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swim. There were a number of Méy# in the water, and a cry of “Boy drowned” was When there appeared to be no chance of saving the boy they all scam- persed to the shore, picked out their cloth- ing, and by the clothing remaining un- drowned boy. as ycung Phillips. Watterson and Adams evi- dently had the news instinct which was Tater to make them both successful news- paper mn, and on thelr way home they stopped at The Star office, where Watter- son wrote an account of the drowning, his first newspaper work. SP ead. The name of the big Mbrary that was originally organized for the use of Con- and is now housed building ever constructed purely for library purposes, every now and then becomes a The Mbrary growing up as a reference library for members of Congress naturally took the name “Library * but there are many reasons ng that statesmen early in the days of the republic looked upon that col- lection of books as a national library and favored a broader name than the one now When Jefferson sent his. library of 7.000 books to Washington after they had been purchased by the government for $23.000 he forwarded a catalogue of these books, which he marked “Catalogue Library of the United States.” cates that Jefferson looked upon the Hbra- ry as a national institution, and not merely as a congressional library. It 1s not un- likely that an effort will be made in the near future to change the name of the big collection of books to ‘Library of the United States.” identified the “lhe building now being demolished to of the Havenner between 4% and 6th enlargement in the finest s for other than theat- purposes, noted in The Star Masonic Tem- t of, and when th2 meeting iges were located at five or subject for dispute. ple was thou % Jerusalem, met there, as well ashington Light Infantry ory here, and though the quar- er contracted for even a small y were extensive in compari- which were enough’ for’ the gun racks This name indi- ee ek KK a true story of the defeat of a .” He was not a relative, but he was and is the proud ssor. of a blye cambric sult, alleged to be made sailor fashion, and advertised most freély as the’ “Admiral Dewey sui The proud. young ‘Dewey’ in question is @ little fellow on Capitol than six years of age. His playmates, Much to the gratification of his youthful pride ani vanity, call him “Dewey.” afternoon last week “Dewey” was engaged in watering the street. @ low, black, rakish-looking craft hull down the horizon. His eyes danced and every drop of blood in his little body tingled. As the piratical-looking craft approached it was made out te be a pickaninny girl carrying a large basket of newly ironed clothes that her mother had laund a fighter on water, " the second, attempted and opened the engagement with a stream from the y drew within range. the admiral —__+_-— WADDESDON MANOR. One of Baron Rothschild’s Magnifi- cent Country Sents. Waddesdon Manor, at which the Prince of Wales met with his unfortunate accident, is one of the three country seats In Buck- inghamshire owned by the Baron Ferdi- nand de Rothschild. fordshire, Tring Park, belonging to Lord Rothschild, and Haiton, belonging to Mr. Alfred; but Baron Ferdinand owns, besides the Manor House at Win- and Leighton House, Buzzard, in the county of Bucks. Waddes- don is in all respects a model village, and, if the dwellers there are not happy and well-off, it is not the fault of Baron Ferdi- nand, wh> is the kindest and most popular He may often b2 seen in the village, and at busy times, or when any affair of jocal interest takes place, he is Sometimes, with a few friends from the Manor, he visits the she and makes small purchase: ; expensive one, for the villagers riably refuse to give him any change. eign, or even pennyworth of intended for immed'ate consumption, he may well be surprised to for change ss through Waddesdon is surr | the outward and visible | and the vil mee it gives them a upon their favorite topic—the baron’s iu- Presently he espied There are in Hert- Waddesdon, force of the in evidence. ship for act ive minutes put the game -d. “Dewey” was being worsted and yelled for help, the re- e in the meantime doing excel- t impartial manner. ft pounders. Fy o-hand fight ensu offers a sov lent execution in a me A complete al of a second and nd his claims idron in the shape of his r, who, having heard the heavy firmg, rushed to the rescue in Sampson-like fas s the enemy withdrew, bearing ; damaged basket of clothes. on lost to view im the offirs. x KK KK ot be generally known, but Ad- inventive genius as In the early days rin the service this genius re- vere shock, from which ¢ miral never that ts what a number of his associates in it was also in th2 early when the Incident The admiral a lieutenant, and was in sailing vessel. s he had worked on a kind of or wind gauge. nearer and dearer to him world. Finally it was ns of prosperity, ers welcome his astonishment, ve of enlarging —— ‘Women and War. “A month or so ago,” drummer who sells saddiery and harness j goods, “I was out in that part of W miral Sampson naval fighter. nia where Grover Cleveland and Joe Miller used to go fishing, and in the course side trip I was making in a buckboard, in order to take in some of my customers long the edg day ata hill Aunt Susan the navy declare. the new navy of civilization, I stopped one ide tavern presided over by is as wise a Ss superior in the art ng a fine mountain dinner. er feed in the shad stogie, and talking to one subject now of interest, It was his hobby, and v Aunt Susan on the t protruded for s Any of your folks at the front,’ Aunt one uy my own kinfc 1's boy is, and Sarey is most a s! Iks is, but Sar ‘I suppose you were worried a good deal about him during the fighting before San- weren't you? about a brother I had with t a terrific strain to sit still and w cting to hear that they are killed or and over into the fathom- lous anemometer. er of the deck. how I felt he Rough Rid- people at home it, every minute .? called the offic replied a Liuejacket, has g The orderly made for cabin companion she replied rather hesitatingly, i and oncomfortibble, but what worries me ’s boy as his comin’ home after the war's over.’ “ “How do you mean?’ I asked, puzzled understanding, for the home-coming to be the most joyous part of It. Well, you see; Jeomes is fer all the world like his pappy was—one uv these here good-natered men that everybody likes and is so all-fired popular that they ain’t got no to ’tend to ther own business. Jeemes’ went into the last war and fit like a wildcat, and when he com le run him fer the legisl: im, and he never ‘that’s mighty be “Break it to him gently.” endeavoring other night, lently celebrated the rec peace news from Madrid. found the other wound, more or less, about a telegraph pole, and in the fullness of his sul and body had volunteered “The other” had been indulging in a peculiar brand of which has a very , and he continually insisted | ©n bending double !n the seeming attempt to stand on both head and feet at the same made their winding way as far when the more sober friend ie home the peo- later and elected wuz wuth shucks frum till they buried him. Jeemes has pappy done, and a constable day that they by the way, told me t'other run Jimmy fer the legislater sh | in’ and he'd swee, wuz goin’ to ore ez Shoot- p the county like a whirl- skeers me fer eap sight wuss on a as Willard’ thought it wise ing “the other,” the picket fence al Politics is a h man than war.’ ’” It Depended on the Dog. Old Major Blank was in his day in Ken- tucky one of the greatest sportsmen in the entire section of the blue grass, of which he was an ornament, and to which he was an inspiration. No man could tell so quick- ly by the smell whose brand of liquor was nor was there any one who ints of a good hunting dog ajor. It made no difference a foxhound of the finest yaller coon dog—if he was > sure to have the 's highest respect.. On one occasion , and during a por- t a Bostonian who nything except Bos- rood him up against the 14th street side. 11 get a cab, she he performan In the meantime | in the today, knew the fii éa ‘through his aioe = viet the major was in Boston, tion of his visit he met did not know much of a: ton. With him the major, after the en- thusiastic manner of his kind, entered into ‘sument on the respective merits of in our great and glorious republic. argued the Boston man, “what if your state is famous in all these things you mention, there are portions of ere human life ls held so cheap that a man would be killed for kicking another's dog down stairs.’ sure of that?” major, with particular interest. d of an instance in th © week, where one man, some. where in the mountains, killed another for thing. Simply kicking a dog Now, what can you say in de fense of such a civilization?” The major hemmed and hawed a moment. “Well,” he replied finally, “It depends al- together on what kind of a dog it was.” afterward ob- | against the i thereto through of the adjusting straps © of his duck trouse ie See oe be porting work Mr. Henry Watterson, the famous editor of Courier-Journal, was for The Watterson spent the first twenty years of his life in this city, having been born here while his father was & member of Congress from Tennessee, When thirteen years of age, togethsr with one of his intimate boy friends, George W. Adams, who afterward bécame one of the proprietors of The Star, and a. boy named he wnt down to the river to inquired the @ newspapers just that very thin; down stairs. (Copyright, 1888, Life Publishing Company.) BG Fn a “COME, LET US FORGIVE AND FORGET.” EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1858-52 PAGES. AT-AN AUCTION SALE ° The vase was about eighteen inches high, | «When the wat is all over the army| “Which I take occasion heré to dbserve,” and of varying diameter: 1€ Was of come | ang navy medical departments get down t6 | Safa the man In the lunch Fodin, “that sort-of crockery or china ware, and it Wa8 | the work of gathéring and comparing sta | Ple who gét mad and ugly when f fail to as ornate as a Lonesomehurst cottage. On | tistics on fagalities caused by disease and | recognize them on the street, and then one side was a Watteau young woman, clad | Wounds,” said a naval surgeon of come barking at me later on for an apology in a truly rural pink satin puffy skirt, most- }ezyerience, who is:now in Washington on and an explanation, don’t get the same any ly all pleats, ani an apple-green bodice, also | rurtough, “f ath confident it will be found | More, not if I know myself. I can’t see my satin, and @ ‘“shepherdess’ hat that must’) inet the small’ slight men who have beet | Way clear to wearing a placard, bearing the have cost “at least $24.80, and white silk | enrougn tho: eam! both by field and | Jegend, ‘I am nearsighted, and don’t want stockings that ended in pink satin slippers | nooa, will be foupd: to have been the best | 8Y of my friends to bow to me,’ nor do I (high heeled), apparently No. 12, chiliren’s-} snguters of This is a fact that | Want to decorate my chest with a hanging size. The young woman was engaged In}z have . fini koete ved. The big, hard- sign with the large-lettered inscription, ‘I holding on to th kind of shepherdess’ crook | muscled, well-defatoped. men go to pieces | #™ 80 haughty that it pains me to be com- that shepherdesses used always to carry In ligt sé¥ér8"Hagadnp and succumb much sores to acknowledge salutes of any de- the old days—gilded, and with vari-nued | cuicker-to epidemm@iaisease as well as to | SM'ption.’ If I did anything like this, I'd liberty silk ribbons tied all over It. She | ing ordinary — of. life than do the, be Hable to attract attention, and atten- tion is something I don’t require on the BY was also industriously e¢1 in gazing ‘treat . Of course, no into the branches Of a sapphire blue cherry | “ai. Ino togiame chaps: Or ny or navy, | Publle thoroughfares. But, all the same, PHILANDER “7 tree, wherein a very red and very spank- | Dat the service has always been filled with { 1’m growing weary of telling people that {, E JOHNSON? abl2 Cupid was doing the usual act with @ | plenty of mep_umder ordinary size, whose | feel humble and penitent and cheap and ss bow and arrow. On the other side a young | appearance. with their clothes on causes | #rcents-like for having failed to’ make man, with more or less of the same make- | men not fatmiliar with the subject to won- ten a oe and forms out, and dofted my ° : up, without the skirt, was climbing a gilt | der how they ever ed the physical ex- | 0” ee an ae cong g they _— me < Expectancy, all the time and Columbus wouldn't have ladder Into a gilt balcony shaded by Tyrian | aminations required™by the-army and navy. | OM the street. mever do feel humcbl> or }y ont want any op'ry muse, thrillin’ out been heard from ff sme of the aboriginal purple vines, These undersized, but ettly sound, men, pon ain thing like it under such cir giumuinte abitants of our glorious and independ- ‘The auctioneer held it up. both in th army @ydinavy, are the best | CUIIStances. infirmities that 1|I dost want any ‘fancy marches by the | St comtinent “hadn't come down to. the “What am I offered for this real thing?" | for hard service. ‘They. may not be able to ply one of my infirmities that ny v c iy shore and found him, S. LITTLE -MEN{THE LUNCH RGOM -SEER } —_—_—_4-3- Of course, Spain ; don’t see my friends when they see me on fav'rite band. wouldn't let him acknowledge the truth. It he inquired, insinuatingly. vfdo such big-things, on jong service full > 1 fe “ ni ge the trut gentlemen, the age of this vawze is beyond |of ‘trouble and’ waktipient. and genuine and Tenis (on kght Suessing as to Ways 1T used to hanker for ‘em. But my heart | Was too good a chance to get up and brag my humbie computation. Moreover, I do| hardships. theyr are ‘incomparably bette and witn 2 a ee a ee eo i aaek co aot ebout it. But don’t you let ‘em turn things not like to go beyond facts that I know. I| than the big fellows, who look as if they ‘alking a! ~ the street un H : very | the Wrong way around and fool you any do know that this vawze adorned ths home |"might be-able-to outlast any three of the | 1 ve got too many thinks coming to permit | On somethin’ that I know will be the very | ionger. It. was America, that discovered of the Russlan minister—Cacky—Cackyow;| Smaller men. I’ve, often noticed that in Se ee Epa as eat ay sweetest yet. Columbus.” sky—something lke that—to this country {practice marches by°naval landing parties | Brin and’ cheesseat in Teaponee to uheky | Tho violins {s tender and the horns is clear * 3 seventy-two years ago. It passed from his] the little fellows have invariably the best } Prinning and ches ic. 1 go along an’ strong x * unwilling keeping, when he was recalled, to [Of the argument when it comse,to heavy, An Epitome. the household establishment of the czar. | double-time work under hot, tropical suns, | 8P0Ut my Dusiness, and get home some way | An’ the clarinets give tunefulness that x ordaibther: wae aura th ane en : — The old-time compositor stood at his case The many vicissitudes through which this|T've seen huge sailors and mari foe al ‘when they drop in for a. pipe or for a talk s helps & si alony. | vent ‘mia | When the sunlight, grown old, kissed tho vawze has passed in finally reaching my }-Uut of line tn ‘set o£ fours under such cit-) aout medicine and servanis and things | BUt I'm thinkin’ of the boy that went ‘mi twilight so young, humble but reverent hands, ladies and gen- | CUMStances, while the small, poe a with my wife. But there’s not a day battle scenes to roam— And deftly before him the letters he flun, tlemen, were too pathetic to relate. It suf- peee and sea soldiers stand to eels tg | Passes but some chap comes up to me and |I want to hear the drums an’ fifes a-playin’ r > vag: ej fices to say that it is a gem fit to have | (rough everything and yery rarely fall to | looks injured and aggrieved, and says to “Home, Sweet Home.” hat each might be found in its usual adorned Versailles ~as, indeed, who shall | re ren a Te ae rie onthe smelt mre, “Say, what kind of a geezer are you to ‘ : Place. say that it never did adorn Versailles? La- ning in est the small- | be ‘cutting folks dead on the street?’ and ; 1 eae . And the afternoon ray, dies and gentlemen, T'ask you to make me |¢T men have invariably shown. themselves | then goes on to tell me that he was passing {1 “in shut my eyes an’ see ‘em as they're ach Gk ies an offering for. this vawze, keeping in | ‘© be better resisters of hardship than the | such-and-such a corner last night with his passin’ down the street, s amey, mind—" : Pig fellows. (They say that among the dough- swell girl, or with his wife, olsomething, | They're weary, but they're happy, ‘cause a | Paused a moment to hear what the ditty “Two dollars,” sald a coarse, brutal man | Po¥S. of tnfanitymen, when a big practice | and that he raised his chapeatt two and @ duty’s done complate. might b> at the far end of the room. ure and flesh and muscle ave always among | Palf feet in the air, and that I looked him | ay the windows will be dan’ there'll That he chanted ¢0 low, The auctioneer looked grizved. Papa arp rh ge oe pte] among | Smack in the face ‘and passed on without will be opene! Ae his heed. teak te “Surely,” said he, “you jest. Surely, you | {Pe lxst to throw up thefr hands and ask | recognizing ‘hlm, and that he then had to be a welcomin’ cry ae , must be anaware of the merits of the cher- | £2° transportation ig commissary Aa (men | $date himself ‘with the girl, or wife, or | From the loved ones of each hero, as they | Kept the metal a-clicking from a round ished school of ceramic art to which this—” | trudeo on docsediy, “rile the small men | something, for having done something see him passin’ by. to z. “Two 'n’ a halt.” put in another low | Us peaeaW-= + x Elve him the cae ‘vine that caused me to | me flags will smile to greet them as they | “Oh. we build ‘em up so carefully, churl, with a businesslike eye, up near the | | City Reerults With Endurance. | give him Sa eee ripple an’ they ‘flow. A little at a time; ioe ghd aap CE nd Suaiy Avother thing the-army_ surseons tell} lone, and to be given a chance ‘to look | ‘They'll be Just as proud to meet them here The work, the play, lithe en Bette lor mie tee pervades the | @¢ that might seem peculiar to those who } straight ahead six miles down the street as when they faced the foe. ‘The grave, the gay, sonetiis Prorat It is a sorry enough re- | Raven’t been in any military service is that } if I want to, and not be reproached for it ; : . | ‘The laughter and the rhyme: ee An’ the mighty cheers will waken an : : a couple of days later. aie flection that a gem, a pris, of this charac- |the soldiers recrulicd trom the cities are} @ couple of days later. | 7 | Ant fhe Mighty cheers will waken The wisdom wrought so pray’rfully, Bes Onn eye een bee a ee ee ene tee eaealurers of ard cam- | accident heppen to see a lady on the street {I want to hear the drums an’ fifes e-playin’ | TR? teles of Joy and pain— ago would have been grabbed at by— Paigning that the soldiers recruited from | Wicom T Knee ane Lote aay ache Street ial Ths Scbte of aan ‘Well, cali It three,” said the first man to} ithe country districts. It might naturally ome, Sweet Home Chesterfieldiest hat-lift in my repertoire. We note; and then make a’ bid. be thought that countrymen, used to open- | She just looks ine airs he it the ee tlre. * ots E My friends,” said thy auctioneer, shak- | air work and hopping over furrowed fields, | ut J tartiels, ni seca emer the exe with: x * We tear em down again. ing his head mcurnfully, “are you aware | would prove themselves away ahead of the that it is among the posstbilities—indeed, | city Jads when it came to keeping in line among the probabilities—that this vawze | on forty-mile-a-day marches over western tenance, and passes on. it would, 1 suppose, ave been the real thing for me to get Local Pride. And the sunbeam smiled there, ere it gilded A long bicycle ride and a hot day made = haughty over this, and to pass on with mona Sue en ter, for which you now offer'me such paltry | country, but the army surgeons say that | squared shoulders, and uplifted chin, wn | tP¢ Word “Hotel” that swung in front <f| For sunbeams must hasten at duty’s stern sums may at one time have embellished th? | the countrymen are the first to complain of | ail that. Instead. however, I wheels | the old house a most welcome one. The call— boudoirs of quecns?—that the fated Marie |'sore feet and to cast their eyes longingly around, and waiks Up to the lady. “Well,” I said to her, ‘if you'll be kind evergreens on the lawn had grown rough Fepititied aires Eis Ad coh and shaggy; the boxwocd hedges had long nough not to tell my wife about it, and to = ier ins t SE Rater renee forsaken thelr proper ideals of prim neat Tell your wife what, sir? she asked | M€SS and In the flower beds a few gladioli Antoinette herself. upon the wagons and ambulances at the “Three-fifty,” said’another man with a|rear. ‘I'd rather haye command of a low foreh2ad but a bright, alert eye. company of Bowery boys and city wharf It was at this point that the determined- | rats any time,’ said one of the army sur- looking elderly woman, with the poppy-cov- | eons to me not long ago, ‘than a fitout of ith her head high up. continued a hopeless struggle for existence ered bonnet and the fat, old-fashioned | big, raw lads just off the farm. If the Why, what I've done to you and your’n | against the weeds. The house had been purse, walked in. The love of tradition | Country boys go sore they don’t appear to | to have you give me the dig on the street e of the fi 7 ft Vi " a shone in her syes, and she flashed a look of | have the nerve to keep their heads closed | Jike this?’ Be ie) Hine mansions 0! rginia an contempt at the bidders. about ft and wait for their soreness to pass “‘Oh, you've done nothing to me,’ she | the atmosphere of aristocracy lingered, “Five dollars,” said she, pushing through | Of, but they break for the sick report | said. ‘it would be quite out of your power | even though the people who built it had the crowd close to the auctioneer’s stand. | Ti&ht away. The city Jads get their teeth | to injure me, you know." departed for a more populous portion of “Ah, madame,” said the auctioneer, “you | 40wn hard and grin and bear it. “Well, what's the matter, then? I in-| the state a generation since. A loud rap- have arrived in season. It is rzadily to be Aboard Naval Vessels, quired. tig’ Ge ENS RDEE ADEE Seen nb xeepoun seen that you know a good thing when]. « x s “Well, she went on to tell me how upon | Ping at the front door brought no response. you—that you have a cultivated eye, that is |, -Doard ship'in the navy I’ve noticed ever | tn. ast three occasions that she had met | The silence was disturbed only by the to say, for such perfect products of a sadly | Since I first went to-sea,.which was a mat-| me face to face, fair and square, and] brushing of a magnolia tree against the deteriorated art as this. Yet I fear you, too, | ter of nearly thirty~years ago, that when | bowed to me with all the grace in the strike too low a note. Five I am offered—}a big bluejacket gets down sick in the sick | World, I had given her the vacant glare. 1 who, then, is to make it ten?—who makes it } bay and a smaller man is taken with the | 2#4 to tell her that my eyes had been un- ten?_ah, ten I am offered— me trouble. that alls the big man the | der treatment for almost total blindness Nobody in the room had spoken. The de-| smaller chap invariably becomes convales- | Guring the period she complained of, and termined-looking elderly woman looked} cent long before’ the big man begins to | VN then she didn’t appear to believe. me, around deflantly and adjusted her specta- { mend. a away a bit sore. - cles defiantly. “Tit cases where4hips T have been attached tina ppt eed ager saling came ga tecnit, I am offered—who makes it fit-| to have become dMicted with epidemics and | Me bow and grin to them on the street, teen?—" half a ship's companyhave gone down T've | Ty2¥, Cont they pack lassoes about wit “Fifteen dollars,” sal@ the determined-}observed that the dhances of the small | them, ak ar ae eC ROTaT thout looking woman, and all of the rest of the |meh recovering ‘Neve Llways: been almost'| free igen, all they've got to seyipeates room's assemblage looked én with a very {twice as great a¥ whet chances of the ble | Hie Vo ne ule to nen sn eh ee ety great silence. : men. This is pavficiiatly true of the fevers | OOS Up ne Tue ne see Anything or anybody “Fifteen I am offered—it is dreary enough | that hit ships’ companies in trepical waters. nore e = z to qeflect upon It~but fifteen Y am offered -| A lange, heavy"mants «twice as Hable to i ee es fifteen—fifteen—now, who is to display his [get ‘the fever krmwntas “coast fever,’ for “i Pad acumen and make me—ah, twenty—” example, as a-sneall:aman, and he Isitwice | 4¢:qnow Gyro, that 1s?” inquired ‘one of his Nobody in the room had spoken. a8 Muble:to die trem 4t, too. For example, : : “Twenty-five dollars,” said the deter-| about fifteen years-ago theo! Ki-navy wind- = . = res mined-looking woman, and she didn’t notice | jammer Is wasra@ttaehed to was. working geet Scer,” Possessed sor Beene the grins of the canaille about her. ‘her way up the-soastiofCentral America, sight and Clairvoyant Powers. Sees into ‘And sold to this lady with the culttvated | when pretty’ meaty: radi the Future. Sees into the Past.’ ye for twenty-five dollars," said the auc- } fever: The big men And, in due course of time, let it's radiance fail On a palace that languished beneath an ill star. And its master cried, “Where Are the splendors so fair That refiected my rule o'er @ p2ople once proud? And he wept in his woe, And the sunbeam sang low, Till tH€ winds caught the chorus with mockery loud: “Oh, we build ‘em up so carefully, A little at a time; The work, the play, Tha grave, the gay, The laughter and the, rhyme. The wisdom wrought so pray’rfully, The tales of joy and pain— The deeds of men We note; and then We tear "em down again,” e« A Distant Ambith “I'm deservin’ of sympathy; not re- proach,” he said, as he shfflued his feet to keep in step with the man who had just refused him a paltry 25 cents. “I’m too conscientious, I am. I'd be holdin’ a posi- tion which would gimme a large salary and perquisites if mie moral sense hadn’t been 80 delicate.” tioneer, snappingly into.the sick. bay, re “You'd better go your own way, or I'll “Oh, yes,”” said the auctioneer in an easy | peculjraly. violent-charactér on that oc Pets of a Learned Man. hand you over to @ policeman.” whisper to a friend, “when you can get ‘em | 4nd within a week after the disease oame | From Youth's Companion. “Mister, dat ‘ud be de last straw. It to bid against themselves you're all rigtit.” che rthe side enaeh Geena ot sey . Sir Henry Rawlinson, the great authority ‘Then he sold another vase of the same sort [ Ship's company, fore and nft,. boys. anc Pel $c . “Me- Be 0 heer a) a ENC ne Rema ker ima eae cane PS Persian inscriptions, wrote his “Me 2 first’ men to die were the huge, knotty. | ™m0!r” in a summer house overhanging the A Hero Not in Blue. mauscled firemen. We lost. hdlf a dozen of | Tigris, where the outside heat of 120 de- them,. and then the big. down-east deck-'] grees was reduced to 90 degrees by the ac- Tt was far along in the nizht when the | hands—meii that cquid manhandie a barrel pellceman came out of Lafayette Patk and | of flour ag easily asa washerwoman man- would turn de milk of human kindness into smearkase right here and now. It ‘ud rob me of me last grain of faith in me fav'rite motto, ‘honesty is de best policy.’ Dat's what I was all fixed to be—a p'leeceman— tion of a water wheel, which poured a con- when me conscience rose up an’ sald met at the southwest entrance a lonesome | Ipulates a fatiron—began to go, Very few | Hnuous stream of water over the roof. RoWelecbroment an fase aes = say {roca ‘base you on the force appearing man, who seemed to be in some | Of the small.men died, although nearly ail) For recreation: while writing his book, | window was opened and 2 voice called: here.” kind of trouble. He was not to say under'| of them had the fever badly. Out of twen- | Rawlinson indulged in petting wild ani- “Who's there?" “I was goin’ to New York. I had me “A traveler,” was the answer. “Got any- | ticket almost bought. All I had to do was ty-seven. coal passers: aboard eight were | mals. He had a tame leopard named the influence of liquor, but it was apparent: } Huge men and: the remaining nineteen Wens | had, which he brought to. England and | grins to Gar chat mf re eee ed otros that he ‘nad not confined himself exclu- | of ordinary size or under the ordinary size, | Presented to the Zoological gardens at Clit- | WE Oe as closed and In a few at Te cerhaaens nets ho Seon eet sively to a water diet during the evening. | Seven of the big coal passers had to be | ton, near Bristol. Whenever Rawlinson | minutes. a man well advanced In years | @ = io a at paste & piisanainne ites, +, | buried at sea, and not ® man of the smali | Wa8 in England he would visit Fahad. As d the 4 Hi dct No eens Wien ee eee sve Pte wate eae De dt Was the officer's | 1ot went over tha, side with the shot ted | Son as, the beast heard his cry, “Fanaa! | pened the door. | He maly ‘back from his |{o,New York? You've got to arrest every Guty to wait for particulars. The man | to nis feet. Among the officers of thence. | Fahad!” it would rise from the floor of its | Be Collar rolled carelessly pack from his | body you hear swearin’. An’ de town’s f game up to him et once with the coufi-'| too, the same line of argument holds geex | Cage, approach the bars, and then, rolling | !00se-fitting shirt. His snow white hair, | of Scandinavians an’ Bulgarians an’ Rus- €ent manrer of all innocent men after mid- : “navy are | On the floor, extend its head to be scratch. | ™¥Stache and imperial gave his assertion | sians an’ all de rest of ‘em. Suppose I seen Fight, who feel the need of a policeman's | net fete at eat, the Rane eae iGO: the force of convincing authority when he | two Chinamen talkin’ in an excited man- influence and counsel. half as often as the big men—the foot tant | Once the keeper, who did not know Sir | 84d: 3 = ner. How would I know whether they was ‘Excuse me, Mr. Officer,” he sald, rather players at Annapolis. There has bo Henry, on seeing him patting the leopard, This hotel is closed, suh. breakin’ the law or simply havin’ a friendiy fhickly of speech, “but may I ask you'a | Sood ‘deal of talk’ lately” about che sro | exclaimed: But the tourist was too hungry to be | Gebate over which was to pay fur the chop question or two ‘before retiring?” worked engineer offfcers of tho navy. ied | “Take your hand out of the cage. The | Silenced by simple dignity of manner, and | Suey? How could @ man wid me high sense “Certainly,” replied the officer, promptly. up fo by the fact that so man: BE ec | animal's very savage and will bite you!” he persisted: aa of honor tell half de time dat he wasn't I suppose there 1s no chance for me to | even hetore the war broke out. beat “be | .“Do you think so?” said Sir Henry. “I ‘Haven't you anything to eat? I'm al- | tetrin’ de guilty go and havin’ suspicions eeiaes te theca fhvalided, Out of curiosity, T dug inte the | don’t, think he'll bite me. Will you, Fa-| most starving. : about some poor Dago dat was only tryin’ “Hardiy at this late day.” 5 ss ig into the | nad?” and the beast answered by a’ purr “Yes. I’ve a ttle somethin’ to eat that | to get his honest dues for a pint of pea- “No c a fe ir records a little while’ ago and I discovered ; = e ife \ jle she went to get some - F < let pie aa me to get a Mauser bul- | that only about ten per cent of the really | #2d_ would hardly let the hand be with- | my wife left while = eB nuts? It was de highest ambition of me i y chickens. I don't see how it occurred that = . : “Hardly.” Seem ereey caer eens Dea ae Ghat aisdtiadloe eeadellg pot lon wien | wo -ssa lout on emieone ‘We. never Shai | iootin’ tor sesh be tate es woe oe iNor, thirteen-inch shell?” a good seventy per cent of the engineers | 224 been found when a kitten on the bank | such a thing happen heto'. You're the |T kin git t'roo colleges, and master all de x i Bre of the Tigris—its mother having been shot | third man that’s been along today. The | modern languages, s0's 1 kin go om the I work. Another significant fact is that | {ty 8d the lion when grown would follow { nor keep at it as long as you did. But we | wig discretion.” compass?” imesenOPINS TG SHO ie et whe | Bm about like a dog. One hot day the lion | ain’t goin’ to have people come to this part silo ~thentinans yphould' say you were too late for that, [Greely expedition gave !up and dled when | MOPed and rejected Its food. It paced the | of Virginia and be disappointed an’ go "way too.” the hardships began, while the small men | Master's room and he, being very busy, | sayin’ they didn’t get their money’s worth. A Very Big Boy. he trenches botore Benet gem chin in [nearly all were alive and. kicking at "the | tiled two servants to take the llon away. | Open-handed, fair-dealin’ pays the best in | From Pearson's Weekly the trenches before Santiago?” reacuger ie ng at the}.’":ne Hon would not go with them, but |the end, and if we haven't any fried a : “Nor to have a torpedo shoved under me and blow me to the nine points of the A lady from the country, who recently = drew nearer its master, and at last sat | chicken there’s no use of keepin’ the hotel ie “Nor have yellow fever and Hve on hard- Be a down under his chair with its head be-| open. The fame of this hotel is constant- | had occasion to send to town for a sult of tack and bacon rinds?" UUlzing Wave Power, tween his knees. ly growin’. The American people have | boy's clothes, took the measurements her- “No.' . From Lonton Tit-Bits. “Oh,” said he, “if he won't go let him | learned what to expect, and-if we can’t | self. She received the following reply: At Los ,Angeles, Cal., an experiment ts | »!de.” have fried chicken there's no use of keepin’ | “pear Madam: Your favor received, but “Can't gat sick and travel around on one of them government hospital ships?” = The servants went out, and Sir Henry | the hotel open.” » have mo ci ‘No. being made with a view to the utilization | wrote on. The lon sank from a sitting po- “But you said you had something to eat. | W© TesTet to say that knee ne aewe All right, Mr. Officer. Good night. My | 0f wave power, Floats which rise and fall | sition into that of a “lion couchant.” All I'll pay whatever you say is right.” such as you want, and we doubt if they wife's waiting up for me at home. I guess with the saves are caused to act on hy-| Was quiet for several hours suve the | “1 don’t care about any pay unless I can | can be found outside a museum with @ fat i might as well be brave and take my suf- | draulic . air compressors, connected with | Scratching of a pen. When his work was | give value received, suh. I have some fering like a man, just as the boys in blue | storage tunks- holding water at different | over the master put down his hand to pat do down there in Cuba. Good-bye, Mr, } levels. By mans of the compressed aly | the pet. The lion was dead. Officer, if I never see you any more,” and | water is delwen:frdai“ Jower to a higher pa es AGE boy. Fifty-four inches round the chest, ham and eggs and potatoes and sweet corn | twenty-four round the neck, and sixty and ‘coffee, mot to mention some of the | round the waist is a little out of our line. 0 a dpe es Ye ever ta: . he disoppeared up Pennsylvania avenue. | tank, which gives ihe required “head” of An Indorsement. and if youll do Pasitnp bonne of hele, a Eoeathy you melent Saucess tee Sey Goan terme water to drive a water mill or motor. The | From Puck. personal guest I shall take great pleasure | @ little, but this would hardly be m= ~ How the Poppe Family Lost Their an | Waste water flows back to the iower tank | Patsnt Medicine Man—“I don't know] in havin’ yo’ company and showin’ the canteen tee ie “would Scher wath a From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. pe ae Hiden The system | whether to publish this testimonial or not.” utmost hospitality in apy power. Sab as I you might do. We should advise you to Mr. Poppe of Germany, with his wife | hoe, ene » Gevelop 200 horse- | His Partner—“What is it?” sa Jigees PI take the youth to some wholesale tailoring Patent Medicine Man (reads)—“ ‘Your | hotel is not open.” establishment. A boy with arms sixty~ and a friend, went to Monte Carlo recently OS cough syrup has been used with wonderful rgd three inches Tong and legs Just six fect to to win a fortune on a sure system of bet- 2 In Self-Defense. « success on my boy, aged ten. He confesses Ao Reembciant an inch is a little beyond the capabilities ting devised by the friend. ‘They lost $2,000 | From Puck... i that he would rather go to school any time | ;, ae of this establishment, though we study to an gercemien: to pay suicide. The} mrs. Newlywed—“Bridget, what did you | than take your preparation.’ ” ‘There’s no use of talking,” exclaimed please.” three sat on the beach at Antibes, then Hat Urandy I gent a ——_—_—_— Mr. Biykins indignantly. “These Spaniards The lady has since learned that she used. walked into the water up to thelr necks; | 60 with the ndy/T mept down for the : Badly Phrased. always were gross peryerters of the truthr’ | the Wrong side of the tape measure. Poppe put ie to the’ head and Ries, Se | Beidect-Wel, eet tel From the Now York Evening Journal, He had started in as If intent on more Hie Capapitt Poppes were killed instantly, but the friend | 'rool. mum. ye young) Rae Ve | Mr. Sapleigh (peaking of war times)—| violent language and his wife's tace wore | wo. pay. Mf tz survived long enough to tell’ the story. me such @ pains hat aus “Yes, it's going to be a tight squeeze now an expression of relief as he completed 4 Miss Leftover (ecstatically grabbing him) | ‘te, Sentence catego itp ea with | "erkman. -How many persons can you From Life. P “Don’t you dare, sir! But, then, you are | “And another thing,” he proceed th | shave in half an hour?” “True.happiness does not depend upon | so strong and masterful {t’s no use protest- | the excessive mildness of tone that a man |” B2rber—“Eight men, or one populist.” externals. ing! Shall I name the day, Dickie, dar- | assumes when he is making an effort to “That’s“so:‘ Ugiimug ts as happy ag a | ling?” ‘control his temper; “these people who write f ee A Romance. coe How It Happened. The house surgeon of a London hospital was attending to the injuries of a poor wo- man whose arm had been severely bitten. As he was dressing the wound, he said: can not make out what sort of a creature | @‘K since Miss Gargoy way for a while.” Man in the chair—“You are a very rapid oe An Unknown Quantity. history ought to be seen to. I don’t want | From Lite. Dit you ‘While fy too Amialr-tor ioe ee — =e any press censorship. But I want some-| Rochelle—“How much did that wheel cost and t09 large for a ore “Oh, sir, re oe gallgg mo. lobsfge: ot Brom: J4mp, Scene L thing lke it that ail idee historians | you, old a Se = plie ie patient, “it wasn’t an animal; it} 12 ~ “ from taking the facts into their own hands e—“T don’t Ww; my tor hasn't . ; ‘He did. Dow} you think something | The Count (in a businesslike way)—“Mr. 5 n Park Kp kegs satiate ought to be done iboug, 1?” Rocky, I need money, your daughter needs | @nd_ playing tricks with them. “All the j sent in his pill yet” His Co: pnaeee I do. 8. ” world’s a show,’ as the Talmud or some- From Puck. sitegaenn| act Ugned long enougy."— Post, inno; -oltae cage erat aenaad loans ead A Pointer In Etiguette. to me that a historian, in most cases, is (Corgright, 1898, Life Publishing Company.) nothing but a press agent for some mon- arch who desires to impress posterity with = the idea that he is the greatest star-per- Ha! Hat former that ever drew a salary.’ From the New York Tribune. His wife merely responded; “Yes, dear; Capt. Eulate of the Vizcaya is reported to | I'm afraid so.” have said recently: “Your Captain “Bob anne. discovered America?” he asked eee Oe aay to ittt to only ore ascur | “Why, Christopher Columbus, of course.” it, It take “four ships to capture it Giapcriant nine sed en poocaatie haegsesee pan EN ee One eee heavy every time somebody beats the bass drum. Take it for granted that it must Rather Monctenons, be so, simply because you have heard it LOR a Gee Eavicg bak frest ‘prafedioed.cnoecen That -stetoareet — eer Sepeeres. Saves poet. ms at da athon ben powterel aectn peter ieee Dingley—“Where are you going to spend your vacation, old man?" Bingley—“I'm not going to take any va- cation this year. I’m al broken up, weak, nervous and a general wreck. I'm in no condition to stand a vacation. I shall stay home and rest.” - A Long Time to Wait. From London Tit-Bits, It has been computed that if the sea were emptied of its waters, and all the riv- 2rs of the earth were to pour their present floods into the vacant space, allowing noth- ing for evaporation, 40,000 years would be required to bring the water of the ocean up to its present level. 4 Mr. Rocky (to footman)—“James, the window needs a new glass.” — oo (Copyright, 1898, gelfe Hublishing Company.) 19.159 > Or : = the seashore? ; for the last four centuries. They say ‘we 7 “No; she writes home that she is engaged Deservedly Popular. fii H $ to the same men. she met Jast year.” hustled scone and espe the crown “I wonder what is the great secret of ve Jinks’ popularity?” : “He never has any troubles of his own ke wants to talk about to other peopls, and he never wants to talk about anyt! hing else when other ple want to talk to atout their troubles” fe an