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iMtthm nmm IS iowcco. row was created of Ion Ppfdlsarts. m Cromwell Var sttaoeo. bj Baleoall. *?ut. Warshlpewere tor Tangier, Wad til Uadi of pnu wm eiertW to mb|iI the Saltan >t41n the rplnti of the capttrea. ^ wef?KW,vMiir/tbre>ti of death. ? a hear?, ransom be paid and, damsjkl* be <oopll?d with, jfbat Idoapilns le likely tp lead to a In the affaire of Morocco le eery ^Uj hollered. The present ettoa i i demonstration of the lnntablU I the preeent government, and le OApHOa 't?'i merits to action. Morocco has a pop A It Om *7 tft U? DoabaroUea. a at that tfoths wmmt distinguished 1st ,1ft * Europe, called on th? poet UaartlM aad asked for to study his band. The podk readily granted the reqoaat, and half aft hour Desbarolles carefullf studied tho lines In his hands. Then ho rather abruptly look htolsav% aad that evening be said "I studied learns and'was greatly surprised sil wHt saw. I expected that he would have the Bands of a poet?soft, delicate, ef feminate hands?whereas ho haa exact* !y such hands' as you will And on the typical' msrchaat or wholesale dealer. The llngevravf largo, strong and sons what clumsy, aad the lines show great success In a tashuas career.** This was repeated to Lamarttno a few days later,, and at ooce ho ? claimed, enthusiastically: "Desbarolles la right! I waa bora to he t drst-elass hmlntii tt'ti. aoA. fjif 1 because ft poet heaven only knows.** A TYPICAL BRIGAND OP MOROCCO. ttlatlon estimated by some at 9.400.000. ETbe ftultan of Morocco claims to be thirty si*tb Is descent from Fa.tlmab, the da ughtcr of t lie prophet. His au thority la absolute and not modliled. as In Turkey, by the opinions of the ieayuad. The area of Mprocco can ouly be vaguely estimated. as the southern frontiers toward the Safcara Desert ?re unsettled, but It prolmbly contains 800,000 square miles. There Is oneEnglfsh newspnper. tiro French and three Spanish published in Tangier. The army of Morocco Is es timated at 80060. Including the mill tut. It Is trained and commanded by English, French and Italian officers. Nothing lias been done to develop the country by either opening roads or railways. It li eue of the most neg lected-spots In the world. Agriculture Is. very greftly neglected. The people only cultivate their liind frptn dire ne cessity. In 1002 the chief exports were almonds, beans, peas, oxen, eggs and ?tins. Its chief Imports are cotton foods and sugar. There are represen tatives of/fourteen nations at Tangier. The British enroy Is ?!r Arthur Nicol ?otK Bart., K. C. B. There la perhaps no portion of the clylUsed world about which European Information Is so defective. There has been no survey of the country, and the jo^ps have been drawn up largely by Joiijecture. Kittling of Honeymoon*. The late Mrs. John Uldgeway, of Paris, was noted for her ready wit. At one of her receptions, apropos of marriage. Guy de Maupassant said: "The honeymoon ends when the wife flfgf s*ks the husband for money." '?No," Mrs. Rldgeway retorted; "It ends when the husband ceases to ask the wife how much he can have the pleasure of giving her." Great Men's Mothers. A recent i?sue of a monthly publica tion entirely devoted to literature H?on tulns the portraits of three famous mothers, that Is, of Jtliree women made famous by their sous. These are Mrs. Carlyle, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Speneer. It Is curious, says the Ladles' Pictorial, that there Is always more Interest at taching to tlife mothers of men of jdls tixction than to their sires, even if they have been men of some mark. It is said that most men who achieve greatness inherit their ability from their mothers, and It Is noteworthy that nearly all distinguished men have been greatly attached to their mothers. One can never forget the Poet Gray's exquisite epitaph on his mother, or Mr. J. M. Barrle's tender and beautiful tribute to his mother's memory. Crime and Left-Hands InoM. i It has been discovered by a special ist that more than one-third of the peo ple who are left-handed are criminals. This is very interesting, but we don't see how the discovery is going to be of particular value to society. Let the specialist pursue his investigations and find out whether people are criminals because they are left-handed, or left handed because they are criminal. With that point settled It mny be j>os slble to Inaugurate Intelligent meas ures for remedying the matter. At present we are left to supiwse that all left-handed people who are not crlm luals must be baseball pitchers.?Chi* cago Record. When arrnyed in his official clothes, the Sultan of Jobore is ? glittering cu riosity. He wears gems worth $12, 000,000. They sparkle In his crown, on his epaulets, in his 'girdle and In his cuffs. IN THE PUBLIC EYE. PHILANDER C. KNOX, Attorney-General of the United States, whose vigorous prosecution or the Kortbern Securities case bas won him fame. He has been recently appointed Called States Senator from Fenwytvaula to aucceed tbe late Senator Quay. NEW SAFETY FENDER. Will C?Uk ? Parson oa Uw Track astflaa Trap. The great difficulty experienced with Buy of th# safety car featen la tka( they do aot do what they are eappoeed to do. Some of them hare actually TH* TBAP PIKDKI. been denounced as men-slayers. Instead of being life-savers. Knocking thelt victims down, they bare so wedged them against tbe tracks that there war no possibility of escape. ? lately Invented contrivance foi preventing the speeding trolley cat maiming or killing unfortunates who may get In Its way consists of the or dlnary fender, to the upper end ol which is attached a duplicate of the lower part, the concave sides of the two portions facing each other, as If shown In the picture. A man, woman or child falling upon the fender Is lm mediately seized from above by the up per part, which automatically closes In on him and holds him securely untlf the car stops and he Is liberated. He Is thus prevented from being dragged along the ground or falling at one side of the fender and meeting disaster un tier the wheels. A1 ELEVENTHCEITUHT CHURCH. This churcn. which, happily, has not been destroyed, as was recently re ported, is one of the oldest of the "Staveklrke" of Norway. The' build lug Is situated to the east of Sogne Fiord. The church dates back to the eleventh century. It is very small but most curious and Interesting. It Is built entirely of wood, and to pre serv-; It the exterior 1c continually painted with' pitch. The church thai has been destroyed Is that of the vll Inge of Borgund, on the road between Aalesund and Soholt, a church stated to have the finest reredos in Norway. A TRICK JUS. This curious trick Jug wa . sold at ? recent London auction sale. From the picture it appears to be the same type as those sometimes seen In our shops and from which It Is Impossible to drink without knowing the secret Such jugs are pelToi'a icu UoOut the brim and ran only be emptied bj sucking through tffe spout while cov ering with the finger nn nlr vent In the hnndle. Tli. hnndle Is hollow and serves a? r tube through which the li quid enn be drawn when the air /enl Is closed. Humor, "Chinamen huve a tine sense of hu mor," said the young playwright, KlCh ard Carle. "In their quiet, dry waj the Chinese say innumerable good things. "I once knew In San Antonio a bach elor banker. This man decided that he would employ a Chinese butler. Ac cordingly, his arrangements wer? made and In due time the Chinese but ler appeared. He served his tlrst dlu ner admirably, "After It the banker said to him. " '1 think you will do well Here. W* a? Is your name?* " 'My name Is Yot Lee Chwang Toy,' the Chinaman answereJ. " 'Oh.' said the banker, 'I can't re member all that. I'll just call you John.' " 'All light,', said the new butler. "At breakfast the next morning the Chinaman smiled at his employer pleasantly. " 'What's your name?' he sold. " 'Plerpont Morgan Jones," my friend replied. " 'Me no memble nil that.' said tba Chinaman, 'Me just call you Tom I tujr*' ** PLUCK, MM A MCE HMD ADVSMTURE. CAUGHT BUR. D E A CON HANK STRONG, tv ho Una op at the Mead ows, writes a correspond ent from fiHsaeid, VI.. kno\ra of two (ramps who will not bother him or hi* chlckeus any more. In fact, he to pretty sore he 1? rid of the eutlre colt for good and all. as he liaa been told that lu Hobodom there are certain signs 'displayed on fences which Indicate Rood and poor field of Investigation. He has fonud souie of these signs on his fence n mile fioin the house, nud believes that they were placed there by a pair of tramps with whom lie had a somewhat on usual experience. Hauk began *to be bothered with members of the ''profession" early in the summer, and at first Mrs. Stroug, a whole-souled individual, responded to their entreaties for food with Jersey milk, large pieces of pie and good home-made cheese. When she stopped the tramps hung aroood until dark nnd made off with chickens, vegetables, and even firkins of butter. As the cold weather came on the hoboes got more numerous, until they became a pest. About a week ago the deacon resolved to be rid of them. About noon he went to the henhouse, and selecting half a dosen Thanksgiv ing capons killed and picked them In full vli?w. He strung the alz on a pole and put them in the Icehouse. The ice house was a box-like affair, about ten by twenty feet, with a height of eight feet. It had a good-sized door that locked with a apring catch and was strong enough to resist ordinary efforts to open It from within. As soon as the chores were done the deacon, armed with a bean-pole, took up his position iu the kitchen and from a point of vantage at the window watched the door of the henhouse just across the driveway. Mrs. Stroug blew out the light after making sure that the kitchen and Icehouse doors had been left ajar and sat down with the deacon. It was a bright night, and the hus band and wife could just make out the door of the trap they had laid for the tramps. They waited patiently and at 9 o'clock saw a form on all fours emerge from the direction of the pas ture aud disappear within the house. "One 'f th' varmints," whispered the deacon. "Don't ye move till th' other feller gits inside." There was a period of suspense that seemed Lalt-an Lour and then a sccond forui was made out emerging from the pasture. Thl* was approaching in a crouched position and was followed by another about the same site. "Gosh all hemlock, 't I won't ketch three 'f 'em," jubilantly whispered the deacon. "Didn't think there was but two." The forms approached cautiously, circled toward the ice-house, aud went In. A moment later the kitchen door was softly pushed open and Deacon Strong crept out, followed by his wife. He moved noiselessly to the Ice-house and -pushed the door shut with the bean- pole. The next instant a muffled shriek burst from within, followed by a second shriek and a loud bass ronV that was never made by a human being. "Let us out. let us out." yelled n voice. "Good Lord. let us out. There's a bear iu here and he's trying to eat us up." "lloly smoke," grasped the deacon as a second and louder roar smote his ear. "Quick, Marthy, git th' carbine. It's loaded." While Mrs. Strong ran for the gun more roars and howls tilled the ice house, followed by a floundering and thumping on the door. "Wait 'till I get th' carbine," yetted the deacon. "Blame it. don't ye bust thet door. lie can't eat ye both th' OllCt." Just then Mr* Stropcr enme on the run with the gun in her hand and the deacon slipped the lock. Instantly out tumbled two terrified tramps, batless aud white, and before the farmer could stop them they fairly Hew dowii the road, shouting at the top of their voices. Directly afler tlicui came n small black hear with his mouth full of chicken and one paw swathed in the remnant of a coat tail. "Gimme th' gun. gimme th' gun." gurgled the dencon. But there was no time for this, and Mrs. Strong pointed the barrel at bruin, ?*hut both eyes, aud fired. The bali nearly lifted the top of the auliual's head off, and he died instantly. "(Josh." ejaculated the deacon, view ing his good wife with pride. "Who'd liev thought It? Blamed If ye can't shoot es well cs ye kin cook." "I cal'lnte we be rid *f them pesky tramps fer a spell." she responded, with a glenin of pride In her eyes.? New York World. ? RAT FOUGHT MAN. A remarkable story of a fight in the street with an Infuriated rat <Vas told to his friends by Andrew Smith, of ?No. ir>8 Fifty-seventh street. Brooklyn. Smith was on his way to Manhattan, where he Is employed, and started to cross Second avenue, half a block from his home, when he saw' a rat also crossing the street In front of him, but In a diagonal direction. It was evident ly leaving a stable In the rear of Wege lln s grocery store on the corner. It was an unusually large rnt. Smith started after the rat. Instead of mnklng for the nearest hoh; the animal went leisurely on Its tvja.v and S'nith caught up with It Just ns it was about tj spring up on the curb, 'I he rot stopped, turned quickly, look ing for a moment at the man. then sprang straight at him. At the same time his foot shot out. The rat made a curve over his swinging shoe, landed on his leg below the knee and started to bite furiously. Smith kicked the anhual off. It sprang at him again and he kicked once more. This time he struck mid the rat was knocked sev eral yards away. It recovered Itself and made another dash at the mnn. This time Smith managed to stun the rat. He killed It before It could re cover. Smith t'jen t?env on Ills way. Lnter lie felt his 1?* oaln. On examining It he found his sock and nndrrwNr soak ed with blood, hi* trousers torn sud a wound In his ley halt sn Inch Ions, where the rat had bnrled his teeth BRAVB WATCHMAN. William McAllister a flagman on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at Thirteenth and Cumberland streets, Philadelphia, sacrificed his life In aae* log three (Iris from desth beneath .the wheel* of a swiftly moving tralp. Me. Allister was tsken to the Samaritan Hospital with both of bis less broken and his head and body Injured. He died an hour after being admitted. The girls whom lie rescued went away immediately after the accident and their names are uuknown. Within Ave minutes of the time he was to be relieved from his eigll by tn? day man McAllister noticed two mill girls stop to talk to a third girl be tween tbe northbound rail*. At the same time he heard an outbound train, which within a few seconds would be upon the unthinking girls. He shouted a warniug as be started toward tbein. As tbe locomotive drawiug the north, bound' traiu hove iu sight, not fifty yards away, a south bound train came along- Without hesitation McAllistet sprang iu front of the south bound train and reached the girls. He threw his weight against them and sent then) sprawling out of harm's way. But he was too late to escape himself. Before he could jump from the tracks the pilot of the swiftly moving englue hit hint. SHOT SNAKE. SAVED MOTHER. Miss Katie Klinger. a young school teacher, saved her mother from a rattlesnake on Goss Hill. Pa., by kill* ing the snalce with a rifle a? twenty five yards. Miss Klinger a year ago won a gold medal in a shooting match. Mrs. Klinger was walking in the yard, when the snake reared up In front of her. She screamed, and then fainted. Her daughter, hearing her. secured a loaded Winchester rifle, and shot the snake's head cleanly oil'. SI00 FOR AN ECC Of an East Indian Gam?-Fowl Imported Into Kugmntl. Not often docs the price of a single egg ciiuib to $100. but this is what wai? offered for each of the eggs of a cer tain Indian game-lien, which wa? brought to Eug'.and some time ago. says Country Life iu America. For centuries the Indian Came, or Azeel Fowls, have been the very apes of the game-breed, for the pureness of blood and pedigree have been most carefully preserved for so long that the date of the origin of the race has been lost in the past. It is almost impossible to secure specimens of the purest blood, for they are treasured by the Indian sportsmen at the highest value, mid the best fowls are not allowed to go out of their native country. As game-fowl, they are great fight ers. Those who have seen them in India?for the finest birds never reach our colder climates?tell of their prow ess and ungovernable tenacity in bat tle. With them, it is always victory or death. In America, however, the game fowls are seldom raised for fighting purposes, but for show, and as pets and hobbles of poultry fanciers. Sellout X'tiilUreu of jMp?n. "Though among the wage-earning class of Japan there is still great ig norauce. and an enormous amoiiut re mains to be done for their education, it is surprising to note the number of schools supported by the city of Toklo alone." says a writer in Social Service. "To some of these schools a giri itf sent at six years of age, the one chosen be ing in accordance with her father's in come and social position. It is curious that no matter how exclusive a Japan ese family may be in other ways, in education the tendency is democratic. Schools aro much preferred to private governesses, even among the nobility, and girls of royal blood meet dally in the schoolroom with the daughters of well-to-do commoners. This is pralt or.c of the best p??n* that could be devised for giving such girls a knowledge of the world and bringing them to a realization of what modern progress has done in making these 'others girls' their friends and equals." Kriltor Hhepnrd's Ne?r?. When the late Elliott F. Shepard published a newspaper lie printed at tliu head of the editorial column eacli afternoon a Scriptural text. The edi tor of one of the sensational newspa pers Instructed a reporter to interview Mr. Shepard and outlined the questions the young man was to ask. All went well until the interviewer asked: "Why do you publish llible extracts'; The one to-day dealt with the Cruel tixlon. Do you consider that news?" "I do." emphatically responded Mr. Shepard. "It is news to a great many people?especially so. I believe, to the gentleman who Bent you to question me." The interview ended there. To Orow ninlMnrf It Is quite possible for nuy one to own a forest of miniature oaks, which may be grown even without the aid ot soil. In order to rear a miniature for est procure n shallow dish and cover tlie base of it with moss an inch thick. Then set a number of good acorns in rows about two Inches apart, and a perfect little forest of oak trees can lie raised. The moss must always be kept very moist, and the acorns will begin to grow in the spring. By June or July they will have raised themselves six to eight Inches high, and will form a charming sight forunjr lover of trees.?London Mail. A Kfinarkabl* (tour. There Is at the present lime In the gardens of Mr. W. H. Armstrong, at Benwell. England, a remarkable rose. It Is n Nlphetos tea rose, and was. we learu from the Country (Icntletnau, planted (under glass) eighteen years ago ftfoin a fWe inch pot Into a pre pared border. At present it covers nu area of 1300 square feet. The blos soms are large, well formed ami white,' with petals beautifully lipped with pink. Last year. In spite of the lack of sun, 16'HX) blossoms were gathered from thic f<v*e. This year more thae 4WM) have already been gathered, and It Is thought that the uuiuher will bo about 18.000. News of Interest AFRO-AMERICANS Mill* told for a Song. The Coleman cotton mill at Concord. N. C.. waa sold recently at public auc tion under an execution of two mort gages held by the Dukes of Durham. N. C. The property waa bid In for the mortgages at $10,000. ? The con cern owea 920.000. The Coleman mill was the first fn North Carolina to run with colored help. The organizer of the mill was Warren Coleman, a well-known Ne gro of Concord. He had considerable moans and it is said that the failure of the venture cost him most of his property. Coleman died some months ago. ? ? ? * Negro Congress Called Off. Rev. E. B. Topp. a well known color ed preacher of Jackson, Miss., who is preaideiu or the Southern Negro Con gress. which was organized in Jack son three years ago. and which was scheduled to hold its annual session at Mobile from the 5th to the 10th of July, announces that the meeting has been indefinitely postponed. Although the officers of the organiza tion decline to discuss the matter, it la learned from authentic sources that it was decided not to hold the congress for the reason that the race leaders do not deem it wise at present to stir up the Negro question, or to discuss any of its phases in a public gathering, owing to the general feeling prevail ing in the country on account of tho suffrage plank adopted in the rccont republican national convention. ? ? * m , "Jl-ri Crow" Lew in Maryland. A Baltimore special says: The law passed at the Inst session of the legis lature requiring seperate compart ments for white pnd colored passen gers on railways and steamboats, known as the Jim Crow law, went into effect July 1st. It is held that the law does not cp ply to through express trains and will be ir.forced oniy on trains doing a stplcdy local business in the state and on steam boats plying exclusively on state waters. ?11 the railroad com panies whore lines pass through the state announce that they are prepared to obey the law. having equipped coaches for this purpose. The steamboat companies whoso vessels p'y tho Chesapeake bay and tributaries hove made preparations to comply with the law, having reserved seperate places on the deck and in the sa.oons nnd separate berths for color ed passengers. ? ? o ? Coed Work cf Training School. The Con.*!d<-.envll!e, Ga.. Norui-il and Industrial Institute for the training of the colored youth, opened October 15th, 1903. with an enrollment of only olght. pupils. In a small frame building the class room work was carried on and in connection with this a loi of five aoivs were used na a truck farm and cu'tivated by the pupils. On this small farm was raised Irish potatoes. cabbage, corn and all garden vegetables. A now building, two sto ries high, 34 by 50 feet, to be used for academic purposes, has been erect ed and the time of closing. June 9th, wa3 nearly completed, and through the providence of the Almighty had been in use about two months to tho tiiro of closing. This institution has for Its purpose not merely the intellectual culture, bus to teach the beauty and dignity of la bor. the education and training of the hoad and heart and the hand, thereby elevating the race and establishing the nnhilltv of anrvlPA ? The school closed ror vacation after a term of nine scholastic months with an enrollment of sixty-two and five acre* under splendid cultivation. ? ? ? ? Colored Population Figures. The census bureau, at Washington, baa issued the final bulletin on the Negro population of the United States. The number of Negroes in the United 8tates. Including the entire area cov ered by the twelftn census (continen tal United States, Alaska and Hawaii) and Porto Rico Is 9,204,631, perhaps a larger number than is found in any other country outside of Africa. The report states that between 11 jmd 16 per cent of the Negro popula tion has, or is believed by the cnumer- i fttors, to have some degree of whito blood. The center of the Negro population ' Is In DeKalb county, Alabama, about I four miles from the western boundary j Df Georgia, having moved thence from ; Dinwiddle county, Virginia, where, <6 miles northeast, since 1790 more than I 77 per cent of the Negroes lived in the i county, against more than 67 per cent nt the whites. Almost 90 per cent of the Negroes ; In the continental United States are In the southern states and three-tenths of them are in Georgia. Mississippi and Alabama. Negroes constitute about one-fifteenth of tho city popula tion and about one-seventh of the coun try population of continental United States, but the rate of increase de clined steadily through the nineteenth century. The Negroes, unlike the In dians and the native white, have a slight oxcese of females. Illiteracy among them is about seven times greater than the whites. There are 8,992,837 Negroes in the United States engaged In gainful occupations. Their death rate approximates 30 per cent, while that of the whites under the name calculation Is 37 per cent. The proportion of mulattoes to all Negroes is usually higher In cities of i the great cotton growing states than it is in the districts outside of the cities. The district In which tho proportion of Negroes is greatest lies In the Mis sissippi alluvial region along both banks of the lower Mississippi, where Of the population to Na ?PO* ?**!??? btiag In Issaque na county. Mississippi. with sort than y*" ^y*1 to white person. y? torax ??e-thlrd Of the copuU f10* I* t*? south. both la clUM and in country districts. while In tha north thy ara aboat oae-fortleth of city **" of tho population of ?"WttT districts. e^lnr dtetrtet of x>?th. , ?*?l?din? tha population of ?i etUes. which had at Imm 1.500 inhabl ? b<Hh ,n lt?0 aad 1891. tha Ne groes Increased from 1890 to 1800 over *w percent. In-tha 242 southern cities *? ? whola they increased 21.7 per Tb*lr lncn?a*# ** th? country district was about two-thirds as rap d as that of the whites in the same area their Increase In southern cities was ' nearly five-sixths as fast as that of the whites In the same cities. In the Ave southern cities having at least 100.000 inhabitants in 1900, the N'e>:ro population increased 25.S per cent from 1890 to 1900; the white population in the same cities increased only 20.8 per cent. This is the only group of southern cities in which the rate of increase of Negro population exceeded that of the whites. The largest number of Negroes liv ing In compact masses are found in cvr'nin urban counties, several of which lies outside the great cotton prowing states. The four each having over 75.000 Negroes are District of Columbia coextensive with Washing ton; Shelby county. Tenn.. containing Memphis; Caltimore City. Md.. and New Orleans parish. Ia.. coextensive with Now Orleans. Half the Negro?* In* the Unl'ed Stales are !:tlow 19 years of aire, this medium a?e being four years below twe white*. T?-e!r Whorer" Is vnr*?i more common In country than In city districts and the females, as with the whites, are the more illiterate sex. Negro bread winners constitute 62. 22 pey cent of all Negroes at least ten years of age. For whites the corres ponding per cent is 48.6 and for south ern whites 46.9. The relatively higher per cent for Negroes Is closely connected with the marked prevalence of female labor in the race. There are twenty-seven oc cu pat ion 3 in which at least 10,000 Ne groes were reported engaged In 1900. These occupations save employment to 3,807,008 Negroes, or over 95 per cent of the aggregation of Negro bread winners. The total number of Nig roc l re ported by the twelfth census was 8. 840,789. To this number may be added the 368,748 persons of pure or mixed blood in Porto Rico GARDEN OUT OF PLACE. Mistake Was In Locating It on Base ball Diamond. Henry Turner Bailey, until recently State Supervisor of Art of Massachu setts. says there Is a wrong and a right way to induce the children to love the beautiful, and he tells the fol lowing story us an illustration. A superintendent of schools, during the vacation period, made a beautiful gar den in a school yard, thinking that if he made It beautiful enough the boys would not dostroy it. With September a lot of energetic boys caine back\to school, and in a few weeks the garden was trampled down nnd ruined. The townspeople were indignant at the ruf flanl> behavior of the schoolboys, nnd spoke of them In rather harsh terms. Early In i'ie spring there was a change of stii>erintendents, and the new mail heard aluewt immediately of the spoiled garden. He went up to the school and made friends with the boys, and then he said, "You boys don't like flowers, do you?" They declared emphatically that ?they did. "Then why did you ruin that flower garden?" he asked. "Well." said the spokesman of the crowd, "they ought to have known bet ter than to make It on our baseball diamond." SHE GOT THEM MIXED. .ptanation Dawned Rapidly on Mind of Housewife. A lady walked Into a grocer's shop one day with her sleeves turned up tc her elbows, and a fighting light In hei eyes. "This ere." she observed with a sniff, as she banged a piece of yel lowy substance on the counter, "If the soap that does the washln' ot Itsrlf; the soap what makes ev'ry washln' day m kind of glorified beao feast; the soap what gits all the linen as white as snow and as sweet as a hazlenut by dinner time, and lets the happy housewife spend the rest of the day playln' with the children, and here am I been scrubbln' three nior tal hours with that lump, and ain't got so much lather out of It as 1 could git from a br>kbat." "I beg youi pardon," remarked the grocer, "but It Isn't the soup, four little boy cam* In hero yesterday for half a pound ol both soap and cheese; that's the cheese." "The cheese!" gasped the lad/ "That accounts for the other thinfc then." "The otl thing?" queried the gir> cer. "Ye*, the other thing," came the reply, "1 wag layln' awake half the night wondorin' what It was made the Welsh rabbit w> had for supper taste ?o fui nv."?Kesri; Cltv imimmniiMui A Missing Mascot. "No moro luck," she wallod: *'1 shall never have another bit. of luck, I know I shan't. I've lovt It and I hadn't had It but three months. "What Is It that you have lost that you are making such a fuss about?" Inquired a friend. "Your pocket oook?" "Pooketbook," answered the forlorr one, "No. I wish It was only tny pock etbook, that wouldn't be serious. Hut I've gone and lost my beautiful yel low garter and?yes. It may be a plain old thing, but It was such a mascot. Janet wore it when she was married, then Rave it to me ami I hove worn It ever since. And such a good time ?? I havo had! Dances, whist clubs, and no end of larks, ami I've met simply slues of men. You know they say tint whoever wears such a mascot will he married VMiln the yev. Ones? I'm dished now for fair."