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FOPhTINE
• f
OR, A LOOK INTO THE PAST
• CHAPTER t. •
"Good -night, Nancy ; pull that
woollen thing close about your
throat, nhild; the wind dead east
to -night."
"Good -night, Dr. Grantley," an-
ewered the girl, with a weary sigh,
as she took the parcel of books
held out to her and ',tuned to go.
"I will give Uncle Henry your mes-
sage."
Dr. Grantley frowned slightly as
soon as he was alone,
"I wish to Heaven .I could do.
something to alter that,ehild's life.
"She is in her wrong grc,ove aJt.
gether, and it is slowly but surely
killing her."
And NancyHamilton, gulag slow-
s ly .home through the oroweded
streets, was thinking over bitterly
to herself the conversation she had
-just had with -the good, cheery old
doctor, the only friend she possess-
ed' in the whole wide world.
"Speak to Uncle Henry," she
mused, wearily. "How easy it
sounds, and yet it is not to be done.
Why. should, I eomplain to him,
poor man? is net his life as hard
as mine ? And then I must never,
never forget what.he has done for
me. Kept, fed me, clothed me,
given me deep, true love, and all
against Aunt Matilda." Nat?•oy
shivered slightly. "Aunt Matilda,"
she repeated—she pressed one hand
over her hot, tired eyes --is it wrong
to' hate her? Can •I help hating
her?" the girl cried, bitterly, to
herself. "She • is not fit to wipe
away the- dust hem dear Uncle
Henry's shoes, and yet she orders
him and commands him as if he
were an animal and a slave; he is
so weak, poor dear; he has no cour-
age, no spirit; yet," Nancy declar-
ed, boldly and stanchly, "I love
-him with all bis weakness; he is a
good, true, honest gentleman. I
am proud to own him despite ev-
erything."
She drew the old scarf more close-
ly round her with a shiver born of
fatigue as much as cold.
"If only my mother had lived,"
she mused on sorrowfully. "Dr.
Grantley is very kind, but he does
not' quite understand all I feel; bad,
wretched, miserable as this life is,
I would sooner cling to it --I would
sooner starve than write to my fa-
ther's people. How can I ever for-
get
orget that they disowned my mother
when she came back from India a
broken-hearted widow to ask for.
help
"Was it a crone to have Y and against
ainst
father secretly ricer my
their wishes? Yet because' she was
poor,and had gone against their
wishes, they left her to die and"'ins
to starve. No—no,. if my father's
people over want me they must
seek Hie, not I them. Yes, on that
point I am resolved, whatever
gem's I" She sighed a sharp, deep
sigh. "it's all very dark and
dreary, and it's awful•to live know-
ing that Aunt Matilda hates me;
but there is one.joy -given to me.
Uncle Henry loves me ; he can't
help me or protect me from insult
and drudgery, still he loves: me,
poor uncle."
Two het,, large tears stole slowly
down Nancy's pale cheeks and drop-
ped onto. the olcl plaid wrap that
was folded rotten her. She hugged
the books she held closer' to her
with a nervous gesture, which • be=
tokened that some new and pain-
ful thought had come to . oppress
and trouble her.
„ "I ,could almost grow content,"
she mused on, • "or, at least, try
to make myself so, if Aunt Matil-
da would only meet he halfway;
but site grows horse anti worse,
and since M7.i'. Moss—ab 1" -the girl
inure -weed, suddenly—"I hate that
Inari. t I-1 am afraid of him... Some-
times as I feel against myself as if ahe
.
will cram r his awful threat and
Y out i s. w
marry Ire—marry met" Involun-
tarily Nancy stoppecl,'a cold shud-
der ran thtou;;h:her. „1 feel so
powerless against, hirer, and there is
,no rate to help me ; Aunt Matilda
enemy -egos him, she thinks him two
good for nu'; she would only laugh,
and turn things into ridicule if ].
were to ask her to protect ere from
:Phorias Moss." She moved slowly
on, but she was, trembling now in
every liinb.
gibe w'ts drawing nnn:r` 'to her
home,. I)owu at. the bottom of the
narrow street she could see the
flaming .gas jest sutside the small
grocer's shop where she lived.
Nancy stopped suddenly, a pian
wan standing by the door ; he was
glancing eagerly up and down the
street, Naney knew fur whole he
was looking. 'It; was Thomas Bross
-sleeking for her.
1Vitheu1 hesitation she turned
nsish, and walked rapidly into a by -
grout. "Cf celled
1
Matilda
Aunt Mat
11 rage, t Iris, bat better that
1r a time/Peg with t1iti meo! His
rtr
persiseetney is horrible, Can't he
see beat I hate him! I will not go
in until I think he, has gone; ho
can't surely stay long!"
She knew *ply too well the sort
of ereetingto expect when she slid
return,
Mrs, . Chaplin was not likely to
spare her•, but anything was betor
than to have to listen to protesta-
tions of love from such a man as
Thomas Moss. There were girls in
the street, neighbors, but not her
companions, who envied her this
successful, coarsely handsome young
fellow for a ]over.
As to Mrs. Chaplin, she consid-
ered it an honor that her husband's
niece should be "courted," bo' use
her own terms, by the foreman of
the large timber yard close by,
Thomas Moss was a man after
Matilda Chaplin's own heart; he
had -worked himself into his pre-
sent. position by sheer industry, for
he hod neither kith nor kin, to his
knowledge, to help him with money
or . advice; she considered Nancy,
in fact, many degrees his inferior.
The penniless child of an English
officer and a clergyman's daughter
was but a very poor thing in her
eyes. If Nancy's parents had been
so grand, she informed her•husband
over and over again, they might
have left their girl provideZl for,
and not thrown her on the hands
of poor, hard-working people like
she (Mrs. Chaplin) was.
It was a never-ending grievance
with her, this adoption of his niece
by Henry Chaplin. Yes, Nancy
knew well that she was regarded
enviously, and disliked •cordially,
by the young ladies who admired
Thomas Moss, and aspired to the
honor of being his chosen wife; and
for her part our heroine would
most gladly have renounced him. to
any, or all of them, for, though she
respected the man for his industry.
and perseverance, she despised his
mean,. sordid, cruel nature, and
hated him for his persistency in
declaring love for herself..
She walked as quickly as she could
down the side street.
She was very tired, but she seem-
ed to grow easier away from the
shop and that form. Suddenly,
e
however, she felt her arm touched,
and, turning with a start,she found
herself followed and caught by the.
very man she was hurrying away
from. •
She shrank back so quickly that
Moss could not fail to see it.
"Your aunt's looking' for you,
Nancy," he said. "I've been
watching for you, and I saw you
turn down here ; what did you do it
Sorg Don't you get into enough
rows as it is? And you know it
ain't quite proper for you to be out
at this time of night alone."
Nancy's lips were trembling.
"I—I prefer to be alone, Mr.
Moss," she said, nervously, yet
with pride and determinations
"That means," he replied, rather
huskily, "that you don't want me,
don't it, Nancy?"
She drew a deep breath.
"You know very well that I do
not want you, =either now or at
any other time," she said, in low,
clear tones.
Unconsciously she had oommcneed
to walk on again, and her feet hurt
red, but Moss kept pace with her.
"Take care, Nancy, take tare,"
he =tittered, in a voice heavy with
anger and threat. "I'm not going
to stand this much longer—you're
going too far. Didn't I tell you leaf
night that you can't fight against
me? I am too strongfor yon,
Nancy, my girl—too strong for
you. You'll ]raveto give in in the
end. Why won't you be more sen-
sible? All the people in the neigh-
borhood know what's • going on,
and that you are going to be Hey
self', I—"
"How—how dere you talk to me
like this?" flashed out poor Nancy,
almost distraught at his words. "I
will never, never marry` you. 1
will appeal to my undo; he --he
will help me."
"Your uncle?" Moss laughed,
shortly. "Why, the old man will
only be too glad to be rid ref you,
and see you in a home of your °wit.
It's corrmiun-sense, my dear girl.
Tho shop isn't paying, and you,
pretty though you are, ain't lent
for Iurthing; Your uncle, Mcleod!.
Why, he couldn't protect a fly 1"
"Oh 1 you are a coward!" Nancy
said, in deep, passionate tones,
"you know that my uncle levee nle,
I hate you more even than I did
before, I tell you again I will nev-
er be your wife, Don't you under-
stand? Il late you! Oh, if I could
only tell You how much I hate you,
Thomas Mose 1"
A. smothered• execration broke
man's if
This from the ma s. girl's
p
contempt, indifference, her co p , her
openly -expressed hati'ecl lashed his
passion to fury,
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They had neared. a quiet corner,
across one: end of which ran a
broader street leading to a more
fashionable quarter. Putting out"
his strong hand, :Moss gripped
Nancy's arm, and drew her back
against the wall.
'I've aeon enough for. one
-0n the farm
Weensiseeereeenaeleallsolonlisinstesea
SOUROE OF WEALTH,
Who is most interested in a geed
Drop and a sure ems? The farmer,.
the manufacturer, the railroad
man, merchant, or the banker? `rhe
tepee the problem is studied the
mere it looks as though the farmer
is' the best fixed to stand a poor
crop, and that it hurts the others
more, The farmer loses less sleep
over it than any of the others and
proportionately fewer fanners fail
than any of tho'other lines of busi-
ness mentioned, in a time of poor
crops, The farmer can get his liv-
ing from' the farm, can reduce ex-
penses and economize in a way that
the others cannot. From this it is
plain that it is of vital interest to
all that good crops be a sure thing
for eeach year, and of these indus-
tries which has really grown out of
the farm, ought to put forth their
best effort to see that the farmer
handles his farm according to the
best that we know of farming.
A most wonderful change has
been brought about in the last two
generations. Then nearly every-
body lived on the land. " Now less
than one half of the people get
theirliving directly from the soil,
and the others are in one sense
working for the people who live
on the,soil. They make machinery.
night," he said, in ominously quiet They make clothes. They menu -
tones. "Hate me as much as -you facture their grains. They build
like, Nancy, you won't alter me. I railroads to transport these grains
love you, my girl -love you I the factory and other products
You've nearly driven este mad, and back' to .the farm. So that . while
1 ain't one to stand being fooled industry has developed into this
for nothing." complicated 'system, the farm re -
His hold tightened on her arm, mains at the foundation of it, and
her heart beat with fear and some as this development goes on it be -
indescribable feeling esP wded- into comes more and more necessary
that the soil shall be made to pro -
it. Suddenly be exclaimed: duce up to its capacity.
• "Every one sees my love for you, A vast fund of information has
Nancy, and I've come to the end been worked out during the last
of my patience. You belong to me sixty years on how to manage
farms and institutions are now at
work digging out more of this
kind of information. Other institu-
tions are at work giving this to the
a deep fur collar, was ';gassing at farmer and these need every sup-
that moment, and the gi.a's voice, port, as the products of the soil are
with its vibrations of pain and de- going depend upon how mach of
s air came to his ears' thisisinformationt ge the faas m -
we
• x er and is put to work, and as we
Unconsciously he stopped, though have said before all lines of industry
the January wind was 1whistling are conditioned on the amount of
crops produced so that such insti-
tutions as experiment state,nas, an -
and I'm going to keep what's
mine I"
He flung his'arm round her, and
sheuttered a, sharp little cry.
A man in a loose overcoat, with
bitterly round him in a shrill, un -
1 et
nleasant way.
Moss drew the girl closer to him. ricultural colleges, '(armors' inste
"I tell you I'll 'better.you,' tutes, and the extensive &mart-
meets, are :viva -atone farming as
fast as their means will allow; and
in advancing farming they advance
all forms of ies ish:y. So that they
might in one seed be called "the
prosperity makers •.f ties nat en.''
The wise teen have realized that
Nancy; and you belong teem'. You
shall belong to me I"
With a sudden gesture,`he bent
his lips to hers.
Nancy gaveelanother e, even
more despairing than the l': st.
"Let me go! Oh I let me go 1"
And then a most astonishi,g thing and support -hese institutions ft. 'le
happened. She left Thomas Moss's the'national tr•easarg to some ex -
arm turn from her, was co scions tent, but iia me rurnis:i snfiie snf
of a: noise and a scuffle, a. then funds for them Lo develop tr. their
realized that she was statin: down
at his prostrate body,. while : voice
said
"Don't, be afraid. He wo ;'t in-
sult you again, I fancy ; at lea a, not
just yet." were the first one to furnish merely
"Is—is he hurt?" bre thed to run demonstration trains. Thu
Nancy, trembling in every ' mb, Great Northern Railroad at one
and she lifted her eyes to the man tine gave away large numbers of
beside' her. pure-bred cattle and hogs that the
She could not see his face, but farmers along their railroad could
the light of the nearest lamp fell produce a higher quality of stock
on hers, and revealed all its p he-, that would give them a larger re-
do sweetness and beauty, me ing tarn for the feed- that they fed
her glorious eyes seem even ere' them. In all these cases it was a
magnificent. business proposition with the rail -
Her protector gazed at her in
tonishment and admiration.
It was strange, indeed, to m
so beautiful a, face in such a nee
borhood. His wrath against Mess
grew redoubled as he gazed; e
had simply rushed to Nancy's aid
With all an Englishman's impetu-
ous sympathy for a defenseless wo-
man. Had •slit been old and dgg-
crepit'ho would have acted justthlr
same; but he felt now a decided
longing to give Moss a good thrash-
ing as be looked on the childish
young face uplifted to him, elo-
quent with agitation and distress. 1
"It would serve him right if he
were," he answered, hurriedly, as
he picked up her books scattered in
the fracas. "Such brutes are a
pestearth. I am sorry
on the e y you
end. Can I do
have been so frightened.
h t
g
anything more?
Nancy shook her head.
"I must go home," she faltered.
"Thank you—oh, thank you for
your kindness! 1—I do not often
get any. I—I am grateful,"
And drawing the old plaid' about
her closely, Nancy Hamilton turn-
ed and- walked quickly away.
The man stood starting after her,
and he felt a curious sensation thril-
ling at his heart. •
"Poor little thing!" he said; and
then he turned to Moss, who was
just trying to push himself to his
feet in a bewildered manner,
• Ile was notomen scratched, The
blow had been magnificently given,
stunning hint for a moment and
felling him like an ox.
"Look here, yoii coward 1" said
the stranger, finery; `don't try
any more of your tricks on defence-
less girls again, .or it may go hard -
et with you next tinsel"
And with that he turned o, his
heel and went 01, 1119 way,
(To he continued.)
full capacity, so that they ease
been left partly dependent upon the
r
'tato. The railroads are sevens. for
more traffic and they realize the
agencies that bring it about. They
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CHINESE LIFE PICTURED
POPPY GROWERS KEEP MAA'-
DARINS IN FEAR.
Bailing Roadside Ditches Far Little
Fishes—Fa-temente Stolen
For Pigpens.
For five days journey from Paid,
ing in Shansi to Hwachow in Shen-
si one notes a strain of Greek beau-
ty and . grace in the population.
Several times a day the eye lights
on a boy or youth who would serve
as a, model for Ganymeda or En-
dymion. Wits Hwachow the tvpe
vanishes and the squat, knobby vanish into their apartments like
faced, dull complexioned Mongol frightened birds' when a. man
dominates till we come out into the heaves in sight. The traveller
valley of the Han, says a letter to might easily suppose that all the
the Japan Advertiser of Tokio females of 10 to 25 years had been
from Prof Ross describing his tea- carried off by a plague, so rarely
vels'through Shansi. does he see one of them. Never
With' the coarse and ugly cast 01 does a woman travel unless she be -
features of central Shensi goes a longs to an official changing bis re"
stupidity that exceeds anything I sidenee.
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have ever experienced among Am The women of the common p•eo-
erican. negroes. You ask a peas- p P - g rem
ant, "How far is it to Paokil" home in the course of their lives.: of vehicles around the gray old
You repeat the question twice and Their feet are very tightly bound, Mansion House; and you may ob-
you have not even 'stirred his atter- much so that in Kansuh the serve how this endless stream of
tion. Alter your third asking he is' housesvife crawls
'about her home traffic is at once brought . to a
sufficiently waked up to repeat, on her knees. The result is that, standstill by the constable on duty
"Paoki'1' in a' considering way. *rippled in feet, crushed by con- so that Lord Re constable
equipage
The fourth time he catches the idea ventional restrictions and regarded may pass along unimpeded.
of "How far?" The firth asking
may enable him to connect the with contempt, she shows none of At Tring, in Hertfordshire,
the homemaking instinct that in I Lord Rothschild is master of a won
ideas "Paoki?" "How far?" and b k L rfully beautifier demesne of
HIS FACE LIGHTS UP
with comprehension, Often, . how-
ever, no amount of questioning patterns and pasted round tiie eges of a ruler. But the quiet man
elicits anything more than grunts clock shelf or over the windows. with the black bag slips into the
and "Ohs!" Dullest of all were There is no effort to adorn, no bit train .without a fuss,
the Kanush reapers, returning of white or color, no sign of wo- ,"His wonderful house In fashion -
north to their province after the man's band. There is not even a able Piccadilly; wonderful
of which
harvest. This oxlike slowness of family meal, but each fills his bowl every American- visitor makes a
mental processes may be due to and stands or lounges about eating point of inspecting,
hereditary deficiency. to lack of when he pleases.
stimulation or, which is more like-
ly, to the benumbing of the facul- It stands on the moat expansive
ties by opium smoking. ground in London. Its beauties
For Shensi is one of the worst of include a, wonderful marble hall,
the provinces in this respect, and with a douile staircase that is the
the women are worse than the men. envy of half the famous hostesses
It is estimated that nine out of ten As a party of work girls came out of this great metropolis. His lord -
women over 40 smoke. Beyond of a dressmaker's shop in the Rue ship's flunkeys,/ men of gigantic
Wukung poppy fields began to ap- Boileau in Paris, the ether day, stature and.perfect proportions,
pear, and south from Fengeiangfu an arm encircled the waist of one have no parallel in the homes of
we passed hundreds of them. About of them. the elect. They are described as
the capital it has come to be disre-The girl protested indignantly. `Sons of Anak.'
potable to grow the poppy. It is The too gallant intruder was well "Strangers wandering across.
planted in small patches in out of dressed in a frock coat, grey trou- Tring Park are continually remind -
cannot
way places, and sometimes the sers, top hat, patent leather ed that nearby is the unrivalled
leaves and flowers are cut off so it boots, and wore smart gray suede zoological collection of the lion.
cannot De'recognized at a distance. gloves. But he was a hideous Walter.Rothschild, his lordship's
The poppy is by far the best pay- looking person. son and heir and ori* of the most
ing crop, and when interfered with The girls began making fun of noted naturalists of modern times.
the farmers are near to rebelling heht hold Here are kangaroos cassowaries
trio magistrate went out in April the Hon. \'Walter has driven a team
os to hers She boxed his ears
close,l
I e robably et. nota mile f
ABOUT LORD ROTHISCUILD
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IEWISII 1G'INAz C1E.r'l.
Tito Most lJnnssturliseg .of Meng*
Drivel's and Conductors
Idolize Rim.
"It can safely be asserted,"
wxitcs an English correspondent of.
the American Hebrew, "that few
personalities have' left their im-
press upon our Jewish eommunrzl
life as has Nathan *.-eyer, first
Baron Rothschild. See the 'great
finanoicr making a round of the
East Side synagogusb on every
Kippur afternoon and marls the
hundreds of cosreligioniets woo
want proudly in his teasel
"True, it were far more in keep-
ing with the solemnity of the day
had they remained within the con-
fines of their own chevras. But
apparently the opportunity of
walking in the steps of a live Jew-
ish peer and a millionaire many
times over to boot is irresistible.
"They offer him a mitzvah at the
free services, See the great eon
gregation rise as one man while
this quiet gray -beard mounts the
improvised almenar and listen
while be reads the Ilaphtorah
faultlessly„
POLICE KNOW HIM.
"I have often watohel this most
unassuming of men making his way
to St. Swithin's Lane from his pal-
ace at Piccadilly at 10 o'clock in_
the morning. His modest 'coach
threads its way through the maze
western countries brightens even 400
the log hut of the mountain back- acres. Here he is looked upon as- a
woodsman with crazy quilts, tidies king The railway porterr at Tring
and old newspapers scissored into are ready to accord him the privil-
COST A FOB,TUNE.
A MOiiKEY STORY.
Comes from Paris Where Many
Strange Things Happen.
7' him, when suddenly caught
Two stages west of Sianfu the des- of one of thein' and put his sae, rheas, ostriches, zebras -of which
with a few soldiers to destroy the and he dropped on all fours end more often than once—and even
poppy. The farmers rallied him pP stranger animals from other climes
With their forks and sickles and he bit her leg.
There was a panic. ,The girls that are not to be met. withoutside
had to rushed off shrieking, and two police- the gates of the completest zoo.
FLEE FOR HIS LIFE. men arrested the aggressor, The
Although it rias been rashly std
In Kansuh the mandarins. stand in creature was a chimpanzee, the pet that quite half of the animals
exhibited at our fine Zoologicalr�.
fear of their fierce Mohammedan
subjects and the poppy is grown in
the old way. Still the reductions
mad to increase the traffic along in poppy acreage in Shensi has
of an explorer living near at hand.
He was captured after a struggle
and taken to the police station,
where he spent the night.
its lines.
It is well to stop and consider
the great developments that have
taken place and the new duties that
this devolves on ns, and also to
consider what it is necessary to do
in order to have this development
go on and in order to bring it to
its highest perfection.—Hoard's
Dairyman.
PIG POINTERS.
Serenity, undisturbed by fretful
restlessness, are characteristics of a
good brood sow. Any breeder of
experience will know just what is
!meant when it is said that a sow
is "motherly," but'the exact moan -
'ng is difficult to set down in words.
he maternalmanifestation has an
s
manne
r
r success with"
an • bearing t
ar ort t
g or s t
p
litter and the tram's promise in
its regard should have weight in
or purchase. In making selections
t e teats should be examined to
d stover that there are a dozen,
w di Formed, not too small or ob-
se ire, and giving indications of sup-
pl ng abundant
g
m
ilk.
he boar of eight months or old
er
wi�l d o bettorif kept himself • as
least, he should not be where sows
or gelts may arouse him. He `should
be kept in a comfortable pen with a
lot ,of pasture adjoining, and sup-
plied with a variety of nutritious
food, which means something more
than dry . corn with en occasional
drink of diluted- dishwater. The
permanent quarters sbould be pro
vidod with a view to furnish sun-
light, exorcise, clry warmth, and
cleanliness. These should be so la-
cated that the sow may be cotrveni-
him tor st
rvices
brought to ,,
erltl b
r
y g
a largo pen is not needed -10 feet
square will do—bnt'a ytarti and pate
Ore should each be adjaconts,
been 70 or 80 per cent., and the en-
ormous crop of wheat raised in. this
first year of poppy prohibition will
aid next year's efforts.
In all directions ono notes how
the people stand in their own light
by neglecting to protect common
interests from the encroachment of
individuals. The roadside ditches
are bailed out to got little fishes of
a fingers length, because what bne
dogs not take' another still. Each.
bunch of wild stvastltrrries being
picked ee soon 115 one berry turns
red, most of the wild berries come
to the market unripe and not fit to
eat. After a rain the great mad
Tungkwan to Sianfu is a canal from
which the water has no exit. The
mule muscle, wasted during the
week
in pulling carts through the
quagmire would repair the road for
a year. - For a furlong or more ilea
each side of a village the -stone pav-
ed mach over Tiensha Pass has been
ruined by tho villagers stealing the
stones for their stoops and pigpens,
Such is the natural and inevitallle
result of letting private interests
have full scope or doing nothing to
protect public interests.
THE CONDITION OF WOMEN
ih r Shensi i deplorable,
Ce.nt,al She s p ,
but is quite what is to be expected
when the male sex takes upon it-
self to shape not only its own stan-
dards and life but also those of wo-
men, Little girls of nine years
shrink away into the interior of
the house if your gaze lights on
thein for a neomcnt It would not
be proper to be looked at by a man.
M1 the women who aro not old
Gardens are the Hon. "Walter's
property, it is a.fact that this
ARDENT COLLECTOR
is in the habit of sending much of
surplus live stock to Regent's
LarPark. Many are the stories that
cluster around Lord Rothschild's
qatcktr. Mope rag"'
para, °alae,, l,e,t. heir—tales that have to be swallow-
tbe tblotif .dlooie a $23 °torte.
__--_ y ed with the proverbial grain of
t salt. It is true, however, that Tring
SENTENCE SERMONS. Park is the Mecca of the natural -
Happiness is found whore it is not ists of the world,
sought.
The value of anything depends
on its moaning to you.
Perhaps the golden rule means a
cubic deal as well as a square one.
The pity felt by sonic depends
on 'whether the purse is left at
home.
Some fear they have no piety un-
less it is in a pathological eondi-
don.
History depends not on
great
leaders alone but on many lesser
followers.
We possess no truth other than
that we work out of life for our-
selves.
It's hard work to lie about your
religion and -be honest in your busi-
ness.
You cannot make whipped cream
by lashing up a skimmed mills ser-
mon.
A good euro for pretended moral
lameness may be a genuine Pbysi- t.hai, additional evidence of lige.
cal kick. Tie denier elm furnishes enb-
Holinoss is gladly to say '1 steins to the wine sellers' has like
will" before the divine law says
"Thou shalt."
Our poverty is more likely to bo
due to the good we miss rather
than the goods we lose,
As a matter of fact, the nrajei1iby
of people -would like to be honest.
How would yon feel to find the
w essesscrts book waiting you at the
4CU judgment?
"Happy is he who has he hotter
to be invited to luncheon at New
Court. The choicest viands aro
placed before him, and the Roths-
child courtesy is manifested in a
score of ways. lnvaii: hly the vis-
itor is asked to take a cigar, an in-
vitation that means a box of fifty
or a hundred of a choice brand.
His lordship is held in especial re-
verence by the omnibus dri •sors and
conductors
n
br of the metropolis, lis`to
r
of1i
whom he presents u 1 race plump
Pheasants every Yuletide."
(COBWEBS FOR BOTTLES.
Wine Dealers Purehese Cobwebs to
(live Appenranec of Age.
1n Europe, especially in France
and Germany, there exists quite a
trade in cobwebs to be applied to
boltles of wine thought to tail for
',]!lie man who is pious to win lletk
Colds. hen,tile r 1f it
tthihly stoi,s coadhea `preS'c .',0 k8p h Yell wbnld be 1 op f
'hi abraet 50111u°,5 l+t se text to pay better,
I'
wise a liquor that softens and colors
the cork to make it assume the
stains of time. •
These cobwebs are not spread ftp -
op bottles without due preparation.
They are previously steeped in
guru, in order .that they may the
inose readily adhere to the bottle.
• When they have been 'laid upon
the bottle a little so yielded:
sou -
1 which )
it a af.