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T'tiE I-liLLO.V WHO T IGHTS ALONE.
f?,<* f • !., 1.- ;t. ' . inf, Ah. r. :• r ent A the combat it
With t.teer a word of cheer, With every help at hand,
Wall a trend h h ito lend, With fret;- at need to bid godspeed,
With re era comrade mar- With spirits that understand;
*Tts h< 10, m lof a Kt n v.irt hand But fiercer tar is the fight to one
And ■. n ,t gr.cn to tu ■ Who struggles along unknown—
R. ~r ;:• , ! . ..n life, (i ir u e ~nd glim i- the hi rt of him,
The t ~v who fight* alone! The fellow who fights alone!
Tire fi . wi, 1 fight . tie- -■,. ’rl-■ .<• (,-! b'< s the fellow who fights alone.
With it a father'- *»i*i.V. Mid arm his soul with strength!
W ill i" cr i mother's l.ind i tone V: 1 ! safely out of the battle rout
His -i .Tov. .'id hour* t > guile, lie conquering comes at length,
Who j» r the frav at the dawn of day Till far and r*< ir into every car
And ) -> ~ till light is The fame of ids fight is blown,
)! -t c .he strong, for tlit* tight is Jong, Till fiend and foe in the victor know
'i ii»- fckuw v. ho fight i alone! The fellow who lights alone!
—Delis A. McCarthy, in the New York Sun. JM
| A String | ACo ‘^' o e^ Short 1
* Os Pearls 0 |
j* YOUNG lady to see you,
** /\ Mr. Denvers.”
f' y{ Ralph Denvers, the bead
"* £"** of the great hanking firm
*f lira., lon A Denvers, look' d up from
the pear he was peeling, hut no hint of
the surprise he felt at Ids butler's an
nouncement was allowed to creep Into
his face.
‘‘l am not expecting anyone, Harris,”
he said, quietly. “It is a mistake, prob
ably Idd she send In any name?”
•‘She would not give licr name, sir;
she was very persistent or I would not
have troubled you, sir; she stems in
•lisll't
“In distress? What Is she Ilk**, Har
ris?”
It was a lislless question; he was ab
solutely without eurloslty concerning
the appearance of this stray young per
son who sought an audience o£ him,
hut it was lonely in tills oak paneled
dining room of the great house In
which he lived, and it was more for
the saki' of talking to somebody that
be detained Harris now.
Ralph Delivers had more dinner invi
tations than lie could accept, but at
thirty-three lie was given to telling
himself that the dinners eaten at other
men's tables were too heavily paid for
In the toll of epigrammatic conversa
tion that was exacted of the guest who
would Justify the reason of Ids appear
ance In the brilliant set In widt h Ralph
I leavers moved. Ralph was just ft lit
tle tired of brilliancy.
"She Is very young, sir; a child,* al
most,” Harris broke In upon Ills reflec
tions. “A lady, I should say,” and lie
added beneath Ids breath, “pretty as a
picture."
It may ho that Ralph heard him.
"Show her In,” he said, briefly; "I
may as well see what she wants.”
Harris disappeared, and presently his
place was taken by n slim slip of a girl,
who stared at the man who rose at her
entrance with a pair of frightened eyes.
Ralph Denvers saw the eyes, and Ills
glance wandered to the quivering, smil
ing mouth.
"You wish to see me?” he said.
"Won't you sit down?”
The girl sank Into the chair he of
fered her, and sat there, clasping and
unclhsplng her lingers in an agony of
nervousness.
"Well,” lie said to her. and there was
a note of encouragement lti his voice.
"Is It very difficult to tell?”
It was more difficult than he knew.
Aline Tempest rose to her feet and
stood with her hand resting on the
tablecloth.
"it is hard," she said, “but 1 must
say It. I came to say It. lt‘s about
Diet, my brother, you know."
She stopped and looked at him, and
he looked at her. How was he to know
about Dick?
"He never meant to do it,” she went
on. and drew a step nearer to him;
"there were men outside who tempted
him, and he was young, and we had
so little, and he hoped to make a for
tune for me. You see 1 was to blame;
It was all for me.”
"Wen* you anxious for a fortune?"
said Ralph, looking at the quaint little
figure In the quaint, unfashionable
gown, nud then at the lovely, childish
face.
”1 wanted nothing,” siie said, "and 1
did not guess until it was too late. You
see. It has been so different since father
—went."
The under lip trembled, and a tear
gathered and fell, and Ralph Denvers
stared steadily at the painted pheasant
< n his dessert plate.
"1 should like to hear all about It.”
he said. “Please sit down again and
tell me wlmt is your name- and Dick's,"
“1 am Aline Tempest," she said, sim
ply, conquering her emotion with an
< ffort that commanded his admiration,
•'and when father died Senator Mandc
vllle got Dick Into your hank, lie was
going Into the law. you know, hut It
had to he given up with the other
things. It was all very altered for
hint,* and I am afraid," with a little
watery smile, "that he did not like the
hank. Rut It gave us money to live on,
end I meant to teach when I got pu
pils. 1 haven't got any yet—lt seems
every one can teach something. And
Dick grew tired, and these men came
to him. and there was some horse that
was going to make a fortune for all of
them."
"We have heard of that horse ho
fore." s .id Ralph, and then was
ashamed of Ids jest.
"Have you?" said Aline. “We never
had. They persuaded him. and Dick
—oh, how could he do it', -took money
from the hank; a little at first, and af
terward a great deal. It isn't known
yet. but to-morrow it will be known.
They've given him money to get off
with, at I he's going to Knglnttd to
morrow front Roston. lie must go. 1
Mipr e. or else something worse will
happen. Rut 1 hated him to go like
that, and 1 thought if 1 brought you
these they're mother's pearls, th* only
thing of hers they 1- 1 me keep—and 1
thought they would help to pay o:ik
thing, and perhaps you won’t let it he
known to-morrow.”
She handed him Ihe pearls ns she
spoke and Ralph look them in his
hand. A short string, worth, perhaps,
SSOO if the full value were given, and
tills child’s mother had worn them.
He looked at them and wondered what
he should do, and a timid hand was
laid on his arm.
"Isn’t it enough?” said Aline. "Olt,
I don’t know how much it was, but
they will help a little. And will you
keep them and let me go home and
tell Dick that he need not go? And
afterward, when 1 get work, I can pay
It hack-all of It.”
"I will keep them.”
Ralph Denvers stood tip and slipped
the chain in Ills pocket.
“1 will keep them,” lie said again,
“and you can go home and tell Dick
that he must come into my room at the
bunk to-morrow.”
What made him do it. he, Ralph Den
vers, cynical man of tlie world, given
to Jesting doubt over such vague words
as faith and charity, given to denying
tlte hope that Ims led men to stumble
on so long? Wlmt made him do it? It
may be Hint, he knew even then. And
when she was gone lie stood and called
himself a fool for Ids pains, and it was
perhaps ns well lie did not see tlio girl
he had befriended sink down before
an empty chair In an empty room and
weep her heart out because Dick was
already gone.
Ralph took up the Invitations on his
mantel shelf. lie had all that evening
before him—Where should he go? He
put them down again and paced the
room. What was this thing he had
just heard? It had sounded simple
enough, hut It may be that it meant
a big thing. Those men outside sound
ed ominous, what if they were also
going to Ragland to-night?
Hastily snatching up a list of sailing
steamers he saw that a steamer was
due to leave Boston at dawn. Ills
mind Hew to ways and means; to get
down there to-night a man must go
by the It) o’clock from the Grand Cen
tral. lie looked at his watch and
found, to his relief, that he had time
and to spare. Wily should he not
profit by the Informal ion he had re
ceived to ho his own detective? And
If only Dick Tempest were there why
should lie not bring him hack to the
sist"l- whose heart lie was going to
break? She must not he allowed to
weep any more -that pretty child who
had come to him In li r dark hour.
It promised a little more excitement
than an evening spent in listening to a
singer whose repertoire he knew by
heart, lie went upstairs and ( hanged
into a lounge suit, and. with a coat
over Ills arm, he walked quietly out
of the house tu West Seventy-second
street and had himself driven to the
Forty second street station.
He knew who they were now. They
were Richard Tempest's children, and
he remembered that old Senator
Maiuleville had said something to him
about looking after Hie lad. But when
one is good looking, popular nud thirty
three, what time is there for looking
after stray hoys? Ralph laid soon
young Tempest once, and had asked
him how !u> liked the hank, and had
not waited to hear his answer, and
straightway had gone away and for
gotten that lie was in the world, lie
wondered if lie should know him again
as ids eat* pulled up at the main en
trance of the railroad station.
li was early yet. and the platform
was not overcrowded. Ralph walked
the length of the train and saw no one
who was likely to bo Dick Tempest,
lie went to tin* ticket office and got
himself a ticket; it might he necessary
to go to Boston, li was just possible he
had caught an earlier train, lie walked
u\> and down scantling the faces of
those who passed him with keen, leis
urely glance. The time sped, the mo
ment of farewells came, and Ralph
was wondering If he had thrown his
evening away, when suddenly lie saw
him. Dick Tempest came quickly
down the platform, a small handbag
for all his luggage, surely a poor outfit
for a trip to Kurope. The train was on
the point of starting, and Ralph was ,
the last person in the world to desire!
"a seem*.” He stepped out to meet the
lad coming toward hint.
"Ah. Tempest." lie said, pleasantly,
"l thought you were not coming. 1 1
have a stateroom."
Dick Tempest looked into the face of j
the man he had robbed, and knew that j
ids story was told. He hesitated, but
the other's glance was compelling, and j
In answer to it he got Into the train
and took his place in Ralph Denver's '
stateroom.
The journey to New Haven and hack
I is not a long one. but there is time In
; (t fer a pitiful tale of weakness and
| temptation and a too late repentance j
j to he told: there is time iu it for for- |
j givetn-ss to be sought and not denied, i
j It was early morning xvheu these two
strange traveling companions arrived
; „...u ia Now York. Ralph Denvers
put Ills hand on the shoulder of tits
younger man.
“Go home,” he said. "Remember
that a sister waits for you, and tlu-t
you are to com to the hank as if noth
ing had happened.”
lb* drove home himself in tiiq keen
morning air, and almost for the first
f ,ne In h ■ tli i ,v-three years - : life he
realized how pleasant it is to lie a rich
man. There wu-* a ldg cheek drawn on
his account that morning and the firm
of Brandon & Dealers never ..new how
it had been - wind! d to the extent of
nearly $25,00-).
It was she: iln after this that host-
I esses began > eon plain tin: Ralph
Denvers was lev r available for even
the most attractive of thtir parties.
And it was nearly a year later when
one morning the *• was a quiet wed
ding in a little elnjveh round the corner
—a wedding to vitiieh the world was
not Invited, a wilding at which only
three happy youu; * people were pres
ent.
They left Dick s’ inding on the steps
of the church, and, s they drove to the
station Ralph slipp d ids arm round his
wife's should'-: Ind dropped some
thing Into her lap. !
"My first presenj to you,” lie said.
“I have given you nothing yet.”
Aline Denvers toil; the little string
of yellow pearls In her fingers.
"Oh, Ralph,” sin* k "and once I
was Billy enough to :lii k ”
He stooped and k her.
"They are the mop wonderful pearls
in tile world,” he t<T her. “They have
brought happiness t'i .aree people.”—
New York News.
No Profit on T) ‘■'fd Iseef.
This Is the way tii packer proceeds
to demonstrate that t -ale of dressed
beef lias yielded ldi no profit since
the first of last A ril. The pres
ent average price a 1200-pound
"prime, corn-fed to- steer” is $7.50
per 100 pounds, that is, SOO for the
animal as It stands in tho Chicago
stockyards. Adding to this the cost of
slaughtering, which is $1.50, the car
cass ready for dressing, lias necessi
tated an outlay of 501.50. Practice
has shown that sueli an animal will
“dress” about fifty-six per cent, of its
live weight, that is. 07k pounds. Upon
the other forty-four per cent., which
is hide, horns, hoofs, blood, surplus
fat, trimmings, and o ■ il, the pa. «er
realizes, on an average. .>14.75. S« the
two "sides” of the steel*, as they hang
In the packing house re* rigerator, have
cost $70.75. The mono at the packer
moves the 072 pounds • f er-ssid meat
ids expenditures begin anew. Sending
the carcass* to New Yon:, for hstance,
costs $7.05, which Is the aggregate of
freight at 40 cents per 100 pctmds, and
of refrigeration during tie journey
and selling charges at 5<A ! s per 100
pounds. So. when the tm comes sot
the retailer to negotiate f *>r the meat,
it lias cost tli” packer J 53.80, or 12.3
cents per pound. Sine* April 1 the
highest wholesale price for dressed
beef in New York has befo 11.5 cents,
or eight-tenths of a cent less than the
cost of production. pursuing this
arithmetical process wit! an average
steer, of 1100 pounds at Jf.lo the hun
dredweight, tin* usual prl’e. it will he
found that the dressed ea*'ass on sale
in New York represents an expendi
ture on the part of the picker of 11.4
cents per pound, nearly one cent a
pound more than ho can ollain for it.—
From "The So-Called Bee' Trr
i lie Century.
l’ontnl Card Deliip*
Scarcely any one ascends Mom
Blanc now without taking a package
of postal cards with him, a?d the first
tiling lie does after lie hi* admired
the scenery for a few miintes is to
write on each card a few words ex
pressing Ids admiration. Ten he ad
dresses tlie cards to friends* ml. if lie
lias more cards than frieuls, he ad
dresses some to strangers.
Moreover, if Ills circle of acquaint
ances is not large* lie write his own
name and address on sevPdl cards.
He then mails all the earth ntnd con
siders that one of his chief cities as a
tourjst lias been done.
That friends and even stratgers will
value the cards sent by liiiithe is cer
tain, since they were written on Mont
Blauc, and ho is sure that If will be
highly pleased to find on lis return
home the cards which lie has sldressed
to himself.
Thousands of such postal ed'ds. It is
said, are mailed daily, and m a result
the postal clerks are not in the best
liuiuor. and are longing for -lie time
when Mont Blanc will put on its win
ter raiment and tourists .. ill b o' " " d
to stay at home.
They l»i* * Thriving- tm- in *■'.
There are probably no mertvTlc es
talilishmeiits in existence that Uter tc
the wants of a more varied lin (J 1 * oys
totuers than ilo the candy stain* jat the
Brooklyn Bridge entrances. ‘J begin
business at 3 o'clock,” said theßceper
of one of these stands the otlm' day,
"and 1 close up after the rush I over,
la tin se four hours 1 stdl 2tMi) oie-eeut
pieces of candy, or 500 an huurjexetu
sivo of more expensive kinds ofvandy,
| and those which are bought ir larger
’ quantities. IVople generally propose
that small boys and girls, and tie par
-1 cuts of small hoys and girls ire the
I buyers of penny candies. TUit is a
; mistaken idea. Men of all grilles of
society buy those little stie ! « ami
| squares simply nr.d m • !>■ u tli y
j want to on; them. The 1 y i
everybody doesn't k. * ■ :>l V. s.
it takes sin i i * .-.* to Bt a
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A GOLDFI H FARM J .£>
: IS AN INTE -ESTINGPLACI #
One Piac hips 100,000 Ev<y Year. 1 f
Jt Annual ‘ife; op” Worth $20,00. j : ; f /
j How th' Bp h A£e Bred and nUsed. :I : ■! /r 33
i Frogs as ft Sideline. ; ; :::):* < |
1 r
the OUtskilts the! little
g J town of WrlJ , |{:, Injd., is
j f 11 the only iron '- e iilt the
4 J the place. t 'jft; neair the
i village sch ■ 1 -f j j,.., .iqil
1 everybody tellM *fij|,u it -trim
put up by ‘'■'hqiftft iii e Blsh
-1 erman.” It is not different thou
sands of other iron fences iHLj /coun
try, but gold fish paid for BE, i Ir the I
’ owner is what is called tftr bilggest
gold fish farmer in the woi 1-ft
People generally speak of J* mui and
vegetables as being raised ft-ftM/jinns,
’ )>ut everybody in WaidroiilHr knows
* Shoui>’s place as the "fish That
! is what he calls jt. and it is tide by
which it is known all over country,
for from it every year
fish are scooped up In nets t-|H, b sent
by the eanloi d and carload Hi to swim
in all kinds of ponds, from IMthe orna
mental lake of the mißOiicaire's
grounds to the glassglobe whi^^fttends
on the parlor table. It miiftyß have
been call* d a hatchery, imt rl^^Bropri-
lIH li l.lin <1 41 li.H'.UUIN, I) U l > I^^H!UJ
etor simply drifted into tlie buHHKss be
cause he tiiouglit it more
than to raise pet stock, dogs
and cats. Originally he cul
tivated like other farmers,
decided that there was too work
for the money, and with a nuHnamed
Heck branched out into
then to pet fish.
The farm is in two parts, larg
est, a twenty-five-acre patch, fftftg sit- J
tinted on a sloping piece a
few miles from Waldron.
up some furrows with a
fifty ponds have been made all
tiic way from the little
which are forty feet long
feet wide, to sheets of waiMHllarge
enough to give a man
cise in rowing. The pondsfifljH fed
from springs, and as tile grnd^^^Hbout
one foot in ton the water
with a rapid current, amJPjlMjn in
summer is almost as cold as 'DHaThis
is a good thing for tlie as
they become hardier and IloHH'r in
cold water than when the
is higher.
It cost the owners of the '
as much to stock it as if had
gone into raising fancy the 1
gold lisli they imported for
were the finest specimens in *
Uliina ami Japan, including 1
eratic telescope fisii, which
of the species. Many of
which they secured of
cost over SIOO encli. in the
( telescope tliey also raise what 113}lied
the comet, named on the
rapid motion and the
telescope has very large P.vesftSßiich
I stand out from its head
like telescope cases and is of aftfUlish
gold tint, which is
l'ect color by lisli breeders.
species are especially noted
tails. The comet has a tail is
about as long ns its body
eate as lace, while the fnn-ijMWirp
really a bunch of two or tli ■'WBftii*
fastened to the body of the fl*
can shut and open like a fan - uiHj ;; y
cans full of these special vatic ' -Jft;-,.
brought from the Celestial h. gftlos
that the importers spent over - w no.
for many of them died on the d Mid
others had to he ordered in th. >[ fflj-c.
There is plenty of work a test ftkic
farm for the score of hands cur Hod
- from morning till night, and dbaSr.-
gun is ns useful as the spade ♦ vftftc,
for the ponds must be ci . e BM]y
watehed to prevent the bir - e ■■in
harvesting the crop. Scarce: ™re
of no use on this kind of fan.laud
as one of the owners puts it. “Whlqn
a man asks us for a job we a sit liiau
bow straight he can shoot, for tike
man behind the gun Is as necessary as
lie is in establishing a new republic-.
We keep tlie air pretty well riddldd
with bird shot, but still wo can't mal>e
it unhealthy enongb to keep the snipe,
the kingfisher and their brothers unid
sisters from getting away with tens cif
thousands of fish every year.” It is a
fact that tlie man behind tlie gun is
busy almost from sunrise to sunset,
and a constant fusillade is going (pit,
for this is one of the best shooti|n»
grounds in the United States. Thf?
birds are so bold that thefy arc cony
stantiy hovering over the ponds iti
flocks waiting for their chan.to dart
down for a dinner, and many of them
are shot within sixty or seventy-fivtt
feet of the gunner. The t< >1 sheds ajul
house containing the storage vats hart)
loaded shotguns where tliey can it)
picked up in a moment, and the fartui
is provided with a regular arsenal pf! i
these weapons.
But the birds form only one enemy, j
The banks of the ponds arc' patrolled !
dully by hands with spade and shovjel j
to till up the hoi s made by the crate
lisli and muskrat. Sometimes in ! a
single night a dozen or more rats will
bore into the earth to such an exteiit
that the ponds woulc lie drained in la
few hours if they were not watched, j
In addition to the course of bints I
w bob is frequently served at diunejr, i
• sli of muskrat is sometimes added,
as (Alps are set all around the
for them. Millions of eggs as well a!s
young fish yearly ire stung to dents, j
by beetles and wat r wasps and devil s
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H
ft
pMHjK ad
■ fish ad place tli I in .^ss.
> fact ley pass thijgh scries
i ponds ntil final I.v t:■ en -u in wh
i might e called the ijv* k-d. He
I they rmain from i . • •* jlicy a
i three C four m- jntl. . lil’hcy a
I “ripe”(and realdy u i -o<ped o
and set to mark. . \»*:: .ticy rent
the poll they a|re ;r ii.li.v g or tlir
inches n length, ul: iteic thn
or fottryears, as t * tv ;old sis
does nc get its foil gu-v . 1 id col*
in iessthan three ye;rs r l 1 ban!
of the ipening poti-l o'; r tha
the otlirs, in ord- r t( sPib win
from biwing too h.v •it ft write
CataipatrePs arc :>•>. pitedftiroun
the pork to assist ia.kMngftjlT tl
wind ai well as to Shf; lift edge
when te sun is too }. ftie hi
leaves c the Water lfiye .. Ur goo
for tiie same purnoAeor cd boug
gold fisii require Ifflftrf sun ligb
to prodtr-e tlie riclHffini n 1 tints
if they gt too are lia
Me to In cline too Hli-'i! vain
' iiini
- is lessenel. ripenini
j ponds coniaia which an
3 nearly anacreaerM. Its a regula
- fish city soni.‘timH con ining 150,
• 000 inhai iant.t, seßm Uj than 100,
: 000 at ai«J tiijie. ft ndlion to tin
I fish they jure itteftntsjulpoles ani
frogs which lelpft kcJthe watei
clean by kiting irfttsAW vegetable
growth, if lie free industr is a sori
of a side line It tjs plac| and manj
thousand pairs of irs are nt to mar
ket each year ip ave.ge size ol
the gold fish arte* ts gro*’ !i is about
a loot. Its will elc 'ene upon the
color, shape aul vtight, an any which
are imperfect in fiat or irm are re
jected. If thciiih has a pot a frac
tion of an inih in size « the body
it Is thrown aims wortbss, but as
even the ordinirj gold fissell whole
sale at from !u to ten :uts apiece
there is plentjj <1 money tlo/; indus
try, for the jiritocratic s'clj’s, such
as the telescojeiud comehrl bought
by the dealers ;t forty anfiPty cents
each. This fan. and two tiers in the
United States Lfnd gold U fhrough
out America a:well as Etri", and the
annual crop ••fathered” i jndiana is
sometimes w. Hi $20,000.
The fodder Hr this Uindf pet stock
is generally might by o carload,
for the best'Hod is cruijs made ol
Ctklln ltiinorl '.Mid . 4- -? c> uvei
, srnie nreaa vvii. li is masti t is pro
. pared especialy for the arm by £
. bakery in Incjanapolis, uue a big
, batch is much up everytw weeks.
It is piled up n the stora louse like
. so much < - c woe when
feeding time cotj.Ja'U nais jlll mar
ket baskets aadfJß’t outdni gunners
slinging their \vc ’lns ovitr.l ir slioul
ders so as to '|(‘;idy f rlie birds
during tlie JV- j line. Jc large fish
know when d 1 lis rent as well as
any flock of ch /ens -. • ducks ever
hatched, and us lon as o men with
the baskets anplr on e bank the
water boils wit I the ntion of the
■ schools, hundred/of fo’leaiiing into
the air. The- crufns art-'atu red over
as wide a sp.icats j. s.do so as to
give all of ic till ai, c ,'jjt it. It
is one of the .-g/s of t ivuln to visit
it at meal tin,la, or a tig J healthy
gold tisli In. -■ I o cnpai ' -M toasted
liread which Bgtvoud- ul tifind even
a carload lasilß i a slrt nHie.—New
i York Commcffti Aavc:. W
AWlr-Ilci nr. '
September ft st, a a ship about
fifty miles fi™ i Briskne, Australia
a liuge shark twelve feet in
length was ho a litie which
broke. A seeofvtin? the Wg fish got
on the line and vr ‘a] ( .»d. Tlt-u a large
sharp-hook wi; -t chain wi>* thrown
out and the ilunou, brut* grubbed it
and was caut
All hands tared the snarl; to the
vessel’s side. A luge hook of the
anchor tackhwns put through his
jaw ami one <-’• and the fish v«s then
hauled out o'iie water. On* of tlie
crew rippedde monster open from
the head to iftail. Tlie vita organs
and cntrail^U r( ' thrown oterboard
and then l*laws were hadted but
for the sniftering the teeii.
ICotU ng -ft tile shell of be fish
remained Bihe shark was lowered
overboard ft rush was mad* to the
side to so'fti sink, iiut the company
was astotifti to see the fish make
off. Flrstft .warn about fifty yards
away, re I to tlie steamer, then
went off H-aother Jack fir about
thirty yavl nie back to ti*e vessel
and swaifßi'n, and was stli swim
! tiling lost oiglit ,»f.
That tbfHe>hould swim avay with
I th ’ T.-iiolft j interior from!head tc
I tail and .stand one eye gon - simply
! raised ti.-lir of the pilots aid crew.
| who had ilr s - ‘ii or heard ol the
I before.
ft\ Silent Zone.
That aftvcrful alarm like n foj
! siren cast sounded without being
: heard is I’ n liy tlie Investigations
I of E. P. lards on the English coast.
| At a dlsiftr of a mile from the siren
the soßr-fgan to die away, and be
tween tiled three miles it was en
tirely iifti 1 ■!*■. while ! ■ - ul three
| tnysierkMm; I'ut zone” constantly
lp<mn.,iftl- trl&g -ut their old
is Home 1 otiipanlon.
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A FICKLE WORLD.
J He was the hero of the hour:
And he was strictly "in it.”
OS' He seemed—so quickly fled his power**
Toe hero of a minute.
He gently mourns his present lot;
! (( she hear him softly sny,
“The pet of yesterday is not
The darling of to-day.”
The books that pleased our fathers so,
H e view them with disdain;
the songs we sang some time ago,
” e scorn to sing again;
In And smiles and sighs alike forgo
of j _ Time’s hand has swept away;
Imt I Pet of yesterday is not
1 j -the darling of to-dav.
[ere 1
are j _
!|
-'an
How much did your daughter's
' wedding cost?” "Oh. about five thou
““ sand a year.”-Life.
;es Bobby "Say. pa! What's barliar
dg ism * a barber cuts your hair?”
od Ba—" Yes; very often, my son.”—
gll Princeton Tiger.
bt “That photographer’s wife is very
ts, jealous of him.” "Xo wonder. Just
ia- see fi°w many other women he tiat
„e ters.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
ug Customer—“Y'ou said this suit would
re wear like iron.” Clothier—“ Well, didn’t
ar it?” Customer—“ Too much so. It's
),- j getting rusty already.”—Judge.
j Hife’s full of strange surprises;
lie I Thus sometimes it’s decreed
id : The flower of a family
I Turns out to be a weed,
j j j —Philadelphia Record.
“I never saw anybody so daffy about
n lfie men as Fannie is. I think she must
ly have v,-heels in her head!” "Oh, no,
not wheels; only the fellows.”—Com
>£ fort.
r I’euu—“l don’t see how you can call
Y'an Meter a genius. His'poems cer
a tainly do not show it.” Bruslie—“No;
j but the fact that he sells them does.”—
y Judge.
s Bank Director—“ How <Jid you come
to examine his Hooks?”—His Associate
0 —"I heard him address liis Sunday
.. school class on ‘We are here to-day and
j, gone to-morrow.’ ”—Puck.
I Mrs. Justwed (house hunting)—“Oh,
s Charlie, here’s the loveliest little linen
c cioset.” Janitor (interrupting)—“Dat
i- ain’t no linen closet; dat’s de dining
c room.”—Detroit Free Press,
s “I,” says the garrulous person, “was
always the apple of my father’s eye.”
s “Maybe,” muses tlie weary listener,
“maybe that is why you are always so
I seedy.”—Baltimore American.
“H'tp! The composer of tills song |
was conceited enough, I must say.”
“What makes you think so?” “Why,
here in one place he lias written
‘Fine.’ ’’—Philadelphia Bulletin.
Ilir Mother—" May, why do you treat
Jerrold so shabbily, while lie treats
you so good?” May—“ Why, tlie dear
boy couldn’t treat me any better, no
! matter how I treated liim.”—Judge.
This life is a procession
Where many folk appear;
And some must march and do tlie work
While others stand and cheer.
—Washington Star/
Fatient (after giving the doctor $3
and receiving a prescription)—“But
suppose, doctor, this doesn't cure me?"
Doctor—“ln that case, come back and
I'll relieve you again.”—Detroit Free
Press.
First Tramp “Do you believe in
signs?” Second Tramp—"Xo more; I
haven't had a bite to eat in twenty
four hours.” First Tramp—“ What has
that to do with it?” Second Tramp—
"A good deal; I’ve been up against B
twenty doormats to-day with the
‘Welcome’ on 'em.” Yonkers Statec- ft
man. ; ft
ilr. Wabash —“l’es. I'm stopping at ft
tlie Bongtong House.” Miss Eastern— ft
"Ah! tiiat's our most fashionable lio- ft
tel. The service is splendid, don't you ft
think?” Mr. Wabash—" Well, I've seen ft
better in Chicago. All the swell hotels I
out our way furnish silver-mounted I
bellows to blow your soup with, for-fl
instance."—Philadelphia Record. I
The Queerest Lawsuit on Kcrord, I
Perhaps the most remarkable suit I
ever brought is on the records of the 1
Court of tlie Exchequer in England. I
It was filed on October 5, 1725, and if I
sets forth very clearly that John Ever!! ]
and Joseph Williams were highway I
robbers.
In the succinct legal phrases tlie com
plniut says that the men formed a
partnership for the purposes of carry
ing on business as highwaymen. It
was mightly profitable, as was shown
by tlie fact that Everit sued Williams
for tlie equivalent of SSOOO, “being for
moneys wrongfully appropriated to de
fendant's private purse.”
This was the amount iu dispute after
the partnership had lasted only a year.
Then Everit claimed that he had dis
covered that liis partner had not made
a fair division of the spoils. /
The action was adjudged to boa «
gross contempt of Court, and the
plaintiff was ordered to pay all costs,
while the solicitors who served the
writ were fined £SO eac-h. One of the .
solicitors, a man named Wreatheock. t
refused to pay the fine and was
to prison for six months. Botli ft
plaintiff and defendant to this action ft
were subsequently hanged—one at Ty- 1
burn and the other at Maidstone. 1
Story tin* Wedtlinj Kinj; Tell*. I
“That wedding ring, almost half an I
inch wide, teils its story,” says the ft
Newark News. "It is nearly ten years ft
since those wide wedding rings were, ft
used among fashionable people. They B
went out of style long ago. In
place they now use narrow little
. -.1 when you see a fashionable- J
looking woman with a broad ring you -ft
can bet nil you have that she isn't a 1
recent bride by a good rnaDy years.” I