It Was I 1.111111111111111 new 1.111.» use
, m- the Dieters of Beauty.
“At, the, house of a friend on West Nine-
ty-third street on the day following our
mgthnvy snowstorm.” said a west side
dwell“, "we were called from our after
new game of whist to come to the rear
dfllo house. The summons, proceeding
unmistakably from the small but potent
long: of Harvey, the 6-year-old scion of
the house, caused as to go to the back par-
, ”Windows in haste to see what inven-
1' 'i am of mischief had mixed that lively
ma or at such an hour.
ey was in no trouble this time,
I!“ was in high glee over a sight that for
the moment took as shock with its been-
t, and strangeness. The yard, the drift
the dull brick walls were softly illu-
ted in the mellow but fervent light
, that radiated on all sides from what seem-
eds miniature Eskimo snow but beside
the drift. This edifice, built, as we pree-
ontly discovered, of large, loosely made
mowballs, was in shape an elongated half
sphere set on its base, being perhaps 4 feet
high by 2% feet in diameter at the base.
If. Walla drew together as they rose, clos—
111‘; at the rounded top. It was as lumi-
. not... a porcelain lamp globe, but its
glow was varied by delicate shadings caus—
ed bythe curves and. inequalities of the
halls of snow and bright shafts and gleams
Where light from within came here and
' there through an open chink.
“By the side of this glowing cairn stood
Edith? the Swedish maid of all work, tall,
slender and blond of hair and 111.111.111.1-
vey at her side stood rapt in the joy of his
cold flaming mound, but the girl looked
up lea hing
“ ‘ hat on earth is that, Edith?’ called
out my host through the open window.
“ ‘It is a one lykta. What you call it
in American? A lamp—41 snow lamp—a
.light?’ her teeth flashing white as she
laughed the more, ‘what we make in Swe
den, at home, the girls and the boys.’
“ ‘She made it this afternoon when the
- snow was damp in the sunshine,’ said my
host’s wife, who was in the secret. ‘Then
it froze hard at nightfall. You ought to
have seen how quickly she did it. It’s a
candle set up in it—do you see that. little
square hole in the bottom where she puts
it in? That makes the illumination.
Would you believe that one candle could
throw out such a light through snow? She
made the sun lykta, as she calls it, to
please Harvey, and she was as much do-
lighted as he was to be piling tip the snow,
laughing as she worked. She got it built,
and then, poor girl, of a sudden I [pleased
the sound of her laughter and looked to
see her standing by the snow mound cry-
ing. It had brought to her so many mem-
ories of home.
“Wasn’t this a strange scene for the
heart of New York city? The snow lamp
shining with that wonderful soft flame
light through translucent snow, the laugh—
ing Swede girl standing beside the drift
hareheaded, in her gay skirt and blue bod
ice, beside the delighted child; the dark
surroundings of somber brick house walisi
Beyond these the steeple of the new 'l‘rin'sv
ty chapel stood carved against 11 cold sky.
from which the winter stars looked down
upon Swedish farms over sons in tin: fur
nos were gathered 1111 many an 1-mi-
lnce, laughing and calling and whisper—
ing in the glow of their snow lamps or by
the same mellow radiance signaling mes—
Ertheast, where youths and 111aidens por-
ted lakes ”——\'ew York Sun.
i ‘ es, well understood, to distant friends
Wide valleys, dark pine forests and
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' rapier for purposes of the duello.
Funny Sayings Arc “are.
Why not try the “most funny" things
that have ever been said? Not the wittieet,
because the wit. of a man has been gener-
ally practiced, trained, forged and temper-
ed for the sole purpose of being used as a
More
than half the witty things on record con-
tain the keen and polished epigrnm which
stabs amnn in a vital. part and leaves
him branded for the rest. of his life as :1
fool, ass, charlntan. Of this kind of “it.
Douglas Jerrold was a master. “Have
you seen my ‘llescont Into llellr’ " asked
Heraud, the now forgotten. “N11,”:111i1i
Jerrold, “but I should dearly like to."
This was extrenualy witty. Ur-«to take an
earlier case—«when curly in tho last 01-11-
tury, two rival physicians fought. “Take
your life,” said the mugnnnimous victor.
“Anything but your 1111rdicin1-," replied
the defeated 0111-. Tina-111 are examples of
wit.
I want funny thi11gs-things that 111:1k11
you laugh, not at tho uucxpvctednoss of
it, or the sting in it, or the dim-111111111111:
of the other man, but at the 1lroli1-ry of it,
the humor of it, the audacity of it, tho
mlrthfulness of it. For instance, it was
suggested the other day in conversation
that perhaps the funniest thing over said
was that old and well known story of the
question and reply 1111 to the way in which
certain people 11111111114141 to subsist. “'l‘iwy
earn a precarious existence by inking in
each Otllcr’s washing." And suincof Hyd‘
ney Smith's sayings urn almost as funny.
The witty things are much more com-
mon than tho funny things, partly 111-.
cause life is always,1111li1~nu1nnrci1uis onll~
ed it, a combat, and partly because the
generality of men urn more disposed to
lay things sharp and biting—things that
woundw-things that 11111111: other 1111-11
'ahlitl of the111~~tl11111 genial, pleasant,
laughter moving things. Certainly, if i
had belonged to the some club as Douglas
Jerrold I should lmvo sat in another mom,
or I should have sat in the some room
without daring to speak. I venture, there-
fore, to suggest that 11 collection of funny
things might be curious.
Alas, one easily understands that such
s collection might be very dreary. We do
not all of 1111 laugh at the some thing, and
it is infinitely easier to make people laugh
than to make them cry. “Walter Besant
in Queen.
The dolden 11.1...
As for the domestic woman, I like wash-
ing dishes well- enough. I suppose we all
do. We had rather do it ourselvas than
have seine girl do it badly. But there is
a certain book which one is at liberty to
quote on all occasions, and wh’ i1 sets
teeth in plain terms whose pin it is to
wash the dishes. And in this book. whom
Monty we never question, it is written,
‘ ,“And they spread a line over Samaria
f shdwipod out Jerusalem see man wipeth
I dish, turning it upside down. ”
Al for the business woman, 1 never es“
s good housekeeper that was not a goon
woman. it needs just as much
W1perseverance and gumption to be
awful housekeeper asit does to go
If! another. and go through its routine
m. on theothorhsud, thememhers of
humusnyhmhsgastd
ii ill 11111111111- dsywill some who
Mirth «and has tons!-
purities”
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we or
the Ilse Who Wants 11.11.11 list-ts on we
Travels. ,
John started out in the morning and
said: "Todayl am going to demand per»
foot justice from all men. I propose to
have my rights today. "
lie boarded a stlnct car. The conductor
soon came around to collect the fares.
John passed him 2 cents.
"Five cents," said the conductor.
“But I’m only goingamllo," said John.
“I don’t care if you re only going a
block, you pay 5 cents in this our," replied
the conductor.
“Why,,l rode the whole length of the
lino—six miles—yesterday and only paid
5 cents, and I don’t propom to pay the
same for riding one mile,” said 'ohn.
“I don’ t care what you pro 11.1111,” said
the conductor; "you must either pay your
11 cents or get off. ”
“Don' i: you soo,1nan," said John, "how
monstronsiy unjust and inequitable your
action is? There is no justice in it, It is
a terrible outrage. It is a monstrous im-
position. thll 11 1111111 pay thc same for
one barrel of flour that he does for six?
Shall be pay the some price for one egg
that he does for half a dozen? Shall be
pay as 111111 ii for riding one miloasfor rid-
ing six? I 111fnso to any i"
“Then you got off, " said the conductor.
The car was stopped, and John was drop-
ped on the sidownlk without further cere-
mony.
"Thorn is no justice in this world, ” mut~
torcd John us he picked himself 11p and
started for'iho xmstoillcc to mail a letter.
"\Nhnt will ho the postage on a letter
which I wish to send to the next town, a
distance of 33.1; miles?" asked John.
"Two cents, of course," replied the clork
at the stump window.
"Why, I sent 01111 to San Francisco yes-
tordny for 2 cents," said John, "and that
was about 11 thousand times as far.
“(‘nn't help that, ” said the clerk.
“Can't help it! Why, man, it's 11 mon-
strous injustice. Does this great Ameri-
can governnurnt propose to sanction such
an iniquitous not as this? Docs it propose
to give the approval of its governmental i11-
(lorsomont to such a born faced injustice
as this?" ,.
“I guess she does, " replied the clerk.
“Then this govvr1111111ntl1ns onion-11 into
a covenant with sin. It has lax-011111 a part
nor with iniquity, 111111 I will have nothing
to do with othing 511 base. Iwill carry
my letter to the next town mysoif.”
"(invrrn1no11t is wry sorry to lose your
patronage," 1'1vpli1’d the clerk 1111 John
turned to go. " it counted on that :3 cents
of yours to pay tho 1111111111111 1111111. "
John stood outside tho postolllt'o u long
time, ruminating on the awful injustice
that prevails in society.
"More on! Don't block up tho sldo-
walk!" said 11 1~ui1~1~ in his ear.
John looked 11p and saw :1 policomnn.
“ls11'tti1lsnfr1‘1-country?”liskndJohn.
“31111111111!" said tho poliwnnm.
“Am i injuring the sidewalk?“ nslu-d
John.
“Mow on, I say, and don't try to ho
{rush with 1111'!"
"Your nupn‘st, man. is unjust, I injure
the sidewalk 111111‘1- by111111‘i11g111‘1‘1‘it than
11111 by standing still. lniight stand hrro
for 11 hundred yours and nut wvnr out. tin»
city. I do not injurv tho1111111i1'ipnlityhy
simply standing iwro. I Won't break the
paving atom-s 111' Inuko tln- sirvot cave in.
I have no intention of carrying oll' tho
post-oiliu‘ in my p111k1t. I stand born for
absolutcjustlco.Gin-1111' my rights" '
'l'bt- polhvnnm took him in. fiiomllnr
and hustled himm rosatho 1.11111 .\'11w "
said ho, “pleurout. If 151111 you how again.
I will run you in!"
.lolm1'11111'111111‘11 he would not s1‘ka11r
absolute juslivo any more that day. llo
still holds to tho opinion. however. that it
is an 1-xmll1-nt thing. but its who is too
hlnh [111 him -—.\1'w Yolk World.
A 11 Idea.
is this chair
l1‘11i1- l‘111'1'l1:1\1'1'-~~.\'ow,
strung (‘lllllIL‘ll Iniml1l11r11?
Act-ominminti111: ('11-rk~—\\'1'li, noulum,
“'11 Hugh! try it i1urethra—m'l'rull1.
Here's 11 Tall Fi~l1 Story.
"'l'his spoon-1 strungv, l'll admit," mid
tho 11111-111111 mun-11f 11 constwiso 1111'111111‘1' in
11 “we! sliln-nnlnnn recently, “but it'smn'. "
"l was 1mm- on board 11 million 11-11511
plying l11‘i\\'1~111 New York and lilo. ’l‘ln'
1l11)’ la'i'ol‘u \\'1' nuilml 1111 11111' 111‘1‘11sl11n W1-
1111li1'11l 11 M'luuil of 111i1111ou's swimming
about iii-1 kin-inn p11rllml1-,froi11 which
tho moi; thrrw 11111 sloped 11nd Humps. ’l‘bv
flab 1'1'11111i11r1l with us d11yl1_\'1|ny. W0
worn on days 11111111111: lilo, 11nd, Wuulll
you luliovo it, tho llali had grown from
llllilillm‘s lo 10 11nd lf.’ poundvrs \\'l11‘ll\'t’1'
m. lmt throw 11111'l1nl‘ln liiohurbnr? Who's
it MM“)! 1 Hill |1T11VU ll. "—M-Now YHl'li lli‘l"
old.
The l. 11rly llird.
A 1-'onntr_t squire “ho Ililllli‘tl 11 portion
of his on 11 11111111,; inking 11 “all; vurly 11111-
donning h1iurosunrls1, found 11 young
11111111111 hm) nt uork digging up potatoes
in ono 11f his livlds.
“What-«1d. it. so soon onthis?" ho good
nuturvdly inquired. "'l‘nko this no 11 1-11.
word for your industry." And sosnying
ho slipped 11 lmlf crown into her llilllil.
When ho got homo, hontkvd tho steward
tho 111111111 of tho girl.
“W11 don't m'nd any 1;! our people on
field labor as early as this, " was the reply.
"’l'hogiri you how mm 11 so generously
is nihiof’ u’l‘ill: lilts.
Dental Note.
"I want. this tooth pulled.
stand this any longer. "
"lint, my dear sir, I 11111 not 11 dentist."
“What in thunder am you?"
“1 11111 1111 nudist. I attend to tho eyes,
not the tooth. "
”Wl'll. llult's fill right. (in to work,
This is 1111 1-yM1mth that‘s bothering 111a. ”
--'i'oxns Sittings.
1 just can't
011cc More.
Tipplw—What should you think if a man
threatened to commit suicide lx-causc you
refused him?
Bob-l should think he had made up
his mind to try opium—Life.
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New Bailey steel bound indestructible dash.
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t ro- oiling.
Put. spring cushion for 'seat.
i‘ rettioat wagon on uluols
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The beau-
Draft in direct line with shaft shackles.
High foot rod, and
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$2.01), at $1.00.
and Gentlemen these are ithe biggest bargains ever offered in South
WAS THERE ANYTHING LIKE THIS OFFERED
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500 Pair Lndios' Kid Oxford Patent Leather tip, Square toe; Worth
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300 Pair Ladios' Nico Russet Blucher (lxi'ord; Worth $1.50, at £150.
300 Pair Ladies’ Russet Oxford Common Sense-J net the Thing for Sore Foot; Worth $1.50, at 05m.
100 Pair Ladies’ lland Welt Patent Leather tip Kid Oxford; Worth $3.00, at $1.50,
200 Pair Ladies’ Wholo Fox Big Button Razor too, Wing tip Shoes; Worth $4.00, at $21 10.
200 Pair Ladics’ Fina Cloth top Whole Fox Razor too, Patent Leather tip; Worth 84.00, at $2.00.
200 Pair Ladies’ Fine Cloth top Whole Fox Square toe, Patent Leather tip; Worth 81.00, at $2.00
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300 Pair Men’s Fine Calf Laces and Congress; Worth 3.00, at 1.50.
400 Pair Men's Fine Calf Blncher, Cap toe; Worth 2.50, at 1.50.
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350 Pair Men’s Fine Russia Calf Blucher Welt; Worth 3.50, at ‘2. 25.
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