wmmm HE FIERCE SHEEP. TWO STKIMS that day from the plains and was going LENGTHENING LIFE. denly as„,if it had be^en ^trdc a TO SEE THE WIND. 'JH-f* on to-morrow into Cashmere after 4-i blow. 0 f& Itloltke's Maxim "Temperance and Work' Anybody Can £S» It if Thoy Stand In the big game, Reggy Vayle felt in the ys fjif "What do you mean, Queenie? Has Right Place, A War Story of Heroism and Other Furnishes the Means. thoroughly British mood for killing any one come between us? Good Things. {If "BY AN IDLE EXILE. lf|| "Pigs can see wind," is a, country Dr. Eb9tein, of Goettingen. delivered something. He could not kill Lorrimer, God!*' ^proverb of some ag'a, and is perhaps, Thome, in the* park in a long discourse on this subject, for he did not know where he was A certain regiment had for a colonel, She moves to the door that divides a tribute to the understanding of an from which we take tne following: to be found. So he was going to kill England, it was white the drawing room from the little dining probably as strict a disciplinarian as animal that, while" nominally the? The question as to the natural duration ibex. a is at a room and opens it very softly. ever wore epaulets. There has been stupidest of brutes is really one of the of life is first to be answered. According It was a mere chance that in the hotel There is an odor of tobacco about when women appear in considerable difficulty on account of smartest But anybody can see the to the latest discoveries the reading room he saw Queenie's the room, and Reggy Vale lies sweet cotton frocks wind if he will stand in the right the persistent and constant foraging average length of life, in the natural name in the visitors' list. He had no back an armchair enjoying an anteprandial place, asserts the New York Recorder. when the social air buzzes order of things, is from seventy to by his men. Complaints came in idea she was at Murree, and the shock nap and snoring slightly. They say that if you will hold a broa3bladed seventy-fi re years. Women live somewhat of the surprise gave him the oddest with cricket and "Yes," she says, pointing to him, every day on account of the depredations, knife or any other pieee of polished longer than men. The mortality impulse. The memory of Queenie rose "some one has—my husband." yachting talk, and men and the colonel at last became inetai at a slight slant toward up before him as she had been a year among children, particularly less than She crosses the room on tiptoe and, began to feel their gout so annoyed that one day on dress the breeze and look along its windward before—pure, lovely, his own—and a a year old. is very great From the bending her fair head over the back of surface you can see the air flow up and great hunger came over the man just parade it was announced that the age of puberty till the fiftieth year, and say they must go to Homburg. his chair, kisses him lightly on the I fall off on the leeward side. Perhaps to see her once more not to speak to forehead^ first man caught poaching from the the death rate is small, from that time 'H Up in the Himalayas, where the little so but you can see it for a certainty her, not even to let her know he saw When she goes back to the drawing it becomes greater each year. Too collection of chalets dotted about the citizens should be shot. on the Western plains on an a-dfrage her, only to see her for the last time. precipices among the ilex and the room it is empty. great an old age is a questionable Peter Elder was a member of the summer day. When the sun is well In the dark veranda of Queenie's •rhododendrons form what is called a blessing because a renewal of youth regiment. He was a stout, strapping up, say from noon until 2 o'clock, and little bungalo stood a tall figure, the tull station, tne monsoon was at its can be reached in no way whatever. Every one knows how Cis Lorrimer, fellow, and was known to be the most the earth is getting pretty warm, the rain running off his mackintosh in tieight. Drip, drip, drip—hammer, late of the Crimson Cuirassiers, got It is evident therefore, that the normal heated air rises from the whole country. reckless forager of the lot. Ha had streams on the flooring. There was hammer, hammer—for sometimes a into the Mounted Infantry in Egypt limit of the age of man is that a chink between the curtains, and, by spent week after week in the guard day and a night at a stretch, down and Avas killed at the Ghazi Dnru which is attained without bitter breaking pressing his face against the pane, he upon the corrugated iron roofs of the Wells business. house for his chicken stealing, but it The dryness of the atmosphere down and suffering. The first condition could see her distinctly. The gleam bumjalows, came the rain. The frogs did not stop him. He always had seems to make it especially elastic is a good foundation, a descent of the lamp caught her Golden head as and the leeches and fungi and the ferns NOT TO HIS UK IN CL and as you look off toward the horizen some plausible story to tell when from parents physically and mentally she sat, with hands clasped on her grew and multiplied, but it was enough it seems alive with vibrations. healthy. Of further importance is caught at his favorite amusement, knee, gazing into the fire, looking utterly to damp the cheeriest, giddiest nature How Charley Criticized a Smoking These lit le waves cause a stfratum of suitable maternal care of the child. and his comrades all wondered whether dejected, a lonely little figure. A at ever reveled in the ceaseless Jacket Intended For Himself. aberration that amounts to obscuration, Then comes the school and military great feeling of pity and remorse stole this last menace on the part of round of frivolity and fooling that so that you do not see things A tired little woman was shopping trammer for the increase of the powers over Reggy. She looked so young he the Colonel would have any deterring :goes on at Murree. one day last week at the counter of through them but only sky reflections, of resistance. In advancing- life, a had sworn to love and cherish her. Instinctively effect. one of our large clothing houses, and as on water, and as the bright blue Ten clock at night. A wood fire proper activity must not be neglected. he stretched out his arms Pete one day in broad daylight was made of damp logs that declined to a cross-looking man with her was trying color shows at the foot of the hills and toward her, when "An unused life is an early death." seen walking into the camp with a on a smoking jacket under her directions. burn brightly. The wind howling woods it resembles a lake spread there, The correct means toward reaching a small-sized dead lamb hanging over A sepulchral cough sounded from Among the deodars, the rain pelting, with the bills and woods jutting into good old age were given by Moltke his shoulder. He made no attempt the corner of the veranda. It was the the shivering servants l'olled up in it as capes and dotted over it as "Do you think Jack would like this when that question was going the whatever to hide it, but marched watchman, the chokedar, who is supposed arugs asleep in their own log huts—not one, Charlie?" she asked, then she islands. This is.the famous mirage of rounds. These were Temperance boldly toward his puarters. to guard each bungalow at -a soul stirring in the draughty little said in an aside to the salesman, the plains and the desert that deceives and work." Not only temperance in His course led him directly past night, rousing from his slumber and bungalow but herself. It was most "Jack is my brother." raw travelers with a promise of water. the colonel's tent. That officer eating and drinking, but the same announcing his alertness. Reggy had •depressing the kind of evening when "He's an ungrateful dog if he If, however, the stratum of rising knew Pete well. The rascal had in must be practiced in every direction. no choice but to fly precipitately. every error, everything you would doesn't," growled the impatient fact been so often before the colonel air has no hills behind it you can see A great number of deaths in the prime Indian postal officials are crassness rather not have said assumes magnified model, who was her husband, as anybody that they had had ample chance to the wind blow through it* because it of life occur through accidental itself. Vayle's servant had been to inquire proportions and haunts you. with half an eye could see. become acquainted. sets it rippling and flowing ard causes wounds. (In business and industrial for his master's letters as soon So it was with Queenie Vayle, "It is very cheap," she said, "and apparent distortion in the more distant as the latter had arrived at Murree, The colonel saw him at this time life, and in war.) Another part on though a moreunlikelylookingsubject not lined with satin all through. and they were^lying on the table in and he called out: "Hello there, Pete, ground surface. When the day account of so-called constitutional illnesses, ifor the horrors of remorse and depression Would you wear it?" his room when he returned from his what have you got on your shoulder?" is warm, the heat reflection considerable whicn are generally the result of did not exist. Such golden "Would I? Just try me. Do you Enoch Arden visit. He opened them "Jest got a young sheep, Colonel," and the wind moderate you can. some inuate physical defect of the hair—the true dark gold color—such suppose that any man that had appreciation mechanically. One began "My darling said Pete. see the air waves move as easily as human body. These can always be appealing brown eyes and a nose just wouldn't be glad to get Queenie," and was signed, "Yours, "Where did you get it?" asked the you can see wheat bend before the combatted. A third part result from the least bit retrousse to give piquancy such a garment?" and he picked up as ever, Cecil Lorrimer." The address Colonel. breeze. contagious diseases. The danger of to the face, and only one-and-twenty. the disputed fabric in his thumb and on the envelope was Mrs. Vayle, but "Jest down the road about two infection can generally be met by capable They had considered themselves engaged The true mirage, which results finger. neither the postoflice people nor Vayle mile, Colonel." measures of defense. The art ever since Queenie was in short from magnifying- these conditions of "He's just your size, and it fits you himself had noticed it. A check for a "Did you buy it Pete?" of lengthening human life has made frocks with a pigtail of gold-brown rising air and a colder stratum and splendidly. But I intend to spend large sum fell from its folds. "No, sir I didn't buy no sheep." hair, and the hideous uniform of the little advance up to the present time. that brings objects into view that are more money on a smoking coat this "Well, did you steafit?" It was a good letter, and showed the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, The age of man, in the average, has is so cheap below the horizon—a phenomenon writer in a better light than he had "Well, now, see here, Colonel, 1 ain't did its best, though unsuccessfully, to become no greater. Also the common "More money? Why you have identical in process with the distortion appeared in before. All being lost for goin' to tell you no lie. I was coming 'take off from Reggy Vayle's good principles of long life have been substantially everything requisite, good cloth, fine that makes the submerged part of a both of them—for Queenie home and along the road quietly and peaceably •looks and well-set-up manly figure. fit what more do you want? That's the same in all times, only stick seem to bend when it is thrust fame, for him his position in the enough, when that there critter made Then, in order to prevent the possibility enough for a smoking coat for any the relationships of culture and differing into water—this mirage is less often world and the dear old corps—Lorrimer, straight for me. I jest kiiled it in selfprotection. of their ever changing their man living." eras, imply different occurrences seen here than on the seaboard. And who had been getting his affairs I tell" you, Colonel, I rounds or coming across any one they "Yes, I suppose so. Well dear, I'll and details. The speaker also'insisted straight, wrote to ask her to come out. ain't the manjto let no sheep bite me." there has been some tall lying about iiked better than themselves, they take it. And you need not wait any that the use of alcohol is entireiy unnecessary, at once to Tasmania to marry him —Chicago Press. it there. Next to the moon hoax there •were married at the end of Queenie's longer," and she smifed sweetly as and start life afresh. It was a and that the danger of never was a bigger fraul than the one .first season and prepared to make the a great load was lifted off her straightforward kind of a letter, and shortening human life is not to be perpetrated on innocent believers by HE ESCAPED SCATHLESS. acquaintance ot the world together. mind. it was more. It was a love letter. found in the greatness of intellectual a man who has just been up in Alaska, It was tempting the gods and the Outside her husband meets a Queenie had not been to him mereiy a work, but in its unsuitable organize* and who swore that back of Muir 'usual result followed. A Sailor's Superstition Drives Him chum. toy, to be played with and cast aside. tion.—Cincinnati Volksbiatt. Glacier was a permanent mirage reflecting Two years later Vayle's regiment to a Brave Act. "Great scheme, Fred. I've just been Vayle sat with the letter in his hand the spires and roofs of a city •was ordered to India. Queenie's baby fitted tor a smoking jacket that my After the repulse of one of the furious going through a great fight with himself. in the sky. Some men said that there •died—the young mother and the ayah wife is going to send to her brother. I He had imagined that Queenie assaults at Acre the dead body of must be a city hidden in an unexplored together muddled it to death she got Irian os. wouldn't be seen dead in the thing, was utterly dead to him—that he had a French officer was left lying in a valley to the eastward, and all kinds sfever and the doctor packed her off to The sticking down of keys, the but it will suit him all right. Got it cast her off forever. But now, with of fairj stories about lost tribes and prominent position between the walls ithe hills. Reggy could get no leave. cheap, too, which is another advantage." squeaking of the action and pedals, this other man's offer lying before civilized Indians and treasure towns To the Mayo Hotel nt Simree that and the besieger's trenches. The body are mostly caused from damp, and a him, a queer feeling of jealousy came were invented to fit the case. reason, sent up to recover himself in Meanwhile the wife was saying to sure sig-n that harm is being done to over him. He saw her again as he lay there for a day or two and attracted the cool from a polo accident, lame the salesman in the clothing the mechanism, but on no account But one day a man who was born in had just seen her—lonely, sad, desolate. much attention. aud interesting, came Cis Lorrimer, store: He remembered her in the old must either of the parts be oiled. Bristol. England, saw the photograph the ugliest fellow in the Crimson Cuirassiers, "If you'll be kind enough to keep it It was spoken about on board the vears his little wife she had called Until the action work has been set in of the city in the air that the liar was and the most popular and the until the day before Christmas I will herself ever since she was in her teens. Tigre, which lay off Acre, and the order by a qualified workman, it ib exhibiting, and he recognized it as most fascinating. He found himself have it sent up then. My husband All her treachery was forgotten he felt better not to employ the pianoforte, his native place. The liar had taken matter made an impression difficult sitting at the table d'hote next Mrs. will be so surprised when he finds it he could not let her go. Lorrimer's as more damage is done to an instrument a plain, everyday photograph of Bristol to account for on the simple, superstitious Vayle, and he forthwith took her un•xler was for him!" Detroit Free letter fluttered into the fire and curled in such a state by a week's practice and had smeared and softened the mind of Kelly. Only the very his charge. She was so new to Press. to ashes among the logs. Ten minutes than by six month's hard wear edges as they do in vignette portraits. India—to lite in general, and such a later Reenie starts at the sound of smartest men had been sent ashore and tear when in working condition. Since his downfall permanent mirages He Set His Teeth and Did It. refreshing change from most of Cis's an open door. All the windows are to assist in defense, and Kelly was not The noise is generally occasioned are not slated among the attractions temale friends. Queenie's silly head Dr. Savage, of the American Bible doors in India, and none are ever among these. But one day he begged through the burnished portions of the free to buyers of excursion tickets to was soon perfectly turned by the attentions locked. She turns and shrieks, for a Society, was, during the late war, a action having lost their gloss and Alaska. for and obtained leave to go on shore. of a hero such as she had man stands in the veranda with apassionate strong Union man. smoothness, producing great friction. As soon as he entered the town he never met before a man who, when look on his face. He Just after the battle of Perry ville, in procured a shovel, a pickaxe and a his foot was upon his native Piccadilly, is kneeling before her his hands More Appropriate. Tit for Tat. coil of rope walked straight to the was one of a set royalty affected, clutch hers convulsively. For she October, 1862, Dr. Savage was at one General Sam Houston, of Texas was Oneday a distinguished notary, while rampa/ts, and declining all offers of looks to him just the same as she did and whose every nod and word were not in favor of secession. His adored of his appointments to baptize some breakfasting with a friend at a cafe in assistance, lowered hirnselt from an accepted with effusion by the elite of that Christmas when she blushed and son and namesake declared for secession children. There was a large crowd, Paris, indulged in some stinging comments embrasure. The firing at the moment told him she was getting too big to be Simree society. In India, where the and adopted the secession rosette. and a sturdy Southern matron on the public acts of Marshal was fast and furious. kissed under the mistletoe—just the table of precedence is ruled by the Wearing the rosette upon his breast Marmont Suddenly, another gentleman same as she did in her bridal veil in brought her four children to the altar. As Kelly set foot upon the ground, umber of rupees drawn, a little riavor one day in his father's office, the and shouldering his tools, walked deliberately dining at 'a neighboring table, the village church at home. ot i*eal aristocracy goes a long way. "Name this child," said the Union father asked if he had not placed it toward the dead body, a rose and approached them, his mustache Under the influence of Lorrimer. preacher, laying hiss hand on the boy's in the wrong spot. 'Where should I "Darling," he pleads hoarsely, "darling dozen French muskets were pointed bristling with angei*. "Sir," Queenie Vayle developed wonderfully. head. "Simon Bolivar Buckner," wear it, father," asked the boy, "if will you forgive me? Will you at him. One of the enemy'scommanders, cried he tragically, you shall give She had come to Simree a simple child not on my heart?" «i think, Sammy come back to me 9 was the reply, which caused a smile to however, divining the sailor's intentions, before many weeks were out she was me satisfaction'" "Are you Marshal said the grieved father, "it would be Far away in Tasmania the other ordered his men to shoulder come over the congregation, but the •Ch wcman—and a woman devoiited Marmont?" quietly asked the notary. appropriate to wear it inside your one, waiting and longing, is not in it. arms. In an instant both sides as if with the great passion of her life. The I have not that honor." was the reply, brave preacher went on with his duty. coat-tail."—Argonaut. It seems so natural to rest her head by some common impulse ceased firing glamour of Lorrimer was over her -but I am his chief aide-decamp" "Name this child," taking the next onRegsty's shoulder, and there lay and Kelly the object of breathless Reggy became more and more com•monplace in order. "Pierre Gustave Toutant "Give me your card. then. down the weary load of care and desolation '"''hen we remember thaj our words may attention from friend and foe, stopped and uninteresting because Beauregard." and the smile grew into sir.' said the notary. "I will send you which oppressed her, and shut influence people for eternity we ought to beside the Frenchman's corpse. so familiar her letters to him fewer a snigger, while Dr. Savagebecame red my head-elerk."—Argcnaut out forever the hideous nightmare of be very careful how we sneak. He then coolly and calmly dug a .and fewer. in the face. He baptized the yonng the last tew months and they are grave, pat the officer into it, covered At last, however he got one, the namesake of the great engineer-soldier married within a few days. him up, and. taking from his pocket penning of which was of all the ioolish and went on with the ceremony. a small piece of board and a bit of things Queenie had done in her silly "Name this child," hegasped, reaching 7T chalk wrote on the board: "Here little lite the most foolish She wrote for the third. "Albert Sydney Johnston," The scene changes to the Park and you lie, old Crop,"" and he put at the •and told him that she no longer loved came the answer. The smile beime white-^ aistcoat weather. Cis Lorrimer The Sham and the Real, head of the grave this rough and audible and the preacher apoplectic. ir.m as real love goes, but having met landed at Charing Cross that ready memorial. "Old Crop" was no the one man in the world for her she morning, scands in a quiet corner under doubt honest Kelly's rendering of was off on a trip into Cashmere with Heaving a sigh of relief he took the the trees with his hat tilted over "Crapaud," the French for a frog foiu-th child, a little girl, whose gender lum. She was very sorry but she his eyes and sees ghosts and a nickname with the sailors for all couldn't help it, and hoped he would he fondly supposed would preclude a ghosts of the «men and women "mounseers." This pious duty done, continuation ot heroic reproduction, iorgive her, or words to that effect. he had known in town before the Every good thing has its imitators, every genuine article he shouldered his implements again, aud said: "Name this child." "Mary Reggy Vayle, an honest, straightfor•wmd Crimsons, sailed tor India five years Stouewall Jackson Lee," came a response walked back as deliberately as he had and very young Englishman, ago men grown stout, women gone its counterfeits. The Ammonia and Alum Baking Powders come, and disappeared within the that set the congregation in a grilling away at Punkahpore, did not off men grown bald, women with unmistakably roar, while the Union parson thought embrasure.—Good Words. pro\ ot the ordinary type of patient, increased hair. Frocks sold over the counters are no more like Dr. Price's Cream he had held in his arms the whole .acquiescent Anglo'Indian husband, new and wonderful a new curve and a Southern Conlederacy.—St. Louis Republic. A VACANT SEAT. who calls his wife's "bow-wow" hat brim. Familiar forms strange Baking Powder, than the paste is like the real diamond, or a by his Christian name and faces. But there, flitting down, chatting How Two Dear Creatures Show takes care to give a few days' counterfeit is like one of the old master's genuine paintings. gayly to nice-looking women, a Their Unselfishness. Fiftv-FIve Pounds for a Love Letter notice before he runs up to the hill well-remembered face with golden hair, The letters of John Keats—especially .station on leave. There was just one vacant seat in "When greedy and merciless manufacturers claim their but looking happier, more peaceful his love-letters—always fetch high There was a fearful scandal. Society the street car and two women came than when he saw it last. adulterated and harmful baking powders are as good as Dr. prices. That from which the following hurrying and bustling in together and in India winks at a good deah but He watches her across the row and the law makes up for it by severity. The extract is made was sold two years stood before the unoccupied seat. put into a hansom by her friends. Price's, they know they are not telling the truth. These Cashmere trip had to be cut short ago for £55. It is a charming letter, "You sit down," said one of the Then he jumps into another and follows and in perfect condition. It is addressed, the case came on in the High Court, ladies generously, waving her»hand it to Gargantuan Mansions. people know they are destroying the stomachs and the complexion and Cis Lorrimer had to sacrifice ot course, to Fanny Brawne. toward the seat. Thac evening, when the sunlight, everything and make a bolt of it to —"Sweetest Fanny,—You tear sometimes "Oh, no you take it." darkened by the awning over the balcony, of the consumers, and there are many grocers recom-. somewhere—Japan or Australia. "No, I'd rather stand." I do not love you so much as casts deep shadow's in the little The court gave him two years and "So would I." you wish! My dear girl, 1 love you mending such powders over their counters—knowing same drawing room of the flat, mulcted him handsomely. He was ever and ever, and without reserve. "Oh, take it. I've been sitting neariy Queenie Vayle sits alone, toying with absent without leave, and after the all day." to be injurious and worthless—simply to make a large profit. The more I have known you the more her tea. usual interval the Gazette record* So have I." have I lov'd. In every way. Even There is an electric ring,a footstep in Dr. Price, a concientious physician, has spent a lifetime that Her Majesty had no further need "But I really don't care to sit." my -jealousies have been agonies of the passage, and a voice—well remembered—speaking of his services. "But I don't mind standing in the Love, in the hottest fit I ever had I makes Queefiie start in perfecting and popularizing his Cream Baking Powder,, least!" to her feet. would havedied foryou. I have vexed "Neither do I. Indeed, I often prefer you too much. But tor Love Can I The maid, without a word, is showing And now another monsoon had the only Pure Cream Tartar Powder now to be obtained. to stand." h^lp it? You are always new. The last some one into the dim room. •come round again and Queenie Vayle "But you look tired." oc your kisses was ever the sweetest, Hands are held out toward her. at solitary, listening to the rain, iitsterly, Multitudes of imitators all over the land have sprang up^ "Oh, I'm not a bit. Now you sit the last smile the brightest, the last "Quc-jnie! At last I have found alone in the world. Lorrimer down." you!" vement the gracefulest. .' not to imitate the purity of Price's Cream Baking Powder* made no sign, and her family at home "No, you." You uttered a half complaint once She gives a low cry of pain and half 3iad cast her off as completely as her ^"No, no, you. I get off first. but to see how cheap they could make their counterfeits and turns away. that I only loved your Beauty. Have ftiusband. She felt so utterly wretched -"Then you ought to take the seat I nothing else then to love in you than at she would have given anything "Won't you speak to me? You now and I'll take the seat afterward." hoodwink the public. that? Do no*- I see a heart naturally sfor a kind word from any one. But never answered. Speak to me now /"Bu I really don't care for it." furnished with wings imprison itself women looked askance at her, for in Queenie. I'm doing well—a different "Neither do I." Some use Ammonia and others Alum, but all tnese shams w.th me? My mind has been India great importance is attached fellow ,* and—and—Iw want you "Please take it." the most discontented and restless one to the new commandment, "Thou Queenie." ys cry in chorus, "Buy this, its just as good as Dr. Price's and g^This goes on until both women try that ever wa? put into a body too shait not be found out and, as for She looks up at him for a few mo-1 to sit down at the same time and one small tor it. I never felt my mind repose kind wprds from men—well, it hadn't ments and then a hghLbreaks upon much cheaper. $' .,,. -w^J* ot them sits in the lap of the weary upon anything with complete -quite come to that yet. though it her „V X^ looking young man who jumps*up and -might soon, Queenie felt. For lite was and undistracted enjoyment—upon no She motions "nim away. Price's Cream Baking Powder is the standard for purity goes out and stands on the platform, fiu tolerable. person but you. When you are in the "You musn't speak like that, Cis. thus making room for both women fad perfection the world over, and is beyond comparison.' \uf room my thoughts never fly out of the It was well nigh intolerable to some It can't be! It is all over and the tormenting dialogue comes td window." on else, too—a man who had arrived His face grows hard and set sud- an end.—Detroit Free Press. tSx Dr. Price stands for Pure Food and a foe to all shams** to'"