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THE FARMEWH WIFE
A Love Etory That Ended As Was
Wished.
" No, Ned,. 1 will nevor be a farmer's
wife, to dredge from Monday morning till
-Saturday ni ht and get bent and wrinkled,
ndoldbe r
and before my time. No ; I say again,
I will not ; eo dont plead any more.
"But, Reba, mydear, you have mistaken
ideas, where can yon find more inde .end-
enae than in the life of a farmer ?
' Andas
to drudging, I can't regard it in that way.
Of oouree there is work to do, bat T do
not wish you to do it ; only superintend
the eervante, and any- 'tenable loving
woman must do that evn in a city home.
Now think, truly, what can we ask more 2
The farm is my own, rioh and well stocked,
and with prudence and indaetry, a -few
years will find us independent, and hand-
some Ned Gleason looked from his great
=height fondly at the bright-eyed beauty by
his. side.
She was a pretty, spoiled little fairy, with
big velvety brown eyes,, and maesee of
golden hair, and a healthy pink tinted oval
'face, and a sweet eoarlet•lipped month,
whioh was just now drawn down with a
very spiteful expression, for she dearly
loved her country bean, as she laughingly
called him. Ever since her last summer
visit to Aunt Beokey's, her heart had gone
oat to his keeping; but never would she
consent to live on a farm, and have those
rough hired men sitting at her table, ae
they did at Aunt Bookers, and see Ned
going around every day in shirt sleeves and
broad•rimmed hat, when, if he would only
consent to follow hie profession, what an
elegant looking man he would make—how
proud ehe would be of him.
"Ned, give up the farm for my sake,"
and she looked up at him with a world of
love in the melting brown eyee.
" No, Reba," and the voice was low and
hoarse ; " I cannot, and your love for me
ie not very great, or you would not
ask it."
" Very well, Mr. Ned Gleason, then I
will never marry yon ; good bye," end the
,proud little beauty flew out of the room and
up stairs to her pretty pink and white aur.
tained room to ory the light out of the sweet
brown eyes.
And Ned, with a white set facie, and a
hardened look in the blue dark gray eyes,
took his towering form from the brown
stone front with never a look at the window
where a tearstained face was watching his
term tread down the pavement, every step
taking him farther away from her, and ehe
knew he would never come bank unless she
sent for him. She looked at her tiny white
hands, and a half smile flitted over the lovely
face. The idea of these hands mixing bread,
and making butter, and perhaps milking
horrid cows—I'm atraid of them any way ;
oh, dear, maybe Ned will repent when he
.finds he cannot like without me. And with
this half satisfactory remark ehe bathed
<her tear -stained face, and began a long
letter to Aunt Beckey, telling her all her
troubles—for Reba's mother had died yearn
ago.
Time sped along and six months had
passed since handeome Ned Gleason had
stood in the mnsio room of the Rathburn
mansion and pleaded his snit with the dark•
• eyed beauty. Never once had he crossed
her path ; not a word had ehe heard of
him ; even Aunt Beokey did not mention
his name in her loving, motherly lettere.
Poor little Reba, time and again she white
pared to herself she did not care, but the
pretty fade was losing its bright flash, and
the eyes grew wider and browner. One
,:.. morning she awakened to find herself an.,
r hen with fortune andfriends p n fr sada $own,
and but one plane in the wide world to go
—out to Aunt Beokey'°, on the farm. How
sweet and restful it seemed to the poor
sorrow -stricken child, as the first tiny
green leaves were peeping forth and the
brook in the meadow went laughingly on
its way.
" Auntie, everything seems busy and
happy but yonr miserable little girl. Teach
me to work, and perhaps in time I may
forget."
" No, Reba, yon will never forget one
thing—that yon have trifled with a tree
loving heart. We all have our life lessons ;
some are harder to learn than others, and
I 'em afraid, my dear, you are making
yours very hard.
" Well, Aunt Beokey, yon mnet
not blame me alone. Ned might
have yielded to me. I ought to have
some rights. I only asked him to give
up the farm; he has a profession,
yon know, and is an educated man,
and it seems so like wasting his talent to
apend his life on a farm; and yet it is not
as bad as I thought. I am beginning to
love the little chicks, and am not half ae
afraid of the cows aa I used to be."
Aunt Beokey smiled ever so softly to
herself to hear her pretty niece ramble on.
Presently she wiped a halt falling tearfrom
her dark eyes that looked so mnoh Iike
Reba's as she said :
" Have you never wondered, dear, why I
live here alone, with no one but the help,
and why I never married?"
"Yee, Auntie, I have; you must have
been very beautiful when you were young.
I have heard papa speak of yon as a belle,
but he would never say anything of yonr
past life."
Aunt Beokey smoothed the folds of her
Spotless white apron, and with a faraway
look in her shining eyes, said
" Yes, Reba, I was once ae bright and
beautiful as yon are today, and I`passion-
.ately loved a noble young man ; but, like
Ned, he was a farmer, and my friend°
cams between ne and I would not marry
him. He left me and crossed the ocean,
but I name to myself before long and sent
for him to come back to me. I could not
live without him. He sailed for home, bat
sickened and died ere he reached here, and
they brought him to me in his coffin ; he
left me this farm, and ever since I have
lived on here Clay by day waiting for him
to corm° and lead me home."
After that day Reba daily visited the
.diary, the kitchen, the barn, stamping her
own golden butter, making snowy bread
,and biscuits, hunting the eggs, and even
milking the meek -eyed Daisy with her own
white hands ; deeper roses bloomed on the
rounded cheeks, and a clearer light burned
in the shadowy eyes. If she was not happy,
ehe was contented, and. Aunt Beokey looked
-on and smiled approvingly.
Two years after she came to the farm to
live, how much older and wiser she felt ;
-one day in the early summer she wandered
away to her favorite seat under the old
appletree hermind traveled baokto the
day when the blue eyes looked into her
,own and begged her to throw aside her
pride and be his own little wife. How
hard she had tried to $t herself for his life,
but where was he ? No one ever heard of
him now, and yet, once she thought she
matlght sight of bis handsome writing on
one of the ,letters Aunt Beokey so often
reoeived. , Unniindfnl of the pretty picture
r cwhite
with alet and
she
ado neat book d
apron, the soft breeze blowing the golden
,,tendrils about the sweet face, she went
beck, back over the past, then on into the
-future, and with there coursing down over
the rosy oheeke, he clenched her little
o ied "Oh , Ned t Ned
hands and r , dome
back to me, I oannot live Without yeti !"
"Why, my dear little girl,"` exclaimed a
tender, manly voioe, "I have been waiting
a long time to hear you call me," and two
strong arm° gathered her to hie heart..
e Ned, my darling, where have you
been ? How could you stay away eo long
from me?"
" I have been only two hundred milee
away, and T game now in obedience to a
call from Aunt Beokey, who wrote me she
thought you needed me."
" How about the farm ?" asked Ned, teat
evening, as they sat together talking of the
past.
" Oh, yon ought to taste my bread and
pies, and yellow butter; and to tell the
truth, Ned, I think I am made expreeely
for a farmer's wife,'" and Reba nestled her
pretty head on the broad shoulder of her
lover.
In after years, no happier, more prosper-
ous couple could be found than Ned and
Reba.
The Wedding.
" Nathan, yon are married, I under
stand," said the Governer of Tennessee to
a hillside constituent.
" Yes, sir ; captured the best looking girl
in the whole community. Old Lige Peter-
son's daughter, Rose. Yon know her, I
reckon."
" Yes ; I thought the was engaged to
Sam Parker."
" She was, but 1 got ahead of him. Tell
you how it was. She loved Sam powerful,
for he is the beat oironit•rider we have ever
had. I loved Rose, and was mightily down.
oast, for I thought there want any no use
in bnokin' agin him. Well the day for the
marriage was set, and a passel of ns come
to town to see the weddin", for
Rose 'lowed that she wanted to be
married in town, and then take the oars
for home, thereby gettin' a 10.mile bridal
tower. When we got to town, lo and be.
hold, there was a circus, with mo' horses
than a strong man could shake a pole at.
Rose was mighty keen to go to the show,
but Sam says, says he, ' Rose, you know
it's agin' my religion, Stay here till I go
an' git the license." Rose's under jaw
dropped. When Sam was gone I Bays,
says I, ' Rose, wouldn't you like to go to
that show ?'
"' Yes, bat Sam won't take me.'
"' That's bad ; they've got a world of
horses.'
" Then she tuned up and began to cry.
"' Rose,' says I, ' if yon marry Sam you
can't go to the show but if you marry me
I'll take yon.'
" She studied a while, and says, says
she, ' An' let me stay to the concert airter
the big show's over?'
"' Yes.'
"' An' let me look at the monkeys all I
want to?'
"' Tibby ebo'.'
"' An' won't pull an' haul when I get
interested 2'
"' No, swear I won's.'
"' An' when the show's over yon let me
look at the monkeys agin?'
"' Yes.'
"' Nath,' said she, patting her hand
mighty lovin'ly on my arm, ' I'm yourn.'
Then I jumped up, popped my heels
together, an' in lete'n a half 'hour we were
dun married an' a -looking at the monkeys."
—Opie Read in Arkansaw Traveler.
The Women and the Commercial Traveller.
Speaker Reed charges the good women
of the land—God bless them—and the
commercial drummers, with the great
Republican Waterloo. Well, the women of
America are more than ever the defend-
ers of the Republic, and never was there
a clearer record of patriotism than their
common-sense services rendered int the et
election, to show np the shameful exactions
of the party of monopoly, headed by Reed,
McKinley and their kind, in taxing the
people for the benefit of the few. The
commercial traveller is likewise entitled
to the thanks of the people.
The women, Speaker Read remarks,
ere chiefly responsible for the diens.
trons defeat which the Republican party
sustained and that the commercial dram -
mere helped to effect it." The women, he
nays, keep the ran of prices and have the
keenest scent `for increased cost. The
clerks in the stores told them that the
price of this and that article had been
raised because of the Moginley Bill, and
they went home and told their husbands
and brothers, who went to the bellot•box
and pat in their protests against any
farther increase in the cost of living.
The drummers, who travel all over the
country, told the country merchants that
they should bay heavily before the 1tIogin•
ley bill increased prices, and the store•
keepers told their customers all about the
effect of the bill upon prices. The cense.
gnenoe was that the whole country got the
impression that the McKinley bill pieced
new and unnecessary burdens upon th.
people.
Speaker Reed is about right in what he
says concerning the women and the drum-
mers. They were ae effective agents as
the newspapers in informing the people
what they might expect from the McKinley
bill.—Norfolk Virginian.
A Lecture on Economy.
Texas Siftings: " Please, mum, give me
a dime to bay a glass of bread—'sonee me,
I mean a loaf of beer."
" I haven't got any money."
" Haven't got any money 2 Then,
madam, I would suggest that you move
into a oheaper house ; you're evidently
living beyond your means. Economy is
wealth. Eoonomize in the matter of
clothes and house rent. Cut your expenses,
and then, perhaps, some day you may have
a dime to spare—a dime, madam, that may
be the means of preventing a hungry and
thirsty fellow -mortal from committing
suicide ; or it may be a quarter—a coin of
the value of 25 Dents—that will upholster
the dark' olonde on the horizon of his
despairing soul with a silver plated lining
and fill his stomach with imported beer.
Good day, fair lady."
It wasn't Expensive.
Puck : Book Agent—Thio is a work, sir
in which the writer has handled his sub-
ject with a master's grasp. A,book which
has received the highest encomiums of the
pulpit, the press and of edaoated and
refined people wherever it has been seen.
It is at once entertaining, instruotive, and
as a book of references it is invaluable. It
coats you $4,
Busy Man—Cheap, isn't it ?
Book Agent—Remarkably so, for a work
of its oheraoter.
Busy Man—I did not refer to the book.
Book Agent—Excuse me, whet did you
refer to, sir.
Busy .Man—Talk.
The name Kaffres, as applied to the
Kaffres of South and Central Africa, is the
Arab kafir,"a our," and wee given them in
spite by the Moelem.
"The Spanish Government has officially
recognized the Brazilian
Re
pablic.
—Chrysanthemum china is something
new.
Theleasures of antioi °tion aro equaled,
p. p
by the joys of remembrance. To eo live
thee memory will brighten rather than
darken our pathway ie to toneh the gseoret
springof happiness.
LntTE$T VV1 IN BEARD.
The ,Pointed Style Snipped Out and the
Thin f3quaro Snipped In.
IL bas been decreed by the artistic) bar -
tiers of Perla that the pointed beard, which
has for so long a time held popular favor, is
no longer the thing of fashion that it wee,
'" The pointed beard," says M. Henri
Ponjol, an authority, "" has certain advent
tapes over all others, and that is the reason
why it has so long been popular. It is a
style of beard that was invented by King
Henry III of France. It requires lees
trimming and care than any other, and,
therefore, in thie busy country it has been
widely adopted. But it must go. The new
board reeemblea the ono now about to be.
discarded in some respects. It ie like a
pointed beard with the point out off. It is
very thin and closely cat on the cheeks. It
is a peculiar fact that the adoption of this
style after discarding tbe other is but a
repetition of history. After Henry III had.
made the pointed beard so fashionable the
Duo de Guise introduced the present beard.
The Duo de Guise, as you will, remember,
was the instigator of the Huguenot mate
more on St. Bartholomew's day. Ho lived
in the eixteenth century, and was assassin-
ated in his 43rd year by order of Henry
III. At present there aro only four of the
new egnere beards in New York oily.
These are the pioneers of the new style. In
Paris there are many of them.—New York
Sun.
Danbury Waking Up.
A short time ago we delicately conveyed
our compliments to Danbury, Conn„
regarding the disgraceful apathy with
which its citizens view the constant occur•
renoe of incendiary fires, and also not
forgetting to touch on the scandalous
inefficiency of the Chief of the Danbury
fire department, giving speoifio instances.
Some marked copies were sent to Danbury.
We are now in receipt of advices from
Danbury that the Chief hoe been asked for
his resignation by tee Common Council on
accost of his conduct at the fire we
referred to. Danbury has done well in
applying the refrigerating process to the
incompetent Chief, but it should not stop
there. While, in addition to replacing the
Chief, it improves its fire department, the
incendiaries should be brought to book,
lest Danbury become "Dennis " so far ae
fire insurance ie concerned. The beat fire
department in the world could not save
Danbury if the incendiaries are permitted
to continue burning up the town in regular
instalments as they have been doing. If
one-third as many fires had occurred in
some Western mining camp the firebug
would have been strung np. Clearly,
Danbury either hos no police force or else
a disgustingly inefficient one. A little
medicine in the shape of a sharp advance
in fire insurance rates might help Danbury
to wake np. It has been a graveyard for
insurance money quite long enough.—New
York Commercial Bulletin.
The Largest Locomotive.
What is said to be the largest locomotive
in the world has just been turned out, at
the Schenectady Werke. The l000motive
is for the Michigan Centre]. It ie a ten -
wheeler, with six driving wheele, each six
feet and two inches in diameter. The shell
of its boiler is 68 inches in diameter, and.
the locomotive weighs 62 tone ; with loaded
tender, 102 tone. The locomotive is called
'compound," from a device by whioh
tnere are only two exhausts to a revolution,
instead of four as in ordinary engines.
The Schenectady works turn out nine
locomotives' a week ; the.Beldwin-•-works;
twelve. The "improvement" to be derived
from this whole matter is the advance in
the rate of manufacturing locomotives.
Twenty years ago it took a "gang" a month
to turn out a locomotive ; now the works
turn out 36 in a month of 28 days. Time
ie saved, skilled labor has progressed im-
mensely, capital has been enlarged and
workingmen have steadily earned good
wages.
How They Began.
Henry M. Stanley was a reporter.
Edison was a telegraph operator.
P. T. Barnum kept a country store.
Justice Miller clerked in a drag store.
Gen. Grant was a tanner and a farmer.
Garfield walked the tow•path of a canal.
Gen. N. P. Banke began life as a factory
boy.
Senator Stanford was a country lawyer
in Wieconsin.,
Mark Twain was employed on a Missis-
sippi river boot.
Blaine and Cleveland were teachers in
sohoole for the blind.
Gladstone has bad no occupation but,
that of o student and politician.
Ben Batter once supported himself by
reeking chairs for 30 cents a day.
The Rev. Dr. Meredith, who, next to Dr.
Talmage, preaches to the largest ondienees
in Brooklyn, was a tailor boy.
The Happy man.
New York Herald : Real happiness con-
sists of health, self-respeot, the good -will of
the community and a sufficient income to
gratify your reasonable wants. Everything,
else is trivial and not worth bothering
about. The -man who has steady work,
fair wages, a nosey home, enough to eat, a
think overcoat, and the consciousness of
personal integrity, is a mightily favored
fellow, in possession of more than three.
quarters of the best thine which this
world affords.
Not an Accident.
"I hear that there has been an accident
at the Qaohoeh Junction," said a reporter
to a railway official.
" No, air, there has been no accident."
" But two passengers fell from a train
and were killed."
"Possibly something of that kind hap-
pened, but
ap-pened,but there WOS no accident, sir. No
railway property was injured. < Good day,
sir."
Tented.
Puck : "Mr. Balfour," said the Queen,
"have yon investigated the potato famine
in Ireland?
" Yes, Your Majesty. I went to Dublin
for that purpose. The reports are totally
without foundation. I had two helps to
potatoes at every meal."
It Pays.
Life : Editor of the Wayback 1%Voodaxe :
" Does advertising pay 2 Well, I should
sayit did. Why,onlylast
week
Sammy
Shrtweight, theroce, advertised in m
paper for a boy, and that very night his
wife gave birth to twine. Both boys, too."
--""
Is this man Bach composing i etill ?"
caked Mrs. Gotthero of Goodword. " No;
he is decomposing," said Goodword.
Mme. elod7eaka is at present in Europe,
where she wilt spend the winter. She has
visited her native Poland, and is now
negotiating for engagements in Ht. Peters-
burg and Berlin. If she plays in the latter
city it will be in English, with a German
support.
Lena Mervillo will play the soubrette
role in the new Anglo•Swedieh comedy,
" ion YOneon."
"DOWN Oer THIS rlII WA.NEet RIQUR'."
How the Author of the Famous Sgng Mit
Upon the Florida Stream.
"Dia you ever hear how Sewanee.
River ' was written ?"
" Don't think I ever did."
" Well, Steph Poster—Stephen C.1?o°ter
was hie full name---weS in the zenith of
his popularity when he wrote the words,"
said my friend to me, " He bad written
tbe song in the frame house on Sendetaky
street in Allegheny, but he couldn't lied
the neaten of a river that suited him.
Finally he went over to the office of hie
brother, Morrison Foeter, sat down on hie
dock and said ' Morrison, I've got a new
darkey song here and We complete except
the name of the river. I want a Southern
river with only two or three syllables. Give
me one, won't you?'
" lllorrison suggested several, but they
didn't snit, Then he took down an atlas,
ran his eye over a map ` of the Southern
States for a few minutes and finally said
• Here's a river in Florida by the name of
Saawnee, how will that do 2'
"' That's it, that's it,' exclaimed the
song writer, jumping from the desk. ' It's
just what I want,' and pinking up a pen he
inserted the name of the river that has since
become the title of one of the sweetest and
most pathetic, melodies. I believe that
Stephen C. Foeterneverthought very much
of the piece himself until after it had taken
ite plane among the popular songs of the
country."—Philadelphia Press.
Talk or the stores.
" Waved" hair is a New York fancy.
The best theatre bonnets are tiny.
Girdles of daisies, buttercups and violate
are in favor.
The latest imported hat reeembfes a
tambourine.
Lavender Bilk and crepe tea gowns for
second mourning.
Cloth bonnets trimmed with sealskin,
eab:aor Persian lamb.
A becoming bonnet in amber velvet is
trimmed with sable tails.
Ann -pears very prominently in all the
deconations of the day.
Ball dress bodices are composed of rose
petals, poppy petals andhyacinth blossoms.
Four•button suede' kid gloves are worn
in the West, but will not prevail in New
York.
Men may wear blaok or self -colored
stitching, wide or narrow, spare pointe or
only the plain cording.
The plainer the decoration and the finer
the kid the handsomer the glove becomes
for, women's wear.
Several retail dealers are now selling the
tinsel ribbon effects, that were wonderful
novelties fonr monthe ago, on their bargain
tables.—Dry Goods Economist.
Sensible Christmas Hints.
Buy no more than yon can afford.
Give no gift where you do not delight to.
Shop no more than yon have the strength
for.
elfifertain only within your means.
"'Keep your Christmas nerve, and muscle,
and heart, and hope, and cheer, first for
your own home, year own fireside, your
dearest, your closest, yonr sweetest—and
then for the homeless, the firelese, the
unloved, the " endeared,' and be true,
true, true to the last Christmas card that
goes to your post-offioe, or the last " Merry
Christmas " that aroma your lips 1
We are a penerone people, and a happy
people, and a Christian people, and we
must keep our festival with sincerity,
honor, intelligence and good Dense, if we
Ireneeit:alive and " in His name."—
E'liiabeth Stuart Phelps in Christmas Ladies'
Home Journal.
Rewarded at Last.
Rochester Herald : The multitudes of
women who have been looking under the
bed for years will be gratified to know that
one of their number, Mrs. Allen Deas, of
Camden, South Carolina, was rewarded
the other day by finding a colored gentle-
man under there. She seized a revolver,
ordered the darkey oat, condnoted him to
the yard and made him milk a cow white
one of her children went for an officer. In
this way she was able to keep np with her
work.
He was Failing.
_:.„Shoe Recorder : Lady visitor— James,
yonr father isn't looking well ; I fear he
is failing." Little Jimmie—I guess he is.
I <heard him and mother talkin' it over
the other night for Mm to pat everything
in her name an' then fail an' offer ten
oenta on a dollar!
A Faint 'QOpe.
Miss Artiste—I ,,:e, so fond of painting.
Indeed, I may say that I am wedded to my
art.
Jack (her admirer) -Would it be any use
to inquire whether you have any coneoi•
entions scruples against bigamy
Gum Chewing Girls.
Buffalo News : A prominent New York
physician said a few dews ago that the
constant chewing of gum lies produced
weak minds in 14 cases of young girls now
under treatment, the constant movement
of the month ceasing too great a strain on
the head.
Bog to bo Excused.
Rochester Herald : A movement has
begun in New York to designate in dinner
invitatione the taot that wine is not to be
served by placing a knot of bine ribbon
to the lower left hand corner of the invi-
tation. The regret follows by return mail.
What the Police Found,
Chicago News : The other morning
some ingenious gentleman heaved a
cobblestone through a plateglass window
on Wabash avenue and fished a fine over-
coat out through the hole. The police are
at work on the ogee. They have already
secured the cobblestone and the hole.
A Dreadful Fate.
Pittsburg Bulletin : May—What a
strong, noble face ! Ethel—It is indeed.
Tho face of Contin George. A finer fellow
nevor faced a dreadful fate. May—
Gracious 1 Is he dead ? EtheI—Worse.
He has joined a football team.
A Question of Height.
Puck : Pretty girl (at the florist's binsh-
ine)—I
en t that mistletoe very highh
?
Florist—Well, Mies, you know it has to
bo high enough for yon to stand ander it.
The Stage Mnet be Elevated.
Pottsville uhronicte' :' Eva Hamilton and
Mrs. O,Shea might play Giroile•Girofla.
" Not to be out of fashion," said the
turkey," I will give thanks that axes will
obet more this fall than they aid last."
nn WITHOUT IT.
The mistloto is now hung up
To aid poor lovesick man ;
And when there is no mistletoe
Ile does the best ho can.
Miss Estelle Clayton is reported to have
solid that there is to be a eombined move..
meet of aotressee during next season
against extravagant stage dressing.
13i4A>07l', BI11OUTN;4rS9 eT RLQ.
Ideas star Women Who Wish to Look Well
land Live Lour,
That a great deal of comeliness may be
gained by a little thought and cosmetic
thriftiness (eq to say) is well est forth in
the following item from the New York
Tribune : The treatment of tbe fade and
throat to a bath of water as bot as it cap
be borne at night before retiring—bolding
the face in the steam and gently robbing
the skin while it is atilt warm and wet
—tends to promote perspiration, etlmn.
late the pores and free them from
hardened matter which so often
forms "blackheads.'-' After the face
has been thoroughly treated in this
way, always remembering to use no harsh
friction, only gentle rubbing with the
hand, it is an excellent thing to rub it
with some simple, pure vegetable oil,
using only enough to be absorbed by the
akin and not enough to be perceptible. The
very beet oil for this purpose is a
perfectly fresh, pure olive oil. This
amount of oil is nourishing to the skin.
In the morning wash the fade care-
fully in warm water and afterward
with cold water to give tone to the com-
plexion.
A Sensitive Subject.
A street oar incident which has come to
an Eastern exchange seems to illustrate
the unconsoiouenese of apparent age. An
old lady on entering,a crowded train caught
the strap and by chance took her stand
directly in front of a lady passenger apper.
ently as old as herself.
The possessor of the seat was up' in a
moment.
" Have my seat, madam," she exclaimed
with audible courtesy. " You are older
than I am."
"Older than you 1" retorted the other ;
" I beg a thousand pardons for contradiot-
ing my elder, but indeed, madam, you are
mistaken. Seep your seat,"
" Bat I am sure you are older than I."
" And I am equally sure that I am not.
Will you bo goon 'enough to resume your
place 2"
" Not while an older woman stands."
The situation was growing interesting ;
but, though all smiled, no one seemed
moved to relieve matters by offering a
second Beat.
Both old persons were pretty well warmed
up by this time. First one sniffed and then
the other, as old ladieasometimeewill when
sorely tried.
The vacant seat was still before them.
Finally an overture of peace came from the
owner of the seat, the last speaker.
"I don't want to be disagreeable, madam,
and if I'm older than yon I'll sit down.
Let's tell our ages, and the older yields."
The aggrieved woman did not relish this
much, but the pressure of an audience for-
bade a retreat.
" Well, madam," ehe replied, forcing the
semblance of a smile, " I shall be most
happy. Will you announce your age ?
Then I shall take pleasure in telling mine."
" I was born' in Maroh,1817. And yon?"
" Whet, March, 1817 1 Good heavens 1
So was 1. And what day did yon arrive,
pray 2"
" The 7th. And you 2" There were
bright red spots on the oheeke of both old
ladies now.
I have nothing more to say," was the
reply ; " my birthday is the 6th. I am
much obliged for the Beat." And with
admirable dignity ehe eat down amid con-
eiderable laaghter.
A Bightto-the Title.
Puck . " Yon
dear old blessed 1".
ex-
claimed Mrs. Soltair, when her husband
handed her a fine pair of diamond earrings
for a Christmas gift.
" Why do you gall me blessed 2" asked
Soltair.
" Because it is more blessed to give than
to receive."
Woman, Woman, Lovely Woman!
Texas Siftings : Esmerelda Longcoffin—
I saw you hies Mies Elderly yesterday when
yon met her on the street. I thought you
and ehe were at daggers' points. I know
she talked shamefully about yon.
Birdie MoHenepin—I know it, too, but
she has grown so old and ugly that I have
forgiven her everything.
Tit for Tat,
Texas Siftings : Visiting) Friend—How
are you Doming on ?
Sick Man -Well, the doctors have given
me up, and now I have struck a way to get
well. I will give np the dootore. I'll get
even with them.
A Loyal Policy.
Ottawa Free Press : Mr. Foster wants
the British West Indian colonies to form a
"combine " with Canada to hoycott Britieh
trade. And this is what he calls a
"loyal" commercial policy.
Woman's Aid to Woman.
Miss Gossip—I hoer your olnb had a
meeting feet night.
Mies Doroes-Yes, indeed. We had a
splendid dinner at Delmonioo's that cost
$20 a plate, after which our president read
e. helpful paper on " How to Live on °500
a Year."
THE New York State Commission on
Lunacy has issued an order to all the insane
asylums in the State deolaring that every
patient shall have the privilege of writing to
some relative or friend at leaet once in two
weeks, and an amanuensis mast be provided
for those who cannot write. All letters
addreeeed to Stete officers, judges of courts
orto district attorneys must be forwarded
without examination of the contents, and
if the patient is without money to pay the
postage it mast be paid by the asylum
authorities. This order has been issued
with a view to prevent people being illega fly
confined in these asylume.
Secretary Windom says the money
stringency in the United States is not
caused by contraction of the onrrenoy, but
by the people looking up their funds through
look of courage to invest.
The honeymoon, has surely collapsed
when the irate husband calls his dumpling
a ginger snap.
The poor man can always get prompt
notice when he is to be punished
TAXING THE '[ItAVJBLLeeli,S..
17'apcouver (H. C.) Practically Boyeotte the
Pesetve Drummer.
There is wrath and angry feeling perved-
ing the breast, of the Toronto traveler
whose misfortune bete compelled them to
visit Vancouver, B. C, Recently the eitY
passed anordinanoecompellingeach travel-
ler for any house without headquarters
pay a
the Province to a license of i6 5Q before
he Was allowed to solicit ordere within iia:
limite. Yesterday one big jewelry firm was
notified by its representative that be half
been mulcted in the sem mentioned. The'
head of the firm told the World that Van-
couver woe just going the right way if it
wanted to commit commercial suicide, for
no traveller will care to enter its gates un-
der each hard conditions,
Dahomey's Bmazone.
The history of the Amazonian warriors]
of Dahomey ought to give a strong im-
petus to the women's rights movement in
dispelling the objections that women aro
wanting in the courage, nerve and other
high qualities neoeaeary fOr successful cora..
petition with men in the battle of life. 1n,
the State of Wyoming women not merely
exeroiee the suffrage, but complete with,
men for important civil offices. To force
their way into the profession of arme and
to contest with the men for the highest
military honors would bo the final step in
the assertion of their rights and privileges.
In the evolutionary progress of the women
of Dahomey it may be mentioned as an
interesting detail that they have re-
versed with men the =atom of riding
on horseback. While the Amazons
ride astride, the .men sit in side-
saddle fashion, the saddles being merely
gayly colored cloth: The men are lifted
on and 'off by attendants, who lead the
horses and steady the riders in their preca-
rious position. Even his Royal Majesty of.
Dahomey oats a sorry figure hogging a tali
groom around the neck, while another pate
his arm around the kingly waist. To Chia
custom is doubtless due the ; great starts
which the women of Dahomey have gained.
over the men. The hint ehonld not be
lost on our woman's rights advocates. If
they could persuade the men to reverse
with them the custom of horseback riding,
the ultimate and complete triumph of the
woman's rights movement would not be
long delayed. Philadelphia Record..`
Too. Much Shade.
Homes in places otherwise unexceptiona-
ble are often so closely overhung with
trees as to be in A state of humidity by
preventing a free circulation of air and by
obstructing free admission to the Ban's
rays. Trees growing against the walls of.
houses and shrubs in confined places near
dwellings are injurious also as favoring.
humidity ; at a proper distance, on the
other hand, trees are favorable to health.
On this principle, says a noted Englieh
physician, it may be understood how the
inhabitants of one honee suffer from
rheumatism, headaohe, nervous affeetione
and other consequences of living in a con-
fined, humid atmosphere, while their
nearest neighbors, whose houses are other-
wise situated, enjoy good health, and even
how one nide of a large building fully
exposed to the sun and to a free meanie -
tion of air may be healthy, while the
other aide, overlooking damp, shaded
conte and gardens, is unhealthy. Humid,
confined situations subject to great alters -
Cone of temperature between day and
night are most dangerous to hmiian life.
D with a free "circulation of
a ,xpoanre to the sun are the material.
tot
be attended to in choosing a,
00.
Prd!. Koch is a bine.eyed man of only
medium height. He talks slowly with et
lisp, dresses neatly, and is one of the quiet-
est and most modest of physicians. Se'
has no sense of fear, and when in India
investigating the cholera he bent over the
corpses in the dissecting room without a
thought of contagion.
THE BOSTON GUM'S CHRISTMAS.
She tossed her Christmas toys aside,
Her face with disappointment frowning.
" Oh, dear the maiden sighed,
" I did so want another Browning?"
Tho petriotio newspaper man grows tired
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a hanging occasionally. -Dallas News.
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