r s - - - -- nf m ydawfipgWgWgS5gSllg5aHgaft2 GRANDMA When grandma puts ker glasses on And looks at me just so If I bad done a naughty thing Shes sure somehow to know How is it she can always tell So very very very well She says to me Yes little one Tis written in your eye And if I look the other way And turn and seem to try To hunt for something on the floor Shes sure to know it all the more If I should put the glasses on And look in grandmas eyes Do you suppose that I should be So very very wise Now what if I should find it true That grandma bad been naughty too But ah what am I thinking of To dream that grandma could Be anything in all her life But sweet and kind and good Id better -try myself to be So goodthat when she looks at me With eyes so loving all the day Ill never want to turn away MOLLIES DOUBLE If a man ever loved a woman faith fully and with all bis heart I loved Molly Toppington just as truly It had only been a matter of a couple of months since she bad promised Avith the sweetest and most becoming of blushes to be mine for good and all and I was the happiest beggar on earth until one day I received orders from the bead of the firm with which I was connected to go to New York and at tend to some business there which would keep me away from Boston for three weeks Tbree long miserable weeks without Molly The thought was unendurable but it bad to be en sured nevertheless For although I was getting along very well in my chosen profession that of architecture my fortunes were largely dependent upon the well known firm which em ployed me and naturally I was com pelled to do their bidding So I broke the news as gently as possible to Molly comforting her as best I could witb the assurance that tbree weeks were not so long after all and that some day there would be no separation at all for us Dear little girl she was almost heart broken but she bad a brave spir it and sbe smiled at me so lovingly and sweetly through the tears which glisten ed in her dark eyes that I felt almost E ill HmMRRU SOTTUXTED MYSELF TOGETHER WITH A JERK tempted to throw my position over and stay b y her However I concluded that such a course would be extremely foolish if not altogether unfair to Mol ly whose future was concerned as well as my own and accordingly I summon ed up all my courage for our parting Mollie sweetest I said I wish so yery much we could go together but we cant can we No Dick but you will write to me wont you every day Yes darling twice a day Good by sweetheart Good by Dick dear And so we parted And her image haunted me all through my journey and seemed to speak to me all the next day although I was busy every minute of it with plans and estimates and cal- culations When the days work was over it was worse than ever and I started to walk down Broadway the bluest loneliest and most pitiable ob ject on earth when by one of those strange dispensations of Providence I ran plump into Harvey Gaskell my old chum at Harvard Well he cried of all the long faced God-forsaken-looking individu als you are the worst Have you lost your last friend or what other catas trophe has overtaken you 1 felt somewhat ashamed of the cause of my down heartedness being discovered So I looked up with a forced smile and tried to answer him lightly I remembered suddenly that I had neglected to write to Harvey to tell him of my engagement and he probably knew nothing of it I would wait therefore until a more suitable occasion to announce it to him as I felt sure he would rally me on my remorse ful state Im all right I answered Cant a man pull a long face for his own amuse ment without his friends making re marks You cant pull any more to night anyway said Harvey Im going to take you home with me and you shall meet the jolliest little girl in New York You wall like her I am sure She is just your sort I looked at Harvey suspiciously and questioningly I knew he had no sis ters and lived alone with his widowed mother Oh no he laughed in answer to my look Youre wrong there Not this time old chap She is just a little consin we have only just discovered and mother Is very fond of her That is all I havent been affected yet and J guess will not be What could I do I didnt care a traw to meet the jolliest little girl in New York There was only one Jol jraatil f tftgr afj liest little girl for me and she was in Boston But if I refused Harvey would bo offended and when he found out that I was engaged he would think me a love sick chump Besides what was the harm Mollie herself the dear un selfish creature would be only too glad to have me pass my evening in pleas ant company I could not have her and there was no use making myself more miserable than I need be So I determined to go home with Harvey ltvanted to have a long talk with him over college days and as for the jolli est little girl in New York why she could take care of herself After a brief talk we arrived at Har veys home a cosy little house in East Fifteenth street and I waited in the drawing room while Harvey went in search of bis mother She same in al most immediately a handsome white haired woman whom I remembered very well from college days I used to be quitea favorite of hers and she wel comed me very warmly Yes Mollie is home she said in an swer to a question of Harveys She will be down presently Mollie I started at the name but re covered myself immediately It was not such a very uncommon name but it was a little singular that Harveys cousin should be a Mollie too We chatted together all three of us for a few minutes and then there was a rustle of skirts in the hall and Har veys little cousin stood in the door way For a moment I thought my brain had been suddenly affected Harvey arose from his chair but I kept my seat and clinched my hands in the ef fort to regain my senses Standing there In Harvey Gaskells drawing rom door the jolliest little girl in New York was Mollie my Mollie Toppington or else my eyes deceived me It takes a long time to tell it but a hundred thoughts passed through my mind in the instant sbe was standing there Then the truth or what seemed to be the truth flashed across me that it was simply a wonderful resem blance intensified by my love for Mol lie and that the wish was fathor of the thought So I pulled myself togeth er with a jerk and managed to ex change the usual commonplace of an introduction But I could not take my eyes off her for an instant and I finally detected Harvey looking at me in a most amused manner It has often occurred to me as strange that among so many million people there should not be some who are more alike as to features and form It would seem to be the merest chance that nature does not create more du plicates than she does for after all we must all have the same features the indispensable nose eyes mouth and so on and the mere fact of one nose being Roman or retrousse and a pair of eyesbeing blue or brown and a mouth being large small ugly or pretty these things are mere accidents and I have often wondered that people should differ as much as they do I was not prepared however to find an example of my theory in the person of a duplicate to Mollie Toppington for surely she and this other Mollie who was introduced to me as Miss Forsythe were duplicates I could scarcely eat a mouthful of dinner for watching her across the table She had Mollies brown hair pre cisely and it was done up just as Mol lie does hers even down to the little escaping ringlet that fell over her tiny ears Her eyes were dark and had the same soulful expression as Mollies and her mouth had that same inde scribable droop and fullness to it which made me want to kiss it until I sudden ly remembered that she was not Mollie my Mollie When she spoke too her voice was Mollies voice She seemed to have the same tastes and opinions the same little mannerisms Her dress a simple thing of some light blue material was precisely like a gown I had seen Mollie wear half a dozen times It was terri bly bewildering I did not know what to make of it all and I answered when spoken to quite at random I detected Harvey and his mother glancing at each other in an amused way They must have thought me terribly and sud denly smitten with Mollie Forsythe Once or twice I was tempted to explain I MADE LOVE FAST AND FUKIOUS my state of mind and ask them for a solution of the mystery but I refrained from doing so because I thought It would sound foolish Probably the re semblance would not be nearly so won derful to anyone other than myself After dinner we went into the drawing-room and Miss Forsythe went to the piano to play Even here the won ders were not to cease As soon as she touched the keys I thought how much her touch resembled Mollies Mollie Toppington and when she began the first few bars of a serenade a dreamy thing that was my Mollies favorite I gave the whole mystery up as a bad job and then and there a very strange thing happened I blush to relate It even now but I went over to the piano to turn her music for and in the Intoxi cation of her presence I forgot the very existence of Mollie Toppington of Bos ton while I made love fast and rarlous to Mollie Forsythe of New York Sbe seemed a little surprised first when I spoke to her in ones of un doubted admiration throwing all the meaning I could into my common places But on the whole she took it very well and in the brief time during which she was playing over a lot of tender melodies and I was whispering sweet nothings into her ear we became to all intents and purposes lovers And it was not until with a start I remem bered that it must be growing late and took my leave not until I had emerg ed into the street that I thought of Mollie Toppington of Boston and of what a miserable creature I had been to her The very thought of my con duct filled me with the deepest shame and I actually blushed at my own du plicity How could I ever look Mollie my Mollie in the face again For now I had left Mollie Forsythe I knew that I only loved Mollie Toppington and I longed to see her and speak to her as only a true lover maj What a I TUJJXED AND FLED ble specimen of a true lover I was My brain reeled with perplexity Yet surely the situation bad extenuating circumstances Although for a time I bad completely forgotten Mollie Top pington and made love to Mollie For sythe I should never have given her a second thought had she not so won derfully resembled my Mollie In fact to all intents and purposes she was my Mollie I honestly do not believe I could have told them apart I do not expect people to believe this statement but it is true nevertheless I could only partly justify my conduct by assuring myself that I had been under the delu sion that it was rearlly Mollie Topping ton but I felt in my heart of hearts that such an explanation Avould hardly be satisfactory to Mollie herself and besides there was Mollie Forsythe to be considered I have always hated male flirts even when they were free and had the right to indulge and it would have been putting it very mildly to have called my conversation with Mollie Forsythe a flirtation I thought of everything even suicide for I felt that I had proven myself unworthy of Mollie Toppington but I didnt do any thing quite so rash Instead 1 determined to forget Mollie Forsythe and that evening at the Gas kells as completely as if it had never been and by rigorous self denial and self sacrifice for her sake to atone to Mollie for the deviation from faithful ness to her of which I hoped she would never know Comforted somewhat by these high resolves I sought my hotel and was soon lost in dreams of Mollie Toppington of Boston the only Mollie I ever really loved I wrote to Mollie the first thing the next morning as cheerful a letter as I could under the circumstances for I knew the dear girl missed me terribly and I would have given a good deal for a sight of her Then I started out to attend to my business When evening came I was bluer and lonelier than ever Oh for five minutes talk with my Mollie Was ever a lover so un happily placed I walked aimlessly up Fifth avenue hoping to find some di version in watching the throng of peo ple the fashionable hurrying home to dinner and the working people return ing from their day of labor Suddenly my heart gave a great thump and I rushed forward to meet my Mollie then I remembered that it was not my Mollie but Mollie Forsythe of New York She seemed very glad to see me though and in an instant the same shameful thing had happened again I had forgotten Mollie Toppington of Boston in the presence of Mollie For sythe Oh the pity of it In a few short minutes I had spoken words which I would have given half of my life to recall As we walked slowly toward the Gaskells I tqld Mol lie Forsythe that I loved her that it was a case of love at first sight and that I could not live without her that she must promise to be mine some day to try to learn to care for me then if she could not now When a fellow makes love for the second time he learns how to go about it and I dont think I said a word to Mollie Forsythe that did not carry weight But never one word did I say of Mollie Topping ton of Boston We parted at the Gas kells door or rather just within it For Mollie Forsythe had promised and I had gathered her into my arms and pressed a kiss upon her warm red Hps That night I went to Boston by the late train meaning to see Mollie Top pington confess my duplicity and re lease her I meant to do the same with Mollie Forsythe for I felt I was un worthy of either of them But the nearer I got to Boston the stronger my love for Mollie Toppington became and the more indistinct the memory of Mollie Forsythe I saw Mollie Topping ton the next morning and the dear girl was so glad to see me that I completely forgot Miss Forsythe I determined to write her a letter explaining the strange case ask her forgiveness and never see her again But my business In New York had to be completed and I thought after all it would be better ani manlier to see Mollie Forsythe ask her ness in person So I said good by again to my Mollie and went back to New York To make a lonsr storv short when l fj - saw Mollie Forsythe I reverted to my unfaithfulness once more and so I wasl for nearly a year I was compelled to be in New York about half my time on business and when I was there I loved Mollie Forsythe When I was in ton I loved Mollie Toppington Was ever a man so situated Was there ever such a case of how happy could I be with either I was perfectly happy with either Mollie when away from them I was consumed with remorse Neither knew nor dreamed of the exist ence of the other and the strain of keeping this knowledge from them to gether with the consciousness of my own guilt was killing me by inches 1 grew pale and thin Couldnt eat or i sleep It was dreadful To cap the climax Mollie Forsythe of New York announced to me one day that she was going to Boston to visit her aunt who lived there Of course I could not raise any objection Instead I had to appear delighted This I thought would bring forth the inevita ble climax to the past ten months of deception and intrigue The time had come I thought to get myself out of the way and once more my mind re verted to suicide But suicide is cow ardly and as I had sinned so must I face the consequences I thought and I determined to see the affair out It was several days after the arrival of Mollie Forsythe in Boston I bad managed to see her and Mollie Top pington both often enough to avoid suspicion on the part of either of them so far but I did not know how long I could manage it Mollie Forsythe and I were taking a walk and had wander ed out into Cambridge Suddenly I felt as if every drop of blood bad left my body My knees smote and I al most fainted There straight ahead of us and coming toward us rapidly with her light graceful step wn Mollie Toppington There was no turning back no escape from any quarter The crisis had arrived I looked at Mollie Forsythe She was smiling a happy conscious smile Sud denly she caught sight of Mollie Top pington and her face became a study Mollie Toppington was so engrossed with Mollie Forsythes resemblance to herself that she did not even recognize me at first Nearer and nearer the two women approached each other while I I looked on with about the same de gree of morbid interest which a help less traveler might feel in viewing a quarrel of two wild beasts for the priv ilege of eating him My strength had failed me and I stood rooted to the ground The two Mollies came nearer to each other In another moment they would meet A curious smile came over both their faces The seconds seemed years to me Suddenly my truant strength came back I did not think There was no time to think But acting on the prompting of instinct I turned and fled actually ran as hard as my legs would carry me The next five years of my life I spent in Japan The Church of the Nativity We return in time to see the proces sion of bishops priests and people that is forming in the square in front of the church Each is dressed in his most gorgeous robes Turkish soldiers line both sides of the street to keep the way open for the procession to pass The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem has just arrived The procession of priests carrying banners and immense can dles meets him then turns and all go into the Latin chapel through the main entrance Following we are sur prised to find the main entrance so small It can admit but one at a time and that one must stoop to enter From the masonry it can be seen that the entrance was once much larger The reason for the change was that the Mohammedans at one time did all in their power to injure and annoy the Christians and even used to ride on horseback into the very church The dGor therefore was made small to protect the church from this sacrilege Once inside we see we are in a very ancient structure Part of the mason ry dates from the time of Constantine who built a magnificent basilica on this site about the year 330 of our era All we can see of the oldest work however probably dates from not later than Justinians time about 550 A D In any case the church is a venerable building and it has witnessed some stirring scenes In it Baldwin the Cru sader was crownea king of Jerusalem It has been repaired a number of times and once when it needed a new roof King Edward IV of England gave the lead to make one This was about the year 14S2 The lead roof did good service for about two hundred years and might have lasted much longer had not the Mohammedans melted it up to make bullets However another roof was soon provided Inside the building consists of a nave and double aisles The aisles are separated by two rows of columns made of red limestone These columns have plain bases and are surmounted by Corinthian capitals They are nine teen feet high and at the top of each a cross is engraved The church is now owned by the Latin Greek and Ar menian Christians St Nicholas Too Inquisitive The young woman with the auburn hair who had come after the marriage license looked at the probate clerk in indignant surprise Want to know my age she sar castically repeated My age Why say young feller you must think youre a Li Hung Changarang dont you It requires more sense to remain lent than to talk ry rrrnresszaaageEaegassfttaa KUBLAI KHANS PALACE aiarco Polos Description of the Famous Buildintr of the Kincr You must know that for three months of the year to wit December January and February the Great Kaan resides in the capital city of Cathay which is called Cambaluc and which is at the northeastern extremity of tin country In that city stands his great palace and now I will tell you what it is like It is enclosed all around by a great wall forming a squar each side of which is a mile in lengtn that is to say the whole compass thore jf ss i miles It is also very thick and a good ten paces in height whitewashed and loop holed all round At each angle of the wall there Is a very fine aud rich palace in which the war harness of the Emper or is kept such as bows and quivers saddles and bridles and bowstrings and everything needful for an army Also midway between every two of these Corner Palaces there is another of the like so that taking he whole compass of the enclosure you find eight vast palaces stored with the Great Kings harness of war And you must understand that each palace is assigned to only one kind of article thus one is stored with bows a second with sad dles a third with bridles and so on in succession right round The great Avail has five gates on its southern face the middle one being the great gate which is never opened on any occasion except when the Great Kaan himself goes forth or enters Close on either side of this great gate is a smaller one by which all other people pass and then towards each angle is another great gate also open to people in general so that on that side there are five gates in all Inside of this wall there is a second enclosing a space that is somewhat greater in length than in breadth Tliis enclosure also has eight palaces corre sponding to those of the outer wall and stored like them with the Kings har ness of war This wall also has five gates on the southern face correspond ing to those in the outer wall and bath one gate on each side of the other faces as the outer wall hath also In the mid dle of the second enclosure is the Kings Great Palace and I will tell you what it is like You must know that it is the greatest palace that ever was Toward ti north it is in contact with the otiter wall while toward the south there is a vacant space which the barofls and the soldiers are constants traversing The palace itself hath no upper story but is all on the ground floor only the base ment is raised some teipalms about the surrounding soil and this elevation is retained by a wall o marble raised to the level of the pavement two paces in width and projecting beyond the base of the palace so as to form a knd of terrace walk by which people can pass round the building and which is ex posed to view while on the outer edge of the Avail there is a very fine pillared balustrade and up to this the people are allowed to come The roof is very lofty and the walls of the palace are all cov ered Arith gold and silver They are also adorned with representations of dragons sculptured and gilt beasts and birds knights and idols and sundry other subjects And on the ceiling too you see nothing but gold and siher and painting On each of the four sides there is a great marble staircase lead ing to the top of the marble wall and forming the approach to the palace The hall of the palace is so large that it could easily dine 6000 people and it is quite a marvel to see how many rooms there are besides The building is altogether so vast so rich and so beautiful that no man on earth could design anything superior to it The out side of the roof also is all colored with vermilion and yellow and green and blue and other hues which are fixed with a A arnish so fine and exquisite that they shine like crystal and lend a re splendent lustre to the palace as seen for a great way round The roof is made too with such strength and solid ity that it is fit to last forever On the interior side of the palace are large buildings Avlth halls and cham bers where the Emperors private prop erty is placed such as his treasures of gold silver gems pearls and gold plate and in which reside the ladies of the court St Nicholas The Spirit of Accommodation There are few greater necessities of social life than that spirit of accommo dation Avhich is realized in mutual compromises Two persons may think independent ly on many subjects they may have different hopes fears and desires their tastes and inclinations may lead in op posite directions their judgments may form contrary conclusions and as long as they are alone they are free to cher ish and develop them as they please But directly they come together into more or less intimate companionship they find the necessity of making mu tual concessions both in speech and conduct If there is to be any peace any good will any happy intercourse any suc cessful action together each one must give up something that he likes sacri fice some cherished plan postpone some pleasure yield some interest of his own The closer the relation between them the more imperative is the need for this reciprocal surrender No friendship can long subsist with out it no marriage can offer any hope of happiness where it does not exist All concerted action is dependent upon it Giants in Those Days Among the many queer stories related In the old Jewish Talmud is one con cerning the action taken by the great race of giants at the time of the deluge According to Rabbi Eliezer when the flood broke upon the earth the giants exclalmsd If all of the waters of the eartk be gathered together they will only rach to our waists and Jf tlify fountains of the great deep be broken up Ave AA ill stamp them doAAn again The same Avriter Avho was one of the compilers of the Talmud says that they actually tried to do this when the flood came Eliezer says rhat Og their lead er planted his foot upon the fountain of the deep and with his hands closed the AvindOAA s of heaven Then accord ing to this same queer story God made the waters hot and boiled the flesh from the bones of the haughty giants The Targuni of Palestine also says that the waters of the flood Avere hot and that the skin of the rhinoceros lays in folds because be Avas not allowed to enter the ark but saAcd himself by hooking his horn under the sides of the vessel and floating Avith it But the water which was directed under and at the sides of the ark was not hot the rhinoceros loosened his skin SAAiin ming from a mountain peak to the side of the A essel One account says that Og and another giant named Land also saved themselves by taking refuge in the cool water under the edge of the arks hull along AAitb the rhinoceros One rabbinac authority quoted by Gould in his Patriarchs and Prophets says that Og saved himself by climbing upon the top of the ark and that AA hen1 Noah discovered and tried to dislodge him he SAvore to be a slave to Noahs family forever if alloAved to remain St Louis Republic Bundle Not What It Appeared A young colored woman Avith two big bundles boarded an Illinois Central train at Randolph street last Wednes day She took one of the seats- that look forAA ard deposited her bundles in the seat opposite and waited for the train to start One of the bundles AAas Avrapped in heaAT broAvn paper and the other in a mans coat buttoned around the parcel and fastened at the collar and skirts AA ith pins It Avas evident to the few passengers that both bundles contained soiled clothes When the train stopped at Jackson street enough passengers got on to fill the car Among them Avas another colored woman Avho sat near the door The Avoman AA ith the bundles lifpul her broAn pper parcel sisoouic under the fit in front and offered the place t a man with a red necktie At Park row more passengers got on and some got off Among the lattc Avas the AAroinan sitting next to the col ored AA oinan near the door The owner of the bundles went down the aisle to her and began chatting Her parcels she left Avhere they Avere At Sixteenth street more passengers got on Some of them had to stand up One a man Avith narrow shoulders picked the colored womans bundle off the seat and deposited it on the floor After sitting down Avith the assistance of the passenger opposite he shoved it underneath the seat where the other bundle was There they rested all the way to Woodlawn As the train began to slow up thetwo colored Avomen arose The owner of the bundles hurried up the aisle Nef ther of her bundles was in sight and four men sat where lately herself and her parcels bad been Anxiety on her face changed to terror My baby she gashed What have you gone and done Avith my baby Baby the thin man said There aint any baby here But the woman had caught sight of the bundles under the seat Sure enough when the old coat Avas unbuttoned there Avas a black faced infant inside sound asleep Chicago Tribune The Artist Was Preoccupied Charles G Bush the cartoonist who made his name worth a royal salary in newspaperdom through his drawings in the New York Telegram and Herald is the victim of a recent story which he cannot honestly deny The other night he AAas chatting with his wife and suddenly announced con trary to custom that he AAas going to bed early as he needed rest You just run along he said and let me draw the outlines of a cartoon I have in my head I can finish it in the morning There had been several ugly attempts at robbery In the part of Staten Island where Bush has his house and as he was rapidly drawing the outlines he heard a slight noise in the hall which assured him that burglars had broken In Seizing a gun loaded and ready for just such an emergency Bush swung open the door and aiming his weapon at random in the dark was about to pull the trigger when a womans scream stopped hm Cowering at the foot of the stairs was the cook who Avas earnestly en gaged in begging Bush not to shoot and for the love of heaven to turn his gun the other way What do you mean by prowling around in the dark he demanded Sure and I was but coming down to cook breakfast was the reply Bush looked at his cartoon and find ing that he had not only drawn the out lines but completed the cartoon like any other genius he failed to grasp the situation and went to bed grumbling about servants who had to spend the whole night in preparing breakfast An Early Bird Uncle Dick aint I see you votin twice yistiddy Befo brakfas er atter brakfas Hit wuz dinner time No suh dats my time f er restin up Yous up de wrong tree dis time All my votins done fo de sun gits hot Atlanta Constitution A Corker McSwatters Hear yon have great snipe shooting out near your place McSwitters Yes Why I shot two yesterday that were as large as New Jersey mosquitoes New York World The output of coal from thetnlnes of India yearly Is nearly 3000Q0 tons V - 1 k m a i il