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Show .7 y ;.T-- ft tain words became sacred by . reason of their religions associations, and their - employment is Terbal warfare cause fear by QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS would. It was hopsd. awful reason or, association, of their AND EVENTS. later still, because their unconventional use being severely punished, the Orloaa Daeulon la Coart Sctulag Qim-Uo- a deed savored of reckless violence, aa to Wbathar tho Hatton II few centuries later en took to utlllz THE I A JUNCTION. Kata tor tho Mattoaholo, or tho "I should articulate! But thats lng the anathemas of the church for From the Chicago Record having Dingle exactly. Gave his hen that for tho Button. their private purposes, and sought to an Injunction restraining the po- name so that he could have the lay o) Inspire fear by evoking Images of torlice from Interfering with hla gambl- The Last Minstrel every morning for ture and endless suffering. The angry Whatovor la Baah man tried to shock his ing bualneaa, the proprietor of the breakfast Pittsburg Commercial I know as my life I. primitive grows older Glided Front decided to go home and Gazette. enemy by calling on thunder and gods And mine eyes have clearer sight. reat and be away from the reporters. angry modem man consigns That under each rank wrong, some- and the He had hardly entered the houae betones in SMOKE UP. of awful wrath, to eterhim, where fore hla wife complained that the hired From the. shock of nal punishment. There lies the root of right; shock of temerthe terror came girl waa going to leave. there That each sorrow has its purpose. names in vain, so in "Oh, .ho, ahe la, la she? the saloon ity taking holy By the sorrowing oft unguessed. the reverence aad gambling house keeper answered; of that the greater But as sure as the sun brings morning; names or deity, the or "well, well see about that Im not In of places saints Whatever Is, Is best politics for nothing. greater Is the shock to the man sworn Then he rushed out, and In half an at, and presumably- Ihe greater the I know that each slnlul action. hour returned with a big envelope, relief to the man swearing. Medics As sure as the night brings shade. from which he took a legal document, Press and Circular. Is somewhere, some time punished. saying: the hour be Though long delayed, "There, Just go and read that to her. A Qatar IW Crop. I know that the soul Is aided an Thats Injunction Issued by a Judge The white wax crop exported from Sometimes by the hearts unrest; who Is a friend of mine to keep her China Is made by the curious methoc And to grow means often to suffer; from leaving here as long as we think of using minute insects in its producBut whatever is. Is best we want her around. tion. These Insects are found in excresences or galls I know there are no errors "Well, theres another thing, hla brown,, wife said, that troubles me. The Ice In the great eternal plan. attached to an everpen tree called man la going to, charge us more for And all things work together the "Insect tree. The galls are gathice beginning next Monday." For the final good of man. ered In May and carried In headlong No he aint, said the man who had And I know, when my soul speeds on- flight, to the market towns by bearers, access to the Injunction mill. "Ill Just who travel at night, so that the heat ward. see to the matter now, while I have In its grand eternal quest, may not force the Insects to emerge time. I shall say as I look back earthward. during the journey. They are then After another brief absence he reWhatever Is, Is best placed in a "wax tree, which Is turned with an Injunction which made 'frilcox. Ella Wheeler stump varying from three to twelve "Did OToole get the wages he sued it impossible for the ice man to raise for? feet in height, with numerous branch his price without being In contempt of es Wan by the Buttonhole. rising from the top. similar to the "No. He claimed he had been jobbing court. willow. The wax insects are pollard Once a a case was for three a week and the man said he upon time brought "Now, he said, "don't bother me for had agreed to pay him a dollar. before a learned: Judge, In .which the made Into small packets of twenty or awhile. I need sleep. Business was bo question at Issue was as to whether thirty galls, which are inclosed Into"Only a dollar a week? leaf of the wood oil tree, fastened good at our place last night that I "Yes. And at that he said OToole the button was made for the buttondidnt get a chance to go to bed at all, was no good, but spent all of his time hole or the buttonhole for the button. gether with rice straw. These packets and 1 expect there'll be another big smoking. Counsel for the button held that It was are suspended close to the branches, under which they hang. On emerging rush tonight, since the papers have "Well, I dont blame him. A man so plain as to render argument sufrom not all about the galls the Insects creep rapthe police printed being but a dollar a week must have perfluous that the buttonhole was allowed to come in. So I must be getting to smoke up very hard to imagine he la made for the use and behoof of the idly up the branches, to which they themselves, and begin forming yeady for it. at all. button; still, for form's sake, he would attach a He had not been asleep long, how- existing of wax that In about three coating a few reasons "I see by the papers that a man can give why his contention ever, when his wife shook him by the live on 60 cents a week, though. was the correct one. It was apparent, months attains a thickness of almost shoulder and said: "Yes in the papers. And that leaves he said, that without the buttonhole a quarter of an Inch. The branches are then cut off, and after removing "I forgot to tell you that I cant him all of 40 cents for perfectoes and the button would be unable to perform as much of the wax as possible by stand It here any more unless some- Cohasset punches. its function, and hence It was plain hand they are put In a kettle of hot thing Is done to keep the cats from that the button preceded the buttonWhat is a Cohasset punch. water, when the remaining, wax floats getting on our fence at night. They "I dont know. I drank one once hole, and that the latter was invented on the surface, and tie Insects finish make a horrible racket, and my nerves and found out, and then I drank a secIn order that the buttonhole might be their are getting all upset Something must ond one and term of usefulness by going to of to service mankind. be should It forgot it. New York clear to be done. Press. everybody that had It not been the bottom. for the button the buttonhole never "Something will be done, he answered as he dressed himself. Abort jrlnaa Whlitli Tholr Word. would have been thought of. Its exHOW HE WAS BEDDCKn Then he went away again and pres- There Is a perfect whistling language istence the necessarily presupposed "You must have played some great existence of the button. The lawyer used by the aborigines of the Canary games of poker In your day, he said' for the other side was equally positive Islands, and the people can communito the drummer who had been talking In the stand he had been employed to cate with each other over long disabout luck at cards. take. He averred that the buttonhole tances. A stranger wandering over the "Yes, I have, was the reply. "Yes, preceded the button; that. In fact, the Islands Is frequently surprised to hear sir, I have had some great games. was merely an afterthought. He from a hilltop the souid of loud whistbutton How large a bet did you ever make, said that, as everyone knew, the but- ling, which Is quickly, repeated on the may I ask? tonhole can be employed without the next hill, and so Is carried, from sumOne hundred thousand plunks. button, as witness Farmer Jones, who mit to summit, until t. dies away In "You dont mean It!, uses a nail or sliver of the distance. But perhaps the most Invariably "I certainly do, sir; I sat In a game wood Instead of the conventional but- curious means of communication in in Denver once and bet 6100,000 on ton, whereas it was Impossible to make the world Is the drum language of an my hand and I had only a pair In it an effective use of the button without African tribe, named, as nearly as the at that. word can be represented In our letthe aid and assistance of the button"What an awful bluff! The others hole. Hence it was shown beyond These queer people ters, Thang-Tlaid down their hands, did they? that the buttonhole was of can talk to each other with large "Oh, no! One of them called me. He greater Importance than the button, drums made of bamboo hoops, over had a full house and of course I was and It was natural to Infer that the which the skin of some animal is beaten. buttonhole was first Invented and that stretched. The drum is used only on "And you you lost 6100,000! the button came later simply as an Important occasions such as the I did. For the fraction of a second ornament, or, at best, as an Improve- meeting of war or the trial of some sently returned with an injunction a feeling of faintness stole over me, ment upon the nail, sliver or other In- members of the tribe who have broken some of the complex religious rules, "hereby restraining all cats of what- and things looked wazzy, but strumentality wherewith the buttonsoever sex, breed, color, age or previ- then I pulled myselfwlzzy Then the head man of the village, who was hole to made and Its To perform together duty. ous condition from assembling on the reached down Into my vest Is hidden behind a rough grass screen, show the relative value of the buttonand pocket said complainants back fence, or upon I handed him the money, with a smile. hole and the button, he said, take this asks questions of thsgjttnessea by tapthe roofs of the sheds located in "Great Scott! sighed the Querist as simple example. When a button comes ping on the drum, and finally' delivers the backyard belonging to the com- he mopped his brow. "Think of los- off the buttonhole can still be made judgment by giving either the three plainant aforesaid. ing that much money on a turn of serviceable but If the buttonhole Is sharp bangs, which means death to the "I guess thatll cure em, he said. the cards! I that is why you slit open the button Is of no use what- prisoner, or the one light tap, that "Theres nothing like having a good, were forced tosuppose ever. With this the learned counsel means freedom. to take the road? willing friend on the bench in a time Well, no. The winner said that rested his case, although he claimed of need. such cheek as mine to be re- that he had not exhausted the subject.' Tba HI1W of Frtaeo. Just then their baby In the next warded and returned ought When came In court the recess still holds to Its San after Francisco my money. Id, room set up a howl, and the great have been all learned the cars. was decided first city In the cable the It the judge promptly when I right only got Jolntkeepers wife said: back to Chicago I put 6900,000 with case In favor of the buttonhole clear- Union to establish the cable system, "I dont know what to do with that it and bet the whole pile on a horse' ly a just decision, although It was and now It continues In the same old hild; she frets so. Yesterday I had to race and lost by a nose. That re- whispered about the court house that way, while all other cities have discarry her In my arms nearly all day. duced my fortune to less than 64,000,-00- 0 the decision might have been different carded cables for electricity, writes a X guess she must be teething. and so I had to take this busl- -. but for the fact that while changing correspondent of the Washington "Never mind, he said, Ill fix her. ness to eke out my income.up Of course his linen between adjournment and Post. There are so many hills In San Then he made another trip to the its a sad case and I feel of court the reassembling his honor Francisco, and they are so steep that my position office of his friend, the Judge, and rebut with perseverance and In-- i had dropped his collar button and cables really offer the only means of keenly, turned home with an injunction re- tegrity I hope to pull for It without success for half transportation. To climb some of the through In tlmq hunted an hour, and perhaps might never have grades straining the child from making any to be able to pay the oook her waged is almost like scaling the sides more outcries on account of her teeth, again. Have you a found It had he not stepped upon It. of the Washington monument. The match, please? But of course this suggestion came cars almost stand, on their heads. It and "further providing that the from the partisans of the button and is tobogganing of the most spirited aforesaid teeth must under penalty of LITTLE LAUGHS. the court's displeasure refrain from may fairly be imputed to their disap- description. When, at the-top of one d child hereinbeforementlon-ethe and A Lost Joy. pointment causing chagrin. Boston of these hills, the motorman takes a any pain or inconvenience. fresh hold upon the steel rope, and you Transcript. Ah, ice cream soda as It goes "There, the husband and father look down an incline that Is almost Is quite good enough, tie true: said, with the air of one who Is con- But It doesnt buzz the victims nose Fruit rul Sontborn Sand perpendicular, there is a very natural scious of having done his duty, I As the old kind used to do. Is more Nothing deceptive to the desire to close your eyes and put your guess youll be able to get along for a casual northern tourist than southern trust in Providence. The people here day or two. Now, Ive got to go down A LMtlaf Scar. sand, says the Augusta (Ga.) Chron- do nothing of the kind. They are used to the joint, for I spose the dealers accidents are very infrerugby tells me he never travels at icle. Florida sand produces oranges of to it. And and bartenders are all tired out by this Once in a very great while a quent and the best on cars. of unequaled quality garthe time. If things aint all right around night den truck. When the Seaboard Air grip slips or a brake does not work, Nervous? the house let me know to morrow, and then there Is a smash, but, as a Well, the last trip he took he saw line was pushing Its track construction and matter of fact, the chances are altoIll get some more injunctions. one of those women who wear their through North Carolina, beyond Rahusband's old linen dusters for sleep- leigh toward Atlanta, a French labor- gether in favor of the passenger. METHOD OF REDUCTION. er, in what was then considered a ing car gowns. Strike Thirteen. From the Albany Journal: A little hopeless desert, curiously examined A novel twentieth century memorial the sand, and discovered that it was newsboy was watching a man on High A Reatfnl Function. street weigh ice yesterday. After the Deaf and dumb trolley parties are precisely the soil from which his na- has been erected at the head offices of tive country produced its finest grapes. Lancashire collieries, says the London ice had been chipped, the little chap the latest. This Frenchman communicated his Express. The public clock now strikes took a few puffs off a cigarette and What are they? Ideas to the engineer in charge, who, 13 instead of 1, in order to enable the said: 'A lot of talkative women ride "Say, Ice man, how much is dat size around town in the street cars all at first, was Inclined to think the man work people to resume operations demented. The Frenchman asked promptly after dinner. The device is wort? and the one who speaks first mission to go to Baltimore and perthe original Idea of the Duke - of talk The ice ihan, being a gruff sort of evening, pays for the ride and the ice cream. with Mr. John M. Robinson, then Bridgewater who, in the eighteenth Individual, was not quite sure that he president of the road. It was granted, century, erected a similar clock at should pay any attention to the urchin. Blare Opinions. and Mr. Robinson listened attentively Worsley to meet the work peoples Finally, however, he answered: "Its and are There times three gave the man and some of his complaint that they sometimes fall to in a bashful 50 cents. worth Before he could say more the chap mans life when he feels that there Is fellow countrymen passes to the North hear the clock strike one. The idea said: "Well, just sit on it and make very little for him to stand on when Carolina reputed desert and they set- might be carried out with advantage he asks the girl, when he goes to seq tled there. Lack of money made their at all factories. It tirty cents wort! he pa and when he has to tell his habitation a partial failure, but they friends that the mother and child are demonstrated on a small scale that Inganloai Automaton. TnC MAJOR'S FICK DICTIONS. as grapes and peaches and berries grew well as could be expected. doing The most recent triumph of the "I hear that the major predicted a there in a wonderful way. At last the French administration Is an InChicago Record-Heralfrost fer the Fourth o July. Frenchman induced a western man of genious postal little machine which not only "Whos the major? experience in horticulture to visit the automatically weighs letters and samCalendar. "Whys he the man who predicted a When Is Lova'a If you ples, but records on an indicator at the place and the westerner said: it winter and bleak winds earthquake last June. me a send can box of ripe grapes side the amount for stamps. Blow from gray dawn till black night "Did the earthquake come? here by the first of June I will When the articlerequired grown on the deposited blinds, "No, but the entire settlement had The grapes balance exceeds the regulation develop this country. All are of so weight the to went an days longest year that the chills, shaking were duly shipped, the man returned, the Indicator hoists the sign, promptly some o the buildings fell down, an Unless Fate brings my Doris near. bought thousands of acres of sand Too heavy. you couldnt tell whether It wuz a land, and planted vineyards and fruit But when 'tls not. and summer, Constior Atlanta bright days trees. At this day the desert of sand, earthquake Come trooping down green woodland known as Pensionary In Texas. tution. Pinehurst, Is a blossoming enlLsitd only 1,965 solwhich Texas, ways. Eden of vineyards and fruit orchards. GREAT SCOTT I That is the shortest day. I ween. diers in the Union army during the "Young Mr. Dingle tells me that he On which I have my Doris seen. war, is now, more.- than thirty-fiv- e Psychology of Swoarlag. Is extremely fond of the poetry of Sir after its closet the place of resiyears Many profane expresslqns are the fos- dence of 8,100 Walter Scott. remarked Wlntergreen pensioners and the penSultan Hm Gold Crodloa. sil remains of religious terms or ejacu- sion to Tenterhook. payments theje are nearly Some of the costly things In the latory prayer, and the history of pro"Yes, I know; but he carries his sultans treasure house at Constanti- fanity Is intimately bound up with the fondness too far, replied the latter. are childrens cradles of pure history of religion. It Is held by some nople "In what way? Auguste J. Foer rer, mother of inlaid with precious stones, that profane objurgations are instincgold chicken a as perfancier, "Well, hes Congressman Foer rer, who died re-l- a, divans Imitative' covered with or cloth relics of the habit of of gold tive haps you know. in made bequests Phlladel cently embroidered with pearls, suits of mall our wild ancestors of simulating the "Well?" charitable in- 610,1 to aggregating "And he has named his best egg thickly lncrusted with big emeralds cries of ferocious animals and of utter- stltutlons of t: dty. and diamonds, and other relics of for- ing sounds calculated by their harshproducer The Last Minstrel. mer Ottoman ness or to their name a hen. volume, for terror. is splendor. if it is not 111 Inspire Nothing "Queer By and by came the time when cer- - taken. V r he' says.' Jack would have fared badly today if between us we hadnt surprised your secret. "I have been a doctor for two years. says Miss Lane demurely. Then, after a pause, she adds with a little smile,! "I was to have been one of the lights of orthopedic, surgery. "Was to have been? he echoes, as he draws her closer to him. "Why, what happened? You, she returns briefly. "I hope I. know my own limitations." trained nurse, IN THE ODD CORNER. Bit-toaho-lo se--cur- ed -- - OVER THE PRECIPICE. Isdji Hotm la Da. had to Floeoa m I ask her if she loves me. She shakes her Lead, and when I turn to leave she sweetly smiles. And lures me back again. "Alas I you love another ! In angry tones I say; She nods, but as I turn to leave She sweetly bids me stay. - - With outstretched arms I offer. My love my all to her. And seek to clasp her. but she cries : "Stand back! How dare you, sir? - J pea-shap- per-advent- With sinking heart and hopeless I turn once more, and lo ! I hear a soft, sweet voice that says: ed u. "I wish you wouldnt go. I throw my rfrms around her, And press her to my heart. And, after while, when she gets time. She says: "You think you're smart! S. E. Kiser. Limitations of Miss Lano. BY JULIA VALENTINE BOND. (Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Pub. CoA a man and a girl that most ancient combinations with its endless Chain of possibilities are seated side by side on a bank of coarse grass and gray boulder, looking seaward. The old duel of the sexes has been waging between them for the best part of an hour, but as yet neither parts has been worsted. There are no seconds, unless a small boy disporting himself in the middle distance could so. be counted. At any rate he serves as a to the conversation, sort of time-re- st occasionally drawing the attention of the pair to himself by the narrowness of his escapes from bodily injury. His .efforts are directed toward fixing a flagpole on a tree in honor of the approaching Fourth of July. Dr. Randall hazards the prophecy that one of these days Jack Hughes will kill himself. "Not he, says Miss Lane cheerfully; "but I wish hed come down. I love boys who want to do dangerous things, but I cant bear to see them at it. "Youre simply, he says, "the most feminine woman Ive met. "And is that why you like me? One of the whys. There are others. "1 dont think I like the obvious. returns Miss Lane. "It is as bad to be labeled feminine as being called sweet of or good-hearte- d. "You couldnt be the first without being the two last. Why, I wonder, do women gird so at belonging to their own sex? Do you ever hear a man object to being called a manly fellow? "I deny that we do gird at it. It is only the never getting beyond ones limitations. Suppose one la a primrose by a rivers brim; you don't want to be that and nothing more. It is the eternal feminine I object to. r man smiles beneath the Bhelter of s hat brim. "Getting beyond your limitations, out of your he says, confessedly ' to Who appears advantage, depths. man or woman, in that situation? What are a womans limitations? Impatiently. "I mean, of course, your Idea of them. I know all men have a theory on the subject, yeady for use at a moment's notice. "Evidently you agree with Hardys peasant that men are a very poor class of society. "Do I? she laughs. Ask any of the women over there pointing in the dlr'-'tloof the little summer settle-pieacross the hill "they will tell you Miss Lane is never so happy as when she has a man tagging at her heels. "And you deny that your sex is spiteful ? "That isnt spiteful, after all, perI dare say it is only haps, ruefully. ' but-and-dri- ed nt - - d. . ..X. -- A T Have No began Miss Patience, Lane. true. I do like them I, lamely, "have always been accustomed to them. "Dont annihilate me for saying therein lies the chief charm of the feminine woman. Oh! no. Youre welcome to your opinion. I believe I even asked for it. "You did. You said, What are womans limitations? And you accused me answer. But of having a you didnt wait for it. I was about to say Id never found a womans limicut-and-drl- ed tations. "Then, calmly, "you were about to tell an untruth. There was never yet a man who hadnt set the boundary for his fellow-woma"You dont mind if I smoke? She nods permission. "I admit there are just one or two walks in life over n. th. Rock The perils of mountaineering are well set forth by Miss Isabel Savory in "A Sportswoman In India. She says of the entrance of Kashmir: "Many of the paths were barely three feet wide in places, with a cliff above on one side, and a precipice below on the other. They were the roughest tracks, and one came to vast rocks and had to follow a sort of staircase up them. Miss Savory relates a personal experience on one of these dangerous paths: Slowly Sphai (my horse) clambered up the path until we were nearly at the top The last.little bit was much steeper. On the left a wall of rock rose perpendicularly above our heads; on the right the narrow path broke off into a sheer precipice down to the gorge far below. Making an effort up the last steep bit, Sphai dug his willing toes into the rock and broke into a jog. His hind foot loosened a rock, and his foot went over with it. Instantly there was no time to think I felt both his hind legs go over. At the selfsame moment I threw myself off the saddle to the path. I do not know I never shall know how I did it. I kept hold of the reins, and for a second, kneeling on the path, clung to them. Sphai's head on a level with me, his two poor forelegs clattering hopelessly on the path, while with his strong hind quarters he fought for a minute of life, trying to dig his toes into some crevice in the precipice. It was only a second. I was powerless to hold him up. Right over backward he slowly went, with a long heave. I saw the expression in his poor, imploring eyes. A hideously long silence and then two sickening crashes, as he hit rock after rock. A pause, and a long, resounding roar from the rocks at the bottom of the gorge. Sphai lay, literally smashed to pieces down below. The whole awful scene has been a mlghtmare many a time since. But for the mans saddle, which allowed m to slip off, the rocky gorge would have held us both. Youths Companion. which It is written Verboten zu Eingang, to a woman. And those? "Well, medicine and the law, to begin with. As a doctor I have it on my conscience to have dissuaded at least three young women from becoming trained nurses. The silence that follows this statement becomes fairly ominous. "I have no patience begins Miss Lcne at last, with a man no respect for one who says such a thing as that. I am sorry 1 really thought better of you. She rises to her full height, which is not a great one, but gives her unfair advantage over her prone combatant, who sits up physically and metaphorically. Englnaar "Got tha Old Xody. "I am awfully sorry, apologeticalThe president of an Eastern railroad a ly, picking up fallen hatpin; "I didn't an engineer of a fast freight of tells mean to hurt your feelings. I couldn't called on him one day and who train tell I was treading on sacred ground. asked him to prevent a deaf old woman from walking on the tracks along one section of that division. Several times the engineer had barely missed running over her, and he was terrified lest a fatal accident should happen to her. ."The only way to prevent a deaf person from walking on the track, said Mr. Underwood, would be to cut his legs off. "That is Just what I will do for my deaf old lady if you cannot InBtop her, replied the engineer. vestigation showed that she was accustomed to go to a summer hotel to sell baskets and embroidery, and that the railroad afforded her a short cut to her destination. She was remonstrated with, but it did no good. "And, dd you know, said Mr. Underwood, "she was finally run over. That Very engineer called on me, with tears running down his cheeks, one day, and reported: Ive got the old lady at last, sir.' A Bag of Familiar Patterns. Somehow one doesnt associate you with any of those pursuits. You are So feminine, she interjects scornfully, "but I cant help that. "No, thank heaven, devoutly. A gleam of mirth steals into her eyes, and she reseats herself. "Oh, what is the use? she cries. "I thought years ago I had learned is control myself. I know and love so many splendid women who are nurses, and my best friend, firmly, "is a doctor a woman doctor. So It hurts me to the quick to hear your easy contempt for them. But you mustnt think for an instant that I feel a contempt for them, resides I am only a man in a thousand. Yes, she says, wlh a catch of her breath, "it really doesnt matter what you think. Oh! but I hope it does just a little. It matters so much to me. I have only known you a short month, but there are times when time doesnt count. Surely, you know I love you Suddenly across his speech there breaks a childs cry of terror. Turning sharply he sees little Jack Hughes fall heavily from the high tree where he has fixed the flag. Moved by a common impulse the man and girl go tearing down the hill together without a word. Miss Lane kneels by tbe boy and with her ear to his breast listens to the faint heart-bea- ts that assure her life is still there. "I'd give a good deal for my surgical bag just now, says Dr. Randall when the boy has been laid on his own bed in the cottage where Miss Lane's summer has been spent. "Theres an ugly fracture here that needs looking to at once. Let me see," and he glances about to discover some impromptu means to wrest to his own ends. Miss Lane stands irresolute for a brief moment, then is out of the room in a flash. When she appears it is with a bag of familiar pattern wherein is found all that is needed to the surgeons hand. This, she says coloring, I happened to know was in the house. Miss Lane watches him approvingly in silence as long as all goes smoothly, but when a cry of agony breaks from the child. "Don't you think she says. "Just a whiff or two, he answers with perfect comprehension, and in a few moments Jack If lulled off on the blessed fumes of ether. When all Is well over and they stand together on the porch outside Jacks little room in the falling twilight. Miss Lane somehow finds herself in Dr. Randalls arms. "I am glad that man, proud man, never dissuaded you from becoming a Tha Way of Safety. Unless a cyclist is a scorcher" there is no need, generally speaking, to make any effort to avoid him. He will look out for the collisions. A lady was crossing the street when she saw a bicycle rider coming toward her. She stopped, then dodged backward, and as he had swerved in order to pass behind her there was a collision, and both took a fall, but neither was much damaged. If you hadn't wabbled, sir, she said angrily, as he assisted her to rise, this wouldnt have happened! Neither would it have happened, madam, he replied, if you hadn't wabbled, or if you had wabbled in a contrary direction from my wabble. It was our concurrent and synchronous wabbling, so to speak, that caused it. Then the cyclist, a college professor, doffed his cap, mounted his wheel and rode on. Persia Has No Sommer Rain. There is no rain in Persia during the summer months, and the land is barren except where there are streams of water for irrigation. The mountain streams are conducted in an underground channels, formed by digging pits, about thirty feet apart, and tunThis neling from one to the other. prevents the evaporation of the water by the sun, and at the same time usually finds a clay bottom so that there is not so much lost by absorption and leakage. Little channels branch off from time to time, and bring some of the water to the surface, where it is carried about in little ditches, to water the crops. Tha Burr and Tlamlltna FamlHea. Mrs. Elzabeth Burr Hamilton, said to be the last member of the seventh generation of the Burr family, who died at Bridgeport. Conn., at tbe age of 90, was the fifth cousin of Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States, who killed Alexander Hamilton, the lawyer and statesman, in a duel in 1804. Her death recalls the fact that, though the families of Burr and Hamilton were tbe most bitter enemies at the beginning of the last century, love found a way 32 years after the famous duel to bring the families together agaift by the marriage of Elizabeth Burr and Alexander Hamil- ton in 1836. aa Dfopananrloa. The first of the dispensaries in Paris was inaugurated in the Rue Mercadet, in the Montmartre district, last week. The object of tbe work is more preventive than cur-- , ative. Poor people are examined free of charge. If tuberculosis is found, the proper initial treatment and advice are given to them. This institution Is anti-tuberculo- sis to private initiative. |