or tail of and I doubt if anybody else cooed Let me see it dear. can." Mrs. Reader. Oh, its of no use. If I can't make anything out of it you TERRIBLE STORIES OF CRUELdon't suppose, you can. do you?" TIES ON BOARD SHIP. Perhaps notHebut I'd like to see it all . handed her the paper same." John McCarthy's' JLeap to Death From the is what she read: "Toilet and this the Koyal Yard Working: With a of fancy foulardV The corsage crossed In Irqns for, Broken Ai and of guipure. Little sultane vest Forty- ive Days. held in barettes of velvet with bows., Hight sleeves of foulard, 'terminated The American ship M. P. Grace ar- in volants of guipurel Flat skirt rived in San Francisco recently from trimmed with a high volant of guiNew York, and the Examiner says her pure surmounted with bows of vecrew have a terrible story to tell of lvet" Puck. the brutality of the officers. One of A LAKE OF ASPHALT. the men was kept in irons for forty-fiv-e to work was forced The Strange Place Where Paving Mate-days, another unwith a broken arm. wb.ile a third, rial la Obtained... able to endure the torture3 inflicted This stuff called asphalt with? on him by the officers any longer, which the streets of Washington are threw himself from the main royal payed, is very curious, " said a scienyard and his brains were dashed out tist to a Washington Star reporter. on the deck. "It was used in very ancient timea The M. P. Grace sailed from New; Egyptian! buildings over thirty cenYork for this port 146 days ago, and turies old are cemented with it and the brutal treatment of the crew be- it has been asserted that it was emgan before the ship was outside ployed in the; construction- of the tower of BabeL One ingenious crank Sandy Hook. Mate McDonald and Second Mate named D'Eyrinis wrote an elaborate John Foley began beating and kick- essay 150 years ago attempting to ing the sailors before the anchor was prove that Noah's ark was coated up; but the treatment the men re- with asphalt to makeit water proof. 'The asphalt which covers the ceived at that time as mild comVULCAN IN PETTICOATS. was formed streets once to of this city the that they got when pared A Toting Woman Who Has Learned the Grace cleared the Hook and was out millions of years ago by the decomBlacks taith Trade. on the broad Atlantic. position of vegetable matter beneath An iron piano lamp in the form of The sailors were seen by a re- the surface of the earth. In the cara gracefully tapering hammer-workeporter at the Sailors' Home and the boniferous epoch there were condishaft, supported on a tripod of claws following story was told of how the tions of warmth and moisture which and expanding at the top into an urn sailors on the ship were treated. produced a marvelous luxuriance of of ironwork, is evidence that Miss Nearly all the crew were present vegetation. Plants, gigantic, ferns Ray Beyeridge, of this city, is a black- when Theodore Gies told how he had being most common, grew at an assmith, though probably the only fembeen stripped by Captain De Winters tonishing rate, their decay being folof inine the trade one extant, bitter cold morning ol Cape lowed by generation after generation exponent the last we shall see of ye." San the Chronicle. Francisco says Hornand to keep him warm the cap- of their successors. With a queer, chuckling 'laugh she Miss in but her Beveridge, though Thus were formed vast beds of tain dashed half a dozen buckets of hobbled off. Her words must have teens, has of much the alover water him. Gies was then developed decomposed material which became made a deep impression on Tim. for manual seems which to be to lowed his oq and dexterity underclothes, put it is said that he never dared to look characteristic of the Beveridge family, was then sent five times in succession badly metamorphosed toby thechemical condiprocesses. According her in the face again, but if he saw and which in her sister Kuhne took tions governing they were transup the main skysail yard. her coming hurried into his den. call- the direction of in He was formed and into deposits of coal, petrobeaten modeling clay. ing his dog after him; and so Aunt Miss Ray's fondness for hammering kicked by subsequently or leum he not did because bitumen, the last being what Foley Hannah, of all Eoswick and Hock and ' was so manifest that move quick enough to suit him. we call asphalt. tinkering amock alone had the freedom of his some months ago she matriculated at knocked senseless to the After "Probably the vegetable beds which bridge and received no attentions the Cogswell polytechnic school and deck being Gies was dragged aft and were changed into bitumen were laid from Scrap. since has and studies her pursued dumped into the alley, where he was down into rivers and lakes, where But the years rolled by and brought in smith work under shackled to another man in such a they were covered up by sand or clay practice no upon the tollman. Matthews, the instructor in manner that neither of them could and underwent the process of decomHe grew richer and richer all the at the schooL down. sit position while moistened by water, time, and with his wealth hi3 sullen smatHer more is a than knowledge but without contact with air. One While setting the main topmost avoidance of his fellow men in- tering, and on lesson days Miss BevMiller was knocked from the spot where this occurred was in the staysail creased. He seemed to regard them work for herself the prepares forward house and had his arm neighborhood of the l ead sea, where all with a hostile suspicion and to eridge in a way that shows her enthusiasm. broken. Almost as soon as .Miller formerly srreat quantities of asphalt have no friend but his dog. who daily Old boots that can not be harmed by the deck he was pounced upon were obtained. Very little is got from grew dingier, uglier, more distrustful. the dust and grit of a forge room are struck Of what was eroing. on in the world worn. Skirts of no value but for such by the mate, who beat and kicked there now, the most important source of supply in the world being a wonhim in a brutal manner. Tim knew nothing and cared no more. uses clothe her. and when she appears Miller dragged himself into the derful lake in Trinidad, A book was 'not to be seen in his in the with sleeves rolled smithy, This tar lake, as it is called is up house, tind he never read a news- and arms bared like those of any oth- forecastle, where the captain tried to filled with bitumen instead of water, set his arm. but the ;ob he made of it paper. Of railroads and steamboats, er blacksmith, there is no suggestion left about a mile and a half in dia life. Miller for being cripple which all the world had begun to of daintiness or unfitness for the Next day the pain was so great that ameter. Its surface is so smooth talk about he did not even dream. labor in hand. asked the captain to slacken that it looks like a lake of water, and Civilization marched on from one Instructor Matthews is proud of his Miller and was at once told to in hot weather the sun melts it to the height of progress to another, great unique pupil, and has taken pains to the tobandages, Four days after Miller was depth of some inches. The edges of inventions and discoveries were fol- perfect her in all the details of men- go placed in irons for taking a drink of the lake are usually hard and cold, lowed by those yet more wonderful, tal working. Miss breaks Beveridge water from the water tank without but the asphalt usually becomes but no sound of it came to him. her coal, starts her fire in regular up warmer and softer toward tho middle, If he had any pleasure besides style, blows it into welding heat, and permission. Another of the crew, while in the center it is quite boiling. of a native Cork counting his heaps of money, he found sets about the special work in hand John 33McCarthy, slice of the surface of this lake "A was a in beaten brutal years it in annoying the navigators of the quite as heartily as any of the boys aged of asphalt is to be exhibited at the reach by obliging them to blow and in the schooL Her strength is not manner by both the mates and the Columbian exposition. The deposit captain. At no time from the day he is blow for half an hour at a time before sufficient to enable her to do heavy the ship until he was dashed thought to have been formed by attending to their signals. Often he welding, and when that is necessary joined woorty and other vegetable matter would keep a skipper waiting until the instructor lends a hand, but in to death on her deck was McCarthy carried by the river Orinoco into the the wind had changed or the tide had the ordinary manipulations she prides allowed to sleep more than four hours surrounding seas, where by the inturned, and a good day's work was lost, herself on being quite independent out of twenty four. He was worked, kicked and beaten fluence of the currents it was accu and so oppressive did his and her work is both neatly and ar- until he could decomposition being efhardly crawl. On the mulated, its tricks become that some of the indig- tistically done. She has given special action. nant mariners openly threatened to study to the making of brackets, morning of his death he was knocked fected by volcanic is found combined often down and kicked like a dog by both Asphalt tear down his bridge. of various sorts and other light mate and second stands a with limestone very curious mix mate, and he told all But Tim and his bridge held un- forging, and believes that a new diof the vegetable and the mineral. the men he would rather throw him- ture molested sway over the reach until rection for the of women has to the deck It is believed that this has been self from the skysail-yara certain summer evening in 18 , been discovered.energies more such treatment. brought about by hot vapors from the stand any when just as the shadows were fallMiss Beveridge is arranging to set than was He beaten again by the mate decomposing vegetable beds passing ing the tollman was startled by a ter- up a blacksmith shop of her own in about 4:80 o'clock in the afternoon, through porous rocks and leaving the rific screeching that seemed to come the city, and will endeavor to then ordered aloft to furl the bitumen behind. from around the bend. ladies of her acquaint- and induce royal, although there was hardIt was as loud and piercing as if all ance to join her. in founding a maina breath Three Hours Sunshine. of wind at the time and s in the Clam school of design in ornamental ifon ly the horns and Comparison of the results of the river fleet had blown at once, and it work for women. That field has the other royals were still set. sunshine recorder at Greenwich, Eng McCarthy dragged his bruised and land for fourteen years shows that surprised him into an unwonted heretofore been filled by men. and it body aloft as well as he throughout the year the average daily alacrity. Leaping out on the bridge is believed by Miss Beveridge that bleeding an effort to furl the amount of sunshine is little more than and could seized tne his aod bar he swung open women can easily supplant them by sail. All made once at the crew were three hours. moment's a draw without delay. reason of delicacy of designs and a startled by a of "This ends it, cry The strange noise was heard again, of the poftibilities knowledge greater the man's next and the instant BREEZY BITS. a" boy this time nearer and still louder. in the way of house ornarritation. a with deck struck the terrible Never could horns and shells have body When a woman wants to drive anycrash. blown such a blast as that! Perplexed Title Queer To end his misery the man had thing out of the house she shoos it A and half frightened. Tim leaned over Among the whimsical titles which thrown himself from the yard and man usually boots it the side of the draw. and. through the on the pages of national his- dashed his brains out on the deck. He Miss Antique may be old, but appear fast gathering shadows, looked eager, frivo-more few are tory, On the following she oomes of an old. family. She Posapparently 120 feet below. ly down the reach. ot Marmalade, the duke the lous than Suddenly he jumped back, his eyes count of Lemonade and the earl of day the body was sewed up in a piece sibly she inherits her age. of canvas and dropped over the side. According to law, a widow is entitled bursting from their sockets. are. or were, however, They Brandy. of crew man the a entire Not to her third, but the men are generally With a rush and a roar, a frightful real titles bestowed single a by genuine of fists boots and the shy after she has buried her second. had suddenly turned the monarch on three of the escaped the apparition and favorites, brutal officers, and the Captain was bend andf was heading for the bridga too. during the present century. Accepting the philosopher's theory that, in dim loomed the It up light, huge, In 1811 a revolution occurred in always on hand to see that the mates that money represents trouble, it is did not let too great a length of time uncouth and uncanny, a monster a negro, deand surprising to see how many people are Christophe. Haytl between the beatings. of sea nor air. of the the but neither elapse to borrow. emperor. Throusrh . Kopp. Henderson willing and anxious husband is both Peter Rudolph alive and on fire, breathing out great clared himself "You say that your and plot, his life often at and Thomas were simply Fiynn puffs of vapor, vomiting', blotches of conspiracy and extravagant In what economical retained he power until 1820, punching-bag- s for the pfficers, and smoke and showers of sparka churn- tempted, to the last the appearance they got a dose of grace medicine way?" "Well, he is economical in being the waters with its feet and pierc preserving a royal court, and creating Ja nu- every day. At last the mate pitched stowing praise, and extravagant in Tim of ing the skies with its voice. of Assteam merous nobility. Among them were into Thomas Murphy, a quartermas- giving advice." still lodked another cloud three the Gentleman Visitor, to best girl's litalready mentioned, and the ter, i but Murphy got the best of the it shrieked hissed from its nostrils and of titles has the to ' Ai U oddity suggested and whipped the bully until he tle sister Your sister let's me kiss her. '; '"y iighi again.; the of writers frivolousness the Now, won't you let me kiss you? Litcried for, mercy. That was enough! Tim stared no many In character. African fact, however, Then Captain de Winters took a tle Sister, loftily No, I don't allow all longer. With a loud cry of despair all three names were names of places, to end of the bounded" hand and held Murphy until the mate the gentlemen to kiss? me, as sister the he upper two first the being plantatoriginally diswater killed him. The rest of the does. and i draw, jumped into the but latterly towns of some im- nearly ions, seem to be rather battered," "You alnot and were men forward driven appeared. This fact not being gener- lowed to interfere. Aftdr the mate said the signet ring to a solitairg, as The monster passed through the portance. a misapprehension has had exhausted himself the known, ally side by side in the. pawnwith a sputtering. drawbridge opened ... captain they lay show to with arisen the themtitles J case. "I have figured regard a. sailed into Murphy with a pair of broker's a tremDling ana n f groaaing. scarcehowever selves, which, absurd, brass knuckles and cut his face in a in many engagements," replied the lashed the murky waters of the reach so more some bethan were which ly high against the piers, frightened the stowed in France and Germany dur- terrible iimanher. Another time the latter sadly. mate struck Murphy with a pair of think a girl is very foolish to birds from the spruces and sent the SheI middle the ages. ing 'ends to of the the so did a at brass the cap- marry cattle s'campering knuckles, and poor man He, piqued Inmoment in or two a tain's orders. deed she is; but not one half so foolish pastures. Then A Fearful Threat. of face nature De shouted: "Mark him; as another person whom I might name. it had vanished and the Friend of ! Hotel Keeper How in I'll Winters was serene again. for it!" "Whom?" "The poor man who marpay world d6 you stand such cooking man Another Alex. The draw still stood open, pointing the named Boyd ries that sort of a girl." as your wife is giving, you and, don't was knocked as if to mark river the down and down the mate, who by up a word about it? "Why is it that you are bringing up say visitor. of the course used a on strange him. the belaying pin splitting t your daughter tp work- for a living Keeper Keep stilL for heav his head and senseless him Travelers came up on both sides, ensHotel stretching when you have enough- to keep her in sake; if she were to hear you she on the deck. halted and turned back, supposing the would comfort at home?" "I want her to be say that she would send at deNeitlfer of to mates word a had the the interruption' to be the latest r once for her and she would be able to support her husband propvice of Tim's malice. For two days do the cooking.mother say when spoken to by a reporter on ever gets married." Sif Texas tings. board the ship, and all the captain erly if she traffic between the two towns was at a g A sofa, just large enough would say was that he had sent a restandstill Then some of the Hockaex. Dick invented. If propKnew the been has two, for to ashore and had no more to say mock worthies after vainly trying port will it' Dick wound Mamma Little begin to ring a up, gave me a about the trip. erly arouse the tollman. went out in a bell I should give you just jbefore 10 o'clock. warning big cake, and said boat, climbed up the pier and swung A Dialect Story. rehalf. Let's play a game with it At one minute after 10 it splits apart, the draw back. Travel thereuponfrom ' carries the daughI wish to gracious." observed and while Little Dot All ricrht. sumed its wonted course, and Dick house let's Well Little of some sit Constant of with the been has Reader ter down, up stairs, the other display that day to this Tim's bridge ' one the that from and the talkin warmth,1 that editors, would quit half kicks young man out of doors. keeps free to man and beast. ' come th' will get whole cake. printing these confounded dialect They will ' high, but people must After waiting a due time for Tim the longest stories. Hsre's one I can't make head have them. ,. to reappear. the selectmen of the Good News. say a word." - And away she hobbled on her crutch down to. the bridge a poor, bent and shriveled Tt shall be said of him, he found old woman, with a face unpleasantly A flower in every human face; Tn Dathways wtiere most thorns abound sharp, and a tongue that was sharper He lingered for some hidden grace. still. rxrhn saner of sunny days. Ah. Tim." said she. shaking her And those who sorrowed he had cheer; long, bony finger in his face, ye iuucij Yet could he wain tnrougii much tricks be at won't nja longer!" your near. ever And find communion 'What do you mean?"growled Tim. his care, for sweeter O ! mean robbing and abusing folks j , vmVhta wn.w won he souehtto w taking their watches and fobs things fair,. and For. love through him made alllove when you've no right to them that's And all things fair through Schoolarlrtn. Times. what 1 mean. " S wday Get along, you old nag! 1 won't TOLL-KEEPEstand such talk!' said Tim, with a TIM, -- THE threatening glare. .Hear me out- miserable man!' If you have ever cruised among the eninlets that and Hannah went on. "Let me tell Aunt reaches perplexing of Maine, coast perhaps you that it's for the Evil One you're tangle the "Tim's Bridga"! a doing all this! It's for the Evil One you have seen black- you're plundering your neighbors and fabric queer deformed littlean arm ofofthe sea, cheating your own body and soul!" ened logs spanning Worn You witch!" rTim screamed almost locally known as Clam river.of three beside himself with angef. "Be oft or and weakened by the service it trembles I'll have you hung!". 4Kr generations of travelers, Bah!", retorted the beldama with under the passing of a heavy team, were of usefulness a as if its days contemptuous snap of .her fingers. is when it the and draw, We'll have a free bridgefirstl" nearly over, deon its infirm and Doubling his fist. Tim started toopened, totters jfa.il-in- g man an old with ward her, while the dog. crouched for caying pier like ; limbs. a spring. Within a hedge of unkempt; nsh Hah!" she repeated, standing her weirs and fringed with a growth of ground and raising her crutch. "Come scraggy spruces, here lies the sleepy at me if ye dare, both of ye!" island town of Hockamock, cut (from There was a flash in her eye that the main by this meandering arm of cowed man and dog and kept them the sea and united to it by jTim's back. Tm not afraid of ye. and now I've Bridge. Opposite is Rowsie, an ancient and fishy hamlet in whose begun I'll finish." she said in a higher streets the grass gfows now. but the key. ' You're the Evil One's; all in business the) of scene days man, dog. and monkey! He'll come stirring when Phipps. the Knight ' oj the with fire and smoke and claim ' his Spanish Doubloons, was building his own. He'll surprise ye when he comes, and ye can't escape him and that's ships and flitting out his brave expeNEW ENGLAND PARSOfj. t-o- I R. : i . dar - -- ; j j ditions, s tnree-quar-ter- when the fishermen and farmers of the two old towns were in the heyday of their prosperity! caae a settler named Tim came from nobody Whae His beginning, like his end, Stubbs. knowa It is howi3 involved in mystery. ever, a well established fact that he built the bridge, the wiseacres' of the their heads at his yenture that he never would get Lis money back but it did come swelling jto a stream of silver and copper con that made Tim Stubbs the day shaking and vowing , richest man in Hockamock. An old gentleman who "vised to know Tim says the bridge is a good He;! was a picture of its builder. squat crooked, roughlookmg fellow, with high stoulders and unsteady j his dull eyes rarely looking a man full in the face, and his coarse, red hair bristling from a large, bulging head. vVhen he opened the bridge there was great rejocing in the twb towns.' It was such a wonderful accommodalegs, . tion to travelers that they willingly paid the toils. Some of the fishermen and coasting skippers grumbled at having to luff up and hang off for Tim to open his draw, but they soon became accustomed to it and blew their horns and s conch-shell- cheerily, always giving the alarm just before they rounded the sharp bend! made by the reach a little below thie bridge. As for the steamboats that now pass and reposs every day, they had not vexed these waters when bur story begins, .. on nothipg but his tolls. j j He lived in a little house at the Hockamock end of the Ibridsre, together Iwith his hordes and dingy yellow dog. When he stretched out his palm for his toll he had 4ver a word of greeting for j the passer-by- , and if one Ventured a good jnorning, " Tim sileptly hurried awky his money as though a civil wopd might break the spell protected it that Tradition says that he never took off his clothes at night, nor slept so of but the bark soundly Scrap, the brought him toj the gate. Scrap followed the business as inexorably as his master, standing by his side with a njagnificent display of teeth, sierving notice on all that they were to be nipped in one way or another. And. furthermore, the gossips used to say that Tim's! gate had become so well trained ttyat 'twould swing to and lock itself with' a snap if by the rarest chance the attention yellow dog. the tollman and his dog happened to be diverted when a traveler) came an thi3 must have been only ' idle; tale.' f y Old Squire Dummer of Hockamock came tearing down the road to the bridge one dark' night his horse in a of up-J-- but .". gallop.:.;. f- - I : , yy ; Open the gate. Tim, open the gate! It's a matter of life and death 1" he bawled. y j ... - There j'llm stood as unresponsive as f. death itself, his dog by his side, the ' gate shut and barred. . . Quick!'.' roared the Squire. "I'm . after the doctor for my jwife she's ! J like to die.". , Tim's oqly answer was to hold out j 1 that hairy hand of his. while the dog gave a low growl. j WEat do you mean, you knave?' j Squire Dummer cried, swelling with anger. --Would you risk: my wife's life ! V ior a tuppence?" ! V Excited and fuming he searched his ! pockets for. coin. while his horse ! .pawed and reared. V Hi there! whoa, boy! Confound you, 1 haven't a penny in ray breeches. Whoa, boy. steady! I'll pay you to- morrow. man. Open lie gate, in heaven's name." s But the grim statue die. not move i so much as a finger till the Squire. iairly afire with indigm.tion, threw down his watch and fob for tolL When, next day ho told the vil- lagers of the affair, the Warmest m-- l dignation was kindled :on both sMes of the river; t I jough perhaps it never would bave burned Tim's1 ears but for Aunt Hannah Kicks, j "The scurvy villain!'1 she muttered, r gray eyes flashing, "I'll give him ta piece of my mind, if bo one else ; - 1 ; ; ; " j : ; v j SEA. , lO j d, 1 ; - to-da- y d . . ,. evil-visitati- on black-smithin- g - -- -- ill-natur- ed But unluckily for the tollman and all who went through his bridge or over it, Tim's nature was as dwarfed and ugly as its frame, and he fed it , AT BRUTALITIES ' j To these shores about of a century ago, ; town made a thorough search of his house, but no trace (of Tim, or i his dog. or, strange to say. of his bags of money could be found. Not even a button, nor a penny piece, nor a bone! Aunt Hannah Ricks always claimed with many a chuckle that her predic-- ; tion had been literally fulfilled; but after she had gone the way of all the propheta there came to the ears oi the townspeople a rumor that in of the interior villages of Maine &3 old man. apparently very poor, had been found dead of starvation and "hovel his body neglect in a wretched half-blina snarling old guarded by and stretched upon a heap of dog straw in which were hidden several wonbags of money, amounting td sum. drous Whether these were the relics of Tim StubW or not nobody ever took pains to make sure, though many of the good people of Roswick and Hockamock firmly believed the bones of the dog and the gold were his. Some of the neighbors were as fully persuaded that Tim never was seen on earth after he jumped into the reach, and at the present day one opinion has about as many champions as the other in these two old towna Lewiston Journal. d conch-shell- -- . ; ': : . - a i . : Ta ; i -- . ;. j - j , self-actin- - ' , one-hal- f, . ; 1 i . HANSIE'S NEW YEAR'S DINNER, a. uoy Ate Too Much Fowl and Had if; 1' Boom for Pie.' I recall ray first New Year's dinijer at my grandfather's. Shall I ever fC get UP queries ,a' writer in Ha!rpejr' I made myself Young People. ridicul- though but a little shater of five or six, my greed remained a standing joke at all the succeeding: Ljj family reuu ions. .j j, I It was, remember, a most- bouiiti ful feast I can see that table ncjwr At the head a great gobbler sent up a steahi his-- ; sides as if bulking varnished shining in delicious brown. At the fjoot crouched a huge haunch. of. vjenlson, the intervening space crowded fwltb game and chicken pies every variety of fresh vegetables, saueirkrauv pickles, barberry jelly, honey &nd preserves, apple, pumpkin and mince-pies, cheese and sweetcake. On a at my grandmother's elbow jstbod pitchers of cider and a shining metal pot filled to the nozzle with thel besl as lva Bohea tea. atronP j. i The was of the table luscious sight and to be but a child aud i obliged j ous.-and - mouth-waterin- g sage-onio- n . . : ; " side-tabl- e -- f C9 ; ei 'I to-ea- t standing, to be seen and not heard, swas hird indeed? tjjwuit a second table was simply unbearable. I was too bold and hungry! ioi dub- mit. i crowded in beside my mother. Engaged in conversation and; servi ng, she gave little attention to my pes-enc- e. while I raided her plate, my grandfather replenishing it with a sly' twinkle of the eye as 1 devoured it At leuerth I could eat no more, bis- tracted by the sight of so- many "goodies" left unta3ted I broke out ; t a aisconsoiaie nowi. xn s tared. 'Why, Hansie." said my motner. what's the matter?" I blubbered the louder. Hansie. " she repeatedl 4fm . ashamed of you. What is it? I)oe your tooth ache swallowed a bone?'' j I tN-o-o- -o m-a-a-- 'What does ail you. f then P' I blurted out! "I'm Oh, you naughty child!" land ehe shook me soundly. Margaret Ana mebbe htfsj sick.' said my grandmother, anxiously, fromv the other end of the table; then cbax- ingly. "Hansie, come over to granny. I went still clinging to a turkey bone. m-a-d- !" i : ; j 'Tell granny what's the matter.' she whispered kindly, as I crowdedt Was ye crowded PV against her. ma-aan- I wa-"lea a-a- s, m; swered. wouidn t cry about: It no Got plenty of Toom now. haven't ye? There's a nice bit- WelL 1 more. 1 pigeon breast" At that I shrieked, Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" in a perfect fury. Stop, Hansie. this very minnitjnow, or I'll know the reason why. " faried: my mother, jumping up and coining to us. Do you feel sickPjYouj her eaten enough to kill ye. Does yer stomach ache?" j No, ma-am!- " What pesters ye, then?"j "There there, eat the breast Hansie, " urged my grandmother. ; I granny," I roared. I ain't got no Boo hoo! to it bo hhol I place put want another stomack! Boo ho! boo hoo! I hain't had no pie. njutherno-where- s to put it Oh, I wish I" got another stomach. Boo hoo. o6 loo!" With a quick grasp my mother hurried her small glutton into the bed room, and as his screams testified, did her best at his reformation, hot even my gentle grandmother interfering, so strictly was paternal authority upheld among the Dutch in jye' olden .... time." !; ATE UP LITTLE PUSSY. j j j ca-a-a-- I-I- -I ca-a-n'- I-- 1; t. j .. ; ?! The Admiral Slakes His Cook Unhappy and Suffers in Return j At a recent meeting in one Of the principal hotels of Philadelphia of officers who served in the jeb0llion, after those in the army had told of hair-breadt- escapes from thej wily h and Indians of; the wild and woolly west the funniest one ia the entire list was the experience of an admiral whose flag ship lay for some years off the harbor of San. Francisco. ,jf The gentleman who told the story served under the old sea d(g at the time, and enjoyed a good laugh while blood-thirst- y j jj relating it jl 1 had at th head of Admiral his culinary department a French, steward, celebrated for the mahy dife ferent kinds of dishes he served. reason the old admiral had. taken a dislike to the cook, and was by no means averse to showing his spite whenever opportunity 6iiered-very thing went along j; smbothly, however, untH one day when the British consul and other distinguished personages were present ai a dinner-giveon board by the admirah The Frenchman, who had alt along borne quietly the insults and abuse, decided at this meal to gelt een with, the Admiral. Before preafi4g dinner he had gone ashore and hired a, boatman to come alongside the ship and remain close to the gangway ladder. In the course of the feast, when a dish which he had specially prepared for the occasion had been eaten, he' poked his head through me doorway and asked the superior o iicer how he had relished that dish, The Admiral, who. as well! as his guesta was much pleased jreplled that it: was the finest specimen, of the cul tatle, and. inary art ever set on ,his wanted to know what it Was Oh!" replied the dpok it was only yqu pld fool!" your the He bad prepared Ajdihifal's pet The cook artistic in style. pussy and made for'the gangway jwas rowed never canie back, off to the city. He and thereafter the Admiral jws never known to find fault with hi$ cook.. For-som- E n I ') t . t j ro'e-ou- w, me-oa- ; , Bov Is this instrument caHed a fid- die, or a violin? Professor Yen L blay it, it's a violin. it's a anile. Ven you blay iv ;