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ciiAin:u xxm (t'ontinimi.j
fiho was staling at lilm In uttoi on
VermiUon, her light-blue ejcs filled
"With wonder, her white blow wilnkhd
some of the color blanched fiom Ium
hooks, and her lips patted "1 don't
H'Ute understand, Dnld," she said .it
' ist.
He diow a long tiro.it li of Impatience
look hero, HMo," lie Mild, "I am
voung, rich, decent-looking, and not a
ul wort as fellows no. lint It's no use
i) coming and offering you the devo
tion of a lifetime; on wouldn't believe
tne If I dhl yon'il know It was a lie.
and I don't want to begin liv lying to
von. lint I can offer yon all the rest
f my life, and 1 swear I'll do mj level
best to lie a good husband to ou I
-wear that."
IJIhIcj fairly gasped. "Yon aie asking
mo to marry jou. David?" she cried.
'Of course I am," he answeted.
There, was a dead .silence for a few
moments. David, wore and hint, des
perately anxious to get his futuie set
l"il so that looking hack would lie a
fully, and repining nothing sdioit of
n sin, Htood waiting foi her decision.
hlle Flslo turned away to the window
mid looked out over the Holds, a f linns
mil bitter thoughts duisliig each other
through her brain. It was all over
with Dorothy, and Dorothj had evi
'lenlly chosen another. Flsie was sine
if that, though David had not said so.
And David had turned to her in his
trouble there was inmfoit In that.
Hut Dorothy had his love still, she was
ii'ttaln of that. You could mm it in
his haggard faio his nervous manner,
hear It In his defiant vohe .Man.v and
many a time she had plttiiicd him
omlng wooing her. She had let liei
hands fall Idle In her lap, and her sew
ing Ho neglected, while in fanc.v she
had scon him tinning In at the gate
or coming In at the door, with his
mouth half smiling (as she had seen It
for Dorothy's bake), his cold oje.s light
ed up with a tenderness as dear as It
was rare; but In all her di earns F.lsle
had never pictured him coming like
this, haggaid. nervous, brusque, Impa
tient, brtitallj ttuthful and Just, to ask
her to make a bargain, in which love
should be left out of the leckonlng
To offer her his body while she knew
his 'heart was all Dorothy's' Oh it
was a dicary wooing, a haul, hind
bargain for her to make or mar
"Well," said he, after a minute or
two. "what do ou say?"
"Is Dorothy going to be married''"
she asked suddenly.
Hu wlmed at the iiuestlon. but he
answered It readily enough. "Dorothy
is married," he said steadily.
'Oh!" and then she gave a groat sigh
and looked at him with piteous, yearn
ing eyes.
"Well?" he said, "1 am walling"
"I don't know what to say," she
hurst out.
"No! And yet I fancied jiiu liked
tne better than the other fellows lound
about."
His tone was half-bitter, half-re-yioachful,
ita If his last hope was leav
ing him. The girl was touched by It
instantlj, and turned quickly to him
with both her hands outstretched. "Oh'
David," she oiled In a voice of pain.
you know that I have ulwajs- always
liked you but -but "
"Hut what?" he asked coldly and
without taking the outsti etched hands.
Flslo let them fall to her side again.
"You have not said one wonl about
raring for mo," she said, In a ti om
itting, timid voice.
CHAITKR XXIV
pSJrE AVID began to fee!
inl.Li
that his woolnu.
which hu had fan
cied would bo so
Jff easy, was going to
prove moio diluetilt
thnn he had any
Idea of. v had
believed always
that ho had only to
hold up the pios
poct of being mis
tress of lolroyd for Elslo to simply
Jump at the chance, nnd hero, to his
intciiBO surprise, was Klslo demurring
; to take him because ho had said no
thing or love.
"If I wero a llnr," he said roughly,
"I should have come and mado love,
to you. I should have pretonded that
I had been mistaken In. thinking I had
cared for Dorothy. I should havo
Mvvorn I had never loved any one but
you. And by-and-by you would havo
(found mo out, and then wo should both
ho wretched. As It Is, I eamo nnd told
you honestly all that was In my heart,
I I asked you to help mo over this
liad time, because I thought yon loved
mo and would bear with mo becauso
ot your love. As It Is, never mind,
thcro nro plenty of women who will
marry mo willingly onoiigh, to bo the
mistress of Holdoyd."
"David," Bho cried, as he turned to
wnrd the door.
Ho looked hack his hand still upon
tho handle.
"Well?" ho asked, "Is It not so?"
In that oiio moment a dozen thoughts
peemed to go now ding through the
girl's dlsti acted brain a vision of Hol
royd, with Itu rich red gabion, Us state
ly nvQiiuo of horso-chestnuts, Us pret
ty lodge, Its velvet lawns, nnd wlde
wpronding view across tho groat sheet
of watv running up from tho sea, then
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a vision of Holrovd with a stiange
woman as iultns, a vision of that
stiange woman's dillilten bieal.lng the
M'lene stillness of the place ah' no.
die could not lose lilui for the sake of
the one thing wanting which would
make her up of h ipplnrss full In time
that might come - and oven If it did
not, site would at least be sp.nnl the
agony of seeing another woman iclgn
Ing at Iloliovd. No. whatever hap
ponod In the futuie, whatever might
mine to pass, uh- could not, would not,
dated not tun Hie ilsk of losing the
man she loved. In that brief spate
of time, tlie true instinct of feminine
dignity, which alwa.vs lives in a wom
an's henit. called for notice, hut In
vain It was stifled In the pangs ot
love which lonsumod her. "David,
don't go," she ci led. In an appealing
voiie. as he turned the handle of the
door. "I only hesitated because-be-uiupo
I have alwa.vs loved you so, and
and 1 thought that 1 should break
m.v heait -- "She stopped shoit theie,
ashamed to vm her sentence
David Stevenson shut the door and
came ;n loss the loom to her side. "You
thought what would break .voui
heait?" he asked.
Hut HMo shook her lirad. "Never
mind," she said lnavel.v. "We won't
talk about that. I will come to Hoi
ro.vd. and -and help you foiget the past
IT I i an."
"Then that's a haigaln." Mild he,
diavvlng a long bieath.
He did not s p. a word beside, did
not attempt to touch her, to kiss her,
or act in an.v waj illfTeient to his
usual mniiucr to her. e( opting, per
haps, that ho was loss polite than or
(llii.ii y custom consldcts necossiry be
tween poisons who aie not bound to
gether bj ties of blood.
"Hy-the-b.ve," he said, suddenly. "I
have bought something to seal our
contiact. No, jou need not look like
that. 1 only bought it .vesterday. 1
went over to Ipswhh on purpose"
DAVID, DON'T GO.
He had taken a little case out of his
pocket, and now held his hand out to
her with a ring lying upon the palm.
It was a beautiful ring diamond and
sapphire a ring lit for a princess.
"Won't you have It?" he asked, In
sin pi Ue, as she made no effort to take
It
"Yes, If .von will give It to inc."
she answered.
He took the ring In his other hand
and held it tow aid her. i:isio took It
with an Inward groan, a wild cry Us
ing up In her heart. "Oh! my God,
will It be like this for alwa.vs?" and
then she put It on her left hand,
whence It seemed to stilko cold to
her very heart.
"I must go now," David said, after
looking at her hand lor a moment.
"I'll come back this evening. I must
go now. Will you tell jour ieopo,
and thou I'll speak to your father when
I come? And I shall ask for an eaily
wedding, Hlsle; tho sooner It Is over
and we get settled down, the better."
"Yes," she said, faintly.
Thcro was none too much color In
her cheeks now, poor child, and her
hluo eyes wero datk with pain.
David looked at her uneasily. "I
must get away for an hour or two nnd
think It all over," ho said, half ner
vously. "1 must havo a clear story
leady for your father."
"Yes."
"Then-good-by."
"Davjd," slio said, In an almost lr.
audible'' voice, "jou havo not told mo
that you tuo glad or anything. Have
you not one kind woid for 1110? lias
Dorothy got everything still?"
Ho stnrtcd as If he had hcou shot,
but ho turned hack at once and took
her in his arms and kissed her pas
sionately half a dozen times. "Oh! my
poor girl, It Is rough on you," ho said,
regretfully. "I'm a brute to let jou
do it."
"No, no," cried she, winding her
linns about his neck; "no, no. I would
rather ho your slavo than any other
man's queen, Kiss mo again, David."
And David shuddered. Why? With
tho perversity of love! Tho heart that
beat against him was bcntlng for him
alono. The hluo eyes looking p,o yearn
ingly Into his wero pietty and true.
Tin clinging aims wero fond and lov
ing, but not Dorothy's ej'es; It was not
Dorothy's heart; and ho shuddcrod
And tho 110M moment he was on his
horso again and tearing home. winds,
while i:is!c lay lu a froiuy of gilef on
JBlO fP
fhe floor Jus: whore ho had left hfr
standing looking mouriifull.v after him
l'oor dillil' poor chll-' dimly and j
viguelv she realized what she had
done She icalicd that If she had held I
out Hi inly against him and had sild
"I have loved you all my life, and as
soon as jou will come anil tell me you
teally want mo fot myself 1 will glad
lv tome to lloliojd; but I will not
m.irij tiuj man whose he.ut Is tilled
full of another woman I would 1 at hoi
live and die 11I0110 than that" that
then she would have had a fair chance
of winning his hoait as ontliely in
even she (011I1I wish. She loall.'od thl
without iKtuall.v puttfhg hot thoughts
Into language, and she dimly grasped,
too, thai bv feat Ing to let him go she
had uiaile hot self David Stevenson' 1
slave foievor
CHAt'lim XXV
l!M,, It happened
the very day after
this, that Koid Avi
ator made up his
mind that he would
wait no longer in
(fleeting an en
train c Into the
little flat lu I'alaio
Mansions
To do hii.i Jus
tUe. he never for
one moment suspected that his neph
ew and Mis. Harris weie mauled. He
Imagined that the little establishment
was kept up In a way which Is not
an uncommon one In London, and that
now Dick was safely paiked off to In
dia, he (ould go and make friends with
tho loveliest gill he had seen for many
.1 dav. without an.v tnoio dilllculfy than
that of stalling an acquaiiitaiue.
To toll the ti lit It plainly, l.md Ai
iner had seen Dotothy with Dick sov
01 al mouths befoie he can led out the
plan which had got his nephew safe
1 out of tho load, and had loft him,
as he believed, pool, coin cited, deluded
old man, a talr Held; and to tell the
tiutli fuither and more plainly still.
Lord Ajlmer had fallen ilespointoly In
love with her! So desperately that he
had put himself under gieat obliga
tions to his old friend Harry Hoynton,
had set my lady's suspicions w 01 king,
and had made Dick detest him more
than ever, In older that ho might pos
sibly bo able by hook or b nook to
find favor la Doiothy's eyes. Poor de
luded old man, If he had oul.v known
all! If he could onlj have listened to
the joung husband and wife discuss
ing "the old savage," and havo known
all that had Its home In Dorothy's
faithful and fender heart!
Hut then, ou see, he did not, and so
I have a longer "RTury to tell you than
I should have had It all gone smoothh
and well with our j'oung couple, and
they bad stinted their married life at
the tall of a niaichlng regiment, on an
Inci eased allowance kindly given them
bj a liberal and Indulgent uncle.
The old loiil had not found It an
easy matter to effect an acquaintance
with the young lady In l'alnco Man
sions; ami really, when jou think of
It, It Is not always an easy thing to
ncumipllsh, especially when there Is no
help on the other bide! However, this
morning, after having spent mnn
hours rcconnnltoilng the block of
buildings called Palace .Manlons, nftei
having driven slowly up and down
High street, after making many 111010
or less useless purchases In the High
street shops, and after f lotting his Im
patient old soul Into a fever, ho made
up his mind that ho would go boldly
up to the house, nsk for "Mis. Har
ils," claim a friendship with tho do
parted Dick, and gradually work Into
a position of friendliness with the ob
ject of his piesont admiration.
This admirable plan was, however,
destined never to be cnrrled out not
because Lord Ajimer changed his
mind, not a bit of It! Ho carried out
his pait of It so far as to order his
can Inge for a certain horn, and when
that hour came get Into It and to j;U
an order to (.initios.
(To bo continued.)
DRYING DAMP WHEAT.
Not 1'nno.H for i:lrietliii; MoUliirf
I'rtini (Iriilu I'lidcr it Viiiuuiu.
rrom the London Times: A now
piocess for aitlllclally extracting mols
tino from wheat vvus put to a careful
teat In Heilln recently. Tho trial was
carried out at tho Instance of Mr. Yer
hurgh, M. V., who sent over fifty qunr
teis of English wheat to bo submitted
to tho process. The result was en
tirely satisfactory, over (I per cont of
moisture being taken from tho wheat
which was a very diy samplo In ex
cellent condition while tho heat to
which It was subjected could not pos
sibly affect It Injuriously. The prin
ciple of tho proceBB viz., that of dry
ing under a vacuum has been appUod
to many in tides of commerce and tho
result of this trial Ib to show that It
Is equally well adapted to wheat. It
Is hardly necessary to point out that
tho subject Is 0110 of great Interest to
Hiltlsh farmors, who would bo greatly
beneflted by tho provision of fncllltlcs
for getting their wheat Into condition,
pnitlcularly In a wot seasun. Tho full
details of tho trial will ho laid before
tho agrlcultuial commltteo on corn
stores.
HnioLe iim it T.IkIiIiiIiik KimI.
On tho approcah of a thunder-storm
French peasants often mako up a veiy
smoky llro lu tho belief that safety
from lightning lu thus assured. Hy
some this Is deemed a superbtltlon,
but Schuster shows that tho custom Is
baud cm reason, Inasmuch ns tho
sinoko acts as a good coi)diclor Jpr.car
rylng away tho elect! icity Blov,iy'and
safely. Ho points out thnt In 1,000
cases of da ma go by lightning C.3
churches and 8.5 mills havo been
stiuck, while the number of factoiy
chimneys has only been ' 3.
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T11K AVIIITK WOLF.
r -ij ll'I'V oars ago
ll.i" a famllj of Calta-
I, JO laiigus I u d i a 11
IL livid on the Coin-
FJLk. pl lets' lt(scive I
lu Venango coiiulj,
Pc 11 11 s v I v a 11 la.
(T ' j ,) Thev weie known
as the Jin ops.
and the males weie
all tall, powoiful
men 11 11 i mi n 1
hunters, who followed game deal to
the Ci'iiadlan frontier, ,11m, the voung
cst, wan the best known lie killed Hie
last elk ever seen in that state, and Is
credited with bringing Into livers' nail
ing post, on the Allegheny the skins of
forty-one fiill-giowu hoais, all taken
In one winter's hunt
In Km;.: he was guiding a patty of
gentlemen fiom Ni w Yoik. among
whom was the late Kom'oc Colliding
tlnough the wilds of I'.lk uiuuty. A
camp was made on the bead wateis of
the Chit Ion, and the paitv made plop
illations to built for deoi the uct da.v
Jacobs had boon 1 aiming aiouuil the
camp and dime lu late He was mine
than usually silent and sullen After a
time passed in smoking he staitled the
otheis bv declining that he Intended
leuvlng them at nine, and gave dlieo
tlons to tlml M(('nrty's trading post,
ttnee miles down tlvoi, whole another
guide would be had After some ques
tioning as to his sudden losolutioti. h
explained "he bad soe:i a big wlilto
wolf, and It was bad medicine for In
juns," so, galheilng up his naps and
calling his two dogs, he ilKipir'.iiod
lu tho daikuess of the woods
Net nioinlng Mi ('ally's post w.i
found without auv dilllcultj and the
party hospltablj iicelved. They told
their stoiv, and MiCait.v, a man of r,"
who had passed his lire 011 Hie fi iin
tler, h.ilil "So Jim Hied the while wolf
again. 1 e heaul or Hie vaimiui llftv
yeais ago. but nevoi m'oi! It. 1101 do I
know of an.v white man who has, hut
Jim lias, no doubt, for hViiin'i a liar
or boastei, and all tho Injuns think it
bad luck i he aie full of notions
Why, do jou know, If thev miss a good
shot thej think tlielt guns bewitched
and the hand made ciooked, so they
will spend a day limit In' cot tain jiiiIh,
take tho gnu ap.nt. load the ban id. ami
then dnve down these jaibs till It's
full, then sthk the Incich in the Hie
and tho ihaigo goes oil. The hainl lu
all light, and thej can shoot as well ns
ever Of unise all timber wolves Is
more or less white, 'specially the old
ones, but one plum while I never see,
and don't epo(t to "
Twenty miles oast of M(C'ait"'s on
Heaver Cioel , lived Hush Kemble lie
was a huiito" nnd Happen (ultivatlug
enough land to 1 .lit c (oin foi the fam
ily. He had a small Hock of sheep that
he had sukcciIkI In lalslug, although
hear and pantheis weie plcutj In the
lountry around. Hut his luck changed
Tho sheep began to disappear. He sot
traps, watched at night, while his sou
scouted around with his powoiful bent
dogs. It was no use, tho sheep weie
taken. One day he found on the soft
mud on the hank of the ctcck a iiiimi-
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TOOK AIM AND KIHHD
ber of Hacks, unmistakably a wolf.
One day In Septoinboi while he was
absent fiom home his daughter Hiith
was feeding their one pig. Suddonlj
she saw tho dilckeus scampeilug for
the bain, while behind was 1111 unlmal
llko an enoiinous t'og, gaunt, coveted
with lough hair and pine white lu
color It had caught a chicken and was
dovotirlng It. Full of terror sho iiishod
Into the house Catching up a illle and
calling the house-dog she crept around
the cabin. Tho wolf had caught anoth
er chicken. Tho dog was an old bear
hound, and game. Ho rushed on tho
beast, while Kuth, touting the gun on
one of the piojcctlug logs of tho cabin,
took a long aim and flicd. Tho wolf
gave a leap lu the air and came down
plump on the dog. In 1111 Instant tho
beast had disappcaied and poor Hoston
lay dead with his head half bitten off
The next day Kemble and two others
started out to hunt down tho "white
wolf." As a lure the foi equal tor of a
doer had been hung lu tho woods a few
miles away, and lu the early morning
they found this gone, and on tho slight
ly frozen snow wero plainly seen tho
big ti ticks of tho wolf. They had
twelve lino dogs who hunted hy scent,
nml all wero conflden: that "Jim Ja
cob's whlto wolf's hide would come to
'.ho tanynid."
Tho ttall led northwest ovor a rango
of hills covered with laiirol, utterly
sterile, Tho dogs ran freoly, hooping
the men well up to tho collar. About
midday they found pheasant feathers
on tho ti all tho wolf had snapped up
one for lunch. Their game was head
ing for "Hnker'o Hocks "
It was glowing dink as thoy entered
a wlfd Tavlno, 0110 sldo faced with
rocks, full of holes. Hero thoy iosolv
cd to camp. If tho wolf holed they
could got nt him nt daybreak, and If
ho tried to got away tho dogs would
clvo warning, A firo was built and
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"fli h !) 111 tin 1 I il !il rotsi vt tilson nnd
ruin dodgi 1 Willi Ids dogs li grow
hlitot cold and oiv tittle sleep wu-.
had At dav light iho began to icout
aiouuil mil sluml. a wild hiirM of
trin.ipotH final the pai k t bowed th(
wero iiiuiilug on sight
"Sie, h ok on the top of von link'
Jambs was light it's white "
Although theie was 110 sun It was
pel foot l chin, and tliele was the wolf
(on thioiigh the thin, wlntij air. The
101 k wan bale, and the animal stoo.l as
If can nt in stone owt thtoe feel high
at the should) 1 The do id while hair
was In 1st Hug with 1 age. and the tall
la-lilnu like an angn at s, one ould
see the liugi Jiws and turn teeth dash
"It's nigh ttnee bundled aids but
let him have It "
Four lilies il.ickdl. mil the bullets
sang, but Hie "white wolf" was gone
I lie jollliii; or tin (loi;s was plalulj
heaul.
Km itcd and oagei all hands dial god
tho locks It was 11 haul ilimb Thev
teai I d the top and the wolf was goui
inside of an hum tho dogs found the
nail The dogs seemed (onlldoul and
ran al lacing speed lite top of the
tldgo was iowioiI with a siunt giowth
of sdiili oak. and on the ilvei side was
sheer took down sktv loot to the wa
toi Higlit on 11 point of unks that
Jutted out into tlie ilver tho "white
wolf" (.11110 to b.ij Kemble plainly
saw a huge, gaunt animal covoied with
bilstllng while hair. The tod ejes
glowed with Hie, ami for an Instant he
lost his head Tho dogs weie getting
tlie wot st of it, nnd ho Hied A sud
den Hash, and ho plnlulv saw tho wolf
disappear ovci the fine of tho dill
All lushed to the spot Theie was
not a lime t Hie foot of the dilf
tho ilvor w is open No splash was
heaul. Foi an bout thej watched
and thou made a clicult. but the dogs
seemed ludllfereiit and made no effort
111l this was the last of Jim Jacobs'
"white wolf" It was never seen or
heaul of .main In northvv ostein Peiiu
sjlvaula. iheio weie skepths hut
thej weie silt mod bv Hie fate of the
huiiteis. Not 11110 died a ii.ituial death
1101 long aflei and Jim Jai olis os( aped
the many peill of the wilderness for
tbilty jdiis to lie citishod lo death oil
the l.'iie lallwav in lMi."
Mi:il'En WAS HliSTLUSS.
111l sho Miitle It l.i 1 t'lllnulj I. Iti It r.ir
11 'I line.
The other night the big chide on
tho i lty hull towoi had Just Hounded
the hour of midnight and nil was peace
and quietness al union station. Just
then, however, a half-giown heifer
which was slahled In the milk shed of
the station decided to ltveu up mat
teis. sajs the Pltlsliiug l.cadoi. Tho
1 111 unit 111 bovine for Home leasou or
other beianio discontented with Its sni
loiiudings and wimdeied out Into the
j aids Once ftee, the filsky animal
bitiiijed staining ptoclivlllc.i as to a
tialii dodger mid pi (needed to give a
number of ft eight englneeis heart
Double by skipping niinblj hack and
foi th iicioss the tiniks with mi evi
dent deslie to lllrt with the headlights
of the dlrfeient locomotives. Tiling of
this, tlie animal developed 1111 exceed
ingly bad temper ami piocecded to
chase eveiyhody in sight up and down
the t lacks. For a while pandemonium
lolgiied lu the eistwhlle peaceful jmds
nnd the omplojos oiganl'ed themselves
Into an offensive and defensive body
with the idea of eaptiiilng the now
Infuriated bovine. Among the om
plojos weie several who had leccntly
1 etui lied fiom Melco, whole they wit
nessod seveial hull lights. The jard
inaster was one of those, ami he took
(ommauil, with one of tho station
master's assistants as lieutenant. Tho
1 mining hack and foith of the animal
made the opoiatlou of Height trains
tlnough the jard daiigeious ami ac
totdlugly all the signals weie blazing
forth the diingei signal. Those iod
discs did not tend to pacify the heifer,
which gaily chin god at them as they
appealed. After some trouble the
yuidniaster siKcoeiled In 'ioundliig up"
the animal In the loiindhousc, whine,
after a few Ineffectual attempts fo butt
the big locomotives off the rails, tho
heifer quieted down and was sec tned
and returned to the mllkshcd.
An amualng fo'itino of the perform
uuce lesulted tlnough the appeal anco
of a wandeiing inlnstiel, who stated
that he could quiet tho animal by sing
ing to It. The employes gave him a
(banco, hut 110 sooner had ho stiuck up
the Hist bars of "On the Hanks of tho
Wabash" than the enraged bovlno
charged and chased him into the tun
nel. Siei tin ! fur Humi'i,
Spectacles for hoises have bo n ra
tented by an Inventor, and aro being
used with considerable success. Their
object Is not so much to magnify ob
jects as to make tho ground In front
of the horso appear nearer to his head
than It really Is. The result Is con
tinual high stepping, which, after a
while, becomes natural mid gives to
a horse an ntlstocratlc gait, which he
will retain for many years,
lulu! lliirlini'HH Not Wanted.
Mrs. Hurlelgh How Is It that your
daughter never seems to havo any
steady company? De-ir mo! I wish It
was that way with my Hcatrlco, Mrs.
Sharpson-Tlio mystery Ib oaslly 4
plained. Wo use electricity In our
house. You know you can't turn that
down without extinguishing It.
ciiiiiiki-h III skin in spring.
John DreliBlng, a Cincinnati harbor,
Is shedding his skin, The sldn crticks
ovary spring and cuils up llko small
pieces of bark. Tho pioce&s Is quite
painful.
Hven when a poor crlpplo U unable
to work he lias a lamo excuuo for bossing.
!( utHumrjm.'i'" v.-vert' rv-HrtBBWBPHKWPI
HATING IN NEW OHLEAN3.
Drill Ium I IiIiiks lib li Arc Served la
Hint ( llj.
The ilnj is begun with a dip of coffee,
and a mil an egg if one wishes It.
'I hen luoakf.iMt nt id or II o'clock.
It U a city of lestuin.niH. and he who
bus niilv lodgings llviu at the chofn
taste, at tho eplcuie's limit d, says a
w titer In Hie Philadelphia Piess.
The llavor nnd taste of their lo'fee
Is (lltloiont fiom thnt gotten noith or
west of Lake Ponohat Hutu, tinhvs In
the hostelrios with I 'touch chers. I
watched the most famed cook In the
(it j make it one nioinlng anil this is
bow it was done It had been initially
uiasteil at the ininket, hut sho put
about two ciipfuls lu a pan with 11 lid
nnd 1 ousted It a lilt mine Heat brings
out the llavor Into the 1 offee mill It
went and tho fiosh gi omuls wore put
Into a tin dilppcr. This dripper she
laid ov ot a In own-stone Jar, wlildi was
ontliely warm, nnd then poured the
bolting water Into the dripper. Sho
pliued tho stone Jar In front of, not
on, tin- stove. Only a little water at a
time was pouted over It. mid two or
tlnee times tlie whole ('(intents of the
Jar weie ponied through the dripper
for etia stieugth. The icsiilt was a
coffee that was rich, hi own and frag
unit The cup was poured only half
full, the rest made up with hot milk.
Il was nectar! Liver Is a frequent
dish, cut very thick and served very
hot. Veiy little, If any, hot hi end Is
seen. The hi end Is delicious. It Is
biokon, never out. Tho crust Is thick,
the In end Is porous and one can eat
the most Inexcusable amount of It. The
loncoctlon of dishes Is entirely differ
ent dm lie has touched eveiythlng
that tan be Improved by the flavor
and mushinoms or t initios mo con
Mtaullj used. Omelets aie rarely
sened plain. Omelet soullle la tho
favoiod way of cooking, and sweet
broads, ti utiles, oysters and brains are
often used. Their omelets aro made
("((ccdlugly thick ami quite brown.
Itoast beef mid mutton me not ho fa
voiod with them us chicken, turkey,
venison mid squirt ol. Those moats aro
made Into a ((imposition dish oftencr
Hum served as plain 10:1st. And with
cvctjthlng ouo drinks olmet. Nut In
11 wine glass! Dear me! No! Hut
lu a lingo water tumbler, half filled
with Ice ami diluted with water. Your
good Fieiiohmau never gets diunk, hut
h drinks alwajs!
A Curium Start In Life.
A (oiiespoudeiit wiltes to the Fam
ily lleiahl and Wiekly Star fiom Mac
leod, N. V. T as follows; A slip of
your paper (1 am unable to give the
date), leccntly fell into my hands, lu
which was an account of an unique
hat, coustiiictul ontliely of corn. In
this eonnoMlon the following may not
be deemed altogether Inappropriate.
In the eaily days of the Soho Works,
lUrmliigham, Fug., u woikman called
on Messts, Houlloii k. Walt requesting
to see Matthew Houlton, fiom whom ho
unsuoiesBfiilly solldtid employment.
As ho wan turning away, Houlton, who
was a very sharp-sighted man whore
anything mechaulial was about, called
him back, ami, asking him whence hu
proctucd Ills hat, was told ho had made
It himself. "What lu It mado of?"
"Wood." "How did jou make It?"
"Tinned ll in a lathe," replied the
man. "Hut, man," raid Houlton, "that
thing is lound, you could not turn
that in a lathe." Ho had hit upon tho
expedient, now well enough known,
of causing the lathe spindle to rise and
fall onto for every 1 evolution It made,
as Is done today lu tho Invention
known es tho elliptical chuck. This
man was Murdoch, who became thu
malinger of the woiks, and who was
lustiumental, above all other men, in
giving to the Soho Works tho proud
position It for so many yeais enjoyed
among median le. In another place
jou mention us a modern Invention a
fall-down lazy man's bedstead, actu
ated by the alaitim of a clock. This
was exhibited at a workman's exhibi
tion hold at tho Lambeth Iiatlis, Lon
don, Fuglanil, lu tho year 18(14 or 1SG5.
Couldut Stiuiil It.
A countryman walked Into a news
paper ofllce to ndveitlso the death of
a 1 dative. "What Is your charge?" lm
asked or tho clerk. "Wo chargo two
dollnrs an Inch." "Oh!" said tho coun
trymun, "I can't afford that. My friend
was sl feet three Inches,"
IKE SNORT'S AXIOMS.
Do feller dat lu dlsnppolnted unless
ho Is disappointed won't havo do blues.
Do woman dat esteems a poodlo dog
better than a rosy-cheeked baby will
never succocd as a dishwasher.
As do nations soar higher on tho
planes uv Ideality do vulturo uv war
raosts on do rim uv do horizon.
Somo wimcu traduce dalr husbands
on do evils uv games uv chnnco of dey
lose, but furglt do evils If doy win.
Laughter Is n creature uv education.
What one nationality would regard as
comical another would call Idlotlcal.
So long as a feller's kin air poor ho
Ignores tho relationship; but ef dey
air wealthy he bores them with thu
nppollatioii uv "Cousin."
Sumo men dat wear an old flopped
hat flvo years will help a wldder or or
phans quicker dan do feller dat mas
querades under a three-foot high hat.
Some men will gtow animated tryln'
to entertain people whar thoy Is vls
Itln', den go homo an 'stick dalr feel
up side uv do clock on tho niantol an'
snore whllo dnlr wlfo knits.
Roosters, crojy. in about dcBiimo key -1
as when their clarion disturbed Peter
so, but dey hov a stylo now uv doln
all do cacklln' when do hen lays do egg.
which was not In vogue In thoso dnys.
Somo men air llko n wind-laden cloud
doy nlr full uv fuss nnd bluster and
dat Is all. Nes'ivllle American.
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