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THE BROOK-
BT JAMES WHITCOMD XH.ET.
LitUt, brook I Little brook! ' .
You have Btich a happy look '
Bach a very merry manner, ae you swerve anfrcurr
and crook
And your ripples, oue and one,
' Reach each other's hands an Ct run
iako laugmag nttie cnuaren in uie sun.
'Little brook, sing to me ;
; Bing tbout a bumble-bee
fm, t 1." 1 T wtvi . VI.- UT1 1 1,' ,1 innm.
A.llab i i Vlil 111 UUii OUU LUUiUlbU Li liiii-
blingly, .
- Because he wot the film
. Of his wings, and had to swim,
at him.
Little brook sing a song
VI a leal that sailed along
JDown the "golden-braided center of your current
wif t and strong, ' '.
' And a dragon .fly that lit
On the tilting ilm. of it.
And rode away and wasn't, scared a bii
. .
And sing how oft In glee
Came a truant boy like mo,
Who loved to lean and listen to your lilting melody,
" Till the gurgle and refrain
'Of your music in his brain
Wrought a happiness aa keen to him as pain.
. Little brook laugh and weep
Do not let the dreamer wecjf; . ;
Sing him all the songs of summer tiK he sink in eoft
est .sleep;
And then sing soft and low
Through-his dreams of longf ago
Sing back to him the rest 'he used to know 5
; IN A SINGLE XI GUT.
" What a beautiful young woman I
And yet her hair is white as snow."
-"A.nd her complexion fresh as is a
ohild's. . Strange, is it not ? "
Thus two loungers on a hotel porch.
But they did not know the. history of
that snowy hair. I ,
" '
From the time Harry "Wells fell in lore
witn jviamie (Jlausen at cnurcli socials;
until their marriage in the First Presby
terian Church, the entire community
gave iniaue, consideration to their affairs,
Mamie's father, John Clausen, was a
prominent commission merchant in a
Pennsylvania town, generally consid
ered wealthy, and always lived like a
man of means. Mamie was pretty, dash
ing, a local belle, and a general favorite.
Harry's family lived a few miles from
town, and they, too, were people of re-
-.JJUlitliUU 111 I lit? UUUUUJf. ,
The marriage was in every way a suit-!
able one. Harry was educated in Prince"
ton and although he had at one time the
reputation of being wild he had sobered
"down and was such a frank, manly young
fellow that he was generally forgiven
". any, indiscretion.
xne marriage was tne occasion oi
general rejoicing. Mamie's father gave.
her, an unusually good send off, and the
j details were sent far and wide through
the State. , Harry had studied law for
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country notary, drawing, up deeds, and
doing hack-work of .'that, "sort.. They
lived about four miles out of town and
two miles from old John's. - He had built
them a pretty modem cottage on a de
tached portion of his farm. Harry had
his office, an ornamental little structure,
a few rod3 from the. house, and there
thev lived as harroy as two birds.
Gradually Harry picked up "business,
anrl finollv tl-ii-rvnorK Tiiq fntViAr li Vw-
came trustee for some minor heirs,
They were an odd lot of children, with
!a half-crazy mother and no end of coal
tands and mining investments. It was
a good thing for Harry, although it gave
wrk. The worst thing was that it
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then and. leave : Mamie. Wheh Harry
t iad to go away, Mamie would get in her
i Dhaelon and drive to town and there
were always some or tne young people
ready- to go out and keep her company.
- aacuirjf Txinnjo msiaieu Luau sue musinoi
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Pennsylvania has a pretty rough ele
ment in it, and there is a general sense
of uneasiness.
One August afternoon Harry had an
unexpected summons to go to Scranton
about a suit connected with the minor
heirs. He had recently sold some of
their property, and had been making
vitriuua trjiieenona, wmuii Jicit jui xiia
hands about forty-five hundred dollars.
When hs found that he had to go off at
a few moments' notice, he wrapped up a
bundle of papers and this money, ana
took them into the house. Mamie was
making preparations for a picnic they
were to tra to the next dav. and fbesrered
. ; " o .7 " "
" But, my dear child, 1 haven't time
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cvuii, iuu io iuwn ana put iiiu&o iu mo
:bahk, so you'll uavo to take' care of
theni. I'll try and get back in two days
at the furthest and meanwhile nobody
will, know that the money is here."
t - ,
Then he explained to her the value of
the papers, and handed her a canvas
bag iu which was the $4,500 belonging
to the minor heirs. '
" (Where will I keep it, Harry ? Be-
icc" tu mattresses i
" Just like a woman 1 No. : Ent I de-
claro I don't know where to tell you.
The most insecure place apparently ia
often tle most secure. Any place, dear,
but; between the mattresses. I leave
xnaBio you. -but yoa must guard it. if
necessary, with your life ; for, remember
the money is not purs, and at all hazards
Jam responsible. I don't really sup
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ESTABLISHED 1S48.
pose thera is the least danger, for no one
knows I have it. But one ought to take'
proper precautions, and I beg of you not
to admit any tramps while I am gone.
Tell Sarah not even to allow them to eat
a biscuit." -
"All right, dear; we won't let the
tramps have a drink "even, and I'll take
care of the money, yoi may be sure."
Harry bade his wife good-by, and
Mamie gave up the picnic. At the end
of two days she received a telegram from
him, eaying he had been detained, and
telling her to get some one to stay with
her . two days, when he would be at
home. She drove into town, and one of
her old friends went 'out with her. At
tho end of two days she had another
telegram Baying that hs was detained
until the next day. Her friend went
home, and in place of Harry caino a
third telegram, ani so every day for ten
days he was expects J home, and every
day came a' disappointing telegram. By
this time she had become accustomed to
her charge, which she had set like a bag
of seed beans in a corner of a dark closet
opening from her room.
Tne afternoon of the tenth day was a
hot, murky afternoon. Mamie had gone
up stairs to take a nap and refresh be
fore dressing to meet Harry, who was
expected home after the longest ahse-gee
he had ever made from her.
After a time Sarah came up and told
her there was a tramp down stairs who
wanted something to eat and who woidd
not be driven off.
"You oughtn't to leave him a minute
alone, Sarah. Go down and watch him
and I wil! come down and send hirn
off'
, She dressed herself quickly ami went
down stairs, surprised to find how late it
had grown. When she reached the
kitchen she found also a messenger with
a telegram, which announced another
disappointment, but the next day with
out fail, Harry wrote, he would be home.
,As Mamie turned into the kitchen she
heard the tramp and Sarah in evident
dispute. ' I
"Yes," said the fellow, "when that
time comes your mistress will have
another iioning-table, helping you, in
stead of wearing her Sunday clothes
every day."
. "An' spoilin' everything for me to do
Over. I think I sea her.. I've work
enough to' do," answered honest Sarah,
not indisposed to have a chat over her
work.
Mamie found a graceless-looking fel
low, unshaven and ill-dressed, who, with
ft certain gentlemanly instinct, roso up
as she came in.
"I suppose my girl told you we had
nothing for you, and that it will be . a
great kindness if you will leave as soon'
as possible."
"Yes, she did just that madam, but
I took it upon myself to believe that it
wasn't so urgent. The. truth is, I'm
very hungry and dead tired, and I didn't
believe but that you would give ma
something to eat ; at least I've waited to
ask you in person.".
Women are soft-hearted creatures.
Mamie went and got him something to
eat herself. The darkness that had
been increasing 'for some time came
down rapidly, and there burst out one
of those terrific thunder-storms that
gather so rapidly and with sucb force in
that country. After it3 strength was
spent there fell steady sheets of rain
that brought the creek over the bridges
before morning. - ' .
"Madam, it's no use talking. You
can't send a fellow out in such a storm,''
said-the tramp, as the three stood On
the porch watching the storm.
" I'm sorry, , but I've no place for
you." . ' . ;
" What ! in a house like this? It's a.
pity there isn't a cranny for a stowaway.
I was walking around it, waiting for the
girl, .and it seems to inejit ought to hold
three people. " I
"Yon are very impertinent. I tell
you I have no place for yon, and the
6torm is already breaking away. "
Even as she spoke the'i'ain camedown
in blinding sheets, and lightning
streaked tho heavens.
'Well." -he said, carelessly, "we
don't go much on manners on the road,
but I know I wouldn't send a dog out
such a night as this. I'm not a particu
lar chap, leastwise not nowadays, and
I'll have to insist on your giving me
some sort of shelter,- if it's only your dog
kennel." The man spoke with decision. Mamie
felt that after all they were really in his
power.
"I will keep you on one condition,"
she said. " There's a lofc to the house,
a sort cf garret, which is very comforta
ble. It is closed with "a trap-door, and
you may sleep on the lounge there if you
will allow us to lock the door on the out
side. " j
"Bless my stars and gatters !" he said,
looking at her seriously,; "I don't care
if you lock the door."
They took hi up-stairs, and he
climbed up the steep attic stairs. The
women shut the door as he politely
bade them good-night, and thtey
fastened the padlock, : hearing him
J chuckle to himself as lie kicked off his
boots,. ;
PUBLISHED AT RUTIIERFOTiDTOX, K.,' C- EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
" I'd take the key, mum," said Sarah.
Mamie took the key with her, and
the two descended to shut up the house.
After they had made everything secure,
they went back up-stairs..
"You must . sleepf in' my room to
night, Sarah," the mistress said. Sarah
dragged in her bedding, and made a pal
let on the floor, and then, after the cus
tom of women, theyexamined tile clos
ets, looked under the bed, and piled the
chairs against the 'locked door. The
rain was still falling! heavily and tho
night as black as ink.) The mistress and
maid went to bed, and although worried j
and anxious went to sleep.
After midnight Mamie found herself
awake, and a bright Jight sliining in the
room. Blie started up, and eaw that it
was the moonlight! j Tho storm had
cleared away at last. She got up,
unable to compose herself immediately,
and went to the window. The' moon
was shining brightly. ' As she stood, look
ing at the peaceful scene before her she
saAv away clown the road," for it was
bright as day, several horsemen. It was
such an unuaual sight at this hour that
she stood watching them as they came
nearer. To her surprise they turned up
the lane leading toward her house, and
on reaching the gate came into the
yard. Sho was almost r.aralyzed with
fear. - Tho truth liashed across her.
They must have learned that she was j
alone that she had this moneV. and
they had come to get it. For a moment
she was paralyzed. She remembered
Harry's last words : "You must guard
it with your life if necessary."
She ran to the sleeping Sarah and
wakened her. She got down Harry's
rifle. The sleeping -girl was soon thor
oughly awake, and she explained to her
their situation. j, -
"It's the tramp that's done it."
"The tramp? No. Sarah, the key,
the key of tho attic." .
She flew up the stairs, unlocked the
padlock and opened the trap. Tho man
sprang up at the sound.
"Come, come with me." His own
senses alert, ana nearmg tne noise oi
the horses below and steps about the
house, he followed her without a word.
At the foot of the stairs she stopped..
"I have a large sum of money in the
house, and those men have come to get
it, thinking that I am alone. If they
kill me that money ijiust be guarded."
"Yhat have you?ipistols, shotguns?"
he whispered, taking in the whole sit
uation, h
"Here is my husband's rifle. It is
loaded!" j
" Hist ! Where are they going to
break hi ?" The steps came boldly on
the piazza to the fre&t door.
"Get behind mo, I will fire at the
first man who enters. How many bar
rels are there ?" ! ' , j
"Six, all loaded."j' i I
" Very well. Keep this cane in yciur
hand for mc, in case1 1 need it."
There was no storming ' of shutters.
They heard the key applied to the door
softly. It opened, and a man followed
by two others confidently entered. The
first figure walked directly to the stairs.
He had taken but a step when three
shots came in rapid succession. There
was a heavy thud ; this man dropped and
the, other two turned and fled. Sarah
ran to the window j and two horses
galloped down the lane. j
" Don't faint, madam ; there is work
yet to do," said the tramp. j
Mamie caught hold of the rail for sup
port, and then wnt into the room. ;
" Get a candle, Sarah." ;
They lighted a candle and gave it to
the tramp, who went down stairs, the
two women following with brandy j and
ammonia. The man had fallen back
ward, and lay with his face up and head
toward the door. ;
"Aha!" said the tramp, curiously,
holding the light up and 'peering into
the dead man's face, " he's fixed. Shot
through the head." . ,!
Mamie advanced and gazed , at the
white face, across which a thin thread
like stream of blood was trickling. She
fell back with a wild shriek.
. It was her husband's dead body which
lay before her. UNeiv York World. '
HOJiACE GREELEY AS A FRIJTTEB
HOT. ; ;
Here in Poultney the New York
Tribune was founded. 'Here it3 founder
washed the forms, and carried waiter,
ani built the fire$, and didn't sweep 'out
the-news room, and didn't carry out;the
ashes, and forgot what he was sent-af ter
and let the paste sour, and lost the let
ters he was given to mail, and upset the
lye, and tried the usual experiments with
the fancy job type and the finest colored
inks in the way of fearful . and wonder
ful visiting card3, and in all ways con
ducted himself even as the devil always
does about a print shop. Here Greeley
passed some years of ihis boyhood.! I
wander about the' village thinking about
the good old man, and trying to think
of the young printer, dusting out his
cases with a pair of leaky bellows, or
"soldiering " for a big pick-up that was
the next to the last fat thing on the
hook, just under a long take of solid
nonpareil. Burlington Hawkeye.
A GfiKiiAN professor claims to be able
to tell a man's character by feeling of
his nose. A nose, which feels like sheet
iron ia a eign of a statesman.
www
A Family Kcwspaper; Devoted tollome ljforesU
CjL TOUT AT I. A ST,
As Mrs. Oatea was going up $hB steps
, of the theater she saw a 12-yeaxyoldToy
I struggling .in. the hands of th police.
The lady is naturally of a Byiipathefcio j
turn, and stopped the police tor see if bo
young a lad could not be kept qfit of th
city jaiL fix ' -
"Don't take that poor little boy to
jail," she said, " I'll pay his fine!" . -
" Hasn't been fined yet," said Offloer
Solomon. 4 V, I
"He looks like a good boy, 'V. continued
Mrs. Oates. " If you let him gI'U give
him something to do as a supe.I . Pray
what crime might so nice & little sboy
commit?" , , i'i i r .
" Defacing posters," report the offi
cer. -'' f$b
Mrs. Oates, who was betiding ove$,
the boy and aboiit to stroke his curly,,
head, assumed ah erect, not to ey tragic,
position immediately. , ;
" Whose posters r flD ;
"Those pictures of Alice Oates in red
tights and tassels all along the side of
the leg. He cut both legs 'pH with a
jack-knife. He cuts up all the pouters
that come along." .'Ill )
"Say no more," hissed the 'actress,
"away with him to the lowesungeon.
I know him ; he cut my headland arms
j off ia Chicago, carved me to piece's in
New York and cut all my legs off all
over San Francisco. Here,; you pretty
policeman, here's $10 for catohingthe
confounded little scamp. . liopei he
will goto the penitentiary; will he?"
" We swear it," said botHjiioffioers,
holding up their right hands, t
"You are a nice chap, int you?"
continued Mrs. Oates, putting: her arms
akimbo as in "Madame Angot ;"j" a nice
boy to grow up in a Christian Jcouijtry
and walk the high road to Uie fallows.
Where do you expect to diaJien you
go to ? Beside trying to ruinnie in the
estimation of the public, sef'Vfhat a 'lot
of trouble you have put these, good, kind
policemen to. You can go, sir.v ?
On receiving such a scathing' lecture,
the boV blubbered heartily and went
sobbingo jail. Salk Lake :Zibune.
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FACTS AND FIGURES ABOVTNEWS
' ' PAPERS. 1jff H-
The English-speaking peo of Jthe
earth, numbering not more .than one
sixteenth of the entire popuIajdn othe
globe, publish over one-half of the news
papers in existence. The total nuraber
of publications of all kinds we. find d be
34.274. Of these 4,020 afeo'' dafjies,
8,857 are tri and semi- weeklies, 1.7;88D.
weeklies, 4,836 monthlies, and 3672
semi-monthlies, quarterlies' annjials
and various other irregular erioda of
publication. These are" sdistribt)ted
around , the hemisphere i s l folfews:
Europe utilizes 19,557, Nortb America,
12,400 ; Asia, 775 ; South America, 590;
Australia, 661, and; Africa, h origina'
home of the Fifteenth rafoendnxant,
brings up in the rear witr 182. The
total circulation per issue of vtjtese papers
lis found to be 116,400,0dQ,. yhile;the
total number of copies printed: ahniyilly
reaches the enormous and almost incon
ceivable amount of 10589,49448
copies. ,v f.
Germany publishes the greater quan
tity of papers, the publications of Jhat
country reaching 5,529 in nttpbeB vith
an annual circulation of 1,748, 000,K)0
or about thirty-eight to each inhabitant.
Great Britain has less papej in num
ber, 4,082, but the ciKulatioB is great
er than those of Germany, reaching
2,202,000,000 per annum, jgivjng sixty
four copies each year to eai b of herteiti-
zens. France, has 3,2G5 periodicals,
with an annual circulation icj , 557, fOO,-
000. j
While the United States? &an show no
daily paper with a circulation, of over
125,000 copies per issue, l.find that
Paris contains one daily paper, entitled
Le Petit Journal, which has daily cir
aalation of 580,000. It contains alf the
news of the day, beside plenty of gossip
and society news, and sells for 1 soi, or
a cent. In London appears a jsaper
called Lloyd's Weekly, a twenty-ejght-
column sheet, which enjoyp tlie wonder
ful circulation of 612,000 epmes per is
sue. This paper is sold iox;-1 penny.
English money, or about 2 cents injthat
of the United States. H. 1 JIubtyirdf
in Boston Globe. r
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TO MAKb A POJUap.
Cut off the legs and wjgs oi tyotu
drake at the first joint. CVtibff the bill
where the feathers terminafe. Split the
skin under the head d6wn: o.where the
neck begins. Gut through; -flie skin on
the back, near the wing, jipito-the be
Erinning of the neck. Thefc begin &are-
fully to draw off the skin. ? Oa reaching
the neck, gently draw t&e.-Bkin fcver,
after having skinned the headiand $ut it
off,, care having been tahenj to put around
the eyes. To prepare the- fjdn, ay it
on a warm stove, with thebaye skill op,
and dry slowly. Lay on magnesia to
absorb the oil, and frequently lay fresh
brown paper on it ; a wawrtf (no hot)
flat-iron to be placed on i die paper.
Should any stain get on thj 5 feathers, a
rag, dipped in a little ainmoni and
water, will remove it. The rast makes
a beautiful pompon, and the? soft; wing
feathers next the body maybe usd for
ornaments, Louisville Cpurier-Iour-
nal. U '
acil Graeral lews.
eatiTjIeil fashions.
Wedditifft and Other Social Entertain
ments Fiftfi Years Ago.
From the New Tork Poet
In the early part of this century wed
dings in New York were not the elabo
rate affairs they are now. The festivi
ties began and ended with the marriage
ceremony. There were no ushers, nd
rehearsing at the church beforehand, no
reception after the bride and groom re
turned from a trip of a few days sel
dom a few weeks for the gentleman
could rarely leave his business. There
wera bridesmaids arid groomsmen, no
best man. Weddings usually took place'
in the evening at the bride's residence.
and not infrequently . the happy pair
went directly to the house that had been
hired by the' groom and furnished by
the bride's family. The bride's trous
seau at that time was simple. She
never wore, a veiL This waa introduced
some years later, was only one yard
square, of a simple net, covered with
thread embroidery, and was pinned up
on the head behind. Since then veils
Ave increased in quality and quantity.
till they are now priceless heirlooms
among the rich families of the country.
The bride's dress was mull or embroi
dered muslin, short, as was the fashion,
both in skirt and waist. Pearls, not dia
monds, were the height of her ambition,
though diamond rings were beginning to
be worn. The entertainment, or re
freshment, . was also much simpler.
There was a wedding cake, with a ring
in it, to be cut by the bride. Sherry
was used in much greater quantities
than any other kind of wine. Cham
pagne was a luxury only used on grand
occasions, while at, ordinary parties
porter was frequently seen. The cater-
ers were two or three colored men, who
were found sufficient for every emergen- j
cy, French cooking not having as yet;
come in. Dinner parties (except the'
elaborate) were all in the daytime. Asi
for parties, every one was invited for
8 o'clock and expected to leave at 12.
Entertainments fifty years ago had
not ' seen the waltz that was introduced-
a few years afterward. Country dances,!
"The Boulanger," a very pretty wheel
figure dance not unlike the court quad-!
rille, were the favorites. A obtillion, not'
the elaborate German now danced, was
also in vogue. The dresses were short,!
showing the white or black-tied satin slip-i
per. The waist and sleeves were short,!
to correspond with the skirt. One of
the party dresses of the period was of
white satin with a cerise-colored crepe
lisse overdress, hanging loose. Flowers
were not ijsed as now. H, a gentleman
sent them to a lady it was thought hia'
intentions were very serious a sort of
floral declaration. If a lady had morel
than one bouquet, tbey were tied to her;
side, trophies of her fascination, by a!
ribbon. A bouquet costing $5 was con-S
sidered as the height of elegance in!
those days of primitive simplicity. Thej
satirist in New York when the waltz waa
first introduced had as ample a field f orf
his observations as now. li some of the:
writers of the day compared it to the
tarantula, what would they have called
lome of the dances of to-day ? "
The Widow Flapjack lost her wedding;
ring. She was inconsolable for awhile,!
and went about wringing her hands and
saying : "There, now, I wouldn't hav.'
lost that wedding ring for anything.:
I'll have to go and get married again,!
for I'm bound to have a wedding ring.1
I can't get along without it." Austin
Siftings.
Dabwin, in his new book, estimates
that there are in gardens 53,767 worms to
the acre.- This tallies with our count
when we were digging in the garden
and didn't care a nickel about finding
worms ; but when we wanted bait for
fishing the garden didn't pan out a doz
en worms to tho acre. They, had all
emigrated to the garden of some other
fellow who never goes a-'fishing. Nor
risiown Herald. I .
It altered the case : Two physicians
met on the street. " Good morning
Doc," said one, "what makes you look
so pleasant ? " " Oh, I don't know. Do
I? Well, I lost a patient last night
anl" "Really, that's nothing to
look pleasant about. That's unfortunate
for your reputation." "Reputation be
blowed. Had to call three times a day,
and he wasn't worth a cent." " Ah:!
That makes a .difference. Have a
light." And the two went up the street
smoking. j
. j
A lot of farmers w&o had been listen
ing to a railroad land agent's praise of
Arkansas valley soil at last asked him
sarcastically if there was anything that
wouldn't grow there. " Yes," said the
agent quickly, " pumpkins won't."
" Why not? " " The soil is so rich and
the vines grow so fast that they wear
out the pumpkins dragging then over
the ground." 1 1
Ex-Gov. Washburn, of Maine, affirms
that crime is lessening instead of in
creasing, and that, though the marvel
ous accumulations of wealth will effect
many changes in society, yet the masses
will constantly rise to higher life. Aris
tocracy may grow as a rank weed here
and there, but the good wheat the,
people will choke it out.
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TERMS S2.M Perlium.
3 A DRUGGISTS A D TEX TURK.
Mn Smith stood behind the counter
of his drug store and gazed complacent
ly at his clerk. It was about 9 o'clock
at night, and the little store,; which waa
established at Cherry and Roosevelt
streets, A. D. 1795, was wrapped in
silence. The door opened, and a young
man with an ingenuous face came in and
smiled, and said : ".Mrs. Kinney wants
a topttie of cod-liver oil, an' I'm to take
it to once."
" Who's Mrs. Kinney, and where's the
money ?' asked Mr. Smith, rolling up
the bottle. .'
" " Why, don't you know Mrs. Kinney?
She lives dtfwn on the corner below.
Shell pay you to-morrow." remarked
the young man. That's all right."
" Oh, no, it ain't," said the druggist.
".My clerk will deliver the bottle, and
you can show the way."
The young man said he was agreeable,
and the two set out into the night.
; Sir. Smith stood at ease behind the
counter and looked at the eight-day
olock. The door" opened, and another
young man came in and smiled. Mr,
Smith looked at him inquiringly. The
young man waltzed around the stove
whistling " The Sweet Sixteen." Then
he picked up a chair, and, clasping it in
his arms as he would his partner, waltzed
around the stove again, and then out
into the chilly night.
; : " Police 1 " said Mr. Smith, vaulting
over the counter.- He chased the young
man through the dark and chilly night,
and laid hold of the chair. The young
man held on, still smiling and waltzing.
. At this moment a lithe young man
without a smile slid into the store, emp
.tied the money-drawer, and slid out
again. The smiling young man- sur
rendered the ohair to Mr. Smith, who
entered the store just as his clerk re
turned. Then he found that his money
had taken wing, and said to the clerk :
" Did you find Mrs. Kinney ?"
" There isn't any," was the reply.
" Have you got the bottle ?"
" Yes. Have you got the chair ?"
! " Yes. Let's shut up for the night 1"
New York Sun.
THE DIFFERENCE IN HUGQINQ.
An Eastern paper, to encourage hug
ging in the locality in which it is pub
lished, says : " A Wisconsin man, while
"hugging his girl of an evening received
a telegram stating that he had fallen
heir to a fortune.'' The Eastern paper
is ; right in its efforts to stimulate a
healthy sentiment in favor of hugging,
but it does wrong to hold out such in
ducements, as it will not be- one time in
10,000 that a manf while hugging a girl,
will receive such 'a dispatch. He will
oftener receive a dispatch bound ,in
leather from the girl's father, which
will inform him that he has fallen over a
fence, and is heir to a lame back. There
should be no money consideration in a
case of hugging, and no hope of falling
heir to anything. It is fortune enough
to a man to have a girl to hug. Hug
ging can never become what it should
be, our great national recreation and
enjoyment, our picnic, as it were, until
all thought of outside matters is elim
inated from it, and the hugging is sim
ply done for instance, because there is a
good opportunity, and no one to say nay.
The difference in : hugging ! can readily
be seen by those who have done a little
of it themselves, if they go to a theater
and watch the actors and actresses. It
is not once in a hundred times that hug
ging on the stage is done because both
parties like . it, but is always done for
money, at so much- a week and ward
robe furnished.
j The actor comes up to the scratch
like a hired man, and 'puts his arm
around the actres3 as though he was
holding up a tobacco sign, and the act
ress smiles a two-f or-a-quarter smile and
looks as though she was taking pills
We have often seen a couple of lovers in
tho audience, who probably know scien
tific hugging when they see it, look at
thi3 stage hugging and curl up their
lips with scorn, and look at each other
as much as to say "If it was us on the
stage playing that scene, we would just
break the audience ail up." Occasion
ally a couple of stage lovers do un
bend themselves and get in a hug ox
two that break a corset string, but in
those cases one; or the other blushes
and looks around at the wings to see
whether the actor's wife or the actress'
husband is looking. - i
; There has got to be a certain amount
of fellow feeling between the hugger and
the huggee or it is a. mere matter of
form, and not worth the price of admis
sion. Sometimes we think we would
like to go on the stage and give some of
those actors a few points that would be
of great benefit to them in their busi
ness, but if we should offer to do so they
would probably impute cannister mo
tives to us, and hit us with a stuffed
club. It is not that we would ca5re for
the hugging, but the advancement of
art- -Peck's Sunx
At a German ball : ! Lieutenant
"Did you not tell me that your father
has an estate in Silesia ?1i Young lady
"Yes ; and two in Pomerania." Lieu- j tave no time." "So I have heard," re
tenant "Andean you still doubt my J plied Fogg ; "but we will overlook that,
love?" you know," Boston Tramcript,
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A XrOTEZ STEAMSM1F.
In a new steamboat now building upon
the Hudson, an attempt is being made
to produce a boat that shall be self
righting, that shall be, very fast, and
I that cannot sink unless entirely torn to
pieces. The boat is comparatively small ,
as it is intended only for an experiment
al or model boat. If successful,: it is in
tended to build ocean steamships upon
the same principle. It appear! that the
inventor's aim is to make a self-righting
boat by carrying the sides over the deck
in the form of a dome. The side frames
are made continuous and meet over the
center of the hull, or, in othei-words,
the frames begin at one side of the keel,
rise directly at an angle of about forty
five degrees to the water line, and then
etirve inward over, the deck and back on
the same lines to the keel. A Bection
pf the hull taken in the center is thus of
a wedge shape, with a sharp edge below
and rounded top , above. This wCjja
form is preserved through the entire
length of the hull. There are no hollow
lines in the boat, and the sharp, over
hanging bow is intended to part the
water near the surface and to form a long,
tapering wedge. The widest part of the
hull is exactly at the middle, both ends
being precisely alike. This is quite dif-
f erent from the fiat bottom and straight
sides, with ' comparatively bluff, or
rounded bows, of the ordinary ocean
steamship. The boat is intended to be
much deeper aft than forward, and the
deck will be much higher aboe water
at the bows than at the stern. There
will be no houses or raised construc
tions of any kind on the deck, except
the dome-shaped pilot-house, the ven
tilators, and the smoke-stacks. Inhere
will be an open railing around the cen
ter of the deck, so that it can be used
as a promenade in pleasant weather or
whenever the seas do not break over the
boat. The object Qf this ; unbroken
dome-shaped deck is' to enable the boat
to throw off all waves that break over
the bows of sides in rough weather. It
is thought that, instead of shipping tons
of water and retaining it on the deck
till it can be drained off, the boat will
shed or throw off the water from tho
long, sharp bows and open deck, and
will at once relieve herself of the weight
of the water. Waves striking the round
ed deck will, have no hold on the boat,
and their force will thus be spent harm
lessly. The sharp .wedge -shape and
rounded top -of the hull, and the fact
that even when fully loaded the center
of gravity will be below the water-line,
makes the model self-righting. Century
Maaazine.
lOW RAGBAG ENJOYED BIS PRAC
TICAL JOKE.
After Mr. Ragbag had gone to bed
the idea of a very funny joke occurred
to him. It seemed so funny that ho
went into a paroxysm of laughter and
twisted and squirmed so that he pulled
the bedclothes all out at the foot and
had to get out to tuck them in again,
and got awful cold, and made as much
noise as to awaken his wife in the next
room, and she, on hearing the cause of
the commotion, told Ragbag he was a
fool, and ' advised him to go to bed.
He did so, but lay awake half the night
thinking of the joke, and. the next morn
ing Ragbag hastily swallowed his break
fast and hastened out on the street to '
play his joke. The first man he met was .
Gallagher. Now, Gallagher's business .
compels Thin to carry about 100 keys,
and Ragbag knows this. Gallagher waa
just the man Ragbag wanted to see.
Rushing tip to Gallagher, - he said :
"Ah, Gallagher, have you lost a key ? "
"Don't know," replied the victim;
"leimeseeit''? Said Ragbag: "First
see if you have lost one. " So Gallagher
took off his gloves and went to work.
He searched pocket after pocket, and
examined each and every bunch of keys
carefully. It was sharp weather, and
his fingers got cold and numb.1 But he
kept at it. One hundred keys were a
good many to keep track of, and Galla
gher had to think of every lock about
his establishment, and then look for.
that particular key, and it was a tedious
job. And it wasn t satisfactory, either,
for Gallagher couldn't quite makeup
bis mind that one key was not missing.
He demanded a sight of the key found.
Then Ragbag's self-control gave way.
With a howl of laughter, he cried :
"Why, I haven't found any, I just
asked if you had lost one, as a matter of
curiosity." It didn't take three seconds
for Gallagher to decide what to do. -The
enow for forty feet around was clawed
and kicked into a cloud that filled tho
air. Folks looked out of the windows
and howled to see the fun. And when
Ragbag re-enter 3d the house with his
clothes torn, ear chewed and eyes
blacked, and explained that he had been,
playingdiis joke, his wife was more than
ever convinced that he was an. old don
key, and told him so. Somehow, humor
is at times fearfully discouraged in this
country. Boston Post.
"Won't you play us something, Miss
Hammerandbang?"; asked . Fogg. "I
should like to ever so much," she said,
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