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ITio fata morgana is n singular aerial
phenomenon nlcln to the mirage. It i t
seen In many parts of the world, but
.most freriuently and In greatest por-
•fiction at the strait of Mraslnn. be
tween Sicily and Italy. many con
ditions must coincide, however, that
even there It is of comparatively rare
occurrence. To allow of its product lor
the sun must he at an angle cf <P
gives with the water, both sky and s:
must lie calm, and the tidal current suf
ficiently strong to cause the water It
the center to rise higher than on the
edges of the strait. When those condi
tions are fully met. the observer on the
heights of Calabria, locking towai-i
Messina, will hollo'd a series «-r rapid.;
changing pictures, sometimes of most
c.Mjukilte beauty.
Casdlcs, colonnades. suceesMomi o!
beautiful arches, palaces, cities, with
houses and streets and church domes,
mountains, fores: ., grottoes, will ap
pear and vanish, to he i.ucc, eded per
haps by lice's of ships, sometimes
placidly sailing over the deep, some
times Inverted, while a halo like a
rainbow surrounds every Image. It Is
supposed that the Iro-igvs are tine to
the Irregular refractive (towers of the
different layers of air above the sen
which magnify, repeat un.,1 distort tin-
objects on the Sicilian shore layout!,
but to the Italians these singular ap
pearances a/e the castles of the Prin
cess Morgana, ami the view of them is
pierced no happy
Tile 1 or: i r of fattened doors:
The Cun lay tlsVk upon the floors
Where reset,nary vas strewn ar.d rue.
IIu* on s certain day r.mo one
Vi’l.-j l.nr.ikn! and would not be denied
.’a I tiirr.v I!--- rutted casements wide
Anil e:-1i t I t : ii tlie wind arid sun.
Tin- dlr.-.v v- l.a liiat irrief had spun,
•III - d-.-M r.uit f.i l ncsloet had laid,
Tiie ta il'd htagir.;,?, rent oral frayed,
Had vai.ifiit-d (re Ids work wao done.
Oil. Ire i-.a-.ii ewept my heart for me
( Ida of rorrnv.-lng ar.d uuuht,
.‘•id lie hath set it all about
V.'i It i-i-ace and harp;,- eertaintyl
Oil, homo he clad for such as lie
And very sweet nor let him And
That ghost one tenant left behind,
Ilia: Fidnt, sad eyed memory!
—Tlieodosia Oarrieon In Harper’s bazar.
beholder.
"I s.-ticl there wasn't no break In off.
didn't 1 ? What’s the use of cress <;tic:;-
tionin n feller like he was on the wit
ness stall’?”
“Lots of use, my young man. nain’t
I tole you more times 'n you’ve got
lagers and toes that uiy mind and mil’s
mind is sot on this here marriage?
Don't our farms jine, and isn't she
Skeleton In the Clouet.
The original of the singular saying.
“A skeleton in the closet.” which is
found in almost every language in i-.u-
Tope, is found in out' *' those curious
'collections of stories wnicli the monks
of the middle ages were fond of mak
ing both for their own amusement and only chile, and haiu’t you a only eldie?
for the Instruction of youth. In one of Ilain't you got no gumtiou uur com-
these eoileetlons. eoiopll-.-d by an u:i : inon senseV"
known hand ul.oat the middle of the I “She said not. She said I didn’t
tenth century, there is a story of a • know enough to peel b’i’ied pertaters
vc.i-lthy lady " lio, I.avlgg a seerei afore eatin 'em or to keep awake when
grief, confided ii to a frliuid who was | j was -i-c-ourti-n of her."
npparcnil.v a perfectly lmppy woman, j “Sho imin’t so fur wrong, t-Itlier. And
She was the wife of a nobleman who ! what did you say?”
souih of “i tole her cbe didn't have Interlock
enough to talk iso'a to keep nobody
■ awake and that e!' I was a-piekiu and
a-ehoosin fur beauty she'd lie at the
foot of the class; That's what I tole
her.”
“Well?” .
“She ordered mo to git cut and said
ef she ever see me on that farm from
heneefor'ard she’d set the dogs on my,
and ! tole her. the dogs would have a
confounded easy time of it so fur as 1
was cour.arned. But there was no
break in off.”
Then the old man informed the boy
that if the engagement wasn’t* renewed
within tl! hours he'd leave every,
"darned dollar to a sanuytorium fur
fools.”—Detroit Free Press.
lived In ills ensile in
France. She and her husband were
outwardly on the most loving terms
Not a care cloud seemed to cast t
shadow on her path.
After hearing the story of tin c&llci-
ed friend the noble lady took her by
tIk hand and led her m a secret chain-
be. adjoining her bedrnn;n. there open
ed the door of a closet am! exposed a
skeleton "Know, my friend.” she
said, "ii.) one is happy Mr cry day I
nia forced b,v my husband to kiss this
Kt'mtilng denili brad. ii iha-i of p
gentleman who was my irmUi.-.mi’s ri
val 'and whom I would have mnn-led
bail nut my pan nis v, !!!•."! otherwise."
^ A Sh-ik.'-’. Ibis life? Hu Id.
“I am glad cr,f g unc is Mary.” said
Mr. Sill weeaeli I j Jiis sweetheart,
whom lie (i:id been <soar'!.ftg Cz; several
)
TV.'ky so?"
"Let a use ( was reading today and
WW* across y llitd whirl) mid. 'M:uy is
tile sweetest iittuie that woman ever
lim e.' ”
"flint Is poetically .expressed. . I’ve
World's I.oitkptiI Stairway.
• TJie Philadelphia city hall contains
the highest continuous stairway in the
worl'k and tourists who have boastc;!
of thou' .'puseidar ability In climbing
tlio stone ‘'tops cf the Bunker Hill
monument ct f’haricrtown. the Wash
ington mu an incur or the monument to
. . - , Ot-nera-I Brock near Qummstown, On-
u, y •’ " l:,, f "ty ii to my mother taro, will (ell their frletiuJ of their
n : .? :S |’. I! ;' 1: “' Mliry ' ft ia |,| ' oni wwi 1 feat cf ascending the CM steps «’!».
" c ,'', , ;; 1 l! t j lead from the seventh floor of the city
b * • ; ; ' J lu).l fj the landing about the "feat of
"L- al.-.o heard my faiher any willia.'Ji I’uun's statue. It extends
that there tv us even a sweeter name i f Ivm the seventh to o.-:'sixteenth floor
Hutu Mary. aik'l contains 0D8 steps o, Iron, r.rrnng-
1 iduk he must hare been ill 1st a k i about a square central shaft in
«'•” in d the lover os ho tenderly press , which funs an electric elevator. To
j ranch the f-v.vev stairway the climi.er
he was mis- t m „y uiount ;! '•“> stairs J:: the
stairways at the norlhein end cf the
'pH !... nivoetheart's hand
l !; SV> 4 t’o net think
tal.eii."'
’” ... eas it,.-other name?”
.-* I cnV.vl.'ul bi.Ah suffused iheohnrm-
. Ilig i'ialilen ehi:"!:. the silken lashes
rell i.-lleU lovely eye?, nail In a
tone an sot: as . !v vhi.-qurinfis of an
Alul i - hsq> tin- latti ’’vured:
rx 'if.* -
/j.'.fl er.rdr ,Ve out.— / cud.m Answers
L. i
tlacIc.'Vned itoneyn.
Ker.’ly every ixink of old estabiisk - |
n- .-it has on ilepc h* s-’im of mu-lalmed
m.-w-v The nggrtg.we of ul! these
liii.-i:.. )f |? eouh! be fold, would asion-
. Ish jl.e world I'l-iese moneys m the
’ itaalr f Bughna! are estlnmted vnrl .
tnislv (I'ltiu' placing' tin* aggregatp
a-anuur at Ws. tlm:* $oUa.00i> and some i
in many ;in.“» that sum. In the Bank
of Lhg'.aml in all banks, la this
country and m Fuglond tlw* iota! i
na.mmt Is made u|i i-< small sums Ac ,
ci d.ag to law the L'anlt of England ,
shne.ld give public iu-ee«a to the lisi Of
•uvii-loKi moneys, whereas it neve; does ,
any /king of the sort When challenged,
v i itwitis legal action, but no one cares ,
. tur a tegr.l contest with the Bank of
Fug ami ,-o tlm question never is faced. ,
Low do these unclaimed moneys ne-
sumulute? r.aigeiy Uirougb the omis
sion . ! Kii.-clrijolders to claim dividend*
nml tl.rongU the fact itwt mun'y |)eo]ilc
* die without leaving behind them a
^ strict account cf their tuvefitnaeuts-
• Why Uo Cr«wM,
liens —1 saw you at the theater last
.'uigl:'. You were in the deg seat.
.loax—Sir. what do von mean?
’ - V- • " ;. •! If K—C?
j -;aieip-,.h .l.-iuii
CtXClI WENT FISHING
HE qSED HIS HOCK AND LINE IN A
big Clover field.
NO BREAKING OFF.
Just a Little niRngrser.icnt Dctweea
the Peppery Lovers.
“See hero, Daniel,” began the old
farmer when he had cornered his eon
out by the corner!!), “what's this here
ulrcnlatln round ’mong the neighbors
’bout you and Patience breakin off yer
engagement?”
thin to it ’tall," with a sullen tone
and look.
"Bkuned funny. I never see so much
smoke where there wasn’t some fire,
supposed to bring good fortune to the | Lid you and her have some words?”
building, thus making & total-g)!mb of
| 7-13 stops.
; Tower climbing Is one of the fad.-: of
j tourists. Hitherto the Bunker Hid
monument, with Its four hundred cd-.l
Stone r.Lps. and the Washington monn-
! merit, which l:as a few more, have rep-
j resented the acme of opportunity for
tests of physical endurance in this
' country .--Phi;;’ e-lpbia Press.
| A Question.
■lack’s father ami mother were hnv-;
lug a very heated dlseussion at the
table one day. They entirely forgot ;
him. and as the argument waxed
f.ereer Jit looked from one to the other
with real concern on Ids chubby face.
t Presently daring a lull he cleared the
air by asking, pointedly;
"Papa, did you marry mamma or did j
mamma um»ry yon?”—Brooklyn Life. |
J* hi Wrlflec,
“So!” said .Mr. I'pjohn in Jlis most
witheringly sarcastic manner tiny
gets all bin good qualities fiom you.
and nil ids laid ones from me. does
he?”
"Certainly,” answered Mrs. L'pjohn.
trlump.mnt but calm. “Doesn’t the
Bible expressly say that the sins of the
fathers are visited open the chUdreD?”
.-Odeago Tribune.
Her Xlivir IVtu-o Ilf Wax* Well Off,
’JY-ddle slept in a big las! with his
mother, nml one winter's night, being
right III til*- middle of It when his
mother’s bedtime came, she suggested
to kill) to move on tils side. lie hllnlc-
I t
til* Corarmloi to Di*eove»
' What He Wne Ausiing S-’or, but He
j Finally Landed liie Prir.e For
Which B« War Strl-vtnii.
Some young men who cnltetcd du^
tug tiie war with Spain, but never saw
any active service, were talking over
their days in uniform one night and
old, interesting stories of.camp life.
The young man who had- been a hospi
tal steward told tiiis story;
“A month in our camp in Georgia
was enough to drive a man to despair,
for not only was it hot. hut every day
increased our belief that the govern
ment had no Intention of giving us a
chance to get into action or to let us go
back to our homes. It was a mighty
tough predicament for a lot of young
men who had left business and every
thing else in a burst of patriotic enthu
siasm and expected to get into a scrap
In short order. The men worked every
■wire they could to get their discharges,
hut it was sit a time when the man
with a pull couldn't get any more than
the man without a friend. After awhile
the boys gave up trying to got their
discharges and made up their minds to
grlii and bear it.
“As u hospital steward I used to hear
a good deal about the health of the reg
iment from the surgeons, and one day
I was very much surprised to hear one
of them say that he was afraid Cinch
of Company C was going to lose his
mind. 1 knew Cinch as a big, good ua-
ttired fellow, who tried to get a dis
charge as soon as he learned that wo
were not going to have a tight. When
he failed, he became sullen and moody.
The more we watched him the more
convinced we became that something
was wrong with him. Every time we
came around we found him mumbling
to himself, and one day a crowd of ns
found him seated on n stump in the
middle of a big clover SU-ld, holding in
front of him a long pole, attached to
which was n piece of cord, on the end
of which was a pin bent to resemble a
fishhook. He would drop 1’.x- hook in
to the long grass and let *» ;.fay there
for a time. Then he wouM make a
east and When the hook fell would sit
and watch thp end of his line intently.
Every oner in awhile he Would jevk the
line out of tiie grass as though he had
felt a nibble. Oilee one of the boya
stepped up* and said;
”’Wlrat are yon fishing for?'
"lie got uo answer. Ail Cinch did
was to turn a pair of hollow eyes on
him and then resume his fishing. Aftcj-
that a gang used to go out and watch
Cinch every afternoon. They would
hide in the grass and a:most burst
with laughter at the seriousness with
whieh the pner fellow would east ids
lire of wrapping cord anil his pin
hook and then sit and'wait for ij bjte
Every once in awhile one of the boya
would saunter out and say:
” ‘What are you fishing for, Cinch?'
“it goi to he the regimental saying,
and I suppose that the question. 'What
are you fishing for. Cinch ?’ was thrown
at. the man from Company C a hundred
times a day. By and by the news got
to the ouieers that Cinch was going
fast. They heard about-his fishing in
in,' fields, and one day the surgeon
maim ■"•■"it out and witnessed the per-
forultuice J.J .- went buck and repeated
to the colonel that unless Cinch was
discharged at once lie would he hope
lessly insane. The result was that his
c-oudition was telegraphed on to Wash
ington and discharge papers were re-
rurned at once.
•"The colonel in the goodness of his
hi a t went to' look np Cinch and give
him the news. He found him sitting
on a stamp in the field fishing away,
while a round him sat about fib of the
.A'Pgimcnt, one of whom would yell,
•Wb.it are you fishing for. Cinch?’
every few minutes. The eoionel step
ped up tkh'l teaching Cinch on the
shoulder .-'aid.'
"•Cinch, ive think your health de
mands ll:ar you leave Hie service. ruO
wo we ii-jve procured ::n honorable dis
charge for you. Hero it is.' and he
handl'd Cinch the papers.
"Cinch dropped his fishing pole and
grabbed the papers. He gave one look
a; them, anil when he saw that they
wore all right waved them triumphant
ly over Ins head and shouted at the
toji of his voice:
" 'This Is what 1 was fishing for.
dang ye ali. This is what 1 was fish
ing tor, anil I got it too.’ Anil with
that he went dam-ing over the field,
leaving ns standing there, the first
gleam of the truth creeping Into our
brains.
"Tiie colonel looked foolish, and by
and by we begat) to sneak away one
,Jn- one. There was uo doubt but what
/he regimental question. 'What &re you
filching for. Cinch?' laid been answer
ed aud In a most emphatic nml sur
fji'lslng fashion. Cinch was as sane as
anybody, but when be fuuiid'be could
pot get an honorable iliselirrge in one
way be tried for it auoUmr."—New
A on,- Him.
To be sure, fa'rit heart never won
f „,, „
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