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other words, he was to bring back
either the diamonds or their equivalent
in cash.
Know myself the motto Of the
wise men of Greece, was an unknown
quantity in the arithmetic of our
Charles Augustus He had read enough
dime literature in his salad days, which
were not vet over, to fill his soul with
an unequal appreciation Of things. For
instance, quite unknown to his parents,
lie yearned to be q detective. Cowboys
and raiders were not much to his liking;
they lacked the element Of respeeta-
bili' Z - to be a detective, a sleuth-
houHd :. &c law, to rise to the high
position of inspector-in-chief Of police.
to be the terror of small boys and evil
doors, was to reach the nltimatum OF
his ambition. When his employer
imagined his new clerk at the reading
room Of the Y. NJ. c. A. or sound asleep
IN his boarding house bed Charles
Augustus was hanging around the
police station, watching the criminals
brought in. and admiring The officers
on duty who assigned each one to a cell
with a wave Of his baton file thought
he was getting a deep Insight into
human naturerand that he could tell a
cr minal frem an honest ms at the
r a glanre liat was ~ interesting
ttstes o. sss .en y. 80 neg The
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CONTEMPORARY COMMENT.

Among those who fear that
Grover Cleveland cannot carry New
York, there are not any members of the
republican party of that state. They
are all apprehensive that he. can, and
they believe that he will.--Brooklyn
Eagle.
--rBecause short crops abroad made
asmarket for an increased amount of
American breadstuffs the protection
organs point with PRIDE to the fact
that .'the Mckinley bill has not sup
pressed exports. No one supposed it
would, when the old world is hungry;
but it cats up in taxes the greater part
of the small profits of the American
farmers crops. IN. Y. World.
y The actual increase in the vote of
the two parties in Rhode Island has
been 5000 on the democratic vote and
$500 on the republican. The republic
an gain has been 25 per cent. and the
democratic gain A. per cent. If more
than 1000 independent votes refused to
support Wardwell and will vote for the
democratic candidate for president, the
democratic president who will be
elected next fall may still have Rhode
Islands four electoral votes. N. ~.
World.
In these days OF sore distress the
republican herdsmcn ARE in a badly rat
tied frame of minds A New York pa
per has suddenly discovered that neither
Blaine nor Harrison stand a show of
election and says that il some wise
statesman will get up in the Minneapo-
lis convention and make rouslng
speech for sold Abe's- son. " Bob Lin
coin will carry off the prize and make a
lively run. Nobody appears able to
discover Moses in the republican bull
PUSHES, Detroit Free Press,
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WORE The OLD HAT.
Loyalty to His Friend Prevented Him Bu

Loyalty to His Friend Prevented Him Buy
Ing n New One.
He looked as II he were in hard luck
and he said that he was.
Everything seems to have gone
against me-" he complained. you
know ran for Office on the same ticket
with Blinks in the last campaign"
yes, heard of you during the cam
paign. but not after the votes were
counted"
'You didn't hear Of Blinks then,
either?"
mo-
"Of course not And worked hard
for his election and mine. | spent
money freely, too. But that isn't the
worst Of it, had my hat smashed in
the night of the election
Il does look like a wreck. Why don't
you get new one?'
Cant
why not? Are you broker
20, no. I've got some money left,
but / dare not buy new hat"
"Why not?"
"Blinks would think won 1t betting
on, the election, and it wouldn't look
right, you know. He's a friend Of mine,
and I'd hate to hurt his feelings I'll
have to hang on to this wreck a month
longer anyway Chicago Tribune
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ANTI.HARRIsoN scHEMERs.
They Arc willing to Compromise on Any
Other Man:


IN spite % Inc .eccns eViuen'iy ae-
LIZ, .neiilie ,i''',sNie~ WIN niaiae, - ~iach
nc saaa ne "ouio no. acceP. she presi.
aency II ne were 70 DC eieceeo wi.nou.
q contest the prominene Poiitician
sun Goes GUY, anu conno'hg,y leia.es
tnat blame VIII DC nominaeeo q. Nun,
neapohs IN spite OF ms Prooests' ana
Will hot reiuse 70 run. ~ Is reHem-
oered that IN 1905 eov' seymour saio 70
tne oemoeraeic conventions iour can
oiaate cannon pe' Iet ne was nom
mated ana carried new iorK. Mr.
Blame wound seem 10 cut on contro-
versy oy the statement tnat ID ms
physical condition II .wonld De con
structiVe suicine ior nun W a.eelnP. 70
discharge tne dutles q the PRESIDENTIAL
once. he Is but sixty,two years OF
age, ana mas reasonable prospect OF
iVihg hieeentsor twenty years II not
noandeu lito tne grave ny ms aomiring
prosecutors Lire mas 700 mucn haPpi-
ness IN ~ 70 Throw II away ne says
nut these men VINO are conspiring 70
use ms name are not greatly con-
cerned, as 10 ms longevity Iney wouia
oe~qnite wiring 10 compromise WIN
the adversary OF lie ana allow MIN 70
take biaine tne DAY aIter tne
election lhey would nave faithful
servltor on the other end OF tne TICKET
ready 10 MI the gap. Whether the pres
ident mas enrageo quay by the state-
ment mat ne is all the democrats
nave nave lhtlinateu' anu not NJ
man 70 associate wi.n' OF not quay
anhors HARRISON ana ne mas tne vote OF
rennsyiSanla IN hand. ne rs an more
or less aisguisea conuslon win osner
bosses VINO nave been hunting lot
chances 70 GET tneir KNIVES INTO the
marrow OF inc small man IN tne wnite
mouse ~ Is mpropapie tnat tney nave
any real expectation q making a candi-
date q the vaietudinarian secretary.
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Engllshmen Arc slow.

Trains are not so punctual as in the
United States. The enormous traffic
has something to do with this, but am
told that the fault is somewhat due to
faulty organization; that, in fact, the
engine department is too entirely dis
tinct from the conductors department.
There is. not on the engineer any great
responsibility for being on time, but
there is on him an immense care that
his engine shall show economical use of
coal, waste, oil, etc. BY such return is
he judged, and he is busy running an
economical engine, whlc the passengers
chafe and the conductor s. placidly sit
ting in the 'guardsvan.p FOR he has no
responsibility esther Tor tine If a
station-master sends the train off five
minutes late it is nobody's business TO
make it mp, and it is not made up San
Francisco Chronicle.
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sHAkEsPEARE's TEMPEST.



The Great Play Is Based on yairy
There is a story which has made the
circuit of the wide world 1t is the
story Of the young man who falls into
the power of an enchanter, who is set
by him to perform difficult tasks, who
is loved by the enchanter's daughter,
and by her is aided. It was one of the
first stories / ever heard in the dialect
of Morayshire. have elsewhere traced
1t to India, to Russias among the Gaels,
to Madagascar, to the North American
Indians, among the Firms, to Samoa,
and fn Greece, where it is the legend Of
Jason and Medea in Colchis. On re-
cent occasion, at the folklore congress,
Mr.. Ncwells suggested that this tale
is the Foundation of the Tempest.
Ferdinand is the young wanderer; Pros
pero is the magician; Miranda is the
daughter who loves and succors the adj
venturer.
IL Shakespeare had this fable in his
mind (which seems highly improbable),
he altered it very much. In the stories
the magician's daughter is herself an
enchantress, and the labors ON which
her lover is set are always impossible.
He must tame the fiery bulls and fight
the children Of the dragons teeth,
like Jason. He must cleanse an Augean
stable, or drain a loch in a day, like the
boy in the Scotch tale. In all such
labors he is aided by the kind en-
chantress, who finally flies with him,
and the magician is usually drowned.
Now, in the Tempest, Ferdinand is
merely Obliged to carry wood, for which
Prospero seems to have had passion,
and Miranda is no enchantress to do all
the labor with wave of the hand.
Miranda-If you'll sit down, I'll bear your
logs the while Pray give me that, Ill carry II
TO the pile.
Ferdinand-No, precious creature; had rath-
or crack my sinews. break my back than you
should such dishoror undergo while sit lazy
by. "
Miranda can DO no enchantfess's mira
cles; she has Only love to offer. Nor is
Prospero's unkindness, like thatof the
magician in the fairy tale, earnest
malevolence. In short, the points of
contact between the ancient worldwide
romance and the play are few, and prac-
tically unessential. Thus the sources
of the Tempest are obscure. The poet
seems, for once, to have mainly con-
structed his own fable. As plot it may
be, like so many of his pieces, described
by the title Of ono of them, All's Well
that Ends Well. The most, nefarious
and murdcrous characters are readily
pardoned-and, indeed, what else was
to be done with them, unless Shake
and left them with Galiban alone on
the island? This would be too severe
for the conclusion of courtly fairy
play .-Andrew Lang, IN Harper's Maga-
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a., AKIN IDENTITY.

Thc~Satarsi surprise OF Farmer Jones.
Iiaav, happens m gistaaneeriy thsst.hcre days.
In knoeksd clean on my psas by nster's ways
81, seems to mr. 10 Kind d work In freaks
Toyars!s them folks as her great prizes seeks,
* fason'ly she seems 10 seem to ms
rs dat as any maniac couni be- "a
Ynn boys remember That there cdr'us lad
Soinn yi1 or seven years ago had
To clean tlie bosses and to tend the sheep
Tne Kid lint spent most Of his time asleep
The fcller that had ~ larrup well
To keep him workin Tor little speils
Yov knowcd him sartin, Pete-he gave your
His dangrous notions'h how to load the gun
That went On bang, jest like blastin bomb,
N i'm him hardly any sort Of thumb,
Why, he's the kid that you said uscter work
almighty peart when lie d no chance TO shirk
He disappeared, ye know. We thought him
drowned,
N dragged the miil-ponds All the country
rOnd
Ontil my wife she came to s'arch her box,
" found somebosly'd busteaof the locks,
N taken on four dollars In good tin
a Waterbury watch, n di.mon pin
" mi, that there hoy has made immortfI fame
BY wrtin poems DER his sinful name.
seen illusions TO him In the Times
1t tells about.his poems, not his crimes
never thought whcnhe done work for me
JohniMilteB,d ever taken up poetry.
Carlyle Smith, in Harper's Bazaar
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"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

NO." said Mrs Hicks; ''it isn't
bringing my boys up that bothers me;
it's taking them down that raises all
the trouble. IN. Y. Sun.
lis your father very observing
MANI" Well, I'm not sure; but yester-
day, when he suddenly sat down on the
sidewalk, he looked four ways at once. :"
N. Y. journal.
Mrs Dix-"Isn't your mother very
glad you are over the whooping-cough?'
Dick HiclSs--'I don't believe so, ma'am;
you can't think how 1t amused the
baby. Truth.
-Professor-"Please give an example
of actions speaking louder than words. :"
Adlet-''When man calls for soda and
accompanies his order with wink,
sir. brooklyn Life.
Sufficient Cause. Miss Smilax---
my, what bouncing baby that islr
Baby's Brother-'sYes'm, 1t ought to
bounce. It's just swallowed rubber
ball boston Courier.
"A Common Practice. -"what are
you busy with now?" Nothing"
How do you s1S2zge to raise the
wind?" II blow about what am GO
ing to DON. Y. Press.
Have you decided what
kind of a dress you are going TO get?"
Wife-''Not yet / am waiting until
our new servant girl unpacks her
trunks. Cloak Review.
Bride Oust after the wedding)--
Alfred, you promised to give me sur
prise after we were married. Say, what
is it?" Groom "a widowerl-'sI've got
six children; my pet. Comic.
Didn't Look as If it Did, and it
Didn't ~ Freshleigh You wouldn't
think this diamond cost SCOOP" Dude
leigh-''Aw, you don't say SOP Fresh.
leigh-...No. ''--Jeweler's Circular
Won't you take lunch with me?"
"No, thanks; I'm not eating lunch"
"Dieting?" Eyes. I'm trying to re-
duce so that III fit my last summers
ncglige shirts. Washington Star.
AT Medical Banquet--A Doctor
(rising to propose toast) Gentle
men, invite you to drink the health"
All the Company with one voice)
Never! We protest. "--Le National.
Papa, dear, what Is this word,
please?" Anonymous, darling What
does a-non-a-non-" anonymous. !"
Anonymous mean?" Something with
out name "Then our new baby Is
anonymous, isn't it2"--Judy
Father -- why do you imagine
chat you will remain several years in
your present position?" Son. because
my boss told me this morning that he'd
discharge me just as soon as ! returned
the money borrowed from him. IN.
" journal.
us you gwine ter let dat mewel do as
he please?r asked Uncle Ephraim's wife.
"Whar's yoh will power?v my will
powers all right, he answered. lyon
jes' want ter come ont hyur an measure
dis here mewel's won't power. Wash
ington Star.
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hotel with the valuable package I'M his
pocket, the jewels in satin-lined case,
ready to be temptiDgly displayed before
the eyes Of the fortunate woman for
when they were to be purchased
In answer to his questions the boy
who opened the door said he would see
il Mrs. - was in, and Charles Angus
tus sent up the card Of his employer
and waited in the parlor for the la<lyto
see him When the boy returned he was
requested to attend to the lady in her
own room.
3Hass' he said to himself, s.it's the
old gag.
The lady admired the jewels and told
her husband, who was present, that
they suited her exactly. Charles
Augustus had literally frozen to them;
he stood close to the lady while she
tried them. on and furtively watched
her lest she should make dash for
the opposite door, when he would
snatch the diamonds and fight the two
conspirators single-handed, and he
pressed something in the breast pocket
of his coat. 1t was the first purchase
=he had made olit Of his fathers gold
piece-a revolver, which he needed
about as much as cat needs two tails
.'You can leave them said the gen
tleman, languidiy -gentlemanly villains
are always languid.'I will call in and
pay for them on my way home from the
office"
.'Ha! the plot thiclxens, remarked
Charles Augustus, mentally Aloud he
said:
II beg your pardon, sir, but my or
ders are peremptory am not to leave
the diamonds without receiving the
money"
The gentleman smiled. But man
can smile and smile and be villain
still. Charles Augustus stood his ground
with a come-one-come-all-th is-rock-
-shall-fy -its-firm=base-asz soon-as-I
-Eitz-James' expression, that meant
llbusiness.
THE idea,' said his wife Indignantly,
ito think that you are not good for that
| amount! They can't know who we
are
Never mind, dear. It's Just as well
to pay for them now as at any time.
will write out check and give it to the
young man, and you can keep your dia-
| monds. g
But Charles Augustus saw only new
move in the game in this arrangement.
II must have certified check, he
said, firmly.
{ Ring for a coupe" said the gentle
man TO his wife. II will go to the bank
and get the cash, and see it paid into
the hands of the jeweler myself. It's a
good idea TO deal only with principals
in an affair of this kind"
This was carrying the war into the
encmy's camp with a vengeance.
fCharles Augustus felt that he had imct'a
foeman worthy of his steel. These are
stock phrases which novelists use, and
they were as familiar to Charles Angus
tus, as they are to the rest of the world,
and served to illustrate crisis.
The coupe was announced, and the
two men went down and got in together,
each visibly shrinking from the other.
I Tho fact was the buyer of the diamonds
was suffering from araging toothache,
and, just as the coupe got well started,
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PERSONAL AND lMpERsoNAL.

Seeing a runaway horse dragging
little boy by the feet along the road,
nervy Hastings, Neb., girl took hasty
aim with rifle she had with her and
killed the horse, thus saving the boys
life.
Among the wcavers employed in
Biddeford, Ne, cotton mill Is ia woman
who stands six feet three inches In her
stocking feet and is large and strong
In proportion. She is more than
match for any man about the mill,
either In boxing or wrestling.
"A western girl is papering her room
posed entirely Of proposals Of marriage.
arranged chronologically. II she would
secure copies Of her refusals Of all these
matrimonial offers and place them at
the top of the room, they would make
very good frieze.
The statue of Marshal Ney, erected
In Paris ON the spot where he was exc
cuted, is about to be removed. The
proposed new railroad through the Lat-R
in Quarter will pass over the ground
where the marshal fell, and the statue
will be taken away. Some Of the Paris
newspapers are indignant.
"A graceful thong ntiniefy tribute
was recently paid TO Christine Nilsson
by an admirer who had heard her sing
"The Last Rose of Summer. At one
o'clock in the morning he rang her door
bell, and when the door was opened
threw in q box containing rose In
gems inscribed, 1.-The Last Rose"
"A unique triple wedding feast was
enjoyed in Bohemian village early
this month when young couple were
MARRIED ON the same day that the par
ents of the bridegroom celebrated their
silver wedding and his grandparents
their golden wedding. On the same
day diamond wedding was celebrated
at Heiligenkreuz, near Vienna.
The late Admiral Jurien was noted
at the court Of Napoleon III. as one Of
the finest congersers rsIarance, and he
was central figure in Che late-surviving
salons of those days. He became
member of the French Academy, and 1t
has been said Of him that he literally
talked his way into that society Of inn
mortals.
Mrs. t. ii. Beaumopt, the first white
woman to attempt to penetrate the will
derness Of the upper Yukon river, in the
heart of Alaska, has sailed for Juneau,
in company with her husband, who
owns a mine up there She Is q Bel
gian by birth and is twenty-five years
of age, small, blonde, with clear-cut
features and engaging manners.
! --Joes de Breties, a French explorer,
well known in South America, who has
spent more than twenty years among
the Indians of South America, was mar
ried recently at Rio Hacha, United
States of Columbia, TO II granddaughter
Of Haipara, the head cacique Of the
Goargira Indian tribes, a man of great
power and influence in that region and
among the Indians generally.
The Countess d'Eu, only surviving
daughter of the late emperor Of Brazil,
is about to take up her residence def
nitely in England. She has just con-
cluded an agreement with the republic
an government of Brazil whereby in re-
turn for her abandonment Of her pre-
tensions to the crown of Brazil the
whole of her fathers private estates
and property are restored to her.
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CHARLES AUGUSTUS LANGuIsHED IN JAN.
he remembered bottle of ether and
some other mixture which he had
bought that morning for that purpose
and forgotten during lull in the mis-
erys Now he brought it ont, removed
the cork, and was about to apply it,
when the bottle was snatched from his
baud and dashed through the open win
dow of the coupe.
mo you don't. I'm onto your little
game. You don't chloroform mel"
shouted Charles Augustus, as he drew
his pistol AMI popped it under the nose
of his captured villain"
The noise of the two men fighting
vigorously in the coupe, both doors of
which had flown open, the cries of ''po-
lice!" "murder!' stop thief" which
could be heard for block, finally
reached the drivers ears and brought
him to a standstill when, in twinlSling,
two policemen were on the spot.
''Hold him. He tried to chloroform
mel" yelled Charles Augustus.
Arrest this man. He's trying to rob
and murder mel shouted the other oc
cupant of the coupe.
The result was that both men were
arrested and taken to the station, where
they were incarcerated in separate cells
and booked as drunk and disordrrly,
until such time as the law of police off
Gals, which is different from any other
kind of law under the sun. should adj
NIT of their cases being looked up and
the facts of the affair brought out. Tho
diamonds and Mr.. IS check book
were taken care of by the same authors
ties. They were both fined for break
ing the peace, but the innocent party OF
the first part, who bought the diamonds,
or tried to, was only kept in Jail ono
night. Then his distracted wife found
him, and fguratively warmed the po-
liceman's ears for ever putting him
there. The ieweler finally got his
money and the lady in the case received
her diamonds, but Charles Augustus,
the valiant, languished in Jail until his
father came and bailed him out. els
now running plow ON the home ranch,
but what new turn his genius will take
remains to be seen. For the present he
is satisfied to be out of business as an
amateur detective. Mrs. nj. L. Payne,
in Detroit Free Press.
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~
show what kind of stuff I'm made Of,
answered the youth.
II reckon you're made of the same
sort of clay as yer mother and me, but
yer only about half baked yet, said the
old man, with grin. "This comes of a
little learnin'. You'd better tarry at
Jericho until yer beard is grown, an
you've cut yer wisdom teeth, son."
But the young man persisted He ex-
planned 70 his father that he wanted to
see the world, and make his mark in it.
lie might have TO begin low, but he
was bound to rise, and be some body,
and he knew enough to keep clear of
bunco-steerers and all such gentry SO
his fdther gave him his blessing, ard
twenty-five dollars in gold, and let him
go, with pardonable desire to gratiiy
his ambition and see him rise in the
world.
In due time letter came from the
young man. He had found employment
as clerk in a jewelry store, 1t was
only a. stepping stone, he said, to the
fortune he intended to make, but he
should keep his eyes open and lose no
good chance.
The next letter was from the chief of
police in the city whore the young man
was employed. 1t merely announced
the fact that the youth was in jail
and wanted his father to come and bail
him out. The CONSERVATION which this
missive introduced into the farm house
hold can only be imagined. They all
Loyalty chung to the belief that their
Charles Augustus was not a criminal In
intent, but the fact of his being in Jail
was a great blow to their pride.
Let us return, as the novelists say,
to Charles Augustus.
That enterprising young man had
won golden opinions from his employers
by his steady conduct, his correct bust
ness principles, and his devotion to
their interests. One day, at time
when he was-the only clerk in the store,
stranger entered and asked To lie
shown some diamond earrings. He
produced business card, and the jew
eler, who personally attended 10 him,
recognized the name as that of a man
recently established in business there,
but who was still a stranger to him.
The gentleman selected the earrings
and asked that they be sent to his hotel
for his wife to examine before purchas-
ing them. Then he left the store.
Now this business was unbusiness-
like and the jeweler cautioned young
Stillwell not to leave the diamonds UNI
less they were paid for, rs the buyer
had said they would be if they suited.
SO Charles Augustus went up to the
hotel with two ideas fixebin his mind,
hero, with his shield, or upon tin