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The Riser's Daughter C;. UZUIE CHAPTER XIX. Co: ill "Nation, se are alone, yon i.l I." "Ye, mam'selle; if I only L:.ew r ". ere to waa, the charming youn- ;fl';i::iB, I woald set off on foot to i kite." The sea. lies bet wees a." sjid Ka gsuie. W'lm the poor lonely Lt.'r. with tor faithful old servant fur n,,Muj, waa shedding team in the oiJ, dark which am ail the worM ant w, men talked from Orl-f.-i to Nan l of nothing but Mil Gramiw ami l.er r en teen million. One of her tirst acta to aettl a peuaioa of twelve hun dred franca on Nanon, who, pos.-wrssing already an income of aix hun lr,-J franca est bar own, at one became a great watch. In leaa than a mouth alie ex changed her condition of spinster for that of wife, at the Instance and through tto persuasion of Antoine CornoiEer, who waa promoted to the positiou of toiliff and keeper to Mile. Grandet. Eugenie waa a woman of thirty aud aa fat had known none of the happiness f life. It seemed hardly probable that he would marry while she atill wore mourning. Her sincere piety waa well known. So the Cruchot family, roun aaled by the astute old Abbe, waa fain Co be content with surrounding the heiresa with the moat affectionate atten tions. Her dining room waa filled every rening with the warmest and moat de voted Cruehotiu. M. le President da Bonfons waa the hero of the circle; they lauded his talents, his personal appear ance, his learning, hia amiability; be waa an inexhaustible subject of admir ing comment. "M. le President" bad striven to act p to the part ha wanted to play. Ha was 40 years old, hia countenance waa dark and ill favored, he had, moreover, the wizened look which ia frequently sen in men of hia profession; but he af fected the airs of youth, sported a ma iled cane, aud went to Mile. Grandet's bouse arrayed in a white cravat and a shirt with huge frills. He called the (air heiresa "our dear Eugenie," and evoke as if he were an intimate friend f the family. The pack was still in pursuit of Eugenie's millions; it waa a more numerous pack bow; they gave tongue together, and hunted down their rey more systematically. If Charles had coma back from the far-off Indies, he would have found the Hue motives at work and almost the ame people. Mme. des Grassins, for whom Eugenie had nothing but kindness and pity, still remained to vex the Cru chot. Eugenie's face atill shone out gainst the dark background, and Charles, though invisible, reigned there supreme aa in other day. Yet some advance bad been made, ugenie's birthday bouquet waa never fatfotten by the magistrate. Indeed, vaciing ha brought the heodilup6X. . it had become an institution; every even bag he brought the heiress huge and wonderful bouquet. Mm. Cornoiller os tentatiously placed these offerings in TIM, and promptly flung them Into corner of the yard ss soon aa the flatt en had departed. Ia the early spring Mme. des Gras sins mad more, and sought to trou ble the felicity ef tbe Cruchotina by talking to Eugenie ef the Marquia de lroidfood, whose rained fortunes might to retrieved if the heiress would return hia estates to him by marriage con tract. Mme. dee Grassins lauded the marquis sad his title to the skies; and, taking Eugenia's quiet am lie far consent, be went about saying that M. le Presi dent Cruchot'a marriage was aot such settled thing as soma people Imagined. "M. de Froidfoad may be fifty yean Id," she said, "bat he looks no older than M. Crnchot; to la a widower, and to a f&aily, it U tra; bst he is ssai faia, he will be a peer of France one of these days, it Is not such a bad match M times go. I know of my own certain frlion 1 If that when old Grandet added Ms own property t the Froidfoad es tate be meant to craft hia family into tto Froidfonda. Ha often told me as smth. Oh! ha waa a shrewd old man, waa Grandet" "Ah! Nanon," ISngeuie said one even tag, as ahe went to bed, "why hits he not estee written to me In seven years?" CHAPTER XX. While these events were taking place ta Ssnnur, Charlea was making big for tnne in the Eaat His Brat venture was successful. He had promptly re alised the sum of six thousand dollars. Crossing the line had cured him of many early prejudices; be soon saw very clear ly that the best and quickest way of making money was the same in the trop in as in Europe by buying and selling men. He made a descent on the African coasts and bargained fcr negroes and other goods ia demand in various mar kets. He threw himself heart and soul ante his business, and thought of nothing ete, He set one clear aim before Mm, fn reappear In Paris, and to dazile the world then with hia wealth, to attain position erea higher than the one from which he had fallen. By dint of rubbing shoulders wtth uny men. tnveling in many lauds, com ing in contact with various customs, his code had been relaxed. His notions of fight and wrong became leas rigid when to found that what waa looked upon aa crime ia one country waa held tip to admiration ia another. He saw that ev ery one was working for himself, that disinterested oesa waa rarely to be met rath, and gnw selfish and suspicions; gas) hereditary fallings of the Grand eta cssss out la hint tto hardness, the shiftiness, and the greed of gain. He all Chinese coolies, aegn slaves, swal tow Beats, children, artists, anything Ml everything that brought ia money. LA became a saeaey leader oa a large rsl Long practice m casatiag the ens i IDs aatherltiae bad atade aha naarmpw Lz ta ether ways, Cfertat; hit trst voysaa agmle's pan tzt Mbte tto had ton with him; to 1-1 attrfiwted Me ant ssjcceaa U a klad tj ajagssl Oraty peeaeseed by her rym to at tCsas wait ea. aivsateros ll 7 laa-ff eaas4tsty faced all ree f kta aaaesa, af tto oU heasa, ' trJmX aad a aa kias that be had DE BALZAC bered nothing but the little garden ahut in by its crumbling walla where he had burned the fate that lay in store for him; but he rejected all connection with the family. His ancle waa an old fox who had filched hia jewel. Eugenia had no place in his heart, he never gave her a thought; but ahe occupied a page in hia ledger aa a creditor for aix thousand franca. . Bach conduct and each ideas explain ed Charles Grandet'a silence. In the East Indies, on the coast or Africa, at Lisbon, in the United States, Charlea Grandet the adventurer waa known as Carl Sepherd, a paeudonym which he as sumed so aa not to compromise his real name, Carl Sepherd could be indefati gable, braxen and greedy ef gain; could conduct himself, in short, like a man who resolve to make a fortune no mat ter what way, and makes haste to have done with villainy aa soon aa possible, in order to live respected for the rest of his day. With each methods hia career of pros perity waa rapid and brilliant, and in 1827 he returned to Bordeaux on board a fin brig belonging to a Itoynlii-t firm. He had nineteen hundred thousand franca with him in gold diiat. carefully secreted in three strong casks; he hoped to sell it te the Paris mint, and to make eight per cent on the transaction. There was also ou board the brig a gentle man in-ordinary to hia Majesty Charles X., a M. d'Aubrion, a worthy old man who bad been rash enough to marry a woman of fashion whose money came from estates in the West India Islands. Mme. d'Aubrion'a reckless extravagance had obliged him to go out to the Indies to sell ber property. M. and Mine. d'Aubrion mere now in straitened clr ci'mstancea. They had a bare twenty thousand francs of income and a daugh ter, a very plain girl, whom her mother made up her mind to marry without a dowry. It waa an enterprise the suc cess of which might have seemed some what problematical to a man of the world, in spite of the cleverness with which a woman of fashion is generally credited. Perhaps even Mme. d'Aubriou herself, when ahe looked at her daugh ter, waa almost ready to despair of get ting rid of her to any one, even to the most besotted worshiper of rank and titiea. Mile. d'Aubrion waa a tall, spare demoiselle; she had a disdainful mouth, overshadowed by a long nose, thick at the tip, sallow in its normal coudiliou, but very red after a meal. From some points of view she was all that a world ly mother, who was 38 years of age, aud had still gome pretentions to beauty, could desire. But by way of compen aating advantages, the Marquia d'Au brion'a distinguished sir had been in herited by her daughter. Her mother had taught her how to dress herself. Un der the same instructor she had acquired a charming manner, and had learned to assume that penaive expression which interests s man and leads him to im agine that here, surely, ia the angel whom he haa hitherto sought in vain. Charles became very intimate with Mme. d'Aubrion; the lady had ber own reasons for encouraging him. People said that during the time on board she left no stone unturned to secure such a prize for a son-in-law. It is at any rate certain that when they landed at Bor deaux Charles stayed In the same hotel with M., Mme. and Mile. d'Aubrion, and they all traveled together to Paris. The hotel d'Aubrion waa hampered with mortgages, and Charles waa intended to come to the rescue. The mother hsd gone so far as to say that it would give her great pleasun te eatabliah a son-in-law on the ground floor. She did not share M. d'Aubrioa'a aristocratic preju dices and promised Chsr'.cs Crssdct to obtain letters patent which should au thorize bim, Grandeft, to bear the nnme and a as ume the arm of the d'Aubrious, and to "JC"W t prnnorty of Au- brion, which waa wsrth about thirty-six thousand livres a year, to say nothing of the titiea of Capal de Buch and Mar quis d'Aubrion. TAey could be very useful to each other. In short: and what with this arrangement of a joint estab lishment, and one or two posts about the court, the hotel d'Aubrion might count upon an income of a hundred thou sand francs and more. "And when a aaaa has a hundred thou sand francs a year, a name, a family ami a position at court, the rest ia easy. You can Le secretary to an embassy." he fairly turned hia head with these ambitious schemes. He "never doubted but that hia uncle had paid hia fathcr'a creditors. He resolved to strain every nerve to reach those pinnacles of glory which his egotistical would-be mother-in-law had pointed out to him. Hia cousin waa only a dim speck in the remote past; she had no place in this brilliant future, no part In bis dreams, but he went to see Annette. That experienced woman of the world gave counsel to her old friend; he must by no means let slip auch an opportunity for an alliance; she promised to aid him in all hia schemes of advancement He bad grown very at tractive during his stay ia the Indies; his complexion had grown darker, he had gained in manliness and self-possession; be spoke in the firm, decided totiea of a man who ia used to command and to success. Ever since Charles Grandet had discovered that there waa a definite part for him to play in Paris, be waa himself at Once. Des Grssslns, hearing of hia return, his approaching marriage, and hia large fortune, came to see him, and spoke of the three hundred theuaand francs still owing to his father's creditors. He found Charles closeted with a goldsmith, from whom be had ordered jewels for Mile. d'Aubrion'a rorbeille, aad who waa sub mitting designs. Charles himself had broaght magnificent diamonds from the ladies, but the cost of setting them, together with tto stiver plate and jewel ry of tto new eatabliah ment, amounted to anon than twe hundred thousand fraaca. He did not recognise dee Graa ataa at flnt, aad treated him with the coot laaaleara ef a young ma a of fashion wto la eoasrioas that ha haa killed four ataa la aa assay doets la tha Indies. Aa hL asa Onaaisa had already called three er roar tiasas, Charles veocasafed ta bear hba, bat It waa with, ton he did not pay the alighteat attention to what the banker said. "My father's debts are not mine." he said coolly. "I sin obliged to you. air. for the trouble you have been good enough to take, but I am none the better for it that I can see. I have not scraped i together a couple of millions, earned with ' the sweat of my brow, to fling it to my 1 father'a creditors." "But suppose that your father were to be declared a bankrupt ia a few days' time?" "In a few days' time I shall be the Compte d'Aubrion. air; so you ran see that it is a matter of entire Indifference to me. Besides, you know even better than I do that when a man baa a Lun- i dred thousand livres a year, hia father never haa been a bankrupt." and he po litely edged the deputy des Grsaaius to the door. CHAPTEB XXI. In the early daya of the month of August, in that same year, Eugenie was sitting on the little bench in the garden where her cousin had sworn eternal love, and mhere she often took breakfast in aummer mornings. Tbe poor girl waa almost happy for a few brief moments; khe went over sil the great aud little event of her love before those catastro phes that followed. The morning waa fret-h and bright, and the garden waa full of nuulight; her eyea wandered over the wall with its mosa aud flowers: it as full of cracks now, aud all but in ruin, but no one waa allowed to touch it. The postman knocked at the door, and gave a letter Into the hands of Mme. Comoiller. who hurried into the garden, crjing, "Mademoiselle! A letter! Is it the letter?" she added, as she handed it to her mixtress. Tbe words rang through Eugenie's heart as the spoken sounds rang from the rampart aud the old garden hall. Paris! It is bis writing! Then he has come back." Eugenie's face grew white; for sev eral seconds she kept the seal unbroken, for her heart beat so fast that she could neither move Dor see. Big Nation stood and waited with both hands on ber hips; joy seemed to puff like smoke from every wrinkle in her brown face. "Oh! why does he come back by way of Paris, Nanon, when he went by way of Saunuir?" "Ke:id it; the letter will tell you why." Eugenie's lingers trembled as she open ed the envelope; a check fell out of it and fluttered down. Nation picked it up. Eugenie read the letter through. It ran as follows: "My Dear Cousin You will, I am aure, hear with pleasure of the suc-ess of my enterprise. You brought me luck; I have come back to France a wealthy man. My dear cousin, the day of illu alona is gone by for me. I am sorry, but it canuot lie helped. You are free, my cousin, and I, too, am free still; there ia apparently nothing to hinder the real ization of our youthful hopes, but I am too straightforward to hide my present situation from you. I have not for a moment forgotten that I am bound to you. I have alwaya remembered tha little wooden bench " Eugenie started up aa if she were sit ting ou burning coals, and sat down on one of the broken atone steps in the yard. "the little wooden bench where we vowed to love each other forever; the passage, the gray parlor, my attic room, the night when in your thoughtfulness and tact you made my future easier for me. Yes; these memories have been my support; but I cannot deal iuaino-rely with you. Your bringing up, your ways or life, and your tastes hare not fitted you for Parisian life, nor would they harmonize with the future which I have marked out for myself. I possess at the time of writing an income of 80,000 livres. With this fortune I am able to marry Into the d'Aubrion family: I should take their name on my marriage with their only daughter, a girl of nine teen, aud secure at the ssme time a very brilliant position In society. I will sssure you that I have not the slightest affec tion for Mile. d'Aubrion, but by this marriage I ahall secure for my children a social rank which will be of Inestima ble vaiue in the future. Wlicu I teS yon plainly that my marriage ia solely a marriage of suitability, and that I have not forgotten the love of our youthful days, sis I sot putting ssyss!? entirely into your hands, and making you the arbitrese of my fate? Is it not implied that if I must renounce my social ambi tions, I shall willingly content myself with the simple and pure happiness which is always called up by the thought of yon "Tra-la la-tan-ta ti!" sang Charlea Grandet, aa he signed his name. "That is acting handsomely," be said to him self. He looked about him for the check, slipped it in, and added a postscript ' (To be contlnued.1 Maid tbe Buy Was Dear. At a leap-year party held recently in Gerinantown a novel way of raising funds for a charitable object waa sug gested and carried out In tbe auction ing off of the young men present the highest bidder for each being entitled to bis attentions for the evening. A bright young girl waa chosen for auc tioneer, the boys being banished to another room. The sale started witt the fair auctioneer naming the meri torious points of tbe young men. No names were used, but she managed, la a humorous comment on their fallings as well as their virtues, to indicate the personality of each one as offered. Bidding started off briskly In dime jumps, but after the dollar point waa reached tbe auctioneer announced that the boys would be so Impressed with their value that they would be too conceited to be good company, and bids were reduced to I cent One young man hung Are at 30 cents. "Why, girls, the brass in this article is worth mors than that" pleaded the auctioneer, in aa effort to secure a higher bid; but to no avail. "Sold, at 30 cents," aba announces!, as the young man waa brought In, adding, "and you are dear at that" And tbe young man for tto life of him can't figuro out whether be ought to cat the witty auctioneer's acquaintance or consider himself com pllman tad. Philadelphia Record. Nothing makes a man so weary aa to bar hia fool friends say they hop bat nafortanaM apecu tattoos will prort a good laaaaa. ; i hi powiR or 6i r. j To carry ou tbe back a pack w igh I ig a hundred ixiuud or more lj-u:ik ot only strung muscles but a mastery f balance. In "The Forest" Stewart Alward White says that tbe firs' time e did any packing be bad a h-ird ime stumbling a few bundled fet ith jut fifty Kiuudi ou his ba-k. It tbe fud of that game trip be io i d arry a hundred pounds aud a lot oi" auoe yto'.m aud guua over a long p it ge without serious incunvenieuce. At friit packing Is as near ioferual uuishiueiit as merely mundane eoud' lous can compass. Sixteen brand tew muscles ache, at nrst dully, then Larply, then Intolerably, until it seems ou cannot bear it another second. At irst you rest every time you feel Ired. Then you begin to feel very Ired every fifty feet Then you have o do the best you can, and prove the tlui k that is lu you. Tom I'riaut, an old woodsman of vide experience, has often told me vlth reiish of bis first try at carry ng. lie had about sixty pounds, and da companion double that amount. Ir.-Friaut stood It for what seemed ike a few centuries, and then sat low u. He could not have moved an tliiT atep If a kuu had been at hia sr. "What" the matter?" asked his com lanioii. "I)el," said rriant, "I'm all lu. 1 au't navigate. Here's where I quit." "Can't you carry here any farther?" "Not an Inch." "Well, pile her on. I'll carry her or you." Friant looked at him a .ncnt in .ilcnt amazement. "Io you mean to say that you are rolug to carry your pack ami mine, oo?" "That's what I mean to say. I'll do t If 1 have to." Friant drew a long breath. "Well," aid he, at last, 'if a little, sa wed-off hap like yon can wiggle under a hun Ired and eighty, I guess I can make it ifider sixty." "That's right," said IM, iinperturb iby. "If you think you can, you an." "And I did," ends Friant. with a hmkle. Therein lies the whole secret. The .vork in Irksome, painful, but If you hlnk you can do it, you can; for al hoiigh great i the protest of the hu nan frame against what it considers ibnse, greater still Is the power of a uan's grit. Old His tteat. In the absence of the regular so lely reporter the dramatic critic ol he Daily Chronicler was detailed to 'write up" a wedding. "I'll do the eat I can," he said, "but I feel aure I ihall make a botch of It" This la hat be turned In omitting tbe pre- Imlnary remarks about tbe size of .he audience and the delay ia begin ling tbe performance: Mr. Burnslde, in the role of tbe jridefToom, acted the part In a stiff ret listless manner. He baa a good itage presence, but mars the effect by i total lack of animation and an al- iiost Inaudible voice. Miss Jones, ss the bride, was much nore effective. Her costume was be wildering, yet true to life. If one may enture to criticise, ber effort to over come ber obvious stage fright was a :rlfle too evident. She was in good olee, however, and her enunciation -as clear and distinct It must be confessed that both Miss (ones snd Mr. Burnslde were deficient n tbelr lines, and bad to he prompted 1 1 most constantly by the Rev. Jabez Hlninnon. who. as the officiating cler. ryman, was decidedly the star of tbe erformance. "Come on; tie's Go." While the Spanish-American War as on several volunteer troops were am pod in the vicinity, of Knoxrille, renn. Upon a visit to that city of the late loveruor Bushnell of Ohio a grand niliLary review was held In his honor, lie several brigades Including two ne ;ro regiments, also stationed there aklng part. Among the many spectators crowd ng the sidewalks was a typical Ten lessee farmer accompanied by his bux m wife. He thoroughly enjoyed the r'it spectacle of marching troops inui Buddeuly the negro regiments ame Into view. Then tbe old farmer, in great dis rupt hastily grasped his wife's arm ind said: "Come, on, Maria; let's go; .here come the niggers. A little street gamin, black as tar, ras standing near. Hearing the farm ers' slighting remark, his eyes grew arge and luminous with indignation as retorted: "Yas, dat's Jes' what dem Ipanlels say, when dey seed de nig ;ers comln' up de hill at Santiago: Come on; le's go.'" Ijcsaon In Boston Anatomy. The following anecdote Is being told f a youthful Bostonian who was ask 1 by ber school teacher, during a les on In physiology, to describe tbe dl 'Isions and constitution of tbe human Kdy. "Tbe body," abe answered confident y, "is divided Into three sections; tbe lend, tbe thorax and tbe abdomen. Tbe lead contains tbe eyes, ears, nose, noutb and brains If any; the tborax contains tbe lungs and tbe heart; tbe ibdomen contains tbe storascb snd the towels, wblcb are Ave, a, a, 1, o and i." Harper's Weekly. KBOWlag a Woman. "Do you know herr "No; I am merelj acquainted with er nobody knows a woman r Woasea Are at a Premium. The deficiency of women In Cape .'olony and throughout rkiuth Africa resents an Inviting held for women vho are weary of single blessedness, or there la a great shortage of fair .nes iu thst part of the world. So ar as can be learned the excess In lumhwr of white males over white Vina If iu British South Africa ia eprewnted la tbe following table: 'ape Colony 15,000 ;.t.i G-"o )rniig Kiver Colony 3.0U) 'ransvaal 43.000 thodesis 3.UU0 Total shortage or females (W.OUO "In a population of whites only lumbering shout 800,000 1" " tuU leflcieucy of women seems at first .Ight slmost Incredible," says a writer, 'and It la the more remarkable and de doralile inasmuch as beyond a doubt be greater part of tbe deficiency exist iniong the British section of the popu ation." It seems that about one man n every four of the British In South Ifrlea could Dever hope to find a wife, vhether butch or English, before the var. The actual dlsproortlon lu the inmedlate future will be far greater." No scheme of Anglitication lu South Africa, the writer points out. can be nVctlve. which neglects the Inevitable ,onsejUence of a lack of women. The Boer women are gaining upon the Brit ish at the rate of about 1,000 a year. If an organization were created which would Insure the dispatch of .1,000 wo men from the Fnited Kingdom In each year 1,K) would be set off against the natural Increase of the Boer wo men and the remaining 2.000 would ro toward filling up tbe shortage which xists. and this would tie accomplished n thirty-five years, or one generation. Silk In Washing;. Washing Is an art and needs to be earu'sl as well as anything else. Sverybody ran wash after a fashion, mt not everylssiy can so turn out landkerchlefs, silk and lace blouses ind ties, and other washable belotig ngs that a professional laundress would not acorn to own them as her work. It is emphatically an accouip islinmit worth learning, if only for he sake of reducing one's laundry ill). Dissolved soap Is a necessity, and is uade by finely shredding a quarter of t pound of yellow soap into one quart f water, and boiling it till dissolved. A quantity can be made at one time ind kept for use when required. When washing flannel and woolen goods never rub or twist them. Squeeze them about In a ti-pld lather, to wblcb 'for white flannels) a little ammonia is added. Wash thoroughly on both ides, rinse carefully, shake and dry In the air, not In tbe sun. Iron when uearly dry wltb a cool iron. White silk blouses, ties and hand kerchiefs are all washed In tbe same way. First steep them in cold water, wltb a little borax added, wash in a lather of warm water and dissolved oap, rinse well, pass through slightly blued water, fold In a clean cloth, pass through tbe wringer and Iron on tbe wrong aide when nearly dry with i cool Iron. A little menthalated spirit added to tbe hist rinsing water gives t desirable gloes. A desert spoon ful to a pint of water Is ample. For colored silk, do not step it in borax water or paas It through blued water. If you fear the color will run, steep I lu salt and water fur a short iinitr, ut be careful to rinse all the salt out efore washing. London Express. Feminine Fada. This feminine summer girl who hi io fond of odd Jowelry and dainty luffs and frills Is very frequently seen vlth a little black court-plaster patch in ber face. In fact such a highly 'avored fad is this wearing of the lalnty moucbe that many of tbe shops arry small boxes of these bits of black court-plaster cut In tbe shape )f stars, crescents, clubs, snades. hearts and diamonds. The most approved place for wear ing the moucbe Is a trifle to the left of the loft eye, and it Is generally woru there to attract attention to tbe beauty f tbe eyes. The little powder-puff so necessary to tbe summer girl is now bidden way In the confer of a dainty iaee. I j niiiueu pucaei-uanuaercuier. The owder pocket Is a small square patch ocket Just large enough to hold the Ittle woohn powder-puff. Woman's 3ome Companion. Why Hhe Is Not Proanoted. Mrs. Juliet Shumaker, principal of tbe Lancaster school, in an address Mfore tbe Minnesota State Teachers' eonventlon In St Paul, used these words: "The stenographer who In the mild est and most harmless way flirts wltb her employer, her fellow clerks, or cal lers at the office, who Is called to the telephone on sn average of five times a day by some one to whom she talks In a honeyed voice, and whose giggle Is a well known sound In tbe office, need not be surprised If she Is pushed to one side and a man preferred when a responsible duty Is to be performed. "Feminine graces will be rewarded with candy and compliments, never wltb promotion or confidence. "The stenographer who goes into an office expecting to win recognition and compensation on an equality with men moat remember flrst aad distinct ly that she is not s woman, but a steu ographer. "It la ail well to talk about a worn au's preneui-e inculcating gentleness aud courtesy In an ofth-e. but a buaj man haa no time for an extra word he baa no time for the effort to mak that word a pleasant one when be does not feel pleasant and an employe whose presence causes hlin to depart from bis habits of speech and conduct waatea bis time and lessens ber owa value to him." Mrs. W. II. Beauchatnp has been appointed treasurer for Montague County, Tex., to succeed her dead hus band. Mrs. Sylvia Dunham celebrated her HHth birthday at Hartford. Conn., the oth r day In the house to Milch she went as a bride eighty year ago. Mine, de Navarro (Mary Anderson) sat to the painter Watta for five years before her portrait was finished. Sua loved to hear blm talk, and be talked most of the time. Iidy Duraiid, wife of the British ambassador to the United States, thinks Washington society la not suH cleutly dignified. The earrings worn by Italian orgaa grluding women indicate the part of Italy the wiarers come from. Tbe longer the earrings the farther south the original homes of the women. Ia the far north the ornaments are quite short. When a native woman enters a Jap anese railway carriage she slips ber feet from her tiny shoes, stands upoa the seat and then sit demurely with her fit doubled beneath her. A mo ment later she lights a cigarette or ber little pipe, which holds Just tobacco enough to produce two good whiffs of smoke. All Japanese people alt with their feet upon the seat of the car and not aa Europeans do. Of the 5.500,000 feminine workers over 10 years of age who were engaged in wage-earning occupation in the Uni ted Statm in I'.sX), 3.373 were min isters of religion, U.frJl artists and teachers of sit, 1,010 lawyers, 2,193 Journalists, 7,387 physlciana and sur geons, 74.153 bookkeepers snd account ants, 34.345 merchants and dealers. 1.271 officials of banks and cotnpaalea, 88,118 stenographers and typewriters and 22,550 telegraphists and telephone operator Husbands, Note This. There are few right-thinking erea who would deny that business mca ought to confide In their wives. Flrt of all, a woman cannot feel that ber husband has given her his whole heart when he keeps from her the whole course of his business life. No doubt it is generally done from a good motive. The husband thinks ho Is saving bis wife worry and trouble, hut In most cases he Is doing the exact opposite, for every wife with right feeling would gladly lessen her hus band's buruvin by sharing them. Nor does a sensible woman care for the left-banded compliment that her pretty head was not mi-ant to bother with figures. True marriage ia s true union In everything where all Is open, and tbe griefs and sorrows of each are shared by both, and comfort drawn from the mutual sympathy. A maa who does not confide in his wife delib erately shuts himself out from bis chief consolation. Going Wrong, Some days things seem to go wrong. The soap slips out of our hands and goes skating slxiut the room, the cat gets under our feet and gets stepped on, the dog's tall is caught in the crack of the door causing biui to yelp and disturb the family, the waterworks leak, the bricks In the back of tha stove give out and must be replaced, the cow kicks over the milk pall, the old ronn horse has the colic, everything goes wrong. When such days as these appear the best hlng to do hi to assume that something Is wrong with yourself. Vou have eaten too much aud your stomach Is disordered, you have overworked or some one has Irritated you with a thoughtless re mark. I advise you on such days to shoulder your gun or fishing rod or make some excuse for getting out Into the fields or the woodland or to wan der by the stream studying nature, and get all the exercise possible In tbs fresh sir. Home's Enemy. The greatest foe to home peace and happiness Is worry. Tbe habit ol worry keeps us crossing bridges before we have reached them. Tbe evils thai fret us most are those which threaten ua but have not yet arrived. Stop thinking about tbe bread you an afraid will not rise In the morning, tbe new dress you are sure tbe dress maker will spoil, sod next month's gas bills. If yon will firmly resolve to worry only about tbe ev.i or special hardship that confronts you this boor or minute, and cannot bo avoided, W times out of 100 yon will And there la no such evil or hardship. Cells P. Wooiler la tha Pllsriaa.