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Show p n .1 "r . j,.; -- 66 INDEPENDENT. D. C. JOHKHOX, FabUaaeSk 8PRINOVILUE. . . . UTAH i ,i 1 If you suffer from "cat fear" take a dose of catnip. Glye even Russell Sage his due. He has not sworn off his taxes. ' Old maids always did think that they knew more about babies than any one else. According to Rev. Dr. Reuen Thomas. Thom-as. Helen of Troy was 60. She certainly cer-tainly acted like that. Even yet there seems to be a slight hitch in the enacting clause of the wireless telegraph movement. Probably Mr. Morgan wasn't much Impressed even by that birthday cake 66 inches in diameter. He is used to cake. The manufacture of undigested securities se-curities is still a leading industry in several states, particularly In New Jersey. A man can be happy with a toothbrush tooth-brush and a pipe; his unhappiness begins be-gins when he adds a valet and an automobile. - This Is a world in which many idle people spend their time burying the hatchet and shaking hands across the bloody chasm. The expense of the coal strike was $180,000,000, and it cost $38,000 to arbitrate. If you want to be economical, eco-nomical, arbitrate. The American people drank $70,-000,000 $70,-000,000 worth '.of coffee last year1 a good deal of it In more water than was really good for it. An Ohio man has been sent to the penitentiary for not supporting his family. How can woman hope to rise ba a higher plane in that state? Whenever there isn't anything else exciting going on somebody flourishes a revolver In St. Petersburg and another an-other plot to kill the czar is discovered. discov-ered. 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. Rockefeller's $30,000 cow Is sick. As she may represent a "cent- a-gallon" advance in price on 3,000,000 gallons of oil it is hoped she will poll through. Two German doctors propose to reach the north pole -by means qf a submarine boat and wireless telegraphy. tele-graphy. The boat ought to be a sail orless craft. - 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. The map of Canada must feel these days a good deal like a boy on his way to the dentist's. A gerrymander 1b preparing at Ottawa and the Alaskan commission is about to sit. An Ohio man f",gtied another who persisted -fg1or him in public. Correct! Why Bhould one man be singled out where so many stand in need of divine interposition? Mrs. R. H. Savage says that the ob jection to women's smoking is geographical prejudice." So Is the ob jection to appearing In public clad only In paint and a breech-clout. We are told that the guests returned re-turned to New York from the Vander- bllt 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 fight or there will be trouble. Those Cubans will not tolerate any tame, bloodless affair. There are eight gold dollars In the national treasury for every man, woman and child in the United States. The beautiful part of it is that we are not compelled to pay taxes on them. An art factory in Paris where old masters are turned out for the benefit of American millionaires must shock Connecticut manufacturers who have dropped over to buy a few celebrated t pictures. Eight men fought a duel in France Just to show how harmless the sport is. But did the world need this demonstration? dem-onstration? Has any person been seriously seri-ously hurt In a French duel within the memory of man? 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 time. Nobody will complain even if Gen. Sheridan's widow has just sold for J $55,000 the house in Washington that was presented to him by admirers throughout the - country. But celebrities celebri-ties who get gift houses should, be careful what they do with them while they are alive. It will astonish the victims of the grip to learn that the bacillus of that infernal disease is only one-sixteen-thousandth of an inch in length and about one eighty-thousandth of an inch IffcX-sJdth. The general Impression during xthe prevailing epidemic has been thaKthe bacillus must be of at least the sfae of a sea serpent. A Missouri exchange tells of a valuable valu-able "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 asserted that a young officer in the navy has made $100,000 by writing writ-ing 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 do-ing 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, I'd like to know who's got that $5 and 60 cents belonging to me." PARIS CAFES CEASE TO CHARM THE GAY IDLERS wwwwv Famous Institutions Are on -Bars" Taking Their Place All Fashionable Life in the The Paris cafe, most charming and worthiest of its kind, rose In the fin de siecle of a hundred years ago, and is now threatened with-decline. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly Parisians of the better sort shun their cafes as places of more than promiscuous company; they reproach re-proach them with being alcoholic, the homes of adulteration; and Paul 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 seem-ly cafe habit of Parisians, so long the envy and the admiration of the nations. na-tions. It is predicted that the Paris cafes will degenerate Into so many Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon bars. One goes to a wine shop to drink wine; to a restaurant to eat; to a hotel ho-tel to sleep. One 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 ex-cuse for sitting there. In a bar Parisians Pa-risians imagine the sitting there is an excuse for drinking. It was from a table of a cafe terrace ter-race of the Palais-Royal that Camllle Desmoulins harangued the populace the night before the taking of the Bastille; and it was around these same cafe tables that the red-handed ones of the Terror began to play the gentleman. gen-tleman. 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 Armee. Triumphant Tri-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 to-day at the cafe." "Which?" "The Cafe Foy, In Paris, of course!" There was a continual movement from the plundering army to the capital cap-ital 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 the Family Cafe of 1847. their eyes, there came back to the Cafe Turc, the Cafe Foy and the Cafe Lamblin "like a flight of wounded eagles the survivors or that su preme 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 Invad ing army, Germans, Englishmen and Russians, wished to taste the pleasures pleas-ures 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 of the Grande Armee! Dandies, yellow gloves and Hons stare the passing ladles out of coun tenance from the terrace of Tortoni's. Sportsmen in flat-rimmed high hats and very open coats, swaggeringly descended de-scended from ' their tllburys to throw the 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 Demidoff subsidized a dozen resorts of his fancy. And the Duke of Hamilton fell down the Maison Deree stairway and died of concussion of the brain. Ladies of the best fashion might fhe "Bourn" of the Second Empire. still visit the cafes. The others assumed as-sumed decorous airs, wore shawls and ventured to them timidly, never unaccompanied. un-accompanied. It seems that this state of thines continued until Paris was well alone in the time of Napoleon III. The care de famine which exists still cheerlngly but humbly, if you will look ior it in a thousand streets awav from the brilliant cosmopolitan centres neeame tne type of a decorous epoch, where at a fixed hour there appeared the father, mother and their child. Or the society of one table would exchange civilities with that of Its neighbor. Acquaintances were made, and later, marriages. Establishments that still maintained their reputation of the Restoration were looked on as fast; and the bourgeois, in Monselet's verses, crossed himself as he passed Tortoni's or the Maison Doree imagining imagin-ing the orgies of the literary and artistic ar-tistic sets who made them their peculiar pe-culiar place. 4 ' 4 - It was this period that formed the type of complete cafe waiter, like the sympathetic Prevosf of Tortoni's who the Decline Anglo-Saxon Were Once the Center .of French Capital, was always saying "Pardon!" and who, when the wits joked, used to stuff his napkin 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) (coffee-pot) exactly a half cup "without the feetbath" the amiable and confidential confiden-tial 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 hun-dred great beer brasseries line the sidewalk, with 10,000 tables. Each They Fled Before the Ghost Of the Grande Armee." - person sitting at , them marks himself him-self as having no sufficient social life, no club, no company, no spring within with-in 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 move-ment and stimulation. See the Boulevard and see its cross streets! Everywhere cafes have changed to bars. And all these bars have clienteles more chic than these of either the cafes or brasseries! The bars are American. And in the popular Parisian thought of the present pres-ent hour, America can do no ill! MINT IN THEIR COFFEE. Social Leader's Mistake Imitated by All the Climbers. That the advice, "Watch how others do and then do . likewise," is not always al-ways good to social aspirants was illustrated il-lustrated the other evening at a dinner din-ner given by a young matron In honor of a guest of acknowledged social standing. 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 Evi-dently some new wrinkle of fashion was about to be exhibited. Every eye was on the guest and on the mint drop. Determination to follow the 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 she inadvertently dropped her mint into the tiny cup. To her surprise a series of clinks ran around the table as each of the. rural ones followed her mistake. ' Appreciating the situation, the guest hastily gulped down her coffee to hide her mirth. . Later in the evening she heard one woman remark to another: "I don't 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. A professor at Bonn university, Germany, Ger-many, in tracing the posterity of habitual habi-tual drunkards has found 834 descendants descen-dants 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 eighteenth eight-eenth century. The professor has traced the lives of 709 of this woman's descendants from youth to old age and of these 142 were beggars and sixty-tour sixty-tour more lived on charity. Among the women 181 lived disreputable lives and there were in the family seventy-six convicts, 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 Institu-tions about $1,250,000. Objected to the Kickshaws. There is a story in the French army of a captain who made 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 captain's compliment. Accordingly a calf was prepared In various appetizing ways and was being be-ing promptly disposed of by the drummer. drum-mer. When he had finally consumed about three-quarters of the repast he paused 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 kickshaws will end in taking -up room." Woman's Harrowing Experience., A woman of Paisley, Scotland,, re cently 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 upon it. The place was swarming with rats. She had the greatest difficulty diffi-culty 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 mayor of St Paul, Robert A. Smith, is just at the end of a fifty years' residence in that city. He went there in 1853, as the private secretary of the territorial governor appointed by President Franklin Pierce, and has seen the place grow from a hamlet of a few hundred persons per-sons to a city of nearly 200,000. Heaviest City Chief in America. Charles T. Taylor, mayor elect of Mankato, Minn., is the heaviest chief executive of any city in the United States. He weighs 403 pounds, but is as nimble as a kitten and one of the fastest pedestrians in the city. The "nay" of the political dark horse is seldom heard the land. Orders" the Qnv Thing Wanted "Old Gorgon Graham"u$4f Pointers on the DdLXjXf winters on the Dtf .... Li&V Dear Pierrepont: When t saw you start off yesterday I was Just a little uneasy; for you looked So blamed lin-portant lin-portant and chesty that I am inclined to think you will tell the first Customer Custom-er who Bays he doesn't like Our sausage sau-sage that he knows what he Can do about it. Repartee makes reading lively, but business dull. And what the house, particularly needs is more 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 starts and the other half if you repeat it often enough. Only iast week the head of Our sausage department started to put but a tin-tag brand of frankfurts, but I made him take it off the market mar-ket quicker than lightning, because I knew that the first fool who saw TT tin-tag would ask if that was theSf-cense. theSf-cense. AnL though people would grin a little at first, they'd begin to look serious after a while; and whe ever the butcher tried to sell them.., our brand they'd imagine, they hteanT the bark, and ask for "that real' country coun-try sausage" at twice as much ' a pound. A real salesman is one-part "talk 1 T i t . miu ume-parxs juagment; ana he uses tne nine-parts of Judgment to tel when to use the one-part of tal Goods ain't sold under Marquess wueensoerry rules any more, ; you'll find that knowine how m rounds the Old 'Un can last agai the Boiler Maker won't reallv -r1 you to load up the junior partner wl our i;orn-iea Diana nanv. A good many salesmen have an F" "i" that buyers are only interestedxi baseball, funny stories, ; and Tom Lipton, and that business is a side line with them, but as a matter of fact mighty few men work up to the position posi-tion of buyer through giving up their office hours to listening to anecdotes. I never saw one. that liked a drummer's Latter Starts Out dncTRoad for the First Time 11 V Blackmail Levied By Turkish Officials Barefaced Extortion Practiced by Governors Who Have the Backing of the Palace Clijueynfortunate Property Owners Have Cr s of Redress. ' A correspondent writes from "Those who watch events 'in are familiar with the more methods of oppression and extortion, but cannot always understand the more polite methods of the corrupt officials in the larger cities. The peo ple of Beirut, Syria, have "just be treated to an extortion of blackm that is worthy of being, recor Some two years ago the . Goveri Rashld Pasha, a man whose ' fan and grandfather before him were favorites of the 'Palace clique' In, stantlnople arvd who has held his pres--ent post so long through the influence of that personification of misrule, succeeded suc-ceeded In getting an imperial commission com-mission to come down and make a new valuation of all the property in city. This commission set about a did its business in the approved TV ish way. Those who afiproach members in the proper way ah vvPLaJ 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 in1-creased. in1-creased. According to Turkish law, when a man feels that he is being rated too high, or higher than is 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 a m Eclipse of a Bad Man Desperado's Sway Was BrokenrWhen He Met a Man of Real Nerve Incident of the Days That Have Long Since Disappeared, Never to Return. "I am glad to be able to say that the old-time feuds which used to pre vail in my state have died out, and . that the wholesale killings which' accompanied ac-companied them are nothing but unpleasant un-pleasant memories," remarked Capt. N. M. Hanson of Galveston, United States marshal for the southern district dis-trict of Texas, at the Riggs house. "It was my fate to know some of the bad men who turned things upside up-side down in Southern Texas a quarter quar-ter of a century ago. They are about all dead, and no successors can take their place, for our people will never again tolerate such disturbers of the peace. One of the worst of the 'bad men' of that day was - the notorious John Wesley Hardin. It was his boast that he had killed!' twentye.ight men. For a long time he was the terror ter-ror of Gonzales county, and of all the surrounding country. He was an incorrigible in-corrigible cattle and horse thief, and a murderer who killed, without remorse. re-morse. "Finally a day of reckoning came and he was caught and sentenced to a twenty-five year term in the state penitentiary at Huntsville. He wasn'J; a model prisoner and had to be One Rooster Per Passenger. It takes Havana railroad companies compan-ies for fine discrimination and regard for the comfort of passengers. Some of the rules and regulations governing govern-ing these roads are thus .laid down, for the benefit of the ignorant, in the guide to Havana a little, red-covered book, printed in Spanish and the quaintest possible English. "If trains are delayed and the passenger pas-senger desists from going, the ticket is redimed; but if otherwise,-the train is on time and he desists, only half fare is returned. If the passenger passen-ger loses the train on his own fault no return whatever Is made. "The company prohibits the carrying carry-ing of more than one rooster In a first-class car, If carried in a basket, and in the other cars dogs with mussgle and doz. chickens, but no Ice Is allowed In the cars nor fish or any other article injurious to the comfort of Passengers." Brooklyn Eagle. . f Great Show. Ernie "Mabel was engaged four times down at the beach last summer. sum-mer. She said it was a regular circus." cir-cus." Edith "Sort of a fon-vring affair, 1 suppose?" His SonPierrepontaPtXf a Drummer, When the jAes more than an eighth of a cent a $ound on a tierce of lard What thrf house really sends you out for is onfers4 . . . f course, you want td b nice and meiow with thetrade but always re-mejnbef re-mejnbef that mellowness carried too far becomes rottenness. Y6u can buy soDfe fellows with a Cheap cigar and sont with a cheap compliment, but thee's ho Objection to giving a man whrp; h likes, though I never knew smoiing tb do anything good except a hamf or flattery to help any One ex-ceptftb ex-ceptftb make a fooi of himself. Rf ai buyers ain't interested in much bes files your goods and ybuf prices. Nevr run down your competitor's bran to them, and " never let them run feown yours. Don't get on your kneel for business, but don't hold your nose so high in the air that an ordejr can travel under it without your seeifig it You'll meet a good many peoifce on the road that you won't like,! but the house needs their business? busi-ness? F'$T your own satisfaction t will say rlgEt 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 won't have a ereat deal of time to write long let1 ters, and we won't have a great deal of time to" read them, for we will be" very, very busy here making and ship the goods. We aren't specially sled in orders that the other fellow gii knowing how It hap- pened aft' happened. If you like life id you simply won't let it happ just send us yout address . e lay and your orders. They wll us all that we want to know i, "Letters 'the situation." From a Self-Made Merchant to His Son," by George Horace Lorl-"mer. Lorl-"mer. By permission .of Small, May nard & Co., Publishers, Boston, Mass. ir increase, but all these petitions fited and never heard of again. eeing that the new tax lists will be ssued after March 13 on the basis of the new valuation, the city began to get nerrous about the matter. Careful inquiry concerning the fate of the any petitions filed brought forth a t answer from the Vail that none of m would ever be heard of and that efforts to push them would be frult- ss. At tne same time a way or re- was pointed out to all who wished tb avail themselves of it. Whoever wished his property valuation to go back to the old figure could have it so at once by paying to the Vail and his associates three times the amount a increase demanded. The time short and all hope of righteous s being denied, the people have haste to avail themselves of 'rf oor of escape and the unholy usuioes .is at tnis moment in iuu blast. We know one man, acting for himself and a few of his family, who has paid over 1,200 Turkish pounds into the Vali's hands, or rather Into the hands of his accredited agenL It is estimated that the Vali will pocket In this transaction something like E0,-000 E0,-000 Turkish pounds, or, as some estimate esti-mate iC as much as 100,000 pounds. Of course it Is well known" that he must share this unrighteous gain with his backers at the palace, or he could never venture to do such barefaced blackmailing. London Times. whipped a time or two, but at length he emerged from prison and went back to the scene of his former crimes. A hot local political fight involving in-volving the election of a sheriff of Gonzales county, was on and Hardin took an active part in the contest. He was still regarded as dangerous and greatly dreaded. One day he and the candidate against whom he was work- rtfig met, and a quarrel ensued. This candidate, Jones, by name, was as fearless a man' as ever lived, and the way he denounced Hardin was something some-thing to rememner. "'You have, lip said, .'according to your own boastsl killed twenty-eight men. I am hereto say that never a one of the .lot did you slay when he Jhig ,face towariLyou. Every man oi xnarn was snot in ue uaciu , iou are ay great big cowar as well as a murderer, and I will giVe you $1,000 if you!, will dare to contradict what I have laid. I can make any 16-year- o3d-bcy in town whip you. rdin didn't open his mouth, but 8!unH away, followed by a storm of jeers 1 He left the county, and was shortly afterward killed in El Paso." Washington Post. Thought It Might be Needed. Ex-Police Superintendent Byrnes tills of a noted burglar who died of Ilad on the brain -as a result of a meeting , with the police. . .His body was ciaimea Dy nis rnenas, and tney gave It burial? in keeping with the man's reputation when he was alive. The inspector had a couple of detectives detec-tives at the funeral to guard against trouble, and to pick up any of the mourners who might be "wanted." When the undertaker was about to cldse the coffin for the last time, the widow," who was a notorious shop-liftjer, shop-liftjer, approached and began packing a fine sectional "jimmy" in beside the coipse. Here!" exclaimed one of the detectives. de-tectives. "Give me that thing. What are you putting it In there for?" " Liet me bury it with him," pleaded the woman. "It Is the finest one he eve owned, and he'll need It In the nex : world to pry himself out of one pla e and Into another." New York Tin: es. - . . " Pertinent 'Inquiry. ggs (smoking) "This is some- thiilg like a cigar, old man." ggs (getting a whiff) "Yes er somfethincs like 'What Is it, any- way 1 w a 1 s m on i Jo i r rfom l Hief THE CHILD WITH EARNEST EYES. L - Ere the dawn rrew red, beelde my bed Came a child with earnest eyes. ' -Tbt lls-ht have you shed through the world V she said. "Mow you are old and wlae?" . Tla a weary while," quoth X, with a smile, "Since I dreamed it had need of me. I found but guilt !n its fairest wile." "Then its need was greater," said she. . ' "Bo the hungry you fed, and wanderers led. And smiled on the weary and sad?" "Scarce 1 earn," I Bald, "my own bitter bread. And I have no time to be glad." She 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 hearts are few" - She raised her head, "Woman," she said. And her voice came sobbingiy, "if joy is 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,'" I heard her say, . r "I'm the Child You Used to Be!" Katharine Pelten in Century. ;j ' II , - The Sixth Ha,rd ii "Nd thanks," said the drummer; "I'm through with poker;" The men in the smoking room of the coastwise steamship howled in derision deri-sion and incredulity. "No, boys," said the drummer, seriously, seri-ously, "I've sworn off on poker. I can't play the game any more." "Well, then," said the man who had Invited him to join the game, "I guess it's all off for to-night. I don't care anything about four-handed poker. Honest, now, Mac, this is the biggest surprise I've had since Cocktail Jim climbed on the water wagon. What made you sweaa 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 Haliax 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 named Onesime Belief on taine; his cousin, a barber, whose. name was Nor-cisse Nor-cisse Le Blanc, and an Irishman named O'Reilly. The game was played in Drake's hotel. , "A year ago when I 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, slen-der, good-looking young fellow, 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, Narcisse Le Blanc came hurrying into the stuffy little back room, threw off his coat, drew out a ten-dollar bill and bought his chips. The limit was 50 cents. " 'Who's winnin' to-night you, M'soo Drake?" he asked. "'No! growled the big hotel keeper, and the game went on. Narcisse won steadily, and as steadily drank nips of whisky and water and smoked clgar-etteri. clgar-etteri. He hurried through his work that night and he was hot and excited. ex-cited. "'Phew!' he exclaimed, 'but It's hot! . Open de window dere, someone!' some-one!' , " 'Better not, Narcisse, I said; 'you have a cigarette cough already; you are sitting with your back to the window, win-dow, and you'll catch a cold, and colds bring on catarrh, and catarrh brings on consumption, and consumption introduces in-troduces the Lean Fellow.' "De Lean Fellow! Who dat?' "'Mr. Death.' "'Bah! Who's 'feared of him? "'Well, I am, for one,' I said. 'I 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 ; he's too familiar with him. He calls him by nicknames. The Lean Fellow is one of them. Good Lord! The Lean Fellow! The name almost makes you see him, and the bare ribs, and to make 'you hear the wind whistling through the bare ribs! Yes, Narcisse, I fear the Lean Fellow.' " 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. - " 'It's blowing through the Lean Fellow's ribs. B-r-r-r! Shut the window!' win-dow!' said Drake. Just then a head appeared at the open window and the light fell upon a grotesque nose and a pair of little sharp eyes. The nose was long and fleshless and stuck out The wind, blowing in from the sea, puffed straight in his face, from the sunken cheeks like the beak of a bird. " 'The Lean Fellow himself! Look, Narcisse! laughed Drake. He went to the man at the window. 'What's the matter, Jake? Is the inspector around?' "The man nodded. He had a policeman's police-man's helmet behind his back.' 'Lie low,' he said. 'I'll 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?' I asked. I fancied I could bear Le Blanc's teeth chattering. 'Oh, nod-Ing, nod-Ing, 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 la and then Narcisse sneezed or hemmed in his throat The tide of luck turned; he was beaten on an ace fully by four Httle ones, and after that he lost steadily. stead-ily. Morning brought end to the game and to Le Blanc's money. He borrowed bor-rowed 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 doesn't seem the same without Le Blanc, I remarked, glancing at the new player, a clumsy fellow. 'How is he, Belief on taine?' " 'Pretty low,' said the cousin, scanning scan-ning his cards. 'I'm tired, me, sitting up with him. I should be there tonight, to-night, I s'pose. I'll take two cards. "It was a jack pot, and Drake had opened it. 'I'll take one card, he said. 'I'll tell you what,' he went on, 'Nar- 3 The cards of the extra sixth hand were visibly agitated. cisse wasn't built to stand the pace he went; it was too swift for him. 1 guess he's done for. I'll 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 raising1 the window that night fixed Le Blanc. I was right; the Lean Fellow was there.' " 'Poor Narcisse,' said Bellefontalne. 'Ill raise you bofe just one little dollar more.' " 'Count me' out,' said the fifth player, play-er, laying down his cards, as did O'Reilly. 'I hear that Narcisse is expected ex-pected to cash in to-night. '"Is that so?' said Drake, as he raked in the pot, having caught a full house, and he started to deal again. 'I guess he'd rather be here to-night and take a hand with us. He was dotty on poker.' "'That may be so,' said I, but you needn't deal six hands. I don't think he'll come to take it. Drake stared at the table. It was true. He had dealt six hands. He laughed. 'Misdeal,' 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 Bellefon-taine, Bellefon-taine, falling with a scared, white face back from the table. 'Narcisse is is takin 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-fontaine, Belle-fontaine, 'it's only the draught from the chimney!' -" 'What did you think it was? I managed to ask. "Bellefontaine sat dowp, wiping his forehead. And then on the hot summer sum-mer air the stroke of a bell boomed, then another and another, solemnly and slowly; it was tolling. Bellefontaine Bellefon-taine got up and on legs that trembled left the room, crossing himself as he wenL 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. WATER THAT IS HIGH-PRICED. New Yorkers Very Fond of the Bottled Bot-tled Beverage. New York is the world's greatest market for mineral waters. It is estimated more than 20,000,000- gallons gal-lons 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 ills 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 of it, 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, trou-ble, and is not recommended for general gen-eral use. The largest purchasers of mineral waters are, the high-class cafes and hotels. One hostelry alone Is credited with using 300 gallons daily, despite the fact that vinous and spirituous Ii ui4s are supposed to play a far ncre important part in the menage, New York Presp, TIRED BACKS. Come to all who overtax over-tax the kidneys. kid-neys. Don't neg-lect neg-lect the aching back. Many dangerous dan-gerous kid-n kid-n e y troubles trou-bles follow in its wake. Mrs. C. B. Pare of Co lumbia avenue, Glasgow, Kentucky, wife of C. B. Pare, a prominent brick manufacturer of that city, says: When Doan's Kidney Pills were first brought to my attention I was suffering from a complication of kidney troubles. Besides Be-sides the bad back which usually results re-sults from kidney complaints, I had a great deal of trouble with the secretions, secre-tions, which were exceedingly variable, vari-able, sometimes excessive and at other times scanty. The color waa high, and passages were accompanied with a scalding sensation. Doan's KNay Pills soon regulated the kidney seV tions, making their color normal anl banished the Inflammation which caused the scalding sensation. I can rest well, my back Is strong and sound and I feel much better in every way. A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney kid-ney medicine which cured Mrs. Pare will be mailed to any part of the United States on application. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 60 cents per box. An "Imported" Diamond. The finest diamond ever imported paid no duty to the customs officers, having smuggled itself In from some other planet in a meteorite. Packed in a thick envelope of meteoric Iron, it fell to earth In Diablo canyon, at the foot of Crater mountain, Arizona, its coating being broken into numerous numer-ous particles by contact with the rock formation of the ground. Some six weeks ago a party of geologists, discovering these fragments, at first thought them indications of a remarkably re-markably pure vein of Iron ore, but their true character was soon discern- ted, and In one of the pieces picked up by Prof. G. A. Koenig, the diamond dia-mond was found imbedded. It is now on exhibition at the American Museum Mu-seum of Natural History. Tribute to Birds. A number of Parisians who were in the siege have decided to erect a monument to the memory of the pig eons that carried the dispatches which kept up communication with the outside world. It will consist oi a pedestal surmounted by a bronz vase, on which will be cast a group of the birds that proved of such utility to the French. The committee includes in-cludes the names of many well-known literary and scientific people. Thi gratitude comes somewhat late, fol after the war the pigeons In question ques-tion were sold by auction and com-meocrated com-meocrated in pigeon pies. What the World Owes Every Man. The world owes to every man a living, liv-ing, says Chauncey M. Depew, provided provid-ed he has the industry and determination determina-tion 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 failure; more love than hate; more friends than enemies; but it rests with the man himself whether he collects that deb,t, fer the world holds fast ko the good thing; 1 which it possesses and lets free the bad; and it is only by labor and energy, en-ergy, only by determination and character char-acter that the dbt which the world owes to every one is collected. The Fan in Europe. The fan made an almost simultaneous simultane-ous appearance throughout Italy and France, in England and Spain. Its most artistic flights have been 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 is in church or a place of amusement, whether visiting or walking, it is always al-ways in her hands, frequently portray, ing the horrors of the bull-fight Corresponding Cor-responding with these, certain French revolution fans represent Charlotte Cord ay carrying a dagger In one hand and a fan in the other! t To Improve American Cattle. Henry C. Moore of Sioux City, believes be-lieves that it is possible to interbreed inter-breed the Arctic musk ox with cattle of the temperate zone, and that stock so produced would be able to withstand with-stand the severe winters of the United States. He has been In communication com-munication on the subject with Peary, the Arctic explorer, who is favorably Impressed with the idea. "The vast 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 dis-posed of by testament It was in these words: "I give everything I have to my wife." Then, instead of half a dozen or more pages of "in the event or this, that or the other he added. "With reversion to our children." A LAST RESORT. Pure Food Should Be the First When the human machine goes wrong it's 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 nf thA Ynerience she had curing her only child. Dy tne use oi sueuuuv , .- food: "My little daughter, the onlj 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 con-dition had grown so bad the whole family waa aroused, we tried Grape-Nuts. Grape-Nuts. "A friend recommended the food as one which her own delicate children had grown strong upon so I purchas-td purchas-td 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, nutty flavor has made it an immediate immedi-ate favorite with the most fastidious In our family. "It's 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." 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