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Show Jolntly by the Colonels wife and the social leader of the little city, Mrs. Despard; and Miss Despard had in her set a bete noir the daughter of a physician. And the doctors daughter was not invited., Why? asked the little garrison town. Then It raised Its eyebrows and smiled. Miss Despard was handsome in her Junoesque, commanding way. But the gentle daughter of Dr. Harris had a winsome beauty all her own, and 'a soft and sweet graciousness that all the Despard jewels could not outshine. So the fair Despard left you out, 0 my daughter?? my daughter, laughed the doctor that night as he , HOME hard-worki- Sweet home! (Old Favorite Series.) 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we roam, Ba itmay ever so humble, there's no place like home! A charm from the skies seems to hallow ng us there. Which, seek through the world, is neer met with elsewhere. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! Theres no place like home; theres no place like home. An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain. Oh! give me my lowly, thatch'd cottage again; The birds singing gaily, that come at my call; Give me them, with the peace of mind, dearer than all. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! Theres no place like home; theres no place like home. How sweet 'tis to sit neath a fond fathers smile. And the cares of a mother to soothe and beguile. List others delight 'mid new pleasures to roam. But give me, oh! give me the pleasures of home. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! But give me, oh! give me the pleasures of home. cur-tai- ns . ROOSEVELT. SUGGESTION TO - LATE DANIEL RAY. HE WAS FIRST MARSHALL OF TORY OF HAWAII. ' Chicago Paper Talli, Him How to Coo dense His Coming Mecaage. Already the Washington correspond- TERRI-- , United States Marshar Daniel A. Ray of the Territory of Hawaii, died in Honolulu recently of Brights disease, He complicated with heart failure. so. you had been United States marshal for The doctor came In after a little and Hawaii since the organic act took efsuggested that he had nutmegs and fect, being the first marshal appointed. lemons and the kettle was boiling, and D. A. Ray was well known as a If Harry could think of something else politician and editor. He was appointhe might fix up something! possession And when his daughter kissed him ed marshal of the island soon after for sailed and with sudden and grave intensity and in June 1900, ran away to get the something needful, Honolulu. Mr. Ray 'was born in New York, but he turned to Huntleigh,' who wrung in both his hands hard and promised he cams west at an early age, settlingwas would only take her east three months Chicago. From 1869 to 1873 he editor of the Bloomington Pantagraph. of the year. Then the doctors rugged face light- Removing from that city to Spring-fielhe became secretary of the state ed up. And when Harry came back, senate and later assumed the editor-ihi- p and was gathered promptly into Hunt-leigof the Springfield Stalwart. In arms, the doctor glanced out at the garrison lights and with great 1880 Mr. Ray moved to Chicago, where he maintained his home to the time of care and solemnity closed one eye. his death. Mr. Ray for four years was an inNOT READ IN FRANCE. spector In the Chicago postofflee, and Present Day English Novelists Almost afterward was political editor and for Unknown Among the French. a short time city editor of a Chicago In France, where literary fame Is daily newspaper. For the six years held in high esteem, many of the most preceding his appointment as marshal successful of the present day English of Hawaii Mr. Ray was Senator was also novelties are almost entirely unknown. private secretary. He commerce inter-statParisian e the Flammarion, publisher secretary of the and bookseller, says that Marie Cor- commission. elli, Hall Caine and S. R. Crockett are He is survived by four .children, a are hardly even names to him. The daughter and three sons. The daughte French writers greatest is Miss Lily J. Ray, who resides in vogue just now, such as Pierre Louys, the author of Les Aventures du Rol Pausole, now In its sixteenth thousand; Jean Lombard, the author of 'Byzance, and Michael Corday, whose . hs t I was zoing, to see you. . , stamped into the house and nodded toward the window, where the garrison lights could be seen all flickering near the foothills. Cut dead, dad, dear! smiled his daughter. And I would have enjoyed it so! "See what it is to inherit your said fathers fatal beauty, my dear! the grizzled physician solemnly, pinchYou see, even the ing her rosy ear. fears you when the dazzling Despard new lion roars. And this is the night that Huntleigh is to be undone. You brazenly vain man! replied Miss Harvis. She bent low over the little kettle that was bubbling fussily over the alcohol flame, and something glittered in the light of the fire something that trembled a moment on the dark eyeA Clnderilla of the Foothills. lashes, then was swept hastily away as she turned smilingly to the doctor. Tea or toddy, dad? Get Into your By E. L. huston. (Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)- slippers and smoking jacket, and be The cotillion to be given at the bar- comfy. I am starved. much, however, jnlrnnnfl UP the Uttle gar- - , She did no$ eat some xAuffinh and she broke else up that though rison town as had nothing season. In the first place, the barracks cakes on her plate and built forts affairs were always successes; there with the crumbs. But her father were always plenty of dancing men to seemed serenely indifflerent to her lack go around, and the floor of the drill of appetite, and enjoyed his supper shed was the best for dancing in the with absolute content. Some more preserves, Harriet. I the city. And there was so little inwesttell you, those silver Idaho prunes are way of excitement in those far ern towns that knew nothing of parks all right. And Ill take another mufand lakes and little jaunts into the fin, my dear. Saw Huntleigh in the Fine fellow. country. There were irrigating ditches Overland Yes. instead of lakes and a few irrigation-raise- d Miss Harvis hastily buttered a piece trees instead of parks, and no of muffin, then absently propped it in country, but wide stretches of alkali of the crumb fortification. dust and sage brush and cacti. It wasd one corner a toothpick. a howling wilderness, the eastern-raise- Then she prodded it with Says he expects to go east in a brides wrote home in dismay, and only in the garrison towns was few weeks. Yes?" life worth living. Miss Harvis did not seem in a conBut the Jolly little Arab families, The doctor glanced who lived their brief season in off- versational mood. his under from her bushy eyebrows! icers' row, quite ready to pack and at muffin. His another for reached and obey marching orders at a moments was planting notice, gave the disconsolate brides daughter made laboriously of toothpicks, around the their philosophy and brightened the crumb fort. passing hour as best they could. Yes,' assented the doctor briskly. So the cotillion was announced by an idea he is of marthe hospitable military folk, and de- - Have Something hethinking said led me to rying. lightful was the excitement In conse- infer was. he that Lucky woman, whoever gets him. Hes pretty clean cut, all told. . , . to-da- y. flag-staff- s, Yes. i Miss Harvis was certainly not loquacious. Dr. Harvis stared thoughtfully at the glowing logs in the fireplace a moment, then meekly asked for another cup of tea. , The tea was poured out in profound silence, and was sugared four times. The doctor did not take any sugar at all in his tea, but he made no protest, and swallowed the mixture heroically, only making a slight grimace as it went down. There the gate clicked, he re- marked presently. someone after you. And want I did you home with us Oh, dad to-nig- It seems so so ht Cul-lo- witb-Ah- novel Venus ou les dieux Risques ted Record-- Herald. space. The constitutional Idea of the presidents message was that it was for the Information of congress and the people. But that was before the daily press had come to keep the public better Informed as to the state of the union than it could he If presidential messages were issued weekly. The president cannot do better between now and the first week In December than to devote his spare time of which he will not have too much to the strenuous task of condensing what Is necessary and eliminating what Is unnecessary to be said in his first message to congress. He should be familiar with the superiority In range and accuracy of a rifle over a - blunderbuss. Every unnecessary word In a presidents message increases the oppor. tunity for error. GRAIN MOVED IN STREAMS. t Night Scene at the Lk Elevator. Nowhere In North America will you come on a more thrilling night scene than the fresh water cargo tank unloading at Buffalo, says Rollin Lynde Hartt In the Atlantic. Here she lies, Thrilling - beneath the towering grain elevator, which thrusts a long pumping pipe (called the leg) down through her Mount the gangplank, hatchway. the spinning ropesrlhut-mafeo-i. dodging your head reel; stumble about on the dark deck; look down, down, down, through the open hatch, and zounds, what a sight! The hold glows with electricity. It Is misty with blown dust. It roars with mechanical activity. An enormous steel' "shovel, big as the inside of a house, and manipulated by countless flying ropes, charges back and forth through the whole length of the ship, pitching the yellow grain before it, and heaping it up where the leg can get hold of It to whisk it into the bin that is somewhere up in the sky! Beneath, In the hold, men, with wooden an army of blue-cla- d scoops, barely dodge the deadly shovel as they swing the grain Into its path. - DANIEL RAY. Washington, D. C. One of the sons lives in Chicago, another in Detroit, and a third in Grand Rapids, Mich. Victims of Greed. Many birds are choked to death by are trying to swallow more, than they of tales tell Hunters of. many capable act in the birds found Row they have of choking to death, and others that have died with the morsel half way down the throat, writes George E. Walsh. Birds that live on other creatures are the mqst likely to be rthoked in swallowing their food. They cannot always judge the size of the toad or fish they capture, and in the it greed of the moment they gulp to down. Herons have even attempted swallow water rats, which naturally make a difficult mouthful for them. Fish hawks and gulls often attempt to swallow fish too large for their throat, and while they generally disgorge their meal, they occasionally get caught and die from the effects of their greed. work. New York Press. When one of them gets a fish too half way large for its throat stuck The Skin Massage. unable to and It becomes helpless The skin should be thoroughly downand restsome it generally seeks cleansed once a day. Have the room fly, ing place. Herons have been known warm, and the water only a few de- to hawks on their bills, and impale in five the bath cooler. Stay grees two have died together. Detroit minutes, keeping yourself either un- the der water or pouring wet all the time. But It is after you leave the tub that the really Important part of the bath begins. Dry yourself thoroughly with two towels; then take a stiff flesh brush and try with all your might to rub your skin off. A cocoanut fiber brush Is the best, and to get at your back it is a good plan to have a cocoanut fiber mat hung against the wall to rub yourself against. Keep up this friction for at least ten minutes. You could not Invest the same amount of time more usefully. There is noththe congestion ing like this to relieve to free the lungs of the blood, and from oppression. Moreover, it actuof the musally Increases the sizefirmer by causcles and makes them circulate more vigoring the blood to As to its effects upon ously in them. the elasticity and beauty of the skin itself, that will be obvious enough brush that furat a glance. It is thebloom of youth. nishes the only true Detriot Free Press. one-ha- lf . . Harriet had risen to her feet, with a look of dismay on her fair face. A firm step sounded on the porch, and the knocker gently. The doctor paused with on foot In a slipper, then smiled and settled him self in his favorite chair with the last Lancet. A rich, rather lazy voice was following his daughter into the little parlor across the hall. Sincerely hope Im not intruding Miss Harriet. A man is such a lonely beggar in a hotel, and I thought you might take pity on me! His hostess dark' eyes were shining with wonderment and undeniTerrible forest .fires raged In many ably pleasure, as they rested on his strong face and six foot one pf hearty parts of Norway and Sweden last summanhood. Then she smiled. mer, causing heavy losses. rat-a-tat-ta- ms e has been one of the jnost discussed books of the year, are unknown outside of France. Alexandre Dumas pere still holds the suffrages of the French, and thousands of his books sell every year. It would be difficult to arrive at any exact information, but it' would seem likely that, reckoning the immense sale of Dumas in England, America and the Continent outside France, he must be read more than any author who ever wrote. Enklish novels are mostly known to th (French public in cheap editions. JQIcLiyis- andScott &SfrASatwo most popular writers, and 'various booksellers differ as to which is most popular. Dickens, of course, suffers most in translation, and his humor and his characters are so absolutely Cockney that it is difficult to understand how French readers comprehend him at all. The French novelist usually receives satisfactory financial results for his work. Nearly every French newspaper publishes a serial story, and almost every story good, bad or indsees the light in this ifferent-first The way. prices vary, but as the feuilleton is by far the most important ' part of the average newspaper, papers of the stamp of Le Figaro pay at a considerably higher rate than is common in England. The story is then published in the usual paper covers re-at 2 francs 50 centimes the author ceiving a royalty varying from 50 centimes to 80 centimes, the price paid to Paul Bourget on each volume. If a story is a popular success after it has passed through several editions, it is issued in penny numbers, and It will also probably appear in feuilleton form in half a dozen of the less important metropolitan and provincial papers. The author has, therefore, four separate ways of deriving income from his ents are writing President Roosevelts message for him albeit he is still in possession of his voice and can command the services of a typewriter. If, however, Mr. Roosevelt intends of the ground laid to cover out for him by the correspondents our advice to him is to issue his message in serial form, says the Chicago He has the pen of a ready writer and an exhaustless fund of ideas of his own to draw on, and yet he is said to contemplate the incorporation of the reports of his cabinet officers In his own reviews of the state of the Union and recommenda-- . tion of those things he Judges necessary and expedient for the consideration of congress. . If President Roosevelt will consult the sound sense of the American people he will make his message unique in the history of modern presidential messages by its brevity. He can say all that is necessary to be said at this time in a message of 5,000 words, and by using the reports of the departments as appendixes in less . Be Vu Appointed by President McKinley Bad Been a Well Known Politician and Editor Wes a Native of New Fork. d, To thee Ill return, overburdened with care. The heart's dearest solace will smile on me No more there; from that cottage again will I roam. Be it ever so humble, theres no place like home. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! Theres no place like home; theres no place like home. John Howard Payne. Cut dead, dad, dear. quence. But in affairs of society and state, be the matter great or small, creep the undercurrents of human interests, and in the atmosphere of pleasurable excitement floated the Inevitable, conflicting Incense of keenanticipation and miasmic vapor of bitterness and envy. For at the cotillon the new social lion, Roger Huntleigh, the eastern speculator, was expected to be present, and debutantes and dowagers regarded him with special and most favorable interest. Then, the cotillon was to be given I hardly think your condition hopelessly pitiable! she said, laughing a I thought you Jwere going to little. the cotillon? Mr. Huntleigh drew wck the and glanced at ,the SMrison over to her lights. Then he walkedotto man near, chair and, drawing an he sat down and gently drew her two hands into his. "I was going to see you, he said with grave earnestness. Then I learned from the doctor that you were to be home. And I came here. I think you know why. Will you give yourself to me, dear? I am lonely and I want Overweight. On a hot afternoon last summer, young when every woman in London was enjoying the lot of the simply clinging female, a stout, elderly lady, somewhat resembling a violet silk balloon, waddled oute. of ber carriage and entered the The young persons behind self-supporti- ng post-offic- the brazen latticework kept the stout lady waiting for nearly a minute and a half before one of them was at leisure to weigh her parcel, reply to a dozen questions and issue the needful stamps. In consequence of the unseemly delay, the stout lady (who kept her coachman waiting by the hour while she killed time in superfluous was naturally annoyed. shopping) Free Press. 'And do you expect me, she asked arrogantly, to put the stamps on myMantel. leather-covere- d self?" Why, no, madam, replied the leather in idea newest Im afraid The very postoffice girl, demurely, a In mantel entire an decoration is we could hardly send you by post for arwas which of green, shade rich who 4d. ranged for a Long Island woman was dissatisfied with the ugly mantel One Mall In Nine Months. in the dining room of her country a In private letter to a Goteborg home and was advised to try the ef- editor dated Tjarkhlik, April 27, the fect of hiding the disfiguring projec-a Swedish explorer, Sven Hedln, relates tion with leather. The result was that he had Just got his first mail and her of several and success received his first news of the world in complete to her example friends have followed nine months. His Chinese companions mantel leather of extent having the and servants were gentle and amiable. the not entirely incasing At Tjarkhlik he fitted out a caravan drapery, if room an Indian For corner. chimney camels, twenty-fou- r of the thirty-eigIn a rich leather of a or a den hanging horses and seventy mules. His Jourvermilion tone, with an Indians head ney for 170 Swedish miles had led skillfully etched on it, lends a decid- him through an absolutely unexplored edly bright bit of color. Detroit Free part of Asia. On one occasion, when Press. his caravan was in danger of perishing through lack of water, a mass of Worth. HI Moneys snow was luckily found in a gulch. economical the said Another time the party was saved by Mary Ann, resort summer hotel, blocks of sweet ice floating on salt husband at the take water. Indianapolis News. and alone mashed turnips the let cream those of more potatoes. some With Christ It was an act of huus here charging theyre Think what as U.. mility to become a king. ht m a FI1 1 |