mm S A N N I E RESANT A WREAT O HOSES came very near serving' you HEL .A LIFE POSITION. Theism to the flat negations of an "Perfect! replied at gentleman. Atheistic Materialism, of which first said the plump cousin. it's actually—what makes-it— at was because he thought she as emerged, by a of S it a 1 does it always smell at a inquired Preliminar a to a Idly the maiden's finger weave 56irt Collectin for he a ism, into the realm of Tbeosophy is looked laughed the esthetic the cousin. a Biographical S by Edi A gleaming crown of ro^es red, r%t "No at all,"remarke the Captain. one of. which we a search in vai in "Certain y, a id to S a in English Edition And singing soft the while, she lays T„ contemporary religious biography. The fragrant burden on her head, I the rule, know. It- assures ad been fortunate in his view of Reviews. I be gamy, said he Captain, For their swift death she does not grieve. Such a story could fail to be full us it isn't poisoned." ffz f§|| showing his appreciation of the pleading a the lady of the house 57 .Annie Besan is now, as she as Nor sorrow o'er such sweetness fled, of suggestion in a case, even if he Nevertheless, he pretty* cdtisins delicacy, "o it wouldn't be good." As threading sunny woodland ways ad let him come into he kitchen been for the lost four or five years, writer were obscure a unknown waited until Torn a the Captai She listens for her lover's tread. fi I be ad or it wouldn't be fire a eat his re a a S one of my intimate friends. I much more interesting, then a before they ventured to it. Enwrapped in bliss her soul reposes: good. Well, I like a I don't it be when it reaches us from one Ah! little she reckhot the griefa of roses. feel my position keenly, mad W it's sour!" exclaimed~the ad not the privilege of knowing her like your canvasbac a bit. Th* of he eloquent of living women, plump cousin. a he said, in apologetic tones. plump cousin leaned bock in her chair. in her earliest phase, either of schoolgirl Alas! the fairest hopes deceive! who is still in the zenith of her po "So it is," said the esthetic. $ "I' going to send mine -down a "O, don't mention it, she replied, She cannot dream what power dread, Evangelicalism or of young-woman ers. detest sour wine!" With hand uplifted, by her stays, a it qopked," a id he esthetic kindly. "W all have our ups a Puseyism, I knew her as Materialist They were not-positive, a To pluck her in the roses' stead' cousin. ^f/ft8 downs, I suppose.you have worked E'en while her breast with love doth heave thought at and the Captain exchanged a Atheist. I know her as Theo I going to send mine out and. A STOR RETOLD if She droops amid the blossoms dead winks. while the latter some fame in life?" sophist, a whatever development have it buried," declared the plump And to our dim. affrighted gaze, was descanting on the excellent Despair, of helpless terror bred, cousin. Sooked at her reproachfully she a pass through will in no way effects of sour wine on the an he Colored a he Soldie An awful unknown fate discloses, I suppose one be educated as she said these last words. affect the 'sentiment of affectionate stomach and its relationship to oysters With he W Leg. To whom a girl's no more than rose*. to this sort of thing," remarked he a a he said, with pride, "until admiration with which I regard her. the pretty cousins made another ZOK DANA UNDEHHILI/ in Harper's Bazar. There was once a an who ad a Captain philosophically. "Th acquired unsuccessful a on their glasses last I held a position in a her a me was wooden leg. a a set them aside. New York. Yes, a a a position COUSIN TOM in every a the papers were "Well, I for one don't want to be Th an was an officer in he Union Th esthetic cousin listened with which would have continued only educated—that's flat!" There was always filled with endless letters discussing the AND THE CAPTAIN. great attention, a in a a ad lost his at leg, as during my life, but during at ot my force in the plump cousin's expression. word when he got a chance. The latest phase of her progress in search of the little boy said, at Sharpsburg. children a grandchildren, if I ad kept this up till the soup came—a delicious Th other a she was desired to retain it a a it it the wooden leg was such a good I can get up a better dinner for bisque of crayfish. he presiding over a Socialist Congress in BY C. T. MURRAY. to them. one at its owner still passed for a $ 2 said the esthetic cousin, "which cousin pronounced it splendid, Paris next year no one can say where have cost you $2 a plate "Wh did you leave it she asked. biped, even among some of his intimate was proposed by started perceptibly at the sound of and— she will be or at she will be doing, another cork. Mr. Thorn of friends. the "Ten, said the Captain, laughing at "Because a a necessity compelled The waiter dextrously seized the except a whatever she a do or civil service to Mr. One a a a a negro, a contra me to The position was permanent, proper glasses at each plate and poured wherever she a go, one thing only Morgan of the army band strolled into camp, a the officer dollars!" gasped the two the receipts were 0 out the sherry. is quite certain, she will be a a and Mr. Morgan accepted pretty cousins. equal to the disbursement incumbent engaged him as his body servant The pretty cousins laughed. by a passionate love a a upon my sta^e of living." "'And we got offcheaply," said Tom the proposition Bu as soon as the waiter disappeared After looking long upon the wine "And no turkey either!" exclaimed "May I ask, she ventured, somewhat for the poor a oppre'ssed, -an she the plump cousin protested. with alacrity. one night at a little dinner, the officer the two cousins. I a sin'" It' a overcome by her evident mistake^ "You need have ordered this on will a the enthusiastic affection Mr. Thorn had came home to his tent. called his shame! it's a gentleman's dinner." "wha your position was?" my account, Cousin It' very ot all *those who come near "Vinegar at $2 a bottle, and "Certainly a a being a New a a to help pull off his boots pretty cousins—one nice to be sure—'" enough to her to know as she raw, overripe duck' I would sup« Yorker I was never ashamed of it. I "Hol said at gentleman. far enough removed to be interesting "Now Sam, he said, "be careful. really is. a family for a« month! was collector of funds for the "Nothing has been ordered on your One of these is tight, a it —from the interior temporarily with completion of the a monument. account, you know. It' a gentleman's There were sweets and fruits and Yet Mrs. Besant, one of the halfdozen pulls my leg out to get it off. him at his Washington boardinghouse, straight dinner—by request." cheese a black coffee, a the two women who have stamped he Besides I feel rather flimsy tonight." and Mr. Morgan ad nothing resumed his meal, a the lady there won't be a straight pretty cousins did ample justice to impress of their strong a vivid personality "I's alius keerful, replied went over and sat down in the gentlemen here," retorted Ihe plump this frivolous end of the repast while upon their own time, is one his and mess at the Arsenal. Sam, a he carefully removed he corner to think.—Nashville American. cousin, if you keep on having all the passing the above practical comments to whom, until the other day, it 8 0 it was proposed at the four, Mr. first boot wine in the house sent up. Now at on the whole. was considered hardly correct to allude, When the a a began to pull Thorne his two pretty cousins a is nice," she added, tasting the wine. except in the most distant man at he other the officer loosened 1 Sick Men, Mr. Morgan, should dine together at I love sherry. Every woman does." ner, as if she inhabited another a the a of the wooden leg a little. "As a a of fact, the Captain beautiful it looks," said the Chaniberlin's. improper world. When I started this One might smile, were it so pitiable, Sa pulled a a things eame with told me three years later, when recounting esthetic cousin, holding up her slender Review I ad to my foot down, he two gentlemen were of a a rush. ito see the impatience with which the incident, "th dinner was glass. And together: before the first number saw the light, he same age, and in the full bloom of a great success, for Thorn married "There! There! I told you to be strong, active an succumbs to he strong it is!" I on an a to enforce even in these careful,"-shouted he officer, as he the plump cousin before spring, "v bachelorhood. They ad served to necessity of lying a few weeks on a pages the policy of boycott at still I never eat fish," observed the and I married the other one during leg came off. I was afraid you'd pull plump cousin. "No, a prevails in certain obscure quarters gether in the volunteers. Th two bed of sickness the petulance which at leg off." the winter. I'm a listener, now, myself—and," Mrs. Besant, ad written me a cordial echoed the other. re cousins, born a at time men in vain to smother, at pills he a with a sigh, S am saw the leg protruding from Bu the Captain insisted and she little noie welcoming the new Review, the to of the boot which he had pulled or later, had heard all a this "eating those 50-cent dinners."— a portions, in place of their favorite which was inserted among the other said she'd it, because she wanted The Globe. off. dish or drink or cigar the a orders comradeship a hundred times, though to say she had eaten a Th letters which I received from the eminent His eyes bulged out like a lobster's, they give a countermand, in the business men and women of the they knew "th captain, as he was waiter opened a bottle of claret. a he yelled just once as he sprung AN OBSTINAT E W O A N Meantime ad opened a long day. The business side ot the Review same breath, to the wife a mother, a a termed by them, slightly. for the door. remonstrated W as very sorry, you fishing story at ran from Lak of who calmly accept all this as a of Delighted to get .away from a me go, lemme go-." he shrieked the Wood to the Gulf of Mexico. know, really. Great regard for Mrs. S he Wa Cure of Scolding her woman lot, and who dare not, as he dashed througn the group outside. W a in to boarding-house, thegiris Besant, but business is business, and When he got through he gallantly When he in S to Failed. I never done nuffin'" And he for the life of her smile at the fuss this touched his glass to the left and right it would never do, a especially in would have hailed a scheme at was still yelling when he disappeared There is a tradition of a Gloucestershire caged (lion is making because his rations the first number, to a a her name. and sipped his wine with a pleased expression. promised this much with enthusiasm. in the woods. They never saw him in scold whose obstinate disposition Couldn't Mr. Stead leave it over till are cut off tor a few days When it included a private dinner a again.—Boston Herald. defied the ducking stool, says the a which the editorial I was the first time he ad ever This "being sick patiently is with "Cousin and a a in side replied as might be expected, only National Reyiew. After the first been allowed to finish at story. Th a lesson we think an as yet a a to elicit the further protest: "Well of —a real gentleman's dinner—at a swell plump cousin began to look uneasily "sousing" in the village horse pond to learn it is a good thingat a Wife. course, if you will, you must remember, club house, they were simply in rap toward the door. She sipped a little her husband exclaimed- "Molly! "the lords of creation are sometimes at a me will cost us hundreds re It is by no means a new theory at of the claret. Molly' Wool thee promise I never to laid on the shelf awhile, at of subscribers. There are scores "Now we'll see how these old swell "Why good gracious! a sour, a an a woman who have be*m they a better appreciate the cheerful scold at I again?" As soon as Molly of clergymen who will never allow the bachelors live," a pretty cousin No. to married a great a years grow to endurance with which thefeeble wifemother recovered her breath she replied in a Review to enter their doors if Mrs. 1, who was plump and rosy and "And lukewarm' cried the esthetic bears the household cares all resemble each other, not only in a thundering voice of moroseness: "No Besant's a me appears in its columns. so at under the of her cousin, arching her dark brows a the same—on the pillow where lies ner a voice, but actually, as to I won't do nothing o' zort!" Molly at a or a not be app°tifce. looking at the Captain. with her the newly born. a in a features and expression. Quite recently true. If it is, so much the worse for ad another souse, a the husband "And we'll hear some of the Captain' "Th way it ought to be my dears, weakness never interrupt her constant the clergymen in question. Of course the photographic association good stories at is always met witn the same acrimonious response said careful forethought tor her family. her letter went in. Bu the protest of Geneva as been investigating he talking a said pretty "Certainly," said the Captain. to his anxious interrogation. a are to a to a was interesting as illustrating the cousin No 2, who was pale and thin truth, of this theory by the aid of the "Dear me"," sighed the plump cousin. The sousing was repeated, but Molly these everyday heroisms as a kind of prejudice which has existed a interesting, and altogether esthetic. W at queer people men are. .Do we camera. Th photographs of seventyeight of course. Therefore, we say again, it continued to be obdurat a contumacious. a Mrs. Besant. get anything to a is well sometimes at their attention elderly or very old married couples "You a drown I,'.' shouted Expectations on a of the pretty napkin fell on the floor and should be awakened to it, when the* I a be at even now some readers were taken,*and an equal number Molly, I wool never give in." cousins an pretty high when they stooping tor it gave him a coughing doctor has vetoed for them for a while a a so little entered into hi family groups. Th result proved They did not run the risk of drowning were shown into the little supper-room fit. the office and the counting room a the spirit with which every page of quite satisfactory to holders of tinstheory, Molly, released h«r, for the husa &t Chamberlin's. Bu the Cartain told a story of the fchey are childishly frantic at gruel a this magazine has been written since inasmuch as in twenty-four was convinced at she would There was a richly carved round table railway sand which which lasted till closed blinds.—New York Ledger. the first a overruling of the laid with the snowiest of linen and a drown an refuse to wag her he resemblance the entrees a delicate oyster, crab a puunwiiiu cases- resemblance between hus protestW against the publication ofM he prettiest china the place afforded, a and truffles and sweetbreads. red rag at un'" whenever she felt inclined a her letter, as to object to the selection a^d wife was much greater an Bea A to a Boat a Chamberhn himself, round Then, after an hour ad elapsed to do so. I did not cure of Mrs. Besant as the subject of is a a sister, a a Is Drowned a beaming, arranged the lovely vase from the beginning, they got to a Character Sketch. All at I need thirty_cases more it was fully assay Molly. She became as great a scold I was a boy of ten years. My father of flowers in the center, with drooping lovely saddle of Southdown, garnished great. The failure of the other twenty-four to is, whether they be a as ever she ad been before her public creepers running to and among the and family resided in New Brunswick, with potatoes a French peas—and old couples-to realize he expectations or few, at when they have made a "sousing." Some years after at wine glasses at the four plates. where the Digdigquash river met the champasne. of those interested in he tithe of her sacrifices for conscience critical punishment the lord of the ocean. Bu few settlers were there, "You see, we thought you'd likejust cautioned the plump cousin a is supposably due to "incompatibility sake they a be in a position to a or met at a court leet a and the forest primeval stood a uch a dinner as we would have, said against eating much of it, as he canvasback of disposition," which time criticise. Until then they will do well inquired: "Well, John how does the dwelling of those few. Bears were Cousin Tom was yet to come. was ^apparently unable to. Gombat in to be silent, aimd endeavor, if they can, Molly get on now with her scolding?" plenty, and, like all bears, fond of "And you couldn't have pleased us "Wh said she, we its effeccsv to catch a little of her spirit. Most of better, interrupted pretty cousin No. have any turkey? I've been looking to sometimes chasing the sheep those who sneer at her as if she were "Oh, 'squire, her be re nearly •*. This just suited her. for the turkey for half an hour!" even to the doors of the inhabitants disreputable, or shrug their shoulders he Tim to Spring-. cured on't. "Did the ducking-stool "So we gave orders at everything "Turkey! Great Jupiter! You Man ad been victims of the hunter's when her a me is mentioned, might dp at business?" "Oh, no. I let her I wonder why Congressman Springer should be served just as we would mean to a me a common, low-down gun, yet their number apparently ad then perhaps come to Jbe numbered jaw on as long as her liked. I ged her is making himself so promiscuous a it if no ladies were present, see 9 turkey in the same breath with the king diminished. among those who are worthy to loose no back answers. I zot quiet a A feminine chorus of exclamations of table birds—the canvasback!" and so numerous^ observed the the latchet of her shoe. blowed me bacca, a her soon One day my father and 'a neighbor of approval, in which you can employ clutched his hair in mock Editor. One result ot the persistent boycott her scolding a be now as good a named McLean were crossing the river seven "charmings, fourteen "just agony. The captain leaned back a has been maintained against lier so an as thev be a I is his- prerogative," replied he in a log canoe, when they discovered a lovelies," tour "nicest things," eighteen looked grave. They could get all the long by the papers is at one ot the bear swimming in the same direction. Snake Editor. to sweets" a a miscellaneous turkey they wanted at the tree-lunch charming and pathetic autobiographical Dextenously plying their paddles "Because he a to be a a so of "dear rn.es," "such a counters. W A CHINES E WOMEN DO sketches in our language is they came between him a the place ber of the W^ays a Means Committee, good fellow," "best cousin in the begged the plump cousin practically B'On-existent ior the great where he intended landing. This cutoff I suppose. world," etc. And the fact is nothing to say turkey again or he would surely mass- of the English-speaking public. "No at isn't it." Their Wonderful E id Is as enraged the animal, which immediately ould have better pleased the pretty drop dead a cousins laughingly Mrs. Besant' iragmentary sketches W at is it cousins an this surprise. Perfec on O Side as he O a for the canoe, putting one declared they wouldn't. While ot her spiritual pilgrimage, although paw on its low gunwale. A a "Because it'& leap year."—Pittsbur Now they would, indeed, learn some they were chaffing each other a frozen Chinese embroidery is the remarkable published in 1885 is I suppose, almost Chronicle. blow with the edge of a hardwoo imperial punch was served along with of the secrets of old bachelorhood. unknown to my readers. Th which ever came ironi huan paddle made the fellow relinquish his re cousin No. 1, who was given to a package of cigarettes. ok is out of print, a they will re a of Slang- fingers. Any lady who as ever grasp. After a good dteal of hustling he doctrine of the equality of the sex«*s, clear the way for the game," therefore "fee grateful for the extracts S-odi-Eyed Compositor—Wot gentleman. felt especially complimented. McLean managed to get bold of the said attempted embroidery understands which. I shall make freely from its W at men like, women like," she "Goodness!" cried the esthetic cousin—"you bear's hind legs, holding on each side an spare me a few quotes? pages.^ I h€pe, now the ice as been the difficulty of giving a neat appearance declared, a I never thought it of the stern of the canoe, father, at don't play poker now, do broken, arid the great slow-minded FGuemonr—See h©j?e, Slug 13 a to her work only on one side of quite fair at you men should go off the same time, with his paddle, keeping public has- wakened up at last to the he sixth time yota'veaskedfor quotesin •and have a good supper all by yourselves, 'th article embroidered, the Chinese the craft upright until the creature tact at Mrs. Besanc is one of the Bu the Captain ad a coughing fit and then expect us to enjoy five minutes. Whatche setting, rfhis time. was drowned, a us the game was remarkable women of our time embroider sides, so at by hearing you tell about it for a week." she will republish it with an additional anyway "Oh, you see we know some of your secured. as a large brute a an turning the work it is impossible to chapter describing he later stagesof touched an electric bell a a tricks," she added under the correct old offender.—Forest a Stream. Slug 13—Well,, the rules of a detect a difference or to say which is h»a pilgrim's bright waiter appeared. impression at she ad made a hit. a quote all slang a I've got a Natura Distrust the neater, and this, too on material An authentic a a iv of the souljourneyings "Serve," said And the Capa The canvasbac finally came on, a o& the base-ball editor's copy.— I is an) old to the an who ot an intensely religioussoul in seated the esthetic cousin on the and carved it with a lordly air, Chicago Times. so thin at it seems impossible to fy©aai Evangelism to Piaseyism, said, when he as offered tea, during left nnd the plump cousin on the while the captain explained the a re work with it at all. One of the "TOT* won't suit me at all," as ttoe man his last visit to an a my encampment, a thence through ad (Dhurek right, and Cousin To to ok the head character of this duck a the various said to the tailor who relused him credit. peculiar features of a piece of Chinese "If my last cup was tea I'll a coffee of the table. Th bright waiter alimmediately divisons and subdivisions a the reappeared, bringing characteristics ot other ducks—greatly if it was coffee, I'M a a fancy work is the hem with which they it a still serve t© illustrate practical a a with four slender glasses encouraged by the undivided attention finish the cut edge. filled with— of the esthetic cousin. wisdom, as well as impudence. Another American ladies a flat a a a said Tom learner from experience figures was never known to have taken hem and fasten it with a whip stitch in the following anecdote: W at this? inquired the at much pains with a woman—probably The Ideal Baking Powder the Chinese roll the edge so as to a re cousins in a breath. because no other an ad Tw a a sportsman ad gone a cord, a then hold it in position ever before listened to him. A a a a vulgarly called a out together for a day's shooting, a by a blind stitch. Th work is wonderfully cocktail, is made of vermout a Which inspires me to observe at I is uegan operations, to load their guns. delicate, a it is said to be eye, with a dash of bitters, a little good listeners are in more active dea "See here," said one of them* pausing done by Chinese women working at syrup, a so on, and is sent below an good talkers, especially at in the act. "which do you in at we should consider starvation' to warn the stomach to look out for dinner parties. 'first, powder wages. Whole dresses are embroidered Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder. a coming." The*good listener always makes a just as beautifully a with the same "Why powder of course," seturned lasting impression. While the girls laughed merrily at his, friend. regard to detail as he smallest artiste Cousin definition they looked There was lettuce salad with he of luxury or comfort, a theamouaat "Oh, do yewa?"' was tb© reply"Then. duck a a bottle of dry wine, a on the a a an with some misgivings. of work done on, one of these large I dom,'t. altogether they appealed to the pieces of heavy silk is simply astound For more than fiity years Cream of Tartar and Bicarbonate gourmets. The pretty cousins, re Cousin No. to ok a of it, ing to one familiar with Chinese N N Clock in Liberia. of Soda hate been used for leavening purposes however, recoiled from it with startled tout her face decided the other, a the workmanship.—St. Louis Globe-Item-^ Explore Battikoffer says at & cocktail was firmly but regretfully set looks- TiL*'' ocrat. clock is rarely seen in the farm houses with sufficient flour ad4ed to preserve the strength of the aside. of Liberia,, a a of the town I think—I—Tom," stammered he I wouldn't advise you to drinkit, powder unimpaired,. a4d this with the addition of whites plump cousin, do you think—js it exactly—that residents have no timepiece of a Wa to It. whispered the Captain. is, is it right, you know? sort. adds at there are few civilised of eggs comprises t^is pure and wholesome^ leavening a he said, "there' a great Delicate blue points were brought "Delicious!" he exclaimed, taking a countries where a timepiece can on a while the pretty cousins curiously lot of foolish talk a at crank agent, that has been [the standard for 40 years. In its mouthful a motioning he waiter to be dispensed with so conveniently. regarded the bottle ot sauterne blowing up Russell Sage because he leave the room Th sun rises at 6 a. m. a sets at 6 use pure, wholesome land delicious food is always assured. at was befng manipulated by the I apparently underdone," cautiously p.. m. almost to the minute he year didn't give him a million dollars. gg| waiter Cousin a the Captain N remarked the esthetic cousin. round a at noon it is vertically Makes cake and biscuit that retain their moisture, and "You wouldn't like at sort ot discoursed upon the habits and-morals "Wors an a declared" the overhead. Man of the people become of the oyster. thing pretty much, would inquired while they are flaky and extremely light they are fine grained, other, "it' raw! so expert in telling time by the sun Th waiter poured a thimbleful of the an next to him. "Mine is hardly warmed through, at they are rarely more an a not coarse and ful| of holes as made with ammonia baking wiue in glass and then served "kik it? Of course he replied, ?W" quarter of an hour out of the way. In said the 'esthetic cousin, nibbling at he ladies a the Captain, finally filling "bu I wouldn't be raising such a row 90 he lettuce. place of the a a clocks tliey depend powders, latter dries up cfaickly^Alum powders leave a bitter a to the brim. Th pretcousins about it. My wife blows me up eyery "Wors an a said he plump iipon the crowing chanticleer" to 9ft taste in the bread or cake. looked at each other a time I refuse to give her a dollar* I' arouse in they morning.—New cousin. tzM I juet right—eh Captain? tittered used to it York Sum Ik, Price's Cream Baking Powder oncelused, alwiyf used. A *J$&$$LE i-ihiA-lxf mm