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TWO MINUTES IN THE CLOUDS. A lett?r came this morning for "Colonel So? and-so," And one for "Honorable," and the rest of it, you know. I took them up and laid them from all the rest apart. I gazed upon them fondly and pride was in ny heart. KKSF^"' ' -'. 1$ seemed to methat somehow I'd grown a foo? cr two Since the postman had come ie. cal then pass? if ed on out of view. I felt that I had risen to the thirty-third de? gree Of haman consequence and that the world waa watching me. - ?b be addressed as "Colonel"-ah, what a splendid thing! And "Honorabte,,-well, it was next to being At least two men were learning to estimate xay worth. Here was my fame beginning to echo round the earth. I tore one letter open and read tho message through. *Rie man who dubbed me "Colonel, " I'll now cc?fess to you, Vas somewhat short of money-a common thing with men He'd be a grateful debtor if I could "lend him The other man was anxious to get a public 3iy influence wonld help him to "win out in the race-" I cast the letters from me. I thought some things of men dat never stall be printed-and went to work again. -S. E. Kiser in Cleveland Leader. HIS.LETTERS. We had been three months married, sod lived in the blessed expectancy of a secretaryship which I had been promised . ma commission appointed to inquire v into some abuses' the government did not want to find out, bnt the Drelim ; inaries dragged, and I found myself doomed to a period, of enforced idleness which did not improve my temper, and : I fear tried, my wife's sorely, for, though nappy, we were human. Our first, and. thank heaven, our only tiff, took place one memorable day when we were both gardening on a plot of soot blackened ground attached to our modest dwell : lng. In making a border I had planted a number of carnations and picotees to? gether, contrary to my wife's directions, :; and on discovering the mistake she said . what I suppose nine out of ten women would have said. I answered tartly, be -} ing preoccupied with bitter thoughts, and so acrimonie tis did our discussion become that Edith went into the house. . After some minutes' reflection I felt the childishness of my conduct and fol? lowed to make it up. She was not in the little atticlike boudoir at the top of our mansion, so I descended to search fer her in the drawing room, which had ^ dcors opening on the conservatory and hall. By chance I chose tho first and had almost entered the room when I heard the sound of a well remembered voice, and, drawing the portiere aside, cautiously, saw my wife face to face with Arbuscula. "I daresay you know who I am?" the latter was saying. Edith denied the implied honor. "Then is your state the more gra? cious, ' ' retorted Arbuscula ' ' But .your husband does, and that is the chief point. The servant told me he was at home." She looked just as splendid as ever and swept our modest little apart? ment with a scornful glance, v "My husband is engaged," said Edith. "Anything you have to say may be said to me." "Indeed?" replied Arbuscula "Well, I have got a good many things to say. " My wife folded her hands and, find? ing one of her gardening gloves on, pulled it off and threw it cn the table. "Guard!" thought I. "And first, " continued Arbuscula, "3 want to say that your husband is tht writer of those letters. " And she de? posited a formidable bundle on the ta? ble beside the glove. "They were writ? ten to me. You may read them if yon choose." "? have no desire to do so, " replied my wife valiantly. "They would interest you, " the other went on/ "You could compare them with those he has, I dare say, written tc yourself." "I fear you misunderstand, though the error is a natural one-for you, ' ' re? plied my wife considerately. A spot of light shone in Arbuscula's eye. "They would be useful," she con? tinued, "if you wanted to make things hot for him-as yen undoubtedly will. " My wife was silent; she played with her wedding ring. "Or perhaps you won't care to see them in the public press, '" the other added viciously. "I know a literary chap who would dress 'em up well ; they'd want a little draping for a pa? per I know of." "I conclude, then, that the lawyers have marked 'no case?' " observed Edith, and Arbuscula glanced curiously at her. "I do not take my-wrongs to a law court!" she said magnificently. "In that you show your wisdom, " re? plied my wife. Arbuscula looked at her again, with something approaching re? spect, but there was a sparkle beneath the eyelids. "Come, what will you give to pre? vent it?" she asked. "Nothing," responded Edith quietly. "H? would be of a different opinion!" observed Arbuscula. ' "Hardly, " said my wife. "He is not a fool." " You are the first woman who ever said that of him," retorted Arbuscula. "I do not doubt it, " replied my wife with much significance, and the other reddened slightly. "Under the guard, " thought L "All women are the same to him," continued Arbuscula, recovering herself. "What is the difference between you and me? A wedding ring.: ' "And all it symbolizes, " rejoined my wife softly. "That's a nous3 on a fifth rate ter? race, with ody one stopcock for eight of ye, and the lady next Ooor cuts off the water when si e has had a few words with you over the hedge-I know it !" sneered the other. "Oh. it symbolizes more. '* said Edith. but her rene was weaker. The thrush had gone home, for the study of hydro? statics had been forced upon us of late. "And what is that, pray?" demanded Arbuscula insolently. "To explain would be to insult your intelligence*-and yourself," replied Edith. ! ' Beat in carte, 1 unge in tierce ! ' ' thought L : "Oh, I am not thin skinned!" laugh? ed Arbuscula. "I made allowance," rejoined my wife. Arbuscula's lips became a thin line of scarlet. Then they parted, and she smiled. I knew that she had always pos? sessed a most unfeminine sense of hu? mor, but I was not prepared for its as? sertion at this supreme moment. The two women stood looking at each other across the table. Arbuscula's dazzling smile lighting her face, my wife's pale, yet never so beautiful, I thought, though now, enlightened by the contrast, I noted the lines of anxiety which had been creeping there during the past months, and violet shadows under the sweet eyes. The other gathered up the letters and began to shuffle them as one would a pack of cards. "You are dying to read them I" she raid <. My wife's voice said, "Na" Her face was not so explicit. "Here's ene-it's poetry, " continued Arbuscula. "It was written for a stays I invented, the Arbuscula busk-you might have heard of it?" "No, it must have been before my time," said Edith innocently. "Possibly you came rather late in the day," retorted the other. "But came to stay, " answered my wife. Arbuscula laughed. Edith put her hand upon the bell. "You surely will not compel me?" she said. "I have been very patient. " "You'll want all the patience you have in the good time coming, " rejoin? ed the other. "And you, what will your future be without patience?" asked Edith. "My future can take care of itself, " cried Arbuscula, laughing a laugh short as the snap of a breaking sword blade. "I'm a woman with a past, the sort morality humbugs chatter about, but if I had a future like you by-I'd try to get something better than the butt end of a roue." "Using the hilt," thought I. My wife laughed gayly now. "You know the old adage,"she said, "the best husband is a reformed rake. Men's follies often serve as beacons to guide them past the other shoals and shal? lows of life. Experience enables them to appreciate things-it is a good light for a man. " "And a useless one for a woman," answered Arbuscula, with a sudden change of tone. ' 'It's like the poop light which shows the foam upou the reef that has just torn the poor ship's side out-much good, when the masts are going by the board. " She gathered the letters together. Whatever had been her purpose in com? ing, I could see her grasp upon it was gone. Catching at that moment the re? flection of my own face in a mirror op? posite, I was so ill pleased by the sight that I stole down stairs, hearing another hacking laugh aad the tinkle of a bell as I went I returned to the garden and com? menced to patiently dig up the border. Presently Edith came out also with an Ermful of plants she bogan to sort, sing? ing a cradle song I much admired the while. I went over to her. "I got those car? nations up, " I said, "but for the life of me I can't say which is which!" She ran to the border. "Ah, you took far too much trouble, dear, " she said softly. "And after all your labor too! I'm so sorry!" She pressed my arm, and the touch covered more than the words. "But the line was not straight, " 1 answered, averting my eyes. "We'll draw a straighter one now. you and I, " she whispered. I passed my arm around her waist and kissed her. She put both her own around my neck. "My wife!" said L "You old goose. " she whispered, bit? ing my ear, "I saw you all the time!" -Black and W7hite." Jade. Jade, the Chinese symbol of the soul, is one of the most interesting minerals in the world. It is possessed of peculiar interest to the mineralogist because of its unique mineral properties, to the chemist because of a dispute as to its elementary composition, to the ethnolo? gist because of its peculiar uses, to the archaeologist "because of its strange as? sociations with early history, to the poet because of its symbolic character in literature and to the philosopher be? cause cf its association in the philosophy of the sages, with various virtues out of which grew the Chinese symbolism the soul. Jade is best described by the famil? iar name of pebble, of which it is the finest variety in respect of texture, the heaviest and the hardest known to the lapidary. It is susceptible of a high polish and is so tenacious that it can be cut into the must intricate and fragile shapes. There are exceptional tints, b?t here jade may only be said to range in color from ivory white to deep olive green. Among substances known to the mineral .gist it has no rival in the num? ber of its fascinations, and no apologj'. therefore, is offered for ranking it with precious stones.-(?oed Words. Gof;sti Uv Was. Nellie, aged was out walking with her father, but she soon became tired, and he was obliged to carry her. "Is I vewy heavy, papa?" she; asked, as he set her down a moment to rest. "Indeed you are, " he replied. "Say, papa," continued the little miss, "isn't you dest awful tickled zat 1 ain't twins?"-Exchange. Fatal. He-There is Miss Glover over there 8he is superb. She is considered per? fectly formed. She-But very imperfectly informed. -Boston Transcript. ? ! JACK AND HIS GE( ! SAILORS' DEVICES FOR SMUGG LIQUOR ABOARD SHIP. ! _ : Ingenious Schemes That Are Invente j ly to Be Squelched - What It 3 When Jackie Combs His 31 as tuc hf i ! a Marline Spike. i "There is perhaps less drunkei among the enliste$>men of the Ul States navy than among the mer ward of any of the world's big s< outs, " said a naval officer of experi to the writer. "Drunkenness pz with the old navy. In the days of old Tuscarora or the Tennessee, a? sailors put it, it was a common en< thing to see about three-quarters ship's company returning from s liberty in such a state foat they hz be hoisted over the site in bos chairs to save the trouble of carr; them up the gangway. Bat that so: i thing is no longer endured. Men go ashore after having remained ab ship for a considera bio period are pected by the officer of the deck t( turn just a trifle exhilarated, but t never return quite incapable. ! "Men who exhibit the slightest i; ! cations of being addicted to drink I turned down flatly by the exainii I surgeons when they present themse i for enlistment nowadays. The surge ! tell me that they can tel; from a rn: j eyes whether he has ever suffered sex J ly from excessive drinking, no ma ! how long the man may .have abstai j from drink before seeking enlistmen "If men addicted to drink do hap to get by the examining surgeon and veal their weakness by going on t( every time they go ashore, the n gets rid of them by simply ' beachi them-that is, by putting them on beach with their bags and hammo wherever their ship may happen tc in a home port. A man cannot 'beached' for any cause in a fore ! country. "There are, cf course, any num.bei j men in the navy, and rattling fine SJ j onaen, too, who have a natural pre lection for drink, and these men officers keep an eye on for their o good. Sailors are bound to try to sim gie liquor aboard ship. If they dri considerably on their shore li berti they know that when they ret? aboard they are in for 'big heads' wi they awaken in their hammocks 1 i nexc morning, and in trying to saf< bring a bit of liquor off to the ship tl have in mind the taking of 'a hair the dog' to sort cf ease them up wi they turn to at 'all hands' the n( morning. "Sometimes they get the liquor sa: ly aboard, but generally they do ni j Every enlisted man on a United Stai I man-of-war, except the chief master arms and the top sergeant of marines, searc.hod at the gangway upon his ] turn from shore liberty by the gangw corporal of the marine guard, under t inspection ot the officer of the deck, ? the purpose of ascertaining if he h any liquor concealed about his clothe The men have picked up some ingenio schemes for smuggling liquor in such way that the corporal cf the guard fooled. For example, the men on tJ j China station buy long eelskins fro j the eoolies, fill the skins with abo: . a quart of liquor audwiud them aroui I their necks beneath the collars of the shirts. ! "It took the officers on the China st ? rion a long while to get on to th j scheme. Then the men who felt th; I they surely needed a drink the ne: I morning after reluming from libert ! discovered the plan of filling a rabbi I bag with liquor while ashore and < I stowing the bag next to their wais J bauds. The liquor smugglers, who ol j served that the searching corporal onl i passed his hands up and down on tb j outside of their clothes, then resorte j to the plan of tying bottles of liquc j with string on the inner side of thei I legs, beneath their trousers, but an j searching corporal knows all about thi : one nowadays. ! "The cox'un of the steam cutter, "wh ? makes dozens of trips ashore a da ! when the cutter is 'running boat,' ha j to bo carefully -watched, for he is liabl . to be tampered with by the men wh ! want liquor pretty ba<ily, and his op portunities for getting liquor aboar* j are many. Every once in awhile, upo] the cutter's return to the ship, it i searched by the officer of the deck, an the latter often finds liquor neatl stewed among the cutter coal, in th cutter bilges or even in the boiler tanks When this happens, tho cox'un of th< cutter is in trouble. He gets a big rab off from the men for his liquor smug gling, which accounts for the chance: he will take. I "The ship's painter has to be watchec I too. He is a petty officer, and he ha: j charge of thc ship's alcohol, which i: chiefly used for the making of shellie J to paint the lower decks, j "Some of the sailors like a dose ol \ alcohol mixed with coffee for 'toning' j and sobering up purposes, and as the i ship's painter is occasionally corruptible I and carries the keys of the alcohol tanks j there is quite a little drinking of this j mixture on some of the ships where old I timers predominate. The cid flat feet | have indeed been known to drink che j shellac after it lias been prepared for I the sake of the alcohol in it, and there ! is an expression in the navy among the ; enlisted men, 'If you see a jackie comb? ing his mustache with a marimo spike, you know what he's been at, ' that is I very significant j "But for all this, as 1 say. there is : an exceedingly .small percentage of J drinking men in our navy in compari ' son wit If similar figures fur other big j navies. The occasional drinkers in eur service, when they return from the j beach a bit under the weather, are ! merely put in the brig overnight ind j permitted to go to work without pun? ishment the next morning. Wash? ington Star. I 1 STUMP PENCILS MASCOTS, Members of Gotham's Stock Exchange Su? perstitions About Lead Sticks. ."Talking about hoodoos and mas? cots, :' said a member of the Stock Ex? change, "the boys cn the floor of the exchange are as superstitious as a lot of lailors. If you don't believe ir, you look at the lead pencils they are using the next time you are in the building. "You won't find a man vising a long lead pencil. Why? Because a long pen? cil is a 'hoodoo' of the worst kind. They always cut a new pencil in half before they sharpen it. Some of these pencils acquire the reputation of being lucky. "Less than a week ago I came down without my pencil, which, by the way, is a lucky one-every memorandum made with that pencil results in a proSr for me-and I borrowed one from a friend on the floor. He handed me a stump about an inch long* and said, 'You can use that; it's a lucky pencil.' "Sure enough, I made two deals in the morning, and each netted me a handsome profit. "I was about to make a memoran? dum of some stock I had bought when my friend approached and said: " 'Here, take this pencil and let me have mine again. I've lost on every deal since I loaned it to you. ' j "Sure enough, I lost on that deal, and , the luck went back to the owner of the pencil. " When yon get hold of a lucky pen ' eil, you want to hang on to it. I "Some of the boys have little lucky ; pencils not more than an inch long, and they guard them as they would their lives. "If you, through carelessness or acci? dent, cause them to break the lead point they lose whatever regard they have for you and forever afterward regard you as inimical. Some of them wouldn't take $5 for a little piece of pencil worth considerably less than a cent."-Kew York Press. STING OF THE BEE. Poisonous Propel ties That "Lurk In tho Hoaey Maker. The chemical and toxic properties of the poison of the honeybee have Loee a subject for long study by a German sci? entist, Dr. Joseph Zanger. During his . investigation Dr. Zanger employed 25. 000 bees. He found that the fresh poison is clear, like water, of an acid reaction, bitter taste and of a fine aromatic odor. On evaporating and drying at a tem? perature of 100 degrees centigrade (212 degrees F. ) a gummy residue is left* It is soluble in water; with alcohol it forms an emulsionlike mixture. The aromatic odor is due to a volatile sub? stance, which disappears on evaporation and is not poisonous. The poisonous constituent is not destroyed by short boiling nor by drying and heating the residue to 212 degrees F. nor by the di? luted acids or alkalis. Dr. Zanger has proved the existence of formic acid, but he has also proved that that is not the poisonous principle. The latter is an organic base, soluble, with difficulty, in water, but kept in so? lution by an acid. On the healthy skin neither the bee poison nor a 2 per cent solution of the poisonous principle has any effect, but they act as powerful ir ; ritants on the mucuous membranes, j His tests made on rabbits and ether animals show that when the poison is brought in contact with the eye there j follow lachrymation, hyperemia, che ! mosis and croupous membrane cr con I juuetiva. The general condition is also I affected; the animals become melan? choly, take no food, but are very thirsty, and the urine shows small amounts ci albumen.-Philadelphia Kecord. 1 j A Louisville Slander. Kot long ago there was put in at the Louisville telephone exchange a switch board run entirely by a battery, so that the amount of calls was definitely indi? cated by expenditure of force. The chart showed correct business conditions up to 10 a. m., and then there came a j most unaccountable drop. The elec? trician was bothered. There must be a leakage, a weakness, somewhere. Again and again the same remarkable and in? stantaneous drop showed on the chart, j and tho perplexed telephone engineer I went from Chicago to Louisville to in? vestigate. He was with a group of anxious man? agers and directors waiting for the sig? nificant hour to approach, when sud? denly some ono looked at his watch und called, "Gentlemen, we are losing time,5 ' whereupon one and all aroso and passed to the nearest buffet. That was crowded, and they tried another, only 1 to find it also thronged. Then the elec? trician looked at tho hour. It was just past 10 o'clock, anda daily scene was being enacted. All Louisville was out taking a drink.-Chicago Times-Herald. Circumstances Alter Cases. Circumstances aro still much in the habit of alteiing cases. It is said that a Yorkshire socialist was explaining tn a friend the principles of his belief, and that he made the statementat the out.? t that all possessions should bo shared equally. "If you had two horses, " said tb-j friend, "would you give mc one?" "Of course," said the socialist. "And if yon had two cows, would yen (io the same?" "Of course I should." "Well, suppose now, " said the friend slowly, "that you had two pigs, would you give me one of them?" "Eh, ilia's gerrin ower near home," said the other slyly. "Tba kuows I've got two pigs."-Youth's Companion. M eolian ?ral ly. Judge-And what did the prisoner soy when you told him that you would have him arrested? Complainant-lie answered mechan? ically, y er honor. Judg(-Explain. Complainant-Hehir me on the her/ with a hammer.-Exchange. The Attitude cf Trust. Writing abont the attitude- cf "be* lievers" toward tho future life, o? whose details their knowledge is limit? ed, a correspondent of the London Spec? tator insists that it should be one of trust similar to that reposed by Gari? baldi's volunteers in their leader. Quot? ing from a popular life of Garibaldi, in Italian, the correspondent says: "In 1859 Garibaldi's volunteers, some rich, some poor, were near Alessandria. On May 23, the camp of the Alpine Huntsmen was in complete confusion. The improvised soldiers rushed to arms to the sound of the trumpet. " 'Quick, quick!' said tho officers. 1 We are to start. ' " * Where are we going?' " 'That is a mystery. Garibaldi knows where, and that's enough.' "Garibaldi went through the ranks with words of encouragement to the weary and sympathy for the enthusias? tic and in person saw to every need." This motley host drove the Austrians in a 20 hours' battle 20 miles up the Stelvio pass, over the glaciers of the Ortler and back into Tyrol. "The most unkind thing, not only j the most imprudent thing, " comments ! the correspondent, "would have been for these volunteers to have been sup? plied with a full and accurate plan of what lay before them. The silence of God as to the future life is at least kind. Knowledge without correspond? ing power to act tends to become a burden. It would be no kindness to humanity to bewilder it by description? j of an unrealizable state and to distract j it from that daily path of duty which I leads thither." Worriment a Stranaer to Edison. Two things are unknown to Themas A. Edison-discouragement and worry. His associates claim that his freedom from these afflictions comes from the fact that he possesses absolutely no j nerves. Recent^ one of his associates i had to report to him the failure in im I mediate succession of three experiments I involving enormous expenditure of I money and labor. But the inventor i simply smiled at the recital. The asso ! ciate, worn out with the nervous strain j of his long watch aud disheartened by I his disappointment, said impatiently, ' "Why don't you worry a little about ? it, Mr. Edison?" j "Why should I?" was the inventor's ! reply. "You're worrying enough for j two."-Ladies' Home Journal. VOLUNTEERS OF HAVANA. How They Were Won With a Pocket Handkerchief Promise. In 1868, when the revolution cf ten years in Cuba began, no volunteers ex? isted in Havana worthy of being called such. There was only one old regiment, and when Governor General Lersundi, then of the island, tried to completo this regiment he found the task diffi? cult of accomplishment on account of the prevailing unwillingness to enlist. But just at this time, most providential? ly for the relief of the dilemma, some unknown hand covered the walls of Matanzas, near Havana, with huge posters promising each Spaniard his passage home and the privilege of car? rying away with him whatever his ; pocket handkerchief could contain in j the event cf his enlistment The effect of this stimulus to the flag ! ging pulse of the public was electrical, ? and the enrollment of 50,0C0 men fol ; lowed within 48 hours. The volunteers I thus came into existence with their ' chiefs in the majority. But the ruined j merchants of the city of Havana soon I found out and objected to the newly j risen power. This opposition increased j upon the arrival in Cuba of the new i governor general, Duice, who came in j 1SG9 as representative of the r?volu ti on ! arv government in Spain. He was a j man of good faith, empowered by the government to grane Cuba all the re? form she coveted and that had lately been offered. He would undoubtedly have put a term to the revolution, avert? ing all the ruin and devastation which followed. But such an easy and mag? nanimous course did not suit that class which faced inevitable financial ruin as a consequence of such a policy. -San Francisco Chronicle. African Skins. Between 1850 and 1S75 it is certain that seme millions of blesbok, wilde? beest and springbok must have been de? stroyed in the Transvaal und Orango Free State. The slaiighter was so prodi? gious and the variety of wild animals so great in these wild regions of South Africa that the result made a sensible difference in the leather industry of Eu? rope. The markets were filled with skins which, when tanned, gave leather of a quality and excellence never known before, but the origin of which, as the material was still sold under old names, purchasers never suspected. Hides of the zebra and quagga arrived in tens of thousands, and good as horsehide is for j the uppers of first class boots, these j were eve n better. Smart Englishmen j for years wore boots the uppers of i which were made of zebra and quagga skin or from the hides cf elands, onyx and gemsbok disguised under tho names of "cali"' or patent ieathers.-Lon don Spectator. Evading; thc I*>u?>. "Mr. Addemup, " said Mr. Spotcash severely, to tho bookkeeper, "1 have spoken to you before of your careless manner of smoking in the office. You thrrw a lighted match in the waste? basket a little while ago ami it set a lot of pape rs on lire. Such work as that might start a big blaze some day." '"It was heedless, " replied the book? keeper. "I will see that the office boy keeps that wastebasket emptied here? after. "-Chicago Tribune. The library of congress ranks sixth among the libraries ol tin; world in it? present contents. France has the larges?, England next; then comes Russia, and Germany follows with her libraries in Munich, Berlin and Strassburg, the last named holding almost equal rank with ours in Washington. VTat??r at Last In McClure's Magazine .here is au interesting account of Dr. Sven Hedin, a young Swedish traveler, who has been doing some remarkable work in Asia, in an attempt to cross the hitherto unex? plored TaMa-Makan desert. His parry entered the desert April 10, 1895. The water gave out, the camels died, and one by one all the servants succumbed. "I went on alone, " says Dr. Hedin. "The forest was very dense and the night black. I had eaten almost noth? ing for ten days; I had drunk nothing for five. I crossed the forest crawling on all fours, tottering from tree to tree. I carried the haft of the spade as a crutch. At last I came to an open space. The forest ended like a devastated plain. This was a river bed. It was quite dry. There was not a drop of water. I "I went on. I meant to live. I would find water. I was very weak, but I crawled on a.U fours and at last I cross? ed the river bed. It was three kilome I ters wide. Then, as I reached the right bank of the river, I heard the sound of ? a duck lifting and tho noise of splash? ing water. I crawled in that direction I and found a large pool of clear, fresh ! water. "I thanked God first, and then I felt my pulse I wanted to see the effect that drinking would have cn it. It was at 48. "Then I drank. I drank fearfully. I drank and drank and drank. It was a lovely feeling. I felt my blood liquefy I ing. It began to run in my veins; my i pores opened. My pulse went up at once ? to 53. I felt quite fresh and living. " Undaunted by his first terrible ex : perience, Dr. Hedin crossed the desert I again from south to north, and was re? warded by the discovery of a "very old town." The Wrong 1.4?g-. j There is an enterprising Liverpool j tailor who has never been known to ac j knowledge that he didn' shave anything a possible customer might ask for. j One day a customer entered the shop j and asked if he had any trousers made j especially for one legged men. ! "Certainly," replied the merchant. j "What kind'do von want:" J "Dress trousers, " said the man. "The [ best you've got. " Hurrying into the rear cf the store, the enterprising merchant snatched up a pair of trousers and snipped off the right leg with a pair of scissors. Hastily turning under the edges, he presented them to the customer. "That's the kind I want. What's the price?" "One guinea." "Well, give me a pair with the left leg off." A month later the merchant was pro? nounced convalescent and on the high road to recovery.-Pearson's Weekly. Lucky Mr. Walter! David Walter, a farmer living near Lititz, was the victim of a unique sur? prise the other day. It was the thirty eighth anniversary of his birth, and Mrs. Walter invited about 50 friends and relatives to participate in a celebra? tion of the event. Shortly before dinner a handsome carriage was presented to Mr. Walter. Under his plate at the ta I ble was a fino gold watch. Leaving the i table, Mr. Walter was invited to the ' yard and a herd of ten Holstein cows was driven up and presented to him. This was followed by the appearance of two young ladies dressed in pink, who carried a tray on which were piled gold and silver to the amount of ?0,000. This, too, was presented to t the happy man. Everything was the gif s of Mr. Wal ; ter's wife, who by industry and frugali? ty in their 15 years of married life had ; saved the money without the knowledge ! of her husband.-Philadelphia Times. Spain's Popular Beverage. "Horchata de chufa, " is the singular j name of the most popular drink in Mad i rid. This is made from a nut called ! "chufa," yielding a milky liquid when ! reduced to a pulp. This is diluted with j water, and forms a most cooling and re? freshing drink. However, it is an ac? quired taste. Very few like it at the first trial. The horchata may be made from different kinds of nuts. The al? mond is used also, i Strange to relate, the horchata de ? chufa is always sold where matting is i kept for sale, so that when you spy a roll of the latter outside the store door, it is a sufficient indication that in that particular place you may procure a glass of the horchata. In spite of inquiries, I was unable to discover the origin of tb.3 singular combination of articles ou sale.-Truth, Why Sigsbee Turned Scuttier. On another cccasion Captain Sigsbee deliberately sank his ship to save her from a still worse fate. He was in com? mand of the coast survey steamer Blake and was anchored in a West Indian port when a hurricane came up, and in tho heavy sea the ship's anchors be? gan to drag. She was drifting to utter and inevitable destruction on a reef. Where she lay there was a soft, sandy bottom. The captain ordered her sear tied, aad down she went. Later she was pumped out and raised--:m expensive operation, but far less costly than build? ing a new ship.-Munsey's Magazine. Papa's First. "Talk about bright babiesi"exclaim? ed the proud father. "Talk about chil? dren who are going to be big men some day!" ' "But isn't it rather early to prophe? sy? He can't talk yet.*' ""Can't talki Just listen to him! Of course he doesn't say anything, but that's the beauty of it. He's a natural born filibuster!"-Washington Star. s stimul?t** the stomach. |K>K n reuse the liver, cure bilious- | J ness, headache, dizziness. mur stomach, constipation. T etc. Price :'.'> cents. Sold by all druggists. TT.< only Tilts to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla, ls