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10 THE GOUMBR. pocket and put them on tho tublo. "I will tuke thotliroutionB and card of admission now." "Oortuinly," Haid iiluko; thin littloplan mukcB your way cloar from Woybridgo station. It in nix or eovon miles, and you will luivo to walk it. Cabs can bo trucked." "I qui to boo Unit." Bait! Strouth. "For similur roufloriB you miiflt not in quiro jour way. You cennot miss it; tho "plan 1b on a largo Bcalo nnd ovory poHsiblo Inudmurk is indicutod. Whon you roach tho furnuco (which is Bup posod to bo usod in connection with Botno brickworks) you will llnd a deuf muto un night portor in churgo. (land him tho ticket and ho will show you by signB what to do." Strouth took tho tickot and plan, shook bunds nnd wont out. Ho wub a pussongor in tho lost train to Woybridgo that night. Throo days uftorward, Strouth, with a milo on hia fuco, called onco moro on Mr. Blako. Mr. Bluko did not Boom at nil Burprisod to boo him. "Lot ub Bpoak plainly," said Mr. Dlako. "Woro you afraid of llroV" "I wub," said Strouth." "Evorybody is. It is tho most awful olomont, having in it something of tho BUpornutural. I havo sont 170 suicides to that pluco, und only throo banded their tickotB to tho night portor." "And did tho threo commit suicidb?" "No! Thoy came out again. Not one of them Iibb committed suicide or over will. You won't, for instance." "No," Buid Strouth, "common eonae has dawned. After all," he muttered, "sho is not tho only girl in tho world." "Many of my clionte." said Blake, smilingly, "give mo Bomo tittle present, Bomo trilling eouvonir on their return." Strouth put hiB hand into his waist coat pockot. As ho fumbled with tho coino ho said: "Suppose that one of thoso throo who did giva up bis ticket to tho porter had committod Buicido, you would havo stood a fair chunco of get ting youiBolf into a dovii of a moss." "Not ut all," said Blako, goniully, "not ut all. To provont tho possibility of ac cidents thoro isn't any furnaco." Ho swopt tho sovereigns from tho tablo into tho palm of hiB hand. "MoBt liberal of you, I'm Buro." Chicago Times-Herald. NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AS SOCIATION MEETING. For the meeting of the National Ed ucational Association at Los Angeles, Cal , July 11-14 1899, tho Union Pacific willjnmko the greatly reduced rate of one fare plus 12.00 for the round trip. The excellent service given by the Union Pacitic was commented on by all who had the pleasure of using it to the convention ut Washington in 1898 This year our educational friends meet in Los Angeles, and members of the Association and others from points East should by all means take the Union Pacific. Tho service of tho Union Pacific Is un excelled and consists of Palace Sleep-ing-Cars, BulTot Smoking and Library Cars, Dlnlng-Curs, meals a la-carte. Free Hecllnlng-Chalr Cars and Ordi nary Sleeping Cars. Tho Union Pacltlc Is The Route for summer travel For full information about tickets, stop-overs, or a Hnoly Illustrated book describing "The Overland Route" to the Pacillc Coast, call on E. B. Slosson, Gen. Agt. "Did tho ministor talk politics us us ual, to-duy?" "I guoBs eo, ho took his text from the opistlo to tho Philipinos." DU MAUHIER AND MOSCHBLRt. rimt Meeting of the Two Clreat Artliti In Clay linhnniU. Wo first mot In Antwerp In tho class rooms of tho famous academy, says MoschcloB In tho Century. 1 was paint ing am blngulng as onn paints and blagues In tho storm and stress period of one's nrtlstic development. It had boon my good fortuno to begin my studies In Paris, whoro In tho Atelier Gloyro I had cultivated tho essentially French art of chaffing known by the name of "la blague Parlslennc," and I now was nblo to give my less lively Flemish frlondB and fellow-students tho full benefit of my experience. Many pleasant recollections bound mo to Paris, so when I heard ono day that a "nouveau" had arrived straight from my old Atelier Gloyro I was not little Impatient to make his acquaint ance. Tho newcomer wab Uu Maurier. I sought him out, and, tnklng It for granted that ho was a Frenchman, I addressed him In French. Wo were soon engaged In lively conversation, asking apd answering questions about comrades in Paris, and sorting tho threads that associated us with the samo place. "Did you know un noinme Poynter?" ho asked, exquisitely Frenchifying tho name for my benefit I mentally translated this Into equally exquisite English, my version natur ally being "a man called Poynter." Later an American came up, with whom I exchanged a few words In his and my native tongue. "What the deuce aro you? English?" broke In Du Maurier. "And what the deuce are you," I rejdlned. And we then and there mado friends on a sound Inter national basis. "It seemed to me that at this first meeting Du Maurier took me In at a Clanne tho eager, hungry glance of the caricaturist. Ho seemed struck by my appearance, as well he might be. I wore a workman's blouse that had gradually taken Its color from its sur roundings. To protect myself from tho indiscretions of my comrades I had painted various warnings on my back, as, for instance, "Bill Btlckers, be ware," "It Is forbidden to shoot rub bish here," and tho like. My very black hair, over inclined to run riot, was encircled by a craftily concealed band of crochet work,- such ae only a fond mother's hand could devise, and I was doubtless coloring some meer schaum of eccentric design. It has always been a source of legit imate prldo to mo to think that I should have been tho tool selected by Providence to sharpen Du Maurier's pencil. There must have been some thing in my "verfluchte physiognomic," as a very handsome young German whom I used to chaff unmercifully called it, to reveal to Du Maurier those dormant capacities which had been be trayed In his eager glance. The Mermen Emperor' liUnreu. How the German emperor will bring up his only daughter is no subject of wonderment to the Berliners. Thoy know that, princess as sho Is, she will be taught to be a good housewife, to sew, to cook perhaps, and to order din ner certainly. For tho sovereign's Ideal woman Is a strictly domestic person, as his ideal man is a stout soldier. His little boys haven't much fun In their dally lives. Concerning thoso lives the Sketch days: In tho Spartan upbrlng lng of bts children the kaiser rivals his ancestor, Frledrlch Wilhelm of Prussia. According to Klausmann's "Leben in Deutschen Kaisorhaus," the life of the royal children of Berlin is not sweet ened by hours of Inactivity. In their years of Infancy tho kaiserin ministers to almost all their wants, sponds a good part of tho day with them and enters Into all their amusements, When tho princes arrive at the ago of 9 things are all changed and it is all work. Thoy aro then allowed about an hour and a half out of their waking hours to themselves; all tho rest of their day is spent in study and physical training. Even in holiday time their tutors ac company them to superintend their studies. Fulladel phi a ledger PURCHASED FAMR. Why Etigilah NflWHpnpere Always A rivet tUe Ohiuuro Society l'eople. During tho recent upheaval in the Pall Mall Gazctto office one interesting bit of Information that camo to tho sur face was that Mr. Astor's editors and reporters wero accustomed whoa among themselves to refer to a certain department of the paper as "tho tittle fattlo column," says tho New York Times. It contnlnB divers Phort para graphs in which aro -ccounted the doings, social and other, of notabilities of various grades, Including always many titled nonentities ami occasion ally professional persons Uko doctors, lawyers and diplomats. Most, of the other London Journals lmvo similar colymns nnd they aro all equally trivia', and snobbish. It now appears that what has always seemed to bo merely an amusing illustration of tho extent to which tho British public carries its In terest In tho "upper classes" is In real ity something qulto different. A Manchester doctor recently got in to trouble with his confreres because he allowed himself to ho advertised as connected with a certain sanitarium. Ono of his friends, noticing that the movements of other medical men, all or whom had been vociferously scrupu lous In regard to tho ethics of theli profession, wero constantly recorded by tho press, proceeded to tho office of the Thunderer Itself with a similar Item exploiting a Journey of his own. There he was informed that announce ments of that class were Inserted at the rato of 1 guinea for three lines and 10 shillings 6 pence for every addition al line. Continuing his investigation he learned that the society people, too, bought fame at the same high price and that the so-called "tittle-tattle" was published not because the British public yearned for it, but because tho lesser lights of society and science yearned for notoriety and were willing to pay for it The Karaim Ji-w. The Karaim Jews number 3,000 or 4,000 and live principally in the Crimea. They speak a Tartar dialect among themselves, and ethnological ly are much more like Tartars than Semites. Their own legends, in fact, permit tho assumption that they were Khazars and were converted to Judaism in the eighth century. Their form of Judaism dlfferB from that of the 5,000,000 or more orthodox Russian Jews In reject ing the talmud and traditional theol ogy altogether and confining itself strictly to the Mosaic revelation. It has been a favorite amusement with the Russians for generations to pretend the greatest admiration and affection for this obscure little tribe. Mme. Novlkoff had hor joke on the subject here in London when she gravely as sured an interviewer some years ago that there never had been a law of any kind Issued in Russia against the Jews. When this amazing assertion wai ques tioned she coolly explained that she referred to the Karaim Jews, as In Rus sia they dl( not consider the disclpiea of the talraud were Jews at all. Inas much as the Karaites constitute only a two-thousandth part of tho Jewish race if, indeed, it be conceded that they belong to It at all tho Insolence of tho Russian attitude toward them Is peculiarly exasperating to Hebrews in general and tho spectacle of theli being brought forward at Moscow aa the sole represental'ves of Israel will smart and rankle Just as the genial Slavonic character deires it should. Saturday Review. Xioult Napoleon at Play. At the Tuillcries madam received mo in a salon hung with tapestry. Through a half onon door I hoard a child's volco; it was that of tho prlnco imporial, who was playing In the next room. Soon wo hoard tho noise of a saw and a hammer, and as I listened Mmo. Bizot led mo quietly to tho door of that room. "Look," sho said, speaking low and oponing tho ioor a little wldor. Then I saw tho emperor seated on tho carpet and making toys for his son. "Mme. Octave Fcuillet A ROMANCE FROM AFRICA. fbe Htnry of a Treannre Ingenlooi aad May He True. Englishmen are pedatory creatures, and tho London papers do not hesitate to express annoyanco because the expe ditionary force recently sent against King Prempeh found at Coomassle only n meager number of gold orna ments, and hollow ones at that, say tho Now York Times. Tho value of the loot taken from the royal "palace" was only about 2,000 and made a poor showing when exhibited In London, as compared with tho results of ore 'ous raids. Now a correspondent writing from Accra tells a story which if truo a very largo "If" will make tho British officers wish they had not left tho Ashantl capital qulto so soon. He says: "Some years ago a slave girl of surpassing beauty of tho Ashantl type beln entendu had the misfortune to attract the fickle fancy of a chief, whoso head wife tolerated no rivalry. To reproach a husband Is generally useless; in Coomassle It Is dangerous. Tho lady, wise In her generation, fore boro to risk her head, but sett tor the executioner and caused the ears and lips of the too fascinating maiden to be removed, rendering her such an object as can ouly bo Been in savage king doms. History does not say If tho ex pedient answered tho purpose of re storing tho chief's wandering affections to their rightful owner, but the slave girl developed, not unnaturally, Into a woman with an undying thirst for revenge. Lately she sought an audience with the govornor, and she Informed him that the real treasure of the Ashantis lies burled soroo fifty feet below the soil, in a dis used shaft of a mine near Coomassle, and readily undertook to point out the spot. Digging is being vigorously car ried on, already more than a fourth of the depth has been cleared, and should the treasure amount to anything like the rumored value, the cost of the ex pedition will be fully defrayed, making the Ashantl war a record one, as not nnly bloodless, but free of cost" No Wonder it'e a Crate. The Bllver question, ae it Is under stood in some parts of Kentucky, la graphically Illustrated by a letter which one of the statesmen at tho cap Itol received from a correspondent in that state. It appears from this epis tolary evidence that a controversy was being waged between a sound-money man and a silver champion. The gold man thought he had the best of the argument. He asked his adversary why he thought that the free coinage of ell ver would make times better. "Simply because it would put more money in circulation," said tho white metal crank. "But how will It put more money in circulation? " demanded the gold man. "How?" asked the sllvrr man, with a smile of contempt at his opponent. "How? Why, you blamed fool, If you can take one gold dollar to the treas ury and get sixteen dollars for it, won't that Increap the circulation?"--Pltta-burg Dlspt n . Didn't Care for Much Drega, Mr. Uptown Is the husband of a very fashionable and drossy wife, and not long ago ho was talking with a stran ger about women's clothes at a swell reception up In Harlem. "Plenty of handsome women here to night," ventured the stranger '.ZeB'", S?i? Mr- uPtown blandly. Married?" queried the stranger. Yes; my wife is her to-night " "I'm married, too, but my wifo eel dom goes out. She doesn't care much for dress. Does yours?" hl'JXn'" W uPtown, with somo hesitation, "I don't really know wheth er she cares much for dross, but I'm pretty sure sho doesn't care for much dress; but you can Judge for yourself. There she comes now." Mrs. Uptown, who la stylish to the backbone, swept by, nnd tho stranger changed the conversation-Texas Sift- TK CouKiKit is for sale at the lead ing newsstand. Subscription price fo ono year is $1. 'Phone 384. r V h