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The Greeks hare still enough courage left to cuss one another.

Thusjter th». Republicans'n the senate are gticking together like brothers on the tariff {fueytftm.

Senate* Jtforgain eays he ds in favor of rpesiuse en# setts about to {prove it by making unwiCltting wiar.

Ib $aa& yet become necessary for Uncle Bam to put up screens against those pesky Spanfsh mosquitoes.

BesflBftfterOMoago aidermien will get a salairy of $1,500 a year It should be rememrtjered that this Is Just their salary

^It is to be regretted that Colonel Wattereon during hto .forfchcomiBg visit to Terre Ziwrte 1b not going-to lecture on Cleveland.

An exchange maJrea the perturbed 'inquiry* "What slhlall we do With the bicycle scorcher?" Well, one of those hard paving bricks is good.

The federal grand jury appears to have been profoundly impressed with Bank Wrecker Johnson's "honest heart" cock and bull story.

Let us hope the report 'is true that this country is about to be honored by a visit from the great patriot fighter of Cuba, General Gomez.

At Madrid a newspaper calls Weyler's campaign in Cuba a "comedy. It anything but a comedy. It is a ridiculous failure, however.

Now Greece and Turkey are going to deal directly with each other. One would suppose that by this time Greece would have enough of that sort of thing.

General Gomez gives it out straight from the shoulder that the Cubans must figure in any negotiations -looking to the sale of the Gem of the Antilles.

Ex-Governor "Wtaiite says Chat intelligence should be the test of fitness for party leadership. Was Colorado acting on this principle when she decided against Waite?

An Indianapolis, bicycle .fanatic, aweary of of the unexciting practice of riding between street pars,, raced'with a Big Four engine, keeping very close to the track. At last (reports he Was in the morgue.

•Nearly all the European nations are adding to their great armaments. It is clearly threjr intention to prepare so thoroughly for the long expected conflict'that it will never come.

It Is thought that Colonel Hamid of Constantinople is just a trifle nervous over the czar's violent asseverations of affection for the Ottoman. The colonel apparently lears that the czar will attempt to embrace him.

Chairman Jones of the Popocratic national oommitrt.ee is becoming somewhat of a wag. He announces with every evidence of seriousness that he will not take any pajrt in the mayoralty campaign in Greater New York this fall.

Al, Spanish newspaper at Havana has served notice that Spain intends to give Uncle Sam a drubbing if he does not watch out. Spain has more than she can do in her attempt to give the Cuban insurgents a drubbing.

If the Spaniards get much Warmer over the attitude of the United States toward Cuba It is extremely likely that somebody else will get his ears boxed in the Spanish eenaie. That is the only form of violence the Spanish have yet adopted toward Uncle Sam.

At dinner parties in Spain the oldest womatf ~ih attendance is seated first. The .other women are seated in the order of their age. Extreme modesty is understood to induce 6ome ,pf the unmarried ones to get into their places,

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Tlrtf Spaniards in Cuba claim that the United States has no regard fbr "Spanish chivalry and honor."' When Spanish chivalry and h6nor take the side of a misnamed war that is only butchery of women and children and starvation of people of peace it must be confessed that the United States entertains for it an immeasurable contempt.

Marquis Ito says Japan would not have Hawaii if it could be had for the asking. Probably not. If it could be had for the asking of course it would not be worth having. Japan could get Hawaii only by fighting for it and the chances are very largely an the side of those who doubt that she couid get the islands even in that way.

By practical experiment a farmer near Duluth, la., has demonstrated that it is dangerous to try to thaw dynamite. The demonstration cost the farmer his house, his own

If not fa£al injury of his wife and a young child.' It was evidently the mail's purpose to lekve no room f#r argumen^ about the matter. •r.

"Billy" Mkson declares that he "does not propose io be ignored." Who has (fared to ignore "Billy?" Surely it moat have been some one who did not observe the summaryand wonderful manner in which the junior senator from Illinois flayed the nations of the earth with our navy "sunk in the sea."

Kansas Populists are fighting over the question of enforcing the liquor law?. This trouble did not begin until there were no more-boodle worlds to conquer

That is a remarkable divorce complaint which Mrs. Alice Miller of Alton^H!., files against her husband, Herbert Miller of the Chicago pubic schools. The plaintiff alleges that when they were married her husband was a tutor at Yale that subsequently he resigned his position and studied two years for a degrfee of Ph.- D., at his wife's expense that later he studied for a considerable time in Europe, all the while spending his wife's money, and that afterward they returned-to the United States and settled at 04kland, Cal.„ where for six years htr educated husband played the part of a deadbeat and consumed what was left of her fortune. Mrs. Miller states that she was even reduced to poverty and was compelled to work out for a living. Now she alleges that her husband has a good Job and is making plenty of money but has cast her off and refuses to support her. If the allegations of the, plaintiff are true Herbert Miller is a certajn doctor of philosophy that ought to be hamstrung.

SMASH THE SINECURES.

It is reported that Governor Mount proposes to go to the limit of his power in reducing the cost of the penal and benevolent1 institutions of the state. An investigation of the payrolls of these institutions will no doubt reveal facts that stand in need of correction. There are very likely some sinecures connected with this branch of the public service and every one of them should be smashed. These times are not so hard as some people make out, and signs of improvement are by no means absent, but the condition of business is such that the people cannot afford to pay out a dollar that is not earned by the person receiving it. Upon such a basis as is here suggested the entire service of the public should rest at all times but there are peculiar reasons why it should be insisted upon now.

It is one of the advantages of these stringent times fhat we are getting down to a safe and sound business basis. The people of the United States have learned valuable lessons from their trying experiences of- the past four years. They have learned the virtue of conservative methods. Many a spendthrift has been stranded and many a reckless speculator has come to grief. Busi-. ness enterprises built upon hollow sljeflst have advertised their internal and frightful weakness by utter collapse. There has been a prudent trimming down of sails within the limits of reason and safety. Economy is being practiced where it was never practiced before. Frugality, with its numerous attending blessings, is common even among men who before knew little of it. The business of the country is no longer honeycombed with the treacherous cavities of extravagance and speculation. Men are living within their incomes and planning their industrial and commercial undertakings according to the dictates of painstaking calculation.

With all its evils, therefore, the panic has not been an unmixed disaster. It has taught us much. It has tested and toughened our fibers. We shall be much the stronger for the trials we have known. Gradually prosperity is returning. Many indisputable facts proclaim it. Before the election the gold reserve was again at the limit and furfher issues of bonds were in sight. Now the reserve is $145,000,000, notwithstanding the recent heavy drain to Europe. Bank clearances are growing. They are larger now than they have been at any time within the past year or more. Pig iron production is rapidly expanding and the railroads are increasing their earnings as each day passes. These tests and many others show that the tendency since the last election has been in the right direction and that it is in the right direction now.

Nevertheless, the present is an excellent time to cut down public expenses and whatever Governor Mount can do in this line will be approved and appreciated by the people of Indiana.

The sharp difference of opinion in the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church over the ownership of the very valuable property in New York City was indicative of a revolt against the present administration of Home Mission affairs of the church. Within the past few years several state synods have established synodical hoa»e mission departments and no longer send their collections to the New York boar J. Dr. Kane of Bloomington, 111., who took part in 'he liveiy discussion has been an efi.rive leader in de synodical mission movem'iat. He began advocating the policy some years ago while he was located at Lafayette and Indiana was one of the first states to adopt It. Dr. Roberts, the secretary of the national Board of Home Missions, strenuously opposed ibe movement and opposed granting permission to the synods to withdraw from the national board. There was a good deal of acrimonious correspondence at the time and Dr. Roberts was accused of having made misrepresentations.

The states in which syno ca! missions have been in opera!ion have shown a vyst improvement over the old condition. The complaint was that Dr. Rober:s was creating a big headquarters in New York fp.d was not in touch with the mission work. While the general assembly did not vote to sell the New York propr-y it did put restraints on the Board of Home Missions and curtailed Dr.' Roberts' expense account.

At one stage of the discussion there was an outcropping of the sentiment in some of the Western states against Dr. Roberts.: A commission^ from 3*t. Vexnon, III., male the charge that Dr. Roberts was receiving two salaries, one from the board anl one fro.n p^vate sources. 'At once there was cot,mo-

tion in the assembly. The statement was denounced as an outrageous attack on the flpctor. A commissioner leaned over to Dr. Roberts and asked him a question. Immediately

the live* of his two sons and the tenons he made denial of the charge and waaied to

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know what manner of man it could be who would thus assail-the good doctor. Th.i Mi. Vernon-preacher was thoroughly knocked ou^and could only say that be had oceJl informed that such was the fact. Happily he was not expelled- from the church there and then. Later on Dr. Roberts said that when he was at. Lake Forest he was aaked to return to the position as secretary o: the board but he told Mr. Kennedy—the man who has been accommodating the churchwith hundreds of thousands of dolalrs in the hours of its needs, and the home ivtas'cn board running behind as it has been his had many of these hours—that he could not surrender $7,000 a year to accept the So,000 salary of the secretaryship. Mr. Kennedy said to him that though the secretaryship paid only $5,000 he would lose nothing by giving-up his $7,000 place at Lake Forest. And, said the doctor, Mr. Kennedy has made him presents of -money, but forbi-l the thought that he, Dr. Rbbarts, would accept two salaries as charged by I he Mt. Vernon brother. 1

There has been nothing like "ft since Superintendent Charlton of the reform, school was under investigation. Otto Heinl of th'-s city said that some yeans ago while he was at the institution boys were cruelly flogged and that Superintendent Charlton did not know o£?IL at the time. It will be recalled that there was a great cry of indignation: and the state board of charities in the remarks of its members to Indiiuapolis reporters, they seemed to think that Heinl deserved capital punishment. At th& Investigation Heinl repeated his story. Then Charlton had the floor. There had bjan surh a house father as the One described by Huml but he was discharged for immorality. Then the superintendent said .he had discharged "scores of men" for violating the rule requiring permits for administering punishment That there was one such violation was all that Heinl charged. That some one outside of the Board of Home Missions was paying Dr. Roberts money was all that the Mt. Vernon peracher had said. The gen? eral assembly accepted Dr. Roberts' statement as full refutation of the charge and thd state board of charities took Charlton's statement in the same manner. Mr. Charlton and the state board said there had been an evolution in the punishment policy but still Heinl was a base creature for making the charge which, when first made, was denounced as false in every particular. The general assembly said it would change the whole policy of administration of the-affairs of home missions but the accusation against Dr. Roberts was wholly baseless and for that reason all th^ was said In that connection was ordered stricken from the minutes.

First Asisstant Postmaster General Heath has informed the postmaster at Bloomington 111., that all the employes of the office who were removed in 1893 and who are .honorably discharged soldiers, may be reinstated in* the positions they formally held without regard to the requirements Of the civil service law. Four carriers and two clerks will be reinstated under this ruling. The Bloomington postmaster went into office in May, 1893, and removed the carriers and clerks despite the civil service' law and somehow managed to have his act upheld at Washington.

Some of the newspapers seem to be determined to bring Eugene Debs into ridicule and disrepute, though misrepresentation is resorted to In carrying out this purpose. The Chicago story of a marching army of 100,000' and the holding of meetings of the idle men in Chicago is a clear case of mlsrepresentainftuenee to prevent the holding of public meetings of the unemployed in Chicago, because there is no telling =how much trouble might result from such meetings.

Some newspapers, and a considerable number of men of high standing in their sections of the country, have'taken up thf, consideration of the proposed state co-oper-. atiVe commonwealth scheme1 as possibly a practicable solution of industrial depression, At least they are in favor of giving it a fair trial. The Chicago Record is one of these papers. It says: "It is with natural interest that students of Industrial and economic problems will regard the serious and comprehensive plan for1 a co-operative commonwealth now outlined by an organization known as the Brotherhood of the Co-Operative Commonwealth. The plan differs from previous projects of the soft in several Important particulars. "It is, in the first place, far more extensive in the scope of its operations. Hitherto a satisfactory test of co-operation on a very large scale has been rendered practically impossible because the authors of thei experiment have had to defer more or less to the conditions imposed by circumstances, and environment. The co-operative colonies and communities which have been undertaken have sometimes managed to maintain a healthy and independent existence, but sooner or later they were forced in one way or another to adjust themselves somewhat to the environment of the vast majority of people surrounding them. Their life Was necessarily insular and limited to a degree. To attempt to live the larger life of the world, even in a merely social way, was to? break down the barriers which the necessities of thedr system placed around their community. "The new project, as indicated by Eugene V. Debs and others interested iu the movement, proposes a more decisive test by establishing not a community but an entire state whose laws shall be based on co-opera-tive principles. The aim is to win 'the supnort of the co-operative principle at the polls, and through the state legislature introduce a complete co-operative system. Certainly such a plan, if carried out, would put the theory of co-operation to a more practical test than It has yet known. The first difficulty will be that of securing political control of a state, but some of the Western and Southwestern states are nowadays quickly swayed by prospects of a change, and perhaps this part of the plan Is not chimerical as it looks. At the least, the principle of co-operation has commended Itself to many economists, and a serious attempt to establish it as a part of the industrial system of the country is bound to b6 watched with interest by all classes."

THE CYCLISTS PROTEST.

Complaint of the Streets Being SpTlmkled Before 10 P. M. The cyrlists of this city are up In arms against the manner in which the streets of 'this city are constantly being kept soaked with water. The practice has become so general that It has become dangerous for cyclists to travel the crowded thoroughfares. The complaint has not been very general until recently for heretofore the sprinkling has been done largely during the day when the sun and wind dry the streets quickly. But as th« case now stands the streets are being sprinkled earl# in the evening and do not dry off. tt is claimed since t£is sprinkling has been going on more accidents to cyclists have happened than at any other time since bicycling came Into general use. A prominent cyclist in speaking about the condition, said "The streets should not be allowed to be sprinkled until after 10 o'clock at night This would give all who care an opportunity to take. & spin after dark and would net make the undertaking so dangerous. We have not sb many paved streets that they cannot be swept after 10 o'clock."

TEMPLE ISRAEL.

The Musical Programme to Be Given at the Service TOnight. The mflsical programme to be rendered at the service at Temple Israel tonight is as follows Organ Solo—"The prophet" 'ft*'?

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Miss SchwedeS.

Quartette—"God Is a Spirit" ........ Bennirtt Temple Quartette. Duett—"The Evening Prayer" ...

Miss Haurk and Mr. Davis.

Solo—"The Everlasting H51!s" XpviD

WHEN STUDENTS DON'T KNOW.

.gome of the Queer Answers TberHAe In Examination "Psjiers. Medical students in tbethroes of examination time or entering upontbe anxious period preoeding their appearance before examiners who are to decide their fitness for graduation are tsftenvfcry nervous, and many ludicrous slips -axe made-in answering questions propounded by the examiners.

Some of these mistakes may be appreoi-' ated only by the questioners or those familiar with technical details of the subjects with which the questions deal. Others, however, may be appreciated by the layman,'as the answer of a student that "music" is secreted by certain glands in the throat. He mecrat no doubt to-say mnous, butmany'will think be was not far from wrong,especially in regard to some throats. "To strain the blood5' is a ooramon answer to the question concerning the funcel iv a 1

One young man iti the dotirse of esatriination, in answer to a question as to what* disease the liver is most liable, wrote "liver complaint"

Usually it is the freebtnen in medioal studies who make the most serious blunders in their answers. They are unaccustomed to the mode of examination and for the nonce lose self possession if they are not actually ignorant of the properanswer. Bather than make a complete "flunk" some answer is written doren and "this gives the examiner relief from the monotony of looking over endless papers.

Give an outlineof bow the bony framework of the body is built up and name some of the more important bqnes?" was the question pnt to a student. "The bony framework of the body is built up to protect the vital organs," was the comprehensive answer. Then he added, "Some of the more important bones are skull, back, shoulder, hip and collar bones."

A more advanced student returned from examination of a baby patient and reported that the little tne was "emancipated." When asked what was meant by that term, he replied in Bowery parlance, "The baby is a 'tin ting' (thin thing)." The patient dh^ of look of nourishment, or inanition, and the report of the would be medico was that the cause of death was "ammunition."

What are the office and use of the brain in itbe human anatomy and to what diseases is it most liable?" was a double barrelled question propounded by an examiner. The terse answer of the student was:

Seat, of' intelligence* Apoplexy, fever.'' A question in an examination on. materia medicawas, "What is an alterative?" Ahnost'laoonicwas thean8wer— 'a change for the better." "A change produced with aid of chemicals?1 was the answer totbequestion, "Define a ohemical change?'' Define the term decomposition?" was aaked a student in chemistry, and he replied, "In state of decay."

Containing iron and Bulpbur" was tho strange answer a professor received to his questionhat is an antipyretic?" or a drug to allay ieypr.

One bright youth was asked what he would do if he was called to see a patient who was surer to die. "I'd turn the case over to another physician,'' was the ready response.—Baltimore Sun.

A Waste of Money.

The worst of the western horse is that he -has practically to be broken over again every springy In the autumn, when his work is done, he is turned out on the range to shift fete" himself till the spring grass has made him fat and strong. He is tlKSh caught up and ridden. It is ten to one that he bucks. In fact, many horses do so every time they are ridden on fitst starting. This is an honest affair, however. The worst kind are those-who wait till thay can catch you napping. I well remember one of this sort, whom we called Everlasting, whose favorite time was when: you were lighting your pipe after a hard ride on your way home.

There was a horse, too, belonging to the brothers Rtiss, who had the reputation of being the mojt vicious animal in the country. One of the brothers would ride him sometimes as an exhibition, and a fine sample of horsemanship it was. But the other brother rode by his side with a loaded revolver, for his charming mount had onoe unshipped his rider and pounded him to death with his fore feet.

This reminds me of what happened to a large cattle owner who was noted for his parsimony. Orice he was thrown and dragged. His case seemed hopeless. One of his men galloped alongside to shoot the horse as a last resource. Just at that moment old "Two Dot" "Wilson—for so he was nicfenamcd-from his brand—got his foot loose. He looked up and caught sight of the pointed pistol. "What were you going to do?" he asked excitedly. "To shoot yonr horse." "What! Shoot that horse? Why, he cost me five and twenty dollars I" It seemed as if with old "Two Dot" money was indeed dearer than life. —Field.

Judge Grant at Harvard.

As regards the cost of living, I spent just $1,000 a year during the first two years and a little more the last two. I should say that $1,300 would cover the cost of my senior year, without including my share of my spread. I sent my bills for tuition, rent, board and clothes, all my bills, in fact, to my father and was allowed $15 per month pocket money. I lived comfortably on this, bought a few books end was a member of the Dicky and tbe A. D. club. There were a number of them in my class who spent more, but I doubt if any oae much exceeded $0,000 a year. Scarcely any one kept a horse, and very few of the students went to t'vaning parties in Boston. For a freshman or sophomore to go was an unusual tbing.

On tbe other hand, there was considerable simple social gayety in Cambridge. Assemblies were held in Lycetun hall, under the management of the students, and small parties wore given by the parents of tbe Cambridge young ladies. Tbe piping query, "Going to wear a dress suit tonight?" oalled up from the yard to a man in his room, was a familiar soumi in my dcy aBd shows that wo were still simple •puis.—Judge Robert Grant in Scribner's.

A Novel Souvenir of Travels. A satisfactory, way of making up an artistic gift booklet of tho scenery viewed in one's travels is by means of photographs. They may be neatly pasted on heavy paper of a creamy tint. To embellish tho book the photographs might be surrounded with a decoration of l«ves and Sowers drawn either in pen and ink ©r wash. The leaflets may be fastened together by means of narrow ribbon passed through holes neade for the purpose and tied together with a bowknot.—Ladies' Home Journal.

Mothers, Save the Babies.

.Summer complaint, dysentery and diarrhoea carry many babies to the grave. Mothers, take warning and uae in time Dr. John W. Bull's Baby Syrup to regulate the bowels and allay inftanfiiiation. "We have used Dr. Bull's Baby Syrnp for thirteen years with thp best result. We would as soon be without flour or sug&r in the house as this remedy. A. X. Bnrgess, Grove, Ohio." Ask your dealer for Dr. John W. Bull's Baby Syrup. Price 2o cts.

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WHEN THE TIDE IS COMING IN..

Somehow, love, oar boa* sails lighter, Smoother, faster, on the bay: Somehow, love, the sun shines brighter,

Softer, warmer, through the spray Somehow, love, the sky is clearer,....... Ood 'aad man soma nearer kin c. j. Somehow, even yo* are dearer

When tfift-tido is 'coining in

Tis the^BpriEg of ltfe, unending, At the source of motion, dear. Ti» the stream of hope ascending

From the depths of ocean, dear. Tis the heart of nature beating Where the throbs of life begin f". Earth and heaven gladly meetisgp

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When the tide is coming in. 'f'"

Somehow, love, your eyes are brighter, Softer, warmer, through the spray, And yottr laughter ripples lighter

O'er the whitec&ps on the bay. In oar path no tinge of sadness, In enr wake no shade of sin. For our hearts are filled with gladness

When the tide is coming in. —jtfinneapolia Journal.

THE GREAT GLACIER.

Zt Klses From the Alaskan Waters Like a Sapphire Ray of- Frozen Beauty. We were awakened early one morning by a booming noise, as though cannons were being fired at some distant point, As I looked out the window of my stateroom I found that we bad anchored but a short distance from the Muir glacier and that the booming as of artillery was but tbe breaking aV^ay of huge masses of ice from the frozen wall,that sferetofaed itself before us for over a mile and rose to a height of 260 feet. We went ashore in small boats so that we could explore the "frozen Niagara."

This glacier is named for Professor John Muir, the Pacific coast geologist, who in 1679 explored it and so opened the way for thousands to visit it in safety. For some years new during the summer season tbe steamers always go to Glacier bay.

It is impossible to describe this frozen wonder that through tbe centuries has been pressing seaward. No words can give one an idea of the grand spectacle. The scene is one that loan never forget No human habitation was in sight no canoes glided oyer the water, but only masses of ice could be seen on nveary side, while before us rose this great frozen wall, with spires and pinnacles of ghostly white and richest blue flashing in the sunlight like some vast cathedral. In my wanderings in Switzerland I have seen nothing to equal this great Alaskan glacier, at whose feet serge the blue waters of the hay, while beyond Fair Weather peak rears its snowy crest. One thinks not of figures' when one is drinking in tie marvelous beauty of tbis glorious ice world, though some matter of fact person at my elbow says it extends back 40 miles, and all of it has not yet been explored.

As. we steamed away I watched with eager eyes to catch the last glimpse of this "tempestuous loveliness." I will always carry with me a picture of a sapphire bay, dotted with counties icebergs, that looked like fairy castles. lit the distance was a gleaming wall of ice, while far beyond the snow capped ranges stood- guard over the scene. Ever and anon weoonMnucd to hear the booming sound as great masses of ice crashed down into the water and "set the wild echoes flying." Finally it was lost to view, so I utrned away reluctantly and paced the deck alone, not caring to be aroused too suddenly from this dream by everyday sights and scenes and faces.

To those who are worn out with the cares of life, and who long for a place where they can enjoy nature at her best and yet be comparatively free from physical exertion, I should advise the inland passage to Alaska, where one glides over placid waters dotted with lovely islands and constantly in sight of mountains covered with perpetual snow.—Cor. Atlanta Journal. Vj

First Impressions of the Vatican. The ordinary tourist first sees the Vatican from the square as he approaches from the bridge* of Sant' Angelo.. But his attention is from the first drawn to the front of the church, and he but vaguely realizes that a lofty, unsymmetrical building rises on his right. He pauses perhaps and looks in that direction as he ascends the long, low steps of the basilica, and wonders in what part of the palace the pope's apartments may be, while the itinerant vender of photographs shakes yards of poor little views out of their gaudy red bindings, very much as Leporello unroils the list of Don Giovanni's conquests. If the picture peddler dees that the stranger glances up at the Vatican, he forthwith points out the corner windows of the second story, and informs his victim that sua santira inhabits those rooms and promptly offers photographs of any other part of the Vatican thah that. The tourist looks up curiously and finally gets rid of the vender by buying what he does not want, with the charitable intention of giving it to some dear but tiresome relative at home. And ever afterward perhaps he associates with his first impression of the Vatican the eager, cunning, scapegrace features of the man who sold him the photographs.—F. Marion Crawford in Century.

A Dreadful Contingency.

"Your money, and quick, too!" said the tall burglar. "For goodness sake, don't make so much noise,'' hissed the unhappy householder as he sat up in bed. "Why not?" "You'll wake the baby."

The short burglar laughed brutally. He had. heard the old gag when he wbe ohild at his. mother's knee.

Wot if we do wake tee baby?" said the tall burglar. "If the baby cries," groaned the unhappy victim, "it will sour the temper of my wife's pet dog, and then there'll bo hades to pay."

With a glance of deep commiseration, the burglars softly stole away.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

A Coat of Taint.

A judicious use of paint will transom many a seemingly hopeless article. A retearkably ugly lamp was made in*t a thing of beauty by three coats of orange enamel paint applied to the porcelain vase. The metal stand was treaced to a coat of the black paint which comes for bent ironwork, and the whole was completed by a shade of orange crape paper. For such work one should get the English enamel paint# which come in a great variety of colors and give a surface as smooth as glass.

When a Man's Old.

When a man becomes old and his eye» fail him to that extent that he can no longer see the grease spots on his olothes, they al9o beoeme invisible to the members of his household. No one brushes an oKt man's clothes or takes pride in his personal appearance. It is disagreeable to grow old, no matter what your sex. But it ia worse if you area man.—Atehtoen Globe.

Cigarette smoking in England data? wt to 1844. Tbe great impetus to its increased use was caused by the Crimean war of 1854-6, when numbers «f military and naval officers adapted this method of smoking from the inhabitants of Bussia, Turkey, Malta, the Levant and other p*ru of Braepe. .J

For many years Sir John Millois' lowest price for a half length of life size was |5,000. Millais made a grea^ «f ii*aaey, and he did not waste- it. «^?t.

Let our lives be as pure as the snowfields, where Qjta

A$EI€E TfiASSSTIM.

Mr. Jasaa. Johnson wat as£ undeniably bared, tt vm really tbe oc!y way ope» for his betog Bi»0» fiHrtrtfri., aad he realised that he bad tmtetaS &cr aioag Its monotonous paths.

His gatre wmndsreef awaBd tfe* weflfe crT his splendid Ittmy. «a£ b» s$ghM$ a» bm recalled tbe iatareok ht bma c90 taSSo in colleofcing those femSHar voSnzoat, a8& the fine pictures, hrlo-a-hr» and tftetOOf Bouves&s oi bis ftneign ifiji1iii iTii

Five ywxs befcxe hit ekhnjtoNecome to pxeside ovar hcraat&d& and him. She brought wiCi her a yotma gi?\ whose dead me&er had baea bo? friend, and fer whose sake aha&d afetar» taken the case and g&Brdi&xs&p child, who had beao th6 fitmtidfce ifssj comfort of her life—alongwith Pwftdtto* and Jason. 2sdeed, it seemed tfoxrt-oi' tfe^se three it was Margaret Bright who tssutrlly ordered the a^fahv, donwtle and aoodal, Us tho establishment.

The master at the home was persistently endeavoring to discover why hie life had become so uninteresting that no amount of variety seemed to impart spice thereto.

He drove and derived physical benefit from the air and the management of his horses. But be conld not soy he found pleasure in the pastime. He played pool every evening because Tiis phyfdoJan advised it, but be played" with the demeanor of a martyr who does his special sort of martyrdom particularly weli. Occasionally he lectured before some literary society. He talked anything, from law to athletics, with the coilcge youths who paicl frequent visits to bis brownstone mansion, when Margaret was at home. a winter he went south. In summer the Adirondack? err tbe Canadian forests yielded fish or game to his rod or gun. Btit of late he was obliged to confess that bo was weary of these sports, and he did not consider ic worth while to visit India and try tiger shooting as a hist resource. So he bitterly reflected that he must have reached that time when some men discover, that they are "no longer so young as they were."

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entrance of his sister Delia and her word. "Your sister has been telling me thafiyou did not live here,when you were a boy and that you were not always wealthy. I wish you to tell me about it," concluded, this impetuous young woman. "I was very poor and ambitious and— happy," he said, with an odd little emila^i. as though he were joking instead of uttering the solemn and amazing truth. Perhaps you would not care to hear of the struggle andi the results." (Again that queer flickering smile, and the very serious expression of the eyes seemed to contradict each other and puzzled the girl, who was watching his face). "But after I was graduated in law E" found that I possessed just 810.' After a tedious time I possessed 50 cents. I went?. to a prominent businessman and told him I must have something to do. He might". have given me a place as porter, but ho gave me a less certain thing—a bad bill to. collect. I called on the debtor. He was* polite but unresponsive. I called again. He was suave, but, so far as yielding to my&, demands, as immovable as Gibraltar, lpyf met him when he came from breakfast,^® and I always visited him when he returnee from lunch. Ho became indignant, but" was unremittingly persistent, and at last) he gave me a bad debt, promising to settle^, my claim if I could collect his money. "I was discouraged, but by a plan simi-A^, lar to the one I had long rehearsed, Imada^., myself so annoying that to be rid of m%, the man somehow got the money and paidme, I enjoyed a good dinner myself tbat day and since then have never wanted any ... necessity. That, my Meg, was not th* kind of story you were expecting, was it:

Margaret did not answer, for the mai announced a visitor and she passed in the drawing room, where young Mr. Phili Warren was waiting. Jason Johnson rosi and went to a bookcase and examined sev eral old volumes. He dusted them. care-£ fully and replaced them tenderly—Chey,| were the first he had ever been able to puf-?fi chase, and to him they represented much, k"Jason," said his sister, "Isxiapect thatf--. there is something serious between our littie girl and this Mr. Warren. Don't you. think him a fine young man and worthy our approval? I won't say that any one is worthy of Margaret," she added jealously.

Mr. Johnson dusted another of histreasures, and there was some moisture in hm eyes, as was only natural, maybe. "Yes, Delia, I think you aro correct in your bus- ,5 picions. I have watched them occasionally, and I feel certain that Philip is interested, and I am afraid, oh, Imean, I bo-' lieve he is a persotitowhom we could offer: no objections except that he is very young."

Mies Delia did not observe her brother suddenly color like a schoolgirl, as he care-~ fully returned the book—upside down, however—to its place. He was very pale when he returned to his chair, but she loft| the library without observing that either,?

Presently Margaret returned and stood facing him and looking greatly disturbed. "What is it, Meggie? Are you—that is— it seems to me, he left rathi|i early"— "Yes, I sent him away. He asked me to marry him, and I am sorry he did. Somehow 1 never realized before bow a man hlie hint is dependent upon others, but tonight I thought if be were thrown, on his own resources, as ycu vrsra ci»e ,, ho would never surmount pU cci-s-cles. I am sure he is not arror.g c-avjpyh. And while be was speaking, he &o like a toy, so very young''— & "Oh, Meg,' cried J^son J«hescn. "iio yeu think me so very old?"

Margaret Bright vf&s looking cfiwc-Iy into his eyes, and I have often- heard thr.t there is magnetism in a glance. j^ov»e. that may be, I know he drew her to fcira and held her dose to hi* Iraagry heart And in that new and great happiness found complete oompenflafckaife* the many dreary, empty days ib»s pftefc.—Ciacinnaa Post.

Mrs. Bigwad—It mast be terribly embarrassing to be as poor as they aee. They never give anything to charity.

Mr. Bigwad—But we don't either, Mrs. Bigwad—WeD, they catrr'fe say that It is because wo haven't got it tc give.--

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