Sceae Tramcar. Dramatis personae:

Pyr-year-old girl, mother and seven! "unUd (in high, shrill treble)—Mamma^^did you gci pap’s birthday present?

"%'hat did you get, mamma?”

“<3gars. lovejr."

'*The chea|i ones that Aunt Mill

...» — - - that Aunt Millie told

yoa about ?"

Sleiice (rom mamma, but a heightened tiush one her face that was not enWely the reflection from “dearest

lovey's” red velvet IWt

"Vamma. that man aver there has on a dreadfully dirty necktie. You told papa the other day that no gentleman «ouid wear a soiled necktie.' , Man glares and pulls his overcoat

In Doubt.

'T^jUdgc from your conversation," said the carpink person, “that you assume to be an optimist.” TMi. yes.' It’s just as well to look on the bright side.” “You undertake to Remonstrate that ‘whatever is is right,' and all that sort

of thing.”

"That would be the tendency of my

,r! *T"c

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e that everything is neet you. I want who has studied

• Well, l‘m glad to meet you. I * to talk with some one who has stuG.%.the subject, and who can possibly tell mi why it is that the man who rocks ttflboat always manages to swim ashore am) let the other people drown. It may befall for the best, but I’d like to have it-explained.” .

Reflection, of n Bachelor. Love is cheap, but being a lover is About the time a boy begins to think about his sweetheart his mother begins

to forget hers.

d tell, but ifit you must

to forget hers.

You must never kiss and t you sec anybody else doing it

toff it to everybody.

jes home

After a woman comes home, from church she has the same sort of guar anteed credit feeling that a man ha: just after he makes a fat bank dep<

just after he makes a fat bank deposit. There is nothing that makes a man so thankful he is married as to have his wife wake him up in the middle of ttje night to ask his opinion of a new idea'-

she has for a shirtwaist.

•Has here ti father. "No. sir,” replied the biggest boy in *hc water. - "Are you sure?” f 'Sure. Why, it was as much as he could do to keep from drownin." but we got him out all right. Hejs restin' over there in the bushes now."

Fanny Lyon,

hy, I thought ]

■tUche. BsckaCbr, Foe lac be. Pains in the st. Pains ig the Back, Pains in ths Bbonl-

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Rosalie—V

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The rareleee actor and the careless fish erman hs’e not much in common, but .they^reacmble each other when they for-

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>S. lovely plan,” cried Joe, down the little path lei wood. "What la It?" said Joan, aa ahe followed him. swinging her aunbonnet by the airings. "Let us pretend we are Robin Hood and one of his men, and we'll help all the people who come along here." "Yea. that will be lovely.” said Joan, clapping her hands. She did not know who Kobfn Hood was. for she was only a little girl; but everything that Joe proposed she "Well, we'll go cried Joe: and they raced away to their favorite perch. The road was dreadfully dusty and hot. although the sun was beginning of the little They were ilr run when long the road came an old woman. rery old and could hard?avy basket she bad on

to go down; but the trees o wood shaded them nicely. T Just cooling down after their : alon

"Can I carry that basket for you?” he said politely. "Why. what would your mother sayr^ah^aaswered. looking pleased. ^—Tm sure~she wouldn't mind." replied Joe, as We took the basket. "She likes us to hel^ people." And he trotted along by her side. It eeemedp'long way to her cottage, but Joewtfnld not give up the basket, although ft was really heavy; and he felt quite repaid when she took it from him at the door. He knew she was ipleasod by the way she smiled at him. and he ran gayly back to Bhe stile. Joan was dancing up and down -In high spirits. "Oh. I've been so busy," ehe cried. “Just After yon had gone, a little boy came along. He fell over that big stone, and ft took me quite a long time to make him stop crying. I gave Tila half my apple.” "fhat's two good things'Robin Hood and his men have already done." Joe was beginning, when— "Children, where are yon?” called a voice, and mother came In sight “What have you been doing all the evening?" she asked. When they had explained ahe smiled and kissed them. “Do yon think that ft was a good play, mother?" asked Joaii, "Yos. dear; I think any play fa good that teaches you to be kind and helpBut suppose yon come Indoors and I will tell you something Robin Hood, how he lived In the forest and how brave and kind he really was."—Cassell's Little Folks.

•var. that of the Inhabitants of Pompeii all but about 2000 escaped. From the beginning of the eruption till the pnmlce stone began to fall there was lima for escape, but many did not realise their danger. Borne wf^e buried In cellars; others died li^/the street, buried under the heavy fall of ashes.

Illage was bunt on the ly an eruption was not until the 18th century that Charles III. of Naple* ordered extensive excavations. Bk by bit since then the buried city has been laid bare and has revealed more perhaps of ancient Roman life, customs and art than all history had been able to give the world before.— Chicago Record-Herald.

ibor. conct

Esquimau village at the Pan-Ameri-can exposition, thinks no other

exposition, thinks no other breed Of dogs equals the Esquimau dog in

versatility.

“The Esquimau dog Is not only good for draft purposes, but be is*a splendid hunter, and, unlike onr dogs here, of which each breed la good for some irtlcular kind of game, the Esquimau Is good at all kinds, large or small and varies his methods to suit the kind

be has In chase.

Is the only dog that I ever hoard of that would fish. In the summer time no Esquimau ever thinks of feeding his dogs, and one of the prettiest sights in the far north Is to get up on a summer morning and see the Esquimau dogs standing In the wash of the

part dog and

of game

"He Is

ding In

ocean watching for fish. “The dogs do not like the

cause it Is extremely cold; tberel

water be-

efore,

nothing but hunger will drive them ng you see them wade out breast deep in

A BariMl City.

In southwestern Italy, about 12 miles southeast of Naples, there was situated In the first century a beautiful and prosperous Roman city called Pompeii. Built on a bed of lava, it was higher than the snrroundlng country, so that the air was always clear and fresh. South of Pompeii was the river Sarno and Its level plala Looking west one saw the beantlful blue of the Bay of Naples, only a Jhlrd of a mile away. To the north lay the mountain Vesnvlua, rising high above the town. It is not surprising that many wealthy Romans. Cicero among them, chbse this Italian town witn its pure air. Its long, cool summers, and its wonder-

ful view for their summer villas.

Pompeii was a wealthy town. Be-

of Its location ft was of Imj

illy. Because of Its

-Esquimau, ' 'nieroue. hai

them. The capelin is a fish about a foot in length. It is the food of the

OJUI

lance commercially

ipori fer■apes

and the Pompeiian wine was noted far and wide. The sides of Vesuvius were

Innocent

siroyed by tt-

igb. but the city was deVesuvfu* had long been

thought an extinct volcano. • .-ere were greaX heaps of pumice stone and volcanic, ash on its top, left there from early -eruptions. Early tn the ■morning of Aug. 24. 79 A. D., an eruption began. The pumice stone and ashes from the old' eruptions were thrown high into the air. Tjiere was a strong northwest wind blpwfng and urlvcn by this tney formed a thick cloud. This cloud hovered over me plain of Sarno and Pompeii, dark and threatening. Presently pumice atonei began to fall from the cloud. After eight feet of this had fallen, six feet of'

ashes fell.

On the 25th a great dark! upon the land and sea and there were fearful' * - *

and lava lasted until the 26th. When if ended Herculaneum, on the other side of Vesnvlua. was entirely destroyed, ail the plain of Sarno was covered, and nothing coaid be soon of Pompeii except the roofs of a few time of great terror. How many lost toeir lives will never be accurately known. It Is tbooght. how-

ipeil bouse*. It. wap a tli

ng

do not like

emel]

Ing but hunger Into it But in the morning you will breast d ocean and stand as motionless as stature. When a fish comes within range a dog will dive just as a seal would do. and'come up 10 or 15 feet farther out with the fish in his mouth. "They are good at any kind of game which Is native In the north, but their greatest value to the Esquimau Is as seal hunters. The surface of the Arctic ocean freezes m winter to a depth of from seven to nine feet Now the seal, while he lives a great deal under water, is obliged to come to tbe surface to breathe. In tbe winter be has his blow holes, which are conical In shape the apax, which is perhaps hot more than an inch in diameter, coming through the surface of the ice. This may be covered with snow or ever a coating of thin Ice. which die seal has to thaw if he wishes to blow there. "It it utterly impossible for a man to find one cf these boles. He couldnit tell it if he were standing right on It. but the scent of the dog for them is unerring. When the dog has located a blow hole for him tbe Esquimau cuts it large enough to admit his harpoon, stakes tbe dog out and sits down to wait for Mr. Seal. When he appears

Ice is lifted’

out - ■

"The Esquimau dogs axe insatiable hunters, and If. when they are attached to a sledge, they sec deer or other large game, it is utterly impossible to hold them In controL The hitch to the kometek is made with this knowledge. You will notice that each dog has an Individual leash In which he pulls. These are all gathered on one common thong, which is fastened to tbe komitek, or sledge, by a half hitch. When the dogs sight game become unmanageable the sledge Iver simply pulls his hitch, they arc loose and off they go, each dog for

himself.

"In tbe winter time the dogs cannot fish for themselves, and tbe provident

who. however, are not nu-

merous. have supplies of capelin for

them. The capelin I

e appt

he is harpooned, then enough let cut away'to allow the body to be 11

nnt .. ‘ _ 1

and driv

Ing

them up a little further so the water won’t reach them again and let them dry. "But the Esquimaux are hot only careless of their dogs’ future, but their owh as well, and in the winter time

hln

j the necessity of kllll

many an Esquimau finds 1 duced to the necessity of dogs and eating them. This

reason why the Esquimaux own so few dogs. A man with a whole team of seven dogs is rich. Usually you

ling Ilia ts one

1 a whole team

y and about two f

family

"Another reason why they have so few dogs Is that they run away. While ferocious among themselves, the dogs

Ives.

are universally very affectionate men, bift the Esquimaux overwork: them, underfeed them and treat them brutally. When they run away they Join some pack of wild Arctic wplven. Nearly all of them have strains of wolf In them and many of them have pure wolf blood' in them, tt is said that the ancient Esquimaux domesticated the Arctic wolf, and that tbe change brought about by domestication produced the Esquimau dog."—The Presbyterian.

Sta*m*h1 j>. The specie room on oqcan steamships is usually 16 feet long. 10 feet wide and eight feet high. It is formed of steel plates a quarter of an Inch thick, with a steel door, which has a burglar proof combination lock. Tbe First Postofllrns. The first postoffice was opened In Paris In 1462i In England in 1381, !n in 1719.

I'robatily m TartarA well-known Pacific coart attorney, who prides himself upon his handling of Chinese witnesses, was defending a railway damage case. TJje lawyer is s bit nearsighted, so failed to note when a Chinaman came upon the stand that the witness’ clothing was of finer texture than the ordinary coolie’s. Instead of following the usual questions as to name, residence, if the nature of an oath was understood, etc., the following dialogue ensued: “What is your itame?” . “Kee Lung." "You live in San Francisco?” "Yes.” “You sabe God?” “Mr. Attorney, if you mean 'Do I understand the eatity of our Creator?’ I will simply say that Thursday evening next I shall address the State Ministerial Association on the subject of The Divinity of Christ,’ and shall be pleased to have you attend." When order was restored the examination proceeded on ordinary lines, but to the day of his death the lawyer 'will never cease to be asked if he "sabe God.”

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