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m 11 «u t̂ tn Daeafflber day. Outside alllooked cold and graft TllHl thefire burned high and brig&t, leletlng on all a ruddy light I wassitting at my table. Weaving my darling a childish tabls. lfc bis chair beside, my little four-year- old The firelight oa his sunny curls, light­ ing them with cold.i;'; • IDs blue eyes on a tablet did ild tort, X»: dimpled hand a-pencil brown and wont. On every page a mark, then tamed It o'er, Arrested. my attention ere twenty- four. jtttid I: "What are you doing, Willie dear?" > mamma; just turnin' pages here; I writes every page until I'm trough. Den I stops when I has no more to $••• , do." . < ' WF* ire turning pages each and every •'u, <m®» itd we have been taming sinoe life began; •very page in our life in time a day, •very page to written in a different Opening the book at the first, youthful Joys and childish fears; But later on some trifling joy, or pages bathed in tears; For every day another page is filled By our Creator who hath our for­ tunes willed. --Georgia M. Horn*. Washington, Pa., Aged 14. Dour Mortens Dotty One day when the snow was on the ground one of mamma's grown-up friends, came to see me, and she brought a lovely white primrose grow- dolly! Oh, I lfts! I th, for id: "I are so ln« In a pot, and a was so pleased thanked dear Miss that was her •hall always love good to a sick Mamma put Plant 11 table near held out my bands for d^l^Hps Hattie plac­ ed bar in My new dollf^l not very large, tor she was a baby, and she had on a long white dress, trimmed with lace, and a little white woolen sack, tied •"#ith pink ribbons, and such a cunning little lace hood on her head! Her •cheeks were pink, and she had a little bit of a dimple in her chin, so I nam- «ed her "Dotty Dimple," after a little iglffl in a story book. I went to sleep with Dotty in my ^kitns, and when I opened my eyes Jagaln I thought I was dreaming; but iI found Dotty Dimple was a real dolly mot like those in dreamland. Miss : Hattie had made a tiny blanket of Piak and white stripes knit together, .and when 1 woke Dotty was all cov­ ered up in tt Mamma said; "Itfhen you are able *o walk again, you shall have a doll •carriage for your bafiy, and the blan­ ket will be very pretty to put over TDotty when you take her out for an airing." v My good kind doctor came to see ^iae the next morning, and I asked him Tto guess what my dear Miss Hattie Nesmiih had brought me. He tried and tried to guess, and then he gave up; then I showed him my new dolly, And he was so surprised! What do you suppose he did? He took Dotty Dimple in his arms, and he asked her: 'What fs your name, little stranger T" I said: "Dotty Dimple," playing it was my dolly who answered. Then he made believe he wanted to have a secret with her; so he held her up and whispered loud on purpose, so I could hear. "Dotty, you are a pretty nice baby, and I think you will prom­ ise to help me get your mamma well again." Dotty said; "Yes, doctor." Tou know I spoke for Dotty. "Well," he said, "if you will coax your little mamma to try and leave her bed and sit in the sunshine, I will bring you something pretty. It will be for your little mamma; but you can make believe it is yours." "Oh, 1 know Dotty wished very much to find out what my good doctor would bring, but he only smiled and said: "Now, iittia TBS liimS, it la J OUT turu guess. It Is not a dolly. It is white, and it is alive." One pleasant mornisp when mamma | bad put me In a chair for the first time for I had not been able to move for j many weeks, my good, kind doctor 4rove up to the door. He looked ud to [.'-the window, and was so surprised to see me sitting there he waved his haad and cried out. "Brave little girl!" Then he tied his horse and made motions for me to shut my eyes. So [ I shut my eyes-as tight as I could, and put my hands over my face. Then I beard the doctor cotue up stairs, and when he opened the door he said, "Tou .may look now," so I opened my ayes, and he held out a basket with its cover tied down with blue ribbon. "Why, tfejr* dfev doctor.** I said, ["what have you in this pretty bss- 1 ket?" > The doctor smiled and he said, 'Now, little one. It is your turn to I guess, for you have matje me try so [many times." Well, I guessed "candj?" "No, try gain;" and then T guessed, "How­ lers?" "No." I could not think, so 1 (gave up. He put the basket In my lap and told te to untie the cover. When I took | off the cover what do you suppose I r? Why I never could have guess- led! It was the dearest, sweetest little [white kitty fast asleep In the basket, real live baby cat! "Oh, doctor," I said, "Is this darling |*ttferittr me to keep, really and tr.i?"' '•told me ft was all my own wt* keopaHM .̂ ahd t much. WelL all at oflefT kim thai dear little kitty nearly as much as 1 did my dollies! Kitty looked like a little ball of white wool until be opened his round blue eyes and put up his head and mewed. Oh, he was such a dear, with a little pink nose, and such soft, clean, white fur! There was a tiny bell tied on a blue ribbon around his neck, and when mamma put kitty on the floor be walked so softly I could only hear the little tell tinkle. I »""»M htm Kit-Cat Mamma got a ball of wool from her work basket and I unwound it, and Kit-Cat would run- after it when mam­ ma dragged it across the floor. He would put out bis Utile furry paws and try to hold the string: I laughed and laughed, and so did mamma. Kit-Cat was a great deal of com­ pany, for he would curl himself up-In my lap and sing himself to sleep in the sunshine. I would sit and listen to his song, and I said to mamma one day, "Mamma, dear, I know the words to Kit-Cat's song. It founds to me Just as though be sings, "Love me! love me!" If you listen to your kitty, you will hear him singing the same words my Kit-Cat sang a long time ago.--Ray Laurence in Little Folks. ^ 3 --: ' . v &A Children, just like grown folks, Are never happy unless they are in the depths of a fad; and whereas the grown folks' fads are always m nuis­ ance to their friends who don't hap­ pen to be afflicted at the time with the same malady, the fads the children enjoy most seem always, by a strange fatality, to be the ones whose indulg* ence gives their parents the most an­ noyance. The fad that the boys and girls like best at present is one that affords the grown folks, though, almost as much pleasure as it does the children, and that is the jack-o'-lantern processions that are nightly events in nearly all parts of the city during the warm weather. It is sometimes a deal of trouble to the parents or big brothers and Bisters to make the little wagons with their illuminated freight for little boys and girls who are not ingenious or inven­ tive enough or too lazy to work for their own pleasure; but after the work is done there is a very pretty result, and lots of fun that even the grown folks appreciate. In one neighborhood, and perhaps many others, the evening parade has come to be quite the popular amuse­ ment with young and old alike, and there is great rivalry as to beauty and ingenuity of idea in the formation Mid equipment of the little floats, some of which are surprisingly ajrtisti« and unique. When the father of the family comes home to dinner, his son brings him the materials he has gathered during the morning for the building of his float, and his tether, who has seen the other men's children in the neighborhood with handsome displays the night be­ fore, is determined that his son's show shall not only equal but surpass the nelghborhopd, and he gives up most of his dinner hour to the combination of the things he has brought from town with those his son has gathered at home. In the evening he comes home earlier to make improvements he has thought of since dinner time. The first night he sits on the porch and watches the parade pass by, but the second night, after he has made still further improvements in his son's equipment, he joins the procession himself, and the third night he insists that the whole family--except one per­ son to take care of the house, and he can't decide whom to leave at home, because everybody ought to take an interest--shall take their places in the line, to see the triumph of his part of the parade--or more correctly, "pa­ geant," after he has joined it. One of the most elaborate In town occurred on the east side last week, when the procession was more than two blocks long and each float prettier than another. Birds, animals, ships and other figures were brought out In relief by the candles behind them and most appropriately the procession Was headed by a boy who bore aloft an isinggiass presentment of the Yellow Kid, his shapeless dress bearing the characteristic inscription, "Ma thinks I'm in bed. See!" Samples of the cheerful and fully unconscious Ignorance of things American displayed by the European press continue to come in. A picture was recently printed in the London Illustrated News of the Hoboken fire, showing the Hudson river spanned by two great bridges. Another delicious morsel is gleaned from "Ueber Land und Meer," a magazine on the style of Harper's Weekly, published in Berlin, which gives the following interesting news: "Mr. Bryan, the Democratic candidate In America, is naturally be­ sieged by an army of newspaper jje- porters, who watch his every move. He is at present busy on his farm har­ vesting his wheat, and the Amorican newspapers are full of comments on the fact that he does not hesitate to perform the most menial duties, and that he dresses himself like a common farm hand. Governor Stone, of Mis­ souri, and Governor Cannan, of Cali­ fornia, both of whom are also farmer* by vocation, are visiting him in his labors in order to get the harvest un­ der shelter in due time. Through this assistance he will be enabled to go to Kansas City to attend the na­ tional convention." f «» Sip.,. . . other chronicled if la announced that a* Italian physician, Dr. Telro, -has hap­ pily perfected an invention of the ut­ most importance, namely, spectacles wherewith one can see In the dark, and that so minutely as to be able to read a paper, to seek tiny articles on the floor, ground, etc. These specta­ cles consist of eoupted concave-coavex teases, beftfoen which is a pellicle, the Origin and preparation whereof is the secret of the inventor. A French syn­ dicate has recently purchased the in­ vention for the enormous sum of 1,000,- 000 francs, to be partly in cash awl the remainder In stock of the society under construction. Another Italian invention is that of the civil engineer, Joachim Rossi, of Catania, Sicily, cap­ tain in the Italian naval department service, who has devised an instru­ ment to which he has given the name of navipendulum, because it permita the calculation of the rolling of shlpe, even in stormy seas. Thanks to the use of this apparatus, a naval engineer can calculate prior to building a pro­ jected ship the major or minor grade of stability she will really have at sea. The fact that many vessels prove alter completion of insufficient stability.and some even subject to unexpected ca­ tastrophes by reason of such defect* conclusively demonstrates the value of this new experimental method of re­ search and the utility of the navipen­ dulum for all shipbuilders: The most noted technical reviews of Great Bri­ tain, such as .the Shipping World.Ship- ping and Mercantile Gazette, Naval and Military Record, the Engineer, etc., have treated diffusely of the important Invention of the young and modest scientist, who does honor to the Italian navy, some publishing his entire treatise, others describing the appar­ atus and placing its photograph before their readers, together with the por­ trait of its inventor. The Italian sec­ retary of the navy has provided at state expense for the construction of the navipendulum, intrusting It to the Laboratory Galileo of Florence, over­ coming no slight difficulties to render the apparatus an instrument of pre­ cision, of colossal dimensions and per­ fectly successful in the working of all its several parts. •HE SLAVE-TRADC. , -# hkamm Manner in Which |bm Wm (ferried in Mm (IM SUyft In the larger ships the space between the top of the cargo and the under side of the deck was sometimes as much as five feet. To devote all that space to- air was. fn the mind of the thrifty slaver, sheer waste. So he built a shelf or gallery six feet wide all the way around the ship's hold, between the deck and the slave floor that was laid on top of the cargo. On this shelf was placed another layer of slaves, thus increasing the number carried by nearly 50 per cent. The crowding- In the big ships. having two decks reg­ ularly, was still worse, for a slave- deck was built clear across between these two, and the galleries or shelves were built both tinder and above the slave-deck. There were ships where four layers of slaves were placed thus between permanent decks that were only eight feet apart, and there a,re records of cases where smaller ships- ships having but three feet or so of space between cargo and deck--were fitted with galleries, so that the slaves stretched on their backs had but a foot or less of aiivspace between their faces and the deck or the next layer above them. To increase the number carried, when stretched out on deck or shelf, the slaves were sometimes placed on their sides, breast to back--"spoon fashion," as the slavers call it--and this made room for a considerable per cent extra. However, in the eigh­ teenth century the usual practice was to pla&r iheraoa their backs, .and to allow about two and a half feet of air space above the face of the slave, and in this way cargoes of over three hun­ dred were carried.--From "The Slave Trade in America," by John S. Spears, in the September Scribner's.^ '. t> (, ----- C • j Bed-Hot laittetton. ' *' It la no matter of fact rldiag-the- goat ceremony with which an Irish­ man is converted into an Orangeman, according to the experience of Mr. James Warke of Limavady, County Kerry. Warke, a farm servant, sum­ moned his employer and three other men for assaulting him. Warke says the defendants told him they would make him an Orangeman, and that they tied his legs together, put a cloth over his eyes and branded him with red-hot tongs. This was his initiation. Two days later there was a further ceremony, in the course of which the defendants stripped him naked, fast­ ened his Jteet together with one rope, suspended Biro from • beam with an­ other rope passed round his Waist and then swung him backwards and for­ wards, while they stung him with net- tlw and pricked him with plhs, a process which was continued Mil he tainted. The defendants <^eMOiwlth fines of tlO each and coats. mSSB His Head in the "Balance, Prince fuan's head about the most unstable thin*' there 1» in lntei% national politic!* In these troublouh times. All "st«h£ Mats" of the easi*. j ira situation agrflfl. that the ,prlnc|f»> v ittands la iafr minent peril. Tha&- #droit dignitarf Is the son of fifth Prince T pf the house Tunkwang. He v Hbout 40 ysarjf'-..;,' aid. His son P» > Chun haa beea V tom'nated for th®.' jut cession to th|g u Sragon throne bli­ the present em-' /• peror. Tuan is brother of thft late emperor ani uncle of the weak i' occupant of the throne today. He was the haad of the Boxers' society, and upon his la laid all the blame of the outrages per- b» j petrated on the bodies of the foreign- J W era before the tell of Pekin. It looks just now aa though his lite would pay the forfeit for his crimes. F«o« by insurance. The plan of Homer L. Boyla sf Grand Rapids, Mich., to bring an end to-all wars by means of the applica­ tion of the insurance principle to dis­ putes between nationa, has taken defi­ nite form in the Incorporation under the laws of Michigan of the Interna­ tional Peace Assurance Association. Mr. Boyle has been advocating his plan for universal peace since the out­ break of the Spanish-American waT and has interested in his enterprise some of the most prominent business and Insurance men in the state. The mayor of the etty, two state senators Monatgu White, the American rep­ resentative of the PranSvaal* and several local at­ torneys of high r e p u t a t i o n a r e among the officers j£ the association. The plan in­ cludes the forma­ tion of an inter­ national board of adjbaters made up of two representa­ tives from each of the nations signa­ tory to the agreement, to whom shall be referred all matters of difference between countries which approach the stage where war seems imminent. The board shall then adjudicate the con­ troversy, awas* damage* wbere the majoriftr finds a just date, fix bound­ ary lines while tibey are In dispute and require apology in cases of In­ sult, the association to adjust and' pay the financial loss to the injured party.. The work of securing members is to be started at once, the plan being to work up a large membership in the United States and to secure some kind of recognition of the association's work from congress before attempting to organize foreign countries. Homer L Boyle. The good-roads movement Is doing things in New Jersey. In which state during the last eight years 1,000 miles of highway have been built by state and county appropriations. form m Marrtajfe Lsiar. Milwaukee rejoices that it is no longer the Mecca of eloping couples. Dr. J. W. Coon, registrar of the de­ partment of health, congratulates the city upon having been freed from the "elopement curse." He says that for­ merly there was hardly a week when there was not some one in Milwaukee from Chicago, seeking information about a run-away wedding, but now there* are no complaints. The True bill haa removed the stigma that at­ tached to the state. Most of the Chi­ cago elopers now go to Michigan. It is gratifying to notice that an effort is being made to prevent such matches in that state. A recent number of the Michigan State Board of Health bulle­ tin had a long article complaining of the laxity of the marriage laws. The legislature will probably adopt a re­ form similar to that which put an end to the elopements to Wisconsin. If It does pass such a law tt will be ap­ proved by everyone except the people wno make their living in the not re­ spectable trade of encouraging haaty • MrOfOe Huntree* Mks. Joseph Bruce Ismay, one of the most daring horsewomen of New York,, was thrown from ber ' horse while following the hounds near South­ ampton, Long is­ land, recently, and seriously though not fatally Injured. although she waS Unconscious for a few minutes, she plucklly mounted her horse again and, to the surprise of her rode to the end of the hunt. Mrs. 3. Bw Ismay. Early In the coming year competi­ tive plans will be invited for the phy­ sical design of the new capital of the Australian federation. The intention is to make it one of the most artistic cities in the world. Mansfield a-r KJng Henry V. gfe * An old jug fe TWtlOB. It - i<iM»wsre %bd . a* •" |«-r- ^ 1 ̂ . isir ^'.M te 1588 Bq|»l Weadbur Siftfc Queen Victoria's presents to Princes* Maria of Hanover, who was married recently to Prince William of Baden, includes a magnificent silver tea ser­ vice. some crown Derby china, an In­ dian shawl and a collection of photo­ graphs in a valuable case. The priace of Wales sent a butterfly in diamonds, and the duke of York and his sisters gave their cousin a large silver basket and four small ones. Princess Marie is said to have received nearly 1,000 pres­ ents, including a superb set of jewels from the Emperor Francis Joseph, and jewels and valuable plate from the em­ peror apd empress of Russi% « A Gigantic ComblnatKMu The world has a good many gigantic combinations, but the most gigantio combination of all was reserved for the present year, that of Great Britain with 40,000,000 inhabitants, Russia 80,- 000,000, France 38,000,000, Germany 52,000,000, Japan 45,000,000, the United States 80,000,000, a total of 335,000,000 against China with a population ol 400,000,000. Add the population of the British colonies and India, and China has a population of between 700,900,004 irri 800.000,000 to reckon with. i ' v t f - i » v 4 w > « . y , - A * r r j ^ *"'V- & ttlr. .«,<« , 'hj. , Mr. Bit-hard Henry V. without a doubt t h e d r a m a t i £ ~ c l i m a x a n ^ most brilliant sue* cess of the season. -; . . . All the> varying moods offT Henrys--the mostf^ lovable and manlj^*< character Shakes^ peare ever drewV were represents#! by the actor in m manner f&r morljj^ fluent and effect tive than he coul4 have commander a few years The manner soldier, statesma and orator ha been added t# h r e m a r k a b l te eh n i qu e an< temperament, aaf| the impresslv# speeches of Henry --wad, tender, maffly and triumptmiit were uttered each in its own proper note with magnificent poise and effect This is the true evidence of ripening :V'~ " I uifii <r"'4 reached, it will be eafilef fOf tUchard Maogfield to scale, the greater heights. --Lyman B. Glover in the Chicago Timee-Herald, Oct. fi. An Okieet of Charity, Cissy Fitsgerald, who winked her way into the favor of American audl- ences and for % jfew semoat alternate­ ly amused and disgusted people by rea­ son of her cleverness on the stage and her debaucheries off of it, has come to grief in London. The report from there is that she is now an object of charity being ill and without QSOUploy- ment Friends in New York hafl been asked to help her. Miss Fitzgerald came to New York ,$n 1895 in a bunch of English singers Who performed at Daly's in "The Gaiety Girl." She had no reputation in her native land, where she had appeared only in the small provinces. In New York her vivacity and wink made her popular. For several years she acted In farce and In the music halls and then made a tour of the country, ap­ pearing in plays whose moral tone was not of the highest. She had a fond­ ness for intoxicants which she did not conceal in the smaller towns that she visited, and which was not an aid success. Interest in her soon waned, and three years ago, when she could no longer find employment, she re* turned to Europe. For a while she Succeeded in Paris and Uien went to London, where she failM to make an the black- ej ( large sums of money, freely. iihutmti** Oih : sua _ SMM «t aeMtiisa "The trnm Indiana aiit natural trAflen," said a termer earn trafi*. mates the N4m Tlmes-Demoenst They ought to the beet scouts in the world. 8oaie yean ago I was stopping at a>pl*i»; called Yaleti, sear the east coeat ot Yucatan, when my cabin was nibbed •M alght of several hundred dollars la gold. I hired a very lntalllffnt «al named Pedro to help mo chase the thief, aad Ve started ;'it ofcee. The thief who did the Job had fled oa horseback, striking northwest, aad be- fr»e long my guide had a pretty ac­ curate Idea of his personal appearahtee. Be picked up his Informatloa a acrip at 4 time, beginning with the discov- scy that he was undersised. When I asked how he knew, he pointed to a willow tree from which one of the lower branches had been recently broken. The rascal had dismounted there for a rest, and several fiat stones were piled on the ground under the broken branch. Pedro surmised that he wanted a whip and had to stand on the stones to reach the limb, which was really not very high. I mention this incident because it seem­ ed to me at the time to be very far­ fetched guessing, but it turned out afterward to be absolutely correct. He knew the colors of the man's saddle blanket from a few shreds caught on a thorn bush, and learned that he car­ ried a native water bottle by Its print in the soft dirt near a spring. What astonished me especially, however.was the ease with which he followed the train of the horse over flinty, sun- caked stretches, where not the faintest sign of its passage was visible to my blunter vision. We caught up with the thief on the second day, and all of Pedro's predictions were verified to the letter. He was a prowling half-breed, and when hatd pressed had hidden the money under a log In a dense thicket. My Indian located it in almost less time than it takes to tell the story, and laughed contemptuously at the other's lack of finesse. Yet he was not an exceptional trailer. I have met dozens of the tribe who were equally clever. TALENTtD UTE MAIDEN. Ik » riM 13o«atio*M : aad Una (elan. Edith Leroy Richardson is an Indian girl residing in Colorado who Is known among the Utes, to which tribe she be­ longs, as We-ta-le-ta. She much pre­ fers ber English cognomen, although thkt bestowed upon her in infancy te far more musical. She was born July 13, 1891, and knows what the lite of the forest and plains really is. She was rocked in nature's cradle by the Colorado breeses when she was a baby. • tree on the Ute reservation lent Its friendly boughs to the little one, so that the board and blanket upon which she dreamed in babyhood might be suspended where the wind could rock her to sleep while the Ute mothe* chanted the crude lullaby. Edith's mother entered Into the em­ ploy of the Teller institute, the famous Colorado Indian school, in 1886, and the proceeds of her toll have been de­ voted to developing the talents of her bright daughter. Edith is accomplished la music, and is one of the finest elo­ cutionists in the state. She is at pres­ ent attending the high School at Grand Junction, having finished*the course prescribed by the Indian school. Per­ sonally the little Indian maiden is a most lovable woman. Her disposition Is as sunny as the broad prairies where she first saw the light. Her profile would not indicate that she possessed Indian blood, but a front view rather shows the features of the original American. She is accomplished in mu­ sic, having played a cornet In the In­ dian school band, which is considered a crack musical organization in Colo­ rado. Although she has received many generously attractive offers to go on the stage, she persists in finishing her education before even considering any of them. •f MM Plo Centra is the factotum of His Hllness Leq XIII, and a very impor­ tant person 1s the Vatican. He Is short, wiry man, well up in the fifties, olive complexioned, close shaven, with piercing eyes and a benevolent smile. He comes from Carplneto, the native town of the pope, where Centra lived aad sold straw hats next door to the Peccl palace until Glacchino Pecci be­ came Leo XIII, called him to the Vati­ can and Installed him as confidential valet. In time Contra became a great favorite. The old pope likes to gossip with his faithful townsman in the Car­ plneto vernacular, a link--perhaps the only link--with the old home on the hills, and Centra improved his oppor­ tunities. and la now more of a "fldus Achates" than an upper servant. He la growing rich, too, and was lately knighted, so that he is now the Cava™ Here Plo Centra of the Papal Order of Saa Gregorio. He is the first man the pope sees in the morning and the last to bid the holy fatter good alght as he helps him to bed. « Loltf Cvwn'i Altogad I••WWtfe; A writer in the Contemporary Re­ view says that at the funeral, last spring, of Sir William Lockhart, "Lord Curzon alone of all those from whom honpr was due, drove separate­ ly through the streets of Calcutta, with his A. D. C.'s behind him, in a, dogcart, at a brisk pace, as if to a business appointment, and met the funeral procession at the cemetery gate a minute or two late. Now, Sir William Lockhart was more to India than any mere administrator can ever hope to be, and this scant courtesy on the part of his civilian contemporary on the part of his civilian contempor­ ary was neither kind nor wise. It was a mistake, and one would gladly have omitted to refer to It, but it Is the kind of mistake that unmistaka­ bly reflects character, and se la valu­ a b l e t o a n t a » p r " * * * * ' hut of tttl tt tiT "Nother it o^thiv wanted to bef'Hi town than any! do his np th#* called thli heard of up. to be « in thai umpire now XI Customer--I copy of the pi me last week. 4 - ' Druggist--I'll have -tou original. .TO it. tovycr afaefe E-Fresident Harrison Is AHHRver in the theory that the lawyer stilt study law his whole life long. Not a day* passes hut he devotee a portion of tt to text-book. "<S - ' U» Ml From course," six children, "th^a: the world " *" cerely hag^pl whole every ooe s»' d e a t h " - *ndr#f|y climb all • over! samethne. S there may be an riches, as the this^fprtt aad when squalling kind he he wotild almost cot the sake of five or peace and quiet. At who. lives In a fiat. regular four-tl|B^ was an incident evening that l&a. look upon him is one of the that ever lived. his flat live t#(oif| his, and you overly partial to strained lungs. The other his wife cam£ in wh^«!i^ ing, or trying to, and she siderably wrought up. • " 'I've got no use for falends of yours acros* tl said. " 'Why not, my dear,' he in bis usual mild manner. " 'Because, when Willie awhile ago one of them shoot the baby.' " 'Oh, did her aAtd ing his eyebrow^ some people resentment or some "'Yes, he did/ i mother. " And what did he inquired, with "•Whateottlt* anger show|ai " 'Really,! hesitated her possibly you didn't havf^ "She didn't try H|i|li^|aM ftwtaed at speechless astonishment aad of the WW to thatf"