[i I i ~ i lal [ ii IIIIlI~[IIHI iiii ..... I IN I ] I I I i i ill I
J'hey say the wor'd is growing worse,
don't b~
[ dieve it. though;
They say men worshi, but the purse,
I don't beheve it, though;
They say'that greatz~es~ is no more.,
That all the wi~e have gone before
And on!y trouole is in store-
I don t believe it, though.
riley ~¢v there are no saints to-day,
I clont l~elieve it, though;
They ~ay we tread a downward way,
I don't believe it. tlm~Igh:
"rh~ say there's only gloom ahead.
"~y sa~' that all the Knights are de.~d•
They say men's sweetest j~ys are fled~
I don't believe it. though.
~Ien had tlmir tro,~d,'~.~ 'on~ s-o. -
And thats what I believe:
The J~ord still loves uq here below. "
And that's what I helieve:
Old Homer. of the sighUess eves.
_And Caesar lie 'neath other skie~,
]]ut srreater men than they will rise,
And that's what I believe.
Th~ world ~rows fa;rer day by day,
And that's what I believe:
The good l.ave not all na~ed away,
~nd thaCs what [ believe:
".~hoae'tl many a one we loved is gone.
Feral hearts'and true are beatin~ on[
, The happiest days are still to dawn,
And that's what f behev~.
--S. E. Kiser. in Chicago Times-Ilerald.
{ A WELCOME CYCLONE
HELEN M• WINSLOW•
~"T-~ aM an,l I had been engaged
I fiye before he was in
yetlrs,
a position tot. marry. Even
"~ tll~L my fanlll~ had said he
was not. since' he had nothing b~t the
qtmrter-seclion he had taken up In
Iowa, and only a "miserable hovel."
as they C~lled the little one-story
ltouse whleh must be our first home.
But five years is a long tin/e to wait.
when two hearts are "as Impatiently
loving as om's were. And besides. I
argue~L what sot~ of love would mine
~,• If i would not go with Tom until
he had a mansion to put me IntO? And
so. in spite of everything, Tom; had
come East for me, and we were mar-
ried,
We were very happy. If did not
seem to me that two mortals could
be so happy on earth as we two were
foe that first year. The house, it is
true. was vet)' small, with only two
rooms below and a loft above; but I
had brought my old books and lilt-
turns, with the few new ones that had
been given ns when we were married.
and after we had papered our tiny
house• with our own hands• and put
down ttm bright wool earlmt in the
front room. we felt more proud of our
little home than ~we have ever l~en
of any other ~ince. even the showy
hon~a we occupied in WaShington last
win,el
And. indeed, it was far beyoud any-
$hing else on the prairies in the shape
of a house, for many a mlle. Our
nearest neighbors were nearly a mile
away, so tha't we were obliged to de-
pend entirely on each other fro' cam-
" party: but we were so absurdly in love
that neRher of us minded that: on lhe
contrary, it w0nld have been a great
trial to either of us had tlmre been
neighbors to ¢~me dropping ih upon
our cosy ~ete-a-tetes as we sat just out-
side our door on those first summer
evenings.
But- young folks can't always be
yotmg folks, aud Tom and L fond as
we are of each other~ can never be so
romantically haPpY again as we were
daring those first two years. Tom
wag so strong and manly, so patient
and tender and loving. If any one
had told me that Tom would ever be-
come a great statesman. I should have
laughed in his face: but I should also
have believed him,. because I always
kanew that Tom had the real Stuff in
hi~a. and could do or be anything he
chose.
Did we ueverjhave a tiff? Alas!
there was one. tl~ank Heaven: but one.
|rig me slSrtng to meet him evetT time
h@ eame. in: he was happy and con-
tented in the fact that I was always
tl~ere: but I STew foolish. As time
grew accustomed to
ways. he
~o meet. H~ ~w worried, a~
Like some otlmr young
and ~ab-
fell abort:
not
fell OUt
anxious t~mr
in the fields In
, when 1
present
his Joy at l~a~in8
witl| II,~.se,,, ,lays when
to he, 'I'
of the and our life t~.
lii~l" 1 psi" UIy tllou~ilt~
haunttM
~had not
d, and said:
catch me iU his arms and fold me
close to him. And 1. now that my llI-
temper had been given rein. thought
only of the curt refusal he had given
to my reqoest, ant remembering how
quickly he had softened to me when
I showed him that I ~xms hurt.
After a little l took his COat and
sat down to mend it. Something fell
out of the inside pocket--a letter. I
picked it up. It was a woman's hand-
writing, and notmtneI
Something whispered:
"It is not yours. Put it badk. Trust
him. and he will re31 you about It in
good time,"
~mething else whispered:
"Read it. If he is false to you. you
want to know it--the sooner the' bet-
ter."
I tore it wildly open and read:
"?ly Darling Tom--How glad 1 am
to say 1 can see you again. Meet me
at Gaff's. Station. on tile 20th, at the
6.2D train. I know you will be as glad
to see me as I to see yon. dear boy!
Untl] then. I am vo~r loving
T~'~N' t,' "
| was st ruck dutnb. Something
seemed to be choking me. to be grip-
ping my very Imart. I thought I was
going to die then and there.
"Teenier' I had nev£r heard of her.
Whom was this woman whom Tom
was going to meat? Aud why ha~l he
not tohl me? Oh! I saw It all. I
knew why 1 must not go to the station
with hhn. To-day was the :,qlth. To-
flight he was tO nleet "'Tel, ale." Very
well. He shoutd have his house .in
which to reeeti'e her then.
I verily L~elleve I was insane as 1
rose and made preparations to leave
the little house which for two years
had been paradise to me.' Toni bad
two hundred dollars In one of our bu-
reau drawers~money I had iwlped
him to save by close and pim.hiug
economy that sgmmer, towards paying
the only mile tlmt lie had out against
him. I took the money and hid It in
my bosom. Then 1 wrote a note afiil
left it on the table--plvclsely as other
women have done %vh~n about to
wreck theh' happiness in a fit of Jeal-
ous anger.
"Dear Tom" (l sahlt--"Thore isn't
room in so small a houHe for you and
me--and "Teenle.' 1 have taken the
money to go home" with. bnt will send
it back to. you as soon as 1 get there."
That was all. Nol even a good-by,
[ was so angry.
Then I started on foot, I could take
a train at six o'clock, preeisoly, for the
East, It was now three o'clock, and
the distance was seven l~tles. I Was
a good walker in those days, and
cotfld~ I thought, easily make it. Oh.
how miserable I was. as I plodded
along that hatnl, dusty road! How ohl
and worn I felt. aml how anxious to
get to my nmther, where I could die
In peace!
Oi~iy once did it occur to me tlmt
Tom would come in. by and by, from
his work. and find ~my note: that he
might be In despair; tim, his heart
would be broken, and be woutd hurry
after ~e to bring me lmck. But.
pshaw! This was foolishness. I laid
ula~self. He would be glad to go and
meet his "Teenie7 and have her to
himself. How I could have been so
wicked [ ealmot tmderstand. My good
and noble T~m: I am sure I was tem-
porarily In~ne. "
The sun grew very hot and I found
It mueh harder to walk that seven
miles than I lind anticipated. Bat I
would not gi~e,~,, up, It Was prolmbly
aI~nt five o'clock, and I had some two
miles to go. when; lCmking up, I saw
ea
'No,' he ~nswer~l promptly, Then,
have business over
I dhl not Icnow what it meant; but I
wa~ frightened; nevertheless, and
looked for simiter. I lind left the pral-
t'ie moW, and was on a road which
skirted a ravine, wlhl and rugged. To-
wards that t ran,'as there was not
a house in sight. My terror knew no
l~mnds." I cried. I sereamed, I shrieked
for ~'l~om. It was. of course, utterly
rattling down the ravine. Two horses
frantle with terror, with a wagon--
our wagon--fell at the bottom, and
scrambled to their fact.while Tom him-
self was thrown directly at my feet.
as if in direct answer re my prayer.
Bnt he did not stir: his face was pale
as death, and his eyes closed.
- In that moment all my petty Jeal-
onsy vanished, amt I threw my arms
about him. trying to lift him from the
ground. IIe was like a log. and I be-
lieved lain dead. Then I fahited again.
~Vlten I returned to eonscionsness once
more the storm lind passed, leaving
tim skies an blue us eve,'; but desola-
tion was on every side. Tom was
bending over me. his face full of love
and grief and anxiety. He had been
stunned and bruised, but not severely
hurt.
I ne, d not umlertake to tell you
"our convernaiion, i ronlember it per-
fectly, but it is sac/'ed to both of us,
even now. ohl and stahl as we are.
But when we finally were ready to
disentangle ourselves from the deliria
in the ravine.,Tom and I stood nearer
to each other titan ever before. Near-
er because of our terrible proximity
to death, and because my foolish and
unwarrantable behavior had well-nigh
separated us- forever.
The horses were unhurt, though un-
able to extrleate themselves, and it
was some tlnm before Tom could re-
lair the wagon so that we could go
ou. It had been blown ap ngalnsl: a
tree and broken: but Tom followed the
good ohl fashion of those days, of car-
rying plenty of stout string in his pock-
ets, and so was able to mend up the
broken places where it was necessary,
~Ie he actually carried up the ravine
where he could place me In the wagon;
my ankle bad swollen frightfully, and
pained me exceedingly, besides.
".Now," he said.~gettlng into the
wagon himself. "'we must burry. I've
got to meet Teeule, though the heavens
fall:" anti he gave me a comical glance.
He hadn't explained who "Teenie"
wan. nor did I ,.are to ask. After the
experien,~s of the last twenty min-
utes my Jealousy looked to me inex-
pressl~fly contemptible. "We meant
it for a surprlne to yon. dear." Tom
said presently. "but perhaps I'd better
tell you. Ym~ don't guess who 'Tee-
ale" is, foolish little girl?"
I~ shook my head. "Tom. ! don't
care: I trust you DOW. ntterly!"
"Then I Inust tell you that It was the
old pet name by whlch I called Ade-
h~lde Saunderson. I hadn't thought of
it. for yearn before, nor. do I suppose,
had she: but she resurrected the name
for the oecaMon. She is coming for a
Iwo months" stay and was especially
anxious that you should not be told.
as she wanted to surprise you. I guess
shehas. Anyway, you mwprlsed me!"
"Don't. Tom." I sobbed. Tom drew
me eloser.
"Vuder the circumstances, I didn't
wast to let it go so: but she was very
strenuons, and Adelaide is so Intense
that I had to let her have her way.
When I read your note I could haye
killed myself for allowing It. Forgive
me. Josie,'" and Tom's voice grew. very
temler.
"Forgiw, you? Oh. Tom!" I sobbed,
"when I was so dreadful!"
"There. there!•' he said. soothingly.
"Let's call it square. Besides. we're
ahnost there: and I can't delve np to
the station wlth your eyes in tl~t con-
dltiou. I'm afraid Adelaide will think
it wasn't much of it success--her sur-
prise.'"
I wiped up as well as I could, al.
thougll I fear Adelaide received a
rather tearful welconie, after all.
Adelaide Sannderson was Tom's
cousin, and had always taken tl~e place
of the slster he never had. I don't
know What I should have done with.
out "Teenie," as we began ealliug her
again: for my baby was born the next
morning, and my own life hung 1~ the
balance a long time after.
That was our only quarrel--if I may
call t~ so. And. as Tom" says, "the
very Idea of our getting along sepa.
rately is enough to bring on a cyclone!"
--Waverley Magazine,
a~i~ Sntrs.
If a man falls so as to strike his
head violentl~ on the payement, or If
he gets a blow over his eye, he is said
to "see stars." The cause Of this cur-
ions phenomtmon is found in a pecul.
larry of the optic nerve. The func-
tion of ~hat nerve is to convey to the
brain ,lie lmpressiou of light. It rec-
ognTzes ,othtng in the world but light,
lt'ls susceptible to no other impression;
or, If acted nI~m by any other agent,
it eomnmnieates to the brain the In-
telligence of the presence of that agent
~by sending -dang Its fibres flashes of
light only./ Irritate this nerve with a
probe or o~hel" Instrument, and it eon.~
veys no sensation of pal~, but slm.
ply that of lt~mlnous sparks. The pain
of Ihe blow or the fall on the head
is realized through the nerves of gen-
eral sen~tlon; but, unsusceptible to
pain or any other feeling, the optic
~ nerve sends to the brain its report of
the' shock by flashes• sparks and
"stars."~St• James Gazette.
~stntngely quiet, Not a h, af stirred. "
not a bouglt tremb|ed. The birda had Teaeh!lqK Ille Youna Idet,
themselves, and all natm~ A Mancliester lawyer noticed the
other evening that his youthful non,
wile was studying arithmetie, seemed
came very restless. Getting Impatient, the
father broke out:
"~rlmt 0n earth alia you? Why cml, t
you sit still? ,Wriggling about every
minute."
"It's all your fault," murmured the
b6y.
beside a spilt reek. '%Vhy is it?"
as I asked you last night how
many a billion was, and you said i~
was a thundering lot, Teacher asked
me the same question to-day, and 1
gave the same reply. That's why 1
can't l~eep stilL"--London Answer~.
....... r,, •
l~t~t~ I~t~lm4t wt~.
stock market rea izes the power of
rlches to fly.
Farmers should always interest
themselves in any bird protective
measure. The birds are one of the
farmers' many friends.
Spain announces that she wtll build
n big navy. Why? Spain has about
as much use for a big navy as she has
for a herd of purple paleotherlums.
A man in Greenwich, Conn.. recent-
ly tore down a $25,000 house in order
to save some maple and elm trees that
would have been sacrificed by moving
it. If all citizens were like him the
forestry problem could be quickly set-
tled.
Australia has a controversy over the
right of members of Parliament to
take service In the.army, which recalls
the ease of General Wheeler. In the
Australian ease the seat of a member
who went to South Africa as a cor--
poral was promptly declared vacant.
IH |
So American manufacturers are to
have the hullding ~)f trucks for lhe
miners of the Rand. being able to fur-
nish the goods more promptly and
more cheaply than their British rivals.
That is getting.to be an old story, but
Americans do not seem to grow Weflry
of Its repetttlon.
There Is a strong movement in
Greece in favor of the Swiss military
system .in place of the German. The
latter absorbs three entire years of
the young men, whereas the Swiss sys-
tent calls for only 100 days of drilling
In the first year. and twenty days
every second year thereafter, until the
age of thirty-two is reached.
__[ ..................
A seientlfle expedtti~m is to go from
the United States to Patagonia In
search of a giant sloth. Such an ani-
mal, a relative of the extinct mylodon,
is thought, from the recent finding of
strange skins and bones In a cave, to
be still roaming in the unexplored re-
gions of South America. and these ex-
plorers hope to eapture a specimen or
tWO.
The decrease of pleasure cycling be-
gan to be noticeable two years ago,
but it was much more marked this
past summer. The bicycle Is now used
mainly fc: business purpbses. It is
becoming a greater utility in lhe ar-
mies' of the world, and its value in
municipal police service is admitted-
ly very great. But as a pleasure ma-
chine the bicycle has seen its best
days.
The Philadelpl~ia Ledger otmerves:
"Public opinion has an immense influ-
ence. and each one of us ts helping
to form it. Even now It stamps with
disgrace the man who uses his physi-
cal strength to attack the life. prop-
erty, or liberty of another; let it also
frown down that man who, with a
power of mind and will capable of
benefiting the commnnlty, yet employs
it in the interest of self alone, or for
purposes of injustice and oprreesion
under whatever disguise they may as-
sume."
Sturgeon fishing, which la earried on
more largely in the Delaware River
ahd Bay than elsewhere in the United
States, is in danger of extinctl0a, ac-
cording to a recent report of the
United States Fish Commission. There
has been a decline in produetion from
1948 kegs in 1897 to an estimate of
about 700 kegs in 1899, while the price
per keg was advanced in fifteen years
from $9 to $105. The larger profits
of the industry for years have come
from what might be called the by=
product, the roe, which Is the basis
of caviare, the Russian delicacy. The
Delaware fishermen obtain better
prices In foreign markets than at
home, and much of the caviare brought:
into this country from Europe has
crossed the Atlantic once before in
pine casks.
There are opportunities on every
hand. every day if they were taken ad-
vantage of; but the great difficulty
with most men is that they don't see
them untll they are past and gone.
Opportunltles eau be made, and every
keen. farsighted man will admit this
i n nn n inn n , n , , u ............
noth Are Pests, Itut Are ~t Benefit Bather
Than ~n Evil.
The flesh fly and the bhle bottle are
frequently eonsidered as one. but the
two differ not only in appearance, but
their work. Both are pests in their
way. lint. on the whole, in their larvae
being ill some sort scavengers, arn
rather a benefit than an evil. the moi'e
especially as the harm timy might do
Is easily to be prevented. Neither is
a biter nor out for blood, preferring
the perspiration and other t, xudatlons
of the skin and of broken surfaces.
The flesh flies produce living young,
the eggs being retained until hatched
when the young are deposited upon
decaying flesh, wounds and sores
being choice locations, Each female
ean deposit tens of thousands of these
nmggots, and. as they grow rapidly,
and as they grow force themselves
into the sores, the situation soon be-
comes serious. The maggots when
two or three days old will have in-
creased in size train a mere speck to a
half inch in length.
They are white, footless, small to-
ward the head. the other extremity
being thlek and bhmt. When full
grown they leave their food and.
forcing their way into the soil. con-
tract into barrel shaped puparla, from
whieh in a few days the wlnged fly
emerges.
The blue bottle or ldue fly is to be
seen on the windows, where t is sure
to call attention to itself by its buzz-
ing and bumping against the glass.
Animal food exposed in summer, if
for only a little while, is sure to show
little piles of eggs just ready to hatch.
So prolific is the female and such vo-
racious feeders the young that It is
said a pair of flies will devour an ox
more rapidly than will n lion. A car-
cass left In the fields in mid-summer
Is soon nothing but Idde and bones.
The only help for the mischief of
el,her species ts to screen the whidows
of dwellings so the flies cannot enter,
to kill them on sight and to keep all
food and all wounds covered. A good
lotion for wounds. Dr. Lugger says, is
one part carbolic acid to fifty of
water, or one ounee of tar to twenty
ounces of oil. Crude coal oil has been
used successfully upon both man and
beast, serving the double purpose of
healing and of keeping the enemy off.
As a preventive all dead animals or
decaying flesh should not be simply
hauled off out of the way, but should
be either covered with kerosene and
burned to a crlsp or put into a pit,
covered w|th llme and then wlth a
foot or two of earth. When left to be
eaten every female maggot that goes
Into the ground can. It Is figured out,
have 508,000,000 descendants in a sLu-
gle season.--Phllndelphia I~dger.
•helr l~r~t I~s$O.o
A sister of the late E. P. Roe tells
an amusing story of the first lesson
which she and her brother ever recited
In Roman history.
Among our most lored and honored
guests, during our childhood, was Dr.
Samuel Cox. for many years a promi-
nent clergyman in New York. At times
our conversation turned on history,aud
I remember, on one occasion, he asked
Edward and me if we could give him
the names of the First Roman Trium-
virate.
At this perlod of our existence the
name "Caesar" was associated exclu-
sively with an old colored ma~, whoin
we often visited, and who lived upon
a lonely road in the neighborhood. We
were vastly astonished, therefore, to
learn that the name had ever been
borne by a more illustrious person
than our dusky friend; but we list-
ened entranced to the story of the ri-
valries of Caesar and Pompey for the
empire of' the world.
Unhappily the good doctor co'uld not
remember .the name of the third trium-
vir, and the lack troubled him greatly,
That night, about two o'clock, I was
startled by a knock on my bedroom
~oor, and Doctor Cox called out:
"Mary, are you awake?"
I replied that I was--as, indeed, was
every one else In the house by that
time.
"It's Crassus." said the doctor, and
then he returned to his room, greatly
relieved.
Neither Edward nor ~t ever forgot
that first lesson in Roman history.-
Youth's Companion.
The V~ue of S~V|m~.
In New York State the past year,
how widespread has been prosperity
is betokened by a report on savtngs
i~nkg, which shows that one out of
every three perseus lti the Btate has
a bank a~count. The total amount
deposited was $'264,827,203.
In France. the Government offers in-
ducements to school children to open
savings bank accounts.' The Govern-
ment of the United Etates plays no
such paternal role in encourdging thrift
among Its people, lit is left to wise
mothers in this country to encourage
children to the virtue and sound bus~
hess principle of saving. The spirit-
ual paradox, "To hhn that lurth shall
t
be given, and from him that hath not
shall be ~tkcn away," is a stem, unre.
tO ,be true. Instead of waiting and
lenting condition of business success.
whining for something to turn xtp, go Not alone Is It true nowadays that "a
Out into this gteRt World determined ] penny sa~,ed is a penny eal~l," but,
to be somebody and do something; [ more and mote It Is necessary to nave
oU will find old n ch n ...... } the penny in order to earn one. The
..... g e .... a cesta =,~/.[ youth beginning life under present
sl0e walung to ne Utllmeu. Tne worio [ ~'onomlc eonditions must have capital
owes:o man a iivlng. ,f he wll, not I and a c v clt ; for ac ulr,n it. Say=
work, failure and ruin will be his pot,- ing through childhood is a means to
lion, but if he hustles while he Waits, both these Indispensable ends, and
the solemn truth of this should be re-
determined that he will get to the top llglofisly placed before the minds of
of the ladder, and not be satisfied the young.--Harper's Bunt.
until he does get there, his fortune is
assured, 8ueh a man never sighs for
opportunities, but whe~ one come~ hie
wa~v he gl~mpa it aUd makes the very
A 5EVEHF_.. JeLl-.
I was seated in the corner of the car,
When [ got a most excruciating jar~
Not the ordinary kind
To which gripmen are inclined,
But a jolt that shocked me more than
that hy far.
From : ;own the aisle a fascinating girl }
Set my senses in an amatory whirl, .~
When she turned a pretty smile
Toward my earner, and the whim
Showed the tips of teeth that glistened
as the pearl.
T responded with a twinkle of my eye ]
('Tis a little trick I studied, by the bye),
• And although I passed my street.
Still I kept my corner seat,
For the hope within my heart was run-
ning high.
Then it was I got the do,or/tic jar;
Just behind me, on the platform of the
car.
Stood the man at whom. 'twas plain,
he was smiling throagh the pane,
And--I'd ridden half a mile or more too
fsr.
--W. B. H., in Life. ,
PITH AND POINT.
"Isn't that man over there an ad.
mirer of yours? .... On the contrary,
he's my husl)and.".--Meggendorfer
Blaetter.
Hoax--"Do you" always leave card~
when you call?" Joax--"Not always.
Sometimes ! Ieave an umbrelln."--
Philadelphia Record.
Lawyers are men who work with a will,
At least, so the doctors say;
:But the lawyer's work don't begin until
The doctm" has opened the way.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The new minister had a decidedly
slow delivery. "Mamma." exclaimed
Beth after the service. "l wish they'd
sent us a higher-geared speaker."~
Judge.
"But. mamma, if I buy clothes first
I may not have mouey left to buy a
trunk." "Ethel you haven't any busi-
ness sense at all: you can borrow a
trunk..•
"The doctor says yon ought to take
life easier~to enjoy yourself more."
"All right; I'll go take a trip on thts
money which I had saved up to lmY
on this btll."--Chicag0 Record.
I love the man who's always late i
Although he makes me have to wait ;
Yes, though he east me time and pe]~,
lie gives me grounds to praise myself.
--Chicago Record.
*'I suppose," said Miss Snapp's fiance,
"you'll be sorry when I marry your
sister and take her away to live with
me." "No. replied hm" little brother.
"I never did like you much, anyhow."
--Philadelphia Press.
"I know that a great many people
do not like my business.'" m~ld the
chimney-sweep; "but it soots me," Af-
ter due acknowledgment of the cour-
teous smiles of his audience, he went
up the flue.--Baltimore American.
He--"I notice that Fred and Harry
have made up aud are as good friends
as ever.'" She--"Yes. they had to
make up. Everybody else had gone
away, and neither had anybody to
play golf wlth."~Boston Transcript.
The lamb and the lion were about to
lie down together. "'Don't you think,"
said the lion. with uncommon polite-
ness. "you had better occupy the lno
side berth?" What the lamb may
have thought will never appear. It
was the end.~Phlladelphin Press,
Wife (reading)--"Another mysterious
suicide---unknown man throws him.
~elf from a eltff." Husband (tho~gbt-
lessly)--"Bet his wife was at the bot-
tom of it." Wife--"Charles!" Hus-
band (hurriedly)--"Of the cliff, my
love; not the suicide. --Collier s Week-
ly. a'.'"
& Bli~ ~nutry.
E~nglishmen know little of the geog-
raphy of the "States," and what llttle
they do know does not object to put°
tlng Philadelphia next door to Boston,
or San Francisco alongside of New
York. An American and an Engli~ho
n~n who had become ~lends aboard ~
ship had a pleasant encounter about
~s on reaching New York.
, They breaiffalted together and the
following convemation ensued:
"I gness I'll turn out to see Harry
after breakfast," said the Englishman.
"I've two here. Harry lives in 8an
Francisco and Charlle in Chicago."
"But you'll be back for dinner?"
facetiously asked the Amerlean.
The Britisher took 1~lm seriously,
"Sure for dinner, |f not for lunch," he
anawered, And accompanied by hla
friend, now thoroughly alive to tl~
humor of the incident, he found him-
self a few minutes later In the line
of tleket buyers In the Grand C~ntral
Depot..
"An exeurslon ticket to San Frane~s-
co, atopping at Chicago station on re,
turn," he ordered.
The ticket a~gent put about a quar-
ter of a mile of pasteboard under his
stamp, pounding It for a minute or
more, thrust It before the explorer and
expectantly awaited payment.
"V~en dods the train go"." asked the
Englishman.
"In ten minutes," was the answer,
"How much is it?"
"One hundred and thirty.eight dole
lars and fifty cents."
"What?" the Englishman gasped,
"HOw far is It?"
"Three thousand miles."
"Dear me! What a country!"--
Youth's Companion.
Theassociatlons of Newcastle HOur%
the fine old Lincoln's Inn Flelda man-
sion, which hang Just ~t ~old, are
blow." We talher fancy lhat the "~
custom has recover~l from !is death
blow~ unless we are. to regard the "tip,,
as the walkiltg glmst of the "'vail '-~'
Anyhow, it was here ih~t l~ir-
Waldo (fine nld name!) offered
