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fill/it; OF 'Loa'e AGO.
An English Romance Culminates in a Clii-
cago Street Car.
They eat at the forward end of the
car. I oscillatted about at the end of

the strap, trying not to step on their ‘

feet a greater number of times than on
those of the lady who sat opposite
them.

Both were quiteelderly. One of them
was well known in Lake‘View politics,

before Chicago reached out and gather- '

ed the little aspiring municipalty under
its protecting wing. My attention was
first attracted to what they said when
the Lake View man asked the other if
he had ever been in Shorham, Kent.

“Just once, was - the reply.’ “I was
born and raised in London, and well do
I remember the only time that I was in
Shorham. That was, let me see, some—
thing over 58 years ago. I am now 76.
It is surprising how some of the little
unimportant events of our y unger
t our
entire lives, isn’t it?”

The other assented, and he continued:
“I was then serving an apprenticeship

7 with the firm of which my father was a

member. We were just clearing up the
odds and ends of a large contract down
in Shorham, making alterations in the
residence of a Mr. Ratcliife. That is
where I first fell in love, and it was love
at first sight. My enslaver was a lady’s
maid, and seemed to be a privilege char-

‘acter about the house.

' “I thought her the prettiest girl I had
ever seen; I was simply enchanted.
When she was out of my sight I was
disconsolate, and when she came near
where I was at work I was in such a
flutter that I nearly collapsed and went
all to pieces. I did nothing all day but
wander about the house in the hope of
seeing her. Once or twice I got my
courage up sufficiently to speak to her,
but was wholly incapable of an extend-
ed~conversation. Occasionally I thought
that she looked at me with considerable
favor, which made me supremely hap-
py for the moment.

“This state of afiairs had lasted three
days when, as I stood at an open win-
dow in the upper part of the building
waiting for an opportunity to catch a
glimpse of my enchantress, she sudden-
ly came into view in the garden below,
closely followed by a rascally young
gardener, a rather handsome sort of a.
chap.

“Catching her about the waist, he
gave her a resounding smack on the lips
and then turned and fled, and she after
him, both laughing as if it were quite
pleasant. Do you know, sir. I don’t be-
lieve that I ever had anything so upset
me in my whole life. To think of that
blessed rascal of a gardener boy actual-
ly kissing the lips of that picture of lov-
liness seemed .too much for me. Really,
don’t you know, I would have been put
into a seventh hea‘Veu by .1 touch of her
hand.

“The thought of that chap’s presump-
tion was maddening; I could have. kill-
ed him on the spot. Yes. sir. I had a
momentary pleasure in the thought that
I would be hanged for doing her that
service. Before I had the opportunity,
however, to carry out my sanguinary
intention, my uncle, one :of the firm,
walked in, having come from London
to see what progress I had made with
the work. 1 was then in for it, and no
mistake, as I had really done no work
at all. I was sent home that afternoon
and have not seen Shorham from that
day to this.”

“Well, I’ll be blowed,” said the Lake
View man, “if that doesn’t beat the re-
cord.\ In your place I believe I-would
have made a special trip to Shorham for
the purpose of punching that gardener’s
head, just for consolation. You must
have been awfully cut up about it. But
I say, you know. if it is not too late, we
might get off the car and have a go at
one another now. '

“I am the gardener boy you refer to,
and, now since you speak of it, Iremem-
ber a young fellow whom I thought to
be foreman on the job at the time the
alterations in Ratclfie’s house was being
made. I never saw him work and I
used to envy his good clothes. I sup-
pose that was you. Well, well, if this
isn’t a surprise. I must take you home
with me to night and introduce you to
my wife, your fair enchantress of 58
years ago. Mind, though,” laughed he,
“I will have no love making.”

"Well, bless my soul, if this is not re-
markable,” exclaimed the other, and
they shook hands two or three times
ever.

Truth is stranger than fiction, mused
I, as these tWo whom fate had so wide-
ly separated for 58 years, and then so
strangely brought together in a Chicago
street car, got off at Diversey street and
went out into the night, arm in arm.—
Chicago Inter- Ocean.

Defense of. the Word Lad y.

There’s a great deal of jabber in
praise of “that good old Saxon word
‘woman,’ ” and in disparagement of the
word “lady.” 'But “lady” is also a
good old Saxon word,dignified in its
origin and in all the meanings which
attach to it legitimately. It isdescend-
ed from the Anglo Saxon “hlaefdie.”
“Hlaf” meant loaf. It is similar in
sound to the old English word of Scan-
dinavian origin, “daie,” meaning a
maid, from which we get our modern
English word “dairy.” The first in the
list of meanings attached to the word
“lady” in Webster’s dictionary is: “A
woman who looks after the domestic
affairs of a family; a mistress; the fe-
male head of a household.” The fifth
is: “A woman of refined or gentle man-
ners; a well-bred woman—the feminine
correlative of ‘gentleman.” , Surely

_ there is nothing in this Word to warrant
veneers and fleets and jeers.

The preju-
dice against‘ 'lady” has arisen from its
unauthorized misuse. —Wilwaukee Wis-
cousin.

“Mr. Insite, give the class your idea or
optimist and pessimist.”

“Yes, sir; an optimist is a man who
is happy when he is miserable, ands

 

pessimist is a man Who is miserable .

when he.’ s happy."—Chicago Record.

 

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.1113. ENOS sobfies ONE.

She Rides in an Elevator for Importan'

. Parliamentary Reasons.

‘9) you wish to go up, ma’ani?"

11112:] t' e elevator boy of- the little we

212171 '1 ho had been standing round for a
quarter of an hour, and evidently post-

:zig lioisel f on how things worked.

A11 y danger?” she queried.

“N ot the slightest.”

‘ Kin I git out if I feel faint?”

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She said she’d take a little more time
to LLili kabout it, and when he had made
two more trips she braced up and
walked into the cage, with the re-
mark: .

“Wall, I might as well be killed as ts
have Enos bluflin’ around as he has for
the last two weeks. Let her go, little
boy.”

She sat down and closed her eyes, antl
shut her teeth hard, and scarcely mover
a fin‘gei until she was landed on the
giound floor again.

“Anything wrong With this?” asked
the boy as she got out.

“Is this all there is to it?”

“This is all, ma’am.”

“I’ve been clear to the top floor and
got down again, hev I?”

“Yes’ m; you didn’t expect to be killed
did you‘2’ ’

“Say, boy, she whispered as she re
tied her bonnet strings and set her jaw
“my man Enos cum to town a few dayI
ago and rid in an elevator, and when he
got home he told me that his hair stoocl
up, shivers went over him, and both
suspenders busted afore he got to the
top. He’s been steppin’ high and .blufi-
in’ around and crowin’ over me till I
couldn’t stand it no longer. I’ve bir
here. I’ve rid in an elevator. I have-
n’t busted a shoestring nor lost a but-
ton, and when I git home Enos will
cum Off the pedestal and quit blufiin’,
or a woman about my size don’t know
what she’s talkin’ about.”—Detroit
Free Press. 1

_ A WELL BRED WOMAN.

Her Ready Courtesy to a Poor Child Wot
Earnest Admiratlon.

Quite a novel little scene was wit-
nessed by some passengers in a cross-
town car the other day.

As it approached First avenue 3 very
aristocratic looking woman, clad in sa
bles, entered with a child who appeared
like a small princess, in her costly vet-
vet and furs.

They occupied the only two seats re-
maining.

At the next corner a thin woman.
hatless and looking very like a beggar
in her thin, faded'old shawl, hailed the
car. It did not suggest itself to any one
of a number of men present to rise and
ofier her a seat. Seeing this, the woman
in sables told her child to stand and of-
fer her a seat. The poor woman‘ looked
at the child with a motherly smile, took
the seat with a “Thank you kindly,’
and to the consternation of every one
present, promptly put both arms around
the small princess and lifted her to her
lap.

_ It was all done as a matter of course
She probably had little ones of her own
at home, and motherly instinct is the
same in faded calico or velvet. We all
looked on curiously, expecting to see
the child hastily removed by? its
mother.

To our surprise, the aristocratic we:
man failed to betray by even the shadow
of a glance any surprise or displeasure.
On the contrary she thanked her sister
of a different social sphere with a cour:
teous little nod, and the childremained
on the latter’s lap until she left the car.
N. Y. Herald.

, Russia’s Plague of Rodents.

Russia has sufifered from a genuine
plague of rats and mice, and the story is
attractively told by United States Con-
sul Heenan at Odessa, in a report tothe
State Department.

The vermin first appeared in southern
Russia in the autumn of 1893, and they
increased in numbers with marvellous

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rapidity, owing to the heavy grain har-t

vests leaving much unthrashed grain,
and to the mild ,weather.‘ In addition
to the common house and field mouse.
another and new variety appeared, hav-
ing a long pointed nose. These mice
overran every place, and they moved in

.vast numbers like armies, and in in-

stances did not hesitate to attack men
and animals.

While the rats were not so numerous
as the mice, they were more destructive
—eating . everything, gnawing away
and even ruining entire

buildings. After exhausting all other

,means, the plague was finally terminat-

ed in 1894, by resort to bacteriology,
when the vermin was destroyed by the
inoculation of a few. rodents with con
tagious disease germs.

A Regular Peacemaker.
Isn’t that new Colt gun which has
just been adopted by the Navy Depart»

’meet a terror? It is about as destruc—

tive a'weapon as you can conceive. It
can be carried by cavalry on the saddle,
as it only weighs forty‘ pounds, from
place to place, and even the infantry,
at a pinch, could transport a few hun-
dred to a spot for defence or attack. A
continuous fire can be kept up of four
hundred shots a minute—not an hour—
which startles the imagination. At a
recent trial a target, the size of a man,
was placed at a ' distance of two hun-
dred yards, and one hundred hits were
made in sixteen seconds. If we are
not careful, it will be very dangerous to
This thing would mow men

down as a farmer mows grass. Ughl

A Sublime Appetite.

They were seated at the restaurant
table, he looking over the menu, when
she said, gushingly:

“Do you know, dear, I have always
longed for the society of a congenial
soul, one who loved the good, the
tru me ’1

“Pigs’ feet, baked beans, cold tripe.
griddle cakes, which will you have?”
interrupt ed “dear” at this point. -

"I’ll take them all,” was the soulful
answer. -—Detroit Free Press. . , ..

 

 

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A GREAT ammo at).
__‘—.——
A Line 4. 606 Miles in Length Aer 115:1
Siberia.

The construction of the Siberian Pail—
road' is probably the greatest in Cli..Sil‘la1-.
event of the day. It was finally (:1, 1 :idccl
upon and approved by the Emp cior of 1
Russia less than five years ago, 111.0. has 1
been pushed forward ever since with all I
the energy Of a powerful and rso 1..C"11.
Government behind it. It was i)". gun
in May, 1892, with the expectation that I
the entire line across Siberia, s. 696 miles
in length will be finished in 1900. The
rail mills of Russia are taxed to the
utmost to supply the advancingline
with rails. The course of construction
has just been finished to the Yenisei
River, about one-third of the distance
across Siberia, measured from the
west, a11d3,056 miles from St. Peters- '
bu1 g.

The region traversed thus far' is com-
pai atively level, and the railroad fol-
lows as nearly as possible a straight
line. The course from this on runs
through a mountainous territory, and
will require steep grades, sharp curves
and an expensive roadbed.

In the path of the route as , marked. '
out is Lake Baikal, extending in a near-
ly straight northeast and southwest
line 370 miles long and from 20 to 70
miles wide, which makes it‘about half
as large again as our own Lake Erie.
The surveyed route of the railroad runs
around this lake, but it is now pro—
posed to postpone the building of that
portion of the line for the present and
transport the cars across the Lake by
ferry.

Lake Baikal is in about the same lati-
tude as Lake Winnipeg, Canada, and is
deeply frozen in the winter, when pas-
sengers and freight will be transported
across the lake in sledges, or when the
ice is sufficiently thick it is proposed to
carry them across by a temporary rail-
mad laid upon the ice.

On the Pacific end a portion of the
line is already in operation, and with
such energy and success is the con-
struction of the road being pushed at
every point that it is now confidently
predicted that the entire line will be
constructed in 1898. Either in that”
year or the year after the trip around
the world may be taken with every
expectation of reasonable comfort by a
route which will early the traveler
across the entire length of Sibei la.—
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How the Poet’s Genius Helped a Chum;
Charity.

A “Riley” party was recently held by
one of our church charity organizations.
says a writer in the Ladies’ Horn:
Journal. It proved a decidedly unique
affair and quite a profitable one also.
The decorations of the church parlors

post and picture. A large picture of
James Whitcomb Riley was placed up-
on the wall facing the entrance, and
over it in' pasteboard letters,

“When the frost is on the pumpkin,

And the fodder’s in the shock.”

Almost all the young people who had
gotten up the entertainment were
dressed to represent Riley’s characters,
and several of the most important pre-
sided over the booths. At one, which
was literally covered with paper flow-
ers, “Lizabeth Ann, she can cook best
things to eat,” sold cakes and pies. At
another Riley’s poems and photographs
were sold, and at still another “The
raggedy man! He works for pa,"
knocked down apples from an impro-
vised apple tree as fast as he could sell
them. And. among the purchasers
were “Little Orphant Annie,” “Gran-
ny’s cOme-to our house,” “The fishing
party,” “Max and Jim,” “Pa and ma
and me, all three,” and very many
others.

While all were busy buying and tast-
ing the good things,

“ ‘The old band’ marched in—,
And stylisher and grander tunes; but
Somehow—anyway
‘I want to hear the old band play
Sich tunes as ‘John Brown' 5 Body‘ and
‘Sweet Alice,’ don’t you know?
And ‘The Camels is a A-Comin’ ’ and
‘John Anderson, My Jo.’ ”
And the impromptu band played them.
Later in the evening some of the Riley
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Man Should Live to 100 Years.

.Buft‘on, Flouren's, Humboldt and a
great many other eminent naturalists,
scientists, etc., where of the opinion
that the natural limit of earthly exist-
ence among the animal creation is five
times as long as the time expended by
them in reaching maturity. Bufion
gives the following table to substantiate
that peculiar belief:

The camel groxvs for eight years, lives
40; the horse grows for five years, lives
25; the ox grows for four years, lives 15
to 20; the lion grows for four years,
lives 20; the dog grows for two years,
lives 10 to 1'2; the man grows for 20
years, lives 100. .

The Downward Rub Makes Wrinkles.

“Never rub your face downward,”
said the physical culture teacher. ' “It
drags the muscles down in a way that
nothing else can do, and hints at old age
and the attraction of gravitation, and
all sorts of other unwelcome things.
That drooping effect. too, makes you
look sad and sorrwful, and no matter
how you feel, you know, you ought to,
as the photographer says, ‘assume a
pleasant expression.’ Always pat the
face after washing it anyway, instead
of rubbing it, using asoft towel and
with upward pressure”

' Accomodatlng a Landlord.

“I like the’house,” he said, “but it is
too large for my family, and Lwould
Want to rent it in conjunctionwith an—
other party." '

“I don't know about that,” replied IV

the landldrd dubiously. “I would much

prefer that the house be let] alone. ”
“Very well, then, I will let it alone,”

and a little later he was looking at an-

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I'”DE THE COUNT MAD.

He Was Taken for a Madman. and That
Made Him One

One of the funniest incidents that
ever occurred' in San Francisco was the
arrest of Count Vladimir Nicholas Ru—
man, chief of the Siberian p1 mom, and
a brother of two Major- Generals in the
Russian army, on a charge of insanity.

He wanted to inspect the city prison,
so walked up to Sergeant Houghtaling’ s
(leek and snorted out his request in
Russian. He had lost his hat some-
where, and his jet black hair stood up
like bristles on a hog’s back. He had
a scraggly heard, a swarthy face, and
was built like a. gladiator. He wore an
eight-dollar hand-me down suit of

clothes, high-water trousers, a pair of .

stOga shoes, and heavy Government
socks.- Altogether he looked like the
second mate of a whaler.

When he commenced snorting Rus-
sian at Hou ghtaling the Sergeant
thought he was crazy. He was sure of
it when his visitor commenced jabber-
ing French, and a police ofiicer under-
stood him to say he was chief of all Si-
berian prisons and wanted to inspect
San Francisco’ s jail.

Houghtalin g nodded toward the prison
and tapped his forehead suggestively.
The visitor took it as a salute and re-
turned it. Half a dozen ofiicers closed
around Ruman. He thought it was an
escort, and walked along. Inside, Ser-
geant Lindheimer tried to find out his
name, but, making no headway, ordered
him into a cell. When a couple of trus-
ties attempted to hustle him away. a
red-hot fight followed, and it took eight
of them to land the powerful Russian
behind the bars.

He yelled and rattled his cell door till
he made the old prison ring. Then, af-
teranother fight, he was dragged into
a dark cell. Then he kicked the heavy
doors till be nearly had them off their
hinges. Then they threw him down
and took his shoes off. Still he made
so much noise that he was dragged into
the prison hospital and strapped to a
leather cot, where he raged and strug-
gled like a madman.

The sight of Lindheimer, who directed
all the proceedings, made him wild with
rage. To be imprisoned, shackled, and
humiliated by a Jew was too much for
the proud Russian. .

' He struggled and strained at his straps
and chains all the afternoon. and then
some of his friends heard of his plight.
Explanations followed, and the distin-
guished visitor was released with apolo
gies.

As the chains were taken ofl him he
shook them under Lindheimer’s nose
and hissed in French:

“Ah, my birdie, if I just had you in
Siberia I would show you how we do
it l”-—-San Francisco Post.

After the South Pole.

Another Antarticf'expedition will be
shortly fitted out under the command
of Lieutenant A. de Gerlache, of Brus-
sels, who will be accompanied by sev-
eral well-known Belgian ,savants. The
Belgian. Geographical Society have
taken up] the matter warmly and are
collecting subscriptions for Lieutenant
Gerlachc’s expedition, the total sum
still required being about 250,000!.

Tom Ochlltree’s Nari-ow Escape.

Colonel Thomas P. Obhiltree, who is '

ill, is missed from his favorite haunts
in New York. The Colonel’s friends
are never tired telling anecdotes of

him, and among others it is recalled’

that he once slapped Jem Mace, the
noted English pugilist, in the face on a
bet that no one could hit Mace. The
Colonel was knocked dowu for his dar-
ing, friends preventing any further
punishment.

Stationary Potentates.

There are but two European potentates ,

who manage to get along without
change of residence. These are the
Pope of Rome and the Sultan of Turkey.
The Sultan has never left Constanti-
nople since he ascended the throne in
such tragic circumstances ‘19 years ago,
and his Holiness has remained within
the precincts of the Vatican since the
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