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<:t§E KOREAN FAIRY TALE. can't Keep company AN'S LOVE. tlnel angel, sitting high in glory, " this shrill wail ring out from pur­ gatory: atrey, mighty angel! Hear my loved, nod, blind with passionate love, I fell; >ve brought me down to death, and death to hell-- fr God is just, and death for sin Is well. o not rage against His high decree, for niyself do ask that grace shall be, jBnt for my love on earth, who mourns for me. . "Great spirit,' let me see my love again, And comfort him one hour, and I were fain ?To pay a thousand years of fire and pain." (Then said the pitying angel: "N&y, re- I pent (That wild vow. Look! the dial-finger's bent tDown to the last hour of thy punish­ ment." Stat still she wailed: < be; 'I pray thee, let me S can not rise to place and leave him so. jOh, let me soothe him in his bitter woe!" -The brazen gates ground sullenly ajar, lA-nd upward, joyous, like a rising star, '45he rose, and vanished in the ether far. ®nt soon adown the dying sunset sailing, •And, "like a Wounded bird,' her piitioris trailing, back with broken-hearted Bhe fluttered wailing. "I found him by the surn-Bhe sobbed: mer sea •Reclined, his head upon a maiden's knee; fihe curled his hair, and kissed him. Woe is me!" fihe wept: "Now let my punishment be­ gin; I have been fond and foolish. Let me in ffo expiate my sorrow and my sin." !The angel answered: "Nay, sad soul, go higher! !To be deceived in your true heart's dc- sire •: j"'" - '• jWas bitterer than a thousand years of fire!" --John Hay. Ifi BUFE'S LOVEMAKING. ifeV- I Ms It was the year I built my store and *ot the Corners Postoffice, which, by '• the good will of Providence and my friends, I've held ever since, no. matter ;who was "in" at Washington, that I first took notice of Shiftless Rufe Dun- Titng. He lived with his -father and mother just across the flats at the foot of West Hill, in the edge of the big 'woods. You know, all this region was pioneered late, and although nearly everything was cleared up on this side of the valley and the pine timber had long been cut off the flats, there was » heavy growth of mixed hardwood and Itemlock to the west that stretched ftway back I don't know how many .--Hare and there in the little •^openings" on the tide of the West Hill log bouses were still to be seen, and the folks living in them were some­ times pretty primitive. The Dttnnings were probably the most no-account of the lot. They lived fn a little shanty old Rufe had knocked together out of slabs given him by the sawmill boss. They had only a little patch of ground, and they lived on what they raised, the fish they caught, and what they trapped and shot. They didn't steal, as I know of, but they were all mortal shiftless, and young Rufe was worse than either his father or his mother. In fact, he was so all-fired lazy, if I muBt put it thatrway, that even the old man felt; discouraged about him. Young Rufe" was 22 before anybody suspected that he could possibly have any ambition at all. But one day he says Kitty.'Sylvester. But was the daughter of the first manager of the big Barkley estate. Old man Barkley--the grandfather of the present Barkley, •who never comes near the estate--had Just put the place in a manager's hands and moved away with his family. Now, Kitty was areal sensible, go-ahead girl. She knew t^e Sylvesters were as good as anybody around the Corners, if not a le-etle better, arid she tried to live Up to the family reputation in all ways. When a girl, her mother had been fa­ mous for the work she could do, and Kitty was not a bit behind. Every morning ip the winter she \yas up early and got breakfast by candlelight. All day long she wove carpet, or quilted comforters, or spun stockings yarn, or did something else that counted. Ev­ ery morning in the summer she was up with the sun, and every day when it went down she had'chtirn'ed and Work­ ed, more butter or made more cheese, or in some other way done more work than any woman anywhere round could do. And she was the savingest girl in the county. Everybody said she was the smartest young woman going, and, naturally, she was considered a highly desirable catch. Rut she held herself mighty shy Of them all for awhile, and it was regularly given out that no young man need ever think of keeping company with Kitty Sylvester who wasn't fully her m^tch, both at work tag and saving. So when it was noised •feout that young Rufe, of ailthp world, bad got him a pair of fine boots, a ruffled shirt, doeskin pantaloons, and a broadcloth coat, and had begun to shine np to Kitty, there was,a. general up­ roar. Polks couldn't believe it at first, but It wasn't anywhere near as hard to swallow as what came afterward Yon see, the outgiving that had been made about the kind of chap Kitty's busband would have to be had shifted the young fellows out a whole lot. Most of them were willing to work and will­ ing to save, and they all admired Kitty, for she w as as good looking as she was Industrious and frugal, but her stand ftrd was so high it scared the boys, and beaux got to be mighty seldom on the •state. Now, as it turned out, Shiftless Rufe thought more of Kitty than any of the others, and at the very beginning she gave him a little encouragement. Not much, to be sure, but enough to reform Bim completely. He was naturaly |mighty bashful when he called at the big: house, all fixed UP in clothes he wasn't used to, and Kitty at first pre­ tended she didn't Understand that he bad come to see her. "Ill eall my father," she said. "Per- u want to talk about cutting know If you?" The girl w«>st»>Al^J^lAte»teU,Ure beat about the busbr butsire: answered quite as directly}; hint's "Certainly tnot' - YOu'reioo laay to be allowed to keep oeHipfcriy-wftth any one." Then an Idea flashed through her mind. "But*it you'll outoscordwood a whole year dVecji .day but Sunday and holidays youi'magvc&ttur.'and/see me-- just once. Herecoiries fatJaeT and you'd better make arrangements to cut for him on shares." • i • 1 ^ To Kitty's surprise Shiftless Rufe stood his ground, A4»d Wheti. her father Came in started at«ftca to .fdWeuss the proposed arrangement.^ - .e£ "Wal, Mist' Sylvester," tisaid Rufe, grasping the old man's hand, "I ain't never been no great; band for "work, but I must have a chance to keep com- p'ny with Kitty, arid s'he says I may come and see 'htft after I've ' chopped cord wood a year: It w't'Wno fun, but I must have Kitty, and ifi got to work to git her, why, th?n l have, and that's all there is about-It." --~ Sylvester was at'^rj^t inclined to be angry at Kitty for trifling with Rufe, but concluded to humor the situation, and, bidding Kitty leave the room, told the young eH&i li#was rotfdjjjjptb make a bargain w^h h^. -M ' "You can cut coPdwoodvoff -4he estate on shares, Rufe, of course, if yOu want to, and I'll set aside some trees right near your father's shanty cn the other side of the flats. Rut yon want to take off them fine boots and them doe­ skin pants, and that there broadcloth ccat> and you don't want to put therm on again till you've worked hard a whole year. You're too shiftless to be allowed to think a single minute about Kitty now, and I suppose you always will be, but-- "You needn't say no more, Mist' Syl­ vester,""^put in Shiftless Rube. "But can't I see Kitty again just long enough 1o say good-night?" "Yes," said the old man, "and I'll tell her weW made thfe "bargain she suggested." Then-he called Kitty into the room. As she entered she noticed for the first time that Rufe, dressed up, wasn't at all bad looking, and that he seemed twice the man he had been before. .She kept perfect silence till her father had finished. Then she reached -out and took Rufe's big, soft, paw in her own small hand--a hand that was calloused with hard work in spite of its little­ ness. "Mr. Dunning," she said, "I hope XQU'll keep your bargain -faithfully_as I shall keep mine. After you have^ worked hard for a year you may come and see me4once. Whether you may come again or not will depend .on your­ self Good evening, Mr. Dunning." Nobody had ever called Shiftless Rufe Mr. Dunning before an$.tf!te title scared him far taore than'the notion of working every day for twelve long months. Fron^^&jtime he; left the big after all. For Kitty [y much interested in the who had toiled so long • VvU.V < UttU j WtlCU steadily for the privilege of her "just once," and it might be, the old man reasoned, that she would al­ low him to call the second time, and perhaps a third, arid perhaps--but the thought was too awful to eritertalri and the old man strove to dismiss it Failing In that he questioned the girl, who refused to answer satisfactorily and the two had a quarrel in which Mrs. Sylvester joined, taking Kitty's part most vigorously. On the last day of the stipulated twelve months Shiftless Rufe went to his work early and began with quick, eager strokes to cut a big hickory. He had become an expert axman by this time and the sun was not yet high In the sky when the big tree came down with a crash. It so happened that I was over in the big woods that day with a neighbor looking at the timber. We heard the tree fall and at the same time a scream as If a strong man were In mortal agony. In a hurry I ran in the direction of the sound, guided by low moans that followed the shriek. There, plriried urider a branch of the fallen tree, lay Shiftless Rufe, badly crushed and barely conscious. For the first time in the entire year he had mis­ calculated in felling his tree. As quick­ ly as we could my neighbor and I cut away the branch and released the young man. Then we got together a stretcher of boughs on which we pro­ posed to carry him home. As we lifted him he opened his eyes. "I wish you'd take me over to Syl­ vester's first,!' he said, faintly. :"I want to call on his daughter. She said I might come to-niglit--and so did her father--and--maybe--If you take me home before I go there I won't be able to see her to-night at all." So we carried him across to the big house on the Barkley estate. Part of the way he was quite unconscious and part of the way he was pathetically dellrloos, but when we reached the house he was quite rational, though very weak. And so it was that I was present when Rufe Dunning made love to Kitty Sylvester.. His love-making didn't take long, for his strength was about gone, but he had time .to say what he wanted to say and to hear what he wanted to hear. And when, after a long look into Kitty's eyes, poor Rufe peacefully closed his own, his big hand, no longer soft and pulpy, but sinewy and strong, clasped her little one in the clasp of an accepted lover. --Nebraska State JoumaL. GOTHAM'S PRETTIEST WOMAN. When Blown tip. A miner, who was bldfsrn up while blasting a rock, describes his sensations thus: "You see, It's"so sudden. It's ovffr just about the time you begin 10 un­ derstand that something is happening. You know, I had the satchel in ray hand, and put it down. Then I got house that nigt$/ihej]ivas fit totfrop the I afraid of It. All at once every thing wa* title "shiftless# Next morning, as j light. I don't think I saw the flask. soon as it was light, the s^j his ax was heardacro; ing out the chips as he cl the first tree of his year 1 Long bbfoi^. jSBoi&f that day g of llAay way, my face was not exactly to- & bitr I ward the explosion. But-then even­ down j thing got light, lighter than day--kind stent, of blinding. his big-1 /There was an awful crash. It was pulpy hands |werer"blistered and swol- just at the same time. I was terrified, len, and by sun^owi^ they weiSfea sight and wanted to get away. It was just to behold. That night his'** "mother | as if I was having the nightmare. cried over them apd^-ge&ljin} to stop thinking about tluj, proudv ^stuck-up girl on the other side or tljfe "valley. The idear!"*nnUttered the Wd wom­ an between .whiffs" at, jf&r iSSy pipe, hile she d^l^fi^'.'Shff^l^i^' Rufe's hand. "Do ^o^i^fe^lW ^ylvester ill look at ̂ oii'^jjlst.^^U^^ you've been fool eiio^gktf# whole year? Why, xt'si ruiffielay„r!diklis. I alius knew y#ft. in the head, Rufe, but I didn'.t thinly you'd make a fool of yeurse^MKi]?- - no con­ ceited Sylvester gJifc*V ^ To this and mudhjrfore ojf'^he same sort, both from his father and mother, Shiftless Rufe ma69 jto*epjy, but while yet the next »§rnl$g \$is gray the sound o£-his'*lrosy^ax was again wafted across the vajl^y, and this con­ tinued to the going" 'dO^iilgf the sun. And so it went on, day after day, all the fall and through the -fainter.' -No mat­ ter how deeprt^^ov^fH'^m Stormy the weather, Rufe toiled on unceasing­ ly. When the days were shortest, In the middle of thtfjiyjtnter, lie j^n^etimes began before daybreak,.and worked after dark, splitfefg^tlfe^^'lengths" he had chopped^iiioi^4}i%ieU«td stapes Into four-foot wood"-byrthe light of a tal­ low dip studf Into ar^inrjagi^etp of the pattern so coihmon whofi the? "Corners" was new, but no$r, ra^-^Jy see^. Somehow, though, I knew just wiijit the matter was. A man can think fast­ er than he has any idea of. I knew that some of the others were nearer the explosion, and I said to myself, 'They're blown to bits, that's certain.' You un­ derstand, this was all in a second--all at once, really. 'Then it was exactly the same asjif I had been hit with a stick. I thought it was a big stick bigger than any man could swing, and that is must be worked by machinery. It hit me on the head and all over. I went sailing into the air a long, long way. My ears roared, and the wind blew into my face. 'I knew when I struck the ground, for I remember saying to myself, 'Well, I'm done for.' 'I don't know just when I lost my right senses, or when they came bacjt, but when they did come back, it seem' ed queer that I was there.' still. • I thought I had been thrown somewhere else. I could feel fire burning me. It was my clothes. They were smoking and almost blazing. - - .t 'I was bruised all over, and could not hear very well. My voice'sounded as though somebody else were -talking. That's all I can tell you about it." i'he Most Costly Leather. The most costly leather now in the Before sprjij^. f§|ks; gpl to -gOing by I market Is known to the trade as "piano Rufe's ax and lantern In beginning j leather." American tanners years ago and leaving off work- *njofnlijigs and I discovered the secret of making Rus- nights the same as they g<Tby the big - "--1 tannery whistle down the valley now, and nobody whgtr.b^ganr work as early as Rufe did a$d worVed'till Ruff's lan tern was out at, nighfcfwas counted lazy. And Rufe di^mWre tbaift7chop cord wood that winter.^ He learned^to read, and this .bot]|?-hlii father considered pro­ ceeding. Yet jricfr^&e-: ,T^t ^o meet­ ing every Sunda^as r%nterly as the most pious and fhfiffy of the" whole sia leather, with its peculiarly pungent and lasting odor, but the secret of mak ing piano leather is known only to a family of tanners In Thuringia, Ger­ many. This leather has but one use-- the covering of piano keys. A peculiar, thing about ft is that the skins fi which It Is tanned are prepared ahm entirely in America.. It Is a particri kind of buckskin. The skin of the" common red or Virginia deer will not HERE has always been a popu­ lar idea that New York did not value beauty in its women as highly as style. Gotham's feminine types are perfect iri their way, clear cut, high bred, well-groomed, abd above all, perfectly clad. But they are not, as a rule, pretty, In the sense that a Southern or Western man would use the term. It Is In the South that beauty reigns supreme and a girl on the other side of the Mason and Dixon line, be she efver so rich, clever or. stylish, Is not MARIE cnuncniLii. a belle unless she has also the divine gift. But lately Gotham, untrue to tradition, has been imitating the South­ ern cities and worshiping at the shrine of beauty.. Miss Marie Churchill is the honored object of this adoration. She is conceded to be the most beautiful woman in New York. She is promi­ nent in the more exclusive social cir­ cles,, Is a woman of superior accom­ plishments and a prime favorite among the 400. When the picture printed here was taken Miss Churchill posed in the costume she wore at the f anions Brad­ ley-Martin ball. Afflicted with Americanitis. The physical troubles of college wom­ en In the United States have been as­ cribed to what is named Americanitis, rather than the college education. Americanitis 1s defined as the desire to "get on." regardless of everything else. It is Americanitis that prompts the farmer's daughter to get a college education and make opportunities for herself better than those her mother and father had before her. Therefore ilie goes to a small college In a small town with a preparatory department attached, where she often begins her education as a "junior prep." She fur­ nishes a single room, in which she, and offeri a roommate, study, sleep, eat, make their clothes, and sometimes do their laundering. She keeps up in her studies, joins a choral class, a literary society and the. Young Women's Chris­ tian Association, goes to chapel once every day and twice on Sunday, and very often falls in love arid "gets en­ gaged" besides. At the beginning of her senior year she breaks down. That is the least she could be expected to do under such conditions. - feet Is one that women have always liked to emulate, and tts appearance in. 1897, together with a host of other re­ vivals, will be hailed with delight. Patches are, of course, the natural ac­ companiment of powdered hair, and they have not beeh forgotten. The woman wrbose white locks are piled co- quettisbly on top of her head plans a pretty contrast by scattering half a dozen little black patclies over her cheeks ;rind brow. The effect Is still further .helped-out if slue chances to have dark eyes and eyebrows that are slender dark"?eurves. No French naar- qulse of olden time could look daintier than the dame who manages her pow­ der and patches aesthetically. Should Widows Marry Again?. Princess Beatrice may be embarrass-' ed at some future time at being remind­ ed of the inscription on a wreath she laid on her husband's coflin--"Until dea£h do us part; until death reunites us," On the continent the Opinion is generally held that widows shouid not condemn themselves to per­ petual solitude, and It is sustain­ ed by--of all things, in such a sentimental subject--the statistics of suicide. According to M. Morselli, who is an authority on the subject, out of 365 men who have committed suicide in Italy, 100 were married, 108 were bach­ elors, and 157 were widowers. In France it Is among the widowers that suicide finds the most victims. As re gards married women, out of every hundred wh6 commit suicide in- Italy and France, the majority are widows. In France the number of widows who commit suicide is twice as great as that of women whose husbands are living.-- New York Ledger. -- . ^ .Popular Jacket for Winter. "The tendency of the winter jacket is'toward the blouse effect, which is ob­ tained by darts," writes Isabel A. Mal- lori, in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Yokes, collars, cuffs, pipings in fur, whether it be mink, Persian lamb, er­ mine, sable, silver and black fox, or monkey, will be popular. Velvet and silk'braid of all widths are much used. Satin cloth is really the novelty of the day; and Obtains in heliotrope, green, mode,1 golden-brown, silver-gray, royal bite,' dove anl Lincoln gr^en. On this are seen, not only the fur decorations mentioned, but also a very thick, cOarse, black'woolen braid, and tiny straps of leather matching or contrast­ ing with the cloth in color. Collars con­ tinue high, are gored and undulating, ana may be lined with fur, velvet or labe. Watteau effects are seen. Capes will continue to be worn. The novelty In their trimming is a flounce of the same material about the edges, de­ scribed by the French modiste as 'cut In round.'" " When She's in Good Form, When invited for a day's yachting the girl doesn't rig herself out in nauti­ cal costume. She never forgets an unobtrusive deif- erence to old age. She lets somebody else boast of her season's conquests. She doesn't make her chaperone feel a "superfluous woman." ; She regards her writing desk as one of the surest mediums tosioclai success. She. is clever enough To make peOple believe that she never considers three "a crowd." Her perfumes are of the best, the faintest and the most mysterious. However well acquainted she may be with certain members of a party, she doesn't make the others feel like "rank outsiders" by constantly addressing her intimates by familiar names.-- Philadel­ phia Inquirer. Adclina Patti. t •• • - - - M-v-.. make the leather--a species of the anl- neighborhood..No^ thaj h^- berame spe-1 mal known as the gray deer, and found eially rellgiotis, so far as I kriow, but j oniy in the by going .to mee'tln^ he jeould get a glimpse or t\jro every Sunday of Kitty Sylvester^ and lt-was a little thing. In­ deed^ for the man wlio Was chopping cord wood a whole year that he might make one call omher, to listen to a ser­ mon once a tveek,.:so that he could sit for a whole hour under thS same roof with her. Nobody-knew theft how this devotion of her once shift&s^, no-account lover affected Kitty Sylvester,, but we learned afteiward/that thfe sound of vicinity of the great northern lakes, alone furnishing the material. The German tanners have an agency in the West, which collects the skins of the deer from the Indians and the half-breed hunters, who supply the market. When the skins fure re­ turned to this> country as piano leather they cost the piano manufacturer from $15 to $18 a pound. Odd Marriage Custom. The people of Lithuania believe in being forearmed for emergency. At his* ax from Jtnoniihg to' night echoing I least so a curious custom in regard to across the valley became as music In I the marriage cermony would seem to. her ears, and>that the litght of his can- 1 indicate. It is said that before the die shining through the trees in the I marriage ia celebrated the mother pf mornings ari<^ the evenings was de-1 the bride gives her daughter a parting light to her eyes. At last the long I maternal box on the ears in the pres- aome; tfrr^woiod." "No," said Ru£C2ioi,£ctly, "I want to winter, with Its. ^ld. its storfps, and Its darkness w4'® a>vay ;̂the spring passed, and the summer'with |ts heat came on. • 1 ' ' Now Rufe'll Weaken,'* said the loaf­ ers about the fifbre. '"jt's all right to work hard x^lleh it's cold and the air is bracing, but he'll let up ifi-the hot weather, sure.1' ti But they were Wrong.f AU through the heated term Rufe's ax'gave noisy notice that he yf.ns still working, and when fall began it w-as still biting ont chips and splitting UP lengths. {At last the year was ui>/^%cg^ylves- ter had begup^to ask hiipself whether he had not ma^e au exceedingly bad enc»i of a number of witnesses. The reason for this remarkable proceeding Is that If the wife should at any time wish to secure a divorce she would have the plea that physical force was used to make her enter the bonds of matrimony. m As He Understood It. The Count--I have been invited to a tin wedding. The Baron--Ah! The girl. Is being married for her money?--Puck^ The people say lots of disagrceablf things about summer at this time of the year that they feel sorrv for next -winter. The New Shaped Corsets. Itnis.being announced by the fash- fonablb modistes and women tailors that) they will fit gpwns only over the hefTO'ShapBxeprsets, while the cloak and mantle makers say that all garments tor, tlje;.$iIUand winter trade will also jbe, amodel(ei3 'f°r figures wearing the same style. There Is a most pronounced change from the old corset, whose chief end seefned to be to accentuate the length of the waist and to raise the bust. The new corset has what the shop girls call "the low bust" and "sud­ den hip." The back is noticeably nar­ row, the hips very full and the bust en­ tirely without - formation. Except at the Waist line the garment scarcely touchesjthe figure at all. The change will not be objected to by slender wom­ en, while, on the otljer hand, to women with a superabundance of flesh the new corset will be nothing short of an abom­ ination, which they will be slow to adopt. Harmony in Contrasts. We have always been taught to be­ lieve that one of the canons of good dressing is the harmony of color in eyes and gown; but this theory has been exploded, and it has been clearly dem­ onstrated by women of good taste that nothing is more fatal to good effect than a blue-eyed woman gowned in blue, or a brown-eyed woman dressed all in brown.; - Colors of contrasting shades are always becoming and styl­ ish if properly Combined; and if well suited to the wearer are very effective. --Woman's Home Companion. Latest photograph of the prima don- n:i, showing the great singer as she looks to-day. Popularity of the Tea-gown. The tea-gown has never been lost to sight since it first came into general use, and this dressy affair is courted by many women both summer and win­ ter. A gabrielle front and Watteau back are inseparable from the regula­ tion tea-gown, though the most elab­ orate and newer editions of this style of dress are more like a fancy princess style than anything else. However, in this, as in all other garments, variety is the rule, and the manner of trimming and change of materials lend style and effect to ^ie garment more than the original cut, which may be in belted style or not, as the fancy dictates.-- Woman's Home Companion. Business for Hairdressers. There is one business which has prof­ ited greatly by the bicycle craze. Toe fashionable hairdressers are always ready to sing the praises Of Che wheel. It is a matter of trade with them. The bicycle girl has found that f^ince ehe has taken to wheeling her hair requires twice the attention that It (id. The dust and dirt of the coun.ry roads make frequent shampooing necessity. Never put a bottle nipple into yoar mouth and then Into the baby's mout h. This will often prove dangerous. Plain, boiled water, given l»etwe?n J world '0f surprises, seeing. Powder and Patches Again. Women who are never satisfied with the color of their hair will no doubt be glad to learn that powdered hair is again to be in vogue. Not, of course, for dally wear, but for dinners and all manner of dressy functions. The ef. feedings, will often aid the digestion and satisfy the child when restless. ' An infant is a creature of habit, and usually responds to the wish of the i mother, if the mother has order in her will. , Feeding at night after the third month Is both inconvenient ana un­ necessary. Sleep at night is better than food. More Infants' lives are taken by over­ feeding than by Starvation. Never liken an infant's digestion or diet to your own. Vomiting and diarrhea are indica­ tions that the child is either sick or ap­ proaching sickness, and probably needs a physician. The Koreans haVe anSlntetfestifig fe gend concerning the manner In which Tong>Pak-Shk,'the Methuselah of their mythology, got the bettor of . satan. Tong lived 1,Q00 years and acquired great wisdom., The later..years of his life were spent1(iri £shiii&, but not wishing to dlmjnkii ̂ he stock of flsb In the river, Jie{usedf a straight piece of wire instead of a hook. Thus he was able to enjoy the excitement and pleasure of fishing for several centu­ ries without catching a single fish. Ralizing that sooner or later the devil who did death's errands would be looking him" ujp; he changed his name and abode with each generation and thus eluded him. In the meantime the evil one disguised himself In a flowing Korean robe which covered up his talk concealed* hla horns under a mourner's hat three feet to diameter and -wrapped his legs in curious pad­ ded stockings,"sb that he easily passed for a native. ^He heard that T^ng was fishing in the Hau river. So he* col­ lected a quantity of charcoal and washed it in that stream. TJi^ of course blackened the water, and Tong, being surprised and annoyed, went up to discover the cause. Finding the devil washing the charcoal," he asked what lie was "doing. The devil replied that he was trying to make it white. Old Tong iri liia astonishment was thrown off his guard and.said:; "I ha^e lived in Korea hundreds of years, and of course have met many fools, but I never saw a big enough fool to try to Wash charcoal white." The devil at once knew his man, and unfolding his tall by way of exhibit­ ing his wan-ant of arrest, seized Tong and hurried him alone In the direction of that dark portal through which all mortals must pass/ On the way the devil, being in good humor over his success, chatted pleas­ antly with Tong, who ventured to ask him what he most abhorred and was most afraid of.. The devil ipade a fa­ tal blunder--one which might have been excusable for a mortal, but was most stupid for a devil--lie, told the truth. He said that he hated and fear­ ed but fouiTterrestrial things--a branch of a thorn tree, an empty salt bag, a worn-out straw sandal of an ox; and a particular kind of grass that grows in Korea--the foxtail--and that when these were put together he could not go within thirty feet of them. In return the devil asked Tong what fie most feared. ~ Tong, being wise arid" experienced, lied and said he was in mortal terror of a roasted ox head and mackalee--a kind of beer.' Shortly after this exchange of con­ fidence Tong noticed that they were passing a thorn tree, around the roots of which foxtail grass was growing, and, curiously enough, under it was an old bag and a cast-off ox sandal: so, making a sudden spring from the side of the devil, he gathered up the bag, the grass and sandal, and hang­ ing them on a branch of the tree his charm was perfect. The devil could not come within thirty feet. •> Of course the devil used every In­ ducement to get Tong to cOme forth, but the old fellow stuck to his post. At last the devil wept off apd got a roasted ox head and a cask of macka­ lee, and rolled tiiem in to Tong, confi­ dent from what he had told him, thai* Tong would be driven outside the mag­ ic circle. But when he saw Tong eat­ ing heartily of the beef and drinking the mackalee with gusto, he realized that the game was up, and despairing­ ly departed. Tong's long life was due to the acci­ dent by which ills page in the Book of Fate stuck to the next one, so that his name was overlooked. When ulti­ mately the complaint w;as made that Tong had been living too long, it took the registrar of the lower regions 346 years to bunt ht> his name in the archives. • ; * - Forgiving Small Injuries. Hpw often are our feelings hurt by a sharp look, a sarcastic laugh or an ill- tempered remark. Oyr ignorance in some common branch may be exposed to laughter, a thoughtless slip of the tongue, jeered at, or/a Careless mistake be received with (derisive laughter. What a feeling of anger surges through one! Months may pass, the amused spectator wil haVe( forgotten the inci­ dent, but the scene lis seared on one's memory, perhaps never tp be forgotten nor forgiven. . ; . - These little slights are harder to for­ give than big injuries, they rankle and sting, and seem to grow to huge propor­ tions. " Being brooded over, they seem like the deepest irisults.' How are We to treat these mocking foes? First think carefully on both sides. The scoffer probably at once forgot the Incident, Is It wdrth while theri to cher­ ish a dislike against an unconscious foe who can never make reparation ? Might you ni>t have laughed If the cases had been reversed? Console your­ self with the thought that if you have made one such blunder he has probably I Mrs. Everard Cotes has recently com­ pleted a short novel entitled "The Hes­ itation of Miss Anderson." ' vl ,,-v, Mr. Gladstone said recently that the century has produced only two great novelists--Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot. Mr. Thomas Hardy is said to bw yery sensitive to weather influences. It Is his habit to visit the places described in his novels. H. C. Chatfleld-Taylor's next novel is to beealled "The Vice of Fools," and is: to be published shortly. It is a story of Washington society life. Lord Lytton, grandson of the famous author, BulwCr Lytton, recently reach­ ed his majority, an event which was elaborately celebrated at the family home in England. - John Howeiis, son of the novelist, William Dean Howells, recently receiv­ ed a diploma in architecture from a Paris* institution, where he had been a student five years. 0 " Thomas Whittaker, New York, has in preparation a new edition de luxe of the classic poets. The volumes are to be octavo, printed from type, and bouncl In two styles, one for the library, the other for presentation. It is understood that the first edition of Hall Caine's "The Christian," pub­ lished simultaneously in England and the United States, represents: one hun­ dred thousand volumes. Translations in all languages have been asked for. Katherine Pearson Woods has com­ pleted the second volume of her triol- ogy of studies on the social message of Christianity In the first century. The story Is called "The Son of Ingar," and opens In Jerusalem at the time of the council of the Apostles, and depicts that period of early Christian history. Anthony Hope Hawkins, being about to sail-for America for a lecture tour, was asked if he intended to produce a book of American impressions. "No," he said, "I shall be there too long to write my Impressions. I understand that no traveler ever writes a book who stays In a country more than a week, and. I shall be in-Amerlea three Months at least." Edwin Arnold will publish at once a new story by H. G. Wells, entitled "The Invisible Man." Mr. Wells' scientific romance, "The War of the Worlds," which is now appearing in the Cosmo­ politan, will be published by Mr. Ar­ nold later In the year. Mr. Wells has been at work on a longer novel, which he calls "Love and Mr; Lewlsham," Intermittently for more than a year, and Is also thinking*over another ro­ mance of "The Time-Machine" type. a resolution to forgjve and forgetrthe slight, and do you be more careful about scofiling at other people's mis­ takes. The greatest surgeon may not know who wrote Henry Esmond; nor the greatest artist the situation of Moscow, but are they not great all the same? Fish Are Short-Sighted. All fish and Other creaturos thatjfcve below the surface^ of ithe water ar» short-sighted. _ Of what use to them would long sight- be when, at a comparatively shallow depth, the range of •yijsion is limited, from lack of light, to bnly a few yards? The result is-Jhe crystallne lons of^a fish's eye is bulged to an alriie^spher leal shape, rind the fish must JJve In a up suddenly out of a fog, The nets we: stretch for them would hardly take a fish, a^: least In ^ayligbt, if they coAld^see a§ we do in . " ; | J Headed HeV Off. She--I see that a young lady down East somewhere was cured of hie coughing by eating ice cream. He (with great presence Of mind)-- Yes, but you know the old saying, "What is one man's cure may be an­ other man's poison."--Cleveland Lead er. • ' Your hand is never the worse tor do­ ing your own work. After a girl is 28 years old, she doesn't believe in long engagements. MUCH IN LITTLE. Texas, In spite of its huge herds, im­ ports much of the butter it uses. The French language contains at least thirteen per cent of useless words. The best briar root, from which pipes are made, comes from France and . Italy. No peStOn under sixteen years of age • is allowed to enter a theater or tavern I n H e l i g o l a n d . ' : - 4 1 Quebec, with a population of 70,000, has six dally newspapers, four of which are In the French language . It is estimated that greater qualities of gold and silver: ljave jjeen sunk In the sea than are now in circulation on earth. Golf was Invented by a lonely Scotch shepherd, who had nothing, better to amuse him than knocking stones into holes with his crook. The water is so clear in the fiords of Norway that objects an inch and a half In diameter can be distinctly 'seen at a d e p t h " ; o f 1 5 0 f e e t . ? . 5 " In London only one-twelfth of the postoffice.staff is employed on Sunday duty, and the average length,of Sun­ day-duty Is less than six hours. There is bjit . one factory in Japan where leath&r shoes are made. The na­ tives, excfe|>t'those about' the court, wear sandals of straw and wood. . The Vatican at Rome is the largest palace that has ever been erected. In length it is 1,200 feet, and in breadth 1,000 feet. It contains 4,422 rboms. It is now proiiosed that ail goods im-r ported Into England should be marked "foreign-made" only, without refer­ ence to the country In which they are manufactured. i-'» Tobacco Taking the Place of Or Angsdi Since the great freeze which destroy­ ed so many orange Orchards in -Florida, the people ofrthat State have turned . llllllpViL ... Ltfcrelr attentiwi to .-other 'produetsl^bev! made ten. Everybody has, Next, make" sj^es fruit, which they had previously raised almost exclusively. Next year Florida will harvest an immense to­ bacco crop. It will be ten times that of any other year. Having a large area adapted to the production of tobacco of excellent quality, it is surprising that the crop has not been more extensively cultivated there. The war in Cuba has limlted the .supply usually obtained S£pm t^at island qpd has furnished the incentive for "the increase that i& to b* made in tobacco acreage in Florida, where many of the greatest cigar manu­ factories in the country are located. He Knew the Kind of Milk. Tom (at popular watering place)--I drank some inlfk last night which made me sick. I don't understand it. Milk never affected irie that way be-, fore. Dick--Yori are not accustomed to this water.--Up-to-Date. How the Letters Are Used. The proportionate use of letters In the printing of a. newspaper is as fol­ lows: e, 1,000; t, 770; a, 728; I, 704; s, 680; o, 072; n, 670; h, 540; r, 528; d, 392; 1, 360; u, 290; c, 280; m, 272; f, i36; w, 190; y, 184; p and g, 168; b, 158; v, 120; k, 88; j, 55; q, 50; x, 46; z, 22. A preacher's idea of a promising young newspaper man is one he can work for free church notices. We have noticed that advertising so^ licitOrs always have a better opinion of people than the bill collectors. <V