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I felt much refreshed when we arrived at. the quarries. After 1 had had a. wash and done full justice to a second breakfast at the “ Miner’s Arms” Iieltready to face my morning’s work of making up the men’s pay sheets. Then, asIfeiu in my pocket for my keys, my memory began to entertain a. vague suspicion that; that bag was some- how unfamilnr to it. However, my key fitted the lock and as I turned it my sua- picion vanished, ‘ " only to be replaced a moment. infer by a.“ astounding certainty. “ You ran in a. bitfine that Lime, mister,“ remarked the man who had saved me from being carried past my destination. “ I wonder if that other chap meant, going on? He was as fast, asleep as you.” Instead ofreeting upon the familiar brovfi Eaper packages of silver and little canvas age of gold, my eyes were dazzled by a many-colored iridesceuce,which shone forth from the inside of that bag as soon as I opengd it. “ What station is this?” I asked, sitting up and drawing my legs from across the door to let them pass. ” Otterford, I sup- pose '2” “No, Thurley,” said one, and up I jumped in a hurry, took my bag. as I thought, from the rack opposite me, and got. down on to the platform just as the guard whistled the train away. “ 0h, he’s all righfi.” said his companion. “ He’s booked for London. I heard him say s_o_whenAhe got, _in.:’ Rings, brooches, bracelets, loose stones. at. least one necklace, a. gold watch and chain, acme bank notes and a considerable sum of sovereigns were all mixed up toge- ther in aohnobic confusion which seemed at least inconsistent with their habits. I began to doubt, Whether it. was consistent Wit/ll honest possessiun of, at all events, the consent of the bag on the part of my late fellow passengeBâ€" tine man who was booked for London, and who had been asleep when I left the train at, Thurley. No doub: he Was awake and alsoaware of his loss by this time. What a. state of mind he must be in too. But, just as I was trying to realize his state of mind a. mur- mur of gruff voices and a. shuffling of heavy feel: in the yard outside reminded me that, it, was time to pay the men. Don’t I catch it? No; not overmuch, anyhow. For one thing, we haven’t, been married vervloug, and Tilly agrees thaw it’s only reasonable I should have Lime to learn to be more careful, and, for another, if it wasn’t. for the hold a habit has on me. I doubt. whether We should be married yet, or at least We shouldn’t be living in our own house, with the furniture all bought at a large discount for cash. I am a clerk in the service of a firm of colliery and quarry owners at Lington. and every Saturday morning I go out, to Wes~ terby, a village some thirty miles 03 among the moors, to pay the quarrymen there their wages. Three of the corner seats were occupied and I took the fourth, though there was no room on the opposite rack for my bag. I couldn’t put it on the seat at my side, either, because the man opposite in the other corner had his legs up and I didn’t care to disturb him. I ought, of course, to have kept it on my knees, but it was rather heavy and I was very sleepy, so I just slung it over my head. settled myself down and dropped 06 again almost before the train was clear of the station. I didn’t; wake up until we stopped at Thurley, and even then I isncy I should have slept on if the two men ab the far end of the compartment had not wanted to get. out. -“ Diamonda,by jingo !” I cried as I start- ed back amazed. I thought. it. best to keep my discovery to myself. ’The bag, I guessed, was probably the property of a jeweler’s travelerâ€"a traveler in a large way of busxness, too, thought. I, as I peered into it in the least exposed corner of the office and found it almost full of what, little as I new about precious stones, I felt certain were valuable jewels. If it has to go there because the opposite rack is full I am always uneasy about it, fancyingl shall fnrget. when I get out. I never hnve forgotten it, yet, but one Satur- day in November, 1893, I did something which might have been worse. I took the wrong bag when I left the train at I‘hur- ley. It happened in this way. On Friday night I went out. with Tilly to a. party, which broke up solute that I had only just time to change my cloehes and gets. sort. of apology for breakfast before caschiug my train. Consequently I slept. all the way from Lington to Drask, and ac Dusk I stumbled, only half awake,-inm the first; third-class compartment I came to. ’lhe money (nearly 100 pounds, mostly silver) I always carry in a. little black leath- ur bag, one of those bags you see by scores every day, which may contain anything from a packet of sandwiches and a collar to a. dynamite bomb, and it’s my habit when in the brain to put my bag on the rack fac- ing me. I rarely keep it on the seat by my side, and I don’t like to put, it: over my head. IL’s an awkwm‘d sort of Journey. I have to start, by the first train in the morning, which leaves Lington at 6, change at Drask, our junction with the main line, leave the main line again at Thurley. some ten miles further south, and do the rest of the dis- tance in the brake van of a mineral train. A51 often say to my wife, when she blames me for forgetting her little commis- sions, ic’e a. queer thing, is the mind, and great is the force of habxb. I never forgot; to do anything I’m in the habit of doing, but as Tilly usually attends to the shopping herself I'm not; in the habit of calling at the butcher’s or the grocer‘s on my way home from business, and thereforeâ€"well cherefore, I don’t call three times out of five that she tells me to. Drying no realize ms shame or mind a. mur- mur of gruff voices and a shuffling of heavy teen in the yard outside reminded me that, it was time to pay the men. Hurriedly summoning the foreman, and telling him that, a mistake had been mxde in supplying me with money, I Went: down THREE BLAEK BAGS. A "‘ Now, look here, young man,” he went. on, eying me keenly. " I’m not in charge of this case~yetâ€"bub, if you’ll do as I tell you, I hope Imay be in the course of a few days. There’s a tidy reward offered for the recovery of the property. as you see. That, I take it, you’ve earned already ; but; are you game to help me catch the man ? There’s a further reward for nabhing him, which, of course, I can’t; touchâ€"officially â€"and don’t, particularly wanb. My aim is promotion. Do you understand 7" ~constable knows those jewels are as good as back on Lady Yerbury’s dressing-table, or wherever she’s in the habit of leaving ’em lying about. Therefore the hue and cry after them's not likely to die away yet awhile. and there’il be a genuine ring about it which should persuade our unknown friend that you’ve got ’em and. mean to convert ’em to your own use, as we say in the profession, but, being an amateur,don’t know how to go about turning ’em into more cash than the reward comes to, and that, consequently,you are anxious to come to terms with him. See ?" For a month Lady Yerbnry’s diamonds were soughtin vain and for a. mouth “G. C.” continued to appeal to his late fellow traveler, also in vain,but at the end of that; time 1118 patience was rewarded by the ap- pearance of an advertisement, telling him, if he really meant business, to wribe to “B. H.” at a. given address. The letter I wrote of Inspector Bland was more cautious than incriminating, but as it produced a reply which the inspector deemed satisfactory it was followed by others less carefully worded, until at last it stood pledged to personally deliver, for the consideration of £2,000, the stolen jewels to one Benjamin Hurst, whom I was to meet at a. public house in Chilling- ham Now, I don’t pretend to be braver than the average man of peaceful and sedentary habits, and when I saw what, sort. of a. house the “Spobted Dog” was I began to Wish I had refused to have anything to do with Inspector Bland’s_sc}neme. The limle company of disreputable-look. ing loafers hanging about the but eyed me curiously as I entered, and when I asked the landlord if Mr. Hurst was In, one of them raised a. general laugh by olferlng to ca.er my luggage up to him. “No lurks, Bill, ’suid the landlord stern- ly. “Many, show the gentleman Mr. Hurst’s room.” I found Mt. Hursb a decidedly surly rascal. He began by grumbling at the hardness of the bargain I was driving with hun, and swearing at; his luck generally. Then being perhaps emboldened by the . “ 1 think 50,” said I ; “ and I am will- ing to help you all I can. W but do you want me to do ?" “Luckily for us, Mr. Corner,” said he,1 when I took advantage of my next visit. to the quarries to call upon him. “there’s al- ' ways a sort; of wary or twist in the mind of I the habitual criminal which prevents him4 from believing in the honesty 01’ other folks. ‘Now,not a soul but, you and land the chief :oncilintory Amannér I thought it pr'udenb to udopt, he tried to make better terms, offering me first £500 less, and finally in~ sisting that. he ought at. least be allowed to deduct from my £2,000 the sum I had used to pay the men. “This” was'a. list' of jewels and other valuables missing from Erlingthorm, Lord Yerbury’s place, where, the mspector said, a Well-planned robbery had been carried out. on the Thursday evening. “You seem to have nailed a. lot.” he went on ; “but, we may as well go through the articles aeriatim." “ Nothing,” he replied ; ” just literally nothing. Go home. Keep a still tongue in your head and a. sharp eye on the agony columns of the London papers and wait till you hear from me. I’ll take charge of these articles and give you a receipt for them, has don’L be surprised if you see them still advertised as missing.” A few days later the inspector set his trap. It. took the shape of an advertise- ment. begging the gentleman with whom “ G.C.” inadvertently exchanged bags to communicate with G. C. at the address he would find in G. C.’s pocketbook. Inspeébor Bland had allowed me a. quart- er of an hour for negobiatious. At the end of that time he proposed to make a. raid upon_ the hou_se_._ » As soon us .1 “w nuiahed my task I re- turned, per mineral train, to Thurley. and there I broke my journey. 0n calmly re- viewing all the circumstances of the case in the seclnswn oi the brake van I had de- cided that the police rather than the mil- way authorities ought to be first informed of my mistake, and the inspector to whom I told my story agreed with me. “I am very glad you came straight to me.”sa.id he. turning the contents of the bag out on his desk. “If you can hold your tongue for a. week or two it’s just possible we may catch the gentleman who put this nice little let together. " “You think they have been stolen then ‘2" I asked. “Think l” he repeated, smiling at my sim- plicity. “I know, my boy. And when and where, too ; though, unfortunately, not by when]. -Run your eye over this.” We did so, and found there was nothing missing except: the money I had taken to pay Sire meg. . _ Personally, I didn’t. think our fish would be foolish enough to rise to this bait. but. my friend, the inspector, was more hope- ful. “‘And mind,” he had said in his joculur Way. “we don’t find the property still in your hands, Mr. Comer. It would be a. pretty kettle of fish if we had to prosecute you for unlawful possession, wouldn’t it ‘2” In accordance with these instructions I In accordance with these instructions I haggled with Mr. Hurst a. little while and i then allowed him to have his way, where- 5 upon he, having satisfied himself that the, bag which I restored to him still contained his spoils. handed me £1,900 in what, after- ‘ into the village. and, after some trouble, succeeded in collecting ennugh silver and copper to serve my purpose. Then, with that precious bag out of sight between my feet, I paid the men. Ward turned out to be very creditable imitations of Bank of England notes. “I suppose you don’t want no receipt ?” he growied. “No, Lhank you,” said I, “I think we may mutually dispense with that formality. Good morning." ately fdr whom I.) erful ruf but, b‘ burst. atelv turne landl lleave the room as I ould unlock the-door »m the outside, not, an by Lhe police, but by t] (llord had called B111, who promptly kuoc 31K. upon my chest). out of he cried 1 spoke. r is was nforbun- the man )W me It. is on record that. a German called Buchholz lifted with his teeth a cannon weighing about 2001bs. and fired it, off in that posiziou. While performing at. Epernay, in France the same feat, the barreloi _the gun burst. Mirnculously, he [was not killed, although several of the [fragment; were thrown over 50 yards away. Notes on Lions. The tongue of alien is so rough that 8. close look at it will almost take the skin off the locker. It is not safe to allow a lion to lick your hand, for if helicked the skin oh" and got a. taste of the underlying blood supposing it to be there, he would want the hand and everything adjoining thereto. Nothing more perfect in modern machinery exists than the mechanism by which a lion Works his claws. He has five toes on each of his fore-feet and four on each of his hind-feet. Each toe has a. claw. Nothing about a lion is without reason, and the reason he has more toes and claws on his fore than on his hind feet is that he has more use for them. If this weronot so, the majority would be the other way. The lion is nocturnal by choice. He has no particular objection to daylight, but likes to spend it in the bosom of his family, or at least adjacent to it. It should not be supposed that because he roams about at night he neglects his family. He roams in order to fill the family larder. He kills to eat, not for amusement. He never bothers small game so lung as there is big game within reach. When feeling tit, he can take an ox in his mouth and jump fences and ditches like a professional steeple- chaser. Au amusing story is told of the lace Prinl cipal Pirie, of Aberdeen. Scotland. Juan after “at home” cards became fashionable, one of the dryesb specimens of the old pro- fessional regime was surprised Lo receiw a missive, which read as follows : ‘f-Princi pal and Mrs. Pirie present s'-eir compli- ments to Professor T-â€"â€", and hope he if well. Principal and Mrs. I’irie will be ‘at home‘ on Thursnny evening, at 8 o’clock.’ This was something which evidenclyrequir ed an answer, but the recipient, of M wa qnibe equalmto the occasmn. Hi- wrote Some Strong Men. Thomas Thompson lifted three barrels of water, weighing together 1836 pounds, on March 28, 1841. v He also put an iron bar on hi» neck, seized hold of its two ends and bout, it until the latter met. On another occasion he raised with his teeth a table 6 feet, long. supporting at its farthest. end a Weight of 100 pounds. He also tore without serious effort, a rope of a diameter of 2 inches, and lifted a horse over a. bar. Charles Louvier, a carpenter of Paris, found it. child’s play to roll a tin basin between his fingers into a cylinder. On one occasion he carried offs. soldier on guard who had gone to sleep in the senbry box, depositing both on a low churchyard Wall close by. An equally amusingstory is told ofa Dsue. Kuut Knudsen, s locksmith. who.wlti1e standing in a window on the ground floor, lifted with one hand half a bullock from the shoulder of a butcher who was boiling past with his load. However even the pain my wound still gives me is not without its compensation. It prevents me from feeling any swinges of conscience when I reflect that my furniture cost, Mr. Hurst his liberty, for Lord Yer- bury took it for granted that; he was the thief, and paid me the extra. reward he had offered for his apprehension. Inspector Bland Won the promotion he coveted, and is now stationed at Lington. His wedding present was characteristic. It was a. black bag, with my initials on either side in white letters about six inches long. Some years ago a negro appeared in London who, with one hand and his arm sci-night, lifted from the ground a. chair on which was seated a full-grown man having on his lap a. little child. There are stories of otherstrong men who did not nppear in public. A butcher lived in South Holland who killed calves by etrangling them. A Dutch count, in a private entertainment, bent. an iron bar by beating it with his right hand against. his left arm, protected by a leabher bandage, bending it afterward straight again by beating in the other way. “Stand clear, Bill,” he cried, and his friend obeyed him. I scrambled to my feet, but immediately dropped ngain with a bullet from Mr. Hurst’s revolver in my shoulder. I am not Mall sorry that Mr. Hurst fired at me, as Inspector bland says it was much easier to convxct him of actempned murder than to prove he actually stole those jewels, and the inspector doubts, too, whether he would have got, fifteen years if merely charged with receiving them. But I do wish lie hadn’t hit; me. As Mr. Hurst opened the win cursed me with much volubility an‘ mess, and as soon as he was outside leads he did worse. qnibe equal to the occaswn. the wrote: “Professor Tâ€"-â€"â€", returns t, hecompliment, of Principal and Mrs. Pirie and xnlmms them that he is very well. Professor ’1‘-â€"- is glad to hear that, Principal and Mrs. Pine will be an home on ’l'hnrsday evening, at 8 o’clock. Professor ’1‘â€"â€"â€"-will also be at, “Stand clear friend obeyed h feet, but immed home Tea Drunkards. It; seems that tea is to be no longer con. sidexed the cup that cheers but not ineb. riates. A New York doctor declares that. of the patients applying to the dispensary fully 10 per cent. are ten. drunkards, and that tea. ranks as an intoxicaut only second to alcohol. These patients suffer from vertigo, heartache, insomnia. palpitation of the heart, nighbmare,nausea, hallucination, depression of spirits, and sometimes suici- dal impulqes~surely a. formidable list- of symptoms. Dr. Wood thinks that this evil may he greatly/lessened if only freshly- aLeeped tea. is drunk. “It's a plant. No, no. The window, you fool." he added, as Mr. Hurst,be.g in hand, made for the door. “The police are in the bar a] ready. ” “ At Home.” 3 present weir compli- T-â€"â€", and hope he is ers. Pirie will be ‘sz evening, at 8 o’clock.” which evidently requir- the recipient, of u, was d of the lace Prin- . Scotland. Juan :cnme fashionable, dow he (1 bitter- on the IBRIT. Electricity is now used for coloring leath- er more quickly and deeply. The hide is stretched on a. metalic table and covered with the coloring liquid; 3. preasure ofa. few volts is then applied between the liquid and the table, which opens the pores of the skin and allows the color to sink in. Opposition to the use of the anti-toxine treatment for diphtheria has already taken an organized form in England. A deputa- tion headed by Lord Coleridge has protest- ed to the authorities against. its use in the hospitals on the ground that ” public money ought not to be devoted to experiments in psychology. Nickel steel armor plates made by Krupp on a. new system were successfully tested at Meppen. The plates were about 5% inches thick and showed a resistance equal to plates oi9§ inches made by the old process, The plates were struck without injury by five shots each from six-inch and eight-inch gune A letter of Cardinal Richelieu’s was sold recently in London for $190; one written by La. Fontaine. the poet, brought $150, and one by Robespierre $61. An Helsingfors, in Finland, a neWSpaper has been started, edited, and managed entirely by women. The chief editor is Miss Minna Kant, who is well known aniong the Finns as a. novelist. High angle fire gun mountings and turret“ tried on the Centurion.Admirnl Fremsntle’3 flagship in China, and with electric motors on the Barfleur, have proved satisfactory, and will be applied [,0 the new Renown. The system finds favor because is is in- dependent of steam and hydraulic power and can be woikad by hand. Badges worn in the buttonhole have taken Lhe place of commutation tickets in Belgium, where the new system of for:- nigizcly season tickets good on the railroads over the whole Government system has greatly increased the number of commuters. Difl‘erences in color distinguish the nature 01 the ticket. and the class by which the holder is entitled to travel. In Prussia the Catholic Church seems to retain its vitality. In 1872 there were in the kingdom 914 conventual establishments, with 8,795 members; three years later, in consquence of the repressive legislation of the “May laws,” over a. third of the in- stitutions were dissolved, but in 1893 we find l,'215 establishments, With 14,044 monks and nuns. At a recent sale at Christie’s in London a sheet of pen drawings by Michael Angelo was discovered thrown in with a lot of unimportant drawings, and brought $1,900. On one side of the sheet are two composi- tions for Holy Families or charities; on the other an allegorical group, a. woman and child seated on the ground. There are on it also some satirical verses. Mrs. Gladstoue’s nephew, the Honorable Alfred Lyttlebon, has been proposed for election to the Liberal Unionist Club, his sponsors being the Duke of Devonshire and bir Henry James. He will stand for Parliament at the general election as a. Liberal Unionist. Only a. few Weeks ago Mr. Lyttleton was unpainted Recorder of New York in King William’s time, is pillar- ied in Truth as a professional writer of begging letbers. Hi5 great-grindiather was made a. baroueb because he was the illegit- lmate son of the last Earl. In Manchester, England. the Town Council is about to put $1,250,000 into clearing the slums. An overcrowded and unhealthy space of five acres in the centre of the city will be taken, the buildings torn down, and new model workmen’s dwellings erected in their stead, with large areas for playgrounds, and trees and flowers planted in the open spaces. Sir Uharles Algernon Coote, Bart” of Donnybrook,the last male descendant of the Earl of Bellamont, who was Governor of Iron, through in: uses for electrical pur- poses, seems to have developed a. new qual- ity, magnetic fatigue. 1n teats made of transformers lately in London to ascertain the open Circuit 1033, it. has been found that the loss increased steadily fox~ the first ‘200 days until it reached a fairly constant, value of 40 per cent. more than at. start- mg. AL Staroja, in the Government of Nov- gorod, Russia, a. girl of 14 was lately ar- rested on the charge of strangling a two- year-old child, which she was employed to look after. She thereupon contessed to having killed sixteen children in thla way, and gave as her reason that, she did 110% like the trouble they gave her. Ox’ord, a place which he shill holds, by Lord Rosebery’s Government. At. Brighton, England, a. Christmas dole or half a sovereign has been distributed for years to the oldest poor inhabitants. It was given this year to 150 persons, 95 women and 57) men, who averaged over 83 years of age, and, as the day was fine, 96 of them appeared in persons headed by an old lady of 95. She was followed by eight more old ladies who Were over 90. The oldest man presenbwas 89,1)be an old gentle- man of 100, who could not come, headed the This season's crazes in Europe have been collected by an Italian editor. In England it is clay modelling, the chief victims being Mr. Gladstone and Sir William Harcourt; in Puris in is riddles, in Italy and southern France it, is jumping beans, painted to best; on hob plates. In Belgium Lhéy 'h slow smoking races; the pipes are filled v half an ounce of tobacco finch and the ‘ net is he who can hold out longest wit} relighniug. The record so fax'is sixty-Se mluutes. couuu‘y m the W0!‘ month in Vienna. gary and be fant; phenc seasons in " Amorit ful comic and the which iSE Ab Pirano, in Istria, the tablet wish in- scriptions in Italian and Slovenian, which haé excibed an the Italian-speaking prov“ inces of Austria, was lately set. up again on the Cour? Home, accmding co the decision Alfons ‘ISH AND FOREIGN. opgras of Uzibulka, whose “ Stepha. has been played in almost ev ‘ the World, died of upoplcxv gun his musical career as >menon, playing for « southern Russia. He ’ which was one of ti} =. 8' )eras of the earlier Cusinr lez “Dream After the ll popular. Anton Seidl jumpmg )minent. p‘ Unlouisb Club, his luke of Devunahira He will stand for wral electiun as a. ly a. few weeks ago Quinted Recorder of \ he shill holds, by at the Metrofioliu compelled to rape years old, and h: leader of a. mime. born palate thev st without My 13.3}. in Hun- $3 an in- WI“ “(:06 d to lump n18 )be of the Governmen b. Two companies of ’in- fsnLry occupied the market place, but t. eir‘ presence was not needed. The people hype indoors ; the stores, cafes, and pl! i0 buildings were closed ; the houses we a draped with black, and on the shipping in the harbor the flags were at est. At noon the women and child an hqkared in the streets dressed in black ; the men Were nowhere m be seen. All in nfic in the town is stopped. The (10%? Family Ties Rexween Englhh and Russian Royalty. A writer in Lhe Paris “Gwlois ” give: some impressions of his visits to SnPeben» burg and some advice to Frenchmen on the attitude which they should now adopt. After speaking of the strong liking for England formed by the new Czar during his stay there, he says : “ No other Prince in the world, perhaps, likes his ease better than the heir to the English throne, yet see the terrible task undertaken by him for more than a fort-e night, from Livsdia to the day of the funeral of Alexander 111., accompanying the Russian family twice a. day to the re- ligious ceremonies solemnized before the open coffin of the late Emperor, and after each service mounting the steps of the catafalque behind the Empress and Nicholas ILto kiss the brow of the August deceased. His attitude was not less remarkable in the private circle of the Anitchkofl' palece. r" There he endeavored, after each of the! sad ceremonies, to effect a consoling rea tion against grief, being sfi'ectionate tawpdrd all, and even going the length of playing with the children. This attitude was‘oer- tainly deliberate, but who can say that it was not sincere? How could it help rbeing highly appreciated, and how could it; help bearing fruit? The Russian roysl family, particularly the Emperor Nicholas and the Empress, are deeply grateful for it. Ties have been formed in these days of mourn- ing, and they have assumed a political character which will perhaps last longer than is imagined. and whichI as the first result, have inspired the two countries with a desire to live on friendly terms." The writer then speaks of the friendly disposition of England, perhaps a result of the rapprochment with Russia, and dwells on the peculiar fitness of Baron de Courcel for restoring good relations, as also on the duty of Frenchmen not to interfere with diplomatic nation. He concludes by exhort- ing the Colonial party not to obstruct, by excess of zeal or unreasonable words, an understanding which they must themselves desire. " Miss VVayuppâ€"“ Impossible 1 He is a Doped sciggbisc, and pigsxdepb of; coilege.” ” The Anglo-Russian understanding im- poses on France the obligation of arranging once for all with England the long-standing differences between them. Not that Russia makes this obligation, it is not for her to utter the word, but I can aflirin without fear of contradiction that there is an august? desire there for a. good understanding between Paris and London. The Franco: Russian understanding may evidently exis concurrently with the Anglo-Russian rap- prochement, but henceforth it can not have true solidity unless we at once, or at least as speedily as possible, amicably settle out nfiairs with England.” After remarking than France by intelli- gence and mot. might benefit by this under- standing, but that. the outcry agninst miliâ€" tary attaches and the series of press scan- dals tend to discredit her in Russian minds, the writer says : Mrs. Wayuppn‘; Yes, but the vuTgar fellow has recently been making a atudv of the trade winds. 15’s in all the papers, too." Sheâ€"“ I wonder whether Chinamen ever use intoxicants to excess '3” Heâ€"“ Tue war has demonstrated that they don’t. You don’t, hear of their doing authing but; taking Water.” Mrs. Wayuppâ€"“ Don’t Invite those Highupp glrls again. Their father has dis- graced himself.” h u w) Tue ,priaoner had been before the court ) man) Limes for vugrancy than the judge nncluded to give him a. dose he wouldn’t. PRINCE OF WALES IN RUSSIA. ‘Blfl Ff rs m rubbeis every time it rains! clalme mtenc What’s the latest thing out; 2” Asked 8. gos‘ I think,” was! (1 Boyâ€"‘7 Is a] Boyâ€"“ Awful old charge, I suppose?” veronucr.” he said sternly, as he looked the chronic, “you are here veronuer,” replied the sked a. gossipy she. ink,” was the answer, My husband must be." Soiled by Trade Abundant Proof. The Very Latest. Its Equivalent. u’ it. up an Buyâ€"“ What. you lnughin‘ feel sorry pt; 0. step-mot Is she strict jusrb fine you a for Bobby. done with u Caught his hands like a aalem lyeronner,’ 1’? you give me 3 0811) apu. is scoldin’ 136 he says he linute Without for iuâ€"he, prisoner hundred