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JOAN'S
INEXPERIENCE.
... J h*
c a Hur ;t • mportant. I waal
y »a__—■ from ;Ja« further side of ci>
i *4 reaolretf ta devote the mom
*±* to study. twit, mat her being on th<
r - aetf. | felt a certain rewpoasibtl
t> f®r my bteattfui youag r sister
The "important decided me
What la It?” I aahed. u she entered
the mom
T«ra*tl never gum. I>urd A\on
tu at h has proposed "
Bet iron haven't accepted hie*" I
•*k*d, fearful that iaeaperiea<-ed Joan
•hr ild trust her life to the naan with '
the wurat reputation in the county.
Why not*"
‘ Ton don't know anythin* about
hlWB9**
■ Don't I* He*• the moat charming
**’■*• * **«r met and I certainly aaid
•yea." ”
Wha* will mother say*" I asked,
a* Joan, not at all discom fifed at my
mol reception of her new*, left the
room, hamming the refrain of a
fv~p1e**d with the situation that
had suddenly arisen I »—at down
»iai*a to And ont old friend and neigh
bor. Jack VI liters of whose present
•he r-aigennen of the diplomatic serv
> e. to which he ielosgid. would soon
deprive ns. I told him of my trouble.
And ended by asking hi* advice,
Teg minute* later he said:
’ This Is my Idea Juan Is impres
•MdUa I have an old friend in town
who has a rare knack of fascinating
t rla. Ill get lam down for a week’s ;
»h.jot. if he decot -» L:s tin.*- to Joan
H may destroy her inclination for
Jliua month,"
The plan see®, i feasible. I prayed
♦ J ma t iffe tum* would he divert
ed front their objectionable object.
Tt*» days later I received a note
f rom Ja> k saying tkat bis friend had
accepted the invitation and was com- !
tag today.
Wnea I descended about luncheon
time Jack and his friend were the
*«sijr occupants of the drawing room.
"Let me introduce you to my old
friend. Claud Black wood." said Jack.
1 gave my ha a 1 m«-hamaly My
thoughts were concerned with Joan s
fstwt
Later * not., d tha: he had fine eyes
and there was plenty of him. but all *
the aanre 1 was disaypotatel Pi rhapt
1 espec ted too much
loos Lord A von mouth and Joan i
•trolled in from the garden, and. after
the usnai common places we went in
to luncheon Before half an hour had
passed 1 discovered that Cspt Black- j
wood fascinated me. end u» such an i
eaten* that I almost futgx my fears
w. h regard to Joan. air. loo. seemed
Interested. Her white muslin dress.
d^-ortud with a red ruse at l*« r waist.
tfejcH off to adustjco her nib.
;u U bsnwtjr.
After !aar| while Joan and I wait
ed the Ben la the roue aar1*n. I vn
mraagely a. lent 1 had only thought
for Jack's friea i
V.’hra the m<-a had been with u*
•cMWe few minute* Ja< k maneuvered m
that Capt. Bia kwoul and Joan *troll
ed iff to ta*pert aotne ruts* at the
farther ewd of the park
Weil coat need." whup*r-d Jack,
a* they disappear** from our sight
Well rwwtrirej*** 1 echoed absently
The writ worn'*iff »'* w/ a
• rkde previously arrang-d Jack again
managed thit Capi Biadklruud ac
naipeaMd Joan
Though the knowledge that he left
mr aide relwrtaatiy gave me interne
secret pleasure 1 t'*tm4 my.eS.* *ur
remdering to a d#»re tor lsolution and
>irrn | BU akme with the softly win*,
prnwg tree* Their aadnew. had n-ver
itrrmrd mo attuned to my mood before
H«n«* hoofs. a beating of my heart,
aod Jark'a frtewd drew rein beside m
The whispering of the tree* «n M
beautiful I wondered I had not noticed
It before
Hr « id not spank I summon* j coor
xs* to (Ua« at hia facu-onl> for a
*1 ta.nl we had hefter And the uth
m - | Mid. “1 want to spes* to
Jar k ~
Have I off- n led you*“
He newer knew the effort it nm me
to rwrb hia ardor when he reminded
irdBi »e)f imposed doty to Juan
Tew minute, later Jack was be»id«
"fttn*kwowd aald yow wanted me.
"I want him to ait* all hi* time to
Jaaa Hate you forgotten our cutn
part*"
Hr *n so rinfuM-d tha* ! Mid to
hia* "'What's the matterT" Then a*
hr did mm answer. ' Hurely you can tell
«ne " I said.
1 iowe Jama, hare always lored her.
awd you know it # hOp*de*. hope e*..
f did mot
root nit him
A Week fmawrff. and Cap*. Blackwood
happily was still among u» Our
** hetee. a# far aa Joan was concerned,
had answered admirably She had
Veen so distant to Lord Aronmmith
tM! he had betake* himself to I*arH
I tot I ,H uid Juan by comroauinK
my life • happiness. 1 lored Captain
Mack wood, and t feared with a great
fear the day oa which be would tak*
his iaasaiaew* departure
Wbfic he was near i could be limr-M
ha; yf. Bat i knew the blackaom I
would supervene whoa he had
Cose.
At last the moment of the dreaded
day arrived when we were to say good
by.
He stood before ne. I could not look
at him.
“Ruth!”
’•UooJ-b/!” I whispered.
“Not good-by. Never good-by.”
“Why?” I timidly whispered.
“I love you. I love you.” Then,
after a pause. “Have you no word for
me?”
Ihity to Joan alone restrained me
fr» in throwing my arm-* about his
neck.
“Have you no word for me?”
1 1*0 -I«l not speak. 1 only shook my
head.
W hen 1 n.xt had a consciousness of
ttol:^ he was gone.
”Where’s Ruth?" cried a voice.
It wj* Joan's. I dried my eyes
and Minim >aed the ghost of a smile.
H* re she is’" «ri**it Jack's voice.
Tb»v entered together.
"Why didn't you come with us to
the *ta*i«>»? Capt. Blackwood was in
s i, fa i bad temper we left him before
the train started." said Joan.
"A good job. too." from Jack.
“Jack!” from Joan.
“It is. Joan and I are engaged. 1
should never have asked if we hadn’t
found our senes alone on the way—”
“What?” I gasped.
For answer Joan took Jack s hand
in hers.
"What about laud Avonmouth?” I
i-k 1 »hen a few moments later Joan
and I were alone together.
“I bat- him. 1 always loved Jack,
and 1 knew he loved me. but he would
n't sp- »k. I pretended to care for Lord
Av •nmouth. as Ja. k was going away,
and—what is the matter, Ruth?”
1 had no time and less inclination to
captain. I seized a hat and hurried
toward the station.
Half way there 1 paused for breath.
T warning whistle of a train seem
ed to stab my heart.
"Come hack, come back, my love!”
I cried.
For answer a cloud of white smoke
that told me of the departura of the
mac 1 loved All the same I pressed
on Arrived at the station I almost
feii into the arm* of the statlonmas
r»*r who prided himself on the flowers
that decorated his station.
“What's happened, miss?”
“I want a gentleman, but he's gone.”
‘There’s a lunatic here, if that's
him miss.”
My attention wa« drawn to a knot of
of o!fi iai* who were watching a tall,
well-built man who was viciously
striking the heads from the flowers
with a walking cane.
“A lunatic,” I gasped.
* Well. miss. h« drove for a certain
train, but didn't go by it. Ever since
he'* bc»*n spoiling my flower*, wra! he
Tooked so savage none of us liked to
Interfere
At that moment the lunatic caught
my eyes.
He approached.
It was the man I loved
“You'”
"Yea. dear.”
Our eye* said all that was left un
spoken.—Mainly About People.
SPEAKER REED'S RETORT
I »W a %%*»t*ru*r H<>« ||<- Would limy
An tnrrtlofi.
UrovinK tired of his chair one after
noon Sjwaker Reed surrendered it to
another member and sat down beside
a western democrat. **M v. what a
large hand you have!" remarked Mr.
K*-**i looking Intently at the enor
moua paw of his Democratic friend
who was writing a letter. "Yes. sir."
*4 d Lie member, ‘ and 1 am proud of
it I worked on a farm for so many
>*-ar!« that my hands grew' large, as
you tee them " The speaker held up
hi« small and shapely right hand,
smooth and white as a woman's, and
said Well. I thank the Lord I never
wotked on a farm ' The member re
plied You are probably going to
r^a for the presidency some time, Mr.
Reed. and if you do I'll placard that
•taiement all over the country—and
■ ha* could you do about it?” The big
fellow mused a while and said: "Noth
ing —egrept to brand you as an infer
nal liar?"
< altar* of liaskel Willows.
The !wug tbln stems of the basket
■nilow are railed osiers, and the osier
willow Is the same as the basket wil
low Really there are two kinds of
nm'wr willows, but there is so little
diflereji-e between them that only a
iartaniut could discover it. Generally
th*«*e willows are grown on damp
ground on the banks of streams or
ponds bin they wilt grow as easily on
<i’u krr growth and stronger twigs.
Ti.e .‘wait locality for growing them as
a farm crop is near a large town or
• it> where many baskets or other wil
low gcrsia are made lairge quantities
of osiers are need for making chairs.
• bildren's carriage* and other work
bei-.d* s baskets There is a constantly
m< rearing demand for them.
lira* Slay at lluini Now.
K» • <11 i correspondence Chicago
Inter b><hi An Klgin man who was
greatly annoyed by his neightMir's hens
and *1.silked to kill the fowls, which
scratched his garden, hit upon a novel
and efti acicua remedy. He took a
(.• king case, covered the bottom with
straw cut a hole large enough to
admit a ben. and placed the case in a
quiet part of his garden. In a few
morning the neighbor complained
that *ome one wa* steal!tig eggs, but
when the case owner showed 13 eggs
as a r» stilt of one morning's harvest
bj t«K»k the hint and the fowls were
kept at home.
MlaUlter Malr-ht-tl Him.
A Colorado millionaire, who is get
ting up an art gallery, went to Whist
ler’s studio, in the Rue du Bar. He
glanced casually at the pictures on
the wall*— "syinvhtbiles" in rose and
gold, in blue and gray, ir brown and
green “How much for the lot?’’ he
afked, with the confidence of one who
owns gold minea. "Four millions.”
said Whistler. * What*" "My post
humous price.*." And the painter
added, "Good morning."—Paris letter
la Saturday Evening Post.
FOODS OF OTHER DAYS
EVOLUTION OF DINING AN IN
TERESTING ONE.
Sumptuous Banquets of the Orwki—A
(irrat DlupUy of 1*1** In One of
Which Four Living Mini* Were Con
Mnt'il.
It would be a hopeless matter to
attempt to trace the origin of cook
ing. There is strong evidence that
fruit, nuts and flesh composed man's
first foods. The latter he could not
cook until he learned of the exist
ence and use of fire. Then he dried
the meat before using It and cooked
't by placing it upon hot embers.
This method was not at all satisfac
tory, for the smoke did much injury
to the flavor. Man’s inventive power
was soon brought into play. He
skrwered the meat and laid it across
piles cf stone, under which wan a fire,
thus protecting it from ^he smoke.
The gridiron thus derived its origin.
The early process of cooking was one
long series of experiments. It still
retains the experimental feature, de
spite the cook books and rooking
schools, to this day. The early
Greeks were in the habit of giving
wonderful banquets. For instance a
dish was served composed of the
brains of 500 peacocks. Course din
ners were in vogue among the people.
At the first course, as an appetizer,
were eaten radishes, olives, skirrert.
eggs, turnips and fish. etc. The sec
ond course contained thrush, guinea
fowl, Ionian pheasants, parrot, flesh
of young asses, and dogs. The third
contained fruit. Ancona cakes, pastry,
cheese, and wines. Fortunately the
Greeks ate but once a day, this meal
taking place in the evening. They
deliberated long over their food, eat
ing and drinking many hours. An old
Saxon custom provided that those
guests who were together about the
board must take their seats accord
ing to their rank. Should a guest
make a mistake and seat himself
above his station, he was at once
pelted with bones and other refuse.
The lady of the house always occu
pied an exalted position at the end
of the table, where she cut and dis
pensed the bread. It was considered
a great honor to wait upon the table.
To be lord or lady in waiting to the
king or quepn is a high position to
this day. The men and women occu
pied opposite sides of the table. Each
guest carved for himself, using his
own knife, a short, double-edged one
which he carried for the purpose.
Another curious early custom made a
nost responsible if a guest who had
been entertained three days com
mitted a crime while under his roof.
He was compelled either to bring his
guest to justice or to answer to the
law himself. It was considered a
crime to lack hospitality. Even the
church frowned upon the offeree and
called^ it sin. It was believed luck
would surely desert one who would
turn the stranger from his door. A
horn was always blown before meals,
so all wayfarers might come in and
partake. Sitting at the table began
about the time of Charlemagne. This
they did in imitation of the Romans,
who took their meals lying upon
lounges. The dining table appeared
about the middle ages. Breakfast
was first spoken of in 1463. The din
ner hour occurred about 3 o’clock and
supper before bed time. Later the
quality folk changed the hour for din
ner »o 11 and supper at 5 o’clock.
The greatest pie display ever
known to history was in 1509. Fu
neral feasts were in vogue at the
time. This pie exhibit occurred at a
dinner given after the funeral of
Albrecht IV.. king of Bavaria, at the
royal palace in Munich. Seven mon
ster pies represented the seven ages
of the world. The first was an apple
pie, symbolic of Adam and Eve. the
tree of knowledge, the snake, and the
apple. I'pon the crust was the tra
dition told in figures made from oon
fer-tioners’ sugar and almonds. The
second pie was made of doves, in the
center of which was the ark. Fig
ures of all animals known were also
upon it. Upon the crust of each pie
were figures containing their mean
ing. There was Abraham sacrificing
his son Isaac, and David slaying
Goliath, the ravens feeding Elijah,
and Samson tearing open the lion’s
jaws, probably trying to impress upon
it the necessity of having a large
mouth for pie. Then the last pie was
opened, and that contained four living
birds, that began to sing.
Muttplcftit I mtia.
In spite of British rule India Is still
virtually a soapless country. Through
out the villages of Hindustan soap is
indeed regarded as a natural curiosity,
and it Is rarely, if ever, kept in stock
by the native shopkeeper. In the
towns it is now sold to a certain ex
tent. but how small this is may be
gathered from the fact that the total
yearly consumption of soap in India
is about 100.000 hundredweight—that
is to say. every 2,500 persons use on
the average only 112 pounds of soap
among them. or. in other words, con
-iderably less than an ounce is the
average consumption per person.
Wlr*l«t« Telegraphy.
The government seems to have aban
doned experiments in wireless teleg
raphy. A few months ago, when the
idea "as new. several of the depart
ments actively competed for the honor
of developing a practical system c-f
communication without the use of
connecting wires. The signal corps of
the army, the weather bureau of the
agricultural department, the navy and
other bureaus in which scientists are
employed launched experiments, but
the enthusiasm has apparently died
out.—Washington Letter.
An Klantlc Currency.
He was trying to make the money
question clear to his wife, and when
he said that we need a more elastic
currency, the very practical woman an
swered: “Then why doesn’t the gov
ernment print banknotes on thin
sheets of rubber?” And when he saw
that she was in dead earnest, he slow
ly got up and went out of the room.
'
THEY DIDN’T JUMP.
Crowd NcMflmtly Alarmed hj » C upl«
on th« llrooklin Bridge.
Ab a corollary to the bridge-jumping
feat of Marie Dinse on Friday there
waa a little stir on the bridge yester
day afternoon, says the New York
Sun. Some trifling accident on a
trolley car on the south roadway about
half past 5 caused a blockade, and a
man and a woman, becoming weary of
sitting still in their car, which was
stalled near the Brooklyn tower,
stepped ofT and walked over to the
railing. Nothing more sensational
was in the man’s mind than to point
out the spot in the river where Miss
Dinse wfent In. but this fact was not
appreciated by several excitable per
sons. who arose and shouted in wild
chorus: “Don’t let him jump!”
“Hold her!” “They're both going!”
Police!” “Who jumped?” “There
they are!" “Is he drowned?” Straight
way a few hundred people got off
the long line of cars and, rushing to
the rail, stared at the water. Most of
them were of the opinion that at least
two persons hail Jumped. A few of
the more imaginative hoped that it
might be the sea serpent. Down be
low, two tugs, attracted by the at
tention of the crowd, hovered about.
Bridge Policeman Bohn, who ivas not
far away, came up at the double quick
and demanded to know who had
jumped or was jumping or meditated
jumping. Nobody could tell because
the couple who had innocently started
the excitement had returned to their
car. Then Sergeant Hayes came up
with a dozen men. having heard the
report. The sergeant is a man of ex
perience in bridge matters and knows
that for every bridge jumper there
are a dozen fakes, so he was not vast
ly amazed on learning that nothing
had happened. He suggested that the
passengers return to the cars. They
did so and the cars moved on. After
waiting half an hour down below for
the prospective jumpers to arrive, the
two tugs hooted derisively and alsc
moved on.
LEFT BOOK IN THE CAR.
It Wan the Nature of the Volume Mailt
the 1‘eople Smile.
He was very stout and dignified. His
glistening broadcloth frock coat, nar
row white tie and high hat were ail
immaculate. He boarded a Clark
street cable car at the limits and sat
down near the door. After adjusting
a heavy pair of gold spec tacles he took
a paper book from his capacious
pocket and quickly became absorbed
in it. Soon an almost audible smile
passed across the faces of the other
passengers, but the old gentleman
neither saw nor heard. Never once
from the car barns to Monroe street
were the gold spectacles raised from
the pages before them. People enter
ed and left the car, grinning broadly,
but not a' smile fticlcered across the
reader’s face. Evidently the matter
before him was worthy of his most
serious consideration. When the ca
ble car Jerked around the corner o(
Dearborn street he started up in Bud
den excitement. "Stop, stop.” he call
ed to the conductor. "Where am I?"
He got his bearings in a minute and
catching sight of a clock in a drug
store window, he said, half aloud:
"Tut, tut. 11 o'clock and I should have
been at the conference at that hour."
He got off and started toward the
Auditorium, forgetting his book, in a
brilliant green and yellow’ cover, or
which in large black letters was print
ed: "Black Jack Duncan; or. a Round
l'p in the Rockies."—Chicago Chron
icle.
t'oal Ashen as a Fertiliser.
Coal ashes are never used as a fer
tilizer. but they are often spread on
land to get rid of them as a waste
product. They make excellent hard,
firm, dry paths around a house or in
a garden, and when so used they have
been found to greatly encourage the
growth of grass and weeds, so that this
experience seems to have encouraged
the belief that they are useful. But
as the ashes of soft coal are worth
only forty cents a ton, and those of
hard coal sixteen cents, it is evidently
not a profitable business to gather
them from a distance. The home-made
ashes may be used, to get rid of them
and if spread on grass land they have
showed that they possess some value
beyond what their actual analysis
seems to indicate. Ashes certainly do
not create weeds for this word means
to make something of nothing. They
do not encourage them any more than
other plants. What will make weeds
grow will make useful plants grow
equally.
I’oWou In Potatoes.
“Potatoes contain a poison known
as soianin.” says the Sanitary Home
Fargo, N. D. “New potatoes contalr.
comparatively little of this poison un
less they grow about the surface of
the ground and have a green skin,
when they are generally known to be
poisonous. It is not, however, gener
ally known that old potatoes contain
much more of this poisonous principle
—soianin—and many cases of serious
poisoning have occurred in late sum
mer, when old potatoes are used. In
1892 and 1893, there was almost whole
sale poisoning among the troops of
the German army. The symptoms
were frontal headache, colic.diarrhoea.
vomiting, weakness, and slight stupor,
and in some cases dilatation of the
pupils. Meyer investigated the case
and found in old potatoes, kept in
a damp place, and beginning to sprout,
twenty-four times as much soianin as
in new potatoes. When using old po
tatoes in June and July, it will be well
to keep this fact in mind.”
A Progressive Hishop.
Bishop Romero of the Catholic
church, who is one of the most influ
ential and patriotic men in Argentina,
is now advocating the plan of send
ing divinity students from that coun
try to the United States to be educated
in a North American atmosphere and
in North American ideas. Hitherto
all of the Argentina priests have had a
European education. Most of them
come from Spain and Italy, where the
church is the least progressive.
WAR MAKES TROUBLE EOR CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS.
_4- « iVl A
A mnrinn n PflTltiTl*
Hot Work Trying to Find Accommodations
for American Delegates.
London Letter.
At present it looks as if two ex
tremely powerful forces. Providence
and the British government, were dead
against the first world's convention of
the Young People’s Society of Chris
tian Endeavor, arranged to open here
on July 10. This convention promises
to be the greatest on record; 10,000
Americans, the largest delegation that
ever crossed the sea in a body, are ex
pected to be present, and with the
Endeavorers in the United Kingdom
and those from the continent and oth
er foreign countries, the total number
here will probably reach 60,000, rep
resenting 4,000,000 members.
Naturally, the thought of gathering
together such a host in I^ondon made
the Christian Endeavor leaders In
as they can make by the required
time.
All this ought to have been enough
trouble. But there was more yet in
store for the Christian Endeavorers.
Every year there is in England a great
shooting match at Bisley, the winner
of which receives a prize, supposedly
given by Her Majesty, and becomes
known thereafter as the Queen’s prize
man for that year. Thi3. of course,
necessitates an encampment at Bisley.
and the date set for this encampment
was the week upon which the Chris
tian Endeavor people had pitched for
their convention. Of course that
meant still more trouble, for about
half the little tentmakers that the En
deavorers approached were busy mak
ing ready for Bisley. In consequence
gent at the Mansion House. Fur
thermore, it is expected that the bish
op of London will make an address of
welcome at the Albert hall the day be
fore the convention.
many see the^fishes.
I-arge Attendant-* at the New York PU
eatorial Show.
When Colonel James Jones was ask
ed for information about the new ar
rivals at the Aquarium he called at
tention to the annual report he had
just made to President Clausen of the
Park department, and some of the de
tails are interesting. The total at
tendance during the year reached the
astonishing figure of 1,841,330, giving
an average of more than 5,000 for
every day of the year. During the
previous year the attendance was
1,670,085. and almost everybody
thought high water mark had been
reached, and that the public, tiring
cf the novelty, would gradually leave
off coming. The greatest attendance
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ALEXANDRIA PALACE, WHERE T HE ENDEAVORS WILL MEET.
England uncommonly proud, and they
went to work light-heartedly, but so
far, despite the religious nature ot
' their task, particularly annoying diffi
culties have cropped up on every hand,
an<! The last of them, the biggest, is
qjj, solved yet.
The convention is to be held in the'
Alexandra Palace, a great Madison
Square Garden sort of a piace, just out
of London proper, and here it is in
tended to lodge and board 5,000 of the
Endeavorites. There was no other
way to do, for hotels, boarding houses
and the private homes of Endeavorers
had been canvassed and every Ded in
them engaged for the eventful week,
and still 5.000 expected guests would
have nowhere to lay their heads, to
say nothing of filling their stomachs.
But the Alexandra Palace has a great
banqueting hall, and this large room
will be divided off into dormitories,
enough of them to hold 1.200 young
women.
That loft 3,SOD young men to oe snif
tered, and for this army the managers
planned to erect a mighty encampment
under canvas, like any other amy s.
They decided to put five men in each
tent—soldiers squeeze eleven in, but
as the Rev. Knight Chaplin, secre
tary of the society’s British council,
remarked to me, "you can’t pack
Christians away like soldiers”—and
they reckoned upon about 800 tents.
Feeding the "campers” would be easy
enough, for the Alexandra Palace has
a huge kitchen in its basement, and
2,500 people can sit down in its dining
room and be served at once.
So Mr. Chaplin went to the largest
tent manufacturer in England ana said
he'd like 1,000 tents, please, as soon as
they could be got ready. The man
ager of the company listened to this
request, which would have been a mere
flea bite at any ordinary time, and
t»ld the clergyman that he couldn't
have them—not from his company, at
any rate—and added that he didn’t
believe any other company could sup
ply the Christian Endeavorers with
any tents at all, let alone 1,000. He
explained to Jrfr. Chaplin that one
“Oora Paul” was to hlame for this ex
traordinary state of things.
As everybody knows, when Mr.
Kruger thought he was about ready to
go to war with England, England
wasn't ready at all. She needed a lot
of things that she hadn’t on hand, and
one of the things was unlimited tents
to house the braves of Buller, Meth
uen, White, et al. The first thing she
—or rather the war office—did was to
ransack every armory, barracks,etc., in
the United Kingdom and "command
eer" every solitary tent that was ly
ing around loose: the second thing was
to place orders for tents galore with
nearly every tent man in the country,
and the third to tell these tent men
that after they got through making the
first hatch, to turn in and make another
to replenish the stock of the various
armories, barracks and storehouses
that had been despoiled. Naturally,
the tentmakers set to work tooth and
nail. The big factory that Mr. Chap
lin visited was working overtime, and
so great was the pressure that the bus
iness offices of the company had been
deserted by the regular clerk* and "oc
cupied" by the stitchers and hinders.
So. as if the reverend gentleman of
the Christian Endeavor Society hadn’t
already had trouble enough In reserv
ing 25.000 beds In the city of London,
they had upon their shoulders the ad
ditional Job of scraping up l.ooo tents,
literally from nowhere. They are do
ing It by the burdensome means of lo
cating little tentmaker*. too small to
be pounced upon by the governmont,
and ordering from them ivs many tent*
of which the C. E. managers don't yet
know where their tents are coming
from, or if they really are coming at
all. But they do know’ that not one
of their guests will be left out in the
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From letters from America it is be- !
ginning to look as if by no means the
whole American contingent could get
across to occupy the tents that as yet
are not. In the blame for this the
British government again figures
largely, but has a partner in the shape
of the Paris exhibition. Ordinarily
every American delegation could do
what one from Boston has done—that
is. charter a ship and come across re
joicing and in Christian unity, but the
British government has gobbled about
half the passenger steamers to ship a
lot of prosaic soldiers dow’n to Africa
and bring back again some that the
Boers have disabled. Then, most of
the American Endeavorites are not
rich. Some of them, in fact, have
been saving up for a year to come
across the Atlantic to be present at
this convention. But now along comes
the exhibition, thousands of people
who are well-to-do are fighting to
book their passage aboard such steam
ers as the English government has
been good enough to leave on the
northern ocean, rates have mounted
up to the skies, and in many cases
that sum that the American Endeavor
ite has been able to scrape together
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on any single day during the year
just passed, was that of September 29.
when 37.248 persons thronged the
building. “The only way I can ex
l/ain the increase,” said the Colonel,
“is that the show is better than it ever
was before^. Our fishes are all in ^9
best of good health, ?'nd, recognizing1
our good work, the fish commissioners
of various states have sent us magni
ficent specimens. “Why.” said the
Colonel, waxing eloquent, “no aquari
um in the world can approach us in an
exhibition of the fishes of the deep sea
and its fresh water tributaries. And
I am not alone in this opinion, either.”
—New York Herald.
Ancient Weapon* t'neartlied.
In excavating the old Roman camp
of Carnuntum. near Haimburg. on the
Danube, between Vienna and Press
burg, the explorers have come upon an
armory and provision house containing
1.037 weapons and pieces of armor and
stores of barley, peas. etc. A great
many inscriptions were found as well,
and the means by which the camp was
supplied with water.
The Professor and the Hat.
A college professor went into a
crowded restaurant in New York city
for luncheon one hot day last sum
mer. The negro in charge of the big
corridor took the professor's hat and
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wouldn't begin to take him across, to
say nothing of getting back. At least
that la the atory told by the letters
which I he British committeemen have
received from the would-be voyagers
themselves.
Those committeemen say, however,
that the minimum number of Ameri
cana who will come cannot fall to
reach 4,000 anyway. Preparations
are being made to give them a famous
greeting, too. In fact, the British
committee has gone so far as to re
quest that the lord mayor himself gtve
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pave no cheek for it in return. An
hour later, when the professor came
out of the dining-room, the negro
glanced at him and handed him his
hat. The negro's ability to remember
to whom each article of clothing be
longed struck the professor as being
something very wonderful. “How did
you know this was my hat?” he
asked. “I didn't know it. sah.” was
the reply. “Then why did you give
it to me?” the professor persisted.
“Because you gave It to me. sah,*