Exeter Advocate, 1902-6-5, Page 2- By Clinton Pangerlield
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The sultan rolled over on his mach
ef silk. As be raced, lets auxleus at-
tetelants the glare la Ms eyes made
teem fall back as though be had strueie
them with the seimiter vehicle alwaya
lay witilla bis reaele,
"Allah sent you all 44 a Plague!" he
said fiercely. "ere have I kin three
mortal tours, and sleep comes not near
mine eyes. Begher 'trite ebe lig/04
eoolsi Can a emu rest wIth ebadewa
banging over him?."
Tbe lights sheue Wre brfillantly,
While tbe rulers eyes eearehed jealous-
ly in every corner. Suddenly be sat We,
"retch me that Christian Page who
as brouget to tee rahice yesterdayi
I weary 4f the eternal eameeess of Year
Weer'
The grand vieier, was RA*
'tittered beyouil words by Ida mastern
liking for his presence. went himself
to seek the bey, wondering as be went
bow muck longer he mina attend to
affeirs of state if be was expected to
keep awake all uight as well,
A velvet footed enuuch brought elm
qvieltly to the page's eitle. 51.1e boy
sleet Pennefillle, 41thOtagh the teara he
shed in praylieg over the little cottage
be Called hem° Were seemly dry an
his cheelm.
The vizier woke Mtn. net uugently.
Sooth to soy, he felt seine pity for this
blue eyed lad, end,, moved by a kleilly
impulse. he helped the page to dress
and took his hand as they hurried
through the long, dimly lighted cord.
dom.
The sultan still sat up, clutching his
wavering, around him and reminding
the vizier most unpleasantly of a sullen
'add hoar in Ms lair, solitary, ralsera.
ble,, but Infinitely daugeroua, The rt.
eler slivered illiVerdly as he presented
the page.
"Leave the boy alone with Etter
growlea Ma master. "Are you para.
lyxed, you sons of idiocy, nut you do
not move when I speak?"
Tills last sentence cleared the room
Instantly, although the sultan bad nev.
er been so nearly alone before..
His two gigantic guarda, who slept
et the foot of Ws bed, went last, their
maked vehulters glettrulng in tbele
hands. The door Owed noiselessly.
The page knelt quietly near tbe cen-
ter of the room, the light from tbe
swinging; lamps full upon blra. Ilis
eyes were resting uudiaturbedly on tee
sultan.
"Rise and come htrel" growled tbe
ruler hoarsely. The page rose, and, to
the sultan's astonishment, he walked
confidently to the couch and, seating
himself on it, passed his slim, cool fin-
gers over the ruler's brow.
"How very hot and uncomfortable
you are:" be said thoughtfully. "YOu've
almost got a fever, but your face is
;Worst of
"What's the matter with my face?"
demanded the sultan, considerably tak-
en aback.
"It's quite wrinkled 'with trouble,
jest like father's is before mother
smootbs it away for bim. This Is the
esay she does it"
lie was so small and the mighty
ruler so large that he had to kneel on
the coverings to reacb bin master's
forebead, but his touch produced a re-
markable effect. The sultan sank back
on his pillowls and lay quite Still for
nearly fifteen minutes, while the sh•olt-
Ing went on.
Outside the door knelt the grand
vizier, looking carefully through the
keyhole, too amazed to report the re-
sult of his observatious to the officers
behind him.
' "What makes you think trouble put
those lines in my face?" asked tbe sul-
tan.
"I don't know bow I know it," said
the page perplexedly, "but I do. You.,
see, when tbey took me away from
mother and brought me to the pained'
I thought you would be just perfectly
happy. But you look like the old rug -
maker near" us did when the soldiers
broke his loom to pieces."
Tbe sultan grinned, his Bp euritng
upward, after tbe fashion of a wolf.
"Would that my vizier could hear tbee
pay compliments! But my loom is not
broken, and woe unto those who at-
tempt it: Thou seest the splendor of
my palace?"
"You have more things than any one
could count," said the page reflective-
ly. "tVbat a good time your boys must
haver'
The sultan scowled. His heir ap-
parent was in the depths of a toad in-
fested dungeon, while his other sons
trembled daily for their beads. "I
don't talk of them," he muttered. "Un-
grateful hounds they are!" Then he
added hastily, by way of changing the
subject: "Your infidel sect clings to
its holes, which It calls homer. Tbere-
fore, I suppose, your mother shrieked
and sereamed when they brought you
away.
Two round, hot tears splashed down
from the page's eyes upon his master's
beard. The vizier distinctly saw them
gleam In the light, though he could
catch no word of the conversation. He
looked to see tbe audacious boy's head
• neatly"Swept off with the curved nine
[ter, but the sultan merely lay still.
"She never screams," said the page
quietly, "She told me it was God
Neill I should come here, else you could
not have taken me. She said I would
find people here tnore unhappy than
she or I eould ever be and I must
t-t-trg f -f -for her sake to be good to
them.1 think I would better not talk
Of her. temigbe • Are you feeling bet -
er? yoaare not nearly so bot as you
were,"
"A weight veers on my Ude,'
eThen I will pt out the lights," said,
be page determinedly. t'Tein can't
sleep, evbile they are buridee."
Ile wes o quieltin his Movement
Met only •a, frentle lenge °A the sul-
tan's part enebled the latter to catch
Mal Willie be woo still In roue. Brawia
rouglaly twit, the page faeeil around
and saw that beads ef cold sweat
stood out on thultan's forellead; thee
he was gbastly withe with terror,
"Mey the powers of evil consume
thee!"ieeried alienate* te the boy,
'1.,:et the lamps alone; Don't you !mow,
relit Christiau fool, that as soon as the
(lark fiewa round me It lays tu wait for
me awl comes creeping, nearer and
neater? IN face la beeline and Woody.
end Its eyes are filmy. But the arms
tbe arms are so strongi Tbey want to
close round my tbreat eleeer and elos,
er. They want to straVe 1ne. Ah,
geO, Itg shadew new!"
The erlitan'S breath eane in beam
gasp% ells eyes were big with Warren
'rhe page Morel by him mentally.
titough he was weefully seared kinn
self,
ellow e,e-etneld, anvthing pass the
gmitelsr he stuttezetl, uneble to keep
all anxiety Rut et his voice,
"Guards:" lhe sultan. "Who
tusta the guards? Look at the Chrle-
an rulers, wbese tellowere proress
owl; milky deetrinea of gentlenese.
de they rest? Put if Allah gent
er to linoW iny true eervanta,
'Uttar emits like A mime', Unit
would not olive Me from It. Through
them It MUM and thity gamest see It.
My faelier died of It, died with no
mark on Wm. anti fatber benne
Mate Nettling but light keeps It awe,
I have net been In the aceureed dark
for tweuty years."
said the page, with considee-
We reliet lu bis voice. "I now what
YOU Mean ROW. alotber told me all
anout it," Re quietly pusbed hie was-
ter back on the plilowa, arid while the
sultan stared, at biro In epen mouthed
amazement he Went en with absolute
emidileueet
"You see, it's leer you are afrAid of.
Fear stays in all kinds of places. and
sentennee it looks like one tbing and
sometlines ilke another, according to
the person. And It eau collie anywhere
It dews."
"Thou host it," muttered the While
Hstenlug geavely to tho clear, ebIldish
voice.
"And It's a mistake to think light ea
!ways keep It Away."
"So it le. HOW kneweet thou that?
By the beard of the prophet, even in
tbe dn,yllatt I bave seen"—
The page Interrupted him with
calm uneonselenunteis which would
have paralyzed the vizier.
"There's ouly ono tiling can keep It
away. and tbat
"What? May May Allah speak through
theei"
"And tilers just to believe it Isn't
there. You mustn't shako your head,
I've tried it, and 1 know. As soon as
you believe there's nothing to trouble
you the thing just shrivels up and
goes away. It tan never come back
until yon choose to believe In it again."
The sultan's band, red with the blood
of his fellow beings, Iny ligbtly on the
page's arra. Tbe sultan's tiger eyes.
which bad seen unmoved deeds which
could blaeken the infernal regions,
looked as gently at the page as bis own
mother could hove done.
"You may lower the lamps," said the
ruler softly.
And be did not wince as the first
darkness he bad known for twenty
years cast its herding shadows around
, his couch. The page crept np beside
him and shared his pillow. They talk-
ed no longer. Outside in the passage
the vizier rubbed his heavy lashes. as-
tounded, and whispered eloquently
with the guards. But the page heard
only the peaceful breathing of his bed-
fellow.
The tultan slept
A cold Snail In 'mews.
A cold snap is as bad as the fishing
season for making liars. A West Alton
man says that a citizen of that town
threw a cupful of water at a cat one
cold morning last winter. The water
froze into a chunk of lee In tbe air, hit
the cat on the bead and broke its skull.
Then be told about a Flint hill wo-
man who left a lamp burning all night
in the kitchen and when she tried to
blow it out in the morning found the
flame frozen hard. She broke it off and
threw it into the woodshed, where
later it thawed out and set the shed on
Ore.
As if those two were not enough, he
winds up with the story of a St
Charles doctor who just before he
started out on a drive took half a dozen
good sized drinks of tine old bourbon.
It was a cold night, and his breath was
frozen into chunks. Heepet the chunks
into a pan when he got home and
thawoed them out. and he had a quart
of pretty fair whisky.— Alton Tele-
graph.
Baiting a conductor.
During the rust) bour the other after-
noon a dignified men entered a well
filled Market street car and tried to
work his way in to secure a strap to
hang from, but the conductor, who was
collecting fares, blocked Ws progress,
"Step lively, tnerel" said the passen-
ger.
Were you speakin' to me?" asked
the conductor, elevating Ms eyebrows.
"Certainly.," replied the passenger.
"Step forward so we eau get inside.
Plenty of room up front."
"If you will attend to your business,
I will attend to mine," snapped the
conductor.
"If you can't tti ke your own medicine
better then that, you had better try
taking the car ahead," ansivered the
passenger. The conductor's reply evae
lost in the laughter of the passengera
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Where Bextou, the Englielt germ,
eleerndent, called that erneiag an Miss
Manche Kershaw, for the tiftil time
In tone day; he tOund Darro 01ttlug
with her.
The two men were introduced, and
filmiest the Ora thing Blix104 said was,
"I suppose you spell your 'same lite
the Darlene at hoine—fithe dauntless
Derreus,' they're called eMiutY''''
It Was dark, mid the three were gath-
ered on the porele of the Kershaw res*
*deuce. where no artificial light gerveil
to reveal the breatith or the smile
with which Mis,e Eershavr greeted this
remark, Darrel wa,s 4 rather under-
sized man, with eyeglaesen, exteeeive
liege antreedenta and deelded
tastes, so far ea MS eenVerSatien
mtgttt ndleate.
certainly do not." he saki In Ida
habitual weary drawl. "IMO Is too
short. 1 spell my name NIA as it to
prenouneeil—Dea-r-r-o--and I AM far
from da witless,"
"By Jove, how oddl" said Buxton..
"1 was rather In hepee you might turn
out to be a eousiu or the Demme, at
Derreuly Manor. I was born In that
neighborhood myself!: natenett pronouuse
ed exactly lite yours. And there's an
old rhyme dating teem goodness
items when;
"Trend nor Wilbert, lanes nor arrow,
Chteltene eherge et deentlees Perm."
"Thee I'm quite sure 1 can't he or
kin." Dane persteted, "I'm *tratd of
ovevYthing, from limners to mice.",
The believe laughed.
"At leeet you ought to be ashereee
to make such a Cernfeaelert to A British.
er, Mr. Barre. Think of our national
reputation,"
4.1 do, 1 think it brute!. rhyaleel
courage, if it ever was a dealrehle
quality. loot all its reeomtnendatious
centuries ago."
"By Jove!" Buxton exclaimed. "You
=at pardon me 11 I seem a little tm-
prepared for ail Ole. You know I was
eorrespondeut with your twirl' at
Santiago."
eTbat was where you met our for
Ail friend Wlekley," eald Dam.
"To whom I owe the delightful prly.
liege of Mies Eershaw's Acquaint -
ranee."
"You have every reason to be grate-
ful to Wiekley; but, for All Unit, I con-
sider hlrn anAnzerlean of au °Wei:Bonet
type."
All of this bliss Nersharr seemed to
be enjoying In a. quiet way. Then they
talked of other things till Barre left
them.
"That's a meet' Interesting double
enigma," said Buxton, "an American
and n Dnrro„ you Itnow."
"I hope you'll stay with us until you
find a solution of Min. Mr, Darne's
ambition to be tbougbt timid is notori-
ous bere."
"Isn't It a very singular ambition?"
"Very. That may be the solutlen of
the enigma."
A pause, and then Buxton mustered
up courage to ask, "Miss Kershaw,
San eouldn't—ah—feel interested In a
man like that?"
"I don't know. Brave men are so
conamon with us, and, you know, I
rather like exotics."
Buxton hardly enjoyed the suspicion
that this girl found him Interesting as
a rarity and that she valued the tlrald
Durro proportionately higher as he
was the rarer. Then, again, he felt
chilled at the thought that she could
possibly entertain a degenerate taste
for cowards.
'Buxton's sojourn in the place was
uncertain. A wire from his chief in
London might any day send him on to
San Francisco or back to New York,
so he made up his mind to ask Wick -
ley about It that very night.
This was easy enough, for they oc-
cupied rooms in the same hotel, but
hard on Wickley„ who had just fallen
asleep when the Englishman's knock
caused him to dream that the place
was on fire. The interview was un-
satisfactory to both parties, Buxton
only obtaining the assurance that
Darro was a crank, with a forcible rec-
omniendatien to go for further infor-
mation either to the man himself or to
the father of all lies, while Wickiey
fell asleep again with the vague Idea
that the correspondent was preparing
an article on "Tbe Auterican Coward."
So It came about that Darro, on his
way to his uncle's law office, was hail-
ed by Wickley.
"Say, Dorm, you want to let up on
tbat titnkilty poppycock of yours. All
very well to give home folks that old
song, bat don't try it on an English
newspaper correspondent."
• "I suppose -you mean Boston. Has
he aiready'thld you of our conversation
last night?"
"Told me! He may haveetold it to
all the English newspapers by this
time. He *sake me up at midnigla to
ask me if it were tree."
For a moment Darr°looked pale
enough for his favorite part.
"Did he tell you whe;e we met?"
"I suppose it was at Blanche Kee
shaw's. He seems smitteu in that
quarter, fuel 1 krerw he, was going
there 'last night"
Darya managed to recover his meeh
pose. "You know, Wiehley, I don't
think much of physical courage"—
eight, then. .1 only hope Buxton
Will 'Inentiou your name In his story
We don't want the whole city to, ge
ivaerwas distUrbeci. uu I ince
0 C, e
twee It when he entered the erne* 1,a4
demanded the cense,
"Titere'a an Engiletentin Itere"—
Before he could finish the doer of
tbe Peter *Mee epened,
fresh and eheerfilir entered. Detre
woe with him in a mement. Shelving
4 Meet abnormal eagernesa for the
meeting.
"Oh, herYen Ater a414 Bpton
pardon ney ginning here durlog•
business bovine wou.'t yele1 ire get
to start ter Oriliferala this eyening—
wire from London just reached me—
bet before I go I want Y9U to tell me
(we English, newspaper men like to be
aeeurate and full) where you Were titir-
ine the Segal -ell war"
"Twos in the bew Sebeel Of a engem
university when the war began," mild
Darro,
"11/411chigan. eh? Thanks. Eelisted
in the lqiehigan volunteera leader the
name of Dobbs, Remember the day
Feu eneetted oUt from under Cerer 414
bronght in that wounded boy when the
sharpshooters were swerinleg In the
mango trees"
Judge Mason Was by this time an at-
tentive fietenee to the convereat101-
The °Wee hey a1so listened end gape,
"My name is Perm, Mr, Buxton."
eaid the pattern or peiteefnitieee, etreg-
gliog with hitneelf.
olio le este) to be Debbe In 1F9S,
lust for a few week& It will make an
awrully pretty etery for my paner,
Odd I didn't begin to think et the rite
emblanee
"You're Pot plug to put fay PaMe In
the peperY*
•"Stery won't he any„ good witiloet It,
Brand nor halbert' "—
Ilefore the Negliehmen ceolei repeat
any more at the, ancleet rhymee'Darro
bad Min by the throat, It might have
ended In streagutation had not the oth.
ere Interfered.
"Oh, the whole thing Is eleAr now
beyond the shadow or doubt," erld
• Buxton when he was attiring goodhy
to Hiatlehe Kershaw that eftereeen.
"First I heiree to think et the Ilkoatea
net Welk lying avreke. Wheu 1 grAw him
• tido morning, It wra pelpshie, Then
when he dew at my throat--doetaf't
weigh AO much as I by thirty pounds --
Why, tint rental lie"
"Fier yore I dere goy," maid Blanche,
"Few we there was nothing to ;settle."
"You never believed ell" that talk of
his?'
"Or couree not. Still 1, all of Us,
ought tie be veey grateful to you for
liumnitiang hint."
"And what ere t get?" the Eeglish.
mom asked.
"My sincere *beets, Sorry 1 have
tithing better to offer."
"The exposed tweeter gete the high.
er reward? le that jualler?"
'I don't know. Bon voyager'
!loot! fenJored Below LtenIsed,
Sir Walter Scott is an exampleof *
great man who. so ter as we can judge.
eujoeed plying the penaltlett or Ida
greatness even In Ms bour of denth
Be wits great enough, but then be was
that kind of a man, and the elreuto
stances among which he lived were In
vorable. That was before the day of
the penny post, of the electric tele.
.graPh, or ralltenye and of the intee
viewer, and in Ms prime he lired at
Abboteford. which is equivalent now-
adays to saying that he lived at :lop,
pe. Ile seems to have been singularly
free from the penalties of greatness,
which have enormously increased vinee
the Wizard of the Nortb went home,
and such of them as came In Ws way
he seems to have heartily enjoyed.
Be appears now and then to have
relished being turned into a rare show
and to being pointed at wherever he
went as Walter Scott. Indeed this be-
ing pointed at seems to have been rel-
ished by many men whose greatness
was undoubted. Thackeray seems some
times almost to have resented not be-
ing pointed at. --All the Year Round.
The Strawberry'.
Though history and story are alike
silent as to the cultivation of the straw-
berry in early times, we know that the
fruit was *ell known in Fatgland in the
fifteenth Century. Shakespeare has
three allusions to strawberries. In
"Henry V." the Bisitop of Ely. In illus-
tration of the good qualities which the
young king possessed, in spite of bis
wild habits and objectionable compels
ions. says:
The strawberry grows underneath the net-
tle
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen
best
Neighbored by fruit of baser quality.
The reference here is obviously to the
wild berry. But in the play of "Richard
III." strawberries are spoken 01' as
growing in the bishop of Ely's garden
at Holborn, and this seems to show
that the berry was cultivated with
considerable care as early as the latter
part of the fifteenth century, though
Haydn's "Dictionary of Dates" asserts
that the common strawberry was
brought to England from Flanders in
1S-30.
Queer rood.
The hedgehog figures frequently In
iylVan repasts, though he is hardly big
enough to be sent to table as a piece de
resistance. The primitive manner of
cooking it supersedes the most costly
refinements of elaborate batteries de
cuisine. The elepha nt's foot, or rather,
the slice below the pastern, which is a
famous dainty eastern hunting
camps, is treated on precisely similar
Principles, which shows tbat.tbe sum.
west cookery of all nations has Meal] in
common, like their folklore.
SinikesPeare's 13-rit1sh beegepig, like
Its cousin, the porcephle, is shrouded in
a plastic tenement of clay. Tben be is
laid to temporary rest in a bed of smol-
dering cinders, When supposed to be
done to a turn the dwarf Pio is•drig up
and then tbe prickly skin is detached
with tbe splitting of the case of clay.
All the generous juices, 'with tbeir bou-
GUMS II*W40114A Feb,
There are three wen ittiewe varieties,
of eel found In Hawaiian waters. The
largest is the big .ierner fellewr Which Pe
eleeely resembles bis cosi, the *ea-
ger, e laseorae1041 aud teiteless. and
the eativea tackle him with eaution, for
wbea cornered he fight* vielouely rued
eati indict 4 nasty wound with his
pewerful 41We, which bristle with nee:
dielthe teeth,
The Other eneeles aro fat, flabby look.
Ing mistomers, with fantastic, markings
or Idea and brown mad ine-ny shades
or gray, On an eel Ot this sort the skin
appears ter bang lose from the body,
and when disturbed the head SWeele
like a puff adder's. Those eels seldom
attain 4 greater length than three feet
and love to locate lu the ereYlees of a
Alone breatiwaterr, train Whieh UM'
dart out inceSsaittlY and make havoc
among any eehool of email fry which
may be intareently disporting them-
eelerea within Striking elistanee Thee°
heeded eels have been known to haunt
a particular epot fee over 4 year, They
re good eatieg, despite their umpire -
pose essie ke appearance,
Inehuittve Vtre Vtnntern.
As it as the end ef the sixteenth
century in Landon the gole ;teethed
eXthegulehleg area was by Pawnee or
contrivaucee knelvel as "hoed squirts."
These were uevolly made ot brass,
with a carrying enpaaty rerigIng trout
two to tour quarta or water. The two
quart "squirts' were two end a half
feet Itt lennih, one mid a halt inches In
diemeter at their hirgeet part and but
half an Ineh at the P942.41e. On eneh
side were handles, and three men were
required to manipulate a
One Man On each side grasped the
haudie itt an hand and the nozzle IA
the other, while the third man worked
the piston or plunger. drawing It out
while the nexele Was intRiereed 14
supply et water which Oiled the eyilee
der. The lietwers *ben elevated the
mule when the °titer pughed In the
I nger, the skill of the former being
e.mployed.directing the atreetti of
water epou the fire. - Such primitive
contrivancee are eald to have been
used during the greet fire at 1600.
Tete Pletrbavelt.
"The flehhowle tette ;le when the
shad begin to run tip tbe river." said a
Gloucester ilehernian, "We have learn-
ed that it isn't much use to emit the;
net*, no matter how mild the weather
rany be, until Ur. FIghlinwk awoope
down on us. When he comes gelling
up the bay, we know It's time to get to
work. Lots of farmers down Jersey
would never think to end planting un..
tit the asidiawka come. don't believe
they Were ever been Inter than AprIt
12. though. They work their way up
the conk front Florldn and the other
outhern waters early lu March, wben
the ash begin to cora* north. They fol-
low the big schools of eerring, as a
rule, because the herring swim close to-
getber, and the hawk bas easy plating.:
The abed follow the herring. And when
tbe fishimwk velum/ we know Um shed
re not ter behind." -
How ittaliso Wrote.
Of all literary toilers Balzric was cer-
tainty the most ecceutrle In his meth-
ods, At flint lie would write hLs novel
In a few pages. hardly more then t110
plot. These would be sent to the print-
er, 15110 IVOtilti return the few printed
columns of mutter posted Into the cen-
ter of severe] large sheets. Ou this mar-
gin Mime would work, sketching bls
cbrumeters, composing the dinlogue and
perhaps altering entirely the original
plot of the book. For four or five times
this process was repeated until at last
the few columns had assumed tbe pro-
portions of a volume. This extraordl-
nary way of building a book naturally
ran away with a considerable share of •
the tweets on the work.-
113n1Ixed be a Woman.
When William E. Chandler was Sec-
retary of the navy, he Issued an order
that officers should not permit their
wives to reside at the foreign stations
to which their husbands were attached.
The order was promptly rescinded
upon the receipt by the secretary of
the following from Commodore Fyffe,
in command of the Asiatic squadron:
"It becomes my painful duty to report
that my wife, Eliza Fyfi`e, has in dis-
obedience to my orders and in the face
of regulations of the department taken
up her residence on the station and per-
sistently refuses to leave."
Fleas an Draft UOrnees.
Latrlella mentions a Ilea which drag-
ged a silver cannon of twenty-four
times its own weight and showed no
fear when the tiny piece was charged
with gunpowder and fired off. Rene
also says that once he saw three fleas
drag an omnibus and a pair dragging
a chariot and a single one pulling a
brass cannon mounted on wheels.
Appel:Lure.
Applause is tbe tonic of success.
When a fellow makes a bit, let bim
know it in a good, round, royal way.
If he has sense, it won't tUrn bis heed,
and if be does get dizzy for a minute
what matters it? Let him enjoy the
intoxication while It lasts, ter, the Seri-
ous business of life will soon drive him
back to work agent
• To NI Ice an Imnreonion.
Mr. IPargone—My dear friend. I am
In despair. That girl's heart is as hard,
as steel. I can make no impression on
it!"
•
Friend-- Yon don't go at It in the
right way. '1'ry diamonds. They are
harder thhn steel.
• 'Fest Clmnecessarl•
The beggrie tleeett't have to be weigh-
ed it tbe bttleince tobe found wanting.
:Among. tlel,:,few, greet joye.of :life is
(pi ,1 e n, , staying in 'bed fifteen inireites after Ara'
fused.'—Lortdoe..Saturcliey,Rev..iew.i./ knovi,Uru,otig,ht to get •r
irtelatnr, and "Tem .Tones."'
Notwithstanding tile geed nrice4 he
received for his books, Fielding wee,
etwaya more er less In difficulties fora
hie reelrless mode ot living. "'roam
'Terms," however, Was nearlY beirig Me^
rideed in One of his impecunious 'Ate
for the 4VM 9f n&., The Publieher fers
tunatel7 40leed ter a day to corisider
he eould rielt such a Mina. and Vielding
In the, eneentime met Thomson,. the
poet, to whom be 'too, the transeetiee.
Thomson scorned the idea of Fielding
parting with his brains for euch a sum
and offered to get bine better tarsus,
leut Eieleing felt hiteseit partly pledg.
ed. Never did author wait more AnX-
finely on a publisher hoping to be Re.
eented than did Fielding hiving to he
refused- Ile Was refasedi
JOyfully lie carried his manuscript to
Thereto!' to fulell his promise. The
Peet IntrOdneed Vieldieg to Andrew
Miner, who handed the book over to
his Wife to read. She discerned its
merits and Advised her lineband to
keep 1t. Over 4 pleasent dinner given
by Miller to Fielding and Thenison the
bargain was Made which scoured
Fielding, to his great delight, ntid for
the story, Miller is said to bare eleer-
ed 1S.00r) by "Tom 'leave," out et
wilich he paid Fieldipg from tline to
tigne various sums to the amount or
12,000, bequeothiug biro *leo a heed.
elerae legacy,.
Teo Sienetnre el Vero*,
When dowering plants usually make
wet), that is generally the last effort
for plant ilfe. The EMI is the beglenIng
at the life et the new Mont, Forme
however, only proilee0 spree for re.
prefluelive Puree:me These apures gee.
udnote and go through the mule pros -
as subsequently that *mere go
through hi the production at seeds. The
epores eXpand when the gel -initiating
time cones stud forte a Oat, green mein.
lime, Whet are then really the flowere
appeor On thie membrane. Aa a geueral
rule atter these fern dowers have uute
trued the membrane dries tip and dig.
appears, In oue fluidly or term, how,
ewe, natives or New Hallam -I. named
platyeerlum, this green blade la permae
neat 411114 continues *0 enlarge, becom-
ing really a portion of tbe pleat. Every
year 4 TOW blade le formed which
spreads over the old ones. The largo
plant Is or a totally different eheraetere
having the trends or ordinary ferng,
subtle of too Witilent.
To say that a dog can "whip We
weight in wildcats" le to pay alrout the
highest tribute to hie strength. courage
and activity, and there aro vary few:
dogs that would care to earu such a
tribute It' they underetood all It
Not that a wildeat la of a specially ng.
greselve Monition. On tho contrary,
he would sooner mind hie owu bushiees
any time tlinn tight. So anxious Is lie
tia a rule to keep out of trouble that be
has often been accused of cowardice,
but be bas ou so many occasions given
evidence or the moat desperate cour-
age that It is doubtful it the emulation
Is a fair one. WIten wounded or at hay,
he Is perhupe as dangerous its any creae
ture ot his size.
A Pince et neer.
For a tIllet of beer, eut two pounds
into round slices half an inch thiek
anti sprinkle with pepper and salt. Fry
in two ounces of butter seven minutes
at the most and bresb Orer each piece
with glaze. Place a border enamelled
potatoes on a dish, lay the fillets on It
with alternate slices of buktel tonuito
and the frled beef fat. Also have a
piece of maitre delete' butter on each
fillet. Fill tite center with nicely took -
ed vegetables and pour around a little
good beef gravy.
cares For Sleepleesaesa.
Horace In his satires recommended
swimming the Tiber three thnes: Sir
Thomas Browne was accustomed to
repeat some verses of a certain hymn.
Franklin took an air bath. Sir John Sin-
clair counted, while Sir John Rennie
when engaged upon any public works
never went to sleep until his head bad
been combed and gently rubbed by a
soft hand.
A Bard Domestic Knot.
"I'M in a dertee of a fix; My wife's
got the telephone craze."
"Well?"
"If I put one in, she'll swear I'ne
sweet on the telephone girl."
"Certainly."
"And if I don't, she'll say it's because
I'm afraid the thine!l expose tny
Robbing It In.
* Borem (11:57 p. me—When I wits a
child, my nurse made me afraid of the
dark.
Miss Cutting—Oh, that accounts for
It.
Borem—Accounts for what?
Miss Cutting—You are waiting till
daylight so you can go home.
• S'a sympathy There.
• "1 am going to marry your daughter,
sir," said the positive young man to
the fatber.
"Well, you don't need to come to me
for sympathy," replied the fattier. "I
have troubles ot' my own."
-Unfinished.
l'It you kind of keep an eye oti tlieSe
self made men." rentarked Intele Jet•I•y
•
'Peebles, "you'll find that lots 'or 'ern
think the job's so well done It clee't
need any t)olisli,"
Too Late!,
Hewitte-Sly -wife lOved tne at first
sight.
,Tt‘rvett-el'll wager that she IS etotv a
believer in second ,sight.
e it is , t9 have loved 'trete jee
. betie' 'eXnect
to 1,;. .. .
nn 1.11ee
ee t, a • L'?Ici, 'lst
e .
Cbic
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