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THE SCALLOP When dark had settled on my worl ?Except some distant dog that ba\ he flapping poultry seeking place * 'A cricket shrilling through thc mur When all but these were silent, mn When chores were done and coal-oii I used to steal away from ali and { Upon one bright horizon spot, a si 'Twas where the lights that lit the Flared up against the edge of nigh t And I, ambitious, tilled with hope Gazed, dreaming, at that glimmer \ It told me wondrous tales of weall That peace-destroying th ng that s It sang sweet songs of conquest, t< That gateway to my wonder-world, The time I dared not hope for cann Which tempted me to wander fort I I've seen the great, big wonder-wc I've found love, wealth aad conque "'" Though life be sweet, the roseate 1 Has vanished, and the boon that Is that blest time of boyhood whe i Saw but the sweet that lay beyond ||MlllltMWU444UWW4-W-r Le MEDAILLEE By ALFRED Q( im ;E was a stocky, nervous lit- ' tie chap, -with merry gray eyes, which had thc begin ning of "crow's feet" in each corner from laughter. He had a smooth, aristocratic face with a bit too much jaw, which, however, to some would add a charm ns indicating grit and tenacity. He was a non chalant fellow, who just escaped be ing fresh by a narrow margin. I formed the opinion that the verdancy had been knocked out of him by bit ter experience, for while he was bright and breezy to a degree, he never seemed to overreach. I met him in the smoking room of the Ti moria with a number of his col lege mates on the morning of the "Glorious Fourth," as he was tying n blt of red, white and blue ribbon through his buttonhole in honor of the day, and from then till the end of our voyage I had many pleasant chats with . Harry Beaton. The boys called him Shorty, not because of his size. I learned, but because he had played short stop on his college team. We chatted the morning through, I telling some yarns about navy experiences, and how I had hap pened to be appointed attache at Paris, and Beaton of how he rnissed Ann apolis because of bis 'rotten" mathe matics, thereby compelling him to en ter a university. I am convinced that in this case the navy was a loser, for he surely had the timber of which sea iigl rers aro made. We parted company in Liverpool af ter agreeing to meet in Paris, and while the jolly party of light-hearted, strapping fellows took train direct for London, I crossed to Birkenhead and was soon speeding off to the Shakes . peare country, where I intended to put in a week before reporting at my post in Paris. I had been in the French capital about ten days, and was beginning to acquire the Frenchman's easy d?lib?r ation, when one fine afternoon, while loitering about the Rue de Rivoli. I " stopped at the Insection of the Boule vard de Sebastopol to watch the work men digging the trench for the M?tro politaine, the new underground road, which follows the Rue de Rivoli its entire length- I was comparing their methods and workmen with our own, when a cheery voice hailed me from the other side of the trench. . "Hello, lieutenant, are you looking for work?" And there was Beaton, balancing himself on a shoring beam and making his way slowly, at the imminent peril of breaking his neck and to the ac companiment of a choice line of French oaths from the foreman, not a word of which he understood or minded in the least. "Well," I said, "I am happy to see a familiar face. How are you and all the bully boys*, anti when did you ar rive?" I fired away, still clinging to his fist, for be it known that Lieuten ant Crosby, U. S. N" had been rather homesick among his new surround ings. Shorty began tn his breezy way and soon brought his story from our part ing la Liverpool np to his arrival In Paris two days before. : "And the funniest thing about the gay metropolis," he rattled on. "ls the uniform courtesy we meet with every where. They all seem particularly . anxious to please me, although my tips are no larger than those of the other chaps. I have concluded that this ls what commands so much respect," tapping his buttonhole, where he still kept the small strip of red, white nnd blue ribbon. "You see, since our little argument with Spain, some of these foreigners have been convinced that we are not all saveges running about in a breech clout and a pair of ear rings, and are inclined to cultivate our friendship. I even caught a pret ty chambermaid making eyes at the ribbon, mind you, the ribbon"-and so he babbled on, not noticing a dap per man with a fierce mustache, who had been edging toward us, until the dapper one touched him on the shoul der. "Pardon I Ze Prefect would inter view monsieur at ze prefecture. Will monsieur accompany me?" "The deuce he would!" cried Beaton. "And who are you my friend?" The Frenchman, drawing back his coat, pointed to a small gold star. "Ze messengalre from ze Prefect, monsieur!" Seeing that the mon was a detective, I inquired in French why my friend was wanted. He answered with a sUfug of the shoulders and an out spreading of the palms that that was the business of the Prefect-his duty was to have monsieur accompany him. "Well. Beaton," I said, "there is nothing to do but to comply with a polite request in a polite manner. Evl I dently there Is a mistake, or else that swearing foreman has complained of your doing a tightrope stunt across the ditch, ni go along and see you through." So we ?tarted along the Boulevard du Palais, across the Pont St. Michel, and were soon at the prefecture, which occupies the old municipal barracks, and were ushered immediately into the presence of the Prefect, a smooth faced, wiry man with gray, hawk-like eyes that seemed to read one's mind at . a glance. I could see that Beaton, thought not one whit abashed, felt those eyes. "Good-day, Monsieur Beaton. Mon sieur wonder* that I should wish to see him," said the Prefect. . "Tes, chief, you have the best cf .ine," returned Beaton, coolly. "I wish to.inquire whether monsieur has the right to wear this?" indicating Bea ton's strip of red, white and bine. IN THE SKY. cl and nil was hushed nnd still 'cd, the raucous whip-poor-will, upon the roosting pole, k from some sequestered hole;) king silence deeper seem; I lamps set all the house agleam, ;aze with hungry eye allop in the sky. town a few short miles away ; and turned its gloom to gray; as vague as love or life, (rith its hint of glorious strife; th, but most it spoke of fame ?ets the boyish heart aflame; )ld me many a sweet half-lie my pcllop in the sky. ?; I stand without that gate !i and grapple with my fate; >rld lo which ambition led ist, but the glamour all has fled, me my boyish fancy gave most we weary worldlings crave i each wide, hone-dazzled eye the scallop in the sky. -S. W. Gil?lan, in Leslie's Weekly. .rl-r4-|TlUU4i44-r4-4444l4-T44ll4T-l le SAUVETAGE, DTHARD MARTIN. "Of course I have a right to TV ear that ribbon," bustled Beaton. "I'm an American, and that's my flag." "Oui, monsieur is an American, but this is not an American flag. Where are the stars?" "Oh, the stars! Well, you see this is just the colors you know, just tb?? plain red, white and blue." "Oui, monsieur; just the red, white and blue, the tri-color of France, and worn in this way Le Medaille de Sau vetage, awarded by the Government only to those who have rescued human lives. Monsieur is guilty of ft mis demeanor and it Is my painful duty to place monsieur under arrest." Matters beginning to look bad for Beaton, I interposed and in French ex plained that my friend had just ar rived in Paris, that he was Innocent of Intentional wrong, that I was con nected with the American Embassy and would stand surety, and finally that I would have the private Secre tary of the American Ambassador vouch for Mr. Beaton's innocence. This latter seemed to have effect, for the officer who made the arrest was in structed to call up the Embassy. I went to the telephone and explained the situation to Ross, the Secretary, re questing him If necessary to place thc facts before the Ambassador, enlist ing his influence to release my friend from his annoying position. The Prefect had lost some of his savoir faire before I had finished and after a most courteous exchange of diplomatic soft soap with Ross over the telephone, thc- Prefect agreed to parole Beaton. Shoe.y was very loath to untie his ribbon, but I convinced him that there was nothing disloyal In furling the colors, because, as the Frefeet had ex plained, it was not the American flag he was wearing. But we were well on the way to his hotel before he had fin ished roasting the French police for be ing a pack of polite idiotic asses. We had turned into the Rue de Rivo li, and were nearing the Rue du Pout Neuf, where there was a clear space extending between the excavation where I had been standing when greet ed by Beaton and another opening several blocks farther on, when the ground under our feet was shaken as by an earthquake, and looking in the direction of the Louvre we saw a solid stream of water shoot into the air and then, settling into a great muddy stream, come plunging toward us, in creasing In speed as it tore down a slight incline. Vehicles and pedestrians went dash ing and scrambling out of the way of tho oncoming flood, and to the rush of the water was added the excited shouts of the frightened people. Quick as thought Beaton grabbed me by the arm, crying: "The men In the trench! How do you say 'Danger! Save yourselves?' " "Sauves vous!" said I, and he was off like a flash, running like a deer to ward the opening at the Boulevard dc Sebastlpol, while I trailed on lu his wake. Reaching the trench, which was deep at this point, be yelled like an In dian: "Sauves vous! Sauves vous!" wav ing his hat and in such earnestness in his manner that by the time I reached the hole the workmen were scrambling out and running for places of safety. Beaton was not a second too soon, for before the last man got out the yellow flood was upon us, and it plunged into the trench a perfect cataract. It took all our strength as we gripped a near by lamp-post to keep from being swept into the excavation. After the first rush the water, which had been waist deep, began to subside, carried off Into the Immense and per fect system of sewers of which Paris ls justly proud: but It was days be fore the trench was entirely clear. The jabbering French workmen had returned and were pouring out their gratitude to the modest little Beaton with tears in their eyes, while several wildly excited fellows Insisted on kiss ing their rescuer, and lt was all wv could do to keep them off. We were a pretty pair in our wet and muddy gar ments. By this time tue police had arrived, headed by our friend the detective, who approached Beaton in a m?st humble manner, and lifting his cap, said. "I have ze honor to request monsieur to come with me to ze Prefecture.' "What! again?" said Beaton. "Now look here, Mr. Sleuth, I didn't do this and am not responsible, and I simply can't go-look at my condition!" But we did go-this time in a cab, the Jehu shearing that his carriage would be ruined by our wet and mud dy apparel. We were met at the entrance by the Chief in person and conducted into his private apartments. "Ah, monsieur, I welcome you. Mon sieur must allow me to send for his clean garments and permit me to show him the bath. The correspondents would like to interview my friend Monsieur Beaton. Would monsieur permit?" Monsieur did not wish to be inter viewed, but the Prefect insisted that the newspapers had certain rights that monsieur should respect, and as a favor to himself would monsieur be so kind as to mention his friend the Prefect. Well, we had the interview, I doing the talking In French, and Beaton look ing miserably uncomfortable. We learned that the blasting of a rock had broken a large water main, which accounted for the geyser, and that but for the quick wit and nimble legs of my friend a number of work men would undoubtedly have been drowned. Of course the papers gave a glowing account of Monsieur Bea r ton's brave deed, with a history of his life and a caricature of a photograph, with the surprising statement that monsieur was a descendant of an old Huguenot family, the original nome be ing Beton. The next morning when I called at Beaton's hotel to learn whether his ex perience had caused nny serious re sults, I found him in a wild state of excitement over an official note from His Excellency, the President of France, requesting his presence at the Palais de l'Elysee. "Well, I remarked, "for one small American you certainly aro In demand, with three polite requests in twenty four hours.' "Of course, lieutenant, I ought to go, but what a fuss they make here over nothing. You must go, too. or I don't budge a step, for you were in this thing as deeply as I." When we left the Palais after our in terview with the President, Shorty Beaton wore a little trl-color ribbon on the lapel of his coat and hod no fear of a summons to walt upon the Pre fect of Police.-Waverley Magazine. INDIANA'S OLDEST LANDMARK." Tho Old Cnpltol of tho Northwest Terri tory ls Still Standing. Within a short time the most his toric building in Vincennes will be torn down to make room for a modern home, unless some action is taken to ward buying it as a relic, or os an ornament for a city park. The build ing is one which for about seven ;:ears served as the capitol building for the Northwest Territory. It stands near the heart of the city, but did uot orig inally stand thero. The building wns erected, so far as can be learned, in 1S03, and consisted of two rooms up stairs nud- two down. No nails were used in its construction, It being put together by wooden pegs. Since thnt time improvements have been made on It which have changed Its appearance, but it is still the old capitol building In the eyes of the Vincennes people, and efforts are making to iuterest the city or State to buy it and transform it into a museum, placing it lb ono of the parks. The building is now used as a resl I dence, and unless lt gets some atten tion It will soon begin to decay. It is owned by Thomas Kilfoil. It could be bought, it is believed, for about $300. For many years it stood In tho principal street In the city and hos 1 been used as a business house, as well os a home for numerous families. Much history was made in the old building while it was the meeting place of the Legislature of Indiana Territory,which was formed from a p ,-t of the North west Territory. Governor William Henry Harrison read his first message In the old building, and in the message he worked for the passage of a meas ure that would prevent the sole of In toxicants to the Indians. The measure lt is sahl, wns never passed. At the session of the Legislature In this building In 1S07 laws were made attaching the death penalty for crimes of treason, murder, arson and horse stealing. Burglary and robbery were made punishable by whipping, fine and Imprisonment Larceny was made punishable by fine or whipping; steal- | lng by fine and whipping; bigamy by fine* whipping and disfranchisement. Stringent laws were also made for the punishment of children uni servants who refused to obey their parents ot masters. Between August 12 and 22. 1S10. the Indian chief Tecumseh, with seventy-five warriors, appeared dally before Governor Harrison in the old building, and it was lu that building that Tecumseh mst his temper and gave the He to the Governor. A story of the affair used to be told by thc late Felix Bouchle, whose father is said to have been present during tht scene.-Indianapolis News. When tho Trinco Imperial Clod. A. strange story is being told in im- j pedal circles in Paris regarding the i death of the late Prince Imperial. On j t!ie 1st of June, 18T9, a lady who was j one of the most enthusiastic supporters j of the Napoleonic regime gave a grand fete in honor of her birthday, and at tbs same time of the Prince Imperial, wno had gone out to the Cape. After dinner there was a display of fireworks in thc park, the principal set pieces being the Napoleonic emblems sur mounted by imperial crowns. The fireworks went off with the greatest success until lt came to the lighting of ; the imperial crowns, when, to the gcr> cral horror, not one of them would take light lu spite of every effort. All of them remained unlighted while all the other designs went off perfect ly. The failure was looked upon as an evil omen, and with reason, for two days Inter came thc news of tho death of the prince in. Zululand. A caleula lion of the time was then made accord ing to tlie difference of longitude, and I It was discovered that nt the very mo- j ment when tho Imperial crowns re- \ fused to light the prince fell dead un der the spears of the Zulus. There would, perhaps, have been loss skepticism about this remarkable coin cidence if the story had been pub lished Immediately after the event, and had not been kept secret for near ly a quarter of a century. - Vanity Fair. Tho Ulan mid the Uox. Here is a box. In Itself it Is not re markable. But a man is packing lt. When man, unmarried man, packs a box, women weep. See the: mu! He is not calm. His lia Ir resembles a storm-swept wheat field. He wears no c^at, and his col lar has playfully broken away from his shirt-stud. Upon his perspiring face ls the look Napoleon used to habitually wear when he called upon his neighbors. The man has observed his sister pack boxes. Everything fitted in so nicely that the microbes cried otft that they were be ing suffocated, but bc cannot make out howr she did it. He thrusts nis hands Into his pockets and makes a few remarks. But they are for the box and not for publica tion. At last all ii over but the closing ex ercise, and the mau mounts on to tht lid. He leaps upon it with both feet and pounds and jams it. But between the hasp and the slot there is a great gulf fixed, measuring one-sixteenth ol an Inch. At last! A click! Thc man steps ma jestically from off the lid with thc flush of victory upon him, and notices two tennis-shirts and a pair of sock? under the bed. Destructive Occupations. General Horace Porter, in an addre3! to the graduating class of a medical school, said: "I congratulate you on the wise course you have pursued in deciding to follow such a beneficent occupation. In youth I long debated ! whether I should be a physician or a ! soldier. Up to the present moment I have not been able to determine in } which capacity my services would have been more destructive to man kind." . Good roads enable farmers to haul more produce with the same expendi ture of horse power. TSie farmer saves In time and In wear and tear on horses, harness and wagon. He can sleep later and get to market earlier, stay later at a neighbor's and gel iome sooner. GoC" rc.js promote social intercourse, insufficiency ol which ls one of the reasons why sa many persons leave the country foi the city, and why so few give Up cit}1 life for the country, except at that seal son when nature ls at her best In th?) country and at her worst In town, To Launder Delicate Cnrments. Many o? tho cxpenslvo and beautiful sum? mer torments which will not stand ordinary washing mny, with caro, bo successfully laundered. Uso Ivory Soap. If water will not cause colors to run, Ivory Soap will not, and avoid extremely Loi weather, hot hun, and a too hot iron. _ELEANOR B. PAIIKEB, The fact that a fool and his money aro soon parted keeps lot3 of other people in affluence. Court Sustains ?'oot-?use Trade-Murk. Eura'o. N. Y., July23th.-JustiC2 Laughlin in Supremo Court has granted ft permanent Injunction with costs against certain Now York City dealers, restraining them from making or selling a powder which is an Imi tation and infr n?cment on "Foot-Ea30,'' now 80 largely advertised and sold. Tho owno of -foot-Ease'' is Allen S. Olmsted, of Lc Roy, N. Y., and the decision upholds his trade-mark and makes Hablo thoso attempt ing to prout by "Foot-Ease" advertising by marketing a similar-appearing preparation. When a baby's grandmothers are all dead it stands a pretty good chance of not being spoiled. Mrs. Laura L. Barnes, Wash ington, D. C., Ladies Auxiliary to Burnside Post, No. 4, G. A. R., recommends Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "lu di Beapcs that come to women only, as a rule, thc doctor is called in, some times several doctors, but still mattera go from bad to worse ; but I havo never known of a case of female weak ness which was net helped when Lydia E. Pinkhom's Vegetable Compound waa used faithfully. For ?oung women v^o arc subject to eadaches, backacne, Irregular or pain ful periods, and nervous attacks due to thc severe gtrain on the system by some organic trouble, and for women of advanced venrs in thc most trying time of life, ft serves to correct every trouble and restore a healthy aotion of all organs of the body. " Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a household reliance In my home, and I would not bo with out it. In all ray experience with this mcdioine, which covers years, I have found nothing to equal it and al ways recommend it.''-MB8. LAURA. L. BABIES, GOT Second St., N. E., Wash ington, D. C. - $6000 forfeit If original ot above lotter proving genuineness cannot be produced. Such testimony should be ac cepted by all women as convinc ing evidence that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound stands without a peer as a rem edy for all the distressing ills of women. _'N^M-. Ainslee's novel for August is "An Unwilling Guest," by William Gordon Perez. Other familiar names among the contributors in the same issue are E. Nesbit, John Oliver Hobbes, H. B. Marriott Wafson, Herman K. Viele, Charles Belmont Davis, Clinton Scol lard, Norman Duncan, Frederic Trevor Hill, Charles Hanson Towne and Nix on Waterman. EC STUART'S EB GIN and BUCHU To all who suffer, or to the friends of those who suffer with Kidney, Liver, Heart, Bladder or Blood Dieease, a sample bottle of Stuart's Oin and Buchu, the great southern Kidney and Mver Medicine, will be sent absolutely free of cost. Mention this raper. Address STUART DRUG M'FQ CO., ?ti Wall St., Atlanta, Qa. fl Bl P r fi CURED WITHOUT CUTTING, I ! H ll ll t ll A New Vegetable Remedy. UCure Guaranteed in Every Case Troated. 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Manufactured by the SALEM IKONWORKS.Winoton-Snlom.N.C. j 0TINE CMS i I v COLDS and I 3 FEVERISH CONDITIONS. ? + 10. i'5 an 1 Wi cents, at Drugstores. J with Loomis' into improved machinery nnO you can make turtle pronta ou capital invested.1 They nre louder* In the lino. Thc most offeo j tlvc and durable Well Drilling Machine! tn America. Address LOOMIS MACHINE CO., TIFFIN, OHiQ THE CHAIN WOMAN. Dver 10,000 Engaged in Work, Some Very Old. Topsy-turveydom prevails In the Black Country, not only In the reeling houses, hot lu the dornest!; arrange ments, for there the poetical idea, ! "Women of the hearth," has an inter pretation not contemplated by the poet. The "hearth" is the tiny, often dilapi dated home smith in which daughters, wives, mothers and even grandmothers toil from morn to eve, heating, ham* mering, shaping and welding chain links. Practically all the small chaina below three-eighths inch In thickness are made by women, less than fifty men being employed on Bmall sizes, whereas the women smiths number in the Crndley district alone at least n thousand. It is a queer industry, for the most part hidden In out-of-the-way corners, the shops mixed up with prim Hive and neglected outhouses. Unless the constant ring of the anvil aroused his curiosity the unobservant visitor might traverse the place ail the day without suspecting the existence o? this really enormous industry. Yet he could hardly enter a court or alley In any direction without stumbling upon a chain shop. In many of these six to sight women and girls are em ployed-four or five ls a common num ber. In one yard alone, appropriately named "Anvil Yard," there must bf forty or fifty people ot work when the place Is in full swing. In one shop a youth and a girl of fourteen to sixteen will be found bending over separate anvils and hammering away at heated chain links, while a few yards away grandfather and grandmother are performing exactly similar operations, as they have been at almost any time during the last half century. One couple, Joseph Parsons and Wi wife, are both over seventy. The hus band lins made chaina continuously foi sixty years. His chief trouble is that the prolonged use of the hammer has so cramped and distorted his right hand that he can no longer wield it as of old. It is a pathetic sight to see the old lady, Bilvery-bnIred and her tall figure already bowed with age, stoop ing over the anvil. The old man ex plains thnt if ho works a full week at nine hours a day he may possibly clear 12s. to 13s. "Gleeds," the small cinders used for heating, as he ex plains, arc dear, and half a crown a week has to be deducted under this head. Mr. Parsons has several chil dren and grandchildren in the trade. The old couple have now only them selves to maintain, and out of theil combined earnings can just pay the rent of their little cottage facing the smithy and buy enough food.-Loudou Leader. WORDS OF WISDOM. There are no mechanical morals. The fast man makes the poorest speed. Submission ls thc secret of spiritual strength. There are no necessary evi!s in a righteous world. Temperament will be a poor excuso at the judgment. A light familiarity is worse than fl dead formality. A life-line is better than a speaking trumpet any day. There ls no virtue where there Is no possibility of vice. Complaisance with sin is not com passion for the sinner. You cou give men your love until you take off your glove. -Hetrr^-??eftrclrHr^!e'^---good--cui'e--fof the habit of censuring. The things that give us greatest pain are the ones most highly prized. Better the water without the well than the well without the water. Ram's Horn. A .Sure Iiei.iedy. Do unto ethers as they do unto you might well be the heading of this true tale. Two men and a dog are the char acters therein. Man number one, be ing unable to sleep for three entire nights owing to the constant barking of the dog aforesaid, got up and ar rayed himself at 4 in the morning and hied him to his neighbor's front door. There he kept his thumb on the elec tric bell until the dismayed servant ap neared. "I wish to sec Mr. W." "Why, sure he's lu bed at thia hour, sir." "I'm sorry, but I must see him now." "Ho ain't going ter got up nt this time ter see nobody." "Well, I Intend to stay here and ring this bell until he docs see me, nnd you cnn go and tell him thnt." After nn ominous interval Mr. W. descended, almost speechless with wroth. "What do you mean by disturbing me in chis manner? lt's the most out rageous-" "Yes, that's what I think, and 1 simply called to warn you that as long as your dog keeps me awake every night I shall come nnd rlug this bell, for if I can't sleep you certnluly shall not. Good morning."-Public Ledger. Best Things Grow Furthest North. The interesting fact has lately oomc to the attention of tho Government scientists that the frog (the edible vari ety) attains its greatest and. best devel opment, not, as one would Imagine, in the semi-tropical swamps of Florida and Louisiana, but In far Northern Canada, on the extreme northern limit nt which these reptiles are found. This benrs out nu old and pretty safe mle that both plants and animals attain their best development at the north ernmost point of their habitat. Thus the diamond-back terrapin of the Ches apeake brings nearly eight times the price of the dlamond-b. ckof Louisiana, and tlie best oranges nre grown, not In tropical Cub", (people of thc older generation still remember the coarse grained, sourish Havana oranges), but In Northern Florida, where tho trees are frequently cut down by the hard frosts und cold weather.-Washington Post. A Popular Gerninn Gonnr^l, Count Von Haeseler, who lins Just resigned command of the Sixteenth Army Corps, undoubtedly was the most popular Genera] in the German Array. It was bis ambition to see that even private soldiers carried out order? with intelligence. On one occasion he ordered a cavalryman to ride to a hill a mile distant, where stood a solitary tree. When thc soldier returned the General asked what sort of n tree It was. "I do not know," said tbf: man, drawing a twig from his hoot, "but I brought this fer your excellency." The soldier's forethought was reward ed witb a pied? of gold. Provided With Nat nm l Anchor. A peculiar water animal is tho syn npta, which nature has provided with nn anchor somewhat: similar lu shape to those used by ships. P.y means of this the insect holds itself firmly iu any desired spot. Absorption Beloved, in the still deeps of thine eyes Absorb my soul, that I may know nc more The pain of separation! I implore Thyself to take n.e In, and solemnize My union with thee in some mystic wiso. I would no moro be I, but would explore, As thee, thy soul's dim temple, and adore Therein, as theo, with secret sacrifice, Oh, lot me die to Self, and find rebirth In some fair body as one soul with thee! Thcro are no purposes in lifo for me, But as thy complement; nor any worth In all the fame and splendor of the earth Unless one perfect spirit we may be, -Elsa Barker, in August Smart Set, Lhasa, the sacred city of Tibet, is built on Mount P?tala near tho mouth, of the river Indus. Tradition says 1< had its beginnings in the seventh century; but until recent years almost nothing was known of the city and its people, save that foreigners were rig idly excluded from within its walls. Tc Ushe Narzumof, a Kalmuk Pilgrim who twice cloverly managed to elude the vigilance of the guards, the world ls indebted for pictures of this forbid den city, and frr much valuable Infor mation concerning it. The story ol many futile efforts to accomplish sim ilar ends and of Ushe Narzumof's final ruccess will be told In the August Cen tury by J. Deniker, member of the So ci?t? de Geographie, Paris. The illus trations will be from photographs by Narzumof. "An Unwilling Guest," by William Gordon-Perez, is the title of the novel in Ainslee's for August. The author has evidently had some experience with South American revolutions, as well as with the doings of the New port summer colony, for the local col or of the story is laid on by a master hand, and the characters are drawn with a similar fiuelity to fact. The story ls dramatic and full of life with out being in tho least sensational One feels no surprise at the hero's popularity in Newport. Oarwiraan. First Monkey-lt seems to be a toss-up whether man is descended from us. Second Monkey-Yes, ifs heads they win; tails, wc win.-August Smart Sot. PRICES TO SUIT. Assistant-There is a woman in youl Btudio who wishes to know what lt the price of your last picture. Artist-Tell her a hundred dolars. Assistant-And she says she is a con noisseur. Artist-"Well, tell her a thousand. Philadelphia Recoru. FITS permanently curocl.No fits or nervous ness niter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nervefiestorer. Atrial bottle and treutisefreo Dr. It. H. KLINT. 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It at once relieves the ca tnrrhal kidneys of the stagnant blood, pre venting the escape of serum from the blood.' Toruna stimul?tes the kidneys to [ excrete from the blood the accumulating i poison, and thus prevents the convulsions 11 SYMPATHY. Cecil (sentimentally)-Don't you feel gloomy when the sky Is overcast with gray, when the rhythmic rain sounds a dirge upon the roof, and the landscape's beauties are hid by the weeping mist? Hazel (sweetly)-Yes, it's dreadful ly annoying. It does make one's hair come out of curl so!-New York Times. SHOULD SAY, BUT DIDN'T. He-I know your family doesn't like mo, but will you be my wife? She-Well, I should say not! Ho (taken aback)-Whew, that's rather short. She-I repeat, I "1 nild say not, but ;, as a girl in love a? sn't always say what sL. should, I'll say "yes."-Phil adelphia Pres3. THE REAL TROUBLE. "It's easy enough to make money," said Nuritch, with a self-satisfied air. 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