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THE MAN WITH THE MAIL The rann with the mail—Ood bloes him— Comes in all aorta of weather; Letters ami papers, hooka and cards. All In bis bag together; He will eomo and go in the rain and snow, On bia beat you will ever find him. Leaving bis missives of weal and woe In the varied homes behind him. Tender epistles of youthful lore, Uttered In softest breath, And tear-stained tales ot the passing away Of the loving ami loved In death; Letters of friendship from far away, And greeting from neighbors near; Borne that beguile the hour with a smile. And some that educe a tear. Bad, sad news and glad, glad news. In the sunshine and the snow. The faithful mailman firings to me. And yet he does not know; It may be a message to lift the soul To a nobler, truer part. Or u tender woman may read and give The wail of a broken heart. —J. Pollock Hutchinson, driven borne, she forgot all else in tho blinding pain of a woman scorned. A OO3OQQ0OO3 | A WOM VN SOWED. O SOOOO 300 '3000000000000000 I. OU mean lhat yon wish me to release you from your promise—to give you back what you are pleased to call your freedom?” “There’s no need for you to take it like that, Betty. You know it has been very pleasant, but ” “But it cannot last? I see. It seems a pity you didn’t think of that sooner.” “Well, to tell you tho truth, T thought of it some weeks ago, but I was under the impression that you— well, that you hud money, you know, and ” But Leonard Bryng quailed before the dashing scorn of the blue eyes. “(lo on," said the girl, coldly; 4, please llnish." He wasn’t gifted with a very keen intelligence, this debonaire young curate, so he went on, blundering, to bis doom. “Well, you see, if there had been money in the case my brother couldn’t have objected; we should be in dependent of his allowance. But, considering that he’s an old bachelor and never likely to marry, he natural ly looks to me to—well, to place a suitable woman at the head of the family, you know. No doubt if she had money he would overlook the lack of birth and position, bat " “Stop!” cried Betty fiercely. “You ask me to marry you, then, because you see in me a penniless girl, with neither father nor brother to avenge the wrong, you not only break your given word, and talk about ‘freedom,’ but you add insult to injury, and tell nmt if j hj^i sufficient money to ave con- > n. “Is anything the matter? Sly child, are yon hurt?" Hetty raised her tear-stained face, and met the glance of two steadfast brown eyes; then the speaker swnng himself from the saddle and led his horse across the mossy sward to where she lay. With a stifled sob the girl sprang to her feet, but her bosom was heaving, her breath com ing in gasps, and she couldn’t speak— nay, she could scarcely stand—and the stranger slipped a strong arm round her for support. “You have bad an accident. No? 1 as she shook her head. “Then you’ve had bad news? Ah, ‘ when we’re young troubles are apt to feel very heavy, and clouds look very black. ” Betty freed herself from the protect ing arm and leaned against the horse’s shining coat, her white fingers play ing idly with the pommel of the sad dle. “You will think me very foolish,” she said. “I’ve had no accident—no had news, at least ” “Only a lovers’ quarrel, that will come right in the morning?” “It will never come right,” the girl said quickly, impelled by a sudden impulse. Then, checking herself, “But you are too kind to trouble about me. I must not detain you, sir. ” “I will see you out of the wood, at any rate,” he returned kindly. Then together they strolled toward the farm. There was a pleasant feeling of curi osity in the stranger’s mind as to who the pretty child was. As she paused at the white gate it suddenly flashed across him. It couldn’t be! He had just been at the farm. This couldn’t possibly the little niece Mrs. Brown had talked about in a rambling, mys terious way? This dainty girl, with her supple figure and gracefully poised head, could never be that woman’s relative? But Betty had opened tho gate while he meditated, and with a shyly murmured “Thank you!” she was gone. And the squire—for he it was—rode slowly homeward, thinking, trying to recall what good Mrs. Brown had said about youug folks and flirtation; how folk ) wasn’t always as poor as they seemed, and how it was good for par sons to marry young and settle down with a wife and family round them. She couldn’t have meant to imply anything about his brother and No! to speak of that pretty childish thing in the same breath as anything so prosaic as a “wife and family" was too absurd. The idea annoyed tho squire in a most unreasonable manner. “Wife and family!” how these folks did talk, to be sure! He must ask Leonard. And later, he did drop hints on the subject, but his brother most emphat- hnve had to wait years far Ihc- erty.” “On, how dare yon speak like she cried. “Is all honor dead wit you? But you are going away; we need not meet again ‘Till you ore married. Wei can iflbrd to despise me now, “Your one cry is ‘Afford! she said. “But the girl who as I am loved can ‘afford’ a good Even a woman scorned can ‘affor be generous to the man she she loved, when real love cot conquers all.” £3 It was nearly a year after their' ding, and Betty and the squire among the primroses where he first found her, that she told him story of why she cried that day. “And you’ve never cried for since, Betty?” “Never, Raymond. Those - first and last tears for a false 1c and I have never regretted that “Regretted it!” The squire dr her close and kissed her sweet almost reverently. “It was the piest day of my life,” he said, “1 brought me you.”—Answers. Men In Mourning. A gentleman wears deep mowaj for his mother or wife not less t one year. During that period business suit should be of a ro black cloth and his frock coat the The requisite black band, usually tine black cloth, in preference to ci should vary in width from tw» or inches, according to tho styh of His scarf is of dull black ai d ne' shows a pin. His gloves ai e hei black-lace kids, excepting for driv or out-of-door sports, when bll tor or dogskin may be worn. T His handkerchiefs must be a with only the narrowest Ot stitched borders; neither must show initials, monogram or e ered markings of any descripti stead the full name or initials in black indelible ink, preferal the owner himself. His watch is laid aside and a black guard is instead, while his gold buttons studs have as substitutes those eled to look like the linen itself, visiting cards, always small, and stationery have a narrow black bon To lighten his loneliness etiquette allows him to visit his men triads two months after he has assumed m ing. With a man friend or alone i may go, very quietly, to a public of amusement, but on no account Mil he wear evening dress, go with a lady or make one of a party. Lesson* for 30,000,000. The International Bunday-I Convention met in Chicago and a short sketch of what it eomplished will show what a able organization it is. Thin ago the International Sund cheme came GOOD ROADS NOTES. How to Prepare Hoad-Beds. In a recent article on “Things to Be ^inhered in Building Good a,” W. E. Barnes pertinently ijb that “too many people seem to ink that anything that is to be cov ed up does not need attention—that , done simply because some engineer said that it should be so. The orities seem to doubt whether it to put so much money out of ;ht. What they want if to spread the money so it will all be in sight their constituents, so that when the of re-election comes they can nt to a great deal apparently done h little money. ” This is doubtless e reason why it is so difficult to get ads properly drained. He then goes on to consider what reparations are necessary for per- nent country roads before they re ceive the stone or other material, and flfern the following suggestions: “The first thing to be done is to employ some competent man to run levels over the entire length of the road intended for improvement, and taking levels at the sides frequently enough to find drainage at every available place along the line of the proposed road. Then a carefully- drawn profile should be made, after which the grade Hue of the road ahould be carefully -studied and drawn on the profile. If the ground will ad mit of it without too much expense, long stretches of the same rate of grade should be avoided*as it is too hard on the muscles of the draft ani mals when hauling a heavy load, as it admits qf a constant and severe strain on them, as can be easily seen by the bling of the mnscles after a pull these grades. A frequent change the grades allows some rest on the arious parts of the mnscles. “Complete specifications should be written, telling in a general, as well as a special, way what is to be done and bow to doit. These specifications should be accompanied by any de tailed drawing that may be necessary, such as a plan and cross section, etc., of the proposed road. It will be money in the taxpayers' pockets to have all preliminaries and the general supervision of the work done by a competent, experienced and practical civil engineer, and not by some pre tender, or some politician whose only Han in liis‘mill* xiri+li ‘tlw* Ut. | WORSHIPING TBE LIVING I thank heaven I know you as you are! And you, coward that you are, will know when you stand in the pulpit that there is at least one wo man in the world who knows that you Hare not preach as yon practice! Don’t speak to me again! I will not hear another word!” Rev. Leonard turned Away with a sheepish expression on his handsome face. “What a little fiend she is!" ho muttered. “A perfect little vixen, for all her pretty face. Who’d. ever have thought she could go on like that! And I thought her so sweet and gentle, too!” Betty stood with her little quivering form drawn to its full height in a very paroxysm of passion and wounded love till he was out of sight, then she flung herself on the gronud and gave way to a storm of grief. They had been engaged three months, and Betty had thought him perfect, in spite of the fact that he in sisted on keeping their engagement secret. They must wait, ho declared, till his elder brother returned from abroad; to tell him by letter would spoil all. Raymond was such an old bachelor he would have no sympathy with lovers’ hopes. So Betty waited. There was no one to bo humored or deceived by her, but Betty had her secret. In six months she would bo eighteen, and would come into an estate. In the meantime she was too old to stay at school; her guardian was crusty and took little trouble. Betty didn't cave for society, so she was sent to rusticate with her old nurse and fos ter mother till the time arrived for the king to enjoy his own. Often the child had pictured to her self how Leonard would tell her his In other had refused his consent, that there was nothing before them but poverty, which ho dared not let her share, and yet ho could not give her up. How the cloud would lift and his dear eyes brighten when she told him that soon she would have a thhusand n year of her own! It was sweet to think that he knew her only ns 4 ‘Betty,” Mrs. Brown’s niece. She had always called the old woman “Auntie,” and he never suspected she was an heiress in her own right and no relation to her humble friend. But a day had come when Leonard met her in the primrose glen and told her of his brother’s return, and in stead of tolling him of their engage ment he had asked Betty to give him back his freedom. It wouldn’t be ■“honorable” to ask any girl to share his poverty, and the squire would never consent to marriage with a farmer’s niece. “The man who asks a woman to share his riches has some love for her; the man who asks her to share his poverty has more.” The words flitted through Betty’s mind before she took in the full force of Leonard's words and recognized the great unpardouabta insult he offered her. Then, as the truth was he woula bestow the woman on his hand and heart. Of oonrse, it had been the sqnire’s mistake—he shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions, but Mrs. Brown’s hints and Betty’s tears had got mixed in his mind,, and he had fancied his brother responsible for one or both. It was a relief to think that Leonard was free. After that the squire called often at Mrs. Brown’s. She was one of his best tenants—there might btf repairs needed at the farm. Always Betty was there, either helping to make sweet butter, colleot- iug eggs or feeding little fluffy ehick- eus, and one day the squire pulled up his horse at the home paddock and watched. Old farmer Brown Ijad been break ing iu a colt, and there was Betty, seated on its back, her pretty face flushed with excitement. Then the farmer let go the leading rein, and Betty cantered triumphantly round the field. < “Bravo!” At the squire’s voice the girl looked up. She was just about to leave the saddle, and her hold on the high-spirited little animal’s head was relaxed. With a start it reared, then bolted. Betty tried in vain to regain her seat. She fell, her foot caught in tho stirrup, and the colt started at a mad gallop round the paddock. The squire sprang over tho low wall, and iu a moment the recreant little steed was brought to a stand, and the’ fainting girl was in his arras. Kneeling down by the brook close by, they bathed her face and hands, and soon the blue eyes opened. “It was all my fault!” the squire groaned, “I was a fool to shout like that. You—you might have been killed.” “Nay, nay, sir, don’t take on. There’s no harm done,” said Farmer Brown good-naturedly. “The lass is no worse, are you, Betty, child? I’ll just catch Rob Roy before he does further mis chief, thou I'll help Betty up home. Betty was still resting against the squire’s rough sleeve. She felt dazed and queer, but very comfortable, and the squire kept chafing her little cold hands in his own warm clasp, “You might have been killed!” he repeated hoarsely, “Betty, do you know if you had died the light of my life would have gone out? Ob, childie, could you over accept an old man's love? I am old enough to be jour father, but I love you more than al the world beside!” f in. “So you have money after all, it seems! Raymond has done well for himself. You won’t tell him we were ever engaged? “I shall tell him some day that you asked me to marry you,” said Betty proudly. “But I will not betray you. Don’t be afraid, I know how to be gen erous. And Raymond ■ trusts me; he will not press the matter.” “Well, yon can afford to be gener ous, I suppose,” Leonard answered sullenly. “You’ve not come off badly after aN. You see, you and I might an Sunday-schools in this oouw in Great Britain use the lesso: oat for the study of the Bible any reference to sectarianism, demonstration provides its own to accompany the lessons. Study one lesson a week, one can cover course in seven years. The lessons are prepared by a co mittee which meets every year, when suggestions are received and acted upon. The lessons are prepared for use three years ahead of tims. Twenty million people take these lea- sons, fourteen millions of *whom ara injthe United States and British Ameri can provinces. Most of the rest iu Great Britian. ate The committee is composed Americans and after it has prepar its draft for the lessons it is sent t committee in London for oxaminat: Then, with the suggestions, it is turned to the American commit which adopts or rejects the sui tions just as it sees fit.—New li Pregs. Why the Train Slows in Leaving. He was an observing man ani not in the habit of allowing the s] est details of anything or any ev escape his eye. He stood on i$gB! depot platform and watched the healv overland trains polling ont for the West. Each one of them seemed to come nearly to a stop just after pulling out of a depot. “Stopping to let some one off?" 1m asked of a railroad man standing n«ar him. “No. Looks as if they were, doesn’t it? Well, that fools lots of people,” said the railroad man. “Some people think they stop to let off some one who stayed on too long, and some think they stop to put off a tramp. Neither of these reasons is right. AU engineers bring their trains to a stop, or nearly so, after palling out of a terminal station in order to tost tho air brakes and see that they ara in working order. Most engineers; try the air just after pulling out of a sta tion, but on most roads the rultis that they try the brakes withintwo miles from tho station.”—Topeka $tato Journal. ability lies iu bis ‘pull’with ‘the powers that be,’ and ‘be’ for a short time only. “In excavating for the road-bed re should be exercised not to plough oo deep or to one side of the'outer nes of the proposed roadway; if ire are depressions in the snb- de, there will be a .tendency to ike chuck holes iu the road after a time, owing to the water settling laoes where the dirt has been cut too bacslf, the roatf i tie will spread and become weak on the sides. Farmers’ drain tile should be placed under the sub-grade of the roadway at any point where the earth seems to be springy, and the water led to one side of the road, even if a fill has to be made to get the desired drainage. “The whole road-bed should be rolled with a heavy roller until it is thoroughly compacted. The amount of rolling and the size of the roller must depend upon local circamstances. The average soil when moist should compact about two inches, which, of course, needs to be taken into con sideration when doing the grading. The depth and kind of material used for the roadway must depend in a great measure upon the locality, the traffic conditions and the material at hand,—whether the road shall be con structed of trap, granite, quartzite, pebbles, cobbles, slag, lava, shells of various kinds, gravel, cinders, burnt clay-ballast, wood, brick or asphalt. Also, keep in mind tne ability of the people to pay the taxed cost; and, further, take into consideration that g-time bonds demand the payment of large amounts of interest.” ling with the highway problem. A Good Roads and Public Improve ments Association has been formed. It will hold county conventions and effect local organizations in order to be ready for concerted action at the annual State convention to be held iu St. Louis next fall. At that conven tion a plan will be perfected by which it is hoped systematic legislation can be secured from the next State As sembly. Missouri certainly needs gooAroads. It has very few and trade is suspend ed for nearly five months every year on account of the mad. It is esti mated that if 50,000 miles of turn pikes could be constrncted the value of the 44,000,000 acres of farm lauds now under cultivation would at once advance $200,000,000 to $400,000,- 000. The people are now spend ing abont $3,000,000 annually on their roads, but the results are so unsatisfactory that the reformers wish to pat the matter under State super vision, and for that reason will de mand a State aid law such as that which has proved so popular in New Jersey. Greatly to Her Credit. A Western paper, in explaining why the Massachusetts roads have hereto fore been so expensive, says that the sandy stretches aerbss which many miles have been bnjlt have neces sitated very expensive nnderpinning with cobbles; that marshy tracts have largely increased the cost of construc tion ; that the redaction of grades has been another heavy item, and that cli matic conditions required unusual care and, finally, that it is “the espe cial ambition of Massachusetts to con struct the best roads in the world, re gardless of expense; for the Old Bay State is determined to be full of at tractions, since in productions she is thrown into such violent competition with more fertile regions.” Good Roads Sentiment Growing. The campaign of education is pro gressing rapidly, and it will' not be many years before public sentiment in most of the States will make the ap propriation for good roads as much a regular feature of every legislative session as that for public schools is now.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. MANY SAVAGE NATIONS CARRY Qfi THIS FORM OF DEVOTION. Lessons From Kxpertence. In a recent article Professor W. R. Hoag makes a comparison of the A Wonderful Man. There was a man in England named George Muller, who used to read the Bible quite through every four Ho died recently. Mr. Muller remarkable man. Besides pra constantly iu English, Germi French, he distributed over 2 Bibles and 100,000,000 religious and tracts. He built in Bristol homes costing $575,000 and main! 2000 orphans in them at an annual cost of $180,000—cheap and pn by the way. He dealt in hi career with 125,000 orphan spent on them in all nearly $7, yet ho never directly asked ai for a penny. All the money thi in for the support of his prayed for. If be didn’t get as he needed ha made what answer. It was eimple aadit needs of railways and highways. The points which they have in common are discussed, and the fact is brought out that “each;has, or should have, a roadway which will contribute most to the safety aud economy of its busi ness.” He sums up the matter in six points, showing what system the rail ways employ, as follows: First. A railway has continued re pair,—small, but w-hen needed. Second. From the first the section foreman studies the question of drain- age,—how he can get the water most quickly away from the road-bed, and Men keep it away. Third. A railroad company em ploys a man to do this work who has become skilled at snob work,—one who knows just what remedy is need ed for each defect as it appears. Fourth. Tne railroad company re tains in its employ the same man, and keeps him as far as possible at work on the same piece of road. This is done that the company may study the efficiency of his services as compared with others in its employ. Fifth. The railroad company so distributes the loads on the wheels that, considering their bearing sur face, there phall be no undue destruc tion to the road surface. Sixth. The railroad owns its tools and machinery, specially adapted to the work it has to do. These methods are' dictated by ex perience, and serve to secure the maximum efficiency of service with minimum outlay. Similar—almost identical—needs exist in the care of highways, and connties and towns should profit by the example of the railways and "do likewise.” Items. Good streets advertise a town, as nothing else can do. Good roads are a duty which every State owes to its people. Agitation becomes effective only when it arouses a working interest in those agitated. One of the first essentials to solid municipal growth is good roads, says H. W. peLong. k Along poor roads land sells slowly. There is a demand for faming land and rural homes along good highways. Hereafter, every town in Maine will riert n road commissioner, who will have charge of all the highways and bridges, and* the highway tax will be paid in cash. Where the road is easy, there the farmer^ wends his way to trade, there settles the retired merchant and the worn-out city man who wishes to end his days in peace and comfort. With a four-inch tire 500 more pounds can be hauled over a sandy road, with the same power exerted, than with lj-inch tires, and the gain on gravel roads is almost as much. A horse cannot carry four persons on his back, bat be can easily draw them in a carriage; a man cannot walk ten miles without tiring, but be can ride fifty on a bicycle without any great difficulty. A progressive Baptist minister on Long Island read a notice lately from his pulpit, anuouncing a good roads meeting to le held that week, and that good singing wonld be a feature of it. He expressed the belief that better * roads would make better Christians. A road supervisor in Northern New York says that it costs the farmers in his section one-half as much to haul their produce three miles to the rail way station as it costs to send it 500 miles by rail after it is placed on the cars. This bad road tax could easily be reduced by one-half. The abundance of large stones and boulders in many localities can be taken advantage of to reduce the ex pense of building stone roads; when properly broken they can often be used for foundation purposes. They are not so likely to be suitable for the wearing surface of the road. Number of Telephone Subscribers. A fight for lower telephone rates is not only being carried on in London, but in Paris and Vienna as well. Ac cording to recent statistics there are 1,450,000 subscribers to the telephone service in the world. The United States leads the list with 900,000; then come Germany with 140,000 and Great Britain with 75,000; Switzer land, 50,000; France, 35,000; Austria, 20,000; Russia, 18,000; Sweden and Norway, 16,000; Bavaria, 15,000; Den mark, 15,000; Italy, 14,000; Holland, 12,000; Spain, 12,000; Belgium, 11,- 000; Hungary, 10,000; Wnrtemberg, 7000; Finland, 6000; Japan, 3500; Cuba, 2500; Luxembourg, 2000; Por tugal, 2000; Australia, 2000. The balance is divided among the smaller or newly settled countries, from Rou- Aiania with 400 down to Senegambia with 100. Bismarck Has Been Deified in Brasil and Queen Victoria is Frayed to as a God • dess in India—The Grand Lama is a Living Idol—Worshiped by Thibetans. Referring to the account of the deifi cation of Bismarck in Brazil, for can onization is scarcely the right word to nse in this case, it may interest your readers to know, writes the Loudon correspondent of the New York Sun, that the great General Nicholson, who pacified the district of Oude after the Indian mutiny, was deified by some of the natives, who formed themselves into a sect. “The Worshipers of Nikkal Sew.” They built a temple, and placed in it a statue to represent the general. When he discovered their doings he tried to convince them of their folly, but quite unsuccess fully, and the more he harried and punished the remnant of the rebels, the more fervently they worshiped him. 19Again, at Prissa, also in Hindus tan, even now there is a temple which contains the statue of our Empress- Queen, which the natives adore as a goddess. This custom of worshiping human beings is one of hoary antiquity. According to some anthorities the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Incas of Peru, the Emperors of Mexico, and the Kings of Assyria, Babylon, and Persia were regarded as gods while still alive. So was Attila by his Huns, though proba bly this reverence diminished after bis crushing defeat at the battle of Chalons. All the Emperors of Rome, beginning from Augustus Cmsar and ending when Constantine embraced ' Christianity, were worshiped in their own lifetime, temples and statues to each being erected and priests ap pointed to serve them. And really when one considers how ignorant the majority of men must be, owing to the force of circamstances, it certainly seems much more reasonable for them to worship a living power in carnate in so tremendous a being as, say, Trajan was, whose works they saw and whose majesty they knew, than to fall down before images to whoso power only legend attested. The reasonableness of this view is shown by the fact that when Marcus Aurelius, the wisest and best of all the Roman Emperors, tried to suppress the wor ship of himself, he had even less suc cess than General Nicholson. Nearly all primitive tribes look on their kings as living gods, and many to the extreme of putting them to death if great national misfortunes come too thickly; even two or three years of drought would be enough with some savage tribes. There is the well authenticated case of the isl and called Savage Island, in the South Pacific, where the kingly office had lapsed completely, because none could be found rash enongh to assume the dangerous dignity. by ethnologists to accountT lor jection the Ashantis have to their King crossing a oertain river ten miles from Kurnasi, for they consider their fetish’s presence necessary in the cap ital. Their rumored intention, men tioned lately in the newspapers, to kill Prempeh if he crossed this river would probably have been carried into effect if Sir Francis Scott had not taken the precautions he did take. The reason of the apparent incon sistency of the savage who worships a man as a god, and yet considers it the thing to kill him if his reign proves disastrous, seems to be this: That the King is the living tabernacle of the tribal fetish; this fetish is all power ful ; hence if misfortunes come it shows that he is displeased with the body provided for him to live in; therefore that body mast be killed, since that is the only way to let the fetish out. Then a successor is chosen, and the fetish outers into him, and everybody waits and hopes, especially the poor King. It is probably to this primeval idea that the habits of exaggerated re spect to royalty still prevalent in many countries, even in Europe, may be traced. Any one wishing to see how absurd these were iu the middle ages, and even later, will find much inter esting matter iu Buckle’s History of Civilization, especially in tho voluma devoted to Spain. Thibet has come into much promi nence of Icie years owinj; to the meet ing of England aud Russia iu the Pamir platean. In Thibet the religion of the people is a form of Buddhism called Lamaism, aud the head of it is at onco the tem poral and spiritual ruler of the coun try, although it is nominally a vassal slate of China. This man is called tho Dalailama and is virtually a living idol. He is believed to be the rein carnation of the great fiautam Buddha who reformed Brahmanism aud found-' ed the great religion of Buddhism in India during the cevcnth century be fore Christ. Tho power of the Dalailama is as unquestioned in Thibet as his divinity; nobody comes near him save on bond ed knees, not even the Tartar Princes from Central Asia, who occasionally make a pilgrimage to the capital ol Thibet. Directly one Dalailama dies another is ready to take his place, ol course a new-born child, ar the theory is that the Buddha enters a fresh hu- man body immediately tfter the old one is dead. A Jap Custom. At the birth of a Japanese baby a tree is planted, which must remain un touched until the marriage day of the child. When the nuptial hour arrives the tree is cut down, and a skilful cabinet-majcer transforms the wood into fnrmtnre, which is considered by the yonn^ couple as the most beauti* ful of all ornaments of the house. They Wonlilu’t Miss Them. “Yes, sir, I think women would make first-class jurors. We would never need to have long deadlocks if women were chosen to fix up verdicts. ” “Why so?” “In case of a failure to agree, it would only be necessary for some merchant to advertise a bargain sal^ and^l’ll bet there would be a verdUn before yon could wink,”—Cleveland Leader. WUbtiK' sot* 3 MMataMt*