"AIR INKS. ?jm y? Ml Hit Inee? fit MM into the W?L Mb wha^ the Mm is down, isd rob the world of ml; 4 ?ha took oar daylight with bar, Tba amilm that wa Ion bast. With moraiag blaahaa oa bar chilly . Aad pear la upon bar biaaat. O tara agaia, fair Inis, Before tba fall of night, Vbr faar tba moon abould ahina alone. And atari uanvaled bright; Aad blamed will tba lover be That walka beneath their light, Aad braathaa tba lore against thy cbaek I duo not aven write! WaaM I bad bean, fair Inee. That gallant cavalier. Who rode ao gsvly by thy aide, And whispered thee ao near! Were there no bonny damea at hornet Or ao true lovers here. That he abould cross the aeaa to aria The dearest of the dear? fith bends of noble gentlemen. And btnnm waved before; Alas, alas, fair Ines, fc>he went away with wn;, With music waiting on her steps. And shootings of the throne; But some were sad and felt no mirth. But only music's wrong, In sounds that sang farewell, farewell. To her you're loved so long. Farewell, farewell, fair Ines, That vessel never bore So fair a lady on its deck. Nor danced so light before; Alas for pleasure on the sea. And sorrow on the shore! The smile that blessed one lover's heart Has broken many more! ?Thomas Hood (1796-1845), THE GARDEN By LETTER-BOX.c s BE,D T HE big, sqimre. weather worn bouse looked In its silence and isolation like tbe relic of a long dead past Not tbe abandoned relic, however, for the hand of a pains taking florist and gardener was In evi dence In the little yard on which the house fronted. In spite of the flowers, however, there was such an atmosphere of sa cred quiet about the house that except for the presence of a tabby cat on the step. It would have seemed to be unin habited. But any urchin along the Street could have told you who lived there; It was "Miss Phoebe," while the question, "How long has she lived there?" would Invariably have brought the answer, "She's always lived there.*' Just across the road from Miss Phoe be's residence stood a plain, grim, old two-story building, whose front door step abutted on the pavement. As of the other house across the way, any one in the neighborhood could have told you who the occupant was. and of him. too, would have said that he %ad always lived there. Certainly every morning for more than tweuty-flve years Mr. Lorton had been seen to Issue from his front door punctually at 7 o'clock, in order to ride to the station In the old 'bus which passed at that hour. And from her window Mies Phoebe had watched bis departure each morning, and not ed his return at evening, by the faint flow of a light through the chinks of the ever-closed blinds. Thus bad passed twenty-flve years, When one morning there occurred an unprecedented break in the chain forged by long habit; the old 'bus passed down on its 7 o'clock trip, and Mr. Lorton failed to make his appear ance. Naturally, Miss Phoebe was moved from her wonted placidity, as one planet in a system Is disturbed by the least erratic movement of another In Its orbit. All through the long hours of the morning she watched the door of the house across the street for the appear ance of Its owner, but at last she was forced to conclude that some import ant engagement must have called hiin forth before the flxed hour cf his ris ing. Late In the afternoon she went about the garden attending the flowers with her usual care. There was a small ?quare hole in the side of one of the gateposts, where a pair of the prettiest of the blue-coated songsters had nest ed every year, feeling secure from mo lestation under Miss Phoebe's kind ly protection. From time to time Miss Phoebe glanced at the closed house over the way. It was silent and still. It was not yet time for the return of Mr. Lorltig, if he had goue nwny that morning. While Mi's Phoebe was leaning against tlie little gate. her spirit drift ing with tlie gentle current of happy memories, she was suddenl;* startled from her dreamland voyage l?y a ?trange noise In llie post at her slile. Quickly she glanced around. Just In time to see a rat leap from the Utile square hole In the post, dragging wi'.li It to the ground tlie debris of a blue bird's nest of the season past. The agile rodent scampered away among the ground r.lnging vines, and Miss Phoebe stooped down to pick up the nest. It seemed the llrsi time that the little square hole had ever been emp ty; and as sli-? rose she stopped to peer Into the long-inhabited shelter of the nesting birds, now cleared of Its little specimen of bird architecture. As she glanced Into the cavity, her eye caught sight of some white object far back In Its depth*. After trying in vain to make out what It was, she picked up a littlr a doctor, while Miss Phoebe, hastily gathering from her stores such remedies as she tlwusht mlirht relieve the sick man. hastened back to his bedside. For more than a f-rtr.'.ght Mr. Lr?r >?.: Ii.y in the grip oi' 'he f.'ver. attend- ? . dally by the pV.ys'.'MaN. and hourly I / a gray-h:t ired little woman, who; .wry.*, wore in tl?c foMs of h -r dark v>'vu a single wlilt" rose. 'i'.iree wee!;* from i >.e night that his ?v". :l'.bor trade l:i. livjt call he had proved so rapidly that Mfss Phoebe ? ?; -*ed fr >m h ?r \!s!ts, though each v si;?? sent Dinah w little dellca ? ar.d cov. it; ?. Finally, ? .?e golden ?;?' i.a e-. f. r.g, Mr. Lor iig took his ti.'?> \\v. t'..?wn the road; a occasion 1 :ng i'";'.i":,:i.r.'"d by She neighbors. wi:o r 'marked with delight the old kindly smile and his wonted pleasant though short bow of greet ing. Miss Phoebe had no thought of hi* return until she looked up and saw him pnusir.g before the gate. A? Ids eyes .net hers she (lushed ever so slights, stammered s>me 1 1 1 1 1 ph:\i*e of pl*ns ui't! for his recovery and then turned towr.rd the house. "Phoebe," said Mr. I.ii'toti. "Well, John'*" ll'? put out his hand, in which she allowed her own t < ? r for a ;;ioi)i',nt ! "Phoebe. It's tw??::'i,v-!ive years since '? ? since we used to v.and and taik nere together at ?uu?ut; bui-ia the little, pOetoffice still open In the old git? po?tr "It to open now; but oh. John!" ex* claimed Miss Phoebe, bvxlaf her face In her hands. MI did not get your tost letter until the day before I found yea 11L" "Phoebe! Phoeber cried Mr. Lorton. gently drawing her hands swsy from her face. The tears stood & her eyes, and John thought them a gentle show er that freshened the springtime beau ty of her life. "Here you got the letter now? Let me see It?" He drew open the gate snd went In* side, while lilss Phoebe took the lit-, tie scrap of paper from her bosom snd gave It to him. The letter was undsted and read: "My Dear Phoebe? Tou tell me you are going away In the morning to be gone a whole month, a length of time that to me will seem a whole year. I feel that I cannot let you go away with out some taken. I have tried to ex press. not only In words, but in a thou sand other ways, my consuming love for you. Now, O Phoebe, blest angel of my dreams! send me a simple token before you go. Will you be my wife? May I hope? If I may, then Rend me a pure white rose; If I must no longer hope, then send me the blood-red rose, that I may see in It my own poor bleed ing heart Your ever devoted "JOHN." Mr. Lorton's hand which held the let ter dropped to his knee. "And, Phoebe, you sent me a red rose that evening." "Oh. John, how could I know? It was by chance that I sent it as a tok en of remembrance. Then for some reason we went away that night in stead of the next day. so that I never thought to look in the letter box. When I came back a month later the blue birds had settled there, and It was only by accident that I ever received your letter, twenty-five years after It was written!" * Then. In a few broken phrases, she told of how the long concealed bit of paper had been discovered, and of how, on the afternoon she found him ill. she had covered the withered petals of the red rose on his table with a fresh white one. But before she could finish Mr. Lor ton was close at her side, bis hand out stretched. "Phoebe." he said hoarsely. "If? If It was for mere common charity you brought me that rose, then give me ? give me now the answer I've missed all those years." Without a word Miss Phoebe reached out a trembling hand to a nearby rose busli. Plucking the flower slowly, carefully, she held It out? still without a word. Quite as silently tile man closed his fingers about that symbolllc blossom and about the hand that gave it. And straightway in the face of both there- dawned the look of those for whom the world had suddenly turned back through twenty-five years, and for whom the bluebirds sang with all the ecstasy of long past spriu^a^ New York News. Advertising Not Advertising. ? There la advertising and advertis ing. That Is to say, Jiete la so-called exploitation and exploitation that Is genuine. Business firms get out pam phlets, booklets, circulars, etc., and these may or may not bring good re* turns. Then there are church, charity, club and other programs, year books, etc., which are tilled with advertisements in name, but not in fact. The housed which advertise in these do not ex- \ poet any returns; they give their ads because they fear to lose custom if they withhold them. It 1* a process of sandbagging which individuals sub mit to from lack of courage to resist it. But business men in the several com munities of the country are getting very tired of the imposition. In some places they are combining to resist It, and declare they will advertise only in legitimate newspapers, whose business it is to advertise, which seek advertise, ments, which protect the advertiser and which see that the would-be buyer yets the advertisement. Newspapers make a study of the nrt I of advertising. It constitutes the ma- j jor portion of their receipts. It is to their Interest to study it; it is their in- j terest to see that the advertisement j does the advertiser good. Newspaper advertising is Hie one sure and certain ' way of getting re.suhs from auvcrt is- , ill?. Tolmcco If curt. It is estimated that about twenty por. j cent, of the young men who recent "y applied to enter the Naval Academy j have failed in t lie physical test, and the | failure was largely due to the use of tobacco, resulting in the irregular beat ing of t lie heart. Nowadays physi cians speak of the "tobacco heart," a trouble caused by the excessive use of the weed. When the smoker de velops into a "cigarette /lend" the ser vices of a physician ave necessary, but before this point is rcached the heart may be permanently Injured. The trouble is often of gradual growth, and it is only wlvn t lie young man is subjected t ? a physical examination | that the extent of the disorder becori'S ! known. j An i?'v?ervant Englishman, recently ; 01: a visit t-? tl:>? 1'nli Ml 8om *, d: s'.i- J Imr. and of : ire promise. But at t'lir- j t.v-tive a change cmv.e over his *j)i"!t. ar.d ott" dry he rode straight to the abbey from thp parade ground, and in full uniform, asked the prior for admission. The head of the order at tlrst refused, but the prince broke tils sword, threw away his epaulets and decorations niul begged for a monk's habit, lie afterward went to Home, studied theology, and was ordained. I Tli?? >fnp Suitor. Bennet Burleigh, writing in tho T,on- ! don Telegraph. says: "A day or two I i.tfo 1 saw a parade of a Mj#battalion J in' .Tapnuese bluejackets. A higher ; avwaucd. better set up. handler, more ' tr.* ??e>nt look I tut body of sea bulldogs 1 have Uv-vor seen.'' A LAND or WOr\CN ******* Oaly Oat 0?t ?( Seven Persons la Paragb^> i% : Maa it Always Leap Vsar ss Revolutions Di< the Work is Bachelors There an< la Uragaax Aro Comparable With Oil Maids la Alaska A SIDE from revolutions. Uruguay Is probably noted mow for Its pretty girls than any otber thing. The romantic side of southern life has been heralded a treac aeai. but tue average Northern ?x, after ilslog up the situation Id a .entimental way. la likely to conclude hat the courtahtpa are too strict and he marriages not atrlct enough. The lAtln honeymoon la noted for its brev tj. The groom's ardency soon burns tself out He la as Indifferent in the ?ole of a husband aa he was constant n that of a suitor. The wife accepts lis Inconsistency -and devotes herself 0 bringing up her children. It would >e untrue to say that this is always he case, but it la generally so. The manner in which South Ameri 4in men hold their domestic relations s not nt all In accordance with Anglo taxon standards. The Northern wife jencrally leaves the roof of the roan *ho neglects her so wantonly. South ;rn ifeen are always starting revolu Jons. and the women ought to try itelr hand nt the game. They certain y have the provocation. The social customs of Uruguay, snys 1 writer In the St. Louis Globe-Deui >crat, are all radically different from .hose in vogue in the United States, n our country the gentlemen, when >assing lady acquaintances on the itreet, wait for the fair ones to speak Irst. The Uruguayans reverse this *ule. The men must make the first tign of recognition, and. when a man loffs his hnt to a lad}*, site nods to ilm whether she knows him or not. This practice gave rise to a good prac lcal joke in Montevideo not long ago. V young man from the States, who had lulte a reputation at home for being in active circulator among the Indies, vent to the steamship to meet a friend 'rom North America, another young nan who seldom allows a pretty girl :o pass without sizing her up. The Irst young man had been in the South >nly a few months, but as they walked ip the street It was noticeable that i great many women nodded to him. The second young man said: "You teem to know a few of the girls, even f you have only been here a short Jme." His friend looked at him in a chesty vay for a moment, then replied: "Yes, ind they sire a line lot. The most so ciable people on earth. Why, old fel ow, I know every woman in Monte video." The capital of Uruguay is a *ity of several hundred thousand ln labltants. and the newcomer cautioned :lic boaster to go slow. A bet was nade, and they started out. In the irst block they met five women; in -.he second, seven, and so on for sev eral squares. Every time the hat came >ff there was a smile and a nod In re mrn. Th.? newcomer gave in and told lis friend he was a wonder. After he lad paid his bet he was told about the peculiar custom, and now lie is wait ng for some stranger to show up so :hnt he can get even. Every year is leap year Id Uruguay. There are six women In tbe country to ?very man. A long time ago this llt 'le nation passed through a disastrous war. during which the major portion >f the mali> population was killed. Strange to say. nature has not cor rected this unequal state of affairs, for ?lnce that time the great majority of ?n children lK?rn have been girls. A bachelor does not stand any more show >f escaping matrimony in Paraguay than an old maid In Alaska. lie must marry, or give some mighty good rea son for not doing ?o. There are so oiany women aft* r hitn that it is less 'rouble to marry one of them than to ie continually l>ot!ierr? 1 by all of them. The prevailing scarcity of men has made the women a rather strenuous lot. From necessity they have learned to do the work generally performed by the sterivr sex, and while doing so have not b< -n slow in taking up hab its that we think are not polite for la iies. They are mighty good judges [ >f smoking tobacco and are large con sumers of strong cigars. Although handicapped by a heavy basket on her liead, one of limn can tack l*ito the wind and lisht her cigar as cleverly as an Irishman or a cowboy. They carry tobacco, matches, money ! md everything they need in the front J part of tlie r w.ilsta, so that any arti | r-le th >y rniulre will be within easy ! reach without taking the loud o(T their j head. After making a sale ot fruit or vegetables, one of them will toss a ' coin into the bosom of her dress like a merchant would throw cash Into his money drawer. Men are so scarce that when a woman get* a hus band she takes spienflhl care of bim. He can have his meals at any hour and need never bother his. head about the Hour barrel being empty? hi# wife looks after that. In addition to being a great field for the cxTelse of feminine activity. Paraguay may truth fully *be said to rank as a lazy man's paradise. Country life in these far away places has many strange features. Although th? climate Is warm, the people live principally upon meat. Mutton Is the great staple. The favorite way of pre paring It is to boll It with Vegetables, after whlcii it is served In a large dish, the family gathering around with knives ami spoons, each one helping himself according to his wants. Very little bread is used by the poor natives living In the country districts. The kind that Is used Is so hard that a ham mer comes In handy In breaking, it to pieces. The principal pastimes are horse racing, card playing, nnd danc ing. The men ate perfectly at home on their animals and have the reputa tion of being very cruel to their beasts. They overwork them and do not prop erly feed them. The one thing that all travelers no tice U the way in which they drive. Instead of going slowly at the begin ning of a Journey. In order to give their horses a chance to warm up gradually, they put them to the gallop from the start, and ns a consequence they are soon winded. Then they lash them un mercifully to keep them on tbe go. It Ih pitiful to s"e a high-strung, spirited animal fairly ruu e.T ita legs, and then beaten half to death to get a few more miles of travel out of It. The horse* are willing enough If tliey were only handled In the proper manner. Tin way in which the poor l?nsti are m!? used Is ?hocking. It is a frequent sight to see fine-looking specimen* with one eye knocked out or nn ear missing. all the result of useless cruelty and bru tality. A man who will ride his steed at a forced pace all day. and then leov? It standing hungry and thirsty all night, while he enjoys himself and takes his rest Is not much of a man. no matter what else may be said of him. Neither do the natives understand the art of hitching their horses to ve hicles. They hook on six or seven animals In the most haphazard man ner. It Is a hard job to g?t them start ed. and a bigger undertaking to stop them. One of the big. lumbering ! stages will circle a few times in the at tempt to get the "horses tended right, and when the start Is tinally made the pace makes one think of the line In the ( old tong which runs. "Hold onto your s?at. Miss I.lza Jane." TMe natives are skilful card players. They know almost all the games, ant' are up to many tricks. They deal from the bottom nnd always to the left. It i Is a slow game that does not end In a list ftglit or a cutting scrape. The conn try people are great lovers of music Their nightly gatherings are similar tc those of the negroes in the southern part of the United States, except that the guitar Is used Instead of the ban Jo. One of the country dandles dressed up for a sessjon with his girl, looks like n character in a comic pa rade. If she listens to his blarney and marries with him. she will be treated but little better than the poor horse who s?rvcs him so faithfully aud well. POWfcR OF THE PRESS. CoticrcMiiinaTi McCmII Glvro HI* View* About tl:e Editor'* lt?*>pon?iblltty. At the final exercises of Harvard commencement week. I'lti Beta Kappa Day, the oration was by Congressman Samuel \V. McCall. who took as theme present day journalism. He said that the vast consequence of newspapers under a free government and the nec essary reliance on them on the part of the people, who were supposed to de ckle public policies, for facts of current political history, made the press a fit ting discussion on an occasion like to day's. Mr. McCull said in closing: "The press has indeed become a mighty engine, but its rapid develop ment has brought with It great abuses Its chief fault is that, reveling in the freedom It enjoys, it has shown in much too slight a degree a sense ol public responsibility for the use it makes of its freedom. The time has come when journalism, in its own nud the public iuterest, should become a genuine profession, when it should be come subject to self-imposed ethics, such as govern "the other professions, and that It should not exercise unregu lated power. It is for Its members te say whether it shall be a real institu tion and one of the most powerful In the State, whether it shall be in fact lie 'Fourth Estate,' or whether, by being essentially superficial, unreliable, narrowly patriotic, sensational, and bj doing the work of the scavenger of so ciety, it shall sink Into contempt. "No other calling or profession has a finer membership. The splendor of its history, the fertility of Its field of la bor and the character of the men it at tracts to it should, and I believe will, develop a code of professional ethics making Impossible some of the abuses committed In Its name. It can restore again what Bagehot calls "the daily play of the higher mind upon the low er." casting the light of the sun upon the doings of the world and at the same time sweetening the atmosphere as the sunshine sweevns it. "The freedom of the preys and the freedom of the people are closely In terwoven: the cause of the one Is the cause of the other. If liberty is to I >c submerged agalu, fetters Imposed upon the souls of men and their hov.est spiv ken thoughts mnde crimes. If t Ise roof* which now cover the t'reeir.Mi of Amer ica shall ever shelter a race of slaves, it will be only when the press shall have proved false to lis respon^ibili tns." i I Splren. J In tropical countries, between In 1 1- ' tude twenty-three degiw* south and : twenty-three north of tin- equator. the ! inhabitants use spires with their food us we use pepper. A ce.'ialn benollc i:i 1 efe ct is caused to the digestion, namely, stimulant anil carminative Hut there Is a stjeomiary effect, which J is perhaps oven more beneliclal .seen j In the fact that the volatile oil passes I out of the body, mostly unchunged ! through various channels, but ebb !l.v ' through the lungs and skin, so that ! t* the tropic* nature lias provided anti septics which in passing out by thf hums and skin Kill the hurtful mi 1 erobes which might he breathed In and also prevent, to a great extent (lie attack of mosquitoes. It is a wt II known faet that lns.vts, Including mosquitoes, dislike volatile oils, am' will probably not atack an individual using spices as a fooil adjunct. It Is 1 Interesting to uote that spices grow where there Is a high rainfall com- i blued with much heat? conditions tin- I der which malarial Influences prevail ; The author quotes various authorities In regard to the antiseptic, antipyre tie and other properties of nromatica ?Journal of Troplcnl Medicine. niahop Oluiateiut. Bishop Charles T. Olmstead, whe | succeeds the late Bishop Huntington. Is sixty-two years old, was educate] at Trinity College, and the Berkeley Divinity School, and was ordained tc the priesthood in 1808 by Bishop Ho ratio Potter. i ftrltlnh fttilp* Mtlllt. English shipbuilders in May put lute the water twenty-Uve vessels, of ab .r. 55.101 tons gross, as compered will; twenty-?even vessels, of 54.715 t >m gross, in April, nnd twenty-live vessels of 05,'JUU tous gross, Ui May lu<*t year ( OOWOIRfUl HATUItAl. BRIDGE. ? fc*M Am It Om T>|? InM fMt WM* !?>???;? partly real ized by a few comparisons. Thus its height is more tiian twice and its span more than three times as great as those of the famous natural bridge Vir ginia. Its buttresses are lis fe-t fur ther apart than those of the celvoratcd masonry arch in the District of bia. known as Cabin John l'.rldge. a few miles from Washington e;ty. which has tl:i? greatest span of any masonry bridge on this contin 'in. This bridge would ovcrspan the Capitol at Washington and clear the t-??> of the dome by tlfty-one feet. And If the loftiest tree in the Calaveras tJrove of giani seu'.ioia in California stood in the bottom of the canyon Its topmost b.mgli would la.-k thirty-two feet of reaching the under side of the arch. This bridge is of white or very 1 iv.li t sandstone, niul. as in the case of the Caroline, filaments of green and or ange-tinted lichens run h??rc and tin re over the mighty buttresses and along the sheltered crevices unJcr the lofty I cornice, giving warmth and color to the wonderful picture.? From W. W Dyar's "The Colossal Uriil^es of l*t:?.l: " iu the Century. WORDS OF WISDOM. Evil is not eliminated l?y a synonym New light does not moan a now sun Only tho truthful *an know tho trutli. llcligicn is moro tha>: a law; it is a 11 fo. Divine fear delivers from all othor fear. The lowly in heart are lifted in honor. The world is n fearfully noisy p'.aec to the man who is waiting for a chance to blow: his own horn. If we expect to appropriate the "whatsoever" of his promises, we must try to comply with tho "whatso ever" of his commands.? Samuel B. Ilnndall. There are some persons whom tc meet always gives one a greater cour age and hope, as if there won* more no blcness and high purpose in the world than one thinks.? C. L. Brace. Seeds of the Yellow Water Lily nn Fnoil. Some of tho Indian tribes of tho I'ni ted States still cling to their primitive forms of food. A notable instancy of this is tho continued u?e of wokas by the Kinmath Indians. This tribe ooeu pies the Klamath reservation, which in a part of the territory originally ocou pied by them before the arrival of the white men, and lies in the southern part of Oregon. The laud has but a small annual rainfall, but. on account of its situation at tho foot of the east ern slope of the Cascade Mountains, it Is well watered with streams and con tains two considerable bodies of water One of these. Klamath Marsh. is par ticularly ri? -li in plants, ard const* fluently in animal life. Occupying about ln.riH) acres i?f t!:is marsh t li?*i-e is a solid growth of the large yellow j water Illy. Nympha:\i poiyscpala. Ii? th?? old times the seeds of this plant w. re collected by the Indians, and. tin- i dor the name of wo!;as, furnished tiieir principal grain supply. tilling the p: -tee j of the corn used by some oilier irii",s i To-dn.v these seeds are still *????. ??ted { and regarded by the Klamath l a! .ith ; as a delicacy. The lily seed* a:e h::r- j vested In August; the wokas g.tthtr-r uses a dugout canoe, and poling h"r>< If : around among tho det.so irrowth of j stems and leaves. pkUs oM the full* j grown seed pods. Advent urea of n looo*'. Net". A lady parsing down the iJ.ie I! !.?**"?? j lieu Lad the misfortune to los ? a pocU- j etbook containing ausotiu other valu ables it looof. note. The j>. >oli ( was picked up by a ejiair;iie'id?r j nam -d U' :.and, w!:o lives a* M ?n- j tri ux. He placed it very car-'. r. !l\ i:? ? his pock *t and proc< ? il ? I !io:ne. li is i not often that a chairm ?i,.d,,r 1 as oca- J sioii to change a not-' I >;? 1 1 . i * atoant, . and Uenaud. peAgni/.iag t i ? ?* in oo>si- | bility of turning it into g>;d without i d -t ,-iion. agreed with a fri-nd to do j th ? bttsii.e.s for the e->u.se'.o!':'l !olt of : |o ?f. This frleiul. l.ucien Maihern. n | a chairmendcr. was in turn lilled with apprehension. The dillleulty was solved by the aid of a UorllcuVirlst named Simounet. who kindly consent ed to buy himself a horse for Jlnof. t|?nj return the change, lleiiatld thus be c:;rne richer by I'uMif. All might then have gone well if. two days later. It had not been discovered that tli.? horse had been stolen from a dealer at Meaux. This led to the arrest of the trio, und later In the day the police put their linnils on the horse tblevu#.? l't?ris Messenger. M nlrltnmilnl Keforin In AfKli;inieitn. It is stated by a correspondent from I'eshawur that the Amir has ordered that the people of his State should have no more than four wives, and this Is ! to be strictly carried out by the Afghan J >\ Hilars. It is stated that the Amir ; hi'.tisejf has divorced his additional t wj\ ??, and that undi r this order Sar- J iifir Abdul Kudus Khan ii.-? dh ori el tight and Mir Ata I "11a lslian ;Lkrty > w . yjfc- Lahore Tribuj.j. THE BOY ACA??! And viewed with ?cor:? the tceuc. t ntil he read hit tinUh in The powder mag;?.Ti*u'. ? ltuiian.iy>9lu Son. "You can't do two tlftim* iiiicci'Mfittly at the same time." "1 did." "What did you do?" "Spent u;y mo?*ey and my vacation."? Cleveland Vla I a Lkm.it A barytone ?in?er out \\\*? Was reckoned us good an tin* best. The tone* that lie v.tilr Were lio.uid, folk* ?ai?!. Because they all came irom the ciioit. He? "What, after a!!, indu-'cd you to accept me?" She? "Well, yon ??ro posed to me as If yon sort ?' had sr. ae I other girl |U view."? Ciuciunail Trii> uoe. Mr*. Lonelee ? "Weren't yon snr ?prised. uncle, to h turned on again i;: half a sec ond." ? Boston Transcript. fiiiiclit llir Train. fn a little villus In tin* Ozark*. snys tin* Kansas City Star. n Sliest at the hotel wished to rntrli t he e.irly .norm i;:u train, ami asked to !??? ? ?:*. 1 1 -d at Having no alarm clock and no cierk. tli' landlord s;it up all nl.uht to make sure of arous'intf him in ti.ne. ' T!ie hotelUeeper found i! rather hard to keep awake. !?ti* at promptly lie kimeko 1 at the guest's do i:\ "(Jet up!" iic said in a surly tone. "I t's II. ?to.*' Tlie guest turned over an 1 grunWl in s|:* pv laziness. "(Hi. I guess I'll let that train g'?. and sleep till 7. * he s:iid. "No, ye won't, either!" shouted Hie l:'nd!'?rd, and emphasized his remarks l>.v shooting three or four shots into * t!ie Moor of the hallway from the :*e vo'ver Willi whit' he had guarded ho hotel. "I snt i?j i ! night to get y gel up or I'll know the reason why!" There was an ample persuasiveness r. hoist the way he said it, and th?* ym.'st tfot up and caught Ids trai.i. Tlio Fish iiml IIm" ViiIi'ii, Fine voices, it is said, are seldom ) found In a country where lis'. meat diet prevails. Those Italians who eat 1h" most tisii (those of Naples and, C.vnoni have few live singers among them. Tne sweet voices are found ill. the Irish women of the country, and not of the towns. Norway is not n country of sinners, because they ent tor> much fish; hut Sweden >s a coun try of grain and song. The carnivorous birds croak; grain-eating birds sing. j llrrml Kutirn. Even the poor in (lie United States and England cat white bread. In most of the continental countries of Europe rye bread is the staple. Tlie Ilussiaiig' nso buckwheat. The Laplanders hove a bread made of otlten meal mlrfed with pine bark, and the Icelander* make their flour from lichens. Banana flout IS used in the South Sen Island*. j A LnrRi< Wlroles* Stulion. The largest station for wireless tol rgraphy is being placed near I'isa, Ita ly. On its completion, by the end qtf this year, it Is expected to afford di rect communication with all countries of Europe, as well as the 1'nitcd States and Canada, nt:d with nil vessels oil the Mediteri'i.iu'asJ, lmliun and lie oceans.