"There," he said, with enthusiasm, ff HE S^2S bird got his wind and, leaving the THANKSGIVING. jsaw runners flying between the bases ORIGIN OF COMMON WORDS. WOULD NOT SMOKE. ramrod viciously attacked his persecutors. 'I saw our captain fling his cap to tne "there, sir, is my patent H. R. bat, ,n ground, and knew by instinct that he warranted to fit any nand and hit The year decays. November's blast The Taming of a Wife—Draw Your Interesting Facts Concerning the had bitten his lip and muttered: "Just As fate would have it the business any baU anywhere you want to place Through leafless boughs pipes shrill and Own Moral, Reader. Origin of Some Common Words. our luck to hit to that muffer with the drear it: makes anything4you want from an man's friend, being nearest, was the The Sardinian peasants are fond of Many words once written with dignified With warmer love the home clasp* fast bases*full." All these things come to first to catch it. The hawk lighted on earned base to a clean home run The hands, the hearts, the friends most a joke, if their jokes are not always of one's eyes and ears at such a time motive now cause us to read his wrist and the way he stuck there never gives a chance and never known dear, without his knowing that he sees or to hit a foul. Feel it, light as a feather passages of standard literature with a the keenest. Here is a story, modern was a caution. One claw sank deep On many seas men sail the fleet hears them. Then I started to run into the hunter's wrist and he called. Of hopes as fruitless as the foam in the hand, but heavy as lead at least in its present form, of the guffaw. The word "imp" was once a forward, though I knew I was fully They roam the world with restless feet, loud and long for mercy. when it strikes. Observe the perfection taming of a shrew. It is entitled "The term of high honor. But how now But find no sweeter spot than home. twenty feet too far out to reach the The business man, seeing that something of the poise, the exquisite grace Girl Who Did Not Like to Smoke." ball ere it'touched the ground. sounds the line from Spencer? "Ye of the curves and lines. That's a bat, must be done, at the risk of his To-day with quickened hearts they hear I ran desperately and at the. critical sacred imps, that onParnasso dwell." There was once a priest who had a life finally went to his friend's rescue. Old times, old voices chime and callThe sir, that an enthusiast might give his dreams of many a vanished year mement sprung forward. The distance He got a good hold on the sunken soul for!" Over many a grave of the old French liece who was resolved not to marry. Sit by them at this iestival. no mortal could have covered I felt it and poised it. It was in nobles may be read the line: "Here Often she was asked, but she would S 'sa hisJ^ itnout'.t Though hearts that warmed them once are at one leap, but I felt myself borne and wa successful pulling appearance all that he claimed it to cold, lies that noble imp." A sacred poem, forward irresistibly by an unknown not listen, for she had got it mto her As the claw came out the hawk fell be. Though heads are hoar with winter frost force and something fell into my handThere written by Gascolgne three centuries back and in a moment was still in heart that she would not have a man That once were bright with tangled goldThanks '•It looks like an excellent one," I was a moment's silence then death. They found that the bird's for the blessings kept or lost. ago, begins a stately address to the who smoked. Finally a young fellow said "what's the price?" came ah electric clapping of hands came and asked for her hand. Her wings measured three feet and ten "I don't sell it," he answered. posterity of Abraham with the words: Thanks for the strong free wind of life. then a cry of ".Back! back!" as the inches from tip to tip.—Lewiston(Me) uncle said to him: "Do you smoke?" "Then," said I, "why did you bring However it change or veer "0 Abraham's brats," brat being then runners rushed to retrace their steps Journal. "Yes, sir," he replied. "Then my For the love of mother and sister and wife it to me if you didn't wish to sell it?" a word of stately meaning. another yell (from our captain this Clear stars that to haven steer niece will refuse you, for she will not "It isn't for sale," continued my Beecher Was Often Afraid. time), "Put her to second!" and I For the quenchless lamps of changeless have_any one who smokes." But the guest, "but I don't mind lending it to Opening an old dictionary at random love threw the ball to the baseman. On it To one always ready to give so suitor said: "Is that all? I'll let the you for a year and a day. You see I one day my eye happened to fall That burn in the nisrht of the dead went like a rifle shot, breast high and smoking alone." The uncle called his much zeal and courage to any cause want to introduce the article, and—-" on the word "tragedy." A note explained For the life that is, for the hope above, straight. I saw him fling lb with unerring niece. She said "yes," and they were iite thanksgiving by all hearts said. "But," I made answer, "if that is that it comes from a Greek which claimed his special service, it aim to first. Then came the married. your object,why not select a good and word which means "a goat song," because —New York Sun. was singular to note how distrustful monotonous voice of the umpire, well-known player?" the oldest tragedies were exhibited In the evening of the day they were "Side out," and our men wont tripping Mr. Beecher was of his ability to succeed, when a goat was sacrificed or given married the bridgroom, without saj'ing "Because," he said, in reply, "if I in, turning somersaults and walking writes Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher THE LEMON BAT. as a prize to the best actor. The a syllable to his wife, went off to did so the player would receive much on their hands in elation. in the memoirs of her husband in the word "infant means literally "not bed and was soon fast asleep. And in of the credit due to the bat. I take it "That was a lucky fluke of yours, speaking." Have you a pug dog? Did December Ladies' Home Journal In the same way every day when he that you are not a brilliant player. thst triple play," said the captain, UR town had you ever think his face looks like that his earlier work, this lack of confidence came home he never spoke, but went Now, it you, by using my bat, are at consolingly. of a monkey. The monkey he most straight to bed without taking any the base-ball once transformed into a famous player in himself was sometimes painful until It was the latter half of the second resembles is the pug monkey, which notice of her. She thought this conduct what more convincing testimonial fever. So had he rose to speak. But generally the inning and no runs seored on either gets its name from" Pug or Puck, as strange* and began to fret and could be desired?" moment he stepped upon the platiorm I. side, when I grasped my bat at the Shakespeare writes, the sprite of mischief. pine. Her uncle said to her one day: "True, true," I responded. all thoughts of himself disappeared. Of course we warning cry: "Holmes to bat, Smithers "What is the matter that you are "Very well, then," said he,' "just Many times when going to speak on on deck." In a few seconds Holmes always sad? Does he ill treat you?" had a nine. sign this receipt," and he pushed me Canter is an abbreviation from was out and I faced the pitcher. a subject of special interest which I "No, he doesn't ill treat me, but when over a paper that I signed without Canterbury gallop, so called because Not a professional greatly desired to hear, he would say, I grasped the magic bat tightly, and he comes home at night he never looking at. pilgrims to Canterbury rode at the nine—we "Oh! don't go! I am sure I am going as I did so I seemed to feel an electric speaks, but goes to bed and sleeps. In "I guess that I've dipped my pen into pace of a moderate gallop. A grocer, to fail and I don't want you to be had not come to that yet—but an thrill run through my frame. The bat tact, when he is in the" house he never the red ink by mistake," I said. so says the dictionary, was originally present." For several years I yielded quivered as if instinct with life, and I utters a word to me." amateur nine that used to visit neighboring "Never mind, never mind," said he one who sold by the gross. A "grenade" to such a request, and anxious and could have sworn that I felt a pair of "that'll do. Would you oblige me Then the uncle spoke to the husband: derives its name from its shape, towns and -villages on Saturdays troubled lest he should fail, waited his warm hands clasping the handle between with the time? My eyes are not as "What is the matter, my son? which resembles a pomegranate. A and there engage in play with an return. But he invanbly came home my own. So strong was the Are you not satisfied with my niece?" good as they used to be. "biscuit" means "twice baked," because, •€qual number of maniacs similarly affected, cheerful, and would say, impression that I actually looked "Oh, yes, uncle," answered he, "but I rose and went to the clock. When according to military practice, "I had great liberty now I wish you down to see if such was not the case. beating and being beaten. The I turned around there was no one in somehow when I don't smoke I cannot the bread or biscuit of the Romans had gone. The audience appeared The ball flew toward me. I felt impelled keep my eyes open." the room. My strange visitor had vanished was twice prepared in the ovens. members of the Excelsior club—all greatly interested and very appreciative. to strike, and without hesitation, When the old man repeated this to as suddenly as he had entered. Did you ever notice the leaves of the -amateur clubs are called either Excelsiors They gave me great comfort and without calculation, struck "Devilish odd," I soliloquized, the bride, she said: "If that's it he dandelion? They are said to resemble, or Unions—were proud of their courage.'* and he would appear happy madly at it, and there came another "devilish odd." bhall smoke." And from that time in-shape and size, the tooth of the and surprised. As I came to understand roar, another electric clapping of *e 'oud, proud of their uniform, proud she was never satisfied when he had The bat was there, however, and lion, and so the French call it dent de his moods better, I no longer hands, and I saw the ball, a tiny blot once or twice when I woke in the night the pipe out of his mouth. •oi their ^village, and their village was lion, and we the "dandelion." feared any failure. on the blue sky, cleaving the air 100 I saAv it gleam in the flashes of lightning. The Pope was formerly called the proud of them. Indeed, I think that feet above the head of left field. I ran "Pape," which meansthe same as "papa," PLUCK IN A HAWK. when one of our number had put on like a startled deer, one base, two, Dangers in the Athletic Lung. I awoke early on the morning of the or father. Vinegar comes from three, clean home run, and panting .his white flannels and colored stockings "Athletic lung" is a medical term fateful fourth, and at first thought two Latin words, vin and acer, meaning His Vigorous Fight With Two Hunters sunk down on the grass fully ten seconds and star-bedecked cap, and had used to designate the abnormal development the odd eyents of the night only a "wine" and "sour." These are in the Maine Woods. ere the ball was sent in. I had dream. The bat, 'however, stood only 'a few of the many curious and ot lung possessed by some slung a bat carelessly over his shoulder, made my first base hit, and it was a An Auburn business man and a where 1 had left it overnight. Taking interesting things I found in my afternoon athletes. The condition is produced what with the admiring glances of home run! it and my traveling bag, I started for search in the old dictionary. by those forms of exercise that call friend were out huntingthe other day. the women and the audible enthusiasm "Guess you've been saving up your the train. "Hullo," said I,.as I tried When you are at a loss for something for the constant use of the lungs at A big hawk flew over their heads and of the awe smitten small boys, the base hits tor the last three years," remarked the door, "the door's locked. How to do follow my example and you will their highest power. The result is an they blazed away at him. The shot our captain. did my friend get in last night? Perhaps, be surprised at the many bits of information enormous development of lung capacity. heart that beat under the big E on his broke the bird wing and he came to I need not dwell detail upon the Such men, upon giving up their though, I locked the door after you can pick up in a little breast throbbed so proudly that he rest of this history. On that day, as he went out. That must have been time.—Irish Times. active athletics and taking to sedentary the ground, alighting on his back. He would not have exchanged his position was generally remarked. I played it. Afew minutes later I was on the pursuits, are peculiarly subject to was unable to turn over and get —say at second base—for that of alderman "like the devil," and the fcanner of train with my companion and we 'were pulmonary complaints. The overdeveloped WANTED BLOOD. upon his feet, but was lively just the Somerville went down in the gloom or chief marshal of the fourth flying toward Somerville. lung is only used in part, and of whitewash. (That sentence is same, as the Auburn hunters found The new bat came in for notice and the unused cells easily fall a prey to of July procession—and any one who somewhat Whitmanian, but let it favorable comment. Of course. I disease when once an athletic lung has before they succeeded in killing him. A Young Actor Who Swore to Be has ever lived in a country town stand.) An honored member of the been restored to health. The wise told them nothing of how I came by Avenged. The business man placed the ramrod first nine, wherever the Excelsiors knows what that means. it. "Good bat that," said Thompson, physician forbids any violent athletics of his gun in the hawk's big, grasping went I went, and with me went victory. I say 'Vof our number" because 1 There is a young actor in New York our short-stop, "good bat. Now, on the part of the patient, for a second claws, all of which straightway Base hits and home runs poured prodigally was a member of the club, at times of attack is likely to be followed by Smithers' just you get a player to who has developed a moral antipathy closed, like the jaws of an enraged from my bat. What I wished the nine—«n unworthy member, never collapse. The term athletic heart is match!"—and at this small wit they toward that most delicate of tints., pale mud turtle snapping at a stick in the it to do that it did. The name of the a brilliant player, and at all critical all laughed. "Sorry you won't have applied to a similiar condition of the pink. When it is referred to in his hands of a mischievous boy. With Wahpanseh Excelsiors became more stages of close games a nervous one. a chance to use it," said Morton, our heart produced by like causes. the claws thus taken care of, the than local professional nines came If I were playing a base I was sure to presence he becomes embarrassed and captain and catcher. (As usual, I was business man's friend proceeded to from afar to battle with us, and retired muff a ball at the wrong moment if The effect of cruel word5!.last longer than only a substitute, the spare man kept exhibits a strong inclination to slide wring the bird's neck. In the earlier worsted. My portrait (with a do the effect of ciuel blow fielding, my performance was hailed in case of accident.) through some convenient crack in the heavy black mustache) was in the stages of the operation, the harder the by a derisive cry of "Butter-fingers'" Nobody but a woman can write scientifically It was nearly 2 o'clock when the floor. The tale that hangs thereby friend worked the tighter would the and on the score-sheet my record gen•srallv of woman's aj'paiel. The man who paper. I was offered for six months oars glided into Somerville. Just as hawk grasp the iron ramrod and flap attempts it 3 lo«t. It is different writh Dr. looked like this: is a touching one. The young actor recreation such a salary as few ministers we were stepping from the platform Bull's Cough Syrup. Either sex is fully his wings. of the gospel, teachers or editors some one behind passed too closely regards himself as a lady killer of the EXCELSIOR acquainted with the merits, of this noted All this was fun for the hunters, can hope to receive. One thing, however, upon Thonrpson and he fell forward remedv. deepest dye, ajd, in the patois of the Names 10 |E |B |T |A.|E who, after a long struggle, declared puzzles me. Who was my mysteriaus heavily, trying to break his fall with Bmitbers ... .1 5| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 6 profession, "earns his salary at themselves winners of the scrap. They Any fool can attempt to tear down, but visitor, and will he reappear his hands.-- A cry of pain broke from At home I never was trusted to idrocy is no help in building up. had hnrdlv so proclaimed when the Saturday matinees." In the company to reclaim his gift? him as we picked him up he had play, but often better players could with him is a comedian with a passion sprained his wrist. not afford the time or money to visit "This is pleasant," said Morton. for the practical joke other places, and so I who had both How this manuscript came into the "Well, Smithers, it lets you in, and leisure and funds, was frequently enabled One day in a facetious moment he possession of the writer it would be you'll have a chance of using the new to gratify the darling ambition wrote what is known as a "mash tedious here to relate. 'The following bat after all." of all the young men erf Wapanseh note" to the young actor, and signed item, from the Wahpanseh Clarion ot and figure in the nine. It was a little after 3 o'clock when a feminine name thereto. The bait Aug. 10 may, however, be of interest.' the game opened, the Actives at the was swallowed, and the correspondence The fourth ot July had almost been We regret to learn that no reliable bat. It was a lovely midsummer between the flirtatious .youth reached and we were engaged to play tidings have as yet been received of day. I can see the whole picture, a. match at the town of Somerville, and his mysterious admirer kept the Mr. Henry C. Smithers, tire respected bright and lifesome, even now, the some hundred and twenty miles away. company in roars for a week. Finally left-fielder of the Excelsior base-ball The Great Prestige of Royal long, level field intensely green, lined Somerville boastsd ot its club, of one of the letters from the fair one club. On the 5th of July, early in the thickly at one end with gazers the course, for there was not a town or ended as follows: morning, as our readers may remember, groups seated dispersed here and village in the country that has not "I shall be in a box at the matinee his bat with which duringthe year Baking Powder envied there upon the grass the boys seated its base-ball club and literary society. and shall wear a red rose at my throat. he had made home runs. 298 base on the fenses, the people standing up It was a famous club, and players hits and 673 total bats was found on If you receive this, please have a bit ".most with awe of its members, who on the carts and wagons a brass Main street, near Jefferson, permeated of pale pink ribbon in your buttonhole. competitors. band, horribly out of tune, playing id graduated into professional nines by a strong smell of sulphur and Yours from afar. "Hail, Columbia," a refreshment tent idwere winning—and selling—historic bearing the imprint of several fiery "CLARISSA." with a long quoue of people pressing up iames daily in sight of all men. And fingers. Nothing has since been heard The young man has the opening to a -sloppy counter made of a board had it not been recorded in the World of our esteemed citizen, and it is feared scene ot the play, and at the mattinee The envy shown by other baking powder manufacturers on two beer-kegs behind, all the white fchat once the Actives of Somerville that foul play exists. The Excelsior specified dashed on with a pale pink town, over which streamed flags innumerable -*.«w-had defeated the mighty Mutuals by Base-Ball club has offered a reward of ribbon adorning his lapel. In the of the great prestige of the Royal before, a stretch of smiling 3 to 2? We had often played with this $200 for his abductor or abductors, middle of his first speech he glanced at champaign, with here and there a fall club, but never defeated it, though and the secretary, the genial Herbert the boxes and discovered four women, Baking Powder is not at all surprising. tree whose branches streamed gracefully once or twice victory had barely eluded F. Wilkins, "mine' host" of the Eureka each with a real rose at her throat our grasp at the supreme moment before the wind. hotel, informed our reporter yesterday ahda deeply sentimental smile. Every For thirty years the Royal has been the standard «—thanks to me whom the irate Excelsiors Dead silence as the first of the Actives that the amount would be one of them was decorated with a pale would certainly have lynched stepped to the plate. You could raised to $500.—New York World. pink knot, bow or streamers. The for purky and strength in baking powders, had not their disgust been too exces«ive hear the strident "crick-crick" of a young actor went all to pieces, forgot for deeds as well as words. grasshopper or the muffled flapping his lines and s\\ ore to have the red, Old and Young. and has been placed at the* head by every board of a' lazy flag. I was at center field. red blood of the man who put up the The eve of the great match had arrived There is no surer antidote for the effect "Put him where he'll do most good— game on him. and I was sitting gloomily in my which time has over us all, in or least harm," said the captain flatteringly, of official examiners—whether State or National. bedroom. The door was locked, for In the last act the victim has a very when it was debated where I making our age evident, than a young it was nearly midnight and I was pathetic scene and was just in the should be stationed. The Royal Baking Powder Company controls its about, to retire. A heavy thunderstorm, heart. middle of it when the leading lady's with fitful dashes of rain, was There is always a nervous period at pug dog strayed on the stage. His "I should like to live to be as old as raging without. I was meditating, I the beginning of a ball or cricket own cream of tartar factory and the processes for funny little tail was ornamented with you are, grandmamma," said little 'need hardly say, of next day's game. match or a game of billiards that a big pale pink bow and his entrance Helenr "but I don't want to be as old "Just my luck, of course," I said, halfaloud characterizes no other*sport, except had a most disastrous effect. Three making the only absolutely pure cream of tartar as Aunt Susan, ever!" perhaps an execution. It becomes a "the biggest match we ever scenes were cut bodily, and the manager "Why, why," said grandmamma, played in, and I have no chance of relief to hear the first click of the bat fined the young man for breaking it sends its product to millions of homes all over looking ovei her spectacles, "what do playing. But," I continued, bitterly, on the ball with the first rush of the up the performance. He is still looking you mean, my dear child? Your Aunt "if I played I should only play badly. fielder the spell is broken. for "Clarissa."—Brandon Bucksaw. Susan is a great many years younger the world, supplies the Army and Navy, the great Upon my word, I think I'd give my "Low ball!" called the umpire. A than I am!" •eoul to be a crack player for one couple of deliveries—then came the "I don't see how that can be," said transatlantic steamers, the finest hotels and restaurants, I year." warning cry, "One strike!" (all emphasis Historical Signs. Helen, much perplexed. "You always on the "one) then a vicious blow, There was at that instant a fearful remember the plays you had when you Most readers must have seen the and is recommended by the best chefs and the batsman started to run, but •j^crash of thunder and a blaze of lightning were a little girl but when I asked common jeweller's sign, a big, wooden trotted back leisurely at the call of so intensely vivid that for a few Aunt Susan one day, she said, 'For watch-face hanging over the door of and authorities on cuisine in every land. Its "Foul!" and third base as leisurely •eecends I was blinded. The little pity's sake, child, you don't expect the shop, and perhaps some of them trotted after the ball. Then came another •clock on the mantelpiece tinkled 12. me to remember any of the games I sale is larger than that of all other cream of have noticed that the position of the couple of deliveries. There was At that moment I heard a voice say.ing had as a little girl. It's so long ago a slight "click." The left fielder ran hands.is always or almost always "Excuse me," andjelt a hand laid I've forgotten whether I ever played tartar baking powders combined it has more forward like a hound, and seizing the lightly on my shoulder. Looking alike How this happens to be the any!'" ball as it was bounding toward him, around, I saw a stranger. case is explained by the New York hurled it to first base. There was a friends among housekeepers than any other He was a quiet, elderly man, grave World. A Sheriff at the Feast. dull thud as the baseman received it of aspect, soberly dressed in black. I Among the letters found in the effects At 8:18 on the evening of April 14, and held it over his head then the I noticed that he had two club feet, but similar article. 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated of the late Emery A. Storrs, the monotonous voice of the umpire, "Not '*•. gajvc this no more than momentary at Washington. Since that* Chicago lawyer, was one from Chauncey out!" The first striker had made this ^attention. He had a long paper-covered These facts are bitterness to the makers of the night every one of these watch signs M. Depew a&king for an account base.^ "Two others followed and the pareel in his hand. that has gone from the shop of the of the dinner Storrs gave the Lord bases were full. inferior baking powders hence their advertisements, "Excuse me," he repeated "Iknocktwice, only man that makes them, says the Chief-Justice Coleridge, of Eugland. l^.t but you must have been deep Wond, has indicated the hour of 8:18. "Now, then!"—why do people say The dinner referred to is one that became i'Mta. thought possibly, too, that last The maker says that he was then filled with malice, envy and .falsehood, "Now then?" called the captain, as famous in Chicago because of peal of thunder drowned my tap." the fourth batsman strode to the at work upon a sign for a Broadway the presence of a remarkable skeleton {A I was too much surprised at his jeweller, who came running in to tell against the Royal., plate, "play deep out there,7' and in at the feast in the person of a constable §i§«udden appearance to speak for a moJjf^ment, him the news. obedience to the order we of the outer sent by one of Storrs' creditors and he continued:^ field retired still further, out. The "Paint those hands at the hour Consumers recognize a case of "sour grapes." to stop the festivities until his claim I 'Thinking that probablyyou might first ball that the player received suited Lincoln was shot," said the customer, should be paid. The presence of the 3twant something my line, I have "that the deed may never be forgotten." him, and he drove it sharply to the man of law caused consternation at J?-w?§ ventured to call on my way through center. The white sphere, perfectly the banquet. Storrs had no money fLft your town." So saying he removed hissing with its speed, passed, about The idea impressed the sign manufacturer, andf ruin stared him in the face until the wrappings from the parcel in his with the fesult above mentioned. ten feet over the second baseman's several of the guests got togefch«a^ and &3'.hand and disclosed to, my view a base- head and came straight at me. became security for the debt. I heard the cheers of the crowd •ball bat. Ja