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Fleddie and Fleddis By H. Q. DA COSTA. (Copyright, 1902, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) How cold It was In Bleeker Lane! The wind seemed to have a particular spite against an old, ramshackle, three-story frame building that stood on the corner, bumping into it, and sweeping and growling about it until It heaved and groaned, as if crying out against its rough playfellow. The falling snow piled up against it, and by the dim light one could see how the boisterous wind lifted the snow and flung it against the old house, snow balling it, roaring with glee as now and then a window broke in. Up on the third floor the snow poured in through one of the broken windows as if curious to see the Inside, then formed little piles which were whirled around the room by a stray gust from the big wind outside, then piling up against two huddled up figures that lay in the farther corner, revealing a girl, scantily dressed, a rag of a cot ton shawl wound round her, an eleven year-old girl, but with an expressive wisdom and experience in her face that made one shudder, while pitying her. Her eyes were closed and she breathed softly. The other w’as a dog. The snow kept piling up against the two until the dog moved uneasily, and licked his mistress’ hand with a fer vor that woke her instantly. She pat ted his head, and slowly rose, reveal ing an immense pair of shoes In which her feet were lost, cut and torn, and one latchless. The snow, losing its support, flew around the room, then settled down,on the floor, making a white covering of purity that bid its dirt. Everyone in Bleeker Lane knew the girl and her attendant, the dog. The dog had been rescued by Fleddis from an immense tin pail which he was regarding aggressively one sum mer’s day, crouching in the sun with despair written in his very tall. Bleeker Lane first knew them as "Fleddis an’ the dawg," then as “Fled die an’ Fleddis,” putting the dog first. He was a terrier of the ordinary size, but his love for his mistress was so fervent that it was a constant source of wonder to the ’Avenoo’, as it was derisively called, "why some on it wasn’t leaking out’n his skin.'* "Fled die," she said, "wait ’ere till I comes back,” and he curled himself In a corner accordingly. Gathering up her wisp of a shawl, she dragged the shoes down the worm-eaten steps, almost being run down by a half drunken man as she stepped outside. He raised his fist threateningly. "Oh! Fleddis!” he hiccoughed, and lurched on. Poor lit tle girl! How pitiful she looked as she passed up the narrow alley! As she came to the wider street, a shab by house, brightly lit up, caught her attention. It was a children's party going on, but she peered through the half-curtained windows with little gasps of admiration and envy, until some one open°d the door and she scuttled away. As she went up the street she begged timidly, and when she finally got a copper from a passing man it was accompanied with: "Chil dren like these begging! Shameful!" The snow was falling lightly, but as she tramped on it got in her shoes and j she could barely walk, her feet were so cold. It was getting dark, and she stopped at a friendly baker's and got a roll for her cent, the kind-hearted woman putting some cakes in the bag as she saw how wistfully her custom er eyed them. As she drew near the frame house she called home, a light flared up in the sky, bursting through a dense bank of smoke and revealing the alley crowded with a jostling throng.flre lines drawn, and streams of j water spattering against the ram- i shackle buildings, coating the street with ice and freezing on the fire fight ers below. A sudden pang seized her. Fleddie! The fire was already circling and coiling around the rotten frame she had left, and it was doomed. The firemen saw this, and trying to protect the other houses, thought nothing of the dog. The room was brightly lit, and Fleddis saw her pet coiled in the corner. It stirred, and then jumped j up as the light became brighter. Round ' and round it sniffed, then ran to the stairs. They were smoking, but the dog went down a few steps, then run ning back fearfully, sprang to the window and hung there, looking down pitifully. Compassionate murmurings ran through the crowd, and a net was She stopped at a friendly baker’s. held below, but the dog would not Jump. A cry of sympathy went up from below, and then—oh! his mis tress caught her breath as he gave a long howl of pain and terror, looking at her. The howl rose above the deep undertone of Bound, and seemed to pierce her through ind tnrougb. As he dropped there was a little rush about her, and tnen from the specta tors arose a cry of horror as a little white figure struggled through them and plunged into the fire lines. On she ran, her head filled with one Idea; she must save Fleddie. A burly fire man loomed up before her and stretched out a detaining band, but she dodged and passed him, and slip ping on the ice-covered street he lost his balance and fell. Another plunged at her and held her foot, but she left the shoe In his hand and hobbled on. She had reached the door and jumped through the flame. A burst of flame sprang to meet her, but she did not feel it. A step broke through, licked up by the fire, but she scrambled to the She plunged Into the burning room, groping for her pet. one above, groping her way up the smoke-laden steps. Up, up she went, flaming and reached the top step. She plunged into the burning room, crying for her pet, and groping for him till she felt him in the corner. He licked her hand feebly, then holding him fast, felt her way to the window, her hair ©n Are, her dress burning, but she did not feel the pain. Up, up to the win dow, gulfed in by Are, and then roar after roar of horror went up from the crowd below as they saw her reach it, holding the dead dog tightly to her. The fire embraced the whole house now, and it was shaking ominously. What a bright light that was! She could see a long lane of gold reaching far out in the sky, and she was taken up to it, holding her Fleddie closely to her. The fire hurt no more now. How good she felt! The house leaned, then toppled, falling amidst a shower of sparks. A long flame shot up in the sky, left its parent stem reluctantly, and flew into the night. Fleddie and Fleddis were dead. CHILDREN AT THE CORONATION Spac« to He Set Aside la Westminster Abbey for Them. If the earl marshal carries out his present intention one of the most in teresting places In Westminster ab bey on the day of the coronation will be the “children’s corner,” a space which it is proposed to set aside for the youthful little peers and peeresses in their own right, who, though still boys and girls, have a legal right of which they intend to avail them selves—of being present when Ed ward VII. is enthroned on the “stone of destiny.” There are several boys in the peer age w’ho, owing to the death of their father or some other relative, became hereditary legislators before they gave up the nursing bottle, or soon after, and several little peeresses who succeeded to their titles at an imma ture age. These little peers and peer esses, in their coronation robes and coronets, it is proposed to corral in one group, which would make a pret ty picture; but think of the possibili ties, says the New York Mail and Ex press, should the little folks get to squabbling among themselves! The earl marshal would better provide a “lord high wielder of the birch rod” to keep the children’s corner in order during the long ceremonies. As the ages of the boy peers range all the way from 9 to 19, the older ones may be set as “monitors” over them, the way they used to do at school. A vast amount of property will be represented by these children. There is the Viscount Combermere, 15 years old, and possessed of 14,000 acres, with three great country houses, one of them being the cele brated Combermere abbey; the Baron Carbery, 10 years old, with an estate of value in Ireland, and Lord Holm patrick, with about 7,000 acres to his estate. Among the big boys is the earl of Caledon, 17 years old, an immensely rich youth, with 30,000 acres to his fortune. Lord Camoys, a year older, has an estate of 0,800 acres. He Meant Well “I was laid up in the cabin of a North Carolina mountaineer with a sprained ankle,” says a traveler, “and though he would willingly have pro vided me with the best, the fare con sisted of pones, fried squirrel and corn coffee every meal. On the fifth day 1 must have let slip some sign that things were growing monotonous, for he looked over at me and said: “Stranger, I reckoned to make a change in tnis yere fodder, but it didn’t come about.’’ “Oh, the fodder is all right,” I re plied. "But I don’t skassly think it is, and I was gwlne to make a change. Sorry to say I couldn’t do it, but the dratted woodchuck got clean away!" EMBARRASSED THE CLERGYMAN MlnUter'l Makeshift All Right Until the Maid Appeared, A distinguished Episcopal clergy man was once called on to officiate at a fashionable summer resort church, and, finding only a short surplice and no cassock in the vestry, was very much disturbed at the thought of hav ing to appear in a vesture that to the frivolous would look like a white shirt and trousers. But a happy inspiration came to him. Why not wear one of his wife’s black petticoats? The por tion that would show below the sur plice would look exactly like the regu lation cassock, and no one would ever be the wiser. So he hurriedly sent one of the ushers with an explanatory note to his wife in the hotel, and in the nick of time the petticoat arrived. The makeshift turned out to be a per fect success, and no one at a distance could tell that he was not wearing a cassock. After the close of the ser vice he decided to go out to the body of the church without taking off his robes, in order to greet some friends. And he was soon the center of a group of fashionable women, when a green Irish maid from the hotel came up, and in a loud voice said to him: “Yer Riverence, the missus sint me afther her petticoat that ye do be wearin’, an’ I wuz to wait till ye take it off.”—New York Tribune. MADE LIVING BY CRACKING WHIPS Curlou* Trad* Olirovereil by the 1'oltoe of France. The Paris police have recently been informed by one af the fraternity of whip-crackers that such a calling ex ists and claims recognition as one of the "professions" by the exercise of which men earn their livelihood in France. Whip-crackers, it appears, are men who possess strong wrists and are willing to crack whips all day long, if required, on receipt of a suitable fee. At the commencement of the shooting season, when the proprietors of neigh boring demesnes are not good friends, the one who bears ill-will to the other engages a whip cracker, whose duty It is to crack a whip so as to frighten away all the birds at the approach of the disliked sportsman and his friends. The whiperaekers are also found useful by farmers afflicted with dis eased cattle which they cannot Bell. Having engaged a whipcracker, they turn out the sick beasts on the most frequented highway they can find. The cracker follows with his whip, osten sibly to guide the cattle, really to drive them under the wheels of a car riage, a motor car or a tram. This he does by cracking his whip at the critical moment so as to frighten the beasts and drive them to destruction. Her Lent Head. “Of course,” he said in an offhand way, “it goes without saying that a beautiful girl like you must have had many offers of marriage.” She blushed prettily, and her eyes seemed to 6ay “Of course,” but she did not answer otherwise. “And, of course,” he went on, “I wouldn’t think of asking who any of the men were or anything about them, but I am interested in knowing how they do it.” Then sb* roused herself. “Look here,” she said. “Are you trying to gei hints how to propose to me or to some other girl?” Thus it was that she. pinned him down, as it were, and brought him to the point. Napoleon Bonaparte's Wealth. Napoleon Bonaparte’s will, among those of great men, affords the near est parallel to that of Cecil Rhodes in the fortune it bequeathed. He was surely the richest exile since the world began. From his lonely home at St. Helena he bequeathed to his relatives and friends $40,000,000. He had been rich, In gold as in power, beyond the dreams of’ avarice, and there must have passed through his hands a pri vate fortune such as mortal man has rarely dreamed of. His exactions set down at nearly $375,000,000, which is, after all, but six times multiplying the gift he secured for himself from the Austrian treasury after Austerlitz. He died forty times a millionaire. Roads Made of Gold. The people of the two counties south of Lacrosse, Wis., especially near Prairie du Chien, have been for years using gold-bearing quartz for road making and house building, thinking it was common stone. The finding of a heavy, paying vein of gold on a farm of Mrs. N. S. Dousman set them right. By following up the vein it was traced for many miles around, touching, in some places, quarries where rock has been taken for years. Lightning striking in the same place during successive storms led Miss Violet Dousman to think that metal in some form existed there. Her in vestigations led to the discovery of the gold. For the Rich Only* Uncle and Aunt Melcher went to town to buy a new clock. “Now." Bald the dealer, “here Is something very attractive in the way of clocks. When the hour begins, a bird comes out of the top and sings ‘Cuckoo!’ For instance, I turn this hand to 3 o’clock, and the bird comes out and sings ‘Cuckoo!’ three times.’’ "Don’t that beat all?” cried Uncle Melcher, enthusiastically. “Mother, let’s have one.” “No, no!” said his wdfe hastily. “That sort of a clock might do for folks that have got lots of time, but it’d take me half the forenoon every day to take care of that bird.’’— i Youth’s Companion. PARIS TAKES TO HORSE FLESH , Over Two Hundred Shop* Wlior* Cheap Meat Is Sold. The taste for horseflesh In Paris, which is demonstrated by the recent banquet, does not date hack many years. It was under the second em pire, during the expedition to Morocco, that it came into the dietary of the French soldier. The expeditionary col umn had nothing to live upon, so it slew and ate the horses, and everyone wras agreeably surprised at the quality of the meat. Emile Deeroix, a veterinary surgeon with the troops, resolved to profit by the experience. Arrived in Paris, he set about popularizing the horse as food. He distributed meat gratuitous ly to the poor population, in his pro paganda he interviewed the prefect and ministers and even had audience of the emperor. He opened the first hippophagouB butchery, in the Place d'ltaiie, In 1866. It was the siege of Pa'-is that caused the flesh of horses to be regarded as a positive delicacy. That was thirty-two years ago. How has the notion progressed since? Paris has now 250 shops where they sell the meat; all are prospering. Last year ■ 30,000 horses were slaughtered and eaten. Rouen, Toulouse. Lille, Orleans, have all taken to horse eating. The meat is cheaper than beef. Whereas one pays 3 francs the livre for good fillet of beef, it only costs a franc if you take horse. The animal that was eaten the other day with such eclat had a singular history. It won several steeplechases at Auteuil and Bois-Colombes. It was an English mare and its name was Nell Gwyn. In November, 1893, the crowd on the course was very irritated at the defeat ot the favorite in the preceding race. It revenged itself by throwing stones. One of the stones struck the left eye of Nell Gwyn and ruined the sight. Nevertheless, the noble beast won the race.—Pall Mail ! Gazette. I _ DEFENDS WOMEN’S USE OF CORSETS French SclentUt Telle Why They Are Needed by Women. In an article on “Women's Clothing and Hygiene,” contributed to the Re vue Sclentlfique by M. Frantz Gle nard, the author controverts popular Ideas on the subject of the corset. He lays down the following propositions: “1. The corset has its raison d'etre from the esthetic point of view. 2. Esthetics and hygiene may be reconciled in women’s clothing, even in the corset. “3. * he corset may be of use in cer tain maladies.” These statements, which he ac knowledges are somewhat audacious on the part of a hygienist, he at tempts to justify in the course of his article. As to the first, he remarks that the adoption of clothing by man is the result neither of modesty nor of a desire to protest the body against the weather; it is a result, he asserts, wholly of a desire for adornment— the same that leads the savage to tat too himself. Men’s costume has tend ed more and more to straight lines, signifying action, women's to curved lines, signifying, according to the au thor, that they are "made to please.” “Rigidity and strength for man,” he says, “suppleness and fascination for woman.” The corset, then, is an at tempt to preserve and accentuate the curved outline of the waist. A Geological Fallacy. Probably the most wild and unjusti fiable of all the crude beliefs respect ing geological resources is that which holds to the conviction that by going deep enough the drill is sure to find something of value, no matter at what point the work of boring is commenc ed. There are numerous wise persons in every community, estimable, influ ential and in the highest degree pub lic spirited, who are convinced that the question, for example, of finding coal in their special locality is simply a matter of the depth to which the ex plorations are carried. Rock oil and natural gas are recognized as desirable products in every progressive com munity, and every such community contains persons, in other respects in telligent, who are ready to stake their own fortune and that of their nearest friends on the belief that oil and gas are everywhere underneath the sur face, and that their sources can be tapped with the drill, providing only there is sufficient capital to keep up the process of drilling long enough. HI* Saving Grace. Economy is the order of the day among the reigning families cf Eu rope. Whereas in times gone by the very word "royal” implied a reckless disregard for money and extrava gance, it now stands for something perilously approaching close-fisted ness. Extravagance is left to the new-rich. To begin with King Ed ward. It is no hearsay that as soon as he came to the throne he appoint ed his friend, Lord Farquhar, to be master of his household, and Lord Farquhar immediately set to work to do away with all unnecessary expens es. to dismiss all superfluous officials and servants, to get the largest possi ble returns for the smallest reasona ble outlay, and to exact usual dis :ounts for all cash payments. The savings thus effected are understood to amount already to close upon $125, DOO a year. For Ex-Confederate Home. On June 3 next, the anniversary of JefTerson Davis’ birth, collections will be made in every town in Mississippi in aid of the fund for the purchase of Davis' Beauvoir house, near Biloxi, Miss., for an ex-confederate home. More than one-half of the required amount, $10,000, has already been raised. A JUDGE’S WIFE mRi • - | MRS. JCDOD | Wo would caution all people against accepting substitutes for Peruna. In sist upon having Peruna. 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Although I started in with little faith, I felt so much better in a week that I felt encouraged. “/ took It faithfully for seven weeks and am happy indeed to be able to say that i am entirely cured. Words fall to express my gratitude. Perfect health once more is the best thing I could wish for, and thanks to Peruna I enjoy that now,”—Minnie McAl lister. Tbe great popularity of Peruna as a catarrh remedy has tempted many peo ple to imitate Peruna. A great many so-called catarrh remedies and catarrhal tonics are to be found in many drug stores. These remedies can be procured by the druggist much cheaper that Pe runa. Peruna can only be obtained at a uniform price, and no druggist can get it a cent cheaper. Thus it is that druggists are tempted to substitute the cheap imitations of Peruna for Peruna. It is done every day without a doubt. Justice may be blind, but she iB able to Judge people by their conversation. ARE VOCR CLOTHES FAHEDT Use Ked Cross Hall Blue and make thect white again. 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