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The kinc * _^h0n1 A NOVEL OF AMERICAN L1F q y MAURICE Copyright, 1892 #nd 18?: / CHAPTER VIII. CONTINUED. Bnt Mrs. Vernon's arm clasped ber daughter's waist and gave caress for caress with genuine creole vehemence. They walked from room to room, in a final round of review, hand in haml, and commenting vivaciously on the beauty of the decorations. "Bnt I wonder why papa doesn't come?" said Pauline; "he promised to be in by eight." "Some affair or other has detained him," answered the mother; "you know he has had much to look after since we returned. We have scarcely had an hour with him for a month and more." "I think he might lay aside affairs for this evening at least, when it would be so very Dice to have him." "Oh, but he will be here in good time; he likes such a thing as this; he's never so light and bright and engaging as when in the midst of a company." "And you are so beautiful this evening, mamma. He will be very proud of you." "Ah, if I were young like you, you might say that; but I'm not going to flatter yon. Do you know, Paaline, that it is positively dangerous for a yonng woman to think herself beautiful?" , "Why, no! If she really is beautiful, why should she not be perfectly frank in acknowledging her good fortune?" They were passing before a grand mirror set in a bronze frame; they both looked in and stood for a moment contemplating themselves as reflected there. A momentary pensivtoess passed over Mrs. Vernon's faoe; but Pauline blushed just a little and smiled with an expression of sincere delight as ehe glanced over the reflection of a slender, graceful girl dressed in a gown of clinging, dull-white brocaded silk with a fluff of delicate lace at tho upper line of the modestly designed corsacre. It was a radiant face that threw back her smile, and the white arms and throat with their curious bracelets an 1 slender pearl necklace shimmered softly. At this moment Mr. Vernon came in, accompanied by a tall, swart man. The two went directly upstairs to the room prepared for tho gentlemen's dressing room, but returned almost immediately, when Mr. Vernon presented his guest to the ladies as Colonel Philip Loring. The gentleman's bearing was military, soldierly in the extreme, and his form and facu suited well the air of studied dignity he wore. While not strictly handsome, his features were strong and well-formed, and his eyes had a singular power, as if of concentration and steadiness. He was bronzed by exposure to wind and sun until his face was olive-brown, although it could be seen that it was not naturally dark, and there was a white scar, a saber-cut it appeared, running in a slender lino across a part of his left cheek and ear. ?iis necK was corded with muscles and his hands were shapely, large and sinewy. "You have a lovely home here, Mrs. Vernon," he said, speaking French with a curious accent. "I have been telling your husband that he livos like a grand duke." Mrs. Vernon had often heard her husband speak of Colonel Loring as ' one of his most trusted friends; but 8ho had never before seen him. His smile, as he looked down into her face, was peculiarly attractive, albeit there was in it something remote and inexplicably unsatisfactory. "And you, mademoiselle," he continued, turning with a bow to Pauline, "must be as happy as you look, in euch a place of enchantment. You will not charge a rough old saber like me with flattery if I tell you that you look like an especially dangerous fairy I L >? 4U U H1U3L UliUIlil^ uunci. Paulino's cheeks showed the slightest access of pink under his bold yet not unpleasant glance. "Your father and I," he added, "have long been great friends, and I account it one of my far-apart pieces of good fortune to be here, even by mere chance, to-night." "My father's friend is my friend," Pauline said; and she could not have accounted for the embarrassment she felt in delivering this bit of formality. "And mine," joiued Mrs. Vernon. "We are glad to welcome you as a chance guest this time, and we shall be proud to greet you as a privileged one hereafter at all times." The conversation could go no further than these stiff commonplaces characteristic pf the period and the place. Guests were arriving, and Mrs. Ver non and Paul ire bad duties to meet at once. They both turned away, leaving Colonel Loring standing, tall, straight, grimly attractive, beside a magnificent flowering cactus as tall and strange hs he. Somehow they took his face with them, clearly set in their minds, and the scar on the cheek and ear was as white and the features as dark and magnetic as in the original. Among the early gnests was Litu* tenant Ballanche. He shook hands V. with Mrs. Vernon, anc1, alter a few words, passed on to meet Pauline. "Yon were mv prisoner the other morning. I am jours this evening," he said, with a happy look and referring, of course, to the little adventure on Lake Borgne. "But you will be generous, I know." Ho did not look so tall in his fulldress uniform as he had in undress, but the tine high-bred air seemed to be more pronounced. Pauline Lad seen him frequently flinco their first meeting. At present, however, he impressed her as much handsomer thau ever before. Not that she really took time to think this. I It was the imptessiun and nothing I more. 4_ Fairfax came rather late. He had ] ^ ^ ? - - 1 } OFik_ BY ISLAND A E DURING THE WAR Of 1312. : THOMPSON. ; fcy Robert Bonner's Sons. I been delayed on liis way by a queer ' 1,1,1 - - 1 ? - ? o^*aa4- or* q /R _ nine auveumru uu iud oncci.?<* * ?? venture -which, although at the time it appeared to have do connection with his future, introduced an active element into the drama of his life. At the entrance to a dark alley, a struggle was going on between two persons, and Fairfax heard, through his open carriage-window, low cries of anger and distress. He signaled his driver to stop, and at once sprang out and ran to the spot. A burly man was choking and beating a small hunchbaok, who fought with tooth and nail like a tiger cat. Fairfax called to the big fellow to let go his hold of the dwarf's neck, and not being heeded, dealt him a heavy blow on the ear with his fist. A watchman appeared at this moment and reached the spot just as the ruffian was trying to rise from where the cuff had landed him. Some time was spent by Fairfax in ex plaining to tbe officer ins connection with the matter. The little deformed man declared that his powerful assailant was trying to rob him of a small amonnt of silver mbney, but the accused stoutly maintained that the money was his and that the other had stolen it from him. The light of & distant lamp set at the gate of a private house permitted Fairfax to see the dwarf's features but dimly, yet they were so unusual, so hideous indeed, that they fixed themselves firmly in his memory. The watchman knew both of the combatants and, laying his hand on the little fellow's strangely distorted Bhoulder, called him Crapaud Crapousin. "Crapaud Crapousin," he growled, as he shook him rudely, "you are always into mischief! How many times must I chuck you in jail?" Of course Fairfax got away from this scene as soon as he could. The delay, however, was longer ttian tms brief telling may make it appear. When he reached Chateau d'Or his right hand, with which he had delivered the blow on the man's ear, was paining him greatly, amf later he discovered that he had broken a finger on the fellow's sknll. "Bat you must have it attended to at once," said Mr. Vernon; "fortunately there is a skillful surgeon present," and forthwith he hurried Fairfax into a room apart from the company, and sent a servant to bring Colonel Loring. "It's nothing," Fairfax insisted, as a matter of form; but his pain was by no means hidden, and his hand was beginning to swell. "A gentleman should never strike with his unarmed hand," said Mr. Vernon. "Why didn't you shoot the scoundrel?" "I shot him with the only weapon I chanced to have," replied Fairfax, with a grim half smile. The music was swelling merrily and rippling through the house; the dancers were flashing buck and forth and in and out; and the breeze coming in at the open windows and doors gently fanned the flushed youug faces as they whirled. When Colonel Loring approached and Mr. Vernon was about to speak, Fairfax looked up and saw before him Pierre Rameau. He could not help showing his surprise and astonishment. "Let me present my friend, Colonel t>u:i;? t?at*. x uiiiji; jui i x mi iua. vviuugi Loring is an expert surgeon; he will d?a? cunningly with your hurt hand." Fairfax was staring, glaring, his lips compressed, his chin thrust out, his face white and rigid. He did not hear a word that Mr. Vernon said. "Don't offer me your hand, Pierre Rameau, you base and conscienceless villain!" he exclaimed in a low, measured tone of voiae, husky with rage. He appeared about to spring upon Loring and throttle him. Colonel Loring without changing countenance turned to Mr. Vernon and, with a simple inflection of inquiry, said: "What does this man mean?" The wrath anil the insulting epithets seemed not to have affected him in any way. Not a line of his face had changed its expression. He turned his eyes slowly and with a peculiar steadiness from Fairfax to his host and stood in an erect but supremely indifferent attitude. The indignation of Fairfax was irrepressible; ho could not be still. Doubtless he would have made a memorable scene of it if he had been left free to act. Mr. Vernon stepped between the two men and made a gestnre that meant a command for them to be silent, and when he spoke it was scarcely above his breath. "This is my house, Mr. Fairfax; you are both my friends and my guests; if you are enemies to each other, let me beg you not to make a scene here." "I never had the honor of seeing the gentleman before," said Loring, in a tone that gave no suggestion of feeling, unless it might have been that it hint of contempt rang in it. "You are the robber, Pierre Kamfau," Fairfax boldly declared. "You cannot put me aside with yonr cool effrontery. I have seen your face once before; I would know it twenty years hence at a glance. You arc the verv mau who robbed Vaeseur. "How can you ostt tbis scoundrel your frieud, Mr. Vernon?" he added, after a moment's intense gaze iuto Loring's face. "He's the very man " "But, my dear Mr. Fairfax, you are mistaken. Colonel Loriug is not Pierre Rarneau or uuy other robber. He iB my frieud, just returned from Mexico. I understand your feelings now," Mr. Vernon went on, rapidiy and earnestly, "but I assure you that yon are suffering an honest mistake and your excitement to lead you too ' far." "But, Mr. Vernon, I cannot bemistaken ia (his matter. _ You o#q axia- | taken, sir, yourself. That fnce?thai I scar?that mao, from bead to foot? ' that villain, when hie mask slipped aside " The melodramatic almost hysterical excitement of Fairfax contrasted curi , ously with the perfectly cool and even deprecatory manner of Mr. Vernon i i and of Colonel Loring; and yet Fairfax was very 6teady?rigid, indeed? and his look was dangerous. The j 1 apparition of Pierre Rameau could j not be counterfeit, and for the mo- M ment be felt that Mr. Vernon could* not help being aware of it, so dis#7 tinct and complete was the idontifica j tion to himself. He felt eo intensely, ; * under tlie sudden strain of recog I ' nition, that his bearing was awkward [ and stagy in comparison with the j ' grace and ease of the waving figures j j seen through the flower-draped door * way giving into the parlors where the 1 dancers were in full career. It was at this moment that Fail-fan ( saw Pauline pass across the Held of * his vision. She was dancing with Lieutenant Ballanche, and her fucp was illuminated with pleasure. CHAPTER IX. SOME SYLVAN SURPIUSES. Vnsseur gathered together hie slaves and his other personal property and with them loaded two luggers and a small schooner. Mr. Vernon had warned him that it was no longei safe to remain on the exposed coast of Bay Saint Louis. To be sure, the warning was scarcely needed after tho raid of the cavaliers; but Mr. Vernon did not refer to this dauger; it was the British fleet that was expected to appear in the gulf waters. As a matter of fact the fleet did not come immediately; but the British j were sending emissaries to the Indians all through Alabama and Mississippi, inciting them to war against the < whites. General Jackson Had defeated the savages, after bloody fighting, on the 27th of March, at To* I hopeka, and was taken steps to or I ganize an army with which to gain possession of the Spanish forts' along c the gulf coast. t Everywhere among thewbite settle-- i ments the rumors had gone forLh that t great military events were impend- j ing; that most probably an English c force absolutely overwhelming was < about to be thrown into the country, i to ravage it far and wide. < The frontier people were mostly poor, uneducated and possessed of i but ljmited knowledge of the current | affairs of the world, and it was no j t more than natural that they should i | receive an exaggerate 1 impreosion of , the threatened danger. i, They were as brave as lionsj how- | ever, and their patriotism knew no , limit, Indian naiers irorn mmr < < cradles up, it needed 110 more perfect'. goad than the British coalition with ', the savages to make evory man, worn-; { an and child in the Southern settle* ; ( ments au implacable foe of every- ' j thing English. Even the outlaws of j Barataria and of Pearl River, when si \ last the test came, took the side of ( the United States in the straggle, ! although justice had set' a price upon ; their heads. Yesseur betook liimself, with all j his movable belongings, to a plautation southwest of New Orleans, in . the La Fourche country. He thought that his slaves would be safe in this j wild, out-of-the-way place, and here, in the care of an overseer, ho left | i them, ^hile he, dreaming of nothing j I but the recovery of his jewels and re- 1 j venge on Pierre Rameau, went back ' to iloff the tracks of that intrepid and successful robber and pirate. Mounted on a strong, spirited pony, ! | he made bis way iutf> the Pearl River I t country and found little trouble in i I associating himself, under an assumed name, "with Borne of the free-and easy inhabitants, who were more at ' ease on account of crushing defeat that had befallen their enemies, the Indians. Like most of that class of men who had sought the remote gulf-</oast ' region to hide from justice, Vasseur | did not have the least respect for the ( legal methods of righting 'wrongs or of bringing to punishment those who ' did him injury. His nature was revengeful, and the only law he dreamed j of appealing to was that of which he ; could appoint himself sole executive. Small as he was, his strength was 1 great, and no wolf was more savage j 3 or untiring. CuDDing and full of ex- | ( pedients, sly as a fox and quick as a cat, he passed from placo to place, at- ' ! trading little notice, but always , ' managing to collect, little by little, I ' information concerning the where- 1 abonts nnd the doings of the cavaliers of Honey Island. (to be continued.) 1 i Sure of nimmlf. Most men are quite convinced that 1 in a moment of sudden danger, sucli j { as ban lately demoralized Bome friend, 1 they should be perfectly cool and de- ' * " 1. _ ii _i I liberate. rsome wouui ue, uut mat this is not trae of all, the following J incident bears witness. There is in Chicago a business man 1 who, above all things, prides himself 1 on beiug level-headed. He makes it i 1 a point never to "go off at half-cock," j 1 under any circumstances. Hisoffici'-J is in the top story of a rather ta'.l buildiug, and wlieu, one afternoor, the alarm of "hre" was given, be felt ' instantly and naturally quite uncom- 1 fortable. 1 His first thought was thai; the ofjee books must bo carefully locked up in the safe, but just then a number of peoplo rushed throngh the entry past his door, and the methodical man hail I a confused impression of having sought I io vain for the books for a very long | time. The smoke was rising slowly j through the elevator well as ho dashed j into the hall and down the stairs. At i me loot lie met ms partner. ' It's all out said tho partner, "Where are the hooks?" "I looked everywhere for them," said the methodical man, "but they weren't to be found." They went back to his private officc, and there tho books were lying open on his desk. Strangely enough, the methodical man never fully under- j ^ stood how it happened. A crane having a span of 158 feel, | has just been installed in the erecting ] shoo of a certain locomotive works, j j It will lift a 19o,000 pound locomotive ( forty feet in the air, carry it 33G feet,1 ; and set it down agziu in threo min-1 ( utes and thirty-Bix seconds, ' I TIE PMPP1MS lH1 B # Luzon Method c John T. MeCutcheon, Philippine corespondent of the Chicago Record, writes as follows: It is very difficult, n^n hore in Manila, to get a comprehensive idea of "the situation in the " hiiimiinfs." The most we know is liat oyr troops are scattered over sveui' J^v>nce iQ Luzon, as well as n tK <^hief cities of the other islands, inSf'^t in Luzon alone there are !1G separate garrisons holding cities tnd villages and strategic points in he twenty;8even provinces of the islmd. Tiie Filipino method of warfare has changed from their old, defiant meth>ds to a new and more insidious one, .,/ rENTS and soldieb-made huts OF 1 8ULU, OUB 60UTHEBNM08T PO? ^ 'u. - ?: hat Is as muct^lf not .fnptp to be ie heard tha^^ was ;oing to JncrieaSe the Philippine a^my :o about 65,000, a force that- could mnihilate him ir ue contested its aurance or will. He thea issued, along n October, a proclamation advising nany of bis followers to return to :belr homes, hide their rifles and await i call at some /future time. Others )f his followers were held under arms ind directed to begin a guerilla war'are in the territory held by the Americans at that time, or to be held by :hem later on. That proclamation, which was unloubtedly forced by the vigorous camaaign inaugurated at the time by Generals MacArthur, Lawton, Wheaton ind Young, marked the end of organzed resistance on a large scale. ,It ivill be remembered that Tarlac was SPANISH FILIPINO MESTIZ i GIBLS. taken without a shot, and thnt our troops occupied 1n turn all the provinces of the uorth with fewer than a ilozen fights of any consequence. From that time on it became a foot race after the demoralized bands that were leaving the Tarlac lowlands. There was no established capital, no machinery of government, no grand army and half the cabinet surrendered or were captured. nffl/iloll-ir too? PrilsllPfl. but General Concepcion, Aguinaldo's chief of staff, uttered a dissenting opinion which, as since proved, was prophetic. "You think it is over, hut it isn't. 3fou have now disrupted the army and scattered it far and wide. You have some of the leaders in prison and your troops occupy the whole north country. But how many rifles have you :aptured? When you've pot the arms, then and only then, will the revolution ae over." They have a curious custom at the Filipino halls. All the girls sit in a row on one side of the room and all the men on the oth(;r. When a man tvants to .dance he goes over across the dead line, selects his girl, and, after dancing, delivers her back to her :-hair. He returns to his own side, rhere is no chance for any flirtation. The Filipino girls are not flirtatious. On groat occasions they always seem to he overwhelmed with a sense of rigid propriety. There are no soft :l " J X' 1 * "^**** ?:___ BUNGAO, SULU A-IiCHIPELAGO, THE MO ' UNITED 8 )rown eyes coyly glancing, 0r little I liands gently pressing. When Miss 1 Filipino treads the stately national < juadrille or whirls lightly:to the stir- t ing measures of a quick-fljayed waltz : jhe dedicates her and soul t OTOTOTUuuDuuuuaynyg ffiB MP II PEACE. I >f Salt Making. C| XulQjvl?li*l&?l to grace and symmetry and completely forgets those dainty little coquetries which every maiden is entitled by ancient decre to use. There was an extemporized supper. All the girls sat at one end of the table and all the men at the other. All the chairs at the man end were taken when I weat in to the feast, and, contrary to all precedents, I was consigned to the heart of the enemy's country. On each side was a mestiza. Across the table was a row of dark girls who were evidently overwbeimea uy me radical departure from an old custom, and I suspect that I figured prorni ^ -3?' 'HE AMERICAN GARRISON AT BUNGAO, 38E98ION IN THE PHILIPPINES. nently as the subject of many of their whispered Visayau remarks. By exhibiting industry in passing things I finally won their friendship and restored confidence. Everybody his own salt-maker, so the Ilocanoes and Pangasinans of Northern Luzon believe, and they follow out jthe theory in practice, for nearly every family living on the coast of the great Lingayen Gulf manufac- j ^Cures salt for home consumption, and sells the surplus to th< villages of the Interior. In one settlement near Dagupan the occupation reaches the dignity of an SALT MAKING IN NORTHERN LUZON. Industry, and an entire village Is engaged in crystalizing the salt out of the earth. The process is the exceedingly simple one' of scraping the saltsoaked land of tne low coast country with a wooden harrow and allowing the sun to evaporate the moisture until the ground taket. on a condition of dry powder. This almost impalpable dust is Bcrapdd up in baskets and packed into a narrow bamboo splintwoven trough, some six feet long, plastered with clay. Water is then poured upon the dry salt earth by the jarful, and leaches through, passing out by a small tube at the bottom. The cl?ar water with salt in solution is then boiled down until it prystali3es in an iron kettle built in .the top of a clay oven, as seen in the fA.nm.nnn/1 tha nir-f-nrrv which is reproduced from Harper's Weekly. In the south, among the Tagalogs of A FILIPINO BAMBOO BAND. Cavite province, the process varies somewhat. Every family living on the coast lias its own salt-ponds, which, skirted by beautiful bamboo clumps and great mango-trees, make very picturesque artificial lakes. These ponds are shallow basins, sometimes more than nn acre in extent, walled in with a low mud dike, and provided with an entrance sluice, through which the tidal waters may overflow the ground and be penned in. Over the eutire surface of these-Huts are raised circular beds, ten to twelve feet in diam eter, flat on top and a loot in ncigiit. The salt water of the ocean is allowed to come in till it reaches just to the BE11 \_ j-? j | i *T SOUTHERLY F03SE&I0N OF THE iTATES. tops of those circular beds, soaking I hem through and through. The sun loos the rest of the work by rapidly vjipornting the moisture from them, iiul the salt appears as a white efflorescence at tb-j surface, to be carefully scraped off by the owner. In ' this way. they become practically self-feed lug nuji-iumjiniK-n VIL ;iu cA?.ccu>ub>j novel character, though the output of salt per diem from each bed is very small. The native music of the Philippine Islanders.according to Harper's Weekly, is rendered almost exclusively on home-made instruments. These are built of bamboo, the big horns having but oue note each, while the reed (at the left in the picture) carries the air. CLEAR WATER FOR SOLDIERS. A Pocket Filter Designed For Dae In Warfare. f Below is a sketch of the Hamilton pocket filter, after the name of the patentee, says the London Mall. The Bushmen's Corps, of whom every man was a specially selected volunteer, trained to all the hardships of Australian up-country life, was supplied with 500 of these little filters. Lejjfllng medical authorities of Australia, where the evils of drinking bad water and tke 'difficulty obtaining jgoood are most apparent'pronounce *thls to be tbe test flit* known to them. Inside the flat white metal box a carbon disc that has been chemically treated Is fixed. By an ingenious arrangement this can at arc time be removed and boiled, wheffiu 1# again ready as a preventive dt'jfach awfnl I seoiirges among soldiers-^nterft arid dysentery. As witness of,. its yaffle, It may be noted that not a single man in the Bushmen's Corps is reported to have died of disease wHlle In 'South Africa. The long tuba ls for insertion in the receptacle containing the i(Rrter, while S feljll * ' ' ^ POCKET FILTER FOR SOLDIERS. to the shorter tube may be Attached a flexible pipe through which the purified liquid may be drawn. The great advantages of the Hamilton filter are its shape and lightness. In aluminum the entire thing could be made to weigh less than two ounces. The invention, which is both durable and cheap, should commend itself to the military authorities, and all interested In our soldiers. INVENTS A SELF-ACTING TRAP. S. Buckersberg Think* Ho Can Make Kuts Annihilate Themselves. A Milwaukee avenue inventor thinks lie has solved the problem of how to induce rats and mice to exterminate themselves and assist in the annihilation of those that come after them. He is S. Iiuckersburg, and his annihiIator is a self-acting trap. The first night the trap is in action I ?* {+ Af>A/1 n rwl 1 /-v o rlml ttrjflt i I. JB U?JJIA4V V.lVO(;U uuu IVtlUVU " Iiu a table d'liotc dinner. The second night the hearts of the hungry rodents are made glad by the sight of an open door at one end. As it advances the rat's weight overbalances a sheetiron false floor, the door falls with a click and his ratship is doomed. Inspection discloses" but one way of escape ? up a boxlike flue ? and this he accepts. Once again an automatic door closes. The way leads into a large funnel. The rat walks on until the funnel tips and it is precipitated into THE SELF-ACTUTO HAT TRAI\ 1 ? i a cau of water. The tipping of the funnel raises the door to the first entrance and things are in readiness for 1he next adventurer. In four nights 113 rats were captured and disposed or m one or rue oig ciuuuousus.?*_uj- i cago Record. A Hint to Any Man. Education is seldom the controlling factor in success. What! Must wo belittle education after all our furore about the value of education? By no means. The secret of success is a man's disposition. The man who is willing to and able to take responsibilities will heat him who is unwilling or unable. The man who has the disposition to lift the burden of trivial matters from his superior's consideration is the man who will be looked for when promotions are to be made. The question is not. Have you done your duty? hut. Do you rise to greater responsibilities? The opportunities for , rising to greater responsibilities are , ever present.?The Manufacturer. , THE CONTENTED COW. The placid beeve, to contemplation wed* Moves lazily along the sunny slope; Unanchored by a galling chain or rope, N She swings her tad of soft Venetian red UntU she knocks the hungry horse fly head* Over-heels, and, unannoyed, proceeds Uf mope . And munch the raead, or suddenly tC ,1 lope r -a ; V 'Around the green, by fairy fancy fed, And kick her hinder members high, joy? fraught, , V?Vt fondlv reckine that within a time, As brief as that which scoops or scad* and scoots, -i jffer lotus dream will crumble into naught, E'en while her shell shall rise to height* 54 sublime, ->j?3 In etews, roasts, buttons, gelatine an# boots. ?R. K. Munkittrick, in Puck? ,^j PITH AND POINT. "Yes; I've got some money invested '* In a flying machine; "but it's nothing ?merely a fly spec." The telephone damsel Remarks, in low tone, ? ? That a ring on the finger's a Worth two on the 'phone. .. . Ostend?"Is the world round, mam* |9 ma?" Mamma?"Certainly, ray son."";;* Ostend?"Then how can there be ao . f end to it?" "What a strong face that Mr< /J Mimmsley has." "Yes. He used to be the strong-jawed man in a circus."? " Washington Star. Little Willie?"Say, pa!*' Pa-"Well, ; what is it now, Willie?" Little Willie?"Does grape-shot jzaw on am* bushes?"?Chicago NewjLtf^ elded to walse u mustach#?/ Misa jga tique?"Good ideal HoVjufe ting along with your ijjfjlrT' ' v Ut m tae scaiea upon na eyes wm That helps him^Jtrnd Wii^ i;v^5r?I want some sort of a present/. ! fbira young lady." ''Sweethewjf or ei$r?. Ktfer^. "Er?why?she haatft said which, she will be yefr^ttsborg the blo^.-We/jtltjit^liassed,'' remarked the proactive Jftfcehaser, sadly. \ Horatius was bi^Hng tLe bridge. '% "Why so m4et^SWrolretl a friend. "I < am thi3j(ltffc??^?B Responded. "Of 1 *|'|| ft ill n ?J AO *"A rt * 1 >Vlicit; .AMfHIHfr WI1CIUCI A \.an ur 1 tain more beeping the bridge a beat sometimes," re- < marked Beecbwqj&j# "What are you drlfin? at?" aiifcwF Home wood. "He jH can b<*t a ?trtet."?Pittsburg Chron- 1 icle Telegraph. . . \ J '"That fellow Bumbleton is a cne."f^BK%?t has he been doln^** "";1 "Wh^s^e^ot the new boarder intoi^S a brisk jgontroversy with the landlady over th^>reasons for woman's mental inferiority; and under cover of It' j sneaked a second piece of'huckleberry 'i pie."?Cleveiand Plain Dealer. -vij * ' * .t^Polion Ivy Kvll. The. efforts of Evanstonians to e? .irl'. i?-* ... terminate poison ivy are to l)e comfoj it is high time that this wiwjr enemy was removed from the path of danger for which man is responsible that threatens health wftnbe complained of speedily, but natural forces are more lightly 'regarded. Perhaps the reason for this is found in the fact that some people are impervious to the ivy evil, can pick it with impunity, nnd are rather inclined to scoff at the susceptible sufferers. But to those who have memories of the hours of misery that came unmerited after so innocent a pastime as picking leaves the subject is serious and these victims feel that the posslbility of others enduring the same kind ' )f suffering ought to be removed. Of course the chief danger Is for 1 rhose who are unfamiliar with the a foe and whose love of nature Is unmixed with fear. For such people to .liscover that Wordsworth's doctrine lhat "nature never did betray the n ncart that loved her" is untrue, brings the same shock that comes to the country man when he learns of the poison ivies that grow upon city walls, 't will be some time before this vicious vine can be completely exterminated, nut like moral evils it will finally yield to brave and worthy efforts.? Chicago Tribune. A Strange Amusement. There is to be a new amusement at Earl's Court next year, says the London Express. Somebody has obtained the consent of thf> .'inthnHttos thore tn proot Jl irl gantic pendulum, at the end of which will be suspended a car tor the purpose of swinging people from one station to another and back agai.*.. The pendulum will do all that is required of It, by reason "of its own momentum," with, perhaps, u l'ttle electricity to elevate people to the station and depress them to the ground. Delightful Orowl of Wild Car*. Among the fauna of the Itritisli Tsles in danger of extermination are the wild cats of Scotland. They have, however, found a gallant champion in a Scottish minister, the Itev. John Menzies, of Ferdotin. Wild eats, he [leclares, are a joy to look at, and their trrowl is delightful when yjn tease