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NO. -:.
Slncrhijr of Good Time.
Lot' Mill sing of the luiiiy times the happy
times to be,
A sini; tho rivers, streaming on in music to
the sea:
As sing til" bird--they know nut why
when springtime days 1-ogiu ;
So M us sing the smi time out, ami sin thn
glad time, in !
I.efs s-till sing of the happy times; th-nuh in
the wintry fnt
The svyetest ruses nf the world are withered
imw niiil lust :
Some time they'll Mtutm for us againand
nil their swis-ts we'll win ;
Let's sing the withered roses out, ami sing
the new ones in!
IF. I.. 8.
The Fortescue Diamonds.
Terrace Turk place is the aristoerntic
name tlmt n shrewd real-estate man
has given to n row of suburban resi
dences he lms jmt up for rent.
Terrace 1'nrk place consist of thir
teen dwellings. These dwellings were
constructed by contract and are nil
nlike.
.Tiiek Atlu-rton, my best friend, with
bi wife, Iivsh in 7 Terrace 1'nrk place.
1 v tin there in the morning after the
great Fortescue diamond robbery.
The papers had given much space
under the largest ntid most n'lisatioiial
head lines to the robbery and I hml
read it through in nil its details. A
house had lieeii mysteriously entered ;
no one of the inmates had heard a
mnmd ; diamond variously estimated
at from $..0,OOi to $100,000 had been
taken ; nothing else hadlieeli touched.
My mind was full of thin affair when
I enlled on Jack.
"I bought a new ring yesterday,"
Raid my friend, atnl proceeded to fell
mo why. "1 never wear much jew
elry," he said, "hut I like to ow n a
little as an investment. This one cost
rue 350, and it is certainly worth 31. VI.
You must see it and admire if." Ami
he produced a casket.
1 could not help seeing something
of (he other contents of Jack's liox,
and l at once took him to task for his
carelessness in keeping so much prop
erty of that sort in his house, espe
cially when it was nut worn and used.
Jack laughed af me. "The whole
boxful wouldn't sell for SI. DIM," he
said, "and the risk of taking and dis
posing of it is too "rent to make the
(peculation a paying one. 1 am always
at home at night ; 1 sleep with a revol
ver where I can put my hand on it ; I
urn n light sleeper; my jewels arc as
mite on my dressing table as they would
be in nny bank vault in the city. I
tell you, lick. they can't play the
Voltcscue game on me!"
"Pshaw!" said I, "anyone could
come in here, without the slightest
ditlieultv, and take everything vou've
got."
"I'll bet you 500 on it," said Jack.
"I'll take it," replied I.
And then we both laughed. "How
long shall the time be?" he queried.
"Three months," said I. He agreed.
I was younger than I am now, ami
correspondingly leas w ise, and stopped
to consider neither the danger nor the
possible consequeneeH. I was going
to rob Atherton's house, as a friendly
proof of the truth of my opinion.
That was all there was to that.
I thought it likely that Jack would
bo watchful for n few nights. That
wager of $."500 would have a tendency
!u that direction. He might even
have a suspicion. So I waited a week.
Tho night I selected was the darkest
one T had ever known. Tho rain fell
in torrents. I had purchased, from
time to time, mid in various places, an
outfit that seemed to include all that
was necessary.
At about midnight I climbed over
tho alley fence and proceeded to light
my dark lantern or rather proceeded
to try. To my intense disgust every
match I had was so thoroughly water
soaked that ignition proved absolutely
impossible.
I threw away the dark lantern ; I had
to. I moved carefully onward towards
tho house and stepped nud stumbled
onto and over every imaginable sort of
rubbish and debris.
I found a basement window unfas
tened absolutely unfastened. I hadn't
thought of a thing liko that. The
circumstances almost took my breafh
away. I wondered, rather resentfully,
if Jack had left it so on purpose if
this meant a task of some sort for me.
It was really unfortunate to have tho
work made so ensy for me. I had some
$8 or 1 10 dollars' worth of tools, all
needless now, in one of my pockets.
I took them out, threw them aside
and opened the window. I slipped in
and let myself down as far as I could,
while holding on with my hands. I
swung my leg around searclnngly but
carefully. A fellow wouldn't want to
drop into a tub of water or onto a
sleeping dog, even if his best friend
was sleeping upstairs and had an easy
way of believing all ho heard and for
giving nil he suffered.
TbuuJ went upstairs.
I think I was fully an hour in get
ting to the door in which I expected
to find Jack's .box. And I hadn't
found a locked door anywhere. I
had, however, found more furniture,
in the dark, than I should have sup
posed was needed in tho eutiro thir
teen houses in the row.
The door was not even closed ; it
stood wide open. Ami inside I could
hear the slow, rhythmical breathing
of the sleeping individual against
whom the night attack was planned.
There were several reasons for being
glad that Jack's wife was absent at the
seashore, and not the least important
one was the fact I feared I should
break down and surrender before I
hail finished the job I had in hand. I
thought of the revolver Jack had men
tioned, and my blood rau cold. I
sank noiselessly down upon my hands
ami knees and began n voyage of dis
covery. I discovered a chair with my
head! I hurt my shoulder on n table.
Jack had evidently been extravagant
in the way of getting new furniture
ami eccentric in the matter of placing
it. After time, however, I reached
the dressing table ; I got my h ind on
the big square box.
Just then the in m turned over, lie
breathed as a mail never did wh -n
asleep. Then he seemed listening in
tently, f heard him raise hims"ll' up
on his elbows. A movement he made
was dreadfully suggestive of the stea'
thy withdrawal of a weapon from be
neath a pillow.
I remained standing, and in a most
unpleasant posture, for so long a time
that 1 wondered vaguely if the cur
tains were not s thick as to utt-rly
exclude the light of day in iking ex
istence there one protracted night.
At last the man sank slowly down
Upon his bed again. He stretched
himself and griinte I luxuriously. Oh,
how tired I was! He gradually raised
the key and increased the volume of
his breath. He was sound asleep
again. 1 crawled painfully out o1' the
room, tiptoed cautiously downstairs,
climbed out of the window, which 1
easily opened from the outside and g (
away from the vicinity of Terrace Park
place, while the rain still roared and
the darkness was unbroken. When 1
reached my bafchelor quarters I put
the precious box on my bureau. 1 un
dressed hurriedly and plunged into
bed. It was almost noon when I
awoke.
I came back to my senses very
gradually. When I looked about me
there was the box. Jack's box -only -
only it seemed larger lifferetit
and--
T sprang out of bed. 1 rushed over
t i where tha thing stood. It it was
different. It wasn't Jack's at nil. My
limbs shook. My hands trembled
violently. I almost fell down under
the excitement of the moment. I got
out a heavy screwdriver, one of the
tools I had bought for my burglarizing
exploit, and then decided not to take,
and I pried the box open. Diamonds!
Diamonds! ft rent gems in the most
exquisite settings. Rings, bracelets,
necklaces, brooches, earrings! What
a glory of flashing beauty ! And I
lifted out tray after tray, only to find
the tray more and more emphatic the
deeper I went. I had to sit down for
a few minutes to get my breath ami
steady my nerves.
I tumbled tho diamonds into the
trays; 1 bundled the trays into the
box ; I put tho box into a bureau
drawer, carelessly scattering a pile o
clothing handkerchiefs, stockings,
gloves, ties, and so on over it ; I
locked tho druwer and dressed as fast
as I could. I I must get dow nstairs.
I must get down soon. Perhaps every
ono I met would read my secret in my
face ; no matter. I must take that risk.
Thero was not the slightest allusion
in the newspapers to the theft of which
I had been guilty not a single line. I
was disappointed, in much the same wny
a man sentenced to bo hanged would
bo if they postponed his execution
for a day or two ami neglected to
speak to him about it. The mail con
tained an urgent invitation from Jack
to conns and lunch with him. I must
soe Jack ; I must look into his eyes;
could it bo that he had bought or bor
rowed those gems?
I arrived at Atherton's live minutes
before the time he had mimed. One
look into his face convinced me of one
thing he didn't suspect mo of being
in the house tho night beforo ; he
knew nothing of what I had done.
Ho asked mo up to his room. I went
readily eagerly but like a mnu in a
drenm. Tho box he had brought
dow n to show me still stood on his
dressing-case. He laid his innd on it
and called my attention to it. "And
I was out of the city last night," he
said, "and thieves might have had
their owu way with it."
There was only ono solution. De
ceived by the night, tho storm, the ap
pearance of tho buildings at tho back.
j I had failed to enter Xo. 7. I had
: robbed one of Jack's neighbors. I
couldn't give a reasonable choioo be
! tween Xo. ) and Xo. 8.
I managed to get an excuse for go
ing into a new room and looking out
j into Atherton's back yard. I had,
from that point of vantage, a good
' view of the back yards of his two next
i door nei glib irs. They had n revehi-
tioiis to m ike. Oil1 w is full of the
sort of rubbish which ha I imp -del my
progress and handicapped my niove-
in 'ills; so was tho oth-r. Iloth gates
! in th tight board fen ;. at the rear
i . ....
were ai-rangea to op. mi easily troni the
inside. 1 could get no view at nil
from eith -r one of the window that
corresponded with the board one in
Jack Atherton's domain. The whole
business constituted a most madden
ing puzzle.
Within n week I hid found a man
whi knew ii man who knew Lawrence,
who live 1 in li Terrace Park. A sc
ries of "progressive introductions"
made nie acquainted with him. When
his family came home he invited me to
dinner. I accepted, went, had n thor
oughly enjoyable time, and found Miss
VI le Vinton, Mrs. L iwrence's sister,
t!i most c!i irming woaii'i I h id ever
met.
It to ik longer t i get acquainted
with Mr. Kingdon. There were more
m ui in the eh lir. consisting of the
"man who knew the man who knew
the man," Ac., in his case. On the
whole, however. I liked him better
II" w;is genial, opeiihearted, witty,
quick at repartee. I became almost
us frequent a eiller at his house as at
Jack Atherton's. I entertain him fre
quently at 1 1 1 v club or at some hotel.
Strangely enough. I never invited
L iwreiiei' to my boarding house.
Possibly I w is becoming dissatisfied
with boarding house life--siiiee I met
Adelo Vinton.
Yes, I was nt Lawrence's more fre
qu 1 1 1 1 v than at Kingdon's. Hut
Law rence was n it the chief attraction.
He was a gentleman, to be sure, but
reserved almost haughty, very pre
cise ami matt -r of fact in his lan
guage mid of great gravity and un
bending dignity. I didn't like him;
though I got into a frame of mind
such tint the dearest w ish of my heart
was to h ive him for a brother-in-law.
King lo;i took in e to his place of
biisim-sH in the city a cosy little
otfiee iu which he loaned money,
b night iiudsold real est ite, Ac. Law
rence was evidently a gentleman of
1 'isiire.
I found out nothing about the din
ni uids - notion g. Kingdon's w ife
emie home from her summer absotic ,
made her acquaintance. Indeed, J
became one of her most intimate
friends. She went away south for the
winter. The Lawrences were talking
of go tig, w Mini t s I dared think
on Adele Vinton's account; waiting
until a slow fellow should make up
mind to speak. And not a wi.rd
ha I been spoken, iu either family,
t nit gave me a hint at any possible
solution of my dreadful problem. And
you know I couldn't very well nsk
outright or even hint very strongly.
Well, mi:' night in early winter,
when the double diflieul ties of my
position had kept me awake nut il very
late, I was awakened from my first
midnight slumber by hearing some
body in the room.
The man turned to my bureau. My
heart seemed pressed almost to burst
ing. I grew hot and cold by turns.
And still, coerced by some power I
could not resist, I waited waited.
He opened drawer after drawer,
tossing my belongings about in a man
ner that wa s oil'eusivo. nud exasperat
ing. Then suddenly ho caught sight
of the box of dia n imls. Ho caught
at it frantic illy. He opened it freu
zieilly. Ho gloiitjil over tho wealth it
cont lined.
"Tho Fortescuo diamonds again !"
ho said. "They are mine again ! I'll
take care they don't get. into the hands
of some other of the midnight frater
nity after this. I'd quite as soon tho
Fortescue woman should have them
back again as to h ive f i admit there
are thieves more skilful than I am."
He spoke guardedly, he spoke low;
he muttered his words rather than ar
ticulated them. Hut I kivw his voice.
I shut my eyes entirely. I let the ras
cal go unharmed and unchallenged,
lint in the morning I wrote a lino or
two on my typewriter. I addressed it
by means of the same machine to the
chief of police. I mailed it myself in
a letter-box, far from my own place of
abode or any other locality connected
with tho affair. It was an anonymous
letter, mid afforded no clue to the
sender. But it told where the Fortes
cue diamond could probably be re
covered. The police noted on the
hint.
The man, a professional criminal,
was taken at a disadvantage. Never
theless, ho made a brave light uud !
officers had to shoot - shot him dead.
Ho had one hiitid on the box of dia
monds when ho went down, his owu
weapon empty, with a half-doon bullet-holes
through him. His wife, a
greater criminal than h", if that was
possible, was more fortunate; she
killed one of th- others who at
tempted her arrest ; she had the satis
faction of killing herself!
The Lawrences! Uy im ineins. The
Kingdom w-ero the criminals.
And Adele writes her last name
Dantaii instead of Yinoii. And if
she ever heard of the Fortescue dia
monds at nil, a thing I sometimes
think is exceedingly unlikely, since
the police had little to say regarding
their recovery nt l! Terrace Park place,
after the tragic death of the tenant,
she doesn't suspect that they were
stolen three times, ami that she mar
ried the man who was guilty once.
Chicago Xews.
CHIIIMtEVS COMMIX.
iMHUtl lis ami ni-v;T.e.s.
The harrier is a small foxdiound
averaging about the incites less in
height. It is used to some extent in
fox-hunting, but principally in hunt
ing the hare. If harriers are kept for
hares it is said to injure them to us"
them for any other game. There are
comparatively few of them in America.
A still smaller hound is the beagle Vi
or 1 I inches high. This is the smallest
of the hunting dogs. He used to be
employed in chasing hares in F.ug
l.nid, but in this he baa been almost
entirely superseded by the harrier.
Tn this country In- is becoming quite
popular, as he is admirably adapted
for chasing thcAimricnti rabbit, which
is not nearly so Meet as the I'.uglish
hare. Iu general iippivminc" the
beagle is like the foxhound, though
the ears of the beagle are longer, and
he has a slight brush mi his tail. His
voice is particularly musical, and be
fore the fox-hound became so fast, a
few beagles used to be kept w ith every
pack, us a hand of mu-ic is kept with
a regiment of soldier. A boy liv
ing iu the country where rabbits
abound would get no end of sport out
of one or two beagles. Harper's
Young People.
ir i; am ii s.
Many kinds of birds indulge in curi
ous aerial performance during the
mating and breedin:; season. Some
of the best-known instances are those
of the night-hawk, the woodcock and
the snipe. Mr. K, W. Nelson, iu his
"Hiiils of Alaska," say that the pin
tail duck has some very p. culiar hab
its of this kind.
He once mw a pair mm into the air
and start off, the male iu full chase af
ter the female, at a marvelous rate of
speed. Hack and forth they went,
with frequent quick turns, now almost
out of sight overhead, now skimming
along the ground in an involved course
very difficult for the eye to follow.
Soon a second male joined in the
chase, then a third, and so on, till six
males were vying with i nch other in
the pursuit.
The original pursuer seemed to be
the only ono capable of keeping close
to the coy female, and ven he, from
her dexterous turns and curves, was
able to draw near only at intervals.
Then ho always passed under her, and
kepi so close to her that the two pairs
of wings clattered together with u
noise like a watchman's rattle, and
audible a long distance.
The chase lasted for half an hour.
One by one the males dropped oil', till
finally hut one of tle iu -the original
one, Mr. Nelson believes wiih left.
Then the pair settled into one of tho
ponds.
At other times Mr. Nelson saw a
female, when pursued iu this wav by
several males, plunge under water nt
full speed and suddenly take wing
again a few yards beyond, tho males
all the while after her.
Tho pin-tail has also a habit, dur
ing the mating so. isoii, of descending
from a great altitude at an angle of
about 4Tt degrees, with the wings
stiflly outspread an I slightly curved
downward. The bird is frequently so
high that the noise produced by its
passage through tli air is heard for
15 or 20 seconds be:,. re tho bird
comes into si;: lit.
He descends with meteer like swift
ness till he is within a few yards of
the ground, when a slight eh.ingo in
the position of the wings sends him
gliding aw ay close to th" ground from
200 to .'bill yard) without a wing
stroke. The sound produced by this
swift pai-.ii.te through the air can only
be compared to the r ishing of a gale
through tree-tops. At first it is like
a murmur; then it rise'; to a hiss, niul
aa the bird sweeps bv it is almost a
iiMir. IVout h' Co; ii pa u ion.
BANK FISHIXG.
A Business in Which 10,000 Per
sons Are Engaged.
CatchintT Markerol and Codfish
Wit h Trawls.
How many of the thousands, yes,
millions, who enjoy the luscious mack
erel niul the ll.iky cod realize what the
capture of these sea fish mentis to the
fisherman, and what a demand that
same fishing makes upon capital, n'd
often upon life. A season's fishing on
the liank is liy no means the pleas
ant est life one can spend, and yet it is
conservatively estimated that there are
10,000 men and boys so employed each
year.
Hank tidiing during th" past year
has li.it been such a success as it might
have been, although the seafaring peo
ple who follow it I'm-a livelihood expec
ted that great hauls would be brought
in, and that a great ileal of money
would be made, both by themselves
and their employers; but their hopes
have not been realized. Compared
with the previous year t h I'e have been
more fish caught, but tin y were of an
inferior quality, and consequently less
money was paid for th- ni in the market
and so about tin- s-ime average was
made. The tleorges liank, and what
is known as "The Chimin 1," are where
the schooners go mostly for fresh fish,
lieorges is situated about southeast by
ea-t, ISO miles from Cipe nn lights,
and " The Channel" is about seventy
miles oil' Cape Cod.
In the summer tinu, b.-fore the
boats start out to the lishjng ground
a large quantity of ice is put -ci board
to preserve the fish, as tie- boats arc
out from ten to fourteen das. At
Piat liin of the year, then' is usually
a tleet of about PW vessels, ranging
from thirty tons to 150 tons ni- ii-uic-ni
-nt, making their headquarters en
the west-ru edge of the South Channel,
and fishing there the entire summer
foe what is known to th - tishmaii as
gr.-un I ti -.Ii," n unely, cod. haddock,
halibut, and hake. As the summer
advances tie- fish gradually leave this
bank, and in einlv fall the tb-et makes
its way to ( -urges Bank and fishes
there until spring, lvich schooner is
supplied with dories, according to her
sie, the largest ol'lhoiu carrying ten.
live on each sid" of the boat, packed
one inside the others. The Hostoii
schooner Nellie I'ixon curried n crew
of twenty -three men, all told, twenty of
them being out in the dories, and the
remaining three th" captain, cook,
and one hand being left to take care
of the ship.
Kieh dory is supplied with trawls
which are simply lines with about
1,00 ) honks fastened to them at inter
vals of about a fathom and a siniitl
tub of bait enough to lust them nil
day. The trawls are always set with
the tide, one man pulling the boat and
the other in the stern, casting out the
trawl. When it h is been out about nu
hour it is hauled oil' and the hooks re
baited, ready to he put out again. The
work is repeated over ami over again
until dark, or in long ns the weather
is good nud clear. Wh-Ij the fishing
is going on. the men on board the ves
sel arc preparing the deck and hold
for the tidi. On the arrival of a dory
alongside, the li di are counted out by
the skipper, and the number crediteil
to the men who had caught them.
After the tish arc cleaned they are put
below and packed in ice. This work
Is kept up until th-- vcsHi l has a good
catch. She then s iils for hoin -. Afti r
arriving at her destination the tish are
sold ami taken ashore, and the ship is
cleaned, ready for another trip.
Hoston Herald.
Fancy I'igeoii l.reeilliig.
The breedin? of fancy pigeons is
becoming more popular than it lias
ever been hit'i -ilo. Over in Pulu
more this week and next th. re is going
to be a great show of the.,e b-rds
one of tin-most important exhibitions
of the kind ever given. Am.e. the
pigeons show n will be thirteen fur
bits, for wh eh th o v.i pu 1 VIM.
They are th prooertv of Mr. Lever
ing, the coffee millionaire, who is a
famous ani.it -ur fancier iu that kind
of stock. Next in point of expensive
nous to "l-.r.bit " coin' 'pouters,"
which cost .-"i 1 it piir for liist-rat"
ones. Aft r th -tn follow th" "sati
ettes" and "bl-ui lin.-t t -., " ... called
on account of their pe -uliar plumage.
During th- la ! few years the homing
pigeons h ive b -en pr.ipagai -d to such
nil extent th-it th'-y can now be bought
for as small a price ns common
pigeons. of emirs' pig-om which
have records of ."oo mib-s or more
fetch exceptional prices. !ut it is an
actual fact that more than half of the
birds now used for shooting matches
are homers. Seems a shame, does it
EOt?
The animals of nil sorts which are
collected Hear Washington by boys
and sold to me, 1 dispose of partly by
s -inlmg them to other cities - Phila
delphia, New York, Chicago, and else
where. Mocking birds 1 get from
Texas mostly. Parrots are about the
riskiest g Is that 1 have to handle.
Not long ago I employed u man to
purchase -if'ioo worth of yellow-hemled
parrots iu Mexico. So many of them
died that 1 only received 70 "irtlie
survivors. The greatest difliculiy with
them is water. For some reason Hot
vi ry well undcrst iod, the water to be
had in this country does iu1 suit im
ported parrots, nud commonly it is
necessnrv to moid giving it to them
although for a while, using soaked j
food as a substitute. If one parrot in j
a consignment dies, tie- whole lot is
likely to perish within a few days,
and nothing can be done to stay the !
mischief, A good talker is worth ;
s?1 on. Washington Post.
"T.g," Wouldn't lnqi It.
"The hern of my story," he begun, j
"and he was a hero of the tirst water,
was an Arkansas fanner who sailed nn
der the honorable name of Miller. Of :
course you all allow that in Arkansas '
it i against the law of tic common- !
wealth to use dynamite ill the public
waters. Well, to hurry through th" :
statement of the ease, a lot of ns came '
to the conclusion that if we wanted to
make a big haul of ti.h it would bo
necessary to use a little force. Ac
cordingly dynamite bombs were se
cured, and we asked Miller to go up
stream nud throw the bombs in, while
we, his guests, would gather at a ford
a few rods down and secure the limit
ing fish. Miller, accompanied by a
highly-educated water spaniel, went
the bank, and prepared for his
attack upon the di-nieus of the water,
lie hurled one missile, fuse attached,
into the stream. Ai. instant" later his
dog w is iu the water, and in a tumiicnt
he hiil the bomb iii his mouth, swim
ming for the shore.
" 'Drnp it, Tige !' shout. .1 the far
mer. 'I Irnp it. I say !'
Hut the dog would not obey, lie
swam wildly forward and iu twenty
seconds had landed. Miller stinted
to run, the dog coining after him at a
breakneck gait. Miller ran toward
the fishermen below. They realized
the situation iu an instant, and. level
ing their guns, warned the fanner to
head iu another direction. The situa
tion, for nil its seriousness, was the
funniest that I ever saw. Miller run
wildly down the hill, yelling nt the
dog to go buck,
" -Stop !' he yelled. 'Drnp it. 'I ige !
Cm home !' Hut the dog only increased
his etlbrts to reach his master's side.
"Hut the end soon came. The fuse
burned its length, and then -- Miller
never recovered even the collar of
poor Tige."--St. Louis lb-public.
How u Iteo Sees.
We are so used to regarding the
world round us from the standpoint of
our own sight tint it is hard to real
ize that to other creatures, fur out
numbering us and perhaps ipute as
important in the economy of nature,
it looks quite different. Th" honey
bee, for example, i.. supplied with a
pair of compound eyes with hundreds
of facets, eii 'li capable of sight by it
self, and sever il occ Hi or little, sim
ple eyes more closely allied to our
own. How those eyes are used, what
are their separate fun. tioiis, what soil
of images they can present to their
owners, all remains questions as inter
esting and well-nigh unsolved as they
were before the days of our powerful
microscopes. Notwithstanding the
fact that hundreds of entomologists
have been and are inteiesli-d in this
subject wi yet are only at the stage
where we can aliii.il that the honey
bee sees n very dill, ii :it ll.'Wi-r from
the one in which w ob-i-rvc In r iu
search for sweets, although of what
that difference is ami how it is pro
duced wo o. in form hill little idea.
Chicago Times.
The A'licriciri Face.
This much might be said respecting
the typical meiieaii luce: That the
prominent nose, the slopin ; for. hi nd,
the fairly large mouth, the full eyes
and predominance of tl val typo,
the natural characteristics of an ng-
grossive. talented and -.hro'.vd people, ,
aggressive in manners, but keenly j
alive to tin- main chance. It is a com
posite In" ', made up of qualities taken
from Puritan, l'uglish. Scotch and
ftcrmau sources. - j Ladies' Home
Journal.
Kcau'on Is iiHIi,
Drown -Why. Jones is hi vrrv
economical th it he won't ien indole
about any thing !
llobi-.soii Whit does he save bv
that -his time?
Drown -No! His brent h ! -Hello.
The Idly.
A 'iH snl. I to n threat! -iiing -'l-ni.t,
W'hi.-li in stern-st garh nrriivi-l him :
You have taken my lord the sun away,
Ami 1 know not where von have laid liini."
So it folded its leaves and tn-ml'le-l s.-re,
As the hours of darkness passed it.
Put at morn, liken l-lrd in lienaty sleum,
f. r with pearl- the dew had dressed it.
I h-'ii ii f --It a-h.-ene 1 or its fretful thought
n l f.-ihi in the .last would hid" it,
for tin- uichtof w-eopimj had jewels brought.
Which the pride of the day denied it.
Vnldosta ,tiii. ) Telescope.
iumi tutors.
Foul language Chicken talk.
Consolidation of business interests
is usually a capital idea.
No amount of advice or persuasion
seems to be callable of turning a crank.
Miss Hud. 1 -"What kind of a man
do v.. u like?" Miss Sereleaf "A real
live one."
A llrooUyti man calls his employer
a is venue cutb r because he is reduc
ing -alarj.-s.
Why does Henpect call his wife an
anarchist?" "la-cause she is constantly
blowing him up, "
It argues no lick of ability in n boy
that In- doesn't make an opening for
himself by going skating on too thin
ice
"Life," exclaimed the tiiiin who en
joys being a misanthrope, "is nothing
but one long struggle for a ehuuk of
ice or a lump of coal. "
Ada -"Why does Clara speak of
( i. org - ns 'her intended'? Are they
engaged?" Alice "Xo. but she in
tends that 1lioy shall be."
Tommy -"Which is right stullin'
or dressin'V" Jimmy "It's dressin'
wlo-n it's on the plate, nud stnllin' af
t r you have swalh-rcd it."
"I don't b. live those yarns about
Flinders striking his wife, do you?"
"Not a bit. He hasn't courage
enough even to strike an attitude."
"My friend." s-iid a doctor to his
Irish p.itieiii, '-be composed; we must
nil dii e. " "An" it's that vexes
nie." replied Pat. "If it were more
than mist, sure I'd be nisy enough."
Piiii'.-.s,,!- "What is the circum
ference of the earth?" Student -'Twenty-four
thousand miles." Pro
fessor "How do you tiud this dis
t inee.J" S'mleiil "I find il immense.'
W hy is Miss Antique so anxious to
meet Hilkius? He is poor and has no
social standing. " "Yes, but she un
derstood that he couldn't talk live
minutes without uiing himself away."
'I'll" until who think:- l-e..re he speaks.
I'i.s-'ev.-rs with dismai
Thai sonic on- els- lias said the thing
II- h i. I in iiend I" s iv.
Medical I'.xainiiier Have there
ever been any symptoms of insanity in
your family? Applicant for Insur
ance Yes er that is. my sister
mice refused a man worth half a mil
lion. "I suppose now that you will bn
going home to your mother in tlm
morning?" "I just won't. I have
tried that, and it doesn't seem to .In
any good. I 1011 going to bring
mother here this time."
"There is -no point," said Miss No
cash, looking .p from th -ladies' papei ,
"in which I am nlwavs slncllv fash
ionable." "Wli .t's that?" ask,. 1 ,er
ni-'th-"'. "I nb-olut y never wear
diamonds iu the morning."
Music teacher "From your daugh
ter's voice, ma. lain, I cannot promise
that she w ill be great prima donna."
Mm -, tiainmes -"Oh, I am so sorry.''
Music t -aeli.-r "Iblt do not despair,
liia laui : I observe that she has a fear
ful temper. "
Aunt .lane "Hob, dear, won't you
try to be 11 real good boy today?''
l!ob "I will, niiuty, for a quarter."
Aunt June "Why, Hob! you wish
pay for being g I?" I!,,b "Well,
utility, dear, yon wouldn't have nie
good for nothing, would you?
Interviewer - "I asked Assembly
man Sevcneights this afternoon whom
bethought the greatest men in tluH
country." Kditor - "What did he
say?" Interviewer "That that was a
matter upon which his constituents
were more competent to speak than
himself."
Young Mr. Fitts "That pie ymi
gave to the Commercial Club for the
poor has been one- of the most success
ful contributions of the year." Young
Mi", Fids "Indeed?"
"Yes, indeed. It has been present
ed to no less than seven poor families
bo far."
Flsie "Yesterday morning I gavo
a poor tramp those nice biscuits I
made for breakfast and I told him if
he came back i.i the evening I would
give him some dinner."
Jack "What did yon give him for
dinner?"'
Elsie "He didn't come back.