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-r-t, v- -i-' i r A-wf i-iO -- V - - 4 t -r j" V35V' .' -- - JTV B- ,rfc jf - We Practice what we Preach Patronize Home And Ido not use any adulterated and shipped in candies when you can buy fresh home-made candies made to order. Toys at half price Dolls 25 less than any place in town Number 74 Wins the first set of dfchee bring in your tickets, if not brought to us by Dec 24 the next number under seal get the set so look up your numbers. Candy 31bsfor 25c Salted Peanuts. . . 12& lb Mixed nuts 15c lb Poesch's POESCH'tS Candy Factory Columbus, Neb. M v '- "-1 -'- "- ADDITIONAL NEWS. Chris Meedel went to Spalding Tues day to spend the holidays with his son, Julius. The Orpheus society is anticipating an enjoyable time at the ball they will give Christmas night at their ball. The invitations are limited to members of . the society and their families. The infant sod of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Eisenmann, of Lonp township, died last Saturday and was buried Monday in the Griietli cemetery, Rev. Braun con ducting the services. Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Adams Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Speice and Mr. ami Mrs. Julius Nichols entertained 150 iuvited guests at Orpheus hall. Dancing ami refreshments were the order of the evening. Jason L Stickney and Aggie Lohoff, of Albion, Fred E. Wescott and Esther Olson, of Creston. and Mathius F Ger man and Anna J. Braun, of Humphrey, went issued licenses to wed by Judge Katterman this week. The bo-trd of supervisors have been in session aince Monday,, nearly all of their time being taken up with allowing bills and committee work. The Standard Bridge company are checking up their work with the county for the last year. Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. German, o fa rami Prairie township, were in the city Tuesday. They were accompanied by their sun, Mathius, and Anna J. Braun. While here the young people culled on County Judge Katterman and secured the necessary license to wed. DRESSING FOR DINNER. A Habit e Be Cultivated by All Classes of Persons. "Dressing for dinner" is regarded by some as a piece of arrogance and as evidencing merely a desire to appear superior to somebody else. They ob serve no dignity in the custom and per haps do not realize the fact that jhe change of clothes Is consistent with personal comfort and cleanliness, whether the new garments donned be of the evening dress pattern or not. The most important meal of the day affords to those who dine in the even ing an excellent opportunity of ex changing their workaday clothes for :t suit which has been brushed and aired. The bracing effect of a change of clothes Is well known. Many a man, being almost too fatigued after au ar duous day's work to change his clothes, finds himself considerably refreshed when he experiences a feeling of clean liness and preparedness for his dinner, and good digestion invariably waits on healthy appetite. The changing of clothes xn.df- even thus favorably affect nutrition. Nor need the changing of clothes be the exclusive luxury of the persons who dress for dinner. The hard worked clerk, the shopkeeper and the workiugman would all be better if they would cast off their workaday clothes and put on clean clothes for the evening meal after, the day of toil is over. The change freshens the body, gives a gentle stimulus to the wearied hand and head, and a brighter view of tilings Is thereby engendered. The habit Is. besides, cleanly, dignified and becoming. Lancet NEEDLESS NOISES. Maddealaa- Effect of Sosme Seaads That Assail Oae's Ears. It is the needlessness of most noises that renders them Insufferable. Yon sleep very well through the roar of a wintry storm, but If some one has for gotten to fasten a blind and It begins to bang then you are lost You might as well get up and locate that blind and fasten It first as last The mani fold noises of your steamer's plunge through the night with the neroetuai wash of the sea, unite in a lullaby to ' which the worst conscience sinks into repose, but a snore breaking from the ! next stateroom recalls the memory of all one's sins. The rush and leap and incessant but varied grind and clang of the sleeping car become soothing at last but a radiator, beginning to fizz and click after the steam has been turned off, seems to leave the would be sleeper no resource but suicide. If you could get at the second engineer and leave him weltering In his gore, you could snatch a few cat naps before morning. But you cannot get at the sec- oud eugiueer after midnight In most hotels. Continuous noises and nmH. ! ry noises are things you can adjust senses nr vnnr oniric t hf i.a, I OT - M vt - AAFliYZ without a reason, without an apparent right, like the gnawing of a rat in the wainscot, is what drives so many to perdition. W. D. Howells in Harper's. Claade. Daval. This gallant robber of men's purses and ladies' hearts was of French ex traction. Duval became so rich with his 111 gotten gains that he was enabled to retire from the profession and re turn to France. Buta quiet life, free from the excitement of his old career, did not agree with his adventurous spirit He returned again to England and resumed his avocation. At length he was captured at the Hole In the Wall, in Chandos street. While in prison awaiting his doom many ladies of position visited him and endeavored to obtain his release, but justice was Inexorable, and he was hanged at Ty burn in January, 1670. His epitaph In St Paul's church, Covent Garden, speaks of him as "Old Tyburn's glory, England's illustrious thief," and tells Hare lies DavaL art Reader. If male thou Tinrtr to thy purse; if female, to thy heart. Mack havoc has he made of both. St -James' Gazette. COCHINEAL. The War th Tlay lasects Live low They Are Gathered. Merry millions of little buglets sup port the vast cochineal Industries. Where the tiny cochineal Insect comes from is something of a mystery, but he does come wherever the nopal plant grows and for a long time was thought to be a seed or a floweret of the plant. The living female insect is twice as large as the male, weighs one-tenth of a grain and loses much weight in" dry ing, so that 70,000 are needed to make one pound. During the rainy season many millions of the creatures are drowned or washed off the plants, so that when the long dry summer comes there are but a few survivors on each plant But these multiply so rapidly that before long the plants are cover ed. The last act of the female's life is to deposit a large number of eggs, on which her dead body rests, protecting them fromjthe burning rays of the sun until the little ones emerge. In about six weeks after the beginning of the dry season comes the first harvest The plantation laborers make the round of the nopalry ami with a brush go over the entire plant, sweeping the creatures Into a bag. They then are killed by immersion in. hot water, by exposure to steam or by,drying hi hot ovens. The hot water or steam makes them a dark reddish brown or black cochineal. The hot ovens make them a red gray hue or silver cochineal. The females outnumlwr the males by at least 200 to 1, a fortunate fact for the planter, since the males are of no use to him whatever. THE CABS-OF NEW YORK. They Are Not am Iatesral Part of the Life of the City. The cab Is no Integral part of New York life. Venice without the gondola were as unthinkable as a woman with out hair. No little of London's com pelling charm is in its swift rolling hansoms. These things we know. But one can't think of New York in terms of cabs. Once upon a time I was In exile. Only in memory did the great city rise before me, and what I saw was this: Huge canyons of stone and steel, filled with noise and darkness, through which great yellow worms crawled, one after the other, in mid air. That Is the picture of New York that haunts the exile, even as the out lawed Venetian is obsessed by slim black gondolas cutting across lanes of moonlight. Your true New Yorker is a steam projected, electrically carted person. Only in exceptional momenta of gloom or gayety does he ride "in a carriage and pair." He Is carriage ridden to a funeral. He cabs it In wiuey moments, when the fear of God Is not in him. There are only 2.000 licensed cabs and hacks on the island of Manhattan. Others there are, of course, plying piratically in the dark quarters, but even with these thrown In the reckoning is small. No; the New Yorker is not a cabby person. Vance Thompson in Outing Magazine. A College la Bokhara. There lay behind the great arch and the domes and the minarets a retired precinct of ancient, trees and shaded walks, a grove in the midst of a city, I colonnaded in quadrangle by the point ed arches of the students' cells. Under the trees was a sort of summer house or pavilion. Two or three young men were walking in an avenue against the farther colonnade, and on the stone steps of a wide, shaded pool sat several mollahs on their praying rugs. We visited a number of the students in their cells monastic little brick walled rooms where they live the year around (there are no vacations in Mussulman colleges) and for years on end. It is not unusual for a student after passing the primary school to spend as much as fifteen or twenty years at his higher studies, though usually in such a long course he will go through several dif ferent colleges in the order of advance- ment- Quiet men, these students, mild e'eL Patient, often middle aged. Min- neapo-hs Bellman. Girl Slaves la Chlaa. A native writer hi a Chinese publica tion, remarks: "When a girl Is sold in China she becomes the slave of her owner and a part of his proierty. She no longer retains her freeborn rights, but surrenders them all to the will of those who own her. She receives no compensation for her labor, but is obliged to accept such raiment and food as her owners may be pleased to give her. In cases of tyranny or gross cruelty she cannot appeal for redress. Sne ma resold. Iveu away or cast off In the streets at the arbitrary arbitrary will of her master. All freedom is de nied her, and she remains a tool and chattel in the bands of her owner un til she'is sold again or until death re leases her from her unwilling fate." Effects of Deaf a ess. An ear specialist insists that deafness affects all the senses. He says the rea son for this is that the ear is only one servant of the sensory service of the human system. Loss of hearing is really a partial paralysis of the brain, but owing" to the sympathetic connec tion of the various sensory nerve cen ters of the brain the others indirectly concerned have to combat for their very life 'the demoralizing influence of the affected center. Coaslderatlea off m Motorist. We hold no brief for the motorists, says the Bystander, but "honor where honor Is due." Qn a country road the other day we saw a motorist, delib erately avoid running over an animal on the highway! To be exact, it was a circus elephant St James' Gazette. In the capital'-of Honduras all the houses hi the poorer quarter are made of mahogany, which costs less than pine there. THUNDER. OJd Beliefs That Used to Exist la Days of Old. Thunder, just because it is a noise for which there is no visible cause, has always excited the imagination of the unscientific, so it is natural that the most outrageous superstitions about storms should date back to the time when everybody, more or less, was un scientific. One old writer explains the belief of bis day that "a storm is said to follow presently when a company of hogges runue crying home," on the ground that "a hogge is most dull and of a melancholy nature and so by rea son doth foresee the raine that Com eth." Leonard Digges, In his "Prog nostication Everlasting" (1556), men tions that "thunder In the morning signifies wind; about noon, rain, and In the evening, a great tempest." The same writer goes on to say, "Some write (but their ground I see not) that Sunday's thunder should bring the death of learned men, judges and others; Monday's, the death of women; Tuesday's, plenty of grain; Wednesday's, bloodshed; ' Thursday's, plenty of sheep and corn; Friday's, the slaughter of a great man and other horrible murders; Saturday's, a gen eral iHistilcnt plague and great dearth." After this the gay and lightsome mea ner shown by Lord Northampton to ward these grave matters in his "De fensative" is most cheering. "It chaunceth sometimes," he writes, "to thunder about that time and season of the years when swannes batch their young, and yet no doubt it Is a para dox of simple men to think that a swanue cannot hatch without a crackle of thunder." London Chronicle. A STUDY IN MILEAGE. AlmoNt Every Coaatry lias a Staad ard of Its On. English speaking countries have four different miles the ordinary mile of 5.2S0 feet and the geographical or nau tical mile of 6,085, making a differ ence of about one-seventh between the two; then there is the Scotch mile of 5,928 feet and the Irish mile of 0,720 feet four various miles, every one of which is still in use. Then almost every country has it own standard mile. The llomans had their mille passuum, 1.000 paces, which must have been nliout 3,000 feet in length unless we ascribe to Caesar's legionaries great stepping capacity. The German mile of today is 24,318 feet in length, more than four and a half times as long as our mile. The Dutch, the Danes and the Prus sians enjoy a mile that is 18.440 feet long, three and a half times the length of ours, and the Swiss get more exer cise in walking ..ne of hi.'ir miles than we get in v.M.J . a li " miles, for their mile is I).!.":; yar. s loin:, while ours i only 1.75 yrd The Italian mile i only a few fet I v:gcr than ours; the Roman mde U sli ir.cr. whi't the Tiin can and t!u- Tiz..idi miles are 15n yards longer. The Swedish mile is si and a hatf time-: and Hie Vienna post mile is four ::.. a Iiaif times the length of the Etig.Ish mile.- Pearson's Weekly. Wonderful Vfinaxtery. At Solovet !;. hi the Kussian govern ment of Archangel, is the most remark able monastery in the world. The mon aster' of Solovetsk is inclosed on ev ery side by a wad of granite bowlders which measures nearly a mile in cir cumference. The monastery itself la very strongly fortified, being support ed by round and square towers about thirty feet in height with walls twenty feet in thickness. The monastery con sists in reality of six churches, which arc completely filled with statues of all kinds and precious stones. Upou the walls and the towers surrounding these churches are mounted huge guns, which in the time of the Crimean war were directed against the British White sea squadron. Too Enericetlc. "Last Saturday," said the, flat dwell er, "I went out into the ball and saw a woman on her knees scrubbing the marble very well, making it a beauti ful dead white. I thought to myself. 'This is a good scrubwoman"; I'll ask her to scrub my kitchen and clean my windows.' I did. She scrubbed all the paint off the floor of my kitchen and washed the panes of two windows en tirely out "I was glad I didn't ask her to wash my face," she finished. New York Press. Whea Hoaeyatooa Eads. "How," said the young man whq had been in the matrimonial game for nearly a week, "can I tell when the honeymoon is over?" "ft will be over," answered the man who had been married three times, "when your wife stops telling things and begins to ask questions.'"-hicago News. Social Daaicer. So long as we have at the bottom of our social fabric an army of vagabonds, hand to mouth livers and slum dwell ers, half starved, dirty, foul mouthed, so long are we in imminent danger. And it is want of work which makes recruits, for this army. Mirror. Tart Retort. "Young man, you are better fed than taught," said the professor angrily. "Quite right sir. My father feeds me," answered the student London Tit-Bits. Geaaroas. "You said that when we were mar ried you wbuld refuse me nothing." "Til be still more generous. I'll not even refuse you nothing, m give.it to you.' The first English work on -anatotmy was by Tnornaa VIcary, fat 1548. THE SHAMROCK. At Oae Tli e It Was Used F Food In Ireland. That fee shamro-k was used as diet before it was adopted at the national emblem has been conclusively demon strated, though in proving the fact one writer borrows from another. Very few drew their Information from per sonal observation.' Spenser undoubted ly did, and he Is perhaps responsible for the familiarization of this fact to his contemporaries. I quote the pas sage from "The View of the Present State of Ireland:" "Out of every corner' of the woods and gllnnes they came creeping foorthe upon theyr handes, for theyr legges could not beare them. They looked like anatomy es of death; they spake like ghostes crying out of theyr graves; they did eat of the dead carrions, aud yf they founde a plotte of water cresses or shamrokes there they flocked as to a feast for the time." This dietary use was known to the Elizabethan dramatists. I vlll give tee leave to cram mv mouth phlt shamrokes and butter, aud vater creeshes Instead of pearsh and peepsh. Ben Jonson's "Irish Masque." This Irish footman, a wild kerne, a frog, a dog, whom I'll scare spwin. Longed you for shamrock? Thomas Dekker. "The shamrock thus used for food," says Mr. CoIgaiC "was one or other, or perhaps both, of the meadow clovers, or trefoils, Trlfollum prateuse (purple clover) and Trlfollum repens (white clover) of modern botanists." Notes and Queries. THE OLD FARM. Thoas-ats It Breasht to Oae Who Kaew It as a Boy. One morning I was awakened with a strange new joy In my mind. It came to me at that moment with inde scribable poignancy, the thought of walking barefoot In cool fresh plow furrows, as I had once done when a boy. So vividly the memory came to me the high airy world, as It was at that moment and the boy I was, walk lug free In the furrows that the weak tears filled my eyes, the first I had shed In many years. Then I thought of sitting In quiet thickets In old fence corners, the wood behind me rising still, cool, mysterious, and the fields In front stretching away In illimitable pleasantness. I thought of the good smell of cows at milking. You do not know if you do not know! I thought of the sights and sounds, the heat aud sweat of the hayfields. I thought of a certain brook I knew when a boy that flowed among alders and wild parsnips, where I waded with a three foot rod for trout I thought of all these things as a man thinks of his first love. Oh, I craved the soil! I hungered and thirsted for the earth. I was greedy for growing things. American Magazine. Preach Seatlateat. A French parricide who slew his fa ther and mother and was asked upon condemnation what be had to say and why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, entreated the court to have mercy upon a poor orphan. This tale Is green with the moss of ages and may not be true, but something like it is true of a woman named Marie Cel vet, sentenced by a Paris tribunal to twenty years' Imprisonment at bard labor for the murder of her sister. While In court she constantly wore a long crape veil. "Why do "you wear this veil?" asked one of the officials, to which she replied that she was in mourning for her sister, showing an affectionate sensibility, the earlier ex hibition of which, however, would have been more becoming to her even than the garment After Heath. It Is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give peo ple a truer Idea of bis character, whether for good or for evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among men. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betrays its emptiness. It Is a touchstone that proves, the gold and dishonors the baser metal. Could the departed, whoever he may be, re turn In a week after his decease he would almost Invariably find himself at a, higher or a lower point than he had formerly occupied In the scale of public appreciation. A Reaaarltable Carrier Pla-eoa. A remarkable story of the sagacity and physical endurance of a carrier pigeon Is told In Nanseu's story of his arctic explorations. One day the pigeon tapped at the window of Mrs. Nansen's home In Cbristiania. It was Immedi ately opened, aud the little messenger was covered with kisses and caresses by the explorer's wife. After an ab sence of thirty months from the cot tage the pigeon, had brought a note from the explorer over a thousand miles of frozen waste and another thousand of ocean, plain and forest Advaataares of Kilts. The London Tailor and Cutter ob serves with its usual keen insight Into human nature: "No one has yet sug gested the utility of kilts. They never bag at the knees, nor do they ever require patching at that part, and their hygienic' properties are proverbial." Whero He Saved. Two residents of a suburban neigh borhood were talking of the merits of gas and electricity and their compar ative cost "WelL I haven't, figured It out carefully," said the man who used electric light, "but I know I save a lot of matches." For a violin by Petrus Guarnerlus, dated 1605, 260 was given at a recent h Nicholas J A PATERNAL CRITICISM. lr Henry Irrlafa Coauaeat oa Ills Sea's Early Hamlet. H. B. Irving, son of Sir Henry Irv ing, was not educated primarily for the stage. Studying for the profession of barrister, while' he was still in college he took part In amateur theatricals. An amusing story is told of oue of his earlier interpretations of the difficult role of Hamlet On this particular ami early occasion, however, Sir Henry was "out in front," and after the ier formance several. Including his sou, crowded about him for an expression of opiuion. "What do you think of Smith as Po lonius?" asked one. "Good, very good," murmured Sir Henry In his quiet, kindly way. "And Miss Blank as Ophelia?" "Good, very good," again murmured Sir Henry. . . "And Jones as the king?" "Good, very good," repeated Sir Henry. "And Thomas as Horatio?" ""Good, very good," came the answer. So the entire cast was gone through with the exception of the principal character, and each received the same precise, neat criticism, "good, verj' good." Then there was a slight pause, an awkward pause, after which the son, who had lieen waiting eagerly aud anxiously for bis father's opinion about his acting, managed to pluck up eaough courage to stammer. "Buf, fa therwhat did you think of the rest of the cast?" Sir Henry locked blandly at his son and then remarked dryly; "Are you sure that you want to he an actor, my sou?" Bohemian Magazine. MAN AND MONEY. The Chanice That Often Comes With the AniniNltlon of Wealth. The transforming iower of money the moment it gets into a man's pos session is one of the unsolved mys teries of the universe. Of course we know that the poison of avarice aud greed is in the character and not In the money, but it is unfortunate that the possession of money seems to de velop, to bring out, some of the worst human qualities, qualities which never develop In poverty or show themselves under ordinary circumstances. Before we get possession of money we feel sure that we will not allow it to warp and twist our ideals. We are going to show the world a sane use of money. We are going to help every - body. We are Koine to heln strurlins merit, assist poor boys and girls to get an education and to get a start in the world. We are going to be helpful and useful in the largest possible way. But it Is a strange trait in human nature that, no matter how humble or democratic or helpful and companion able people may be while poor, just as soon as the average man gets more than his fellows he begins to domineer over them and to use the very wealth which lie was so anxious to get to en able him to help his fellow men to oppress and keep them down. O. S. Mardeu in Success Magazine. Not a Bad Prescription. On a family druggist's prescription file is an oft repeated prescription bearing jiuiuber 37,111. The Latin of the twentieth century reads: "Recipe. Tlcketorii theatrici numera duo sigup. Take this afternoon. Dr. ." Obviously it Is an order on the drug gist written "by a reputable physician for two theater tickets, and the pa tients, mother and daughter, are en abled to take needed treatment at a matinee while the busy husband and father remains at work. The reason for the scheme as told the druggist by the doctor was the absolute need of mother and daughter for recreation, and as the dniggist has a theater ticket office It was readily and satis factorily arranged. New York Sun. What Mrciitlilns Amount. To. In each respiration an average adult inhales one pint of air. A man respires sixteen to twenty times a minute, aud a young child about twenty-live to thirty-five times. While in a standing posture the number of respirations is greater than when lying down. A man takes only thirteen breaths of air to the minute while reclining. The superficial surface of t'.ie lungs is 00 square yards. The amount of air inspired by an adult iu twenty-four hours is about 10,000 quarts. The least amount or air needed by an adult In one hour is '.lSl quarts. The heart sends through the lungs 5,000 gallons of blood tlailv. Most Birds Lure Toys. Most birds love toys. The plaj'things help to while away the time and pre vent them from tearing their plumage. Parrots are especially devoted to play things and can he trained to do simple tricks with the objects specially fan cied. A soft billed bird will amuse it self for an hour with a peanut which,it cannot break, a tin.v bell or a mirror Just big enough to reflect Its own head. Mary Dawson in t Nicholas. Fixing; the Vulnc. Jones So the price of that "old mas ter" is .000. It doesn't look to be worth $10. Art Dealer Yes. but remember it was painted In V2V.K Just think what $10 at compound Interest would amount to for that length of time! Impertinent. Old Doctor What are those white objects I see in the distance, my dear? Miss Pert Those are signs advertising your profession, sir. Old Doctor Ah, I thought they might be tombstones. Miss Tert So they are. Saapose She Had Beea Oat! "What day was I born on, mother?" "Thursday, child." "Wasn't that fortunate? Ifs your day 'at home.' "Harper's Weekly. A QUAINT CHARACTER THE ECCENTRICITIES OF THE ITALIAN MARQUIS DEL GRILLO. Griat Joke hy Whleh Att to Rerolatloalse the tloa of Jastiee la Caesar What Beleased ta The Marquis del GriUo. husband of the famous actress. Adelaide BJetert, was one of the best knows characters of his day. Rich, bearing a title that made him one of the most coasplcaeaa figures in Itoman life, and absolutely indifferent to what -others thought of him, he indulged In all sorts of pranks. Society called them eccentricities and pronounced him slightly unbalanced, but in reality he was possessed of mnu- sually bright faculties. He had a keea sense of humor, loved excitement aad was thoroughly awake to' the shortcom ings of his generation. His eccentrici ties were so many object lrssons, which it pleased him to administer la his own quaint way. and they seldom went wide of the mark. His first attempt at a practical joke, if such it may be termed, bade fair to revolutionize the administration of jus tice in IConie. Punctually at 10 one bright spring morning every church bell la town be gan to ring "ajnorto," a long; pecaliar toll used to announce a death. Pius IX. was then reigning pontiff and. hearing the general tolling, asked who the great personage was that all Rome was mourning. None of his "suit" knew, but inquiries at St Peter's elicit ed the fact that the Marquis del Grllkj had sent the order without specifying who was dead. The pontiff was even more mystified, and when word had come from other churches to the same ehTect he sent for. the marquis, who promptly answered the, summons. "I hear," said Pius IX. to the mar quis, that It is at your bidding that every bell In Rome Is tolling. Who, then, is dead?" "Justice, your holiness," was the enig matic reply. "Justice?" "Yes. your holiness justice. The goddess is no more In the pontifical states." And thereupon be related to the as tonished pontiff how, becoming aware of the corruption existing In judiciary circles, he had made an experiment Claiming that the farm of a poor neigh bor of his belonged to him, he brought ' the ioor man to court and by liberal i bribing obtained possession of t whole estate, to which be had no right whatsoever. The pope, after listening attentively. j censured the marquis severely for the method used, but history tells us that the lesson bore fruit and that many changes took place hi Important civic positions. At another time the marquis, who al ways dressed very modestly, made his way on foot to the palace of Prince Massimo, where a big reception was being held. As he approached the en trance a pompous lackey looked him over from head to foot and then barred the way. "No admittance tonight," he said In solently. "A reception ls,going on." , The nobleman stood amazed, for even over princes he often took precedence. but then he saw the humor of the situa tion aud. smiling to himself, walked away. Half an hour later a magnificent coach drew up before the palace; and out stepiMHl the marquis, resplendent In a gorgeous court uniform and scintillat ing with decorations. In a minute the whole house was astir, and the hostess herself met him and led him In. The night was warm, and soon she Invited him to have an Ice, an offer which he promptly accepted. Imagine her feel ings when, histoid of eating It he coolly and deliberately proceeded to spread spoonf ul after spoonful over the front of his uniform and on his nu merous decorations. "Why. marquis," she exclaimed In alarm, "what are you doing?" "(Jiving Caesar what belongs to Cae sar." was the quiet reply. "Your serv ants refused to let me in In the garb of a plain gentleman, but promptly ad mitted my costume and decorations when I carried them In. Is It not they that should be rewarded?" A iieculiarity of the marquis was his refusing to have as personal valets any but the most quick wltted of young fellows, who could help him In his lit tle escapades without having to be coached too much. Many amusing tales are told of his experiences In en gaging them. In one Instance be was sitting at the piano trying some church music when a new applicant was ush ered in. He didn't stop playing or even glance around, but began to ask ques tions, the answers to which evidently did not apeal to him, for he suddenly struck a loud chord and, following the tune of the music, chanted In a loud voice, "You will never do for me." Then be rose and without a look at the man started to walk out of the room. Quick as a flash the applicant stepped to the piano aud. striking the keys with lioth lists, chanted back solemnly on the same air. "I'm very glad of It be cause I don't like you a Mt" Any one else would have had the man thrown out for his impudence, but the marquis paused at the door and smiledjwith appreciation. "I guess we shall get on nicely, after all," lie, said pleasantly. "See my 'maggiordomo aud speak to blm about terms." New York Times. His Moaey'a Worth. Lauudryutau I regret to tell you. sir, that one of your shirts Is lost Cus tomerBut here I have just paid you 12 cents for doiug it up. Laundry man Quite right, sir; we laundered.lt be fore we lost It Harper's Weekly. Nothing Is easy to the unwilling. From the Gaelic. . 2 BRICK COURT. Mti iltfc Aaiaaed Hlssself. Few buildings link the London of the present day with so many of the liter ary characters of the London of the past as does the house at 2 Brick court. Middle Temple. The dominant memory which clings around It is that perpetuated by handsome tablet on its front elevation bearing the words: In these chambers died diver Goldsmith On the 4th of Apt.. 1774. and a medallion of the poet Goldsmith's, however, was seldom a lonely figure; and he gathered around aim at Brick court all the wit of the metropolis of bis day. "In 1765, on the strength of the success of "The Good Natural Man" and the fact that he was making some 500 a year, "Goldie" expended J00 on chambers "up two pair right" and fitted them with showy carpets, gilt mirrors and furniture ex travagantly upholstered In blue velvet Thus equipped, he embarked on a course of expenditure In which fine clothes for himself, grand dinners to a literary coterie and pretty trifles for venal beauties all bore costly parts. Johnson, Dr. Arne, Percy Reynolds, Francis and Bickerstaff were among the frequent visitors at 2 Brick court, bat their arrival was not the cause of so much concern to Goldsmith's coteu ants as tliat of some other of the poet's guests. It was the little supper parties to Goldsmith's young friends of both sexes- that drew from the studious Blackstoue, hard at work on his famous "Commentaries" In the rooms below "Goldie's." bitter protests against the racket of his leveling neighbor." Both "The Traveler" and 4Tbe Vicar of Wakefield" were published soon aft er Goldsmith moved into Brick court, but the Income they brought him was Insufficient to withstand the drain made on his resources by bis extravagance, bis generosity and bis taste for gam bling. Owing 2.000, unable to obtain further advances from his bookseller.- and seeing no way out of his embar rassments. Goldsmith broke down in spirits and health. He bud to leave those windows from which he used to watch the rooks in the grove, which once stood where now is Elm court, and. as he wrote, "often amused my self with observing their plan of policy." Goldsmith returned thither, nevertheless, to die, and though be was . carried to bis last resting place through rows of weeping women the "benches of the Temple appear to have valued him so little that the very place of his burial became forgotten. For that neglect the tablet came as tardy but welcome reparation. London Tribune. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. An ounce of assistance is worth a pound of advice. Count your joys and you will dis count your sorrows. Hard labor Is a plaster that alleviates the pains of the mind. Part of the art of doing things is to attempt but little at a time. Some people seem to think that loud talk makes a sound argument. If you have a cross to bear, bear It like a man and don't place it on ex hibition. When the opposing attorney offers "to compromise it means that you have a good case. Many a man is credited with being patient when in reality he is too lazy to register a kick. Many a fool has acquired a reputa tion for wisdom by accidentally doing the right thing at the right time. Exchange. -Assy Kohsart. On a Sundav In Serttmtwr irua Lady Robert Dudley, better known un der her maiden name of Amy Kohsart. being in good health, sent to a fair all the people of Comnor Hall, near Ox ford, where she was residing, except one friend. On their return she was lying dead at the fot of the stairs. Dudley courted inquiry. The Inquest found that she died by accident, and she was splendidly buried iu St. Mary's, Oxford. The Spanish ambas sador wrote that Elizabeth had told him a few days before that Amy was likely to die soon, but he may well have had a motive for a false state ment It Is Sir Walter Scott's greatest crime that he misdates Amy Itol.sart's death by some fifteen years. Pall Mall Gazette. The Rea;alar Caafom. In a Loudon street a girl of twelve and a boy of ten were playing a family drama of "mother and father." and Bobby was being Instructed In his role. "Now. Bob," said the irl. "you jest walk up ter ther corner an wait there till we tells yer ter come. We're a-goin' ter git dinner ready, an' when we calls yer, yer ter come 'ome aud chuck the fingi about" "Hoi" -said Bobby. "Come 'ome drunk, do 1? And why for?" "Why for. stoopld'r" retort ed the girl, with a glance of mingled scorn and pity. "Ain't It Saturday?" Geaerosity. x Never be sorry for any generous thing that you ever did. even If It was betrayed. Never be sorry that you were magnanimous If the man was mean afterward. Never be sorry that you cave, it was ngut ior .vuu n give even If you were imposed upon. You cannot afford to keep on the safe aide by being mean. The Plaral. In a Chicago school a class was studying Irregular plurals of nouns wheu it was asked by the teacher to give the plural of "child." Then it was that' little Edgar, who knew how It was at home, promptly aswered. Twins." 1 ii ! v 'i I 1 V Y?T r y-t