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, , . ? I.1 '.lill ? j THE STOLEN BRACELET ? * U---J The pride of Mrs. Lester's heart w&3 ve-' ed in her diamonds. With out these diamond?, Mrs. Lester of ten remarked, she would fed like nobody. Consequently when Miss Arabella Tiptop espoused Mr. Au gustus Highflyer, and the pair jp** their grand receptionjirior to their European tour, Mrs. Lester donned ner jewels and in gain attire pro ceeded to make her call. It was a formal affair and sjoqn over,, and Mrs. Lester returned ?home antici pating no change in ner domestic arrangements, bnt to,her surpriso the moment she entered the hall her eye encountered, perched on the two hall chairs, a mammoth valise of Idingy yellow and a large basket -erith two handles. "What are those, Bridget?" she said faintly. Bridget uttered. "They're luggage, mum," she said. "You've got company, an ould gentleman and an oula lady. They arc in the back parlor, and'they bid me say nothin', bekase they'd like to give you a pleasant surprise." "A pleasant surprise!" muttered 3Irs. Lester, and with anything but a happy expression on her counte nance she sailed toward the back parlor. There on either side of the fire sat an old lady and gentleman, cer tainly very clean and tidy and per fectly respectable, but with as little pretense to fashion as Noah and his wife. Mrs. Lester summoned up a smile. "Aunt and Uncle Trotters, I de clare," she said., <fI knowed you'd be astonished," said the old lady. "Well, how are you both?" said Hrs. Lester. "Oh, we're middlin'," 6oid the oTd Indy; ""but Aunt Jenkins, she's had rhe'matiz a year, poor soul, and Tom's children have got the whoop in' cough awful, and S arv's boy tumbled off the barn, where he hadn't no business to be, and put his shoulder out, and Pete Brown, he's lost three cows and a calf'and half his chickens." After thia remark there wa? a pause. The old gentleman broke ?A "When a thing ha3 got to be t A over, it's best don?. You won't bc offended, I hope, Augusta?" "At what risked Mrs. Lester. "You see, 'twas better'n not com I in' at all, but we've got to run away right after tea. My wife says ^Lor*, Timothy, what will Gusty anc her pardner think of us after nol bein to see 'em f ot ayear ?* Says I 'She'll excuse us, seein' we hain'?, nc . time, but have got to go by thc night train. Next time,' says I 'we'll stay a week.' Now, you ain'1 offended T? Mrs. Lester rang the belL "Take my cloak and bonnet uj stairs," she said to the girl, "am tell cook to have dinner early." Then Mrs. Lester smiled and sa down in all her splendor before th? Ure io listen to accounts of th Smiths' pigs and Brown's cow an< how Sally Sprigg's help stole til' best tablecloths until a well knowi ring at the bell announced Mr. Les ter. Thereupon his lady for one played the affectionate wife and rai to meet him. "Aunt and Uncle Trotters ar here," she said. Mr. Lester scowled. "Gracious heavens!" he eja?ulal ed. "And the Atwood's are co'min to spend the evening with us. The are stopping at the Fifth Avenu hotel for a few days." "Tindo and aunt are going imm< diately after dinner/' said Mrs. Lei ter, "and fortunately I've ordered i early. Don't be croBs, George, fe you know they haven't chick c child and for all their shabbine? are very well off." As far as an early dinner wei Mrs. Lester did her part, but th Trotters were slow going folk. When at last the bonnet strin| were tied and the gloves on, Aui Trotters bethought her of a ne cause for delay. "Poor Aunt Jenkins 'will r?ev( forgive us if we don't take a letti from you," she said. "Jest s< down, Gusty, and write a line." Mrs. Lester smiled down her ii cognation and sat down to pen tl note. The gilt edged paper, pens an ink were arranged, thoughts collec ed and polite sympathy for Atu Jenkins' rheumatism expresse Mrs. Lester found the bracelet ex ceedingly in her way, and imp; tiently unclasping it flung it on tl table. It was the first time the diamom had ever been treated with sue contempt. Just as Mrs. Lester had turne the page a rii\g at the bell startle her. She felt instinctivelj that tl 'Atwoods had arrived, wound up h letter with regrets that "fear of d taming Aunt and Uncle Trotte prevented her writing at length folded it, sealed it, crossed tho roo for an envelope and returned write the address, all with as mu speed as was consistent with gent ity, and filially had the pleasure receiving a parting salute from t Trotters in the hali. In a moment more Mrs. Lest rolled back the sliding' doors a welcomed her fashionable gues There was no vulgar sociabilii no warming up. Everything vt cold and formal In duo season t waiter brought in wine and cjil ind th o_ party rubbled and sipped Utile. Mrs. Xester played a~waltx; the rest said, "Channing." Mrs. Atwood eane; her friends remark ed, "Lovely, indeed." Then Mrs. Atwood "really zaust go/' and the Lesters "must be sure to spend an evening with ns/' and adieus were. Mid. and the guests de parted* and Mrs.' Lasted carne %o ?ho are rawning b??iind?er handker chief v?$ ine lifted her arm Mr. Leste? attcred an ejaculation. "3?Scre -ia yous bracelet, 'Augus ta?" : " "My bracelet? Oh, how stupid I ami" cried Mrs. Lester. "I took it off to write to that tiresome 'Aunt Jenkins and left it on the table in the back parlor." And she arose to lind it In a moment she called out: "George, the bracelet's gone!" The gentleman came to her aid. They searched the floor, the whole room. both, rooms, all in vain/ The bracelet was gone. "It has been stolen," said Mrs. Looter. "Ono of the servants must have it," said Mr. Lester. Mr. Lester rang the bell. \ "Sam, send all the servants here and come yourself." In five minutes the kitchen cabi net appeared, looking as though a storm were brewing. Mr. Lester arose to address them "I have something very serious to say," he seid. "I address everybody but cook. Cook has not been up stairs and cannot be suspected. A' bracelet has been lost," seid Mr. Lester, clearing his throat; "a dia mond bracelet. All of you have been in the back parlor, where it was left upon a table., and all of you aro consequently implicated." At this a tumult equal to that of Donnybrook fair arose. "Hone of us touched your brace let," and fists were shaken and lan guage not to be recorded was used. In the midst of the tumult Mr. Les ter opened the window. Some one in brass buttons was passing, and he called: "Policeman, step here a minute, if you please," and the next moment admitted the officiai designated. Hage and tears were now min gled, and amid the partial lull Mr. Lester explained. "iou make a charge against all of 'em, then," said the policeman. "Certainly," said Mr. Lester. "No other mortal could possibly be suspeoted," said the lady. "Then 111 proceed to busircss," said the policeman. "My coi u ade is outside. Get your bonnets, young women, and don't make a fuss, be cause, you see, ifs no use." Bridget shrieked, Ann tore her hair, Sally sat down upon the floor, Sam roared and cook wept aloud from sympathy, and at that junc ture came a ring-at the bell. The policeman opened the door, and in rushed Uncle and Aunt Trot ters out of breath. "We've run the hull way," gasped Uncle Timothy. "Openin' my valise for to find my specs, I took out a lot. o' things, and I must 'a' pnt this back among 'em If I hadn't been a relation, I'd V died." And out upon the table came from the depths of the yellow va lise Mrs. Lester's diamond bracelet. The Trotters stayed all night and at 9 o'clock descended to the kitch en to find Mr. Lester blowing fran tically at the tire and Mrs. Xester staring ruefully at the coffeepot and trying to make themselves useful in getting breakfast. The help was gone I - ... I One Way. "My iriends," the candidate for alderman said, smiting the desk be fore him with his closed hand, "we hear a great deal about purifying word politics these days. There ain't no man alive that believes in that sort of thing more'n I do. I'm willing, fellow citizens, to do every thing that one man c.??n do to purify the politics of this ward." Then he took a drink of water as he waited for the applause. "Why don't you move qut of the ward, then?" squeaked a voice in the back port of the hall.-?Chicago Tribune. _ Killed by imagination. fhere have been several well au thenticated cases where death has been caused by 6heer fright. An English military surge >u named Francis told of one case, that cf a cu ..aimer in India, across whose legs a harmless lizard crawled while he was .half asleep. He was sure that a cobra had bitten him, and it was too much for his nerves, and he died. Won t Follow Advice After Paying Fer It, In a recent article a prominent phy- ' sioian says, "It io nezt to impossible for the physician to get his patients to carry out any prescribed courao of hy giene or diet to the smallest extent; he has but one' resort left, namely, the drug treatment." When medicines are used for chronic constipation, the most mild and gentle obtainable, auoh as Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, should be employed. Their uso is not followed by constipation, as they leave the bowels in a natural and healthy eondition. For Bale by Orr Gray Drug Co. - You couldn't .?top some mon from bragging if they were deaf and i dumb and had no hands to talk the language of the motes. To Cara a Cold ia Oos Day* Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. ?Tl druggists refund the moue if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove'y" signature on every box. 25c. A WEDDING TOUR INCIDENT. The Bride's Embarrassing Meeting With Her Former Fiance. She ia 7ery pretty, and no one wonders tb*t her husband is much in ii ve with her unto this day, but ehe tells this story of a had half hour on her wedding lourney. "I was eighteen," she said, "when I was married and had been engaged to my husband a year, but preceding both engagement and marriage I was sort of engaged, schoolgirl fash ion, to another young fellow. It was one of thoso intangible engage ments that melt into thin air when the real prince comes, but fervid enough while they last. In this case my interest in the affair cooled with the rapidity of a collapsing balloon, and as the youth lived in a distant city no embarrassing explanations were' necessary. ."So I was married, and the wed ding journey included a stop of sev eral days in a town on the Ohio riv er, where we had a cozy table all to ourselves at the hotel. It was at dinner one day that the patriarchal waiter approached and asked if we would object to another gentleman and lady being placed at our table. ""Bride like yourself, missy/ he added confidentially as he passed my chair. In a moment he ushered to their places the other couple, and I looked up io encounter my former fiance, consternation and amaze ment written on every Uno of his face. Lacking the wit or wisdom of experienced years, I dropped my eyes without further recognition than rapid paling and Hushing of countenance, and he, following my lead, began discussing the menu with his wife. "The dimer proceeded in such appalling silence so far as I was concerned as to fairly paralyze my husband, and explanations were in order as soon as we returned to our apartments. Then how he laughed and went in search of the rival cou Ele, only to find they had left the otel immediately after the meal, and we have never heard of either of them since."-Baltimore Sun. The Value of Thought. It is hardly, necessary to say that all men need to "swing" the moral compass from time to time and to take their bearings in the sea of life. The advice is as true as it is conventional. Upon the use of thinking, for such purposes we oh all not, then, dwell. We may, however, point out that aa a means of strengthening and invigorating the mind in a secular and worldly sense the habit of thinking is of the great estpossible va!? ne. The minds of those who dread thinking as if it were a penance be come like the bodies of those fed solely on spoon meat-soft and un able to stand the slightest strain, reading, as one ordinarily reads, like swallowing pap; thinking like eating solid food. The man who trains his mental powers by medita tion and by following outlines of lvthought obtains an intellectual in strument a hundred times more pow erful than he who is content never to think seriously and consecutively. -London Spectator. Milk Frauds In Athens. .. A ~ z-rt^-z-i.V. _ J -t-iiu-a_i au lugcuiuuB juciuuu yJi mun aum teration is practiced in Athens. The residents have a penchant for goats' milk, and herds of these animals are led alon? the street by milk sellers wearing long blouses with capacious sleeves. Their cry of "Gala, gala!" brings the housewife to the door, and she prudently demands thal the goats shall be milked in her pres ence. This is done, but the milk man has in one hand the end of a thin tube which runs up his sleeve and connects with an india rubber receptacle full of water, which is carried under his ample blouse. At each pressure of the fingers on the udder there is a corresponding com pression of the water sack, and milk and water flow side by side into the milkpail.-Journal des D?bats. "Three" iVMythologyT*^ In mythology we find the three (3) occupying even a more honorable place than the so called "mythical number 7." There were the three graces, Cerberus with his three heads, Neptune holding "his three tined iork, to say nothing of the nine muses, which are made up of three threes, and the third wave, which was thought to bring death and de struction to everything in its path. In nSture we have morning, noon and night; fish, flesh and fowl. Hun dreds of trees, vines and grasses have their leaves and bi ?es set^in groups of three. When the Cat Wa? Sacred. In the middle ages brute animals formed as prominent a part in the devotional ceremonies of the time as they had in the religion of Egypt. The cat (olurus) was embalmed nf t er death and buried in the city of Bubastis, because, according to He rodotus, Diana Bubastis, the chief deity of the plae, was said to have transformed herself into a cat when the gods fled to Egypt. t ?*>- -- CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind Yon Have Always Bought Bears, tho Signature of - "Beauty ia only skin deep,*' re marked the Wise Guy. "Yes, ant some peoplo are pretty thin skinnec r.t that," murmured the Simple Mag THE BERMUDA ISLANDS. They Occupy For England a Singu larly Commanding Position. Imperial England knows what she ie aleut Those islands (the Bermudas), besides being used as a f;arrison for her troops and a safe, andlocked harbor for her warships, are a link in the chain, that connects bor American provinces in Canada and Nora Scotia with her posses sions in the West Indies. The Ber mudas occupy for, her politically and commercially a singularly command j ing and an unrivaled position, says a correspondent of the New York Mail and Express. Spain parted with Cuba because she was forced to, and she sold to the American nation the Philippine Islands for a mess of pottage. Den mark, following suit, for a few mil lion kroner made over to us her "Weat India pogscssions.x Catch Eng land parting with the Bermudas! She would no moro let them go than shu would give up her great strong holds in the Mediterranean ?ea, Mal ta and the invincible, unyielding rock of Gibraltar. No power wr'll ever wrest them from her-not one foot of ground-until she has lost every ship and her last drop of blood. No; instead of parting with any of her colonies her policy is to increase them. Nor will England permit emigra tion to or an increase in the popula tion of her garrison towns at Bermu da, Gibraltar and Malta. With some ?precautionary measures she will al ow sightseers and tourists to enter Gibraltar, but strangers may not settle there permanently, nor may an alien own a foot of ground in the Bermudas. She wants only British subjects in these places, and even British subjects are not al lowed to vote in Bermuda unless they own real estate there. Royal Simplicity. Household fetiches among tho Bonapartes are tho book and the lit tle hat of Napoleon, that monarch who worked harder than any dozen men in his empire. In Prussia they preserve piously the breeches of gray leather which were worn by the Margrave Fred erick, the founder of the Hohen zollern dynasty. They preserve with equal reverence the cane which Frederick tiie Great carried in his battles, that same cane he hod in his hand when he died in his arm chair, refusing with characteristic force and obstinacy to die in his bed. The Russian court still guards aa if they were saintly relics the car penter's tools which were once used ny Peter the Great. And finally the court of Vienna keeps in its most sacred treasure house the horseshoe which was cost by the steed of Count Rudolph, the founder of the Hapsburg dynasty, at that epoch making moment when he mei, the envoys who had come to announce to him his elevation to the throne of the holy Boman em pire. _ The Last Resort. He visited a noted specialist and after waiting an hour had an oppor tunity to pay a fee and narrate his personal misery of insomnia. Tho medical man listened and suggested one remedy ofter another, with each and every one of which the visitor ??said he nod unsuccessfully experi mented. Finally the specialist wroto a prescription and handed it to his patient. "What ia it?" inquired the latter. "Oh, a bromide, said the doctor. "It will benefit you." "Rats!" said the other, degenerat ing into slarfg. "Tried'em all. They ain't no good," further receding into bad grammar. The doctor, evidently annoyed, bowed and, handing tho man back his fee, destroyed the prescription and said, "There's only one thing left-you had better try sleeping cars."-New York Times. Toutltrv^?de BsTjoy. It was a holiday. A man walked into the business office of a well known New York newspaper and handed the clerk at the counter a death notice. Of course that in it self was nothing strange, but his manner was merry and inconsistent ly so. The clerk looking at him rather strangely, he vouchsafed this remark, accompanied with a re resounding slap on tho shoulder: ''Why, my boy, that was my mother in-law." When the joyous one left the of fice, he left the . clerk in deep thought, wondering if that was the way mothers-in-law affected all men. -New York Tribune. Wishing and Oping. There is a tale of a man who spent his life in wishing he had lived dif ferently, and when he died he was surrounded by a throng of spectral shapes, each one exactly like the other, who or? his asking what they werereplied, trWe aro all the differ ent lives you fnight have led." Edith Wharton, "The Valley of De cision." - "Are you sure you leve me for myself alone,'* asked the romantio young woman. "Well," replied the practical young mau, "I don't think I love you for any one else." - A man never begins to learn until he has forgotten most of what ho only thought he hnew. - "What's tho matter?" asked the rooster; "more absent-mindedness?'* "Yes," replied the hen; "I can never find things where I lay them." He "Forgot. A oolored ia an, about 30 years of age, drove up to the dapot with a load of baled ootton, and he had juBt begun to unload whin an old, gray headed negro with a bad limp oame down the street and shouted at him: "Say, yo pussen dore!" "Bello, Unelo Joel" saluted the other. . 'Now, den, what sorter man be yo./" demanded the old manas he re oohed the wagon. "Hal What yo' mean by dat?" "I mean, sab, is yo' a man of honah or not?" "Of co'se I ar'. Why, ole man, yo'e all excited this mawhin'. What's de mnttah?" "Sam Johnson, I'ze got a darter Linda!" replied Unole Joe as he straightened and waved his arms about. "Yes, of oo'se. Yes, sab, yo's got a darter Linda, an she's a powerful fine gal." "Last Sunday night. Sam Johnson, yo" axed dat gr? to marry yo!" "Hu, hu! Sunday night? Lemmo seo. Say, I reckon I did." "Of oo'se you did! She said sho'd do it, an' do marriage was sot fur dis mawoin' at 10 o'clock." "Hu! Shoo! Ten o'clock dis mawn in'! Why, I reckon it was, Unelo Joe. Yes, we was ter be married dis mawnin'." "Butyo' ain't dar, sab!" "Dat's a fack. Jist olean slipt my mind." "But what you gwine todo, sah what you gwine ter do?" shouted tho old man, as he danced around. m "What I gwine ter do? Am Linda all ready an de prcaohcr dar?" " Yes, sah." "Den yo' cum around heah an' hang on to dat off mewl an' hold him stid dy, an' I'll run ober an* marry Linda an' be back heah in 10 minits. If M a j ah Jones cums 'long an'wants ta know why dis ootton hain't dun un loaded yo' tell him dat owin' to a die reokoleokshun of a matrimonial dis remembrance I'se had to procrasti nate fur a few intuits."-Galveston Daily News. Saved by Ills Eloquence. Representative Sam Powers, ol Massachusetts, who is serving hit first term in Congress, and by virtue of that faot and his personal populan ty is the Piesident of the Tantalut club, tells a good story to illustr?t* his indecision upon the big questions of pnblio policy which came up foi consideration in the house. "I come into the house," said Mr powers the other day, "and I listen tc some man making a speech upon one side of an important proposition, and he is so eloquent and logical I am al most convinoed that he is right and that I mean to vote as he advises. Tin next member who commands aU.?otiot is a fellow who takes a position exact ly opposite and his reasoning is BC sound that I have to admit that he it r?gM,N "Thns my deoision swings fron: one side to anothor like a pendulum. My attitude is very much like that of s juror up in Massachusetts, wac served in a case I was once interested in. "It was tho first time that the mai had ere? served in that eapaoity. Thc jury, after listening to the argument! of counsel, retired and deliberated foi a long time. Finally they reported that it would be impossible for them to reach an agreement. "When they filed in from the jury room ?the court was very muoh dis pleased and proceeded to lecture them rather severely for their failure tc. agree. 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