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ZZZZlZBaS3S22ZSSS&3&3 TSzsaassaasssssaassssBiss'Ssst :m i I m 1 !1 ,-b M 3 m , j ,.;! r.s i-p -If i SPRING SUITS AND OV&RGOflTS for Men and Young Men. YOURS IS HERE! Km m' Urn Wt'v BRoa & co. CARBOLIC ACID. Peculiar Effect Pure Alcohol Has en This Irritant Poison. One of the most frequent irritant poisons used for suicidal purposes is carbolic acid, and a more agonizing death could not be selected. Wi.y any one should select this poison it U hard to understand unless on account of the fact that it is cheap and easily obtainable. This form of poisoning can usually be easily reergiiized by the odor, which Is well known, and by the white burns or man;s on the lips and mouth, which are typical of carbolic acid poisoning. Send for the nearest physician, and in the meantime, as carbolic acid k: Is quickly, the first aid treatment must be prompt in order to get results. If possible cause the patient to vomit by Riving an emetic, such as ipecac or salt and water, a tahlcspoonfu! to a pint of warm water. This, however, frequently fails to work on account of the irritated condition of the mu cous membrane of the stomach. One of the best chemical antidotes is ep som salt In solution. Another good chemical antidote is alcohol, the only trouble with this remedy being that it cannot lie given in a pure form. It has to be diluted with water and for that reason loses its efficacy. Just exactly why alcohol ounter acts the efTect of carbolic acid is not known, but if. for instance, carbolic acid is splashed on the hands and they are at once immersed in absolute alco hol there will be no resulting burn. Dr. H. H. ITartung in National Mag azine. ROUTED THE SINGER. Testi's Encounter With a Persistent and Peppery Stranger. "Tosti used to tell an amusing little story of feminine persistence," says Harold Simpson in his book, "A Cen tury of English Rallads." It was din ing oue of his busiest mornings, with a long list of singing lessons to be got through, that a knock came at the door of Tosti's flat. His valet was ill. and so Tosti went to the door himself. A lady, a stranger to him, stood on the threshold. ! " Signor Tosti?' she inquired. "Tosti bowed. j "'Oh.' said the lady. 'I am singing' your song. "My Memories." at Man- i Chester tonight, and I want you to kindly run through it with me." 'Madame,' answered Tosti politely. ; but firmly, I fear it is impossible. I have two pupils with me now. and a third is waiting in the anteroom, while others will shortly be arriving.' "'But you must!' the lady persisted. "I am sorry began Tosti again when he suddenly received a violent push backward and the lady walked into the studio. "Tosti followed, protesting. After a long argument, which .threatened to become heated, the lady snapped out: "'Very well: I shan't sing vour song, thenr "Madame,' said Tosti. taking her by the hand. 'I am infinitely obliged to you.' "The lady gave one look at him and fled." When Lawyers Are Quiet. One George Wilson, a lawyer, who had much litigation, in some of which lie was ersonalIy interested as a par ty or as a trustee, finally passed away, and tt short funeral :ormnn was de livered by a member of the bar in the presence of a few old personal friends. The lawyer told how the old man had been abused and maligned, but that, in fact, he had helped the noor and un fortunate often and was not a bad I man. uu returning iroiii mo services an old lawyer was asked by another law yer about the services and what was said. The old lawyer replied, "For once old George could not file a de murrer or motion to any of the pro ceedings which had taken place." The lawyer who made the inquiry replied. "Well, this must be the first time George did not move for arrest of judgment." Green Bag. A Hiccough Cure. A correspondent writes to us to the effect that he has found hanging by the hands with the legs clear of the ground, the hands well apart and the breath held for say fifteen seconds, an infallible cure for hiccoughs. With children, hold them up off the ground by both hands. Our correspondent states that he has never found this method to fail. London Globe. Prosaic. They began their honeymoon trip in the day coach. "Darling." he murmured, "I can see lie coals of love in your eyes." "Them ain't coals, Jonathan." she said: "them; cinders." St Paul Pio neer Press. Gome in and see it. We say Your Suit or Overcoat because we feel certain that no matter what you like in clothes, we have just the one you have in mind for Spring. You get to choose here from the best productions of the top notch clothes reasonable to think that you should be more apt to find what you like in such a great assortment and such a great variety of styles and patterns than you could possibly find in any one line. Spring Suits and Overcoats $10:00 to $25.00 , GREISEN BROS. Columbus Leading Head to Foot Glothiers SURGEONS' FEES. Pretty Big Sometimes, but Then There Is Another Point of View. I have a warm sjot in my heart fot the big American surgeons, says a writer in the New York Telegraph. and because of regit I, of regular attendance for I mid a favorite visiting place for tour i of the most famous clin- Ists. There are many other charming years at some ics :. ;his and other cities 1 have lecn a :iiie; of their unadvertised chari t! -s acts of ni'Tcy and kindness which were never heard f outside the walls of the hospital they honor by their I services. T klKnv ., wealthy man whose dausli ter was suddenly stricken and whoso life w: saved by the attending sur- gcon. UK fee .:,.i SJTi.jmo. Straight- way the father emitted a wail. 1 "It's robbery." he said. The sur j geon stood firm. "Your daughter's life Is worth $Ju, 000 to you." he countered. There was no denial. - "Well, this fee means that I can op erate on fifty persons without any charge, and if you don't like it you can force mo to sue, but I will get it without a suit or you will stand a lot of publicity." And he got the money without re course to a court of law. It is safe to mark it down when you see a story of some great surgeon who ha-: charged a high fee that there are many of his patients enjoying good health and relief from pain be cause he charged them nothing at all. THE CLANRICARDE PLAQUE A Famous Specimen of the Sixteenth Century Goldsmith's Art. One of the greatest cinquccento jew els in tlie world is the Clanricardc plaque, owned by Lord Clanricardc, who is known as the "hermit peer" and who claims direct descent from the kings of Coniiaught. He guards with jealous care this precious example of the goldsmith's art. keeping it safe from possible thieves and the common gaze in a bank vault, to which he goes occasionally with great secrecy to feast his eyes upon its magnificence. Some years ago. by royal request, he lot it to an art exhibition in London. where it was admired and coveted by some of the greatest connoisseurs of Europe. The huge disk is as delicately I wrought as a spider's web and rcpre ! sents the figure of Hercules wielding :i diamond sword. The sword blade is composed of a mass of perfect Iv matched steel white stones, and a su perb blue diamond scintillates from the hilt. The present owner inherited it from his mother, who was a Miss Canning before her marriage to the Irish lord, and the plaque is practically priceless. Aside from its value to col lectors and its worth as a specimen of rare and exquisite art. it is incrusted with a fortune in jewels. New York Press. "Clipping Sunday." At Painswiek. in Gloucestershire, the Sunday following Sept. S is called by the curious name of "Clipping Sun day" and connected with a quaint ens torn In the churchyard are ninety nine yew trees, and tradition says that all attempts to complete the hundred by planting another yew have failed becomes the newcomer invariably dies Kvery year before the feast of the Nativity nf Our Lady Sept. S thcs mystic jmvs are clipped, and the Sun day "in the f octave" thus becomes "'lipping Sunday." After service there is a procession of parishioners around tie- churchyard, and then all join hands and form a ring round the church Finally they gather at the foot of a llight of steps leading to the chancel door, from which a sermon is preached - Loudon Chronicle. City of Three Kings. !u you know what city has been given the name of the City or Three KiiC's; It is Cologne, in Germany, and the re-ison is that it is in Cologne that th" three "kings." or magi." or "wise men." who went to P.ethlehein to offer gifts to the infant Jesus are supposed to be buried. According to an ancient legend, their bones were brpnght from Milan' to. Cologne, by .the Kiuperor Frederick Barbarossa iti j hj ..m. ii.-n:iKi:ii iu inu arcuuisnop j "f Cologne. Visitors to the cathedral ii .,,i.i .......i ... .,.. ....... are siiowu me supposed souls of the magi, st udiled with diamonds and in scribed with the wise men's names in rubies. St. James' Gazette. A Natural Mistake. "I was just telling our friend here. Molly, that it was storming on the fiay of our marriage." "Surely not. Hiram! The weather f.as perfectly lovely!" "Well, well! I don't know how I got so mixed up about it; probably because it's been storming ever since!" Atlanta Constitution. makers of America and it is i A WELSH JAWBREAKER. The Great Dig Name of a Charming Little Village. is a charm- I ing little village in Anglesey. Wales. little villages in Wales all over the world, in fact, but none witii a name like that. Llaufairpw., etc.. means "(ho Church or St. Mary In a hollow of white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and to the Church of St Tysilio by the red cave." It is declared that only a Welshman ran pronounce the name of the village. but there is no harm in you trying if von wish. The first svlhihle. "I.l:m" Is very simple. You must double back your tongue along the roof of your mouth and get ready to say something that sounds halfway between "clan"' and "thlan." and there you've got it. The second syllable, "fair," Is encour agingly simple. And if you want to go on and learn the whole name of the village the foVowing rhyme may be of assistance: At flm It bojfan fair. Commencing with Manfalr, Thon started a jingle By adding invllgwynpyll. But was horrible, very. To stick on Oopory And simply ignoble To run to ChwyrndrobtrU. Till it almost will kill you To Fay IJnndysitin. With a torrible shock At the end Goqogoch. The inhabitants of the village and the post office authorities have shorten ed the name to Llanfair. I. G., while the railroad limits it to Llanfair. New York World. THE GOLDEN CAT. Legend of the Founding of a Persian College at Meshed. The following story from the Per sian manuscript of which a transla tion has been published under the title The Glory of the Shla World." reads like a passage In the "Arabian Nights." It tells of a Persian at Meshed who had founded a college with wealth gained In a remarkable manner: "One day a rich merchant asked him whether he was willing to work at a place to which he would be conducted blindfolded. Being a fearless Kerma ni and very ioor. he agreed, and was led through many streets to a court yard, where the bandage was remov ed, and he was ordered to dig a hole and bury gold coins and jewelry. This he did for several days, and, being searched liofore he left, he saw no chance of bettering his condition. "However, one day he saw a cat, which he killed and ripped open. He then sewed up some money and jew els inside it and threw it over the wall. After this, when ills work was done, he wandered nliout until he found the cat and not only secured the money hidden in its body, but also learned the position of the house. "Its owner shortly afterward died, and the astute Kcrinaui bought his house with the gold sewed up inside the cat. As the merchant had never re vealed his secret to any one he became his heir and. in turn, when dying, be queathed his money for the pious task of founding and maintaining a col lege." Correct Way to Roll Umbrella. A badly rolled up umbrella, besides looking unsightly, does not wear half as long as it ought to. The process of rolling an umbrella is very simply. The majority hold it by the handle and keep twisting the stick witii one hand, while with the other they twist and roll the silk. Instead of this they should take hold of the umbrella just above the ribs of the cover. These fioiiits naturally lie evenly with the stick. They should be kept hold of and pressed tightly against the stock and then the cover should be rolled up. Holding the ribs thus prevents them from getting twisted out of place or bending out of shape, and the silk is bound to follow evenly and roll smooth and tight. If an umbrella is rolled iu. this fashion it will look as if newly bought 3br a long time. Boston Her ald. Anyhow, They're Gone. Mr. Jawback That 1mv sets his brains from me. Mrs. Jawback Somebody's got 'cm from you. if you ever had any. that's a cinch. New York American. The Old. Old Story. "Daughter, has the duke told you the old. old story as yet?" "Yes, he says he owes about 200.00ft plunks." rittsburg Post. For himself, doth a man work oy In working evil for another, Hesrrt DRESSING A SHIP. A Man-of-War Wears More Than One Suit of Clothes. INNER AND OUTER GARMENTS. Besides Its Coat of Armor Plate It Has a Special Set of Underclothes to Pro tect the Vital Parts of Its Anatomy. Mineral Wool Mufflers. Battleships wear coats of stout ar mor plate, as everybody knows, but everybody docs not know that they wear undergarments which are pro duced chiefly from cocoa nuts. Your most powerful man-of-war Is really a very delicate object and requires special underclothing so that some vital parts of its anatomy may not be come too cold and so that other equal ly vital portions may not become too hot From stem to stern, which is another way of saying from head to toe. your enormous super-Dreadnought is envel oped In an undergarment placed im mediately behind its topcoat or armor plate. This is its special mackintosh, or. rather, waterproof, which acts as a protection from fire as well as water. In the ordinary way if a shot pierced the side of a battleship water would pour in at the hole and .possibly the ship might sink, but this is obviated by providing a backing to the armor. Great secrecy is kept in the various navies regarding the material used and its arrangement. In many of the latest battleships, however, the coating is made of cellu lose, which again is obtained from the fibrous cocoa nut rind. Cellulose pos sesses the peculiar property of swell ing immediately if it comes in contact with salt water. Therefore the moment that water pours in at a hole at the ship's side the cellulose almost in stantly expands and so closes the aper ture. Of course the cellulose, is es pecially treated in order to render it fireproof. A man-of-war has its vitality enor mously diminished if certain portions of it become too cold, in much the same way as its human tenants. Ac cordingly its boiler and steam pipes are clothed with "jackets." In some cases the jackets are made of ordinary blanketing, others of a fibrous clay-like composition or even of close grained wood. In general the material used for a ship's underclothing of this de scription consists of mineral wool. However, the great ship is more like ly to suffer from the effects of heat than from those of cold. There is al ways the danger owiug to the newer type of machinery employed that the powder magazines may get too hot. In the latest men-of-war the stores are surrounded by a thick coaling of mineral wool. Mineral wool, by the way, has nothing whatever to do with wool, as it consists of a mass of snowy threads of a kind of glass. It is made by blowing jets of high pressure steam through the furnaces in the manufac ture of iron and steel. Enormous quantities of this strange variety of wool are used on board for the purposes of underclothing the bulk heads and the more delicate portions of the ship's body. This invaluable substance acts equally well as a pro tector from heat and from cold. It is such a remarkable nonconductor of heat that it is used for covering the refrigerators and the cold storage chambers and therefore the explosive stores. In the dockyards all men who are employed in packing the mineral wool in the spaces on the ships are obliged to wear masks. This is to prevent the sharp needlelike particles from leing inhaled and so causing chest troubles of fatal character. The ammunition rooms themselves are kept cool by a refrigerating plant in addition to being clothed in mineral wool, the same applying to the ammu nition passages. The wool is also packed Iictwecn the double bulkheads which separate the boiler spaces from the other portions of the vessel. Alto gether the uses of the mineral wool on board are extremely numerous. Even reindeer hair is to be met with on lioard in the capacity of a particular sort of underclothing. This material is very light considerably lighter than cork, for instance and it Is not so suIh ject to decay. For this reason among its many uses it is of great value as a filling for the life buoys. Boston Transcript. A MAN OF MYSTERY. Peculiar Life of Metastasio, the Cele brated Italian Poet. Metastasio (109S-17S2). the celebrated dramatic and operatic poet, spent tifty flve years in Vienna with the Martines familv without ever learning German r wishing to learn it. Besides his utter indifference to all speech but Italian. .Metastasio possess ed many iieculiarities of character. None might mention death in his pres ence. Those who alluded to smallpox liefore him lie made it a point not to see again. In all his tifty-tive years In Vienna he never gae away more than the equivalent of &!."i to the poor. He always occupied the same seat at church, but never paid for it. He took all his meals in the most mys terious privacy. His greatest friends had never seen him eat anything but a biscuit witii some lemonade. Nothing, would induce him to dine away from home. He never changed his wig or the cut or color of his coat. Metastasio was to have been present-l ed to the pope the day he died and' raved about the intended interview ini the delirium of his last moments. Mrs., Piozzi (familiar to readers of Boswcll'si "Life of Dr. Johnson" as Mrs. Thralc) i collected these particulars from the la dies of the Martines family, wlthj whom Metastasio was so long domesti cated without speaking or understand ing a word of their language from first to last. m nn oiory. "There are as good fish in the sea a were ever taken out of it." remarked Small to Young, who had been refused by Moneybag's daughter. "Yes. I know. But they are not goldfish." Circumstances are the rulers of the wcafc. They are but the instruments of tfieintac. Samuel Lover. BURNING OF WIDOWS. tCT eu WJ. tV The Horrible Hite India' ftinttineef For Over Twenty Centuries. The abolition of the horrid rite of widow burning in India was decreed by the British authorities in 1829. " The dreadful practice was found there by the Macedonians under Alex ander the Great 300 years before Christ, and for more than twenty-one long, weary centuries did it repeat its almost inconceivable torture and ago ny upon the women of India. The sacrifice, while not actually forced on the wife, was so strongly insisted on by public opinion that it amounted to a law, and its victims were legion. Scores of widows were often burned upon the funeral pile of a single ra jah. In Bengal, the head center of the monstrosity, thousands were sac rificed annually, and the figure for all India was appalling. The millions of widowed women were completely at the mercy of the remorseless superstition of the times. The ministers of Brabmanism told the widow that her sacrifice was nec essary as a means of her own happi ness and that of her husband in the future state, and oftcner than other wise she consented to lie burned along with the dead body of her husband. Unless she did this she was covered with the maledictions and curses of the people, was virtually outlawed and unceremoniously cast outside the pale of human sympathy and consid eration and had to spend the rest of her days in degradation and wretch edness. It was death on the funeral pile of her husband or a living death of contumely and shame, of loneliness and misery. The women of India can never dis charge their debt of gratitude to Eng land for the abolition of the suttee. New York American. ON THE TRAIL But He Didn't Know the Kind of Game Ho Was Tracking. In the old days a man known as Judge Douglass lived in Helena. Mont. The judge had met with an accident In bis youth and had lost both of bis legs above the knees. He never would get artificial legs, but had some big leather pads made to fit on the ends of the stumps and walked on them. Locomotion was slow for the judge, bnt he managed to cover a good deal of ground and was very fond of walk ing out on the edge of the town, where he could take his exercise without be ing the subject of remark from strati asrs in the city. One day an Englishman came to Hel ena to hunt. He had some letters and put up at the Helena club. He stayed around for several days. Finally, aft er a light fall of snow, he decided to go out into the mountains and get a sheep or a deer or something. He left early in the morning. When It came night he had not returned. Ills hosts around the club waited untir 8 o'clock and then decided to go out and look him up. thinking he might have been lost in one of the gulches or canyons in the hills. They formed a rescue party and went out to the edge of the town. There they met the Englishman, who was wildly excited. "Did j-ou get anything?'' they asked him. "No." lie replied, "not yet, but I've been tracking an elephant for the last three hours." Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. ETIQUETTE IN SIAM. On Hands and Knees Before the King Was Long the Custom There. Perhaps the most revolutionary re form carried out by the late king of Siam was the abolition of the arbi trary rule of etiquette which forbade an Inferior in rank to raise Ids head nliove that of a superior or even level with it. The inferior must not even pass over a bridge vchile a superior was underneath it. nor must he enter n room in an upper story while a su perior was occupying a room beneath It. Servants approached their mas ters on hands and knees. This cus tom is by no means obsolete today in spite of the royal edict, for many of the powerful nobles who live far away from the court still enforce it. In 1S74 the king held a large court, at which no one present presumed to appear otherwise than on hands and knees. It was at this audience that the edict forbidding the custom was read to the prostrate multitude. They there and then rose and stood like men in the presence of their sovereign for the first time on record. Since then there has been no prostration at the royal audiences. But if a supe rior stops to speak to an inferior in the, street the latter will still bend or lower his head in some way as a mark of respect. London Saturday Review. Spoiled In the Making. Behold, when a man on a trolley rar removal his hat the other day little Willie observed that he was bald yea, very bald, for not. a single hirsute rambler trailed over his shining pate. But when it came to whiskers the bald party was right there with the lilacs. He had whiskers in bundles, whiskers In stacks. In fact, he had enough whiskers to start a rat factory and make a fortune. "Say, mamma." finally remarked Willie, turning to his mother, "just look at that man there." "Hush, dear!" returned mamma. "He will hear you. What's the matter with him';" "Everything is the matter with him," replied the youngster. "When the an gels made him they put his head on upside down." Philadelphia Tele graph. r neitgious Innovation.. A certain well brought up little girl who lives in the near vicinity of Kit tenhouse square yawned at the break fast tabic last Sunday morning and ventured a polite proposition to her mother. "I really don't feel at all like going to church this morning." she remark ed. "Can't we just send cards?" Phil adelphia Times. The Easiest. Friend (sarcastically) Which one of your many bad habits do you think you coord manage to give up? Easy One (nettled) That of lending my friends money. Baltimore American. ." ' ' ROYAL Baking Powder Economy The manufacturers of Royal Bak ing Powder have always declined to produce a cheap baking powder at the sacrifice of qualify. Royal Baking Powder is made from pure grape cream of tartar, and is the embodiment of all the excellence possible to be attained in the high est class baking powder. . Royal Baking Powder costs only a fair price, and is more economical at its price than any other leavening agent, because of the superlative qualify and absolute wholesomeness of the food it makes. Mixtures made in mutation of balong powders, but contajMKg timtj are frequently distributed from door to door, or given away grocery stores. Such mixtures arc dangerous to use in food. In Elfliadl France, Germany and some sections of the United Stales their tale isf prohibited by law. Alum is a dangerous aaberal acid, aid a) physicians condemn baking powders coatanag k. of HONORED THE MONKEY. Origin of the Coat of Arms of the Earl of Leinster. Most of the wild animals have a plae in heraldry, and many strange and impossible creatures, such as grif fins, dragons and unicorns, have been Invented as emblems of daring and valor. Rut the donkey and the mon key have not been so used, except in one instance, where the monkey has been admitted to the ranks of titled nobility. The story of this adoption Is told by Mr. Curtis in his book. "One Irish Summer." On the Leinster coat of arms are three monkeys standing with plain collar and chained: motto. "Crom-a-boo." "To Victory." This is the only coat of arms, I am told, that has ever borne a monkey in the design. It was adopted by John Fitzthomas Fitzger ald in 1310 for romantic reasons. While this Earl of Leinster was an infant ho was in the castle of Wood stock, which is now owned by the Duke of Marlborough. The castle caught lire. In the confusion the child was forgotten, and when the family and servants remembered Idm and started a search they found the nur sery in ruins. But on one of the tow ers was a gigantic ape. a pet of the family, carefully holding the young earl in his arms. The animal, with extraordinary intelligence, had crawl- j ed through the smoke, rescued the baby and carried it to the top of the , tower. , When the earl had grown to man- ' hood lie discarded the family coat of arms and adopted the monkeys for his crest, and they have been retained to this day. Wherever yon find the tomb of a Fitzgerald yon will see the monkeys at the feet of the effigy or under the inscription. Good Clothes and Good Morals. It is doubtful whether any one to whom soap and water and more or less tidy clothes are a matter of course can rightly stimate the extent to which this question of clothes and cleanliness bears upon the criminality of youths. Dirty, ragged garments, preasy caps and neck scarfs worn day after day without the possibility of a change are, I believe, responsible for Much. Certain it is that the lad who Ls content with but one set of raiment invariably belongs to a very low stra tum of society, and the absence of a ilcslre for a Sunday suit and the un abashed wearing of the weekday suit an the Sunday is very frequently in deed the marl: of one largely imper vious to outside influences. -. K. B. Russell in "Young bal Birds." Just what you are looking for NORTH THEATRE Good Glean Amusement Ghange of program every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Bring the Children to the Saturday Mat inee at 2:15 p. m. Admission: Adults 10c Children 5c. Thursday, Friday and Saturday the Burbanks, presenting a Comedy SketGh which you can't afford to miss. The Burbanks present an entire new act Saturday night. V s SPENDTHRIFT ISABELLA. A Sight That Checked Her Royal Ex travagance For Awhile. We are accustomed to think that the day is long past when a sovereign could oppress and offend a whole king dom by personal extravagance. But the late Isabella of Spain belonged In spirit to the sixteenth century- An in cident of her reckless career which ended in the loss of the throne is not ed in Munsey's Magazine. She spent money, pouring it out like water, at a time when the treasury was nearly bankrupt and when the proverb "Poor as a Spaniard" was far too true. All her best advisers urged her to practice economy. Very icw of them succeeded, and these only for a short time. A certain chamberlain of hers once hit upon a plan to make her realize how enormous were the sums that she was spending. Passing through the hall of the palace, she was surprised to see a vast heap of silver pieces, re sembling the contents of a great bin of wheat, but piled up in the middle of the lloor. The queen summoned her chamberlain. "What is the meaning of all this money?" she demanded of him. "Oh," he replied, with a low bow, "this is merely the amount which I have brought out to pay the bill of your majesty's glovemakcr." The queen colored and then laughed, and for several months she was less extravagant in her expenditures for clothes. A Moving aermon. "I once had a parishioner who was a miser." said an English clcrgymnn. "For this man's benefit I preached one Sunday a strong sermon on the neces sity of charity, of philanthropy a ser mon on the duty anil the joy of glv ing. The miser, at whom I gazed often, seemed Impressed. "Next day I met him on the street. "'Well, John.' I said, 'what do you think of yesterday's sermon? "It moved me deeply, sir, he an swered. 'It brought home to me so strongly th' inressity of giving alms that honestly, sir. I've a great mind to turn beggar.'" A Boomerang. "What's the matter with your head?" asked the first bunko man. "A farmer I met today just banged lue there with his carpetbag." replied the other. "It must have been a pretty hard carpetbag." "Ves: it had n gold brick In it that 1 sold him yesterday." Catholic Standard and Times. 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