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Show The Lad That la Goaa. INDIAN DIVORCES. 6inf me a song of a lad that U gone. The Coarta Haying Havoc with Coateaas Say, could that lad be If of Marriage. Merry soul he tailed on a day Over the aea to Skye. With most of the plain Indiana marriage consists simply of picking out Mull was astern, Rum on the port. the maiden, leading her to a cabin or Egg on the starboard bow; wigwam and Installing her as mistress of the house and corn-fielsometimes Glory of youth glowed In hit soul with the necessary preliminary of pay-n- g Where is that glory now? the father a pony or two or an installment of blankets and occasionalSing me a song of a lad that Is gone, ly with some alight ceremony perSay, could that lad be I? formed by a chief or medicine man, Merry of soul he sailed on a day Over tbe sea to Skye. aaya the St. Louis And when the brave grows tired of hie Give me again all that wu there; partner be can get rid of her as easily Glre me the eun that shone! as he won her. The people who are Give me the eyes, glre me the soul. now flocking to the Dakotas or OklaGive me the lad that is gone! homa to get divorcee would be suhappy If they could throw off 8ing me a song of a lad that Is gone. premely bonds of wedlock as easily the galling Say, could that lad be I? as doea reservation Indian. The the Merry of soul he sailed on a day !act been formally announced having Over the sea to Skye. y the head man of the clan the divorce takea place when the tribe is Billow and breeze, island and Mountains of rain and sun; gathered at a dance. When all are assembled and the circle formed, tbe disAH that was good, all that was fair. contented warrior strikes a drum used All that was me is gone. by the revelers, gives away a few presRobert Louis Stevenson. ents (ofttlmea making a present to the squaw he Intends to take next) and then in a short, bombastic speech he SOME LATE NEW THINGS. stigmatizes his wife by giving her over A combination razor and case In to tender mercies of the other braves, which the strop slides into one side of while they look upon him enviously and consider that he has performed aa act the ease hss just been patented.' An electric roller for massage pur of bravery in hie desertion. Often as poses is composed of plates of copper many aa half a dozen divorcee are thus and zinc and generates its own elec- obtained at a single dance. No tedious waiting, no courts, no lawyers and no tricity. about alimony or the custody of troubls A recently patented solder for alumichildren. And tbe squaws thus cast off, nium consists of thirty parts tin alseem to take it as as a general loy, four parts aluminium and three a matter of thing, and before the close course, parts zinc. of the dance are using the wiles known A newly designed d and used by women tbe world over gun has only one trigger, a lever being In an effort to repair as speedily ss posused to change the action to either side sible the break In their hearts and as desired. matrimonial experiences. With the takA handy device for opticians coning of land In severalty and putting on sists of ar. indicator to tell the angle of citizenship, however, the Indian finds e at which the of eye glasses that he hss cemented the ties that were must be set to fit the nose. eo loose before, for the courts everyBlacking brushes for use with liquid where are deciding that tbe tribal marblacking have a reservoir in the dau- riages are legal and binding upon tbe ber, together with a tube running into Indian who becomes a citizen. And if the bristles through which the polish tbe weight of one legal marriage wears somewhat heavily upon a white man, runs. how must it be with the red man, who A Massachusetts woman has a patented leather dressing consisting of a has contracted two, three, four or even more alliances which the court now compound of wax, rubber, gutta Spanish licorice and paraffin oil, declares legal and at the same time takes sway his former avenue of re the proportions being secret. Circular extension tables are made lief? BIRDS AS SEED CARRIERS. with a number of slots on the under semiside into which the supports of of the Dutch to Destroy Nutcircular leaves are pushed to increase Attempt meg Treat. the circumference of the table. Two centuries ago the Dutch deA New York woman has designed a stroyed every nutmeg tree In the. Moglass oven door in connection with a luccas In order to enjoy a monopoly of device for opening and closing the the business, having planted the trees dampers by means of the expansion in their own possessions, says the and contraction of the glass plate. Youths Companion. In spite of their A recently designed watch-carrimost earnest efforts, however, the islfor bicycles has a screw clamp to at- ands were constantly being restocked. tach it to the head of the wheel, the For a long time tbe thing was a myswatch being held in place by a number tery but at length it was solved. The of springs to grip the stem and watch doves of that quarter of the world are case. of large size and readily swallow the Pneumatic roller skates having one seeds of the nutmeg. They traverse wheel on each skate are just out In wide stretches of land and sea In a few connection with the foot plate and heel hourB and deposit tbe seeds not only and toe clamps there is a brace run- uninjured but better fitted for gerning up to the calf of the leg to make mination by the heat and moisture of It more rigid. the birds system. By a similar process The latest curtain pole is cut into thousands of acres of land have been two equal sections lengthwise, hinged, covered with trees of different kinds, to each other and having a hole bored the birds acting as natures agents In through it to hold a rod on which the the dissemination of plants. Darwin curtain is hung, thus putting the hang- found In six grains of earth adhering ers out of sight to the feet of a plover three different A new combination tool will drive kinds of seeds and In mud sticking to or pull a nail and can be used as a pipe the feet of ducks and geese shot In Engwrench. It has a movable beak, one land he found the seeds of plants pecuside of which grips the heads of nails, liar to the Victoria Nyanza, in central the other side having teeth to hold the Africa, thus proving not only the extent of migration but also the possibilipipe solidly for turning. ty of plants appearing In these strange localities through tbe agencies of these SORTS. ALL HINTS OF birds. In the mud sticking to the feet The woman with a list is very much of a Texas steer the seeds of five different kinds of weeds and grasses comin evidence in shops. Brandied peaches served with ice mon In Texas were found by a after the arrival of the animal cream form a combination for dessert York. New in that frequently replaces the Christmas mince pie and plum pudding. A Urumorar Ilohnnilan Church. Few men know how to choose flowIn the centre of the arched roof of ers that will be acceptable to women. All Saints church, Sedlec, in Bohemia, Nine out of every ten fair ones love hangs a chandelier constructed entireviolets. This is a suggestion that may ly of human bones. The church In help Borne puzzled masculine who had which this remarkable object Is susin mind a composite bouquet with pended is decorated from the floor to wired carnations and ferns as its pri- t.ie ceiling with the blanched bones of human bodies. Garlands of bones mary principle. The decorations In Paris in honor of stretch across the walls and hang from the Russian emperor and empress dur- the ceiling. Pyramids, topped with ing their recent visit were of unusual golden crowns, are artistically reared beauty. The 'large chestnut trees that from the ground ftlth these whitened line the boulevards were made to look remains of the dead. The altars are as if in full bloom. This was accom- literally covered with skulls, among plished by taking bunches of grapes which arc hundreds of those which Then upon had been pierced by bullets or crushed and pulling off the f. e fastened by murderous blows from swords and each little bare stem imitation of other weapons, denoting that thesis small wax flowers made would grim relics of humanity hare been Who bloss the chestnut . have had this ingenious thought but a gathered from adjacent these Tradition idles of says (hat Frenchman? bones human were a blind by stuffed gathered dinner sweet is An excellent of the Cistercian Order, who figs. To prepare them, cut an opening friar them in a corner of the church. stored in the side of nice fresh figs and take As were fast changing Into their they To a this with Inside spoon. out the add some salted almonds or salted pea- original elements, a man named Rlnt nuts that have been chopped fine. Mix devoted himself to the task of cleaning these thoroughly together and moisten and arranging them In the church. them with a little brandy. Put this Prince Carl of Schwarzenberg took a mixture Into the flg shells and press the strong personal Interest in the restorasides of the opening together. Roll the tion and arrangement of the church, and ordered all the repairs to be dons figs in powdered sugar. at his own expense. A large number Brazil, lnd, miners have been cut 5 of tourists visit this extraordinary church every year. cents per ton. d, Globe-Democr- at. double-barrele- nose-piec- per-ch- a, er mlcro-scopi- st batik-fields- The only difference wm be in the exe- Clarence Hay's araugne 01 noney. "Miss Pearson," he said, aa be was cution, I expressing them in words, you in pictures. getting ready to go, "I haven't been honest with you. I love you too much Clarence groaned helplessly. By Emma M. Wise. "Great heavens, Mias Pearson P he to lmpoee upon you. There waa no qpi E fell in love with between her before he found exclaimed. "What do you take me for, telepathic correspondence r. that It was not an anyway? I am no I your mind and mine to prove that I am Idealist, and after didn't know you believed In such your affinity. I came by knowledge In that tl was not an tuff." a very material way. Read this let"Of course, you didn't know. That ter which 1 received a week ago. easy matter to reverse the recently waa what I meant when I said you He handed her a square sheet of developed currents didnt understand me as you should. white paper and ahe read aloud: of bis nature and I have dabbled la all the occult sci"Mr. Hay: Miea Pearson has finished fall out again. ences. I firmly believe In spiritualist!, her etory. It la a description of SyClarence Hay hypnotism and theosophy " rian life In the aluma of a Urge city. bad alwaya main"Socialism, syntax and prosody," he Interior of room given In detail (Illustained that the noblest work of God Interposed, viciously. trate). Characters are mother and was a practical man, while next In "Dont interrupt me, please," she three little gtrla (Illustrate In group.) order came a practical woman. He turned, with an air of severity. "I Youngest child dies with American had never ceased to thank his lucky know that it is possible to read the doctor at bedalde (illustrate.) Woman stare that he could be classed among future In cards and in the stare and la well educated and auperlor to averelect and he devoutly I also know that the high-grag will in age Syrian woman, but very poor (Ilhoped that when be married his wie time become aa commonplace as conlustrate aa she appears In the street.) mormight be one of tbe second-rat- e versing by means of spoken and writ- Doctor loves her, but ahe will not tals. ten words is now. To be sure, I am marry because ahe believes It to be her It' was a great shock to him to learn not such a stanch advocate of idealism duty to her race to live among them that Mias Pearson was lodged several as to assert that our bodies exist in and elevate them (Illustrate rejection). ." "A degrees below that exalted niche. He imagination only, but I do believe that ( didnt know it till the day he proposed mind is far more powerful than mat-"Hold a minute. Dont My anything to her. She poised her tapering foref. wire Mml verv strazro till X tell you all, he said, as she finger lightly against her right temple to me, Mr. Hay, she added, tentative- commenced to apeak. "I couldn't have as he spoke it was a way she had of ly, that you ehouid be eo practical. I thought of this from now till the crack doing whenever she became unusually have alwaya supposed that an artist of doom. I didn't know who sent the serloua and looked at him with a should have an exceedingly vivid letter, whether a mutual friend who steadfastness that thrilled him with imagination. had fathomed your secret or a rival to "I am not entirely devoid of It, he whom you had confided all, and who apprehension for his future happiness. I believe, sbe said, that you dont retorted, bitterly; "but I exercise com- wrote this merely to lead me astray. understand me as you should. I think mon sense more than anything else. But X concluded that a false scent waa If you knew me better you wouldn't Besides, I am not a Raphael nor a Mubetter than none at all, so I went to want me." rillo. Perhaps it I were I should be work. I spent two days in tbe Syrian He was really frightened then. The something of an anomaly with their colony. You see the result. There," I answer waa so unexpected and savored powers of g allied to my am truthful, even though I may be too 0 strongly of secrets and mysteries in decided practicality. But I am only a practical to suit your taste. her past life that he recoiled In horror commonplace illustrator, capable of He waited for her to say something, from the mere thought of being bur- earning a good salary, and I never ex- but ahe only stared at him in surprise. dened with a crowd of personal ghosts pect to be anything else, because it If you want to retract your decision that would ever be hovering around isnt in me. I'm too practical. Bat I all right," he said, dejectedly, but X him. am pretty true to nature, and I think. think I've earned you. I am afraid, she went on, after a Miss Pearson, that if you will give a Still she did not speak. He bowed brief period of reflection, that we fellow a fair show I could illustrate himself out of the room and had reachshould not prove congenial and life your story ae well as any one." ed the outer door when she called him with a person whose tastes are radicalBut she was obdurate to all bis ap- back. ly opposed to mine would be simply peals. "Clarence," she said, standing close unendurable, not only for myaelf but Dont argue with me or try to beside him, you have been honest. X for my husband. Before answering change my views, she said. "This is havent. I didn't think you would tell you, Mr. Hay, I must be assured that no mere whim. On tbe contrary, it la me about that that letter. Clarence, we are thoroughly suited to each other. a serious matter. I decided upon these I I I have a teat by which that may be conditions years ago. If you cannot "Well, what? he asked, as she pausproven. If it should appear that there do aa I have suggested we are not fit- ed, timidly. is an unperishable affinity between us ted for each other. "I knew you would be too dull to I shall be perfectly willing to marry was the most difficult problem guess by tbe aid of mental telepathy It you and thank you for the honor done which Clarence Hay's practical mind and I wrote that letter myself." me. had ever been called upon to solve. Her words and the tone in which There were times when he had serious RUBBER TEETH NOW. they were uttered were both so unnat- doubts of Miss Pearsons sanity, and hia back in ural that Clarence leaned had she been a less attractive woman A Xew York Dntbt Has Invented e chair and regarded her., with amaze- he would have abandoned all hope of Mew Troeeu. new thing In teeth has ment while trying to determine whethAn entirely someher and left her to find been er or not the shbek of it sudden pro- winning Invented which places artificial But do to her else Illustrating. body posal had turned her mii( whenever he began to consider that masticators within tbe reach of the What is the test? he asked,' cau- course of action the valves of his masses, says the New York World. tiously. heart contracted with a sudden spasm The inventor and manufacturer la a New York dentist, wbo "Next week, she said, I shall begin of desolation, and he would once more new process will enable his that a new story. It is to be written at the says a possibegin cudgeling his brain for order of an eastern publishing bouse ble clew to the theme of her story. He him to make complete sets of exceland will contain about 10,000 words. I hunted up every old magazine and lent teeth for fl.50 or $2 and still reap received the letter only yesterday re- newspaper In which she had ever had a satisfactory profit. The Invention la questing me to contribue and aa yet anything published and read her work a depariure from anything heretofore Introduced In modern dentistry. It I have thought out no plot or plan to carefully, in the hope of thereby gain- consists of a be followed in its construction. I shall complete artificial Bet of naturalIdea of what some might ing begin, however, on Monday. Now, Mr. ly bo expected of her. But she bad teeth made entirely of rubber, the base Hay, I propose that you illustrate the written in many veins and he might or plate and the teeth being formed In their manufacture an story. as well have tried to read a solution Integrally. method Is employed which Ingenious Clarence's brow cleared. in the stars as In the pages not only Insures a correct formation "That will be easily done," he said, whereon she mirrored theprinted state of her of tbe artificial masticators, whereby with a sigh of relief. "As soon as you mind in the days gone by. Besides, in naget It written. Miss Pearson, turn It none of them was there visible a trace they are made to closely resemble ture's also the but :: simplifies product, over to me and I promise you that of the belief in the supernatural that process of wbat Is called "setting the will produce a set of pictures that will had characterized their last conversateeth up. A hollow, flexible metallic accentuate all the beat points in your tion, and the theories then expressed matrix, which both Internally and exant to your reputation story and add left him more mystified as to her prob- ternally reproduces the formation of mine. able subject than anything else could the natural teeth, Is made, which when You dont understand, Mr. Hay, have done. filled with rubber and vulcanized proshe replied, quickly. I don't mean end duces a perfectly formed set of teeth.' had the at She that stipulated that you shall read my work first and of One of the greatest obstacles to be overcome to her should have he a month then Illustrate it. Oh, no. Anybody were come was the shading of the rubber conld do that You shall illustrate It with his drawings. Then they to and the examine read her picteeth, but this the inventor has accomBtory through a system of mental telepathy. tures g comwas If each the by means of a plished together. The publisher! are In no great hurry satisless but Another would process. of other she the marry for the story and I shall not try to plement of shading Is by the adsoon he as wished. Three him as factory process finish it in less than a month. During had passed mixture of different rolored rubbers. that time you are not to see me at all, weeks of the allotted time had fretted From a sanitary standpoint the rubber and Clarence Hay away consequently ypu will not be able to and teeth are perfect, there being no joints, mere shadow a into himself fumed gain the slightest clew from word or of hiB former robust as in all other forms of artificial denall with but self, look of mine as to what is tbe nature tures in which the secretions of the wandeno and his speculating worrying All your knowledge of the article. mouth may find lodgment. A more exfrom her high train of ring-shaft form of the new teeth is that pensive his brain. obtuse had pierced thought He studied out a plot every night In in which the masticating surfaces are his dreams, but they were all differ- capped with a continuous metallic facent, and when It came to selecting one ing, which renders the denture practifrom such a heterogeneous mass of cally Indestructible and unbreakable. fancies his predicament was as woeful Gold, silver, platinum and aluminum have been used for making crowns. ns though his slumber had been vlslon-lesOne of the greatest advantages of the He was about to go to her and rubber teeth, iBide from their cheapnot was as explain that lightness. They his forte his was a hopeless case, and ness, is their extreme aa much as any less half than weigh that in the name of justice she ought other form of denture. to bo lenient and rescind her unreasonable decree. A urirut ItciitUlry. But just at that time he received an In ancient Egypt tbe art and practice of medicine and surgery wax confined inspiration. On the last day of tbe month he pre- to tbe priesthood. Each priest adopted sented himself before Mies Pearson a specialty. Evidence of andent den-ti- c with five drawings which were, he flattry revealed in tbe opening of tombs tered himself, (lie best lie had ever Indicates that a high proficiency had made during his rarecr ns an artist hreu rained In at least one branch of She read her story. It was a graphic tbe dental art. Philadelphia Press. description of Syrian life in the slums of a largo city and was unique and Topper Coin for KiimI. strong in conception and exerution The Birmingham mini has just reThen he showed his pictures. They ceived a huge order from the Russian must bn derived solely through the also illustrated Syrian life In the slums government for copper coins. The total communication of your mind with of a large city. number of colas required is over Sho looked at him admiringly. mine. Your brain must move in uniThe coins, which consist of son with mine and the aspirations of "Never before, she said, "have I three, two. one. half and quarter kopeck our souls must harmonize. You must had an article furnished with such ap- pieces, are already being struck off. You are the be possessed of that fine Intuition that propriate Illustrations. Mow EaglUh Railway. will enable you to comprehend my man whom Providence intends me to dishave been made to contbe whatever be marry." Proposals, may thoughts, must new were and affection admiration Her struct a tance between us. In short, you railway between Llver-ptJt- fl and Manchester, so as to meet the turn author aa well as artist and con- very sweet, but there was a large doze ceive the same situations that I do. of gall and wormwood mixed with competition qffered by tbs ship canaL TELEPATHIC LETTERS mind-reade- 1 de mlnd-readln- WELL-WISHER- vision-seein- well-kno- chemical-bleachin- , B. mind-rendi- ng |