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Show r 5s ... . 'K,. N.X l "Mr I it 'eemsThls way P 'sie tho first right to mo lijf-n'-' to a nhiF of this uwh'? Have you Per.ni tho I1 lit i be fort uc-rhaps H.s quVt voire interrupted her, vr-,- j ikii1'eth, tt ts of no use to talk or of any one else. When of Hi I knew of the provisions of Rogers in my choice. will I dpi not cm suppose there are no girls in Do I didn't need the town where I live to come a thousand --mRea fe get a girl, but I wanted you. IVm't you In college I liked you understand? net to Ilessio uiy love for her is dead, buf, Norma, don't you underI kne stand yiu. I take back the When I wrote proposition I made that letter. 1 know that you were the only girl I would wish to share in tbe arrangement suggested but until I came I did not know that 1 was really in love. Sink the business part in the depths of the sea; try to loye me a little, Norma, for I want you, to be my w ife for good and true Norma's heart gave a bound. Langfords .arm drew her close as she sobbed put her answer am-Vn- THE RIPEMIMC YEARS. in rf h twt jvu Al oui tur i.,li ot u It f irT r s t j flowers r. t rttier jh y .1tiw.viiii . . T'ours, .p . aweetor ke-.ta- te Th foliage upon tha tra Srem gteet.tr as u re pptanr There's somethttg In te u ' brera That growt murt eareti w.th the ar, Somehow with eath suocetitpg June New lusters come Into iht sky Some suftMe chord In nitute s tune Sounds sweeter as tve e.trs roll by W H Wilbon In bczr Track New. ,jsip FOR LOVE OR MONEY PRAISES CHILDREN OF Of Oscar Il King of Swelt-thS gnonafTbs a ho is i,.-- ; descent H i. ; one rojal uin and bis children have inherited nellh fr his physical cor Intel loctual i qual- ities Jules Bernadette, who wa mio King Oscar la not ashamed of the grandmother who took the peasant's Napoleons mst 'i.i1 and who was elect'd to dm throne of pence in exchange for the nine of in the south, before Napoleon's mar Sweden in 1810, In Olll VI kir Charlt-1811 under the name or shal, Beruadotte, happened by the XIV. Indeed, he is tl ,i only monarch little inn aud carried her away on The comparative promisNapoleon set op l i sun repre- horseback sented on cuity of the 5 o'clock BUita King OslivlLg wivereigns there is car well. He bates pomp and cerei ,i of of s throti.-Amon- - JAPAN. Over Infants of Flowery Kingdom. A recent book on the children of "A baby Japvarious countries says anese girl 1? the most delightful creature you can possible imagine; a radift ant, happy, beautiful butterfly. She is . rarely known to cry, for she is rarely ' t j 2 What mother could have slapped. the heart to touch so dainty a blossom as the chlldflower of this land of flowers? The baby girl loves fun; she y.- - " j i a nfii loves toys, sweets and tea in little cups; she loves to smoke, with a An Inland take. funny pipe made of brass and kept no more talented or gift- mony, and there in her sleeve; and, above all, she undoubted very little of U to loves her big, round headed doll. She ed monarch than King Oscar. If bore him there. Is wonderfully playful and gentle, this proof were seeded In support of this The Queen of Sweden has of late years been somewhat of aa invalid, child, always ideally dressed and al- assertion, his majesty's 70th birthways self possessed. She has the day last year furnished It in the most although her majesty is able to take and unmistakable loveliest mouth and teeth and twinklcomplimentary outdoor exercise on horseback. Queen the for of many Sophie is the true and faithful friend universities too. manner, black and she know It, eypsu ing The smallest Japanese wants to be countries oa that occasion conferred1 of all In trouble. and her work in the beautiful; each baby girl has her more degrees upon King Oscar than cause ' of charity ! manifold' and work in which . her dainty lacquer box of rouge and pow- have, it is believed, ever before been comprehensive held by any one individual, let alone roye4 husband often helps her. The der, she is like some wonderful fantashistic tropica! blossom, some dear little a king. King Oscar is a poet queen only rarely attends court funcdragon fly. And her hair how black torian, a writer on military and, per- tions, her tastes lying more In the diIt is, with blue lights, and shining haps more especially, naval matters, rection of homely quietness. 8he Is where it is stiffened and gummed in a great lover of and authority on mu- a great reader of books and papers, loops and hands till it seems to reflect sic, and an orator of singularly wide and exceedingly clever at artistic reneedlework. the gold lacquer and coral-tippepins and comprehensive range both as and Their majesties have four sons, but subject language. gards that bristle around her bead! Great The crown prince, As a speaker he is possessed not no daughters. competition goes on between girls as Is and is, like his Gustavus, tall, to whose hair shall be most becomingof th happy gift of saying the only ly arranged, whose the smoothest and right thing tt the right time and father, the king, a good sportsman most glossy, whose girdle shall be the place, but ef endowing his utterances and a capital shot, but more retiring most gracefully tied and whose dress with a rare, at times most dramatic, and reserved in manners and tastes. shall possess the most harmonious eloquence ?The king is also a Jou- The crown princess, a cousin of the German emperor, la delicate, and, to effect rnalist of aerit, and it is authoritatively stated that he occasionally con- the great sorrow of the royal family tributes te more than one paper ar- and loyal Stockholm the beautiful Would Not Touch the Pig. capital of Sweden lovea a court and ticles on 4mrious subjects. A recent traveler in Somaliland all that thereto appertains she has curious incident the A man possessing these faculties is gives following of late years been compelled to spend showing the Mohammedanf hatred for excfflTMWWHhnpany, quite Independent a great portion. of the year in more pigs: "We shot two wart hogs, one of tbe charm which proverbially southern climes. Their royal higha particularly big boar. Alan wished clings to royalty. He is a first-ratnesses have three fine boys, who to keep the tusks, but, of course, none host active and attentive, and ai of the Somalis would touch the un- though of the statliest imaginable promise to grow tall like their father clean animal At last a bribe of 2 presence there Is altogether s con and grandfather. the kings second son, Prince rupees induced the Midgan woman to siderablo amount of lancien regime renounced Oscar, his right to succession on the out tusks a with state hatchet about the Swedish court his chop Even then she would not touch them majesty moves about in his salons the occasion of bis romantic marriage, more and and with the help of two sticks, with almost youthful vivacity, having and be and his wife have court life. But which she used like a pair of tongs, a kind word for everybody and In the more withdrawn from Prince Carl, the soldier prince, and put them on a camel. Then there was guest's own language. his charming wife, nee Princess a long dispute about the hatchet No King Oscar walks in .the streets of of Denmark, are extremely one would touch it; it bad been defilhis capital, often unattended; he vis popular. ed. Of course this was pure affectation its the theaters, attends all athletic Prince Eugene, the youngest of and playing to the gallery on the and military tournaments, and loves their majesties sons, has inherited ayah's part At home with her na- nothing so well as to board his yacht full share of the Bernadotte taltive tribe she would have gorged all tbe Drott, and be off to Marstrand, or hla ents. Like his uncle, the late King the pig she could get But It flattered some other quiet seaside resort, be- Charles XV. of Sweden, be wields the Somalis and we marched off, the fore his court officials know that he the brush, and is passionately fond hatchet the at arms contemplates Hie trip. ayah holding of hU art He has studied nnder the length as if it were going to bite His constant companion la CapL masters of Paris and elsewhere, and her.- - Writer Enthusiastic Korina Hildreth sat up In the hammock and looked with increasing won-de- f at the open letter In her hand. Years ago, she did not stop to think how many, she and the writer of this ietter had been college classmates and his fiance had been a friend of bers. That the engagement was broken she had ,long known, though who had taken the first step she was Ignorant But and she turned to the signature and read it again, "K. E. Langford," it looked as his writing did, when for a few brief months after graduation they had carried on a desultory sort of correspondence, but and she caught her breath with a little gasp, hadn't she heard that be wa dead, killed by a landslide, or an explosion or something in the far away state where she knew that he had gone after his graduation from the law school. This was his writing and that was his name; he was in the land of the living; he wanted to come to see her. She read it all over again slowly, as she sometimes used to do her Latin, in the hope that it would soak in. Here was this fortune, the figures danced before her fantastically, into which be was to come, if by the first of next year he was married. He was asking her to help him; asking her, Norma Hildreth, to be his e wife in the eye of the law that a might be realized; that done, the money once firmly in her possession, half of it and a divorce should be hers. Such was the situation as he had submitted it to her. Why should she consider it for a moment? Herf with her annt she had a home. But some time it would be broken up; the little property would go, and ought to go to her cousins, sad what .would become of the interest which fell due In September and then there would be more interert in March and in September again, and some time would come the Vr' notes themsc'ves. "Uncle Rube has been so good to me, she said to herself as she wiped the dishes that Elsie washed. Elsie, what would jou do if yju had a thousand dollars, oh, more than that; all the money you wanted?', Me? Oh, Id study music and take the whole family to the mountains K, d tor-tun- She felt half sick with the fear ef what this ride might mean. and pay off papa's debts and hire a girl to do the dish washing. That would be pretty nice, wouldnt It? You'd better guess it would. Norma felt the letter in her apron pocket and decided that she would mail It Two weeks afterward a tall, broad shouldered man with a firm chin and steady gray eyes, was helping Norma into the carriage that the boy from the livery stable had just driven up. Mr. Langford bad come the day be-fand that evening had been spent witl. the Williams who all agreed that Norma's class mate was a very interesting 'man. As Norma held out her cold, trembling hand she felt half sick with the fear of what this ride might mean. This man 'was so big and strong, 60 deferential and so masterful. She was glad that she bad known him as she had, and thankful for the honest respect she had always felt for his unsullied manhood. Over the smooth road they sped. Norma sought wildly for something to say, but found no middle ground between the platitudes that her lips would not utter and the purpose of this drive, and that she could not first touch upon. But the man beside her was talking, he might be saying sometning that she ought to hear. Very quiet his voice was as he told his life in the West, about her the practice be had tried to build up, about what their class mates had done and were doing. As Norma felt the quiver of her excited serves throbbing into quiet she relaxed her reuse muscles and leaned back, thankful that this man was giving her a little time. You knew about Bessie?" he was saying Bessie had been bis fiancee in those college days. "1 never knew which one of you did her? Then theres Lena longing for a chance for her boy, and Carol with her music oh, wouldnt it be lovely to do things? She leaned back in the hammock and closed her eyes all of her lifo she had coveted money and figured what it would do for her dear ones well, she would write o i, to him, tell him to come and see her, he might have changed so that the plan he proposed would be utterly .impossible to her. It would soon be time to get supper and she must write to Mr. Langford now, while what she wanted to say was clearly in her mind. 8he would consider it as n business proplstion and would see him at her aunt's home whenever be might find it convenient to calL She read the short note hurriedly and decided that it and was formal enongb; then she sealed it hastily, that the might not be tempted to .change it She had put her hand to the plow and would not look back. At supper that evening she was so preoccupied that she scarcely noticed her .uncles troubled look, ant 11 Elsie asked, "Does your head ache, papa?" t No. - But yon havent eated your toast, It" . Looked with Increasing wonder at the letter in her hand. aid Toddles, who for some time had had coveteous eyes on the cream toast that Norma had prepared for her uncle. Mr. Williams pushed the piste 'toward the eager little hands with a brleL There, Toddles, eat It. I dont - 5 - want it "Are you not feeling well?" asked Mrs. Williams as' she peered anxiously around tbs tea pot Oh, yes, well enough. Things got kind of mixed at the store." - ' Norma knew show her uncle had been straining every nerve to meet -- -i Y t.n'v h "We both did, I guess." he answered and his voice had a far off sound. "I was a long way off and working hard it takes a long time foe a young fellow to build up a paying practice an honest' one and then she began to go with Johnson and that Hadringham and I dont know w hrv elae." Yes? it was the Inflection more than the word that helped him on. "Well, I heard of It I was angry with her and angry with myself It didnt seem Just fair she bad waited for me a long time but there were the college debts, and when ' they were paid 1 couldnt ask her to come out to that far away country to poth-inbetter than I could offer her. But If you loved each other Norma began and then the purpose of this drive atruck hec dumb. Yes, be went on with what Norma almost felt to be omlnnne quiet, "but we grew apart instead of together. . People talked, you know, I e Two Views of a Marriage. These verse are to be read twice; once as printed, then the first and third and second and fourth lines. It will be seen that they give quite opposite meanings accordingly as they are read. The man must lead a happy Ufa Who is directed by his wife; Whos freed from matrimonial chains la sure to suffer for his pains. g , Not that we have ever hankered for a farmer's life, our divine afflatus and a disproportionate central stub- nary that bothers us when we put oa our shoes, forbidding; but we havs often dreamed of being a gentlemaa farmer. In our minds eye we hatt flitted from bower to flower on the tarm, scratching the pigs with s cob, feeling new horns sprouting oa ths infantile rams, salting tne new kittens, haltering the turkey gobbler, gathering the eggs where the horses have failed to eat them, snaring gophers from post hole teaching the dog to bite fighting tne chinch hups and tbe Jersey cow out of ths wheat field, taking skimmed milk ta tbe village, bragging about our horses and how near lightning cams to hitting our barn! - Up to our recent vlBlt this was oar dream of the farm. Now we know we have been deceived. All fanners are gentlemen farmer and of just as soon as we can find a farmer . book-agent- to-da- y fool enough to swap places with ns we are going out into the rural distrlcta to eat green corn oft the cob and be . . happy tho' married. We were met In The little country town by the farmer. After getting a shave and offering in payment a bill so big neither the barber nor we eonid change it, he bought some good ci; gars and aald he was ready, It was A glorious morning. In ths sir thers was no essence of redolent no cafaterlas, no ancient fetor only tne sweet Ur cense of meadow and field. At the farm home the grass In ths front yard waa. clipped with a lawn mower, there were a hammock and easy chairs. The dinner waa a dream. The farmer spent the day enjoying himself while the hired help did the Work. There were yet two picnics and a sale to attend that week. Us alley-stenc- elop-wago- n went to , three. ( We hare always contended that while the farmer feeds ns fill he usually keeps the best for his own larder. There is a huge overgrown belief ! town that a fanner skimps hla own to market table to carry Perish the error; the fanner lias fresh eggs and vegetables, the .yellow-'legge- d chickens cavort about his legs and the apples In his orchard gre as as the cheeks of his pretty rnddy-hueHis mall is delivered at daughter his door, he has a telephone and takes periodicals which he reads before passing them to that bourne from which newspapers never return Ills Ufa is not ideal, but It has S leaning that way. Dont pity ths farmer; sare' your sympathy for the All d forty-lere- , rsr. In all the females' hearts appear Truth, darling of a heart sincere; Hypocrisy, deeeit and pride. Neer known in woman to realde. n town Slav What tongue is able to unfold The worth in woman w behold? The falsehood that In woman dwell U almost Imperceptible. t s. Corncob Sidewalks. A man who has been Swedish Coast can hold bis own even in the best company. Prince Oscar, it will be remembered, renounced bis rights to the Thropa to' marry one of the-- queea's maids, and he is now known as Prince Bernadotte. He Is very religious, and is deeply Interested it ue Salvation Army, he and his wife, frequently speaking before tbs meeting Found Twin Clams. The Brunswick, Me. Record reports the discovery by a man digging clams in that viotnity recently of tbe rather unusual .phenomenon of two clams occupying one shell Only once before in all hfa long experience wRh lams has the discoverer found twins among bivalves, and that case was found m the same locality. Puzzles Phrenologist Hood once said that phrenologists have never satisfactorily accounted for the fact that when a man is puzzled he scratches his bead. vn- - 1 :If you would be well served,: : Serve yourseU. j MOisfMiMeesstMesesisssssttssg After serving yourself yon will know all about what a green to a you may write your' man.-Th- en own thesis on "Stomachaches 1 Hava Had," or "What the Green Cucumber Did to Me When I Wasnt Looking. For the best description of a cumrow her contortion in its active state, we wtll give one pair of brass warranted to fit Writ arly and avoid crowding. coffin-handle- 3 5 3 r - Green Cucumber We have been thinking w would write a poem on what a green encumber does to a man, but we eould only think of one line; Oh, what the green cucumber does to a man is a plenty! That was plenty for th man, but not enough for a poem, so we smoked on In silence and decided that what e green cucumber does to a mn could not, be told In verse. Therefore, we After fining began to write In pros seventeen pages wlth the worst kit of stomachaches on record we declded ' what a green cucumber does to a man Is so much that it cannot even be told in pros We then tried crowding it into both prose and poetry, but gavs it np at last, deciding to leave this , sign for your perusal: A traveling in Iowa has hit upon an odd use of Protected Bay on corncobs. He says: I made a trip throughout a big part of Iowa recent- Ankenknrn. who has been by the side ly, and I found several grain ship- of his king everywhere and at all ping towns that had corncob side- time for nearly sixty years. walks. In spite vof wbat one would . Tbe kings great love for his coun-try-- a c d' country mnYrasabuhaafitiy ' thinkabcuntr'cehiinaktnrprefiy good walk. They are a little rough proven to the writer of this article, at first, but when the cobs become who in 1201 had the honor of visiting trampled down the walk is smooth. his male? upon the Drott The New York Tribune. kings first question, upon learning that his visitor was an American, Dry District Ruse. was: "What sort of Citizens do my Rodrick That druggist had a great countrymen In your northwest terscheme for polling a "stick la his ritories make? soda water. "The best w have, your majesty," Van Albert What was it? waa the natural answer. Whereupon, Rodrick Why, he soaked the his face beaming, the king answered : straws In liquor and all his customers "That delights me immensely tailed it and thought it wag the glass. moreTthan T camteH you. King Oscar, thank to hie peasant Privations of the Poor. origin, is a superb speetmen of manA slum inspector told the Glasgow hood, and. in point of stature, apMunicipal Commission on tbe Hous- pearance and Intellect, the most mawaa proud and so was she, and ing of the: Poor that on some occa- jestic figure amoeg the monarch of well the bubble burst Some way Normas vision began to sions he had found families sleeping Europe. He married Princes Sophia race whose clear. She clutched at the bowe of in tiers the parents on the floor, of Nassau, daughter of the buggy end clasping one of them then a mattress, and a layer of chil- blood hss been vitiated by a Jong sucthe top. dren cession of consanguineous marriages. tight she plunged in. . try! food-stuff- s Adam of old could find no pea os Until he saw a woman's face; When Eve was given for a mat. Adam was in a happy stats. Fooled be the foolish man. I say, W ho will not yield to woman's Who changes from his singleness sway Is sure of perfect blessedness. Life In the Country. We have be.-- n out in the country again to pet the wabbly calf and watch the aui;ry little bee gather more mart on honey. We left "the bu--morning Just at day break when smells of a the great city were shedding their bilious odor on a dyspeptic air. We left the city not ber.nm we couldn't take it with us, but because we didnt want it along. We are paiticular about our company when we go wbe.re we of ourself and might feel we went to the country. Wo were bora In the country and adopted the city because tho city wouldn't adopt us. Inasmuch as blood is thicker than water, we like Gods country best. That is why, when wn get all gummed up in tne cerebral region, we hurry away to the land of our nativity the free, unbridled coun- s, |