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weat to the Fhflipplaes, aad three
taatchea reaalted. Mr. Loaswprtls, of
Ohio; Mr. Cockraa, of New York, aad
Mr. Sherley. rtt Keatadty. all earrea
iteiei to laf aeaeea fasarias their hap-
plaeaa far ttfe. Aad mem the steamer
Blaecher la ao aooaer -docked oa her
retara with the Caaaoa party froa
the West ladles tha the engageaieat
ct two of the coapaay is aaaoaaced.
What Is it that makes love the pre
vaillac aad coatpelUns topic at sach
ttaea? .asks- the Washiagton Star.
Doea a dlscasaloa of Uncle Sam's mew
xespoaslbiUties lead to it? Or does the
delightfal iaipriaoBraent on shipboard
ezplaialt? Whatever the explanatloa,
the fhct exists, aid' it aiay resalt in
Midas sack trips exceedingly popu
lar. The cariosity of congress as to
oar outlyiag possessions auy come to
'overshadow everything else.
' Most of those who believe that the!
United States should have aa over-
whebaiagraavy will Indorse the theory
of Admiral "Bob" Evaas, that wej
should have battleshits and fleet tac-j
tics ia'tbe Pacific, as well as in the At
lantic "When the navy is built up to
Jts proper proportions I. believe . we
should have 16 battleships on the At
lantic aad'l'6 on the Pacific," says the
admiral. Then we could defy the
world!
Sir. Robei Ball, who has arrived in
New York, Is professor of astronomy
at Cambridge" university. "America
has done much in advancing the study
of astronomy," be says. "It Is really
here in America now that all the great
discoveries in astronomy are made."
While in this country he will be the
guest of Andrew Carnegie and will at
tead'the dedication of the Carnegie
institute, in Pittsburg.
' When Dr. Buckley, editor of the
Christian Advocate, told the New
York conference last week that some
ot his best suggestions for editorials
came from persons shut up in asylums
as lunatics, tho brethren were amused.
"I knew 'you would laugh," said Dr.
Buckley, "but I want to say that
.aome of the inmates of. insane -asylums
are as sane as' you will ever be."
Spencer Eddy, secretary of the
United States embassy in Berlin, is
v taking an active interest in polo. He
has been a moving spirit in organis
ing a number of young men in the Ger
man capital with a view to establish
ing the game in one or two of the
aabarbs of Berlin. It is probable that
at least two rival polo teams will be
put into the field there this summer.
Oh, yes, the Long island woman
who left in her will a provision of
915 a month for the support of a
scotch collie dog knew that there were
poor children in thQ world, but when
she was attacked by a robber in front
of her home, about a year ago, the
dog sprang at the man's throat and
he ran away and she. was grateful.
There is a woman in New York who
has been doing valiant service for the
Hamane society by addressing drivers
aad teamsters and telling them how
to use their horses better and in a
more humane manner. She is Mrs.
Diaaa Belais,.and her husband is
president of. the New York Humana
aociety. ,
la Caaada the French, settlers still
coattaae to use large brick ovens out
ef doors such aa were built in France
2St years ago. The perfection of the
stove aad range ia the last SO years
has driven many of these ovens out of
commission, bat many of the iahab'i
taata thiak that no good baking caa
he dose in any other oven.
Aa irreverent Yale student has col
lected atatistlcs of reading done in the
aalversity which show incidentally
that Yale professors take onvan aver
age only about eight or tea books a
year from the college library bat
that's nothing. Yale professors don't
"read hooka; they write them.
Eaoagh ChlaaaMB - have already
sworn that they are natives of this
eoaatiy to credit every Chinese womaa
Is the United States with 38 births.
Better start an orieatal aanex to the
AnanIaaclBb.
Before Mr. fltaad laya much more
stress aa his. theory that mam are
tmrn oaly weH read persoas, becaaae
ten immwm tiiae for nothing hat the
he oaflht to eaBghUa hla
: by solas to the libraries.
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"Likclhe.othersr-Swn thiak. I have
forfeited the right to oae word of
sympathy. '
rMore thaa all the others, I shoaM
think," she aaswered caljaly. without
hesitation.
-Yes;' I said, wearily, "you have
placed a placard on my hack, as they
wed to pat a high paper- cap on the
hoys in school. Oa the cap the school
masters used to write the word
-Dance;' on the placard yoa have
written the word 'Coward.' Aad. yet
I am not quite a coward. Do yoa re
fuse to see that I am simply one of
those men whose fate It has been, to
be tried to the uttermost? Forgive
me; I am appealing to. your sympathy
after all. Yoa resent thai It is quite
natural. It was 'a moment of weak
ness.. Again I pushed back my chair.
She regarded me half curiously.
Perhaps she noticed I was haggard
aad pale. Perhaps in spite of herself,
she was a little sorry for me.
"Oh, I suppose, she said, very
gently, "that there Is somethlag to
be said In the defense of .everyone.
By aad by I may feel less bitter to
ward yoa Mr. Haddoa. I shall re
member that you did not spare your
selfthat you might not have told
me" her voice fell to a whisper '
"everything;'
' "Thank you for saying so much. If
there were any reparation I would
make It You should know that"
"Reparation!" Her eyes flashed.
"How can you speak of reparation?"
"And is there no atonement possi
ble,, even for the most wretched?"
She looked down at me almost
sternly, for she had risen at the ques
tion. Then, as if a thin veil had been
drawn from her face, I saw the gentle
pity of womanhood reflected there. A
strange sweetness came into her voice
aa she spoke slowly, almost unwill
ingly. It was" a mystical message of
comfort she was bringing to me. She
was suggesting a way of hope after all.
"Because of you a life has been lost
to the world. I leave out the 'per
sonal loss to myself. Because of
your weakness, to call It by the most
charitable name, the world is the
poorer for one strong soul." .
"Yes," I' said, humbly, "yes.
"But if," she spoke more eagerly,
"if through you a life were saved for
the world if it were to be a life for
ajife "
A moment I stared at her, uncom
prehending. She had suggested a way
of escape so 'romantic that to one liv
ing' in 'this twentieth. century.it may
apemabsurd. JBut the jnerjrj audacity-
V ! ni-ra-rllnii k ntfl '
' "Yes I' cried, passionately, "I un
derstand.. It Is to-be a life for a life!
Ia some way, no1 matter how, 1 am to
save, a 'life for the life that has been
lost through me." '' '
"At least that should restore. yoar-self-respect,"
she assented -almost
coldly. She wished me to understand
that whatever I might or might not
do was no concern of hers. But I
was not to be discouraged. '
"And if I am so fortunate as to ac
complish this" I held her eyes
steadily "will you, I should say
rather, will the world, your world, re
member that? Shall I then stand on
the same plane as other men in your
respect?" ".- ? v ' " ,
"I vouch nothing. for the world.; and
certainly not-" she added, haughtily,
"for myself."
I felt an emotion that was very near
that of triumph. It 'is extraordinary
Tiow in the most sacred of moments
the passion to conquer, to subdue,
obtrudes itself. Henceforth, whether
this woman would have it so. or not.
there was a bond between us. She
had suggested a way of escape! I ac
cepted it with passionate gratitude. I
swore to myself, as I stood' before her,
that I would not rest until I had ac
complished the sacred task she had
set me. I answered with a boldness
that surprised even myself:' I
"From this day .my one object, in
life .shall be to make the reparation
yoa 'have suggested. But when that
Is done you will know it"
I saw her hand tremble as she light
ly touched her. hair. It was not so
much embarrassment that brought
the slow blnsh to her cheek as anger.
She turned, from me without a word.
I watched her disappear with a
atraage exultation.
CHAPTER VI.
The Other Woman.
There Is no enemy that the aver
age man must crash more ruthlessly
beneath the iron heel thaa his imagin
atioa. The ties, of hcee,.of aociety,
the necessity of earning his dally
bread these are barriers that hem
him te the narrow rat ef routiae and
duty. He dare not look over the ro
mance that beckon alluringly. Or, If
he dare, he must throw pfadence aid
naaMtlmes conscience to the wind.
Bat occasionally a cataclysm, both
physical aad aunta!, threats oae with
out the familiar landmarks. The
hahita of a llfetbne are forgotten
then. It la then that oae dares the
Impossible, aad refoaea to aee to what
extravagaat and faataatlc extremes he
Is reddessly
From draamtegf to action la hat a
step. It la tree that the diviae
la reatoradaharaly to the
Boraud poiaa by the
that eoBMa with faflare or with aatf-
Bat
already
aad It is to late to draw ba;.; there
isr R hat to
ward with the tide.'
a It was;whLme. 'I
n the threada at
I had left Him ! at
the
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routiae aad daty woald
fi. .-. .- '
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A -world of chivalry, and r
beckoaed to. m anariagbr
If I trod the Buses of 4hat fairy
valid, there woald be Boaelo ridicaK
far tiiere would be none to kaow. that
I. had set oat to find it If R proved
to be only' a wwld of dreaau aad fan
tasy, I should at least have had the
delicious excitement of seeking It, of
playing' make-believe the aaoet fas
cinating game, after all is said, for
boy or man.
I had cosae to Europe secretly
cherishing the hope that jaat audi ah
adventure would come to me aa had
happened to-night The 33 years of
my "life had been passed in an atmo
sphere anusally dead aad prosaic .
When I had left the university, I
had acted aa secretary to an uncle, a
multi-millionaire who lived la an ob
scure town of the middle West I had
trudged the dreary aad stupid circle
qf business routine, my eyes bent som
berly to earth. Success had come, or
what world calls success money 'and
a measure of respect that Is gives to
one with a substantial bank account'
But that is not life.
And then one day I awoke. I real
ised with a start that life was slip
ping away from me;. aad with the
hours the golden aspirations aad de
lights that make life worth whity. I
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simply a machine, rather a cog
in the huge machine of business. I
rebelled. -In one day I broke the
shackles that bound me. I was free.
My life was at last my very own. I
could do with it what I pleased. I
could go where I wished.
And so I had come to Europe. I
had hugged to my breast the common
but pathetic delusion that across the
seas I should find something just
what I did not knew something that,
would make life more Joyous, give to
it charm and interest
I htfd searched diligently for the
magic talisman in strange cities, and
of course I had not found it The' blue
flower Is not to be plucked so easily.
Instepd of happiness and diversion,
disgrace and misery had come. Should
I return home, then, imbittered, avert
ing the eyes? Or should I avail, my
self of the way or escape which this
woman had lightly suggested?
And if I chose to consider it a quest
a challenge, there was none, not even
she. to-forbid, though .she, of all the
people in the world, would be the last
to consider it snchV And- If fortune
aided me, aa it aids most adveatarous
souls, I would seek her oat, though
I 'searched the wide, world for her..
Aad thea, perhapsr-
I crashed te. my haad the pro
gramme of music that lay on the ta
ble. Pshaw, it was the womaa, then,
that gave to thia fantastic mtssioa its
vagae thrill; aot the idea of the aria
aton itself! It waa the woana whom
I had wroaged, aad. who hated are,
that called. She sat te the Hats; te
her hands waa the laurel wreath; .tor
her I woald endure the shack of bat
tle. I sat quietly, still stariag oat Into
the sight The lighta of green aad
red and 1Wae had baraed away wag.
.The .lake, rocked to lta cradle
of ahadowy Btoantatea, tatirred .peatly
r;themooB. The terrace, was al-
t deserted, aad. still I
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whs the briglaal of photo
graph unexpectedly Vappean before
Bat I kaew that, this fact
did not explain the straiaa look of
the woaua at the open .window.
fiasco (or waa it shear, sai-aO-?)
flashed from the banik dMthaziof
these eyea that held me fasciaatad!
She atifred. .I saw her toaa tha.pa
par Oghtly to the table. Then, ,sha .dis
appeared, j .,., v (
I entered the hoteL I :paaMd7n
oartainly te the hall, thi' walked
awiftly Into the readlag room. Ap
pareaUyitwas deserted. 7 3"i I
I reached for the paper; 1 tore, oat
the pace te whfch my photograph ap
peared; I crashed it savagely ia my
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There -was-a light, mocklar hnsgh.
I looked P. startled. It was;te
woman agaliu . , ,
She stood almost te shadow. -One
bare arm waaplaced lightly :oi her
hlpe; the other stretched its white
leagth on the low niantel and sup
ported hor -
There was something oriental in her
magnificent costume. TheTdress7was
black Velvet Aboufher neck hung-a
narrow stole of Eastern embroidery,
studded at intervals with turquoises.
From the extended irin draped a scarf
of shimmering gold thread. About the
left arm, both at the wrist and above
the elbow, were several bracelets of
bizarre design. The , corsage, too,
flashed with gems as she breathed
slowly and deeply. Her pose, as her
costume, had something almost bar
baric in Its sensuous extravagance.
The small head exquisitely coiifared.
was turned slightly, thrown back ao
that her white throat gleamed oat of
the shadow. The lips were parted.
Woman Again.
still smiling; and more sensuona, more
brilliant more, devouring than the
gleam of the Jewels about her person,
was the flame that burned in her
eyes. , '
She laughed again. It was impossi
ble not to know that she was chal
lenging me. The pose, the look, the
laugh all were a challenge. But I
was in no mind to accept it and
glanced idly at the papers on the ta
ble. Presently I walked toward the
door. Again her light laughter pur
sued me.
"Pardon, monsieur," she called, still
mockingly.
I turned and looked silently at my
tormentor.
Mischievously she pointed a Jew
eled' finger to a placard on the wall.
"Guests are forbidden to carry away
the papers from the reading room," I
read.
To assume a tragic mien at thia de
licious . bit of badinage would have
been absurd. I could not help laugh
ing. But I aaswerud with some pique:
"Hotel proprietors are forbidden to
annoy guests with offensive pboto-
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Daly a twelfth as large aa HoUaad.
the-little graad-dochy of Luxemburg
la oae .of .the most delightfal of Baro-
couatriaa. Yet it is almost at
aegfetted. by the tourist who
travels Croat Paris to -Berlia .aacoa
acloaa of lta nearnesa. Luxemburg is
free aad iadepeadeat aad according
to Hfthert Shaekletoau writteff te
Harper's' Magasine for 7aaaary. It la
teatlag. It boasts free
free areas. It has free
of etmweree. philosophy.
aaaal tretetes.
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A aeaatifal sad
her eyea sparklteg.
toward bm afew atepa.
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figure la the full Ught Her eyes ao
longer BMckeSr they
"Forgive ate. It was creel to laagh
Bat when I catch, you, Uke a aaaghty
child ah. that ia, too dcoU!"
. "Oa the contrary. nmaua, I shoaM
thaak yoa. it waa my first laugh far
weeka."
"Monsieur!" She ouae a atop still
nearer, her drees' gleaming aad glit-terteg-as,
she aaoved. She looked at
bm pitifully.
Bat her sympathy waa too easily
awakeaed to be convincing. I under
stood perfectly that she had been de;
termteed to apeak to me whea I ant
entered the roosa.
"Madam." I said cynically, "It la yea
who are breaking a rale bow a. rale
of aociety."
"Par example?" ahe demanded, her
eyea darkeaiag.
"It .la forbidden to show sympathy
to oae who-has been aafortaaate."
She sighed her relief. Evldeatly
she has expected from ma baaality
to the effect that aociety doea aot
sanction 'a weaum'a speakiag to a
strange man.
"Bat" she naade a geatare of con
tempt "the caaard of a newspaper!
Who believes that?"
"All the world, apparently," I aa
swered, amused at the vigor of her
denial.
v "Well, I for one, do not
I regarded her. still cynical, aad yet
I waa moved. ' Hers waa the first
sympathy shown to me. I felt In
stinctively that It was the cheap aad
Insincere sympathy of an adventuress,
who offered It for her own ends. She
would demand Its price presently.
And' yet I waa not ungrateful for her
Interest As for the Trice well, la
anything quite 'gratuitous? Whether
the payment be in gold or gratitude
or love or obedience we all have oar
price.
"And why do you not believe the
account of this newspaper?" -
"Yoa are a race of warriors. One
with such blood in one's veins does
not play the coward. No!" She struck
her hand together to emphasize her
conviction.
"A race of warriors?" I repeated
wonderingly.
"Has not everyjEnglish gentleman
the blood of warriors in his veins?"
she protested.
"But I am an American," I said
quietly.
"Impossible!" She looked at me,'
really bewildered now. "An Ameri
can! But the ladies that you spoke to
half an hour ago?
"And can an American not speak to
Englishwomen?" I demanded coldly.
That she should mention them at all
annoyed .me:
"Then you are not"-she twisted a
bracelet about her arm, then looked up
swiftly "you are not even a rela
tion?" "I am cot even a friend," I said,
still more coldly. "Good night, mad
am." "Good night monsieur."
She sank into a fauteuil, as one who
is too astonished to make even the
physical effort of standing. For the
first time since she had spoken she
was not ncting. As. I walked toward
the door she stared after me, frown-,
ing in her pprplexity.
CHAPTER VII.
Countess Sarahoff Wina and Loses.
The next morning, when I first
awoke, T wondered vaguely why this
day seemed to be so different from
the long and dreary succession of
yesterdays wby it promised eager
hopes and eager interests to be ful
filled. Then I remembered, and my
pulses beat faster. Yesterday I de
spaired; to-day I hoped.
A woman had come into my life
a goddess Diana of the silver bow.
Chaste and cold as the snows on the
Alpine heights I could not see from
my window in the blue distance, yet
she had called, she had spoken to me.
Then, disdainfully cruel, she had gone
as she had come. But I was to pur
sue. The very audacity of my. resolution
gave to it its charm. I was not to rest
until I had accomplished my uncertain
mission. That it was by its very na
ture so Incredibly difficult did not
daunt me. But how was I to set
about it? A life for a life. To save
to the world a strong and buoyant
soul for the strong and buoyant soul
that had perished because of my help
lessness and my wcakaess. However
romantic, it was a tangible enough
ideal.
.But was I to wander about like a
knight of medevlal times, seeking to
succor one in peril and distress to
rescue beautiful maidens from grim
ogres and terrible dragons? I smiled
at the absurd resemblance of my un
certain task to theirs.
CTO BK CONTINUED.)
Quaint Country
look into oar aeighbor's heart, he that
neighbor nu or womaa. we might
tad there cherished aspiration aad
faadea teacaatically at variance with
the said aeighbor's coaveatioaal de
meaaor aad orderly life. -
"A arna I kaow, eaergetic, capable;
effective, successful aad te all Ma Ufa
aoUbly aysteauitic. tells aw that If
he could do as he' would like to do ha
wapld be a tramp. No less a pereoa
thaa Mra. Bllltapa. aailgoa of dnmts
Hetty aad devotioa, coaldre to aw
that ahe always wanted to be aa art-
: Let as be grateful that artaafly
chlae to play her
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hiviay trouble with
Mra.FlatMgh.
Aa aelf-tetereet la the law which
erca the traasactions of trade, it la the
first IJght te which the subject ef
"Trading at Hoare" maat he treated.
Seatlmeht has little iaflaeace te trade.
The prosperity of aay community
depends oa the volume of bnsteeea
transacted within Its borders. The
facility with which busteess caa be
transacted depends largely upon the
aa-ount of atoaey in circulation and
aay iaflaeace which takes money oat
of a community is detrimental to the
financial welfare of the commuaity.
It is in this respect that trading with
mail order hoases cripples a com
munity. "Money which should he kept
in local circulation goes to swell the
volume of moaey te the distant city
instead of remaiaiag at home to be
turned over aad over again as the me
dium of transfer among local mer
chants and their .customers.
The effect of this diversion of money
is not confined to the merchaats who
lose sales thereby; it extends cveatu
ally t every member of the com
munity. It is a curtailment of busiaess
which affects -the 'value of ail property
even to the labor of the man who is
dependent on a day's work for his liv
ing. It reacts upon the people who
purchase away from home in a degree
which more than offsets aay possible
saviag in price that may be effected te
the purchase.
Every dollar sent out of aay com
muaity for goods which can be pur
chased at home represents a perceat-
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The catalogue man recognizee in the advertising agent Ma maat powerful
assistant He realizes that it is advertising which bring? him his orders.
Let the local merchants awaken te the fact that the local papera caa da for
them just what the advertising agents do for the catalogue hawses and tha
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age of injustice to the community it
self. In the first place, some merchant
loses the profit on a sale. Not only
that but the price of the article rep
resents so much of the merchant's cap
ital which is tied up in the article and
is not working. Having capital tied
up mems that the operations of the
merchant are curtailed to that extent
He has that much less to spend; that
much less to pay in salaries to his
clerks; to pay in patronage of the
butcher, the baker and the other pur
veyors of the necessities of life; to in
vest in property. In newspaper adver
tising; to deposit in bank where it
may be used by other members of the
communitr. or to devote to church or
charity. The money which goes to the
mail order house decreases the per
capita of circulation in the community;
a factor which determines largely the
value of all goods or property on the
market; the scale of wages and the In
terest on loans.
It is not hard to trace the effect of
the diversion of- money from its legiti
mate channels. When money is scarce
trade languishes because of the lack
of circulating medium; merchants and
all others curtail expenses; the volume
of trade decreases and nothing re
stores activity in trade but an Increase
from some quarter of the circulating
medium. When the volume of money
increases, trade moves and it moves
as fast as the volume of money will
permit Money that is working is con
stantly producing profit to all; moaey
that is not working produces stagna
tion in trade.
Accordingly, It is to the interest of
every member of a community to con
fine bis expenditures as nearly as pos
sible to the community in which he
lives. Every dollar he spends at home
helps to make his own holdings more
valuable because they are more salable.
When a community has moaey with
which to buy there is little dlBcalty
to sell aad if the aaoaey is aot divert
ed, it revolves constaatly in the fiaaa
cial circle of the community, earning
a profit for everyoae who handles It
and tares it over.
Accordingly, the moaey speat at
hoae is heariag compouad iaterestfer
the community. Its effect is apparent
even to the outsider. Spending atoaey
at hoBto is a species of loyalty which
stakes materia.ly for the progress of
the community. If the cemmaaity la
of the ami of people wha
their money at home It ad
rapfdly. There ia moaey for
public haprovemeBts, moaey for aew
sBtorprieea, The money whk the
loyal bmb jaakee at heme la tevestod
t kt the atr grows, tae suscia
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We are weat to taveteh aaateat tha
a towamW lavaate It te either.
is
ia
Two citict
are
of a- river'
between two
several minioa-
aaaey te the
tha two towns. The
af the eHiea are
patttaff their amv teto ctaer maae
trlea,te the same towa aa the lamber
lag aaaa oat. , As a reaalt. the towa Is
apidly Jortfac to the froat; every oae
the dapsaa rer aaaiiii
VPlr; property ia vala-
mUHaaaires of the .towa acres the
river are,,lntliiialrBes: te
westera and aaatharatoo leads Tha
towa la teaoithiBr:or lack of areaey;
aew tedastriea eaaaot .atart becaaae or
ir.ir t Jtir' thants arc fail-
tajEr"" stores aad haases are
lawn awf i w "
va-
cated: aeoale are mavteg away
gcaeral air af poverty aad decay per
vades the place. r
Few cHiea praaaat sach stroas ex
amples of the vatee of atoaey spe-ft at
home but the mart principle . holds
tree 'la every commuaity. It Is due
every community to reinvest .the
money It produces te the community
which produces It
The chance of beteg swindled Is an
argua-ent aaed aaaiast traasar with
the mail order hoases. Goads adver
tised at cat pricea oftea fail. to aseas.
are ap to the description of .the adver
tisement. The few cents which is
saved oa the price of aa .article so
bought is usually sacrificed te the
qaalityof theartirle. Buying from the
mail order horse la, haytes hliad. A
purchaser aever thinks of huyiag from
a hoBM BMachaat mithoat exuateias
the goods, but will often send his
money to a mail order house with
blind faith that the article will prove
to be as represeated. How often this
faith is misplaced can be proven only
by comparing the goods bought from
mail order houses with the goods of
fered for sale at home. If the mail
order buyer would follow this system
for a little while, he would. pitJhably
find that the goods offered at home are
of better quality aad as good bargains
as the mail order goods, taking qual
ity into consideration. If this pre
sumption is true, the buyer cf mail or
der goods is a distinct loser, as he has
secured inferior goods aad has robbed .
the community te which he lives, as
.well as himself, of the use of the
money. F. R. SINGLETON. '
HAD TO BE ON TIME.
Dinner Giver Would Allow Hie Guesta
No Latitude.
Closely parallel to the fan; ead of
the Euston road, aad visible from it
at various turnings la a street which
belongs to few ssen's London. It ia
a diagy, granite paved, populous street
of ao attraction, the sort of street in
which you might expect to see oa a
fine day a daaciag bear.
Yet this street has kaowa better
times and eager gaeeta. , la the house
he knew as No. 43, now obliterated by
a big aew warehouse. Dr. William
Kitchener eatertalaed hla fellow wits
aad gourmets. He had amplrj asaaa
to ride his three hobbies optics, cook
ery aad music. His. dinners were often
elaborate experisMats te cookery, aad
the guests had to recognise this fact
Five miaates paat Ave waa the min
ute, aad if a gaeet caare late the Jan
itor had irrevocable orders aot to ad
rait him. for H waa held fey the myth
ical "Committee mt Taste." af wham
Kitcheaer waa "aecretary." that the
perfectioa of aome of the- dlaaoa was
oftea ao evaaeaceat Oat the delay cf
oae ariaa-e after their arrival at the
medtdiaat of reaeectioa mill reader
them ao leaser werthy ef mea cf
taste T. P.'a Weekly.
wha avada their
lamber trade te
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Civiliaatian ia Objealaii
A sawmill la already at work at
Adla Ababa, Abysstate- aad Greek ar
tieaae are eaaaaed te ana, ij lag, and
atone hewlag. Maehteary ia raaarc
tiea with hease t all Mag aeaarally-ia
likely to hela demand aa aa as ta
SBBa.af traaapart are aimpted. The
ssretaaatatla already aaHamaj la Ea.
raeeaaatylaadateBehreBee.rW
aaea. aaare evea ef three atoriea te
height teitha aaaiteL4
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