Show SOME GOD SnORT TORIES Face to pacewit Xger Here was Pul Kruger as ever newspaper news-paper reader has often seen llmdecte whether In portraitoi r r iture says a I wrier In Alnslos Magazine Te pup liar Kruger beard sptrae1seand3ong enoGgh to eonceethpenfectlya tlmickesiiort n k the narrow grsyistt eyes large ear with heavy lob a Ilrominenl nose that suggests spatuiatton a wide mouth firm suggets Ipatulaton u wldc mut frm Cin and 1 body Sf thin that It makes I the legs look short and senderin cpr isn 1nl ers head ndfeturesare ma sive The give the ldeaof sluggishness I rather than acuteness and strengttmThIs Impression however Is olslt b3 the eyes I Which are topped I heavy brows and have underneath pUIsof leh which help to conceal the Tee eye during conversation con-versation narrow toa mere glint and give I one the Idea ot shiftiness His rve brownishyelow and the countenance shows many a furrow The teeth are strong irregular and not white His arias are rather long The hana muscular and the lingers short His left thumb Is missing miss-ing He lost It while I opt hunting ebe phants one dayS 1 old ride exploded in his hands and the thumb was torn Into shreds His friends sid Let us burr to a surgeon and have It amputate Krber salt lkona I will cut I oft myself my-self With that ho whipped out a trusty hunting knife and placing the thumb on the stock of the gun amputate I You noUcD this stump immediately for he Is holding his short crkei brIar pipe In h3 four lingers You know therefore that his man Is brave rhath can cope with most able statesmen of Europe however how-ever seems absurd You feel that he has been greatly o retmted le must bl traveling on afaise reputation Io Is masquerading a HIS very appearance Is grotesque Iscoat doe not fit him and his trousers are tght and too short They display oddiooking gray socks abOve a pair of rough black shoes You cannot even see whether he wear a necktie and collar This man must be merely a shrewd hunter like Coopers Deer31ayer whose religious bigotry has mad him seem to the Boers as appointed or God and whose woodsmans sententioun has been Interpreted ag wisdom The Circuit Riders Hors Chicago Chronicle Once upon a time the Rev Frank Gun sulus the popular preacher was a poor circuit rider He traveled from town to town lifted over the roads In farm wagons wag-ons and boarded around at the houses ot the deacons returning oc110naly to his fathers old farm to spend a law days His father to the story goes was a rough old chap of the uncut diamond sort wltha ocbular more forclbe than elc Itltrt Itltrth I at one time young Guni ilus Nlm found himself in possession of i mbne3 to buy him a horse He thought It would be better to rd his own animal around the circuit than to brow tram portation I wM a borr3100kln steed this but It answered the purpote and what was more to the pont It WI cheap So after he had U he afer bought roe It home HI5 father was in the barnyard when t came In and he looked critically at the animal Where did nt cit that boss Frank he asked gt I bought him cheap father Enid the young preacher lies u sorry lookln critter 1 must say said the tather Well father srld Frank you rcmem ben tat our Savior rode Into Jerusalem on a woreIookl g animal than this And the old m1 looked at the horse again and said Dunned If I dontthink Its the same one t A Bargain In Fare Youths Companion Given bargains and a barinhunter and her purchase end only vlh the money mon-ey In her purse A vomun who belongs to the head and front ot this class boarded board-ed a streetcr carryihg with difficulty a huge market basket filed with the odds and ends ot a department store She was scarcely seated before she started at the conductors voice l arE please The woman got out her pure with difficulty diffi-culty and rummaged tnrough its various compartments cmparments Dear dear she murure I was sure I had saved a fare or I ever should have bought those three odd dlster Then she added to the conductor 1 live at the end ol thu line and I wl pay you then thenYou You must pay now lady tats my rule replied the faNtaker nut 1 havent any money she ob jctedwcii Vei I tel you give me a 5ent bargain bar-gain and you can redeem It at the end ot the trip only we dont take duster on this line The woman hesitated a mement then she dive Into her basket and brought up a IonS bar oC laund soap Everybody In the car laughed as the conductor rang up her rare to Please I Anything t Plese Colliers Weekly She sailed into the telegraph ofce and rapped on the counter The clerk remembered remem-bered that she had been there abut ten minute before as he came toJard tom to-m t her le wondered what she wanted this time tme Oh she sid let me have tat tele grarm I wrote just now I forgot something thing very Important I wanted to Underscore un-derscore the word perfectly lovely In acknowledging the recept of tat bracelet brace-let Will It cost anything extra So maam said the clerk as lie handed her the message The young lady drew two hey lines beneath the words and said Is awfully good of you to let me do that I will please Charley so much Dont mention It said the clerk It you would like It I will drop n tea drops ot nice violet extracts on te tElegram at I the same rates Oh thank u sir You dont know how much I would appreciate it im ng I lag to send all my telegrams through this I office oure so obliging through And the smile she him would have done any one god with the possible ex cepton of Chancy Expert Testimony As has been shown In the Dre3fus case expert tctmQny can be a twodge weapon and It may prove so in a court constituted according to AnglGSxon principles of justice The Argonaut teHg a story ot C S Baterman a well known mining engineer or the Rocky mountain state who was obliged to tale the stand as an expert In a mining case In Nevada i nvolving al large issues The examination was conducteel by a young and smart attorney who patrniz e the expert with all the authority ot half a dozen years orpractice One ot his questions relate to the form In which the ore was Counda form gen orally known as kidney lumps Now Mr Balr1in said the attorney attor-ney how large are thee lumps You saythey are oblong In shape Are thcuj as long as my hed dh t Yes replIed tie expert but not near 13 50 thick The attorney subsided The Rsason Why London Annverz An3ers A gentleman was riding on one or the cache In the Trosscs or Scotland when the driver sid to him Ie had a coin guy me today = 0 years old Did you ever see a coin 200 yers old Oh yes was the reply I have ono myself OO years old Al said the driver have yet An be journey spoke no more during the ret ot the Ten the coach arrived at iS destina tion the driver came up to the gentleman rht with an intensely hfeee air and said I told you as we came along that I had a coip Yes 200 years old And you said to me you had one 2000 years old 20 Yes so I have Non you be a liar What do volt mean hy that now What do i nean Why its only 1 nowDifficulties Difficulties of a Royal Education Chicago TmesHer dJ AIhOgh Japan Is so very uptodate the young crown prince has received an education worthy pf the days when a member of the royal house was considered consid-ered far too Sacred a personage Cor the common herd to gaze upon Hlsutor had to glide noiselessly toward him and salute profoundly without making a sound for he wait forbidden to speak in lime young Daimiomt I presence The poor professor would mmrobably have found It Jfcult to speak In an3 case for hls mouth had to ho coverl with 1 white cloth to kep his breath from contact with the princes face All commuxmicalioas I had fr pass through some beautiful Japmaidaswho I r attended onehe heir ufl the throne and time wtor had rreuenthto stPfdduuel in or leI to express to them his apprela Uon ot his 11 rsskll n ability 8 0 r i |