everything for himself. If Cupid had A SIMPLE CIPHER USED FEMINISE FANCTRS possessed a rusty antiguated arrow, he might havé sent it in the direction of IN HIGH FINANCE sunapely hauds are np"l"rity among@ ‘Dexter's but arrows are % * shop; Cupid’'s the women of India, always new and brightly polished, and How Near!y of the students at such articles would have been a Wall Street Man Commu- gge-tufty s®ining Swiss nniversities nicated From With His are women, completely wasted upon this dealer in Chicage Wives of Slamese noblemen cut their Partner in York. oddg and ends. One arrow, indeed, Lhad New hair so that it sticks straight up from TO BUTTONS, found its way to Thomas Dexter's AR their heads. but that When Wall Street first caught the heart, was mwany years ago, Even in the meatter of buttons the Mrs. Ingeborg Nolson, mother of for combinations” and he now fast growing to be an fever *uindustrial was designers have been busy, United States Senator Knute Nelson, old without soul in the world and began the reorganization ot every- man, a Bince little trimming is allowable of Minnesota is over ninety-nine years so in to love or take of him. As for thing sight, one of the volaries of of care an on these sults, particular attention is age. finance found himself in occasional kigg from or upon a pair of high Chicee® Miss of devoted to that little., And the co- Edith Plelps, Columbia, Mo, In extreme need of fresh young lips, he had forgotten the communicating who has been elected as librarian Guettish wornan spares no pa'us in this by, with his New York office, A HICHLY COLORED ROMANCE. taste of such a thing-assuming, of the Carnegie Library Board of Oklas way. 7 well-read He had almost Bo he, it made him blue homa, is the of Governe course, that he ever had enjoved it, completed an arrange- granddaughter Antique sllver buttons of various de To know she thought him green, and yes ment for the consolidation of several or John 8 Phelps. of Missouri, Kissing, indeed! What time did any He her hand, and now the two signs are calculated 1o add greatly sought CHAPTER 1. frame of mind, he took the Western but in order to Misx composed person suppose Thomas Dexter had for enterprises, Their secret keep in-viclate, Frances Benjawin Jolnston, of 1o the elegance of suits in any of the shop down stairg, which bappened to get the final authority he needed from ; Philadelphia Post. Washington, D. €., has lately been noe How Thomas Dexter Made His Money, kissing! shades. Some of these buttons gray tified the French Government be let, and set up as his own master, New York, be must explain ail be bad by that hers boast queer, antique-looking pendants, DIFFERENT. decoration Palmes OIIOK. :"-.', age was fifty-seven; He auctions and bought done wire his the Academiques attended CHAPTER 11. by to partners, His Such buttons serve well % X seven and a bhalf. equally on a in New has been conierred on her by that odds and ends, Nothing in the regular There was no time to write, He had Pittsbhurg Boy (visiting York) Q Thomag coat of of Governmwent, name was Dexter; 2 homas Dexter's Romance, gray squirrel or on one a the blere is ¥ way at regular prices, no cipher code, For a long time he ~“Why, mamma, snow hers Little Makeßelieve, coarse mixture, 1 X knew worth The reference to the arrow gray white!"-Life. While women are invading nearly, He a trick two of that. slight tried to think out some way to send S of ERAIOK He was & crooked, ugly, With the present vogue copper It all of the empioyinents heretofore bes He had a craze for the antique, Any- which many years ago Lad found its the Information that it would be is that this so to williners, botl: here pock-marked little man; she a crooked, not astouishing glowing SEEMS REASONARLE, longing men, thing in that line—chipped and cracked way to Thowmwas Dexter's heart fur. to Lis apd méaningless plain partuers and abroad. a little IHe was metal shovld bave been utilized for report growing difficulty, ugly, pock-marked girl, how and nishes material for detail-which shall doesn’t the Czar man- china, never wind chipped to any one else, Hisg secret was a Nordy—"Why in to devote tLieae she, buttons, With some shades it Is ex- anding girls willing A general dealer; g 0 was be brief as woman's love, better?” cracked; rickety old furniture, never valuable one, and once sent over the age his affairs selves to the art of making hats, situated iu the heart of quisite, A Jarge plain button that His shop was Yes, Thomas Dexter had had bhis Butts—"For lack of mind how rickety; wiscellaneous Jots, ro- wire might be sold out to hLis rivals Witte, I s'pose.” Queen Elena of Italy 15 sald to bes Clare Market, which some people with looks to have bLeen simply hammered the more miscellancous the better—- mance, In Wall Street for a large sum, lleve in the Montenegrin fashion is More superstition fastidious notions call Lincoln's lon The thine in antique stuuning. AND SO—--7 these were Lis hobby., And some Kkind scene was Clare Market, the At last he decided to take the that it is unlucky for a child to sleep Fields, beautiful, though no more effective, twelve He roomn of good luck or good judgent, or both years ago. was treating thances in plain English. Accordingly She—*lf you attempt to kiss me, 1 in a into which any light penee in- are smoothly-finished copper battons, The persons thus fastidiously himself to gtroll the trates, and light proof shutters arg combined, stood always at his elbow, a cheap through he wrote the wessage and gave it to shall certainly seream for help.” inlald with silver in dell elined and who thus, metaphorically, exquisitely the order in the nur-ery [ Rowme, invisibly guarding his interests, busy thoroughtares when, stopping for Lis assistant to send, He—"But I don't need any help.”— Market, cate designs, turn up their noses at Clare his Sophonigba Beuini, peasant girl These ugly, crooked, pock-marked a moment at a vegetable' stall, Half an hour later, when the as- [Life, a are dwellers therein, and being gen- who has been discovered in the jtale little wen generally prosper, especially eyes suddenly et the ey s of Polly gistant came back, he asked bim if he to wish the jan village of Copparo, near Ferrara, teelly iuclined to disguise if they live bread and salt butter, Cleaver, WELLELEPT bad IN SOCIETY. on or ORCHARDS, sent it, stands in this other although ouly thirteen years, fact, resembling respect bread with She no stranger to him, being a *“Not and no butter, an ocea- was Just that way,” said the clerk. “Which is your favorite opera?”’ five feet high welighs than in the social who Orchards that well and more 210 persons higher scale of native of the He have are kept I glonal herring ,and an ample supply locality. must rewrote it, the first word on a “Why-—er—l forget the name; but it's pounds= and is fifty-eizit inches around call it thrifty wuch more liable to bear regide in Bayswater and Hyde with inter- her thousands of and he are potatoes, perhaps, at long scen times, Postal blank, the second on a Western that one which lets you out the quick- the chest, of than those that Park, to the confusion the gimple seleet- had her are neglected and vals, a Jittle bit of meat, wisely never given a thought, cer- 'nion, and so on. 1 =ent Lalf by each est.”"—Judge. Princess Christion and Pricess Vies minded cabmen such and starved ground too to insure (If any exist) the it entered his mind on poor ed, and bought on political economy tainly never to pay rompany, and neither half meant any- toria of Schleswig-Holstein, who vise unsuspicious friends frowm the country. a healthy growth. Trees that were principle. her the slightest attention, thing. Then I sent a second message DOUBTFUL THINGS UNCERTAIN. ited Rhodesia in September last year, Thomas Dexter gave himself no such Leavily laden last year, and exhausted And what finer in all the wide But bis time had now arrived—and line, ‘Read both were the tirst members of the royal spot by one saying, mes- Is so doubtful Clare Market much of their vitality in to “Nothing as uncer- pirs, was good enongh world for is there the A trying family to view the famous falls ¢f the living economically woman, magnetic spark flashed spages together, alternating words.'"” tainty,” remarked Hojack, oracularly. for him, and hig ambition, in a residen- mature an overload, are not so apt to Zambesi River pawmed by Dr, Liviogs than Clare Market, where the from Polly’'s eyes into his. Thomas The scheme was too for the cheap- simple “Except a dead-sure thing,” added tal did not extend beyond It, bear as those which had a season of stoue after tioe late aueon, way, on the Dexter's heart and ening procegs goes unceasingly was lost, FPolly high financier to have evolved, but it Tomdik.—Life, Thirty-three years had passed over comparative rest last year, whole year through, from early in the Cleaver was the winner, worked perfectly.—Brooklyn Eagle. are by Wholesale. head since, with his own hands, he But these only general proposi- Cooking till late in the night, when the Love is blind; but to be blind s not worning CREDIT. of turtles used to make thy Inted on Lis windows the tions, and rmust be taken as such, A ton was shop and tar in the to be foolish, grease lamps are flaring necessarlly WISE WORDS, for the recent Lord bane General there There are so many contradietory facts “Say,” queried the prospecrlve cus- soup Mayor's ords, “Dexter, Dealer,” Mortals of wind? deprived sight are, as a in London, England. v “Thomax."” in fruit that state- tomer, “is my credit good for a shave?” juet t being room for production positive Virtue Little Mage could bave told rule, shrewd enough, Some are cun- is the secret of vigor, Time and dust had eaten into this Believe ments are of doubtful safety, “Naw,” replied the barber; “if you ( ning; few thor- something about that, some are cruel; are Giving is love's way of living, obliterated in doe you It i 8 safe, however, to the san't raise a dime, keep on raisin’ whik- pign and quite it, as oughly simple. keep or- J. Q Justice ot the Peace, Crotby, She was intimately acquainted with No deed of love is small, News. Hood, pourse would eat into Thomas chard in good condition, with plenty ever Lkers.” —Chicago Daily Miss., makes the statement ‘] they Love is following : nll the and tortuons an exception, however, bheing Dexter and obliterate him, entanglements of piant food in casy reach, and by “Joy cometh in the can certify that One Minute Cough Cure quite foalish well blind. morning’—not windings of Clare Market, and, young frequently as as LIKELY. will that wife A When-the letters of the e mulching conserve the necessary after the night of dissipation, VERY do all is claimed forit. My painted Of course it Saturday If a 8 she wag, had grown in the habit of was night, could not her breath and the first dose his shop windows were fresh moisture to the plant food avail- “Dead men tell no tales” get gend on in wished scek tnuke When you see a man with a big sign lingering by the slde of pale-faced any prince disguise to of it relieved her. It has also benefited and Thomas Dexter, also fresh able. Where these conditions are pres. “Who originated that expression?” bright for adventure in London street, lot him of a =aint, don’t trust him with a cent. whole It who gtood before the butcher's my family.” acts immediately commenced business with wormen ent the prospect for a good crop of “I dunno. some fellow who and bright, enter- Probably and cures colds, board to coax the man in the select Saturday night for the Your force depends on the fervor of coughs, croup, grippe, on striving fruit s was historical novels,” pxactly £l4 in gold, which he found, good very favorable. And the sick of bronchitie, aethma and all throat and faith rather than the fervor 'ung blue flannel apron to take a halfpenny prise, Your on the evening of his father's funeral, tied progpect for good prices are equally troubles. T. R. Parker, Cen. Then come out the toilers and moil- of your feelings, Olneyville, a pound lers, or at least to cut off a GOOD IDEA. bp in an old in a bard Jump fuvorable, provided means be found to terdale Pharmacy, Centerdale. nightcap, the the little of the fat with which ers, pleasure-seekers, paine The religion that makes you feel to the tassel, superfluoas market them In such a way as to meet “They sdyv Miss Highstepper {8 going Elose the meat was fringed—efforts which reapers, like fighting your brother never came ¥ He had home gad of face and the demand without a giut, to officer.” come Girls who have work all the marry an army were successful, been at from your Father, from the churchyard in whick very rarely “Well, I should think that a man who When Little Make-Believe witnessed week flit abont like butterflies, and en- ?heartg old friend and relative lay buried, When a man’s heart is in Heaven it makesg a business of war might be able Joy bligsful their THAT TREE AGENT the conclusion of seveh a bargain she moments, meeting does He was not given to sentiment, but not suffer from palpitation every to along with her.”—Detroit Free and get would to convenient window- lovers, helping to fill the theatres It will be weeks before he and his father had been comrades run some not many time it sees the collection coming, Press, and music halls, sill, where with am imaginary Kknife you will no doubt recelve your annuul many a long year, and It was nat- The extent of your friendships de- for The streets and publiec honzes are she would cut away ail the Imaginary visit from the tree agent, Now a good INDEED! ural that he should feel meluncholy in pends not on the peonle who love you DIFFICULT, fat from of thronged; the sky is lurid with the re reliable is his loneliness, an imaginary piece meat, tree ageut really a blessing but the number of pecple old Friend—*ls diffi- flection of myriad on you can your part very and band it to an imaginary poor wom- gas Jets, to the neighborhood and he should be There was another reason for sad- love, cult to play?” with of ftrader From the garrets and the cellars welcome he had his last ghil- an, sayving, the air a a gnest: but the unreliable heartedness; gpent The wickedest in this world Barostormer- “Well, rather! I'm live. creep strange figures into the light-—-the . thing his funeral, who is doing a splendid stroke of busi- and untruthfo! ageet shonld be a ling on father's the the rich ing on one meal a day and playing the old, the the Js sect that winks at HESSS decrepit, solitary drinker, of the Of course “Pom,” his father had said to him In guest county jail, role of the ‘'with one aund glares the a man with gout!"—Detroit the stranger among millions, the man each eye on poor hig “there’'s “There! Will that suit at tup one is enabled to give you the dying moments, something yer the other, F'ree Prest. whom nobody knows, the child whom preatest bargains that have be- '\\‘ith weighing on my mind.” pence a pound? Never mind the money ever the wretch in the Some think tne road to 00 YGU INTERD TO BUILD? nobody owns, hiding, fore been offered and, according to people hap- “Out with it, father,” said Thomas Pay me when yer like!” s a switeh-back where VELY SIMPLE undiscovered murderer, It is the holis his talk, will piness they If Dexter, “IfIt']] eade yer.” At the end of thirty-the 2 years you own save you enough so, let me give you figures, bour of the necd the descont into sin the day week,. mouney to make for to give The Ingenuous One—“l wonder how [ “l was born in this here neighbor- might bave multiplied by fourteen the you independent can perhaps SAVE YOU MONEY, alone, ler for the rise into glory, Polly Cleaver was not life, Let sach a man alone, When impetus Tsable plumes, Immd. Perthaps a better idea of the out Mr. Peach's address and forwarded Burgess St., that met William's emblems your eyes, phone the foliowing day. other day about Emperor of trumphant woe, which L parts used in budding may be obtained the dollar in order to restore the orig- Telephone, 608. PROVIDENCE, R. L A man of imagination might have This, to the roadhouse bunting expeditions. 1 suppose Ger- nodded at him in approval of his duti- according the cut than from a inal sum of ten cents with interest, the outlines of Dexter's |from deseription, where have his wish, conjured up old keeper, has been a favorite pastime man's the only place they ful regard to father's last CFigure 1 shows the short stick of buds, Mr. Peach has no idea who the per- ghost standing on his head in his night- since he took hald of the vild boars.” In the evening he looked over the old ever place, Figure § the bud after it is cut from i that sent the letter and money.— reversal of laws of | gon cap in the nature, of to Miss Patience Gonne (yawning—-"0Ob, man’s clothes 1o decide which to keep and he gave a good deal thought stick Migure 2 the slit in the stodk New Haven Palladinm. with his sticking "tho know, Haven't been ’ for which legs upward through meeting the difticuities. Fivally he 1 don't you ever personal wear and to dis- be budded, Figure 4 the appearance U. 8. and the roof. (to Foreign. evolved a when The Lobster's Advantage. «0 mad as to be positively wild, Mr. i pose of for a new start In life, Under scheme, Nowadays, o the stock after the bud has been in- Into thig nightecap Thomas Dexter for inquisitive people seek to Jearn, by I'he lobster bas been endowed by na- Staylate?™ —Philadeiphia Press, JUSEPN the mattress was his father's nighteap, erted,' and Figure b its appearance A, MILLER & ture with which far to ¢O,, moved the many years had been in the habit of looking at registry numbers, who is two gifts go which, ax he bed, fell v@ab a e fter the bud bas been tied in place. offset evile his lot. Oune A Remarkable Fawmily. thud it throwing an odd piece of gold or silver in the hotel, they find the number the attending and upon the floor. Picking up i« the best material to use in Bolicitors is the often and Thie afternocon of mos! re. Experts, upon every occasion of his making a covered with a bag, which ef- lltnm:\ ability to fight early, one the quickly and loosening the knot with his plates tying, although strips of soft cloth will Butler Exchange, all the time if and the reunions held in Rock !“l Providence,R.l. fourteen of good bargain, and it was now so heav- fectually thwarts their sinister de- necessary, markable ever teeth, pieces bright gold 'anom‘r the purpose. The tying must otber is the to took place in the town of Foot. ! came into view; also ily weighted that, as he lay abed gaze gigus.— Providence Journal ability grow a new County Bxperts and a paper, upon be done s that no air will enter - Arguments farnished % the home of Mrs. Kate Dean. which written: ing at it, there was really a danger of member—an eye, & leg or a claw- ville. at was aronnd the bud, and the bud must yet celebration of her strings and of its fall Sapply the Need, whenever the original is lost in the Ihe occasion was the “For my boy, Tom. If he's buried the giving way She Could not be covered. A few trials following of and me with ing upon his crooked nose and making “l 1 have a handsowe home.” he sag fortunes of war or by reason any mother's ninety-second birthday, feathers, they'll bring him the directions given will enable any luek.” it crookeder. gested. domestic unpleasantness. It is these there were present nine children, thir- g ey B one 1o bud - successfully. —lndianapolis to and thirteen warks procured tromptly. at the discov- But he did not attempt to remove this “Withsdl the modern convenlences?™ two gifts which enable bhim grow up ty-four grandchildren Deliriously delighted News, y L ery of the treasure, Thomas constant souree of danger. He re she asked. and become a useful member of so- great-grandchildren. Dexter A. HERBERT his with “No-0." he answered “not clety, most of his members being sec- With the exception of the death of ARNOLD, clapped the old-fashioned nighteap on garded father's nightcap su. slowly; Fly specks and can be to the time he thirteen ago, there his head and danced the reverence, and he had a fear all. One is lacking.” other_dirt ond-hand, so speak, by the father. years about room perstitious Pasedl Purmisher asd removed from gilt Track News, a Bimeeter, Bmbiize to & tune of his own composing, the that if he shifted its position, even by “What is it?" she inquired, satisfactorily is really grownFour has not been death in the Sayder " frames by going over them with the for years. Janes- music being the jingling of the sover- @ hair's breadth, it might change his “A wife, he replied family fiftyseven 838 Wesininster Street, white of an on a soft brusk or There are 25,000 pores in the bands Correspondence Milwaukee Seuti- Pruvidente. in the bhollowed palms of his luck. Then she managed to convey the aw egg e eigns ) ctoth. - Telophone. hands. ‘He lived all alone, without chick or surance to him that one was to be Lad of & man, Kightcalispnswered. the Residence:512 Wertninster Sired . The mext moruing. being in & more child. He washed and cooked and did for asking.