A GREAT DIVORCE CASE There Wa* • man railed Bronrkhont —a three cornered, middle aged in

| acter for the rest of his eervtoe; for when a satire begina periorr he perjnrea him- ! nelf thortmghlr. He does not boggle

! orer detail*.

| Some genioi at the end of the table whereat the affair was being talked over, said: “Look here! I don't believe law1 vers are any good. Oct a man to wire to Strickland, and beg him to come down

and poll os through.-

Strickland was about a hundred and eight;- miles up the line. He had not long been married (o Hiss Youghal. but be scented in the telegram a rhanre of re-turn to the did detective work that his soul lusted after, and next night be came in and heard our story. He finished his pipe and said oracularly: "We must get at the rvalence. Oorya hearer. Mussal- ' man kbit and methraniayah, I a^ppoae. i are the pillars of the charge. T am on in this piece, but I'm afraid I'm getting

rusty in my talk.*

He roar and jvent into Biel's bedroom, where his trunk had been put, and shut the door. An hour later we heard him aay: “I hadn't the heart to part with my old makeups when I msrried. Will this do?" There wss a lothely faquir salaam-

ing in the doorway.

'“Now lend me fifty rupees," said Strickland, "and give me your werds of honor that you won't tell my wife." He got all that Ip- asked for, and left the bouse while the table drank his

army—gray as s badger, and some health. What he did Only he hiruaelf people said with a touch of country I knows. A faquir hung about Bracckbloud in him That, however, cannot bv hoist's compound for twj-lve days, proved. Mrs. Bronckhorst wss not ex- Then a mehter appeared, and when Biel 2 -' young-

actly young, though fifteen _

than her husband. She was a Large, .pale, quiet woman, with heavy eyelids ref weak eyea, snd hair that turned

<d or yellow as the lights fell Bronckhorst was not nice in

He had do respect for the Jiretty public

and private lice that

leas nasty than it is. HU manner aid his wife was coarse There many thing*, including actual as* with the clinched .fist, that a wife will endure; but seldom s wife can bear, Mrs Bronckboret , bore, with a lung course, of brutal, hard chaff, making light of her weaknesses, -her headaches, her small fit* of gayety, her drosses, her queer little attempts to make herself attractive to her husband when she knows that she is not whst she has of all. the love that she spends on her children. That particular sort of heavy handed jest was specially dear to Bronckboret 1 suppose that he had first slipped into it meaning no harm, in the honeymoon, when folk find their ordinary stock- of endearments run short and so go to the other extreme toexprea their feelings. A similar impulse makee a man say, "Hutt, yon old beast!” when a favorite horae npules his coat front Unluckily, when the react!dn of mar-

riage acts in. the

and, the tenderneas having died out! hurts the wife more than she carte to say. But Mrs Bronckboret was devoted to her "Toddy.” as she called him. Perhaps that was why he objected to her. Perhaps—this is only s theory to account for his infamous behavior later' on—he gave away to the queer, savage feeling that sometime* Lakes by the throat a husband twenty years married when he sees acrom the table the same face of his wedded wife, and knows l. as he has sat facing it, so must he

sit until the day of Its death

or his own. Most- men and all women know the spaam. It only lasts for throe breath* ..** a rule, must be s "throwback" to times when men amff women

rather wane than they are now, and U too unpleasant to be discussed. Dinner at the Bronckhont*'

heard of him he said thaP’Btnckland wa. an angel full fledged. Whether the mehtermade love to Janki, Mrs. Brunck-

horrt's ayah, is a question which cergs Strickland exclusively.

. fie came back at the end of Jhre# Ww-ks. and said quietly: "You spoke the truth. Biel. The whole business is put up from beginning to end. Jove! it almost astonishes me! That Brouck-

borst beset isn't fit

There wss uproar and shouting, and Biel said: "How are you going to prove it? You cant say that youVe been tree-

paaong^on Bronckboret't compound

“No." said Strickland. "Tell your lawyer fool, whoever he is, to get up something strong about ‘inherent Im-

probabilities' and 'diacrepancii

denoe.' He won't have to apeak, but it

will make him happy. Pm going

this business."

Biel held his tongue, and the other men waited to ace what would happen. They trusted Strickland as men trust quiet men. When the cane came off the court was crowded. Strickland hung about in the veranda of the conn tjll ha met the Mohammedan khltmatgar. Then be murmured a faquir’s bleMing in his ear. and asked him how Ms second wife did. The man spun around, and as be looked into the eyes of "Estreeken Sahib" his jaw dropped. You must remember that before Strickland was married he ws*. a* I have told you already, a-power among the natives. Strickland whispered s rather coante vernacular proverb to the effect that he wa* sbrrwst of all that wss going on, and went into the court armed with a gut trainer's The Mohammedan was the first witness, and Strickland beamed upon him from the bark?of the court. The moistened hie lips with his tongue, and in his abject fear of Estreeken Sahib." the faquir, went hark on every detail of hia evidence—said he was a poor — and Ood wa* his witneee that he had forgotten everything that Bronckboret Sahib had told him to say Between his terror of Strickland, the judge and Bronck-

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The barefoot dodge !■' a favorite cfaa with beggar* in IsmuIoo. During tW Christmas mmKa 1 saw coe lusty knar* take off his shoes and stocking*, leaving them in a barroom, and «>»« pick hi* way over the cold cobblestones of tbs street, singing a melancholy ditty and holding out his cap pleadingly ter pence. Every English beggar that aocosta you reminds you that he is "a poor" fallow. "Oh. please give a pannftoapoor devil." "Pleaae help a poor old 1

you from every side. The alltged poverty of tiese people is thsdr stock la trade. Then, again, the mostjiideous nmitroai- “ to be met with upon the street

creatures who seek to profit by their hideousnees. - Many of these creatures are well to da At the rornar of Tottenham Omd* road and Oxfordgtreet aits a woman as fat as butter, comfortably clad aad wearing a cheerful exptearion. A placard suspended from her neck informs the passer by that "this poor woman is blind," that she “is afflicted with fits," aad that aha is trying

infliction few men cared to undergo, j burst he collapsed, weeping. Bronckhont took a pleasure in saying { Then began the panic among the wi{things that made hia wife wince. When ( ursxe Janki. the ayah, leering Chastely their little boy came in at deaaert j behind her veil, turn>5^ gray and the Bronckhont used to give him halt s glass - bearer left the court. He said that his of wine, and naturally enough the poor i niamma was dying, and that it was not httle mite got first riotous, next miser- wbolaautne for any man to lie unthriftily able and was removed screaming. , bi the ^presence of "Estreeken Sahib." Bronckhont asked if that wa* the way f "Hid said politely to Bronckhont: Teddy usually behaved, and whether "Your witnesses don't seem to work. Mrs. Bronckhont could not spare aome Haven't you any forged letters to proof her time to teach the "little beggar duo*?'' But Bronckhont was swaying decency." Mrs Bronckhont, who loved ; b" fro in his chair, and there was a the boy mere than her own life, tried dead pause after Biel had been called to

not to cry—her spirit seemed to have “fdte -

been broken by her marriage Lastly, Bronck bursts counsel taw the look on Bronckhorsi uaed totay: "There! that'll , bis client, face, and without more ado do, that'll do For God's aake try to pitched his papers un the httle green behave Jjke a rational woman Go in oane table, and mumbled something the drawing room." Mrs Bronck- | about haring been misinformed The

songs and dismal countenanora. Three fellows have entered into a soft of business partnership and they are rich. riuggeet to a London beggar that he apply for admission to one of the numerous homes or asylums for the indigent aad afflicted, and aee how quick he Is to resent the Idea —Eugene Field's Letter in Chicago News.

“Cojne out aad an _ w said a lady living in the dun try the other day to a lady from the city who was visiting her. "These," site said, as they came to a large and well appointed hen house, "are my ‘church hens;’ all thst 1 make out of them above expemes la devoted to religious object*. . The geeee you aee down there on the pejnd are my ‘poor and needy g*ese.' They cost little or nothing, and the profits are applied to the relief of the poor and needy. Away down beyond that wood I keep a drove of bogs, 'dress hogs' I call them, because 1 rny dreasea, flocks you say. I suppose, out of whst I make from them "Thoae Aid erne j cows are my theatre and opera cow*.' I raw four Wagner opera* out of the profits of one of them last winter. You see that bed of strawberries.’ Well, ws dont call them strawberries. but 'shoeberrias.' for I buy an the children's shoes and my own, too, out of the income I get from them. These and many other little moneymaking scheme* I manage myself without troubling my husband, who works very hard In the city for a small salary. Conaeqoently we have a great many comforts and luxuries that we coulda't otherwise have And 1 thoroughly enjoy the work, too."—New York Tribune.

bom would go, trying to carry it all off with a smile, and the guest of the evening would feel angry and uncomfortable After three years of this cheerful life— for Mrs. Bronckhont had mo women friends to talk to—ths station was starttied by "the news that Bronckhoret had instituted proceedings on the criminal court against a man named .Biel, who certainly had been rather attentive to Mr*. Bronckborst whenever she had appeared in public- The utjer want of rewith which Bronckborst treated hi* own dishtoor helped us to know that the evidence against Biel would be

no letter*, but Bronckboret said !'watery si openly that he would rack heaven and mistake.

I wildly, like sol-

A fad in writingpaper is what is called lover’s stationery. - It is fine note-pa-per delicately tinted, the most faahlenable shade being light-pink. The watermark, to he detected by holding the sheet up to the light, is a blending of two hearts, pierced by an arrow, loathe lower corner of each fourth page (otS*verae of each second half sheet) appears what at first sight looks like a blemish. But this is the charming feature of the novelty; it is tipi kissing spot, for here

and thus s salute is wafted to the abeea: lover The kissing spot is about the sixe of a shilling (twenty-fire cent piece) and is covered with* thin aromatic'gum that imparts to the lips s pleasing odor and A more ingenious bit of maudlin sentimentality could hardly be devised, re must all < oaf res that it la of just joy of human life largely consist* . EuField in Chicago New*

normal condition of the akin is the chief protec tiqn against s odd. Threefourths of the sufferer*, from catarrhal pneumonia or chronic bronchitis are found to be in the habit of nigiirtlni the skin. Their skin ha* degraded, and is no longer a protective

for the body*

„— covering f_ ,.

Biel came Sul of the place and Ktncir The tkiD nerds, to be hardened by the land dropped a gut trainer's whip ou’tbe ue; df the flrah brush, the odd douche,

saw Biel superintending

the manufacture'of carpets in the Central jsiL Mrs i Bronckboret kept entirely to her holler 1'and let-charitable folks say what they pleased Opinions were .divided Home two-thirds of the station jumped at once to the conclusion that Biel was guilty, but adoseu

altogether She would

Teddy came back to her. Perhaps he had grown tired of her or she had triad his patience, and perhaps we wouldn't cut her any more, and prftiapa tha motbrre would let tbalr children day with "httle Teddy" again. He was so lonely Then the station innted Mr*

who knew and liked him held bv him. Bronckhorei everywhere until Bronck

Biel was furious and surprised. Bede- fiI *°

tied the whole thine snd v,re-«t .W ^ haa ^ ^ ’"«*>

tied the whole thing, and vowed that he would thrash ‘Bronckhorsi within

inch of his Ufa

No jury, we knew, could convict am on. the criminal count on ratain a land where you can buy a murder charge. Including the corpae, all compleU- for fifty-four rupee*; but Biel did not care to scrape through by the benefit rf a doubt. He wanted (be whole thing cleared: but as he raid one night: "H* can prove anything with servants evidence and I've only my bare word-' - This was about a month before the cl on, and beyond agreeing with could ao little- All that we could be* sure W wa* that the native evidence would be bad enough to blast Biel's char-

.. with the latest advices

Teddy did com* back to her" and they are moderately happy, though of courar he can never forgive her the thrashing that she was the indirect

means of getting for him.

Whst Biel wants to know is; “Why didn't 1 press basne the charge against toe Bronckhorsi brute and have hfin run What Mrs Strickland wants to know is: "How did my husband bring such a lovely, lovelv Waler from your station; I know all hit money affair*, and Pm

certain he didn't buy It"

What 1 want to know; la: "How do women like Mrs Broockhoret come to

marrv men Hire ef*

be added to keep the tissues from clogging, The time to cure the patient Is before be gets the cold. —Hall's Journal

of Health.

veranda Ten minutes later Bell wa* the ^jr bath^-sHd by frequent change cutting Broockhoret into ribbons behind underelothlng. Active nefs^i

the old court . cells, quietly and ■ without scandal What was left of Bronckhont wa* sent home in a carriage, and his wife wept over it and nursed it into a man Later on. after Biel had managed bush up the counter charge against

Bronrkhum of Imbricating fain eviXbere 'irooe, Mr* Bronckltuiwt, with her faint.

, said that there had been a it waofi her Teddy's fault

Lincoln's most intimate friends declare that be uever^nade use of one out of every ten expreraiaos credited to him.

Ws. but everything goes w a the reputation -Detroit 1

Ethel—How restless end full of moveMaud -You would be full of movement, too, tf you had ou as many real diamonds ss she has and Were trying.to

the finer grades of b

Ole to P™ itiQ done on steal, but wood engrevAng has largely taken, the place of the