an’ offer MUSIC AND THE HAIR. TO KEEP HIS WORD. PREACHER’S SWEETHEART. S2OO jist to have me a few I Could Wt Hut Know. Reducing It to a .'ertatnty* hours! That’s reason, ain’t Could we things our it?” j KfTect of Vibrations on the Head Cov- An Oregon Embezzler Kinked His Life to but know the best "Hello, Clippinger! 1 haven’t rcen friends say, Suddenly a thought seemed to strike ering. Surrender to Justice. you for a long time. IIow—” A light shone from the. open door of When we’re away. him, and he brought one hard fist dow n In a recent scientific assemblage a dis- we serve targets not quite Iknow you.” the low log structure that answered the “You need not send an officer for me. And how for for attack. “lam sure on t he table with a thump. cussion took place upon the influence of t will come when I am wanted.” We’d not come back. “You’re not? Why, I’m Gluppina, double purpose of church and school- “I’lldo I will! He shall have his Could we but know the things they never it, sleep in skin diseases. One of the gen- Vincent Sutton, postmaster at Ore- that lent you 75 cents about ten years house. The gleam fell upon the yellow- sweetheart, an’ that say. mighty quick.” tlemen who took part stated in his town, was wanted When we’re away. ago.” ish leaves o -*¦ pawpaw tree that stood Tillamook county, It was after midnight when the criticism of the paper which had been About our conscious dignity and "Then 1 am sure I don’t know close to the path that led to the door. for embezzlement by the United States fame. quite preacher returned, and it seemed to the read that one might as well talk of the A plain We’d quit the game. you. Good morning!”—Chicago Trib- Beyond the pawpaw was an irregular liutliorities. tale, truly, and —Chicago Evening News. other that he looked paler and limped influence of music upon the growth of une. mass that moved restlessly in the dark- (inly one which smacks of the vulgar more painfully than usual. the hair. It would seem that the sug- but PAYMENT DEFERRED. ness. Observed closely it would have doinmonplace, mark the difference. No “My friend,” the preacher said, pres- gestion of a possible connection thus la Danner. resolved itself into a number of - This Sutton is a man of simple mind, liesident—Colonel, let me caution ently, “Iam glad to have you so nearly thrown out in a jesting way has been him it horses tied to saplings, and and to seemed ifb harm would be you to no in stepping recovered, for this house can only shel- taken seriously. At least, a corres- drink water while town about noiselessly as they stretched done if he eked out the pittance of his unless it is spring has ter you a few days longer.” pondent of t he Temps has the dis- water or been their heads toward the tempting leaves made office of postmaster by adding the sums thoroughly “\V’y?” asked the invalid; “air ye covery that music of certain kinds does boiled. beyond their reach. paid in for purchase of money orders, Visitor—l drink nothing, sah, but gettin’ tired o’ me?” in reality prevent the hair from falling, going la matter of some $355 when all was has been thoroughly distilled, Divine service was on in the “Certainly not; but the owner of this while that produced by certain instru- wliat and the tones of the min- counted. He would make it good in his Tribune. log building, house has warned me to leave because ments has the most effects sail.—Chicago ister the in disastrous own time, and in truth he thought it no floated out into darkness 1 am unable, to pay the rent, and —” in of bald- causing rapid development ivrong. Hut the United States does not An Explanation. solemn cadence. Often they were in- “What’ll ye do now?” ness. lie finds that while composers are jno business that way, and in due time Miss Prude (while out walking with terrupted by a deep-grunted “A-a-a- “1 do not know. Doubtless I’ll see those who their her sister thinks she is ” as prone .os play com- younger rudely inen 1" or “U-m-na-ah? Yas, Lord! the there came an indictment found by the my way out of it all, but I do not now. positions upon the piano preserve, if treated) —Were you staring at me, sir? manner in which many worshipers ex- (Oregon grand jury. Sutton heard. He 1—” they do not acquire, a luxuriant growth Strange Gentleman —Bless you, no, pressed their approbation the /realized that he had done wrong. He of “Parson, will yer do me a favor—one of hair. On the other hand, wind instru- madam, I was admiring your little preacher’s A fig- {was ready to meet his punishment. Nay, utterances. mounted more on top o’ all you’ve done for me?” ments, and especially the cornet and granddaughter.—N. Y. Weekly. ure cairo close to the shaft of and the was ready to go to meet it at the peril I light “Gladly, if 1 can,” the young preacher trombone, are fatal to hirsute adorn- As he did the Vof his life. Nothing prevented if lie dismounted. so stamping replied. ment. The violoncello and the harp luvited to Call. of the re'Trass horses reached his to {chose to leave the state. None could He—I suppose that sap-headed dude ears. “Take this note the leader of the keep the hair in pretty well, but the Noiselessly ;.\e made his fast mnd him in the fastnesses of his own proposed you a horse to a Protective association—” flute cannot be depended upon to pre- iiss to dozen times. redbud steSU, and crept through the “Amos Huddin?” (trackless mountains, but it came home She —No; once was enough. Come serve a strong growth after the 50th w bushes to where the uneasy equities “That’s him. He’s a partic’lar friend {to him hat he had not realized when and see us when we get settled.—De- year of age. A number of pianists, in- 'he took the that he had done were tied. o’ mine, an’, ’ll be mighty glad to see cited in money, troit Free Press. cluding Paderewski, are con- wrong, lie passed frotrv horse to horse, feel- this an’ and he alone must bear the me. Do right now, it’ll be the firmation of the pronounced influence Mr. Jones—l’ve got a number of notes The supreme Tent. ing swiftly over each, as if in the dark- last I’llask uv burden. thing ye.” of piano music. It has been admitted to meet to-morrow and not a cent to Love’s flame is brightest when, at mom, his hands for Now, this was not a matter of walking ness were doing duty The door opened softly, and half a for some time that music lias a certain meet them with. There’ll be the devil It burns with keen desire eyes downtown to give yourself up to the be the to in revealing the merits or demerits dozen men with weapons in their hands therapeutic worth, and it will be re- to pny. To first leave the bed. of each police or the marshal. Itwas not even And go and build the lire. animal. entered without a word. Not a move- called that in September last Dr. Fer- Mrs. Jones —Well, let him wait.—N. —Chicago a matter of boarding a comfortable Journal. The voice of the preacher came clear ment of the invalid’s face showed that ranti presented a report to the French Y. Journal. railroad coach, to be hauled into Port- Not and strong to the ears of the man he understood the errand that had academy on the physiological influence Plagiarism. among land. Oretown is a lonely camp buried Aocom modating. Spats —Hackley is being accused of the horses. He listened a brought these stern, silent men to the of music, pointing out in what ways it deep in the Oregon wilds, a round 40 The gay fool-killer now may shirk plaigarism in his last book. moment as the voice told him, in sim- cabin. could be employed with therapeutic miles and more from a railroad station, At ease, as wintry slush he views. Socratoots —1 would not say that. He ple words, thesweet truthsof the Bible. "Howdy!” he saluted. “Take cheers, aims. Subsequently Dr. Betzehinsky His victims kindly do the work with raging rivers to lie crossed be- By leaving oft’ their was merely collecting his thoughts.— Somehow the words of the good Book gentlemen.” reported an instance of night terrors in overshoes. seemed to the man in the darkness to be ’’.lack said the leader of tween, and no road on which a horse —Washington Star. Pittsburgh News. Harris,” the a child of three jears, who was cured by addressed directly himself, and vigilantes, “we may travel in this teeming winter sea- to pres- want you!” having played to it each night music of A Case in Point. Diving the Facts. as lie he ain’t me?” asked the son, when the whole countryside is ently, listened, removed his "Wal, you got a calming nature written in a minor Miss Prion (quoting) —Wise men “Scribbs, I have accepted a position slouch hat as if he had othe.r, soaked and sodden like a full sponge, old as reverently quietly. key. A test was made after a fewnights make proverbs, and foois repeat them. in an insurance office.” deep with treacherous, un fat homed been within the sanctuary. “Yes,” muttered the leader, “and vve by omitting the music, and that night Miss Smart (musingly)—Yes; Iwon- “Yes; they told me that you begged Then, the words of invitation and seas of holding mud. Forty-three miles as are a-goin’ to keep ye!” alone the child had an attack. It has der what wise man made the one for it, and were glad to get it.”—Chica- on foot, swimming and swirling, wild you consolation rang out clear and sweet, “Wal, I don’t reckon Iblame ye,” Har- not as vet been determined just what just repeated.—Tit-Bits. go Keeord. unbridled rivers, the man by tlie horses removed his ris answered. “It’s been a long time key is most favorable to the prevention staggering along through clinging mud, unable to lie hand from the neck of a little mare since ye got a chance at me, an’ l don’t of an early bald state. Probably a rea- down sleep in clothes and muttered: “Preacher is a stunner, wonder ye want, to keep me. Did the sonable way of settling the disputed and his drenched A LOVE STORY. lest lie perish of the cold, deprived of shore. Beckoi’ I’ll leave the filly. preacher give ye information?” point would be to make a few experi- fire and light, because the matches he .Might belong to the preacher, an' bein’ “Yes.” ment s on dogs, thus proving a toler- carried soaked; snatched a hungry a preacher, o’ course it’s the only hoss “Has he got the reward yit?” ance for different strains and avoiding were ain’t, the way at the store of he’s got.” “No, of course not. We goin’ to the horripilation to which some pa- bite by little food he had his all sodden and As he returned to his own animal, he do no cash-in-advance business.” tients of refined tastes might be sub- in pockets, There, smeared with mud—this was the task paused again to listen. Presently he was the sound of a struggle at jected. Wind instruments are always that dropped the hand that was untying the the door anil a voice crying: dangerous if the hair has not a good Vincent Sutton set himself because brldie and strode into the bar of light “Let rae in! 1 will go in!” hold, while stiff-haired people can stand justice must be done, and he must bear his life l>e that shone from the open door. “It’s the preacher,” some one said. anything. Possibly a good rule for any his part, though forfeited in the “I'll try it,” he muttered. “Be'n a "Bill’s a-hoUlin’ him outside.” musician would be, as soon as he finds doing. So it that the Joug time seuce I’ve set. in a church.” A pistol gleamed from beneath the his hair falling, that he should cease came simple-minded His slouching entrance was hardly table, and .lack Harris’ hard hand playing for others.—Medical lteeord. man of primitive mold sat dow n and noticed by the congregation of shock- leveled it at the leader’s head. wrote a letter to Marshal Gray, in Port- headed men and sallow-faced women, so “Let him in!” he .said, sternly. DO YOU WANT A BIG GUN? land, that he would come himself to were to the preacher’s The preacher's white face was flushed the nearest railway station on the rail- attentive they If You Do, I'ncle Sam tan Furnish You eyes road, and there utterances. and there were tears in his as he Duo. Sheridan, surrender to the Jack .an officer of the law—no need to send a The preacher was a small, pale-faced limped across room to Harris' Uncle Sam has invited the Soldiers’ man to bring in from his distant man, plainly, almost shabbily dressed, side. Monument associations, the grand him “Oh, friend,” he home. Let the officer come to Sheridan and as he stepped awkwardly back and my cried, “what have army posts and municipal corporations I What by a certain day, and he would be there. forth behind the rude pulpit, the last done? have I done?” of the United States, to have a gun with 1 He his albeit than , kept word, more once comer saw that he was lame. “Delivered my not. Ireekon,” him. “Yes; and sold liberty for it nearly cost him his life. Presently he rose and slouched out, your Uncle Sam is moved to this liberality But God knows lam innocent Sutton has a wife. He kissed her and, mounting his horse, dashed away money! by the fact that he has on hand at the of do He buried good-by and stuffed his pockets with down a bridle path, whither he knew any intent to so.” his Brooklyn navy yard a large quantity the food which she, poor had nor eared. Presently some small ani- face in his hands. of big and small guns anil cannon balls woman, “Mow,” “Hudden, put up for him with loving care, enough mal sprang from the path, and the horse said Ilarris.sternly, for which the naval service has no use. give the parson liis reward. to last him o days, it might be, on t he swerved to one side, and the next mo- W’en the Anybody who wants a gun must write tw in his hand I’ll this to Sheridan. The Three rivers, ment the.re came a blow on the rider's money's drop gun. to the secretary of the navy. way it's up you know safe your triple in sooth, was booming head as if the great liackberry tree While how Most of the guns which Uncle Sam thunderer life is." with sullen, hungry roar, turbid with stretched far above had fallen upon wants to unload are located at the The for its him. Then, as he fellfrom the horse, the vigilantes conferred together Brooklyn navy yard, but there are a swirling mud, carrying on angry a moment. each his breast sweeping logs and jagged roots, animal kicked the unconscious man be- Then produced few in the navy yards at Boston and pocketbook and dropped a of torn from their sockets by search- fore he had touched the earth. sum Portsmouth, X. H. It is ordinarily the the money into the leader’s slouch hat. As ing flood. Five times it had to be An hour after, the pale-faced preach- custom of the government to sell all vv-as the table, Sutton his swim- er, limping along the path, almost the money poured on these things, hut congress took the crossed by on way, Harris laid the beside it. ming or wading, or chancing his lifeon stumbled over the prostrate tigure be- pistol matter in its own hands in this instance he said, “take a log. Once lie was nearly neath the great liackberry. The old “Thar,” me.” and provided that these engines and treacherous quickly smothered in a bottomless pit mud slouch hat had fallen from his head, Then, as handcuffs were munitions of war should be given of snapped tqion his he to dangerous the quiet, and the blood from a long wound across wrists, turned away. Evidently the government wants as as remorseless the “Parson," he said, suck of a that up his forehead had soaked his matted hair. young preacher. badly to get rid of them. quicksand never gives make, you the leetle girl in its dead. It bitter cold, and lie The preacher’s slight form Staggered “that’ll and There are, all told, about GOO guns, was the afoot But there under the task, but by a series of heroic east happy. Good-by.” all of which have outlived their use- must keep Or perish. is iron in this man’s He had eilort.s he managed to convey the uncon- The. young preacher sprang forward. fulness. They are all obsolete weap- blood. his and scious man to the little log hut where “Men,” he cried, "one moment!” ons, and have been condemned by the pledged word, he got there. Then in thrilled hearts of Now, when this tale told lie lived alone. It was many days be- tones that the ordnance office. None of them are light simple was to in Portland fore the sufferer could do more than sit the listeners, he told the story of the weight, and the smallest of the old Judge Bellinger, sitting A maiden, having fallen in love with a snow man, finding that tender wufdn like a helpless child in the old splint- horsethief’s sacrifice. The little group stagers weighs more than G.OOO pounds. as tlie representative of the federal law, failed to warm his frozen heart, begs an old friend, the sun, to assist her. man, troubled in bottomed rocker and watch the preach- shuffled about uneasily when he had Thirty years ago they were considered he, being a was mind, finished. for here was ho had set his life at er as he limped back and forth attend- mighty fine weapons, and their yawn- one w the value of a fee, that law- ing to the wants of his unexpected “Boys,” said the leader, suddenly, ing mouths seem capable of dealing pin the guest. The stranger had been badly “I’m boss o’ this vere association, ain’t enough death and destruction for half a might have its way, and yet justice l>e done hurt. The blow on his head, as he came I?” dozen nations. Inventive progress, how- must and punishment meted as is set down in the books. Neverthe- in. contact, with the low-hanging limb, “Youair.” they answered. ever, has left him far behind. what I goes?” less degrees, and Judge Bellin- bad very nearly fractured his skuil, and “An’ sav They were all of the type that were there are the kick of the horse .had broken sev- “It does, jist that!” used during the civil war. They were ger resolved that this was a case where eral ribs. “An’ horse steal in' means hangin’?” east for use during that conflict, and it would not strain the quality of jus- “It does.” tice it softened with One day there came a letter addressed constitute the remnant of the surplus were mercy. I sentence, the prisoner. he the in a dainty feminine hand, and the “Wal, Jack ordnance that the government found it- Therefore imposed lowest pen- preacher had almost completed his an- Harris, to be hung this day week. In the self in possession of when hostilities alty, which is imprisonment for six I him in the months and a fine the swer when the hour arrived for him to meantime plaec keepin' uv censed. From year to year various equal to sum Meyers, the ieetlest man in the Sutton Fran- start for the little log church. After Shortcy plans have been suggested to make use which appropriated.—San an' if lets es- Examiner. he bad gone,., the invalid saw that the crowd: lie the prisoner of them. They have grown old and cisco unfinished answer lay on cape I’ll fine him $2.50." rusty in and letter and its idleness, now, past all re- Halloou Lifeboat)*. table, and without any Shorty Meyers extracted $2.50 from demption, they can only frown as grim the home-made The big ocean greyhounds will soon, both. his pocket and handed the money to the mementos of the days the scruples he proceeded to read when nation it is thought, 1m equipped with life- leader. was on a war footing. “Frum his sweetheart,” the invalid boats harnessed to balloons, so as “Yere's my fine,” he said. Among this aggregation of to said aloud, as lie finished. “Pore ieetle old-time be practically unsinkable. Cylinders her as “And the. preacher keeps the re- there are 32 gal! I kin almost seem to see 1 thunderers 13-inch mor- tilled with compressed gas will be them she is, back ward?” Jack Harris asked the leader. tars, with 3G mounts. Each of the read lines. "Thar ’way placed in compartments of the lifeboats, her “He does!” chorused the vigilantes. mortars weighs 17,300 pounds, and each east, waitin’ fow the day when and from these the balloon, which will “Wal, anyhow. I’ll get my rent, now, mount weighs 4,000 The lover kin send the money to bring her pounds. best be harnessed with cords to n hollow him. has bc’n I reckon,” said a mop-headed vigilante. use, it is considered, to which can out yere to The time they mast connected with the cylinders, is long already, she says, but. Two weeks later, when the ceremony be put is that of ornament at the mighty base inflated. The mastt, which is iron tub- was over that made the young preacher of a soldiers’ monument she’ll wait for him if it takes half her or at the en- ing. is adjustable, and, when turned for- and the bright-faced eastern girl man trance to a park. In the life. Brave leetle girl! Bids him keep addition to ward, the big balloon acts as a sail, oars is he’ll and wife, the. bride looked fondly into mortars there are 200 of up his courage, for’.she shore 11-ineh guns, proving quite unnecessary. The com- her husband’s eyes as she said: the old muzzle-loading soon git the money, for. everybody's variety, each of bination boat will doubtless prove of in the west, and will “How much these people seem to which weighs 15,800 pounds. There so generous pay the greatest service in saving people far well for his She is certain.” think of you. and how generous they are. besides, more than 60,000 him work. projec- out at sea. In a recent test it was show n are toward you! Have, they been so ever tiles, old-time cannon The. invalid paused,, and shook one balls. —Boston that, even with the boat tilled with an imaginary auditor. since you came out here?" Globe. hard fist at water to the gunw ales, the liftingpower w’en “No; the change took place only a “Yas. hang ye! Pay him well Idea* About Finger balloon prevented the craft few weeks ago." Nsillh. of the from yer souls git bigger. If you was white, The Japanese have some curious either sinking or upsetting.—Cincinnati “And who were those stern, rough- ideas you’d pay more money tin’ do less about their finger nails. One of them Enquirer. Look he looking men who shouted so when the gruntin’ in church. at it!” is to the effect that they must not be on, with “Yore’s ceremony was done.?” The Triton*)* went rising wrath. cut before starting on a journey lest Power. the “They are the vigikintes." The triton, a man an’ a Christian a-workin’ life disgrace befall the person before a spotted, lizard-like rep- “As I entered the state,” t.he he outen his crippled body to save yer young reaches his destination. Neither should tile found in almost every state in the in him wife said, presently, “just such a union, has a Wonderful souls, an’ return ye give jest rough- they he cut off at night lest cat’s claws most power of starvin'. looking man asked nivname, and when enough to keep him from plum should grow out. To throw nail par- reproducing amputated parts. Bonnot, I told him he ‘Tell the All the whole kit of ye air good for is said: parson ye ings into the fire is to invite some the great French naturalist, experi- Harris, great to raise horses for trie to run off with.” saw Jack an’ tell him I hope calamity. If, while trimming the nails, mented on the little creatures by am- the imag- he'll be happy.’ he disappeared." their legs and tails, TCopr right. 18V7. by Mitchell Miller.] Again he shook his fist at Then a piece should fall into the fire the putating ami by so “Heroic Jack!” the young wife ex- found that their powers a inary auditor. person will soon die. —N. Y. Herald. doing of re- Moral: Never call in third person in a love affair. “That’s for ye! Look at it! Yere, claimed. when the minister had told her production were almost unlimited. In fer workin’ himself to ..death for yer the story.—Petaluma Courier. Weighing Lire Fifth. one instance an amputated leg was re- Maud's Ciowns. Of Sufficient Strength. Isolds, ve jmy him so lootiethat the time A visitor at the aquarium who had produced 12 times in three years, and in While Maud Is a schoolgirl, as you see, Landlady—Shall 1 pass the cheese? when he cap. bring. lijs lee,fje waitin' —Jena, A'apoleon wondered how they managed to get the another an eye was gouged out and re- where defeated the Short at the bottom her frocks must be; Boarder —No, leave it alone. It will sweetheart West seems years Yes, Prussians, is a town of weight of a live fish accurately learned produced in less than 12 months. The When she is a debutante, they drop— off! Saxe-Weimar- walk over here in a minute. —N. Y. an* yere. -I .ami a-dbtjy’'ye no '§ood, an’ Kisenaoh, on a small stream called that that was really a very simple loas of a tail does not appear to discom- Long ut the bottom and short at the top. the —Chicago Record. Journal. stentin' every one -fl’ yer horses Ikin Kaalo, and 12miles southeast of Weimar. thing to do. The fish is put into a pail mode a triton, except to give him a sort git my hands on. J)i my ?ase, ye On the same day thnt Napoleon wen hi* of water which is weighed with the of unbalanced gait. Tails clipped from Hud Use for One. I.caving Conveniences. Soaker —What of a do •club together an’ offer a reward tiv victory nt Jena, Davoust defeated an- fish in it. Then the fish is taken out specimens, Bonnot kept to experiment kind woman '‘Mrs. Dig by’* death wum lamentable you think I ought to / it?** t|2oo jist to git me. Give him starva- other Prussian army at Anerstadt, a vil- and the nail and water are weighed oi were invariably reproduced in from marry wasn’t tion wages an’ have him all the time. lage in Thuringia. without it.—Chicago Keeord. the to nine weeks.—Albany Argun. loker —A auuke charmer.—N. V. "Yes; they have just had a new fur Journal. nace put in."—Chicago Record.