FINISHED THE BOOK.
When the Reader Got Through There
Was Nothing Left.
A queer character was a man 1
met once while in Kinsley, Kan.
Where he caine from I didn't find
out, nor yet where he was hound.
irom Ins grips ami general appearance
I guessed him to be a commercial
traveler. Doubtless he was.
When I first saw him he was buying
a book in a Kinsley store?one
of the late novels, neatly and attractively
bound in cloth, and he
paid for it $1.23.
Ilis course as he left the store
with his purchase was what nailed
my attention. He had the book in
his hands unwrapped, having waived
the parceling of the same as unnecessary.
He halted at the door, bent
both covers back and coolly ripped
them off and tossed them into the
street. Then he "cut" the volume
as one might a deck of cards, about
the middle, bent the two halves back
till they met and then ripped them
apart as coolly as he had torn off the
cover.
I was naturally astonished. Who
was this man? Was he some expurgator?
Was the book a menace
to morals? I took a quick glance at
the discarded covers. It was one of
the best of the recently issued fiction.
Mv man tucked the first half
of his book into the aide pocket of
his coat. The other half he thrust
into the smaller of his two gripe.
And then both of us headed for the
train.
We rode together as far as
Hutchinson. I purposely selected
a seat near him. He raised a window
aiyl settled himself comfortably
and pulled the half book from
his pocket. He tore off the first
page, laid the rest of the volume beside
him on the seat and read the
single leaf.
From the way his eyes moved I
saw he was a "skimmer/' In no
time he had finished page 1. I
knew that, for he turned the leaf.
And when page 2 was read I knew
that, too, for he quietly crumpled
up the leaf and tossed it out of the
) car window. And then he tore off
the next leaf. And in due time it
went the 6ame route. And so it
went on. All the way from Kinsley
to Hutchinson he left a trail of
crumpled leaves. When he had finished
the book the book was finished
? jo.?Kansas City Star.
His Flowers.
"I heard in my youth," said Sir
Charles Murray, "one of many curi-1
ous stories of Sir John Shaw. "He j
was most eccentric in his appearance
and dress and cared nothing !
fw tidiness in the grounds immed'
' dy surrounding his house. One
- duy ne invited two gentlemen from
F! burgh to dine with him at Carnoru
As was the custom of the
time, they appeared before dinner
i .ee breeches, silk stockings and
tn. shoes. The weather being fine,
Sir John invited them to take a turn
in the garden. Civilly and thoughtlessly
they followed their host and
soon* found themselves skipping
among nettles and thistles, to the
great discomfort of their unfortunate
calves. Sir John, who was clad,
a* usual, in corduroy breeches and
t?p boots, 6aid to them, with polite
gravity, 'Step oot, step oot, gentlemen.
Ye'll no hurt my flowers/ "
?Cornhill Magazine.
Daft, but Canny.
"Speaking of prudence and carefulness,"
said a congressman, "recalls
the story of the weakminded
but prudent Scot of Peebles. This
Scot, a silly look on his face, was
skating near the famous iron bridge
of Peebles on a winter day. Some
young ladies wished to skate under
the bridge, but they did not
know whether the ice was safe or
not. So, approaching the Scot, the
youngest and prettiest of them
said:
" 'Sanders, would you mind just
gliding under the bridge and back,
so as to test the ice T
"The half witted Sanders took
off his cap, and, with a bow and a
smile, he replied:
'"Na, na. If I am daft, I ken
manners. Leddies first/ "?Philadelphia
Bulletin.
The Malay Country.
One day a man, apparently white, j
came into the be9t restaurant in
Atlanta. The head waiter looked
him over and thought he had negro
blood in him. In fact, he was a
very light quadroon.
"Here, you!" the head waiter
said. "You are colored!"
"Oh, no, I ain't," the man replied;
"not in the sense you
mean."
'/But you are mighty dark."
know I am, but that is because
I am a Malay."
The head waiter was nonplused.
He looked again and then asked
suspiciously: "What is a Malay?
Where is he from?"
"Why," said the man easily, "Malays
are from Malaria."
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SOLVED IN SLUMBER.
. A Problem That Wa* Worked Out and
Written During Sleep.
Many persons have written while
wrapped in slumber. Coleridge
writing the poem of "Kubla Khan"
in his sleep is a classic instance, but
there are numerous others. Here is
nn.-i T)r Cnrnnnter mentions
? * ^
in his book on ".Mental Physiology.''
A professor at Amsterdam had
been given bv a banking house of
that city a question to solve, involvi
ing a long and dillieult calculation.
Several times he tried to obtain the
solution, but each time he made
I some mistake. At last, all wearied
out, he gave the problem to some
, of his students, teliing them that
if possible he would like the answer
in three days. One of them, eager
; to get into his teacher's good graces,
i took it home and worked on it for
three successive nights in vain.
! "At last I bent myself over my
figures for a third evening. It was
winter, and I calculated till half
| past 1 in tbf? morning, all to no purI
pose. The product was erroneous.
Low at heart, I threw down my pencil,
which already by that time had
beciphered three slates. I hesitated
whether I would toil through the
night, as I knew that the professor
wanted an answer the very same
morning. But, lol my candle was
already burning in the socket, and
the persons with whom I lived had
gone to rest. Then I also went to
bed, my head filled with ciphers,
and, tired in mind, I fell asleep. In
the morning 1 awoKe jusi eariy
enough to dress and prepare myself
to go to the lecture, vexed at
heart at not having been able to
solve the question and at having to
; disappoint my teacher.
"But, oh, wonder! As I approach
my writing table I find on it a paper
with figures in my own hand and
(think of -my astonishment!) the
whole problem on it solved quite
aright and without a single blunder.
I wanted to ask my hostess whether
any one had been in my room, but
was stopped by my own handwriting.
Thus I must have calculated
the problem in my 6leep and in the
dark to boot. And, what was most
I remarkable, the computation was so
I succinct that what I saw before me
i on a single folio sheet had required
: three slatefuls, closely beciphered
on both sides, during my waking
state. Professor Von Swinden was
j amazed at the event and declared
to me that while calculating the
problem himself he had never once
thought of a solution so simple and
concise."?Exchange.
Embarrassing.
"The sexton of a quaint old
Maryland church," said a clergyman,
"showed me through the cool,
dim building one warm afternoon
and as we were departing pointed
to the Bible on the lecturn and
smiled.
"'A strange thing happened last
Sunday in connection with that Bible,'
he said. 'We had a strange
minister preaching here, and when
he opened the book he came upon
a notice and read it out with all
due solemnity. It was a request for
the congregation's sympathy and
I prayers for John Q. Griggs, who
had been deeply afflicted by the
loss of his wife.'
"The sexton paused and chuckled
softly.
"'You see, sir,' he said, 'our
regular minister has been using
1 1 i 1
tnat paper as a cxjoicmaraer mure
than a year, and John Q. Griggs, in
a natty gray suit, sat in a front pew
with the new wife he had taken just
the week before/"
A Caatle In Ireland.
The name of castle for a country
house is preserved in Ireland, rather
curiously, for Ireland has not the
vestiges of French customs so noticeable
in Scotland. The dullest
little villa, so it ?be solitary in an
Irish country place, bears that
name, and the smile of the Saxon
when he arrives and sees the castle
is cheap and unscholarly. Where
the Celt?the female Celt, that is?
? * i I? -1- i.
does earn ana deserve mat sngni
sign of derision is in her practice
with her visiting cards intended for
London use. The word castle there
for a second and country address
does seem to suggest machicolations,
if not sieges and sally ports.?London
Chronicle.
Got His Ansv/er.
An Englishman traveling in Ireland
complained that he could find
none of the famous Irish wits of
whom he had heard. He was advised
to speak to the next farmer or
teamster he met. A little later he
encountered a peasant leading a
horse with a load of turf. The
horse had a blazed face.
"What a white face your horse
has, my man!" said the Englishman
by way of an opening.
"Sure," replied the Irishman,
"your own will be as white when it
has been as long in the halter."?
Birmingham Post.
! BOYHOOD'S HAPPY DAYS.
Why Men Dream and Wake to Weef
For Times Gone By.
Yes, sir! Boyhood's happy days
J of course. We know about that
We haven't forgotten the joy ol
sleeping in an unfinished loft ir
j winter when our breath froze tc
the bedding and we had to thaw
I us out with u hot flatiron ever)
! morning.
Morning too! We got up at -i
a. in., pitch dark, S4 below zero ant]
still going down! We had to gel
i i.,i, hustle out and feed and milk
i the lowing herd, curry the rear elevation
of the family mule, wake
the rooster up to crow, thaw out
the pump, chop four cords of wood
ami shovel away the snow to make
room for the sun to rise!
Sometimes we went to school in
; the winter?not often, only or
the days when it was too cold s.nd
stormy to go outdoors. Then wc
! sat on a nice cool board about fifty
feet away from the stove and gayl)
blew our fingers and picked icicles
from our hair. And as we sat we
listened to a wooden image with a
teacher's license as he handed us
misinformation and permanentl)
crippled our intellects.
Then came the merry springtime
Rise at 2:30 a. m. More lowing
herd, the herd lowing to the supply
of fodder being low. Then the
hired man, who had hibernated ir
the forest, came forth seeking
whom he might make happy with
his presence. And we, being ir
need of extra joy, were allowed tc
sleep with this woolly hireling, whe
snored like the boom of the sad sea
waves. He was a good fellow, thi;
hired man. He taught us to chc.t
tobacco and swear. These gentle
pastimes procured us more violenl
lickings than any other joy in oui
whole young life.
No memory is more loaded with
joy germs than the spring crop
working. Can we ever forget the
plowing?how we held the plo*
! when we had to reach up with a
j pike pole to get the handles; ho\*
| we drove the old plug team with the
! lines around our neck; how wher
j the clevis broke the mares walked
I away with oar frail body dragging
i behind by the ears? When darkj
ness caine we stabled the plugs and
! went forth to milk the brindh
l heifer. The heifer kicked us across
! the barn floor, and an old cow oblig|
ingly kicked us back again. Then
1 when the milking was over, whal
fun to turn in and teach a fool call
to drink! This acting as dry nurse
; to a bandy legged calf was one ol
' the most unmixed joys of all. Wc
i tied the calf short, set the bucket
I in front of him, got astraddle of his
! neck, stuck two Angers in his mouth
j and with the other hand jammed
j his head into the pail. And all the
! time we were emptying out abuse
on calves in general and this lop
! eared idiot in particular. This went
I - i
on until dad came in and with lov;
ii^ patience horsewhipped us al:
I about the place.
Then when we had carried in the
wood, brought forty gallons of water
from the spring and eaten aboul
eight pounds of solid food we wenl
joyfully upstairs?and came dowr
again immediately to breakfast.
We often dream and wake up tc
weep for the days gone by when the
hay was ripe. We recall the old
swamp that always had to be cul
by hand. We recall little stones
that we rasped the edge of oui
blades on. We recall the prettj
snakes we stepped on with our bare
feet. We remember it all with solemn
gladness.
Well, well! How it all comes
back to us!?Chicago News.
Th? Cab Hora? Won.
A gentleman who was anxious tc
catch a train hailed a hansom, gave
.?a a V?ic? /loaf in Q + 1/M1
| lliMl Ut'llUilS as IV mo uvovmnvivu
; and jumped in, but the horse made
j terribly slow progress, and the
i "fare" was afraid that he would
I miss his train.
"Look here, cabby," he said,
I "can't you make your g^s-gee go
| faster? I must catch the 3:45."
The cabman winked knowingly.
"Yes, sir, he can go faster," wae
: the reply, "but it's like this: Yei
I see, my horse is an old racer, and
j the best way for you to make him
! go faster is for you to bet me hall
i a crown he won't catch the 3:45.
j That'll put him on his mettle, and
1 he'll fly like the wind."
I Tlif? hnrsp did it. ? London Ex
| press.
Poop Judges.
; Two Marseillais, who have a well
I deserved reputation for tall stories,
were discussing the relative merits
of various cheeses.
''Why," said the first, "the cheese
I'm talking about is so remarkable
that at the last show the judges
I uncovered when they eame to it."
"That's nothing," retorted the
1 second. "The kind of cheese I'm
telling you about is superior in
j every way. It wins a medal at evi
ery show, and it walks up to the
! judges to get it."?Indiscret.
THE FAMOUS GiN LAW.
?
> How It Was Received and Evaded oy
the English Public.
, The famous "gin law," passed in
1 1436, is interesting as the earliest
^ i severe blow at liquor dealing among
i civilized nations. It levied a tax of
?, 20 shillings a gallon on spirits and
r a license of ?50 for any one selling
' | or dealing in them. And, being in
advance of public opinion, it failed,
: much as other more stringent pro
i hibition laws Have laiieu in our
' own day, l'or the cry was at once
: raised that it taxed the poor man's
| gin and let the rich man's wine go
'; free. Every wit, every caricaturist,
: had his ding at it. Ballads were
I hawked around telling of the api
i proaching death of Mother Gin. The
j liquor shops wore hung with black
II and celebrated uproariously Mme.
i Geneva's lying in state, her funeral,
1 her wake, and so on. The night bc;
fore the law went into effect, so the
' contemporary journals say, there
' was a universal revel all over the
> country. Every one drank his fill
J and carried home as much gin bel
sides as he could pay for.
i To evade the law apothecaries
' sold it in vials and small packages,
sometimes colored aid disI
guised, generally under false labels,
; ?uch as "Colic Water," "Makeshift,"
"Ladies' Delight." There were
5 printed directions on some of these
t packages?e. g., "Take two or three
I spoonfuls three or four times a day
i or as often as the fit takes you."
l Informers were very prominent and
> j exceedingly offensive, inventing
> snares to catch lawbreakers for the
i sake of the heavy rewards and spy>
ing and sneaking around in a way
r j particularly distasteful to the English
mind. In consequence they
snffered in their turn. The mere
cry, "Liquor spy!" was enough to
raise a mob in the London streets,
i and the informer was lucky if he
> escaped with a sound thrashing and
11 a ducking in the Thames or the
r nearest horse pend. Indeed such an
t outcry was made about the matter
r that the ministry became very un5
popular, and the law was not en11
forced after two or three years and
[! wa3 largely modified in 1743.?Lon;!
don Telegraph.
An Important Distinction.
J When Light Battery A was stai!
tioned on Wareham street, Boston,
. i one of the officers was Lieutenant
Brooks. "About the time he was
[ elected lieutenant Brooks, who was
I a painter, had a contract to paint
> the gun carriages and caissons,
' i which he carried out in good shape.
>j When he was before the examining
; board for his assignment to duty
j he was asked how he dismounted
II the pieces when he did the painting.
I j As explained, the * dismounting
; | proved to have been done in a most
5 j unconventional manner.
>' "Do you consider, lieutenant, that
: | you acted in this matter according
.| to the regulations?" asked the
[ chairman of the board brusquely.
The reply was, "I did not disj
mount the pieces as Lieutenant
. Brooks of the artillery, but as
George Brooks, painter."
Lieutenant Brooks was passed all
i right and received his assignment
to duty.?Boston Herald.
) Department Store Opportunity.
I The claim that the department
. store clerk: has no opportunity rests
| upon the basest misrepresentation.
. No great business machine, no mat\
ter how large and how complicated,
s can refuse to recognize sooner or
later that which is out of the ordinary
and of commanding quality.
. This recognition may come more
slowly to the department store
clerk than, it does to the traveling
salesman or drummer, it may not
> be 60 prompt as in some other lines
i of trade, but the boy of capacity is
t sure of a recognition of his ability,
II whether he begins behind the coun'
? it 1 _ A_ A _A A _ 1
! ] ter in ine department store or taaes
1 to the road as a seller at wholesale.
Just as sure as water finds its level,
, just so sure business ability, with
i fair opportunity, will not fall below
the fulfillment of its deserts.?
"Starting In Life," by N. C. Fowli
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Mr. McKinley was interested for
many years in a girls' school in
Ohio. When he was congressman
and governor of Ohio political meetings
often took him near the school, 5
and he visited it when he could. On one
of his visits he was made an ^
honorary member of the class of
'94. He was a loyal member and
wore the class flower, a red carnation.
The message of his nomination
for president reached the class
during a reunion. The girls rang g
the college bell and sent a telegram
of congratulation and a box of car- "
nations. Another box of the clas3 I
flowers was sent on the day of Mr. f
McKinlffy's inauguration. It may
be that this association accounts for
Mr. McKinlev's fondness for the <
red carnation, which has come to be ;
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Pressing Club Notice.
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'unk building where I will be
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