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Cobwebs ‘ " I passed the fairies’ gypsy camp Beyond the wood at dawn, : And saw their filmy garments spread : To bleach upon the lawn. ¢ White in the rosy glow of morn, % ~ Dew dampened and sun Kkissed, % Upon the green each lacy piece 3 Lay like a bit of mist. 3 : —Frederick Fairchild Sherman, in Lip- ° . pincott’s. e

A JEALOUS WIFE

By ADELE E. THOMPSON

“Helen, dear, I have something to tell you.” “Yes, Robert,” and though the lip

trembled a little, unseen by him, the ~ voice was bravely cheerful, “I think I can guess what it is.” ~ “Can you?” and the happy look. on the boyish face, such a boyish face still for all its 25 years, grew still brighter. “Of course, I have written you about Lillian, the dearest girl in the world; but it seems so wdnderful - to think that she loves me as dearly as I do her, and I wanted you to be the first to hear it,” and Helen listened while he sang a lover’s praises, and smiling, hid the little pain in her heart that would come with the realization that this only brother had found one nearer than herself. " “There have always been two of us,” he concluded, “you .and I; but now there will be three, Lillian, you and 1.”

“No, Robert,” she said, even more cheerfully than before, “there will be two still, Lillian and you.” ‘ “Nonsense, Helen,” he protested, hotly. “Nobody is ever going to crowd you out; we have come too near each other for. thatt When I come to tell Lillian all you have been to me, mother and sister, both, and all I owe to you through these yéars, I know that she will love you as well as 1 do.” i :

Helen smiled a little dubiously; she could not say to him that some one else would have opinions and a voice concerning the home; and she had no desire by look or word to mar the few hours they were to have together after an absence of months. | Helen did not come for the wedding; but after they were settled in their home, yielding to Robert's repeated letters, she went on for avisit. Lillian received her with sweet frostiness, so subtle as to be felt rather than observed. ' . Robert had built such hopes on the

results of this visit, but someway, if he began to talk to Helen of the days when they two were alone in the world together, Lillian was apt to develop a headache that shut her up in i CL. @ l ) 3N t 0 i A\Y = e f’? o il : A ’.‘. B \ /// / Y : i L, - /i[ | ) {U ’ \ /l’l ',: . ) ' \'| | I':",; h‘ ,f./,//fi? S \ -\ ,’i :l\i ﬁ “: ) ) : . ‘¢ 4‘ N “What Has Come Between Us So?” ‘her room; and if Helen petted him in her old loving way, Lillian, would show her displeasure by punishing him with a coid if not sulky silence, that made the household atmosphere anything but cheering. : In time another guest came into the home. “I'm sorry,” Lillian said weakly as Robert bent over her and the other, the tiny head, “that it isn't a boy. They say that sometimes men. love a daughter better than their wife; but it would break my heart if You should love the baby best. Promise me that you pever will?” “What a foolish Lillian,” he answered; “of course I never will.” When it came to naming the baby he had his way.. “There never can be but one Lillian to me, so Helen. it shall be,” and he wrote “Aunt Helen” wonderful stories of the beauty and brightness of Baby Nellie. After a little he began to catch a note, a something, between the lines in Helen's letters that vaguely troubled him, and one day there came a letter in a hand so changed he hardly’ knew it; she was sick, would he come to her? = > . Lillian was in her room with a cold and slight fever when he carried the letter to her. “Surely you are not going to leave me here sick,” she exclaimed. “How can you be so cruel? If Helen is very badly off she could not have written herself. Well, if you go, only wait till morning; half a day won’'t make any difference.” Robert hesitated, he felt impelled to go at once; but if he crossed Lillian, it might make her so much worse that he could not go at all In the morning, as he was stepping on the train, a telegram was handed him—"“Helen is dying.” > “You are too late”—he felt the rebuking accent in the nurse’s tone—“and she was so anxious to see you.” Lilllan wrote him a létter full oﬂ love and sympathy; she said to everyone: “Dear Helen, how sad it is.” At the little Helen. And ss the : : *«”}3;@:2—'!’#?*7’ ‘4%“ Ty T N ;J'\i‘—i"i“‘*

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sent to the nursery, loving, lovable, always ready to spring into her . father’s arms, the baneful root .in Lillian’s heart took a fresh start. Every caress he gave to Nellie she felt herself defrauded of, every fond word a robbing of her right; to herself she said she could not bear it, that her own child should come between them, and at times she almost hated the child for it.

‘One day there was white crape on the door, and a white casket was care ried out of their home 7

Lillian shed many tears, she felt the keen stress of grief; but yet deep down, far deeper than Helen's death, lay the thought that she would hardly have owned to herself, but was none the less present, that now, for the first time, Robert was hers alone, no longer was there right or claim beside: .

And yet, impalpable as the thinnest breath of vapor, not to be grasped or defined, but none the less present and felt, was the shadowy something that seemed to have come between her and Robert in the hour when she could claim him as hers, and hers only. At first she recognized this with an incredulous petulance that in turn gave place to a vague alarm. - Not that he was less tenderly kind or attentive—the more so, if anything: but he went his way as if no longer touched “by her moods; frequently he said he had writing to do, and shut himself ' in the little room that had been Nellie's play-room, now made into a “den,” it almost seemed; but then it could not be that he was living a life of his own apart from her. 5

At last one evening petulance and alarm flamed into speech, and as he was leaving the room on the plea of “writing a little while,” she threw herself before him. “Robert,” she cried, holding -him fast, “what is it? What has come between us so? What are you doing?” : “I am writing on the book you have often heard me speak of,” answering the last of her questions. 5 “But I don’t want you to write that book; I hate it,” the tears beginning to gather. “You are so changed to me, and now for that to come in. You have never been the same since Nellie died; I always knew you loved her the best; I wish I could have died instead of her. You never loved me, or you would not make me so miserable.” J

“Lillian,” and there" was a note in his. voice she had never heard before, “I married you because I loved you; I have loved you always; I love you now. You are sweet and true at heart. The trouble has been that you wanted and exacted of me what I did not ask of you, what no one has a right to demand of another, my whole and only love. Love is like a fountain, the more freely and in larger measure it flows, the purer and fuller it is; choke it up, and it either dimin. ishes or becomes unhealthy. This, vour selfish jealousy—forgive me if I speak plainly—has done for both of us. Bgcause of it you hardened your heart to Helen, who would gladly have loved . you, and loving whom would have made your own life the richer, and led me to weakly fail in the gratitude and devotion I owed to her; because of it you - were an untender mother to Nellie; you neither gave her your own love nor allowed me to show her mine, for the lack of which her whole young life was clouded. “Do not think that I blame ‘you alone for this; I blame myself even more, that seeing it I weakly yielded, that I was not strong enough, clearsighted enough, to have crushed it for you-as you would ndét for yourself; but as it is, it has spoiled my home and marred my happiness and filled my heart with remorseful memories. “You say that I have changed to you since Nellie died. It is because I have thought of these things since then as I never did before, and have come to some -conclusions that it were well for both of us had I done solong ago. In the future I shall give to you, as I have always had it in my heart to do, the best of my love and confidence and care; but at the same time I shall remember that I have my own life to live; and give to its duties and claims what I feel they deserve. You ask me, Lillian, what has come between us? It is the only thing that ever could have come—yourself.” 5 = . ; - She had loosed her hold on him and dropped into a chair; he bent and gently kissed her and left the room. For once Lillian’s usual flow of words failed her. If there had been a trace of passion in his tone—but there was none—it was the pitiless calmness of his words that had chilled her heart as with an icy touch. Heavy draperies ,at the windows shut out the wintry storm outside; in the grate the fire glowed red; warmth afid light were all about her, but she shivered in their midst. And this was her Robert, who had used his words with, it seemed to her, as little of ruth as an executioner his sword. Listening, she followed his steps as they passed up the stairs; then the door of his study closed, and its sharp click to her echoed: “What has come between us? It is—yourself.” -

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“Mr. Wheedler is not a long stayer, is he?” . -

“No; he only stays long enough ta borrow some money.” “Oh, then with him it is a case of touch and go.” -

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Chinatown of New York, and of San Francisco, and even of Chicago, is known throughout America as one of the sights worth seeing on a visit to any one of the cities named. And foreign visitors to this country always feel a special curiosity to go through the queer section of the cities, and think perhaps that no city of Europe can in any way duplicate the sights, the people and the customs. 'And yet London it seems has its Chinatown, as much as either New York or San Francisco, though perhaps not on so extensive a scale. ¢

There are four opium dens of “Hop Joints” in London which cater for the public. Three of these are controlled by a syndicate of ‘Chinamen, members of a “Tong” or society. The ‘other “joint,” perhaps the most luxuriously appointed place of its kind in existence, is owned by a notorious Chinaman of great wealth, Ah Wong, who, until the great feud in San Francisco three years ago Dbetween two powerful “Tongs,” which led to wholesale murder, was known there as the mayor of Chinatown. This man’s establishment was furnished by a well-known west end firm at a cost of $lO,OOO. Whereas the cost of a “layout,” or use of one, ranges from ten cents to $1.25, according to the amount of opium used, in the “syndicate ‘joints,’ ” Wong's charge is $5.00. All these places are within a stone’s throw of each other. The Orienta]l sailor has less than a hundred yards to walk from the docks to reach the cheaper “joints,” while Wong’s place in Limehouse is just round the corner in" an old-fashioned three-storied brick building, formerly used as the freight offices of a “world-famed shipping company. -The day trade is composed mostly of sailors or Chinamen residing in the neighborhood, for the latter are barred at night, much as the residents of Monaco are denied the privilege of gambling at Monte Carlo. By three o’clock the f)laces have been cleaned and put right for the coming night trade, and a little later the sallowfaced, hollow-eyed habitues are returning—for they have a “yen yen,” which’ means that:the terrible craving has come on them, and there is no denying it. The visitor to “Chick’s” establishment—one of the “joints” controlled by the Chinese syndicate—pays 60 cents and is given half a walnut-shell filled with opium. He then enters a large room, the floor of which is covered with rows of mattresses, and chooses his favorite bunk; and “Kip,” a well-known personality in Chinatown, who acts<as a sort of servant, approaches with the “lay-out.”” This consists of a small square Japanese tray, containing an oil lamp, a ‘“stem,” or pipe and bowl, two needles about five inches long, much like a woman’s hat-pin, ‘known as a ‘“yen hok,” and “shying needle,” and a glass of water. The smoker now lights a cigarette, and proceeds to “cook a pill” by turning the needle with a small ball of opium rapidly abont in the flame of the lamp. Every few moments the needle isB withdrawn, and the small ball of opium it contains is rolled on the edge of the bowl for the purpose of removing a certain amount of poison and also to give the pill conformity. ‘When properly cooked, and emitting the peculiarly pungent smell so sickening to the uninitiated, the pill is placed directly over the small hole in the bowl and the needle is pushed through; then the smoker, placing the bowl .over the flame of the lamp, inhales the fumes into his lungs. A beginner usually takes short, quick pulls; but the habitue takes what is known as Zhe “long draw,” never stopping to take a breath until the pill is consumed. The bowl is then rubbed over with a small damp sponge, and

LAUNCHED THE NEW AUTHOR

Magazine Writer Tells 'of the “Dis- ~ covery” of Bret Harte.

A copy of the Overland Monthly had fallen into my hands, and I' was exceedingly interested in a sketch, “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” by an author whose name I had never before heard. 1 asked Mr. Fields to read it, and he cared more for it even than I—being much older and wiser—and he very soon dictated a letter to Mr, Harte, begging him to send something to the Atlantic (whose editors, so far as I have known ‘them, thave always anxiously watched for promising new authors).

The reply, which came in due time, I think, not only expressed a willingness to become a contributor, but spoke of the writer's probable departure from California. I cannot say how long it was before the Harte family reached Boston and became the guests of Mr. Howells in Cambridge. { only know that it was the time when

the performance repeated until the smoker has had enough.

The second of these “joints” is presided over by a person known as “Kid Lee,” a half breed Chinaman, who was at one time valet to a famous Yankee jockey. Under his management this place has become the' rendezvous of foreign “crooks” and ‘“grafters,” pickpockets, touts and confidence men. This place is known to the fraternity as the “Dream Shop,” and is run on a slightly better plan than “Chick’s,” the charge being $1.25. Partitions divide the smokers, the surroundings also are somewhat better, the walls cleaner, and the paraphernalia of a better kind, and there are two exits for use in case of emergency, unknown as yet even to the habitues. A fair estimate would show Lee to do a ‘daily or nightly business of some three hundred “shells,” or $375, for many of his customers call for a second and third “shell of hop.” Fifty per cent of this is profit, and many of the “regulars” purchase opium for home consumption. ;

The t?rd of the cheaper “joints” is found six doors further down, and this time, instead of descending to the basement, one ascends the stairs of a comparatively new house, the ground floor being occupied by a fried fish shop. This place, known as “Hop Harbour,” is exclusively used by Orientals, and a white man finds it exceedingly difficult to gain an entrance. Each of these places has a manager, the Chinese syndicate which owns them remaining in the background. At Wong’s there is no secret password, no special knock is necessary, for almost the moment you approach the door it opens, two Chinamen in ordinary clothes look you over, and, being satisfied, bow you to a second door, which opens silently. The hall is lighted by foyr large lamps bearing red shades; the walls ‘are covered with Chinese hanging screens and ornaments, while a red sign with black lettering reads: ‘“Chinese Restaurant.” On the first floor to the right of the entrance hall is a dining room containing eight tables. Chinese lanterns hang from the ceiling; the decorations are in red and black, and even the floor is painted black with a border of red around the room. Here come any number of respectable people ta dine ala Chinoise. They have not the remotest idea of what goes on above the dining room. floor, though others use the restaurant only for a blind, and, later on, smoke a pill or two upstairs.

You pay your bill, then ascend the heavily carpeted - stairway :to the rooms above. At the top of the first flight, in a small recess, sits a Chinaman spotlessly dressed in white. He gives you a keen glance and awaits your pleasure. ,“I wish to rest awhile, Loo; let me have a room.” Loo bows. and an attendant-comes forward anc¢ leads the way into a small but luxuriously furnished apartment fitted up as a sleeping-room, the bed, however, being a divan raised some six inches from the floor, with a silk-covered mattress and silk cushions, or a pillow. The attendant waits for further orders. “Bring me a lay-out.” With a bow the man departs, 'to return with the. paraphernalia. The tray is a work of art, the stem is inlaid with ivory, and the “shell” is a molluse’s. “Shall I ‘cook’ for you, sir?” inquires the servant; but the visitor has been there before, and requires no assistance. Should the attendant be called upon to do the necessary “work,” and added fee of $1.25 is necessary. The man then says: “One guinea ($5.00) please,” and, taking the money, leaves the visitor to himself. _ : . . MAURICE VERNON.

Elasticity of conscience has been one handicap to our financial system.

every man was. quoting from ‘“The Heathen Chinee,” and generally carrying the verses in his pocketboak. There was, I thought, a good deal of curiosity felt about the office as to the sort of man the suddenly .popular author would prove to be. He was found good looking (and excedingly well dressed), - extremely self-pos-sessed, with a gracefully friendly and even affectionate manner to the new business and literary acquaintances of his own age in the establishment, with whom he speedily became intimate.—~ Atlantic Magazine. ' The Reason. “Why is it that an ocean voyage ias considered so aristocratic?” ‘“Because on one you are sure to meet the heavy swells.”—Baltimore American, . By b e P.“' Roving Means Disaster. There is nothing worse for mortalg than a vagabond life—~Homer.

BERLIN WOOL WORK AGAIN. Fashion’s Wheel. Has Brought Old- "~ Timer Into Favor. So many of our “new things” turn out to be old things slightly disguised and brought into fashion by a turn of the wheel. Here's “Berlin work” as the latest arrival. This is work in wools on canvas in either “cross” or “tent” stitch. The cross-stitch is the easier and, on the whole, the better adapted to elaborate patterns. It was. in cross-stitch that the dames of olden days embroidered the elaborate tapestries that adorned the walls of hall and castle, some of which are highly esteemed as art treasures. ¥ e If a girl is very enterprising and wishes to give a very handsome pres‘ent to some friend, she could not do better than work a chairback and seat cover. The back of the chair might be worked in the coat of arms of the recipient. Cross-stitch lends itselt particularly well to such conventional designs. The seat of the chair might be the crest only. Care must be taken to do the work in the very best grade of wools, as the others are liable to fade. Sofa pillows worked in crossstitch are -always acceptable, and many charming patterns (most of them old ones revived) are shown this season. - Hand fire screens are very pretty, but they should be worked in silk on very fine canvas. A very little practice will enable any girl to pick out even the most complicated pattern with ease, but for the lazy, patterns are bought already stamped on the material.—Detroit Free Press.. PRETTY AND CHEAP SCREEN. Beautiful Ornament for Any Room in the House. Something beautiful in a window screen will cost you only the price of some very thin blue lawn, providing yon already have a frame, and many homes have screen: frames which have once done duty and only await something new in a covering. It takes a double thickness of lawn for ' the screen, because the designs are pasted lightly between the covers and when the light shines through the screen there is a beautiful shadow effect. One xpxeat design is a stork standing amid cat-tails and pond lilies, another is bunches of grapes and leaves, and the odd little figures of dancing Dutch children or pretty geisha girls make good shadowgraphs. A handsome covering can be made with white lawn, the pictures being in - colors which reflect through the material. It is best to cut the patterns from paper and paste very lightly to one piece of the material after it has been tacked in place. Always iron the pieces to the material ‘to prevent wrinkles. Or the patterns can be gut from dress goods and attached in the same manner. A large screen will be attractive if covered with cheap unbleached muslin and the figures cut from heavy paper, which show in bold relief on the white background. Shades for lamps can be made in the same manner, either with floral effect or any of the conventional patterns commonly used.

Spice Fingers.

Cream thoroughly three tablespoonfuls of butter with a scant cupful of brown .sugar, adding a teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon, a ‘half teaspoonful each of nutmeg and allspice, a quarter of a teaspoonful each of ginger and salt. Stir one teaspoonful of sifted baking soda into one cupful of rich sour cream, and as it foams add it to. the spice mixture alternately with enough graham and white flour (half and half) to make a soft dough. Turn on a floured board and knead into it three tablespoonfuls of seeded raisins, three of currants, and one each of chopped citron and candied orange peel. Roll out very thin, cut in strips with a jagging iron, then sprinkle with . powdered sugar®: and bake in a moderate oven until brown and crisp.—The Circle. :

Virginia Fritters.

Put a pint of water, into which has been stirred a teaspoon of salt, over the fire and bring to hard boil. Add a teaspoonful of butter, and without re moving from the fire turn into the boiling water two cupfuls of sifted flour. Stir steadily until it has boiled three minutes. The flour will have absorbed all the water. Turn the paste into a bowl and set aside to . cool When cold stir into the paste the well pbeaten yolks of four eggs, and when these are well incorporated with the paste add the beaten whites. Drop by great spoonful -into boiling fat (deep) and cook to -delicate brown. Drain on a heated colander. Can be sifted over with powdered sugar if de sired. Known as beet fritters in south

Put Furs Away Dry.

“Always put furs away dry,” ad vised an expert furrier. : When you come in on a stormy day shake every possible snowflake and raindrop from both muff and boa and spread them. in a place to dry. Before putting them in the closet brush the fur the wrong way with s good, stiff brush. The reward for your diligence wil: be the renewed fluffiness and softness of your furs. ‘ White furs or light ones should be kept in pasteboard boxes between lay ers of tissue paper. : ; These delicate furs may be cleaned with lump magnesia. If the collars on the darker furs are soiled, clean with a piece of cotton wet with gasoline. Cure for Cracked Fingers. Take one tablespoon of lime water in milk or water three times a day How to make the lime water: Get a piece of stone lime, or unslacked lime, about as large as Bnglish walnut, pui into two quarts of cold water, stir un til dissolved, then let it settle, pour off the clear water in bottles to keep. Will keep good until used up. This i all right for babies. i . Tasty Breakfast Dish, Chop or grind a cupful of cold boiled ham (cold frled ham can be used). Get the spider quite hot; put in a tablespoon of butter. When it ;&g

| T SIE? _. sg i 2 H»> ] (2 A ié./ b 3" , 5 > ‘ = 4 L 4 L ’.' Y 2 Jel i o . &‘:{/‘ . N 0 7 Y= - T v i N . N AA P NI IN TIPS NP “CAP,” THE BUSINESS DOG. iTékes Money and Buys His Master ! i His Paper Every Morning. “Cap” is a wiée dog. He buys the ’paper every morning, aud carries it ‘home te his master to read. TUnfori tunately *“Cap” cannot read himself. = ‘-",;: T ‘%_%‘-\\ ./ = &= o‘«f’-%; YL A= ) ‘_“‘\'\ ‘:e Z &5 AN WEZ R [/ &2 ,/z“.\ =4 N 2 /’, /: ; ‘ = ;'.:.: » A , Cap Carrying Home the Paper. If he could, he would also get the news out of the paper.® % “Cap” is a black and white English setter, owned by A. E. Dayton of 11 Sumner street, Dorchester, says the Boston Globe. He is seven years old, and since' puppyhood he has shown himself an unusual dog. All the common tricks of dogs come easily to him, THE YOUNG MAGICIAN. ” How He Can Do a Coin Trick with ; Handkerchief and Glass. _ The performer exhibits a small glass, allowing it to be examined. He aso requests the loan of a silwver quarter, which is marked for identification. He exhibits a large colored handkerchief, showing both sides. Next he places the marked coin under the folds of the handkerchief and requests one ! of the audience to hold it firmly.

He then places himself in such a position as to be able to hold one of

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the drooping corners of the handkerchief while the other hand grasps the glass. At the word of command the handkerchief is pulled from the fingers of the observer, and at the same instant the coin is both seen and heard to fall in the glass, and both are instantly passed for examination. - Procure two large red and white handkerchiefs, alike in pattern, and stitch both together by the four hems, or sides, having previously placed _a quarter of a dollar between the two. This coin, of course, will fall into one of the angles of the double handker-

“TIT FOR TAT” SOCIETY.

Jessie Was to Darn Jim’s Hose and He

Was to Shine Her Shoes.

Jim and Jessie were twins, as much alike as two peas in a pod, with this awful -difference—one was a boy and the other was a girl. While Jim was small enough to wear long curls-and pinafores, you really couldn’t tell which was which; but when he got rid of his curls and went into trousers, everything was changed. He began to put on lordly airs and to order Jessie about. Jessie opened her blue eyes at first in astonishment; she never thought about the trousers, but though she was only a girl, she had plenty of spirit, and would not be imposed upon. : '“1 wish,” said Jim one day, “that youw'd mend these holes in my stockings, Jess,” and he held up a pair of dreadful-looking objects. ;

“What will you give me?”’ asked Jessie. = :

“rll say ‘thank you,’ and let you watch me sail my new boat,” "he answered condescendingly. “That’s not fair,” began Jessie, and mamma broke in:

“I should say not! If Jessie is to darn your stockings, there must be tit for tat. Now listen to my plan for the winter, which, understand,” and mamma shook her finger warningly, “must be followed rigidly. From to-day I organize a ‘Tit for Tat’ society. Jessie, I know, will agree to darn your week's supply of stockings, in return for which, every Wednesday and Saturday you must play bootblack. If you fail to polish her shoes on those days you will be forced to carry the holes in your stockings over till the next week; and if Jessie fails to see that you are properly provided, the boots will go unpolished. Now, all in favor of my plan say ‘Ay.” : “Ay, ay,” they both cried, and it was adopted at once. - : 1f the boys and girls would like to know how it worked, let them try it and see. » United Ages of Fourteen Burials. " The united ages of the last 14 residents of Goldanger, Essex, England, whose names appear on the burial registry, total 1,105 years. The ages 78, 79, 76, 67 and 86. Before those entries 16 months passed without a S e b e 2 e e SRS S Re R w e R

such as sitting up, shaking nands, rolling over, begging, playing . dead, and all that. Indeed, they are so easy that “Cap” doesn’t care- much for them. He is an ambitious dog, and goes in for miore serious things. - His chief delight is buying the paper. He'is an early riser, and every morning he fidgets and whines about until his master gets up and gives him two pennies, wrapped up in paper, with whieh to get the newspaper. 2 “Cap” wags his tail happily when he starts out, with the m@ney'in his mouth, for Edward Everett square, which is not far off, for he knows he will find a newsboy at the square, and that the boy will sell him a paper. If the boy is busy “Cap” waits his turn. Then he thrusts his nose up toward the boy, and opens his mouth. The newsboy takes out the little package, and opens it. “Cap” watches him anxiously when he takes out the money. e :

On getting his paper -he starts straight home. All the dogs in Boston could not divert him from his path of duty. But “Cap” is cautious, and if he sees trouble coming his way he makes a detour. He is suspicious of strangers until he has satisfied himself that they have no designs on his paper, and takes the- middle of the street when he sees anyone approaching he thinks he cannot- trust. .

When “Cap” gets home, and his ‘master’s paper has been delivered, he is a very merry dog indeed. The serious business of the day has been dispatched, and he feels happy and re lieved of responsibility. i 7 He watches the reading of the paper with satisfaction, wagging his tail as if to say: ‘““You wouldn’t have that if it were not for me.” : : It would take considerable money to buy “Cap.” : ;

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Then request the loan of a quarter and have it marked. - Exhibit this marked coin in the right hand (the left being underneath the handkerchief), and as the fingers of that hand (right) pass beneath the folds it nips and carries with it the corner of the handkerchief containing the hidden coin up -and underneath to the center of the handkerchief, where it can be felt and held by the observer, at the same time palming the marked coin. Request that the holder grasp the handkerchief for security just be-

neath with the Jeft hand. This fis really to prevent any uninvited examination. The performer now takes a position, one corner of the handkerchief in his left hand, the empty glass in his right, in the palm of which is the marked coin, and at the words of “Presto, pass!” or other word of command relaxes the muscles of the right hand; allowing the coin to fall visibly and audibly into the glass, and at the same instant twitching the handkerchief from the fingers of the holder with his left. Glass and coin are then passed for identification. :

SOME RIDDLES.

What part of a household does a half-frozen wren most resemble? The children (chilled wren).. b

What serpent is like a little boy doing his first sum in arithmetic? The adder. : : ; /

What is the difference . between a pair of pants and a pie? You cut the pants first, then make them; you make a ple, then cut it. = , -

What is the first thing a man puts in his garden? His foot. - ; . Who is that lady whose visits nobody wishes, though her mother is welcomed by all parties? : Misfortune. What thing is lengthened by being cut at both ends? ‘A ditch. What burns to keep a secret? Sealing wax. 2

‘Why. does the eye resemble a school ‘master in the act of floggin€? It has the pupil under the' lash.—Boston Herald. : : i

Needn’t Take Off His Hat.

There is just one English nobleman who doesn’t have to take his hat off to King Edward. This is Baron .Forester, whose ancestors in the time of King Henry VIIL were granted-this special privilege because of some .service they performed for the crown. This was a noticeable feature of the king's coronation, but Lord Forester, after wearing his hat for a few moments just to confirm this peculiar privilege of his family, took his hat off like the remainder of the crowd of English, Scottish and Irish noblemen. 4 :

Mischievous Princes. | The sons of Emperor William when they were younger were about as mischievous as any small boys could possibly be. 3 Opening suddenly upon a courtyard was a staircase, at the bottom of which a guard was' stationed. The princes spent nearly one whole afternoon running down these steps and bursting out upon the sentry. Of course, every time a prince came down the guard had to salute. He had the busiest time of his life saluting. E : ety - % L Impossible. - % Monty—Will you love me if I give up'all my bad habits? . Zelia—But how could you expect me to love a perfect stranger?—Royal w”@' ~}" ’ : Q. :,; ( “:f:\::‘:&

REASON FOR WOMEN’S “NERVES™ In Very Many Cases it Is Weakened Kidneys. T _ Mrs. Frank Roseboom, 512 S. Washe ington St., Moscow, Idaho, says: “Ine herited kidney trouNy ble grew steadily AT worse with me untit 3‘7 S so nervous I could e@' ? B not sleep at.night. I (;%—5 = was dizzy and spots AN floated before my : .»’.“4 S eyes. My back and < ;\" A%~ hips ached and every \ " cold settled on my kidneys and made me worse. I have used many different medicines and was discouraged when I beganlwith Doan’s Kidney Pills, but now the symptoms that alarmed me are gone.” Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. THE LIMITATIONS OF THE CLOTH e 7 TR ~ TVe N o 2 , 2B I\ 3 ‘V’% N é’\' o /L§ . x /() = Y L@/ 3 o ! p 4 N - ,_ g \ “ A 0 zf}-’, . > ~ y £ > ”“Ir"-/‘/‘/'/ 7 /"- ‘ A% 7 o/ o Q ‘hﬁykx 2 - - "‘,ﬂd‘u} ~ His Reverence (whose caddie has sneezed at the moment of putting)— You—you—you naughty caddie! TWO CURES OF ECZEMA Baby Had Severe Attack—Grandfather Suffered Torments with It— Owe Recovery- to Cuticura.

“In 1884 my grandson, a babe, had an attack of eczema, and after trying the doctors to the extent of heavy bills and an increase of the disease and suffering, 1 recommended Cuticura and in a few weeks the child was well. He is to-day a strong man and absolutely free from the disease. A few years ago I contracted eczema, and became an intense sufferer. A whole winter passed without once having on shoes, nearly from the knees to the toes being covered with virulent sores. Itried many doctors to no purpose. Then I procured the Cuticura Remedies and found immediate improvement and finalcure. M. W.Laßue, 845 Seventh St., Louisville, Ky., Apr. 23 and May 14, ’07.” OF SUCH STUFF ARE DREAMS. Little Virginia Imagined She Haa e . - “Eated Herself.” : Little Virginia, three years old, brought her mother to her nursery a few nights ago ;with heartbroken wails. - ~ “What is the matter, dearie? Why are you screaming so?” “Mamma, am I all here?” “Certainly you are all here, right in your bed.”

“But, mamma, feel of me, see if I'm all here. Are my feet here and the top of my head, both?” . : . “Cc-tainly, Virginia, every bit of you is here, tucked in your little trundlesbed. Why do you think youw are not?” “T dreamed”—this with another great sob—“l dreamed I was a chocolate stick and I had eated myself.” . AND SHE BELIEVED HIM. After This Who Can Doubt the Power ' -of Love? . George had been away on business for a whole long week, and during ‘that time he had sent Clara ten letters, six letter-cards and 42 picture ‘postcards.. _ ‘Why, then, was there a fouch of ‘coldness in her greeting when he flew to her arms on his return? . . “Dearest,” he whispered, “what is the matter?” : :

“Oh, George,” she said, “you didn’t send a kiss'in your ninth letter.” “My precious,” he- replied, “that night I had steak and onions for dinner, and you wouldn’t have liked a kiss after onions, would you?” - * And, such is the unfathomable power of love, she was satisfied, and nestled to him. : . RAILROAD MAN 5 . - Didn't Like Being Starved. A man running on a railroad has to be in good condition all the time or he is liable to do harm to himself and -others. G - A clear head is necessary to run a locomotive or conduct a train. Even - a railroad man’s appetite and digestion are matters of importance, as the ciear brain and steady hand result from the healthy appetite followed by the proper digestion of food. ““For the past five years,” writes a railroader, “I have been constantly troubled with indigestion. Every doctor . I consulted seemed to want to starve me to death., First I was dieted on warm water and toast until I was almost starved; then, when they would let me eat, the indigestion - would be right back again. : + “Only temporary relief came from remedies, and I tried about all of them I saw advertised. About three months ago a friend advised me to try GrapeNuts food. The very first day I noticed that my appetite was satisfied, which had not been the case before, . that I can remember. : ~ “In a week, I believe, I had more energy mﬂwmm life. I . = had a touch of indigestion since 1 have been eating Grape-Nuts. When g ‘/’“' Soby Sty ‘3?)%"‘ ’:*‘2: