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‘A MYSTERY SOLVED.
r* H, Maxi I flung my
A arms around his neck
■ and kissed him 1 What
shall I do?”
“How could you
to! have made suoh a mis¬
w -
take?”
“In the dusk he
looked exactly like
you. Of course, the moment he spoke
my horrible blunder flashed upon me
and I fled.”
} "No nonsense, Ray. I will see him
and explain the matter. If he is so
much like me no doubt he is a very
decent fellow.”
This conversation took place be¬
tween a charming girl and her brother,
-who were staying at a certain hotel in
a well-known seaside resort. To this
hotel I came in search of health to re¬
store a nervous system whieh had been
failing lately, and, indeed, hod never
quite recovered from a ahook caused
.by a horrible aeeideut which had hap¬
pened to me several years ago.
■ I bad been lured by a madman into
ilia house under pretence of playing myself a
game of billiards, to find a
prisoner with an armed lnnaiio, who
loroed me to play the game for the
(highest possible stake—life itself.
Fortunately I won; but my conditions opponent, of
although he fnlfiled the
;<mr gams by shooting himself, with re
Jlnement of cruelty tied me in s faint¬
ing condition to the billiard table so
■that I might witness his death. In
jdeed, his vindiotiveness he branded went leg farther with
(than; this, for my
la hot iron and wrote a paper in whioh
'he accused me of taking hia life.
I I was oharged with the xnnrder, but
'acquitted) as the faot of my being dis¬
covered bound and the strange appear
of the body attired in the eos
jtome of Mephiatophelee—a oheraofar
the madman endeavored to assume—
was suffieient to prove my side of the
storv. Even the astuteness of Sootlsnd
Yard proved powerless, for all the po
lice oonld discover, after a long searoh
;into the antecedents of ths unfortun¬
ate man, was the fsot that he had been
confined in a luuatio asylum. oonvinoe
1 needed no proof mad. to Bnt there me
tw the man was was
a method in bis madnoas. Until I mat
him in s publie billiard saloon, whenoe
he took me to his house, I had never
set eyes on him before. Than what
was the reason for the eruel hstred he
evidently felt toward me? Two olewa
I possessed, but as eaeh had proved
useless to the detectives, it was not
likely that they would lead me to a
• solution of the affair.
] First I discovered that in branding
my leg the wretch had teaoed the let*
ten RAOHE. That theea letters np
restated the German word “Revenge” X
I was perfectly swan i bat what waa
to lean from that? That the man
n ■ German? X think not. His aa
esnt plainly told me he waa JtafHsh. but
No doubt revenge wee his objeot,
the meaning ofthoae letters remaihed
. found ijyother during dew subsequent was a note visit whieh to the I
a
fatal room, hidden under a earpefc
Although it bore no addreae, I suppose
41 was meant lor m* as it spoke of the
hijrwGmd"5XTwo»!d ef oiewho hia
_____hia mono?, murdered
intended wits and attempted to nothing mur¬
der hiss. This the appears* ranting of to he mind die
i than n
L and I soon gave np all hope of
gettingto the bottom of thaam*
sxssrttSff'Bs le 3n°isIih2r i Sl SSI
kind. As I entered the hall a charm¬
ing girl ran up to me, fl- <fcl,r ' “
*e*L hissed and mar
jMse^• V T T > v -/*
- -’/
"Yea darling, Tm so glad yeoVe
r
like eKMt_ startled bird.
a
; "A little thing like that
ted at v — . ttd lomy
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A
to
i so rashly, the
mm, before
of about my
in of
'A
T to do
Kj£it
qnered. You see, at the outset, be¬
fore there had been time to so much as
declare war, the position had been
stormed, the citadel “rashed” by that
delightful kiss I And now it was suf¬
ficient happiness for mis to watch the
changing lights in a pair of sapphire
eyes, whose dnsky lashes cmrled up¬
ward as though in wanton contrast
with the tendrils of the auburn tresses
above.
We three took onr coffee in the gar¬
den that warm September night.
“Now,” exclaimed CarBtairs, “Ray
is dying to hear yonr story, so go
ahead 1”
“Well," said I, thinking what a
sweet name Ray Carstairs was, “al¬
though it happened several years ago,
the incident still remains painfully
fresh in my memory, It was an ad
ventnre I had with a mad billiard
player. \
They both started.
“Max,” said bis sister, "doesn’t that
remind yon of what happened at—”
“Yes,” he replied, before she could
finish the sentence, “bat don t inter¬
rupt. Please go on,” he added.
In a moment it flashed upon me
that the solution of the mystery lay
within my grasp, This man, who so
strangely resembled me, was the in¬
tended object of the madman’s re¬
venge. possible,” _ I cried, , .
“Is it springing
to my feet in exoitement, “that you
are the man ?”
“I don’t understand,” said Car¬
stairs, looking as perplexed and star¬
tled as his sister at my sadden out¬
burst of feeling. not—of not,” I
"Of ooarse course
murmured, sinking into my chair. “I
will tell yon the whole story, then
will know what I mean. ”
yon through the horrible de¬
As I went
tails of that fearful night they listened
with rapt attention, and unless the dark
ness deoeived me, I detected tears of
sympathy in the beantifnl eyes of Ray
Carstairs.
“Yon are right 1” exolaimed her
brother, as I finished; "all yon suf¬
fered was intended for me. Now, for
my story, *h will - dear up the
mystery. Miu Carstairs -- v
rose.
"1 think I’ll ran off to bed, Max.
I’m very tired, and it’s getting late."
She kissed her brother, then gave
her hand to me.
“Good night,” she said, “let ns
hope it will be fine to-morrow.”
Relaotaatly 1 relinquished her hand,
bnt there was hope in that reference
to the weather. Might morning? it not mean a
walk together in the
I finished the evening in Max CJar
stake's room; and while we amoked
he told his strange story. the man’s
"Mark Malbrain was
name,” be oontinned "and I met him
at a hydropathic establishment in the
North, where my sister end I were
staying one summer about seven or
eight yean ago. My sister wee then
about seventeen, and Malbrain, much
to her disgust, fell wildly in love with
her. He made himself generally nnwel* a
nuisanoe by pestering her with
oome attentions ana writing until extrava¬ at
gant verses in her praise, crisis. Tfib
length matters asms to a
lesux vi vents were a favorite evening
amusement, and appeared on tins particular Marguer¬
night my sister as
ite, I was Faust, and to Malbrain was
assigned the role of Mephistopheles. immense
The living picture followed, wee an at whieh
soooesB, and a danoe
we "Daring appeared the in onr evening ftage ooetumee. Rachel (yes
that is her name—Bay is only a fami¬
ly pet name) oomplained to me of Mal
hrain's oondnek It seems he had eon
tinned to follow her round the room,
became threatening when she
rofeaed. I at onee went to him end
said plalnlyt h at Miss Oentairswiahed
amdthemfwef must request him
to
thsred that he did not know Raohel
k!w5?*aan!rfikk deceive him.1 decided we it worth
while to
mi Rachel home in the
rcmwnedmj^lf for a few days long
WAS furious when
to a gam* enggett
that we should ptoy^ w a AM-» o t e.
tnsTof the men present! We played
reed, tor I fait c
• carom and missed. Malbrain
Mixed his one, trembling like the
leaf. He went to
pocket the red/but he miased the ball
entirely, giving • point to me. Of
coarse, I won by my next stroke.
“The stake holder handed the £200
to me, amid the applause of the men
standing around—for Malbrain eras
not liked and my victory •was popular. Mal¬
Then the party broke np, but
brain waited for me on the stairs. His
face was livid with passion.
“ ‘I hope yon are satisfied,’ he said
hoarsely. sorry,’I replied, *if the
*“I am
stakes were too high, but later you
have your revenge 1 *
may he shouted, losing his
M < .Revenge 1’
self-control. ‘I’ll have my revenge 1
We’ll play again and you’ll find the
stakes still higher—too high for you 1”
* “I had good reason to remember
these words when I awoke one night,
to find Malbrain in my room dressed
in his fantastic costume of ‘Meph¬
istophelean of must
“ ‘Come,* said he, ‘one us
die to-night. Through yon I lost the
girl who would have been my wife.
My money, too 1 Bnt come to the
billiard room; we will play to-night.
Did you not promise me my revenge?
And the stakes! You will find them
high enough. Come 1 we will play
for our lives—you and I! Ha, ha 1
one of us shall die to-night?’
“I knew as I sprang from my bed
that the man was mad 1 We grappled
together, the candle fell from his
hands, and we straggled in darkness. I felt
Down we went on the floor, and
the cold steel of a revolver, which ex- 5
ploded and a sharp pain came in and my
arm. Then I heard doors opening
voices, so 1 hold on till some of the
fellows came in with lights. ‘Mephis
topheles’ was carried off to.his own
room, raving and struggling. The
slight wonnd in my arm was dressed
by the doctor connected with the
establishment, who also took the un
fortnnate lunatic under his care.
“Later on Malbrain was sent to a
private asylum. The doctor’s opinion
was that brain lesion had threatened
the poor fellow for some time.
Whether he had escaped from the asy¬
lum when he met yon, or had been
discharged as cared, one cannot say.
However,, my story,” concluded Car
stairs, "has solved the mystery of
yonr unfortunate encounter with the
wretohed man. ”
“Yes,” I said, musing on the strange
aoconnt I had heard. "But I wonder
why he charged yon with murdering
Miss Oarstairs? And he also repeated found.
the aocnsation in the paper I
I suppose it was some wild idea he
had got hold of in his mad jealousy of
yon. »»
“Yes,” said Carstairs. “You see,
he thought we were rivals, and he
knew I was the oanse of Ray’s dis¬
appearance.” is another thing that
“Then there
pnzzle me. Why did the madman
brand my leg with the word ‘Raohe?’ ”
“It is German for revenge,” said
darstairs.
“Yes, but Malbrain was not a Ger¬
man, so why should ho nse that lan¬
guage?” “Can’t I the marks
say. suppose time?”
have entirely gone by this
“Yes; bnt the police had them
photographed, and I think I have got
of-the photoa in my portmanteau. ”
one
I found the card and handed it to
Carstairs. *
"It is funny,” he said, laughing, print¬
"to notion how beautifully the
ing is done—au except the fall stop,
whioh is a bit too high up. By Jove 1
it must have been painful time—I though.”
"I never felt it at the was
in a faiqt, I suppose.”
"Ah! I have it!” cried Carstairs.
"That full stop explains it. Ofoouse,
the word be meant to traoe was
‘Rachel,’ only for some reason he
didn’t finish the *T<.* Hat ha! ha!
How Bay will langh at yon when she
hears of yoa being tattooed with her
name.”
So my last thought that night wss
ef charming Bay Oarstairs. And how
oonld it be otherwise?—her name on
my body, her image in my soul and
bar kiss on my lipe! As for the kiss
1 felt I could not honorebly keep whet
was not intended for me. Bnt I was
soon able to return it, for, ere an¬
other month had passed, Ray Oarstairs
promised fa be my wife.—Tit-Bits.
About a Marvelous Clock.
Speaking of wonderful timpieoes, a
yellow old book tells a story about a
dock made by Dros, a mechanic of
Geneva. There were to be seen on it
ea African, a dog and a shepherd. shepherd
When the clook struck the
played six tunes on his flute and the
dog approached and fawned upon him.
This dock waa exhibited to the King
ef Spain, who was delighted with it
"The gentleness of m j dog,” Iflyour mid
Drox, "is his least merit •
majesty touch one of the apples whioh
you eee in the fidelity shepherd’s of this basket i you t ”
will admire the a n ma
The king took an apple and the dog
flew at hia head and barked so loud
that the king’s dog began to bark. At
this the eooriers, not doubting that left
the dock wee bewitched, hastily
the room, crousingfthamselves Marine as they
The Minister of was the
miVLi onto who remained. the The African king
him to enquire of
the time ef day- The mini s t e r obeyed.
Dros then
had not yet
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HIGH TARIFF DECEPTION.
THE PROTECTION THEORY OF TRADE
PROHIBITION IS FALLACIOUS.
People of Different Countries Are
Benefited by an Interchange of
Commodities—A McKinley Kin¬
dergarten Lesson.
The theory of trade prohibition swindle
which underlies the high tariff
was laid down in a recent speech by
Major McKinley as follows:
“Every shipload displaces of foreign products
that we buy just that quan¬
tify that iB made in the United States,
and as you displace this quantity yon
displace the requisite labor required
to make it in the United States.”
If this assertion is trne it would fol¬
low that all trade is an evil, since the
purchase by one section of a cqnntry would
of goods from another section
displace domestic products of a value
equal to the imported goods. Thus
the sale of a carload of hay from New
York State in Massachusetts must dis¬
place a portion of the hay crop of Mc¬ the
latter State. According to Major
Kinley's economy this woojcf injure
the Massachusetts farmer and wonld
deprive labor of employment.
Voters who have reached even the
kindergarten stage of political economy
know that the McKinley idea is wholly
a fallacy. New York hay is shipped
to Massachusetts only when it can be
sold at a profit. Instead of displacing
the labor prodnots of Massachusetts it
creates a demand for them, as the New
York farmer must take something pro¬
duced- by labor in exchange for his
hay. That something may be boots,
cottons, barb wire or money. In
either case its production gives em¬
ployment to labor.
Exactly the same is trne if instead
of coming irom New York the hay was
raised in Canada, or any other foreign
country. The Canadian farmer sells
hay because he wants goods made by
the labor of New York or Massa¬
chusetts. He does not give away hia
prodnots, but takes back a quantity of
goods equal in value to what he sells.
The result of the business transactions
whioh Major McKinley wants to New stop
by high tariff is that the people of
York who want hay, and the farmers
of Canada who want goods, are both
benefited by getting what they want
cheaper than they could produce them
for themselves. This is the ultimate
object of all commerce, as well as of
labor-saving inventions, improved
methods of transportation, the diver
siflcation of industries and all the civi
lized arts,
If foreign goods, displace our prod
ucts, the goods we ship abroad must
displace those of countries with which
we trade. Were trade-prohibiting
tariffs made universal we should lose
our markets for nearly $900,000,000
worth of goods which we now export
annnally. What do the American far
mers, who complain because prices work- are
already too low, or American
men, who are idle because there is au
overproduction of goods whioh oannot
fine a market, think of the Ohio poll
oy, which if carried out by other
countries wonld leave us with products
worth $900,000,000 unsold.
WHIDDEN GbAHAU.
A Scheme to Injuro the Farmers.
Senator Elkins, of West Virginia, is
a typio&l Republican protectionist who
makes great pretenses of love for the
American farmer. His sincerity is
shown bv his action in introducing a
tariff bnl whioh imposes additional
dutiea of ten per oent. on ell goods im¬
ported ;in foreign vessels. This he
claims would stimulate onr shipping
industry, and restore our position in
the world’s carrying trade, which we
lost under protection. foolish enough
If Congress is to pass
the Elkins bill, it is easy to see that
the principal result will be a fall in
the prices of farm products. If our
vessels cannot carry freight as oheaply
aa those of other oountriee, a discrim¬
ination of ten per oent would force
foreign ships to charge ten per oent
more on all goods, or else wonld give
Ameriean shipping a monopoly of the
import trade. In either oase it is cer¬
tain that all the foreign products whioh
we now ta^e in exohange for our would sur¬
plus erops and other exports,
cost more than they do now.
The greatest injury to the farmers,
however, would come from the fact
that if the foreign vessels which now
carry our farm products to Europe
were compelled they to return would empty have to to
this eountry,
charge higher rates for carrying oar
exports. This wonld mean that our
ability to sell abroad, whioh depends
largely upon the cheapness of onr pro
duets as compered with those of com¬
peting Nations, would be considerably
lessened. In order to pay the in¬
creased freight chargee the prise of all
our prodnots—exports of wheat, oorn,
meats, etc., would have to be cotdowu
or we should lose the markets.
Do the farmers want anything o
kind ? If not, they should send to
Congress Democrat* who axe opposed
to protection and all kinds of discrim¬
inating duties.
Far Farmers to Think Of.
The three or four dollars a
SA&ss/Ats&ss: steel works of the eountry will make
than they do no w.
If is elected
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TUUSEK 05 BAYARD.
The Eloquent fieoriL CsssreMiwui
Exposes Protection Corruption.
The debate in the Hnn«e of Repre¬
sentatives on the resolutions censor¬
ing Ambassador Bayard for his con¬
demnation of the protection fraud was
closed on the Democratic side by Con
gress man Tnrner, of Georgia, who
said: which ..... I belong has .
“The part^ to
no great army of mercenaries. There
are none of those who have put up for
our use the sinews of war. There are
none to whoto we have given bounties;
there are none to whim we have given
booty and plunder, au l there nre
none on whom we can draw; no special
fat by policies . .
classes that have grown
that we have enacted, and ont of whom
we can extract the grease—I hesitate
to put it in the vulgar vernacular of
the Republican hustings. (Laughter.)
“Bnt it is not so with onr adversar¬
ies. They have bestowed largesses
and donations upon specials interests
lor a generation, and the army of pro¬
tection—the Pretorian Guard of the
tariff—is about to dispose of the Presi¬
dent^ purple. Mr. Bayard offended
these gentlemen at Edinburgh by
speaking of the tendency of protec¬
tion to a mercenary scramble, as
averred in the resolution. If the in¬
dictment is trne, any man ought to be
allowed to proclaim it on the house
top and anywhere in the world, The
proof is already furnished. Oat of
the mouths of his assailants comes the
demonstration of the truth of this
great indictment. The Senator from
New Hampshire, Mr. Chandler, a
gentleman well-known for his devotion
to the Republican party, has testified
with great emphasis and detail, and
after deliberation reiterated it.
“Mr. Speaker, when these things
are charged and said here at home
they meet no denial; they meet no
contradiction ; no investigation is de¬
manded ; there is no challenge given
to it; but if somebody on the other
side of the ocean announces or demon¬
strates the vioious and corrupt tenden¬
cies of protection, this insolent power
ga y 8 to him, no matter how distin
g a j 8 hed, ‘Silence, sir.’
<<g 0 f ar f rom there having been any
impropriety in the utterance at Edin
burgh, the. question was one rising
jjjgh above all mere matters of taste,
e f courtesv, or of diplomatic pro
pr i e ty. it was a matter about which
a patriot might anywhere speak as
^jth a trumpet. It was an ocoasion
on -which he might speak, to be heard
by a ]j man kind, against tho degreda
tion and slavery and corruption of the
8 y 8 tem which he denounced. Sir, if I
bad it in my power, in face of the
per ji that confronts ua and the coun
tr y f denounoed even by those who are
quarreling about their rivalries and
t be preliminary divisions of the
B p 0 ils—I say, sir, if I bad my way I
won id put in every honest )iand a
w bip to sconrge this demon of proteo
tion naked through the world. (Ap
pi £bo aase on the Democratic side.) As
shadow of this great peril gathers
aron nd ns and its gloom falls on the
Capitol, I would kindle in that
a jiglit as a warning to my
mea which would be as—
«when the sun his beaoon red
Had kindled on Ben Vorlioh’s head.’
TRYING TO TAX FOREIGNERS.
Absurd Declaration of the New
Hampshire Republicans.
The New Hampshire Republican itself
8 tate Convention distinguished old
by inserting in its platform "The the
high-tariff obestnnt, foreigner
pays the tax." After some stereotyped
abuse of the Democracy for "three
yean of disappointment, privation Re¬
and distress,” the Granite State
publicans demanded "the speedy re¬
peal of the Demoerstio tariff and the
substitution thereof of one based upon
the principles of the McKinley act,
for the procurement of National rev¬
enue aa far as possible from foreigners
who market their merchandise m com¬
petition with onr productions.” benight¬
It is just possible that the
ed Mckinleyites in the of New mists Hampshire and dark¬
are still Jiving
ness of the ages when it was believed
that taxes on imports were paid by
the foreign real producer. their ig¬
Whether or assumed,
norance shows that in spite of onr
great puhlio school system there is
still a deplorable need of the study of
elementary arithmetic. If the men
who talk of collecting revenues from
foreigners were able to add and sub¬
tract correctly, they wonld not try to
impose their theory on -the public.
The notion that duties on goods are
not paid by the consumer cannot be
honestly held by any one who under¬
stands that two and two make four, or
that five from six leaves one.
The facta of every day basin* absurdity ex
perience show so plainly the the
of the delusion that we can tax
people of other countries for the sup¬
port of our Government that it is un¬
necessary to seriously argue against
it A mind so constituted that it be¬
lieves that although the importer adds
the customs duties to the price of the
goods he buys from abroad, and the
retailer charges the tariff tax to the
price at whioh the goods are finally
sold, the foreign produoer pays the
additional oost due to the tariff) can¬
not be influenced by facte or logic.
The idea pot into the platform of the
New Hampshire Republicans is not a
doctrine or a theory, bat a supersti¬
tion, and will only disappear when the
people beoome majority generally of enlightened. than
In 188* a more a
1ttmVnr by their the
showed that they knew who pays
In 1896 the majority
Lamm
CUBIOUS FACTS.
There are patents for scrubbing
brushes and brooms to the number of
3184. *
. for the
There are 4354 patents man
n factors of furniture other than
chairs.
Said the late P. T. Barnum to
thew Arnold: “Yon are a celebrity »
I am a notoriety. We ought to bo
better acquainted.”
A lepei. Josenh Cummings, has been
discovered in New York City, and sent
to the colony on North Brother Island.
He is an American.
Ibe most valuable Bible in the
world belongs to a Chicago man. He
bought it at the Brayton Ivea sale of
rare books lor $14,800.
A wild cat weighing twenty-five fall
pounds and nearly as large as a
grown panther was killed iu Berrien
County. Georgia, a few days ago.
Of the $5,500,000 which President
Seth Low deemed necessary to move
Columbia College to its new site,
J14,000,000 has already been received.
Michigan’s oldest practicing physi¬
cian is Dr. William Sprague, of Cold
water. He is ninety-nine years old
and has practiced in that town more
than half a century.
The suggestion has been made that
the house of Rev. Dr. Samuel P.
Smith, the author of “America,” at
Newton Centre, Mass., be purchased
and preserved as a memorial.
A better stretcher for a tight shoe
than any cobbler’s last is to walk
through a pool of water, or, if pos¬
sible, wet grass, and then keep on.,
walking till the boots are dry.
Cabal, in Afghanistan, has an arms
faotory a third of a mile long and 200
yards wide that tarns out 20,003 car¬
tridges and fifteen rifles daily, and
four quick-firing guns every week.
Melbonrne, Australia, has lost 41,435
inhabitants m four years./the census
of 1895giving apopulatiouof 447,461.
The population of the seven Australian
colonies at the end of 1895 was 4,238,
ooo. - ' ;
...
The war of Devolution was waged
by Louis XIV. against Spain to enforce
his claims to the Netherlands, which
he held should fall to him by Le droit
de Devolution, this being the law by
which the dower of a wife descends to
her children.
A pickpocket arrested in the act of
taking a purse from a woman in a
crowd during the Paris Carnival, when
searched, was found to have no less
than twenty-three purses abent him,
the total of his plunder amounting to
more than $650.
The harbor improvements at Vera
Cruz, Mexico, will probably years’ be com- limit
pleted within the five
stipulated. They involve an inclosed
harbor 28$ feet deep, with a break¬
water fifteen feet above high tide,
and entrance 260 feet wide
lighthouse. w *
Governor Greenhalge was the sixth
Governor of Massachusetts who has
died in office. Governor William Bnr»
net, appointed by the King, died
September 7, 1729; Governor John
Hancock died on October 8, 1793;
Governor Increase Snmuer died on
Jun6 7, 1799; Governor James Snlli
van died on Deoember 10, 1808, and
Governor William Enstis died on
6, 1825.
Odd Waj8 of Making Money.
In the backbone of a rabbit is
joint bearing a remarkable resem¬
blance to a fox’s head.. Lightly paint¬
ed brown, a couple of beads for eyes,
a cheap pin affixed, and lo 1 a real
sporting soarfpin is produced at. A
noqiinsl cost. of calling in the French
At the time
coins, which were freely passing in
England for pennies, many dollars
were made by ingenious individuals
converting them into rings aa sou¬ but
venirs, this being done by cutting
the centre, turning the rim inside out,
leaving she inscription inside. Many
of these rings are still to be seen
among the poorer folk, worn as wed*
ding rings. be the
Acorn gathering may means
of patting a few shillings in the poc¬
kets of the oonntry folk by picking
them np for the farmers; bnt it dia
not seem the quickest way toil. to a fortune
by one thoughtful son of ground
So be planted a piece of his
with thousands of acorns, and wbea
they were small plants he wanted, carefully with
moved daily such as he wrapped
the mold round, and moss
each root and started his father to
hawk them in the nearest towns, and
a remarkably good idea it turned out.
The request of the old man to *
a real British oak, mam,” gen
secured a purchaser, the ladies
charmed with the plant and the 2S
peet of watching its growth
sturdy $xee.—Odds and Ends.
Spoiled the Story.
The Paris police have ink
spoil a "story which smacked of an
Oriental fable. The story was abonl
an ordinary town hen, which th
ened to rival the famous goose
laid the golden egg. One men
when e woman living near the Fr
capital made her enstomary visa
the barnyard, she found a band)
papers under ber prise
papers proved to be ities
at $5000. The
her friends about her remarkable
but converted the secu rities
and;changed noticeably her m
living. Her sudden afeow of proq
vestigated toe stay. It pee
that the saoarftiss had been
right y. ago
several
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