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Show JACKS LOVE AFFAIR m rO WONDER, I Mid, was looking out of the window of Jack Twor'i lodgings. why that girl's rushing up l4j the el reel without her bat," "Ah," ba aald, coming to tha window, "1 thought It must be aba. Sba'a catching tha monkey. I expect aba mlaaaa me now sometimes. You didnt aea which way It went, did you?" "No," 1 Mid. "I aha addicted to bunting monkeye?" "Only the monkey, he replied. "1 uaed to do It once." "Dear me!" 1 Mid. "Ita faeblonable In the neighborhood, amueement Ml then?" . "No," ho answered mournfully. "I was engaged to that girl once and that beast of a monkey broke the engagement." "Were you." I asked, cut out by tha monkey, then? "A man, be Mid, "must ba vary, very young to make a remark Ilka that "Who Is she?" I Inquired. "Ob, she's Miss Tremaine," ha aald. "Ill tell you the story, ir you Ilka. It will be a warning to you never to get engaged to a girl who keeps a monkey." "At present, I said, there Is no girl of the sort In my mind's eye, but It's better to be prepared fur all emergencies." "1 got engaged to Miss Tremaine." be aald, "about three years ago. 1 met her at the tennis club and dances and around the places generally here, but I had never seen much of her at homo, and I wm unaware even of the monkey's existence. As soon as we were engagel I was Introduced to Jacko. lie wm a email monkey of ordinary appearance and was not at first sight prepossessing, but In the Tremaine household he wm a family fetich. It'a curloua to notice the dominant Influence In different famillea Sometimes It'a the baby, aometlmea the butler, sometimes a first husband's memory and sometimes tha dally paper. But In this case Jacko reigned supreme. Captain Tremaine, who wm dead, had bought the beast, and It was concerned In a touching deathbed scene or something of the kind. At any rata Mrs. Tremaine regarded It aa a sacred relic of the dear deceased, and lavished all her love and affection on It 1 well remember the first night I saw Jacko, and discovered the habit that eventually wrecked an engagement It wm a stifling evening and I suggested to Maud tha desirability of opening a window. Oh, no,' she Mid, 'we never can have the windows opel) In the evening. ' Jacko would get out.1. My first hint of Jackos habits was enlarged by Mra Tremaine's frequent and objectionable Intrusions to Inquire as to the beMl'a whereabouts. A man In the first rapture of an engagement naturally dislikes the Inrushes of someone else In pursuit of a monkey. The next morning the nuisance Increased. A servant came round they live a few doors from here to tell me that Jarko had Just escaped and would I help to catch him? I found him ubout lunch time after a long and exciting chase. As seemed obvious, I caught him by the tall, and the brute bit me and went on for another half hour. Mrs. Tremaine explained reproachfully that Jacko always bit people who touched his tail. "For some months Jacko continued to be a nuisance at home and shroud. When he escaped, which he managed to do about once a week, I was expected to secure him. This generally happened In the morning, when the windows were open and the tradesmen were calling, and at first on these occasions I did not reach my chamhere till the afternoon. Afterward I became quite an adept at catching him. His plan of campaign was to wait until hla pursuer wm quite dose and then Jump about twenty yards. I bought a large butterfly net with a long handle, and he never got the hang of that. When I had discovered this Invention 1 was comparatively happy, but I waited with dread for the time when Jacko ahould escape after dark, and I should be compelled to hunt for the brute through the watches of the night on the perl! of losing the regard of the Tremaine family. Jacko'e nomadic habits were, I may explain, attributed to a desire to find bis dead master. At last the event that I dreaded occurred. One cold winter's evening Jacko disappeared while the cook was Interview lug her favorite policeman at the back door, and got well away. The cook received a months notice on the spot, and I wm at once put on the track of the anlmaL Mrs. Tremaine was much annoyed becauM I wished to put my boots on before starting, and even Maud seemed only anxious for the After tramping monkeys health. through three or tour miles of streets, I experienced what at first I regarded as unexpected good luck. The bmte came tearing round a corner and In a second he was In the butterfly net. 1 was Just preparing to return elated that the run bad been so mercifully cut short, when a crowd also came around the comer, beaded by an angry and breathless Italian. I soon discovered the connection of events. The Italian could not speak much English, but I gathered that he claimed Jacko M his monkey, his carrlsalmo monkey. The crowd, who had become excited In the. chase, and who Imagined that I wm attempting to cheat a poor, Ignorant foreigner out of his only solace In a strange land, demanded that I should give the monkey up. The vision of Maud's face, If the sacred animal spent tbs Sight la the possession of aa un trustworthy Italian, rose before my eyes, and I distinctly declined to relinquish Jacko. "In the course of conversation with the crowd I lust my temper and a considerable portion of my clothes, and by the time that a policeman arrived, I suppose my appearance did Justify him lu conveying Jacko, the Italian, and me to tbe oIice station. There I spent a most miserable nigbt. My utmost entreaties failed to Induce tbe police to send to Mrs. Tremaine to bail me out I think their malevolence wm prompted by the policeman who bad been so rudely Interrupted in his tryst with the cook. "In the morning we appeared before his worship. The Italian and I were charged with creating a disturbance and assaults and breaches of the peace and that kind of thing, and, m far M I remember, the police threw a charge of drunk against me. Hla worship asked to ere the monkey, and when they brought him in, lo and behold, there were two Jackos. "After some explanation tha magistrate dismissed the charge against us with a caution, on the ground of excusable mistake. And, Indeed, It was moat excuMbls. Apparently the Italian had really lost hla monkey, and whether It wm his monkey or Jarko that he had been pursuing when I encountered It, I do not know to this day. At all events, the police had captured the other monkey during the night and had abut the two up together. There they aat, two ugly, grinning. Indistinguishable creaturee. both guilty, according to the evidence, of aggravated aaMulta on the police. "When we were released from the dock the magistrate Mked ua to remove the monkeye. The Italian end I stared at each other blankly. He knew no more than I which wae hla property. Of course. It waa useless to consult the police about their identity. Aa the magistrate pointed out, there la no presumption either In law or In fact ss to the ownership of two stray monkey. I appealed to him to decide tbe question himself, and he pointed out that It wm the duty of the police to restore property to Its owners. Ht Mid that he wm not Solomon, but only a police magistrate, and that ha doubted whether even the house of lords could throw much light on the subject. The matter, he thought, was eminently one to be settled out of court. "At Amt I tried to solve tbe difficulty by buying out the Italian's claim to either of the monkeys, with the, Idea of sorting them afterward. But he also, It appeared, had a romantic attachment for hla earlsslmo monkey, and he declined my overture! with fervent appeals to most of the saints on the register. The whole thing, he seemed to think, wm a base attempt on the part of a brutal foreign government to trample on the rights of an Italian cltisen, and to consign his monkey to the dungeons of tha soo. Then I offered him his choice of the two, and this might have saved all trouble if Mre. Tremaine had not arrived at that moment to Inquire for Jacko. and had not learned the whole affair front a communicative Inspector. "Neither Jacko nor the alleged Jacko showed the faintest signs of recognition. Indeed, they almost at once devoted themselves to a sanguinary light In which Mra. Tremaine Intervened with considerable Injury to herself. Then she turned to me and I could see from her manner that she considered me responsible for the whole difficulty. way out of tha difficulty and suitable to tbe occasion. Tbe organ grinder TIIE LADY IN WHITE. went on bis way contentedly and hoped the affair was at an end. But GHOST HAUNTS THE PALACE X I wm very much mistaken. No sooner had be gone than Mra Tremaine and Maud became convinced alike that they bad given up the real Jacko. The) said they were now certain of It. Poor dear Jacko wm sitting on a barrel organ In a cold street and engaged in the degrading occupation of collecting coppers, and monkeya were liable to consumption, and what would dear papa think If ha were alive? "I stood this for about ten days and then I went to the Italian again, having obtained bis address In case of further complications. His affections were apparently now extended to both monkeya, for ha consented to an exchange for further consideration. Surely, I thought to myself, Maud and her mother will ba content now. But no, the thing began all over again. The former Jaeko was their darling and theyd given him up when theyd gotten him Mfe, and It was by my advice and It wm all my fault. Twice more I exchanged those monkeye, and, at last, even my patience failed. We quarreled and we parted, and Ive never spoken to her since. That's why I My never get engaged to a girl who keeps a monkey." WOULD YOU BELIEVE That Taa Caa Walk SS.SSX Mllaa aa Iloarf Have you ever thought of the you travel while yon are out on an hours stroll? Possibly you walk three miles within the hour, but that does not by any means represent the distance you travel. The earth turns on its axis every twenty-fohours. For the sake of round figures we will call the earth's circumference 24,000 miles, and so you must have traveled during the hours stroll 1.000 miles In the axial turn of the earth. But this is not all. The earth makes a Journey around the sun every year, and a long but rapid trip it Is. The distance of our planet from the sun we will put at miles. This Is the radius of tbe earth's orbit half the diameter of the clrcle.'as we call It. The whole diameter ts therefore 184,000,000 miles, and tbe circumference being the diameter die-tan- ce ur 00 multiplied by 3.1416,1a OF GERMAN EMPEROR. Tha Faaaon HUtarla Apparition at tha lioliamMiliarai Appoara (taco Mara i.4 TurrahaJoaa WUliaat'a Itoath la Kaiparar anally. HEAUMtt Lady has "1 in the Royal Palace at Vi Berlin, and cun siern&tlon, illy concealed, p o a aeases the soul of every Inmate from the humblest servitor In the Imperial household to the emperor him self. This is an historic ghost. It la no old woman's tale; neither la It the Imagining of a trembling person or of affrighted children. Histories and encyclopedias record It and the events its appearance portends. It always presages tbe death of a member of the Royal house of Hohenxollen. A few nights ago, so the report runs that comes from Berlin, one of the court chamberlains waa returningdown the long corridor of the palace, when, ruddeniy, before him arose, as though through the substantial tiled floor, the itatcly figure of a queenly woman. The figure was clothed In a dress of pure white, the hair wm low upon the forehead, one hand rested upon her belt snout the waist and the other was slightly raised, as though in admonition or warning. The chamberlain recognised the apparition at once ns that of the White Lady, and shrinking into a niche in the wall he tremblingly watched tbe historical terror aa ahe glided past him and melted Into the darkness at the further end of the corridor. Unlike tbe female that hu played this part several times In the past, the present lady carried no keys. fi WOMEN IN THE PROFESSIONS. of ome lowed by the d'x-.member of that family. For two hundred years the wrni:h confined her appearances to Bohemia, whence the originally came, but In 1598 she. for th first known occasion, appeared In the Royal Palace at Berlin. Mee4 for Marrylag Tkaa Ever Before. Mr. Edward Cary, In the August For um: In the occupations which women have invaded" In the largest numbers, those of tesrtieru, salesmen, bookkeepers, stenographers, tyjiewritera. etc., tbe ratio of increase Its been alout the same wltb the two scxca Taking all tlit gainful occupations, although tbe ratio of Increase for women la 47.88 per cent, and for men only 27.04 per cent., yet die women are In IKK) but 17 per cent of tbe total aa sgahMt 15 per cent. In 18N0l It la a fair conclusion that while many more women earned their own living la lNSO than In 1S80, they had over the whole field to a very alight extent only dlsittoeed the men. The change In the proportion of women who now earn an Income, and presumably a living, la the Important oint. About one in three of tbe total population are engaged In "gainful .occupation. and only one In slnut twenty of the female population. The projuirikm of females of marriageable age is, of course, much larger, and it la this percentage that produces tbe effect I have noted M to the necessity of marriage to women as a means ot support. Wlmt tbe effect Is upon society 1 do not now propose to discuss, but the facts show that It is becoming clearly easier for the average woman to earn her llvliliood without marriage In tbe United States If she oo There la Mow Albert Frederick waa ruler at that time, and within a month from the day the ghost walked" Albert Frederick became insane, and waa diclared incapacitated for governing. He wae su Julia seeded by hla brother-in-laSlglsmund, and everything went well until 1619, when one afternoon, In broad daylight, the White Lady waa discovered rocking the cradle of tbe infant Albert and jangling a bunch of ghostly keys in her hand. Tha nurse making the discovery promptly fainted, and when she recovered her senses the Lady had vanished. Two weeks after that Slglsmund died. In 1667 she came again six weeks before the death of George Wilhelm, and in 1688 ahe promenaded through the salons and over the roof of the palace the very night before the great elector Frederick Wilhelm breathed his ImL Then there was an Interregnum until 1840, when she called again a week before Frederick William III. died. She remained away ten yean more, or until 1850, end then was found one evenof ing strolling pMt the the Prince of Prussia, who died a faw days afterward. In 1879 ahe anticipated the death of Prince Waldemar by juet fifteen days, and it wm stated at the time, although the report wm suppressed, that she wm seen in the palace shortly before the death of both the late Emperor William L and Emperor Frederick. choose. Inifbsdj er about 678,000,000. Queen Victoria's Reign. ! - . The Methodist church has grown unone out 'of every fourteen til to-d- persona, one out of every five Christiana, and one out of every three Protestant church members is n Methodist Rev. W. J. Thompson, Methodist. How to Grow 40 Cent Wheat, Salzer's Fall Seed Catalogue tells you. It'a worth thousands to the wide awake farmer. Send fonr-ceu- t etainpa for catalogue and free samples of grains and grasses for fall cowing. John A. Salxer Seed Co., LaCrcsse, Wisconsin. Tto Trail You don't read novels as much ss you used to, Mr. Beverly?" No. there are so few women In fiction nowadays that are fit to associate Tit-Bit- "Even watermelons ain't what they uaed to be, said the aged loafer In tha Kinder lost their strength, grocery. assented the other aged loafer. Used to be that I could get a chill five minutes after easin one. but now they don't take hold at all. Indianapolis s. I'u and Effurt Father "Why didnt you get your Because I degree?" Wild Student Journal. was examined. Mr. Tornep Wheres the old man these days? Mrs. Halcede Out travel I a' ronnd mnkin' speeches. While ha to out figlitln' the goldbugs me and tha young ones have all we can do stayin' at home flghtln' purtnter bugs. PEOPLE. Dr. Walsh, archbishop of Dublin, is regaining his health by riding a IN THE BUTTERFLY NET. I had a really lively time. Mrs. Tremaine hectored the Italian and the Italian objurgated Mra. Tremaine. Neither of them understood a word the other said, and I had to act aa interpreter and buffer. "Eventually. I made the best terms that I could. The Italian agreed, for a consideration, to allow ua to keep both monkeys for a week, during which we might discover their Identity. Mrs. Tremaine quite readily agreed to tbe proposal, for she was confident that no monkey but Jacko could possess Jaeko's virtues. 1 waa more doubtful, believing that the virtues were few enough to be common to many monkeys. And so It turned out. Both monkeys made themselves quite at home, overate themselves equally, stole m cleverly, and, what was most remarkable. searched with identical persistence for the deceased Captain Tremaine. Twice that week I had to catch two monkeys, and when they were both iv the butterfly net they nearly killed each other. Mrs. Tremaine used to look at them by the hour, and cob, and rail Jacko eoftly. They both answered to the name. If there was any food shout, and at other times preferred to be the other monkey. At the end of the week the organ grinder appeared punctually, and a heartrending scene followed. No decision had been come to till the morning of hla arrival, and then Mra. Tremaine and Mnud differed aa to which wm tha real Jarko. The question had to be decided, though It mattered little which we kept. I suggested that we should toss up. The flippancy of the suggestion annoyed them and led them to recrimination, but at last we agreed to denlde by lot that being a blhUeml For a quarter of an hour bi- cycle. Upon the death of a woman whbM name is not yet divulged Yale la to receive 1750.000. Bernhardt, who talks of playing Lorenzo de Medici" In De Mussetts Lorenzacclo, may give her own Hamlet this year. Dougina Tllden, the deaf mute sculptor of San Francisco, was married the other day to Miss Bessie Cole, who is also a deaf mute. Kudyard Kipling's greatest ambition is said to be to serve m a war correspondent. The next big war will taka him Into tha field. MIm Mabel Beardsley, a slater of tbs only Aubrey, haa left a place as high school teacher to become an actress. She recently mads her debut In London m Edith In "Dearest Mama. John Jacob Astor denies that ba Intends building a theater at which only first-claplays should be 'presented." He is not thinking or investing his money in such enterprises. Verdi tries hard to hide from the world the very fact that he Is writing a new opera, and some precautions he trok recently have led many to suppose he Is at work on a "final" work. A lady has been appointed a registrar of blrthr, marriages and deaths by the guardians of the city of London. Mias Kctnm, the tody In question, hu for some time acted aa assistant to her ss father. A Portland man has in his possession an Interesting and valuable relic. It la an act passed by the Continental congress establishing a pay table tor the Continental officers, signed by John Hancock, president. Emperor William's latest fad le telegraphy, and he Is spending several hours a week learning to send messages by dots and dashea He has already made considerable progress as an epar ator ! the ksy. Victoria of England began to reign Tune 20, 1837. Sbe has therefore completed her fifty-nint- h year on the throne. Should ahe live three months more, as there la every prospect she will, Ahe will have reigned longer than any other British sovereign, longer even than poor old Geoge III., who was Insane for ten yean before his death In 1X20. George III. reigned, counting In also the years when his mind was clouded, fifty-nin- e years, three months and four days. But Victoria's Intellect Is as clear and strong as 'It ever waa and gives good promise of remaining so. Her reign will lie as memorable as that of any in English history, memorable for the victories of peace and the application of science to the industries. There Is every reason to hope and believe that the royal lady will live, in full poeses-akr- a of her health and all her faculties to celebrate die sixtieth year of her prosperous reign. That this will be the case all Americana hope. . with the aun, and you find you have traveled, in the Hour, 85,253 miles. with."1 Welcome. to take advantage of tbe lowest rata ever made to 8L Paul and Minneapolis, on tbe occasion of the thirtieth annual encampment of tbe O. A. R., tbe first week In September. Only one cent per mile for the round trip la the rate made, fought for and established by the Chicago Great Western railway (Maple Leaf Route) for the "boys In blue and their friends, while the tickets are good for return at any time Who is threatened by the present within thirty days. This Is your opporvisitation It ii Impossible to My, for tunity to visit the "Twin Cities" and while history tells us it has been a the great northwest. The Chicago summons for the ruling sovereign in. Great Western offers every luxury on the Compartment Sleepers, the majority of Instances, It has not In- Free Journey Chair Cara, Dining Cars on the of leaser victims been so, and variably European plan. Take your family consequence have several times been with you and remember the road that deserves your patronage Is the Chicago warned of their danger. Great Western. Full information m to rates, sleeping car reservations, special trains, etc., will be furnished by F. H. Lord, general paaenger and ticket agent, Chicago, 111. This ainaxlng distance the earth travels in Ita yearly journey, and dividing It by 365 we find the daily speed about 1,686,000. Tben, to get the distance you rode around the aun during your hour's walk, divide again by 24, and the result Is about 66,000 miles. But this Is not the end of your hours trip. The sun, with Its entire brood of planets. Is moving In space at the rate of 160,000,000 miles In a year. This is at tbe rate of a little more than 438,000 miles a clay, or 18,250 miles an hoiySo, adding your three miles of leg travel to the hours axial movement of the earth, this to the ear&'s orbital Jourf.ey, and that, again, to the earth's excursion Methodism. Laa Tha Union Pacific been selected as the Offlrtal Boats to Hr. Paul, Minnesota, and return by tbe (I. A. K. Thin popular toad wilt sell ticket Aug-nu- t 30th and Slut, to Kt. Paul and return at lew than half rate. See tliem at their oiUrat Ml 17lh Kt., and secure alcepiug car and additional information. Hu THE LATEST VISITATION OF HOHENZOLLERN and looked but came empty-hande- d, ominously severe. She glanced neither to the right nor to the left and floated rather titan walked Into obscurity. The chamberlain wm greatly frightened and. trembling violently, he made his way as qnlckiy m possible to where the court officials were gathered and ronveyed to them the awful news. It required only a few minutes for the startling Information to travel through the entiro palace, and the alarm it occasioned canybe but slightly appreciated by those who were not present witnesses of (he excitement that fol- u lowed. The emperot himself was told of the affair In Its minutest details as soon he arose the following morning, and he immediately-- ordered extra guards to be stationed about the palace, and all the attendants were strictly enjoined to seixe Any White Lady or other intruder that might be detected prowling about the gliding. Evidently the emperor la not believer In ghosts. ; But whether William II. Is or la not sufficiently string minded to act aside tha traditional aca recrow of hie family and discourage tho perpetuation of superstition, the 'appearance of the White Lady is uncanny and prophetic. History tells of her various appearances. Hislortnns vouch for the truth of the tales. i During fonf hundred years the legend of the White iady has been associated .with the history of the Hohrnzollernc, and each visitation of the gni 'some spooler bas invariably been closely fol- - u f ' GHOST. reaer-ratiua- a IN DEEP SHADE Aad la Cool Stream rattla Flad Thalr Lawyer Well, doctor, what it tha coodl-ti-of the burglin' victim f Doctor On of hi wound I absolutely fatal, but tbs ether taro are not daiigeroua and caa ba healed. Comfort. It la easy to see that cattle are at home In a moist and wooded country. The feral cattle of Texas and Australia never from choice stray far from the woods. Out on the Western ranches there are, of course, few trees, and the beasts thrive fairly well; but, for all that, the conditions of their life are artificial, and are not such aa they would select If free to choose their dwelling place. All cattle love to stand knee deep In water and under tha shadow of trees. 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