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)c Chatham Htcorb, H. A, LONDON, Editor and Proprietor, TERilS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 Per Year. Strictlv en Advance tlje "ljotl)dmJ RATES OF ADVERTISING. ii'i Oue sqaara, on iasarttom 'J ' . 81.00 On square, two ituarkiosr. 1.0 Ostiqatre, one month , 9 For Larger Advertise- VOL. XXVIII. ments uioerai con tracts will be made: PTTTftT O t r fXt A "f"Ct A t nr a ttTtV-, at Tunnoii a X UiTimr.'ic ..va, .t ...-i m m. m w w .mu - W sa MJ m m m m M MV ML A. MY 111 m.J.Wm.li.MM m. 1 . J B B 1 B K L T iM. a . - a. J F V 1 t B - r. 1 a a m m . m m m m m-m m mm -a . w 1 1 ai m m a m 1 st- .-sa a m w ti a.- mm m r-m. . a a a a . f m m , LITTLE A CHILD OF BY B. L. CHAPTER XIII ; ! ' M Continued. "Xo more than a brother ought lo love a sister. Yes, he loves me as much as that, I think, but not a bit more, as Iln a living woman!' "And yer don't love him?" V f r; ''No," she replied rmly; she knew; that if she allowed her voice to falter Wood would be shed in the house that night., -;: ; : i t J' "Swear it," he said. "Say 'May God strike me dead if I love him.' " , , She repeated his words. -God strike me dead if I love bjrni!" i Valse as was the oath, Divine for giveness was registered in its utter ance. ',' ' ' "Make-Believe," lie said,- and hjs 1 voice, before so fierce, grew Teak, .. "you've saved me from becoming a murderer!" , s "Yev didn't come to steal as weil?" he asked. 1 "No," he replied, "I aiu no thief now. I've kept the promise I give yer to load a honest life. It's been hard , iines. Look here," and-he turned out pockets, which did not contain a -oppei "and my Christmas dinner was a hunk of bread and cheese. Who's that unlocking the street door 'f" - It's Mr. Dexter. He mustn't see yer. Hide behind that table. "Quick, Quick! When he's gone to bed I'll let yoa out of the house." He threw himself behind the table, and she drew the cloth down so that he was concealed from sight Then she ran to the door and called: "'Is that you, Mr. Dexter?" "Yes. Make-Believe," he replied, as Le ascended the stairs, "it's me." : When he entered the room she saw. that he had brought back with h:ai a heavy load of grief. "Iy wife is dead," he said. ' She took his hand, and he drew, her to him. deriving comfort from the con- " . . "Did .she die afore jon got there, sir?" "No, she lived long enough to tell rue her secret. It is that it is that Make Believe, which has converted this night into a night of sorrow. Before we were two months marrieu she left me, as I have told you, aud in the law-, fui course of nature she gave birth to a son my son! She concealed it from Jiie out of spite. I am .almost afraid to tell you the name of my son." ..... "Don't be afraid, sir-tel! me." "It is a man I warned yer aginst, and who yer know well." She gazed at hlin in amazement. ''Not Foxey, sir':" :T "Yes, Foxey, to whom my wife, who . is no moi'e, gavq. that mime out .of ?omo kind of strange malice. God knows, I did her no harm! Marrying hev was a folly. i:ot a crime, and I havea't deserved to be so punished." A star of hope and light glowed, in the heart of Little Make Believe a Christian star of charity and love, shining on the promise of a life Niia ic-hed from evil way from crime, from prison walls, from sinful c,eath: Her voice gi sw saieau:. "You should be glad, sir, not sorry, fhat you Uavu found your son." . -f . , "How can I be glad," Muke-BelieTe? If he was ft man I could be proud of, "tUnt I cottld lake to my beai-t" his vq'qg vn5,cl!p:ir;g: ho could v.ott pro C?5d. ;" S -: v ; " -? 'Tott mustn't forget, feir," said :LIt-. tie Make-Believe, tenderly, "that tWa Is a day of 'charity and forgiveness. There's none of us so bad that we can't bo made good if a lovlnjr hand is iaid put to us: We. can't help ' the vray ve're born, cm we. sii?" i'No, Make-Beile'e, no." ''It ais't our own fault feometiuses iMt we grow up bad. " I don't 6e hov Rjm poor cveaturea c-iia help it. And 1st we tell yev, sir, Fosey ain't wbftt yer think iia i.?. There's a lot of good in him that you'd acre? Aspect if yer wasn't to!d. You get him to give yer a promise, and be'l! keep it if starva tion stares him in the face." - "You're Baying ,th!a, j Make-Believe, to try and comfort hie. Dear child I If every one had a heart like your'n It would be a better world than it Is." "I don't know so much about that, sir. But it ain't of me we're speaking, it's of yer son as'll live to be a bless ing to yer. Why, sir, jest think, now, when we first knew him be wasn't 60 very old, was he?" ? "No, he was only a bit of a boy," - ' - "As'd never been -taught any thing good. As had no father and no moth er to speak of. iut she'd dead acd gone, and we mustn't: say BOtUink Jiar;d of her. She's gone to a better world," where we all hope to go one' day. Her-' life wasn't a rosy 'one, sii- -fur front , tt When you was out I saw a poor wo luaa dragging her, 'feet through the snow, and though I never saw hev bp fore as I knows on, and shall never see her again, I couldn't helprylng at the sight of her. Mr. Dexter, I don't think as ever in my life I saw as much of the inside of things as Tvdo now. , It's eome upon me all in a minute, and I believe as God has put it into my head!" . ; "Dear Little Make-Believe!" "Ah, sir, if it hadn't been for that if It hadn't been for. my make-belier-! lng I don't know where I should have been! I was saylnjsr, Mr. Dexter, that llrr' a lot rof good, in Fftv. H llllli - - - - . - x MAKE-BELIEVE THE SLUMS. HUB FARJEON. : : ; gave me a promise that he'd live honest life- " "And broke it." "And kept it, sir, as true as true can be! Yes. though he was that hard up sometimes that he had nothiuk but bread to cat, he kept his promise, and from that day to this hasn't done no think wrong." ; ' "MEke-Belieye!,Make:Beliere!" 'It's gospel truth, . sir. A man as'll do that only wants a chance of doing better. Yer'il give yer sou that chance, won't yer, sir?" "As sure as. you're the best woman that treads the earth, Make-Beiieve, I'll give it him if he'll take it.". "Never mind about me. Wiil yer be '.ieve me when I tell yer yer can give him. the chance, this very night this night of death and joy?" "I'll believe anything you tell mo, i Make-Believe." "And yer won't be angry at some Ihink I've already done?" ; "I can't be angry at anything you've lone." . ; "Why,1 see,' sir, how-fit's all turned out! I believe there'j been angels watching over us. - Not tea minutes afore you come home I saw a man leaning against the wall on the other side of the way, looking up at the win dows in this room. I looked hard at him, and who should I find it was but Foxy." "My son! Where is he?" "I couldn't help thinking knowing as he'd give me a promise to be hon est and'd die rather than break it that he was wandering about 'this Christmas night 'cause he hadn't got a. roof, to shelter him. A-bitter-night outside, sir!"..- ---.-. - . "A terrible night'. Go on." "I went down to the ..street door, being full of pity for !.iai, and know ing as he was the sort of man.no girl as knew him as I knew him' need be afraid of 1 called out to him." I "Make-Believe!" ' W . "He came over to me, and I found out that I was light. . He hadn't a roof of his own, he liadn't a bed of his own, his Christmas dinner was a bit of bread and cheese. Think of the dinner we had, Mr. Dexter! He hadn't a ipeuuy in his pocket. And all, sir, because he'd kept the proaxise he give me to lead a honest ;iiie.f I brought him into1 the house, sir!" -t "Is he here -nowi -Make-Believe?" cried Thomas Dexter. "Tell me, quicU". " ' "i i ' ' : ' ' "Wait a minute, sir. We had some talk together, him and me and he .told me how hard it was for him to get along iu this country, and how if some kind friend 'd only come for'ard and help him to emigrate to the colonies he'd make a good name for hisself in:less than three years. It was his only chance, he said. fThen you come in, sir, and interrupted us while we was talking. Don't turn yer head! Shut yer eyes to please me as I shut aiine to please you." She placed her hand over his eyes, and beckoned to Foxey. '- He rose and -ame forward, with the tears stream ing down his cheeks. - Then Little Make-Believe took her hand away.'and father and son were face to face! Sh did not give them time to utter a word 5nher presence. 4 i-f V1 Tin- very tired jsir; Itost go to bed." VGood-iifght, dear child." I "Good-nhjhtr sir. Good-night, Fox ey." "Good-night, Make-Believe." He isteppsd to the door nrA opened It. for -her, ' : . Mnj .fcipptiny f 'pvomljfel .: MakeB lieVe." " " . ' " ' She bid oat he: hand,, and 3e elfisoed It passionately for a moment aud'kiased It. Then she gave hita a bright emlJe, and, left, ia ther and son together, 0 . " . 1 Half an hour afterward Saranne, waking up, saw Little Make-Believe kneeling by tbs bedside. "Why, Slake-Bclievej . .haven't jou come to bed yet?" T " "No, dear; there was sech a lot of clearing away to dc. But I am tired now!" "Are you very,, very , happy;, Make Believe?" "Yes, Saranne, ain't I got good cause to be? Go to sleep, dear, and dream of Walter," : - ! THE END. Voyr a minister Sailed. ' When our first foreign minister ar ranged to go to London he was re quested by the captain of the sailing vessel in New York Harbor to go aboard immediately, according to a writer .in Success. Hastily buying a sack of flour, three hams and a bag of potatoes, he hurried on board ship to arrange with some sailor to cook his meals, not knowing but that they might sail at any hour. Five weeks passed before the boat leftthe har bor. After six weeks at sea the trav eler at length beheld the outlines of the coast of old Eng'and. Baroness Overbeck is the first fe male Russian composer to attract at tention in her own land. Her lending compositions have been performed In the leading theatre of C Petersburg, ?r-, Some StfHnsre Stories In llie Annals of of Crime. ? Some, of the strangest stories in the annals of crime are those which tell of the part dreams have played In the" dis covery of criminals. One spring .day in 1830 a farm laborer,' when passing a lonely mountain lake in Sutherland shire, saw iu the waters a dead body, which, when rescued, proved to be that of .a well-known peddler who had mysteriously vanished :-a bout a month earlier.' The body, bore marks: of vio lence, the pockets were. empty and it was clear that the poor fellow had been brutally mui'dei'ed and robbed but by Avhom? That was a my s tery vwhich for many, a week .completely defied elu cidation." ;.. '-,cl i. ,,.. One night, however, Kenneth, Fraser, a tailor's assistant, "saw hi" 'a 'dream the cottage of a iuan named HUgh Mac ieod, and heard a voice say in Gaelic, "the. peddler's,, pack is lying in a cairn of stones fn a hole heat this house." He told the story pf his singular dream to the authorities, who accompanied him to Macleod's house; , and there,, sure enough, beneath a heap of stones, the murdered -man's properly was found. Macleod was arrested, con fessed, and was executed. Another very remarkable story is told of a tragedy in Ireland. . One evening two strangers presented them selves at a wayside inn near Portland, and after taking refreshment continued their traniu in the direction of Carrick-on-Suir. The incident was common place enough, but it led to startling de-, velODinents, for in the wayfarers the landlady of the inn recognized two' men of whom she had dreamed a very strange dream the night before. In hev dream she had seen one of them kill the other with a coward's blow from behind, rifle the pockets of the dead man. and stealthily bury hiin beneath a hedge. So impressed was her hus band when this dream was told him that he made his way to the spot in dicated and there discovered the body of the buried inau. sThe 'assassin" was pursued and arrested, and at the en suing assizes was sentenced to death. "There has seldom been.a more mys terious crime than the murder of Mr. Stockden, a London victualler.' a great many years ago; and the mystery would have remained unsolved to this day had it not been for the interven tion of Mrs. Greenwood, who came for ward with the statement that the mur dered man had appeared to her in a dream and conducted her to a house iu Thames street, where one of his as sassins was to be found; while iu an other dream Stockden appeared and showed .er the likeness of the 'man. On the strength of this dream clew the indicated man was arrested, and not only confessed his guilt, but betrayed his accomplices three criminals being brought to the scaffold as the result of these visions of the night. Some years' ago a; Mrs. Kntherford dreamed that.her aged relative, Lady Leslie, was about to ba murdered by a man whom she clearly saw." She im mediately set out on a visit to Lady Leslie and asked permission to sleep in the lady's room. In the middle of the night Mrs. Rutherford heard some one trying to open the bedroom door She raised an alarm and fiung open the door, when Lady Leslie' two sons rv.shed out and in a moment had seized tbe niaa of her dream. The following story is, perhans. the strangest of all. One night the Rev. Herbert Powys, a Church of England clergyman, dreamed that the daughter of one of his uarishioners had gone out into the darkness to meet her lover, who, at the time, was waiting for her in a secluded spot and spending the time in digging a grave for her. Jumo ing out of bed, Mr. Powys rushed to the place, indicated in his dream and arrived there ju,t as the man had hurled the girl to the ground by the side, of the oneu grave and was about to kill her with his spade. Tit-B!t, A Man Who Saved Napoleon's Life, A writer in a Dublin newspaper cas disinterred ft long forgotten book, pub lished iu London in 1820, which con sists of a series of letters describing a tour in Ireland in 1812 by I. B, Trotter, who was a friend of Charles .Taints Fox. . Mr, Trotter relates that the -Hev. Father Redmond, who was nari&h prteafc of the little town of Ferns on the occasion of hi visit, had actually'saved Napoleon's life. "Accident," writes Mr. Trotter, "in troduced me to Rgv. Mr. ; Redmond, priest of the place, who related to me a curious little anecdote. When pur suing bis. studies and finishing hla course of dueatlon in France he had anient a summer in Bas Polctou, where General -Bonaparte, then a thin, slight young boy, was. He had slept in the same room with him Six weeks, and narceived noiaing shining or engaging in uim. He was generally employed in making machinery, which he placed on a small' watercour-i. As the party were one 'day shooting, "Bonaparte, who was not very active, fell into a brook five i'ert deep, which he endeav ored to leap across. He was nearly drowned, when ?Ir. Redmond imme diately discharged .his. piece and pre sented the end to him, b'.f which he saved bis life. - : . Mr. Trotter inquired; whether Napo leon had ever, shown bln any gratitude for this service, and 'was . thus- an swered: "No, and I assure yoti, sir, I "do not admire his principles.'--Pall Mall. Gazette. f$ y . ' Alpino Accidents. ''" - . .j't It is not the skilled English Alpinist, nor even tho comparatively unskilled one who knows - the llmitatibus of his experience, who '-allst:ctimi"t6'.iaie perils of mountain- eflmbiug. vbut the inhabitants of the country .bordering on the Alpine region with whom fa miliarity, fcaa bred contempt; Country Gentleman.-tif-i!'T1 I Trees Along the Koadways. i; GV HE' wise ' arrangement of j(- j.tree growth along the lines O I of streets, ' roads and ave tl hues li more nearly fruit- TCOf ful isi producing . financial benefit, pleasing; and t attractive sur roundings than any, other investment that can.be inade in the, way of public Improvements., , . . 4, a ' v . , On maeadaniijdng country roads a proper location of trees protects the roadbed from the direct, rays of the sun.-which' dry oufthe plastic cushion iorming the covering coat. ' '' ' Properly distributed tree growth along the, sides of road. has the ad vantage of breaking the sweep of the wind, which carries off the dried-out covering cushion of the macadam. The covering having been blown away the wind now .leeches out the binding ma terial from spaces between the stones of the pavement, the stones then be come loose and picking and raveling begins, and the road becomes instead of a pleasing surface for traffic, a ver itable nuisance and danger to vehicles and horses' hoofs. The replaciug and repairing of the road runs into the use of new stone additional binding ma terial, and top surface, together with the expensive operation of a steam rol ler, costing the community maintaining the road annually no .small sum cf money. , ., ., . , The proper shading of these same roads by means of trees prevents the direct action of rain, which washes out the material forming the covering coat and the binding. Properly shaded roads are less expensive to maintain, because they are shaded, and the an nual cost of sprinkling, which is. prose cuted for maintenance purposes, .will cost seventy-five per cent, less when the advantages of tree growth are se cured for a road system than when they are unshaded. , ' " If wisely placed there is no invest ment for the' country road which can be more helpful than tree planting. Judgment, however, must be used. On the lower grades, of the road and in the valleys tree planting should not be so closely arranged as'to keep the sub grade of the road too moist. In the event of this taking place, the founda tion will be endangered and ruts rapid ly formed. On the hill-sides, spacing can be considered safe for the ordinary growth at about forty-five feet, centre to centre. In the valleys these dis tances should be increased to about three. times the above spacing. Top moisture on an Iinprovtd roadbed is de sirable; the tree guarantees that. Sub surface water for any road is danger ous; the tree roots drink it up. There ' is no one improvement that municipal engineering can arrange for that can help a suburban locality , so much as tree planting. There is much difference of opinion concerning the location of the trees of a town or village street, as to whether they should be located back of the fence line or on the curb line. If lo cated on the curb line of sidewalks, which are of the ordinary width, the fcurb line will be thrown out, and irreg- v.lsv in proportion as the tree growth progresses. If located back of ,,the fence line, there is inconvenience for the property owners in the shape of overshading the lawn, with less advan tage in consequence of less shading for the road system. Trees so located in thickiy settled villages or iu cities are, of course, out of the question. If the streets are of ordinary width and land not held at fancy .prices so that each particular resident secures more than the ordinary twenty-five foot lot, In the Interest of wellappear Ing and well-maintained streets, the fence line is the better location for tUe tree. On Country roads the best loca tion for the trees is beyond the gutter line, fairly outside of tbo Improvement and beyond the chanpels which provide for'tfa passage of the storm water. In selecting trees fGr yonr. roads, se lect euoh as thrive well la your home locality. Henry IV Morrison, V, '? Good Koads Magasine, v ' : - . VUf lead Ait, At -a recent good roads meeting oua of the speakers said that the main civ ilizing influences of a country should be placed in the following order of im portance, viz.: Good roads, public schools and churches The point in volved was that if there are not good roads, children will not go- regularly to school, and if uneducated they will not have sufficient, intelligence to at tend and get the most good from church services. Good Roads Maga zine. ' - - ' A City of Towers. Why1; not build; office . towers? .1 The-' curse of the tenement is the want of light and air;' and the same curse be longs to modern office buildings. An office tower would secure an abnmltnce of light and air. It might consist of a series , 01, rooms arranged one " above the other inside the tower, with stairs and lifts in projections at the angles; or four towers, each "with a room on every floor grouped around a stairs and lift block in the centre. These towers corld be carried 300 feet high which is about the height of the cam panile of the new cathedral at West minster. A city of spires we already know, but a city of office towers is a suggestion of. what might be, tnd may perhaps be.--BuilderB' Journal. The largest Island in. the; world Is Greenland,' with 5au 'area. ;cf, 2,170,000 o.nire kilometer How st Uieam Lasting: Hut a Few See bds Seamed Like Months. The duration of a dream is so seldom accurately measured that a story pub lished in the St. Louis.Medical Record is worth repeating. " ' - , The writer, a doctor whose name is withheld, was seized with an uncon trollable drowsiness during a call, and was struggling to keep awake when he was asked by his companion, "How long may you stay ia B -?",, His an swer, which came, promptly enough, was,' "That depnds, on, the Western Union," and, catching himself, he ex plained that ha was expecting a tele gram. - In fact, however, his answer re lated to the facts of a dream which had been sandwiched between the two parts of the sentence.: jj;ti 1 ' ; After; , hearing the , words' "How long", the. doctor -a hadj dozed off, dreamed that after long and, tedious experiments ho had Invented a won-, derful apparatus for holding telegraph poles in a vertical position had nego tiated with the Postal Company for its sale,- but unsuccessfully, J- and had finally gone to the authorities o the other company. Theyj.in the dream, told him they were considering a Ger man invention for tbe same purpose, and the dreamer crossed the ocean to examine tbe rival device, returned, ex plained the differences to the intend ing purchaser, and was writing a reply when he woke in time to hear the end of his companion's question. The events of the dream had appar ently consumed months, yet the. actHal time that elapsed was merely that re quired for uttering about four short words. Evening Post. ' " WORDS OP WISDOM. '" "The wo?!d is too small to afford a place of safety to the man who dis obeys God." ' ' 5 Much good work has been hindered by such anxiety to do better' as deters one from promptly doing one's best. : Truisms, whether they He in the depths of thought or on the surface, are at any rate the pearls of experi ence. George Meredith. . " " ; As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book or a friend, or, best .of alL ia your own thoughts the Eter nal Thought speaking to your thought. George Macdonald. . . Great and sacred is obedience. . He who is not able, in tbe highest majesty of manhood, to obey, with clear and open brow, a law higher than himself, is barren of all faith and love. James Martineau.- - - ''-'""' A Later Iy Georgo V.raihintou. A young man of the name of George Washington was brought before the bencli of Magistrates . at "Bendlgo, charged with "illegally cutting down timber on crown lands.? At first he strenuously denied his guilt; pointing out that he bad nothing of the nature of a hatchet. When it wa3 urged" that by taking this line of defense he was spoiling a good tradition, he at once pleaded guilty, somewhat con fusing the minds of his hearers by add ing that it was worth while telling a lie if it enabled him, even feebly, to imitate his. great namesake. The chairman of the bench then took up hisf parable. "George Washington," he said, "you have pleaded guilty in some what dubious language to a most seri ous charge. You have" no right to go Into the orchard of another to cut down trees, even though .they be not cherry trees. . I feel sure that in pleading guilty you are telling the truth, and that when you say you are telling a lie in so doing, you are telling a lie. Twenty-two days." ."He might have kept to the book at the end," sighed George Washington, as be went below, Liver pool Post. ' . -Be Gentle. ' Medical experts are e Iling the at tention of the public to the importance of performing the nose blowing opera tion in n scientific and hygienic man ner, First one nostril : and then the other should be blown without undue Violence. v.,, . . Doctors state that the two na gal pas sages should never be closed at tho same time. If they tire obstructed aa in tha case of a cold, tb back of tho throat is filled with compressed air, and this, together, with the discharge and tho wicrube? T'Wch st contains, may be, driven thrctigh the eustachian tube into the middle ear and lead to Serious results; : A great authority on the ..subject used to forbid his patient? to blow their noses when suffering from a i-old. This course I hardly one which will com mend itself to ? those rin the habit ; of catching eclds. The best advice would eeeni to be that,. when it Js necessary to blow the nose the blowing should be done gently. London Dally Mail. , ' Urigioal Bestrtettoas, ' Judge Harrison, one of the Connecti cut delegates to the recent immlgra tion conference, ' told the following story: ' ? ;.-.- "We have ia .Connecticut," said he, "many descendants of the first immi grants to America, and probablv $ome of every kind, that' bv come since. But we have also 02 e small group wJiose ancestors never saw Europe. J ; "In the eastern part of be State there is a little remuaut of the pgirinal Connecticut tribes, whom the people call 'the last of the Mohicans.' They have their own church and a pastor, of the old Indian stock.. Before I came to this conference I talked with all sorts of people to find oat the sentiment on tnisv Immigration i question. Among others I spoke to this native clergy man, s,, ' . : : . " 'Weil, said he,. Tm.in sympathy with your attempt to .restrict. Immi gration; tut I hope you'lj bave better htck than my ftucestoi's had, 50 years ago,'"Newv3rwk ri. ."' .'.,;, With the Funny. I wito me ronnyi r Motlier Googe Modtroized. .' Little Jack Homer sat.ia a. corner, n; Eatintra "fresh-fruit" Die: f Though his ma had read it "Ras most iil- . bred. z " i;i Still he stuck in his thumb, and triumph' anl "One can' in t be too Careful oa trhat one is fed; What a lucky lad aui I." . , 1-1 Puck. It i ... ?,.- - .Quite Differeut. , . ."I" thought they didn't allow 'babies In this apartment house." ' ' "Sh! That's the janitor's baby r Chicago Tribune. - J Force.1 to Vr, . "Blank bor-sts that he lives entirely on a cash system." .- , , ' "Yes, poor fellow his credit rait out." Detroit Free Press. ''" ' Tlie Only Safe Flaw. ,i L"Can you lay this carpet so the chil dren won't wear it out?" "Where shaH I put it, , madam on the roof?" Harper's Bazar. ... - Mythology." ' f Teacher "What is Ceres the goddess of?" . - ' - ; '.. Eifie "Series, ma'am, is the goddess of contmusd stories!" Life. , Miurt Ke.tiSing. "Perhaps smoking Is offensive to you. Miss Smith." , ' ; ' "On the contrary, I liko the-'smell of a good cigar." Chicago Tribune. . - More Difficult. Employment Agent "I think we can suit j"ou in a cook." " Mrs. Hoimes-"No doubt. The ques tion is whether you can suit a cook ir me." ' ' . ' ' '-. - . f A I'oint of Resemblance., . . s , "Warships remind . me of auU 'io bile?." . . .: ',' "How?" . ; '. " "... ' ' ' "They are so frequently ia neei" of re pairs." r ; - ' '-' . ' Her Titian Lot-ks. .. :u .;; : Leslre "Molly gave herself away aw fully yesterday." . : ; .. , tr- ix j ,rt . Carter "How?" , , .., -. Leslie "Tom insisted that she had a . fiery temper because her hair was red, ; and she had to admit it was dyed to win the argument"- Detroit 'Free Pres '" v " - ' ' '- J -t Smart. ---!- . -'-.-'j "I hear Swell-some Grafters has got to go to jail for three months. Does he feel very badly about it?" "Not so very; he's just got sense enough to know that he ought to be there for the rest of his life!' Detroit Freo Pre-?, , - One Woman's Wisdom. - "But," queried the visitor, "what was your object ia putting a stove in this 'room when it is steam-heated?" "Oh," replied the hostess, "I did that so the baby wouldn't catch cold if it accidentally touches the steam pipes." Chicago New?. 1 Different. ,. . Daughter "Oh. mamma. I do W: h 1 were pretty." . . ... Mother "You aeeda't, dear; sensible men think very iittle about beauty .", Daughter "But it 'isn't sensible men I'm thiuking about, mamma; It's Char lie." Town and Country," ' ' . An Explanation, "Why is it?" said the young man with long haiiv "that the average wom an would rather marry money- than brains?" ' ' " ' . '. "She takes less chances." answered Miss Cayenne. "The avc-rag? woman is a better judge of money than she is of brains." Washingtou.Staiv " , Hfs Crude ldcat. : , tnstriU'torYou know, the law pr tames that the person accused is in noeent until he is proved to be guilty, do you not?" : , .' , . - Shaggy Haired Pupil "Xo, I didn't know that, but I know any 'lawyer will presume that way if you pny hini eaough'-CbJcago Tribune. . Boss Was s I-lend. I ."When the boss comes in do you hide your box of , cigarettes ?" asked the caller. W- : , : "Sure," responded the office boy witn a grin. ' " ? ;. "Ab, you are afraid to let him catch you smoking?" - "Taint dat; I'm afraid he'll ask me fer'a smoke." Chicago News.'- v" ' jntte the Contrary. H - Tess "I certainly was surprised to bear that Maud was married." ' Jess "Yes, it was rather unex- pected." - Xegs"Her family's quite incensed, I hear. . They say her husband is a man of absolutely no family." ; ' Jess "That's all wrong. ; He was a Vidower with four , children." Phila delphia Press. 7-v, : , . HSa First Intimation. ' "TTow did vou find out you could draw?' inquired the admirer of the eel ebrated illustrator. Bv ths marks I received in school for the excellence and fidelity of my Work," replied tbe eminent one. "My work was a caricature of my beloved iPflrtrei' on . the blackboard and tb? marks cama from the leachyXtye '-CUrelaaa Plain." l)w!sv.' Three human lungs one w4iite, One black and one gray form .an instruc tive exhibit In an Edinburgh museum. The; first came from an Esquimaux, who breathed the pure air of the Arc tic regions; the second, from a co&J miner, who inhaled much coal dust; the third, from a town dweller,' kept'iu city dust and smoke. . s f.tjjtf , Trofessor Simon Newcomb, in his opening ? address ' before the Interna tional," Congress" of ..Arts and , Science at, St. Louis, dwelt., upon the debtjof the' world to the original "scientific In vestigators who have opened the way. They are. the primary '-agents. in -.the movement which has elevated .mauto me mastertiu -position wnicn ne now li.tiljl- r i The example first set. by the French, and afterward followed in Germany and other European countries, of em ploying automobiles for military pur poses, has this year been initiated in the United StatesCd the war game at Manassas General Corbin used a steam car, and in the military-ma-neuvres in California General McAr tbur employed a gasoline car., -h '.: : .- - : -.. ''t l: ::..: i One of the latest devices for, applying the three-color principle to the repro duction in a photographic transparency of thehues of nature is the invention of the Messrs. Lumiere, of Paris. Instead- of1 using three separate color screens to produce the" negative they employ a single screen on which the three colors arc distributed in t micro scopic grains. - ; - - 4' Although in many parts of the world the forests are receding and disappear- -ing at a rate which causes solicitude, an opposite state of affairs Is reported to exist iu the southernmost district' of the, great plains region of Texas.-vOij the Edwards plateau the forests arc slowly spreading Over the open lands. Most of the trees are of the Atlantic type, such as elms, live oaks, post paks, walnuts, hickories, sycamores; but from the Rocky Mountains bave; come pinon pines, cedars and. oaks. ,VJ ..j At the Cambridge meeting off ' fh British Association some singular facts were presented about the influence.-ol disease and of town life on the pre vailing complexion of the population of England.' . Dr. W C;; Shrubsail said that blonds are found to suffer . more than brunettes from rheumatic disor ders, but less from tuberculosisBlonds, also suffer more from diseases in child hood, and consequently their numbei in proportion to the brunettes diniin ishes in the crowded areas of cities i . The proposed new calendar, of Ca mille Flammarion, the French a strono. mer, begins the year at the Vernai Equiuox (March 21), and to every ttuar ter gives two months of thirty days ami one month of thirty-one days. 'Xbi 365th day, set aside as a fete day,''i not crounted in' any month two Such days following leap year. The object of this plan is to make the same date fall always on the same days of th week and thus give a calendar that is good for any year. r- -Kii.vV Kelson's Funeral, 100 Tears Ago, 1 It -has been settled that bis. lord ship's corpse shall not be taken down the steps ia St. Paul's to the vault, a ail others have been; but that it halj be tet down under the dome; wher toe brass grate is, the opening of .wldclj not being sufficiently large, a. numbei of workmen are: now employed' t make it large enough to let the, coffin down; but it will' be some time befor it is complete, as there is "an immene body of stone to cut through. 'vWe"do not learn that any other arrangement are , finally determined upon, MV, Mylne, the architect of tho Cathedra had proposed " to " Lord Ha wkesbury, and the .dean and chapter, a plan for a monument to be erected to the memorj of the hero, under the centre of th dome; but tbis was much objected tn on account of Rs disfiguring the aiv pearauce of the church; Mr,, 3.jyhi has since laid before them an aucienl pi an of St. Petr's, at nom, to provi that hi plan would not be a dlsfigur laetit to the church. .He 11 a UkewiM produced an old record, In which it uv -pears- that it was sir cnristopiiej Wren's desire to have a monnmeui erected under the centre of the doir. to perpetuate his memory. Should Sir, Mylne'Ef plan be adopted, a large ton pillar will rise from tbe grave a con siderable distance- above the brass grate, with a very elegant coloMa! figure of the deceased on the top of it Tbe Bishop of Lincoln, the dean, is expected in town ia a few days, wbii a chapter will be held, for the purpose of making arrangements for tbe funer al. It is reported that a monument will likewise be erected ia Westminstei Abbey. London Times, 1805.,. Tho aincerest flattery."..' A New England hostess vquite re cent'y entertained the wife of a,, Jap anese statesman who had been f pend ing a few day3 on tbe Atlantic coast- .She' gave out - of consideration ftJ tbe truest of honoi, "a Japanese tei' case of "carrying coals to "Newcas tle" which included its own fitting r ward.. . . ; ;jf ,.;.u, - &ii.fA When it came time jo say au revolr, the lltt.e lady 'of ' the lowery'Kingdo'in was very polite and quite uaconsclous ly crushing., ; , j 4 4 "I am delighted," she declared, t "mt the similarity 01 Japanese and Ameri can ways cf entertaining." Touth' Companion. , I v-',.--- ' It Is said that last year the tatarit s of 24,000 elementary school teachers ir Ohio uverag$d ssventy-tv.-o ee:4 a ,d
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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March 15, 1906, edition 1
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