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Show DIXIE ADVOCATE WlUDiSOX 6T GEORGE, B&U&, PnfclUhw , PARIS CAFES CEASE TO CHARM THE GAY IDLERS Orders If you Pointers on the Duties of a Drummer, When tho Latter Starts Out on the Road for the First Time. Famous Institutions Are on the DecKne Anglo-SaxoBars' Taking Their Place Vere Once the Center of All Fashionable Life in the French Capital snfT. from cat foar take of cam ip. Give even Russell Saee his due. He has not orn off his taxes. Old maids &Uas di.i think that they knew more ahum haWs than any one else. According to Rev. Dr. Rouen Thomfiu. She cei as. Helen of Troy was tainly acted like that. Even yet there poems to he a slight hitch In the enattim; clause of thu wireless teh graph nuAoment. wasn't much Probably Mr. impressed eveu by that birthday cat.e 66 inches in diameter. He is to cake. d The manufacture of undigested securities Is still a b'a ling industry in several staUs, partis uWily in New Jersey. A man can be happy with a toothbrush and a pipe; his unhappiue8 begins when ho adds a valet and an automobile. This is a world in which many idle people 6pend their time burying the hatchet and shaking hands across the bloody chasm. The expenso of the coai strike was to $180,000, OuU, and it cost $38,000 arbitrate. If you want to be economical, arbitrate. The American people drank $70, worth of coffee last year a of it In more water than deal good was really good for it. 000,000 An Ohio mao has been sent to the penitentiary for not supporting his family. How can woman hope to rise t a higher plane in that state? Whenever there isn't anything else exciting going on somebody flourishes a revolver in St. Petersburg and another plot to kill tho czar is discovered. The highest court of Saxony has ruled that a dentist Is not a doctor. The highest court of Saxony probably has its teeth looked after by a skillful barber. John D. Rockefellers $30,000 cow is sick. As she may represent a "cent advance in price on 3.000,000 gallons of oil it is hoped she will pull through. The Puis cafe, most charming and worthiest of its kind, rose in the fin de sierie of a hundred years ago, and U now threatened with decline. Undoubtedly Parisians of the better sort shun their cafes as places of more than promiscuous company; they reproach them with being alcoholic, the homes of adulteration; Paul and Bourget speaks of the cafe habit as "the failing of our lower classes just as if his worthy forbears did not revel in It thankfully, the gentle, seemly cafe habit of Parisians, so long the envy a ud the admiration of the cations. It is predicted that the Paris cafes will degenerate into so many Anglo-Saxoburs. One goes to a wine shop to drink wine; to a restaurant to eat; to a hotel to sleep. Oue goes to a cafe to sit, to see and be seen, to play games, to read the papers, and to sun oneself in the gayety of others. In a cafe, the refreshment is an excuse for sitting there. In a bar Parisians Imagine the sitting there is an excuse for drinking. It was from a table of a cafe ter race of the Palais-Roya- l that Camille Desmoulins harangued the populace the night before the taking of the Bastille; and It was around these same cafe tables that the ones of the Terror began to play the gentleman. Cafes were public clubs for pose and politeness, where the women mingled in equality with men. The tone of the cafes rose through the Directory and the Empire. They became the natural clubs and smoking rooms of the Grande TriArmee. umphant Generals of thirty years of age and Colonels of eighteen would stop an instant on the battlefield of Wagram and Austerlitz to make hasty dates. Meet me two weeks from the cafe. at "Which? "The Cafe Foy, In Paris, of course! There was a continual movement from the plundering army to the capital and back. The Cafe Turc, the Cafe Foy and the Cafe Lamblin were the news exchanges of the Empire. One day, reading the Gazettes, the cafe waiters came across the ominous word, "Waterloo." One by one, dragging weary feet, black with powder, In torn uniform, with hate in their hearts and tears in was always saying "Pardon! and who when the wits joked, used to stuff his nspkin In his mouth faithfully. Under the Second Empire he bloomed Into the more showy "Bourn!" who with a twist of his wrist, could throw out of his heavy silver "omnibus (coffeepot) exactly a balf cup "without the feetbath the amiable and confidential waiter, who had his clients, to whom the public told the troubles of their hearts, who lent money at usury and attended the funerals of clients. See the Boulevard by night! A hundred great beer brasseries line the Each sidewalk, with 10.OU0 tables. The map of Canada must feel these days a good deal like a boy on his way to the dentists. A gerrymander is preparing at Ottawa and the Alaskan commission is about to sit. Fled Before the Ghost of the Grande Armee. person sitting at them marks himself as having no sufficient social life, no club, no company, no spring within himself, a lost plebeian entity, a poor clerk, seeking to forget his lost condition in thus thrusting himself Into the vortex of light, noise, movement and stimulation. See the Boulevard end see Its cross streets! Every wh cafes have changed to bars. And a .hese bars have clienteles more chit than those of either the cafes or brasseries! The bars are American. And In the popular Parisian thought of the present hour, America can do no ill! "They MINT IN THEIR COFFEE. Social Leader's Mistake Imitated by AM the Climbers. That the advice, "Watch how others 1b not aldo and then do likewise, ways good to social aspirants was illustrated the other evening at a dinner given by a young matron in honor of a guest of acknowledged social J Correct! Why should one man be singled out where so many Btand in need of divine interposition? Mrs. R. II. Savage says that the oba jection to womens smoking is geographical prejudice. So is the objection to appearing in public clad only in paint and a breech-clout- . We are told that the guests returned to New York from the Vanderbilt wedding "full of enthusiasm. We have heard it called by another name, but the symptoms are the same. If the fight for the heavy weight championship takes place in Havana it will have to be a real light or there will be trouble. Those Cubans will not tolerate any tame, bloodless affair. There are eight gold national treasury lor woman and child in the The beautiful part of are not compelled to them. dollars in the every man, United States. it is that we ray taxes on An art factory in Paris where old masters are turned out for the benefit of American millionaires must shock Connecticut manufacturers who have to buy a few celebrated dropped over ; pictures. Cafe Turc, the Cafe Foy and the Cafe Lamblin like a flight of wounded eagles the survivors of that supreme struggle. Many had no other family than their old friends of the wars, knew no other parlor than the cafes of the capital. One day four officers of the Invading army, Gormans, Englishmen and Russians, wished to taste the pleasures of the Palais-Royal- . At the Cafe Lamblin they stumbled on a grievous roomful. Eyes shot fire and swords leaped from their scabbards. They heard a hoarse, choked cry of Vive l Empereur! They turned and fled. They fled before the ghost erf the Grande Armee! Dandies, yellow gloves and lions stare the passing ladles out of countenance from the terrace of Tortonls. Sportsmen in high hats and very open coats, swaggeringly descended from their tilburys to throw tho reins to their tigers. The best cafes were clubs of fashion. Alfred de Musset held his literary and fashionable court at the Cafe Riche. Prince Domidoff subsidized a dozen resorts of his fancy. And the Duke of Hamilton fell down the Maison Dereo stairway and died of concussion of the brain. Ladies of tho best fashion might Eight men fought a duel in France Just to show how harmless tho sport Is. But did need this demonstration? Has any person been seriously hnr in a French duel within the memory of man? Nobody, will complain even if Gou. Sheridans widow has jjist sold for $55,000 the house in Washington that was presented to him by admirers ' throughout tM country. But celebrities who get gift houses should be careful whabtbey do with them while they are alive. It will astonish the victims of the grip to learn that tho bacillus of that infernal disease is only of an inch in length and of an inch about one In width. The general impression during the prevailing epidemic has been that the bacillus must be of at least the size of a sea serpent. A Missouri exchange tells of a valuable 'blonde' mule which fell into a ditch last week and was killed. We have always maintained that the use of that peroxide stuff is fatal to health. It is assorted that a young officer in the navy has made $100,000 by writing poetry. If this is a true statement poets are better paid now than they were in the time of one Robert Burns. Some of the people who object to newspaper publicity when they are doing wrong are willing to pay big prices for it when they have goods to sell. 'The per capita money Is $60, is It? sneeringly asked the editor. 'Well, Id like to know whos got that $59 and 60 cents belonging to me. Appreciating the situation, the guest hastily gulped down her coffee to hide her mirth. Later in the evening she heard one women remark to another: I dont care if it is swell, I don't like mint in my coffee. "Oh, dear, replied the other loftily, "it is really delicious. I never think of taking my demitasse without it. The Cost of a Wasted Life. professor at Bonn university, in tracing the posterity of habitual drunkards has found 834 descendants from a woman who for forty years was "a thief, a drunkard and a tramp and whose miserable life came to an end In the last year of the eighthas eenth century. The professor traced the lives of 709 of this womans descendants from youth to old age and of these 142 were beggars and sixty-lou- r more lived on charity. Among the women 181 lived disreputable lives and there were in the family seventy-siconvicts, including seven murderers. The professor estimated that in seventy-five years this family has cost the German authorities In almshouses, law courts, prisons and other institutions about $1,250,000. A Ger-man- x Objected to the Kickshaws. There is & story in the French army of a captain who maxle a wager one day that a drummer of his company could eat a whole calf. The drummer, proud of his distinction, promised to do honor to the captains compliment. Accordingly a calf was prepared in various appetizing ways and was being promptly disposed of by the drum- mer. When he had finally consumed of the repast he about three-quartepaused for another draft of wine and, placing his knife and fork on his plate, said to his superior officer: "You had better have the calf brought on, had you not, for all these little will end in taking up kickshaws room. A Bayonne, N. J., man who has seven children is unable to rent a house in 'that town because of the size of his family. It will evidently be a difficult matter for Roosevelt to carry Bayonne next thuo. Womans Harrowing Experience. still visit the cafes. Tho others assumed decorous airs, wore shawls and ventured to them timidly, never unaccompanied. It seems that this state of things continued until Paris was well along in the time of Napoleon III. The cafe de famille which exists still, cheoringly but humbly, if you will look for it in a thousand streets away from the brilliant cosmopolitan centres became the type of a decorous epoch, orders. Sausage Is the one subject of all others that a fellow in the packing business ought to treat solemnly. Half the people in the world take' a Joke seriously from the start, and the other half If you repeat It often enough. Only last week the head of our sausage department started to brand of frankfurter put out a but I made him take It off the market quicker than lightning, because I knew that the first fool who saw the would ask if that was the litin-ta- g When coffee was served, and with It the indispensable chocolate mints, the guest was seen to take one of the sweets and toy with it gracefully over her coffee cup. Instantly every woman at the table did likewise. Evidently some new wrinkle of fashion was about to be exhibited. Every eye was on the guest and on the mint Determination to follow the drop. leader and give no sign that they were not in the habit of doing this new trick every day was written on every face. The sudden calm caused the guest to look up, and as she did so Bhe inadvertently dropped her mint into the tiny cup. To her surprise a series of clinks ram around the i table as each of the ryral ones fniiAyefl by Union musicians throughout the country are to demand shorter hours, and It Is to be hoped that all young women learning to play the piano will Join the union. Dear Pierrepont: When I saw you start off yesterday I was Just a little uneasy; for yon looked so blamed Important and chesty that I am Inclined to think you will tell the first customer who says be doesn't like our sausage that he knows what he can jlo about It Repartee makes reading lively, but business dull. And what the house particularly needs la mqre tin-ta- standing. Two German doctors propose to reach the north pole by means of a submarine boat and wireless telegraphy. The boat ought to bo a sail; orless craft. Ere Ore dawn lire red. beside my bed Cme a child with earnest eyes. --What light have you shed through tho world -How you are old and wiser "Old Gorgon Graham" Gives His Son Pierrepont a FtW UTAH n a dose thcOna Thing Wanted A woman of Paisley, Scotland, recently stumbled at night Into a stream which was in flood and was swept Into the sewer through which the stream flows before joining the River Cart While passing through the sewer she caught a projecting ledge and climbed The place was swarming upon it. with rats. She had the greatest difficulty in keeping them off and much of her clothing was torn or gnawed away. After she had been in this position for eight hours the stream rose and she was swept off the ledge into the River Cart, where she clung to the bank and was rescued the next morning. Lived Fifty Years in St. Paul. The present mayo? of St. Paul, Robert A. Smith, Is Just at the end of a years residence in that city. where at a fixed hour there appeared He fifty went there in 1853, as the private tho father, mother and their child. secretary of the territorial governor Or the society of one table would appointed Franklin by President exchange civilities with that of its Pierce, and has seen the place grow neighbor. Acquaintances were made, from a hamlet of a few hundred perand later, marriages. Establishments sons to a city of nearly 200,000. that still maintained their reputation of the Restoration were looked on as Heaviest City Chief In America. fast; and the bourgeois, in Monseiets Charles T. Taylor, mayor elect of crossed himself as he passed Mankato, Minn., is the heaviest chief verses, Tortonis or the Maison Doree imagin- executive of any city in the United ing the orgies of the literary and ar- States. He weighs 403 pounds, but is tistic. Bets who made them their pe- as nimble as a kitten and one of the culiar piece. fastest pedestrians in the oity. Tt was this period that formed the type of complete cafe waiter, like the The "nay of the political dark sympathetic Prevost of Tortonis who horse Is seldom heard la the fend. cense, And, though people would grin a little at first, theyd begin to look serlouB after a while; and whenever the butcher tried to sell them our brand theyd Imagine they hetTB the bark, and ask for that real country sausage at twice as much a pound. A real salesman Is one-par- t talk and nine-part- s Judgment; and he useg, the nine-part- s of Judgment to tell when to use the one-par- t of terifc-Gooain't sold under Marquess of rules any more, and Queensberry you'll find that knowing how many rounds the Old XTn can last against the Boiler Maker wont really help you to load up the Junior partner with our Corn-febiand hams. A good many salesmen have an Idea that buyers are only Interested Ilf baseball, stories, and Tom funny LIpton, and that business Is a side line with them, but as a matter of fact mighty few men work up to the post-tlo- n of buyer through giving up their office hours to listening to anecdotes. I never saw one that liked a drummer's Barefaced Eztortion Practiced by Governors Who Have the Backing of the Palace Clique Unfortunate Property Owners Have No Means of Redress. A correspondent writes from Beirut:" Those who watch events in Turkey are familiar with the more brutal methods of oppression and extortion; but cannot always understand the more polite methods of the corrupt officials In the larger cities. The people of Beirut, Syria, have Just been treated to an extortion of blackmail that is worthy of being recorded. Some two years ago the Governor, Rashid Pasha, a man whose father and grandfather before him were all favorites of the Palace clique in Con" stantlnople and who has held his present post so long through the Influence of that personification of misrule, succeeded in getting an imperial commission to come down and make a new valuation of all the property in the city. This commission set about and did its business in the approved Turkish way. Those who muiroachod thth ruemlXca.- ifcJiw aluf wtu. enough gold in their hands succeeded in keeping the taxable value of their possessions at the old figures, while those who did not do so found the values of their houses greatly increased. According to Turkish law, when a man feels that he is being rated too high, or higher than his nearest neighbors, he can present a petition asking for a new survey of the property in question and theoretically obtain justice. As a matter of fact hundreds did file their protests against the unrighteous discriminations and -- So tho hungry you fed. and wanderer And smiled on the weary and rad -- Scarce orders. Blackmail Levied by Turkish Officials unfair increase, but all these petitions were filed and never heard of again. Seeing that the new tax lists will bs issued after March 13 on the basis of the new valuation, the city began to get nervous about the matter. Careful inquiry concerning the fate of the many petitions filed brought forth a curt answer from the Vail that none of them would ever be heard of and that all efforts to push them would be fruitless. At the same time a way of was pointed out to all who wished to avail themselves of IL Whoever wished his property valuation to go back to the old figure could have it so at once by paying to the Vali and his associates three times the amount ,of the increase demanded. The time being short and all hope of righteous redress being denied, the people have made haste to avail themselves of sais d 'Kir of escape tnc) thg unholy efirsiss is at" this moment in full blast We know one man, acting for himself and a few of his family, who has paid over 1,200 Turkish pounds into the Vails hands, or rather into the hands of his accredited agent II is estimated that the Vali will pocket in this transaction something like Turkish poutids, or, as some estimate it, as much as 100,000 pounds. Of course it is well known that hs must share this unrighteous gain with his backers at the palace, or he could never venture to do such barefaced London Times. blackmailing. Eclipse of a Bad Man Desperado's Sway Was Broken When He Met a Man of Real Nerve Incident of the Days That Have Long Since Disappeared, Never to Return. to be able to say that whipped a time or two, but at length feuds which used to pre- he emerged from prison and went the vail in my Btate have died out, and back to the scene of his former that the wholesale killings which ac- crimes. A hot local political fight incompanied them are nothing but un- volving the election of a sheriff of Capt. Gonzales county, was oh and Hardin pleasant memories," remarked N. M. Hanson of Galveston, United took an active part In the contest. He States marshal for the southern dis- was still regarded as dangerous and trict of Texas, at the Riggs house. greatly dreaded. One day he and the "It was my fate to know some of candidate against whom he was workthe bad men who turned things up- ing met, and a quarrel ensued. This side down In Southern Texas a quar- candidate, Jones by name, was as ter of a century ago. They are about fearless a man as ever lived, and the all dead, and no successors can take way he denounced Hardin was sometheir place, for our people will never thing to remember. You have, he said, according to again tolerate such disturbers of the peace. One of the worst of the bad your own boasts, killed twenty-eigh- t men of that day was the notorious men. I am here to say that never a John Wesley Hardin. It was his one of the lot did you slay when he boast that he had killed twenty-eigh- t had his face toward you. Every man men. For a long time he was the ter- of them was shot in the hack. You ror of Gonzales county, and of all the are a great big coward as well as a surrounding country. He was an In- murderer, and I will give you $1,000 corrigible cattle and horse thief, and if you will dare to contradict what I a murderer who killed without re- have said. I can make any I am glad And 1 she said, Dont led. Sho spoke not blame, nor again of fame; "But the love that I dreamed about?" "Bright burned that flame till gaunt Care came And blew the rushlight out. "But still true friends kind heaven sends To cheer and comfort you?" Nay; friendship bends to selfish ends, And loyal heart! are few." Bhe raised her head. "Woman," she said. And her voice came sobbtngly. "If Joy la dead, and your high hopes fled. You have broken faith with me." In the dawn, still gray, she stole away. With a grieving look at me. "I cannot stay. 1 heard her say, "Im the Child You Used to Be!" Katharine "No, thanks," said the drummer; through with poker. The men In the smoking room of the coastwise steamship howled In derision and incredulity. No, boys, said the drummer, seri1 ously, "Ive sworn off on poker. cant play the game any more. Well, then, said the man who had Invited him to Join the game, I guess I dont care its all off for poker. anything about Honest, now, Mac, this is the biggest surprise Ive had since Cocktail Jim climbed on the water wagon. What made you swear off?" "An experience I had in a game I played about six months ago, down In Nova Scotia," said the drummer. It broke my nerve. In my business trips I visited Halifax about twice a year, and every time I went there I sat in a poker game with the same crowd. There was a big. burly hotel keeper named Drake, a French Canadian bis named Onesime Bellefontalne; a cousin, barber, whose name was Nor-clss- e Le Blanc, and an Irishman named The game was O'Reilly. played In Drake's hotel. A year ago when 1 was there the game was on Saturday night, and Le Blanc did not butt in until well on toward morning. He was a nice, slender, young tellow, rather delicate and what you might call pretty, and simply crazy on poker. The game wasn't very high, but It served to pass away the time. Well, on this night, Narclsse Le Blanc came hurrying into the stuffy little back room, threw oft his coat, drew out a bill and bought his chips. The limit was 60 cents. winnin Whos you, Msoo Drake?" he asked. No! growled the big hotel keeper, and the game went on. NarclBse won Steadily, and as. steadily drank nips of whlskfgnd water and smoked cigarettes. He hurried through his work that night and he was hot and excited. Phew! he exclaimed, but its hot! Open de window . dere, someone! Better not, Narclsse, I said; you have a cigarette cough already; you are sitting with your back to the window, and you'll catch a cold, and colds bring on catarrh, and catarrh brings on consumption, and consumption introduces the Lean Fellow. De Lean Fellow! Who dat? ' 'Mr. Death, Bah! Whos 'feared of him? I Well, I am, for one, I said. know a man in Boston, I went on, who writes for the paper; mighty clever man, but he has a bad habit of joking with death; hes too familiar with him. He calls him by nicknames. The Lean Fellow is one of them. Good The name Lord! The Lean Fellow! almost makes you see him, and the to make you hear the bare ribs, and wind whistling through the hare ribs! I fear the Lean Fellow. Yes, Narcisse, An do I love him me? Not mooch, said Narcisse; but I can stand a breath of de fresh air. He got up and opened the window. The wind, blowing in from the sea, puffed straight in his face. The oil lamps flared. The loose cards jumped on the table. Its blowing through the Lean Shut the winFellows ribs. dow! said Drake. Just then a head appeared at the open window and tho light fell upon a grotesque nose and a pair of little sharp eyes. The nose was long and fleshless and stuck out Im The wind, blowing in from the sea, puffed straight in his face, from the sunken cheeks like the beak of a bird. The Leetn Fellow himself! Look, Narclsse! laughed Drake. He went to the man at the window. Whats the Is the inspector matter, Jake? around? The man nodded. He had a policLie emans helmet behind his back. low, he said. 'Ill let you know when the coast is clear. Give me a drink. He got his drink. The window was closed, the blinds drawn, the lights lowered, and we waited in the dark. 'What's the matter, Narcisse? 1 I fancied I could hear Le asked. Blancs teeth chattering. 'Oh. noding. said Narcisse, hastily. He admitted afterward, however, that the wind had chilled him. The lights were turned up and the game went on, Now nod-ln- Pelten in Century, and then Narcisse sneezed or hemmed in his throat The title of luck turned; he was beaten on an ace fully by four little ones, and after that he lost steadily. Morning brought end to the game and to Le Blancs money. He borrowed a couple of dollars from his cousin and went miserably home. Six months later I was sitting in the same game. I was dealing. The game doesnt seem the same without Le Blanc, I remarked, glancing at the new player, a clumsy fellow. How is he, Bellefontalne? 'Pretty low,' said the cousin, scanning his cards. Im tired, me, sitting up with him. I Bhouid be there tonight, I spose. Ill take two cards. "It was a jack pot, and Drake had opened it 'I'll take one card, he said. Ill tell you what, he went on, Nar- - Many dangerous kid-ne- y troubles follow In Its wake. Mrs. C. B. Pare of Columbia avenue, Glasgow, Kentucky, wife of C. B. 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An Imported The finest diamond ever Imported paid no duty to the customs officers, having smuggled itself In from some Packed other planet in a meteorite. In a thick envelope of meteoric iron, Diablo canyon, at it fell to earth In the foot of Crater mountain, Arizona its coating being broken into numerous particles by contact with the rock formation of the ground. Some six weeks ago a party of geologists, discovering these fragments, at first them indications of a rethought markably pure vein of Iron ore, but their true character was soon discerned, and in one of the pieces picked up by Prof. G. A. Koenig, the diamond was found Imbedded. It Is now Mu-leuon exhibition st the American of Natural History. Tribute to Birds. number of Parisians who were in the siege have decided to erect s monument to the memory of the pigeons that carried the disp&tchet with which kept up communication the outside world. It will consist ol a pedestal surmounted by a bronzt vase, on which will be cast a group ol the birds that proved of such utility to the French. The committee Includes the names of many Tht literary and scientific people. gratitude comes somewhat late, fot war in the the que after pigeons tion were sold by auction and A n In pigeon pies. The cards of the extra sixth hand were visibly agitated. 1 clsse wasnt built to stand theTpace it was too swift for him. 1 guess hes done for. Ill bet a dollar on my two little pairs, and look out for squalls, boys. I had caught a third queen, and I said: A dollar better. I guess raising, the window that night fixed Le Blanc. I was right; the Lean Fellow was. there. Poor Narcisse, said Bellefontalne,. I'll raise you bofe just one little dollar more. Count me out, said the fifth player, laying down his cards, as did. I hear that Narcisse Is exO'Reilly. pected to cash in that so? said Drake, as he raked in the pot, having caught a full house, and he started to deal again,. t, I guess hed rather be here and take a hand with us. He was. dotty on poker. That may be so, Bald I, but yon. needn't deal six hands. I don't think, hell come to take it Drake stared at the table. It waa true. He had dealt six hands. MiBdeal, he said. I guess. I must have meant It for Narcisse. There was a pause as Drake- reached for the cards, and then Sacre Dieu! screamed Bellsfon-tain- e, falling with a scared, white face back from the table. Narcisse la de hand! And, by the Lord, the cards of the extra sixth hand were visibly agitated. They gathered together for all the world as though a hand arranged them; they seemed to be lifting. You chump!" cried Drake to Belle-fontain- e, . its only the draught from the chimney! What did you think it was? L managed to ask. Bellefontalne sat down, wiping his. forehead. And then on the hot summer air the stroke of a bell boomed,, then another and another, solemnly and slowly; it was tolling. Bellefon-tain- e got up and on legs that trembled1 t left the room, crossing himself as The game was ended. It was ended indeed for Narcisse Le Blanc. The church bell told us that. And then I quit poker for good. C. M. Williams in New York Press. .is WATER e neg-le- the aching back. earn," I mid, my own hitter bread. no time to bo glad. Thought It Might be Needed. Superintendept Byrnes tells of a noted burglar who died of lead on the brain as a result of a meeting with the police. His body was claimed by his friends, and they gave it burial in keeping with the mans reputation when he was alive. The Inspector had a couple of detectives at the funeral to guard against quaintest possible English. "If trains are delayed and the pas- trouble, and to pick up any of the senger desists from going, the ticket mourners who might be wanted. but if otherwise, the When the undertaker was about to is redimed; train is on time and he desists, only close tho coffin for the last time, the half fare is returned. If the passenshopwidow, who was a notorious ger loses the train on his own fault lifter, approached and began packing a fins sectional jimmy in beside the no return whatever is made. "The company prohibits the carrycorpse. exclaimed one of the de"Here! ing of more than one rooster in a first-clas- s Give me that thing. What car, if carried in a basket, tectives. and in the other cars dogs with are you putting it in there for?" doz. chickens, but no "Let me bury it with him, pleaded mussgle and ice is allowed in the cars nor fish or the woman. "It Is the finest one he to the ever owned, and hell need It in the any other article injurious of Passengers. comfort Brooklyn next world to pry himself out of one New York Eagle. place and into another. Times. Great Show. Ernie Mabel was engaged four Pertinent Inquiry. times down at the beach last sum"This is someBiggs (smoking) mer. She said it was a regular cir- thing like a cigar, old man. Yes er cus. Diggs (getting u whiff) Edith "Sort of a fon-Jtilike What is it, affair, 1 somethin suppose?" he overtax the kid-ney- a I have morse. boy in town whip you. Hardin didnt open his mouth, but "Finally a day of reckoning came and he was caught and sentenced to slunk away, followed by a storm of a twenty-fiv- e year term in the state jeers. He left the county, and was penitentiary at Huntsville. He wasnt shortly sfterward killed in El Paso. a model prisoner and had to be Washington Post. One Rooster Per Passenger. It takes Havana railroad companies for fine discrimination and regard Some for the comfort of passengers. of the rules and regulations governing these roads are thuj laid down, for the benefit of the ignorant, in the guide to Havana a little, book, printed in Spanish and the r Come to all "Tt. a weary while- .- quoth 1, wtth a smile, -Since I dreamed tt bad need of me. I --found but guilt in Its fairest wile. Then Its need waa greater, said she. Jokes more than an eighth of a cent a pound on a tierce of lard. What the house really sends you out tor Is Of course, you want to be nice and mellow with the trade, but always remember that mellowness carried too far becomes rottenness. You can buy some fellows with a cheap cigar and some with a cheap compliment, but theres no objection to giving a man what he likes, though I never knew smoking to do anything good except a ham, or flattery to help any one except to make a fool of himself. Real buyers ain't interested in much besides your goods and your prices. Never run down your competitors brand to them, and never let them run down yours. Dont get on your knees for business, but don't hold your nose so high in the air that an order can travel under it without your seeing it Youll meet a good many people on the road that you won't like, but the house needs their business. For your own satisfaction I will say right here that you may know you are In a fair way of becoming a good drummer by three things; First When you send us Orders. Second More Orders. Third Big Orders. If you do this you wont have a great deal of time to write long letters, and we wont have a great deal of time to read them, for we will be very, very busy here making and shipping the goods. We arent specially Interested in orders that the other fellow guts, or In knowing how It hapIf you pened after it has happened. like life on the road you simply wont let it happen. So just send us your address every day and your orders. They will tell us all that we want to know tibout the situation." From e Merchant Lettera from a to His Son, by George Horace Lori-meBy permission of Small, Maynard & Co., Publishers, Boston, Mask TIRED BACKS. THE CHILD WITH EARNEST EYES. THAT IS New Yorkers Very Fond of the Bottled Beverage. New York is the worlds greatest market for mineral waters. It is estimated more than 20,000,000 gallons a year are consumed In this city. Since the bacteria scares of recent years the traffic has shown a marked increase, and the persons who are afraid of typhoid fever and other ilia resultant from impure drinking water have barred the output of the Croton reservoir from the table. Most of the mineral water retails at about twenty cents a gallon. Some oftft, however, costs as much as wine, and one brand cannot be obtained for less than fifty cents a pint This is not an imported mineral water. It comes from a little spring down in Virginia, whose flow is limited to about a barrel a day. It contains medicinal properties of especial value to persons afflicted with kidney trouble, and is not recommended for general use. The largest purchasers of mineral waters are the high-clas- s cafes and hotels. One hostelry alone is credited with using 300 gallons daily, despite the feet that vinous and spirituous liquids are supposed to play a far more important part In the menage. New York Press. What the World Owes Every Man. The world owes to every man a living, says Chauncey M. Depew, provided he has the Industry and determination to collect it. The world owes to every man more pleasure than pain; more good than bad; more gain than loss; more happiness than sorrow; more success than fal... e; more love than hate; more friends than enemies; but it rests with the t man himself Hhather hVcBecta ths dultt, ter the world bolds fast to the good things which it possesses and lets tree the bad; and it le only by labor and energy, only by determination and character that the debt which the world owes to every one is collected. The Fan in Europe. The fan made an almost simultaneous appearance throughout Italy and Its France, in England and Spain. most artistic have been flights achieved in France; but not even to France will Spain yield in Its use of the fan as an Important weapon In the mimic warfare of coquetry and flirtation. Whether the Spanish lady la In church or a place of amusement, whether visiting or walking. It Is always in her hands, frequently portray, Corlng the horrors of the bull-figresponding with these, certain French revolution fans represent Charlotte Corday carrying a dagger in one hand and a fan in the other! To Improve American Cattle. Henry C. Moore. of Sioux City, believes that it is possible to Interbreed the Arctic musk ox with cattle of the temperate zone, and that stock so produced would be able to withstand the severe winters of the United States. He has been in communication on the subject with Peary, the Arctic explorer, who Is favorably The vast impressed with the idea loss of the present season among herds of the Western ranges, said Mr. Moore, emphasizes the necessity of trying to Infuse hardier blood into American cattle. Will a Model of Brevity, Judge Leslie W. Russell, of Jersey City, who died not long ago, left a will which seems to Indicate a belief on his part that brevity is the soul of safety when an estate Is to be disposed of by testament. It was in theBe words: I give everything I have to my wife. Then, instead of half a dozen or more pages of in the event of this, that or the other he added, With reversion to our children. A LAST RESORT. Pure Food Should Be the Firat When the human machine goes wrong its ten to one that the trouble began with the stomach and can therefore be removed by the use of proper food. A lady well known In Bristol, Ontario County, N. Y., tells of the experience she had curing her only child by the nse of scientific food: "My little daughter, the only child and for that reason doubly dear, Inherited nervous dyspepsia. We tried all kinds of remedies and soft foods. At last, when patience was about exhausted and the child's condition had grown so bad the whole family waa aroused, we tried Grape-Nut"A friend recommended the food as one which her own delicate children had grown strong upon so I purchas-3- d a box as a last resort. In a very short time a marked change in both health and disposition was seen. What made our case easy was that she liked it at once and its crisp, hutty flavor has made it an immediate favorite with the most fastidious in our family. "Its use seems to be thoroughly established In western New York where many friends use it regularly. I have noticed its fine effects upon the Intellects as well as the bodies Of those who use it We owe It much. Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich, |