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TH TRAGEDY OF $5 BILL MOM Old G< In CARELESS HABIT LEFT GIRL A WIDE TRAIL OF WOE. . An ???? J throng And Worst of All In the Long List Is the Seemingly Irreparable Break ^ a With Howaitl, Who Was Nat- weiJt , urally Offended. turlty. Sboi "I'm In a terrible trouble," wailed -who, a the top floor girl, according to the New r|pG>' i York Times. "I don't know what 1 the 'BU shall ever do about 1L" was a "What's happened?" asked her sym- pick pathetic friend. little 1 4'Ev?l-vth?n<? !? = --1 * " * ? / ? *?o< iv a an <ua/uw nuwtirUj t lit* wj and?oh, dear, it's awful! You see, I rcmov discovered tho other day that 1 had tempt! lost $5. It had been handed mo when ?j<he 1 was at my writing desk, and In- ono stead of at onoo putting It away In a ieaVes safe place I stuck It Into an envelope Qn j and left It there. Later I wrote sev- not 8t, eral letters ami whun I again remohn- ment/t bered tho $6 blU It was gono. "Yoi . "My natural supposition was that ge J 1 had sent It away in ono of the let- corno ters 1 had Just written. All those let- j)r0| ters, except one, were business let- took p ters. Tho exception was to Howard re Strong. I immediately wroto to every this." ono of my correspondents and ex- And plained what 1 had done and asked pe cor them to examine the envelope for a astonl trace of the $5. Howard Strong is the only ono that has replied, so far; he sent me tho $f>. Fortunately, ho said, MIGH he had not destroyed tho envelope and there, tucked away; in one corner, ho Darky found the $5 bill. Prai "Naturally 1 felt ^pretty good over that outcome of my mistake, but the next morning, when the second chap- Few ter began to unroll, I didn't feel quite stateB so comfortable. I found then, in the saving top envelope of a bunch that I had posed previously overlooked that $5 bill. erable "It's no way for anybody to try acqulr to imagine how I felt then, for it can- only n not be done. I s^ent fully two hours idiom puzzling over Howard's motive in A ct sending me tho money. Finally, I the els came to the conclusion that he must who h have construed the-letter as an ingen- their i ious way of asking for a loan, and he convei had forthwith responded in the same not m roundabout fashion. 1 wrote Howard the ly: a stinging rebuke. I claimed that by many putting Buch a construction on my let- think < ter he had insulted me. I returned cider the $5. his pit ,4- "About two hours .after I had mailed very f ^ that letter chapter No. 3 began. Kllen never Farias and 1 use that writing de.sk in bors,.i partnership. It was Ellen's turn at A y the desk. Tho first thing I knew she who h was upsetting things in general, look- comln; lng for a particular envelope. fjimon uuuovii iv hid uu??, cicarou " ~ 1 roat, and began a little oration A prepared. "Pardon me, suh, . Gentle, but terruptln' you. sub. but I find ?,A I "'"?' ith thin horo high coat ot living, b flomH *"?" idoavorln' to keep up my regular w "H |irai CH y OD , contribution., I can t .upport "ho mlly properly. I Ju.t got to ?,b*'r "f"?" " " noro money. auh." d*y ?he ? "* to J . showing up when at great man grinned. . . . .. . .10 ..a, 1 j ?<t night before. "You c U, Sam, he said, "I see your * ? i and I'll Klve you that raise other PatlenU at n ? 1 * k . plained, "so why can member. It Is far bettor to give J* 8end f<)r yQU? ? A| o rece ve. od ag the montJy now. that, boss.' replied Sam. ,.. Ike. to go on that reception ai)BWered tl tteo mahse f once in a while. haye uuyer Beon , York Evening Post. ?? ?? " 'What kind of an envelope was It?' Uncle I asked. he caB " 'One of those-plain ones/ she said. Wash, It was right on top of this bunch. I you ut stuck a $5 bill Into It yesterday?' "Oh "At that point in Ellen's explanation makes I collapsed. It was her money that I The! had returned to Howard, and I had wife, ' to take the last $5 bill I had in the bes' cl world to settle with her. I haven't The heard from Howard, and I have not ho wa; the courago to write aguin. I said In bo. T my last letter that all was over be- dralne tween us, and, apparently. It is." the en "Ef cider," 8oap Eater Like Crltlo. J?8 8" Alfred Nayos, the Eu&llsh poet, toss- "lag 1 ed aside with a bitter laugh a roast of his last book. "Thlb critic," he said, "reminds me "Sa3 of the old gentleman wfth the cold?- he cr< only this critic's cold Is permanent? tramp and, by Jove,,heka not aware he's got from i it! arounc "At a club, one day, I was taking a "I ct wash and brush-up. when I noticod an "Th< old gentleman nibbling a cake of soap, here, 1 After each nibble he wonld chow the "Noi soap thoughtfully, and then, smiling "We . and nodding his head, he would Bay: eat ba # " Thank heaven, it's all right.' "I > T asked the old gBntleman what and a on earth he was up to. He explained, after 1 as he nibbled away at a large pink " 'Ik cake: " 'I "'Well, yon see, I've had such a "'W rotten bad cold for the last fortnight "Ah, that Ifs quite taken away my taste, couldn Every day, to see If I was improving. "Hui I've nibbled soap. This afternoon, for "Wh the first time, I ftrul that the soap has "Wh a quite distinct taste." He took a was b large pink mouthful. 17 m?m yes? dlscov quite distinct. Therefore I shan't go tho br I T _V_ll Jl 1 I -- MUU.W vuio Ptr.iuilft. A Dimn UUtt? UOH9 IT you at til? club.' " comes want t Followed.? Good Example. llurt * Vtx-Presldent Porflrio Diaz galneo national prominence and won his spurs at the battle of Puebla, where A dt the Liberal forces made a gallant but tlons Ineffectual stand against the French broker who had Invaded Mexico for the pur- One pose of erecting a throne for Maxl- time 1 millan Notwithstanding the fact that sented the Mexican forces were defeated, his thi their defense against superior num- he hai bers was so gallant that the annlver- for In nary of the battle of the fifth of May that w became a national holiday In Mexico, and en A brusque American once asked the church president: "Why do you Mexicans my Ta celebrate a defeat, when you know have t that the French finally took Puebla?" The PvouMonl TV!a? n/##K a Iwlnlfla I Kl? "**' eye. repltod: "Perhaps we have imV- troubh tated the Americana even to the ex- but re tent of celebrating our defeat*, for I than t have been told that the British de- "i k tfeated the Colonist* at Bunker Hill, "but I jtnd yet you built a monument to ooo* comml memorate |the event" ?New E LAN< S] TROUBLE IN A GARDEN I BRIDGED TH sntleman Went Too Far In His quiry, and Demonstration WILLIAM O Proved His Undoing. "YessLr elderly gentleman walking bloody chasm today, h hla garden one day stopped the convlvlailty of t a llg tree on which were two fraternl*atlon. a s st ripening. H1b favorites were _ - nd summer often came and i_ "luT " ? . .. . , , in the Montlcello cafi without the fruit coming to ma- , , Stiggina my nam tly after, he met his gardener, of Wlnslow ^?8t u Lssurlng him the llgB were quite 8Ume<t? engagingly, vas requested to send them to .J?wn, fr? i*? ^orf mraer house, where his master e " brldgln of bout to rest. record, that s why 1 Ing the figs, the gardener sent hlB w*y to ^^,8" 3 >oy of Beven with the basket. On 'i"i'y ?P?ned tho floo ?y tho little fellow stopped and. th? 8tory floWed rlPp Ing the leaves, gazed upon the Well, sir, I enlist ing fruit. *64' Sets my bounty attraction was too great; he ate J?n08- Then right ol Covering the other with the comp'ny was pickln' , he proceeded upon IiIh errand. time. I stood It pat being aBked if the gardener had wbile I was settle' nt two figs, the boy, after a mo- Picket duty, he come i sllenco, answered: "I ate one." up ea8>' an' Klv? hln: a ate one? How?" exclaimed the -'aw- >t^e didn't wa ntleinan, angrily. "IIow did you hours." to do that?" . Mr. Stlggins pause pping his eyes to the basket. "I other high ball. T1 t like this," said the child, taking sorted except for a miulning fig, "and I ate It like broad felt hat whom over tho hotel regh , Buitlng the action to the word, fore, and who now i iBumed the second fig before tho the adjoining table w shed eyeB of tho old gentleman. cigar. "Well, they jugge IT NOT SAMPLE BY TASTE wo bridged the chaai ?- was an old stone Willing Enough to Listen to over, an' chock full, ses of His Cider, But Was Not In?'bout ten by tw Giving It Away. Yankees an' six rebs the door. 'Twa'n't lc of the negroes In the southern real friendly, an' ri( are inclined to be thrifty and layln' plans for esca] , though many of them are dis- ed to git out, an* thi to Industry and live In consid- roty called our bone comfort. Some, however, have roty?we called him ed the saving habit and are not had flannel-shirt hr ot wasteful, but are in tho local smart Johnny Reb fr extremely "nigh." Una regiment sent n i8t> In point Is an old man, once prisoners from Roai ive of the Randolphs of Virginia, spy and he was crazj as become the owner of one of talk looney 'bout hit dentations, and is quite rich. He "Now, he'd smug ts Into cash everything that 1b Sheffield knife, an' Kjessary for tho maintenance of that in the scuffle < msehold and gets profit from they'd left my jack things that few negroes ever whooped. I give it t of selling. Incidentally he mokes it off in a corner, of all the unsalable apples on blade against his b ice and sells it, and though ho i? with a loose brick tl ond of the beverage himself, ho hls'n. Next he sawi drinks with any of his neigh- in the window. It 1 mlesjj they pi\y for the cider. git through, an' while oung man of the neighborhood, us all round him sir ad been away for several years, aqueakln,' the Rebs ? back home, remembered the Rlue Flag an' we s cider and dropped in to see White an' Blue. Th Wash. After some general talk a Dutchman, an' th ually observed, "I suppose, Uncle such fits he kep' as you still make that good cider, as he dared an' plug led to muke in old times?" "Now, I was tho , yes," replied Wash, "I still bunch by a whole 1< my apples inos'ly into cider." roty gone clean throi a he called to Aunt Dinah, his gins'?ho foun' Jone 'Dinah, fetch out a go'd of dat name?'Stiglns, we Ider." on that bar, an' only visitor naturally expected that a holt to once. 1 s to sample the drink. Hut not night, when the gut he old man took the gourd and corridor, you bend tl d every drop. Then he handed j'm the only death t apty vessel to the visitor. aklp out first; then you don' b'lieve dat am good 80'b you can hang a ' he said, smacking his lips, "you he comes past again lell dat go'd."?New York Eve- till you let 'em all 'ost. cal'lated I'd git out 1 'Bout two o'clock 1 He Kept the Day. takin' good holt, b< r, you," said tho policeman, as braced it with my >ssed the street to head off a jes' squeeze out ah that had just been driven away drops onto the flat a basement door, "what's up bulldln' an' makes 1 here?" mouth. Nex' mornin in't tell you," was the reply. the tall of a train ere's something loose around men, an' in four da] but what it Is I don't know." burgh enllstin' agal WUOI UKJ UUIJ , re you asking for something to "Carrotyf Oh, e? ck there?" they foun' me gone vas. I braced up to the cook slat in the winder; Bked for a hand mo-out, and roty time to write ooking me over, she says: him." > you keep Sunday, sir?' Up roso our aeigh surely does,' says I. hat, and leaning his hat do we have Sunday?' ble, looked Stlgglns , I see," said the otlicer. "You ticed then that his 't tell her that." red. But Stlggins fe t I did, your honor." bloodshot eyes, "G at did you tell her?" pered hoarsely. iy, what should I say except it "No, Carroty'* son ecause Christopher Columbus ing to me, "for ten y ered America. She went for encampments looklr oom and then went for me, and and I reckon I'll t can tell me where the Joke ence. If you don't g in I'd like to hear it. I don't to the shapeless hu< o go around having my feelings "I'll do the trick rigl bis way."?Baltimore American, barrel flashed from I'd rather not moss Ambitious. ca? hel*> ,t" isky porter of religious inclina- .F?r 9od 8. 8ake* was employed in a downtown a*hftHt' " age office. His name was Sam. 110,nK y" 10 ,c day he thought ,t was about thfU8t le had had a raise, so he pre- m.5n g. ' . ? . (Conyrlcht bv Dailv 3 AST ECOND SECT! IE CHASM DETHRONI l STEVtlt8. ! MOW POM Dn 3D. bridgln' tho THER ME1 " Flushed with he Blue and Gray tranger dropped hair at my table "u,t Have Cot e. "Ruler of th? is, I'm o'mander Aleo p state," he re- H "last time I was aJk I helped In "Who Is the the chasm on American famll [ come all the adelphla inento [>olite look of In- ventured to ass d gates wide, and the wigwam, v Ungly. tal pictures of :ed ; 1 November, monarch. But and calls myself to answer his t T tho cap'n of our "It is tho on mo all tho said. "From w lent till one day, niestlc life I In under a treo on preponderance by. Then I gets household of t i a socker on the down to that of ke up for two tho cars. "Tho old ge sd to ring for an- bead. Is clay in le place was de- by no means e: lanky fellow in a bis head and gi I noticed bending but, Just the si ater an hour be- the piano, seated himself at "Tho Ameiric lth his paper and rules the homo ods according I d me for six ter. Sometimt rlBon was where ; times she is era ui, like I said. It Is ? tyrant, warehouso mado | "I have Just The room I was ' English gentler 'enty?held four j covery, after rf i, with a guard at that being *lor< >ng before we got work In this ati ?ht off we begun "This British pe. Wo all want- , the master' of at was what Car- example of tho 1 of union. Car- often delineate* that because he his domestic s\ lir?was a real that there was om a South Caro- lief wlion ho ip with the other mornings for ioke. He was a man of strict 1 r to git out; uster was proud of h i wife an' kids. His bushiest ;gled in a little denco in varioi when he found and children \ af gltting mo in Scotland, Spade knife, he almost had the odd ?:o o him an' he took dren after the Then, settin' my remember thei lade, he pounded Paris and a Af ill he'd saw-edged he made them J on the iron bar Ion of the nath took four days to This was accoi ? he sawed he had way without < lgln' to cover the ment, but when whoopin' Bonnie lad who hailet four yellln' Red, school in kilts ie day guard was ish rule broke e noise give him guess, the boy fur from tho door about his burc ;ged his ears. ; daughter took strongest in tho j "See here, fa at, an' when Car- out this tomm lgh he says, 'Stig- 1 and get that I s wa'n't my real clothes.' need your triceps "Tho old ma ' one man can git ' " 'What's thl "he next cloudy , what to do! ird walks up the senses.' ie bar out, and as "Yes, sir. 1 mntence here, I'll tills is Aineric you pull it back up our minds coat over It when rights.' hronin* Ji ! " A nKAnw < ??W|/ 1? I jrm. l-UCDl Ul C out.' You see, he the table, and ast. new dynasty." I glta up pulet an' snt the bar an* foot till I could Spiders Ca Igewlse. Then 1 Specimens ol roof of the nex' Thalassius Spe tracks for Ports- seuni at Durba i' early I Jump on rator, E. C. Chi carryln' furlough entitle announci ra I was In Pitts- of a member of n on* gettin' an- of catching fish Ono of the irly nex' mornln* several years i an" the buBted Abraham at C so they give Car- placed in an home an' shot boy soon notici a pet flsh, and bor, throw off his left his study t hands on our ta- The spider, tl In the eye. I no- legs extended, hair was bright water's edge, II back with wild, Btone and the e arroty," he whls- on the water. came under t ; stranger." turn- which were sud ears I've attended it as the spidei ig for this man, lng its fangs In ake no lnterfer- at once climbin ;et fight up," thlB soon ate a llsh Idle In the chair, weight. it hyah." A steel his pocket. "Hut up the floor if I Settl "I woke up si man," I began and thought I 1 mo ao(/1a rv? a *-?. rAAITl T oof ?% r* /1- uiu aniun uirir A DHV up ollared hla dazed niy wife." him out Into the "What did sh< "She accused Story Pub. Co.) '"K a burglar c hear a real bur Pointed. and years. I >er bad one trou- Bhe said she'd old woman who JUflt then a sht the free list, but behind the dres e kicks than all exclaimed: "Ho ut together. One "Did you catc oast him for not "Cateh him? ie called him the ,a'd there and ?n go to seo your blm slam the d ight," she com- atalrs. And my 't you come when didn't speak to In't my money as But I'll bet one that them rich "What is It?' "I don't know. "Ill bet that ae doctor, gently, man." any of yours." ' ER N E\ ON ED AS "BOSS" literal in his theo Darky Preacher's Humorous Co on Biblical Text As He Uni US ENGLISH FA- stood Its Meaning. HIS WATERLOO. ^ right of individual ] interpretation of the scripture not accorded to the laity. On] me as a Shock to the ; priests or preachers were autl i House," but Daugh- > to say what was meant by the Had a Will of I text. That has all been change __ n , ...Ill ll?.l 0_. vmi. I uv iu?u ma uuw uu capoucu im i mofet orthodox church for be boss tn th? typical that Balaam's palace mulo dl yT' asked a West Phil- rea"y address his fellow cltiz r. A number of men Jud^a on the political issues < ert they were chiefs of day> or considering that the stai yhllo others had men- of th" Bun'3 "landing still at tin "mother" as the ruling of Captain Joshua was an illus tho speaker proceeded allegory and not tho record of a jwn question. fact. oldest daughter," he This advance in theology is hat I havo seen of do- trated by tho story of the dievo this is true in a Poacher who delivered a serine of instances?from tho 'ke These eight did ho ruilroud president bear. ! the porter who cleans "MufTrlnds," said he, "you is larly blessed by de Lawd in d: ntletnan, the nominal oration. If you wants some mi i her hands?tightwads done 8oes to youah cow. and xcepted. He may shako mi,k you enough of do lac rowl llko a grizzly bear, flu,d foh eight people. In do ime, ho goes and buys times of which do Hiblo spej took eight folks to milk a beai an citizen's daughter Bpecs doy ^ets mighty little n by a variety of meth- dat."?Los Angeles Times, to her typo of charac!S slio 1b naive, some- 'MOST VENOMOUS OF SNi iflty and sometimes she "Bushmaster," South American heard tho story of an tile, Absolutely Undisputed IV nan who made the dis- arch of Forests. loving to Philadelphia, [1 of tho castlo' won't "About the latert thing among Biosphere. Hovelties is tho bushmaster," iot loved his role as a Loudon correspondent. "This tho house, llo was an according to Huron E. Leijonh pompous Englishman F. Z. S., F. It. G. S., is ono of tl 1 by English novelists; ?wt and shyest in tho world. I way was so intolerable homo in tropical South Americ a general sigh of re- occurs In Trinidad. It has the left tho houso in the est venom of any of tho large i business. Ho was a ous vipers and as much as 35 ntegrity, however, and ligrams has been extracted a lis family. timo from tho bushmaster. Tho ? necessitated a resU ?d rattlesnake. Including the is countries of Europe, diamond, does not give more tht vero born in England, the quantity of venom. Att i, Franco and Italy. Ho soinotiraes a length of twelve fe nceit to name the cliil- bushmaster is the largest of i pftv nf tlialr liirtli 1 ItnlMnnnim annVtou nf th.. ?? ? -? ? I" 'e was a Seville, a pattern is bcauutiful; pinkish lilan Not only that; ground color, with rhomboid i dress after tho fash- designs of darkish brown, ha >n of their cradle days, tinge of parple and terra cotti uplished in a modified eaoh darker pattern is a bright musing much excite- tar spot. Its Latin name un a. , it came to sending tho silent rattlesnake;' it was giv< 1 from Scotland to name by Linnaeus on acount rebellion against Hrit- tall, which Is tapering and loose. As you may made of the same material as was pitilessly guyed the rattlesnake, but without tl > knees. The oldest meats and consequently silent up the case. "Charles Waterton, the famo .ther, you've got to cut uralist, who made three jourt y-roC You march out South America, describes the >oy a sensible suit of master in his motes of tho fir* ney ki 1812 as follows: 'Un n was dumfouuded. In his display of every lovely c s miss? Telling me the rainbow and unmatched in I cannot believe my feots of his deadly poison, tho ' couchi" glides undaunted on, so want you to know arch of tho forests. Both m a, and we've made beast liy before him and allow to have our American pursue an undisputed path, lb times grows to tho length of ft ipproval went up from feet.' Tho hushmaster's head from that day dated a tirely heart sYiaped, and when tho serpent does not get Into tl tlon of the othitT vipers, but ke< head slightly raised with S-shap itch and Eat Fish. tical bends of tUo body, lu str ' the spider known as lets out theso bonds like a spri nceri are in the mu- can In this way reach very f; m, Natal, and the cu- food Is tho common rat, the rah ibb, has Just made scl- the agouti. anient of the discovery "In Central Ajmerlca the busli this species in tho act is called by tho Indians the pit for food. snake, because' its scales are spiders was captured and similar to the outside of ago by the Rev. N. apple. Tills exceedingly < Sreytown, and it was snako, which Is killed by the s nquitnuui. a servant cuuiibb or cumaio, is not lie; f*d the creature eatf?g aggressive as its Hinaller com the startled clergyman fur-do-la nco, and does not aff( o watch. turlally the mortality on sugar, iree Inches across with ?r coftq o plantations.' stationed itself at the with two legs on & F< >od for the Shipwrecke light others spread out Cacbt ;s or depots for foe After a time a fish clothinj: have recently been he putntrotched legs, lished Ooy the various governm denly thrown around rnost at the dangerous island) made a plunge, drlv- their dominion And on many ito Its prey, and then others there are sign posts g out on the rocks. It struc Hons as to how to get of four times Its own nean *st Asbtnd where there Is depo t. "irhey are kept in hu expr<tHsljr for the pufpose or ural cavos l.a the cliffs, where ed the Bet. prov Isions will remain dry ai iddenly the other night for nk long time. As an exampl tieard a burglar In the in t ho Indl .an ocean are the In bed. and that awoke cf .imstenlim, St. Paul and len? all dan gerous spots for B do?" jn a Htorm. On each of the me, as usual, of hav- French warif.hlp Kure has est. Iream. Said I'd never dc/pots containing necessaries glar if I lived a thous- j k'mds for cas taways. no matti said Td bet I would. t'hei^ nationality may be. At bet I wouldn't. And tfam island, in a large caver idowy form rose from iiiiinlde, there aro supplies ( ser and a hoarse voice biscuits, under clothes, blanki vOtim, ma'am!" Rome matches biclosed In a h :h hlm?'^ ally 8eaiP(j nietal box. The * didn't try. I Jnst ai80 In the fiame cave sever laughed, and heard a cooking pot and dry wood, loor and run down the fishermen vrho occaslonall; wife was so mad she there. Cabb: ige and celery, 1 n 1 ? a day.! ( lobsters abon nd on the island thing. tlje wators a i^ut it and oa could live th< !re Indefinitely, burglar vas a married pot Is clearly marked out by !\ bearing the legend, "Prance, ; " M Vetemanta pour nauf rages, E ? - ?R?r? vs L0SY DRUMMER'S LUCKY DAY mment jer SCRAP OF CONVERSATION GAVE private HIM PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. (8 was ly the lorlzed |t Turned Out, He Was Mistaken sacreu jn conclusion Arrived at, but It id. and Resulted In Capturing the jm the _ , , , . _ ,, Order Lookod For. ?o?i"6 d not ens of There Is a silk merchant in tho >f tho Fourth avenuo district who never tires tenient of telling how ho got a certain retailer ! order in one of tho smaller New England trative cities as a customer when ho was a frozen knight of tho grip, says tho New York Times. This is tho burden of his tale: illus- "All men on tho road have tho exdarky porience of humping into a stone wall 11 from when it comes to selling a bill of goods Mllcah to certain retailers. That was my experience with Smith, up in Haverhill, singu- No matter what 1 had or at what it is gen- w?s priced, Suiith never wanted anylk you thing. Still lie bought regularly from at one several competitors. He wouldn't go iferous to lunch with me, nor would he accept olden any of the other attentions that aro iks it usually tendered good buyers, r. en I "I bad practically decided not to lilk at try him any mere, when ono evening I overheard two other salesmen talking in a hotel ofllce. I didn't cntch |\K?S the name of the man of whom they were talking, but when I heard one salesman say that he never would accept a lunch I felt snre that they woro discussing Smith. "'It's a funny thing about him,' tho snake aalestnan went on, 'but bo always goes writes home to lunch, no matter how busy snake ',0 ^s" J?noH told me the other day ufvud' that it was because his wife was the ie rar- tioss of the household and made him L is at 't- She is very fond of display, too, a and Hnc* ?^t?*n makes him do things for great- *1Pr that he doesn't want to do becnuso lolson- *u> unwilling to spend tho money.' 0 mil- "Thinking that I had something on it one Smith I dropped in to soo him the dread- noxt dny right after he had come back large from lunch. Ho hadn't had time to in half tell me to get out when Mrs. Smith .aining came inut, tho "'No more business today. Henry,' ill the slie said, ignoring mo, 'Order up a The good team and take me for a ride.' yellow "Smith didn't want to do it, but, there egular seemed to bo no way out. Then I made vlng a a- bold play. I told hint by alga lana. In guage that I would take her for the er cen- drive. The effect was surprising, us 'the With a-glad smile -ho jumped to jn this feet, saying, 'Let mo introduce Mr. of its Hrown of New York, dear. He travels horny, f?r Wank At Co , and is an old friend that of ?f mine. Would you mind if ho came Lie seg- with us?' "Then I came into play again. 'If us nat- Mr. Smith is busy,' I said to Mrs. leys to Smith, 'may I volunteer to take you bush- 'or the ride?' Almost blushing she st jour- asked Smith's consent, rivaled "We went for the drive. The next :olor of day Smith gave mo a good order, and the of- he bought goods from us regularly uncouna til he retired a few years ago. The le moa- best-part of the whole thing was that an and the men talking in the hotel office him to were not discussing Smith. 1 learned 3 some- afterward that they had been talking jurteen about another man, a merchant up in is en- Lowell." roused to post- ln Qer|jn Restaurants. ujm luo jyr()^ iong aRO (ho Boston Herald ?ed ver- discussed the cookery of futurists in iking it paria- \v? now, writes Philip Hale in ng and tjiat newspaper, hear of orders given nr. Its jn restaurants of Perlln: Caviar and bit and whipped cream, mutton with Bcnedletine Bauce, Bismarck herring with minster strawberry ice, apples and bananas icapple wl(h ground cheese, liver in absinthe. rough roaa( beef with pineapple chunks a pine- dipped In kuemmel. Ilut pepper with le] irate strawberries is known in Ixmdon lightest among the conservative. T)r. Johnson, itrly so at0 cream with his lieiTles ami vlsltdn, the (Mj friemis whose berries were famous, ct ma- That Germans have had strange banana tastes in cooking is known to all American students that have sojourned there, and other foreigners id. have wondered in times past^ as the id and chronicler of Charles V.: "I saw such estab- kinds of meats eaten as a roasted ents on horse, a cat in Jelly" (today beware i under of Jugged hare), "little lizards in hot ' of the broth, frogs fried and divers sorts of and in- meat, which I never knew w t they to the were till they were eaten. And, for such a God's sake, what is he that shall read ts built my writing, that see what is coinin nat- monly eaten at feasts, that it will not all the in a manner break his heart?" id keep ... e, down Brazil's Rubber, islands A large part of the world's supply Kergue- of crude rubber comes from the revessels public of Brazil, which has hltheito so tho paia little attention to the manuraolbliahod ture of that commodity. Another day i of all la coming. Brazil is about to engage or what Intelligently In the manufacture of A muter- rubber, an enterprise which, In course n on a of time, may affect the manufacture of of beef, that material In the United States and ets and In Europe, by bringing In a new and ermetic- formidable competitor. Le Bresil :re are Economhjue, of Rio de Janeiro, says al rots, that under favorable conditions ottered left by by the government refineries of y visit caoutchouc(rubber) will bo established Hsh and In a number of states and factories 1 and in for !b? manufacture of rubber articles staways in the cities of Manaos, Bolero In Para, Tho de- Recife and Bahla. There will be spea board cial exemptions In the way of duties Vivrcs, upon articles Imported for the carryure." i ing forward of this enterprise.