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A GIRL OF MEXICO.
LONG narrow room
dimly lighted by
rows of smoking,
flickering lamps;
rough benches bor
dering the bare
adobe walls. Atone
end of the room two
Mexicans with fid
dle and guitar are
playing something
'which evidently
' 'passes for music
The air is close and foul with the exer
tions and- breath of the motley crowd
that fills benches and floor. And this
is the "ball room" attached to the Le
gal Tender saloon at Phoenix, N. M.
In the doorway stands a tall, fair
haired, young fellow, well tanned, yet
seeming light skinned among the Mex
icans and cow punchers by whom he Is
surrounded. He lounges In the door
way watching the dancers with an ex
pression of amusement and partly of
languid interest. A year ago this man
would have laughed in your face had
you told him that he. Harry Woodhall,
leader of the cotillions and one of the
distinctly eligible young fellows of Lon
don, would in a year's time be taking
a passive part in the festivities of a
" New Mexican dance hall.
It had all come so suddenly that it
had. seemed like some wierd night
mare from which he awoke to find hlm
relf fighting for health in the arid re
gion of the new world. The recollection
Hashed across him now as he stood at
the bar of the Legal Tender. First, that
bad cold caught at the "Wellbrokes,
hall, when he had taken Lady Grace
to her carriage in a pouring rain with-
.out so much as a cap over his head.
Then the long siege of pneumonia, and
after that, like a thunder bolt out -of
a clear sky, had come the warning of
his physician: "It's Egypt or Western
Atserica old man if you don't want
to shuffle off the mortal coil. You
can't stay in England and live." Then
33
DID YOU KNOW OF THAT?
had come the partings, the voyage, the
few aimless weeks In Denver, and then
a letter from Bob McQueen asking him
'to come down and help raise pigs and
alfalfa in the Pecos valley. He had
found a jolly, congenial lot of young
Englishmen there, and after some
months of ranch life he had just de
cided to put some money in the ranch
and settle down. There is a saying that
Englishmen come West on account of
one of three things: "Busted health,
wealth or reputation." None of this
crowd, at least, was in the Pecos val-
"ley on account of the last cause, and
the two former were certainly no dis
grace. This resolution to settle down had
not been an easy one to make. A man
may flatter himself that he has torn
up every root that binds him to the
old life, but when the time comes to
put aside the last hope of return he
will find that there is one root still
drawing life from that hope, and then,
perhaps, comes the hardest wrench of
all. At any rate, Woodhall had that
ridden into Eddy with McQueen.
, and had drawn from the bank the mon
ey which was to buy his 'share of the
ranch outfit. On their way back they
' had stopped at Phoenix, a collection of
saloons, dance houses and Mexican
huts just outside the limits of the town.
. -Their Mexican foreman, Goagorez. had
nr.ct them there with the ranch wagon,
relieved their horses of the supplies
and gone en ahead of them.
Although Woodhall had been in the
alley seven months, he had never be
fore seen Phoenix in full blast. This
interesting condition occurred every
Saturday night and lasted until Mon
day morning. The roulette wheel and
faro layout, together with the Mexican
games, were operated in the barroom,
which opened directly. into the dance
hall. By this simple arrangement the
Mexicans could lose their money in the
barroom, while the cow-punchers ob
tained their "load" and then worked it
off in the quadrille.
"Bob." said Woodhall, lazily turning
oie McQueen, who was watching the
faro, "do they ever have any good look
ing girls here?"
".Sometimes a pretty Mexican girl
shows up, but good looks don't last long
in .Phoenix," was the reply. "They"
say that Gongorez, our foreman, has
by jove, old chap," did you see the deal
er hold out the .nine spot just then?"
"No; but everybody Is too full to no
tice.thase little things, I suppose. Come,
I've enough of this. Let's move on." -"
The truth was that Harry Woodhall
had just been undergoing that last and
worst wrench. He had been tearing up
the root that had been feeding on hope,
and the process had left him in a. reck-ess-tate
of mind, when nothing seemed
to matter. The money, which he car
ried in a belt around his waist, seemed
.a weight that was 'dragging hla down,
jdown, away from .'everything, and the
thought nearly maddened him.
McQueen had gone for his horse.
leaving Woodhall albne on the steps of
the ""Legal Tender." A lew -veioa at
hie Ibow startM Ura,
"Is It the Senor Woodhall?"
He turned sharply and faced the
questioner. A tall, slim, dark-haired
Mexican girl stood before him. Over
her shoulders she had thrown a many
colored scrape which only half con
cealed the well-carved and graceful
lines of her figure. Her coal-black hair
hung in a long plait, and her eyes
seemed almost luminous as she stood
in the shadow beside him. She was
beautiful, there could be no doubt of
that, and as Woodhall stood there star
ing at her a wild, half-formed resolu
tion took possession of him, born of
his recent fierce struggle with the last
hope.
"Yes, I am Woodhall," he answered
her. "What is it?"
"Will the senor come with me a lit
tle?" Without a word Woodhall sprang on
his horse. The girl quickly mounted a
cow pony tied near by, and together
they dashed off into the darkness.
Within the "Legal Tender" the dance
and game went on. Not a soul had seen
their quick disappearance. McQueen
hunted about a little, saw that Wood
hall's horse was gone, cursed him for
an unsociable brute, and started back
to the ranch alone.
.It was a dark, forbidding-looking
abode at which Woodhall and the girl
dismounted. As near as he could judge
they had ridden two or three' miles
southeast across the track. The mys
tery and novelty of the affair struck
him as he was tying his horse, yet he
was hardly prepared for what followed.
At last a soft little hand within his
led him for it was quite dark
through a passageway into a small
room lighted by a single tailow candle
"Will the senor rest?" and then after
a moment's pause, "I will return soon."
She was gone before he could prevent
it
Woodhall sat down on the edge of the
bed to think, and as he did so he felt
the weight of the money belt which he
carried about his waist. In a moment
all his English caution and mistrust returned.
"It may be all right," he muttered,
"but a little search won't hurt any
thing." The only possible place of conceal
ment was under the bed. Revolver in
haiid, he dropped to his knees and
peered into the darkness. Nothing.
Slowly he raised himself until his eyes
were on a level with the counterpane,
and as he reached this position he no
ticed a small lump on the surface. Was
he deceived, or did the lump move?
More from curiosity than any other mo
tive, he grasped a corner of the bed
clothes and jerked them back. Great
heaven! There was in the very center
of the bed, with its cruel claws work
ing, lay a fll-slxed tarantula, one of
the most poisonous creatures alive. A
slight noise at the door caused him to
turn. There stood the girl, her eyes
big with fear and horror, fixed on the
deadly spider. Without a word Wood
hall raised his arm and pointed an ac
cusing finger at it. For a moment the
girl tried to speak, but could not. Then
slowly and painfully she whispered:
"You thought I did it?"
Woodhall bowed his head in grim
assent.
On the instant, before he could stop
her or even realize her purpose, she
had sprung to the bed, grasped the hor
rible thing and placed it in the bosom
of her dress. As it stung her she
stretched out her arms toward Wood
hall, uttered a piercing cry. and fell
across the bed. At the same moment he
became aware of an evil face at the
doorway the face of Gongorez. the
I ranch foreman. In an instant Wood-
hall had covered him and commanded
mm 10 enter, wnicn ne uiu in a sul
len, half-scared way. At last Woodhall
saw the whole plot.
"Gongorez," he said, in a strange,
harsh voice, "this is your daughter?"
A nod.
"Did she bring me here at your com
mand?" "Yes, but it was easy. She had seen
the senor and loved him."
"Did you know of that stand back,
you hound!" for suddenly Gongorez had
seemed galvanized into activity and
had started toward the bed. muttering:
"Corpo di Dios, no!"
"Then," said Woodhall, in a voice
that seemed to him hollow and far
away, "we will watch her together."
And standing there these two, the
fair one with revolver in one hand,
the other clasping the girl's, the dark
one crouching like a coyote at bay. yet
livid with horror, watched the girl un
til the last spark of life was gone. A
moment later a sharp report rang'
.through the hut, and then Woodhall
galloped away alone.
Next morning he appeared at break
fast, pale and very quiet."
"Fellows." he said finally. "I've been
thinking it over,-and I'm afraid I'm
not suited to this sort of life. I don't
think that I could ever be contented
here, and in short. I'm going to start
for California this afternoon "
A ht di-J, ia Ut all Uy cml
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The iast thing he said td McQueen
as the train tailed out was: "Yoa had
better get another foreman, Mac. for I
don't think Goagorez is coming back."
Actors Like WASHiNctdNt
Are Thm r SpeadM taaw M the
Capital;
Every actor" or actress;' iyrie of dra
matic, will tell. you that they love td
come to Washington. It is invariably
the pilgrimage ef pleasure. - There ere
several reasons for this. One reasdn in
chief is because a great deal of the tal
ent that appreciates talent is naturally
at the seat of the government, where
for years there has been a" centripetal
movement of bright men and women.
Another reason is that cbnditijns po
litical and otherwise change so often
that men and women are not permitted
to move in grooves. This brings about
a system Of society, if it. may be" sd
calledfwhlch is more free from cliques
and cabals than any other city in the
United States. The president is the
president of the people. The first lady
in the land is no bigger than the second
or third lady in the land. The few
titled people hold title from the people,
and if they don't behave themselves, as
Andrew Jackson intended, the people
get mad, and titles and perquisites van
ish at the .next election, including the
coterie known as the cabinet set. Of
course there is the diplomatic corps, but
that is not American. The diplomatic
corps changes also quite frequently, but
the theatric corps is with lis always,
and it is perhaps a draw as to whether
the people like the "play actors" any
better than the "play actors" like the
people of Washington. Actors, like
everybody else, and they are all mortal
except when on the other Bide of the
footlights, are apt to become lonesome
if not absolutely lost in the immensity
of the great cities through which they
go like birds of passage during the
"business" season. Nothing can be
more solitary than the solitude of a
great city in which no one knows any
body and in which it is difficult to get
acquainted with anybody.
MUSTN'T SIT CROSS-LEGGED.
If You lo, la a New York Cable-Car.
Yoa May Meet a Crabbed Old Man.
A refined-looking, well-dressed young
man was sitting cross-legged in a south
bound Broadway car near the upper
end of Union Square yesterday after
noon, says New York World.' The car
was well filled and the young man was
gazing abstractedly out of the window
when the car stopped at Seventeenth
street. There a fat, pompous, self-important-looking
man, about sixty years
old, with sparse gray side whiskers and
silk hat, boarded the car. There was
one vacant seat, well forward. Between
the seat and the pompous passenger sat
the young man, still with his legs
crossed and still apparently oblivious
to hi3 surroundings. With a lordly
strut and his fat chin high in air, the
other man started for the seat. When
he reached the young man he found the
way barred by the latter's leg and foot.
Without stopping, the owner of the
whiskers flung the obtrusive limb from
its support and brought the young man
to himself with a start. When the lat
ter realized what had occurred he only
smiled. Other passengers were also
smiling, but not so the pompous one.
He seated himself and stared an icy
stare.
A Drunkard's Precaution.
A drunkard, who knew his weakness,
took the precaution the other day of at
taching a label to himself with a name
and address on it. "I am out for the
day," said the label; "when I am boozed
tie this to my bnttonho'c and send me
home." What was very ingenious he
did not write his own name and address
on the label, but that of his employer.
This reminds one of the presence of
mind, but absence of principle, exhib
ited by Sheridan who, being picked up
drunk in the gutter, and asked his name
by the constable, replied, with a stutter,
"I am the great and good Mr. Wilbcr
force." Bottler and Bottle Making.
The bottlers of the United States em
ploy 26.73S men, serve 1.4S9.0CS cus
tomers, use 23,940 horses, have invested
$41,573.4G9, use annually $12,747,33
worth of bottles, and the loss and break
age amounts to $3,522,804. He said:
"Consider the enormity of the figures,
the number of hands employed, the
mouths fed. the horses used, the cus
tomers supplied and all. bottlers, hands
and horses, have to be fed and clothed,
think of the number of wagons built
and the enormous amount of money.
paid every year for American made
bottles.
JOSH BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY.
The majority ov the virtew in this
world iz negatiff it iz in the hands ov
people who,- while they don't do ency
hurt, don't do enny good neither.
Most ov us are happy, uot so mutch
bckatize we hav got a horse and buggy
to ride in, az bekause the other phel
low haz to go on foot.
I hav seen hipokritz who had reached
sutch perfekshuns in the bizzness that
they could cheat themselfs, but could
n't cheat ennyboddy else.
If people will only spend their time
in doing their duty in this world,
heaven and hell, and hereafter will
take kare ov themselves.
1 hav seen men who had worn out
their vices and suppozed ov course
that they wuz living on their virtewt.
I am not astounded when i hear thai
a man haz fallen. Adam fell, and he
waz nailed down, compared with the
slippery ground that men stand on now
days.
MI dear friend, az strange az it may
seem tu yu, mankind would rather see
yu fall than succeed, bekauze they
would -rather pity than admire.
The best thing I know ov is a fust
rate wife; the next best thing is a second-rate
one.
Married life is a game in which the
woman, if she iz called, iz allmost sure
to hav a strate flush.
There iz nothing so skarse az origin
ality. Even an original phool would be
a grate relife just now.
The man who never makes enny
blunders iz a very clever pece of ma
sheeaery, that's alL
Our pashuns, if tbey are well man
aged, are the best gifts we hav re
ceived from the Creator.
In the hopes cf overcoming tendency
to slip, bicycle tires are how being
sftAde frow the rauas akiea f aarkc
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MONKEYS ON TRIAL
STARTLING COURT PROCEDURE
Af BENARES; INDIA;
Two Simla Chared with - fcrattd
Lareaav Tfce Jadge Weald Xot Issne
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fcraad inrji
yERYBODY ha
beard 6f the sa
cred monkeys of
Benares and their
queer aniics. There"
are three monkeys'
in Calcutta, just
how enjoying the
unique distinction
(for monkeys) of'
being under indict
ment for larceny';-
Seven men walked into the J6rab&
gan thana, a court of general sessions'
of Calcutta, and gravely demanded a
warrant for the arrest of three mon
keys, names unknown, on the charge of
"theft and causing mischief." The com
plainants set fbrth that the 6ffendirig'
monkeys were the greatest thieves add
robbers id the whole' City of Palaces:
They had broken into houses, purloined
feed, clothing and bric-a-brac, and
done even more damage by destroying'
what they could not eat.
An English magistrate in India en
joys considerable . latitude, but the
magistrate was forced to refuse the
warrant to arrest monkeys. He advised
the complainants to destroy the trou
blesome aniinais. Rut this suggestion
they could not, by reason of religious
scruples, adept. Ail animal life is sa
cred to the Hindoos; and monkeys enjoy
a special exemption from harm. In
deed, they are sacred, as the famoni
Monkey Temple at Benares and other
similar buildings in India testify.
The English magistrate compromised
by suggesting a modified indictment
against the monkeys for burglary df
the worst type, and the lcoai courts at
present have this proceeding under
consideration.
The offending Calcutta monkeys
must be degenerated offspring of the
famous Hounaman.- the prehistoric
monkey of India, and head of the En
tillus family of Simians.
Hounaman was a great monkey. He
had an infant son, who, inheriting some
of the paternal ambition, mistook the
rising sun for an orange and grabbed
at it. He burned his Angers, and in re
venge his papa seized the chariot of the
Son of Day. India, who beheld this
outrage, launched a thunderbolt at the
old man. and laid him fiat.
Thereupon arose a feud between the
monkey family and the Hindoos, which
is not wholly appeased to this day.
Every year the inhabitants of certain
villages lay out in the principal street
a store of grain, and the Entillus family
march in and help themselves. This
postpones the feud. If the villages
neglect the otTering the monkeys in
vade the fields and destroy the ripen
ing jrrain.
The Inventor of thr Polka.
"The origin cf the polka is not gen
erally known, the inventor of the dance
having been a young Bohemian girl
named Haniczka Selezka. She was a
blooming young peasant maiden, and
the best dancer in the village of Cos
telcc, on the river Elbe, and used to
perform solo dances of her own inven
tion at the various village festivities.
It was in the year 1S30, at a farmhouse,
that the assembled guests asked her
to dance a so'o. and she said, I will
show you something quite new,' and
to the music of her own singing she
danced the polka step, though with
more elaboration than it is now per
formed. The dance became so popular
that it was later made a national dance
?nd Haniczka named it pulku. as she
said it was danced in short steps; from
pulku came polku, and finaly polka, the
dance three years later, in 1S30. be
coming popular in Prague, and in JS39
it was already danced at Vienna bails,
and one yesr later became the most
popular dance in Paris. Haniczka Sc
lczka is still alive, surrounded by nu
merous grandchildren and great
grandchildren sprung from her own
six sons and daughters." The Etude.
Correct Style in Monogram Cliln-i.
Monogram china is al the vogue
these days on the well appointed table.
A touch of novelty is given it by the
position of the monogram, which- is
conspicuous on the rim of the plates in
stead of in the center. The most correct
dishes are-of fine white china with a
narrow gold edge and a glistening gold
monogram on the white rim.
Same IM Story.
Mrs. Pippin Don't you tilss your
husband very much, now that he is
away?
Mrs. Golightly Oh. not at all. You
see. he left iue plenty of money, and
at breakfast I just eet a newspaper up
ta front of hi pints aad half ik ttt i
wgti iai ae is ait were
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STdfly OF THE AERONAUT.
ti Abaat ilia tfojMrtl af nlltag
fcadte ltadat tittUlmg the arM
"Dirt you see anything In any 6f the
papers about a man' falling out of a
bai:e6d ire ot six miles high and nev
er hittinf th greund?' inquired an
old acionaut of a Star reporter.
"What did he hit?" was the inquiring
reply.
"Nothing, according to the theory of
tile man making the statement. You
see, it was one df those questldmasklng
cranks who wants to know everything.
He had said that by calculation he had
discovered that if a man fell out of a
balloon at that height he would be
going sd fast by the time he got near
the earth he wduid be taporized by the
heat from the friction."
"That's a fool notion, isn't it?"
"Um um." hesitated the aeronaut.
"I wouldn't like td say that it was, al
together' "Why nbt? Did you ever try it?"
"No; but t tried It on a dog once."
"Did he hit bottom?"
"Lt me tell you about it, and you
can answer the question to suit your
self; Twenty years ago I had a repu
tation' in aeronautics as a high flyer, so
to speak) and 1 guess t have- been far
ther away from the earth than any
body that is still alive. One day 1 made
an ascension to a distance of ojef five
miles, and the next day I proposed to
beat my own record, and I took a sci
entific chap along as a witness. We
also took along a dog weighing about
eight of ten pounds. Well, we Went up
for all there was in It, and 1 expect
we might be ill heaved by this time;
the professor almost froze to death and
I had to turn back to save his life. At
the point registered highest by our
barometer 1 let the dog jump out. I
spotted 'the field where he ought to
iight with my glass, and watched him
go down as far as I cbuid see him, A
couple of hours latef we descended and
the balloon grounded within half a
mile of where the dog should have lit,
the wind having changed and swept us
back toward the starting place. We
SACRED MONKEYS IN THE TEMPLE AT BENARES.
were interested in the dog and had put
a brass collar on him with our address
on it, so if anybody picked the bodv up
it could be sent to us. That is because
we had no idea of landing anywhere
near where it would light. We looked
the field over carefully, but found no
sign of the dog. Then we made a more
careful search, and all at once the pro
fessor stooped down and came up with
something that looked like a dog collar
that had been through a fiery furnace.
It had exactly the appearance of brass
that had been in the fire, but our tag
was not on it, and we were about to
throw it away when the professor took
another look and found my initials
there, but almost obliterated. That set
tled it. The dog hadn't lit at all. He
had been burned clear out of his collar,
and nothing was left of him but va
por, just as the professor said when we
let the dog go, and a more pleased man
you never saw than that scientist. It
was a notion of his, this vaporizing
theory, and he thought he would
make a great name by it."
"And did he?"
"No, because he went up with me
again next day with a sheep and he
fell out himself when we were up
about a mile."
"Was he vaporized?" asked the Star
man with great scientific interest.
"He was pulverized," smiled the
aeronaut grimly, and was silent.
Jnt IJltc a Man.
Mrs. Somebody, who lives on Thir
teenth street, has an infant son who is
just beginning to walk. Last week he
fell downstairs, so his mother bought a
gate to put at the top of the stairs.
There is a little metal socket screwed to
each side of the stairs and the gate fit3
into these. It was put up one day,
Wednesday. I think. It was Mr. Some
body's night at the lodc and Mrs.
Somebody remembered after he had left
the house that he had not been told of
the gate. She was so exercised for fear
he would fall over it when he came, in
that she sat up for him. He was late.
ery late, and she was very tired. And
yet when he did come and realized how
devotedly she had waited up in order to
save him a tumble what do you think
the heartless man said?
"Why, my dear," said he, "why didn't
you just lift the gate out?"
Wasn't that just like a man? Wash
ington Post.
Twin Cel$rate Tbeir UOth BirtbiUr.
In the charming old Cane Cod town
of Barnstable reside 'twin sisters who
celebrated their 90th birthday last
week. Possibly older twins may be
found, but if so it is very doubtful if
any can equal these ladies in vigor of
mind and bod-. They are Mrs. Mehil
.b!e Stalth and Mrs. Deborah P. Hall,
and they-were born in Barnstable Au
gust 30, IsOC. Tbeir maiden name was
Parker. They have been widows for
many years and have long resided in
the house in which lived Governor
Taatoa I!!ackay. gavcrnor af
Iy-
ata wiaay ia llffl,
SAILORS STldfc T3 CASTOR OIL.
Lars
AaiaaaU af the IJfsVI
rd ay
Taea Wki Flaw the
Just belaw the Produce Exchange la
New York i a aettt loaklag drag store
Which has a fwciiiliV tiafl f trade.
The proprietor has been in tite fcttsfa- '
for almost a quarter of a century aai If
the adventurous youths who hanker to
be sailor toys only knew how many
thousands of gallons df eastor oil the
druggist has doled out in his tlfM to
the ships' captains the said youth would
decide to hunt adventures on land.
This drug store its out ships with med
icines. Anybody who ha had any ex
perience with the merchant service
knows that the captain is usually the
only M. D. aboard and that his knowl
edge wae never gained in any college
of pharmacy flf medicine. la the office
of the United States shipping commis
sioners is filed a record of the trip of
every ship that takes a crew front
United States ports. It is virtually a
private diary kept by the captain for
the benefit of the government no mat-
ter what happens, the amount and
number of the doses Of medicine ad
ministered td the crew and to each in
dividual of it are set down with the
minutest details. It appears from
these diaries that the most popular and
potent medicines known to captains is
good old-fashioned castor oil. No mat-
to . t . .,,., ti, Taob hi
ter What is the matter with Jack ne
gets castor Oil. None of the new-
fangled variations of it are prescribed.
The proprietor of the drug store bears
cut this statement. He says that more
castor oil is administered to sailors
than any other medicine, unless it
may be salts and senna. No captain
will sail without a liberal supply of
both. Oftentimes a captain has rea
son to believe some of his crew are
shamming illness, and then the castor
oil is administered in doses to bring
any man to his sober senses. Among
the medicines in the captain's chest
are rhubarb, quinine, Jamaica ginger
and paregoric and certain old-fashioned
patent medicine. No modern
discoveries in that line are Allowable.
So this druggist keeps on hand for his
shipping patronage patent medicines
that tho mmlflrn nvlnni .v.a1I.7a Aa..1
never heard of they date so far back.
Little sugar pills don't go with cap- j pushers' guild, who, for a small con
tains. Medicine la nriminictorort tn - ' t-i .r u ..- .u-' ....1.1.. ..
sailor with the idea that the worse it
tastes the more apt the sick man is to
think it is curing him. Sailors scorn
little sugar coated pills.
The Spade's Testimony.
According to a recent statement of
Prof. Sayce, it is now determined be
yond a doubt that there was such a per
son as the Queen of Shcba, and that
there was such a district from which
she hailed; and that her journey to see
Solomon was one of the most natural
things to be expected. The spade did
it. And we were told that there as
no such person, no such place, &c. Won
derful thing that spade. And It has
come to pass that the testimony of a
piece of old crockery is worth a dozen
statements from the Bible ah me!
CURRENT NOTES.
As a rule the woman who trie3 to be a
man simply ceases to be a woman and
stops right there. Detroit Tribune.
In Other Words-"What i3 your favor
ite dissipation?" "Sir!" "Beg pardon!
I mean of what sin are you most toler
ant in others?" Ex.
"With all her wealth, Miss Cashroll
i3 a true American at heart." "Yes:
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she tola me not long since that if she t
,.,,. . . . . ....
didn t eaten a prince she would ilo
single." Indianapolis Journal. I
Indianapolis Journal.
A Delicate Hint. He "Yesterday I
asked a daisy whether you love me.
Miss Ella." She "Was the answer
favorable?" He "No." She "Well,
why don't you ask me? " Fliegende
Blaetter.
Smith "I see that Jones was at that
dinner the other night. What did he '
think of thccptcches?" Brown "When '
I saw him he was iust coins to read
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Life. .
infill aii mi. linn itiii" iirfiitr - itrn.ik un
"Xo, Willie, dear." said mamma, "no
more cakes tonight. Don't you know
you cannot sleep on a full stomach?"
"Well." replied Willie, "I can sleep oa
my back." Harper's Round Table.
HisCity Niece (visiting the farm)
"O, uncle! Here comes a lot of wheel
men ptdaling down the road." Uncle
Josh "Peddiin'. eh? Waal, Im mighty
glad them fellers has found somethin'
!15pflll to fin'.! Truth !
r - ... ' .. . chine, chameleon and Persian silks, the
i . T" 1 'oaf ,nairc t buinS a vcivct.strlped and brocaded siiks and
bicjcle. he casually remarked, as they ' thc iatcd and plald(I ve,vets,
sat side by side on the sofa. "Yes." i
"Cash or installment?" "Two dollars! . .. ,
a week." she admitted. And thus It was ' The JcuIts navc Pr-hased th fa'
she unknowingly caused him to post-' taous palace ondragone, near Fras
pone his proposal for nearly a vear i catL ItaI- from -ce Borghese. for
Indianapolis Journal. j S&0.000. It will be used as an laatl-
To?liAr "If nra cc-,.--.t -,:! 1.1 ' tQte-
- . .. ... ,xi uul (in mum ,
clean two rooms in two hours, how long '
would it take two servant girls to do
it?" Little Girl "Four hours." Teach- i UJ,6" Ui"cul " - -er-"Wrong.
It would only take one vartioa a W --
hour." Little Girl "O; I didn't know
you wa talkin' about servant girls that
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Xtws,
k MtfMMl's Lift.
FULL
OF HARDSHIPS. EXPOSURE
CONSTANT DANGER.
AND
Taw Crta
Strata Mam's 1
la Ittatf TCrack Wat
i Taa Kxtvl
af WaaVafawwa Mat
From tae CUmaaaU. Oaio, Eaaairer.
The life of amotontta Is aot a bed ef
rosea. Ho is subjected to auay auosaips
down uDon him. CouidenUe nerra aad
self-possession is necessary ia a good awler
m&a, for the lives mi limba ef his -passea-get
era at stake. One of the aestjnowa
electric natonaea la this city it YvUIaVB
Fnuer, who fe at present ranainr a ear ea
tae Cumminsvilleeirctric line. He is aei
only well known to hie follow enatoyes bmt
to the people who travel ea his car. Mr.
Fraxarb a young ssaa aboat iweaty-six
years of aire and resides with hi wire and
chilil at 144 RMU Ktrael Cincinnati. O.
Aboata year ago Mr. Fraser was takaa
with serious atomach treab'es. He bou?at
' several kinds of medicine which were ree
emmended to him, batneoe of them seemed
to give bim even temporary oeneai. ah
enthusiastic admirer of that famous reawdy
known as Dr. Williams' Piak Pills for Pale
People told him to try them. Fraser was
almost discouraged, bat took the advice.
To a reporter for tlio Enquirer he said:
--I can most heariilv recommend Dr. Wit
Hams' Pink Pills. Thev are all that is
! claimed for them, in fact tbey advertise
' themselves better than any medicine I ever
i was seized soma time sjto with a bad
attack of indigestion. My stomach hart me
, aearly all the time and I could not digest
ffjffiJ'M
I reiier. I confess that vrnen l Dongas too
j first box of Pink Phis I hadn't much confl-
; denee in their efficacy because I had tried to
j nviny things without success that I was a!-
! most discouraged Before I had taken one
box 1 was decidedly bitter. Two boxes
cured me cntirc'y. While I have been under
the weather from other cause my indiges-
tion ha-i never returned. If it eTer should
1 know just what to do. I have so much
confidence in the eflcacy of Pink Pilla that
if I ever get real sick again with any disof-
dcr I shall use some of them. It is a plcas-
I ore for me, I assure you, to testify to the
cxrcui'Ufc quauiiraui uirac x mil r his. Auoy
not only tone the stomach but regulate the
bowels and act ast as a mi!d cathartic"
Mr. Frazer's testimonial means some
thing. He speaks from personal experi
ence and any one who doubts that lie re
ceived the benefits stated can easily verify
the assertion by calling on Mr. Frazer or
teeing him some time while he is on his car.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills contain a!l tho
elements necessary to give new life and
richness to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are sold in boxes at 3J
cents a box. or six boxes for $2.50. and may
be had of all druggists or directly by mail
from Dr. Williams Medietas Company,
Schenectady, N. Y
NEWSY TRIFLES.
It is costing Spain $3,000,000 a month
to fight Cuba.
Last year it cost Great Britain $21,000
to combat the locust plague of Cyprus.
In Trigg county, Ky., J. J. Thomas
Crew an apple that weighed a pound
and ten ounces.
Four generations of a family are be
ing taken care of at the poor farm
at Biddeford, Me.
In 1869 there were in London only
COO miles of underground wires, where
as there are now 13,000 miles.
Prepaid gas metcra are growing in
favor in New Ya-k. You drop u quar
ter in a slot and get 2l-n feet of gas.
Bloomers are the rage in Paris. The
women are overdoing it, and the au
thorities are puzzled how to stop the
nuisance.
A team attached to a patrol wagon
in Pittsburg ran away the other day
and stopped only, when they had board
ed a trolley car.
A man who had been an inmate of
the Allegan county, Mich., poorhouse
j for forty-seven years died there last
week at the age of 73 years.
I . n , . .!.. . .11 ..... Im
' dines are found members of the Wheel-
sidcration, push the rider's machine to
the summit.
Illinois has a poulation of 4.000.000.
Indiana of 2.000,000. Illinois has 14,234
miles of railroad, Indiana has 8.36V.
Illinois assessed her railroads at $157.-
743,028.
The Atlantic Monthly for November
will contain among- other features three
short stories of exceptional quality: In
Harvest Time, by A. M. Kwell; The
Apparition of Gran'ther Hill, by Row
land E. Robinson: and The Face of
Death, by L. Dougall. "o recent se
ries of papers in the Atlantic has at
tracted more wide attention than
George BIrkbcck Hill's A Talk over Au
tographs. The fifth and last of the
series appears in this iv&ue. Lafcadio
Hearn's contribution bears the sug
gestive title After the War, and is quite
as readable as his other delightful
studies of Japan. Poems, exhaustive
Book Reviews, and the usual depart
ments complete the issue.
FASHION NOTES.
The large hats mean big bows of rib
ton or velvet.
Velvet flonrishes on cloaks, wai3ts,
dresses and hats.
Bows of velvet brocaded ribbon are
teen on uressy uaus.
r.,.a SK '.. ,..,. .., ,-ki.
Five-inch satin back velvet ribbon
. ... . . tM . .
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i nam siik petticoats are certainly
bright enough to attract attention.
Chiffon i3 evidently in for another
big run this winter for waists, sleeves
and plastrons.
Large flowered chine designs on
white arc worked up into fetching lit
tle theater capes.
Of ail th gown3 seen at the openings
rone equaled in elegance a princess
rcbe cf printed velvet on a cream
robe o
ground.
i a suk department nowadays can
have a positively dazzling appearance
from the high colors and contrasting
effects in vogue.
From the number of ' silk waists
shown at tbeopenings one might sup
pose they were in the zenith of their
glory in spite of the efforts of the
French modistes.
The most striking novelties of the
reason in the silk department are the
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; uuiiovwu j i fuu ,., ...
1 ot the year 4714, of the Julian period,
though different chronologists make a
Aroostook county, Maine, cne of the
JJMt Potato-growing districts in the
Plmmt. wilt nut afeont C.OOO.000 huahele
FUit sa tat irktt this hshi.
MpertnUijr la tbe mater wne ft is xpeea
. ! to the cold im bow. Even in the naaer
. . . koaa Taif fttaalt wfclflk BaMatftsi
mm lairavk wt r am initonn : if uaan rw
Columlms Stats - Bank I
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B. H. Hum, Vvce Prest,
. If. Bmuacucx, Cashier. .
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Pat. la Capital, - 90,000
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