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all, nothing matters very much. Bet a fiver I'll be caught." font he wasn't. The medical men said the ypung fellow had died of a dis­ ease with a long name, and then the Insurance company claimed it had been defrauded by the fact ot his having the malady concealed from thepi. Thus was the honest man defrauded out of his Insurance money, and he was nabbed by the police for his defalca­ tions before he could purchase more poison. In one of her Majesty's pris­ ons he now regrets the fate of his friend.--Detroit Free Press. PAYING A -»w is TILLMAN GRANT had come to the end of his tether and he knew it. He made no fuss about the matter, and any oif his ' freinds who met him that even i ng could , not have told from his maaner that anything was wrong.. Grant had taken big chances to increase his fortune and now he real­ ized that the jig was up, exposure might come in a week, or it might be de­ layed for a month, but it was sure to come, unless he had f1,000 in hard cash, and that amount he knew he could not' get. Of course if exposure could have been staved off for some years every­ thing might come out all right; old Monckton might die and young Monck- ton come into the business. Old Monckton, Grant's employer, was a hard-hearted skinflint who would have no mercy when investigation showed that his assistant was a de­ faulter. He was hard, even to his own sen, and it wasn't likely that he would show mercy to one who was no relative of bis. On the other hand Stillman Grant, •who was a calculating young fellow, had many times helped young Monei- ton when in trouble of a monetary na­ ture. He did this not because he liked the young man particularly, but be­ cause he was his employer's son and would some time come into the busi­ ness. Young Moncktoo owed Grant money, but even if he paid it all that night it was not enough to cover the defalca­ tion, and so was useless. Grant had taken the money, not in any momentary weakness, but because he calculated he could make himself a rich man by the use of it. These cal­ culations turned out to be errorfeous, and for months Grant had been exercis­ ing his ingenuity to stave off exposure. He had not deluded himself with any false views as to what would happen when exposure came. He had made ap his mind. There should be no trial with imprisonment at the end of it. He knew an easjer way out of the difficulty than that. He had boughtla quantity of morphine which he knewjywhen the time came to take it, would insure him swift and tolerably easy death. He six or seven, or perhaps ten jment was the penalty meat of it he had no desire or not as a thing tovkclnS sucl1 a punishment, as the jail and tjK-^hat night to his rooms .distinctly stare^^e Thames embankment. In the face, both a cupboard and spent some and it will be c)SinS with particular care a measure of selfae intended to drink. He society had trc ^ small draught of the bev- eTmu taking the paper of morphine ie5 opened it carefully and sprinkled the white contents on the surface of the wine. He watched it as it slowly settled and finally disappeared in the liquid; then he poured another glass of 'wine and drank it off. There was no hurry about drinking the poisoned cup; lie had all the night before him, so he «irew his comfortable arm-chair up to the fire and sat down wondering who would find his dead body in the morn­ ing. • At" last taking up the poisoned glass he paused for a moment with it in his hand, thinking he heard a step «n the stair. The next minute his sur­ prise was a certainty as someone rapped at his door. Hastily putting down the glass,'he shcuted, "Come in," forgetting the door was locked; then lie rose hurriedly, drew the bolt back and opened the door. "Hullo, Charley," Grant saVJ when lie saw who it was. The son of his em­ ployer entered with a radiant look on his face. "Well, Stillman, I have come to se­ cure my debt to you. I have made up my mind that you shall not suffer by " my having borrowed money from you." "Oh, that's all right," said Grant carelessly, "I don't need the money." "No. I know you don't need it." said Monckton, "but it struck me that if brightening somewhat. "How much was it?" •; ... • "Five hundred pounds in one lump," answered the other. V - ' , "Ob," said Grant in a disappointed tone; " . \ "You don't congratulate me," cried young Monckton. "Five hundred pounds are not to be scoffed at." "No," replied Grant; "still £500 isn't a fortune, you know." "It isn't, but it might be turned into a tidy sum of money. Now let me tell you what I have done, Grant. I know I will never be able to pay you that sum of money; if I became a partner in the business it might be different, so I took part of the £500 and insured iny life for £2,000, making it payable to you at my death. If I live I will evenutally come into the business and then you will get back the money you have lent me with handsome interest; but if I am cut off in one of my sprees, which is more than likely, then you will get back all your money with interest at several thousand j>er cent." As the young man said this he drew from an inner pocket what Grant saw was evidently an insurance policy. ' "There you are, my boy, with the first year's premium paid," said Monckton, as he threw the policy on the table. "I'll leave it with you, because you are a steady, sober fellow. If I can't pay the next premium when it falls due you'll pay it for me and charge it up to COME, I'I.L, ssow YOII OUT. TAMED HER UNRULY PUPIL, Thrashed Him and His Sister and Ex­ pelled Them Both. There is one young school teacher in Long Island who need never be out of a job. So completely did she succeed in quelling a rebellion last week that offers from other places have already been received, but the school directors will not hear of her departure. Her name is Ella Hart, and here is how she came to establish herself so-firmly in her present position: John Coleman, who is a boy of tender years, but tough tendencies, has for several days been living under the shadow of the rod. Miss Hart lias an official whip, and Friday her experi­ enced observation told her that John Coleman was ripe for castigation and she" called him up to receive his due. The operation, proceeded with com­ plete success for a few moments. John­ nie Coleman gave all the evidences of mortal anguish customary to such occa­ sions. Ho squirmed and twisted and rended the air with lamentations, pro­ testations and ejaculations of peni­ tence. Stella Coleman, a stout girl of 1G years, sister of Johnnie, heard the wails of her brother and appeared as a rescueand punitive force. She dash­ ed into the room like a young whirl­ wind and attacked the teacher with a rush. The boy took advantage of the diversion to rub himself a few times where he felt that rubbing was neces­ sary and salutary and then joined in the attack. Miss Coleman scratched vindictively and reached for her teach­ er's.-hair. Miss Hart proceeded meth­ odically and according to the most ap­ proved principles of pedagogics. She first captured the girl's hands and then tripped her up, threw her and sat on her. Then she reached for her whip and thrashed Miss Coleman until all the fight and most of the family affec­ tion were thrashed out of her. After that she caught Johnnie Coleman and began on him all over again. Having completed heir work conscien­ tiously and thoroughly, she expelled both the offenders and appeared before the trustees, scratched and somewhat battered and disheveled, but triumph­ ant, and reported her action. She was sustained and the school will probably continue its exercises peacefully. HE WATCEED IT AS IT SLOWLY SETTLED. anything happened to me my father would uever acknowledge the debt and you would be out of just that much." "It doesn't really matter, you know," said Stillman Grant in the same uncon­ cerned voice. "I shall always be happy to lend you money when you need it and I have it." "Thanks, old feliow, I know that," aaid Young Monckton. "You are as generous as the old man is stingy. Nev­ ertheless, I got a windfall the other day and the minute I received the money I thought of you." "Ah." said .Grant, with his eyes the account I alreacfy 6\ve you. You see, my friend, you are'quite safe as far as your money is concerned, wheth­ er I become a staid, respectable and rich man>0f business;*or whether I am cut off in'the flower of my youth." Grant lay back 'n. his chair with his eyes partially closed as he picked up and examined thedocumont. He saw it was albright and perfectly legal. At last he said, in a low tone and with de­ liberation': "I thiuk' you might have spent youi* money much more profit­ ably, Monckton, thai) in paying a year's premium op your life. Bless me! you will live till you are 00." , "I hope so," said the young man, "but meanwhile you take care of that document, and if"tbe time ever comes that there is money collectable on it you are the map, who is tp liave it. As you see, I have made.^he policy solely to you." ~ "Thanks, old man," said Grant, as he placed the policy W the table. "Well," said 'Monckton, "j must be off. Won't you come out and take a drink?" r.» ,-[*• "I think not," said Grant; "I'm busy to-night, but if yoa wish a drink, have a glass of wine with m&" "I don't mind if I do," said young Monckton. Grant pushed .towards his the glass of wine in which lie had sprinkled the morphine,"fth^n he.'.poured out wine for himself in auo^r/glass.v "Here's to you," he said,' 'd'tlJnl£fng. • •" Young Monckton drank off the wine and smacked lii&'lipS after. "That has a curious taste;'Grant," he said; "what is it?" "Oh, it'^fs' h.'^ijecial brand I drink when I aitf nok-slkeping well.' You will find it ve^sbdthing^V, r- "Well, good night, jB&llman, old fel­ low." "Good night to you, Monckton, and pleasant dreams." 'Xvy "Oh, I'm pot goi'ngrto dreams yet awhile," said IdoncHtcfe- "A few of us are to have some gariies at the Raquet Club." "Ali," said Grant, "that's a long dis­ tance from here. Better have a han­ som. Come, I'll see you out.". They walked down the stair together and at the door'young Monckton said: "Yes, I think I will have a hansom feel rather drowsylV "Oh, you'll be all right wlieu you get into the fresh air," rejoined Grant. The young man staggered slightly, as if he were intoxicated. The other watched him go down the street and hail a cab. "Poor devil," said Grant to himself, as he turned away. "He was an un­ lucky chap to come in at that moment on that particular errand. There is. a time for everything, and that was not the time for,insurance policies. I sup­ pose that, not having premeditated the murder, I have left some loose clew that will enable, the police to trace the thing to me. Still I shall be no worse Clever Repartees. A. locfil pro«clisr, b9in££ to interview the Rev. C.. H. Spurgeon, called at his house, but was informed by the servant maid that the great preacher was engaged. "Te*l him," said the caller, "that the servant of the Lord wishes to see' him." "Ah!" replied Mr. Spurgeon, "tell the servant of the Lord I am engaged with his Master." A conceited fellow, with some pre­ tensions to literature, once traveled some distance by rail with much ego­ tistic converse. The author of "Les Miserables," having arrived at his des­ tination, was about to leave the train, when his interlocutor said, "You may perhaps like to know who lam. I am Victor Hugo." How odd," remarked the real Hugo, "so am I." The schoolman Duns Seo-tus was din­ ing with the French king of his day, when the latter jokingly said, "Duns, can you tell us the difference between a Scot and a sot?" "Just the width of the table, your Majesty," was the prompt reply. Louis Philippe of France introduced to the Duke of Wellington one of the French marshals whom he had beaten in the Peninsula. The Marshal partly turned his back to the Duke, which greatly displeased Louis Philippe, who apologized to the Duke for his Mar­ shal's rudeness. "Forgive him, sire," said the D>uke. "I taught him to do that in the Peninsula."--Edinburgh Scotsman. TELL HER SO. Amid"the cares of married life, In spite of toil aud business strife, If you value your sweet wife. t' Tell her so! Prove to her you don't forget The bond to which your seal is set: She's, of life's sweets, the sweetest yet Tell her so! When days are dark and deeply blue, She has her troubles, same as you; Sh6W her that your love is true-- Tell.her so! There was tim<* you thought it bliss •'> To get the favor of one kiss;. , v . A dozen how won't come amiss-- . Tell her so! Your love for her is no mistake-- You feel it, dreaming, or awake-- Don't conceal it! For her sake.-, • - •• Tell her so! Don't act, if she hns pas&e®. her prime, ' As though to'please her were, a crime;. If e'er you loved, her, now's .the time-- -ii, ,-TeH her s0' She'll return, for each caress. An hundredfold of tenderness! Hearts like hers were made to bless! Tell her so! You are hers, and hers alone: Well you know she's all your own; Don't wait to "carve it on a stone"-- Tell her so! Never let her. heart grow cold-- Richer beauties will unfold; She is worth her weight in gold! Tell her so! --Detroit Free Press. .Dreyfus' Wife, Madame Dreyfus, wife of the exiled French army officer ,is convinced of her husband's innocence, and said in a recent interview: "As husband, fath- M A DAME DREYFUS. er, soldier, friend, he has always been above reproach. Honorable, gentle, kind; his life moral, his conduct up­ right. 1 cannot, cannot understand it. cannot understand why he, of all men, should have been iirade a mark for this frightful, odious charge." Cost of a Wife in Fifty Years. On the occasion of his golden wed­ ding a methodical Euglish husband fig­ ured up from his carefully kept ac­ counts what his wife had cost him. He had an assured income of $2,500 a year throughout his life. Winning his wife, what with presents, engagement ring, and extra expenditure on his own per­ sonal adornment, cost him $500; her share of the household expenses was 525 a year; her clothing and linen cost $250 yearly; presents, medical attend­ ance, amusements and summer excur­ sions amounted for her share to $450 annually. He therefore spent for her in fifty years $66,750.--New York Sun. Stuns by Cactus Plants. Several men employed about Horti­ cultural Hall, in Fairmount Park, are nursing very sore hands, and one of them is just sure that he is out of dan­ ger from blood poisoning from stings received in handling prickly cactus plants. All summer the tall, slender cacti have stood with soldierly erect- ness in a bed at the east end of the hall. When frost threatened the head gar­ dener gave orders for their removal in­ to winter quarters, and the men bavin the job went about it without the usual precaution of wearing buckskin gloves. They were stung in many places by tlie needles that bristled from the stalks, but as the pain at the time was not great, they kept at work until all the cacti had been housed. A few hours later their hands began to puff up, and soon swelled to ungainly proportions as the poison of the stings took effect They suffered intensely for several days, and even now, after a week has elapsed, have to use their hands in very gingerly manner indeed.--Phila delphia Record. off than I was au hour ago, and after Fog and Gas. Prof. Lewes of Loudon states that London fog deprives coal gas of 11.1 per cent of its illuminating power, and an incandescent burner loses 20.8 per cent of its efficacy.' The reason given is that the spectrum of these lights ap proaches very nearly that of the solar spectrum, being rich in violet- and ul tra violet rays. These are the rays which cannot penetrate a London fog This is thought to be the reason why the sun looks red on a foggy day. The solid particles floating in the aqueous vapor of the atmosphere absorb the violet rays and only the red rays of the spectrum pass through. It is further stated that the old argand burner moi1 successfully resists a London fog than any of its later rivals. The hotel clerk who puts on a brill iant front is not the only pebble, great many newspaper men use paste too. . There is always room for one mor» oyster in the soup. most exciting recorded In their annals. The contest was between Newark and Hay's Hill. By a construction given to the State constitution, the women were then suffered to vote, and they seem to have been so, delighted with this privilege of exercising their wills that they were unwilling to circum­ scribe it within the legal limit, many ladies voting, we are told, seven or eight times under various disguises." New Footwear. These shoes are the latest novelties. The high shoe in the center is for ,tliose who feel uncomfortable in a low shoe. It is cut out in scallops on either side, the lacing thereby revealing the stocking. The shoe at the top is an en­ tirely novel cut, but is becoming to the foot, especially when wore with a col­ ored stocking to match the dress. A ;HOVKtTliiS IM SHOES. glittering,,em broidery of jet outlines all the openwork strappings of the glace kid, which radiate.from a narrow central strap, also wrought with jet. The model at the left laces from the toe right.tup • to, the-ankle in such a M^/.t^at.'the charms of a pretty open- Wo.i'lr' shocking are displayed to excep­ tional advantage. At the left of the circle is a-dainty shoe in glace kid em­ broidered with jet. Note the pretty arrangement of the strap at the side. .Petticoats. The ,petticoat next the gown is fre­ quently ^as. elaborate as the gown it­ self. It is^ made of taffeta silk, and' trimmed" with plaited flounces or ruf­ fles of the same. It is cut with an um­ brella flounce, which is faced and bound like the dress skirt. The small­ er flounces are sewed to this. To be fashionable, it must match the lining of the gown, though the all-black silk pet-' tlcoats are always in good style. Less' expensive skirts are of watered mo­ reen, and fine brilliant mohair lined. The latter will give far more service tlian the silk skirts, and may be made very dressy with silk ruffles. The Becomingness of Fur. What woman does not know the be- eoniingness of fur on a cold, crisp day, when the eyes are brightened and the color of the cheeks heightened by the stiff, bracing air? Fur, if selected to suit the wearer and worn consistently, does more to lend youth and freshness to the face and general style than al­ most any other accessory of feminine dress, ami the woman of 45 who affects furs to harmonize with her general col­ oring of hair, skin and eyes can take many years from her usual appear­ ance.--Woman's Home Companion. Eye Cosmetic. Spanish women use a simple cosmetic for their eyes which Lola Montez tells of in her book on beauty. They squeeze the essential oil from the skin of an or­ ange into their eyes. The operation is a little painful but very successful, only it must not be repeated too often, 11' rouge is put on the top of the cheekn bone it heightens the brilliancy of the eye just as certain colors lend a glow to the complexion. Lives by Tuning Pianos. Traveling around the country tuning pianos is the unique occupation fol­ lowed by Miss Nellie Jay Hatch, a pretty and attractive young woman of Seneca, Kan. On graduation from the New England Conservatory of Music Boston Miss Hatch received a di­ ploma in piano tuning, and the course she took in order to secure it was both tnorough and comprehensive. She was raduated in 1889, and since them she has traveled throughout the State of Kansas, actively engaged in her cho­ sen profession. Barred Because She Married. Because she elopt'd aud was mar­ ried, Mrs. Sam Frazier of Crescent, a suburb of St. Louis, has been barred from attendance at the high school. Mrs. Frazier was Miss Gertrude W. Lewis. She is 17 years old and would have soon graduat­ ed had she been al­ lowed to finish. As it is she will only be allowed to continue at school by special MRS. FIIAZIEU. permission of the school board. The next day after mar­ riage the bride went to school as us­ ual. Her secret was too big for her to keep, and the new Mrs." Frazier told several of her schoolmates, under pledge of secrecy, of course, of her changed estate. Young schoolgirls are not expert secret keepers and the ro­ mance soon became the gossip of the school. It came to the ears of Princi­ pal Bryan. He called the blushing bride into his office and plumped the question fairly at her. She blushed and stammered, but she confessed that it was true she was married. A REMARKABLE LINGUIST. Speaks Eleven Tongur^, but Spends Her Life at the Waahtub. There is a woman here who can read, write aud speak any language from Sanscrit fyx,"hog" Latin. The faculty comes to her as naturally as swimming does to a duck. Her knowledge- is not the result of teaching, but of association with peo­ ple of every tongue. She speaks eleven languages fluently, yet she struggles jover the washtub in order that her six (Children can go to school. • Mi*s. Julia Autonishin was born at .Aroslamos, Hungary, thirty-two years iago. Her parents were Germans. iWhen she was 6 years old they moved >to Aninina, Germany, where she at- jtended school for six years, this being he limit Of schooling provided by the overnment. Aninina was a town of factories, [where people of every clime were em- iployed. It was like the Babylon of old, teo great was the confusion of tongues. ( The children were strangers to each [other because of this barrier of misun­ derstanding. Eventually the little ones isucceeded in mastering the languages |of their playmates. In the schools at jAninina they were taught the German 'and Maygar tongues. , ; j "Nine languages picked up with the (Children," sjfid Mrs. Antonishin. "Some iwere easy and some were hard. I was fnot the only child to do it. The Slavish, :Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Bohemian. {Roumanian, Servian, Magyar and Cro- ia'cian languages are much the same: i "That is, the letters are the same, but of course you do not speak them alike. To-day I can speak, read and write eleven languages. Sometimes the 'Squires here call me to interpret. "It is not enough. I must work to get education for my children. My husband labors at the Carnegie fur­ nace, but he does not make enough. I want so much to get to be interpreter in the courts. "Then I could educate my children. Some tell me to get a petition for all the 'Squires and people to sign, and then sends it to the Governor. Is that right? Is that the way ,to get to be an interpreter to educate your children?" Mrs. Antonishin was ironing. Her hands and face, the stoop of her shoul­ ders and the appearance of her kitchen testified to her labors. Her youngest child is 6 years old and the eldest 16. Susie, the eldest, and John, aged 14, have the mother's faculty for picking up foreign tongues. With the excep­ tion of the baby all the children attend the Braddock schools. George Antonishin came to Braddock from Germany nine years ago. H s wife and ckHdreu followed two years later. For four years before her mar­ riage and for six years after Mrs. An­ tonishin was employed in the German postofflce service, where her knowl­ edge of languages brought her great prestige. When Mrs. Antonishin is not washing she is ironing, and when doing neither she is trying to figure out an economic policy that will give an education to L r children.--Braddock (Pa.) Correspond­ ent of the Boston Advertiser. " . } DOWN THE BOONESLICK. The i. Pathetic Tragedy of a Humbly : .Life Revealed. The road had disappeared, only a slight Unevepness here and there indi­ cating the deep ruts and the rough clods which underlay the smooth sur­ face. On tiie north the wind was broken a little by the rail fence, With the snow-laden sumac bushes in its •corners, but it was still fierce enough to press flat. upon the snow the dry pepper grass which covered the open field to the south. Just at sunset a white covered mover's wagon came down the long slopfcFthe horses press­ ing close to each other, walking with heads turned from the north. It was an unusual sight--in winter--even for the Booneslick road, that highway which has led so many families west^ ward, and the look upon the face of the driver was also unusual. There was none of the eager expectancy of the man who hopes for a new life in the new country; none of the bitter de­ spair of the man who realizes that old failures will be repeated in the new territory. Down in the hollow, at uie bottom of the slope, he checked the horses, and pulling aside the canvas curtains behind him looked back into the wagon. A blanket or two, a sack of flour, a coffee pot, lay there---as mea­ ger an outfit a& ever went WQst, even in '49, when ipep did not wait for outfits. He glanced at the coffee pot in listless/- idle hesitancy. . . , "Guess not," lie said at last, and clucked to the horses. At the top of the next slope a sleigh passed him, the woman in it giving a little cry as she peered above the heap of robes tucked around her. "Movers! Stop, Sam--tell him to come back and stay with us to-night-- maybe there is a baby.' "No, no baby,' the mover answered when the farmer called out the invita­ tion, "and no wife." "Then what in thunder makes you go west?" the farmer asked. "Can't a single man get enough for himself to eat even back there in yore pore old New England? But come along; any­ how--men and horses can freeze, too, and the Lord knows this is going to bo a night on the prairie yonder--hear that Wind tiptoein' up? It will be on the run by 9 o'clock." The man looked at him with the look he had given the coffee pot. "Guess not," he said, shaking his head and clucking to his horses. "Let the fool kill hisself," the farmer said, impatiently, putting the buffalo robe again under his feet. "No, we wont," the woman answered firmly. "Here, I'll talk to him. Come along with us, mister--Sam, can't you keep Bess on her four legs while I talk --come along and get a= good supper or you'll freeze, sure." The mover leaned around the flap­ ping curtains and looked at her, the same apathy in his face. "They both died on the way," he said, and clucked once more to the horses.-- Chicago Times-Herald. The cutting of children's toe-nails is but little understood by nurses; and even mothers give but scant attention to this most important point. Never should a toe-nail be rounded like a fin­ ger-nan. The nails must from earliest infancy be trained to grow square, aud never on any account bo cut out at the sides. Do not give a child too many play­ things at one time. Such a practice tends to develop restlessness. Rather let her have but one, and when signs of discontent appear, show her some new way of playing with it. Her ingenuity and steadiness will thus be encouraged. A child should not, of course, be kept too monotonously with one plaything, if she has a number (variety is good for all, at times), but rather that error than the other; and, by all means, guard against her having a number at the same time. Rather let her play with one as long as she will. Then, before the second one is taken up, put the first one entirely out of sight, in order that it may come forth at some future day masquerading as a new toy. She Proved a Repeater. It is not a generally known fact that the first place in this country where women were permitted to vote was at Newark, N. J. This occurred in' 1807, and is the facts chronicled in Gordon's "History and Chronicles of New Jer­ sey" be true, that experiment would not lead, a pessimist to believe in woman's efficacy as an agent to purify the bal­ lot. Here is what he says about that famous event: "An election in 1S07 for determining the location of the courthouse is still remembered by the inhabitants as the For a Thin Pace. If your face is thin and steadily re­ sists all efforts on your part to make it fill up, begin taking half a pint or more sweet cream every day, eat cereals which have been cooked several hours, a raw egg beaten up in milk once a day, ripe sweet fruit and live outdoors as much as possible. Woman Murderer Freed. A woman of San Casciano, near Flor­ ence, who at 24 had murdered her hus­ band, lias just been set free after forty years' imprisonment a.t hard labor. Her life sentence was commuted owing to her having never received' a black mark in that time. It, Came Easy. "I made most of my money by hard knocks," declared the old resident who has no financial troubles even in these dubious times, "but 1 once mado s<~me very easy money, just when I was sore­ ly in need of it. "I had managed to buy a little stretch of lake shore, with the idea of disposing of it as a summer resort. No one was looking for that kind of an investment, and I had a dead duck on my hands. I happened down there just at the break­ ing up of winter, when I had nothing else to do and no money to do it with if I had. There was a big raft of logs tied up at my beach, and it had been there since the late fall; at least, that jis the view I took of the situation. It was a bold violation of private rights. •How had they dared to thus invade my premises without permission. I learned who the owners were in the |East, and sent them a bill of $300 for (dockage. Their reply came through a representative who wanted me to set­ tle for a trifle, but I would hear to noth­ ing but the full amount. There was a jprinciple involved that I would not sac­ rifice. He left with the threat that I would never get a dollar. ' "I bribed the man in charge of the ;raft to notify me when it was to be 'moved, and as soon as I heard from him |I had the Sheriff there to make a levy. I had a check for $300 as soon as it i'could be got to me. It proved the thin dge of the wedge with which I entered nto the business that made me rich. Six weeks later I discovered that the iraft had not been on my land at all. It was forty feet beyond the line. But •what could I do with my money tied !up in an investment? So I said noth­ ing."--Detroit Free Press. Valliable Pack of Cards. ; A pack of cards, recently sold in Paris for $400, was manufactured in jthe reign of Queen Anne of England, that sovereign being represented by the queen of hearts, and her husband, Prince George of Denmark, by the king of the same suite. The queen of diamonds, clubs and spades were respectively Queen Anne Sophia of Denmark, the Crown Prin­ cess of Prussia (the wife of Frederick William I.), and Princess Anna of Rus­ sia, afterward Czarina. The knaves very properly represent prominent dip­ lomats of the period. A fine Italian copper-plate pack of cards of the fif­ teenth century was lately sold in Lon­ don for $600.--Exchange. Rousseau's Tomb. The tomb of Jean Jacques Rousseau on the Isle des Peupliers, in the Park of Ermenonville, is now undergoing a thorough restoration at the hands of Prince Radzwill, the proprietor of the beautiful chateau of Ermenonville. The body of the philosopher now lies in the Pantheon, but legend relates that when the remains were translated from Ermenonville the bones of ani­ mals were substituted, and that the body never really was taken to Paris. The present restoration will give an opportunity, if needed, of settling this matter once and for all.--Inverness Courier. Mutually Satisfactory Compromise Sarah an Abstainer. • Sarah Bernhardt is a total abstainer from all alcoholic drinks, and to this she attributes much of her wonderful energy and mental power. Her fa­ vorite beverages are milk and water. The Bear and the Wheelmen. I Right in the middle of the track was a black bear, about four feet high and six feet long. We had never seen Bruin before outside of the Zoo or in the cage of a perambulating menagerie. So we were interested, and the interest took the shape of a tightness across the chest and a quickness of breathing such as you feel when easy and happy- go-lucky in your mind. The bear was interested in us, and evidently glad to see us. He gave a grunt, slowly wagged his head, and began to advance. At first we thought of amusing him. by rem­ iniscences of stale buns given to Ills species when we were younger and less callous of heart. Yet we cocked our revolvers in case there should be any disputing the fact, though we knew a bullet from a six-shooter would have as much effect upon the hide of a bear as a peashooter would have in wound­ ing an elephant. "Now, don't fire until he's within arm's reach; then drive into his eyes or open mouth." That was the arrange­ ment. We halted ready for action. So did our friend the enemy, and we saw he was scanning us with scornful eyes. He moved to get a side view. "He's funking it; he's frightened," we said, with lowered voice. By way of an­ swer the bear came on four strides at a trot, and up went the revolvers. "Don't shoot, don't shoot, till he's nearer." Bruiu hesitated. He was consider­ ing. He was something of a philoso­ pher, and evidently thought, "They are only .a couple of lanky, fleshless cy­ clists; what would be the good of kill­ ing them?" On which sage reflection he turned about and sauntered up the mountain side.--Travel. The Era of Peace. 4 Great Britain is now building eighty- nine war vessels; France is a close sec­ ond, with eighty-three; Russia Is now working on thirty-nine peacemakers, Italy on thirteen and Germany on nine­ teen, but the late large appropriation for the German navy will greatly en­ large the Kaiser's operations. Explo­ sive bullets have been long excluded from civilized warfare as barbarous, but sensitive Britain Is chuckling over a new missile designed to convert heathen Afridis aud Africans from the error, of their ways, which simply means murder, expanding from a clean, round hole at the point of entrance to a ragged chasm three or four inches In dianieter. ? r i machine.--Philadelphia Recojie as Equal to Nerve Tonic. "Hear about the robbery last night?" asked the grocer. "No," replied the early customer; "where did it occur?" "Right here," said the grocer; "thieves broke into my store and stole three barrels of su^ar." "Well," mused the customer, pose they will have sanj-1' Every tackle a bank the nexjfofor aome- ^ibng perhaps six TT PferfumS'e you travel In tha Heretofore moV(0 three or four tached ^"three--that-makes eigh- In lardy gomething like 250,000,- now^ie r0(ie the trolleys last fl>'1 'if only half of them, or > JOO.OOO were seated, the slide and down amounts to the Hoax--Your wife was very anxioyitent of 2,250,000,000 inches, of to get a wheel, wasn't she? Joax--Yes; but I effected a co^' mise. I bought her a lovely .'is bout 35,511 miles. Now, if all this energy had been expended by one man he could, in the course of a year, have slid around the earth, with over 10,000 miles to spare. Does the razor hurt," --Philadelphia Record. -r'-V -- - - "•: