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orilllanco, the night sparkled with 80 HANDY. stars. It was on the morning of tho "sixth Took tho Smaller Odds, I A Texas member tells the following story of a constituent of his of a sporting disposition, who came to Washing 4 day that, being awakened from a i9 short doze by tho flash of the sun ton and happening to fall licit went athwart my face as I sat with the out to look for a certain doctor at tbe congressman's direction. He came back shortly after and re ported progress. "I've took some medicine," he said, but darned if went to that doctor of yours." "Why, what was the mntter with He tu It In vark and play, In every time and plana; A whlak to brush the men awayj A fan to oool hi a faoe: "ii A basket, all with floweri blow, 1 Or tilled wltb applet rod: i And whan It'i out of ius, you know, It's bandy on lilt boad.

It makei a trap for butterflies When summer days begin! It'a Just tbe very shape uuJ llie To euddle kittles In. There'! not a finer ilshtnj net For everything afloat, And when a shingle's hard to Ret, It answers for a boat. To-day, when ran? the dinner bell, He loft It In a troei A robin mother aoimnod It well "A cozy house," chirped she. But even whllo the oaroful bird Considered this and that, The owner's cheerful shout was neardi "Where did I leave my Jennie Harlowe. BY W.

CLTKK BUSSELZa him?" queried the congressman, "Well," replied his constituent, "his house looked pretty nice and I was lust about to go In when I saw on the Officially reported, after elaborate competitive tests made under authority of Congress by the Chief Chemist of the United States Agricultural Department, Superior to all other Baking Powders in Leavening Strength, Hut the gig remain Seel it hangs there," I cried, pointing shad-owily to the tatlraU. "Jenny, whilst I dear away ready for lowering her get you whatever provisions you can lay your hands upon in the cabin," She ran below. I jumped into the boat and found a breaker In the bows. With this I sped forward as fast as my legs would carry me to the scuttle-butt lashed just abreast of the main-hatch. The metal dip-per lay beside the bung-holo.

I filled the breaker and cut away the dipper to serve as a cup, and rushed to the boat again and fell to with a large clasp-knife, that I had just purchased from the captain for the convenience of cutting up cake tobacco, to saw through the lanyards of the gripes. I worked as though the ship was to founder in five minutes. Jenny arrived with the lap of her gown filled with articles of food, all of which she had met with in the little pantry adjoining the state cabin. I swiftly put the articles into the boat, and observing that she had oars, mast, and sail In her, door plate his name, 'Dr. X.

and be' low it '10 to When I saw that I 3 said to mvsclf: I'll be hanged if I'll yoke-line colled round my hand, I lifted my chin from my breast and glancing drowsily ahead spied a little to leeward of the curve of the boat's sail a green cloud that looked to be resting on the sea-line on a narrow base of frosted silver. I rubbed my eyes to quicken their perception, and sure enough clearly distinguished the shape of what was apparently a small island swimming in tho blue atmosphere as though vlowed through a hot air. Jenny lay in the stern sheets sound asloep, hor head was pillowed on her arm that rested upon the rail I kissed her pale cheek vehemently in tbe sudden transport of joy which the spectaole of the island kindled in me, and she instantly opened her eyes and sat erect Binilinsr at me whilst she fondled my hand as though to thank me for the manner in which I had awakened her. "Land, darling!" I cried, pointing. She looked and exclaimed, "Oh, thank God! How have I prayed that we may be spared.

Oh. dearest, we take any 6uch risk as that. So I went two doors farther and saw another plate with 'Dr. and below it '3 to ABSOLUTELY PURE. The most Careful Housewife will use no other.

tH ROYAL BAKING POWDER 106 WALL NEW-YORK. with a rudder and yoke in the stern sheets, I proceeded to lower hor, 1 slacking away one fall whilst my I went to see him instead." Washington Times. A Lesson in Journalism. Professor of Journalism If you were called upon to report a dog fight, what would be your governing consideration? Class to increase the sporting circulation without driving away the religious readers. Professor How is this to be accomplished? Class By deploring the brutality of exhibition and then describing it.

Professor What destroys barns? Class The fire fiend. Professor What did the scene do? Class Beggarded description. Professor That will do for today. Tomorrow you may prepare yourselves for examination on battling investiga tion. Boston Transcript Bight Art In Mew York, The Inevitable.

A prairie. A prairie about one mile wide. could not we could not part!" CHAPTER VIII. I eased off the sheet of the sail and directed the boats head at the green and glimmering mass, and through it the little craft sped with a misty twinkling of flying-fish on either hand from time to time, and a satin-white wake pointing arrow-like behind us. It was not until about CHAPTER VI Continued.

When I recovered my senses I was lying upon tbe deck with my head upon my wife's knee. She was bathing my brow with Hungary water. The cabin lamp was burning and I openod my eyes upon her sweet and anxious face as she bent over mo. For a minute or two my mind remained abroad, but the memory of the thunderous blows that had heeled tha ship over flashed upon me on a sudden like something seen by a fierce light, and I sprang as though eleotriiied to my feet. "Oh, dearest!" cried my wifo.

"I feared you were dead." "How long have I been unconsol-ous, Jenny!" I inquired, eagerly straining my ears as I spoke. "I cannot telL I have been too terrified to know. Some serious accident has befallen the vessel, I fear. There was a deal of hurried rushing of feet overhead, and a noise of masts breaking, and faint cries as of people in a boat at some distance and then this present stillness." With lifted hand as a demand for silence I listened. The ship was slightly pitching; before I fell sense- Likewise about one mile long.

This is square. At the northeast corner, spreading toward the northwest corner, oppeared wife lot slide the other. Had the ship been in any other posture than almost head on to the sea the lowering of this boat would have been a very ticklish undertaking, perhaps impracticable to amateur hands such as mine, but under the counter the water rose and fell of an oil-like smoothness. I had sense enough to so thoroughly overhaul the falls, that the boat lay athwart under the stern as safely as it she were detached; then telling Jenny to climb over the rail into the mizzen-chains, I slipped down one of the tackles, unhooked both blocks, got the boat alongside, helped my wife into her, and rowed a little distance away where we could take breath and yet be clear of the whirlpool should the "Lady Charlotte suddenly founder. a woman in a buggy.

To the buggy was attached a horse. The Natural A man came sailing down Brush street and into the station. "Has the train for Bad Ax gone?" he inquired breathlessly at the ticket window. "Yes, sir," replied the clerk. "How long ago?" "About" "No, don't tell me," he interrupted.

"If it has been gone an hour or so, I can stand it, but if it's only a few minutes I'll rip the lining out. of this valise and lick somebody or get licked. When does the next one leave?" The clerk told him and he wiped his face and sat down placidly. Detroit Free Press. At the southwest corner, speeding toward the southeast corner, ap peared a woman on a bicycle.

Ihe watchini? angels shuddered at 2 clock in the afternoon that we had brought the island close enough to enable me to distinguish it clearly. What had resembled frosted silver in the distance was coral sand that stretched in a dazzle from the verdurous acclivities and flats inshore to the wash of the blue sea that glided to and fro upon i.t in small opalescent breakers. There the thought of the coming eollision. Miss Bonclipper, a New York society lady living on Fifth avenue, recently called at the studio of ller Von Dauber, the celebrated artist. "I desire to have my picture taken," she said.

"Yjtch vould you brefer, a crayon bortralt or an oil bainting?" asked Von Dauber. Hut it was inevitable, for the prai rie was, but ft mile wide. Indianapolis He Was an Artist Nevertheless, i upvo fls abundance of cocoanuts. Darry And you call Brown an art ist? Why he can't even draw his sal and there were green hills apparently toward the center, but of small U1CI, jur tut) UU1UBIUI1 UUU1U UUl unvu long happened. The surviving boats must therefore be near, though it ary.

Caler Yes, but hts talent for draw ins on his imagination is truly remark able. He is one of the most gifted liars in town. Arkansaw Traveler. "Xfiu tan paint me in crayon first and if I don't like it you can put some oil on it afterward," she replied. Texas Sittings.

Life's Problem Solved. Tired Tim What's that you say? Lookin' fer work? Wayfaring William Yep, I ain't no tramp, I work on farms. But I never stay in one sityatiou mor'n a week. "Why not?" "Well, by that time the folks generally stops treatin' me as company, and wants me to work." Tbat Joyful Feeling With the exhilarating sense of renew Jess ehe had been rolling. The straining sounds witbin her were very heavy; there was also a sloppy 'sort of noise as of near waters close to us, as though the wash of the surge came very near to the scuttles.

I also distinguished la the movements of the ship, slight as they were, a sluggishness that was like a slow, but stoadfast languishing into lifelessness, different indeed from the familiar buoyant lift and fall of the planks. All this I gathered in the space of half a dozen respirations along with tbe sense of a dead stillness on deck; that is to say, I could not hear a human voice nor catch the dimmest footfalL Better Than No thine It is well to have more than one string to your bow. So thinks Tommy Smithers. He was being catechised for his good by a well-meaning visitor. "Well, Tommy," she said, "do you think you will ever be president of the United States?" "I Tommy.

"Meb-be I'll try for it after I git too old to be a pitcher." Indianapolis Journal. Then It Bid Sot Really Matter. George (seriously) Do you think your father would object to my marrying you? Ida I don't know; if he's anything like me he would. Tit-Bits. ed health and strength and internal cleanliness, which follows the use of Syrup of Figs, is unknown to the few who have not progressed beyond the old time medicines tfnd the cheap sub stitutes sometimes offered but never The Use of "Professor." Winks Who is this man who signs his name S.

Smith" on the hotel accepted by the well informed. A Case of Ignorance, register? Connoisseur Woman as a rule care Blnks Oh, he's the senior professor nothing for art of Latin at Harvard college. Bach ilor Don't they? Well, you don't know much about a woman's elevation, along with a quantity of bush and a species of rank, tall grass, like to what is called Guinea grass. I could witness no habitations of any sort, nor discern the least signs of a ship, nor, for the matter of that, of human life. I scanned the horizon eageriy, but there was no more land in sight, in view at least from the low elevation of our boat.

I had read Commodore Wilkes' account of his expedition into the seas, and of the man-eating people he had found on some of the islands here, and I stared intently in search of anything that should resemble a black figure; having made up my mind, should the place be inhabited, to lie off till the darkness fell, then sneak softly ashore and endeavor to obtain a few cocoanuts and make off again into the north where the islands would be plentiful.and where I might be sure of falling in with a ship or a trader of some rig or other. I asked Jenny If she could see anything stirring. She brought her glowing eyes to bear upon the island and after a thorough search of it said no. So I continued to head right in, and presently opened out a point of land that rounded into a sharp creek. The breakers flashed in spray against the point and raised a little commotion in the mouth ol the creek, but past this trifling flurry, that was too inconsiderable to was possible that their inmates had been taken on board the vessel that had run into us.

It blew but a light air and she could not have traveled far, yet I searched the darkness in vain for any murky smudge upon the obscurity that might indicate her. It was a little after 2 o'clock, as I had noticed when running up the companion stops, and day would not break till about five. I resolved to linger near the 'Lady Charlotte" till she foundered, conceiving that some of our people might be doing the same thing out in the unsearchable gloom round about, and that we might find companions therefore when the sun rose. The breeze was Bof and mild, yet a chill would rise from the floating blackness of a near sea, which sent a shudder through one from time to time. Indeed, the nearness of the ocean was a tremendous presence, and the huge, glooming surface, or void rather, with its spectral glancings of pallid foam, seemed to sweep to the very throat with a sense of strangulation as the boat slided into a hollow and hung a moment in it, with nothing to see save a star or two staring sparely over the crests that stood up on either hand.

I held Jenny to my heart, and comforted her as best I could. It was about an hour after we had Winks And who is this man who signs himself "Professor Napoleon make-up. Detroit Free Press. Quintus Curtius Jenks?" Hanson's Magic corn Salve." Warranted to cure or money refunded. Ask your IruKEUt lor It.

Price 16 cents. The greatest trial of patience is a stammering lawyer examining a stuttering witness in the presence of a deaf judge. If the Baby Is Cutting; Teeth. Be sure and use that old and well-tried Mrs Winblow's Sootuiko Sykop for Children Teetliins. Binks Oh, he's a New York chiropo dist Somerville Journal.

i ASSIST NATURE a little now and then in removing offend Lady Can you cook, wash and iron and do chamber work? Bridget Yes, indade. ing matter from the stomach and bowels and you thereby avoid a multitude CHAPTER V1L "Dress yourself, Jennie, as quickly as possible," I cried, "as completely as time will suffer. I will rejoin you in a moment or two;" and within at least a couple of minutes from the instant of my recovery I was on deck. The cabin lamp burned dimly. As I rushed to the companion steps I spied the door of the captain's berth I swinging to and fro.

I sprung up the ladder and looked around me. It was still a dark night; the steam-white clouds I had before noticed were trending in large masses northwest, and there were stars enough between to complexion the midnight atmosphere with a very delicate, dim sheen. The wheel was deserted and revolved to left and right to the rise and drop of the rudder as the Lady Well, I am willing to take She What a singular man Mr. Kiel) Ol of distressing de is! rancrements and dis you on trial. 4 Bridget Oi couldn't think of wurk' He Yes, but it is not your fault.

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"I was nearly drowned last fall, I made up my mind, however, to linger till daybreak, and at last, after an interminable spell of waiting, the faint, pearly gray of dawn showed in the east, and then the wide field of ocean opened with a sudden lift of the sun's pink and flashing head, and a fine-weather sky of great white clouds, and blue heaven liquid, soft and glowing. There was nothing to be seen. "No doubt," said I. "the ship that ran us down took on board the people that got away in the boats. Would to God, Jenny, we were of them." "Dearest, keep up your heart," she answered.

"In what part of the ocean are weP to what place shall we endeavor to sailP" I remembered what Captain Christian had told me of our situation on the preceding day by the first sights he had been able to obtain for a long while, and putting a chart of the South Pacific before me in fancy, I figured the place of our boat upon it, and then perceived that our best chance would lie in sailing north where the islands were, off one of W.LbOouclas S3 3 HOE NO EGUEAMNG. constipation, sour stomach, loss of appetite, coated tongue, indigestion, or dyspepsia, windy belchings. "hearttmrn." pain and owing to the pernicious activity of distress after eating, and kindred derange two very fine Newfoundland dogs," said H. W. Pritchett, of Denver, CoL, $5.

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I sent a loud shout along the decks, but received no reply. I ran forward, thinking there might be men past the barricade of wreckage, and when I had approached near to the galley I kicked against something soft and nearly fell. It was the body of a man with another lying athwart it, and on top of both was a huge, heavy fragment of spar that seemed to have struck them down with one and the same blow. This dreadful sight filled me with unspeakable consternation, and I fled back to the quarter deck, where I again raised my voice in an ear-piercing shout, but obtained no answer, not even an echo from the wind-hushed canvas. We had carried a boat on either side; now glancing at the davits I found they were empty.

1 sprung past the wheel and leaning over the taffrail saw what was called the captain's gig, a long slender boat which he used when in port, hanging at the irons there. I thanked God for the sight of it, for landsman as I was though by this time I could express myself in many nautical terms I was perfectly conscious from the peculiar sickly motion of trie vessel that she was draining water rapidly into her hold and might sink in the beat of a pulse. I put my head into the companion and called loudly to Jenny. She was coming on deck as I cried out she had completely though hastily clothed herself. you will remember, was fully dressed too, being in the act of taking a boot off when the sudden heel of the ship threw me.

"What has happened?" she cried. "A collision, no doubt," I answered. "The 'Lady Charlotte' has been run into and is fast sinking. There are two dead bodies on the main- cathartic. As a "dinner pill," to promote digestion, or to relieve distress from overeating, take one after dinner.

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The owners of the dogs whistled them off, but eaoh one evidently took the whistle for a call to further exertion, and I was still further attacked and worried. Finally a friend who saw the situation was becoming serious came into the water with a club, beat off one of the dogs and allowed the other to drag me in a fainting condition to tho opposite bank. The sagacity and Invention, 8end for Inventors' Guide, or How to Get which we might find a vessel willing to receive us. Unhappily, and I cursed myself for being guilty of such an oversight, in the hurry of leaving the ship I had come away without a compass. There was nothing to be done then but to steer by the sun or 6tars.

I forthwith stepped the mast and hoisted the Bail, and in a few moments the sharp-lined gig was buzzing through the blue serges with the sun on our starboard beam, and the wind blowing warm and fragrant over the quarter. I will not dwell upon this passage of desperate and perilous navigation. I was no sailor and was but ill acquainted with handling a boat, and had the weather changed, had it come to blow a fresh head wind, in short had there been any obligation latent." PATBICI 0 FAHSELL. WiSHINOTJU. D.

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"The captain and seamen have abandoned her," I proceeded, "if one of the two dead bodies be not the captain. They must have forgotten us in the hurry of their flight, or believed us to be amongst them. The quarter boats are gone. mighty Pacific, upon whose dark blue expans-e our tiny sail was a dash of light scarce bigfJr than the pin. ion of an albatross, remained true to its name.

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