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TO A LATE-COMER. i Whr didst thou come into my life so late? j If it were morning I could welcome thee .With glad all-haiis. and bid each hour to 1 be t The willing servitor of thine estate, 1 Lading thy brave ships with Time's richest . freight; 1 If it were noondav I might hope to see ( On some far height thy banners floating 1 free, " ( Ani hfear the acclaiming voices call thee great! But it is nightfall and the stars are out; ' Far in the west the crescent moon hangs s low, , And near at hand the lurking shadows j ' Wim; Darkness and silence gather roundabout, 5 Lethe's black stream is near its overflow, t Ah, friend, dear friend, why didst thou < come so late? ?Julia K. C. Dorr, in the Atlantic. 1 f iiife ofthe'I ! I "RED-HEADED It"! ; ****** * ?*??"???* * ?? ?; i : Bv EDITH B. FESSENDEN. ? ! * * I SHE was sitting in the tiny front * yard adjoining their little home. c An open mignziue lay face c downward upou her kuee as she closed her eyes and lay back dreamily 5n the big chair in the summer sun- ^ ehine. ^ A hedge fence separated their Zittlc plot of ground from u.e more spacious lawn of their wealthy neighbor and Oaudlord. and gave them a sense of seclusion which they enjoyed. On most ^ of the pleasant afternoons Mrs. Evans A ,was accustomed to sit in this yard ^vith her reading or sewing, and almost invariably did sbo drop Uiese af- a rter a time and fall into a pleaiant re?- t ery. for she was young and life looked j fair. f Sometim she would heav the land- v * lord's uightetn-year-old daughter. 0 1 Gladys, as sir talked and laughed with her friends, just on the other side of ^ ihe hedge, and she iften smiled in sympathy with their gay laughter. j. Suddenly she sat upright. She j, ithought some one had called to her? T but no, that cou.'d not b:. There it was agaiu, her name! Wide awake now, Bhe sat. alert and anriors. It was Glacys' v^'.ce* and she seemed to have .tvitli fier anotner young gin wuuui f. Mrs. Evans had met. "And Mr. Evans doesn't earn more thau month, papa says." "And he is red-headed." ( Giggles from Loih). "No, I never would marry a redheaded man." "What could she have seen in him to love?" "Maybe it wasn't a love match. There are so few nowadays." "Then what " "How should I know? But I'll bet che's tired of him by this time, anyhow." "Wouldn't it be fun to know how some couples happened to come to* j gether? I often think of it." At this point the girls decided to take a little walk. As they were about to pass her gate Mrs. Evans 5 spoke to them. T . "Good afternoon, girls. Would you please come in a momeut?" ^ The girls looked at each other in s dismay. Could she have heard? Having seated her guests in the ham- s mock, Mrs. Evans said: s "I happened to be sitting here while ycu girls were talking, and it seemed t to me I just couldn't bear to have you e think as you do about?" s "Oh, Mrs. Evans!" interrupted o Gladys, "with a flaming face. "Oh. I am so " c "Never mind that. I just thought I f /would like to tell you a little story if L; you will listen." They sat, frightened, silent, not c knowing what to say. "Once there was a little girl who ]ived with her grandfather and aunt. I They had a large house, a comfortable 1 amount of money, and people were in o the habit of saying that this child "had I everything.' So she did, everything ex- ? cept what she wanted. She never li knew a mother's nor father's love, nor r bad the right to her father's name, and s the grandfather was soured and em- n bittered by his daughter's ruin and } death, so he and the aunt were usually severe and strict with the child. She liad no young friends, for they would ot allow it. She did not go to the j public schools, but had governesses at s home. t "I don't suppose you can picture the s lonely life of that child, growing up t (with these hard, unsympathetic rela- c tives. who carefully kept in the back- j ground what love they may have felt, j Imagine having no friends of your j own age, no pleasures such as girls enjoy! This girl was imaginative, too, j /'nud liked to spend hours at a time Jiv- ^ ing in a sort of dream world where t everything was so different. This was lier one great pleasure. Of course, as she grew older, sbe sometimes thought or wnat Jove must ue?hot ner own possible lover would look?but all these ? pleasant visions were rudely brought ' to an end one day when her graudifather told her of a mfw whom lie liad selected to be her husband. She disliked and distrusted the man from jthe first, and was most unhappy. 1 < '"But before a marriage could take ( place an epidemic of diphtheria J claimed as victims both her relatives. i\ud after their death it was found i .that the crafty suitor had managed to get their ^property iuto his hands, and !l>y mismanagement had lost the most ol' it. It was a terrible situation for that girl! Xo relatives, no friends, no .knowledge of the world, no money! "She was obliged to work at somerthing and selected teaching as the only possibility. There was no opeuiug in her own town, but in another, near hy, she secured a mediocre position ' t^here she taught three years. But t ghe had never learned to make friends ?the people thought . er cold, uuiuter- I S| esting, dull, and oue hopeless night i I jwlien life seemed to offer her nothing deeper and deeper unhnppiuess. IXflr ehe went to the river and w-.s about to end the struggle, when a nnu | stopped her. He questioned Iier kiudly, and. indeed, kindness was the doraiuating note in hi? bearing. 'Poor little girl,* he said. 'Poor little frightened soul.' And he took Jier homo, talked cheeri'y to he;*, 1 brought her back to .ife. as it wen*, and after that he called often, always displaying wonderful optimism, courage aud kindly feeling for lier. I ' He was a true friend. the first she ' i iiad ever k; own. lty his thorough } 1 Tr * " ' \ K , *v . v. ,' ' /.'{* !* ' nanliae>s be ihowed bow noble a man j nay become, and gradually ber faitb I u human nature revived. He was 'espectful, tender, indeed. be seemed j o ber the essence of goodness. When j le asked ber to marry him?when bo >ainted for her their future where his j >ne thought would be her happiness? j low he could best make up to her for 1 hose bleak years of uuhappiness? j vhen she looked into those eyes shin- j ng with love and tenderness?when she saw that dear face that never held j lught but kindness and love for her? j s it any wonder that she felt herself j supremely blest? Is it &ny wonder j :hat she took with glad heart this love ! hat was to crown her days?" When Mrs. Evans ceased speaking, here were tears on all three faces. Iu i momeut, however, she said in a dif- [ iereut tone: "I really did not mean to keep you I ;o loug. girls, but I couldn't bear to j lear you judge so superficially as you i lid." As they stood at the gate a tall, )lain man with red hair came rapidly j ip the street. The girls numea ou. i )ut glanced back just in time to see | lie plain face glorified -witli the light ?f tender love as the "red-headed man" Irew his wife to him and asked: '"How is my darling to-night?" * * ? * * "Gladys." said her friend, firmly, "if 'on aud I ever get a man like that ve'll be lucky." "Lucky, indeed." murmured Gladys, houshtfullv.?Boston Post. j 'HILOSOPHY OF ALPHONSE KARR 1 - I "Bouquet of Thou?htn" Gathered bj j Lo Figaro. Le Figaro, in a recent issue, prints I i "bouquet of thoughts" taken frohi j he works of the late Alphonse Ivarr. I n whose memory a monument, paid j or by popular subscription, was un'eiled last month in Paris. A number f the epigrams follow: I Happiness is composed of the misfor- 1 unes we avoid. To know that one knows what ho j :nows. and to know that one does not ! ;now what he does not know, that is visdom. I have read somewhere: The size of tatues grows less as we depart; that f men as we approach. It is remarked that the height of a voman's beauty lasts from fifteen to hirty years, that is to say that their nfluence ceases the moment they beome reasonable. Old men. like women aud children, night not to abuse the privilege of heir feebleness. Men make the laws, women break j hem. It is better to make a woman blush j han to make her laugh. Each woman feels herself robbed of , ill love wmcu one uas u>r auuiuer. The Gauls, our ancestors, chose the runk of a tree, in a forest, and taking here all that they owned of value, the poils of their enemies, the robes of enators, the gold rings of the Roman mights, they made a divinity which | hey adored under the name of Irmin- j ul. It is thus that we have made j voman and love. The wit to speak: who has it not? j ["hat is common. But what ability we ! hould seek is the wit to keep silent. Not to reverence old age is to de- j troy the house where one should ; leep at night. I met one day at the Luxembourg he academician, Tersot. He was then ! ighty-four years old. '"My friend," | aid he to me. "it is time that I think j f my future." We travel less from curiosity con- j erning the things we may see than , rorn weariness of the things we leave j >ehind. Man hurries to the goal which is the nd. Joan Alphonse Karr was born In >aris on the 24th of November, 1S0S. IMw. tMiklirtnfiAn /-?f o nnmnlofn nrliHnn i .in; |<uuiJi\.iuiuu ut (i \.u?i<vu I f liis works was commenced in 18G0. j .etters and sketches written from : sice, his home in later years?upon j lorticulture, flowers, and fishes, the Measures of the country and the sea? iile?have been among the most fa? oiliar of bis works. He died in 1S90.? sew York Post. How Small Carvlnc is Done. Thackeray could -write the Lord's : 'rarer on a sixpence, which is tbe , ize of a dime, but it is now possible j o write the prayer on a surface sc i mall that one grain of sand would } tide it completely. Microscopists sell ! opies of the Lord's Prayer written ; n a circle only the 500th part of au ! nch in diameter. To read the prayer i t is necessary to use a lens magnifying | >00 times. Writing so incredibly small s accomplished by means of levers six j eet long. These levers are so adjusted j bat tbe motiou is gradually lessened \ is it travels along them, till, when it j caches the delicate end, armjed with a j ninute diamond pen that rests on u i jlass surface, it causes the pen to reg ster on the glass writing so small as J o be invisible.?New Orleans TimesDemocrat. A Diver'* Work Id Deep Water. Thirty fathoms, or ISO feet, is the lepth at which the Japanese diver, ; Noumea, testified that he could work ; 'or a couple of minutes. Thirty fathmis is a sufficiently remarkable depth or diving, and Douuiea was ques- j ioned a good deal about tbe experj- j >uce of attempting to work at that 1 leptb. "I can only stay just a couple i >C minutes?long enough to liitcb a i ope," he said. "To stay longer would J ause a complete collapse. When one j jets down to that depth it feels as f all the limbs were dead. The parts i )i rue uouy iiruiecieu uy u<jue&, ?uuu i ts tlie el)est and the head, do not feel j his effect, but whenever there fs llesli j it the surface It feels paralyzed. The I imb.s seem to be dead."?Hawaiian ' star. An Uncle of Koyalties. King- Edward VII. is the uncle of the Emperor of Germany, will soon be the mcle of a Queen of Spain, is already he uncle of the Crown Prince of Rounania. the Crown Princess of (Jreeoe* Hid the Crown Princess of Swedt n, md is the father of the Queen of Nor* vay. CoftliiR four Cents Apiece. It is stated by the Irish Independent :hat coffins for children are beinj; supplied by a contractor to South of Ireaud almshouses at four cents each. ', ':> -v HAVE CRUISED 160 MILES IN AIR , YACHTS. The Wright Brothers, Inventors, Daytou, O., Aunounce Aeroplane Trials That Have Bean Successful Flights. The Wright Brothers, of Dayton, ?vhose partially successful experiments with aeroplanes have been chronicled from time to time, have made a statement lo the Aero Club, of New York City, which seems to indicate that the problem of "flying" has been at last solved. The public bas known tbat Orville and Wilbur Wright sold tbe rights of what appeared to be a practicable airship to tbe French Government, but the practice flights have been held in private and no full statement of the success of tbe machine has been made until now. The communication says that in 1905 tbe Wright aeroplane, pro pelled by a gasolene engine and carrying a man, made a half dozen successful flights, varying in length from ten to twenty-five miles. The board of directors of the Aero Club at a recent meeting passed a resolution congratulating the Wrights. In their statement the inventors say: THE WRIGHT AIR-SHIP MAKING DAYTON, "Though America, through the labors of Professor Langley, Mr. Chanute and others, had acquired not less than ten years ago the recognized leadership in that branch of aeronautics which pertains to bird-like flight, it has not heretofore been possible for American workers to present a summary of each year's experiments to society of their own country devoted exclusively to the promotion of aeronautical studies and sports. It is with great pleasure, therefore, that we now And ourselves able to make a report of such a society. 1 "Previous to the year 1905 -we had . experimented at KIttyhawk, N. C., J with man-carrying gliding machines in the years 1900, 1901, 1902 and 1903; and with a man-carrying motor flyer, which, on the 17th day of December, 1903, sustained itself in the air for fifty-nine seconds, during which time It advanced against a twenty-mile wind i a distance of 852 feet. the: LAS! Hitherto Patient Boarder?"Mrs. Sta day in tke week, but -\vlieu 011 Sunday yo pie, I draw the line."?Tatler. AIDS THE SEAMSTRESS. I; In the illustration below is shown a device for attaching receptacles to a ' : Holds the Bag. - "The object of the 1905 experiments was to determine the cause and discover remedies for several obscure and somewhat rare difficulties which had been encountered in some of the 1904 flights, and which it was necessary to overcome before it would be safe to employ flyers for practical purposes. The experiments were made in a swampy meadow about eight miles east of Dayton, O., and continued from June until the early days of October, when the impossibility of longer maintaining privacy necessitated their discontinuance. "In the past three years a total of 1G0 flights have been made with our motordriven flyers, and a total distance of almost exactly 100 miles covered, an average of a mile to each flight, but until the machine had received its final improvements the flights were mostly short, as is evidenced by the fact thM the flight of October 5 was longer than the 105 flights of the year 1904 together. "In operating the machine It has been our custom for many years to alternate in making flights, and such care has been observed that neither of us has suffered any serious injury, though in the earlier flights our ignorance and the inadequacy of the means of con ONE OF ITS FLIGHTS OVER OHIO. trol made the work exceedingly dan* gerous." In view of the fact that all of the flights which have been mentioned were made in private the inventors give a list of the names of persons who witnessed one or more of them. These persons are largely men of prominence in Ohio. Editor Craven Indulgence. The editor of the Fowler (Ind.) Leader craves the indulgence of his readers in this wise: "The Leader has bad trouble of its own this week. With more work than could be done, and all that, then our boiler busted. A boilermaker took a day to fix it and did not But the 'devil' stuck the office towel la the leak and here we are. But the Leader force, 'ceptin' the old man, is the best in the world. The kind reader will please giv^ us a little rope this week." ;STRAW. f? ** '* -i ? 'v> fili .' ^#5% % * f%r ^ ^ &&?.*&>***' - rvein. I can stand having hash every u put raisins in it and call it inince suitable support (such as workbags to i table) in such a manner that the iiouth of the bag will be extended or )pened In order to readily receive the leposits. It is shown here applied to the table of a sewing machine. The jolder is made of a strip of resilient liaterial, preferably of spring steel, the ?nds being recessed to form parallel damping arms, which overlie and engage a portion of the table. The upper ?nds of the arms have apertures, through which the thumb screws are jassed, rubber contact pieces being attached to the thumb screws. Attached :iear the lower edge of the strip are a lumber of pointed hooks, the bag being siinn/wfa/l ah fhACn hnnlrc Tho 511*1119 ire of sufficient length to prevent the strip from sagging under the weight if the contents of the bag. Upon the bag becoming full It is not necessary to remove the strip, but only to lift the bag from the hooks and another bag substituted. Japanese Leave Hawaii. During March 1G4G Japanese left tha Hawaiian Islands for the Pacific coast ?" V V.; '* : ; r : Other Experience*. 1 'An excellent thing for a farmer to io * Is to profit by the lessons unintentionally taught by others. The mistakes * : and failures of your neighbors should 1 j always be observed and should be of s I the utmost value to you. 1 Salt For Poultry. I | Salt is as essential for poultry as for : humans or animals, but it is not wise < | to feed it by itself. The better way is t j to use it to season the food whenever * j that can be done. . The warm mash in 1 ; the winter, whether fed morning or * j night, gives one an opportunity to sup- " ply several condiments which could not | be so readily given to the fowls in any j other way.?Indianapolis News. ' ^ The Butter Fat We Loie, It has been estimated that the losses * j of butter fat?that are practically unj avoidable?by the different methods of ^ ! skimming the milk of twenty cows dur| ing the course of a year amount to [ $120 by the shallow pan system of | setting. $00 by the deep setting sysi tem and $15 when the cream is sep' arated by means of a centrifugal sep arator. These figures are based on a ' price of twenty cents a pound for buti ter.?New York Witness. Freshen Up the Building*. It is very important that farmers j should keep their buildings well paint1 ed. There are several reasons for ' this, and probably the most important | one is that paint enables a building ! to withstand the ravages of the I weather much better. Then, again, ! take two farms exactly alike in every ; way, except the paint on the buildings, I and wheu it comes to a sale the farm j with buildings not protected with I paint will generally sell at from ten 1 I \o fifteen per cent, less than the other. !' Potato Men Must Fall in Line. ? The recent bulletin of the Geneva i (N. Y.) Experiment Station gives re- \ I s'llts of co-operative tests made by j I thirty growers which together show a i j net profit of $10,000 from spraying. ^ | The average increase in yield from ^ | spraying was bushels per acre, ^ done at a cost of $4.98 per acre. The c j cost for each spraying was 93 cents, f The net profit per acre was $24.86. \ I These results are in line with those t ; obtained with similar experiments in t j 1903. The spraying was found to ? I lengthen ame of growth by prevent- i j ing late DracK. .iNot oniy was tne quaoj tity greater, but it war) found that the ; potatoes contained one-sixteenth more I starch, and, as might be expected, were | more mealy and of better cooking quality. Spraying is almost a universal j practice in the Aroostook region, it j being declared that there is scarcely an acre in the whole section not regu; larly sprayed. Growers use the large i power Sprayers which treat four rows ; at once and do the work very quicklyt j making three to eight applications duri lng the season according to eircurni stances. ! A Large Poaltry-Honie. As a rule, a poultry-house inteuded t I to bold fifty or more birds is quite au , i expensive proposition, for usually it is , i designed with all manner of fixings ( ; which are costly without being particu- j ' larly useful. The large poultrj-house is not generally desirable, and while it : costs more to build two smaller ones, ! it will pay in the long run by reason of a lower mortality among the fowls, ! 1111II N IIIII ; I ! S 0 J ' N j the ease by which they may be cleaned ( I and the added comfort in the manner l I of temperature. In response to a re- j J quest for a house of considerable size j ! the following plan is suggested: Let ( its dimensions be 10x20 feet, with six { and eight-feet posts, front and back, t respectively. Cover the roof and sides t Tviiu tarreu papei ui suiu^iu me iwi j if preferred. Have four windows on j the south side, one east and one west c window. Divide this in two parts ? .with wire nettiug fastened to boards. ^ j which come up eighteen inches from I the floor. Arrange a double row of t | nests six feet from one end of the 'n I house and place drop boards on them. ^ so that the eggs may be gathered from ^ j the alleyway, which is the six-foot t space between the side wall and the ^ nest boxes. At oue eud of the alley! way place a door so that the eggs may I be gathered without entering the j house where the fowls are congregatj ed. On top cr the nest boxes, or rather above them, the roosis are arranged i with a wide board under them to a 1 catch the droppings. ? Indianapolis * i News. \ i Fcncine With Locust Trees. 0 Within the range of its occurrenco o j the black locust makes our best post t timber, for it is very durable, easy to | :i | grow, ,i rapid grower and is ornament- r j al. For jhese reasons it is being plant- li ! ed on tlie farms for p. future inipply of 1' ! posts, for ornament and for shade: i being the only tree that fills the bill 1 ' so well. o Unfortunately, it is ?.0 susceptible to 1' ! the attacks of the locust borer that the a Forest Service has wholly excluded it s j from the desirable species for planting ti | in Nebraska and Dakota, and partially v 1 in Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, s ! nil in nnil Pennsylvania. In Penns.vl- s vatiia and West Virginia it is at- v tacked by the leaf miner to such an t extent as to render planting ill-ad- s vised. >i For posts tlie.v are grown along the s avenues and highways, where they t answer the triple purpose of post-grow- h lug. shade and ornament; also in the s pastures, where it thrives while inter- A fering but little witli grass production. Then, !oo, there are many untlllable spots, that are now producing nothing a of value, that could make good returns v if nlnn(A') in I?I a L- Iapus* snvnnt a o>u1 v .-1-. . .. -J<&? - ?????< " - ' XX nade to grow the post timber for tha .'arm or to sell to the neighbors. For the avenue or highway they ihould be be set about ten feet apart, ind should be as even in size as posiible to make a pretty row. One strong )oint the locust has over other decldu>us trees is that its foliage makes but ittle litter on the lawn or avenue, rhen, too, they are ornamental, esperially so when in bloom. In the pasures they afford sufficient shade for he stock, and being of much more ralue than most of the trees used for his purpose they should replace them. ! -Farminc. " -5 A Practical Icc-Hottse. The summer time is the season to Prepare for next season's ice crop. Che plan here suggested for a small >ut complete icehouse will l.e found not inly useful but decidedly a reliable juide to builders. The mr.nner of con; X |.;-c # J_ itruction is as follows: Figure 4 ,'n the lliifitrn-inn shows tlint nart of the vail extending two feet under the ground and is composed of loose stones ammed iufco a trench. Tlie top of the vail, figure 3, is built one foot high vlth stone and cement in the usual vay. Stones are filled in to the depth, if a foot to form the floor of the house, Igure 2, and above these io a twelvench layer of sawdust tramped down o give a level surface. Figure 5 shows he drain pipe. The smaller diagram ihows how the lumber is put together. The boards of common lumber both in;ide and outside are indicated by A, vhile X shows the air chamber beween. P indicates a Uyer of paper, ind lastly, on the outside, the clapwards are shown at C. The illustraion is plain, and will serve as a guide or building in any dimensions desired. )n the farm where foultry, milk and ruit are raised an icehouse is a necessity, and if one is near a body of wa:er that freezes, the ie? obtained is vorth all it costs to haul it and to )uild a house for it.?Indianapolis s'ews. The Horse's Foot. If the horse cannot readily use his :oot in a natural way, it is a great nurt :o his value. The Horseshoers' Jourlal sayu that a large per ceut. of all :he horses are continimlly more or Jess ame. Of this uumber it is estimated jighty per cent, are lame in the foot Even if only half this estimate was correct, v>hac a deplorable state of iffairs, that could easily be prevented if only common sense was used. Largely, this is the result of habit, because the writer has seen instances where men who have beeu taught to know something of the physiology of the foot, and the mischief of mutilation from the force of habit, still go ou with the old practices of paring, etc. How many horses retain the shape Df the foot in colthood? Very few and t'or a very short time; not losing this shape solely on account of shoe, but because the shoe is an improper one, usually, in fact, nearly always, too beavy, the use of the frog eutirely destroyed; this consequently wr.sting, the sole pared and drying up in consejueuce; the vail losing its strength to :arry the weight through excessive asping of the whole fabric; of the jorn becoming a dry, brittle atrophied nass, instead of being supple, firm at he heels, with perfect bars and an ilastic frog, giving a springy motion :o the leg in the riding horse of so nuch value. These evils could always be remedied f we could only get all farriers suffitieutly intelligent and humane to leave iff the old practice and come into line o carry out improved and natural nethods, to use their knowledge to :onviuce the often, "too often," ignor nt horseman that "there is more iu lie horse's hoof than is dreamed of In lis philosophy." We trust that, when be higher certificate comes about, it vill be the means of progress being nade at a rapid rate iu farriery, even is it has been in surgery. n?ve the Team Matched. A short time ago tbe writer spent . little time iu watching a farmer who vas doing some grading. First he ilowed i:p the soil and tbeu distribited it around as he sa?.v fit by meaus if a scoop. His team was composed if two horses, one much larger than be other, and it was surprising what lot of trouble and trying of tbe man's , latience this team caused. In an j lour's work he must have spent at j east fifteen or twenty minutes in fix- j ng tbe whitiletrees and taking tbe ; ines off tbe top of tbe bames and j ther such things. And both the | lorses were entitled to ail uulimited : mount of sympathy. Each time the j coop was pushed down in order to be j illed and the strain on the traces : rouId come, just so sure would you ee the large horse dart ahead and the mall one be pulled back, which alwrB iii n full ston aud a new ui,' at tlie traces in order to srart the co?p again. How those liorses ever nana god to keep from having sore boulders was a mystery, and so for lie man keeping hi* temper?well, the torses, if it were possible to, could peak from experience. ? Xew York iVitness. Senator Piles, of Washington, never ppears in the Senate without a white raisteoat, and is known as the "whitec.cta.1 ?5pijat-or." - j ajj|j : : |j Humor of, a Today Wk A Frank Admission. 'fljB Now, honest graft, I must confegtf* $j3N H I'm much attracted to; BK But if that won't succeed, I gnetM? Dishonest graft will do. ?Louisville Courier-Jouni?L>^^^HH Taken Arch;tectnrally, H "She turned you down?" "No; 6howed me a way up."- '"fl "You mean?" ' "A stare."?American Spectator*' More Characteristic. "That millionaire baby up in avenue can make its first- articulate flj "Goo-goo, I suppose?" "No, dough, dough!"?Cleveland Plain Medical Student?"What did you erate on that man for?" JH Eminent Surgeon?"Five hundred "I mean, what did he have?" "Five hundred dollars."?Puck. f At the Garage. Boy?"Mr. Smith is telephoning for" bis machine. Can you send it to him Head Man?"Don't see how we cajv'?r\KJw0 Why, his machine is the only oneV'J'^^H around here fit to use!"?Life. Slow Starvation. Prospective Tenant?"Is this healthy neighborhood, landlord?" . Landlord?"Healthy! I should fl so! In the last ten years there liavfr - 3B been only two deaths?the doctor anfl the druggist."?Translated for Talea . I from Fliegende Blaetter. ^ ^ .Inst Practising;. B "You mustn't play in the parlor, i Tommie," remonstrated the mother. i with her sleeves rolled up. 'fl "Why, you let sister play here on the I I piano," replied the small boy. "Gracious, child! You don't call that m playing, do you?"?Yonkers State?maiu 'f&jr A Keen Thrust. 1 "Well," said Gassway, "if there's ond ' ? thing I hate more than anouier it's a: flj long-winded bore." 9 "Yes," remarked Miss Knox. seems I've misjudged you, then."- 4 "Why, how do you mean?" ; 9 "I always had an idea you webe ' VjB stuck on yourself." ? Philadelphia _ * : Tlift Wan#i of thA HoilATmOOtl* ^rrThe- I\ili -Jfl I (Original 1:":- 'i- laaite for tiie Pathfinder by Gertrude E. Seaton.) Something Like It?. Marryat?"Hello! old man, you'r# ' ^ looking prosperous.'' \ *$cj Munniman?"So I am. I'm in the leather business now. I tell yon, \7j$| there's nothing like leather?" Marryat?"Think so? Say! come up and take dinner with us to-night. My wife baked some pies for dessert"? ; Catholic Standard and Times. The Proposal. I "Mr. Sophtly called to see me last .'"M j night," said Miss Passay, "ana oerore ' he left me there was a proposal of mar"Veil! the i?.c*it!" exclaimed Misa. "What do you suppose I said?" "Oh, I suppose you said: 'Will marry me?'"?Philadelphia Press. . On the Pike. Roderick?"Plunger is a wise one. He :s going to build a road tavern and call it the 'Garage.'" Van Albert?"Where is the wisdom "j |j i Roderick?"Why, he is going to cater ! to the automobile class. When a man ; tells his wife he had to stop at the ?.... nr. el,Q vr.in'f- hp snsnioious."? JjUliljjC ouv. V K Chicago News. Wist* Judge. "I trust Your Honor will excuse me this time," said au habitual drunkard nt the police court; "it is my misfor- " lune?I am a child of genius." "And what is your age?" questioned the magistrate. "Forty-two years." "Then it is time you vere weaned. 'You'll have to do fourteen days awa^ from the bottle. '?Loudon Tit-Bits. Incidental*. ' This bill for your new frock Is real- , , ly a bit liigh," observes tSe plutocrat to his daughter. "Six thousand dollars Is considerable to pay just for an auto i suit." ''la "But, papa, ihe suit itself really Is quite inexpensive. The most of that bill is for the trimmings." "Trimmings?" "Yes. J. spent $3200 for an auto of the right tiut to match the suit"? l>acU. m