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‘TOP .‘l’ OF A CA- HERA.
"Well, old fellow. I wish you joy,”
said Huntly Johnson when his friend,
Dick Beaufort. after the fashion of the
newly accepted lover, had finished a
panegyric in. praise of his lady love.
Dick Beaufort and Huntly Johnson
were bosom friends; as young lawyers
they occupiel the same chambers in the
city, 11d had never in their lives had a
serious qua1rel.
“D011 t you think she is quite the lov e-
liest girl in London F1111tly?’ continued
Beaufort, ardently .
“Yes, old man," ’ replied his friend,
“I think she is much better looking than
that celebrated actress, Kitty Haw-
thorne, whom you—er—well, ' were
rather sweet on, don’t you know?”
“I certainly did make a fool of myself
Ov or that girl, but that was some time
ago. I hope Dorothy has never heard
about it. You know, she 1s just a little
bit jealous,” said Dick Beaufort, a trifle
uneasily
“Ys es ,I believe she is rather jealous,’
said his friend.
“How in the world can you know any-
thing about it, old chap?" said Beaufort
rather surprised; "but Ilia 'e heard that
you were rather gone on her yo our self not
long ago, and, in fact, that you proposed
to her, eh?"
“Perhaps I did, ” said J 0
hard at the ceiling.
“Well. I’m going out this evenino'.
Sorry I can’t ask you to come with me.
Hope you ll enjoy yourself old man.’
“I dare say I shall," responded J ohn-
son, try ing to force a smile. "I thinkI
know where you are going, at any rate,
it is nowhere where an old bachelor like
myself is wanted.”
The door banged, and Huntly Johnson
was left alone to his thoughts, which
were not of the most pleasing char-
icter.
"So she has jilted me
Dick Beaufort, has she?“ soliloquized
the young man. "TVell, I always
thought that I V 'as rather more of a
favorite with the girls than he. but then
he is so jollyhandsome. He thought
for some time anl as he pondered his
1' '1ce grew darker and daikc “N 0. ‘he
suddenly shouted, "he sh .111 uly her
though he is my grea. s: :'.iend, God
knows I love her more :11 I do him.
Iiiut how can I prevent i He thought
~:'.g'ain for some time. .115. then murmured
:J himself, softly: "I 1:1 “That is
:he good of a hobby if one does not use
2 for practical pui r"): iscs?"
tmust hole he. 111111111113- “- '.: t Huntly
ohnson was an e-...-1.11u1v successful
nateur photographer and he had some
:11 11c ago learned to do what is called in
E -1e. phraseolog y of the photographer,
”double printing.” This consists in
printing different pictures 011 the paper
by means of using two distinct nega-
' Now, Huntly Johnson had taken
snap shot of Dick Beaufort kissing his
. -'.iste1 some time back, which Miss Far-
gihar had not seen; he nad also taken a
_ll10'£0 of Kittie Haw thorne
He now nope-sod to p1ir1t Kit-ti Haw-
;hor 11e’ s face inste? d of l‘Iiss Beaufort’s
11.0 the photo; 1'1'1111‘11, andas the two girls
'-..ere 0f simile r sin and build. the p110-
tograph would appc‘: r to ieorese ent Dick
1.11-111ac111g Kit-to Hawthorne If Dor-
othy were to see this photograph, John-
son reflected that She would probably
break ofi" her eng'a .1ge1nent with Dick
Beaufort immediately, especially as the
photograph would be carefully dated
some days after her betrothal. It was
mean trick to play any man, and
:Iuntly Johnson felt more than ever
.;..<'l1amed of himself for ac ing in such a
lishonorable manner toward his old
friend. But he w? s of a very 111111 11a-
:111'e. had det rinined that by fair
1: “31.115 01' foululie wou1d prevent the mar-
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111e 1135‘: morning J ohnson went to his
3 1' rk room and, b" '111. ging out the two
succeeded. by mes-:11 of the
before desciibed. in producing
lie (_ . .51 result. .16 c.1ti._1+'.ltohi111—
elf when he thought of the effect which
1. would have on Dorothy Farguhar, but
his pleasure was considerably lesséned
when he pictured to himself the pain
which he would cause a friend who had
slways acted nobly toward him.
As Dick Beaufort was going out that
evening Johnson asked him if 1e thought
filiss F2 rquhar would care to come in on
::.certain date which he mentioned and
1 ‘10k ovc. some photos whie h he had
taken roe ently. D- Beaufort knew
that Do: oth". who took what is called a
s1ste11y interest" in II 11m ly Johnson,
would be pieaseil to come, especially as
she took a great intezest in photography
herself, so he replied:
"Certainly, old fellow, I'll give her
your message.' I‘m sorry that I have an
engagement on the 15th, but I have no
doubt you two will be quite interested
.liscussing photography.”
Johnsc -1 thought it just as well that
Dick sued-d be out 011 that particular
{.'.te and h e quite agieed with his friend
-nat Dowthy Farqiihar and he would be
very much interested—perhaps painfully
so as to one party.
Huntley Johnson had all his latest
"+001ap..".' in readiness on the day in
Question, and as he heard the knock at
fine door - which announced Miss
r'ar qulia1"’s arrival, he placed a certain
1l1ot001a ,1-1 on the table ine- fairly con-
:spicuous place.
Johnson forgot all about Dick and the
shabby trick he was playing him as he
:'.llked to this charming girl.
"What lovely photographs you take.
Mr. Johnson. I really think they are
better than those of many professionals,
the portraits are so extremely life-like.
Now, this one of— Oh! Mr. Johnson,
'.vhatever~ is this?— Dick, and—and an
Lctress; taken yesterday, too!
.::.111’t heir-y Dick ’
The poor girl sank int
nus only J olinson‘s presence
trained her from crying;
For the first time Huntly Johnson
lzglt sincersoely s or: y for her, but he real-
'.zed that he had put his hand to the
p {'0 .gi 11, and that he could not now turn
HEICk.
"l—er—--that is, I really am very sor-
‘ 1y that you have seen that photograph.
'1 did not 'now it was on the table.”
1‘
--son, starmg
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negatives
a chair, and it
which re-
Oh, it'
By this time Miss Farquhar being a
very self possessed girl, had quite recov-
ered herself.
“Will you be so good as to give me a
sheet of note paper and a pen. Mr. J ohn-
son?” she sa id, coldly.
“Certainly. Can I be of any. use to
Y011 in any other way, Miss Far-
quhar?’ ' ‘
“No, thank you. I merely wish to
write Mr. Beaufort a short note.”1‘9'
turned the girl
She sat down, though Johnson could
see she was still very much affected,
w10te on biavely fora few minutes; then
she handed the note to Huntly Johnson,
requesting him to give it to Mr. Beau-
fort, and bidding him a good afternoon
left the house with a firm determination
never to return to it.
Presently Dick entered the room. “Oh,
I thought 'I should arrive before she
left,” he said, in a rather disappointed
tone. “A note from her, though. How
awfully nice of her to write.”
Huntly Johnson was seized with a
sudden fear lest Dorothy might have be-
trayed him in the note she had written
to him.
“Whatever is this?” shouted Beaufort,
as he glanced over the first line of the
, note.
“Look here, Huntly,” cried the young
man, clutching hold of his friend’s arm.
“what can she mean by writing about
‘faithlessness,’ 'love for another woman,
etc. ?’ Look at the note, man."
Huntly’ s face turned gh'; stly white as
he took the letter from the other’ s trem-
bling hand, but as he read on he looked
more relieved.
“I’m afraid she means to give you up.
old man. She said nothing to me about
it. though I should go and see her if I
were you; there is evidently some mis-
understanding.”
Johnson kne' v he was quite safe in
saying that much, as he felt sure Doro-
thy would refuse to see Dick. At any
rate, it would get him out of th- cway for
,a time.
"By J ove, I think I will.‘ said Beau-
fort, slightlv cheered by this suggestion:
and rushi 1mg out of the room he made his
way to Dorothy’s house Which was not
far distant. -
Looking at his watch. he found it
was still early in the evening, and he
felt quite certain of seeing his ladylove
and explaining everythi 15., there and
then. On 1119 A'uiiing for Miss 1' 2-..'quhar,
Beaufort vas in.‘ 1".11e;l that fine was en-
gaged and could see him on no pretext
whatever.
"Tell her that I '1111't see her.
a ma tter of impoi ta: 'e.“
But the servant merely repeated her
message. and would not you agree to
take Miss Beaufort a small note. seiib-
bled on half a sheet of note paper.
“Miss Beaufort said that she would
see you on no account whatever. sir,”
was all that the maid would say.
The door shut in Dick Beaufort s face
and he was left alone on the doorstep.
I-Io remain ed tl .ere thunlers.ruck for a
few minutes and then 5101 'ml valked on,
w ondering whe t on earth had given rise
to Dor’othy s unfair accusations. Was
it lik e1) tha’ 1 when he had gained the
love of a creature little short of an an-
gel in his estimation he ould be trying
to do the same thing with anothei
woman?
Some one must- ha ve been giving her
false information about him, that was
certain. But who could be the culprit?
Probably one of her admirers. who was
jealous of his success. Could it be
I-Iuntly Johnson? The thought chased
itself uuic 'kly through his brain and left
It is
,it as speedily as it‘ 112. d entered. No; it
was an ungenerous thought. He felt
certain that his old friend would be in-
capable of such an action.
Huntly Johnson was in his own sitting
room as Dick entered the house.
"She won't even see me,” the letter
cried,- throv ng open the door, breathless
with e:cite11nent; “isn t it a shame,
Huntly? I‘ve done nothing to deserve
her throwing me over like this. I think
some cad must have been telling her
lies about me."
Huntly Johnson winced at this, but,
luckily for him, Beaufort did not notice
it. Beaufort walked to the table and
began absently to turn over some phot-
graphs which were lying there. Sud-
denly the other saw him start as he took
up a photograph in his hand; Johnson
made a clutch at it, but was too late.
“Johnson, what does this mean?”
shouted the young man. "A photo-
graph of me kissing Kitty Hawthomel
Impossible! I never did such a thing in
my life."
Suddenly his former suspicion, that
Johnson the cause of all this
trouble. 1'et'1i'ued to him
“Johns-0:1 don’t deny it,” he said;
“confess ti- r. you di d this out of spite
because I v. .5 going to marry Dorothy
Farquhar. "
An expl . .'t 011 e213 ued. Johnson was
certainly “11.1ch and humiliated by
Dick Beau forts kindness. He oifered to
make the onlya amei ids in his power,
na‘mely, to go to Dorothy’shouse and
confess everything. At first, in an-
swer to his knock ,a message was re-
turned that Miss Farquhar was engaged
and refused to see him, but by dint of
perseverance he was at last allowed to
enter. Dorothy at first treated him
coldly, but on learning the object of his
visit she repr cached nim bitterly for his
duplicity, but gradually began to take 1
a more lenient View of his conduct and
at last forgave him
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Hunt-1y Johnson returned home some-
hat sad, but happier than he had been
for several days. Dick Beaufort and
Derothy were married three months
later, and thus ended “The story of a
camera ”—Tit-Bits.
Oliver McMocney, an electrical en-
gineer of Rochester, has won the Fleet-
bury gold medal. for the most notable
electrical invention by a citizen of that
city for the year 1894. It was awarded
to him for his “electro-magnetic egg
colossifier,” by means of which the or-
dinary hen’s egg is made to grow from
three to five times its natural size. The
eggs thus treated are of delicious flavor
and readily sell for1$1 a dozen at retail.
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A CYNICAL. SUMMARY.
This world is but a fleeting show.
And little joy he gleans
\Vho curiously undertakes
To look behind the scenes.
It is not what the player does
That in the long run tells
In rounding out his baseball fame,
But what the umpire yells. 1
The fleetest races sometimes fails
The victory to claim;
’Tis not the horse that gets in first,
But the one the judges name.
And so it is with all success
That human life may see:
"Its not the man that counts, but what
The man is thought to be.
~‘V’V’asliington Star.
GROWTH'OF'THE BANANA TRADE.
Immense Increase Silica the Introduction
of the Fruit in This Country.
The be made. trade is astonishing even
tothose who are directly interested in
the business, while those of the general
public who are unfamiliar with its de-
tails have no adequate conception of its
size. ,
Only a few years ago the aggregate
importation of bananas into all Ameri-
can ports of entry was utterly insignifi-
cant in comparison with the many mil-
lion of bunches now annually re~
ceived.
Bananas. according to researches made
and statistics complied by Isaac Tuck,
editor of the Fruit Trade Journal, were
first imported into the United States in
1804, when Captain John N. Chester, of
the little coasting schooner Reynard,
brought here a small invoice consisting
of only thirty bunches.
Bananas are now transported from the
sources of supply to the various ports of
this country on a large fleet of steam-
ships built for and especially adapted to
the carrying of the fruit. California re-
ceives a considerable supply from the
Hawaiian Islands.
The active banana season begins in
March and ends in July. The fruit is
shipped green. If it were ripe it would,
in most cases, be in unmarketable con-
dition when r'ecei: ed here, and entirely
unfit for distribution among inland cit—
ies.
While the great bulk of the trade is
transacted during the five months of
March, .1 pril; I‘ijIav June and July, lim-
ited shipments are received at consider-
ably earlier and later dates, and ban-
anas are the one species of foreign fruits
which is sure to be found in this market
every day in the year.
The total imports of bananas into this
country for the six years from 1889 to
1895, i1 iclusive. was in round numbers,
about 5. 000, 0410 bu nches, or. about an
average of 12,500,000 bunches annually
which were delivered at New York,
New Orale 11s Philadelphia Boston,
Baltimore anl 1/Iontr.eal Canad°
he average number of bill an;1 s in a
bunch of "firsts" is from 1271 to 150, and
in "seconds" about one half as many,
the average number in bunches of
“thirds" being proportionately less. At
the beginning of this vear "first i" w ere
sold° at wholesale for about 91‘) cents a
bunch, rat on account of decreased re-
ceipts as c0111;-1 11ed with the correspond—
ing portion of last year, and of the ex-
tensive freezing of the fruit while being
loaded here, prices were sharply ad-
vanced, and when. warmer weather set
in, accompanied by largely increased
demand, wit‘ 1 no commensurate increase
of supply, they tempor;1 rilv reached the
unprecedented high irice of from $1.75
to $2 a bunch for “ arse" " according to
size, uality and condition of fruit,
“secozids' and "thi.'ds"boi11g sold at
proportionate prices.
SHERIDAN’S RETREAT.
Gen. Phil Sheridan's Story that He Used
To Tell Upon Himself.
Once in can. up myself. some of my
brother 01’1‘11; sfell desperately in love
with a fei eVoice we used to hear
singing atn ni :nt. It was simplv an-
gelic, and, re solvel to s. e the singer,
we followed its sound through thickets
and 1avines till we came to a lonely cab-
in whence the singingr p.0ceeded, and
creeoing up to the Vvi n'low I peeped in
and behelda 1. fat, greasy, middle aged
negiess, bai efooted and clad in a single
garment of dirsy calico, browning coffee
with a long iron spoon, while 'she gave
vent to the sweetest notes I have ever
heard. Inmy sur'p1ise I staggered for-
ward with a noise that attracted her
attention, and, grasping her coffee
skillet and waving it around her head
she bawled out:
“G’way from heah, white man; ef yeh
don't I’ll frow this yeah fryin’ pan right
at yo’ head.”
It is Not Yet Too Late.
When the articles of confederation
were drawn up in 1777 there was a
stipulation that if Canada desired she
would be permitted to enter the’ confed-
eracy, but no other colony should have
the privilege without'the assent of nine
of the original States. This priceless
opportunity for obtaining prosperity
and freedom was ignored, Canada
choosing instead to harass her sister
colonies during the long and terrible
war which resulted in a complete and
glorious triumph and the establishment
of the wisest and most perfect govern-
ment ever devised. Since then nearly
every other colony in the western hemi-
sphere has thrown off the foreign yoke.
Canada, the most extensive and impor-
tant, and with advantages possessed by
none of these, has remained true to alien
rule.——Courier-Journa1.
Outrageous Treatment.
Warden—Well, what‘s the trouble?
Prisoner—I’ve been unjustly humil—
iated. I am serving a term for not
being able to account for $3,500,000 and
you put me in a cell with a man who is
doing time‘ for counterfeiting nickels.—
Philadelphia Times.
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She (wearily)—-—Yes, very often.
He—I have heard that walking in the
open air before retiring is beneficial.
She (hopefully)—Let’s try it. You do
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