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We hv. practical our Smitil5 In Utah and Ciutornit f'r man; jre.irs W htT dona 11.'' h n f but trrat rbronie aud priTatedis-ras;. priTatedis-ras;. W kar prOTen fHr II1 In c inn all CH RON IC I uim by mbliahln thousand of Toluntary lilaiuiasof bnte tvip:e. ft-iviutf names, pictures and adurtf&se. W- CAST PU3LISH OUR CURES IN PRIVATE DISEASES litntiw it waM Whit couflilencw. Hear. w. Bar to rrora onraiiii la this ?. of trouble In another way. Tb, is our plan: Vewi:i treat 700 until eared without asking joa to pttj m cent until you are eared. We fir l show Touoiir reputation In curing Chronic Dlaeaset. and to piore we can cure tt Private woub e ju.t a eaxi'jr. we take ali l ie bnrden of fiOTIHK it to yon by ruriiw you tlr&t.and then a-n a-n a rea-ooab.e ft-e a at-u you are cureil. You can depeald upn O'lr wor-J; any bank in Utah will en dorse it: tnou-atHl of pauents ti.ive endorsed u V WE WAN I' T. tl'KE Ytl' with the di-Uoci di-Uoci uuUaiiJiOt that will no" demand a few B;tt,i e do cure you. We cure Lost 1 nhoHl, Pemmai uku( j St?rnia!urrbifa tjoii .rrhiea. 8 . p h ; . i s and ai! wcaknesesot tuen. afs.jiumiy eur. Varicocele in ouu ek or it don t coat you a penny, fousjlta ii n n ! .!ict IKtiS, by letter ex la parson. Call or write to DRS. SHORES. EXPERT SPECIALISTS. 84 K. S ceo nil Soutb St. (Htmaa Block.) Oaposite Commercial Nat l Bank. Salt Lake City. Ut l.i,r.ts Vtnttit &lL tt.f rA.LS. I faw Coub Syruf. Tnsiam iikHXt. Cm In tirr. ?-fi pt rtrvffslwT". aw U.. Salt Lake No.7 1900. Wlien writing to fVivfrtioers, Please Mcd-t'on Mcd-t'on i.'iU paixr- r you - a ! I- Y) RD V4 fa. W. N Or. BY JAMES GRANT. CHAPTER XVII. (Continued.) i Soon aftfr this, when evening came on we heard a noise in the forecastle, i and the m?-e of Hislop exclaiming: i 'Stand clear sheer off, Antonio! If ' you corue athwart me. I'll knock you ; down with a handspike! What! yo.i grip your knif do you? Well, j'lim do it again, and I'll chuck you over-hoard over-hoard like a bit of oh! junk." "What is the matter now?" said I. I hastening: forward. "Ob. this ra,eca;Iy Spanish Creole ha been swearing at the men again, and threatening old Roberts." ' H- vows, sir, he will burn the .-hip." said Roberts, who seemed considerably con-siderably excited. "Cum the ship," reiterated Weston. "I have a great mind to put him in the bilboes for the remainder of the vt'.vy gf." " 'Twere ixsl for all concerned, Fir." said Tom hum bourne, touching his forelock with his right hand, and giving giv-ing the deck a scrape with his left foot; "o set him adrift with some provisions in the jolly-boat." "Come, come, Antonio," said Weston, Wes-ton, wiih greater severity than I had hitherto seen expressed in his open and honest countenance, "you must haul your wind for some time you have been going too far. I can't spare my jolly-boat, and, thank heaven! the days of marooning are past among British sailois, but beware you, shipmate, ship-mate, of the bilboes it shall be, and we have a pretty heavy pair below. And as for you. Marc Hislop," he added, in a low voice, when we walked aft. 'take care of yourself, for these Spanish c reoles are as treacherous as serpents." "I'll keep my weather slippery and eye open. paid Hislop. "You will require to do so, I think." "You do?" exclaimed the Scotsman, with growing anger. "If he proceeds thus, I'll break either his heart or his neck." Ntxt morning," Roberts, the old man-o'-war's man, who had always been Antonio's chief accuser concerning his dreams, was nowhere to he found on board! All the hands were turned up; the whole brig was searched, the forecastle fore-castle berths, the cable-tier, and every place below f:om the fore to the after peak, but there was no trace of Iiob- 1 rrtfl tni-p liio oM trti nnilin l-.if l..;.. I crusnea anu lorn in ine lee scuppers. He was last seen when turned up j to take the middle watch, which ex-! ex-! tends from 12 to 4 o'clock a. m.. and j Antonio was then In his hammock, i .Roberts was entered in the log as i "having fallen overboard in the j night;" but his loss cast a terrible : gloom over all the ship. Suspicion J grew apace, and seemed to become con-i con-i firmed, as open war was soon declared between the crew ami Antonio. Every man was ready to take his "trick" at the wheel, rather than trust the Eugenie to his steering in the night, lest he might let her broach to, ' and lose her spars, or do some other ; mischief; and no man, if he could I avoid it, would lay out on the yard I beyond him. No man would walk on J the same side of the deck with him. ! or exchange a word, or a light for a j pipe, or use the same cup or plate; so he was generally to be seen, leaning moodily and alone, against the windlass wind-lass bitts, with his black eyes fixed on the horizon, as if he expected a sail or something else to heave in Eight. We Bhall soon see how all this ended. CHAPTER XVI H. We Cross the Line. We were now in the latitude of burning burn-ing days, of starry nights, and bright blue seas. The winds were light, and. as usual, near the line, there was a tremendous swell upon the ocean, which rose in long and slowly-heaving hills, without foam or ripple smooth, glassy and without sound. On a lovely night, when the ocean seemed to sleep in the moonshine, we crossed me equator. The Eugenie was running with the j lee clews off 1. with a flowing . sheet when Father Neptune came on board, and the usual unpleasant pranks were played on those who had never passed the girdle of the world before. Great preparations had been in progress all day in the forecastle, and these were perfected under cloud of night. All the crew were on deck save I Antonio, who turned in, having prob-J prob-J ably a dread of what was about to en sue, and knowing that he was anything but a favorite. Accompanied by the shouts of the new, and preceded by Will White, playing "Rule Britannia" on a violin, old Father Neptune was drawn on a 6pecies of hurdle aft to the quarterdeck, quarter-deck, where Weston stood ready to receive re-ceive him, with his. hat in one hand and a case-bottle of brandy in the other. Under an old swab, which had been well dried and curled to make a wie J for the son of Saturn and Vesta. I recognized the grotesquely tattooed visage of my friend Tom Lambourne. i A cutlass was stuck in his girdle, and j he wore a huge paunch of canvas 1 stuffed with oakum. In a gown made by the sailmaker, Ned Carlton officiated as Amphritrite; and both deities were armed with harpoons, har-poons, as emblems of their dominion ; over the sea. j The attendant Tritons were got up In the same fashion, and all wore false j noses of singular size and great bril- j Hance. with low wig3 and long tails. On Neptune and his goddess receiv- j lng 3 dram and questioning ths cap tain about bis crew, it was discovered heavy puffs, causing the mast3 to sway that Antonio and I were the only two ' from side to side, and the bellying on board who had never crossed the courses to crack and flap with a sound line before; whereupon the Tritons r like thunder. whooped and danced as they laid vio- j At last there came a steady breeze; lent hands on me. I submitted to the i the courses were left fall, and with usual shaving and so forth with a ; both sheets aft, for the wind was fair, good grace, and compounded, to avoid j the Eugenie once more walked through other annoyances, for two bottles of the shining waters. brandy, and ascending to the main- Full, round, and- silvery the moon cross-trees without going through the arose, and tipped with liquid light lubber's hole. But for the Cubano ; every wave, that seemed to dance on-there on-there was neither ransom, escape not j ward with the brig, which in half an outlet; and the poor wretch, in conse- hour had the snow-white foam flying quence of his mysterious antecedents, ! in sheets over her catheads. was very roughly handled, the more so that he had threatened to use his knife if molested. It was soon trundled out of his hand by one body of Tritons, while another soused him well with salt water as he was conveyed past the long boat, which was lashed amidships, and in which they were stationed with buckets buck-ets ready filled. Held fast on every side, he cm brought before the "goddess-born" and inexorable monarch o .the main, who tit V I I 0) att The Adventures of An Eton Boy... i ordered "the Lord Chief Barber at ! once to shave him." Now, as Antonio had a rather luxuriant lux-uriant beard and mustache, the plentiful plenti-ful application there! o of a compound of tar and slush, such as we used for greasing the masts, was the reverse of agreeable; but the stein orders of Xep- tune, which we.e bellowed hoarsely mrougn a tin trumpet, were faithfully ....v. v.uv,iui.i,r uut-cu, and me con-: con-: tents of a dirty iron pot were smeared over the clucks, bard and mouth of ; the Oubano by Hilly, a mischievous (.hip-boy, with an unsparing hand. i "Demonio! Mahlita!" was heard at i intervals, and greeted Wiih laughter; j but when he attempted to storm or I swear the hni?h-a Making tuft of ! oi!, tar and every honhl grease was i thrust into his mouth. The Lord Chief Um ber was now ! commanded to remove this noisome ; ; mess with his razor, and he scraped it i ; orf with a piece of hoop, which had ; been carefully notched for the purpose I a process which, a.- it uprooted sun- j dry thick portions of Antonio's coal- I black bristles, caused him to yell and I sputter out hoarse Spanish oaths al- 1 ternately. He was again deluged with salt ; water; and greater ser verities were i i, , . . i, ... . .. ijjui w ut' practiced upon mm, as some of the Tritons cried for "the ghost of Roberts to come out of the sea;" others, to "smoke him, by putting put-ting his head in the hood of the cook's tunnel," when Weston ransomed him tor two botties of b;andy. and he was permitted to slink away to his bunk breathing vengeance against all his tormentors. Grog wag again served round, the deck was cleared for a dance, and the ciew footed the hours away in a succession suc-cession of hornpipes, while the grim Cubano lay growling in the forecastle. Three cheers for the Captain, and three more for Marc 11 slop, terminated the fun, and ail but the watch retired below. "They have gone too far with that fellow, as seme of us may discover before be-fore the voyage comes to a close," said Hislop, when we were having a parting glass in the cabin. "Yes," replied Weston; "he is a dark clog, and though I am not very rich, I would give a hundred pounds to fathom the mystery of old Robert's disappearance. Well, here's to our wives and sweethearts at home." "I have neither swee theart nor wife," said Hislop, as he tossed off his glass; "but I have a poor old mother who loves me as well as either could do." YVeston's eye wandered to the portraits por-traits of his wife and child, to whom he was tenderly attached, and for whom all his saving.-,, by salary, tonnage, ton-nage, and hat-money, were carefully hoarded; for whom, poor fellow, he tempted the dangers of the great deep, the war of the elements, and endured the hardships of a sailor's life his wife, his little one, and their home "his all; his sheet-an.-hor in this world, and his guide to the next I once heard him say, forcibly strangely. as i and ' CHAPTER XIX. The Cubano Unmasked. As we kept the coast of South Africa well aboard, a few days after we saw Cape San Roque, or, as it is sometimes called. Point Pelinea. the northeastern northeast-ern extrernity of Brazil, rising from (he blue atrr like a purple cloud. Hut it diminished to a low black streak on our weather quarter when the sun set, and we found ourselves ploughing the waves of the South Atlantic. There fell a calm for a whole day after this, and while the Eugenie rolled lazily on the long glassy swells, with her top?ails flapping, and her courses hauled up, the sole amusement of the crew consisted in catching albatrosses, al-batrosses, or in killing them, undeterred unde-terred by the old superstition that it was a bird of "good omen," or by the story of the "Ancient Mariner," of which they were probably ignorant. A flock of these gigantic sea-birds congregated under our stern, where they gobbled up everything that was thrown over to them: so Hislop and I proceeded methodically to fish them on board. We procured strong lines, baited the hooks with pieces of pork, lashing thereto a buoy formed of a common cork, and lowered four of them over the stern. They had scarcely touched the water, when amid a furious flapping of heavy pinions, they were eagerly swallowed f the hooks and lines began to bear taughtly, and we soon had four gigantic albatrosses splashing the water into froth in their ineffectual efforts to escape. We towed them in, hand over hand, and after measurement found the smallest to be eleven feet from the tip of one wing to, the tip of the other. Though rank and fishy in flavor, the flesh of these birds was made Into sea-pies, on which the crew were regaled re-galed for two days after, and they partook par-took of it with great apparent relish. But Jack is not very particular, especially es-pecially when at sea. Though none of the crew shared the superstition connected with the de- ! struction of an albatross, and probably j none, save Hislop and myself, knew the splendid ballad written by Coleridge, Coler-idge, it would seem as if our misfortunes misfor-tunes commenced with that day's wanton wan-ton sport! . - . - The huge sea birds became shy and left us. The sun set amid saffron-colored waves, and the western sky was all aflame, when the sails began to fill and collapse as the wind came in It wa3 about the hour of 1 in the morning that the horrible events which I am about to relate occurred. I was in the middle watch, relieving Weston, who, as the tropical dews were heavy, always ordered Billy the cabin boy to give me a glass of bran-dy-and-water before going on deck, for fear of ague, and then he turned in. The sullen Spaniard Antonio was at the wheel. Tom Lambourne, Ned Carlton Carl-ton and I were walking to and fro, loitering at times, and looking at the compass to se how she headed noif aloft to observe how the sails drew anon over the side, where the wate bubbled merri'y past, or ahead at the patch of blue and star-studded sky which was visible under the leach oi the fore-course, as the brig's bow filled every now and then, and she rolled heavily from side to side, as all vessels ves-sels do when running before the wind. All was very still, for, save the bubble bub-ble of the water in the wake astern, or a gurgle as it surged up in the rudder rud-der case, the creaking of a block, or ! the iron slings of the lower yards, not a sound stole upon the first hour of the silent morning. Two of the albatrosses we had caught were hanging by the legs from the gal!ows-top abaft the foremost, where their great extended wings j swung somewhat mournfully to and ! fro in the wind and by the motion 51 the ship. , (To be continued.) HOTEL'S GOOD POINTS. Th,' Aro the Idea, of Man VTlie Kuow, Too. "I have a record of over 700 hotels where I have stopped," volunteered a well-known and popular minstrel performer per-former to a Washington Star reporter, "which are scattered all over our glorious glo-rious country, from Maine to the Rio Grande, and it is to be presumed that I know something of hotel life after living in them and in hotels alone nine months out of every year for the i'ast twenty-five years. Besides the 7t;0 and over I have a record of, I have stopped at some hotels where I did not make a record. At many of the 700 I have stopped from ten to twenty times, generally from one to six days each time. Now, what I am getting at is that those who complain most of hotel life in this country are those who know the least about It. During three months of each year I live at my own home. I come in contact con-tact with wanderers, traveling people like myself, and associates, by the thousand, and I hear what they have to say about hotels and hotel life. The ! professional traveler has no kick like the amateur or occasional traveler; he knows enough to know that he is as a rule better fed at even the second-grade second-grade hotels than in the ordinary private pri-vate house; that is, he has more to cat if he desires and a larger selection selec-tion to choose from. As far as the room is concerned, the traveling man only has it to sleep in, and, provided the bed is good, he does not care a rap about the other furniture, or whether the room is papered or whitewashed white-washed or not, so that it is clean. In the minstrel business a ballad singer is generally the hardest man to please, and if we find that he likes a place, it suits all the rest of the company. My opinion that the hotels feed well goes with them all, north, south, east and west. Xow and then some are specially good. The difficulty with the so-called poor hotels is that the eaters are bad it is not the food. A poor sleeper likewise makes a very poor bed. The ballad singers say this, and what they say goes for all it is worth." Thirty Cents. Colloquial phrases of popular use are like poets born, not made and any inquiry into their origin results invariably in the discovery that, like Topsy, they just growed up. So soon as one expression has become trite in New York it is replaced by another which seems to rise almost automatically automat-ically to fin a want long felt. Just now the most popular phrase in colloquial use as a designation of inferiority is "30 cents." There are variations of it several. A man looks like 30 cents; a dejected and disconsolate individual feels like 30 cents; a promising venture ven-ture amounts to no more than 30 cents, and the idle talk of an unimportant unim-portant person sounds like 30 cents. In each case the essential fact is just the same, for the distinguishing mark of the expression is 30 cents. Some efforts ef-forts have been made to explain the signification of this expression, but so far unsuccessfully. Thirty cents, it is true, is not a large amount when compared with the standard of value, $1, in the United States, but it is more than the standard of Germany, which is the mark, 25 cents; the franc of France or Italy, which is 20 cents (or nearly 20); the crown of Austria, the rupee of India, the drachma of Greece, or the peseta of Spain, worth about 20 cents each. Thirty cents reduced to its practical purchasing power and with the existing system of transfers in transportation in New York will take the traveler a considerable distance, if it will not keep him on the move all day. It will more than buy a "quarter "quar-ter lunch," and will allow for a 5-cent 5-cent tip as well, and by some persons it is believed that the genealogy of the expression is to be traced to this, a 30-ccnt 30-ccnt meal, patronized by those who had previously been able to pay more. Whatever its origin, "30 cents" is now frequently heard. New York Sun. Invention of the Telephone. In a recent lecture Prof. Alexander Graham Bell is reported to have explained ex-plained how he came to Invent the tel-ephons tel-ephons as follows: "My father invented invent-ed a symbol by which deaf mutes could converse, and finally I invented an apparatus ap-paratus by which the vibrations - of speech could be seen, and it turned out to be a telephone. It occurred to me to make a machine that would enable one to hear vibrations. I went to an aurist, and he advised me to take the human ear as my model. He supplied me with a dead man's ear, and with this ear I experimented and upon ap plying the apparatus I found the dead man's ear wrote down the vibrations. I arrived at the conclusion that If I could make iron vibrate on a dead man's ear I could make an instrument more delicate, which would cause those vibrations to be heard and understood. I thought If I placed a delicate piece of steel over an electric magnet I could get a vibration, and thus the telephone was completed. The telephone arose from my attempts to teach the deaf to speak. It arose from my knowledge, not of electricity, but as a teacher of the deaf. Had I been an electrician I would not have attempted it- For the Cat. "Doctor," said hft, "I'm a victim of insomnia. I can't sleep if there's the least noise such as a cat on the back fence, for instance." "This powder will be effective," replied the physician, physi-cian, after compounding a prescription. prescrip-tion. "When do I take it, doctor?" "You don't take it. Give it to the cat ill a little milk." Dry Philosophy. "There is one thing," continued the Dry Philosopher, "that can be proven by a goafs head a striking countenance counte-nance is not always a sign of brain." The fortunate man always takes misfortune the hardest. BAB ANB MAM. Bixby lies at the crossing of th Iron ways out in the desolate West, I should not like to say how many railroad men Xcow the place, or have wondered how they could escape from It. . It is e jiS quite pleasant to be leaving Bixby or it would be if it were not for Dad and Mam. The first time I saw Dad and Mam was when my route was changed from Omaha to Denver I am a mail clerk and I landed at Bisby with a wait of thirty minutes, a horribly empty stomach, stom-ach, and no visible way of filling it. "Don't they eat out this way?" I asked Theo Auditor, who was in the mail car with me. i "I should say so," said he. "If we j eat anywhere we eat at Bixby." "Macduff," cried I, "if there's any place to lead to, please lead on." He did. We went down the uninteresting uninter-esting front street, as like to fifty other front streets I had walked down as one pea to another. "What do people mean by living here," I ruminated aloud. I was a Chicago man and had ideas of my own about what a town should be. Auditor, ! who came from Peoria, and hated Chi- ' cago, answered rather sourly: "There's no accounting for the dirty ! holes some folks like to live in." ! We turned down a street that was all blackness save for one flashing and welcoming glow that came from the headlight of an engine. The headlight stood before a long, low building with storm doors at the entrance and storm sash at the windows. Once behind that door, the winter had vanished, and we were in a long apartment, brightly lighted with rough gray walls, trimmed trim-med with flags and vines, and filled with men. A 6hout went tip as we entered. "Why, Theo; that you, my boy?" I distinguished a woman's voice saying. "We were thinking this was your j night. Is your baby better?" j "O, a heap better, thank you. Mam. ; This is my assistant, Will Williams. ! He'll become one of your family, I ex- j pect." j "Well, I'm glad to hear it," said a j hearty voice, and I saw a woman with j a large, kind face, reaching out her j HE REACHED OUT A GRIMY HAND, hand to me across a sort of counter, behind which she eat in a high rocker. "My family is large," she said, "but j never too large to have additions made j to it." j A pleasanter, more motherly-looking j old woman it would have been hard to find. Her blue eyes beamed at me with a sincere offer of friendliness, and the hand I grasped, had a fine, firm grip to it. "This is the sort cf person one can count on," I concluded, instinctively. A moment later an old man entered, carrying car-rying a bucket of coal. He had a large, kind face, too Indeed the husband and wife seemed singularly alike. 1 was Introduced to him and he reached out a grimy hand. "Where do you live, sir?" "At Omaha." "Married?" "No." "Live with your folks?" "Yes." "That's good. That's mighty good. Glad to see you here. Hope you'll make yourself acquainted with all our boys." By this time Mam had a luncheon laid for us on a snowy tablecloth. 1 am a trifle fastidious about my eating, and there have been tirne3 when I nearly starved to death because I could not force down the fare I got at railway rail-way eating houses. But this meal, though simple, was delicious, and I ate until I was actually ashamed ot myself. I talked but little; it was better to listen. The laughter and conversation going on was like that of a home circle. cir-cle. Mam led it, and she seemed to know all about everybody, and to be ! giving everyone a bit of friendly en- i couragement. ! "O, you'll soon be fixed all right," 6he said to a young feliow who had . confessed to her that his new house- j keeping was on a small scale. 'When j I was first married I had only one flat- j iron to my name, and I couldn't seem to get money enough together to buy another. So I used to use it until it was cold, and then no something else till it got hot again. But it wss awful trying. Dad's shirts used to st dry -s bones while I was waiting for that flat to heat. But it's better now, as you see. I own six irons now," she concluded con-cluded with an accent of dry humor. "O, you're a rich woman now, Mam," cried one of the "boys." "And I've traveled," . she laughed. "Don't forget that I've traveled." This appeared to be a tremendous joke, ana Mam chuckled and shook over it and Dad chuckled and shook. The "boys" made merry over it too. and Mam couldn't let the joke go, but cried between be-tween her fits of laughter. k i;;;;;; know.- . It makes a great derence I . don't care to associate mseh with . 'Not everyone has traveled, you ; folks that haven't traveled." We had to leave then, and as we hastened along the street, leaving the . . ,,? ' . nnri flaminer hearllie-hr at our Daexs, anal with the cordial zcod-bys of Dad and j Mam still ringing in our ears. I asked Auditor what the joke was. "Why," said he, "Dad and Mam Ferris Fer-ris have been right on that spot for sixteen years and they're institutions. All the fellows know them and tell them their troubles and go to them to be doctored and petted ami encouraged. encourag-ed. They've got so used to it that 1 really don't know how they would get on without the old folks. Well, one day Mam was talking and it came out that she was just pining to go to the Omaha avnneUinn. No one naci uo"'v . I ever thought of that. M.-ira iia et , been known to go anywhere. She j Ill ill if i rifl Filll ISIS jj I-iiCn't even had time to go to chureti. If it isn't the passenger boys its tRe freight crew that's taking up her time, end she never has time to sa that her soul is her own. In fact, I suppose she has forgotten a long time ago that she belongs to herself. How she came to think of the exposition I don't know. But she said to one of the boys: 'A body might feel herself mighty fortunate for-tunate to be able to go to that show. It must be pretty." Well, it came across eome of us what it would mean to her and Dad to go there and see the thing, and how surprised they would be at night when the white buildings were all lit up with electricity. So Reynolds Tim Reynolds, you know started it. He wrote telling Dawson, the General Passenger Agent at Omaha, about the matter, and Dawson sent on transportation. transpor-tation. Then we clubbed together and got a new suit for Dad and new dress for Mam and head gear and a parasol and all manner of truck. Nelson of the Executive committee of the exposition, used to be one of their 'boys' and he forwarded a pass, and Hawthorne, the Division Superintendent at Omaha, made them come to his house and put up. They had everything going, I tell you. They staid two weeks and went to the theater and did the Midway and went through the exposition ground as faithfully as children leain a lesson. They meant to get all out of it they could. They came back proud as peacocks, pea-cocks, and kind of crushed by everybody's every-body's kindness. I swear, they cried for a month, till we told them if fe.ey didn't let up we'd set up a lunch counter coun-ter at the station. So they wiped their eyes and made a joke of it. And now al! you have to do if you want to make them laugh is to ask them if they have ever traveled." We were back to our places in the mail car by this time. I grabbed a fresh sack and began my task, but It was several minutes before I could see the directions on the envelopes with prfect clearness. Then it occurred to me that I would better follow the example ex-ample of Dad and Mam, so I dried my eyes and fell to laughing. "What's the matter with you?" sung out Auditor. "I was just thinking what a blistering blister-ing good story that was about Dad and Mam." "Well," said he, indignantly, "It taeks a good while for you to get to the laughing point seems to me!" I didn't tell him the reason why. Chicago Tribune. TIGHT LACING Illustrative f the Vanitv of Our Gra nil mothers. Popular revolutionary novels make a point of describing the tight corset lacing of the heroines, but we need not go so far back as 1776 to recall the torture of tight stays. It was not uncommon un-common for a stately lady to sit in church for two hours without touching touch-ing the back of her pew, says a writer in the Philadelphia Record. The party-going party-going classes literally strained every point to reduce the waist measure. Ball dresses were made with two-pointed waist, one in front and one at the back of the corsage, and the latter was made to close by means of strong silk laces run through small eyelets. No human being could have endured the pressure, had it not been that the waist was cut very low, and the whole upper up-per part of the lungs had thus full play. Very short sleeves, sometimes i only a shoulder strap, also left a fair j portion of skin exposed. Both ma-i ma-i trons and young girls gloried in the I efforts they made after tight lacing. A ! good story is told of a colonel's wife who was going to a bail in which she was to appear in a new pink siik dress. Both her servants failed to make the lacing meet. Her husband w3 called in, and he, too, failed to draw the lacing together. "Call in your orderly sergeant," said the lady, which was done, and between the colonel and his orderly sergeant the corsage was made to meet over the corsets. Both wiped the sweat from their brows when they got through, however. A more thrilling thril-ling incident of tight lacing was of a young lady going to her first ball. In the lacing of her corsage all the women of the household had failed, and her brother was summoned to give his aid. After some futile efforts he wound the silk lacing around a bed post, while the maid drew the eyelets close together to-gether with a buttonhook. Just as a beautiful fit had been secured the young debutante took a long breath of relief, and the silk lacing snapped with a report like that of a pistol. It was ! 9 o'clock at night, and the stores all were closed, but the brother went forth and at last got a sil lacing at a barber shop. 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