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A spring Shower, >Powajtbi drops come, tinkle, tipkle, With a sidden dash and sprinkle, Though as blue as perfwinkle Was the sky. Some mysteriQue bokus-pokus 4 . { Knocked above and awoke us, Ories a little yellow oroons, With a.sigb. Tbere's a roarlirt there's a olattezs There's a smoky dash and spatter , Of the dust., is comes the patter - Of tie drops. F ' Such a drencher, such a pelter, is.itt yet when, helter-skelter, Everything has (ound a shelter, Then-it stopsi THE LADY'S MAID'S STORY. - "Yes, miss, certai'nly, I lived wit Mrs. Birch-Miss Grigg that was be tore she married Mr. Birch. I knew all'about'that affair. It was very sin. gular indeed-very. I'm not sure that I ought to mention it, foi if a lady'e maid can't hold her tongue she can't etd good places. Dear me, I'm nc talker. I'm as mum as a mouse. Bush. els of pearl powder and quarts of rouge hive I applied with my own hands, anc never so much as hinted at. As for c ttofl, bless your heart I've novei breathed about it, and I did live witi a lady once that took aranic regularly for her complexion. That's no secret, for she took too much one day, by ac. cident, and died. 'Tieye was an inquest and it all came out. It's well it did, for suspi. olon pointed to .her husband. Some. how, it always seems - to strike a jury that a husband is the likeliest person tc wish a wife out of the way. But thi isn't anything about paint; Miss Grigg, being on the stage, made no secret of that. She played queens and such, miss. I've often had tickets given me and gone with my young man to see het act. And when she was haughty and curled her nose like, miss,k-nd looked at other folks over her shoulder, and talked away down In her throat like a pigeon gurgling, she was splendid, miss, It made me think how nice it would be to be a -queen and to take airs ovet everybo.dy. "Well, Miss Grigg was engaged to be married. Mr. Birch had fallen in luve with her when she was playing Ham. play, miss? The young man objects tc his ma getting married the second time, so I seemed to make out, and acted most impertinent, giving sass to his me and his step-pa, and carrying on awful, And there was a poor young lady quit< out of her mind that afterward got drowned. . "Well, she was playing Hamlet's ma, and Mr. Birch fell in love with her and sent her a letter, and called and made an offer, all in no time. She accepted him, of course, 'and the preparationf for the wedding began. I don't thiul any lady ever had so many dresses be fore. Silks and satins, and velvets and laces. Dear, dear; Mme. -'s wiok "stablishment was hard at work for e month, and if I'd hid twenty flngers, instead of only ten, I'd have had use "At last everything was finished, The trunks were packed, ifiteen of 'em, miss, and fourteen were to go on thal aVternoon, and one-4he one with the wedding and traveling dresses-was, of course, to be left andl go with the bride when she started next day. She was tc be mnarried at 10 o'clock in chu~rchi and then drive home, have a splendid break .fast, change her dress and catch the 2 o'clock train. Of course I saw to the trunks, and I was ysry careful; but just when I was needed most, just as the trunks wore going down stairs, Miss t Grigg called me. " Miss Qrlgg was a lady who didn't f like to wait. I went to her at once, sayts, as was my duty, and I said to Bridget Duster, the chambermaid: 'Bridget, watch -the black trunk and see that the men don't oarry it off!' ". Bridget understood wIth her el bows, of course, miss, and after I had hien to the land's end for two yards of * ~ be ribbon of exactly such 8 shade as sh'e wanted, and got back, I found that sheo had sent off the black trunk first of all, and was very proud of having been so careful. The trunks were all mniles away by that tirse. There was nothing fdr't but to tell Miss Grigg. She flewv aga, miss. I don't blame her for be ing angry. I would forgive her in such a'case. She flew at me violent, miss; aipd then, miss, she had spasms. She begt the sofa, she tore her hair, she screeched, and me all the while saying: "Remember your eyes, miss. Think hogl you'll look. Your nose ia swelling dreadful, miss.' "Finally she came to and bathicd her face. Anid says she: "'Flora, what-shall-I do?' "I don't know, miss,' said I, 'unless you ut of te wedmguntil you tele N"qo,' said shie, 'that's unlucky; be *side, one nevor' knows. N~one ain't to be |1epended orrdes, ad1 :'You might bro rs, ad1 "As if i'd be married in one that didn't fit,' safawhe. 'Stop, don't speak a Word. I've an idea.' *"She sat with one finger on her lips for ' while. -Then she said: *"'Myr embroidered dressing gown. Theiwhite one! that's here? "fIn the bureau, mise,' said 1. "'Vo ary el'n aid she. 'rml he m..'. ried in that. Telegraph' for-the trunk, Flora.' "'The white dressing gown, miss?' said I, nearly astonished out of my sen sea, "'Yes,' said she, the white dressing gown, goose, you don't think I'm going to be married in churoli in that. I won'$ put off the wedding, and I won't stand up before a crowd in anything but my'white satin dress! But I'll be married at the appointed hour, for all that. So telegraph for my trunk and come back soon.' "When I came back I found Miss Grigg In bed and the doctor sent for., He couldn't tell wbat was the matter, and Miss Grigg was too faint to speak. He questioned me. I said she bad been very much agitate I. He prescribed something and went off, bidding me send for him if she seemed worse. The evening paper published the report that Miss Grigg was dangerously ill, and Mr. Birch came to the hotel in a ter rible fright, as pale as a sheet, to ask how she was. I took him down 'H1er love, and she was very ill.' "Then Miss Grigg said to the ladies who had come in: 'Leave me with my faithful FMo a.' and we were left aldne. I can't say that I was surprised when she sat up in bed and said briskly: "'Lock the door, Flora. I'm sick of lying on my back. I've taken them in, haven't 1? You see what I am about now?' "'Exactly, miss,' said I; 'to be too ill to be married when the time comes,' "b'No,' said she; 'to be ill enough to be married in the white dressing gown. I'm going to be married on my dying bed, Flora.' "I I ve a screech and she laughed, and then she made a supper of sardines and biscuits and wine, and she threw the medicine out of the window. Early next day the doctor came. I answered his question as to what sort of night his patient had passed by saying she had' been much the same.' And then I took a little note she had written to Mr. Birch. "I knew what was in it. She told him 'that rather than leave the world w.thout keeping her vow to him .she would be married on her dying bed.' I powdered her up well, miss, and- 1 dressed her in the embroidered dres0ing *gow .wih ul Q rosee'tit the thro . ,,I Ule nasifhe gr-er3iad and d a ened the room., She fixed the pillows to prop herself up with, and then skip p;d into bed. "'Give me my pearl bracelets,' she said, 'and the handsomest of those handkerchiefs, and all my rings; and Flora, mind you must sob all through the ceremony, .1' n going to be calm.' "We hadn't live minutes more, lut joist as the flrst knock came to the door she whispered: " Oh, dearl if I only could have slow music. Couldn't you catch that "Trav. ata" organ, Flora, and get him to play for half an hour outside the window? He's always on the corner. Flora, I'll leave you something handsome if you do.' "I did it, short as the time was.' I caught that man and he ground out his quarter's worth. "rhe clergyman was a very nice, neat, near sighted old gentleman. Mr. Birch was the dreadfulest . sight-pale as a ghost and shaking from head to foot. The groomsman' looked dread fully sorry; the four or five intimate friends looked as though they were at a funeral; and to see her, with her calm smile and powdered face, one hand against her heart, the other in lils-I was glad I'd been told to sob; I had to do something. And so they were mar ried. "'I feel,' said Ilias Grigg, slowly, 'that this, perhaps the last moment of my life, Is very sweet. To die thus, with my hand in yours-abi Dear friend, adieu. Flora, my taithfui maid, taike this ring.' I saw her pick out.the. cheapest; but no matter. 'Remember me by it. -Now-leave us.' "Then everybody kissed her and went out of the room sobbing. "In a moment more there was a scream; Mr. Birch had famnted away. It took an hour to bring him to. "The reporter of the evening paper was wsiting coutside for the news, It was published all over that night, but the next af ternoon the traveling dress came back in the black trunk. "Yes, miss, of course-Miss Grigg Imean to say birs. Birch-recovered at once. And that's the whole story. I'm the only one that knows it, and I wouldn't mention it to any one but you ma'am?i" Proparation for the tiae It is reintcd of Lester *Wallack that lie always Inquired of every femnale ap plicant for entrance Into the pi oression whether she had been married, buried a child, quarreled with her husband, and sufkcred poverty. If not, he told lher those were requisites for~ the por trayal of the cardinal emotions and for simulation of experience with the stern realities of hife. Whether that Is 'a mere tradition of the stage or not, it is certainly true that nearly that etand-' ard is set up by a matmager who has made his bow to the publio as the busi ness man of an English star whom we all know. ."You must have been snar tied," he alwhys says to women who apply to bin; 1it,unhappily married or widowed all the better." DESEtVES A MEDAL. Now an Irfsh Eetriovor Saved the Lives or Sovea Fi1hermen. A good dog story comes from Maine to a Washington letter-writer. A. C. Duell, a former well knoiva journalist of that olty, usually goes hunting dur Ing the sporting season on the Penob scot Bay. When not hunting he leaves his dog "Pat." a very fine-bred Ii-ish retriever, in care of a flsherman on the shores of the bay. A few days ago Mr. Buell received a letter from the fisherman telling of a '1ewarkable per for'mance of Pat in rescuing no less than seven persons from a tishiug smack that had been thrown on a reef in a heavy gale. The smack was lodged on one of the reefs of Great Spoon Island, about two hundred feet from the shore. The men hoisted signals. or distress, and were in momentary danger of being swept away. Tremendous waves were running, and the crowd of excited fish ermen on the shore knew that it would he fatal for them to attempt a rescue, ai no beat in thelt, possession could live in that sea. Sudddnly the one who had in his care the dog Pat bethought him that the dog had been tagught to not only retrieve, but to tow boats by a rope from one point to another, and often when a boat would get adrift lie would-be sent for it, and would iun his nose under the painter till he would come to the end of it, when he would take it in his teeth and fetch the boat to shore. "Pat" was at once called. A long cod line was attached to a piece of lath and flung as far as possible into the water. "Pat" promptly sprang in, swam to it, and brought it to the shore. Several times he repeated this perform ance. The fishermen were in despair. The waves were splashing so high they could not direct the dog's attention to the men on the reef. Finally. "Pat" seemed to comprehend that there was something more serious on hand than lie had at fl1st thought. He raised his head and looked Intently over the water. His eye caught sight of the boat with its signals of distiess, and the waves dashing over- it. When the lath with the cod-lino attached was again thrown into the water "Pat" at once sprang after it, tbok the lath in his teeth, and, inmaad.ef. ur,nbur. to-thp sora. stiuok. out through the roariig surf to' the reef. Many times lie was buried under the waves, but after a few minutes of intense suspense he was seen from the shore clambering up the side of the reef, and a great shout went up as the Imperiled sailors took hold of "him and lifted him into the boat in an almost ex hausted condition. In brief time a strong rope was attached to the cod line. The men on shore were signalled to haul away, the rope was made fast to the reef and the shore, and one by one the men passed hand over hand from their place of danger, the brave dog following when he had got his sec. Dnd wind. Mr. Buell thinks that Congress'ought to vote "Pat" the most elegant silver collar that can be made. "Patt'' is from the famous kennels of Tuliamore, near Cork, and is a dog of remarkable beauty and sagacity. PIdC&SANT PEOPLE. rhough They mnay not be Lovable, They are Always Likable. What a boon to all his friends and acquaintances a pleasant person isi It may be hard to define pleasantness, but we find no difficulty in recognizing it when we meet with it. Pleasant peo ple are not always by any means the meet admirable .of mankind, nor the most interesting; for it often happens that the qualities in a man which are worthiest of esteem are, for lack of ather modifying elements, -the very rnos which make against his agreeable. ness as a companion; and a person who ices not impress us as particularly plea sant may nevertheless Interest us very much by the display of unusual mental ar moral characteristics, or from a com plexity of nature which seems to offer tself as an enigmia we are curious to solve. Pleasant people may not even be the most truly lovable, but they are htkabre; we perhaps have no desire to make friends of them, in the deeper sense of friendship, but we are glad when we meet them, and enjoy our selves while mn their society. . The tie thus formed, though slight, is a real me, and I believe that we should all lo well to remember, in the interest of our closer friendships, the attractive and cohesive force of mere pleasantnesa. The highest virtues and offices of friend ship we are not called on to exercise every day, and ini familiar intercourse we have not loss, but rather the more, need of making ourselves pleasant, be ~ause of the times whzen our friends will have to answer our dralts on their patience and sympathy. If we question what it is that goes to constitute a man or woman pleasant, it appears to be a result of both tempera ment and character. it is hardly neces sary to say that these are not the same thing, and yet they are not, distinguish. ed in common thought and speech as alearly as they might be. Without at tempting any close analysi, we may perhaps say that temperament Is a cer tain combination of element4 given uh ait birth, while character is aniother set of powers and dispositionsa, slowly ac quired and grot :: us, for the .frst, nature is rospo le our parents and ourselves for thG econd. It seems easl to describe a bleasunt person by.iegat es, althpugh assured ly his pleasanness adieots us as a nios, positive qualiy, .To begin with, such a person nius bb too nntcn tp lI his owt vI1iality,tt;tt: "01the phrMe of -fii' ish writet !rhiit is, he' misc iit,ibe yy ieserved and con entrated.iltr hb $intions and affoetions, but have a ce tdin expansiveness of na tun tand opoenii of tialiner.' lie ' ust not be too ;as l4 , l but l o to take people for wat hey are, and what they are worth to btI for the passing no Ment and tie niida of'the social i br. He must not be of too Intense a natiro, nor so preo2cupi4d with the serioud as pects aid dutieseof life thitt he is una ble to put tiem 'ide temporarily, and lend himself:tQ ighter ;tloughts and llghtei' pco)lo. Oe "of the pleashutest men I ever met"was dno'of the iplost hard workin -, drted'lo a dozen good causes and publiq Interests beside - his personal and professional onOs.' None of these were m 4de a bore to others, and his equpblo id kindly lisposition, his read.e2ss to Onter into. other per sons' ideas, his Interest in literature ana art as well a weightier matters of pol tics and sc!ei Q,. made him able to please and be pl ed by men and.wo. men .of the most- Iverse sorts. It has sometimes strucine forcibly' with re spect to such a pi n, how pleasant he must be to him if-how comfortRble to live with ever Pi. Many a prove "in'common us$ is based on a pervei ip of a truth, ratner than on the trut ,soef. A proverb of this sort says th R',Telk Is cheap," with the obvio ;hreanig that talk costs little or n ig, and that any body can profferii ;' But "talking" is, in its primitive 'eAling, "Interpret ing," expla?ning. j!;rtiaking alear." In that sense, talk is of cheap; for it costs clearness of thou ' iIilon of state ment, and f era. syipathy,with the one to whom tho ,tplanation is to,be made. If, itid t were true, as it has been ma c alrmed, that speech is giv cre. I t ier to .'the gon cealing,. Woe 1v.o . eeotve A I th t A'f" : quires abili .'that Is the re sult of thou ? -to use speech craftily, as it do use it wisely. pBut in its higher and ruer sense of Mitog preting truth, talk gives valu, t'otrtili, by being a means of its; transmisalon from an enlightened mind to aikcnel one; and suc!i a value as that can never be secured without cost. There is a great deal of "speech" that is not true "talk " The Apostle seems to have had this in mind, when he urged the Corinthian Christians to transmute their chelip speech into more costly talk. "Where fore," lie said, "let him that speaketh 'in a tongue pray that he may interpret [or talk."] And this Is good counsel for to-day. i g Independent. Independence of judgment involves a full knowledge arnd a fair estimate of more views\ thanu one on the point which is judged. No man can judge indepen ent,1y who.iuuA.ges all by himself, with out hearing and carefully considering what others have to say on the subject before his mind. If there are, fairly, only two sides to a'question, and a per son hears one man on one aIde, and one man on the othel' side; he must be of the same opinion wIth one of those men. in order to Lat absolutely independent i r4 lisa judgment. And if, again, he hiearel only one mani's argument, and that on the opposite side from his oiVn former impressions, it may be a higher proof of his independence of judgmoent for him to surrender thlo3e impressions, and adopt tihe view thus newly.presenut. ed to him, than for him to adhere to those impressions, now that lie sees they are not well founded. Yet how prone a man is, who wants to have credit for indepenidence of judgment, to adhlere to his own earlier impressions, rather than conform his viewvs to the new light wimich hie has.received from another. A judge on thle bench, as a rule, refuses to give a filal opiion on a question submitted to him, until lhe has heard arguments 01n 1)0th sides of that ques tion; In order that lie may be more in dep)endenit in hiA judgment,, even though agreeltig witlf- one of the law yers who has argued the case before him, than he could be by acting on his own unaided impressions and predilec tions. Real indepondence of judgmient must, at times, seem as though it were a result of another's personal influence; yet it is better to be indepen 4ont, even while sceminig not to be, thlan to seemn to be indepeondent without boinigso. Heorojusm. It was the heroism of the early mar tyrs that chaiquered the Rloman Em. pire; not the sermons or the eloquient orators, nor the treatises of able disput ants; it was the heroism' that flinched niot froin the Ilame, that forind songs iln the dungeon and security Ina the fire. The Roman oiind could not interpret t)iat except As, something divine. Thbe oman heart could not but feel the mrnensity 'of tfle power which wa* In iat livingr conseoration. A WONIRFUlU TRIK. Thb Magician and the New Plug Hat. PrM s-viik,.. who monkeys with cards and the other bric-a-brao that goes to'male up the outfit po the prores. 91nal sleight:of-hand performer, gave an exhibition at a hall In Frankfort the other night. The professor is all there with his tricks, but somewhat shy on his oratory if he gets out of the beaten paths of his hanky panky. This time ho aceidoutly strayed and got badly mixed -up in a byway. Spillin& like a crack in a rocky moun tain range the professor ambled down from a fat man in the front row. It was a brand now eight-dollar hat, and the professor looked at it affectionately as lie made his w;.y back to the stage, which was reached by a short stop-lad der placed there for the occasion. The professor hadn't been drinking, but he was nervous. The ladder slipped from under him and he tobogganed on the hat several feet up' the stage. As he picked himself. up and look'ed at the crushed stovepipe in blank despair the audience roared. No one laughed so heartily as the fat man who owned the wreck. - Irvink looked at the hat, the spectators and the wings. "Ladies and get,tleman," he finally stammered, "this was an accident. If he. gentleman who owns the hat will wait untit'to-morrow I will try to buy him a new one out of the box receipts. Really I did not mean to fall.- I I1ls voice was drowned In laughter and applause. Isn't he An excellent actor?" exclaim ed the "-fdt.anan,. between. convulsions, to his neighbor. "Never saw anything to beat it. - The Professor turned his scared face about the stage. Escape was impossi ble. The more he tried to tell his audi tors that the crushed tile was not a trick,. but a good, wide, and all-wool reality, the more his auditors didn't be lieve him. He went down into th3 or chestra and whispered to the owner that ha did not mean to fall on the hat and that he. would make restitution as soon as possible, but the owner wiped the tears off the end of his nose, and fout}cbre tiu nough tq rer?ark that lie rn 'ah'albout it; -this wasn't the,firar time he had been to a s:elght-of-hand show. At last Irvink carried the gauso of his misery back to the stage and ended his aot by flight., While a, young man Was singinig 4orethidg about a girl whd didu't want 'him, the Professor hunt'dup a notary and came back be fore the curtain fell with an affidavit that he did crush the hat aforesaid, without malice aforethought and with out afterthought of making it as good' as new again. The audience, includ ing the fat man, believed him then. A Prince's Pipo.' Prince Henry, the Emperor .'red erlek's second son, smokes his pipe in English fashion, and smokes it morn Ing, noon and nighit. You could meet him, when he was at Sani Remo, stroll ing about after breakfast, with a well colored -English' short clay, or cutty. In the afternoon, he ma4e just this sac riflee to fasilon-.he changed the clay for a brier-root. It is related of him in San Rerno that going to chur'ch one Sun~day afternoon, he started with his rayer-book under his .arm and his brier-root well alight in his mouth. A young English friend of his, who was staying at San Rlemo, ventured on a mild remonstrance. "My dear boy," said the young English dandy, "you a're not going to church with that thing in your mouth?" Prince Henry took the pipe out of his mouth, and looked at it. "I beg your pardon, old fel.. low," he sald; "I forgot It wvas Sun day." He ran back home with the brior-root, and reappeared with a.meer iiohaum. 'A What Is it. An'animal, different from any ever before seen In that part of the country, has been destroying sheep, swine alid calves in B3arlow county, Georgia. Its victims were found dead, with a wound in the throat resembling the stab of a stiletto A farmer who surprised the beast in the act of trying to kill a sleep. lug calf, says the creature resembled a coyote in its mnovemnents. It was of a dark copper color, with 'possum-shaped head and small bead-like eyes, the tall bushy and erect, and the body long and smooth. Men have banded togethei' and searched for It day and night, but have been unable to capture it. Oni one occasion a pack of hounds pursued it, when snddenly the leading dog came whining back with a stream of blooOt oozing from the throat, and in half an ho(ur died. . Stamps in Spain. . Spain has Issued stamps every year or ocitener for thirty years. On the ap pearancO of each new issue the one pre. ceding is declared of no value. The excuse given for this is that it is to avoid counterfeiting. But it always happens that subjects of the baby king have left on their hands may thousands of dollaWs worth of worthless stamps, and the government reaps the beneflt. ROUSrJilifPIN1 IN GERMAN? No Bredd faked 1n he Iouse... The Kttohen the Prettlest Itoom. In many respeots it is much easier tt "keep :house'" in Germany than in America. German servants are strong and willing, and move along in' the same routine, never flying off at .a tan gent, as the best Irish girl is prouo te do at the most inconvenient seasons. The hoUses are altost all apartgpent houses, . with rooms all on one floor No waehing, Is done in the house, not even- the dish-towels. Well. regulated German families have the -washing done once in three: months only, but the American residents, not having such a supply of linen, send out the washing each week. The "wasch frau" comes In from the country; with her small cart, drawn by a dog, and with a huge basket on her own back. The prices are small, the family washing for out family of eight costing but about two dollars a week. None of the bread is made in thi house. There is a bakeshop on every corner and the bread is brought to the door every inortiing. The rolls are lkc the French rolls and are delicious The "zwei-back" or twice-baked breat is a small slice browned on each side i the oven, which makes it very crisp The black bread comes in long loaves certainly half a yard long. It is ver; nutritious, and my' children are ver fond of it. It is the unWiersal custom ti give each servant one.pound of coffee and one pound of sugar a month, and half a pound of butter a week; also a certain amount of black bread daIly. This they use foi their own consump tion. The cook does the marketing and is perfectly trustworthy. Every thing is bought in small quantities an< there 'is almost nothing left over Iron one day to another. Nothing is vyast ed, and it is quite a study to see the varloeis teinpting ways in which rem. nants are "worked over." Pieces of chicken, ham and beef. ar chopped together, and all sorts of mea cakes and croquettes are made; A vsry nice pie is made by' alternate lay era of this chopped meat and . sliced po tatoes, the top being covered wil bread crumbs and the whole bake for half an hour. The kitchen is .the ret tlest;ro6 -tii h4 e.':- Thb hit( porcelain stove with its bright saute pans; the dishes ranged around, the room in dressers; the plants in the win dows. anid above all the cleanliness tha prevails, combine to make the room a most pleasing picture. A servant neve: objects to doing anything that is asked Blacking the boots is a part of the reg. ular work of the second girl. I have several times seen a servnnt out on the sidewalk helping to bring in the coal If an errand is to be done the girl al ways goes out bareheaded even going ti market, with nothing whatever, foi headgear. Popularity of the Shop Window, "Men as well as women," said the brightly observant Miss Entres Now to me, "cast sly glances in passing al its hats and its tournures in the plati glass shop windows. Granted that thi female heart Is full of deceit and giver to all manner of wickedness -grante< even that the female brain has alway had a fair show, but let no unbelieve in the equality of the sexes ever credi1 woman with more personal vanity thai man. On this point there is, to say th least, perfect equality. In fact, I kno', it. Happening to be obliged to wal for the horse car, that, like the letter never came, I suddenly became awar< that a store window opposite Was source of frequent observation. It wat a beautiful show, truly, and the hue of artistically grouped flowers were Joy to behold, but presently, to m;~ great amazement, the secret of this pas sing interest was divulged. A young woman on the same side of the way a myself was faithfully reflected In tb glass. Until she gave that thorough; feminine shake to her draperies an< looked over her shoulder at the fit o her dress improver I' had not though of the window In Its capacity of mirro to the public, For five mInutes o: more or less she turned and twisted now waiting for cars and carriages t get out of her range of vision, and thea slowly pacing back and forth, while watched her performance In the broa window. Having satisfied herself, sh finally walked away, leaving me to re mark, "Hlow like a womami Not a bi of ItI Presently a man well known 14 fame came round the corner and turn od down the street. Suddenly he halt ed; glanced over at the window, settle< his coat collar, pulled his coat down hi the back,.shook his leg, that may hay been asleep, for aught any one coulb tell, gave a fresh tilt to his plug hat and then, having admired hi mself sui ficiently, he, too, wont his way. $Lnc this.experience I have noted that boti sexes, niind you, when they have agooi opportunity to see themselves as other see them In a shop window, improve It The wmndow above mentioned Is, I fnd exceedingly popular. I have looked fi It myself." Let It be borne In mind that th cords of. love, which bind hearts a olosely to.geth,er that neither lifel be ideath nor time nor *teraitty can se,vei ehemn, are .woven of thrads no bigge thail a antar's wea. $OOIAL VAMPMIL Detective Agenoles That are Nothing. More Than Blaen ling Conoern. "Something ought to be done to con trol these private detective agencies," said a police officer of rank to a repor ter. "They are a nuisance, and work more harm than any one Imagines. I don't refer to the straight agencies, but these concerns that do all the dirty work are the ones I refer to. Anybody " can start a detective agenc', .nd some of the men who work for many of these in Chicago ought to be in the peniten tiary. Many private detectives make their living by black-mail, and it is' easy to see that they have a fine tield to work in. Take, for instance, a case of a woman, or even a man, who has some standing. Some one-it may be a hus band er wife, or even an outsider-puts a detective on the track of the one he wants to find out about, and the victim is followed everywhere. Supposed some thing is found out-and thee's 'nobody but has a little dark spot that shouldn't be exposed -- and here's where the chance for blackmail comes in. The detective makes his report and receives pay, but doesn't let the matter rest there. He has a hold on the one he'd been shadowing, and when the prover time comes he works the racket for what it's Worth. le wants a loan af. ter letting the victim know, of course, what knowledge he possesses, and nine to one he gets it. The one affectea knows that he can't afford exposure and he is willing to pay for secredy. Mind you, all private detectives don't work this snap, but many of them do. "I know of a young man who robbed his employer. The latter knew some thing was wrong, so be hired a shad ower. Proof against the young man was completed, and when he was con fronted with it lie confessed everything. He begged not to be exposed, aid the employer consented to his remaining, provided he made up the shortage. This he did and afterwaids regained his employer's confidence. Then he married a finegirl and was happy. The world smiled on him and lie was get ting along as nicely as any one could wish when one day lie was called on by a strange man, who soon let him know that lie was the detective who had (one the.shadowing. He didn't say that he wohld expose the young man, but the latter knew what the matter was and readily consented to make a small loan. Instead of telling his wife and employer about it he struggled on, meeting de mands made on him, and finally took to drinking. His employer discharged him, lie went lower and lower, and when lie got clear into the gutter his wife left him because he couldn't sup port her. The other day, I see-by the papers, she sued for a divorce, and she'll get it." Wonders of the Sun. A comparison of all the re'sults of these labors of so many able men dur ing so many years proves that the sun is nearly ninety-three millions of miles from the earth and that the fiery globe itself is so large that if a number of worlds as big as ours were held togethei like beads on a string three hundred and forty of these world-beads would be required to girdle it around in one line!. Three hundred and forty plus' heads thus strung together would go aroundi your head with some to Spare. Trhere fore, the sun is as miuch bigger than the world as your head is bigger than a pin's head. Hlow many worlds would it take to Scover the whole surface of the sn?~ As many as the number of pins to cover a pin-cushion as big as your head. Hlow Smany worlds to fill the space occupied by the sun? This is easily calculated when we know the sun's diameter, eight hundred and sixty thousand miles. *In-round numbers a million and a quar ter o'f our woulds would occupy a space equal to the whole sir,e of the sun. Iteoreation for Onainoss MenA. Those men suffer less in the brana and nervous system who are able to cast aside all thoughts of business the moment the time for ceasing work has kcome. 'It is those who carry their bush ness home with them, and who allow it to fill their minds when they should Sbe seeking recreation, who suffer the most. It Is those who are iable to cast off all business cares when their ofiees are closed, and who spend thieir even ings in work of a different character from that i which they have been en gaged throu;gh the day, or, better still, who pass several hours in rational 3 amnuseilients, who' are most likely to es cape headaches, insomnia and insanity and to die after a long life in full pos session of their~ mental facuilties. Peo pie who dwell In cities have, so fair as amusements are concerned, very great advantages over the dwellers in the Scountry and in smail towns, Accord -lag to my experience, thle most efllcaci ous means of taking a man out of the Srut into which his exciting work has brought him is the thieWre. When potatoes' are to go iato stews )or showders they should be first sliced, soaked and scalded. ' Batter, lard and dripping should be stored In jats anld kept' in the coldest and dryest plaoe.