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Show LOVE AND TIGHT SHOES. Miss Pendleton bald to Browntow as left the house: "You needn't peak to me again, for I shall not answer you." Brownlow said: "That would hardly be polite would it? I remember that In my Infancy I was admonished to 'speak when spoken to, come when I was called, shut the door after me' ibQ'j and something else which rhymed, but which I have forgotten. I waa tcM that was moaners.' Now, you wouldn't like me to think you had m manners, would you?" "It is a matter of perfect indiffer, ent) to me what you " She bit her lip and did not complo'e the sentence. "You were saying " Miss Pendleton did not answer. Biownlow looked at her and smiled. "I don't want to obtrude my society on you," he said. "If for the moment you would rather be without me I could go back, you know. Or, he added, "I might walk behind you a few paces say twelve feet. That strike mo as a respectful distance. Whlci shall it be? MJtJiiiiiU, He stopped as if to fall back. "I won't have you following me," to said in Icy tones. "If you wish to leave me you are at liberty to do so. I suppose I can go alone. It will look strange, but I don't suppose you will care for that" "Well, wr i't it lcok strange if you tfon't speak to me? It would look as If you had quarrelled with me. Beside, as I said before, it would be harlly polite?" "I shall treat you precisely as I would any other gentlemen while vo ra there. After that I don't wish to ee ycu." "Surely I am to escort you home?" "I said 'after that.' After this evening, if you prefer It "But I don't prefer It" "Whether you prefer it or not, I piefer it innitely. And in the mean time i wish to be excused from conversation with you." Miss Pendleton turned to look down the car track. "It's coming bow," said Brownlow. As the car stopped Brownlow laid bis band upon her arm. "Walt," be aid In a quick, businesslike way. "Do we take an Oak wood 3 or a Jackson Park car?" . She glared at him for a moment hot her face shewed innocent doubt ana only that "Jackson Park!" she snapped. "Phllopena!" sa'.d Brownlow, "I an this is all right" Ho helped her aboard, and as he did o he noticed what particularly trim toes she was wearing. Well she as particularly trim young person. He ould not help feeling proud of her, it was all over between them. "I find these street car sign are entertaining," he observed, when ther had been seated a minute or two. It was a summer car and they had to occupy a seat together. There was no response to thla. fine looked at a passing automobile as K she fancied the recognized one ef the occupants. Brownlow looked at her averted face, and It seemed to him that a sort of spasm of pain erctted It He wondered if that remark he had made so could have hurt her ouch hour before for He apologized it, though he had mnt thought It anything serious; but Dow he felt actually repentant Mlts Penileton stole ft sidelong glance at hia and then bent over with rapid movement ftnd did something to her shop. Brownlow apparently y tcok bo uot.ee of the movement. he sighed and looked toward her. She averted her head. He kept en sighing at interval of half a minute. She refused to look arewnd. 11 gave It tip at last and rose and went heck to the rear of the car. He was gene three or four minutes. Wbej he returned Miss Pendleton looked much disturbed. "What Is the matter?" he asked. Thla time Mis Fenilleton spoke lost my shoe," she said with force calmness. It was a little and I slipped it off fof I think It ft moment or two, and 1 ha fallen out of the car." Lrowalow was silent for ft moment or two a he gravely considered the awful situation. Then hi face cleared. "What size shoe was Itr he asked, suddenly, and the waa surprised Islo saying that It waa IH. Then here's where I get off." he aid, rising. "Ton go on arena's the laop and when yon get hack to the aet corner youll find me ataadlng there with ft glad smile on my face Trt-etU- Tti end a pair of 3Va shoes under my arm. It will make us twenty minutes or half an hour late, but that won't mat- ter "I wouldn't think of it," she began, with cold dignity, "I will not consent." But Brownlow had swung off the car. By the time the car made its circuit aj'd got back at the corner where Brownlow had left it Miss Pendleton seemed to be in a happier frame of m'nd. for she hailed the appearance of Brownlow with a smile almost as lad as his own. "They're in my pocket," he whispered, as he took his seat beside her. "I'll smuggle them to you one by one. Arc you ready?" "Yes," she 6aid, with a nervous lit-t- l laugh, and took the' shoe from The Navy a a Reformatory. Last week a boy accused of burglary end larceny was discharged in court en the promise of relatives that he would be sent to the navy, presumably that a paternal government might apply the corrective measures necessary to check any tendency towards a criminal career with which home influence and authority bad unable to c'ope. Such a course displays on the part of the young man's friends, and of he court as well, a surprising ignorance or disregard of the navy's functions. Judges all over the country resort to the same expedient from time to time only to learn, apparently much to their surprise, that the United States navy is neither a penal nor reformatory institution, and that it has distinctly no use for actual or prospec On the other hand tive criminals. him. recruits are subjected to a by no "Now the other. That' right How means perfunctory examination as to their character and antecedents, and flo they fit?" "Eeautlfully and as easy as can' the task of separating the moral Ob, Jim, how sweet and noble nd resourceful of you. And I was be. to horrid. Will you forgive me?" "How long have you been wearing 1st tight shoe?" Brownlow aslted. "All the afternoon," she confessed. "Then I forgive you," said Brownlow. "1 only wonder how you let me p!f so easily." When Brownlow reached his room that night he took the missing shoa from the breast pocket of his coat and looked at it long and tenderly. Then he put it away in a drawer. Chic? go New. Encouraging Art The guitar player of the colored trio who had been performing in the front end of the smoking car of the elevated train made a graceful bow as he pushed a battered derby hat before the the passenger in the rear end. passenger unheeding the mute appeal continued to stare over the musicians The coat cuff, straight before him. a in musician showed his white teeth smile and coughed suggestively; then he said, Insinuatingly: "Wouldn't yo' as the pasFnger still took no notice, like to contribute to de off ring, sab.?' "What offering?" asked the passenger, surlily. The musician 6hook the hat and the nickel9 and pennies Jingled. "Heah it 1s, sah," be said, '"right In dlshyer hat." "What would I want to contribute for?" "Well, sah. de gcnlcmcci in dis cyar, reckernizln' ouah humble effa'ts fo' delr cntahtalnmrnt, have encouraged us wld delr chlck'n feed aa a so't of testahmonial. Yassaa, en Ah calculated Ah'd fjve yo' de opportunity. Yar sah." "Anybody ask you to play?" "No. sah; de puhfohmce was entlahlr voluntary, de same as the contribu tions " "Well. 1 didn't hear anything of it , anyway. up in "Dey Is some vacant seat front ah. If yo'll move up a little yo' kin heah wifout de leas' difficulty. A kin promise yo a" "Oh. cut It out!" said the passenger. "I haven't nothing for you." gt Producta Comprise Nearly 98 Per Cent of Our Erports. Washington. The department of agriculture has issued a report on "The Nation's Farm Surplus," prepared by George K. Holmes, chief of the division of foreign markets. It gives $1500,000,000 as a conserva've estimate of the value of farm products of thla country not fed to live stock in 1903, on the basis of the census val- Eight been wheat from the chaff is performed with conscientious thoroughness. Only a somewhat elaborate display of falsehood or perjury could bring about the enlistment of any youth who has ever appeared In a criminal role. The United States navy may not be composed, as to its enlisted person nel of "gentlemen and scholars," but it is a body of honest men with a natural and wholly Justifiable pride in the service, and who are no more anx ious than are the churches to receive Black a criminal into their ranks. to find time time their 6heep from way into the navy, as they do Into a church, but they are no more sought or tolerated in the one place than in the other. To attempt to foist on the navy a man or boy who has attracted the attention of the police and courts Is not only wholly without warrant of law, but also a distinct affront to good sense, good morals, and ordinary patriotism. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Where are They? a It is standing question to ask of all the pins made becomes what But every year. pins are very small, and when bent or rusty are worthless, end so it makes no difference. But what becomes of all the old coins? There are 199,900,000 old copper pennies somewhere. Nobody knows what has become of them, except that once in a while a single specimea turns up in change. A few years ago t 4,500,000 bronze pieces were Bet afloat. Three million of them aie I'Ull outstanding. Twenty' million three-cen- t silver pieces are scattered over the United States, but it is very rare that one is seen. Of S00.000 half cent pieces, which correspond fca value to English tannings, not one has been returned to the government for coin-ap- e ten-cen- or ia h-l- d by the treasury. Con- $100,000 gress appropriates about coins silver the for recolnlng yearly row In possession of the treasury. These are mostly half dollars, and are not circulated because there Is no demand for them. Not long ago the stock of them amounted to $3,000,001, of that but it is only about one-hanow. The money set aside for recolnlng is not Intended to pay for the cost of minting, but is required to reim burse the treasury of the United State on account of the loss which live' pieces have suffered by abraThe lo?s amounts to $30 on sion. every $1,000, and it ha to be made good Id order to set the treasury ac count right lf "Jes a yo' say. sah." said the guitar plajer. Ah tbo't Ah'd give yo de chahnce. but delr aln no oompulsula-tio- n about It Much obliged sah." He squared out hi elbow, and with rolling Cakewalk gait and a broal grin on his face started back, singing: "Done ma be, mah honey: Baby, don't yo frown. Traits cf Women. Couldn't git no money; Here is a scat passage from "The White maa tuhn me down." Napoleon cf Nottlng Hill," In which Chicago New. Mr. Chesterton discusses the feminine nature: "However much, physically. What Tree. 'about town' a woman may be, she If you were In the Klondike, what mil models herelf on she tree would you wish for? The fir tree. tries to carry nature witbnature; she her; If yon were seasick, what tree would bid the grasses grpw on her head you long for? The beech tree, cf and furry Insects to bite her about course. the threat. In the heart cf a dim city ff you were a dude, what tree would the models her hat on a flaring cot you wl?h for? The spruce. of flowers. We. with our tage garden If you were In love, what tree waul.1 j noble civic sentiment modtl our on you think most of? The pear tree. la rhlmney pot the ensign of civilize If you lest part of your hand, where lion." would you go to get It mended? To A recent historian suggest a reason the palm tree. Is not popular with laflute the hy If you were chang ft cat, bat tree dies. "Minerva, In ancient Greece," would you think of? Why, the he fays, "began to play the flute, tree. thinking it such a beautiful instruIf you wanwd to call attention U ment she needs must learn It But one something what tree would you came? day, looking tn a mirror while she Cedar (see dar). was playing, she saw to her horror, that the act of blowing the flute com SamJey But don't yoo think yoo munlcated a very inelegant distortion could learn to love me? Mis Keene to ber face and In a pet she threv No; I'm already studying Spanish an 2 the instrument away. Perhaps It French, and only last week 1 started feelings of the fair sex toward the to learn to swim. I haven't room to have been Insensibly influenced learn anything else. Chicago News. by a similar consideration." dog-woo- d NATION'S FARIvTstTRPrUs: uation. The value of the exported farm products of this country was in 1D03, $878,479,451. and the highest value during the last eleven years was $951,028,331, in 1901,' due chiefly to cotton. The value of the exported farm products of this country is concentrated mostly in a few principal products. Of It In 1903 cotton consil-tute36 per cent; grain and gralu products, 25 per cent; meat and moat ANOTHER PIRATE. products and live animals, 24 per "Dey say you've related to Captain cent; these products equaling; ovor Kidd. Ia dat so?" 85 per cent of the exports of farm "Not exactly but me uncle's a plum products last year. Adding tobacco, ber." at over te-ceiv-ed d r J -- GAVE THE GROCER A Mrs. I Explaine L Black Hens' Ecfls WeTeT' "You can't tell me anything about the unsophlstocatedness of these Just married- young women when it comes to marketing." said a Central Market dealer. "Their lack of the buyer's acumen Is all in the eye of the Joke writers. Only the other morning one of them she lives right across the way and only recently got back from the honeymoon and started house keeping cot by with a dead new one on me. " 'I want a dozen eggs,' she said to me when she came In. "I Inflated the paper bag, went over to the egg crate, and began to piolr, the eggs up. two at a clip. "WTaIt a minute, please,' said tbt Just married young woman, who had followed me over to the crate, I want black hens' eggs.' " 'Black hens' eggs? said I, stand ing up straight 'How do you tell black" hens' eggs from any othor klndT "'Why, don't you know?' she asked me with an innocent air. 'Why It is very easy. I'll show you give me the bag.' T handed her the paper bag, and she stooped over the crate and bean to pick out the eggs. She went over the whole top layer, picking out the very largest eggs In the crate. When he had got out the dozen of the big ones she looked at me out of the corner of her merry eye, and said: " 'These these are all black hen eggs. You can always fell them because they are the biggest, you know and then Bhe gave me the cheeul chortle. "As it was a new one. and not so bad, at that, I let her get by with it. of course. But you can't tell any a or marketman In little oil Washington, these fairy tales about the rawness of Just married younj women In doing their table buying. They are, as a matter of fact, the most 'next' customers we have." Washington Tost Newly-we- d - groc-eryma- Reviving Hat Caps of Long Ago. Quaint conceits in millinery culled from picture of the past are as dear to the modern girl, who likes to inaugurate some new yet antique scheme, as good dinners are to her more material grandparents. Long year ago caps were worn net oaly by ladles of mature years but by mere girls, and not only by the married women of the community but by latsles In the school room. Such cap were made of delicate lace, and very charming they must have looked, lightly resting upon the unny or dusky tresses of their wearer. Now, when the women who wore such demurely pretty head coverings In the house wished to walk abroad, they did not trouble to remove their cap, but popped their hats on the very top of them. It Is in Imitation of that plan that the tat and cap of today i made, only the hats and caps Just introduced by the milliner as complete novelties are fashioned in one, an1 all that shows of the cap are the side piece that cover the Cuffed out hair and the strings that are tied under the chin. London Dally Mall. that comprises alper cent of the entire farm of over $10,(700,000, most 96 exports of 1902. Within recent years, endlj with 1903, the cotton exports havo been 3,000,000,000 aad 4,000,000,000 pounds, and the exported fraction of the crop has been between C3 and 71 per cent for a long series of years. The fraction of the wheat cropexported in tho last dozen years has been about 31 and 41 per cent, and the exported wheat and wheat flour have yearly averaged somewhat more than bushels since 1897. beforo which period for many years the quantity was usually 60,000,000 to 100,000.-00- 0 bushels less. Only a small portion of the corn crop is exported as corn, the highest percentage, 11 per cent, being for 1898. Notwithstanding the small percentage, the exported bushels reached 100,000.000 to 200,000,-00The beef exports weighed pork exports 551.000.000, lard exports 490.000,000, oleo oil exports 126,000,000 pounds, and tobacco BuUer and cheese exports have decidedly declined within two or three years. The report says hat within a few years the result of an enormous extension of orchard planting will beln to develop, and sori of these re? ilts may be in a much Increased" fruit surplus for export The exports of animal matter are losing ground relaMvely with a corresponding gain by vegetable matter. The repor afso takes up the competition of this country in foreign markets to sho v that this country furnishes 32 per cent of the United Kingdom's import of farm products, thus leading In those Imports. The United States has a long lead over its competitors as a purveyor of meat a. id meat products and live animal. Is likewise conspicuous in the United Kingdom's' Imports or cereals and cotton, but Is far behind In dairy products, la ccmpetltor German Irmorta the United States Icada with it per cent In all farm products, S3 per cent in cereals, furnishes s of 1 per cent of barely dairy products, contributes the prin cipal portion of the maize, of oil cake and oil cake meat, but it I exceeded In wheat flotir supply by Austria-Hungarepd makes a bare In showing barley and only a l.ttle over 2 per cent of fruits. 200,-000,0- 0. 3'J5,-000,00- 0, 368,-000.00- 0. -- three-quarter- two-fift- h y tn noting the arrival at hi h r teacri-tt4 the anniversary great of singing, Manufl Garcia, the tendon Athenaeum observe that the rcard of notable musicians who have lived beyond ninety is very small; Cos'cc. a French composer, llvrd to be ninety five.. and Reickcn. the Hamburg organist did half-wathrough tl cn hundrr ith year; "a few month prrlous!y fach heard him Improvise on the rhorvle. By the Waters ot bun-dret- - y Babylon.' u over And the 'ct Illst, Cervetts, a Hundred when he died. Teacher Do you remember that ?t preMico, Tommy, about fools and ante s? Tommy. Yes, ma'am; fools butt in where angel fear to tread. Yorker For the extermination of Jackal ft Statttman. poison Id g club for the whole Cape A Mend In need la the friend that Colony Is suggested. 1$ tiatjaliy out when yoti ring the front door bell. Money may talk, but It often onn 1 a lumpy a If It pronouncing Russian Of the seven President France hat names. had only one has served a full term. |