fc I t h L I I WHILE HE WAITED The clock upon the mantel stands It ticks and to 1 know Its coins DjI as to Speed Itl elided hands lont tnake a very rapid allowing Mr ladra mild an r tim MI Said the would le down In a second Id give a trifle Just to know llxactly how tier time Is reckonedl J The thine If nrettv nf Its kind Two chubby lenes support Its dlsL I One lovt a strong one though 1 Dnd j Supports me in this present trial I Perhtps by her fair hand tis wound 1 wonder this the while 1 linger My lady ran that too Ive found Wind mc around her little finger Che knows it too Ill bet a dime Her purpose is to keep me pueBalryf It seems Im only marking time Whereas 1 thought 1 was progressing Timel That Is why this clock Is net To mind us ol the momenta -fleeting But time completely 1 forget From the sweet moment of our meeting aicsi Win itic uuy irciiuuium I Click click her boot heels oak and leather Thump thump my heartl 1 knew ahetl come All three now keeping time together Chicago ltecord A Cure For Loneliness BY W R ROSE Tho air wos mild and clear The children frolicked merrily among the trees In tho park The white capped nurses sat on the rustic scats here and there and watched their charges or played with the smaller children who nestled In wicker carriages with gay colored canopies On one of tho benches not far from the entrance sat an elderly man He was straight and square shouldered with a white mustache and grizzled hair and a strong suggestion of early military training He sat there be cause he liked to sec the children at play They were better company than his thoughts Anyway he had little else to do On this particular day he had watch ed the playful elves as they darted In and out among tho trees until he had grown tired The warm sun made him sleepy Ills gray head slowly dropped back his shoulders found a restful corner of the high backed seat and presently he was soundly sleeping A slight concussion awakened him He opened his eyes with a little start The sun was peeping through the foliage and the rays dazzled him He tried to raise a hand to draw his soft hat over his eyes and could not Both hands were pinioned fast He looked down A rope was encircling his body and holding his arms fast to his sides He made an effort to release himself but without success He fancied he could sympathize with the feelings of Gulliver when he fouud the pygmies had caught and bound him He was sure It was one of the playful fairies whom he had watched so many times among the trees He was right A childs laughter broke on his ears His captor was close behind him Aha he said In what was Intended for a very gruff voice are you there Unhand me at once or tremble for the consequences The cord it was a childs skipping rope was rapidly drawn from about his waist and a moment later Its own er danced in front of him She was a little girl of possibly 7 though at times her varying expres sions made her seem much older Her hair floated about her head In careless waves and tendrils her eyes were gray and deep her mouth was small and beautifully shaped and there was a saucy upward tilt to her short nose Pooh pooh she said with a mock ing courtesy I aint a bit afraid of youl And why not the old man asked She was a charming fairy a natural little coquette and her every move was full of a subtle grace And why ore you not afraid of such a gray old mustache as I am he asked again as she pirouetted before him Because you are my grandfather ehe carelessly answered The old mans face darkened What do you mean by that non sense he harshly asked Taint nonsense said tho little maiden unless grandfathers Is non sense Anyway youre my grandfa ther And she started to leave him Walt he cried Come here What did you mean by saying I am your grandfather Do ypu call every old man you see grandfather No said the child Only you He studied her face sharply Comn a little closer he said In coaxing tones She marched boldly up to him Her little hand flew up and touched the front of her cap Thats the way to Ealute a soldier ehe said with a merry laugh Mamma said you was one He caught his breath Perhaps he slowly said yon can even tell me my name Yes I can replied the child Its easy Your name Is Philip An now guess what mine Is Is Is It Mary he gently asked No laushed the child Thats mammas Mine 1b most like yours Its rhillppa The old man was silent for a mo ment Is your mother here child be sud denly asked Is she lurking about among the treeB Who Do you mean mamma cried the child She Isnt here She haBnt no time for trees Shes always too busy Didnt you know she paints lYcs she paints lovely little pictures Mlnlcboors she calls them Theyre pictures of people dont you know only much prettier But sometimes people dont pay very quick an some times they think mamma chargcR too much uti sometimes Rhc doesnt have nny pictures to do Then you know Its pretty hard to have the landlord call I guess you know how that Is And where Is your father and tho old mans voice suddenly grew hard Hes leaded In Callyforny said the child Ho was an actor you know n stage actor 1 dont member him very well 1 wns loo Utile when ho went nway Ive tried to oct too but Delhi Units the JnnltorB wife sho biivb I cant net for shucks Good thing muttered tho old man Well I dont know said the child You see 1 wanted to do somethln to help ninmnin an If 1 cant act 1 dont know what 1 can do Hut 1 sposo Its no use Delia wild that as a child won dor I was tho wust she ever seen an Delia goes out n good deal A faint smile crossed tho old mans Btcm features And what made you think that I ntn your grandfather he asked Oh Mario Kramer told me replied the child She knows everybody Shes lived out more plnceB Shes Bessie Lelghtous nurse now an just ns soon as she saw you slttln here one dny she snld ThereB old Colonel Hob son She know you cause you used to go to the Bronsons where ehe wns llvln then An pretty soon she looked at me nn said Why hes your grand father aint he An I Bald I didnt know an she thought It out an said Yes he Is cause your mamma Is his daughter an she ran away with a play actor an the old hunks shut his door on her forever ThatB what Mario said An when I went home I said to Delia My grandfathers slttln over there In tho park an heB tho louesom est lookln thing An Delia says If hes scttln in the park hes either a tramp or a mlllunalre If hes a tramp you must keep away from him but If hes a mlllunalre you want to rope him In An when I looked at you again 1 Baw you didnt look like a tramp an so I thought Id take my chnnces an rope you In nn thats just what I did And your mother knows nothing about my being here the old man asked Yes Bhe does replied tho child I told her an she looked so queer an her face got red an she said Phlllppa dear It may not be your grandfather But anyway you mustnt speak to him unless he speaks to you first An I made you speak to me first didnt I The old man lenued back and looked at tho child Phlllppa ho said slowly how would you like to come and live with me You would have your own beau tiful room and all the playthings you could waut and somebody to wait on you and a pony to drive and every thing that could make a little girl happy An would mamma come too the child asked The old man shook his head Id like the room said tho child an tho pony an all the rest but I guess Id be too lonesome without mamma But youd have me urged the old man Wed be just two lonesome ones to gether said the child Then she add ed If you knew mamma youd see how it is Perhnps I am beginning to see said the old man softly Ill tell ycu what well do cried tho child You can borrow me Hows that It sounds well snid the old man How must 1 set about It Oh Its easy replied tho child You just come to our flat an send up your card an then mamma will whis tle down an say Please come up Then you go up an Im there an I say Mr Grandpapa this Is mamma Then you bow an say Pleased to know you an mamma says Where have I seen you before an then you say Can I borrow your channin daughter for the rest of the day for youve come very early in the mornin you know an mamma says Have you any scurity for the rent I mean for the child an you say Oh yes Indeed I have an then you put up a silver quarter for scurity an take me an we go away somewhere an have a splendid time to gether an get home when Its real dark an mamma Is gettln fidgety Id like to see that house of yours an that room an those ponies We ought to get bet ter acquainted we ought to really The old man smiled at her enthusi asm Evidently this was a delightfully original child Do you think your mamma would paint my portrait he asked Shed be real pleased to said the child An Id get the commission too wouldnt I She told me If I got any orders Id get the commission Youre my order aint you Yes said the old man as he slowly arose Come we will go and seek your mother I must get that picture before I grow any older and before your mammas memory quite outgrows the reminiscences of her childhood Come Phlllppa And hand In band they passed down the graveled walk and through the big gates and presently found themselves in front of the huge apartment bouse that tho lonesome Phlllppa called home Cleveland Plain Dealer Too Slongrr to Study A certain teacher who had studied a particular bad boy from every con ceivable standpoint finally found the cause of his apparent wickedness He had been especially annoying all day and at the close of the school the teach er sat down by him and said John what Is the trouble anyway Why Is It you find it so hard to behave In school Poor John In a burst of confidence blurted out Its cos Im so derued hungry Then the teacher knew that Johns reformation mast begin In IiIb stomach Exchange THE NORFOLK NEWS FM1MY 1UN15 M IflOI lip Wni Very Aocnmmodntlncr ApropoB of the ready comprehension and native wit attributed to the Rons of lCrln Patricks compliance with the customers wish Rtnnds out In bold ap position Patrick wns n clerk lii n sub urban grocery store It was a busy Benson nnd the grocer wnH waiting up on two or three customers nt the same time He was In n hurry and every thing hnd to be where he could get It without much trouble or he would bo delnyed and probably lose money so when he found that the pound weight was gone he was bothered Patrick he called out whorts the pound weight The pound weight Ib It Bald Pnt rick complacently Sure nn ItH Mo ther Jones lwiB the pound weight Mr Jones hns It What do you mean by saying thnt Mr Jones has the pound weight 1 thought the pound weight Bald In the store How did Mr Jones get It An share didnt yez tell me to be pcrlltc to the rlgular customers Of course Well thin Mlsther Jones comes Into the Btore for a pound of tay An Rnyn he whin I asked him what qunllty of tny he would hnve Whntlver yen give me BtiyB he give me the weight So I put the pound weight In the pnekage with the tay pcrlltc like an Its him self thatB gone with It Chicago Post Admiralty Weak on Ornirratphr During the Boer war of 1880 the ad miralty was hopelessly Ignorant of the geography of South Africa The admiral In charge of the licet at Cape Town received strict orders thnt he was not on any accouut to botnbnrd the town of PotchefHtroom Now nH Potchefstrootn is a good many hun dred miles from the seacoaBt and lies on the Mool river which Ib barely 200 yards acrosB and dry for three parte of the year this order was superflu ous During tho same period the fleet was at Port Elizabeth and the admiral headed dispatches to the admiralty from that seaport By the next mall he again sent dispatches but happened to head them Algoa bay The admiralty cabled out asking him what business he had to change the location of the fleet without Instruc tions sublimely Ignorant of the fact that Port Elizabeth and Algoa bay nn one and the same place By the way the names Algoa bay and Delngoa bay are derived from the outward and homeward voyages of the old East Indlameu who on tlielr voy ages to Goa in India were wont to call at Port Elizabeth on the outward voyage and at Lourcnco Marques on the homeward voyage Hence the names Algoa to Goa and Delngoa from Goa Stray Stories The Snltniin nnrlmrnnai CnpltaJ European ladles constantly run away witli the Idea that Constantinople is a civilized town and act accordingly Then they are astonished when some thing disagreeable happens and con tinually one hears of ladles being hus tled pinched or kissed by Turkish sol diers It must be remembered that the soldiers are recruited from the wildest tribes In Asia Minor where woman Is considered an Inferior creature who must give way to man besides being trained to avoid him on all possible oc carlons One can easily Imagine that such a soldier Is astonished to see a European lady unveiled boldly expecting him to give way to her or at nny rate not avoiding him and ho naturally takes It to be an advance on her part Ladles have often told mo they hnvo been pushed by soldiers Into the gutter and I hnve nenrly always found that It Is simply as I have explained thnt nei ther makes way for the other with the result that the lady being the weaker comes to grief London Telegraph Tokyo Fire AValkera A Y kohama correspondent of the India polls Press who witnessed the rellglouB ceremony of fire wnlklng In Tokyo snys There were present dip lomats and professors from the Im perial college and nn Episcopal bishop and we think there Is sufficient evi dence to prove that several JaDanese women did walk through the fire A doubting Thomas gathered up some of the salt In which they rubbed their feet both before and after their hot walk to take away and analyze An other suggested thnt the bamboo pole that was used to make the path was hollow and may hnve contained a sub stance that sifted out ns It was drawn backward and forward that destroyed the heat The little amuk of my friend when asked why the feet were not burned replied Much pray much prny We have stated facts The In terpretation must come from those versed In the occult sciences A Great Troth I wouldnt do your kind of work even If I could said Rubberfoot Bill the sandbagger This here thing of gettln a mans confidence an then throwln him down Ib too low for me It aint me they have the confidence In explained Greengoods George It Is thelrselves they are so sure of See Indianapolis Journal In Site Willie Good Pa our teacher Bays thnt collect and congregate mean the same thing Rev Good Well you tell your teach er that you have Information that there Is considerable difference be tween a congregation and a collection Baltimore American Ioat No Time Parke I told my wife she could sell If bhe desired the furniture that had become too bad for use Lane She was prompt to take tlie hint was she Parke sadly Was Bhe There Isnt a thing left Harpers Baxar BURNS FIGHT AGAINST FATE Jtikt i Stirconsj Itrtttrnrd the Crnuli ItiK Sornma of III 11 f Cnttie Anion Burr was U years old when he resolved once more to battle with fortune writes William Perrlno In The LiuIIcn Homo Journal Going quietly Into New York he opened an office for the practice of law ami In a fortnight hnd earned -MK In fees But hardly had he written to bin dnughter nbout his luck when there came from South Carolina the news that her beautiful boy who hnd been the Idol of the ambitious statesman was dend But there wns In reserve for Burr n still heavier blow Toward tho close of the y nr 18U Theodosln AllHton inn do preparations to visit her father In New York Passage was engaged on the schooner the Pnt lot for Theo dosln her physician and her maid and the lovely woman was radiant with the expectation of meeting her father with in the next five or hIx days The Pa triot sailed from Charleston out Into the ocean In Christmas week and not a vestige of her was ever ngnln seen and It Is surmised hut nothing Is known ns to her fate thnt sho foun dered off the const of llatterns Day nfter dny and long after all hope hnd been abandoned there might he seen on the Battery nt New York the lonely and unhappy father peering fur down the bay as If he were scan ning the sea for a will Of his ngony Aaron Burr gnve the world but little view lie hnd schooled himself In the habit of never exhibiting his emotions hut In one of his letters he declared thnt he felt ns if he had been severed from the humnn race VIOLIN MUSIC Urn Pr cnllnr and Vnrletl lCITeet on Wild AiilmnU The violin wnsused recently with In teresting results In experiments with nil sorts of living crent tires First It wns played before a tnrnutuln She paid no attention whatever to It But n nest of scorpions became Intensely excited and wiggled frantically A cobra showed remarkable Rtiscep tlhlllty She was bleeping soundly when the experimenters approached her but the first tone awakened her and she raised her bend As the mu sic swelled she continued to rise till she wns standing straight as a pillar supported only by her tall Every change In tempo and pitch had effect Tho pizzicato made her puff her entlro body swift waltz music caused her to erect her ugly hood to Its fullest blze and a sudden dissonance made her wind ami twist her body as If she were in real agony The polar bear tried to dance to the sounds of the instrument At least lie swayed his body rhythmically and made a rumbling sound which portray ed deep measure The grizzlies and the lions moved their paws and the lions their tails alo In time with tho music It happened that a string snap yd with Its peculiar sharp smack just ns the player had begun to per form before the cage of a hyena That poor animal at once hunched Its back up drew Its tail between Its legs and crouched trembling In the farthest corner of the cage The elephant and the ostrich were delighted by soft tones and appeared to suffer true distress fiom loud and sharp notes New York Iress A Decided Opposition On one occasion says the Chicago Inter Ocean when Booker T Wash ington was In Chicago he stopped for a day in one of tho hotels He wns pointed out to William an old waiter who had been In the hotel for a long time Willi m was delighted to get a glimpse of tho great man of bis race and wns never tired of telling nbout It nfter that One of the regular board ers is a stanch friend of William and a liberal tipper William bald the boarder next morning putting on n serious face 1 met Mr Washington yesterday and 1 asked him what he thought of tip ping He Is opposed to It The boarder stood with his hand in sinuatingly In his chnnge pocket Wil liams face fell and settled Into despair ing gloom Well boss the waiter said bhak Ing his head emphatically If dat Is de poslshun of MIstnh Washington Iso unaltably opposed to It Took No Chances Samuel Clough who edited The New England Almanac at the very begin ning of the eighteenth century wns a good cxnmple of n prophet who Intends to make no mistakes Perhnps snys he predicting the weather from Jan 15 to the 22d 1702 It will be very cold weather If It freso by the fireside or on the sunny side of a fence at noon In April he hazards Perhaps wni weather If It ralnB Now fair weather If the sun shines WJndy or calm And In July he ventures a small ad vertisement for the town of his resi dence If now the weather do prove fair ieople to Cambridge do repair The Voice Ib IIIkb Altltodea Generally speaking races living at high altitudes have weaker and more highly pitched voices than those living In regions where the supply of oxygen Is more plentiful Thus In this coun try among the Iudlnns living on the plateaus between the ranges of the Andes nt an elcvntlon of from 10000 to 14000 feet the men have voices like the women and the women Hko the children and their singing Is a shrill monotone The Effect PopplnjnyrWhnt did your father sny when he new me klsBlng you In tho hall last nlgut Wns he very angry Melissa Ann Oh no pa wasnt mad a bit It only made him sick bo he told ma Boston Transcript - wJi Y r One More tlnfnrttinnle 1 think the most ghastly thing In certain ways that It Iiiir ever been my III lurk to run up aguliiHt occurred one night Inst winter wild a well known iiewsinper man I had been over to Jersey City to see some western friends off anil ns the boat swung up the Hud sou 1 was leaning over I lie rail op the lower rear deck watching the Ice filled river which presented a beautiful spectacle Acroxs the boat with his shoulder ngnlnst a pillar stood n mini In n light coat he and I being the only persoiiH In that part of the bunt My nttentlon wiih held by the river for a few moments mid when 1 looked up again the man wiih gone At first I supposed he had stepped Inside but happening to glance hnek 1 saw that the protective gnte stood open nud ns 1 had been the last man on limit d 1 knew that those gates bad been closed for I had seen the deck hand shut them tight Thoroughly and comprehensively did I search the boat but not a man In a light overcoat was there among tin1 passengers and as I finally returned to the lower deck and looked again down at the dark swirl ing stream with Its continuous proccH slon of glittering lee cakes It was with the conviction thnt somewhere In those depths u weary soul wns nt rest nud that while my hack had been turned the desperate llnnle of n llfeH tragedy had been quickly and silently enacted New York Tribune Trntiyunn nnil Iinrrll Mrs Procter the wife of Barry Corn wall was n gteat figure In London lit erary society when Mr Lowell wnH United States minister at the court of St James Mrs Procter wan most anxious to bring Tennyson and Mr Lowell together Tennyson who wns whimsical In IiIh prejudices made va rious excuses nnd affected to believe that Mr Lowell was a poet of little Im portance and an after dinner orator whose graces of style were overrated One day Mrs Procter told Mr Ten nyson that Mr Lowell hnd written some lines on her birthday and that she must Insist upon reading them to him The English poet looked nt her as kance and submitted with bad grace Mrfl Procter did not go further than tho opening line I know a girl they say shes eighty Tennyson scowled and sprang to his feet with a gesture of Impatience Too familiar he growled out In high disdain and refused to listen to the re malnlug Hues Mrs Procter persevered In her efforts to bring the two pacts together and they finally mot and became Intimate friends Mr Tennyson was a man of many caprices and had a touch of shy ness and cold reserve which made him unwilling to meet a stranger Youths Companion A Iliiil Coinliliiiitlon An English family doctor tells this story I was hastily summoned one morning to tho offices of a well known city merchant He had been quietly writing at his desk when to his amaze ment and nhirin he found his waistcoat blazing furiously Although he dashed It off In an Instant he had been burned 1 severely and when I arrived mid had 1 treated his Injuries we wore both of ns I much puzzled to find a cause for the sudden outburst But Investigation showed that he was In the habit of car rying loosely In his watch pocket two or three of the tiny potash lozenges which so many people find useful for a sore throat Among these he thought lessly had thrust a box of safety match es the covering of which forms with potash a chemical combination which the slightest friction will set Into a blaze Unfortunately too his gold watch was protected by one of the common cases of transparent celluloid which la nothing but a form of highly explosive gun cotton so thnt In fact he had Inno cently formed In his waistcoat pocket one of the most dangerous and power ful powder magazines known to sci ence The PlKKT Crime Onck A New Jersey farmer tells tills re markable story to The Evangelist nnd vouches for Its truth I had more pigs than I wanted to keep so I sold one to a man living In the neighboring village Tho little pig had been living In the pen with his brothers nnd sisters nnd hnd never been outside of It until the man who bought him put him In a bas ket tied down tho cover nnd put It In his wngon to curry to the new home Late In tho afternoon tho farmer who sold It snw something coming ncross tho Bwnmpy meadow below his borne He watched It struggling through the wet places climbing the knolls until he could see that It was his little pig nil covered with mud nnd very tired He went straight townrd the bnrn ngnlnst which was the only home ho recognized The money was returned to tho man who had bought It and tho little pig staid at home Had to Bat nim A creditor calls upon a debtor whom he finds at dinner busy carving a tur key Now sir sold tho visitor are you going to pay me soon I should be only too glad ray dear sir but it Is Impossible I am cleared out ruined I havent a stiver Why sir when a man ennnot pay his debts he has no business to be eat ing a turkey llko that Alas my dear Blr Bald the debtor lifting the serviette to his eyes as though deeply affected I couldnt af ford Its keep London AnBwcrs Superior Importance Madge said she would marry me If Maud went to Paris WhatB the Idea Well Bhe Bold sho would then b prepared to cope with Maud when she came home bragging about her trip Chicago Record TAJWBWWjIBBWBWtlSlHllfc jpwT THEMALLEABLE ssc I2E 111111 mm able WITH POUCH FEED 1 fir mle lit ALBERT DEGNERS Dr Humphreys Spec tflrH onro by noting dlroolly upon thu illhoiuie without exciting disorder iu any other part of tho syHtom n ciihm rnicut I Irtrra towttntlnnn Inflammations US U Warms Worm Yvrtf Worm Colic US II TprtlilnCnllfOrylnRWakef illness J 5 4 hlnrrlirn of Children or Adults US CVililn llnincliltls US H rVrurnliln Toothache Kacoaeho US ft llrnaaelir Sick Headache Vertigo US IO lVpepllndlKestlonWeaklltoniachUS I I Hiiiirened or rnlnful Periods 23 1 U Whiles Too 1 rofusa 1erlnds US 13 rnup ljarynaltla Hoarseness US M Mnlt Itlieiiin Erysipelas Kruptlotis US 1 0 llliruiiiallain Ithoumatlc Talus US 1A MalnrU Chills Fever nnd Ague S3 1f tlatnrrli Intltiimaa Cold 111 tho Head US US UT Hldnrv llUnisr US 2H Nrrou IMillltv 100 Ill Urinary 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