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A Tragedy In Pall Mall. With terrific speed they 'drove down St. James's street into Pall Mall, and stopped dead scarce an inch from the curbstone. There were two men on the bos. and an heraldic design in purple and gold glistened on the door. The footman bounded to the ground and turned the knob nervously. A slender woman, dressed in mourning. stepped quickly from the carriage, her eyes red and swollen. Following closely in her wake, and steadied by ^ 1^- mo ill bpnrino me lUlULLIillJ, Viluil- 1IV1 ?. o In her arms a bundle of something wrapped in a white cashmere shawl. Unearthly wails fell upon the air. It was heartrending to hear them. Evidently the*7 came from within the depths of that white cashmere. "Poor darling!" I heard the little woman exclaim. "Don't jolt him, Felice!" ymd together they hurried up a narrow stairway, at the bottom of which I read on a brass plate, "Surgeon-dentist." "The blamed pup!" blurted the coachman. "to raise such a row over a dog's tootha^'ie!" 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Come (o the rvoods. forget l>e strret j Where traffic's noisy wheels are heard, Aj?<l with those soul inspirers meet The murmuring pine and singing bird. Let us forget the lines of care That on our faces deeply press. And breathe awhile the pertVt air That longs to make our troubles le?s. i What means this endless toil and strif* i The wish to seek and win and hold? j There is a better, grander life ! Uutside ot titles and ot gold. Tho' men may study to deceive. And to their aid call every artGreat Nature loves alone to weave ~" Her truths around the trusting heart. | When piles of brick in ruins lie. > I And wealth and power are both laid low; I In valley sweet, on hilltop high, The grass, the flowers, the trees will grow. ' Men may tear down the forest fair j To build themselves a fleeting crown; ! But 'neath great Nature's fostering care The country will outlive the to^n. i When our weak hands shall cease to strive, And from our grasp all power has past, I Nature, her heart with love alive, Will take uh to herself at last. ?Thomas F. Porter, in the Boston Globe. QOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Jpe Odd filing Atioiit Jt.? O Ky Owen Oliver. O O I HAD been poring over a fourteenth century manuscript iu the window seat, behind the library curtains. The twilight and the end of the faint, crabbed writing came together, antf^then I suppose I fell asleep. I -woke at the sound of Vera Kutlierford'e voice. | "The odd"|||jtag about it is that I don't really |ffiflk<^him at all." "You wllSfcH.'ine next that he j doesn't reafljpdis^Ke you." said Maud | Leslie, with A^qwelieviog laugh. "I am afrtfd.^^bid Vera, "ther? is no doubt abdUreHlrt." I could have pointed ont ?fc|Sj^fcibts. but I wasn't more than IpHRIfclie. Besides I couldn't be. (j^^psure that they referred to me.^af ' Did you SMWfraid,' Ve?" ' You P quibble over my words/' answered impatiently. 'Mear oro Vert" said Maud in a mooi|pkt. Here again I should have pre xenueu xaai x uuu jusi wune uy ujju announced myself. "I toate him!" Vera observed inconsistently. "Ski" said Maud heartily, "do I?" I couUf not well proclaim my presence .ftftgr. these remarks. \f "it least, I thick I do." v "ftn sure I do," said Maud positively. '-I consider him horrible." "Ob, Maud. You know hejsn't." x ''He must be, or he wouldn't be so vfjode to you I" k "I?I provoke him, you see." "That is no excuse at all. Look at ${he way he contradicted you about .'ttibse 'Tuscan vases, or whatever you "T contradicted him first." "Wh^ shouldn't you ?' '.'Because?he -was right." "Which made it all the mere Scnoyinp." "Yes," said Vera, with a sigh. I wisned I had let her have her own way. , / "Nevermind, dear. You refuted him about tfibse silly pre-something-orother things." "Xo-o; I didn't, really." 'Oil, you am: rapa anu e*ti,> one laughed about it." Confound i 44^h, tjut?I was sorry, and be kuew J "DSdnX^gou. hear what lie said to Sir Garv?0'Brien about thorn afterward? If you remember?" "I don't. I didn't understand a word o$?t?ir gibberish, and didn't want td."^Quito right. Miss Maud: women shouldn't dabble in antiquities. Then they wouldn't quarrel with antiquarians. "Anyhow, it disposed of my theory completely." ' Then, why didn't you say it at the time?" "Trobably ho thought mo beneath i argument." As a matter of fact I bad. for onee. made an effort to be magnanimous and spare her feelings. ! "Ho is a groat deal too "superior. stated Maud. I folt myself blushing, i "IIo really knows a groat deal." suggested Vera, timidly. I made up my mind not to quarrel with her any : more. j "A lot of antiquated rubbish of no us?> lo any 0110." scoffed Maud. I could feel that she was tossing her i head, ".lack calls him the 'lumber; room:' " Ja?*k is a young ass! "I don't agree," said Vera, hotly. j Jack is " "So. ho isn't!'' lie's very nearly eui gaged to .'laud. "A charming and intelligent fellow. I ! was going to say." "Nasty iittlo story-teller!" I thought ihoy were going to quarrel, but they didn't. "Well, I'll admit the learning of ! your Mr. Norton." said Mabel, when j they had done laughing, "but " Ho isn't inv Mr. Norton." Vera oh- I ! jectcd. There was a further pause. If ! Maud had jrone I should have felt in{ elined l<? conic out and place "Mr. Nor! ton" at pretty Vera's disposal, but j Maud didu't fro. "Do you really Kke him, o!d Ve?" j slK' asked. "Only just a little." "Sure?" "1 can't see what you like in him." protested Maud, impatiently. "He's forty. :it least." Thirty-seven only. Miss Maud. "I don't care if he is He looks youn.c." "He's full of conceit." That really was a mistake. "Oh. Maud if! Of course, he can't help knowing tliat ne Knows iniu,us. Rubbishy antiquities! I ln-^ your pnnlon. dear old jrirl, for attack!:;;; your 'subject.' but they are. Anyhow, i I don't li.-li'-vo lie knows half so inu^^ j aliout as you do." "That." said Vera, "is utterly ni^HK I 1 do not deceive myself upon^^Es I have hern studying "ntiquj^HHR years. She has dal^HBBB tliem ller l'ri<jn<ls^^9^Bffl an little had been impatient and tacn^^^f pointing: out her harmless errors. That was the beginning of our quarreling. Afterward we disagreed upon everything that we happened to discuss. We had discussed a good many things. "Anyhow," contended Maud, "he doesn't know much about anything else?except, perhaps, chess and billiards." "He rows well and dances splendidly." "If he did things as well as he thinks he does " said Maud scornfully. You will admit that :2y situation was em barrassmg. "You arc rather hard on him. Maud, I think." So did I! "Won't you admit that he has any good points?" "Oh?ho can talk! He's very amusing when he comes out of his shell. I rather like to talk to him myself." Indeed! "But I don't believe he ever kissed a girl in his life." Hasn't he! "Unless"?she laughed mischievously? "it's you." "You*are ridiculous," protested Vera. "He wouldn't dream of such a thing." Obviously Miss Vera understood me no better than other antiquities. "Ferbaps he?why don't you leave off squabbling with him?" "He won't let me. He generally begins by asking whether I am ready fdr our usual quarrel." "Why don't you say 'no?' " "Because he ought to say it." I resolved that he should. "Then you will find him deadly dull." "I?I don't tliiuk I should." "Whatever would you talk about?". "Oh?the usual things." "My dear Ye, he couldn't! I, just fancy him whispering soft nothings in your/ear!" Maud langhed. Personally/ I didn't see anything to laugh at. "And you blushing and looking down." "Don't be so silly!" "While he imprinted a chaste salute " If ie timn tr> rlrocc ft.r rtlnnnr " cniil Vera, frigidly. She walked toward the door. "IIo has a ginger mustache," said Maud, as a parting shot. This remark was absolutely untrue; it is golden almost. J . ' "He has not!" Vera departed. Maud hummed a queerHttle tune to herself for a minute. Tb&i she sighed twice?presumably once?I fear for me! Then she went out also. After a prudent interval I followed. At dinner Vera and I were neighbors. I avoided antiquities, and tokl her amusing stories, just to hear her laugh. She looks very pretty when she laughs. She also looks very prettywhen she doesn't. After dinner our host, who is proud \ of his scenery, suggested that we should go and see the moon rise over Tall Hill. .1 managed to escort Vera and to lose the others. "Shall we have our usual quarrel?" she asked, when we had perched ourselves upon a big stile at the foot of the hill. "No." I replied; "I don't want to ouarrel, please." "Don't you?" she paid brightly. "Aren't you afraid we shall be dull?" "Not in tbo least, but if you are " "Ob. no! We can talk about?let me "The usual things?" I suggested. She looked swiftly at rac and gave a little start. I took hold of her arm. "I thought you were falling." I explained. "Perhaps it -would be safer if I?held you." She didn't seem to mind, so I gathered her arm comfortably in mine. "I* can't imagine you talking 'usual things.' you know," she said, with an uncertain little laugh. "Everybody says 'usual things' ii the moonlight." I explained. "See, ii is just rising over the hill." We sat a few minutes in silence watching the yellow rim appearing ami the pale light streaming down tlic fields, dotted here ami there with tali trees. "It is very, very beautiful." she said softly. "It makes oue feel good. I am so glad you didn't want to quarrel tonight." "Or any other night. I have been going to tell you so for a long time." She laughed. "IIow strange! Do you know. I have been wanting to say the same thing to you." "It was right that theoverture should come from me." She started and glanced at me again. The moonlight lir up her pretty, thoughtful face and glinted in her golden hair. "The prettiest effect of the moonrise is invisible to you." I told her. "I think." she said smilingly, "it's nicest effect is that it has made two quarrelsome people?L" She hesitated for the word. "(Iood friends?" She nodded. "One of them is very glad." " * - * 1 -1 "to "So.' sue said ;u:uum luuiiuuuj, jo the other.'* "I)o you know, little Miss Vora, dreadfully as wo quarreled. I liked you aii 1 !:e rime. Only I thought that you disiikeil me so much." "Oh. no!" she cried quickly. "Indeed I didn't." "That." I said, "was the odd thing about it!" She gave sucli a jump at the quotaiion iiiat she would certainlj have fallen off the seat?if I had not had the presence of mind to put my am round her waist!?Madame. FUli In a Hoiipltiil. Fish have their troubles, and there are hospital tanks to which unfortunate specimens are relegated. "Hob." an Aquarium ?gold-fish, has lost his tail, but his social standing and his appetite still remain, despite his foreshortened aspect. A catfish, caught in the Haekensack ^Meadows ljmt-jt}irned completely white. He is {fcjjjjffik of nature, and will not aggoj&P^'J^jth j nl hers ol ins khhi. ieruapo jrest brook trou* In captivity collection. but funpi attacked him and he was plumped into a salt-water pq&l,;' where he is slowly .^gainlnff f i^j: j strength in an element total to the ' tr.r?. This specimen 13 cbout the only e for more than iter. A curious the striped bar.?, transparent yel' them are turnirror of great j s scenes in the ir of rude woodens which have put out of comnl and Exnress. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WMlilneton Itemi. General MacArtliur notified the Pres> ident that conditions in the Philippines were such that he could send no men to China. 7 Rear-Admiral George Cochran, Pay Director of the United States Navy, died at his home, in Philadelphia, from a complication of diseases. He was sixty-one years of age. A complete hospital outfit has been ordered sent from Manila to China. The Interstate Commerce Commission made its report for the last fiscal year 011 railroads, showing lacrease of mileag) and business. Edward H. Strobel, formerly United States Minister to Chile, has been named by Chile as hef counsel before the Washington Arbitration Tribunal. Rear-Admiral Charles b. Cotton was appointed to command the Norfolk Navy Yard, succeeding Rear-Admiral Parker, who takes the place of the late Admiral Philip at the "Brooklyn Navy Yard. Secretary of War Root is preparing a bill for the reorganization of the regular army even more radical in its nature than the one submitted in the last session. , j Henry F. Osborn was appointed paleontologist in the United States Geological Surrey, succeeding Professor Othniel C. Marsh. , Oar Adopted Ialnnda, Governor Dole, of Hawaii, has decided that subjects of foreign Powers cannot hold office under the government of the Territory of Hawaii. ' Governor-General Wood, of Cuba, haft appointed a commission of eleven to manage and superintend all State charities. At present over $14,000,000 is invested in State charities.During the past week 160 Filipinos were killed on the Island of Luzon and eleven Americans lost their lives. The new charter of the city of Havana will give greatly increased powers to the recently elected officials. It fa improbable tbat any special session of the Hawaiian Territorial Legislature will be held. Domestic. A pet robin gave the alarm when burglars entered the house of Walter Sigler, at Millerton, N. Y., frightening them off. F. B. Cossit. founder of La Grange, 111.,, committed suicide by shooting. He was eighty years old and was despondent from long illness. Seven persons Avere injured in a collision of three trolley cars in New City. *' v.'-. "Will not be separated long," said Lawyer Jacob C. Meinzer beside his wife's new-made grave recently, and his body was found in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he had taken poison. Francis Truth, wjjio advertised himself as a divineSJiealer, appeared in the United States Circuit Court at Boston, pleaded'guilty and was fined $2f>00. which he paid. George J. Schweinfurth, claimed by | his followers to be the true Messiah, j has renounced the faitli and announced that he will leave ?e "heaven" at ! Rockford, 111., at once. Lightning shattered the foremast of the United States coliler Caesar, at Norfolk, Va. When it was discovered that Postmaster James Bell, of Gainesville, Fla., was $1400 short in his accounts, he died from grief. By tile sinking of a skiff on Lake tlinrles,- La.. Mrs. Amanda Johnson and her son and daughter were drowned. A locomotive struck a pleasure carriage at Florida,* Ind., killing Noah Blickcnstaff and three of his children. While trying to keep her four-yearold stepson from screaming after she had beaten him, Mrs. Rachel Miller choked the child to death, at St. John's, Ohio. To escape detectives of ten cities, who had all but run him down, Her-? maun Kurth, accused of swindling, committed suicide at St. Paul, Minn, t General Randall, on his arrival in/ Alaska, is expected to clear squatters! r* x \ 3 Ci!? ft )ii uovernraeiu nmu ui om xvucii. <m Six masked burglars wounded theg engineer of the Cold Spring Brewery.# Lawrenco, Mass., cracked the safe and! scaped with ?500. : Korelcrn. <; General Lord William- SeymouaS commanding the forces in BritisIS North America, left Halifax, N. Sll for England, going via New Yorlji City. ff Carthngena, Colombia, is not only iiS I ho throes of revolution, but of starvaja; (ion. IV The panic among the Chinese in tliljf Southern provinces of the empire iff completely stopping trade. Most ofj t lie native cotton mills are closed. i| i * Another revolution is impending iqt, Venezuela, headed by Dr. Pietrie. ? The French Senate and Chamber! of Deputies voted a credit of SU.OOO.OOOj additional for the crisis in China, .j Six hundred Afridis made a suddeijj night descent 011 two hundred Afghani? who were engaged in building a fori^t near Dacca, and killed a number oc? them. ?< The steamer Alameda has sailed: from Sydney, N. S. W., witli $2.500,OU'J in gold for San Francisco, Cal. Fr "is gave the Boer envoys a warm greeting on their return from their American visit. Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodssou. Governor of the Gold Coast, announces his safe arrival at Akwebusu. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has approved the commercial agreement between Italy and the Uuited States. General Dodds, hero of the Eahomey campaign, will head the French expedition to China. The London Times's Lorenzo Mar- 1 ques correspondent says that former j President Steyn and General De Wit are uie oniy onsiacies to uie lermiuation of the war in South Africa. General Jaiuont was removed fmin his post as Inspeetor-Geueral of the French army for criticising the action of the Minister of War. President Krtiger, of tlie South African Republic. lias moved-"his lieatl^Mrters to Xelspruit, on the Delagon in Paris has increased since fSEpxposition openeu, murders being dmp occurrences. officially announced that GenitTCjbord Methuen has. captured An dtWs^Wessels, the head of the AfriThe flr?t Canadians returning from ! the Boer var report that out of 130U j nien 800 were stricken with enteric j fever. General Roberts, ih order to check j thy operations of Poer spies, roMuires j that ever:* male more than sixteen i years of ago siia-1 be registered, and ( shall carry a permit. i Mark Twain Awheellng. Mark Twain seems to have recounted, to some one a story about a wheel ride from Hartford to Boston. The trip Is one that is made by many cyclers during the summer, but Clemens evidently was unaccustomed to long rides at the time he undertook the journey. The Christian Endeavor World says that the humorist started with his friend, Joseph H. Twichell. Twain had notified a mutual friend at Boston of the proposed ride, and the latter was prepared to receive and entertain them at a certain time. After pedaling twelve ftflan mlloo Trunin onrl (Pml^hplH became uncommunicative. They had started early in the morning and the day was an ideal one for riding. The road was good and the scenery fine, but each seemed to be waiting for the other to propose something. The silent pedaling went on until a railway station came Into view and Twain suggested that it would be quite a joke to take a train the rest of the way and surprise their waiting host by getting in ahead of time. This seemed to be the suggestion of a joke for which the other was waiting, so the pair took a train to Boston. Their host was surprised. He said: "You have made fast time, haven't ! you?' . . "0, pretty good for novices," replied Twain. "What time did you leave Hartford?" asked the host. "At 7 a. m.," replied Mark, with careful intonation. "And do you mean to say that you have wheeled all the w,ay here since then?" Twain answered deliberately and with great calmness: "No, but we wheeled far enough to demonstrate that it could be done." Marketing in Pari*. One of the dhief tilings you will have to battle with in your French household is the principle of caste, and the next is the sou in the franc. Your cook does your marketing, and for every franc she spends she gets one sou. Human nature being what it Is, it is quite unnecessary to add that the good cook loves to go only where she will spend many francs, and her sous will be proportionate. I have never beard of but one woman in Paris who did her own marketing, and she was a penurious but wealthy person, who put on a long ulster and carried things home under it herself. One day. just as she passed a courtly Frenchman of the old school, a leg of mutton dropped and rolled over on the sidewalk. He picked it up and handed it to her. "Madam, here is your fan," was all he said.?Harper's Bazar. The Paris Ghost Mystery. The Paris "ghost mystery," in which' a whole neighborhood is disturbed nightly by the cries of a child for help, I remains as impenetrable as ever. Tliere is ausoiuteiy no uuuui uo iu the reality of the cries. The Chief of Police has listened in the vicinity of the "haunted house," and has heard them himself. The house from which the cries appear to come has, however, been thoroughly searched, with no result The police are now inclined to believe that the cries are a practical joke on the part of a very clever ventriloquist. 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Even the man with a thin voice may in- ; dulge in heavy conversation. V\\v j, , surely, leaving your blood \ lively, and your liver and kic not satisfied get your mone1 To any needy mortal suffering from bo7 Sterling Remedy Ccmpai A Maryland Snake Story, The latest authentic snake story is fromjforth Glenwood fnrm, near Eastott.one of the country places in Talbot County, Md. The other day a big blacksnake was seen emerging from an Ice pond. It was killed. A protuberance was noticed about the middle. The snake was chopped In two, and a porcelain turkey nest egg rolled out. Captain Noble Robinson was tenant on the farm last year. Mrs. Robinson raised turkeys, using china nest eggs In ttielr nests, sne says that fourteen months ago she missed the nest egg from a nest near the ice pond. She supposed a boy who had the range of the meadow had taken it. When the egg from the snake was shown to Mrs. Rolinson she identified it as one she had lost by a certain incised mark upon it. The snake bad carried the'china egg fourteen months in his vermiform appendix, apparently without having appendicitis. But he must have thought very hard of it, and that it was very singular that it could not be digested. Remarkable Lane FUhe?. The most famous of the lung fishes is the climbing perch of India, that has often been found several feet up the mangroves. These animals migrate overland when their own streams fail and are captured in great numbers by the natives, to whom they are great delicacies. Ceylon has several species of them. The island is dotted over with bogs of thick, chocolate colored mud, covered by a sod of reeds and grasses, and this mud teems with fish. The Cingalese clear off a space and wait till the fish come up to fill up their air bladder, when they catch them in strong dipnets. Sir John Bowring says that some lung fishes in Siam go as much as three miles from water, and that they have been seen flapping over a dusty road. A Bequest to Francis Joseph. Among the many bequests which have fallen to the lot of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is a hotel at Bruna, left him by the proprietor several years ago. It was a valuable property. The Emperor accepted the bequest, although he did not employ it for his own benefit, but sold It for an enormous sum, which he gave to a child's hospital. Admiral Deweys wire nas Dougnt Big Fish Island, not far from Halifax, N. S.t and will build a summer residence there. I (iETIkid/tltlJOIIKW.XOBRIS, ]tlldlwllWaililnston,D.C, 'Successfully Prosecutes Claims. LatePrlncfpal Eiiminer 0^8. Pension Bureau. 3 yrs la civil war. 15 adjudicates claims, atty since HDODQY NEW DISCOVERY; |im l#l\Vr ^9 quick relia'and curt* wont uw- Boos of U?tunoni?l? and 10 days' trtalmaoi h?*. 8t.ll. 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(A "Aver's Hair Vigor completely If i curea me from dandruff, with whicn IV T I was greatly afflicted. The growth of ml it "1 my hair since its use has been soma- m\ 1 thing wonderful." PI FJ LESA G. Greeke, 1 fcl ? April 13,1809. New York,N.Y. ji ? If von do not obtain all the benefit* r? i 3 tcu expected from tbe use (IT tlie Hair [ V Vigor, write the Doctci about It. I.f IN CHILDREN AB1 UlAVMMA veritable demons wwnrRKi^ Hndmustbe ^ickiy VISIKr removed or serioa* KmeOBBHUI results may follow. The medicine which for the past 60 year* has held the record for successfully ridding children of these pests is Frey'i Vermifuge?made entirely from vegetable products, containing no calomel. if nt-n nf /Irn(Tirlaf-a (?r>iintrv stnrftfl or bv mall. postpaid, "e. 4 8. Feet, Baltimot*, MdC ADVERTISINGforYoull te and practical book of Its R 5 cents in postage stamps H for a copy of this 200-page B illustrated book. 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J f A HOSE to clean your A sweet, fragrant, mild but * reful CASCARETS, that I sleeo. oreoare all the filth i * ' * 4. body for removal, and ; gently, but none the less \ ich and bowels clean and j l JO-cent box today, and if j cleaning of your body is | iY , ! j ' we will send a box free. Addrtu emeot and paper.. 429 j