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THE .MACON TELEGRAPH: SUNDAY MO-RNING, JULY 12, 3896. :$! TO MAKE ROOM: FOR FALL GOODS. Commencing Monday Morning, One Thousand pairs of Childrens Slippers,sizes 8, 9, 10, II, 28 c ' Misses^Slippers, 12, 13, I and 2 - , - - - - - * - - 58 c Our Entire Stock of Men's Tan Shoes for Cos Wholesale and Retail Shoes,' Come Early and Secure First Choice. HOFF SIMS;& BRO Corner Third Street and Bargain Lane, Macon, Ga. • An American who lives In Europe anl mingles with the higher classes has lately written an Interesting letter to the San Francisco Argonaut on the subject of International marriages. This geneleman, who preters to con ceal his Identity, says some plain rind sensible things and writes as though he knew whereof he speaks. The sub- . Ject Is of great Interest Just now, and any light Is welcome. Hts last sentence contains the pith of his Ideas: "I deem It Inadvisable, generally speaking, for American girls to marry Europeans, least of all Europeans of the Latin races. Of course, as I pointed, out, there are exceptions.” In the course of the letter he says: “The American girl or young widow ns a marriageable person has come to be appreciated In Europe as much, ndy, more, on the continent than in Eng land. There are several reasons ; for this, one being that the- average Amer ican girl Is handsomer than the average Europeangirl: another^ Ding that .she—: or her‘paint or her guardlan-fIs sup posed to have, 1 and of ten • does have, more money than her; European, sjstpr, arid still another, though not so potent factor, being ‘that the American' girl Is Intellectually ippre gifted, brighter, a more Interesting creature, than Is her European sister on an average. The ahpvo three facts have Just begun to be generally known In those European circles tjomlnff-Uere junder considera tion; hence it Is probable'that the riiar- rylng and giving In marriage of the American girl to well-connected young Europeans will Increase Instead of de creasing Hereafter/ - "In. most Instances American girls, when marrying Europeans, do so for two yeaspns, one being that they wlsli to spend’-'their lives In 1 highly cultured; more or less aristocratic and exclusive society, and the other being that they believe the life of this society In Eu rope to bo a more enjoyable one than would be the case In America and with an American husband, other things ke- lhg equal. In this twofold supposition the American girl Is often quite wrong, rarely quite right. If she marries, for Instance, Into a family belonging to the privileged classes she is regarded to the last In the light of an Interloper. And this no matter what she or her hus band, or even the whole family may do to the contrary, cute spirit In Eu rope being too Btrong and too Insur mountable to be overcome, even by a very "smart” American girl. Again, where she escapes, by her European marriage, a number of peculiarly American annoyances she exchanges them for as many or more peculiarly European ones. The whole life of the upper classes hero Is, Just to mention one thing, so highly artificial, and so full of the minutest care to he taken at' every step that few American-born women, oven after a long training, grow accustomed to It or learn to ac commodate themselves thoroughly to It all. "A rccenlt Incident a/t one of the oourt halls to Dresden odtria* Mb my Mai Jtd illustrate this. The young Amarloan girl in question is the duugbter of wealthy and. dWttogulrihed 'Baltimore ans, and »We, being very pretty besides and tilgflily gifted In mind as troll, found no greolt difficulty-In ofiririfn'ror an invitation tb Itho festivity ifitaift night (court rules arid cWquott* being often somewhat relaxed on IUI>e continent, no tably a‘t the smaller nounls, for the pleasure o* receiving some charming HWTe Americalne). Her costume that night wtis. of course, slbove reproach; of 'that she had token good core and. at first, she was much admired; and she had also an rirraprcoehaWe chaperon with her. Bull her manners—b-r-r! Without intnfdtog to do e>, without be ing aware of tt, she trxmngresser. thtalt evening -nearly every paragraph in the CjAe of behavior. unMt she was, when supper time arrived, fairly tabooed an I o Urarianri. Her final faux pas—aha said ranker audibly, though In Bngl'ah, that rh> ecu (Tied pheasant on her plate was n:lr on good as an American canvao back duck and raid this Just, when a royal prince, nephew of the king, con versed wSMi'nlhcr Wearingi-brok-e her rook, to to speak. At omy hete she was shunned by, a'l the rest of the evening and .the king peroomily requested tlx? colt; marshal HU be a little more care ful la the milker of Invitations for the future. AU this was simply due to Che fa;; than the girl whs nog used to sue* a highly arCftoial atmosphere as flb- t.».ta3 a* oatnth irnd probably rt.-yrr could got- used 4o ft, her very blood, her training, bar mode of thought, be ing- ■as'aSnrtt It, ' . ■ From all the individual coses I know of, hath hero In Germany and in Aus tria arid the Scandinavian north, I should nay thuft marriage between na tives of those countries and American girls are much more nicety to be baippy —or, at leant. not unhappy—than with nwives of Italy. Sputa or Ftunx, wh earimala of. women differ much more nrat’rially from the American es timate than dote the German one. However. Ugb-spIrJted. «elf-wflled Am-iri-.n girls are not advised ever to marry even a German or Austrian or, or Swede, as they are not nearly so liable Ho have their way as when they marry an American- Hero the wife—ctoo well-bred ortttodox, average W'lfo-is expedit'd 'to ibo.w dttwtn. and submit, to her.Ii)UtibanU,,flguraHl,vely alt leaeit. She rnust lkott a'ttempt' to ettt up hor, jvays of ithtaking above ,*(«, an he is supposdd'/to «k> (he KhitaMng for her. Arad the law goe3 even farther tlhan cuiJCom—'by law.«. German husband Is allow-ed to otas'ttee Ms wife—‘mMly. so aa .-ncitito pemvaweritly Injure her.' Even the hew civil code now being consid ered 'In the relohntag has rutiatned this proviso. Arad divorce la difficult to ob tain here, and only for a few reasons.” A STUDY IN TEAKS. Mrs. Julia Bee Sinks 'Notes Some Ob servations That Are Striking. In the course of a long life, I have often- noted the different phases of hu man tears, and especially thdr causes and conditions. Some were tears of woe, some of vex ation, some of wounded pride: others again Were a kind of pastime tears, that, like a brook-rippled over shal low beds—tears which-might easily be -turned into laughter,.but the eloquence of tears was absent. I Wave seen, woe. so rigid, so strong,, that It refused tears; no striking of the rock could bring them forth. These teara were held back by an adamanlin? will, but 'these pent-up. Invisible grief pearls shewed,their whereabouts by a look of suffering strain. - . t > Others again were bears of vexation, at some 111 which crossed an ambition, though the surroundings seemed all thalt heart could trifdi or ask for. Yet some‘little thing,, soyght and not Ob tained. caused - tsars* of vexation to Is sue -forth in tocrenlts, when IWI who had ho part in' tjierii. 'And others again, -nearer aftta jo woe, came at the bidding of Volin,led prl-jle. Pride, In some form, assimilates Itself so. much with oil our. emotions 'that to wound It seems In a-measure', to mar ourselves. ATubtband-.a child, a friend, may'glve the stroke. The husband may wound through like of appreciation— that dearest of -feelings fo : qn hohpst woman's heart; The child through fail ure, to the parent's exaggerated hopes, and a friend -through friendship .betray ed. David -the psalmist felt keenly this wound and -maybe with- bitter tears, for ho often wept, when /he wrote: "Even' my own familiar friend hath lifted up his-heel against me!” And how many tears have been shed on the shattered -hopes of life? Hopes of expectation that were fed and nour ished by endearing thoughts, patient hopes, watting for a better day, some times partially, realized, but often, so often, dead and burled, and out of the grave of which came a fountain of bit ter tears, a stream of "Mora, on the hanks of which no hyssop grows!” It seems strange to write tt but the moat eloquent tears that I e-csji saw were from the .eyes of a-dog and two boys! The dog had been raised a'pot, wash ed and combed like a child by an --! derty lady.-and allowed to sleep"on. the foot of her bed. The aidy sickened and died, .... On tho night of her death she was removed to another room, and some friends, myself among them, were pre paring her for burial. As we finished, the gentleman of the house, her son-in- law. came to the door and said: • "Com; and nee a strange sight!" We -followed to the old lady's ofiran- her, and there, on the toot of the bed, from which she had been removed, lay the little dog, with eyes filled with Wars, and .resting on bis face genuine tear drops! - This was pathetic, to see a dumb onfmai without the power of speech, express Its grief -for *fs bereave ment in tears. What the physical or ganization of a dog Is for tears I do not know, but this Is a verity, for I can vouch for the tears, but not for the lachrymal glands. This much for the woee of the dog, and now for the boys. At a very bumble home npsr where I lived I was railed to sea a little baby die. A young relative, a boy of tender years, clad Iri rustic suit, stood near with clench'-d .hands, while the other era of the family were expressing their grieft In weep'rag and wailing. The little boy was soon missing. I walked out In the bock yard to breathe freely, and, at the back) of the house, quite atone, with his bead leaning ^against it, stood the boy. He vu a plain-looking child, ■and coarsely clad, with..hts little barej’toee crushed in the earth beneath' him. I went up to him and, patting my hand on hla head, said: • * “Are sorry for -Dodyf <He lifted up tits head and- looked at le without speaking a .Word, tears standing In hla great blue eyes, and with a face, of such unutterable woe there seemed" no utterance for It. Elo quence seemed a weak word for this! At a far-out western-dwelling, a .very -n>ely place, like mec,of the habita tions of early sutlers, I once attended the fun. rai of af mother. *W<- arrived too early for tb* i-i-et-ee, arid - the reofii was vacant, except the dead mother, who was placed under an open win dow. I tat some distance sway, and a homely clad frontier boy, evidently thinking the room was vacant, came to tha window. Ho whs of strong mold, and old enough to know and feel' the absence o-f the life that had passed away from Mm. - He crossed his arms on the window sill and gave vent to 'the deepest throes of grief, oonvutslng the -frame of the sturdy iboy. 'A-mid Ms paroxysms Me would reach, his hand -through, placing It on the dead mother, with, a wall of woe so strong, so -deep, so struggling for utterance, that l turned from It sick at heart. I on-ce Saw a ploture Called "Dead In the Desert” that reminded me in Its strength and power of a huge Hon, with howtlng head lifted, and a paw laid on Wo dead mate. Among all .tears, these tears of tho rugged boy seemed most eloquent, no trappings of wealth, no surroundings of luxury, but nature, true nature, stood for itself, in all Us native elo quence. Julia Lee Sinks. PANIC IN A STREET CAB. A Snake, n Chicken, a Negro and a Colored Woman the Participants.; From tlio Philadelphia Times. In New Orleans a earful of passengers on the Carrollton line witnessed n pretty lively scrimmage the other-evening bo- tween n good-sized black snake niul a young spring pullet, with a negro cotton roller and an old colored nuntio playing insignificant parts. -• - ■: The cotton roller; who gave Ills name as Peter Hnskliis, got on somewhere low down town at n side street, carrying his icotton hook In his hand, and n tin''lunch' pail swung on his'arm. Tile car was pret-' I.v crowded and Peter got a scat In a close place net to the old auntie, who carried an open market basket, sitting prominent In evidence on'her Jap. It'was evident that Peter and Alintlc 'were riot acquainted and the old Woman did not seem to relish having him In such close proximity to her, so she turned her broad hack upon him find sniffed the air from the open window. Meantime Peter was sleepy and no doubt fired, from his day's labors, he crouqhed In his meagre share of space and properly dozed. Presently the passengers were startled ont of their wits by hearing some lively squawking from a chicken and three good-sized .veils from tho old nuntio, and were astounded beyond measure when they discovered the cause, which proved to bo a that a trig sleek blaeksnako was poking Its. In-ad from Peter's bucket anil making manful efforts to get himself outside of s young pullet that lay upper- moat In the old woman's basket. The punlo In the ear can better lie imngincd Ihnn drwerlbed. There were screams and yells from the women and every mnu In the ear fried to ring the hell at once. The only, person with any presenco of mind whs Peter. Grabbing tho anake round the middle with his cotton hook he twisted it loose from its hold on the pullet and soon beat Ms life out on tho floor of the, car. The old, auntie was ns tnud'ae mod could be, and declared ber chicken was "plsen." She furthermore asked peler If bo car ried tho reptile ” "bout aid 'Ira to do hfs elonlln," hut peter seemed to ho as much astonished tU file presence of the snake as anylsidy else. He says be always take* his dinner to the warehouse with him, and when he has finished eating, he sots the bucket down behind the cotton bales for safe-keeping. Yesterday evening when he started home lie reached behind the briles for his bucket as usual, hut was surprised to find It open. It was pretty dark In flic corner of the big warehouse, hot tho 'op was lying by the hneket, so he Just tirited It on and slipped the pall over hla nnn and started home. No doubt tho snake had been bruising around seeling what he might devour, rind, rinding the remnants of Peter's ba- Coo and eonibread Inviting, had crawled In to partake thereof, being tempted to reappear when the close proximity of tho oil auntie's pnllet again net his senses agog. ' Young Honeymoon called hV> wife' a dumpling. But ten minutes Inter, when he told her she was too heavy to hold On Ills lap, and she reminded him that at dinner he said he dld't like heavy dumplings, their first quarrel loomed'up on the horizon.—Yonkers Statesman. WHAT LOVE CAN DO. I. The aky was draped with somber clouds, A chill was in the air; My love was cold and gloominess Extended everywhere. I mingled with the busy throng. And scanned the faces there; Each eeemed a living mirror of Bereavement or despair. o My loved one omlled upon me and The world was bright again; E'en though the wind blew from the north It did nqt chill me then. Again I mingled with the throng, And saw but gladness when . I peered into the faces of j Those erst unhappy men.' -Cleveland Nytvs-Herald. The Experiment at the Lambs' Club Gambol Which -Hastened, If It Did Not Cause, Hla Death. From the 'New York Bun. "Various men: the best one being a Russian, have given exhibitions In New York during tho last halt dozen years of what they alleged to be mind reading," said a physlctan at the Lambs' club one night last week. "Be ing Interested In the subject, I hnvo seen them nil. They wore simply more or tea* clever exhibitions of muscle reading. There ore several man In- this club, and Harry 'Dixon Is one of them, who can duplicate every act of three so-called mind reader*. Not one of them-, -however. Was hver duplicated the trick that Washington Irving Bishop performed In- this club half u dozen year* ago. I knew -Blahop well rand I was present on that occasion. His death a few hour* lR-ter An a cata leptic fit-which was apparently the cli max of rihe Intense nervous excitement Incident to : the successful performance of -t-ho feat'.- wne accepted by many of hie friends a proof C 'bte claim that he did hla so-called mjAvivadlng while In a aeml-hyp«»tlc'';»ffV>^!on. I don't know enough- about hypnotism to af- llirm or deny that assertion. "Blshop’*l la-s-t feat hns never -been explained to my satlanoctlbn. PrevEou? ‘ to'that fatal evening I have frequently seen Bishop's exhibitions, and I had al ways been skeptical of- his cla»m that he possessed any other power thin that of expert muscle reading. I satd after Ms death, nn-d I say It now, that In my opinion -the feat that Bishop did In this club on the evening before his death cainnot bo accounted for upon any the ory of knop-n science nr medicine. It was and la, a -mystery." “Did you, ever moke a physical ex- amtnatlongf -Bishop?" askol one of tho lltt'lo group that had Icon discussing musolie re*dip*. "Yea, several times," replied tho doc tor. “He was a remarkable man phys ically. He wa« a man or medium size and rather slender built, but despite the fact that he took no care or hla health, he,.had a wonderrul muscular development. HI* arms and back were strongly developed. Ho was or an ex cessive n-ervoua temperamerit, and hla motheu said that he Hod been subject to cataleptic fits trom the age of 6. On several occasions *ft«r these fVlo the doctors who were stsmmonod to ntt-ond him said -that he wa* dead. Tho fits usually followed some mental exertion, At the time when Blahop drove blind folded through the streets from the Hoffman house to the Gramercy Park hotel and found a pin which a commit tee of well known men had hidden In the latter house, I found that tils pulse wa* 152. Bishop Wlmartf told me that the highly nervoua condition In which he was thrown by performances of this sort was a proof to him that 'there was an abnormal state of mind developed in hla work. “Do I Mievo thnt? I can simply say that I don't know. I am skeptical of Bishop's claims, but I followed him closely ll,e night before be died and he mystified me. Two or three of you v here that night, lint I don’t believe that you watched Bishop ns I did, and I know thnt none of you sought an explanation of his feat at I. "Harry Dixie brought Bishop a* his guest to that 'gambol,' and about mid night lie went away. Bishop seemed fo be In good health and spirits. I talked wilh him for a few minutes and then be said; " 'Feel my arm.' “It was as firm as iron and be was vety proud of It. Later in the evening I asked him to give an exhibition of his powers. He was In She hurner, tail he began, with what he called the 'detect ive trick.’ This little Russian who has been giving exhibitions here this winter does much the same thing. It Is sim ply snnsclo reading. Bishop left tho room and a member of the club took s small dagger and made the motion of stabbing Louis Aldrich. The dagger was concealed. Bishop was brought In blind folded, with Ibe hand of (be man who had concealed the dagger In hla own hand. His quickness was one of the strong points In hts performances. With out a moment's hesitation he walked to where the dagger was hidden, and then walking to where Louis'Aldrich was seated went through the motion af •tabbing him. There was applause but Bishop tore off the bandage from his eyes and said: - DEATH'B FEAT. '• That’* an easy one.. Wait and I'll •how you one that yon never saw before and I’ll guarantee that no one else can do It/ "It was this fact that undoubtedly hast ened his death. If it did not really cause It. He asked Clay Green to think of some word la the club's book of accounts or record*. Mr. Green aud Dr. J. A. Irwin, an acquaintance of Bishop's who had dropped lu while be was perform ing hfs last trick, went down stairs where these good* are kept and found In the drib’s minute book a name, Margaret Townsend, I think It was. I watched Bishop doaely. He wa* more nervous than I had ever seen him before. Mr. Oretn'and Dr. Irwin bid the minute book and came upstairs. Bishop was blind folded ns before, and with Mr. Green's hand resting on Ida he led the party down stairs, found the mlmitc hook, and, turning over the pages rapidly, camn nt last to the page on which this nnme ap peared. He stopped for a second, anil then, skimming hts finger over the page, settled on tuo word selected. " ‘Is that It?' ho naked In n nervous way. Being told that It was, lie Id the way hack up stairs niul announced thnt ho would tell wlint the word wn> in n manlier that would demonstrate ub- solutely that muscle reading hud nothing 10 do with this feat.. Bishop asked every- nno to aland brick. Without touchtug -Sir. Green lie nsked him to think intent ly of the word thnt hail been selected. Bishop stood apparently In a state only hnlf consciousness. Tho bandage cov ered his eyes and a part of his face. There wit perfeot silence In the room for nearly a minute, anil then Bishop, speaking with difficulty, said: “ ‘I think it Is a nnme. I think It Is n mini's name/ In this Intter statement Ini wns wrong, as It happened. 'Give mo something to write with,’ lie went on. "Some one gave him n piece of paper niul n pencil. Without n moment's hesi tation Bishop wrote the word 'Towns end,' but he wrote it reversed, ns It would appear in a mltror were the pa per on which tho word was written rc- fiected there. ^ " 'There It is,' lie said, HIM as the spec tators deciphered the nnine mid hurst lulu upi-huiHe In- stiffened <"it nod sunk back unconscious, "Sovcrnl physicians present quieted Hie fears of the club men liy telling them Hint Bishop was subject to rutnlcptic fils, mid that, there wns probably no dmigcr. He was revived, mid when he wns able to sit ho nsked that the pliysl- Mims should - explain that the peculiar backward fashion In which the name Imd hecn written - might be accounted for by the fiiet that the original reflection of everything seen by the eye Is Inverted, ns In n mirror, mid Is reversed by the optic lens on the wny to tho brain. Bish op alleged that what he Imd written wns the exact copy of what appeared In ids eye, and wns written by him without miy conscious Intervention. He wns In n highly excited state mid we look him to n private room upstairs. He seemed greatly elated over the carrcss of his feat end Insisted on repenting It, al though Dr. Irwin forhndc Ids doing so. Opposition seemed only to excite him, mid he wns permitted to repent the feat. Tbia lime lie bnd grent difficulty in ac complishing It, nnd when It wns over lie wns completely prostrated- He had fre quent spasms, and at 4 o'clock he went Into n comn, which lasted until his death, which occurred almut noon. ■There wns a good deal printed nbout Bishop’s dentil, mid ninny different sto ries were told nbout Ids feats hero Just before it. My statement of them Is cor rect. Bishop's feat of writing out tho nnmo Townsend Hint bod been selected wns not muscle rending evidently. Borne of the so-called mind renders who have followed him con find n ccrlnin word on u printed page by muscle rending, and then they write It out by going through the letters of tho nlplinliet mid putting them down one by one, as the muscles of Hie guide are bound to indicate. There was no one touching nisbop. I have seen too ninny evidences of telegraphy to telepathy lo doubt If, hut excejit In this prio Instance I have never known n person to feel nnntlier'a thoughts so elenrly that they could write them down. Bishop was n mystery to me, and he nlwoys will be, unless a man appears who can duplicate the feat which resulted In his death, mid who Is nble to explain how he (kies it. I am Inclined to believe thnt Bishop wns perfectly sincere In his belief that he accomplished bla feata by hypnotic In fluence, bnt I am not ready to admit thnt that was the explanation of them.” A MOON8HINKIVB TRICK, How a Revenue Officer Wcut Outwitted by a Pretty Young Glr. The tricks of the moonshiner arc many, but one of tho moat Ingenious was revealed not long ago In North Carolina. For some time revenue offi cials have had reason to believe an Il licit etll wan In operation rear Bpcke- vllle. An agent named Dickson was sent from Washington to Investigate. Dickson proceeded to the designated locality, and while making his way through the woods one evening loet hla bearings. He stopped at tho roodelde for a moment to decide the best way to out of hla difficulty when suddenly a bicycle, ridden by an attractive girl, whirled around a turn In the road. Ho accosted the young woman. Inquired the way, and was directed by her to her father's farmhouse. On arriving thcr the farmer Insisted on hla staying all night, and he did so. It was a case of love at- first sight. Moonshiners wer forgotten In the next few days- Within a week he had hlv own wheel sent by exphess. Every day be and the girl, whose name was Bailie Newman, went out together, starting from the form In the afternoon, fre quently stopping at the residence of Bai lie'* aunt In the village for dinner, and then going home in the moonlight. Week* aped by, until one day Dick son reclved an order from Washington to return home, his mission having proved fruitless. Sadly he started out with Bailie for a final ride. Awuy she sped, nn<l ho wns sorely tried to keep at her side. Neither noticed the frag ments of a. pane of window glass dropped on the road by soqio unlucky farmer uattl too late. '•Hold on—our tires are punctured!" shouted Dickson. "Why, whftt'H that?" he added, gazing with amazement at a tiny stream of liquor spurting from both front and rear tlrea. A moment taler the whole situation dawned upon him. "Oh, you little moonshiner," he murmured, nnd then ho let lila wind fall and sprang to catch flalle, who had swooned. For six weeks the valiant Dickson had been assisting unawares tin- moon- shlners by carrying whisky In Ids pneu matic Hrcs, Insert'd at the farm house and deftly removed by Aunt Jane ia the village. A WORLD WRECKER. A French Funny Man Writes a Take off on Edison. The astonishing progress of electrical science is neatly 'sallrlzcd by a Pari sian newspaper, which Imagines Mr. Edison In hla laboratory hearing the news- of a declaration of war between Orent Britain and the United Htntes. A young man, liln assistant, rushes In, pale and out of breath, end exclaims to the grent electrician: "Oil, master, war Is declared! It Is jcrrllile!’ "All" s.iya tho master. "War de clared, eh? Ami where Is the Hrn(sh,~ nrmy nt this moment?" "Embarltlpg, sir." ;:: .- “Embarking where?" ' ("At Liverpool." "At Liverpool—yc*. Now, my friend, would you please Join the end* of Jhoso two wires hanging there against tho wall? That's right. Now, bring them to me. Oood! And ho kind enough to press that button.” The asslxtant, wondering and half amused, prcf-ac Hie button. "Very weir," says the inventor, "Now, do you know what ia taking plaoe at Liverpool?" "Tho Brltlah army Is embarking, fir." * : "Thff inventor pulls out hi* watch R-nil rUwcw ait the time. ‘ "There In no British army," hr* *ny», coolly,. "What?" corcamcd tho a*ftf«tnnt. "When you touched the button you destroyed U." "Oh, till* In frightful I" "It la not frightful nt nil. Tt t« *e|<*uce. Now. <• v cl y Min.* Mi.u a Brltlah ♦•xid'- rlftlon cinburks at any port pl«*as« como ami toll me .at once. Ten second* fiflfrw.'Trl it will Hlmjily tie out of *:x- jutenee; that’* all." "There doean-'t aeem to bo any rea«on why AmerVca should be afraid of her rnomlCH after thin, *Ir," "I utn inollned to believe you,” nay* tho m;iHlf*r, rmllitiK slightly. “But In order tr> avert future trouble I think it would be bent to destroy England al together." 'To—to destroy Enghtml, *lr '* "Kindly touch button No. 4 there." The fiwglatant touche* It. The In ventor counta ten." , eight, nine, ten—It’* all over. Therein no more England." "Now we can go quietly on with our work," nay* the ma*ter. "And If wo should over be at war with any other nation, you havo only to notify me. I have an el<*etrlc button connected with every foreign country which will d*» »rtroy It when prewed. In ten minute* r tan ik atroy every country In the world, frhe United Stnje* Included. carol fill, now, that you don't touch any of theae button* accidentally—you might do a lot of damage."—Philadelphia Ledger, ^ - BTRONG AS DEATH. 9| O death, when thou »>halt conn* to me From out thy dark, where «be i» now, Como not with grave yard umell on thee, Or withered rose* on thy brow. Como not, O Death, with hollow tone. And aoumllf*** atop, and elnmrny hand; Lo. I am no I^a alone Than In thy desolate, doubtful land; But with that Aweet and fabric *cent That ever rhmg ;ri»out lo r (mn*h Af with all thing* t>he f>nifli**d was blenO; And with her quick and tender touch. With the dim gold that lit her hair, Crown thyself, Death; let fall thy thrend So light that 2 might dream her there, And turn upon my dying bod, And through my chilling vein* My love, am though beneath herbreai And in her \oi< e tmt « ;»l| my name* And I will follow thee, O Deoth. — If. C. Bunnor, in “Air* from Arcady. "Doe* MU* a uaIj in toil's father with favor on your suit? "I think mo; he always lets me for the drinks."—Detroit Free FrMh (