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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-
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