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• re­ ft [the [in of tunes It so Fcould in Iiiv- lon |er he (i ne- ided and eh- »nly >rds, lues C: of v4. of it lyou ra­ id be ?nt it ral- iting plained and so I ;ht little"T^^^M^lBnt tke moon me. SPRlly I blamed it on I haapurchased a quantity old whisky and had a bottle me. The fish lost all their for me and my guide wondered whyTset there musing. The more I thought of it the more I was worried. finally I handed my guide the bottle and asked him to imbibe I have never in' my life met a guide, no matter how limited his knowledge of the habitat of fish, who was not a good judge of whisky. The guide took a hearty pull and smacked his lips, then he declared that it was the finest whisky that^he had ever drunk. I called his attention to tlie moon and he remarked that he had noticed it late on the pre­ vious evening and had spoken of its brightness. He said that the moon had reached its full on the previous night. 1 concluded that something similar had happened to me about twenty-four hours later. • I was all broke up and returned to the club house. I went to bed with­ out saying a word to anybody, wonder­ ing what vagaries my mind would con­ jure up nest. Every few minute* I looked out of the window, but the moon remained exasperatingly full. I did rfbt dare to say a word to anybody for fear of being put into a strait-jacket, but X solemnly declared that never would I touch another drop. I weut home by the morning train considerably worried. When I arrived in the city I bought a paper to divert my mind from the moon, which I was continually seeing before me in all stages of fullness and empti­ ness. The first thing my eyes encoun­ tered :Wfcere the headlines, 'Last Night's Ep£Q!pira the Mefin-g-Valuable Astron­ omical (lb "stervatrons. The people on the ferry-boat probably wondered why I looked so happy, but to this day I have kept the vow I made onthe previous night." , IT Oman's Love. As mankind ascends the steps of pro­ gress development and mounts to grander heights«nd finer conceptions,, the divinity of womanhood is realized more and more. No man can ever possess a fall rounded character whose life has not been hallowed by the love of one pure, good woman. And there is more strengthening wad support in a pair of those soft white arms than there is in braces of icon and griders of steel. In the daydawn of youth, when the kindling vision sweeps the plains of futurity and sees only the (blazonry of hopeful promise, the young man weds some damsel on whose tender cheek the dews of morn are still a-tremble. Then come the years of toil and labor, the cares and the worries, the joys and the disappointments. Man is prone to selfishness, and is too near-sighted to observe the hand that bears the cooling chalice to the fevered lips. But to the woman he is all in all. She has not a thought higher than his dear head, for that is, to her, as high as heaven. But every day he learns a truer arid more unconscious appreciation of her devotion. On the threshhold of his home, be it palace or cottage, he expects to see her waiting to welcome him when the toils of the day are over. There is something in her very presence--something soothing and re­ freshing. And her voice is dearer to him than all the melodies of the earth and sea and sky combined. Anticipa­ ting his smallest wishes, she teaches him to expect all that is best in life through her tender hands. And a man--if he be a man--is de­ voted and glorified by these pare and holy influences. As the years go by, even the fires of adversity but weld in closer union these two hearts. The sunlight of prosperity but causes each heart to throw out new tendrils that be­ come so wreathed and intertwined as to make of these twain but one perfect I being, just as God, in His all wise providence intended should be that re­ sult of wedded life. . The man who is incapable of that pure and loftly appreciation of woman's love, incapable of feeling the thrill of that noble intellectuality which is but a foretaste of joys that are to come in a world where the souls of these pure and tender wives and mothers shall shine wi|h a luster unequalled by the con­ centrated splendor of a hundred sums. --Atlanta Constitution. The Prettiest Actress in Paris* Thirty years aga;tlie]|>rettiest woman . 00- in Paris was Blanche person; now it is was seen down-town this afternoon . "r-v • mi *• « # • .1 A W T 1.. n i- angle IText, around her hair, ting line, of her serpent, er, and hjfyd her g before youvliave dis- flies, she will have booked bottom of the boat. You e with a jerk, and make a si the boat meanwhile drifting ore, You push off again, and be- casting, and by some accident you hook a trout. Then the fair one per­ haps screams, averts her face and calls you by a number of terms expressive of a tender and feeling but indignant heart, or she gets wildly excited, and twists the oar into your line. If the trout is firmly hooked she goes for him with the landing net, and if one thing more than another tries the human tem­ per it is to see a woman hacking with a landing net at his line. She frightens the fish av ay several times, and then catches the net in the bobfly, hits the half dead trout on the nose, breaks the cast and permits him to join bis re­ lations, with a piece of gut and an arti­ ficial fly in his mouth. The horror of trying to troll with woman-kind, the ex­ tent to whioh all the many hooks of a phantom minnow get inextricably en­ twined with her garments, ought not to be described by persons of feelings. In any one like these recreations, let' him be assured that he is no fisher, but a lover. If any one who does want to fish can keep his temper in the midst of these distractions, he is no husband, but a saint. "All hope abandon, ye who fish with ladies," might be written over all Highland boathouses. The only thing to# do id to abaudon hope of sport, and fleet the time carelessly, not toying with the tangles' of fly hooks in NeaeraV. hair. Land on an island, lunch, smoke, touch the light banjo, exchange senti' mental confidences, but do not think to fish with a woman in a boat. And -then, after all, when you come home she will mock yon for not having caught any trout. As if Mr. Francis Francis or Mr. Thomas Tod Stoddard, or Maul, who invented barbs for hooks could have caught trout with a lady in the boat/ Her presence may have other advan­ tages, that is a matter of private taste and sentiment, but to *ock fishing wo­ men is simply fatal, fttjt her presence in a boat on a loch is a gr^t lesson in the difficult art of grinning asd beating it. Fishers are now warned. Angling is quite difficult enough, thanks to weather and the wariness of fish; to add the perplexities caused by woman is merely wanton. j On the other side, he who has a WOEMUI with him QN the loch has a beautiful and charming substi­ tute for ail the other jxcuses in which, failure and incompetence find refuge. Englishmen as HUH bands. I wish a few American women could have English husbands for about 'dne month. They would then realize what it means to take all the money that Charles has got, while Charlie laughs at your cutene3S and then laughs still more when at midday you call him up on the telephone, ask him if he loves you, tell him you have seen a bonnet that will make him think you are 15 years old, and repeat that delicious day when you first met him, and won't he please send you a check for it? The English husband is not built this way. His creed is that a woman should have as little' money as possible, as few desires, aqd then look as well as women who have more money and gratify all their wishes. The Englishman as a man is most interesting--as a husband he is a failure.--New I ork Graphic. A Coincidence. "I'm interested in that young man," said stranger Number One. "So am I," said Number Two; "quite a coincidence, isn't it ?" "•Yes, so it is. I've watched him for tt number of years, and I think he has the making of a smart man in him. In fact, 1 have taken quite a fancy to him." "And I lent him five dollars over a year ago, and I'm quite interested to know when he intends to pay it. Yes, we are both of us quite interested in him, and as I remarked before, it's quite a coincidence." Then each looked fiercely at the other, and turned on his heiel simultaneously i which was quite a coincidence, ' A Peculiar Divorce* The lawyer was sitting at his desk, absorbed in the preparation of a brief. So bent was he on his work that he did not hear the door as it was pushed gently open nor see the curly head that was thrust into his office. A little sob attracted his notice, and turning he saw afaee that was streaked with recent tears, and told plainly that the little one'R feelings had been hurt. "Well, my little one, did you want to see me?" "Are you a lawyer?" "Yes. What is it you want?" "I want," and there was a resolute ring in her voice, "I want a divorce from mv papa and mamma."-- Boston Journal. Mo Sy mpathy Wanted. Miss Prye--I thought it my duty, "Mrs. Braggs, to tell you that Mr. Braggs Mile. Depoix. The first was fair, the second is dark; the first, even in her youtlk, had the dimpled plumpness which (pnludjtily became vexatious obesity; the >na is slender and thin, all muscle, ehoftt a suspicion of fatness--just a covering of flesh on her bones. £|Ct is she is pretty, distinctly and niftgly pretty; with dark hair cling- Jier forehead, clear deep eyes, febrows drawn with a single if a master's hand; a long oval something sweet and maidenly msuai in her whole person, kall, the distinction whioh tan of thf- world. There drunk. I thought you might be thank­ ful if I came and told you that none of us in the neighborhood think any less of yon on, that account. In fact, you have the sympathy of the entire com­ munity. Mrs. Braggs--You can keep your sym­ pathy to yourself. This spree will keep him out of the way while I am «1om>{i^ house.--Terre Haute Exprea*. THE plug-tobacco manufactu; have formed a trust in that sta^ ole deserve the name of plug ugl A FARMER at a circus is like d: own products--a specked tatnr. i&h st^ronndingiirv^e^ct in the'. troubled, these bees iiriJjjjWlf and themselves somewhere WithoxU, dur the storm. Upon eewciw^ for ti early next morning, the queen found dead upon the ground, while or sixty of the workers were seen flyit about the house. - From time to time one cr. probably those which had flol the entrance the day before- opening and Returned into tl while the remainder, after fly! for several hours, gradud appeared till not one was let was supposed that they had ability returned to their ^ the pla&p was visited in* where at least fifty of them They had thus, it will be tinctly remembered it, and had sought in vain to find entrance^ their new home, they had depended:^ their wonderful sense of loc&lisyand turned thither. Hour Private Marts art Read. To the average man or woman noth­ ing is more mysterious than the private mark which merchants ; use. It seems strange that a salesman, by a glance at the apparently meadMfcless letters, can tell the price which hie employer intends he shall get for an article. The cost of the article sometimes is indicated by letters as a* goide to the salesman, should the customer attempt to "knock him down." Private marks are formed from the letters of the mer­ chant's private word. Every merchant has his private word, and the salesman, knowing it, can tell the meaning of be various combinations of letter*. The private word usually contains ten let­ ters, each letter different. Besides the private word there is a "repeater," which may be a letter or letters, ,snd ia used to avoid repeating a letter. The private word" may be two 01 more words, provided the numbed of letters "does not exceed ten, an|^i|^av letter is repeated. Let as su My Big Heads is the private phrase used by a firm. "M" will stand for 1, "y" for 2. "B" for 3, "i" for 3, "g" fo* 5, "H" for 6, "e" for 7, "a" for 8, "dn$Of 9, "s" for 0. Suppose an article is stymied mygjwhy then myg stands for §1.2 If the article be something of grj value such as a sealskin sacque, f«tj stance, myg nijty stand for $T2o. the same rule mygs would indicl $12.50, or $1,250, according to the ture of the article. To write $1.22, form myg is not used, but for the secani 2, a "repeater," x being a common on| is used, and show® that it stands for ! same numeral as the preceding. Tht $1.22 would be written, if x were the peater, myx. The private words phrases used by some ©f the big firmi in town get so well-known that sales­ men in one store can read the privaitj marks used in another. Consequently merchants find it necessary to cha£(g% the private word or phrase frequently. Not a few firms use the lettecs Greek alphabet, thus further ing the general public*. But Engl Greek, they are all Greek to who knows not the; private phrase. H ^ Tke SeaTeagers ef Nature# • "Under the microscope," says Mr. Henry J. Slacks, F.v B. M. S., "it is seen that as animal and vegetable mat­ ter rots away, swarms of ferments come into existence. For example, in a drop of water, the flesh of a dead water-flea was noticed in commotion while the writer was engaged on this paper. Thousands of U-shaped vibrions were living upon it; all were in brisk motion, straightening and bending their bodies with whip-like flicks. They were a company of scavengers, sweetening the water by a chemical process necessary for their own nutrition. Our rivers and ponds would become factories of deadly poisons, and all the earth's soil would be contaminated, if inexpressible myriads of minute plants and animals did not attack dead organic matter, and cause its elements to enter into new and useful combinations. If we find thou­ sands of such little ferments at work upon a fragment of matter no bigger than a full stop of this print, wl*at must be the numbers in operation when tons upon tons are dealt with in the content* of our sewers, in the manures we put Oft. fields and in the vast multitudes oil human and other bodies that perish on land or in sea," Entirely Satisfactory. "I&ve you any work on punctuation?" she asked at the bookstore. "Sorry to say we are Just out," "Well, perhaps you could tell me what I want to know. What does m mark under a word signify ?" "That is to emphasize the wo*d." "0--I see. Thank you.* And as she passed out m clerk heard her whisper to herself: "And James put five marks under the word 'Dear!'"--Detroit Free Press. Infringing en Her Rights. Alfred (rapturously)--Now, darling, please name the happy day. Minnie (blushingly)--Three weeks from next Thursday, Alfred. Norah (through the keyhole)--AT JOT ?laze, miss, that's me reg'lar day oofe ez'll have to git married in the eaa^Jf part of the wake.--Chicago Tribune. Holed and Cornered. Wife--I mended the hoi© in your trousers pocket last night after you had gone to bed, John, dear. Now, am I not a thoughtful little wife? Husband (dubiously)--Well, er-ya-ea» vou are thoughtful enough, my dear; but how the mischief did you there was a hole in my pocket? WEHE the sun of _ to shine on us we should SOOR Father's • The rouna g r wiv^, att JiMr n * meola time; who |N|i much x> Boston, jjMpho, a ' oiten relMaa*' with ev«3'<»#w mimed four miktrinpoiiial he tluswifl^ -I parried Miss Site indeed, the for love- deacon of! oted far her w*» swer*i wrile*