' that way, more or less.
- German rule,
' layI are p.191.”
Hoe KNEW HOWELLS.
Literary Chat of Two Clever Young
People of Nowhere.
Time —N_ow.
1; Place—Nowhere. _
Dramatis Persona: Young man. w 11
reads Sunday papers and has the nerve
to take chm: es on talking books to a
young woman; young woman who
doesn't real any thing and has the wit
‘ to fancy the young man doesu ’t know
any. more ”than she- does.
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1 1 She—gY-oumean “BonnieBrier Bush?"
I’e—sl es. ‘- ' ‘harming story..iIn isn't It?”
.11—quu1s1te
Ha—I think Howells is one of our best
,_. visitors on fiction. I mean good. whole
"some fiction.
Shoe-Yes, and he makes his chaiac
ters wires to life. Take, for instance.
the leading man in the "Brier B'ash”--
um—er—uni—how silly of me to fo‘rg 1.
the name. Isn‘t it-‘—-—”
He—J think Sherlock Holmes you E \
" for to.
She-J1" hat’s it. I have such a poor
memory for names. Quite. unfortunate
isn’t it?
He (laughing)-Yes, but we are all
It’s a woudcri
was able to recall the name.
She—As I was going on to say, I
think that character is in some partic
ulars one of the finest in American fic
tion.
He—And still it does not strike me as .
favorably as that of his gentle and for
giving wife.
She—Naturally, the woman would be
more interesting to you than the man.
He—Possibly that has something to
do with my opinion; but still you must
admit her character is a fine one, and
that Mr. Howells understands the fem-
inine heart.
She—0f course he must.
he write novels, if he didn’t?
He—He couldn’t, I suppose.
She—Do you think novels are instruc-
tive?
. HeeOf course they are.
as a great many things.
She—M amma says they teach us a great
deal we shouldn’t know.
He—That’s the old fogy idea. Modern
[deas are quite different.
She—I do wish I had time to read
more. I dearly love the companionship
of books.
He—-I think you are quite well read
don’t you know.
She (modestly)——Not as well as I
should be. I fancy you have read near-
ly all the new books.
lie—Really; you flatter me. I try to
keep abreast ,of the times in literary
matters. At least sufficiently so to talk
intelligibly on the subject. /
She—That’s what I try to do, and I
How could
They teach
presume if we do that much it ought to
be fill that should be expected of us.
.. Hes-Indeed, I~ think so, too. _ Miss
Cartervwas saying yesterday—-
She—Excuse me for interrupting you,
but did you know she was engaged?
, He~To Jack Strong? ~
She—Yes.
He—Wonder' what she is thinking
about!
She—Marrying, I presume. '
He (laughing)-—That’s good. I’ll
make a note of it. Really, don’t you
know, that’s bright enough to come
from one of Mr. Howells’ stories. Is it
your own?
. And the conversation continues indef-
initely. —Washington Star.
YOUNGuBUT A H UST-LER.
The Story of a. Twelve-year Old Boy‘who
Will Make His Way. .
There is a boy in this town that you
would do well to keep your eye on. His
name is Lawrence Wheeler. He is only
twelve years old, but he is the old est of
- a family-of seven children, and his par-
ents are poor. But that boy is a nust—
151‘. We got acquainted with him nearly
a year ago, when he began to strike us
for jobs. And ever since then we have
never seen him when he wasn’t busy.
either doing something or hunting
something to do., We never see him
sneaking around a corner to smoke a
cigarette, and we never saw him loaf-
ing, or heard an idle or insolent word
from his lips.
For a long time he sold cobs around
town wherever he could find 3. cos
homer, but here of late he has taken the
oil‘ wagon, and is going to see what he
can do with that. , He has no horse of
his own, but he told us in a‘simple and
unaffected way that several men had
efiered to help him buy one. Of course
they have. Don’t you suppose that
every man in town who knows that
boy is his friend and wants to help him ,
along? His fam‘ly has lately moved into
, town, and Lawrence has undertaken to
keep up the rent—«$6.25 a. month, as his
share of the family expenses, in‘addi
tion, of course, to. clothing himself. We
found out all these things by asking
him, not by any self praise or complain;
of ins. He doesn’t seem to think he is
doing any1h1ng uncommon, or that h
deserves spec1a. credit, He takes it al.
a3 a matter of course and goes about it
as 11" he were already a. man. And he 31
a 111 .11, God bless him, for all his twetv.
years. ——lola Kan. Register.
One Essential Missing.
“Jorkins, have you everything now
that you will need for your, fishing
trip?” asked Mrs. J .,.solicitously.
"Non by a jugful,” said Jorkins, tr
, the good woman's astonishment.—De~
troit Free Press. - _ \
Where Dogs are Expensive.
Dogs fit for hauling sledges are in
great demand at Juneau. Alaska, and
bring from $30 to $50 each. On one
steamer from Seattle 75 were received,
7 and the cry is said for more.
The “King’I Days.”
The “three King’s days,” it is said,
are May 19,20 and 21, and the. king is
Jack Frost The reference is to the
“Never to plant what
frost will injure until the three Kings’
..c.
"a.“
' made his fortune in another capacity.
1 in life: legitimate right to poor rate re-
.was telling about a woman who had
. has been collecting her books all over
any work perfectly who does not enjw
~worl; may be done indeed but “'1. :.
its finest perfec tion.—Pnzlli 5 310'.) .. j
5d ‘ Tna EVENING quarrnm
NOTABLE SPENTHRIFTS.
Men Whose Ambition was to Throw.
. Money Away. ,
We have heard a great deal abOut
misers and their thriftiness. and it may
not be uninteresting to hear something
interesting concerning the great plung-
ers and their spendthriftiness.
The late Mr. Abingdon Baird was one
of the greatest spendthrifts of modern
times, and his attempts to dissipate his
fortune, which amounted to over £250, -
000 a .year, were many, and displayed
an inventive genius which should have
He cast his money about right and left,
and it is probable that if he had lived a.
few years longer he would have gained
what appeared to be his premier object
lief. He thought nothing of makings
present worth £15, 000 or £20, 000, and
he paid £17, 500 one day for a necklace
of jewels which he' presented to. a lady
of his acquaintance.
Mr Ernest Benson, notorious as the
“Jubilee Plunger,” was more success—
ful than the last named gentleman,
since he managed to ruin himself com-
pletely, running through a. fortune of
£250, 000 in the record time. of two
years.
Though quite young, he displayed re-
markable talents for extravagance.
Cards and horses were firm friends to
him; the kind of friends we wish to be
defended from. He sat down to cards
one eventng and lost at the rate of £1,
000 a minute for ten consecutive min-
utes. Another game of cards, played
with some boon companions with whom
he was down at Goodwood for the races
cost this rash young man no less than
£30, 000; losses of such sums as £5, 000
and £6, 000 were deemed the merest bag-
atelle by him.
The late Marquis of Aylesbury was
quite as successful a plunger as the
“Jubilee Plunger,” for he ran through
his fortune,which brought him in some
£60,000 per annum, in seven years, and
at the end of that time found himself
living upon the charity of the gentle-
man who had been his own agent-—
Iit Bits, ‘
Sorrows of Saloon Keepers.
A novel trick that is worked by peo—
ple who get their beer by the can from
a saloon was explained in the Essex
Market Police Court recently. The
complainant in the case, a thirsty man
named Krauss, said that the bartender
where he bought his beer had assaulted
him because he had taken three eggs
from a bowl bearing the sign, “Hard
boiled eggs, one cent apiece,” and had
handed the bartender three cents for
them. The bartender wouldn’t accept
the money because the eggs cost him
two cents apiece, and could be pur-
chased at the reduced price only by
patrons who bought their beer by the
glass. Krauss had a pint of beer in his
pail which he had just purchased, and
he didn t 599 the point of the bartend-
er’ s objection. There was a fight that
landed the bartender in the police
court as a prisoner, and in explanation
he said:
“Your Honor, people come into my
place to buy beer with the sides of the
can covered with butter, or any kind of
grease. This kills the foam, and they
get twice as much beer as they are en-
titled to when I run it right into the
can. We can’t sell eggs for a. cent to
these people.”
He further said that fly bartenders
who guessed at the measure of the can
and ran the beer into it from the keg
always made allowances, for greasy
sides—New York Sun.
Husbands to Burn.
The English actors who come over
here are intensely English when they
first arrive, but. they soon show their
appreciation of American colloqualisms
by appropriating them. A. gentleman
of this city relates that some time ago,
in the New York Club, he met Fred
Wright, Jr., the comedian. Some one
just married her third husband.
“By the way,” the gentleman asked,
“where is her first husband buried?”
“He was cremated,” was the reply.
“And the second?”
“Also cremated.”
“By Jove,”_ observed little Mr.
Wright, “that woman has husbands tc ‘
burn. ”
\Vhy She was Busy.
“Do you see that woman over in the
corner?” asked the receiving clerk in
the telegraph office. .
‘ The one who has been writing,
crossing outand r'e-writing for the last
half hour?" inquired the man who had
just filed an eighbhundred word special-
dispatch, ; -. . ‘
“Yes.” ‘ . >
“Well, I see her. What of it? I sup-
pose she, is trying to crowd a 16 word
message into 10 words. .
“Not a bit of it. She came here a
little while ago with an eight word mes-
sage and wanted to know if I would
make any reduction because it wasn’t
exactly ten words. When I told her I 1
could not she got mad and has beer
trying ever since to write the message
so as to make it the full ten words.”
A New Swindle in Missouri.
_ A new swindle is being worked with
good success in many toWns in this
State.
town and goes from house to house,
leaving books for examination. Next
day a man calls to see if the books are
wanted, and if they are not he take:
them away with him. Usually they are
not wanted. ' A few days later the wo-
man, agent appears again, and on being
told that the man has taken away the
book weeps cepiously, says the villair
town, pleads poverty. and so on, and ac
cepts the proffered compensation —
Kansas City Star.
Joy in His Work.
It may be truly said that'no man (10:11~
his work Joy in one’s Work is ..1
consummate tool without “'lrlCil 11-
A woman book agent appears it '
brown and terra cotta. T
ARIZONA’S MOUNTAIN PUZZLE.
II It a Hole Through a. Loft :1) k 3.
y "f ’ 0. She was a prinCCsI who married a
Only a. 151111111111 Mirror?
For the last half Century the Ameri-
can residents of Tucson. Ariz. ., have.
been trying to solve amystery In the
shape of what appears to be a. hole
through a mountain peak in plain
sight‘ of the town. In the rarefied air
it looks to be only a short distance
jawayfwhen in “reality ' it is ”abreast
fortymiles. The earliest residents no-
ticed the phenomenon, and the only
difficulty that lay in the way of finding
out just what it was was the fact that
:it was inaccessible,
and when they
came anywhere near the spot the hole
disappeared from sight. In fact, it can
only be seen from within afew miles of
Tucson, and thishas led many 'pe'ople
to believe that it is not a hole at all.
By~the aid of a. good marine tellescop.
the mountain can be brought to within
a few miles, but not near enough tr.
tell the exact nature of the rock fonna
tion. An astronomical telescope can:
not be focused on it, asthe mountain i
so near.
would lead one to belieVe that the1
Was no mystery about it. The hole
appears as plain as‘possib' e, but severe-z
days’ study of the spot will develop the~
fact that the hole does not always look
the same. '
Many days when the sky is dark be
hind the mountain the hole will appezu
a brilliant white, like a snowdrift, am:
on days when the sky is blue it wil:
often look so dark as to be almost in-
visible. These facts have led many t1:
think that it is an immense piece 01
mica, lying with its polished 81111": 11:-
toward the sky and reflecting the cloud
formations of another part of the hori-
zon instead of being the light seer
through- a hole. Viewed with the
naked eye, the hole simply appears as a
white spot, but the telescope reveals
pine trees and other details, although
very indistinctly.
The range of mountains in which the
strange peak ’Can be seen is known as
the Catalinas, and numerous parties
have made the attempt to climb it, but
all have failed on account of the steep
and rugged precipices in the vicinity.
Theipeak is a high one, andcan be seen
from any point in the journey toward
it, but when ten miles out of Tucson the
hole canno longer be seen, even wit].-
the aid of a glass. This can be ex
plained on the mica theory, as a sur-
face of that material would not reflect
a ray of light toward aperson’s ey:
afterthey got out of its angle of p34:-
jection.——San Francisco Call. '
Depew’s Advice to Californians.
Naturally Mr. Depew had something
to say about California wines while 11-
was on. the Pacific Coast. and this 1~
how he said it. according to the Sm:
Francisco Call:
“The Californian who makes a light
dry wine such as will meet the prev ail
ing and rapidly growing demand 11 ii
make the greatest Californian fortum-
a. greater fortune than any one yei
made, and limited only by the re
sources of his vineyards.
“There is too much 'alcohol in Cali
fornia-wine. The soil is so rich that it
makes sugar in the grapes, and the.
sugar makes alcohol. The earlier ship
ments of wine were especially faulty in
this regard. Now, this man whom i
speak of, who is to make the greatest
California fortune, will i go a little
higher up on, the hillsides than the
vineyards of the present are to be found-
he will not cultivate so deeply, and he
will not'be in such a hurry to: get his
= wine upon the market—he Will give i‘.
time; When he does this hisfname wil:
after awhile be knoWn everywhere.
and only the capacity of his vineyards
will set the limit to his income. .
“This is exactly what I believe.
have made a study of these things. L
go about with my eyes open, and I haw
been brought in touch with more wine-
drinkers and wine-drinking than most
men. I am. hail fellow well'met as wel
on the Bowery as in the uptown clubs
and I know something about . thes:
things.
made in France that it is called for
but because the French wines are wha1
the California wines might be made.”
Mrs. To‘m Thumb Rides 3 Wheel.
It seems a. long .way back to the «33 y
of Gen. Tom. Thumb, the- celebrated
dwarf, and it is interesting to lean
from America that hiswife, Mrs. Tom,
whom I recollect as a most engaging
little lady, not much taller than he:
diminutive husband, is alive and very
well indeed. Moreover, I understand
' Ihe has taken to bicycling. Her present
husband, Count Magre, who IS only 3(
inches high, is an enthusiastic cyclist.
He rides a. machine which, of Course.
had to be especially made for him, and
cost 60 guineas. 1 It... is probably the
smallest bicycle in the world, for the
wheels are only fourteen inches, and the
frame twelve. Its Weight is about nine
and a half pounds. —St. Paul’. ' '
Strangest in the World.
The strangest clock in the world is
owned by a” Hindu Prince.
dinary clock dial is a. huge gong. Be
heath, scattered on the ground are
heaps of artificial skulls and the various
bones of human beings, twelve in all.
When the hands mark the hour of one
the number of bones necessary to a hu
man figure come togetherWith a snap. - '
"the skeleton, by invisible mechanism.
springs to its feet, seizes a mallet.
strikes the gong one blow, and ther
returns to its pile and falls to pieces ‘
At noon or midnight the spectacle pre
tented by the bones uniting to form 1‘;
skeletons is described as very awe
inspiiing.
The Cycle Girl‘s Whim.
~ The latest whim of women cyclists i~
to have their wheels painted to match
their dress. In the London streets 151:.-
seen cycles' in various shades of green,
was started by Lady Warwi
summer had her wheel painted white,
tact.
‘.{.
A first peep.- through the glass Y
It is not because a wine is'
Here an or- '
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fashion ,
,who in _
and who dressed in white from head to 4’
‘ get an honest gallon.
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The first fork was used by a woman.
prince of venice, and at their wedding
breakfast she used a silver fork. It
made a great sensation, and the fashion
was taken up by the wealthy families,
who hadforks made. The innovation
of using a fork to eat with was severely
condemned by the Church, which
thought that the Weapons provided by ’ *- »
nature "Were enough to use in tearing
their food and conveying it to the
mouth, ”says the Chicago Chronicle. It
.was 600 years later before forks were
introduced into England.
The fork has had a hard fight for
popularity with people who like 1 to'
shovel their food into their‘mouths,,and
think the quick proCess way'-- the best.
In many rural communities, the fork is
still regardedzas an-alfectation of the
over-refined. It is said that the long-
haired statesmen of Kansas will eat
peas with their knives when they go
electioneering.
Migratory Crustaceane.
In all probability few persons sus-
pect that crabs have what is called the
homing instinct that is so pronounced
in pigeons, and can make their way
along a muddy coast a distance of sev-
eral miles; but crabs and many ani-
mals travel faster than one would sup-
pose.
The Philadelphia Enquirer states that
they will travel back home at the rate
of five miles in three days. 1
Marbles a Common Game 2,000 Years Ago.
Marbles are named from the ' Latin
‘ ‘marmor,” by which name similar play-
thingswere known to the boys of Rome
2,000 years. ago. Some marbles are
made of potter’s clay, and baked in an .
oven just as earthenware is baked, but
most of them are made of a hard kind
of stone found in Saxony. Marbles are
manufactured here in great numbers
and sent to all parts of the world, even
to China, for the use of the Chinese
children. —-—Chicago Chronicle.
Slow Work
It has taken six men seven days, each
working eight hours a day, to paint the
uplifted right arm which bears the
torch on the Statue of Liberty on Bed-
loe’s Island. The Superintendent said
today that it would take" nearly three
months to complete the job. Thegreat—
est difiiculty is experienced in rigging
the interior scaffolding. The paint be-
ing used is known as non-corrosive,
plumbago.
. Parrot Gave an Alarm.
" While Simon Clock, a Newburg far-
mer, and his family were engaged in
prayer recently, atramp quietly entered
the open door of the kitchen and, seat- -
ing himself at the breakfast table, pro- .
ceeded to enjoy a feast? A parrot, that
hung in its cage, alarmed’ the family,
who Were in an adjoining room, and
the farmer discovering his unbidden'
guest. compelled him to pay for his
oreakfast by three hours work' in the
ures
A “Cures talk ” in favor ,
of Hood’s Sarsaparillat a _ -
as for no other medi- "
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convincing language of grateful men and .
women, constitute its most effective ad-
vertising. Many of these cures are mar-
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the peeple; have given Hood’s Sarsapa-
rilla the largest sales in the world, and
have made necessary for its manufacture
the greatest laboratory on earth. Hood’s,
Sarsaparillais known by the cures it has
made—cures of scrofula, salt rheum and
eczema, cures (if rheumatism, neuralgia
‘and weak nerves, cures of dyspepsia, liver
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Chilton Paint,
' Every gallon of paint made by the
Chilton Mfg Company is mixed and”
ground' in pure Linseed Oil. All shades
are mixed and ground by machinery ‘
'Seven' times, making them uniform and
even.
weight with the cheaper makes.
Compare the size of cans and
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