant Killer,
Mother Goose and the srgar trust.
The former serfs of Kussla are gradu
ally absorbing much of the land in that
country, where in spite of restrictive
lawn and heavy taxes they are accumu
lating large fortunes by their thrift and
industry. It is said that the sales of
real estate by titled proprietors exceed
ed the purchases by the same class by
2,000.000 acres, all of which has passed
into tlie hanls of men who a generation
ago were slaves. These men are soler,
shrewd and prosperous, winning the
disfavor alike of the nobles and the
lower classes.
On sea Greece could no doubt worst
Turkey, for her navy, although small.
Is far superior to the ancient tubs which
the Sultan calls his warships, but on
land it is different Greece's peace ef
fective Is 24.076 men, 16,136 being in
fantry and the remainder cavalry and
artillery. In war she can furnish about
100,000 men. Turkey, on the other
hand, can put into the field 700,000 men,
as follows: Infantry. 583.200; cavalry.
5,300; artillery, 1.356 guns and 54,720
men: engineers. 7,400. Even with the
Balkan states aiding her Greece will be
outnumbered two to one on land.'
In the application of the X rays to the
human frame there are occasionally
some unpleasant results that suggest
caution on tua part of the operators.
But a case reported in Baltimore has a
reckless appearance. An exhibitor of
the ray experimented on his own band
four hours' a day for three weeks, and
then discovered that his band and arm
were swelling. The skin of the hand
peeled off, the bones were enlarged, the
nails came off and the fingers were toe
weak to grasp any object Baltimore
surgeons say this Is an exceptional
case, and that the rays, properly used,
are a great scientific blessing.
The famous Paris cafe, the name of
which, .in English, was "The Black
Cat" has been closed, and the property
will be devoted to other uses. For
years It was a favorite Bohemian re
sort and, in appearance, resembled a
hostelry of the middle ages. Each
guest as he crossed the threshold, was
announced by the blowing of a trumpet
and ushered, not without ceremony, in
to a room lined with pictures of black
cats, with glistening eyes, reveling by
moonlight on housetops. The propne-
tor received the visitor in person, and
a waiter, disguised as an Academician,
came to take the order, speaking a
inrtrnn neculiar to the house. Before
the novelty faded, the owner made a
fortune, and built for himself a castle
in the country.
New York Tribune: Donovan, the
Michigan legislator who brought in a
bill taxing unmarried men, now pro
poses to lay an Impost on old maids,
exempting therefrom, however, those
who have made diligent efforts to be
married and have failed. The pro
visions of his revised statute may make
It necessary to define the efforts which
the mature Michigan maiden is requir
ed to put forth, and what In this direc
tion constitutes diligence. Whatever
the standard fixed, few of them would
be likely to fail below It If they are ani
mated with the conjugal spirit of their
sisterhood elsewhere. It would be sheer
oppression to tax them for not having
husbands when they had angled for
them with all the bait in their posses
sion and had not got a nibble.
When they cry wolf In the Govern
nient of Saratoff, Russia, it means
something. During the last two years
the wolves there have devoured, ac
cording to the official returns, 11.000
horses. 10.000 horned cattle, 33.000
sheep. 5,000 swine, 1,000 dogs and 18,
000 fowl. They have also during the
same period attacked sixty-eight per
sons, devouring two on the spot an
Inflicting fatal wounds on twelve oth
era. in r ranee it is esumaiea tnai
500,000 of these animals exist and the
S mage inflicted by them is set down
at about 50,000,000 francs annually. A
regular body of men, numbering over
1,000, called the Louveterle, Is main
tained to keep down wild beasts, and
the force has a certain efficiency, but Is
unequal to keeping the country clear
of them. From time to time high boun
ties for wolf scalps have been paid, as
much as 200 francs iu the case of. a
known man-eater, dreaded there as the
man-eating tiger is In the Hindoo vil
lages; but the animal is never extir
pated. In some years his ravage Is
f greater and In others less, but be Is al
ways In evidence, in this country be
has been pretty well put down In the
Inhabited parts. A few days ago a pro
digious, wolf-drive was set on foot in
Atchison County, Kan., five square
miles being covered and 700 persons
participating. Tbey rounded up 200
jack-rabbits, but not a single wolf.
Considering bla fierce and predatory
character abroad, and hir resistance to
all efforts to destroy him, the Ameri
can animal moat be set down as rather
a meritorious creature, easily amenable
to extinction and not so desperately
destructive, even where It continues to
maintain a foothold, - '
Camas of taa (tU Vin.
AEaa I ?ar Charley Darrow make
apfvttyr about yon yesterday.
Daisy Waat was It?
AJtae He said on must bar been
awfaTy weotasaglrt.
Vz. Barrow la bow wondering what
tcmJ tXa eoU wsva. Cleveland
rt;tltollail m Jacaatrloca
WOMAN BANK CASHIER.
M
BS. MARY A. COSTA hat the
honor of being the first female
bank cashier in California.
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She Is not a castiier ae jure, uui ue
facto. Mrs. Costa lives In San Jose,
and she is discharging the duties of the
nositlon with a promptness and accura
cy that cause the people of San Jose to
say that as a bank cashier woman is
decided success. Mrs. Costa s nus-
band Is the principal owner or mo
bank, but this does not detract from
the fact that the lady fills the position
better than a mere salaried employe
would.
Anvone who Is acquainted with the
tasks which devolve upon n bank cash
ier will readily recognize the fact that
it is not a post which admits of neg-
CASHIER MARY A. COTA.
lect of duty. There is nothing about
the position which would attract a
poseur. The place is in no wise orna
mental, nor Is it intended for one of
those detestable persons who, while
nomlnallly holding a position, force the
work thereof upon others. So it is
that Mrs. Costa has undertaken a task
that at no time can be termed light
She has demonstrated that she has no
fear of her ability failing to justify ex
pectations. The pistols always at her
hand show she Is, too, prepared for rob
bers. It would be thought that a woman
so completely engrossed in business
would find only a little time for home
life or for making happy that spot
which Is supposed to be the dearest of
all on earth to the married man. On
the contrary, Mrs. Costa is as attentive
to her home as she Is to business. There
Is In all San Jose no pleasantcr home
than that which the head of the bank
ing house of Costa & Co. has in his
mind's eye. The delicate touch of the
woman, the evidence of dainty fem
inine taste In adornment, are every
where visible about the house. It has
every mark of the home of the woman
ly woman, and It all goes to show that
a woman may be bright and business
like, and at the same time retain the at
tributes which have won her ber place
In the domestic world.
Able Southern Womi.
Mrs. Van Leer Kirk man, of Nash
ville, President of the woman's de
partment of the Tennessee Centennial,
Is a Southern woman by birih. From
school she entered society, wherein she
won distinction as one of the mos
beautiful belles of the South. She It
thedaughter of Caswell Macon Thomp
son, only sou of Jacob Thompson. Sec
retary of the Interior under President j
Buchanan. She was married eleven
years ago. Though born In Nashville,
the first four years of her life were
spent in Cuba. In her native city she
Milt. VAX VKtU KIRKMAK.
received ber early education under the
Episcopal 8lsters of St. Mary, after
ward pursuing a course of study' at
Fairmont College, Monteagle. At the
age of 18 she went to school In Paris
for two years, traveling the following
year through the prlnlcpal cities of Eu
rope. The enthusiasm with which
Mrs. Klrkman assumed the leadership
of the woman's department of the Ten
nessee Centennial Insured Its success.
The nucleus of the necessary funds
was obtained by Issuing a woman's
edition of a Nashville paper. Several
times the Interested women have taken
charge of stores for a day, toe consid
erable Incomes from this source being
Increased by the proceeds of various
entertainments. Throughout the work
the fair general has shown great execu
tive ability.
To Care a Hs4cb.
Women are always studying fads,
and now comes one that seems sensi
ble, Inasmuch as It Is a cure for that,
bane of many a woman's life, a bead
ache. It Is a Httto mechanical tostrtt-
meat of auasage, staple In const me
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rtra. tta k,1! Jt arcH t ta KSao-
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to be a woman who did not have head
aches the number to whom the new
remedy will apiieal is practically infin
ite. This much-vaunted little affair is a
simple metallic chain terminating in a
handle at ea'-h end. To each link In the
chain is fastened two tiny balls so ar
ranged as to permit of easy revolution.
The chain is taken in both hands and
rapidly pushed backward and forward
over the aching portion of the head,
the 8ieed. of course, being regulated by
the judgment of the Rufferer.
The advantage of the little arrange
ment, say those who know, is that it
increases the capillary circulation and
thereby produces the effect of a gentle
or violent reaction, according as the
sufferer pleases.
It is true that it is an expensive toy,
but that will doubtless be considered
only as an evidence of its value.
Prfsirlnt McK'nli-'-'n Niocfu.
The President and Mrs. McKlnley,
having no children of their own, are
devoted in their attachment to their
young nieces. These fortunate ladies
were a happy quartette during the fes
tivities In honor of their uncle's acces
sion to the Presidency. All four have
in cwiiraoa the same kindliness of heart
aud common sense which Is so noticea
ble a trn!t in the President aud his
wife. All are attending school, or are
busy cultivating some special talent,
but di ring the coming four years they
will t ;end a great many happy seasons
en', V.ng the hospitality of the White
Hi.' use.
Miss Mabel McKlnley is a dainty
blonde, and a very pretty young girl.
The President nud his wife have a
pretty pet name, that of Sunshine, for
their brother's child, and her musical
talents afford them much pleasure. A
piauo, a dainty white and gold affair,
was placed in the beautiful blue parlor
at the White House the day following
the Inauguration ceremonies, especially
for Miss Mnl-ei's use. All of President
McKlnley's l.ieees have strong musical
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MISS MART BABIIEK.
tastes. Miss Grace McKlnley will go
abroad to study music In Germany.
Mrs. M. C. Barber, Mrs. McKln
ley's sister, has gone to her home In
Canton, Ohio, after a delightful visit
at the White House. The young daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Barber was
one of the most winsome debutantes
in the Presidential party at the Inaugu
ral ball. Miss Sara Duncan, of Canton,
a niece of Mrs. McKlnley, completes the
youthful quartette, who were so happy
In their first Inaugural ball experience.
She is of the Spanish type of beauty,
and is strikingly attractive In her
piquant and bright conversation.
T m Much i. red It tor Beiitijr.
It is sheer nonsense-to claim that ev
ery debutante Is a oeaury. says the
Washington Post, or that every woman
who gives a dinner Is lovely and grace
ful. She may be neither, and yet a
charming hostess. Beauty is not every
thing. Some of the most attractive
women are not even good-looking, and
on the other hand there are many beau
tiful women who are anything but at
tractive. The beauty business Is rather
overdone. It Is getting to be tiresome
to read about beautiful women. They
are becoming entirely too common. An
old-fashioned, charming woman, pleas
ant, agreeable, entertaining, but not
beautiful, would lie a sight refreshing
to behold, and she would attain a de-
gree of popularity unknown among the
modern beauties.
The Knzorcment King; Finer r.
The custom of wearing the wedding
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ring on the fourth finger of the left o I do not know, but I know the na
hand Is one of those survivals of pagsn tlves of India take this means of baf-
sunemtltlon which nave become uart
of civilization Itself. The old Greeks
and Romans believed that this finger
contained a vein directly communi
cating with the heart, and when the
ring became the marriage symbol this
finger was naturally chosen as the om
on which the ring should be worn. The
supposed connec-Jon of the fourth fin
ger with the heart Is, of course, a mere
fallacy, but the custom that arose out
of It has long been sanctioned by
usage.
Cast Off Corsets.
A very curious scheme was started
last spring In Paris. A society for the
relief of the poor placed a box In a
wealthy quarter of the town, with a
placard begging women to throw worn
out corsets therein. It was Intended
that the manufacture Into various ar
ticles of the whalebone would give em
ployment to poor women, and tbo re
sult baa proved that the idea was most
clever. .:
Klltarf rktrta ' '
Ths nw kilted skirts mast he mad
by aa expert dressmaker, as tbey need
ta b cut an that there la aa faUnaea
round the trips, while the plaits rava
the feet matt set with asafcritat.
teiaac tta aSactla rstalr v, ...
TWO MOTHERS OF PRES DENTS.
Ohio Mar Now t-Lr n Virginia's
Uiat'Uciina.
With the Inauguration of William
McKlnley as President of the United
States Ohio may claim to take rank
with Virginia as a "mother of Presi
dents." Virginia may still Justly claim
precedence, as the total time occupied
In the presidency by her sous during'
the 108 years from 17.S0 to 1807
amounts to thirty-five years aud eleven
months, or almost exactly a third of
the national existence of the republic
a record In point of time surpassing
that of any other State. The four Pres
idents duly elected from Virginia were
each re-elected. The fifth, Tyler, was a
Vice Presidential accident, as w'ere Mil
lard Fillmore and Chester A. Arthur,
of New York, and Andrew Johnson, of
Tennessee. As regards Ohio's Presi
dents, the first William Henry Harri
son, was born In Virginia, and served
but one mouth; President Hayes served
but one term; Garfield served only a
few months; and William McKlnley,
the last of the four, Is but entering upon
his first term.
The parallel between Virginia and
Ohio Is still further extended in the
fact that six Presidents were born in
each of the States, William Henry Har
rison claiming Virginia as bis birth
place, and Ohio being the native State
of Grant and Benjamin Harrison,
though Grant as a President is to be
credited to Illinois and Harrison to In
diana. In point of eminence and en
during fame, indeed, Illinois is the only
State that rivals Virginia as regards
Presidents. Lincoln, the emancipator,
and Grant, the commander, take a sta
tion second only to Washington in
American history and in the affection
and admiration of the American peo
ple, while Ohio's Presidents cannot be
said to have left a mar'.ifd Impress
upon the nation. What tU ;ourth Pres
ident from Ohio may a. 11 to the luster
of the State as President it Is yet too
early te predict ,
In another respect the Inauguration
of William McKlnley Is remarkable
In that he Is the second President the
famous Western reserve of Ohio has
furnished the nation. William McKln
ley was born at Niles, Trumbull Coun
ty, Ohio, whose chief town, Warren, is
popularly called the capital of the
Western reserve. James A." Garfield
was also born in another county (Cuya
hoga) of the Western reserve. A still
more Interesting coincidence Is that the
eighty-two veterans of the Twenty
third Ohio Volunteers who followed the
carriage of the new President as he
rode from the Capitol to the White
House for the second time had the hap
piness of seeing a President chosen
from their regiment, Hayes and Mc
Klnley both having belonged to
famous organization.
If it were asked why Virginia
Ohio have furnished nearly half
this
and
the
Presidents of the United States the an
swer would not lye difficult Virginia
occupied a central position among the
original thirteen States, Just as Ohio
for years has occupied a similar posi
tion In regard to the greater nation.
There are many other reasons that may
be adduced for the preference shown
these two great commonwealths in the
matter of the Presidency, but rank In
population and central location were
great general factors, especially as re
gards Ohio, and thee elements are like
ly to be more and more prominent in
the election of Presidents In the future.
The question of "availability" is al
ways a prominent one In President
making, and availability takes Into con
sideration the prominence aud location
of the State, as well as the character
and fitness of the man.
Mosquitoes.
In regions where these little torments
become a burden, as they do In some lo
calities which might be named, not a
thousand miles away, It might be In
teresting to try a remedy which the
Philadelphia Record publishes, Its
worth to be proved by experleuce: "The
Inhabitants of this down-the-iiver boat
house were nearly torn to pieces by
mosquitoes every time they attempted
to sleep In the house at night Screens
seemed to be of no' avail, and It looked
at one time as if the house woukl have
to be abandoned. Finally, an old lady,
who lived In the neighborhood, told
them that she bad not been troubled by
mosquitoes for several years. Her rem
edy was astonishingly simple. She dis
carded all screens, aud threw the win-
dows wide open at night Across the
open space of the window she stretched
a piece of red ribbon about two Inches
wide. 'A mosquito,' said she, 'cannot
be Induced to pass tbairibbon. Why It
i the vicious mosquitoes.
It works
to perfection here also.' The man fol
lowed instructions, and now declares
that there has not been a mosquito In
the boathouse since the ribbon was
stretched across the doors and win
dows." .
The Doctrine of Atonement.
"For nineteen hundred years the chief
point of controversy between faith aud
unbelief has been over the doctrine of
the Atonement," writes Evangelist
Dwlght L. Moody In the Ladles' Home
Journal. "Lying ss It does at the very
foundation of Christianity, It has been
assailed In every age of the history of
! the church without avail, and remains
to-day the most universally accepted
teaching of our faith. Upon the finished
work of Christ's Atonement the entire
structure of Christianity rests
"This truth has, perhaps, suffered as
mncb from the misguided seat of Its
friends aa It has from the attacks of Its
enemies. The human theories which
I DAV own tafunn iu rim unnmni nave
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I tod often been at the expense of the
' WWe teaching regarding the character
.af Ood.
I ' W troth which e ars to accept,
krtareaot rotamandsd to vadentaod.
Csiicr la a faith, a theory, lta
truths are given by revelation and aro
not the result of speculation, the only
Infallible guide to wlilch we may refer
being 'Whatsalth the Scrioturear That
the Bible contains passages that I do
not understand la to me a strong proof
of Its Divine origin. If I could read the
Bible aa I do any other book, what
would hinder my contributing toward
writing a Bible? Thank God that in
His word I find heights that I cannot
reach, depths that I cannot fathom,
breadths that I cannot measure! We
cannot hope to study the revelation of
God's word without finding what la
nuperhuninn, for, as Paul wrote to Tim
othy, 'Without controversy, great la
the mystery of godliness.' "
Miss Julia Ma grader's new story la
entitled "Dead Selves."
An Important addition to the series
of "Women of Colonial and Revolution
ary Times" Is in preparation for Im
mediate publication. It Is the long-expected
volume on "Martha Washing
ton" by Anne Holllngsworth Wharton.
It is now four years since the publi
cation of a volume of short stories by
Mr. Stockton. A new book, to be Issued
shortly, under the title of "A Story
Teller's Pack," will contain a selection
of his best work during that time.
There will be nine stories in all
Stanley Waterloo contributes to the
Nickel Magazine an extremely Inter
esting article on "The Great Chicago
Conspiracy," In which he throws a
good deal of new light on the historic
attempt to free the 30,000 Confederate
prisoners that were being guarded by
less than 5,0(i Union soldiers In the
North In 1804.
The A. D. V. Randolph company has
In preparation for early publication two
litle volumes by Mrs. Balliugton Booth.
"Look Up and Hope" Is specially pre
pared for distribution among the pris
oners In the various prisons where Mrs.
Booth has taken up her work. "Brand
ed" is an account of Mrs. Booth's prison
work.
"I hope I dislike personalities as
much as the decent should," writes D.
L. M. from Hull House, Chicago, to the
Critic, "but I cannot help wondering
If Mr. Kipling's critic In the Bookman
signing himself Y, Y. Is not an Invalid?
I never knew but two men feel that
way about Rudyard, the devil and
dearie,' and they were both sick men.
Tbey resented, almost hated him. It
pleased me to explain It as a revolt of
sex tbt . of an enforced
effeminac : vv!r
strength, i ;-"r
Judges b
ling brutal,
torn. He know
The Critic, spe.
of Wealth," the sui
sells for $2,500 a v .:
teresting description oi .'
who sell these books: ' V .ot
more than half a dozen n - the
whole United States who can .lies
expensive books, and they sell nothing
else. Their season is short, but their
harvest Is large. They live in the most
expensive hotels, ami, instead of trudg
ing wearily from door to door, drive
about in their broughams, accompanied
hy a man servant who carries the book.
The latter is not brought into the honse
until the possible purchaser expresses
a wish to see It One of the most suc
cessful of these agents told me recent
ly that his season In New York did not
begin until'the borne show and tliat It
was over by the first of June." Who
would not be a book canvasser under
such conditions?
Walking- on Cracks.
Laurence Mutton. In St Nicholas, is
telling what boys did in old New York,
under the title of "A Boy I Knew."
He says: Johnny Robertson and The
Boy had one great superstition to wit.
Cracks! For some now inexplicable
reason they thought It unlucky to step
on cracks; and they made dally and
hourly spectacles of themselves in the
streets by the eccentric Irregularity of
their gait. Now they would take long
strides, like a pair of ostriches, and
now short quick steps, like a couple
of robins; now they would bop on both
feet, like a brace of sparrows; now they
would walk on their heels, now on their
toes; now with their toes turned in.
now with their toes turned out at
right angles, In a splay-footed way;
now they would walk with their feet
crossed, after the manner of the hands
of very fancy, old-fashioned piano
players, eklpplng from base to treble
over cracks. The whole perform
ance would have driven a sensitive
drill-sergeant or ballet-master 1o dis
traction. And when they came to a
brick sidewalk tbey would go all
...i . .1 I. 1 . .... I . ia ,m
could cross Hudson street on the cob-'
blestones with great effort, and In
great danger of being run over; bnt
they could not possibly travel upon a
brick pavement and avoid the cracks.
What would have happened to them If
they did step on a crack they did not
exactly know. But for all that they
never stepied on Tnck of their ewa
free will.
Literally 1 1'M
She If you were to find that I bad
lost all my fortune every penny of It
would you hesitate to carry out our en
gagement? He I would hesitate at nothing. In
dianapolis Journal.
Vp to Date.
"Why, F rankle, what are you read
ing In that book about bringing up chll.
drenr
Tm Just looking to see whether I'll
being property brought np."-Flleeij
fcfeettef. - .
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