WITT ? xtrvT > rvvr irriira. . IAKTITADV 01 irvno ADVENTURES ' OF CUPE Tlio fitory of n Poor VOHIIB Mnn'a Visit to tlio Country Hunt of n Illuh > ' 7lonil. Hy F. W , AIlNOLD , , Tr. The lace curtain WUH limp with rnln , the windows of Iho house opposite re jected the clouds , and Little Gupe's own window sill was blistered with lit- tie backs of rnln on which floated to bacco atoms. Little Oupc felt much as the day looked. "Go anyway , " en couraged the medical students. -Thtt'iliryiicrofe Llttlo'Olipe had seen Eb ( air the'medical ' alildeiitta know Eb , for lie had been one of thq inpr.o dls- tlngulfUicfl'-'iiil'u ' In college ) , and Qupo hud told his medical mates that Eb hall InVited him to spend Sunday at his home in the country. The medical 'student- ' knew that Eb had colored car riages and when at college had dined with the most exclusive families. 1 They said ho was "a darned 'bright man" ahil always talked earnestly and bravely When they met him. ' Kb" was n6w a Iawfer In his first year's practice "and doing darned , wcll , " they had wisely agreed. " Little Cupe had begun ( he recital of his invitation as- If"It wrfs nbthln' , " but had grinned with delight before he had ended it , and had dilated that a lot of girls from the neighboring houses would bo there with n young chaperon. The fact that Eb had once given a theater party was the basis of Cupe's belief that ho always entertained. But now Little Cupo wasn't sure if he had been Invited. Possibly Eb had said , "Drop In sonic time , and we'll go out for Sunday , " or , "Let me know how you're doing. Drop In some Sat urdny , and we'll go out Sunday. " "Go on , Cupe ! " the medical students yelled again. They were doubtless sin cere. Suddenly n puff of determination car rled him to the closet. He had decided nothing consciously. From its drawers he pulled two white shirts , seven single cuffs , six collars and two changes of other clothes ( only 3 per cent , diluted , of these things bore Little Cupe's own red stamped mark ) and was shaking the creases out of a dress suit "Drop It ! " yelled one medical stu dent. "I've got to wear It this even Ing. " All the rest had to wear theirs too. "Lord , we're sorry. " Cupe's own was torn and hadn't been mended. "I can't go , " said he , depressed and lookIng - Ing frightened. "Sure you can. Eb and the girls will understand. ' Eb sat In his own "box , " his desk topped by two rows of fresh leathet books and a black tin box , "Re Moul ton. " The senior offices opened through the sunny doorways back of him. AVlth business precision he was deckling thai he would not stay In town that night , , lbut would go to his home for a nine hours' sleep and in the morning drive to a friend's for the day. With a busi ness chirography that had made Littk Cupo when he had seen It predict foi him n trust presidency he started to .write . to his friend to said effect ( see above ) . But he noticed the door. "Como in , " said Eb. For thirty seconds a shadow had toeen hovering over Its gray glass. Lit tie Cupo was outside trying to muster courage to knock. At Eb's voice he couldn't go down the elevator , so he pretended he had not heard him and made the glass shiver. "Come in ! " again called Eb. With a frightened little grin Cupe en tered. His hands felt cold. He shut the door so that It would not disturb any body. He held behind him his birthday dress suit case. "How are you , Cupe ? " Eb was ai rways glad to see his friends. "Sl ( down. I'll bo with you in a minute. " And he handed him a fragrant box of cigars. "Have one. " Cupe took one and held his dress suit case in his lap , but he didn't smoke , for he had no matches. Those cigars had always impressed him , and he 1mt often told his medical students thai he occasionally dropped Into Eb's of fice and smoked his cigars. Eb continued writing to his friend that ho would be there tomorrow and handing the note to a messenger who came from tlio main office Cupo was greatly impressed said , "Special delivery livery , " and then , leaning back , added "Well , Cupe , what can I do for you ? ' as if surveying a client. The stone faces through the window grinned fiendishly. "Nothln1 , " answered Cupe. "I was brlngln' this empty dress suit case from a store" ho pointed Indefinitely out toward the street "and Just stop ped In. I'm goln' right along ; got tc go now. " Ho arose meekly and held out his hand , which felt as if Its veins pulsed with mist When he said "crap ty" dress suit case , the two white shirts , seven separate cuffs , six col lars and two changes of other clothes .weighed heavy with guilt. "Can't you come out to dinner ? " Eb thought Cupo would enjoy that more than his boarding house. "Haven't any dress suit. " Eb nssur ed him it made no difference , not the least Ho believed all Little Cupo had said. Cupe , after deliberating a proper or while whether he could got away Bald ho guessed ho could go ; he'd bo glad to. Eb's houec hid In a park and wa dwelt In by two maidservants , om manservant and ft chatty housekeep er. There was but little entertaining though Eb occasionally brought horn Borne friend for the night. The room In which Little Cupe now stood was pink with flowered wal paper , tlowercd chairs and a flowered quilt on the bed. Ho had been ehown Into this bower by * man with aid whiskers nnd n strange dress stilt and who hntl been very polite. When tlio iniiii lind bent to lift Cupe's dri'Hs Hiilt i-iiso. I'tipo hntl paid , "N'o , no , no , thanks , " and told him and Kb nnd the eliatty hotiKekceper , who were also hi the hall , that ho would carry It up HtnlrH himself , for ho needed the exor tlli cise. Ills unfolded dress stilt case surged with his two white shirts , RCVO.U sepa rate cuffs , lx collars nnd the two Itll changes of other clothes. Then ho llC heard girlish voices In the liull ; they must : bo the dinner guests chaperoned by ' sonic young wlfo from across the 'Ju hedges. They were really the two maidservants. "Knuckle , knuckle , " deferentially on the door. "Como In , " said Cupe. In poked the side whiskered head of tlio butler or porter. "Will you have a cocktail , Cupo's own head wan full of dress suits , so ho thought the butler said , "Will you have n coattnll ? " "Yes , please , " answered Cupe , and while waiting for the dress suit to come began deciding between his two white shirts in the cuse. "Knuckle , knuckle , " again on the door. Cupo hoped the suit would tit. But It was Eb Avho entered. "Knuckle. " The butler entered with the cocktail. "And the conttnll ? " Inquired Llttlo Cupe. Ho said this partly to Eb. Ho would let him upbraid his own serv ant. Eb Bturcd ; the butler stared ; the house seemed to sigh to Llttlo Cupo. There had been no relieving feature to the situation. Eb thought Cupo might have meant to say some Indcll nlto Jokes ; the butler or porter proba bly thought so too. Cupo was now at the dining room table with his napkin fallen to hla feet , whcro ho was un able to pick It up. He had entered the dining room very erect ; for ho had ex pected to llnd the Invited girls there nnd wanted them to be favorably 1m pressed and whisper to each other , but ho learned ho was to bo alone with Eb and his only conquest the courses. He didn't know how to take all of them out of the platters , but that same porter or butler was a valuable man nnd did It for him. After the dinner Llttlo Cupo felt much relieved. Ho discussed the paint ings , for ho had taken a course In "flue nrts" once as n "snap" nnd smok ed many cigars. Ho didn't know when to stop smoking , and Eb marveled. That's about all that happened to Little Cupe. Eb , who at last realized that Cupe had expected to stay over Sunday , If not a week , explained to him that he himself , unfortunately , bad to be away for the day , but urged Cupe to remain and have at his dls posal the house and horses. "No , thanks ; no , " said Cupe. "I promised the fellows I would be back for church. " This latter tale was unfortunate , for Cupe had to rise In the morning earlier than he would have otherwise. He felt much like this story , which started with graphic enthusiasm ant then wilted away like a bashful school boy. But you should have heard the reasons he gave the medical students why he didn't stay over Sunday. Nice Little Cupe ! New York Commercial Advertiser. Mm mid Ilennlii. I once had a trainer , an old Irish man , who had served In a British rcgl meut in India and who knew the ways of tigers In every detail. He taught three of them to do more work In the show arena than I have ever seen done by tigers. I have seen him sitting down between two of them at rest times during rehearsals and examining their claws to see If any of them were sore or split. Any one who has ever tried that with even a house cat knows that It strikes the feline nature as an unwarrantable familiarity , but they never did more than show their tooth and whine , and that In half playful ness. One day he got very drunk. I hat ] never known him to transgress before. Before he was noticed on his return to the cage he had gone In with his tl gcrs and fallen in a heap on the floor. The other keepers tried to take him out of the cage , but to have done so would have meant a bitter and bloody fight with the three striped ones. They guarded him all night in his drunken slumber. The next time he put them to work , however , they balked , and ho could neither persuade nor drive them They had ceased to trust him , or some thing of that sort , and his usefulness with them was at an end completely. F. Bostock In Frank Leslie's. Trouble For ilic Tonrl * < . The poor Saxon "towrlst" what he may suffer lr < the Emerald Isle ! There Is a story on record of three Irishmen rushing away from the race meeting at Punchestown to catch a train back to Dublin. At the moment a train from a long distance pulled up at the station and the three men scrambled In. In the carriage was seated one other pas senger. As soon as they had regained their breath one said : "Pat , have you got th1 tickets ? " "What tickets ? I've got me lolfe ! thought I'd have lost that gcttln' In th' thraln. Have you got 'cm , Molke ? ' " 01 ? I ' " Begorrab , haven't ! "Oh , we're all done for , 'thin ' ! " said the third. "They'll charge us rolgh from th' other soldo of Olreland. " The old gentleman looked over his newspaper and said ; "You are quite safe , glntlemcn. Wal till wo get to th' next station. " As soon as the train pulled up tin llttlo gentleman Jumped out and cam back with three first class tickets Handing them to the astonished strati gers , he said : "Whist , I'll tell you hov I did HI I wlnt along th' thraln. 'Tick ets , plazc ; tickets , plazo ! ' I called , ant these belong to three Saxon towrlsts li another carriage. " Harry Furnlsa In Strand. NEWFOUNDLAN TRAGEDY , A KUhorniAii'M AVI Id Sail to 1'rornro Medical A I.I. "Tho lack of physicians Is one of the lorrors of the Isolation In which the Newfoundlanders < > f this coast llvo , " ays Norman Duncan In Alnsloo's. Thcru Is none within fifty inllcM of lost harbors ; none within reaching llstanco of many. It Is related of u veil to do fisherman who was some- lilng of a merchant that hit * wife , whom ho fondly loved , lay hi agony or many days whllo an autumn gale aged. No man In the hnrlwr would pnt off In a skiff to fetch the nearest ) hyslclan , who lived fifteen miles down ho coast , for thcro was no possibility that ho who ventured could survive. On tlio fourth day the wind moderated , ? wo men volunteered to accompany Mlorton. They set sail In the first lours of a snowstorm , which abated , lowevcr , before they reached Uielr ties- Inatlon. Fighting doggedly , they took ho Iroat safely In , after Indescribable tardshlp and through ever present dan ger. The gale had gone down when hey knocked on tlio physician's door. A heavy sea was running , but the dan ger of wreck on the return voyage was quickly passing. " 'What's the matter with Uic worn- an7 * the physician asked. "Ho was Informed. "The husband minutely described his wife's agony. Then he offered what amounted almost to half his fortune as R fee. 4 'I'll take that , ' said the doctor , 'If you fetch her here. Go back and get jer , mid I'll attend to the case. ' " 'In an open boat ! ' the husband ex claimed. He pointed out that his wife's condition put such an arrangement be yond the bounds of reason , 4 'Well , I can't do anything , ' said the physician. 4If you bring her over , I'll attend to her. ' "When the husband got back to his liome , the child had been born , but the woman died the next day. " PARRY A COMPLIMENT , Accept One Alvmysj , lint Never Toke It HerlousJy. The famous Mine. Hccamlcr said that eho always found two words fiulllccd to make her guests uoem welcome. Up on their arrival she exclaimed , "At last ! " and when they took their leave she said "Already ? " If taken literally , we should deprecate the flattery. Flat tcry Is Insincere praise and wrongs him that gives and him that takes. It Is sometimes kinder to accept a com pllmcnt than to parry It. One may say "Thank you , It Is pleas ant to ho seen through such kind ( or partial ) eyes , " or perhaps , "It IH n com fort to know that friendship Is partly blind as well as the mythological boy , " or any nonsense tlmt serves to show that .one appreciates the spirit that prompted the kind expression , howev er wide Uie trtitji. The fr&qucut repetition of Hie name of the person addressed holds n subtle compliment , Implying more complete concentration of the speaker's thought upon his or her personality. De Qulncy says : "More Is done for the benefit of conversation by the sim ple magic of good manners than by all varieties of Intellectual power. " It Is the sympathetic and responsive listeners that call forth the best efforts of a talker. For such are reserved his choicest stories , his finest thoughts. A ready smllo acts as Inspiration , nnd Interest shown In the conversation of others stimulates and vivifies their thoughts. To a good listener the diffident will say what they think , and the verbose will think what they say. There Is nothing more trying than to find that one's conversation Is receiv ing but a divided attention and noth ing more rude than for a person to pick up a book or paper and look over It while pretending to listen to what one Is saying. New York Herald. About nrenilcrnmb * . In the days when the "bread loaf was dear careful mothers had a set of thrift sayings which are seldom heard In this time of the big , cheap loaf. Crumbs were regularly swept up anil kept for some useful purpose. If n child threw crumbs In the lire , the old fashioned mother lifted a warning fin ger and said , "If you throw crumbs In the fire , you are feeding the devil. " Children were told that the better part of a loaf was the crust , and when a child was sent to the shop for breail the order was to ask for "a crusty loaf. " If n child left Its crust , came the warning : "i'es , my lady ( or my lad ) , you'll want for a loaf some day. You'll find hunger's n sharp thorn. " Notes and Queries. On the Free MM. Some years ago there was a tollgate on a plank road leading to Elmwooc' ' cemetery. Detroit All funerals were allowed to POBH along this road with out paying. One day Dr. Pierce , a well known physician , while paying his toll , Jok Ingly remarked to the gatekeeper : "Considering Uic benevolent cuarnc tcr of our profession , I think you ought to let us pass free of charge. " "No , no , doctor , " said Uie gatekeeper "wo can't afford that. You scud too many deadheads through as It Is. " Now York Times. For Their Own Cnlven , A couple of young men were out flsh Ing one day and on returning were go Ing past a farmhouse and felt hungry They yelled to the farmer's daughters "Girls , have you any buttermilk ? " The reply * vas gently wafted bach to their ears , "Yes , but wo keep It fo our own calves. " The boys calculated that they had business nwny , and they went. Couu try Gentleman. 'Die Urriiuiii t'olli-r , A Nlniugi'r lit Ccrmniiy noon nmlco In ; ariiimlntaiicc of Iho police , llttlo lit' may iloslro It. You have IMMIII In Icriiuiny n week , more or ICHM , when ho pollci'iuan calls. At first you can- lot lii'llt'vo that lie IH really after you , ml then your mind ruim back guiltily ver your past , Ho takes out his llttlo took-one of u Hinall library uf llttlo lw which hu carries In liln lilmiHo iml Inquires your age , your nationality find lm\v long you Intend to stay , You learn subsequently that a record if every person In the empire IH care- tilly kept , with full details nu to hln occupation , material wraith and social landing. If you move Into a new louse , you must notify the police ; If on move out , you must notify the po- Ice ; If you hire a servant girl , you nust purchase a yellow blank and re tort the fact , the girl also making n report. When she leaves , you must send In a green blank Hinting why Blio s dismissed , where she Is going anil BO on. If you fall In any of theno multltu- llnous requirements of the govern- ncnt and I have mentioned only a few of them them Is n flno 'to pay , itch flno graduated to the enormity of the offense. There are offenses raded iw low as 2 cents. Independent. Time IlntiK * llenvlljr. Time Is never wasted until It "hatigH icavlly on our hands , " when you are iclther working nor enjoying yourself. There may bo times when It suits one's mood to "loaf and Invite one'H fiotil , " but they are rare nowadays. If on don't bcllcvo It , consider how the iverngc cltl7.cn K ] > eiids his vacation. Most people work harder and ccono- nlzo their vacation time more grudg- ugly In getting the most out of It than .hey do In any other part of the year. They hate to lose a minute of enjoy ment. Of course there are times every day when time seems absolutely wasted , ind thcso arc the times when men's .empcrs are on edge and things * go crosswise. Chief among this list of wasted and monotonous Intcrvalu Is .he time spent In walling for a car , In traveling on It after you get It , In wait- ng for meals , In fuming over dilatory ippolntnicnts or by reaching thcro too HOOD. Other Instances arc where the bore buttonholes you and Insists with xcesslvo eloquence In stringing a three line Item Into a two column tale. Pittsburg Dispatch. HiiK Spldom Wovn Tlifin. Every one who owns a little strip of garden knows what It Is to clear away tiplder webs , a matter of small d I Ill- cully and lightly performed , but a pop ular naturalist who lately returned from the great woods of Central Amer ica came across spiders' webs of such strength nnd huge dimensions that they were pooltlvo obstacles iff his path. Needless to say , the tenants of these webs were of a monstrous size. "I measured ono of these fabrics , " ho says. "It had a diameter of more than six feet , without Including the long brace threads that run out like forestays to the extremity of the sur rounding branches. I then took a mini bcr of wild lemons and flung them ngulnst the center wltJi nil my might. The web stopped every one. It Is no wonder that when a bird becomes en tangled In the meshes the huge spider Is able to nmko a breakfast off him. " A Qrilclc Wlttcil Doctor. A certain French surgeon , of whom The Young Ladles' Journal tells , had so much more thought for his patient than for his own safety on one occasion that ho resorted to an expedient which , nl though cflicaclotis , might have resulted In his own death. lie had been commissioned to bleed the grand seignior and either through timidity or nervousness had met with an awkward accident. The point of the lancet broke off In the vein , and the blood would not flow. That point must be got out somehow. Without stopping to consider the con sequences to himself , the surgeon gave his highness a violent slup In the face. This produced the desired effect , for surprise nnd Indignation on the part of his august patient put the blood Into violent circulation. The vein bled free ly , and the lancet point came out. The bystanders were about to lay hands on the surgeon when he said "Klrst let me finish the operation anc bandage tlio wound. " This done , ho threw himself at the feet of the sultan and explained his action. The sultan not only pardoru-d him but gave him a handsome reward for keeping his wits about him In a crltlca moment. CnrloiiH Krenk of Innnne I'orMOim. A Belgian physician , speaking of simulation by the Insane , says that In cases of Insanity where the Intcllcctna faculties are not too much dlsorderei the Insane may simulate another form of Insanity than their own. The forms of Insanity most often simulated are In order of frequency , Imbecility , de mcntlii nnd mania. The other forms arc not so frequently simulated. A lunatic generally simulates Insanity to escape punishment , and nn expert phy alclan should not therefore In sucl cases be satisfied with a diagnosis of simulation. Such diagnosis docs no exclude real Insanity , and the physl clan should therefore endeavor to as certain whether or not the simulator Is himself a lunatic. With care , patlenco and a loug continued observation It possible to make n complete and cor rcct diagnosis , and this Is the more 1m portant as In these cases the serious question of responsibility arises. Lon don Family Doctor. In thi * IlnUcuhop. "Dear me , " sighed the bread dough "I wonld like a raise. " "All right , " said the yeast cake "wait a minute , and I'll set you to work. " Philadelphia Bulletin. YO U , f M UST ; NOT. . FO RQ ET i _ _ . . _ Thai , wo are conHianUy growing ni LlL. making Kino Photos , and our products will al- 22 % , ways bo found to ombraoo ihoJ5Ul ( t)0 ! 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