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Old Blazer's Hero
Dy DA MO CHRISTIE MURRAY.
IS 30 S3 3 U2 EE a k lii f ias
CHAPTEB XIV. (Continued.)
"A pretty market you've brought your
ig to, tniss.'" said be.
Of th two he had been rather more
f er for the marring than she had.
It had been half to please him. and b
Haw his consent aeemed partly to luf
tlfy the effort, that alie had imposed
mpoa herself the task of drawing the
prodigal from bia evil way.
"You apeak," aha uid, "aa if I had
keen to blame."
"I reckon," he aald, with some sper
ky, "as when a sell' husband run away
from her after no more than three
Month aa there'a pretty likely to be
Nme aort of a reason for it."
Mary'a reply to thia waa disingenuous,
r at least ah felt it to be ao.
"Ton hare do right to aay he hai run
way. He haa left home oa buainrsa.
Here la hia letter."
"H m," aaid Howarth, after having
Wliherately read the letter through and
handed it to hia wife. Think be'a go
kag to be prosperou. doea he? Well. I
op he may. But it looka very much
aa If I'd got a burden bark again aa I
thought I'd got rid on."
Thia waa intended to mean no more
than that hia daughter should route home
with a due and proper sense of her own
poor deserving and of the parental
magnanimity. In point of fart, it waa
Howartlt'a way of approach to a friend
ly understanding, but there are method
f approach which have the look of re
treat, and thia was one of them."
"You need not fear, father." answered
alary, "that I sha' "e a burden to you."
"No?" aaid Howa.v. satirically. "Weil,
that's a blessin', anyway."
"It's never been my way to le one o'
them complainin' creatures as ud made
yon believe as all the worries i" the
world was on their barks and none of
'm on my shoulders." said .Mrs. How-1
rth. "But if I've held my tongue it's ;
iver been for want o' trouble to talk j
bout, if I'd been one o' them as does ;
the tnlkin easier than the stiff erin'. I've
ad enough to put up with thia last five
gad-twenty year, and if I'd been one of
the. complainin' aort I've had plenty to
tomplain about. Hut that was niver my
fashion, and I'm not a-going to alter my
Waya at my time o' life. But thia 1 will
My "
And the bearers bowed taemaelTca be
ww the vocal storm.
CITAPTEB XV.
The mother's tearful protestations
hardened the girl's K irt. She would
have aaked for bread and they gave her
too. The mere right to lire without
labor, with reproach for the wages of
Idleness, had no enticement for her, aad
tfce manner of giving the stone waa aa
turtle of feeling as the gift itself.
"la thia all you have to say to me?'
aha aaked, with defiance in the ton and
ha the eyes.
"What d'ye expect we should have to
ay to you?" aaked her father. "Say as
we're glad to see you chucked over by
fear husband, and sent back to be a
Weight on our old age?"
"1 ahould never be a weight on your
aM age." she answered. "I will work
lor myself and never ask you for a
mat."
"You'll make a nice hand at workio'
tor yourself," said the mother.
From the parents' point of view It
was absolutely necessary that Mary
ahould be convinced of her own unwor
thin ess, and should demand aid before
they were jnstified in giving it; and, to
to them justice as they deserve, the cou
ple were much readier to give all the help
that was required than they professed to
we. Hut they had made it a condition
that the help ahnald be asked for, and
their daughter had made it a condition
an the other side that it should be offered
before she would accept it
"1 shall never ask anything from you,"
he said.
Howarth' heart waji a little touched
t this, and he was almost on the point
mt saying that the help might be had
for the asking. Hut he deferred that
kindly impulse, and the girl went on,
with flashing eyes and heightened color:
"I have done no wrong. If wrong has
keen done at nil 1 am the sufferer by It,
Vud you have no right to come here and
talk to me aa if I were left alone in the
world by any fault of mine."
Tride and hunger," said the mother,
"re poor companions. Tolly, and you'll
tnJ that out afore long. I don't see
D we've made much by coming here,
John." the added, addressing her hus
tond, "and I think we may well go
tome gain."
Thia manoenver waa designed to do
tiling more than to bring Mary at once
to term. It had a contrary effect, for
Bow a rth rising, to point hia wife's
pescl by a show of willingness to obey
Vat, Mary advanced to the door with
thso actually necessary vehemence.
throwing It wide open, stood on one
with heaving bosom and pale face
scornful eyea, aa her parent left the
mom.
"Her won't be long o' that mind,
Jeha." swid the mother, a the two came
poa the street together.
"Herd better not be, for her own
jaka," the builder answered.
Aad ao they made their consciences
tolerably easy, and waited for the next
overtures for peace to come from their
daughter, under the profound impression
that they bad made offer of the olive
ranch aad that the offer had been rs
foeed. la the meantime the little maid, hav
tag received permission to go home, start
id off to apprise her mother of the fact
that she had lost her place. The maid
wu garrulous, maids are at times,
aad she had each budget of news to
ansa aa aba bad never carried before.
Ck told the wonder! of old woman, her
gather, bow Mr. Hackett bad run away
jjittj knew w hither, aad aow Mrs.
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lure in the larder: and how. when ate :
had asked if she should call on the
baker or the butcher or the grocer with
order, her mistress had auswered quiet- .
ly in the negative. And it chanced that
h lit the maid was telling this doleful
story Hepzibah arrived upon the scene in
search of a further consignment of fruit
for preserving, and was at ouce mad a
partaker of the news.
"Io you mean to tell me." asked Hep
zibah. "that there's nothing to rat In '
the house?"
"There's barely as much." said the
maid, "as'll serve for tea time."
The kindly Hepzibxh sat miserably a
touished at this intelligence for a min
ute, and then brightened.
"It' lucky for bim." she said. "I spok
my mind to old Jack Howarth a'ready
this morning, for if I hadn't I'd ha' had
to ha' gone to bim now, for all so big
ss he tlii nks himself. Hut look here, my
dear," she added, growing suddenly con
fidential, "this affair of Mm. Hackett'
ain't a thing to be talked almut."
"No." aaid the maid solemnly; she
would not breathe a word. J
The maid' mother, ho was perhaps J
the most inveterate gossip In the town
ship, promised a similar secrecy.
"And now," said Hepzibah, "have you
left your place, or are you going back
againi"
"I've got to go back for my things,"
said the maid, "and I've come to get
mother's wheelbarrow to bring 'em home
on."
"Well, then." raid Hepzibah, "you 1
there in half nil hour in the back kitchen,
and 1 shall come around to you and hnve
something to aay to you."
There was an nir of benevolent ran
tery alxmt Hepzibah as she said this,
which excited the curiosity lsith of miid
and mother; but she contented herself by
mystic uods and smiles, and having se
cured her supply of fruit, departed. She
left the basket at her mistress' house,
and ran with a gaunt and jerky gait, at
which anybisly unacquainted with the
nature of her errand might hare laugh
ed, to her mother's.
"Haa that rabbit pie Is-en cut into
yet?" she demanded breathlessly.
"No," aaid her mother. "I was a-keep-in'
it for to-morrow."
Hepzibah marched straightway to a
cupboard in the comer of the kitchen,
and there possessed herself of a sub
stantial pie, which she proceeded to fold
op In a snow-white cloth, which ahe -cured
by half a dozen pins drawn from
different parts of her own person. The
old woman looked on at thia for a while
in dumb astonishment.
"What ou earth," she asked at last,
"beest goin' to do with the pie? It isn't
like you, Hepzibah, to come and steal
your mother's victuals."
"I'll get time to-night" said Hepzibah.
"snd come up and make a new un; but
I want thia now." And to the old lady'a
Infinite astonishment she took up the
pastry and marched off with it, still
breathless from her run.
She bore It straight to Mrs. Hackett'a
house, and, entering by the back door,
confronted the maid, who waa already
there awaiting her.
"Now, mind you," said Hepzibah.
warning the maid with great solemnity,
"what you have got to do now has got
to be handled very proper snd polite.
You've got to take this here pie to Mrs.
Hackett, with Mrs, Blane" best compli
ments, and to say" and here Hepzibah
began to blush and had some difficulty in
encountering the maid's glance "you've
got to say as Mrs. Blane bad two o'
these made, expecting company as never
came, and as she's afraid aa it'll grow
! sle fifori her hands, and as she hones
that Mrs. Hackett will lie so good as to
accept of it"
Now, this is by no means an uncom
mon form of rural'eiviiity; but it hap
pened, unfortunately for Hepzibah's
fraud, that Mary Hackett and Mrs.
Wane had never beeu on terms to offer
each other this sort of homely rustic
kindness. , And when Hepzibah had gone,
and the maid, nothing doubting the story
she had to tell, but being fully able to
divine the real intent of the gift, ap
proached her mistresa with the pie and
Hepzibah's tale together, it seemed to
Mary's outraged feelings the crudest in
sult she had yet received. She was a
little creature; but for a mere Instant
she seemed to tower, and she stood over
the trembling maid like a statue of in
dignation. It cost her much .trouble to
quiet herself, but In a little while abe
succeeded.
"Take the pie bark to Mrs. Blane with
my best thanks for her kindness," she
said, "and tell her that I cau make no
us of it"
The maid, charged with this message,
which seemed to her mind to make the
deadliest possible breach of politeness,
would willingly have abandoned the pie
by the roadside, and indeed lingered a
good five minutes In front of Mrs. Blane's
house before she dared to ring the bell.
When at last she plucked up courage to
do this, ami was rehearsing her speech
in preparatiun for Hepzibuh, the door
opened and a bearded face appeared,
kindly in expression by nature, but look
ing at this moment stern and white
enough to frighten the maid's wits away
altogether.
"What is It, my dearT" be asked ber
gently, seeing that she waa alarmed.
"It's not my fault, If you please, air,"
aid the maid, "but missus won't keep
the pie. and she sends It back to Mrs.
Blsne with her best thanks."
"Oh," said Blane; "and who la your
mistress?'
"Mrs. Hackett, If you pleas, sir,"
Mid the maid.
Ned Blane dropped the pie dish, which
went to pieces within its cover. He
stooped with an expression of grave
pain to recover It, snd stood with It In
hia bands wet and stick mass s
ha looked down at the girl.
"Mrs. Blsae," aa aaid, "tat thia to
Km. Baekettr
"Tea, sir "
Thank yoa." Mid Blane quietly; "that
will do."
The girt, having discharged her er
rand, mad the best of her way back,
glad that it was over; and Blane. having
rUwed the door, walked straight into the
kitcbeu, where his mother sat in her ctt
toicsry place by the side of the hearth.
"Mother." he said, depoiting iht
wrecked pie on the table sud turning
npou ber in grave reproof, "iti is so
In.ult."
"Lawk a mercyr cried Mr. Bline.
"what's sn insult?"
"Your sending this pie to Mrs. Hack
ett."
"Pie to Mrs. Hackett:" aaid his moth
er, in great aslouishment "What' th
lad talking about 'n the name of won
der? I've sent no pie to Mrs. HackettT'
At thia instant Hepzibah. who had
been attending to some duties in the rear
of the house, bounced suddenly into th
kitchen, sud hearing these s-ords st.l
transfixed with s sense of her own guilty
deceit Blane looked np at ber and read
the truth in her face at a glam-e.
"It was you." be asked, "who sent tlii
pie to Mr. Hackett'"
Hepzibah paled and held on to the
latch of the door for support "You sent
it as coming from my mother?" Hepzi
bah was silent, am looked as if sh
were being charged with murder. "Why
did vou do this?"
"Why? Ieary me, Edward." said
Hepzibah, recovering herself a little,
"bow you do talk, and how you do look
at a body over a little bit of civility like
that! The poor thing' never gone and
sent it back again?"
"What 1 the meaning of all this?"
said Blsne. stern and cold.
"The meaning of it." said Hepzibah,
shaking herself back into courage by sn
effort "the meaning of it is ss I wanted
to do the poor creature a kiudue as
her pride wouldn't stand."
Blane turned a pale as Hepzibah bad
been a minute earlier.
"A kindness?" he asked. "What do
yon menu?"
"Mean!" s.iid Hepzibah. half crying
with the shuck of her recent detection
an! the wretched sense that she wan
giving intense pain to the one creature
she loved bet otj earth. "What should
I mean, but that the poor creature's
stnr ing?"
"lieur nit!" said the lymphatic Mrs.
Blane. in a voice as much moved and al
expressive of tender interest as if sh
had usUel a question about the weather.
"Are you talking nlsmt 1'olly Howarth,
Hepzibah ?"
The young man turned about and stood
for a minute with one hand on the tnbls
near the broken pasty. A curious littl
gasping sound escaped him. it was so
slight that it did not attract his mother's
notice, but Hepzibuh went white again
and made a movement toward him with
her hands outstretched, ss if she would
fain protect sod soothe him. He seemed
to bear the step behind, and. as if to
avoid it he walked from the kitchen
without looking behind him sud went
heavily up to his own room.
Cn A PTE Ft XVI.
A man' virtue and offenses sre al
ways in secord with each other. Thia
dogma Is neither so profound nor so
shallow by s good half as it may seem
st first sight to different mind. The
mesn man's virtues sre mesn, the brave
man' vice bv at least the credit ol
being coursgeott.
This being admitted as it must I. it
becomes s metter of profound surprise
to detect Ned Blsne in the act of for
gery. Yet when bo had sat In bis own
l.ed room for some half hour he srose and
shook himself, snd set about that task
with an sir of resolution. He took pen,
ink snd psper. snd having set a page of
his own handwriting before him, he be
gan to write In a legal-looking hand,
pausing every now and then to make
snre of th form he commonly employed
for a given letter, and then painstak
ingly avoiding a likeness to it. The let
ter, when completed, ran thus:
"Keaton Square. H roc ton.
"Madam I am instructed by Mr. WU
liatn Hackett to forward to you th en
closed. Your obedient servant,
"J NO. HAUOKEAVEfl."
lie addressed an envelope, and then,
having ualorked a drawer in hi dress
ing table, took from it a twenty-dollar
bill and folded it up and sealed it with
the letter.
"I have business in Brocton. mother."
he said as he entered the kitchen with
the forgery in his pocket "I shall be
back before dark if I ran catch the bus,
but if I don't manage that, you're not
to sit up for me."
Hepzibah looked at him with a timid
inquiry, and as be left the room arose
and followed him, laying a hand upon
hia arm.
(To b continued.)
Nut His Forte
Clyde Fltch, the playwright, aaya
that a well-known New York mana
ger was recently much annoyed by tba
persistent spilkatlous for a "Job"
made to bim by a uioat peculiar looking
and seedy individual. Time and time
again. It appears, the manager bad re
ferred tbls person to bis stage mana
ger. "Talk to Blank," be would say,
Interrupting the man's attempts t
name bis qua 1 1 float long.
Finally tbe sevdy man In search of
a Job did see Blank, tbe stage mana
ger, who at that time was In the thea
ter, listening to tbe efforts of candi
dates for tbe chorus. As there waa a
number ahead of bim, tbe peculiar
looking Individual would, between
songs. Interrupt the stage manager
wltb bis requeau for a Job. Exasper
ated, tbe stage manager at length
turned to tbe pianist and bade bim
play an accompaniment for tbe si rang
er. Wltb some beaitancy tbe applicant
for a Job employed wbat voice be bad
In song. It waa aa bad aa bad could
be
Disgusted, tbe manager (topped him.
"And you bare tbe audacity to ask for
a Job!" bo exclaimed, wrnthfully.
"Certainly," replied tbe man.
"Why, yoa can't sing a lltle bitP
aald tbe manager, astonished.
"I don't claim to be able to ring."
replied tbe seedy Individual calmly.
"And I don't want to sing. I'm a eta go
carpvuttr. I wu only singing to plana
yoa people!"
Only tboa get to aoarrn who not
otbora u
I'uti licrinu Outfit.
Although old time customs iu butch
ring are to some extent passing away,
It.'jr killing is still an important per
formance on many farms. A simple
uilit for out of door work is show n i"
l cut originally contributed to the Ohio
i'ariuer. A xst t'iiTbt feet blgU has
pivoted to its top a sweep fiftevu feet
'.' ng. This swei'p has a bisik ou the
-lioit end mid a mi- on the long end.
the sea Mint; barrel, cleaning Ix-tiel
and hanging gallows are all on the
circumference of the circle made by
the short end of the sweep. With
this arrangement one man at the long
end tif sweep can easily dip a hog
1KKI K;I U0 OlSVFMKNt KM.
and transfer it from one place to tin
ntlier, ns may bo desired. The cut i
aiso shows a good method of bcntlngl
water. A bent piece of one and n I
half Inch iron pipe enters the barrel
In two places. A fire built under this
pipe soon beats the wnUT III the bar
rel, ns the licit causes a rapid cir
culation of the water In the pipe am!
barrel.
Hrun, 9-horts and Alfalfa.
Horsemen nre loud in their praises
of oats us feed for working or driving
horses, and o:its deserve nil the praise
By rcuson of the fuel tb:it they lire a
preferred food for horses t.nd Scotch
men, outs are Usually about the dear
est feed per hundred iminl on the
farm. Horsemen attribute this supe
rior value iif oats to the mythical sub
stance "avi'iiln." which no chemist has
ever yet been uble to discover. They
claim that it Is this that puts the gin
ger iu mail and benst which feed ou
oat. The L'tali KxKrlmtit station,
however, lias found out by experiment
that when a mixture of bran and
shorts, half and half, can be bought
fit the same price per hundred pounds
as oats. It serves the snmc? purpose
eijiiHlly well, and when fed with al
falfa gives even better results, thus
materially reducing the cost of feed
'ng the horse ns compared with oats.
Itest Corn f ir the Xorth.
In a test of l.T varieties of corn
grown for fodder or silage at the On
tario experiment farm. New In laware
Dent mid I'edrlik Perfected d'oldcn
Beauty pave the greatest total yields,
being twenty-four and "i'l.S tons per
acre, respectively. The greatest yields
of busked ears were produced by
tiolden I-eneway Dent, Snow White
Dent and Black Mexican sweet corn,
the yields lieing 4.3. 4.3 and A.2 tons
.per nre, respectively. Snb.cr North
Dakota. Comptoti Early nml .King
Phillip, Hint varieties, and North Star
Yellow Dent, a Dent variety, nre rec
ommended for central and southern
'Ontario. An average of four years
le.-ts from planting nt different depths
.gave the following total yields: vTo
Inches. 13 2 tons: 1 ii ml three Inches
each, 11.K tons; no Inch. 11." tons; o:k
ilialf Inch, 10.(i tons, nml four Inches.
9.8 tons. American Cultivator.
Home-Made Marrol Brooiler.
J'or our readers who nre Interested
In brooders we give the plan of Mr.
Normftiiiliii. who (rives a description
hud Illustration of a cheap brooder
,'lie has constructed, in the I'nnii-I'oul-try.
He says; "(let n sound sugar bar
.Vel. and 2 Inch galvanized pipe enough
to go through the barrel, with n el
'bow to fit ou a cheap, lamp; also :t
.tomato can. Cut a hole in side of
;can to put pipe through, and a bole
dn tbe barrel to put can In snug, us
most of the bent Is right above the
(lamp. That Is the reason I put the
can over tbe pipe. The floor can Ikj
fput about 6 Inches Udow the pipe.
IWitb a piece of carpet around tbe
THE BARtlVJS IlKOOllKU.
parrel 1 can get heat up to loo de
jgrecs." By looking at the Illustration
'most anyone would be uble to make
.one In a little while. It should not
cost you oter a dollar."
Where Ari Hcurce Indeed.
Toultrymen in South Africa should
lie doing very well nt the prevailing
prices for fresh eggs, which nre quot
ed at eighty-five cents to f 1.82 per
dor.en, according to season. This
scarcity of fresh eggs has led to n
iicmsnd for condensed egg which nre
(bmde by partly drying the contents
jnf eggs and adding sugar. In this
form they run fifteen to the pound and
are put up In air-tight boxes.
Rlne Cress.
In tbe winter season cream rises
slowly, and much of It falls to ripen
as It should. Tho ripening la known
by iu ..iruiu;; slightly acid without
ln-t-i.miiig bitter or In auy way lil
tlavorcd. Not all the cream should be
put Into the churning. That taken
from the pan latest wtll not be rijMn
ed. and Us butter fat will all be wast
ed unless they are saved by churning
the buttermilk. The loss from this
cause is much greater In many suiaU
dairies than thoke operating theui
suppose.
The tJitcn-Kyed Farmer.
Much has been said and written ot
the man who "goes It blind." He Is"
called a failure, and Is generally re
garded as a grumbler, viewing the
future with doleful and pessimistic
eyes. There are farmers us well ns
mercantile men who go It Mind, and
again there are Innumerable farmer
who continually move forward vvnli
open eyes. It Is concerning the l:itt-r
thut we write.
Kveryone Is glad when they come
face to face with the cheerful, op
timistic and 0ten-eyed fanner, who is
constantly adding to bU income and
who Is always so buy planting or
harvesting bis crops that he bus no
time for anything except to look over
broad neres and fertile fields Unit are
all bis own.
The oMn-eyed farmer Is the hide
pendent farmer. When he rises in
the iiorning refreshed ly Nature's
chief tiourlslier and g' es forth, it Is
to bis own fields upon which no mini
can intrude without his consent
I.ooke.1 at from every point of lew,
the standing and prestige of tlo'
American fanner Is gradually Im reas
ing. and. unlike his city brother, hi
Is not living under even n lower'i u'
cloud to cast upon him gloom ami dis
content.
The fundamental principles, barl
ninl constant work ami thought, which
mean prosperity, are never lost sig'it
of by the open-eyed fanner. To him
they bring contentment ami lwrfecc
pence of mind which Jiciml! the fill,
lift enjoyineiil of life.
The open-eyed farmer Is not a man
of nerves nml excitable brain full of
schemes (lillicult to execute, which
when proven failures depress nil
human beings. He Is calm, clear'
beaded, free ami generous, and dwells
in an atmosphere unsultod to the prop
lug, avaricious man, shut within Urn
narrow and eotitrileU-,1 walls of city
existence. To our mind there is not
another human being under the bright
blue sky of heaven with heart so
cheerful, with mind so restful, and
with soul so peaceful, and who has so
imieli satisfaction in the present and
hope for the future, as the open eyed.
Independent American farmer of to
day. Farm Life.
A Ilnndr Harrow.
This barrow Is designed for wheel
Ing full baskets, or boxes of fruit or
vegetables. The floor of the barrow
Is level when the bandies are held by
HAHIK1W Foil FRUITS. AND VF.HET AIIH.S.
the user. With the ordinary wheel
barrow the sloping floor church tho
fruit to roll out of the baskets or
boxes, and the latter to huddle to
gether In a heap. The exact pattern
here given need not be followed, th(
lib-a Is serviceable, and anyone can
plan the form of the barrow to suit
himself -Fa nil and Home.
To nienanre nn Arrc.
To measure an acre, tie a ring at
each end of a rope, the distance be!ii(
j;:st Ol feet between them; tie a pleco
of colored cloth exactly Iu the middle:
1 of this One acre of ground will !
lour times the length and two and one.
half times the width, or the eU.il of
PS rods one way and 10 rods Ihe other,
making the full acre Bit) square rodsi
Keep the rope dry, so it will nol
stretch. A rod Is Kl'i lineal feet. Art
ocre Is 4. M) square yards, or 43..W)
square feet. To lay out an acre when
one side Is known, divide the unlH
In th: square content by the tin!H
of the some kind in the length of tin;
known side. Thus: If the known sldii
Is? 4 rods, divide U'M by 4, nml tba
quotient 40 will be the depth of tho
acre plot. If the length of (he know!
side be 0 feet, divide 43.5IK) by IX),
and the quotient 48 will be the deptli
of on acre plot Klther of the fol
lowing measures include an acre plot)
4x40 rods; r.x.'!2 rods; 8x20 rods; 10x14
rods; 12 rods 10 fet Inches sqnaM
mnke nn acre.
A Uood Bacon lloir.
A writer for the American Culti
vator speaks well of the Jersey red o
duroc us a bacon hog. but thinks t tin
on account of the obllity to stand ex
jsisure nml halilis It Is better suite)
to the Western farmer, who permltl
his hogs U run wild over nn exlen
slve range, than to the farmers wh
have limited range and shelter tiieli
stock In bad weather. These hogs art
coarser built, thicker brislliM and
hardier than most of the other lui
proved breeds.
To Make th Tow Go Dry.
Frequently the question la asket
how to do this. An experienced dairy-
ma ii who manage a herd of cow in
Pennsylvania gives his method as foi
lows. He says: "To make a cow dry
give timothy liny and water, exercls
the cow wltb tbe baiter and aklp teat
In milking. By thia method the anl
mal will go dry In all daya."
X
GOOD
ISboftg
torles
.Mr. Disraeli once wild to an astou
Ishei circle In an English country
house: "Dizzy has the most wonderful
moral and political courage, but be ha
!;u physical courage. I always have t
pull the string of his shower batb."
;ien MacDououfh, who wrot? tbe
libretto for the comic opera. "Bnte
in Toylaml" was sitting in a New
York cafe recently itli Victor Her
bert, tbe composer, when a waiter ap
proached to take bis order. The waitef
smiled at Mr. MacDonongb. and sauli
"You don't rewemlier me, d you? I
used to sing in one of your coinp
nies." "1 remeiiilHT you very welL
aid Mr. MacDi.noic.'li. "Are you sur
prised to see me here a a waiter?"
asked the other. "Not a bit." replie'
tiie librettist, cheerfully: "you kuow, I
have liiiird you sing."
One day last March, when Ketiatos
Nelson W. Aldri.h. of Bhle Island
threatened to have a page dismisses,
becau.e of carelessness ill deliverllij
cards. Senator Arthur I 'tie donna
laid his baud on the ungry Khode Isr
snder's shoulder, and remarked: "Gen
try, gently. Ablnch. (live tbe loy
show. I ofieii made the same mlxtaki
myself. I .i-t It pass this time." "Ym
often made the same mistake!" echoes'
Senator Ahlrich. "Often." Senator (lor
man replied; "don't you know Hut 1
hrst entered the Senate as a pagt
nearly fifty years ago? I have nevet
forgotten those days. You have no
Idea w hat a Inn I time a page bus,
wl'h a half do-zcu Senators calling bilii
at the same lime, and nil of them in a
hurry. He is bound to make mistake
If I had been ilismle.l for a little de
lay In il"li(ri!!g a card. 1 should not
probably be in the Senate today."
The Paris papers ilis U"S at length
the fatal ending of 'lie d'tel which re
cently ts.k place nt the He ilc !J
(iraiidc Uatte between M. Kin-lot, 4
novice In the U e of foils, and M. I".tl
Her, who had qinte n reputation us i
feiner. The duel began with the u-Uit
cros.-iug of s word and an attempt oi)
the part of the experienced feiicct
merely to keep his adversary at A dli
tame. '1 lie foils crossed each othet
for only about half a minute, w hen M.
Pbclot, the inexperienced fencer, sud
denly gave a lunge forward and
plunged his sword Into the side of hi)
adversary, Just under the armpit. Th
unfortunate man nt once fell, wltb hi
shirt sou kill In blood, and biissl pour
ing from Ills iiiouHi and nose. uuU iu
quarter of an hour he wus dead. Th
stroke which the novice u:,ed is culled
the "Coup de Monserrat," and, tut
quite a romantic history. The hero ol
the story was a young Parisian musk
clan, engaged to be married to u young
lady of Bordeaux. Quarreling with h
cousin of bis llancce, be got hi it can
boeil nt the Bordeaux Club. Ignorant
of fencing, he dared not resent the in
sult, and renounced his engagement
But he also took fcucli.g lessons froil
one Monserrat, a uiailre d'aruiea til
Toulouse. MoiiKerrut taught hlui win
trick only, and he practiced it for I
year. At the end of that time, be re
turned to the Bordeaux Club, slnppel
his man's face, and, being called cut
Instantly run his opponent through tb
body with his cunning hinge.
MI-LIONS FCft GOATSKINS.
Farmers lnke No l.ilorl to Krar Par
ol 'fiiN il .rtctl.
A Hew iidiiMn is offering i.telf t
tin- f:ii ii. i r ii nil i;i;i'.-,ifacti:tcr,: of tin
liilii'l Si ins. 'II... fact that '.,.! m i.
i wcr.li of gout-kins aie now ii.,i?u.il
Iv iiuin.n.d ii.to (in- l id; i! st.ii.s. ai
thut air c.it. i pi is ng ni.i:iii!:ii tin .-n
are i;ic. obli-;ul to M-:id Iu t. wlij
;ir.iii'.! the v end for a large share "t
tin-in. suggests tin! ihe f.ir:.ir of tU
cocutr.v 1, ive a u,ttai uppoitiinily li
put a l.-ii-ge shale of this mill lull
tin ir "K li (o 1:H. and licit the cfitiri
sim may be ilivitl d be'i.iien onr pro
illi'H'-i and llnli;tf;!i'tllf is. Itllj'OI-iil
i H.st of g ;at-kl:.s into the l ultnl ttaii
now r.lnotint to iil.o lt S2.",0K),i IKI pel
annum, run! a la;-ge share of the;- an
brought from India, I'hlna. Arabia au
ait !, eastern lius-ia. The lncn asiu
popularity of certain clan of kit
leaf In r for footwear, as well an glove
has greatly Increased the demand f
goatskins In the I'nltiil Statin wlthll
recent years, in issr, the value of goat
skins Imported was alsuit JfUKX'.OOO
by it had giown to !?'J.l).t:4!0. hj
1H0S It was $ir,Mi.x:n. In jkk It was
frj.OoiMHio and In ina'!, In round nun
!. $2."i,xxi.fX0. The farmers of th
I'nltisl Shite lire apparently mn kln
no effort to reap any part of till goldel
hiirvi-t for themselves. The eensia
of lino showed the total number oj
goats In the United mate to he lesj
than 'J.mXMH") In number, nml when I
U undiTKtood that the skins of probabl
SO.! MM nut K hi wtre requind to nmkt
the $:,.,( ),) worth Imported inn
year. It would be seen that tbe supphj
from the United State could ban
formed but n small share of th tola
consumption. Yet 11m? fact that a largi
share of our supply of tbls imports!
Import come fn in India, China
France snd Mexico suggests that then
sre large areas In the United Plate)
which produce gouts successfully ut
In sulllcleiilly large numbers to supps)
tne entire homo dcoacd. Harper)
rnr.!ir.
Politeness,
Utile Klmer Papa, what la aoUta
oersa?
Professor Pr mlhrisl riillianuaa. s
on, la tho art of not left la oth
people know what yoa raaJSf tflUd
f tbawL - Toptoa.