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Unwilling o enlist with another of the feudal ords. ie assembled all the D'Artagnans f Yeddo about him until his power in- :1 ited even the princes to envy, al hough they declined to recognize the ! outlawed duelist. On this pretense he was excluded rom a popular tea house one day at an lour when was expected Juirozaye- a non. the leader of the Ilatamotos, then he most influential political party in I 'apzn, who had arrogated the city of Jeddo for the official residence. But Thobei, with a shrug of his shoulders. orced his way past the attendants into he apartments reserved for the prince. vlhere he removed his garments and C ast himself on a couch in feigned I lumber. "Who is that brute?" demanded the )rince on his arrival. "The leader of t he swordsmen," they answered him. 1 uirozayemon seated himself in silence tnd began to smoke. Having smoked its pipe, he emptied the glowing cin lers into the pretended sleeper's nos rils. repeating this Eve times, when he aused, astounded by such courageous durance. Chobei, noting this. yawn ed. rubbed his eyes like one awakening I rom profound slumber and exclaimed: "You, oh. most noble master! And I, laving drunk too much, should have t lept uncovered before your eyes! How E hall I excuse my vulgarity?" i "I have so long sought your acquaint- t mnce that you are forgiven. Be seated 1 mtd accept this cup of wine. I beg you." Politeness forbade Chobei to refuse a I ]rop of the proffered cup. a huge >eaker of powerful wine, offered him i n the hopes of overpowering him. But 2hobei drained it easily and, replenish ng it, presented it to his host, who ac :omplished this feat with the utmost lifficulty. "Will your highness permit me to 1 )er you some gift of value?" Chobei asked humbly. "Surely." "What do you most desire?" Thinking to render the brave ridicu ous before the whole city, the prince aid promptly: "A plate of macaroni." "Ah, Chobei," thought he, "the whole i :own will soon be telling how the great luelist was permitted only to offer a late of macaroni to the president of< be Hatamotos."1 After a whispered colloquy the at-< endnt disappeared, leaving the two memies alone, smiling, but impassive.1 But soon a great noise penetrated the: ipartment, and the prince discovered a1 :rowd of workmen busily constructing< m immense wall of macaroni around: :he tea house. All Yeddo was asseml bled to view this unique and royal gift.1 Discomfited that the "bravo" should iave outwitted his ruse, the prince de parted to plan revenge. The following :lay brought with it an Invitation from uirozayemon to breakfast- Despite: his comrade's remonstrances Chobel1 nsisted on accepting it As he entered :he prince's dwelling the samurais< threw themselves upon hIm with< Crawn swords. Chobei's immense mus-1 :ular strength enabled him to disarm1 them, when he proceeded unannounced to the rear apartment.] "Pardon me, your lordship," said he,J for announcing myself. Your attend ats have forgotten to do so." "Surely. Perhaps they have sought 1uarrel with you. 'Twas but a joke, for I wagered that all six could not isarm you. Perhaps you would like bath to refresh yourself." Who shall say that Chobei was wise? lone in his enemy's house, he dis arded his weapons, removed his gar ments and crouched In the bath. The water that was at first hot was soon boiling. Chobei dashed from the bath, but ten spears held by invisible hands forced him back. Suffocated by steam, ehausted by blood, Chobei fell dying to the ground. The samurais were still congratu lating themselves on their success when a loud knocking was heard. in uiry revealed the dueling confeder ates who were come to seek their leader. "He is drunk and cannot see you." "Our leader is dead. We .have brought his bier." The samurais were dumb with as tonishment. Chobei had divined the trap, yet, preferring to sustain his rep utation of daring untarnished by any accusation of fear, had voluntarily gone to his assassination. Hawaiian Girls. The Hawaiian girls are almost uni versally handsome. They are brown in color (not black); their eyes and teeth are magnificent: their hair straight, jet black and often falling below their knees. Their heads are handsomely formed and their expression alert, in telligent and amiable; their forms in youth voluptuous, but heavy and over stout after youth; their features full and nose and upper lip slightly titd: their voices estremely sweet The function of the kidneys is to strain out the impurities of the blood which is constantly passing through them. Foley's Kidney Remedy makes the kidneys healthy. They will strain out all waste matter from the blood. Take Foley's Kidney Remedy and it wi'1 makve'yo" well. W. 1E. Brownm & Co. Bird Structure. 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Mr. Barber refers to DeWitt's Kidney and aladder'Pills. Sold by W. E. Brown & o. POSTAGE STAMPS. aste and Carelessness That Enrich Uncle Sam. "If we waste other things the way ve do stamps." said a stamp clerk the ther day. "we Americans are just bout the most wasteful people on the ace of the earth. "Uncle Sam is much more than half million dollars in pocket every year s a result of carelessness In the use of tamps. The gnrrnment never loses nything by such carelessness and al rays gains. "Hlow many stamps do you put loose a a drawer of your desk or in a corner f your pocketbook and never think of gain until you come across them, aged .nd torn, while rummaging about onths later? Theu they are tossed ato the wastebasket "Lots of people are careless about gutting stamps on envelopes and paper rrapners. The result is that often be ore the stamp has been canceled It Las fallen off and the letter Is held up .t the other end of the line until post ge Is paid. "A great many more folks put on too ouch postage. They slap on two or bree stamps to a package that re uires only one. They are too busy or oo indolent to take the trouble to lave the package weighed and find ut how much postage the package equires. "If too little postage Is put on a let er. Uncle Sam simply holds It up at he other end until the postage due ias been paid. But If too much is put n Uncle Sam simply pockets the es ess to which he is not entitled and ays nothing."-Chicago Tribune. WATCH THE CELLAR. f Not Clean It Is a Breeding Place For Sickness. Underground cellars ought to be done tway with. They are relics of a dark ige. More sickness originates in them, )hysicians claim, than anywhere else tout the place. They cannot be kept n sanitary condition while vegetables re constantly decaying there. The )lace for a cellar is above ground and mtside the dwelling. Leave the base nent for the furnace, the coal bin and L general storeroom. An above ground ellar is more convenient In every way. tour vegetables can be stored with ess than half the labor when you do iot have to go up and down stairs with hem. You can keep an above ground tellar clean with but little trouble, vhile the underground one, being diffi ult to get at, will be neglected nine imes out of ten and allowed to become L source of infection to the family tbove it. Ventilation and temperature are nuch more controllable in such a build ng than in an old fashioned under ,round cellar, which obliges the house ife to use up so much strength in ~lmbing stairs. Locate It convenient o the kitchen, with which it can be ~onnected in winter by an inclosed assageway.. Watch the cellar. Re neber, the doctor who Immediately isked. when called to treat a case of :yphoid fever, If there was decaying ~abbge in the cellar. There was. ~eep the cellar sweet and clean. and ee that It is frequently aired.-Sbar' an Life. A Mountain of Alum. In China, twelve and a half miles rom the village of LIoucbek, there is tmountain of alum which In additibn : being a natural curiosity is a source f wealth for the Inhabitants of the yountry, who dig from It yearly tons f salum. The mountain is not less han ten miles In circumference at its ase and has a height of 1,940 feet Phe alum is obtained by quarrying arge blocks of stone, which are first :aeated in great furnaces and then In rats filled with boiling wiater. The lum crystallizes out and forms a layer bout six Inches in thickness. This .ayer is snbsequ~ently broken up into blocks weighing about ten pounds ach. Travel as Teacher. "Travel forms the young" is a French proverb. So It does, and it also helps a teacher to become formative. Travel is good for teachers professionally, be :ause travel is a teacher Itsel.f. But travel Is good for everybody who is hale and sane. "There's fools o' fowk what never haves their toes off their loorsteps, little brother," a gypsy said to me forty years ago. I am glad I have never been one of those.-J. H. Yoxall, M. P., in T. P.'s Weekly. Not Superstitious. "Do you believe in ghosts?" asked Lhe man who resents all superstition. "No, suh," answered Erastus Pink ley. "An' all I's hopin' is dat dem ghos'es will lemme stay dat way 'stid ' comn' aroun' tryin' to convince me." -Washington Star. A Different Proposition. Pompous Director (hotly)-Why did you refuse to give my son a fair chance to showV what he could do? Don't you belies e In introducing young blood in the business? Superintendent -I do, but not yo'ung bloods-Puck. Delay in commencing treatment for a slight irregularity that coud have been cured quickly by Foley's Kidney Rlemedy may result in a serious kidney disease. Foley's Kidney Remedy builds up the worn out tissues and strengthens these organs. Commence taking it to day. W. E. Brown & Co. Alms IFrom a Tomb. A3 remnarkable' custom which has been uninterruptedly In force for 300 years is yearly observed at Ideford, a secluded parish a few miles from Chudleigh. 1-: is that of picking up as from the donor's tomb In the churchyard. The rector and church warden stand at one end of the tomb, upon the flat top of which they place coins. The recipients of the charity come up one by one to the other end of the tomb and pick up the' money. London Standard. They're All Old. "I am about.' said the speaker, "to tell a story which I believe Is new to most of you." "Gee," interrupted a little man at the end of the banquet hall, "that fel low would believe anything!"-Chicago RecordHerald. Youthi and Advice. Naturally youth doesn't listen to ad vice. One has to make mistakes for forty or fifty years before one begins to suspect that such things are possi l Tnonnnal News. Best the World Affords. "It gives me unbounded pleasure to recommend Bucklen's Arnica Salve," n: says J. W. Jenkins. of Chapel Hill, N. m C. "I am convinced it's the best salve m the world affords. It cured a felon on is my thumb. and it. never fails to to heal every sore, burn or wound to which iti is applied. 25c. at Arant's Drug Store. er T Tombs of the Patriarchs. I No spot in all Palestine is so jealous- Io ly guarded as the haram or sacred pi area built above the cave where, ac- tb cording to tradition. lie buried the fix bodies of Abraham and Sarah. Isaac re and Rebecca. Jacob and Leah. This u: baram is inclosed within a double si wall, an outer one of Arab workman- re ship, dating from the fourteenth cen- az tury, and an inner very massive one a with many buttresses, which compe- oz tent authorities ascribe to the days of of the Herods. No Christian or Jew is. hi except by very special permission, al- w lowed within these walls. The most is the "unbelievers" may ordinarily do is et to ascend from the street to the sev- ht enth step on one of the staircases be. fi< tween the walls. At a spot near the ti stair is a stone with a hole in it. down which, it is said, a long Bedouin lance can be thrust its whole length without reaching any obstruction. This, the ii Jews believe, reaches to the sacred li cave itself, and in its neighborhood h they assemble every Friday to mourn c and pray, as they do before the wall of that other haram-the temple area -in Jerusalem.-Philadelphia Ledger. rc tl Proving His Honesty. tr "You say you have confidence in the p plaintiff, Mr. Smith?" p "Yes, sir." a! "State to the court, if you please. al what caused this confidence." s "Why, you see, sir, there's allers re- % ports 'bout eatin' house men, and I it used to think" "Never mind what you thought. Tell it us what you know." n "Well, sir, one day I goes down to o: Cooken's shop and sez to the waiter, y 'Waiter,' sez I, 'give's a weal pie.' g Well, just then Mr. Cooken comes up, g and sez he: 'How do Mr. Smith? What g ye going to have?' F "'Weal pie,' says I. 'Good,' says he; E 'I'll have one tu.' So he sets down an' eats one of his own weal pies right afore me." "Did that cause your confidence in p him?" i "Yes, indeed, sir; when an eatin' c house keeper sets down afore his cus- ti tomers an' deliberately eats one of his a own weal pies no man can refuse to n feel confidence. It shows him to be an b honest man."-London Scraps. p t A Philosopher In a Cyclone. t "I believe in optimism," said the b cheerful citizen, "but there is a limit 0 even to that. I saw a man the other s day whose house had been carried b away by cyclone, and he was the most a cheerful citizen in town. 'Why,' I said, d 'I thought you had lost your house?' s "'I did lose it,' he replied, 'but thar t wus nobody in it but me at the time, n an' thar wuzn't a hair 0' my head hurt. s The cyclone lifted the house high, all but the ground floor where I was sleep in' peaceful in my bed, an' I hain't never seen nor hearn o' that house t sence! An', anyhow, I didn't have any s fire insurance on it an' wuzn't able to t put up a lightnin' rod, an' ef the wind hadn't took it away who knows but lightin' would 'a' hit it, an' I've gotr the rheumatism so bad I couldn't run in case o' fire.' "-Atlanta Constitution. Dream Troubles. "Once wheli I was blue," said a busi-a ness man, "a friend told me I was 5VOr rying over Imaginary troubles. He 1 cheered me up with a yarn about his r little nephew. This little fellow's sis- r ter said one morning: "'Oh, Gussie, I had such a lovely dream last night! I dreamed I. was at a cake shop, and I had such loads of good things-ice cream, pie, strawberry shortcake, chocolates, jelly macaroons, kisses and lots of other things besides.' "The little boy's eyes glistened. He t smiled' with delight.C "'And what was I eating?' he asked eagerly. 4 "'Oh, you wasn't there, Gussie.' "Then, overwhelmed with sorroW, lit- t tie Gussie hid his face In his hands and wept bitterly." Hercules' Labors. The twelve labors of Hercules were: To slay the Nemean lion; to kill thet Lernean hydra; to catch and hold the Arcadian stag; to destroy the Eryman-] thian boar; to cleanse the stables of King Angeas; to destroy the cannbal birds of Lake Stymphalus; to capture the Cretan bull; to catch the horses of Diomedes; to get possession of the girdle of Hippolyte, queen of the Ama- 1 ons; to capture the oxen of the mon ster Geryon; to get possession of the apples of the Hesperides and to bring up from the infernal regions the three 4 headed dog Cerberus. The Irresponsible Child. Small Boy (noticing the Phi Beta Kappa key hanging from the minis ter's watch chain)-Did you find It again, or is this another? Minister-Why, my little man, what de ye- mean? I never lost it. mail Boy-Oh, mother said you had lost the charm you had when you were young.-Jdge. Saw Things.] Oculist (trying various glasses)-How do they look now? See them any bet ter? Mr. Wunmore-Well, the green giraffe I can shee firsh rate, but that red el'phant an' the purple 'potamus till look kinder-kinder blurred. Puck. ________ Sympathy. "What made you kick Jimpson?" "He called me an ass." "Oh, well, kicking is a characteristic of asses, but I shouldn't think you'd want to confirm Jimpson's statement so quckly."-London. Telegraph. Why It Was There. . Aunty-Tommy, I put three pies in here yesterday, and now there is only one. How is that? Tommy-Please, it was so dark, aunty, I didn't see that on.-Punch. One application of ManZan Pile Remedy. ror ll forms of Piles, soothes. reduces inflamma tion soreness and itching. Price 50c. Guaran teed. The Manninr Pharmacy. Those Amiable Creatures. Maud-This is my engagement ring. Isn't it lovely? Edith--Perfectly ador able! How generous Fred was to give you such a valuable one! And to think that folks say that your father paid for it!-Boston Transcript Inquiring Boy-Ma, what did the moths eat before Adam and Eve wore clothes?-Echange. Fole's Orino Laxative, the new lax aive, 'stimulates, but does not irritate. it is the best laxative. Guaranteed or our mone back. W. . rown & Co. 1 Wild Animals and Medicine. A. writer in the British Medical Jour aL thinks that an interesting essay ight be written on the addition to edical remedies made by animals. It;! said that it is to dogs we owe the iowledge of the fever abating prop ties of bark, while to the hippo'pott-' us is attrib'uted the use of bleeding. he story as told in Philemon Hol nd's translation of Pliny is as fol ws: "The riuer-horse hath taught ysitions one deuice in that part of eir profession called Surgerie, for he!. iding himself ouer-grosse and fat by ason of his high feeding so contin ly gets forth of the water to the Lore. hauing spied afore where the eds and rushes haue bin newly cut. id where he seeth the sharpest cane id best pointed hee ets his body hard 1 to it to pricke a certaine veine in' ie of his legs, and thus by letting imself blond maketh evacuation. hereby his body, otherwise inclin g to diseases and maladies, is well tsed of the superfluous humor, and luing thus done hee stoppeth the ori !e againe with mud and so stancheth t bloud and healeth the wound." His Idea of the English. The following illustrates Louis Phi ppe's idea of England and the Eng h. He one day asked Hugo if he id ever been in England and on re 3iving a negative reply continued: "Well, when you do go-for you will >-you will see how strange it is. It -sembles France in nothing. Over ere are order, arrangement, symme 'y, cleanliness, well mowed lawns and rofound silence on the streets. The assersby are as serious and as mute > specters. When, being French and live, you speak In the street these )ecters look back at you and murmur -ith an inexpressible mixture of grav y and disdain, 'French people!' When was in London I was walking arm arm with my wife and sister. We -ere conversing in a not too loud tone f voice, for we are well bred persons, on know, yet all the passersby, bour eois and men of the people, turned to aze at us, and we could hear them rowling behind us: 'French people! 'rench people!'"-"Memoirs of Victor [ugo." Rossini and the Drum. When Rossini's "Gazza Ladra" was erformed for the first time the drum the orchestra not only excited much omment. but caused the enemies of de composer. whom. they denounced s a "foolish Inventor of unmusical ovelties," to threaten Rossini with odily violence. One young man, a upil of Rolla's. gained admission to le composer's presence and declared hat art had been so violently outragd y the invention that he must kill the (fender. He drew a weapon, but con ented to listen to argument. He had een a soldier, and when the composer sed him why there should not be a rum where there are soldiers he heathed his knife. "Promise me, hough," he said, "that you will put .o drums in your future music." Ros ini promised, but forgot The Retort Courteous. A young man in a hurry went brough the left side of a pair of winging doors in the senate wing of he capitol at Washington last session .nd almost knocked over a senator w'ho was about to push through the ight side. The young man apologized profusely. Im very sorry-I didn't know I was -I am in a great hurry." "That's all right, son," said the sen .tor. "But let me give you a piece f advice about going through doors Ike these. Always go through on the Ight side and turn to the right. Then you meet anybody coming through .nd bump into him you needn't apolo ize. He'll be a durned fool, and it won't be necessary. Good morning." atrday Evening Post. Greatly Underestimated. "Bobby," asked his Sunday school eacher, "do you know how many dis :iples there were?" The little boy >romptly said that he did and answer id, 'Twelve." Then he went on, 'And I know how many Pharisees here were too." "Indeed!" "Yes'm. There was just one less an there was disciples." "Why, how do you know that? It is owhere stated how many Pharisees here were." "I thought everybody knew it," said 3obby. "The Bible says, 'Beware of he 'leven of the Pharisees,' doesn't it?" -Youth's Companion. The Grandest. "What is the grandest thing In the milerse?' asks Victor Hugo. "A torm at sea," he answers and contin es, "And what is grander than a torm at sea?" "The unclouded hear ms on a starry, moonless night." 'And what is grander than these mid light skies?" "The soul of mian"-a pectacular climax such as Hugo loved nd still, with all its dramatic effects, he picturesque statement of a vast md sublime and mighty truth. Crazy. Wigwag-I believe there's a tinge of nsanity in all religious enthusiasts. enpeckke-Yes; take the Mormons, 'or instance. Any man that wants none than one wife is plumb crazy. 'hiladelphia Record. The Spoor. "'m gunning for railroads." an ounced the trust buster. "Then come with me." whispered the 1ear humorist. "I can show you some >f their tracks."-Southweste~r's Book. Beware of the man who does .-1t re 'urn yo:.r blow; he neither forgives you or allows you to forgive yourself. George Bernard Shaw. 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Felton, of Harrisrille, N. Y. New Life -ills relieve without the laest discom oct. Best remedy for constipation, >iliousness and malaria. :5e. at Arant's )rug Store. The South Sea Whiskers Trade. "In the south seas whiskers is a rari :y," said a sailor. "Most of them there saoris has hairless faces, like a girl's. Vhen a young Maori, at the age of six :een or so, finds himself endowed with tviskers he blesses the day when he was born, for now, by tar, he knows iis whiskers will keep him from want n his old age. "Puzzlin', ain't it? I'll explain it out :o you. "The Maori chiefs. down Tahiti way wears a complicated headdress, and a necessary part of this here headdress is a lot of stiff tufts of white whiskers. Ihe headdress makers pays for white whiskers their weight in gold. "So, you see, old fellers with snowy spinach is in demand in the south seas. contractors keeps herds of these old fellers, the same as drovers keeps sheep. and reg'lar in June and Decem er the semiannual shearin' comes off. "The curly white harvest is loaded on to pirogues, and the contractors puts out over the roarin' coral reefs, and from island to island sells to the chiefs big handfuls of that there snowy fluff for its weight in French gold."-New Orleans Times-Democrat The Bottle at Ship Launches. Down to Charles II.'s time it was customary to name and baptize a ship after she was launched, sometimes a week or two after. The old Tudor method used for men-of-war was still In use. Pepys' "Diary" shows that. The ship was safely got afloat, after which some high personage went on board with a special silver "standing cup" or "flaggon" of wine, out of which he drank, naming the ship, and poured a libation on the quarter deck. The cup was then generally given to the dockyard master shipwright as a me mento. When did the present usage of naming and baptizing a ship before she is sent afloat come in? I trace the last explicit mention of the old method to 1664, when the Royal Katherine was launched (see Pepys). The first men tion of smashing a bottle of wine on the bows of a British man-of-war that I have found is in a contemporary newspaper cutting of May, 1780, de scribing the ehristening of H. M. S. Magnanime at Deptford, but nothing is hinted that it was then a new custom. -London Notes and Queries. Almost at Rest. A kind hearted but somewhat close fisted man who was sorely afflicted with a conscience came to a friend, holding a visiting card in his hand. He looked deeply troubled. "I know," said he, "this man wants to borrow money. I know he will drink it What am I to do?" - "It is' perfectly simple," -said the friend. "Send down word that you are out" "I cannot," he said. "I have never told a lie in my life." "Then," said his friend, "lend all your money to me, and you can tell him you haven't a penny in your pocket" After some hesitation the kind heart ed man complied and, having seen his caller, returned. "Well," asked his. friend, "are your conscience and mind at rest?" "Not quite, man," he replied, "but they will be as soon as you have given me my money back."-Bellman. He Writ. A well known dramatic critic visiting Stratford on Shakespeare's birthday and, hearing the clangor of -the bells whch, from their tower -in the old church where the poet lies burled, awoke the little town to Its devotions approached a wintry headed street sweeper in front of Irving's Inn and said: "Who is the fellow they're mak ig this fuss about? I see you have Shakespeare hotels, Shaikespeare gin gerbread, and only the other day I saw a man driving to town some pigs called 'Shakespeare's best' Who is he -the fellow who lived in that tumble down shanty yonder?" -The "oldest In habitant" megaphoned his ear and, wheezing, replied, "I think he writ" "Oh, he writ, did he? What did he write-books, confessions of a deer stealer, magazine articles-what?" "I think he writ for the Bible." A Decorated interior. Mrs.- Graham is an estimable lady whose hobby is house decoration. One day the lady was careless enough to drink a glass of red ink, believing it to be claret She was- a good deal scared when she discovered her mis take, but no harm came to her. The doctor who was summoned, upon hearing what had happened, dry ly remarked to her. "Mrs. Graham, there's such a thing as pushing this rage for decorated interiors too far." Argonaut________ Mernory Training. If men only realized how great an asset in life is a retentive memory they would take care to see that their chil dren's were properly trained. The simplest method consists in learning every day a few lines by heart None of our faculties can be trained so easily as that of memory.-Stuttgart Familienblatt Her Choice. "What would you do, dear, if I were to die?" asked Mrs. Darley fondly. "I don't know," replied Darley thoughtfully. "Which is your choice burial or cremation?"-London Mail. A Surgical Operation. The customer raised his hand, and the barber, pausing in the operation of shaving him, inclined his head. "Sir?" "Give me gas," said the customer. London Globe. Find the cause of each wrinkle on a man's face, and you will find it was put there by worrying over something that worrying could not help.-Atchi son Globe. Operation for Piles will not be necessary If you use ManZan Pile Remedy. guaraneed. Price 50 The Manning Pharmacy. TeArchbishop Won. Dr. Whately, some time archbishop of Dublin, once had an encounter with a young aid-de-camup, and the primate emerged victor. At dinner the soldier asked this singular question, "Does your grace know the difference be tween au archbishop and an ass?" "Sir. I do not," answered Dr. Whately. "One wears the cross on his miter and the other wears it on his back!" ex plained the tactless officer. "Do you know the difference between an aid de-camp and an ass?" asked the arch bishop calmly in return. "No, your grace, I do not," was the reply. "Nei ther do I!" said his grace.-Liverpool THE HiNDOO FAKIR. His Patience and Skill in the Bag and Spear Trick. The feat known as the bag and spear rick has been considered one of the greatest of the Hindoo magician's art. Cn this trick, says a griter, the Hindoo akir has his assistant get into a sack, he mouth of which he firmly secures, md then unceremoniously hurls his telpless victim to the ground. With )ut a sign of warning the fakir drives bis spear through the center of the Jag. After withdrawing his weapon, upon the point of which no blood stain ap pears, the fakir stands and gazes ireamily over the heads of the specta tors. The body within the bag floun ders about as if in mortal agony. At last, when the occupant is apparently dead, the fakir again plunges his spear Into the motionless body. The same antics are repeated. Then the fakir releases his attendant from the bag, and he steps out without a scratch upon his body. Although the trick Is .performed with all the carelessness imaginable, it calls for more patience, skill and exactness than any of the so called black. art achievements. From the time the at tendant enters the bag both fakir and assistant count every breath they take. When a stated number of breaths have been taken the fakir makes his thrust, and the occupant in the bag is pre pared to avoid it Then the count be gins 'again, and at the proper time the spear is driven through .the bag a second time. In order to evade the spear and make It appear to pass through his body the.assistant doubles up in as small a form as possible. His legs are drawn up close, with-the chin resting upon th-e knies and the arms folded round the lower limbs across the shins. When in this position, at the fiftieth breath, the spear passes under the attendant's arms between .: the abdomen and the thighs. The slightest miscalculation by either the fakir or hIs assistant would Mean 3. serious if not a mortal wound or Dne and an unheard of disgrace for the othei-. That fakir and attendant are able so to train themselves to breathe in per feet unison while giving one of these performances, when the slightestvara tion In time by either would be fatal, s certainly wonderful. SOUVENII- FANATICS. Nothing is Safe From -Those Afflicted With the Craze. In these enlghtened days anything - from the limb of a tree tatable nab kin is liable to be carried away as a souvenir. A western girl with a well defined caseof the souvenir habit, sojourning In New York, was dining at a fashion-, able cafe and, being prepossessed In favor of, the cunning pewter cream pots with which the tables were sup plied, calmly carried-one away In her muff. Can you imagine-her self valua tion when- upon examining her prize later on she. discovered carved across the bottom, -Stolen from M.'s?" A Pittsburg bachelor, wandering into a restaurant, came upon a friend just seating himself with two ladles. The, bjehelor was invited to join the party, ifso, and at the end of the luncheon insisted upon paying the costs.- The bill being wrong, he went to the cash Ier's-desk to personally adjust the dis crepancyjt where he was informed that the extra eciarges were. for spoons which the ladies had put in their band bags. And that was the first-time'he had ever met them! Upon th'e occasion of the presenta tion of a handsome silver service' by one of the United States to a battle ship which was being christened In her honor an elaborate banquet was served aboard ship, at which the serv ice was used. Society came en masse from the town near which they were anchored, and after the function was over there were not enough forks and spoons with which to lay the--tables. And yet these souvenir fanatics would draw their moral /klrts aside for fear of contamination with a real thief. Bertha Reynolds MacDonald in Bohe mian Magazine. London- In 1784. In 1784 M. La Combe published a book entitled "A Picture of London,"' In which, inter alla, he says, "The higroads thirty or forty miles round London are filled with armed highway men and footpads." This was then pretty true, though the expression "filled" Is somewhat of an exaggera tion. The medical student of fifty or more years ago seems to have been an ticipated in 1784, for U..La Combe tells us that "the brass knockers of doors. which cost from 12 shmlings to 15 shil lings, are stolen at niglit if the maid forgets to unscrew them," a precaution which seems to have gone out of fash M. La Combe in another part of his book excanm5 "How are you changed. Londoners! tour women are become bold, imperious and expensive. Bank rupts and beggars, colners, spies and informers, robbers and pickpockets abound. The baker mixes alum In his bread. The brewer puts opium and copper filling in his beer. The milk woman spoils her milk with snaills." The Blood Red Banner. Royal and national colors vary with nations and times, but since Cain slew volt. In fue earliest revolt known to history, when the Persians rose against their king 4,000 years ago, they were led by a blood red banner, and during the riots which took place in Paris the men in .the blood red caps were fol lowed by the mob. A blood red flag waved over Bunker Hill when the Americans fought for liberty, and It was the emblem of the German peas ants in their great uprisings in 1424, 1492 and 1525. Blood red was the col or of the trades union flags during the middle ages, and it framed the back ground of the emblem of the Swiss confederacy in 1315. Through the whole of French and every other na tional history those striking In their own ways for liberty have worn the blood red cap and hailed the blood red banner as their leader. It is a curious fact that never has a monarch chosen It as his color.-London Answers. Diverging. Husband-I'm afraId I'm becoming cross eyed, my dear. Wife-The Idea! Why do you think that? Husband This thing of frying to look-at my in come and our expensesat the -same time Is slowly but -surelr'getting Its work in.--Chicago -News. Caught Him. Mrs. Hoyle-I've foundi out where my husband spends his evenings. Mrs. Ioyle-Where? Mrs. Hoyle-At home. You see, I had to stay in myself last night-Harper's Weekly. That is every man's country where he live best-ArfatnnhaeS