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Legends, and the most delightful
stories of daring, adventure and
love. The hero of
I‘OVER THE BORDER”
is Ralph Kmbleton, who leaves
home at tlie age of seventeen, on
account of the cruel treatment of
his guardian, Matthew Humble.
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The location with which this
story deals is Northumberland,
England, and the time about A. D.
1764. The Northern coast of En
gland has always been noted as the
scene and source of innumerable
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and YOU should read “ OVER
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chapter. Once beginning its peru
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A VOICE IN A DREAM.
It was only a voice in a dream.
But it spa ice to me sweet itud low
Twas ; roiee tbat I used to fcDOw
When it cheered my way
In the poldeu day
Of summer long a^t).
It was only a voice In a dream;
Twas n t strange that 1 cave a start
When its deep tones entered my heart,
That i:i loneness sighed
As its pul>e replied;
*‘Oh, so long to be apart!"
It was only a voice in a dream;
But it carried a joy to me.
1 interpret, and 1 can see
A glorified day
And not tar away,
When m3* love comes home from sea.
Come again, dear voice, in a dream.
In tr.y sleep, tnv lone heart to cheer!
There ** nothing so sweet to hear.
Give me joy each night
Till I wake to light
\.nd to find my loved one near!
—George Birdseye i:i Detroit Free Press.
ITe Didn’t Seem Sympathetic.
“How did you like Mr Battle?” asked
her husband, over the tea table.
“Wei!. I can’t say that I liked him par
ticulariy," was the reply.
4 Why, I felt sure you would be pleased
with him, he is such a thoroughly good
and earnest man. ”
“Oh. I don't doubt that,, and I do like
his sermons. But 1 don't think much of
him for a pastor ”
“Why. what is the trouble?”
The wrath and disappointment that had
been increasing ever since the minister’s
departure broke forth.
“Well, I don't care who a maff is or how
learned he is, when he comes to make a
friendly call at my house, and I have my
baby all fixed up and brought in for his
special benefit, 1 think it's as little us the
man can do to pay some attention to the
child, and that man sat here a full hour,
with that dear, sweet baby under las
very nose, and never even looked at her,
or asked her name. He don’t seem sym
pathetic, and 1 know I sha’n’t like him.”
—Youth’s Companion.
Absolute Lost Time.
What time is it? Before you answer,
deduct a quarter of a second or add a
quarter. Every watch or clock that is
supposed to be correct, that is warranted,
that runs by a chronometer, is out of the
way at least a quarter of a second in every
twenty lour hours. There is no such
thing as correct time on the face of the
earth Yes, that is so If you want the
corrcctest of correct time dig a hole in the
ground, take your watch or clock along,
get some one to stand on the edge of the
hole, call out “Greenwich time!” and then
pull the hole in after you. There is no
vibration in tlie hole, and it is the vibra
tion or oscillation of the earth that makes
the chronometer continually go wrong.—
Chicago Times.
The Philosopher's Acl vice.
An 'old philosopher sat in his library. A
beautiful maiden entered the room. “Good
man,” she said. "I have come to ask your
advice. Two men have made me an offer
1 of marriage.”
“Ah. and you do not know which one to
I accept," the philosopher replied.
“You understand the situation. One
I of the men is handsome, rich and a liter
; ary genius.”
i “And the other one?”
I “He is ugly, poor and regarded as a
I fool.”
; “My child." said the philosopher.“marry
! the fool, for should you marry the genius,
I you would occupy the place of fool.” —
Arkansaw Traveler.
It Happened in Chicago.
Mrs Packer presents Mr. Northside to
Mrs Southside.
Mr. Northside—l have had the pleasure
i of meeting Mrs Southside before. I be
; lieve
Mrs. S. —Pardon me! I don't remember.
Mr N.—Think a moment.
Mu. S. (after a profound meditation) —
Oh, 1 beg a thousand pardons! 1 recall
the occasion now. You were rnv very
first husband I’m such a stupid little
thing. So glad to see you. How is the
present Mrs. Northside?—Washington
Critic.
Forgot [Ns Other Name.
Sunday School Teacher —Now. Bobby,
can you tell me what the distance was
from Dan to Deersheba.
Bobby (hesitatingly)—The distance from
Dan to Beersjieba was—was
Sunday School Teacher —Well, what
makes you stop? Don’t you know how
far Dan was from Beersheba?
Bobby Yes. sir; but —but —I’m just
trying to think\what Dan’s other name
was. —.Detroit Free Press.
It Didn’t Take Much.
I . Widow Hardfare (landlady)—My hus
band used to say, poor man, that lie
Always felt, better for it if he got up from
the tabU just a littib hungry.
Sarcastic Boarder (only a week behind
with his board and consequently inde
pendent)—l s’pose, Mrs. Hardfare, th&t
• your husband felt good pretty much all
the time. —Texas Siftings.
Too Much for One.
“Are you admiring the new moon, Miss
j Clara?'” he said as he came softly up from
I the gate.
“Yes, Mr. Sampson, I have been gating
at it so long that my neck fairly aches.’*
“You shouldn’t try to look at it alone,”
he said, tenderly, and then ho sat down
and divided the labor- New York Sun.
MckJ -Popnlur Paper.
A reporter connected with one of our
1 leading daily papers canvassed a train
| the other morning as to what paper \v£s
I altogether the most popular Lis own
| journal received four votes, while the re
j mainiug sixty-two were evenly divided
; between wall paper and ily paper.—Har
| per’s Bazar.
Music for the Gabies. ,r
Angry Citizen (to collector little Ger
man Land) —No money hero. Your al
leged music has just awakened nay four
children.
Collector—Ah, dot vas fine, my frent;
dose font ieetie children, dey enjoys dot
s-veet moosic, too, Dot vas line.”—The
Epoch.
Lawn T-ernis Suits.
Some one who has noticed that lawn
tennis suits are made loud this year says
that they are made so to go with the
racquet. ° ,
*“I earn my bread by the sweat of my
browse, as the cow said in the hot
. meadow.—Pittsburg Bulletin.
I lie boy who undertook to ride a horse
radish 4 is now tearfully practicing on a
saddle erf mutton. —Truth.
THE NUPTIAL KNOT.
MARRIAGE CUSTOMS AND CEREMO
NIES OF MANY LANDS.
Weddings Among the Primitive Jews.
Among the Ancient Babylonians —ln
OiJ Norway—Tlie Laws of Scotland,
Ireland, England and Wales.
In the earliest records that have come
down to us, very little is said about the
ceremony by which a couple were ordi
uarily united Among the primitive Jews
there was a betrothal and espousal, but
no further formal ceremony except the.
mere removal of the bride from her
father’s house to that of the bridegroom
or his father At a later time the cere
monies began to be more elaborate. On
the wedding day the bride would be as
elegantly attired as her circumstances
would permit, and veiled like Rebecca A
maid was always married on the fourth
day of the week, and a widow on the fifth
During the ceremony the father, if be
were the celebrator, would take the hand
of liis daughter and give-her to the bride
gom, saying “Behold, take her after
the law of Moses and lead her away ” If
tlie father did not act as celebrator the
rabbi or head of the synagogue would
take the extremity of the scarf or gar
ment which was around the bridegroom’s
neck and cover the head <>f the bride with
it, after which lie consecrated a cup of
wine and gave it to the two contracting
parties
THE MODERN CUSTOM.
In modern times a canopy of silk is
usually put up under which the bride
and bridegroom stand on either side of
the parents or guardians, and in front is
the chief rabbi, standing between the two
ministers of the synagogue. Then the
bridegroom presents the ring (which \yas
only a modern custom in lieu of dower)
The ring is examined by the chief rabbi,
who asks the happy man if the ring is his
own. and being answered in the affirma
tive the bridegroom places the ring upon
the forefinger of the bride, saying: “Be
hold, thou art sanctified to me, according
to the law of Moses and Israel ” Then
follow blessings and prayers by tlie
rabbi, after which one of the synagogue
officials deposits on the ground at the
foot of the bridegroom a small board,
upon which an ordinary wine glass is
placed The bridegroom then stamps
upon it and dashes it to pieces, when all
assembled cry out: “Mazzletouri! Mazzle
touri!" (Good luck! Good luck!) Then
follow the usual handshakings and con
gratulations, and the ceremony is over.
Among the ancient Babylonians the
ceremonies were originally the same.
There were festivals lasting three days,
and in their course occurs the following
curious custom The bridegroom was
placed within a circle of dancers, and the
guests and bystanders then proceeded to
stick small coins upon his forehead As
the money fell it was caught in an open
handkerehiof held under bis chin. After
this a party of young men would rush
into the crowd and carry off the most
wealthy guests and lock them up in a
dark room until they paid proper ransom,
which would go to sweil tlie dowry.
The custom that guests at a wedding
should make presents to the bride and
bridegroom is very old; in fact, it has
been observed in all parts of the world by
many people arid at all periods of the
world’s history The old Greek, the
Roman and the Jew all did it, and it is a
common custom among even savage t ribes
to.this day, but the presents made vary
with the t v ple making them, and with '
tlie rank which is given to woman in the
national customs In old Norway the
bride’s wedding outfit included a shield, a
sword and an ax, it being supposed that
she would need these to protect herself
against her husband’s blows
TIIE LAWS OK SCOTLAND.
The easiest wedding to make hi any
civilized country in the world at the
present time is what is known as a < <<m
mon law marriage under the laws of Scot
land. Such weddings have been held
valid for at least 700 years, but labor un
der the disadvantage of being considered
disreputable “The leading principle,”
said Lord Deas. in a judgment delivered
by him a fewmears ago. “is that consent
makes mamage. No ceremony, civil or
religious; no notice before or publication
after, no consummation, no cohabitation,
no writing, no witnesses, even, are essen
tial.” A peculiar feature of this kind of
marriage is that the “law of the place”
governs the marriage, hence all persons,
though not of Scottish domicile, may, by
a very little foolishness, find themselves
securely married by the operation of the
Scottish law.
Lll Ireland an important part of the
ceremony is a collection for the priest,
which sometimes amounts to £2O cr £”0.
The Irish peasantry are ingenious in do
ing this so as to secure the largest re
sults. and here is one of the methods A
wedding feast is provided and eaten Im
mediately upon the removal of the cloth
the priest marries the young couple, and
the bride cake is brought in and placed
before tlie priest, who, putting on his
. stole, blesses it and cuts it up into small
slices, which are handed around on u
large dish among the.guests '■-Each one
takes a slice of the cake, and lays down
in the place of it a don tioiwfor the priest,
consisting of pounds, crowns or shillings,
according to the ability of the donor If
the amount given by any guest bo not
considered sufficient, Close present are by
no means slow in making it uncomforta
ble for the guest until he shall pay a
proper amount.
In many places in England and Ireland
it is considered prudent on the part of the
bride to take care at frhe altar to put her
right foot before that of the bridegroom,
for then she will be sure to get the better
of him during the whole of the married
life. This is especially prudent in Wales,
for, under the Welsh law, a husband
might administer three blows with a
stick on any part of the person (except
the head) of his wife in case she misbe
haved, and another directed thatWhe stick
should not be longer than the husband's
arm nor thicker than his middle finger.—
Marcus Lane in Chicago Globe.
Ihe Indian’s Ethical Qualities.
The only results of Indian education I
have witnessed (ire those which 1
have’seen at Hampton, Va., and Carlisle,
Pa. The Indian mind appears to be a
slow moving mind. The Indian is less
quick to imitate than the negro. Lwit his
ethical qualities appear to me to be higher ,
than those of lie has less
imagination but a keener sense of honor
nnd integrity. He is more honest, more
fruthfffl, more faithful, if he is fairly
treated. There is some truth in the j
charges made against him of lying and
stealing; but these vices chiefly due
to liis'ready adoption of th'qAmotto that
“all is fair in war;” and Ins ie'hitions
wifti the white races have been for years
those of almost constant warfare. —Lyman
Abbott in The-Epoch.
Right Doing from Inclination.
Contemplate mow the doings of one
whose aets according to Kant have no
moral worth He goes through his daily
work not thinking of duty to wife and
child but having in his thought the
pleasure of witnessing their welfare, and
on reaching home he delights to see his
little girl with rosy cheeks and laughing
eyes eating heartily When he hands
back to A shopkeeper the shilling given in
excess of right change, he does uot stop
to ask what the moral law requires the
thought of profiting by the mans mis
take is intrinsically repugnant to him.
One who is drowning he plunges in to
rescue without nay idea of duty, but be
cause he cannot contemplate without
horror the death which threatens. If for
a worthy man who is out of employment
he takes much trouble to find a place, he
does it because the consciousness of the
man's difficulties is painful to him, ana
because he knows that he will bencht not
only him but tlie employer who engages
him; no moral maxim enters his mind.
When he goes to see a sick friend the
gentle tones of his voice and the kindly
expression of his face show that he is
come not from any sense of obligation,
but. because ] ity and a desire to raise his
friend’s spirits have moved him. If ho
aids in some public measure which helps
men to help themselves, it is not in pur
suance of the admonition “do as you
would be done by," but because the dis
tresses around him make him unhappy
and the thought of mi:igating them gives
him pleasure. And so throughout; lio
ever does the right thing, not in obedience
to any injunction, but because he loves
the right thing in and for itself And
now who would not like to live in a world
where every one was thus characterized'
—“The Ethics of Kant." by Herbert Spen
cer. in Popular Science Monthly
American Inventions in Madrid.
The Spaniard makes no distinction be
tween Englishmen and North Americans,
but labels them indiscriminately as “In
gleses.” “American" heie means South
American, and if you tell the natives you
are an American they are apt to express
surprise that you do not speak Spanish as
fluently as they do. What is particularly
aggravating is to find a number of Ameri
cau inventions utilized in Spain and in
variably placed t*> the credit of the “In
gleses." I was annoyed to find that street
cars are supposed to be an English in von
tion; but my indignation rose to fevr-r
heat when I entered a place marked
“English Drinks” and found—a genuin-
American soda water fountain, an article
positively unknown in England.
The word “Ingleses” meets the eye at
every corner in modern Madrid There
are for sale English hats, English cravats.
English biscuits. English candles and
matches, etc One also comes across
German goods occasionally—a lithographic
establishment or a Wagner opera in the
window of a music store by the side <>f
“Carmen;" but the English predominates,
even over the French, which has always
hitherto made its influence felt in Madrid
In fact, the Spanish capital has never been
a thoroughly Spanish city Though
known to hist'-cy almost a thousand years,
it remained a mere village until Charles
V made it his occasional residence, and
Phillip 11, in 1560, his capital and even
then it did not grow with special rapidity,
for of its 500,000 inhabitants, 300,000 have
been added in the last thirty years—con
sequently a large part of the city has an
essentially modern aspect, resembling
other European cities.—Cor New York
Post.
Lecturing the Na'fvcs.
Four native carriers were missing
They had got homesick, and run away in
the night. I knew well that as soon as
the other three men of their tribe heard
the news, they would go and do likewise,
so 1 ordered them to be told what bail
happened, and then sent to my tent
Their dialect was quite unkn fvn tome,
and yet 1 must impress them somehow
They appeared, and, like the judge put
ting on the black cap, I drew my revolver
from under my pillow, laid it before me,
and proceeded to address them. Begin
ning with a few general remarks on the
weather, I first briefly sketched the geoi
ogy of Africa, and then broke into an im
passioned defense of the British constitu
tion.
The three miserable sinners—they had
done nothing in the world—quaked like as
pens. I then followed up my advantage by
intoning, in a voice of awful solemnity, the
enunciation of the forty-seventh proposi
tion of Euclid, and threw all my energy
into a blood curdling “quod erat demon
strand uni.” **
Scene two followed when I was alone:
I turned on my pillow and wept for
shame. It was a prodigious piece of ras
cality, but it succeeded perfectly.
These men were, to the end, the most
faithful I had They felt that they owed
me their lives, for, according to African
custom, the sins of their fellow tribesmen
should have been visited upon them, and
they never forgot my clemency.—“Tropi
cal Africa. "
The Ht'.'rew’s Financial Methods.
It is in finance rather than in trade,
however, that the Uelfrew millionaires
have acquired rh. st of their millions.
They may nave begun as peddlers or
office boys, but when they had 'scraped
together a little capital they commenced
to use it in the money market to make
more. It is worth noting, however, that
Jewish speculators, in the sense of mere
gamblers on the stock market, are rare
among the millionaires The Seligmaas,
Vv'ormsm-s mid lire rest have gained vast
profits in stock speculation, it is true,
.but the foundations of their businesses
■*are laid on a legitimate and sound bank
ing basis Intrepid as the Jew is in
taking chances, it is an instinct with him
to have some force in reserve, while the
average gentile speculator will gamble
a wav his last dollar, and that of other
people entrusted to him, going fairly mad
under the e::ellament of the act. —Alfred
in New'York Nevys.
No Hope for the Future.
“It grieves me to look back over a
wasted life,” said a comparatively young
doctor to a Chicago gi-rl "To think that
with fame and fortune i,n my peach I have
turned from them ki order to pursue an
humble career. ”
“But it'is not too late to begin anew,”
she suggested. />
“xYlas; I realize too forcibly that k is.”
“Can you not one great final
effort?” J
“No. lam too old*to learn to plav
baseball. ”
“Yes,” she said softly. “It is very,
very said.” —Merchant Traveler.
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Not a Difficult Matter.
The inventor of the circular saw lies
buried in a Michigan church yard, and it
is proposed to, monument over his
remains. A dollar apiece from every man
with a stub thumb or a short complement
of fingers will do the business.—Once a
Week.
A WONDERFUL RAILROAD.
From Moncow to St. Petersburg— Ivan and
11 i.< Friend.
When the railway was first opened be
tween Moscow and St Petersburg it was
an object of great terror to the supersti
tious peasantry of northern Russia who
thought there must certainly be some
witchcraft or magic in an invention which
could make a ti/dn of heavy cars run
along without horses at the rate of
twenty miles an hour, when the best
speed of the wagons to which they .were
accustomed was only three miles an hour,
or four at t lie very out side
Some of them would not even go within
sigiit of a train, and made the sign of the
cross whenever they heard one rattle past.
Others peeped timidly over the palisade
of the railway station to catch a glimpse
of the smoke breathing creature, which
they believed to be a living monster, and
when the steam whistle sounded they
cried out. “Hear him screaming! He’s
hungry, and wants to eat somebody*" and
took to their heels at once
But little by little this terror began to
wear away. The village priests were seen
to go to and fro by train, and the simple
country folk thought that what they did
could not be wrong. By degrees the
peasants themselves began to try the
“smoke wagons" too, and one day an old
man named Ivan Petrovitch Masloff, who
had never been out of his own village till
then, made up his mind to go and have a
look at “Mother Moscow." which all Rus
sian peasants reverence as the finest city
in the world, and the real capital of
Russia
Now it happened that the down express
and tlie up express met each other at the
station of Bologoe (midway between Mos
cow and St Petersburg), the pass
engers of both trains stopped half an
hour to have supper Among the crowd
of people that got out of the other train
Ivan suddenly recognized an old friend.
The two went into the refreshment room
together, had a chat over their steaming
tumblers of tea and lemon juice, and then
Ivan, without thinking of what lie was
doing, got into his friend’s train instead
of his own, and was soon traveling back
toward the spot whehce he had started.
Their talk went on merrily for a while,
for Ivan’s friend nevei thought of asking
the old man which way he was going.
But presently Ivan began to grow silent
and grave, as if pondering something
which puzzled him very much; and at
length, after sitting for nearly five min
utes without uttering a word, he sud
denly broke out;
“Ah, Pavel Yurievitch" (Paul, son of
George), “what a wonderful thing these
railroads are, to be sure! Here am 1 going
to Moscow, and here are you going to St.
Petersburg, and yet we’re both traveling
in the same carl” —David Ker in Harper’s
Magazine.
Himlu Women and Children.
Hindustani women are passionately at
tached to their children, especially to the
sons, who are the crown and glory of
their lives. Nor are they without affec
tion for tiieir little daughters, who must
be transplanted so early to other house
holds. They try to take good care of
them all. If prayers and offerings to the
gods and to Brahmins could keep the
little ones in health, then would Hindu
children never know a pain, but in their
ignorance of the simplest rules of health,
the mothers often cause sickness to come
to the beings they love more titan life.
Diseases of the eyes are very prevalent in
India, and the children suffer even more
than adults. A curious custom prevails
of drawing a black line at the base of the
lower eyelashes witA; preparation called
surma. They t Link This protects the eyes
from inflammation, and also that it adds
to their beautv
In sickness they formerly depended
upon their prie.-,: s who have a little
knowledge of roots and herbs Now
there are well educated native doctors in
all the cities, who are employed by
government to take charge of hospitals,
under the superintendence of an English
physician But the poor people in the
villages suffer greatly from the lack of
medical treatment When a child is sick,
the anxious mother gets the best advice
and mediciue she can, and,redoubles her
prayers to the gods If the child dies
she is overwhelmed with sorrow and
despair, fearing that some sin of her own
has caused the death of the child, or that
its sin has hurried it into another exist
ence where, as a savage beast or venom
ous reptile, it must expatiate its guilt.
The vague doctrine of the transmigration
of souls does not afford much comfort to
the Hindu No hope of recognition or
reunion is held out. and yet, with the
utmost inconsistency, the people often
speak of paradise and of meeting dear
ones there.— Mrs. H J Humphrey in
Demo rest’s Monthly.
Victims of “Nervous Dyspepsia.”
A malady that seems to have become
alarmingly pr valent of late goes by the
name of “nervous dyspepsia. ” The doc
tors are getl ing up as great a run on this
term as they did on malaria a few years
ago. If a man has a queer fancy of any
sort, ora woman imagines that a burglar
is really under the bed, it is a certain case
of nervous dyspepsia, just as an ordinary
headache is sM down to malaria It is
astonishing, though, how heartily some
of these victims < f nervous dyspepsia car
fill themselves.with food, and ho.v iioady
they all are to grab every good thing go
ing that they can reach It is sheer hum
bug in the doctors to use this term at all,
or t’o encourage people in the notion that
they have any such malady, but then
there is quite as much humbug among
the doctors as among any other class,
possibly even a little more Hundreds of
men in perfectly good general health, and
attending to business as regularly as they
ever did, will tell you, if. asked how they
are, that they ire utterly wretched from
nervous dyspepsia, and go on to dilate <>n
the symptoms at a tiresome length The
doctor has told them that’s want’s the
matter, when probably the real trouble is
only a stomach temporarily cut of order,
and as t he phrase sounds.well they repeat
it at every opportunity It is a peculiar
ity of the man who fancies he has nervous
dyspepsia to be more of a crank than any
other crank.—Nee* York "Cur. Detroit
Free Press. *•
His Cast Girl's- Photo.
It is the proper thing for the young
man who can afford it to keep the photo
graph of his best girl, framed in solid sil
ver, standing on his writing The
frames are about an inch broad, and are
plain or fancy to suit the taste, but tho |
majority of those imported from England
are.faney. include cherubs
and cherub faces, heads of beasts, heads
of goblins, forms of elfs, masks of fierce
aspect, and a running vine of some sort,
that twines in and out among'the figures.
The inner edge of rue very pretty frame
is made of a rope, ith a square knot
where the ends of the rope come together
at the bottom. The frames cost on the
average fpdO each.—New York Sun.