TA IJI AGE'S SERMON. I A SHATTERED FAITH EAST SUNDAY’S SUBJECT. from tlip Trxli "Ami Nome Arc llriikeii I’lprpR from tin* ship" Art*. i'htap. trr YI.YII. Verne 44 Saving thr \t reeked on I.lfe*n Tcnipeituous Neu m KVKR off Goodwin Sands, or the Sker ries, or Cape Hat teras. was a ship in worse predicament than, in the Medl t e r r a n ean hurri cane, was the grain ship on which two hundred and sev etty-tlx passengers were driven on the foa.st of Malta five miles from the me tropolis of that island, railed Cltta Vecchia. After a two-weeks' tempest, when the ship was entirely disabled, and captain and crew had become com pletely demoralized, an old missionary rook command of the vessel. Ho was small, crooked-backed and sore-eyed, according to tradition. It was I’aul, the only unscared man aboard. He was no more afraid of a Euroclydon tossing the Mediterranean sea. now up to the gates of heaven and now sinking It to the gates of bell, than he was afraid of a kitten playing with a string. He ordered them all down to take their t ations, first asking for them a bless ing. Then h ■ insured all their lives, telling them tiny would he rescued, rescued. If you can come to on the grand old ship. I would rather have you get atiuard. but if you cgu ■ lily Bud a piece of wood aa long a* the human body, or s piece ae wide as ihe . 11‘spre.id huuia i arm*, and vlther of • hem la a piece of the crow.,, i-otue in utt that piece Telia of I boost.id* of people are today kept out of the king dom of God because they i a a it ol be lieve ever * th’ng I itu taiktug with a man thoughtful ||)* 9*#) ** tell llJHl li-fty lft if It N#1 Kl)|Ui|v| m4 p* ly <| \h» i *! An4u«f II# *ii)« ««» m | i t«#|v#V# I lull ill Ull# lift# |||# si# * v in v (# #%**t I tfeiiAVh «k (it f*g» * */ >8*91# 4 V- rH ' \ * • «.-** 'i vu4* Imp t #.»' *t # # u» v*H* rt* r ) *M4 It* 4##4 1 M# ## I At# |fiv#a|# S 4# ft*# m**#i^ *lil t*#-*1 hlk*4k ItNPt’ t(||| y #4CK-1* • '4 •»** #<## ««4 #11 iftt ‘ft i if t>Mt# ##4 *#t #1* * MM) M#» t #• *#()* *4** )tl«Mk *#i(t*r ItMMI run the risk of such other chance as | ■ wise incn think they can peel off or twist out of a Scripture passage that , ; has for all the Christian centuries been | • Interpreted another way." You say: "I do not like Princeton theology, or New Haven theology, or Andover ; theology." I do not ask you on board cither of these great men-of-war, their portholes filled with tlic great siege- i guns of ecclesiastical battle. Hut 1 do ask you to take the one plank of the Gospel that you do believe In and strike j out for the pearl-strung beach of ; heaven. Says some other man: "I would at tend to religion if I was quite sure about the doctrine of election and free agency, but that mixes me all up." Those things used to bother me, but I have no more perplexity about them; for I say to myself; "If I love Christ and live a good, honest/useful life, I am elected to be saved; and if I do not love Christ, and live a bad lfto, I will be damned, and all the the theo logical seminaries of th»* universe can not make it uny different.” I flounder ed along wh'le In the sea of sin and doubt, aud It wss as rough as the Medi terranean oil the fourteenth night, when they threw the grain overboard, but I saw there was mercy for a sin ner, and that plank I took, and I have been warming myself by the bright lire on the shore ever since. While l am talking to another man about Ills soil! he tells me; "I do Uot become a Christian because 1 do not believe there is any hell at all.” Ah! don't you? Do all the people of all beliefs and no boiler at all. of good morals and bad morals go straight to a happy heaven? Do the holy and the debauched hive the same destination? At, midnight, in a hallway, the owner | of a bouse and a burglar meet; they j both (ire, and both are wounded, but ' the burglar dies In five minutes and I mu owner 01 wit* nou»e lives a ween after; will the burglar be at the gate of heaven, waiting, when the house owner comes in> Will the debauchee and the libertine go right, in among the families of heaven? 1 wonder if Herod is playing on the hanks of the river of life with the children he mas sacred: I wonder If Charles Gulteau amt John Wilkes Booth are up there shooting at a murk. I do not now con trovert it, although 1 must, say that for such a miserable heaven I have no ad miration. Hut the Bible does not say: ‘ Believe In p»rdltlon and he saved.” Because all are saved, according to your theory, I hat ought not to keep you from loving and serving Christ. Do not re fuse to come ashore because all the others, according to your theory, are going to get ashore. You may have a different theory about chemistry, about astronomy, about the atmosphere from that which others adopt, but you are not, therefore, hindered from ac tion. Because your theory of light is different from others, do not refuse to open your eyes. Because your theory of air is different you do not refuse to breathe. Deeauae your theory about the stellar system Is different, you do not refuse to acknowledge the north star. Why should the fact that your theological theories are different hin der you from acting upon what you know? If you have not a whole ship fastened in the theological dry docks to bring you to wharfage, you have at least a plank. ‘‘Some on broken pieces of the ship.” “But I don't believe in revivals!" Then go to your room, anil all alone, with your door looked, give your heart to God, and Join some church where the thermometer never gets higher than fifty in the shade. ‘‘But 1 do not believe In baptism!” Come in without it and settle that mat ter afterward. "But there are so I many inconsistent Christians!” Then come in and show them by a good ex ample how professors should act. - But I don't believe in the Old Testament!" Then come In on the New. ‘But I don’t like the B i.»k of Romans " Then come in on Matthew or Luke. Refus ing to come to Christ, whom you admit | to he the Savior of the lost, because j you cannot admit other things, you are I like a man out there in that Mediter ranean tempest, and toaaeil in ihe Me | Hta breakers, refusing to come ashore Uuill tin 1 it' pwvn ut IUU I broken shir- I hear him say: "1 won't go In on any of these plunks until 1 know in wbat part of tha ship they belong \Vh*u I ran get the windlass In the right place, and the calls set. and tha1 keel-piece where It belongs, and that floor-timber right, aud these rope* untangled. I will go asbure. I ant au old aatlor, and know all about ships for forty years, and as soon as I can get the teasel afloat In good shape I will ’ come in." A man drifting by on a piece of wood overhears him and saya: ! You will drown before you get that ship reconstructed Hettar do a* I am , doing I know uothlng about ships, ind never saw one before I came on boatd this, and I cannot swim a stroke, but I am going n-hure on 'his stmeio t ! timber," The man la the uttlng while i trying to wend bta ship goe> down rg» man who ttuated to the plank Is , saved O is> brother, let your »n»u>»h hI up system of theology I* in the h»t 1 tout white you conte In on a inHsbrwl | | i pat* "kon*e ns broken yk" u wf lb* I •big." You ma* gw* id >ta*r 4i§iiititvy set >l«d" »» tlarthat It. lb* magne i< Italian a-a at* gaidea* wad*. \i t»«» the as, a*ia**n Austria and htnliss i broke I sat he as* living ft i'agr* • * a yeti I ' t-tugh and uw alt tasted lat*ad bo*ug lit/ g* w*nt t*e *k with kit aaord bt j I intt tk* Itbevninm of \apt * ant ! gu*|ty. and gay* ntna mtlt***u geogt* | |yo« government under t si ** Km I whim-t*‘ U-aithgldt nilbeing a' j a*nt tw« *eo»« hu* y'agvora isyiMil. , and ah*a be tggroaebwd M be touhd 1 tha* h-t bom* bad, by liter Km I staS >*i »« a #a*p,*nne>> and Ibe aid nek*' try in which re once lived had given vay to a pictured mansion. And I tell oil if you will come and enlist under he banner of our Victor Rnimanuel, md follow him through thick and thin, md tight his battles, nnd endure his sacrifices,, you will llnd after awhile hat lie has changed your heart from i Jungle of thorny scepticisms Into a pirileu all abioom with luxuriant joy bat you have never dreamt of. From i tangled Caprera of sadness Into a rara lise of God. I do not know how your theological system went to pieces. It may be that tour parents started you with only jne plank, and you believe Utile or lothlug. Or they may have be»n too igid ami severe in religious discipline, md cracked you over the head with » psalm book. It may be that some partner in business who was a member >f an evangelical church played on y ou i trick that disgusted you with re Igion. it may be that you have rhso ■lates who have talked against ('tarls lanlty in your presence until you are 'all at sea." uud you dwell more on lilngs that you do not believe than on hinge you do believe. You are in one aspect like lyoril Nelson, when a sig tal whs lifted that he wished to dia egard, and he put hia sea-glass to his blind eye and said: "I really do not vee the signal." Oh. my hearer, put his Held-glass of the Gospel no longer to your blind eye, utid say, I cannot ■ice, but put It to your other eye. the sy« of faith, and .von will sec t’hrlst, md he is all you need to see. If you can believe nothing else, you certainly believe In vicarious suffer ing, for you se It almost, every day in some shape. The steamship Knicker bocker, of the Cromwell line, running between New Orleans and New York, was In great storms, and the captain and crew saw the schooner Mary It. Cranmer, of Philadelphia, in distress. The weather cold, the waves mountain high, the flret officer of the steam ship and four men put out In a life boat, to save the crew of the schooner, and reached the vessel and towed it out of danger, the wind shifting so that the schooner was saved. But the nve j men of the steamship coming back, their boat capsized, yet righted again and came on, the sailors coated with Ice. The boat capsized again, and three times upset, and was righted, and a line thrown the poor fellows, but their hands were frozen so they could not Bias]) it, and a great wave rolled over them, and they went down, never to rise again till the sea gives up Its dead. Appreciate that heroism and self-sacrifice of the brave fellow* all who can, and can we nol appreciate the Christ who put out into a more biting cold and into a more overwhelm ing surge, to bring us out of inflnite peril into everlasting safety? The wave of human hate rolled over him from one side and the wave of hellish fury roiled over him on tho other side. Oh, the thickness of the night and the thunder of he tempest Into which Christ plunged for our rescue! ■ • • You admit you are ail broken up, one decade of your life gone by, two de cades, three decades, four decades, a half-century, perhaps three-quarters of a century gone. The hour hand and the minute hand of your clock of life are almost parallel, and soon it will be twelve and your day ended. Clear discouraged are you? I admit it is a sad thing to give all our lives that are worth anything to sin and the devil, and then at last make God a present, of a first-rate corpse. But the past you cannot recover. Get on board that obi ship you never will Have you only one mors year left, one more month, one more week, one more day, one more hour—come in on that. Per haps if you get to heaven God may let you go out on some great mission to some other world, where you can some what atone for your lack of service in this. From many a deathbed 1 have seen the hands thrown up in deploraiion something like this: “My life has been wasted. I hs I good mental faculties and Due social position and great op portunity, but through worldliness and neglect all has gone to waste save these few lesnuinuu hours. I now accept of Christ and shall enter heaven through his mercy; but alas, alas! that when I might have entered the haven of eter nal rest with a full cargo, ami been greeted by (he waving hands of a mul titude in whose salvHtlun I had borne a blessed pa t, I must confess | now enter the hart or of heaven on broken pieces •*( the ship." I t>e I'un M|»M* i The current opinion that a ponu «•» riinu; in • not auppurt**! by ran a «*> . th< I'ur'latul Oraguulan Th* aptnaa of th* potn* pi it** ar* i»ry liH>a*ly attarh r«t to tb* laxly amt at* vary sharp a* aharp a. a »i**.lla At alniuat tb* slight*" tom h that p*a#trat# tha now 441 a >log or tb* l Uiibmg or ftaab of a paraon tou« blag tb* potoupln#, jail at tab tb* r* ,-itatiag aa«y (rum tb* «ut Dial submit any pull twin a mtuinut Tb* ia»ntt* In "tubing hold »na on, nut ami tailing go •Ith tb* ottpu h . *. >o*»in»«. • au»*«i paopi* to think tag* tha spia*» Ua*l l»4u thru* a at tb>a* i T'.<* oMiar #a*t ul tb# aptww* tar ana, d <>*u>« dual, la iw*r«d »ttb uaal* •arba tb#*» barb# raw# a spin- u«*« !n*» w«d in a Hr mg animal t« ba#p • otbiag Ui bn lu with atari «»«« n «a- ,4* th# mu* l«* ••***♦* ttiMI ItMWH |t u -1* aoi IPX 4a* ims* fi<«n in# tors b »( abt.-g n«tx>«» ia out mwI fa,. atabaa l>» l >'» *< »» apt la tarUilal t# *lo»« 1* »ha tra* ia plautsd t« * ura ia. sal <1 Mi flat M ».'i pauAsra gulna, tf ft la pltttiarl Hi a aoa mas*, 'at di> trtrt it a III MM pruanaa autmaa |* t*. tb*s '*«#• tafan* | that amain* p a Malarial ►m*a draaa tram tha ami ant •*®i*4 up t* tha barb of hU ifaa, • EXPERIENCE OF A TRAVELER IN A CAR OF BANANAS. TilTMiitnlflH (raivlril \itum HI* Face lie \\ u* llitli'ii Once, mill Twice Hi*- ' came I iiconMcliMi* llciilili Almost | Shuttered A llorrtlilc I'rnllcania'iiU — t'Cl’PYING a state room in a Pullman car on the south bound Missouri Pa li | lie limited Iasi night were two pas s e n gers who at tracted the sympa thetic attention of the trainmen and their fellow-passen gers. says a corre spondent of the St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. The lady had evidently not yet reached the age of two-score years, and was strl. 'ugly beautiful, while her companion, upon whom she lavished a wife’s tender devotion, might have been either HO or 60 years old, If one werp to Judge front Ills face, upon which were mingled Indications of youth and extreme uge that were at once perplexing and mystifying. His eyes were large, dark anil lustrous, his complexion dear, though deadly pale. Sharp lines disfigured tils otherwise at tractive features, and there was a quick, nervous movement of head and hands that suggested palsy. Those who were permitted to hear this man's strange story ceased to wonder that his countenance was furrowed as by age. and marveled that lie lived to re late his horrible experience. His lianni Is James Payne, and he Is a resident of Parkersburg, YV. Vu.. where his family Is well-to-do and highly respected. Two months ago he started for the Pacific coast, intending to investigate the busi ness opportunities of that region, with a view of getting married and locating there. lie purchased a ticket for nenuie lllltl. Doing well Htl|>|>lted Wltll money, anticipated an enjoyable trip and a speedy return to his sweetheart. On tiie train betweean (ireen River and Pocatello Ills pockets were picked and mongy, ticket anti everything stolen. He was even unable to telegraph home for money, having no money, and de termined to make his way through by the box-car route. On the second night of his stay in Pocatello a west-bound special pulled In, In which were several fruit ears. Congratulating hlntsclf that he might now speedily reach bis des tination, he climbpil into one of these cars through an open end door and prepared to make himself as comfort able as possible. He bad scarcely con cealed himself when the door, which it appeared had been broken open by tramps, was closed and sealed, but litis did not at the time occasion any serious alarm on his part. The ear proved to have been loaded with ba nunus, to some of which he was glatl to help himself, being very hungry, and arguing that it was no crime for a man in his predicament. He then composed himself to slpep. These fruit specials generally run under a sixty mile order, as this one proved to be doing, and when the passenger awoke with a start a few hours later it was to find himself in Egyptian darkness, with the train flying along with ter rlflc speed. He had been aroused from his sleep by something having a soft, velvety touch creeping stealthily across his face, and struck a match to see what had disturbed him. To his horror he saw several large tarantulas, which, in his excited imagination, as sitmed the proportions of ordinary land turtles. Startled by the light, they scurried away while his blood ran cold and bis limbs were almost para lyzed as the flickering match died out and he realized the position in which lie was placed. Young Payne did not dare to strike another match, even if his Humbling hands would have performed that ser vice. but he knew Unit lie was in the most Imminent peril of liis life. To leap from the door of the car meant certain deuth and the probability of his fate remaining forever a mvsterv to the loved ones at home. While these thoughts darted through his mind a cold, hairy substance dashed itself in his fate. and. thinking his time had come, he fainted. Ilow long he lay unconscious he does not know, hut when he came again to life It was broad daylight mid the train still speeding like the wind. He Hied the door and almost fnlnted when he found that It was fastened anti that he wua doomed to suffer hours longer ilte prospect of an attack ai any Instant from the hideous creatures whose character he knew so well. The strsaallug rays that penetrate! the cracks of the door cuabled him lo see dimly th<- objects about him. and the (••hi perspiration broke out tin his fure br id aa he recognised his visitors of the night before and saw that their ttotnher had been trebled He looked about fur a l«»»uc itoard and found a •mall one. but knew it he attached the taruntukw thev would leap at him and that he rould not ward them off His ..too-hen*ton was Increased when he aw that they had > ngaged in one of ihaaei fearful and deadly combat* .•’•••(.s IkuHwtk** let dll' h they Mt Wflt hi Ha* II kH III# HMiifc. m«| |i| • Hull IH#| fat null It* |H# MlhM ilhcM Ml# ft# Ifc# d ill 4*1 ;» HMM# HMf 1*1 #* I III *«• r*c« **vl tmli Hj|K! |'%*t Cm* Ml* (*>' il| t hdw»» ii Hlilftil tHNItilfl* tllKl H#|t|kf« #4 f«tlWM#4 fVit ttMftllt t|H (td #H<| i»> Hffcifuiif f* H4»t«4 IMm «•*!#» \V (»«H *«|| tlw |*t* %lk)t 4*<|# gtMtt* §* aIhih Im#» |)« ##» tf* * ##1 In # Kchi‘44^1 iH II# 1*4 WuH Mti itt # HitHiik *m t 1*4 •#•* IlHMiil % i»ti *4* l#4#l ||(*«l Hi ^1*1*1 ftIdf M i»M% tlk# *«*uu nvnu iikp Tim Ami) knows very well that It Is the habit of the ostrich to make great detours about Its ncHt In a circle. He chases it then without ceasing until It Is almost there, when, worn out, It succumbs, conceal ing Its head In the sanil In order not to wee Its enemy, or instinctively hop ing to escape a danger which It cannot see any more. This chase requires eight or ten hours, but It. offers large rewards. The plumes arc worth a con siderable sum, the Hkin makes good leather and the Arabs are very fond of the flesh. Besides, in spite of the fact that It reproduces Its species rap idly, the ostrich is till the time becom ing rarer, and it is hunted for export and domestication In other countries. It Is one of Africa's greatest resources and may become a new source of pros perity to Algerians If thpy are willing to make the effort. The truth of the popular saying, "the stomach of an ostrich," has been confirmed recently by an autopsy on one. doubtless tiff a time captive, when the following was found in Its stomach: A parasol handle, two keys, two great pieces of coal, a glove, a handkerchief, a pair of eye glasses, a ring, a comb, three large rocks, the necks of two beer bottles, the sole of a shoe, a bell and a little harmonica. l.oiiKttvily of An eagle died at Vienna at the age of 103 years. According to BufTon the life of the crow is 108 years, and no observation authorises us to attribute to it, with Hesiod, 1.000 years. A paroquet, brought to Florence in 1033 by the Princess Provere d’Urbin. when she went there to espouse the Grand Duke Ferdinand, was then at least twenty years old, and lived nearly 100 inore._ A naturalist whose testimony cannot be doubted, Willoughby, had certain proof that a goose lived a cen tury, and Buffon did not hesitate to conclude that the swan's life is longer ! yet; some authors give it two and even j three centuries. Mallerton possessed j the skeleton of a swan that had lived | 307 years. WORTH READING. j A Los Angeles (Cal.) Jury recently j refused to deliver Us verdict until Its fees were paid. New York’s appropriation for free libraries has been Increased this year | from $63,000 to $!tO,uoo. i Peppermint lotcnges are bring sup ; planted throughout Scotland by choeo | lale drops filled with whisky, The strongest fortress lu Kurnpeun Russia Is Cronstadt. It Is the Kusalau naval drpot of Iho Halt It- ora. The numbor of rouvtcu la the Mary land proItrntlulira hua tllireiiaed 20 per cml In tb* laat ihirr yaar*. Odr a'mmrr th** Mongolian rar | rlnl 120,law grrar and tnrkaya from ! t'anu.lii to l.lvrrp«M>l Jaal Warn t'hrlat < t«*r, Tfcry- make their o»u tleyelra la | Japan non aad tall tkrai Jlu-tan-aka. • hi. h nirana lilarally. ma.. wheal vaht.la It u aaltl that uaa of tka t-ulorad king* id Ik.tnew haa plat llldtnl aa or dar la tkl* lountry fut a fourtaaa-lgrk j aagn kltgkl A plan pi«p“*agi*Mti4 In kat > honor t he I'ttoaiaa* I hr •to* ate tka war fonat* Tk* »Url M* 4aar, III aha* ! , »<« tk* ttokvt tar tka rontgat, It waa b) pot ha* rtlr’t to pat I or tka aagag*. <«»m ring Ihok no* htiiMi arttar apaat |iak ig < j4varitain« kt* kvoh, m> Havai noW a [. ,py Aaotbar ogaat I'm* ta t ailing at* | legtton ►« a tittla It kook and antd »» wa» «.«<•#• ai- kta a ' a»» 'Inrra gra -aid lit be >« M. k |iu • a kit* radar ahiaa> » *•• doing |V.4 1 o*i tt*e «mi tadt la that «t tt* I kat kit* ‘■a* a in latl i mm .n a 4 ««»r for am | mi««I| -t«a > nra the queen as an iuol. itriti»li I'rotrf tlou Held to llo IMvint I'owor In Thl»»ot. In addition to being Queen of Eng land and Empress of India, It appear* that Her majesty is a goddess. An Englishman named Stuart Msjurl banks has recently returned from a five years’ sojourn In Thibet and Bengal, and he Is the authority for the follow ing remarkable story. When he was Journeying In Thibet In 189d, Mr. Maj orihanks says that he heard through the natives of a white goddess worship ped by n sect whose place of habita tion was In the most mountainous sec tion of that rugged country. With two guides and a native servant. Mr. Maj orihanks sturted for the mountains that had been described to him. and. on reaching them, found thut he was thp first white man known to have made his way to this spot. The treat ment accorded hint by the inetphnni of the sect for whom ho had been searching w'as amazing, lip hud been told thut he was going to certain death, and that no man’s hand could save him. To his surprise he was treat ed us u most welcome visitor. He was received with profound salaams, and with his escort was assigned quarters In u hut for the night. In response to his request for information he was courteously told that all he wished would he made clear to him in the morning. The villagers kept their word to lhe letter. After the morning menl the visitor was escorted to the house of the principal official of the town, who Is termed the Khan. Two priests appeared by order of the Khan, and conducted Mr. Majoribanks to a building located on Hie crown of a high hill. Entering, the traveler found him self In a dimly lighted apartment furn ished with all the evidences of u bar baric religion, lint the most amazing thing of all was that, seated In a del icately carved chair was the figure of a woman, wearing u golden crown, ap parently attired In European costume, and looking not unlike a specimen from Mine. Tussand’s. Closer inspection, necessarily of u very respectful nature, disclosed the fact that the figure was Intended to be u representation of Queen Victoria. Careful scrutiny showed that the Imitation, so far as the clothing was concerned, was very crude indeed, but the likeness of the face to the original was startling in Its faithfulness. After leaving the temple, Mr. Majorlhanks had another Inter view with the Khan, and from him learned how the Queen of England came to be the goddess of a heathen tribe. It seems that a few years ago the tribe was sorely beset by enemies, and a deputation was sent from the vil lage to Calcutta to appeal to the Eng lish government to Interfere und cause the Indian marauders to remain at home. The mission was entliely suc cessful. When the Thibetans returned from Calcutta, one of the men had se cured u photograph of Queen Victoria, and apparently out of gratitude, as good an Imitation as it was possible for them to construct of the Great White Queen was fashioned, placed in the temple, and worshipped as the chief of all the tribe's gods. WIDOWS IN WASHINGTON. («a(lipriiiK (around l’|>oii Which Kick Kcllrt* Meet und Scheme. Especially Is It a great place for rich widows with daughters—that peculiar type of American women who, us soon as pater-famillas Is comfortably tucked away under the sod, fly to Europe, spend years wandering about like so cial Bedouins, then are seized with a romantic form of homesickness, sava the Illustrated American. But they can't stand Porkopolis und Kalamazoo and West Jersey after Paris and Lon don and Vienna, and Washington af fords a convenient stop-gap. It is American In location, European In hab its and. to a degree, in personnel. So they come here, buy a fine house, get in wim me diplomatic corps ana me thing Is done. And Washington, which professes a lofty scorn for trade and ruthlessly shuts the doors ol society In the face of all Washington brokers, insurance agents, real estate people, and, In short, trade in every form. e» ccpt hanking, welcomes with open urins the retired trades people from New York. Chicago and anywhere else on the face of the globe. It reaervea the right of laughing at them, though, and after faithfully attending all their luncheons goes home to roar over every slip the ambitious host or host ess has made. Thia habit la un doubtedly an affront to hospitality, but It bss one saving virtue- Waahlngtotr makes use of rich people, but It ta not afraid ut them. !f»r HrMHUhirMUalluii ' I'm really afraid I can't engage you. Mias tlyjee.'1 said the operatic manager “Your voice is not remarkable and you %IH pardon me if I aay that I fall to see what you rely upon to draw on audience,' 'My dear sir,'* replied she I have the enviable distinction of never absolutely never having suag before dure it Victoria " "Why tictu I you say so before ♦" cried the in rap tured manager “You are the very I have been looking for lbear many year* ' Pittsburg t'hrwnt t te Hr mid I t ureseibao ' fhta," said the profess*** of anal mo . *. he etk)idled a human jaw bone. ' ta the Interim atavdlary ' I beg > our pardon. gMswar," raid one of the married elude Ml r I oil dtdni I untie retand you to way the ■ k<■ teion v >w have before ue u>bm*>4 ro a te mild “I dfct** to that row th e lk«n is w infer ■oiMHatv W <(dMW« m lies** II a «m* re*# *nt in do It, he t * a nig any woman that wantr him