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None of you ever thought, prebably, that Milly weuld take you eeriously. No more did I. But apparently elte let her imagina- tion run riot in fay ease, and when I tried to elle out of her clutches I fenial 1 couldn't. She wouldn't let up on me one iota. I got dead sick of her and her caprices before Inlet Mrs. Galton, who vas.t that time 'Jessie Parmly ; after I met her, God bless her ! Here's; to her !" "(there wee a momentary interlude while tito enen raised their cognac glandes and pledged my wife) "any further attentions to auy Other woman be- ceme sitztply impossible. 8) I told her fraultly, and for a rew days there were high kilts between us. "Letters, t' gram and telephone messages piled up on me from her estil I !Malty had to flee the city for a while until she became more ma - no nabde. 1 came back after a two weeks' nbamee and just in time for a dinner the Jerry Clarkes ,were giving for :feesie. When I got to the house a few minutes before dinner I found everybudy arrived but some high eockicioeu.m for whom Manor was kept. waitieg. I did the polite thing by Clarke and Jerry, and was mak- L..g ray way to Jessie, when by an uducity chance, I ran foul of tfilly Chareley, who, In spite of all I could do, lugged me off Lito a corner and gave me ono of the worst quarter ef LIII hour'e condensed into five athautes I ever spent. "I'm not a vory good-tempered man, an you chaps knew, and I swear she made me savage. I shouldn't wonder it I was pretty brutal and said a gmxi =tally things I had no business to. I don't remember what I did say, fur I had come to the end of my patience with her. Slit I do know that I told her In so many words that I alms dead gosie on Miss Parmly and had but ono hepe in the world,. which MIET to marry her it ceuld Laluce her to have me. At that she tut out ou Inc and what she bed to say 'wasn't a bit comforting. She even rent so far as to bat that the mateli would never melte off, and v,t that 1 simply turned on my heel aUfl Walked pir, • I suppode Um, ,Terry. thought she ell° WWI cloing the handsome thing by me when she gave me a woman to whom I was, keownto have been devoted to take in to dinner. But when 1 found to 'what I'd been eleet• ed -well, all I could hope for was a decent left, and I got it. Life seemed worth living again when I found Miss Parmly placed there. moment my eyes met hers I felt a conviction that she had heard the interview flyetweee Milly and my.seli. There Was a. leek on her race and in her ages -Once take it 0111 I can't talk about it, but you fellovva know what it is like -the look that a woman wears toward you, when she first finds out bow yotr feel about her. "Sho had a duffer on her other side and I had Milly on mine. So you see we were just driven into ertelc other's arnvs, as it were. I should have devoted myselr to the Witch of Endor ander the circumstances:. As it was -well, jessle and I got things pretty well settled betweee the courses of thnt dinner. 'At last came desert, a good deal quicker than I cared to have it,•to tell the truth'. The party was not ko large, but what the conversation could easily become general, and terldenly in a pause in my duet vidth Senie 1 foutcl that, either by ac- cident, or design, the talk had fall- en upon the subject of precious stones, and that everybody but our- Beives were occupied In the discus- eion, the main feature of which ap- peared to he a very hateable And interesting ring belonging to Milly Chernley, which she had taken from her finger for the inspection of the party, It had pretty well gone the rounds by, the time I woke up to what was going on, passing from hand to hand, until at last it came in turn to Jessie. You ought to have seen her lift the thing and hand It over to me. You'd have thought it bred contagion. 1 couldn't help smil. ing to myself, bat no one else, un- le.ss It were Milly, noticed her man- ner. The trinket was already for- lsottee. It doeen't take long to ex- haust a dinner -table topic, and al* ready somebody else had engeossed Lho general attention. "The finger bowls had been put on and coffee was being served, wheo, during momentary, eilenee, Milly epoke up, addressing no one in par- ticular: " 'Well,' she said hi a light, mat- ter-ot-faet tone, 'won't eomebody, give me back my ring please?' "1 turned and leaked at her quickly end for one instant her °yea met injne und I understood what her damnable plot was. There was a. eetteral Itubliub aria confusion. Ev- -yho.ly excinianed ; everybody ex - galled ; eveeybudy denied perigee - of the ring; everybo,ly asserted that he or she had passel it on. Only JeKSIG and I ottt of the whole crowd had notitime to say. We both snot on in an tustant. It seemed to ue best to bola our tongues. "Presently the duffer On Jes- sie'g kit ousted to her. " up to you, elate Parinly," Ile ROIL 'You remember my hemline; it over to you 7' "Tho girt was ae white as death,. but she showed herself a perfect little brick. " 'Isn't it like "button, button, who el got the button?"' she asked lightly. Ethe turned tO me and mita sles 11 nextolOor neighbor, Mr. ataton ?' "'No,' said 1 In an indifferent way. 'I gave it back to Ito owner. It must be somewhere about lier Plato, 1 think, or--' "Perhaps, someone easgested, in- terturitine no', it hail fallen to the floor. Ana then wo moved leak mail aGmtreit was made quite fruit- lessly, as I could have told thelit 'EvorYlanlY became vielbly un- eomforteeble and all talked tageth. er. I.:verse:ode sremembered pasertg the ring to hin toighleir mei every net either remembered hoeing re - Naval It. And yet Milly Charrtley declared that It had ne.ver eolue back to her, vvhilo 1 to firmly as- •veratesi, not to her, but to Clarke, that it bad gOno from my mesas - F&01 to her. "Then peopie began to quest"on each other and themselves; as to whethe' they wore resolutely mire of thatrictione In tlio matter. One wenian thonelit-yee, RHO Wan ab. SOlutely certabl-that She bed Passed lit to the man on her left - anti yet -when she came to think of It, didn't esonteoue else dearlatlie tale.) ask to look at a again for a anoaneut ? Some man deelared that, after all, he diana think Ile bad scan the ring at all. And Jessie's duffer appeatea to ber to know if he hadn't malty given it to bee in his turn .Ine wouldn't swear to it, you know, bereausee he had seen the rift' before, and witeirt eupeolelly keen to examine it, but the coal on his right told him thatoho had given it to birn to pato on and, as he haetnet a about him, whY he rauet have passed it on, don't you see? And SO r011;11, allkl SO on. "Thesa a'vvoman down the table be - gars to ohaff me about being the last laersen to receive it, and two or three fellows took up the joke, but I waeret in a mood to jolly them back, and Iva& so cursed savage aboot the whole business -that they began to look, at me rather oddly, and I saw that I had, become the object of perplexity, if hot of suspicionto them all. "I ekni't mean to imply that I think anyone there thought for an Mutant thee I had stolen the ring. They were melt of them good friends of mine. But they knew that I had been aux petits solus with Maly for a long time and that the affair was off. They had become cttrioue concerning ualrratvrtaitiludae‘beastly the incident as it related to our mut- situation. Trying for everybedy, but espeetally for the Clarkes, who naturally felt thein - selves responeible for the property of a guest, especially aa that guest made no attempt to eager up the sit- uation any, but simply sat back in her phair nevalting the outcome of events-, with the Intention to recover her jewel or know- the reason why plainly written on her face. ,"At last Clarke called the butler to him and. gave an/ order in an un- dertone. Immedle,tely all the servants vacated the room. Then Jerry rose to hied feet, " 'Ladies and gentlemen,' he said, very gravely, 'I ave placed in a most awkward bend uncetnefortable sltua- tion. A. lady, to whomf my.Invitation to dinner was a guarantee of safe conduct, has, It would seem, been robbed -no,' he interrupted himeelf quickly, 'that is impassible ; ham been made the object of a practical Joke, let us say, here at my table. Ladies and gentlemen, I -do not approve of praotical Joke% ana I aesine the per- petratow of this to regard my senti- ments and at once restore Miss Charnbey's ring to her. I quite under- stand tIsa,t the matter bas gone fur- ther than the jester probably In- tended it to and has taken on a moiq serious character. Therefore, as an open act of restitution Might be sealer! what embarrassing, I have dismissed the servants and. am about to turn out the agnate, begging that in the elarkneine the jewel may be replayed upon Ina table and no one be the wiser as to who has taken it." "He waited a inornent so that all might grasp his meaning. Then con- tinued: "'1 shall wait a reasonable length of time and then order the lights turned on again. If the ring is not then forthcoming / feel that but one recourse le left me. I and Mrs. -Clark will_ offer ourselves to be personally searched. I Ethan esteem it an act of courtesy to me, whose position you meet all feel to be expeedingly painful, if my guests volunteer to submit' to a similar inspection." "There was a general movement of consternation, not unmixed with anger, about the table. 'Presently Billy Goodhue, whoee actionalways carry a certain auth- ority with them, You know, rose and commanded Clarke's plan, offering to take third rank in the searching process. After which everyone else fell into lin% Then Clarke went over to the switch and turned off the electricity. The 'candies were blown oat and the darkness of Egypt reigned In the room for about three minuted. The situation was a rather dram- atic one anti tile gravity of the af- lair pressed heavily on us all. Then the light& were suddenly turned on again. A sharp, excited exclamation from Milly grew the attention of all itl that portion of the table between her and myself, some distance in from our plates, well toward the centrepiece of orchids and ferns. "'Why; why,' she crlea out, 'there it really is 1 My ring! What a cle- ver (scheme, Jerry! How did you ever come' to think or It? Oh, I am indeed glad to get It back again. Thanksso mech.' She turned to the man on her left. "'Roach out and get it for me, Dicky, there's e, good soul,' she said. 'It's quite too far for my poor arms.' Then she turned with a Bort of tri- umphant, malicious look in bcr eyes and shook her head at me reproach- fully, with a half laugh on herlips. " '011,' she Bald, 'I've a mind to scold you well, 011ie, but I. waned /seeing I've got it back again: But et wag 0, poor joke -a poor joke. Think of the trouble you've put our rood bora ' "I didn't bother myself to answer her in any way, but turned directly to Clarke, " 'Jerry,' said 1, 'I truest you one Mrs. Clarke Will believe that 1 had nothing whatever to do with this business.' "Cla.rke's race wets as expressionlese as a mask. His manlier wee calculat- ed to freeze one. " draoar no inferences what- ever, (Salton,' he said co4dly, 'My beetness was to Mee that Miss? Chan- ley's ring was returned to her. That acompliahed 1 prefer to keep my conclusions to myself.' ellefore I could reply there wail &quick movenaernit beside me and Jes- t*, lead sprung to ber feet. "'But I,' oho cried out, with a blaz. Ing face and shaking "oleo, 'meter tot feel, Mee Clarke, that tiatre is no poesibility of any conclusion or in - ferrule° ote the part rat somebody do - Ing Mr. Galton an iniustise.' She broke otg a minute to get better con - trod Of hersola Theta' in a steadier vole wont Olt: It is obvidue that an attempt dias been Made to Meet a vint3 suspicion On him and it re 100.1518 for me tO tante it It is Is task that any Woman would gladly undertake for the Mali oho fovea.' Again elle broke ()ea blushing hotly. She turned from Clarke then and tul- dreseed the whole esti:Welled party. "'It may be as good a tittle as any, perhaps,' Field she, 'to announce my engagensent tO Mr. Melton. It le ori- ticipating my original intention eurnewitat to take this oteaelort Melte my great happinees known ter my frieeds, but 14 I Were not to do 00 it might be rather dideleuit'-here alio smiled a 3ittle-10r me to prove an, alibi for Mr. Galton'e hands. The fact le, ladies and gentlemen, it Would have been. physically impOne- thle for him 'to )Ia.vc roplaeetl Chnrieleynt ring Where it wag found beealise hie hankie at the aleellent Were holtir--' Her conSidenee her at this tenet and she looked at the table helplessly. Everybody by this time was ensiling sympetheti- celly. Billy efoodinte eame to her aid. " 'Were both likewise engaged,' he suggested, witereat there Was a general outburst of laughter, led by Jessie' herself. A moment later her face changed utterly, and she lean- ed forward acme& me and laid hold of a emit of dangling knot of lace that Wily vore on her breast. '"Mise tharilley,' said she, look- ing her straight in the eyes, %eve you fltftleOti your beautiful la,oe ? What eau bane liappenea to it ? It 'Doke net If you had been leaning forward (mese your coffee cup un- til the end (lropped in. Luckily it le for yeln that the ring was yours, Otherwise" - "I wish ycni could have seen the fair Milly's Moo at that. Crimson wao no word tor it. For an inetant I did not know nut iYitat she'd come scirae lishwife'e act awl stelae the girl. 13ut site recovered herself' al - Mora at once and turned with a- loud, rorced laugh to Clarke. " 'AIM site said, 'the cat is out of the beg at last What a detective this girl would have made 4. it west I who put the ring there. It teem- ed to me -excuse me. Jerry, and you, too, Alicia -Just the leaet wee bit slow hero, I thought I'd stir things up a bit. Don't look so glum, Jerry. There Was no harm in bit. I should have confessed the trick before we broke up. It has really livened us up a little, now, hasn't it ? You must all adroit that. Pee- eavl, peccavi "Then she had the effrontery to turn anti pour out warm congratu- lations on us both. She left. early. Didn't seem to find her soolety par- tioudarly welcome to anybody. We don't speak any more as we pass by, she and Jessie and I. And I shall never 'meals again to any- one if I don't get oomething to lubricate my throat with. Who's with me? Confound it all, I'm thirsty as a fish." Stirlday SctooL 411164Mile iN1 EIRNATIONAL LFISSON NO. VI. AUCHLIS 10, 1902. Nadal) and Abittu.-Temperance Lesson. -Le. 10:111. GOLDEN TEXT -" Let Us Watch Ewa be Hober."-I 'Ch, 5-0. DocTitigar. Timmer ;-Terneeranee. 1. And. The firet day the priest- hood is attabliSited, it comes short of the glory of God. -Darby. Nadab and Abihn. Tho two oldest sons of Aaron. Permitted to meet God upon the mountain. Ex. xxiv. 6. Just coneecrated to the priestly office. Yet we certainly infer that they were drunkards. v. 9. The highest so- cial station and the moet sacred call- ing are no barkier to the danger of strong drinie-IturIbut. Tim slInki- nah glory of jehotall had just ap• Reared. and fire had jusencome forth from before Jehovah and conountea upon the altar tne 'ournt-o(iering and the fat, Ex, Ix. 23, 24. These things should have solemnized their minds and made them cireetnspect in their approach to God* Evon to- day meta who have had wonderful manifestations of God's peesence and glory soon forget and act care- lessly, lightly and , disobediently. - Torrey. Censer. A small metal ves- sel, fitted eonvenieetly to carry coala upon which Incense could be sprinkled. -Templeton. et is a sol - men thing to eiyieg a censer before God. He appoints wao shall bear the censer, and. He orders how it Isbell be swung. There are three re- markable judgments coneected with the censers of the priests. 1. Here, where the right persons were doing the right thing, but not at the right time nor in the right way. 2. When the right persons were doing the right thing but not with the right motive. Worship in its highest sense ot Intereommunion between God and 1009. to a anique and sublime experience for which preparation of soul is required. -Noyes. Forms, simple or elaborate, are but stops of approach to God.-Ibid. Put fire. Fire put to the incense signified the StArit of God, by which wo are to offer tip all our prayers and praises, even as Christ offered Itimeolt up by the eternal Spirit.-Gurnall. Strange fire. Not taken from the altar. -Gray. The incenee was not mixed according to the law given in xxx. 84. -Henry. The incense VMS offered at an unusual and un- authorized time. -Thompson. The young priests had lost their self- control througb indulgence In strong drink. v. ix. P. xxxl. 5. The sin is wilaworiship, the veld of inan dictat- ing in spiritual things, a sin now little thought of. Deepite the de- corone outward appearanee,"strange fire," instead of the appointed sac- rifice, may burn upon the heart's) fire. Commanded them not. They departed from the plain word of Jo - bewail, who had fully and plainly in- structed them as to their mode of worshipa-McIntosh. The sin is not said to have been in rloing what God had forbidden, but simply What He had not commn.nded.-Gran 2. Fire from the Lord. The fire which had int sanctified the minis- try Of Aaron as well pleasing to God now brought destruction to his two eons.-Charron. One was jeliovall's acceptance or a tree sacrifice ; the other His judgment on erring prieets. It Is a dobble action of the same fire. The burnt offering went up as a eiveet odor ;. .tho etrange fire was Telco Led ail an abomination. Tho Lord was glorified in the former ; it Would halm been a dishonor to accept the latter.-MeIntoeh. Devoured, Killed, as with a penetrating flag', not ceesamed, since they were car- ried out in their coat. v. 5. Tho.y died. Acting an men of nature In their relationship with Ood, not founding their service on the altar encrifloo, they did. GOLI'S govern- mental dealinge nee always in har- mony with the dispensation wherein Ile acts'. With the people of the Old Testament time9 divine favor was manifested in earthly geed, long life, phyeical and material bless:lig. Those Men died cliildlese. 3. Moses Paid. There were sayings Of Jehovah livieg in the people's mem- ory which tho pen land not trans- oribal to the setered page.-daille. No doubt when 'Nailab and Abiliu were I Amok with death, all about Oren Were estruok with horror and filled With eonfuelon. But aroma wee and knew What he amid and did. not being dispimeed aft David IVAN In t st like aim Aaron heti hls peace There 19 no rebellion in his heart; it IS eXamPle Of noble self.eonirolee t Wakefield. Far be MAW Min to Manor • eothe mote 'than God, or wish ( (iuilt; Mune, or Itemee, or law, to he t exposed to reproaelt oil eontempt to 1 preaerve hf 9 fettnily.-Com. 11 Was the silence Of a soulover- e whelmea with eerier, but grief regu- lated by the 55:1)50 'that "the judge k Of all tate earth deal)! right," 4. Michael and Idliztonutia. The near - eat telaticehit WhO wore net prieete.ere Cook, Beetther Aturam the father of Aaron. Ex4 vi. 1i)-22, COD1O near. They were Levito& only, and Begilit not have maul into the sane-. tuary, no, not upon each. an °emotion ea this, If they had not had a eproial Command for it. • 8. Tho Lord spoke. This and kin. tired plireeee toad 1,991 thues in the Old Testament -Brookes. Unto Aft con. After their disobedience and the left,. ment or God, Moses wake to Aaron, to the sons of Uzziel, alleazar and 111111901 ; now it is the Lord that spenke lotto Aaron, the high priest, an•1 /de sous. 9. De not drink witte. Tile Iwo prleete Wore under the influence of liquor when they committed the or - fence vvhiole was oxplated with their livets-.1',„ F. B, Tho prohibition of wine and strong tirink When going into the tent of the meeting collimate itself with the sin of Aaron's sons; and for net conero all fleshly stinaules, wiilth provento clear discernment of what lo according to the oand of God. Not a casual, but a °existent rule. Thou, nor thy sons. Drunkenness is bad in any, but le ie especially scandalous and perniclotte in ministers, who of all men ought to have the clearest head o and aleanest hearta-Renry. 10, Put alfferences. Strong drink destroys the power of the mind to 'nuke moral diseriminatione between what is holy or unholy, clean or un- clean. AA intoxicated man Is liable to commit every crime forbidden in the docalogue.-Whitt Ie. 11. That ye may teach. Tho priest was the proper person to teach, and If he were addicted to drunkennees he would be indeed unfit to teach God's flatatutes. BARGAINS IN BLACK ART. New York Stores ror the Sate of Ape parsalle to einitietniis. In this day of "Soanish in Eleven Lessons at 49 cents," and "Every Man Ills Own ''.i:vainer," it le not surprising to learn that New York can boast of two eetablishnaents which will turn put fully equipped magicians at laargain rates. One is locate•I on Sixth avenue, the Other in the Bowery, and both reach out tor the trade of ama- teurs as well as professionals. Here may be purchaeed tricks at 11 prices ranging from 10 cents to I $1,000. Here also is enameled the apparatus for many ivell-known conjurer% for there are few who, c like lie elate Hermann aed Kellar, can arfond private worlashops. The store presents a common- place appearance and its ohelvos are stackea with' tticks as are pat - ant medicines in a drug store or canned goods in a gro.cery. The trick asked for will be taken down and explained by the salesman with all the nonchalance of the dry goods clerk dilating on the t good points of a ready-made suit. These tricks are for the most part on familiar patterns, vases with ? false tops, boxes with deceptive • Ix:atoms,. or perhaps such ambitious , bits of mechanism. as the sword with which a magician stabs a ' deck of cart's and impales selected pasteboards. Here, too, may be bought the Mese handkerchier box in its old form, and the- familiar ball that will stop on a string at t the word of command. Soma bits of e apparatus, heavily plated, cost as s' much as $25, or even $50. Back of this shop is a second, com- bining shcavroom and workshop. Only working magicians are admit, (ad tos thee for here are displayed the very newest things in blayk art, particularly improved apparates tom attaining; old made, Hints and tips aro here Wee that never reach, the pub- iic by or eor., and. from' thee point is " haneded an exybange of teicks with a. London firm. Here ow/thing from a. trick table to a complete illusion may be had for the price, and anything not in stock P will be :turned, out in short order. From svorkIng drawings now aeicks are made, and a trick put out by one ,„ magician is quickly copied for the many. The workers are as familiar wieb. methods of noggin as the small boy with the rules or las nate:mai 1 game. Many of them in time go on b elle stage and gain more or less repu- nation. , When Clang Ltng Foo's bowl trick t was creating it faror taere was a wild, demand for apparatos by whiyh the triek could be copied, It was said t that Citing- held the huge bowl filled with water againet his abdomen, lile t metre -me dominoes aiding suet(' it be- stowal of the awkward stage pro- i PertY, lieweVer ciorrect was this idea of the trick, no lens than three differ - ant stylee of domicils were made by imitatove. One of the men who work - ad out the trick was a, abopman of the prosaic Mune of Robinson, who had assisted tiermann ini building auil working out his trios. When it WAS cleolded taint Ching 'Ling Foo should cancel ttle London engagements Rob- inson seized the opportunity ana went over billed, ae Chin,g Ling Soo, create Ins each a. sense-14ot that he will peobebly remain abroad indefinitely. peofitable mall order business is conducted by these firms, who count among their patrons all classes of magicians, from elle ambitioue youth who would (I•tzzle his fellow-oltinons in the •Iistrict sphool.house to pro. feseional magicians and vaudeville favorites; Supplementary cata- logues tire issued at regular inter - Vale, just as publishers of books and plays send forth notiees or fresh of- ferings. Trielts are offered by mail at pricer; ranging from $3 up. Within a mite of the fashionable theatre district in a trick store whose proprietors are deeidedly averse to advertising of .tny sort. The firm denies connection with any other concern, and the less the gen- eral public knows or its wares, th3 more it is pleased. A new gusto/net must bo vouched for by some old ceetomer. Tho concern deals in slaters and other means employed by "mediernan Ono may have tho choice ef half a dozen moans of elate -writing, or per - elute.. the filmy Wrappings with whicli tho fleshy "imitate" elethe them- selves. Devices for tablo-rappIng and other deirionstrations are In- cluded in the stook offered, end, of the three. coneeres menti000d, It meet be admitted that in propor- tion to Ito eize and capital, the last Mimed firm does tho meet profitable beeriness. The more. the dear publie Is fooled, the larger price it le Will - trig to pay for to experience, •••••-•,,,•••••-44••••••• rilea++++++++++++44++14400.4elea LOISTEP. IIALF A DOZEN A, Word 'Nita rsed In 31aoy Stetscs. soma" STORIES A Dakota i0711Yjesi a verdict .v444+4109 .44.1tfli-++***++44-0-0, Marshall P. 'Wilder le it good story teller and seems to have itti almost inexhauetible reservoir of anecdotes about parrets. His friends all know' his tondnees for such tales and aro willing to Indulge the weak - nee% A.t a little dialler the other night a dvalger was laid that f, Wilder could not tell fifty parr etories in. succession. Ile aid without turning a feather, and many olr them were new that t ma,n who eame away and to about it cou1•1 remember only on It was Of the parrot which e oaped through a window and pore cal in a tree. The owner's of for to capture it, even with a butte fly net, were in vain. He stood • the bottom of the tree, swearh at the bird when an Irishman cam along. "What le the 'patter ?" demanded Pat, "I Can't catch that dared bird," said the man, "and here is a dollar for tho man who own" "I lam the man," cried Pat, and he started up the tree. As he climbed from branch to branch the parrot did the same. Finally they neared the top and the branchee bowie to wobble dan- gerously. The parrot was moved to speech. "What the devil do you want ?" Lt demande'd. "I beg your pardon," cried -en.,t, alretiely halfway down the tree, thought you WAS a bird." of :pm dem:igen agalagt a :tow:pada P111' 101' parson a !Mistral". What the newepaper's p'e0. was in juetifice,tio1 we are tillable to but the impropriety Of referring to any ,revieeind gentlemen ae lob- ster is manifest. Or course there are lobetere and leibeterft, just as there are parsons and parsons; but a care- ut rat end intelligent editor ought el- Sio twoen, the two species. As a term of se ways to be Male wtoor:es,cliontiamtle:rt„e be - ha crrinireinth0 tvielry° general use of late. yor many years eaLlOrs were lit the te, habit of referring to the "Soi•diers tea of the Sleeve lol and even went so far as to rater to the bar. ttlecke as "lobster -pots," but we never heard of an indignant Tommy awns swing; anybody: for Matador cos that account .00eas!onaly the suit ivas aggravatell by referring to leull Private Thomas Atkins as a "boiled-lobeter," no doubt, in deli- cate allusion to Ills rea coat. Late- alYu'ell:oreenveerra'l tulle% tgallit haalsi esQormtes lat°1 cotarnemditiounseiroefrymeran tIgnetwihtaaillapslieibleetrol called a lobster *were to get $870 to salve his wounded feelings there would net be enough money in the Bank of England to pixy the damages, to say nothing about the costs. Ex- actly what a man ,means when he calls another fellow a lobster is not very. apparent. Peselbly it does got, always moan the same thIsng. Ono mac may- have in mina as a lobster - :on characteristic a leek of grace In movenaent Another may regard a lobster chiefly as something so lack- ing in intelligence that it does not knpw enoag,h to keep .out of hot water. Now and then you meet a Inall W110. professes to be -yew fond Of lobster. In ids month the word lobster would not seem to be a term of reproach Yet were he to apply It as a term of endearment to Ills best girl there is no telling how she taworteltelatatich% It. If tahtehdold not llappei3 ma )nlght envy a canned Wieder. A ceetain dootor, who was going Lot- a trip for. a few weeks, could not get another doctor- to take charg-e 01 1110 practice while he was alaivae3t.hought it would be good plan to take a new Lash servant he had and introduce lain to ids patients as an Welt physician. He told his plan to Pat, and Patrek sale Wilms . good idea, as the now man wee eat knOwn around where the doetor praetieed. At this tinio thee° were only a oupla of patient% The first place they w.eot to the doctor asked the lady if she felt any better. She said "No." " you lave been eatine eggs; no wonder. forbid you to eat eggs." When they got Outside, Pat wanted o knotir how the doctor knew she had eaten eggs. " didn't I see the shells?" Pat aid he would watch for things like alOantO day, when the doetor was away, Pat wont In and asked a eilent how he felt. Es said he didn't eel very well. Pat looked around; the only thing so noticed stra.nge was a saddle lensing up. Pat says: "No wonder -ou're nut well. You've ate a toise." Pat never representecl tbe eietor after that. --- A builder in Glasgow, having heard hat the men did not, start work at he proper time, thought he would drop down one Friday anent G.30 M. and nee. Golpg up the yard hecatight oight of 0 Joiner standing smoking, with hist kit not even' opened. Simply asking him his name, which he found to doe Malcolm' Robertson, heecalled him into the office, and landed hint (oar days* pay, telling ina to leave at owe. After having seen the man clear the yord, he went up to the fore - 1110.13 and told him he nad made all e,xample of Malcolm Robertson by eying him off for not starting to work at the proper hour. , "Great ,stieks, sir I" ejaculated the oreman, "that chap was only] looking or a jc(n." Right Rev. Thos. Underwood Dud- ley* of Kentuoky, one of the eminent ienops In the Episcopal Church, ee- oys a good story as well as if he Id not wear the cloth. He tens his one on himself: A number of years ago he Was go- ng by train to one of the smaller owns or his diocese to hold ser - Ices. He was enjoying a cigar in he smoke:, and upon the seat facing im was a very large valise, contain - ng clerical vestments. A drum- mer sitting back of him noticed his windy travelling cap, leaned for- ward and inquired : "Travelling man, eh ?" "Yes," answered the Bishop. "What house do you represent ?" "The biggest bOuse In the woeld." "S'hillito's ?" (tlie largest house in Cincinnael) asked the drumnaer. "131gger than that." "Marshall Field ?" "Bigger than that," .2BliggTe.rlreewt,amrt's "Well, what honee is it? Those are the best I know," "I represent, sir," said the Bishop, impressively, "the house of God." The salesman gave a gasp, then glancing at the mammoth valise, ex- cia,,iivmeedil: an Vire got to say is, you carry a pretty full line of samples." -New York Tribune. Fite Chiefs in le,nropesin. Very few ieuropean elliefe of fire Wig/ides have been traine 1 01 11900 worked tlietr way up af4 firemen, In Paris the aid must im soldier, Fula ,t1.1 department is it regiment of .infantry, placed at the dispOs- tl the city of Para: by the Wf1,1' Ofnee. In Berlin +be chief arid Moat of .the RINI are Veteran Willer% hough many are artizang and mo• levities. In London the chief of, 'leer in from the navy, 0.0(1 10)1110 nine- eettlie of the men ander hie (.01n- m:tea Ure sailors, while in GlasgoW he rifler °Meer is it Meader ini 14.110155 by troth', and every tireman must le, A elcined wOrker of Fonie intl. Tit Naveet, Steele% the rite lepartMent IA made up of 130 we. men net the "waterworksiv are four 110rinotte Water tube, That Senator Thos. C. Platt finds amusement in Many of the carica- tures- of himself appearing in the papers, Is known to his friends. Not long ago, in coining to New York from Washington, the Senator step- ped for a. flay in a little town in Dela.veare. A young reporter for st local paper, While walking on the street, met lam accidentally, and with the longing for an "intervieW" peauliar to his kind, saluted him with: "Beg yonr pardee; but le not this Senator Platt ?" "Tt s. .But how dld you knew me?" Tlie reporter !meteoroid promptly: "Why, easily, from the eartoons I have seen of you in the papers." Then, as If to excuse himself, he beg•tn : "Of course, I do not mean" But the eider -set the youngster n,t hie ease, by remarking: "My dear man, do not apologise. Truth is for a long time1 bave been proud of the distinction of being about tho only man in any sense peetainently before the mini° to whose person- al appearance a eartatoil can -10 flb poseible lehistice."-NeW York Time% A minister was ono day walking along a road, ii,nd tOollis astonishment he saW a (Irma. Of boys sitting in G. eirele with it email dog in the cen- tre, 'When he cisme up to thole he - put the following question; "What aro you doing to the dog?" One little boy said: "Whoever tells the biggest lie wins it." 4'43ht" eniti the minister, "I ant sur.. prised ttt you little boys, for When I Was like yon,t I never told n, There was silence for a Witilerun. 111 one of the boya shouted: "Iland 111141 the dog 4. Ile heatt earned it I" •Norm••••••idommoome ITHE YARKETSI Toronto P'arriters' Market,, Terouto, Aug. 11. -The grain, rre oeipts at St. Lawrence market today wore nil. Fanners are very Liusy, islet net notch wain is expected tide month. I -lay and straw also nominal Inc mace in abeenee of receipts. Dressed hoes unolmaneed aa to! $10. Mons; Following is the range of, quota,-. Wheat, white, 80 to 85c ; red, 80 to 88p; spring, 78e • goose, 75 to ; oats, GO to 51c; bay, old, $16 10 new, $1.0 to $12; straw, $10 to $'.0.1.0; dressed hogs, .$9.50 to $10; butter, dairy, 13 to Irm ; creamery, 18 to 'X chickens, per pair, GO to 7.1c; daelre„ per pair, GO to idde ; egge, per dozen, 17 to 18e ; potatoce, beetle!, 115 to reee, Toronto ierult rota Vegotatetee. alio receipte of peaches, Penner, ap- ples, and tomatoes were very large to -.lay; and prices ruled steady, with fair demand. Oanadiaweepereches,- basket, 25 tic 35o; plums, basket,. CI 60c; pears, 80 to 50e; Lawton ber- ries, box, 7 to 8c; currants, red, bare kot, 50 to 60e ;• black entrant% base kot, 80c to $1; raspberries, rod, box- es, no to 8c; hueldeberries, BO do 90c; banana, 11.25 to $2.00; or-. angee, California, "Valeneias, $5.75; le:noes, Messina, $2.50 to $3.50; Cali- fornia. phone, case, $1.25. to $1.50; California pears, $2.25 to $2.50; ap- ples, bast, 15 to 30c; water mOlons, each, 20 to 25c ; potatoes, bushel, 05 to 40c; Canadian tornatoee, 25 to 35o; clieumbere, basket, 80 to 40e. The Apple .Crop. Ontario ha ,s alarge crop, anti a private report, dated Menet 4th, says: ',The recent hurricane In some of the western sections have done more good than harm, as 11105/ hare relieved a sianiber of orchards olf aurplus fruit, which was badly needed in order to ailow the residue to attaits their normal graivtli." Re- garding the Nova Scotia crop there are diverse opinlions, both as regards quality and quantity, one dealer stating that he is more optimistic: than, -some of Ins well -peened ccin- freres, an he predicts a good aver- age orals, whilst others say 70 to 75 per coati% orf zun average. The ap- ple crop of the Meted States win. unquestionably be a goled ove, both an regards quality and quantity ; the former betng assured; but the dee greo of abundance appears to be ootriewhan in doubt., British lave Steele Ititrketi London, Aug. 0.-Tb.day cattle are unchanged at .13 to 140 per lb.; refrigerator beef ev-eale at from 11 to 11 1-2c per lb. , 'Forouto Live Stook 31acicet. Export oattle, choice, per cwt. 33 50 10 do mildiUM. .., 4 50 to do awe „., - .... 350 to Butchers' cattle, pdoked 5 00 to Buttes& cattle, ohotee4 26 to Butchers' cattle, fair 3 75 to do oonnuou 3 0.1 to do buns • 15 50 to Feeders, short -keep 4 30 to do medium . 3 50 to Stockers, 400 to 800 lbs.... 3 00 to Bulls, ex Port, ...... 44444 • •• •• • 4. 4. 00 40 1140011 COM, 04011 ‘ki 00 to Sheep, ewes. per owt 3 60 to elveen, bucks, per owt 2 50 to Sheep, butt:Awe', each 2 00 to Lambs, spring, each 4 VI to Hogchoice, pee cm 7 37i te Bogs, light, per °vit. 7 124 to B0F0,104, per etas 7 123 to $0 33 560 00 5 60 50(5 4 25 4 OD 3 25 5 00 423 3 64 6 60 45 03 3 55 2 76 300 600 0 00 0 00 0 Ou tiradstreete on Trade. Trade Nt Montreal has beeadfair fox' thits time of the year, There has bane a, fair inquiry for fall and winter stuffs. In Toroneo this weed:, there has Imola A. fair mievemeot in wholesale trade tor tate time; 61 the, summer, wheal Wally business men are away on holidav/. At Quebec (luring the NIA week a fair movement is noticed to wholesale trade circles. There has been a good, movemenal in trade cir- Oleo at Hamilton, ail reported or Bradstreet's, this week, Tile (1151J018from nate-by pointsi, as well as from the Northweet, aro satisfactory, and travellers' reports indicate that there will be it largo Bootleg trade done Ibis near 10 fall and. Winter Vitae Values of staple goods tiro firmly held. Panmente are fair. At Pacifie Coast pointe there has been a 111110 huPtonemeot Oa exime wholesale 41 e- partanklits or trado lately, and tho general outlook is promising. At Lon- don there. IR it lair movement ha Witotefdale Iris& for the fall. Coulary retailer& half° experienced a better dentinal for seasonable goods HMCO thefirst of the month. 101 Winuipegt tloi aotainuere soya outlook for the 'Crepe le baling satietaetory (feet ilte &entire! from jobber% Retailere itillTr)tiagIlly1°ItottriShItt5elZt°11,1111,1431:1111r16suelltli;ercett! all that the attying through the stol•- ing settflon Will be Muoltbetter tilalilit Prollialni years. Ottawa wholpeale trade c:reies are fairly aetiVe for ilia Reaeon 01 the nat.