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WALTER Bloomfield
CHAPTER X.
Continued.
'When In n confldentlal mood (which
■era* frequent with him), Signor Slmo-
un had Informed me that he tu own-
>• of only half the raat buelneis be
Conducted, hie equal partner being one
Uarlo Bittleta, a Venetian merchant
who had been for many yean located
at Conatantlnople, where he was but-
led with attain auch
let kr Boras tmeri eon.
off with a quarter of a million gold so
quint, to I accepted the situation with
the best grace I could command, at
the tame time resolving that to soon
at I had delivered my charge to Slg-
nor Battista, 1 would Bend the subtle
Anita back te VettlcC 111 her father's
frlgattmh, and pursue my travels as I
had originally planned them In Eng
land.
/
at be was hlm-
aelf engaged with at Venice. It was
•be wish of Signor Simona to transmit
si great treasure of money to hit part
ner, and be waa In donbt bow to do aa
with assurance of Its safety. On two
previous occasions when he had es
sayed to send much smaller earns t»
hit partner hie captains abd talldrt
had treacherously betrayed their trust,
and gone off with the maney to somo
small Island In the Mediterranean, or
to the northwest Coast of Africa, and
thero becatse pirates, but goods, how
ever reliable, he had nevar lost In this
way. Tba occasion, I though,-afford
ed an excellent opportunity for me ta
aerro the Interests of my host, and In
ho doing to reach Constantinople with
out expsnao to myself, and I was be-
■ides anxious to be gone from Venice
' that I might be rid of the amorona at
tentions of Anita, which I found much
difficulty in rosUtlng. Nevertheless,
foc her father's sake, and for no other
reason, I spared her. It was In these
fefrcumstancta that I acquainted Sig
nor Simona with my Intention to visit
Constantinople, at the same time show-
, Ing him my passports ond my letter
«f Introduction to Sir Thomas Roe,
BngUsh . Ambassador to tho Porto,
signed by King James’s own hand. If
Would lit out and man a frlgatoon
Tor Constantinople I would, I said,
gladly mako the voyage therein, the
•honey being packed nnd treated ag
sny baggage, bnt none the leas faith-
fully delivered by me to Signor Mario
Battista Immediately on my arrival In
ghat city. My heat wqs delighted with
my offer, and that same day gave or
der* for a frlgatoon to bo made ready
for sea, ns I had suggested. He also
caused ten chests to be made of atout
ebony, lined with eheet lead and
Bound on the outside with bands of
copper. Bach chest was of about onq
cubic foot content, and Into each Big-
ror Simona packed with hit own bands
25,000 gold seqnlns. When all the
chesta were tilled they were fastened
.with screws, the copper bands made
fast with metal studs, and the whole
coated with a resinous black paint, to
which later was added my name. In
white characters, upon each,
’When the design of my Journey to
Constantinople became known to Ani
ta, she opposed It with all her wit,
and exhibited a great wealth of art-
Mce In her effort! to prevent It 8bc
represented to her father haw essen
tial was a change of scene to one who,
llko himself, had lived long and
.worked hard In ono place, and who
wai besides aufferlng from recent be
reavement from which she argued
'that ha would do Well In going ta Con
atantlnople, more especially as she waa
capable, with my protection, of taking
charge of his house and affairs. But
finding that the old man could not be
porsuaded to undertake so perilous a
.voyage, she changed her tactics, and
hfter somo honeyed compliments con
cerning my honor and probity endear-
' ored to show that It was unfair to Sig
nor Battista to entrust a great treasure
In which he had a half Interest to tho
custody of one who was entirely un
known to him, nnd whom he (Simona)
himself had known but little more
thau a hundred days, and that bis
merchant wisdom would be more ap
parent In devising some other and
more .regular means 'of getting the
. money to Constantinople. This adTlce
being also rejected, she feigned illness,
kept to ber bed and Indicted upon her
aged father, such fears for her life that
he dispatched a special-courier to Pa
dua to fetch a learned leech of that
city. ' Several days passed beforo the
leech reached Venice, and when ho
came he made but a hasty and superfi
cial examination of the patient. “Your
daughter," said the leech to Signor Si
mona, “la suffering from an Indetermi
nate langu'sbment nnd may die at any
time; the best thing fur her Is n pro
longed cruise lu the Mediterranean;
by such means her life may be spared
for many years." When Signor Si
mona acquainted me with wbat the
leech bad prescribed for his daughter
1 perceived at once what had hap-
peued. Clearly Signor Anita's courier
had aped faster than her father's, and
this was a prescription which had
been first dictated by the patient ta
the prescribar. Matters fell out ns I
expected they would. A week before
the frlgatoon was ready to put to sea
Signor Simona took me aside, and af
ter profuse expressions of his affection
tor me, said be bad resolved to entrust
me not only with bis mouey but his
daughter also, and atraigbtway un
folded bla desire that Slgnorlna Anita
. should accompany me to Constantlno-
p’c for ihe benefit of her health. I
bad expected as much, and waa not
anrpriseil, though I heartily wished
tho Italian girl at the bottom of the
oea. TO have raised any objection to
the proposal would have savored of an
Intent on my part to'felonleusly make
CHAPTER Xl.
■OgmnmRAxiHianxoonncoxTixtiED
November 14-.— The frlgatoon Orlo
Mhilbibtfh was a noble craft, well
fouHd trad in all respects fib I went
With my worthy host ta see her while
•be lay la the arsenal where tbree
centuries before the fames of balling
pitch bad assailed tbe nostrils of the
Immortal Florentine. A swarm of
workmen were busy about ber, and
the arrangements for . the comfort of
ber two passengers snrpassed any
thing of the kind I had seen or sup
posed possible. Two stately cabins
had been, specially constructed, one
foro and one aft; they were divided by
a spacious general cabin, nnd both
richly furnished with ail things need
ful for comfort The crew consisted
of seventeen men; that la to say, of
Captain Jacopo Pcrugla-a fine man
•t sixty or thereabouts, who bad
•erred 81gnor Simona far forty years
—and sixteen sailors. Tbe fore cabin
was assigned to me, tbe after cabin
to Slgnorlna Simona and her maid.
In nil there woe accommodation for a
score ot souls. Signor Simona Intro
duced Captain Perugia to me as a
man of Whose fidelity and good sea-
-manihlp he had had frequent proofs,
and utsared me that he had voyaged
(o many tlmea between Venice and
Constantinople that he c^d safely
navigate the Oreclan nrehlpWago with
out a chart; whereat I scrutinized nar
rowly the face and bead of the captain
thus appraised, nnd was satisfied that
.he deserved bis master's testimonial.
Notwithstanding that Its owner
spared no expense the fitting out of
the Orlo Mallpletro proceeded slower
than I could have wished, and three
weeks passed before she was ready
for sea. And hero again I perceived
the hand of Slgnorlna Anita, who had
divers women at work rooking clothes
which she desired not ta deparf with
out, but could not sooner get com
pleted, Signor Simona was a shrewd
man, well versed In the ways at his
kind, yet In dealing with his daughter
he was hut as clay in the hands of the
potter, ao great Is the blindness of a
fond parent.
At last the day came when Captain
Perugia reportod to Signor Simona
that hla frlgatoon ley ready to sail
With the first favorable wind, that ber
cargo of merchandise was well and
safely stored, and all his daughter's
baggage aboard. It was then' that
Slgnob Blmonn ordered the ten chests
of sequins to bo placed upon the 'floor
of my cabin, where I should have
them constantly In sight, and gave me
'a sealed letter for delivery with the
chests to Signor Mario Battista, of
Constantinople. He commended his
daughter to my care, and both our
lives and fortunes to tho protection of
God In a manner so natural and affect
ing that bnt few persons could hnvc
witnessed the scene unmoved. As for
Anita sho wept abundantly, and
showed cither great filial devotion or
consummate skill In acting. And the
wind now serving, the Orlo Mallpletro
stood out to sea.
It was with strange emotions, not
unmlxod with sadness, that I watched
the spires and campaniles of Venice
wax dimmer and yet more dim as the
swelling sails of tho Orlo Mallpletro
bore us southeastward along the Adri
atic, and I could not repress thoughts
of all which had happened to me siuce
I first set foot In that marvelous city,
so appropriately called tbe bride of
the sea. Anita noticed my abstrac
tion, and with the admirable tact
which seems to pertain only to femin
ine natures sought to dispel It by en
gaging me In conversation. Poor
Anita! I pitied her greatly, for she
had fixed her affections ou one who
had determined not to reciprocate
them—on a man who had never so
much as spoken to her of lave, and for
him she had abandoned her nged
father (tor whom I am sure she had a
real affection), and had embarked ou a
perilous Journey under circumstances
the most damaging to her reputation.
Usd I never suffered such treatment
ns befcl me at the hands «r a woman
in England I should probably have
been content wiib tbis brave young
Venetian lady for a wife, for I doubt-
d not she was as faithful as she was
persistent, but my English affair still
rankled In my heart, nnd my oath
never to regard any woman other than
as one tn whom no faith should he put
was too recently registered to be light
ly broken.
Our progress was extremely slow,
and suffered several Interruption, but
I regretted It not, for the month wgs
June, and the seas on which we sailed
lacked by tbe most beautiful lands In
tbe world. Truly the ancients did well
In calling tbe Mediterranean such; It
was a compliment—not on error, as
some have affirmed. Stoppages were
made at Trieste, Flume, Zara, Bagusa
and other places, and sundry men-
ehandlie delivered to divers traders in
these places Who dealt lh Venetian
cdttinodlties. It was oh the sixteenth
day If tar our departure from Venice
Drheh.we pnt bff from Lemnos, and
lit had gohe weil with ns In that time,
Our journey being almost accom
plished I sat In my cabin cogitating
how I might with the least harshness
return Anita to her father, for I had
gathered from ber discourse that she
entertained the hope of my returning
with her to Venice In the Orlo Mallple-
tro, and that, If disappointed In that
expectation, she was prepared to ac
company me for so long as I chose to
travel In the dominions of tbe Great
Turk. Now I was fully determined
neither to do tbe one nor permit tbe
other, but concerning the manner of
acquainting Anita with my resolve I
stood lu pause. Weakness Is a fatal
thing, and I cursed my folly In leaving
Venice in circumstance* such ns to In
volve me In this dilemma; mid saw
clearly, now that it wai too late, tint
my. proper course was to have plainly
told Signor Simona that I had no feel
ing for his daughter other thau that
of 'common friendship, and to have
left Venice as I had entered It—alone.
There Is no practical use In perceiving
good courses after tbe occasions to
which they apply are past, yet to rec
ognize one'z self as a fool la the first
step towards wisdom, and this I did
very fully, albeit with much chagrlu.
Suddenly, nnd without any warning,
my reverie was dispelled by the deep
boom of a cannon, and the next min-
nte Captain Perugia entered my cabin,
very pale, but quite calm end self-
possessed. “We are lost," said he;
“no earthly power can save ns, but
we will die like men," and with great
deliberation lie made tbe sign of tbe
cross Upon bis forehead, and for a
few momenta his lips moved as If he
were speaking, but he uttered no
sound. "Lost I" I echoed, for I was
downright amazed) “how lost? The
ship is sound, the weather fair and
Venice at peace with every State.”
At this moment three terrific cannon
charges rent the air. Captain Perugia
shook his head sadly. “The Turk Is as
deceitful as Satan,” said the captain;
thous speakest truly, yet stand mat
ters as I have said. Ta the northward
ride thirty-four of the frigates In the
figure of a crescent, and presently they
will enclose us, If they do not sooner
sink us with"their guns.” "But Venice
nnd the Forte are at peace,” I retiter-
ntod. “What of that?” retorted the
captain warmly; “It may be that the
Admiral Pasha desires sport, or the
Sultan needs Christian slaves, and no
Venetian vessel within a hundred
leagues of us to tell the talc. I hnvc
said It; the Turk li more deceitful
than Satan, nnd you may prepare
cither for, Immediate death or to bo
chained to an oar In the galley of the
infidel. Do ns you will; I and my meu
elect to die." He turned and again
ascended to the deck. Hastily snatch
ing a brace of pistols trom a locker I
followed the captain up the compan
ion-way, thinking of the remark of
Signor Simona when he presented
(hem to me, that I should certainly not
need to use them while aboard the
Orlo Mallpletro.
On reaching the deck I saw the for
midable Turkish fleet, distant not
more than half an English mile, nnd
disposed ns Captain Perugia had de
scribed. The captain himself I could
nowhere see, but after I had stood a
i llnfite or so gazing In silent wonder
at the grand spectacle before me, nnd
wondering whether the Turks Intend
ed to do us any mischief or not, he ap-
THE WORLD’S WONDERS ON DISPLAY >>
St* Ldtiis Working Night and Day
For the Opening of the World’s
30th Next* &
April
to Be in Readiness
Fair on Saturday,
proachcd me from tj|e after-part of tho
HE first few thousand car*
loads of the twenty thou-
5 8 sand cars of exhibit* that
X ■ R' will arrive at the World**
Fair in St. Loula within
the next few week* have been re
ceived and unloaded. Large forces of
men are employed night and day in
receiving and placing the valuable
products from many nations of the
world as they come In. Any one who
has not been over tbe World’s Fair
grounds cannot, with the wildest
stretch of bis imagination, realise tbe
todgnificfeiiee tit this latest and great
est of tihiversal Expositions. With
its thousand buildings spread out over
an area of two square miles, ehClOsed
by six miles of fence, tbe great
World's Fair glistens in the snn, and
Is the centre of Interest to all this part
of the country.
The management has very consid
erately arranged many of the prin
cipal exhibit palaces in a compact
group. While there are more thau
twenty-five holdings of considerable
size given up to exhibit purposes, tbe
very Inrge buildings ore some fifteen
in number; eight of these, the Palace
of Transportation, Machinery, Elec
tricity. Varied Industries, Education,
Manufactures, Mines and Metallurgy,
Liberal Arts, are situated in tbe north
palaces. Neir by «* the Government
Fisheries building arid *e* coast de-
fense guns.
The Palace of Agriculture Is the
largest of the Esposltlon buildings
•nd stands In the central western
part of the grounds, upon a High ele
vation. This building covers twenty
acres of ground, the equivalent of a
•mall farm, and contains msny thou
sands of exhibits, not only from tbe
States of the United States bnt from
countries of the world. The Palace
of Horticulture stands directly south
of tho Palace of Agriculture and Is
*00 by S00 feet.
The Palace of Aft, composed of four
large pavilions. Is one of tbe most In
teresting parts of the Fslf. Tbe several
buildings contain a total of 135 gal
leries. filled tvlth the priceless treas
ures of Europe and America, gathered
with great care by discriminating
committees. As an example of the care
with which these selections Were
made, Italy may be taken as an ex
ample. Some four thousand paintings
were offered, yet only four hundred
could be selected. One, of tbe four
buildings of tbe Palsce of Art Is de
voted entirely to statuary.
Tbe Palace of Forestry, Fish and
Game Is in tbe western part of the
grounds, covering four ncres. The
physical culture exhibits Is altuftedln
the westeru part of the grounds, and
adjacent to It Is the fine large ath
letic field, with amphitheatre aeatlnjj
twenty-seven thousand people-
this field tbe games will take placedur-
lng the summer.
In this hurried glance at the Exposi
tion of 1004, we must not forget that
very interesting quarter, known as the
Pike. This is the aninsenient street
of tbe Esposltlon. The visitor ril
certainly open his eyes In amazement
when be sees tile array of amusements)
spread out for bis delectatlw. IIt 1*
a long story lu Itself, to tell
been prepared for ills entertnlfWcnL
The Pike is considerably more inn# **.
mile long, and upon either side are
ranged about fifty elaborate and ex--
treinely novel shows. Some of them
cover us many as ten or eleven acres
each. „ .
The World's Fair will open on bat-
urdny. April JO. with fitting ceremon
ies.. Upon that occasion an nntlieiu
writteiJ by Ediuund Clarence Stedman
will be sung by a chorus of six hun
dred voices. The muslc-by the em
inent composer. Professor Jdbn K#
Paine, of Harvard University—ns well
ns the poem, was written especially
for this occasion upon the Invitation
of the Exposition. Frank VrtAder-
PALACE OF MACUINEHY. WORLDS FAlit, COVERS TEN
Copyrighted, 1904, by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
essel, leading Anita and her maid,
Uoth tho women appeared dated with
fright, but they obeyed tho captain’s
orders quieter and with greater expe
dition than I should have expected of
them. The stern of a frlgatoon being
large nnd square, It affords a better
mark for au enemy’s guns than any
other part of the vessel, nnd In tho
captain’s judgment It was safest for
the women to be concealed in my j
cabin, situated In the fore-part; where
they were accordingly placed with all
haste, and the door barricaded on the
outside with bales of merchandise. |
a nose arrangements being speedily
made the captain addressed himself
to me and his men as we stood In
groups round about him helplessly
gazing at the huge hulls of the Turk
ish vessels as they approached ns: !
“Qomrndes and fellow-citizens! — the ;
enemy of your State nnd of all Chris
tendom Is about to add to the mnny
proofs of his treachery and cowardice. !
Behold, Venice and the Turks arc at
pence; ours is a small vessel, built for
trade and not for war. And It seems ;
that the tremendous sea strength of j
the Great Turk is to be debased to
dolug tho work of a corsair’s galley, j
we being the victims! Wc have but j
one brass cannon aboard, and that j
good for nothing but signalling, while
the thirty-four Turks are well armed. !
and the lightest of them is three times ;
as heavy as we! Escape is impossible, *
but though we number only eighteen
men, we can avoid being taken alive. j
Let us fight with all our strength, and »
so die, remembering that life with the *
Turk is worse than many deaths.” |
Though second to none in valor it
was but a feeble cheer with which the
Venetian sailors greeted this speech. \
Had they been about to engage in a ’
fair battle, none would have been
more enthusiastic than they, but an !
execution excites no enthusiasm, es
pecially in the victims, and such it
seemed was to be the character of the
coming encounter.
To be continued.
eastern part of the grounds. Tbe
main entrunce to the Exposition will
let the visitor into the centre of this
group. As each building covers from
eight to fifteen ucres nnd contains
several miles of aisles, lined on either
side by most interesting exhibits, the
visitor will see his time slipping away
with a world of things yet remaining
to be seen.
The Government bos spent more ou
this Exposition than It has ever ex
pended before. First, It gave $5,000,000
to the gouernl fund of the Exposition,
upon consideration that the city of St.
Louis would raise $10,000,000. This
of course was promptly dene. Then,
the Government appropriated nearly
x million nnd . half more for buildings
_,«d exhibits, and a few weeks ago de
cided to make n loan of $4,000,000 to
the Exposition In order to have the
elaborate plans carried out to their
completeness. The Government can
not lose much on this Investment at
St. Louis, for the reason that St. Louis
returns in internal revenue taxes for
the Eastern half of Missouri alone,
over $15,000,000 n year.
I wish I might describe the great
•enuty of the Government building.
It Is 800 feet long nnd stands on n
broad terrace upon the hillside, over
looking the grand group of exhibit
RUSSIA’S VICEROY.
Admiral AleieleO a Master Mind, • Maatrr
XVIII and a M a* ter fa 1 Hand.
Admiral E. I. Alexelcff. described
by Senator Beveridge in his book.
“The Russian Advance.” ns “a master
mind, a master will, altogether a mas
terful man.” is the subject of an in
forming article by Charles Jobuston.
in Harper’s Weekly. Admiral Alex-
cieff has tolled for years at the build
ing of a new region of Russian Influ
ence. n region nearly ns large as tbe
combined area of France and Ger
many. ami with a fringe of possible
future acquisitions mnny times great
er, only to see the whole of his life
work threatened with dissolution. “In
this llfework.” says Mr. Johnston, “he
has accomplished miracles almost, fac-
ing conditions of great nnd unexpect-
eu difficulty, amid surroundings alter
nately picturesque with the glamor of
the East nnd squalid with intrigue
and physical wretchedness. Through
all these difficulties Admiral Alex-
eleff has acted with constant resolu
tion, force, rapidity, and constructive
new scieuce of forestry has here a
most luteresting exemplification.
In tho central western part of tbe
grouuds are many of the Foreign Gov
ernment I’avIIIous. Some fifty for
eign nutlous are taking active part in
the World’s Fair, several of them
spending more than a half-million dol
lars each. These are-Englnud. France,
Germany, Brazil, Japnu and Chiua.
Japan alone has brought seventy -
eight thousand exhibits.
Tbe displays from tbe I’hillpplne Isl
ands form a very attractive feature
of the Exposition. There are some
eighty thousand of these exhibits ar
ranged lu buildings upon a reserva
tion of forty acres, lying west of the
l’alacc of Agriculture.
About thirty acres are given up to
an exhibit of the North Amerlcnri In
dians, their Industries nnd home life.
A large space Is devoted to the aerial
concourse. Here will be held the series
of airship trials and contests, upon
which the Exposition has planned to
expend $200,000. Of this sum, $100,-
000 is to be given as a grand prize to
the aeronaut who will sail nn airship
in the quickest time over a fourteen-
mile course.
The quadrennial Olympic games are
to be held at the World’s Fair this
year. A large building devoted to
stuckeu, director of the Cincinnati Or
chestra, has written a march, and
Henry K. Hadley, of New York, has
written a waltz, also upon luvltatioiwjgi
of the Exposition, for its musical pro
grams.
The central feature of the Expo
sition, or what Is Intended to be the
most beautiful scene in the whole
grand picture,, is made up of Cascade
Gardens, the Colounde of Stute* and
the Hall of Festivals. The garden*
with their cascades and statuary, and
the elaborate architectural features, -
are nearly a half n mile from east to
west and represent ton expenditure of
one million dollars. It is the roost urn-
bltlous scheme of formal gardening ever
undertaken at an Exposition, or else
where. The Festival Hall, 200 feet
lu diameter aud 200 feet high, con
tains the' largest organ In tbe world,
nnd has a seating capacity for thirty-
five hundred people.
Practically all St. Lonis Is preparing
to accommodate World’s Fair visi
tors. Tbe private homes will be open
for the reception of guests throughout
the Exposition. Tbe prices will be from
50c. to $1.50 per day for each person
for rooms. Restaurants are so plenti
ful that meals may be bad in almost
sny locality where the visitors may
happen to stop.
MUSIC AND ANIMALS.
Some very curious experiments have
recently been carried out In the Ger
man Zoological Gardens in order to
ascertain the actual Influence of music
upon animals. The Instrument was
the violin nnd Herr Baker was tbe per
former.
Of all the animals the puma was the
most sensitive to the musical influ
ence. His moods changed rapidly, ac
cording to the nature of tbe melody,
the animal frequently becoming very
excited nnd nervous, “Just llkr a
Frenchman,” ».* the report says.
Leopards were entirely unconcerned,
but the lions appeared to be afraid, al
though their cubs wanted to dance
when the uslc became livelier. The
hyenas were very much terrified, but
•the monkeys were merely curious and
the monkeys were merly curious.
The experiments are to be continued,
and wl.h a variety of instruments. In
order to distinguish between the men
tal states which are actually produced
by the music nnd those which are
merely the resuit of an unusual ex-
Deri Scientific American.
N.RAYS AND DIGESTION.
ThU Process Cnnses Their KralMlon, M
% Dors Muscular Activity.
That the processes of digestion, as
well ns mental and muscular activity,
seem to cause the emission of N-rny»,
Is the conclusion reached by M. Lam
bert, in France, after a series of inter
esting experiments. He believes that
these curious rays are produced by
ferments, especially by those con
cerned In the digestion of albuminoid
matter. In his experiments on diges
tion, says n writer In Harper’s Week
ly. M. Lambert placed a small quantity
of fibrin in tubes containing In one
case activated pancreatic Juice, and
In another artificial gastric juice made
by mixing five per cent, solution of
pepsin with a four per cent, solution
of hydrochloric acid. From these
tubes the N-rays were emitted, and
were detected not only by producing
Increased luminescence of a phos
phorescent screen, but also photo
graphically, thus removing tbe sub
jective element from the experiment
As a result of these experiments, M.
Lambert believes that In the course
of digestion tbe fibrin undergoes
strains which act to produce N-rays.
In a Dublin pa^er some time since
was a biographies! notice of Robes
pierre, which concluded as follows:
“This extraordinary man left no chit-
dred behind him, except his brother,
who was killed at the same time.”-' j
Glasgow Times. .. . I
Magic Crowes, London Society Craxe. J
The latest society craze seems to be
the game of magic crosses. These
crosses, of small size and In a number
of various colors, are laid on a table
in a straight line, and the person holds
a magnet, which he moves slowly
down the long line of crosses. One
by one. but not in rotatiou, tbe crosses
are attached to the magnet, nnd when
they are’at last all arranged In order,
the expert cau gaiu nn insight into tbe
character and fate of the experimenter.
Even Cabinet Ministers have consult
ed the magic crosses.—Onlooker.
Evidence.
This happened in Scotland. The last
editions of newspapers, with the re
sult of the great Perth walk, had been
sold out, and the boys were calculat
ing their takings. “Hullo.” said Jim
my, in alarm, “I’m a ’apenny short!”
“Well, wbat’a the nse of ’arpln’ on it?”
growled Dick, as he calmly cracked a
nut. “You don’t think I took it, do
you?* “No, I don’t say you ’ave,”
said Jimmy, slowly; “I don’t say you
*ave. But there it is. I’m a 'apenny
short, and you’re a-eating uuts, yer
know.*”—London News.
A Subtle Hint.
“U’s curious, mighty curious,” ob
served Mr. Slypurr. as he picked up
his overcoat, "how some lucky fellows
get a reputation without half trying.
Look at Job, for instance, as a syu-
onytn for patience.”
“Why, wasn’t he tried to the limit,
of endurance?” cried the shocked Mrs.
Slypurr.
"Not much,” replied Mr. Slypurr.
calmly. “At least there is no record
of his having to struggle with a torn
sleeve lining in his overcoat all
ter.”—Harper’* Bazar.
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