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w&mmxg..urojri-tti!Trit?dt!- Jt, i iisHBimraBi Why Not Own when one crop often pays for the land. $12.00 to $35.00 per acre for the best produc ing land; with rich dark loam soil and good clay sub-soil; and rain sufficient to produce any crop. Good soil, pure water, fine crops and a healthy climate. What more could you ask. For further Information Gall and see KflRR & N&WLON 60, Office 54y2 West 13th St. STAGEANEGDOTES The London Debut of Edmund Kean, the Great Tragedian. A SUCCESS AND ITS PATHOS. The Tearful Meeting With Hi Wife After Hie Triumph on the Boards. Snubbing a Noble Lord An English Critic on Edwin Forrest's Macbeth. Edmund Kcan'.s Loudon debut was made in JSl-J, at a time when his financial affairs were at a very low ebb. Willi his wife and one child he was lodging in an attic. 1 1 is reception as Shylock was inot encouraging and flaltcrim In an aliuos-t frenzied as- stasy he rushed through the wet to his bumble lodging, sprang up the stairs and threw open the door. His wife van to meet him. No words were required bis radiant countenance told all and they mingled together the first tears of true happiness they had as yet experienced. lie told her of his proud achievement and in a burt of exulta tion exclaimed, "Mary, you shall ride In your carriage.-and Charley, my hoy" taking the child from the cradle and kissing him "you shall go to Eton and" a sad reminiscence crossed his mind, his joy was overshadowed and he murmured in broken accents. "Oh. that Howard (his dead child) had lived to see it!-hut he is better where he is." On the night of Edmund's first up pea ranee as Richard a group of idle actors in the greenroom were discuss ing his merits in anything but a liberal spirit. "I understand." said mi", with an elaborate sneer, "that he is an ad mirnhlc harlequin." P.annister entered at that moment, overheard the remark and retorted. "I am certain of that, for he has jumped over all our heads." It seems that the great tragedian. Edmund Kean. and Charles Im-lcdou. the popular singer, were one day walk Jgn in Bond street when they met Lord Essex, who bowed coldly to Kean. though they were on terms of intimate friendship. The next day Kean found a note at the theater from my lord desiring him to call at his houe. When there the nobleman said to the tragedian. "My dear Kean, you will pardon me. You know how greatly I admire your gen ius, but I was surprised yolerday to sec you in company of that singing mau. Iucledon." "My lord," said Kean with Hashing eye. "Pray don't excite yourself, now, my dear Kean," interrupted my lord, "but the respect. I may say reverence. I have for your wonderful genius prompt- me to ' speak thus." "Ijord K--." cried Kean. drawing himself up :ud casting ; a withering glatfe at his noble patron, . "twelve years ago my family were in ! want of bread and Charles Iucledon. my friend, supplied the means to pro cure it, and when Kdniund Kean for gets his friends may Nm1 forget him." And from that hour the two men never exchanged courtesies. Kean. from early manhood, had an internal complaint, for which he had alwavs been his own ihvsician ami j FBESH BREAD SAME IS USUAL Moving our building has not inter fered with our business in the least. We have leased an Eleventh street oven and will be ready at all times to iurnish our patrons with fresh Bakery Goods" while our new three story building is beiug constructed POESC H Own Your Home presenned mat sovereign balm called brandy." from which it generally foil it 1 relief, and at least it always pi"ed an alternative. While travel ii" from I.ovd ;i to Belfast, on quit ting the com h at Policial Arms, he missed his Mere::i bain and he call ed out to the Irish waiter to search the lately abdicated vehicular conveyance as he had left his pix-l.et pistol behind. "Tin devil a pistol u, i find." cried the mmi. i'ii:g Hibernian, "or anything ele but tl." ." ; n dn.-ing the leather coercd charm "Why. that's it. you blockhead." exclaimed Kean. suiting the action to .he word and tasting to be convinced. Pat scented the cordial and. laughing, cried: "Do you call that a pistol, sir? Why. then, faith, though I'm a peaceable man. 1 wouldn't mind standing a. shot or two of that pistol myself." When Edwin Forrest went to Lon don he was received in anything but a cordial way. One critic wrote: "Our old friend Mr. Forrest afforded ge-at amusement to the public by bis performance of Macbeth on Friday at the Prineess. Indeed, Mir best comic nctrs do not often m he so great a quantity of mirlh. The change from an inaudible murmur to a thunder of sou:m1 was enormous but the grand feature was the combat in which he stood scn::ting his sword against that of Macduff We were at a loss to know what this g'vMiro meant until an en lightened r in the gallery shouted out. -That's light, sharpen it!'" A good story is beiug told at the ex pense of a certain local theater whose "Standing Room Only" notice is no longer needed. One night after the curtain was rung up a small boy was discovered in front of the box office. ho manager of the theater went to the lad and kindly asked him what the trouble was. "I want my money back." sobbed the boy in answer to the query. In surprise the 'manager asked his reason for such a request. 'Because-because I'm afraid to sit up In the gallery all alone!" he wailed. ITis - money was returned. Franklin Bany in St. Louis Pot-Dispateh. She Has Positive Proof. The Cook Sure, an ye don't mane to tell me that ye think it's bad luck to break a mirror? The New Maid (earnestly)! don't think; I know It. The Cook Glory be! An how do ye know it? The New Maid Every time I break one I lose my job. New York Journal. Part of the Role. "Shall we pose as millionaires or as foreign dukes at the hotel?" "As the latter, my boy. As million aires we might be expected to display some evidences of wealth, but as dukes nobody can possibly take it amiss if we skip." Kansas City Jour nal. Currying No Favor. "Lvnd a hand. Hiram, and help ketch the alderman's pig." "Let the alderman ketch his own pig. I'm out of polities fer good." Louis ville Courier-Journal. Taken at His Word. Creditor - Suppose I'll hare to wait till the day of judgment for what you owe. Ieb;or-Yes: call late In the day. though Fliegende Blatter. . HOMES ATHENS As a Rule They Are Clean, but Bare and Comfortless. PEOPLE LIVE IN THE CAFES. When They Do Get Into Their Houses Their Principal Occupation Is Look ing Out of the Windows The Mar riage Customs of Greece. Home life in Greece, particularly in Athens, is peculiar. It might almost be said that there is no such thing. In. Sir. Duckett Ferriman's book on "Greece and the Greeks" the manners and customs of the picturesque Hel lenes, which arc little known to the average English reader, are described at length. Mr. Ferriman states that the Greeks do not know anything about the art of making a home. "One may meet with exquisite clean liness," he writes, "with beautifully embroidered bed linen scented with rosemary, but never with what we mean by cozincss. The Greeks are far less in their houses than we are, and when they arc at home they appear to spend most of their time in looking out of the window. They are not given to inviting their friends to their houses. It is not that they are nig gardly, for they will gladly entertain you at a restaurant at far greater cost to themselves. But it docs not enter into their ideas to ask you home to dinner, even after an acquaintance of many years. "They do not ask each other, so it can hardly be expected that they should make an exception in the case of foreigners. The cafe is a second home to tlicm. There they meet friends and gossip. That is one reason perhaps why they dislike country life. "It offers no alternative to the home; there the hearth is the social center, while in town it is the cafe. In Athens those who do not own the house they dwell in seldom remain long in the same abode. Two or three years is quite a long tenure. Many people make a point of moving every year. "The imposing facades of Athenian houses conceal, for the most part, a bare and comfortless Interior, and a well kept garden is rare. A garden Is not made in a year, ami a person who changes his residence every twelve months does not want to be troubled with much furniture, nor is lie par ticular as to its arrangement, seeing that it will bn carted away in a few months. "Home life has no resources for the Greeks, as it has for us. It affords them little occupation and no amuse ment. They like to eat and drink in crowds, where there is noise and move ment. Their instincts are too gregari ous to allow them to appreciate the domestic intimacy which we prize. "The day chosen for marriage in Greece is usually Sunday, but the day of all days in the year is the Sunday preceding the Christmas feast. It is not fashionable now to be married in church. In Alliens the ceremony takes place in the house of the bride's par ents. A temporary altar is set up in the middle of the room. "At the conclusion of the ceremony the priest and the couple join hands and walk three times round the altar, the guests pelting them with comfits. The most important part of the cere mony is the crowning of (he bride and bridegroom with wreaths of orange blossom; hence a wedding is popular ly called 'the crowning. "Love marriages arc rare exceptions. The match is made by the parents and relatives rather than by the parties principally concerned. There are cer tain established usages which, though not legally binding, are not to be con travened with impunity. "Then it is considered wrong fr brothers to marry until their sisters have been wed. Again, girls must marry in order of seniority. It would not be right for a girl to bo married while she ha.d an elder sister who re mained single. The men of a family arc thus naturally anxious to see their sisters settled, and as a dowry is in dispensable its provision is often a matter of serious anxiety and the fruit of great self denial on the part of the brothers if the parents are dead. "There are cases in which brother have remained unmarried for years and have devoted all their hard earned savings to the dowries of their sisters. Among the poorer classes cm Ignition is resorted to. not infrequently solely with this object, and many a dowry comes to a Greek maiden from across the Atlantic." Animal Life on Venus. "There are many physical reasons for thinking that if any other planet besides the earth is inhabited it is probably Venus," says Professor Plck erincr. "It is about the same size as lithe earth, and Its density is about the same. The force of gravity upon its surface is only slightly less than that on the earth. The temperature on Venus Is probably the same as in our own tropfes, and the denso atmos phere may be of a composition such as enveloped the earth when in the carboniferous period. As to the ex istence of intelligent life, the question Is still open. If it is ever established that the planet Venus is Inhabited it will be less surprising than if the same were proved conclusively of any other planet, owing to the similarity in many respects of Venus and the earth." A Hint. Teacher I have been trying for some time to get the room so quiet that wo could bear a pin drop. I bare drop ped the pin several times, but you have been making so much noise that It has been Impossible to hear It What do jou think we bad better do, children? Iteddy Backrow Tie a dumbbell to It next time, teacher. Brooklyn Life. Conceited. v "There are a lot of girls who don't ever intend to get married." "How do you know?' "I've proposed to several." Cleve land Leader. It Is happiness to be nobly descend ed; It Is not less to have so much mer it that nobody inquires whether, wa are so or. not la Bruyere. Setting a Watch. Tb Jeweiervsei roywatch within, a thousandth of a second when be gave it to me today," said the man with a new timepiece, "and this is bow be did it: "He has a clock wired up with the big chronometer at Washington. At 4 p. m. this clock was corrected to the thousandth of a second. At 4:03 be was ready to deliver my watch. His master clock has a 30.1 inch pen dulum, so it ticks seconds. Each of the first fifty-five 'ticks in each minute Is announced by a telegraph sounder In the clock, then the last five seconds arc silent The watchmaker rested a camel's hair brush on the balance wheel of the watch to stop it. then set all the hands, hour, minute and second at 4:06:00 and waited. When the si lence of the sounder Indicated 4:05:55 he got ready, and five seconds later, on the first tick or 4.-0G. he lifted the brush and the watcb started. By looking at the second band with a glass and listening to the clock an nouncer I proved their identlcalness except for the time it took the sound to travel from the clock to my ear." New York San. Daniel Wilson, His House. Dr. Daniel Wilson, afterward prin cipal of the University of Toronto, used in earlier days to- live near Lau riston. In Scotland. One day Dr. John Beddoc (who has written an autobiog raphy) set out to find him. "Having." he says, "no clear idea of the situation of the house, I entered St Margaret's lane, which I conceived must lead In the right direction, and. meeting a gen tleman just about to issue therefrom, asked whether he could direct me to Dr. Wilson's new bouse. He looked bard at me and inquired: "'Do you know Daniel Wilson?' l do 'Intimately? 'yes, Intimately Then follow this road till you see a house that looks as if it belongs to Daniel Wilson, and that will be If 1 thanked him and. following bis advice, bad no difficulty in identifying the bouse. It had a window which con tained some tracery of a pattern which I knew Wilson considered peculiarly Scottish." Forbidden Ground. A visit of Gladstone to the Isle of Man is recalled by Agnes Herbert and described in her book about that in teresting little speck in the midst of the Irish sea. Mr. Gladstone bad made a detour across a small holding in Rushcn. and his way lay through the "haggart." where the stacks are harvested. A strong, powerfully-built Manxwoman stood throwing up the straw to the stack, using her fork as deftly and quickly as a farm laborer. "That is very hard work, my good woman," the Grand Old Man Is re ported to have said graciously, "but you look well and strong. May I ask how old you are?" The toiler hardly turned as she an swered sharply: "How oul art thou thyself, thou lm perent oul' man?" The Arts of Asia. It was Asia, through Arabia, which gave Europe the literature, the arts and the sciences which we have de veloped and of which we now boast. Gunpowder was probably invented in China. It was certainly introduced into Europe from Arabia. The finely tempered steel of Damascus went over from Arabia at the time of the Moor ish invasion of Spain, and its manu facture was continued at Toledo. The coppersmiths of Bagdad supplied the world's market with their wonderful productions centuries before there were any Industries in Europe. Weav ing of silk and cotton had its- birth as an industry in Arabia, and the weav ing of wool was learned by the cru saders in the same wonderful country. Astronomy, mathematics, the mariner's compass all came to us from the Arabs. Argonaut The Automobile. In some respects the automobile is the most marvelous machine the world has yet seen. It can go anywhere at any time, floundering through two feet of snow, ford any stream that isn't deep enough to drown out the mag neto, triumph over mud axle deep, jump fences and cavort over plowed ground at fifteen miles an hour. It has been used with brilliant success in various kinds of bunting, including coyote coursing on the prairies of Col orado, where it can run all around the broncho, formerly in favor, since it nev er runs any risk of breaking a leg in a prairie dog bole. Educated automo biles have been trained to shell corn, saw wood, pump water, churn, plow, and. in short do anything required of them, except figure out where the con sumer gets off under the tariff law. Outing. The Tramp and the Dog. Mrs. Suburb Oh. my dear, that mag nificent watchdog you brought home yesterday is gone! Mr. Suburb Eh? Did he break the chain? "Xo. but an ugly looking tramp camo around and acted so terribly that I let the dog loose, but instead of tearing the tramp to pieces he went off with him." "Great snakes! It must have been the same tramp I bought him of!" New Tork Weekly. The Particulars. "Yes." said the clerk as he dipped bis pen in tbe ink and prepared to fill out the blank. "Your name, please!" "Amelia Whippleton." "Nationality?" "American." "Married or unmarried?" "Both twice." Chicago Record-Herald. Doubter. "The world is getting so good you may soon see tbe lion lie down with the Iamb." "Yes. but when the lion rises, where will the lamb be?" T dunno. You'll have to ask some body in Wall street!" Philadelphia Ledger. Still She Liked Him. She Yes, I like Ted. He 13 so ex travagant He That is hardly the best quality for a husband, is it? She Of course not; I am not going to marry bim. Boston Herald. Behold the Loveliest of Hats For Spring Exquisite New Modes Revealed at this Formal Opening Tues. and Wed., March 28-29, 1911 Fashion is an artist. With skill and discretion with a keen regard to beauty of outline with unerring taste in the mingling of colors she has created the new Millinery Hats that arc beautiful, striking and novel Hats that are dainty, quaintly becoming Hats that arc smart and dis tinguishedhave come from under her clever fingers. Hats drooping with a burden of lovely blossoms. Hats made trig and natty by one little upright feature of brilliant hue Hats adorned with rich laces and great graceful bows of ribbon, giving pleasing variety to her offering. fit this Fermal Opening of Sprint Styles we Introduce everu accepted Millinem Mode off the new Season Arc the Hats, large or small? Arc colors gay or subdued? What is the most favored design? Come and see. To give an adequate idea of this wonderful showing of Spring Hats is too difficult a task for type and paper. Come and scc-and admiro-and buu if uou like. Price is never prohibitive here BEN BUTLER'S BLUFF. It Was Well Worked and Completely Fooled General Bingham. General .lolm A. Bingham was a member of the military tribunal that tried .Mrs. Surra it and tbe Lincoln as sassination conspirators. After the trial in tbe subsequent de bates in the bouse General 15. F. But ter frequently charged that the com mission had arrived at an unjust ver dict and had convicted an innocent woman. In a memorable debate he boldly proclaimed that if tbe contents of a diary which had been found on the dead body of .1. Wilkes Booth were ever made public it would disclose the fact that it contained the proof of Mrs. Surratt's innocence, which proof had been infamously suppressed by the commission. When General Bingham made a movement as though he would repel such an accusation. Butler dra matically drew a memorandum book from his breast pocket and held it aloft, but did not utter a word. I'.iim- ham naturally supposed that Butler had a copy of a diary such as he had spoken of. As a matter of fact the book contained nothing but blank leaves. General Butler was just bluff ing. The diary was in Kssession of Sec retary Stanton, but President Johnson finally demanded it. It was an inter esting book, but it threw no light upon the groat conspiracy. The Goose Tower. In the early years of tbe fourteenth century the "free cities" Hamburg, Lubeck and Bremen sent a delegation of seventy-seven members to King Valdcroar to demand increased rights and privileges in their trade with Den mark. Tbe delegates were not very respectful in their language and de meanor, and tbe king, who was at Vordingborg, told them they acted like a drove of geese and clapped them into prison in the tower, telling them they would stay there until they learn ed better manners. Over the heavy tower door the king put up a stone with the- inscription: Slcbcn und slcbcntcg Ilause: SIcbcn und slcbentcff Ganse; Ware nlclit so vlelo Ilause. Hat Ich auch nlcht so vlcle Ganse. Translated this reads: "Seventy seven houses and seventy-seven geese. If there were not so many houses I would not have so many geese." On top of the tower, which still stands solid and strong, was placed a big gilt goose, with neck outstretched as if it were hissing. The Jerboa and the Melons. An odd fact relative to a little Afri can melon Is thus related by an offi cial of Khartum: The jerboa or kangaroo rat Is found Inconsiderable numbers in places miles and miles way from any water or even dew, and I was at a loss to un derstand bow these little animals could exist through the ten months of drought It appears, however, that after tbe scanty rains a small wild melon of bitter taste, but full of juice, flourishes In the desert The jerboa, as soon as the melon Is ripe, bites off the stem and proceeds to dig away the sand under the melon, so that it gradually sinks below tbe level or the ground. The constant wind soon cod ers it with six to eight inches of sand, which protects it from the scorching sun and from drying up. When all other moisture has evaporated the jer boa goes to his larder and drinks the juice of tbe melon till the rains come on again. One jerboa will bury as many as forty of these little melons to last bim through the dry season. A Cotton Legend. Cotton was tbe theme of one of the most fabulous nature stories on its first introduction into Europe. Trav elers related that in Tartary there grew a shrub and that when its ripe fruit was cut open within was "a lyttle Beastc in fleche. in bone and blodo as though it were a lyttle Lamb with outer wolle." The flesh of this "vege table lamb" was eaten, ran tbe story, and the wool made into cloth. The basis of the legend is the way in which the cotton pod ripens and bursts, show ing the white fluffy raw cotton, which closely resemble wool. Baw cotton 13 6till called "cotton wool." Cynical. 'People who :o-e their money are always complaining to their friends about it "Nousense. People who lose their money haven't any friends left to com plain to." Town Topics. Power ef Nature's Beauty. Have you never felt tbe marvelous power of beauty in nature? If not you have missed one of the most exquisite joys In life, says Orison Swett Mardcn in Success Magazine, I was once go- Mng through the Yostmite valley, and after riding 100 miles in a stagecoach over rough mountain roads I was so completely exhausted that It did not seem as though I could keep my seat while we traveled over the ten more miles which would bring us to our des tination. But on looking down from tbe top of the mountain I caught a glimpse of the celebrated Yoscmite falls and the surrounding scenery just as the sun broke through the clouds, and there was revealed a picture of such rare beauty and marvelous plc turcsquencss that every particle of fa tigue, brain fag and muscle weariness departed in an instant My whole soul thrilled with a winged sense of sub limity, grandeur and beauty which I bad never experienced before and which I can never forget I felt a spiritual uplift which brought tears of joy to my eyes. A Delayed Execution. An eighteenth century execution on Kennington common was stopped for a time owing to a strange cause. On Aug. 19. 17G3. two days before tbe date of the execution, a heavy fog came over London, accompanied by thunder and lightning and torrents of 1 rain. These conditions lasted for near ly forty-eight hours, and many people believed that the last day bad arrived. When the time fixed for the execution arrived the assembled crowd cried shame on the sheriff for banging Ay man when the worm was coming to an end. As be persisted in bis prepara tions they burst through the barriers and stopped the proceedings, shout ing that the culprit might as well wait a, few minutes, when the grand sum mons would come to alL The sheriff had to obtain the assistance of a force of soldiers before the execution could be carried out Mixed Emotions. A Bostonian tells of a clean, well set l nad four courses; he had sod beef up young Irishman who formerly saw I TCry good roast mutton, baked hare; service in the British navy, but who is now engaged in business at the Hub. "When are you going to get freedom in Ireland. John?" the Bostonian once idly asked. "Tho only way that we'll get free dom in ould Ireland." said the Celt "will be if France an Itussin an Ger many an Austria an maybe Italy If they would all join together to give those blackguards of English a rare ould bat In. That's the only way. sir. we'll get home rule." Then as ho looked cautiously about a twinkle of cunning was added to his expression. "An the whole lot of 'em together couldn't do It. sir. Oh. It's the grind navy we've got!" Llppin cott's Magazine. The Talmud. The Talmud is the compendium of an cient Jewish oral, or unwritten, law, as distinguished from the rcntnteuch. or written, law. Its origin is coeval with the return of the Jewish people from the Babylonian captivity, r3C B C Its compilation in Hebrew was be gun by the scribes, and by their suc cessors tbe work was carried on till 220 II. C. The Talmud is a combina tion of prose and poetry and contains two elements, legal aud legendary. Its morality resembles that of the New Testament and its philosophy reminds ns vers forcibly of that of the great Plato. New York American. a i-resn egg. i An English food expert, siid in a re-! A Fresh Egg. cent lecture: "Tbe secret of health is two meals a day with an occasional fast But people won't avail themselves of thi3 superb secret It is too unpleasant- like the fresh egg. t. KUUUBiuu ii, at- , Aninn.n er cuiiiiiK iu iu iu u suit uii;i :&,. i a A..4A 9 a At. A v - .. 4t? 1-. 1 11 t summoned the waiter and said: "'Walter, take this egg back to the kitchen, wring its neck, and grill It for me.' " Thought It Was a Joke. Tbe Colonel And you actually as sert that you want to marry my daughter? Fusby Y-yes. The Colo nel (staring at him unpleasantly) You kno I am English. Fusby Y-yes. sir. The Colonel Well, it's go ing to take me several years to see the point of your little joke. Good day to you. Cleveland Plain Dealer. . c .-vSW lljMA Xk fcWwv 3? -r-ww V&&& to to to to to to to to to to to to to NOTicr. Xoticv in hereby kivou Hint llm nntlerwiKn'ti. by virtue of u chattle mortKaue, in tho form or mortmain not, dated December Jni. ltXH..ttnl executed by Mrs. S. F. Triip and Jim. W. I.. McQuown. nortcagorp, to It. W. Saloy. intt puree. and duly tiled in tho office of fliCnonly I'lerlc in and fur theconntyof Plate, Ktatvof Nebraska, on March 10th. It'll, to wenra thn laiuentof a certain promissory uot for SSiO.i, dated Ik-cember -Jnd. i:ll.nntl puahloto K. W. Saley. and on which there is now due the rani of $M.-.CO. with IntcroKt thereon at the rate of 10 iMr cent per anunm from February 1st, 1'JuV. mid default having been made in the payment of Raid note and tho amount dne thereon and no unit or other proceeding at law having been instituted to recover eaid bum or tiny part thereof; Therefore, I will hell to tho highest bidder for cash at public auction, at the office and ton room of tho Auditorium Mnfric Company.-t IUO W'eht 13th btreet, and beiug in the North opera hotioe. Columbus. l'Iatt county, Nebraska, on Wednesday. April l-lli. l'.U. at 2 o'clock p m.. the following dehcribcd property, to-wit: Ono To ler Piano. Style 1 1, No. I M10, mahogany cnne, one Moot aud onu hcarf. K. W. SALEY. Mortgagee. What "Hamlet" Lacked. In a mining camp town "Hamtaf was one evening given by a strolling company, and this is the criticism that appeared next day in the local papers, written by tbe miner dramatic critic: "There is too much chinning- In this piece. The author is behind the times and seems to forget that, what we want nowadays is hair raising- situa tions and detectives. "In the bands of a skillful play wright a detective would bare been put upon the track of Hamlet's uncle and the old man would have been hunted down in a manner that would have lifted the audience out of their cowhides. "Tbe moral of (he piece is not good. The scene where Hamlet sasses his mother is a very bad example to the rising generation. "Our advice to the author Is more action, more lovemaking and plenty of specialties. The crazy girl scene should be cut out altogether and a rattling good song and dance substi tuted." Charles V. at Table. Emperor Charles V. of Austria, by far the most powerful ruler of his day, was thus described as he appeared at table by Roger Ascbam. secretary to the English ambassador, in 1550: T stood hnnl hv thr omnornr'a tnhto. FT uiesc oe no service m England. The emperor hath a good face, a constant look; he fed well of a capon; I have bad a better from mine hostess Barnes many times in my chamber. He and Fordinando. king of tbe Romans, ate together very handsomely, carving themselves where they list without any curiosity. Tho emperor drank the best that ever I saw; be bad his head in the glass five times as long as any of us and never drank less than a good quart at once of Rhenish wine.' It was notorious that the emperor ate and drank immoderately, and as a nat ural result he suffered terribly from gout from tbe time be was thirty years old Game to the Last. Ooughi3 MacDonald and his old cro ny, Donald MacDougal. were once op posed to each other in a famous curl ing match, and the last two stones te finish the game were the two cronies'. Donald MacDougal. with enormous deliberation, threw his stone. He threw it well. He made what is called a pat lid and jumped for joy. Then it was Douglas MacDonald's turn. Hla case seemed hopeless, but such a splen did throw did he make that the pat lid was knocked off. and his stone lay at the side of the tee, winning the game. In his joy the old fellow jump ed sky high. He came down so bard that bo broke right through the ice. He sank, but, bobbing up again, he I shouted from tllf notr? xrnfw .:.,,: , ; Ul' Iads'. vc won- and ,f l dInM tuiuu uui v ucre auvc De sure ye pic that stone on my grave!" Exchange. Dauntless. "He cleared the sill at a bound and vanished in the darkness." related Ro- mnIir l.rcnfhWci,- "But' scoffed Realism, "only a mo ment ago he was riveted to the spot Did he file the rivets?" "Oh. no!" rejoined Romance, nothing tlaustcd. "Fortunately it was only a smali spot so that by a superhuman effort he wrenched it loose and car ried it along with him." Puck. Result of a Fad. Poverty came in at the door. Love immediately flew out of tbe tvindow. "Ah." said those who observed, "this Ls what comes of being fresh air fad lists '"-Judge's Library. BHCwv..?'... E- gBBKiwae . : . a-. l i-'7 KC" ' H i r "i if 'Si Jr. a "f Mr IK A "r. V. -j" t y-naar-T S?'TT:r-s" &?Z3ytp23&iZP&3. ?JTf .T.ftte ,.a.
