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a POLISHED BUTLER.
Tho intellectual Genius who Looks Ate,
Chauncey Depew. ss9zsa....ssss

The Intellectual Genius Who Looks After
Chauncey Depew.
Chauncey NJ. Dcpcw has in his en-
ploy a butler who is very superior
person. He Is of Swedish birth and an
cestry, college graduate and he speaks
several languages. Coming to. this
country to conquer fortune. he
found 1t difficult to obtain en-
'ployment for which his breeding
his education and his inclinations
fitted him. A position in an Office which
he was offered proved, from its indoor
confinement injurious to his never over
strong constitution and he finally be-
came attached to Mr. Depew's office at
the Grand Central depot Shortly
after his installation there Mr., Depew
had one OF the few but serious illnesses
which have befallen him in his busy
life
The young Swede, coming frequently
to his residence on business errands,
finally became a stationary fixture
there and his entire and suntiring devo-
ton to Mr.. Depew during his illness
won the gratitude and admiration Of
the great mans family. On his re-
COVery MI. DtptW, ike INC larry ROu-
mothers in the story books, asked the
faithful Swede to choose what he would
and it should be given to him. And he
begged to be allowed to remain as but
Ter. After the amazement caused by
his request had subsidized twas grant
ed, and for many years he has been not
only trusted but an esteemed servitor'
in the house 81 Depew.
Every few years. when he has accu-
INFLATED considerable sum from his
wages. he is bitten by an ambition that
many mightier man has found fatal
He starts.a newspaper and keeps 1t go
ing until his savings are exhausted
Then he returns to his allegiance to tho
buffers pantry. He Is phenomenally
Gpunctilious about lis duties. and his,
d scharge OF them Is marked by the
courtesy and respect to others best
shown In those who have much self
fspect The god Of his idolatry 10
chauncey M. Depew though he Ii
closely pressed FOR this distinction BY
that little cd ton himself, Chaunccy M.
DApcw, Jr,, aged ten yearA IN Y. Press
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negInnines Of Rich Men.

A Philadelphia Press correspondent
repeats the familiar story that many
prominent New Workers began life in a
very small way. The house of Lord &
Taylor began in diminutive store
Edward Riley began bust
ness with less than 1000; S. Y. White
was farmer and teacher; Jim Keene
was a laborer in mines; Russell Sage
was grocery clerk in Troy; Commodore
Bateman was treasury clerk in Wash
ington. on salary of $1,000; Jay Gould,
as everybody knows, was book can
yasser; William r. Grace was arunaway
lad; John Jay Knox was farmers boy;
Thomas L. James was typesetter;
John Thompson, ex-president OF the
Chase Bank, one OF the founders Of the
National banking system, was an Office
boy at So week salary; Mr.. st. John.
the banker, was poor boy from the
South; Commodore Van Santyoord, the
head Of the Hudson river line Of steam
boats. was clerk at $50 month; and
NJ IN
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MARRIAGE in JAPAN.
A Husband who Is said to Have Divorced
Thirty-ffve Wives.


A native Japanese paper mentions
case of man aged forty this year,
who has married and divorced thirty
five wives, and is now married to- the
thirty-sixth. He was first married at
eighteen, and the reason assigned for
this extraordinary example, of incon-
stancy is that he has a younger sister of
extremely jealous and rancorous dispo-
sition, who, from the. moment that a
bride enters the house. Institutes a sys-
tenn of persecution. which soon drives
the unhappy woman to ask her husband
for divorce. The husband is helpless
to restrain the vagaries of his sister,
and can not turn her out, so tho
wretched business goes on year after
year. The native chronicler adds cir
cumstance which Is improbable, even in
the East. He says that in two cases the
brides arriving at the door OF their
future home changed color, and, -declar-
ing that they recognized the house as
one in which they had already passed
some months Of most miserable we'd
lock. fled without further parley.=-
Commenting upon the story, the
japan Ma says, that whether accurate
in all particulars or not, it illustrates
the difference between Japanese and
English fashions in respect Of mar
rage. Among the lower orders in Ja-
pan sentiment is seldom allowed to play
any influential part in the arrange
ments preliminary to matrimony.. In
many cases the man and woman have
never seen each other until they are
formally brought together with the OBJ
ject OF securing their consent to become
man and wife, and it rarely happens
that either is so unpolite as to conceive
Tor admit any disagreeable Impression
after this interview The higher the
social scale the more attention is paid
to the fancies of the man, and of late
those of the women also are beginning
to be regarded, but the principle UNDER
lying the whole marital relation in
japan seems to be that the affection
which really survives the passage Of
years and makes married life happy is
not the love which precedes union but
the respect esteem and sense of mutual
helpfulness that grow up after it.
In short, marriage, in Japan is pre-
liminary experiment., whereas in the.
West 1t is a final contract At the same
tim,e, to be divorced by her husband is a
disgrace to Japanese wife, and to di-
vorce his wife withoutreasonabl cause
is disgrace to q husband Public opin-
ion and traditional custom provide for
the marriage state safeguards of very
tolerable efficiency, even among the
lower GLASSES, and OF great potency
among the upper 1t may be briefly
stated that freedom of divorce is in the
inverse ratio OF the social prominence
of the parties concerned. Fhe more
important the position occupied by a.
man the less fickleness andcaprice is he
expected to show in such matters;
whence it shows that the spirit OF jap
anese civilization makesf for permanency
OF the marriage tie London Times
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Bruce and Fog had the same homo
and tie same mistress.
Bruce was handsome Scotch collie,
kind and generous.
Fog was little fox-terrier, pretty
plaything. but q somewhat greedy little
fellow.
One day Fog came upon Bruce. gnaw-
ing fresh. juicy bone that the butchers
boy had just given him; II was meaty
bone. and Fog's greedy little mouth
watered for it.
He stood and looked at Bruce, and
heard his great white teeth crunching
the bone, and wondered how he could
get that bone for himself.
..Tll bark" he said to himself. It'll
bark loud; then Bruce will think some-
body is coming, and he'll have to drop
the bone and 60 and see about II be-
cause he is the Watchdog and be at
back his head and barked: "Bow-wow-
wow-wowv
Bruce dropped the bone and listened;
Fog kept saying: "Bow-wow-wow-wowr'
II shall have to GO" Bruce thought
land see who Is coming" He didn't
want to 60; he hated to leave his iice
meaty bone; but he know u was biz
duty to keep watch. So he walked %
slowly.
But no sooner had he turned bis back
than the little rascal, Fog. picked up
tho bone, and ran ns fast Is his four
legs could carry him. fl.
Bruce did not find any body, Of courss;
and when he came back 70 dnish biz
bone. which he did very quickly, u -
gone, and Fog's tail was aeon dying
around the corner. "Ahr' said kood "a
Bruce. II wouldn't have believed EoS
could be- 50 meant Our Little Men ~
Women.
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-"What do think of your" she asked,
With a laugh that was soft and mellow.
II do not think OF you, ChollIe dear.
But wholly Of some other fellow"
-Harper's Bazaar.
LET me see," said Bjenkins, mus
ingly, what was 1t was going to take
home to-night?" Perhaps it was q
horse car" said his pretty stenographer,
saucily. -Somerville Journal.
In the Restaurant. waiter, these
eggs are old and very unpleasant Call
the landlord. But / assure you, sir,
you will find him very much more un-
pleasant "-Flicgende Batter
Jennie enthusiastically Grand
ma, you don't know how your new eye
glasses help your looks" Grandma lin
nocently) -'sWell. If don't Jennie, I'd
like to know who does?'-Jeweler'
Weekly.
MA. hit say in heah a pusson kin
go to New Yo'k widout change. "Huhl
Some cheat bout dat KANT trabble
widout change in yo' pocket~book any
mon you kin live widout eatin,."-
Harper's Bazaar.
--Judge-"You robbed your bene,
factor in most shameful way. Do yot
feel no computations OF conscience?'
Observation-Disclosures answering. sir, !
would like to consult my COUNSEL
Fliegende Batter.
Quite Likely.-GaEsnm- II lost sew
eral fine chickens last night can't
imagine how any one got into my hem
house, for 1t was locked" Fangle--
Perhaps dar-key was used. Smith,
Gray & Co.'s Monthly
Maria. don't you think there is
some truth in the old belief that q
husband and wife grow in time TO look
like each other?" mot much, John!
I can't see that you have grown any
handsomer since married YOU"
--Husband-"Get on the scales,
Maria. and I'll see how heavy you are "
Wife (getting on the scales) mo.
thank you. I'll weigh myself, Hus-
band Observation-Disclosures like you.
You always wanted yoursown weigh. -
Boston Herald.
AN Atlanta young man, who has an
original and picturesque way Of putting
things, speaking of ;oke which he
heard q minstrel man get of, said: 1T
fell so fiat upon the audience that you
1could cut your name in the silence" -
Atlanta journal.
Did you take my bouquet to Miss
Brown" Yes Lieutenant and she
smiled when I gave 1t to her" How.
smiled? What kind Of smile2n just
the same smile Lieutenant that a
waiter has when he gcts two-doIlar
fee"-Fliegende Batter.
Pulling Himself Together. - Cen
eral Binks has ret red, has he nosqs
Yes He's devot:ng himself now TO
his hobby" What's that?F HE Is
collecting himself. He lost q leg at
Gettysburg. an arm ct Bull Run and
eight teeth In Congress- IN. Y. Sun
The subject Of national. flower is
being discussed q great deal now Miss
Minnie, remarked visitor at Mime
apolis 70 . maiden Of that city. what
do you think about itpp Well rep led
Miss Minnie, 'Ithink papa's fancy win
ter wheat 1out rather takes the Bis
cult IN, X Lslson
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Mr.. Arthur came from England to-
be ordained by Bishop Patteson, when
the headquarters Of the mission were at
kohimarama, few miles from Auck-
land, on the coast of the land-locked
harbor Soon after his arrival I'd Auck-
land, he hired q boat to take him to the
mission-staton; there, to his surprise,
he found no wharf, no imposing row of
buildings, no pier, and he had to wait
In the boat until some one could be got
to carry him ashore through tho water.
IN response to his shouts q man, in a
flannel shirt and trousers, waded out at
last from the shore and gave back
70 the newcomer. landing him dry ON
hesbeach. In answer to inquiries for
the Bishops palace, small building
close BY was pointed out and to : fur
Their question OF Whore is the Bisnop9'
the man N tuc'sed-up lannels saids II
an the Bishopr'
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High colorfng in millinery is further
enlivened by conspicuous ornaments in
most novel and unique designs, First
of all are antique Grecian buckles and
war-like weapons of various shapes and
sizes, set with gems that are in all tints
and more or less valuable. There are
handsome jeweled pins and old Roman
coins and medals, linked together with
giittering paste clasps, to say nothing
OF jeweled butterflies and dragon-fles
and tiny reptiles-designs familiar to
all. but appearing anew in real gold and
silver filigree, enamel, French gold, cop
per, bronze, steel and jet the range Of
ornamentatioR extending from hay
rakes and harpoons to crowns and cor
onets, from pearl sandpiper to SOL
emn. stately owl, with bronze beak and
diamond eyes. IN. Y. Post
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A STEAMSHIPS ANTERIOR.


DsaAenin9 Noise and Raging Volcano All
In the center Of every ocean steam
ship is pit Of darkness and roaring
fame. The passgxsssx g<xe II but Ut
tie thought and see the smoke and
cinders pouring from the stack, but do
not connect them with the volcano be-
low. To reach 1t descend forty feet or
more BY narrow, greasy steps At the
bottom, says one who gratified his
curiosity, we stood carefully on one side.
The noise OF the machinery was almost
deafening, the engines mighty arms
reaching down to the cranks OF tho
great shaft turned 1t as boy toy
grindstone.
We were letinto tho shaft tunnel 1t
might have been five feet square, but
seemed hardly room enough to walk be-
tween the spinning shaft, which was at
one side, and the grimy wall We
stopped. instinctively, and gathered tho
skirts OF our coats away from the shaft
which was revolving fifty-four times
minute, and at each revolution was
forcing tho ship through twenty-five
feet of water.
At the stern, where we were 100 feet
from the engine room, our ears were
filled with a buzzing as of ten Thousand
swarms Of bees, SO violent was the
screw chnrning the brine in producing
speed of fifteen miles an hour. As we
emerged from the tunnel tho en-
gineers were helping fourteen
year-old boy through a hole in
the floor. He was naked to the
waist and smeared with rusty CRIME. He
seemed to be completely exhausted.
With little oil lamp to light the shall
low cavern he had been cleaning the
-bilge, space about two. feet deep over
the keel and rapidly contracting on tho
sides His had been a curious position
twelve fiery furnaces above.him and
mile or two Of salt water underneath
A narrow opening in the bulkhead adj
mitted us into the furnace room, where
there were two rows Of fires, placed
back to back. with six fires in row.
We remained perhaps five minutes, or
until we were roasted out, though we
wero standing under the cold air flukes
connecting with the curved, trumpet
mouthed pipes which rise above tho
deck, and are made to revolve to catch
the freshest, strongest breeze that blows
between the stirring and replenishing
Of the fires the room was filled with
whitish glare. When the furnaces had
been fed the half-naked stokers would
stand under the air shaft and wipe the
perspiration from their faces and arms
with towel hanging at the belt. In
that blanching pit nine coal passers and
twelve stokers were speeding their lives
double-quick for seventeen and eighteen
dollars month and found" as the
phrase runs, the finding consisting OF
the common seamen's mess and stink
ing nest in the forecastle, strong
young fellow will grow old at 1T, they
said, in three years time. But when
one breaks down there are plenty to
take his -pface NJ Letter.
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Hen swEET-ToNED MANDOLIN.

hear her family humm.ng
To thesweet and gentle strumming
OF the mandolin she fondles,
With the, most impartial caro-,
And low dreamtly linger
Watching each bcjeweled finger
'O'er the strings go softly sweeping
Like breath OF morning air.
And how eagerly listen
When ] see those dear eyes glisten
With light SO pure and holy,
Where no darkness enters in,
And my heart keeps wildly dancing
To the melody enhancing,
Which she conjures with such deftness
From her sweet~toned mandolin.
In my dreams hear its ringing,
And the voice Of her whose singing
Leads ms tired and restless spirit
tTo land Of peace and rest,
Where my heart Is free from sorrow,
For no troubles can it borrow
That will cause one seed OF sadness
Pc take root within my breast.
All you think I'm only dreaming, 8
That am forever scheming,
But the fact Is, assure you,
That my heart strings are akin
u TOT those that sweetly render
When smotc with fingers tender
The most exquisite music
ON her sweet-toned mandolin.
F. Parker, Jr., In Brooklyn Eagle.
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WITH INTEREST.
How n Smart Younester Was Made to Come
Down n Peg or Two

How smart Youngster Was Made to Como
Down n Peg or Two.
In the early part of the present cen
fury, when the now prosperous towns OF
Somerset County, Maine, were little
more than pioneer settlements. one OF
the settlers of Norridgewock, Captain
P, sent his little daughter down to
the flourishing town Of Hallowell to
school. The people OF Hallowell were a
cultivated community, though some OF
them, it was whispered, were disposed
to put on airs" over people from
further up the Kennebec-
THIS was=the case at any rate, with
little Louisa P--'s young cousin,
Billy, at whose fathers house she went
to live. He was a year older than
Louisa, and saluted her on the very
day of her arrival, Initiating broadly
the supposed accent OF the sort of poo
pie who lived away up in Norridgewock,
with this sentence:
Land O goodnessl When d yeou
come daown?"
Seeing that the speech annoyed Lou
lisa very much, Billy continued to re
peat 1t, and for several days omitted no
opportunity to ask her, in all sorts of
company, when she came "daown."
Billy had younger brother. Johnny
by name, who was good-naturcd but
somewhat mischievous. Johnny took a
liking to Louisa. and readily joined her
cause against Billy
Upon Billys birthday his father gave
him new drum, with which he was
greatly pleased. and which he played
increasingly. He played it in the house,
and when driven from there played it in
the barn; and finally, being denied the
use Of the barn by the hired man, took
refuge on the roof OF the pig-pen, still
beating away with all his might.
As he sat there on the half-roof, with
his legs hanging down over the pgsty,
his brother Johnny climbed up the slop-
ing roof OF the pen from behind him.
Billy was making so much noise that he
did not near his brother approach.
But presently he paused in his beat
ing; and then Johnny, close behind, ex-
claimed "Boo!'
Billy jumped in sudden terror, and
jumped SO much that he fell headlong
into the pigsty, and landed, drum and
all, in the midst OF tho pigs and the
mire.
1t was not much of fall. and he was
quite unhurt but he cried loudly.
Louisa, stepping to the front of tho pen.
saw him gathering himself up in sorry
plight She did not laugh; she simply
looked surprised, and said, with D
shocking nasal accent
Land o goodness! When d yeou
come daown?"
Billy stopped crying; and in after
years declared that he never again
made fun Of country people. Youths
Companion
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A simple Explanation

George said the bride, II seem to
be constantly hearing the sweetest
music. wonder what it means"
sIt MEANS, said the practical groom,
.that the Teller THAT sold me that we'd
ding ring for plain gold band worked
off brass band on me."-Detroit Free
Press. =
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"A New Yorker Of very limited
means recently got bequest tho news
of which was printed in the papers. As
soon as the fact became known, he got
heavy mails that brought him letters
from all kinds OF charitable societies in
need Of aid, and from host OF the suf-
fercrs by impecuniosity; he also found
more callers at his house than there
ever before had beon knockers at his
doors, and he likewise enjoyed when in
the streets the sight of many moro
smiling faces than he had previously
been acquainted with. Never until
this month had he realized the
attractive power of the mighty 8 He
now finds that his deceased bachelor
Uncle, who left him bequest has en-
dowed him with something else not set
down in the last will, to wit cynicism.
N " SIM
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-(Nviiization y First Citizen-ss1

Civilization = First Citizen-"The
first time meet that fellow I'm going
to give him the worst thrashing he
ever had in his life" Second Citizen
nBut suppose he should prove able to
thrash YOU, what then?' First Citizen
Huh! II he hurts me I'll have him
arrested. Good News.
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Nellie-"S Strange that Ethel should
marry beneath her" Clara why
George is splendid fellow" Nellie--
Eyes, know that but he Is 80 much
shorter than Ethel '--Dostcp Herald
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--Inse parable. -"rm looking for q
man Smith. Idon't know his frst
name.r 1T must Be John. = yspkeo
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Trials of Ancient Lovers ~ Tho Ardent
swain In Danger of Having His Head
Broken by the Object OF His Afec-
Illus trat1ons from History.
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or OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.


OF GENERALiNTgREsT.
lin the Seattle papers Western
medical concern is advertising spring
medicine
Says writer In the Houston TEX
Herald: / have buzzard / will fight
against any dog in Harris County for
wager Of $50.
"A scheme is on foot for the erection
at Droitwich Of new brine baths hos
pEtal for the poor, affording increased
and much needed accommodation.
"A vigilance committee was organ
lied by the people of 0akdale, near
Spokane Falls, and within thirty min.
utes every tough character was driven
from town.
The richest banker In the world is
Baron Bteichroeder, Of Berlin, who is
the agent OF the Rothschilds in Ger
many, but is Individually worth more
than any one OF the Rothschi1ds.
AN Athens (Ga.) man has given to
the University Museum the skin Of
rattlesnake killed at Sapelo this sum-
MGR. The RATHER was ten feet long,
and at the largest part Of the body
measured ten inches in circumference.
"A new Dissertation of the landscape
against which English people are pro-
testing is the posting of advertisements
upon the sails Of fishing boats One
writes: I'VE have great trouble with
large board advertisements OF pills stuck
up right in the middle OF beautiful
bay"
Gloves were. in 1416, often set with
to be left as legacies The jeweled
gloves Of St Martial were said to haye
rebuked an acto sacrilege. Thegloves
of Bishop Gravesend, worked with gold
and enamel, were priced at 95 a great
sum in 1910. But the sturdier Bishop
Button wore thick yellow gloves at 10d
pair.
One of the first contributions from
the new State of South Dakota is q ma
chino for burning prairie grass. The
dFiEef-mounts his scat In 'front.' turns on
the gasoline, strikes match and moves
across the prairie, leaving a broad black
line. The grass over which the big
sheet-iren box is drawn is entirely con-
sumed, but no fire escapes outside the
box.
Oh iynnays- saws IN axehanaa - ha
sa 70 from, ira and 4 m - vol shontd mi
bo lass thar siytaan inches sonara IN.
ana h,,i4t~nr,-fron,- cei}ar-e14se-
GOOD briclr with CLAW instead Of mortar
m ~ tho comb piastor - insido NTH
cIov roixad Nth salt ~, ,v;,h ~
hest brick wall wet and laid IN cement
b not Iet wood cf i toosclosa - tho
brick and dc,,t let tho stovenine COMO
naarar 81 an eirb taan inches Is tho coil.
inc -
Tho ric,,;ita and oraan onvxo,,rr,os
now onaratad ~ Grant conntr Nau
Mexico m,rL 4 most ran,arLabla AZ.
coverv Tba STONE forms q true fissnro
ya,n ef+n loot ,,ida an,, 800 49,
mile lone and n l. taken ont IN hpaa
llocks and carriaa -, eh,;eae,c.-.,,,b ~,
tbe onorr;as "a 10 4,
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Gentlemen and ladies. this I'll try to do.
II you please, Miss Bessie, We'll scgln with
you
places her In small chair. and examines
head while ta1kina.)
First, her bump for doilies--
Large, you'll all agree,
Then her ko.tosseh6oi bump
Only fair. you sse
Next for dogs and kifties-~
That was never small;
But her washing dishes bump
can not ind at all L
Here's her bump for candy -
tTonching the spot on her torshead.)
Biggest on her head
Cause It thinks so often
Makes It rather red.
BESSIE.
Pushing back her chair.)
Now for roe, Professor,
You're Hsistaken, quite.
That's my tumble.down bump
Mind you touch II light
Youths Companion.
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FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
THE YOUNG TREMENDOUSLY.

dialogue for little boy with long coat and
spectaeles and little girl with long dress
and fan. and red bump painted on her
forehead
minds
Thoughss, sadsdslly habits, BY the ~bsmps..
he fnds.