was about the door which led to the A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. and how you came to acknowledge ATTACKED BY RATS. "Yoa can't go in," said he, S S E N S E girls' corridor. her a« your wife before the whole "Why not?" asked the astonished An "Oh!" of delicious surprise came school?" ravellexs. Terrible Experience of a Divar In Horrible Adventure of a Young Glr' The sky and the sea, like two nuns, from the assembled crowd a3 the Dawn now peered into Leander's "Because we expect the Princess the Chicago Water-Works Tu In a Dark Church Belfry. Wear mantles of gray, sheeted forms filed in. brain, and he laughed heartily as lie nel. Marie." And like a black cloth seems the masts Miss Lavina Hull of Myrtle Hill had The orchestra struck up a march realized what complications had been "Then keep a good lookout for her." And he yards ot a ship iar away. "Scully is being sucked into the tui and Tufts almost instantly took unto a narrow escape in the Belfry of the wrought by the mote on Sophronias laughed the amused lady, and AA-ent nel. For God's sake stop all pumj himself a partner. Is it coming, coming to me, hand, and Sophronia joined in hie Baptist Church. Miss Hull is 18 years through the common gate to the platform. Tlii-^ heavy black cros*."' Whitney prepared to do likewise. laughter when he had explained to her and send us help." The station-master waited all old and has performed the duties of Shall the hopes and joys of mv life But, simultaneous with Whitney, a his mistake. day. and then concluded that the This was the message telephoned Suffer pitiiul sliipwieck and loss? janitrix: of the building for three years. man, not a student and apparently a "I wanted to give you a surprise," princess had taken another route. City Engineer Clarke from the two-mile stranger, seized a shapely hand which While she Avac ringing the bell for The ship, like a bird on the wing, he said. crib shortly after 11 o'clock. Seems only to »tay hung from a gracefully shaped sleeve. "My letter, I suppose, put that into prayer meeting the bell-rope suddenly Consumption Not Hereditary. Ala*! It i« coining—it tack«.. "I beg your pardon," replied the "GiA^e him all the air you can your head." parted. After service, Avith a lantern, Oil, thank God' It is bailing away. The accumulation of such evidence stranger.^ with considerable feeling. "Yes dear." pump. Don't letup aminute. Willgixe —Urace Hibbaid in New York Herald. she climbed to the belfry to repair it. is becoming so great that every physician To this Whitney impatiently retorted: •f relief instantly. Work as you nevir of experience feels forced to When she reached the gloomy place Two weeks after the memorable worked before." HIS WIFE'S EDUCATION. "Excuse me, sir. but I have this she found that the rope had been share the belief of the commucicabUity sheet and pillowcase party the principal lady, and mean to keep her." This was the reply Mr. Clarke hurled gnaAved in two by rats, near the ceiling. of consumption. There are also of Stanford Seminary announced "You mean to keep he*-, do you? She began to mend the strands, to the students the folio wing endowments- feAV physicians who have not had oae back over the wire. Do you know who she is? This woman but had proceeded only a little AA'ith or more cases that for years they had BY EDUARDIKC BAILEY. It was a remarkable struggle that is my wife, you puppy." her work A\'hen she heard a squeaking First $25,000 for the erection of a not had thought had been contracted was going on at the crib. Sixteen men ot CHAPTER "Wife'" exclaimed the bystanders. sound behind her. Looking around gymnasium, to be known as the in this way. How else than by brawn and muscleAvere tugging at aline, "Oh!" groaned several, while the Leander Southwick had been married Southwick gymnasium. she saAV a host of shining balls in the the other end of which Avas made fast communications are we to account sheeted form shrank toward Whitney. darkness. Second—$10,000 to establish a scarcely a year when by thedeath about the waist of John E. Scully, the for the rapid spread of consumption One tall form pushed its way scholarship for married couples ot intrepid diver employed in t"he engineering She knew they were rats and swung of an uncle in Nevada he lell heir to among savage nations, A\'here this disease through the crowd to hear the limited means, said scholarship to be department. Pulling A\rith all the her arms at them, but the animals was unknown before civilized an estate worth $450,000. stranger declare: known as the Sophronia scholarship. the strength they could bring to their did not disperse. Their numbers people began to visit them? This is "Thib woman is my wife!" The inheritance was so unexpected —Boston Globe. aid the men on the platform Avere unable rapidly increased until she was completely Horror-stricken, she cast a swift, true of our own American Indians,, the that for some time it was difficult to to raise their comrade one inch surrounded by a ring of gleaming sharp glance at the stranger, uttered a inhabitants of Central Africa, and FLUCTUATIONS OF SOCIETY. toward the surface. They all kneAv eyes. The girl became alarmed believe that he, an humble grocer, wild shriek, and would have fallen to many other countries. Intermarrying, Avhat Avas the matter. Scully and prepaied to descend to the vestibule the floor had she not been supported was the possessor of a fortune greater or any other condition Avhich had gone doAA-n to break away the of the church, but before she Avas "The Sole-Leather of To-Day, the by one of the professors. even than that of his boyhood might make hereditary transmission ice that blocked one of the great portholes. erect the vicious rodents rushed at her Plumed Hat of To-Morrow She had fainted and was conducted a possible cause, certainly would not dreams. He had succeeded, and the in a body and sprang upon her, from the room. There is always a class of persons mighty rush of water had carried him lacerating her flesh Avherever they account for its rapid progress. Besides, "Four hundred and lift}- thousand "Miss Southwick has fainted," cried here which is called distinctly society, along AA'ith resistless force toward tho could find a place to set their teeth. some of the best observers and investigators several'. dollars' What'll ue do with all that but it is not a class of noble families great tunnels through which Lake Miss Hull possessed a luxuriant believe that consumption is Then the figure which the stranger money?" he said to his wife. Michigan Avas being sucked into the growth of hair, AA-hich hung in a braid of hereditary ascendency. It is constantly not heriditary, and there is much positive claimed as that of his wife, removed city mains at the rate of 260,000,000 down her back. The braid Avas Sophronia Southwick, equal to any eAridence in favor of this view. the mask, revealing the dark, snappy changing, and the sole-leather gallons per day. The snapping ot the almost severed from her head by the With such evidence of the possibility eyes of Miss Walcott. emergency, from weighing a codfish to of to-day is the plumed hat of torow. signal line instantly followed by a rats and her arms and shoulders bled The stranger looked dumfounded, of inhaling the bacilli, the question making up the monthly accounts, It is imitative and puts on pretty tremendous pull on the life line, had profusely from the A\ounds made by then gasped: AA-ould natually be asked. How do the was never at a loss for an idea. airs of grandeur and an amusing given warning, and several feet of the the bites. She rang the bell loud as "It isn't her'" bacilli get into the atmosphere, Avhen line ran out before the frightened men she could and Arthur RaAvson and "We must go into society," she smirk of superiorit}*, but it is neither Theprincipal, addressingthe stranger, they are not found in the breath of could make it taul£ two other young men AVIIO Avere demanded sharply: "Who areycu, grand nor superior. promptly replied. sufferers of this disease? We knoAV passing rushed into the church arid sir, and what doyou mean by causing "Society!" shouted Leander. "What Yet, again, it is all harmless. An positively that in these cases bacilli For an hour this struggle continued, climbed to the belfry. In the struggle such a disturbance?" are present in the mucus Avhich is do we know about society?" old Directory tells the secret, and, as when the power that Avas holding RaAvson was badly bitten. The Leander, for the stranger was Sophronia's physicians say it Avill be many weeks raised after coughing. In its moist Scully Aveakened and the unfortunate "Now, Leander, its ridiculous for husband, swiftly reasoning the fine society itself would say, gives diver Avas pulled to the surface. before the brave girl recovers from her condition it is impossible for it to be that an expose might cause Sophronias's you to speak in that strain. You this pretty grandeur away. The Directory Willing hands soon carried him inside injuries. inhaled, but AA'hen it dries and becomes expulsion from the seminary, is a ruthless herald's office. know that none of these rich New the crib-house, and the headgear was dust it is blown about, and it faltered: You start from my Lady Disdain in Yorkers, and I believe there are hastily removed. To the great joy of INSINCERITY OF POLITICS. "I am very sorry, sir. I didn't mean is in this form that it becomes dangerous.—North the opera-box, flashing with diamonds the rescuers it was found that Scully four hundred of them, knew any more what I said. I am—" American RevieAv. was alive. He did not fimsh the sentence. Instead and shining with cloth of gold, a little about society than we do." A Reminiscence of Seward and "There are no bones broken, John," he fled from the room precipitously. Senator Foote, of Mississippi. "But they had some education, too loud in voice, a little too splendid A Smelling Contest. said Dr. Montgomery, "and you must hadn't they"'" E\Collector "Tom" Murphy, onee in her dress, the amiable dupe of novels One oi the new games is the smelling haA'e the nerve of the deAnl himself. "Ye& but can't we get education as and ignorance, and you soon arrive, a familiar figure in Washington, is contest. From eight to a dozen different Your pulse is almost normal CHAPTER IV. well as they bottles, filled with odoriferous in the inexorable Directory of Scully grinned and declared he was here for his first visit to the capital in "How do you propose to get it 9 On the following day Sophronia all right "My back is a bit, lame." liquids, are prepared by a druggist other years, at the source of this magnificence—the 1 propose to go to one of tnose seminaries was mis&ed from her seat at table. eight years. Talking to a reporter he he added, "and no wonder. I've and then numbered. Then each person She was suffering from mental prosperous butcN?r and •p'rew reminiscent aiad said- been in that port-hole an hour or A\ho enters the contest is given a "{Jo to a seminary," shouted her rather than from physical distress. baker and candlestick-maker, the tailor more and these sixteen men have My first visit to Washington was card Avith corresponding numbeis husband "Why, you're too old'" Until now she had never experienced of his day. the fashionable shoemaker. when Seward Avas Senator from NewYork, been pulling on the Jine about my printed thereon. The "contestant Too old, Leander' Why, I'm not the pangs ot jealousy. At the same Avaist every blessed moment. I'll be and that was about the time takes a whiff at each bottle and writes *2li, and you told me this morning I time the horriole biispicion possessed all right in an hour or so though. It lie made his 'higher law' speech that These are the idle rich for whom Mr. didn't look more that 18." doAvn the name of the contents. The her that Leander was a bigamist. attracted the attention of the AA'hole takes more than a little thing like Gladstone asks whether Nature has Southwick, of course, saw the abfiiudity one naming the most of them correctly "Oh, what a fool I was," she sobbed. this to knock me out country. While a young man I Avas provided a place. Plainly she has. of his, wife's position, but, re•ali/mg sets the prize. There is said to be an very intimate Avith Seward and his "Nearly all the time I was beloAv," Here it is in this opera-box, in yonder it was useless to try to dissuade "Now I know why he didn't want immense amount of fun connected family. I lived in Albany Avhen he Avas continued Scully, "that is after the carriage, in this little palace of the her, relaxed his efforts and me to come here. 1 shall tell that with the game, as it is more difficult ice gave way, 1 was standing on my Governoi, aAvay back in the'30's. My bonbon architecture. But day after linalK acquiesced her decision. Miss Walcott just what I think of than one imagines to correctly name lirst visit to the Senate Avas lor the day the good people in the gallery will head. The force exerted by the sixteen her. even well-known liquids of strongodor purpose of hearing him speak. He come down and sit in the boxes. The men Avas exactly equal to that of CHAPTER H. Sophronia finally concluded, however, by the sense of sme'l, as after trying gods will descend, and they will the rushing current. Talk about made a great speech. He Avas replied "By Jove' She's a dandy'" Doyou to take her departure from the to, as I telt, in the most bitter and three or four bottles confusion generally drive home to the bonbon palace instead "tugs-of-war.' There never A\'as one suppose Bert'll have the iirst dance seminarj- without creating a scene. of walking home to the modest like this. All this time I kept my insulting language by Senator Foote, follows.—Philadelphia Record. with her at the next reception?" She went directly to the railway flat as they do now. It is grandeur of senses. Once or tAvice thought they ot Mississippi, and the language that "J don't know about that. I think station. he Light of O a wealth, and, happily, of a wealth he used Avas so offensive, in my had abandoned the air pumps and. 3f you wanted to you could cut Bert While she was purchasing a ticket which is not entailed, and is therefore then my head seemed as though it judgment, that I could hardly restrain The day when man first discovered howto Fan-banks out." she felt a hand upon her shoulder, supply himself with artilicial light inu-.t always flying away, always distributed, myself from jumping from the Avould burst. But soon would Arery The speakers were two seniors of and, turning, beheld Leander. be far back, but many generations and giving us a fresh sense of nobility gallery and choking him. I dined at come a he re us Stanford Seminary at Ephesus, N. H. went by before he had anything better than "You here'" every year, tasting, as it were fluid and my lungs AA'ould till and I Senator Seward's house that evening, torches for out-door use, and for m-door 4-itantord is a boarding-school for both His consternation was no less than of the soil.—Harper's Magazine and to nfcy utter amazement the Avould say to myself. 'God bless con\*eniences a wick floating loosely in seveb, and takes high rank among coeducational hers, and he also said. vessel of oil. Gas as an illuininant is not pentleman sitting next to me was Sen those fellows.' The time dragged on institutions "Youbere"' old, the electric light is the invention of and there I lay, my feet toAvard heaAren ator Foote. When the ladies retired CARLYLE AND THE BRIDE But strange as it may appear, its "Oh, how could you, Leander?" yesterday, Avhile there are thousand*, of Irom the table I lei my seat and Avent and my head pointing to the bottom people not yet three score and ten, whose moie than local renown is derived Evidently she was prepared lor a ot the lake. I struggled AA'ith my around to Seward and said'Senator, youthful lessons were learned by the feeble from its sheet-and-pillowcase parties. confession from her spouse. She Was a Giddy Young Thing, an gleam of a tallow candle. In the country leet to push myself out of that awful At these parties the young ladies Imagine her astonishment, therefore, He Bored Her Horribly. I heard that man sitting household*-, the manufacturer of a weekly current, but I couldn't. If I could are masked, their tonus are draped next to me at your table, abuse you when instead of making a confession or monthly supply of candles came as regularly On our journey toward Shgo an ac* only have had the use of my hands! with bheets arranged in Greek fashion as wa«h d:v\ The sohlieis of the he began to load her with reproaches. in such a gross manner that 1 was indignant. "Well, after what seemed to me at cident occurred so unexpectedly and late war remember "star" candles A-erv well, and their heads are enveloped in pillowcases? I can't understand it.' but doubtless few can tell whence the least a Aveek, that line all the time characteristic that it deserves to be "I now see, he said, "why you were "Senator Seward laughed heartily name. The discoA-eier of a proce-.t cutting into my waist, I felt that the hat makes the parties especially so crazy to go to boarding school. I and called out'Foote, to separate glycerine and fatty matte: mentioned We were inside passengers power of the current was decreasing, enjoj able is that they are not previously from stearic acid in the making of candle* never dreamed that my wife was a I Avant this young man to by a mail coach, and before it and a feAv minutes later there was a was the Frenchman DeMille, Avhose factory announced. For not until the natural-born flirt. Think how I must go around and tell you Avhat he has momentary let up on the life-line. I at Pans Avas located at the "Barnere started a 3*oung bride and bridegroom sheeted forms, like a troop of ghosts, have felt hearing those seminary cubs just told me.' de 1'Etoile— "barrier (or gate) of the star," Avaited a few minutes to gather all my file into the concert hall are the young talking about and disputing over my on their honeymoon joined us. The "Senator Foote also laughed hearti and lrom this encumstance his manufactures strength, and then, xvith one great effort men aware that the monthly reception wile, Miss Southwick." iy and said to me: were known as "star candle-. The bride was charming, and Carlyle courteously I succeeded in pushing myself has been varied. (lavs of such illuminators are gone, and the "Oh, Leander, I am not to blame. 'Young man, I Avant to give you a talked to her about sightseeing clear of the current. Then the boys luxurious cais ot oui modem railroads are The piesence of a "new girl" adds a 1 didn't mean—" lesson in politics. Seward lives in lighted by gas or electrieitv. To many began pulling harder than ever and I)it ol sensation to a Stanford reception and the pleasures of traveling, "Oh, that's a, pretty way to get out New York, and Avhen he makes a eye-, however, the electric glare is unpleasant, pretty soon I Avas on top again."— It was a "new girl" of whom of it' You pretended you wasn't speech in opposition to sla\ery and but all are satisfied with the soit et mounting at times to higher themes, Chicago Herald. the two seniors were speaking. brilliant illumination of "The Burlington's" married." leply to him and denounce him, that like a man who never had a care. He Ae-tibuled tiain by the Frost l)ry She was tall and slender, of graceful "For pity's sake talk grammar, if helps me at home, and Seward telh Carburetor System For" tickets o\er this got out of the coach for a moment at TAUGHT HIS DOG TO STEAL figiue and ot fair complexion. Her you can't sense," said Sophronia, resentfully, me it doesn't hurt him a bit.' "—New popular line, or any information, call on blue ej es sparkled under long lashes a roadside station, and the bride, at the same time drying her A Philadelphia Youth and His Intelligent York Sun. local,ticket agents, orwriteto Kenjou, .and a perfect Roman nose gave her Gen. Pa-s. Agent, St Paul. Minn. eyea and glaring at him contemptuously. •"Pal,"' whom I happened to have known at an air of superior intelligence. Not Arrived Yet. Belfast, from where she came, immediately There are many unauthenticated Her mouth was shapely, if not "Never mind the grammar. HOAV It sometimes seems that although exclaimed: "Who is that twaddling instances of animal intelligence and small, and was capable ot the sweetest about them fellows?" old Scotchman who allows no depra\"ity. The following story is the "diyinity that doth hedge a king" smile, although its general expression "Never mind those fellows. How one to utter a word but himself?" from the Philadelphia Record, and is is now an unknoAvn quantity, some wab one oi mischief about your other Avite?" I was so tickled, writes Sir Gavan as near authentic as such a story Such wa^ the Sophronia Southwick royal personages might be recognized ^hen Baby was cict, we gave her Castoria, "My other wile'" Duffy in the Contemporary Review, by well can be. of Stanford—a decided improvement by their common .-sense. "Yes, your other wife. Miss Walcott, When she was a Child, clio cried for Castoria, this illustration of the folly of scattering "Magistrate Hackett recently held on the Sophronia Southwick of rural as she calls herself When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, pearls in unsuitable places that I The Princess Marie, wife of the Danish Charles Blaney, Port Richmond, in I\oi tin op. "Miss Walcott! Who in the deuce burst into a guffaw of laughter, which When she bad Children, she -ave them Castoria, $500 bail for a further hearing on the Prince Yaidemar was journeying By an inadvertance on the part of is "Miss Walcott?" was not easily extinguished. In the charge of being the owner of a,dog the becretary, coupled with Sophronia/s through Helsingor one day, on an excursion "I know and you know who she is," evening Carlyle asked me what I had which he has taught to steal. The love ot mystery, she had been to Sweden. The stationmaster replied Sophronia, "but lor pity's been laughing at so boisterously. I other day while some boj-g were registered as Miss instead of Mrs. sake don't make so much noise. The heard of her coming, and not only told him, expecting him to be as much Southwick. skating on a pond near the Aramingo whole town will hear us, and I want amused as I Avas. But philosophers, decorated theAvaiting-room Avith lilies, Canal, Blaney came along in a Hard work is a cure for almost every human to get out of this place and never set I suppose, don't like to be laughed at but set a AA-atch at the door, to prevent wagon, stopped in the middle of the ill excepting the evil of having to my toot in it again." Leander Southwick was not an by young brides, for he Avas as much bridge and liberated a laige black tne public from intruding on the work hard. .adept at killing time: therefore after "You don't want to get out of it disconcerned by theincident as a beau dog. The dog dashed doAvn among royal privacy. Sophroma'y departure, he had sufficient any more than I do. Here's the train of four-and-twenty. The absurdity the children and seized a bag containing The Throat. "Brown's Bronchial At the expected time the princess time on his hands to furnish him now," he added, as the shrill whistle of her judgment he refused to see, and. Troches" act directly on the organ*- of the a pair of rubber shoes belonging and her sister appeared, unattended, tt'n a xvoblem more perplexing than of the locomotive was heard in the Avas disposed to insist that she Avas voice. They have an extraordinary effect to Jerry Kelly and started toward each carrying a small hind basket he distribution ot his suddenly acquired distance. in all disorders of the throat. merely a. charming embodiment of the his master. Officer Holland saw the These surely could not be princesses' wealtli. Letters from Ephesus When the train stopped Leander vox populi, for undoubtedly he Avas trouble and arrested Blaney." The brusque Avatchman blocked the somewhat broke the monotony of his A dollar on the AATOIIJ tide makes many took a seat in the smoker, and Sophronia an old Scotchman, and probably doorway. a man hop over. life. entered the rear car. A Plant Growing From a Caterpillar. twaddled a good deal to no purpose. Thus they proceeded on their way One especially delighted him. He The curious fungus which is sametimes tore it open and. read with avidity. toward Northrop. taken from an insect is a fungus THE OLD WOMAN REMEDY. It was a breezy epistle, and in it They had not made many miles that roots itselt in a caterpillar and when Sophronia gladly would have Sophronia disclosed in gushing lancuage groAvs from it, feeding on the body of THE NATIONAL BOAR O HEALTH It Was Effective, but It Didn't Have the secret of the sheet and pillowcase ]oined her husband, but to go in to the insect. Of course in time the infect Much to Do. diversion. the smoker was, of course, out of the dies, and the fundus then perishes question. "It's going to be awfully jolly," she "In reading the neAA-spapers," said a as soon as it has exhausted the nutriment wrote. "Not a soul will know us. It was with a feeling akin to joy, WASHINGTON, D. C. man, speaking to an acquaintance, in the body of the caterpillai. therefore, that she beheld,him return That mole on my right hand, by which The plant is of the same nature of a "we sometimes come across a simple you could always tell me Avhen we to her side. mushroom, and Avhen it matures remedy that Ave find to be of great In Bulletin—Supplement No. 6, page 33, places went to the masquerades, hasn't been Yet she did not greet him with any it produces pores by Avhich noticed here, I think. How I wish protestations of affection, for the benefit. The old woman remedy admits new plants are propagated in the you could be here."' spirit of Miss Walcott was still hovering of no explanation, and doctors Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder same way, attaching themselves to near. hoot at it, but it is sometimes found any insect that comes in contact Avith CHAPTER III. "I don't see how any one could be them in the soil. Those curious plants to be of great efficacy. "Have you asked her yet?" as mean as you have been," was her are used as mediome by the natives of greeting. "I'll give you an instance: About "No I thought I'd better Avait till HIGHEST OF ALL some parts of Asia, Avhere they Avere ehe came up." "What ails you?" he asked. "Have three Aveeks ago I saw a paragraph found quite abundantly. The plant, stating that a handful of cold Avater you got another fit of Miss—what's "But suppose Fairbanks has asked IN when dug out of the ground, has the her name?" applied to the back ot the head every her?" exhausted and dried body of the insect LEAVENING STRENGTH. "Miss Walcott—you know her name. morning will preveut toothache. Of "Oh, I don't believe he's got the attached to it in the manner of l-l course 1 couldn't see any reason Avhy You needn't pretend you don't." nerve. Besides, Miss Southwick a root, but it is easily distinguished "I ain't pietending anything. it should, but I began to try it. and doebii't care for him, anyway." by its shape. The insect is filled Avith haA'en't had the tootnache since that You've done all the pretending, Miss This dialogue between CarenceWhitney the substance of the fungus, and apjnears Prof. R. C. Kedzie, of the Michigan State Agricultural College, teho time." Southwick." and Chet Tutts took place near as a part of the plant. A varieety "I never said my name was Miss "That is really quite remarkable," the platform of the concert hall in personally superintended the examination, says:—"With the exception of of beetle that is found in North South wich. That was a mistake of the acquaintance replied "But tell Stanford Send nary. America is attacked by the same kind DR. PRICE'S CREAM BAKING POAVDER, which is a cleanly, pure, wholesome the secretary." me, did you haA^e the toothache before About twenty other bov students of fungus others are found in Central compound, conforming with natures own formulas of human diet, "But what about them fellows?" you tried the remedy?" were present, and by and by, as the America, and others in New Zealand. "I don't know anything about "Well, come to think of it, I didn't. orchestra began to "tune up," the we found every sample more or less tainted.*' In the last-mentioned country the fungus them. They had a right to be at the Hump, I thought there was something townspeople Hocked in. is very large and has all the appearance reception. Now, will you be so kind incomplete about it."—Arkansaw When the 8 o'clock bell rang the of a mushroom whichiseaten as to explain who Miss Walcott is, Traveler settees were filled and a great, crowd as food by the natives. Most Perfect Made. No Ammonia. No Alain. ,» &fcg&& ^*i*i^ l.