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you as his master, If you do not break
the above paragraphs of the silent COW
enant with him. The Persian, you
see, treats his servant quite different
ly from the European.
In conspicuous part of the servants
quarters in your house is erected the
''falakka." 1t is there that corporal
punishment is meted out to offending
members of the domestic herd-num-
bering in the household of wealthy
Persian or dignitary from 100 up to
500. The delinquent is forced to put
his two feet through holes in board,
and this being lifted up the chief
servant administers the stick to the
soles Of the culprit, until the number
of strokes is full.
This procedure, however, being over
the offender is received back into the
good graces Of his master, and often
he receives, as sort of plaster, q
money present or a new robe, no ig-
nominy attaching to corporal punish
ment in itself. 1t is quite strange to
see the Persian dignitary make con-
fdant and valued advisor of his serv.
ant in your presence to-day, and to see
the same man send the same servant
to ''eat the stick" persian for bastins
ado) tomorrow. What the Persian
servant cannot endure from his mas
ter, though, is Indifference, exactly
what he would get from his average
European or American master. In
that case he misses that bond of fell
lowship which makes all the world akin
in the Moslem countries.
One of the chief characteristics of
the Persian servant is his cheerful way
of coming round" when found out. If
he sees that some little theft. some
particularly clever piece of rascality of
his has been discovered, he acknowl-
edges the corn with alacrity. Chow
Khordam" Il eat dirt, literally
will be his phrase Of confession, and
in saying which he will throw himself
fiat on the ground, lifting up his feet
in token of his perfect willingness to
submit to q sound thrashing. To
trace the origin Of a theft, however, is
generally pretty difficult matter.
The favorite method of dealing with
Gases VI uO1ucSV1C Cllc1C-ll CI1C ODJCCU
stolen be worth the trouble-is mode
of withdrawing highly characteristic
of the eastern mind. A large, fat dish,
filed with fine sand or flour, is placed
on the floor of darkened room. Then
the whole procession of servants
passes through that room, one by one.
When the first one disappears through
the opposite door the second one steps
in, and so on. Almost invariably the
missing article is discovered in the
dish at the close of the operation, and
restitution made easy" has carried
the day. Reflective tricks are hardly
ever practiced upon the poor, unso-
phisticated Persian thief.
An exception to this rule, though, oc-
Cured during my stay in Teheran, the
Persian capital, ludicrous enough to
bear being told. A theft Of considera-
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The day approached whom he must

The day approached whom he must
leave. He had written q note to Faith,
pouring out his love in it, and asked
her If he might com, to claim her al
his wife the next New Years day-for
her to send him just one word after he
was gone it he might"
After it was written the foolish boy
didn't know what to do with 1t. He
could not even get a chance to put it in
her hand, and as for sending 1t to tho
village post Office, that plan would new
err do, as Mr.. Carson would be sure to
get the letter first.
At last a strange bit Of fortune ia
vored him. He was passing through
the kitchen and Mrs. Carson, who was
particularly good-natured that day, was
showing him some of the old-fashioned
belongings of the old house.
Among other things she opened the
door of the old-fashioned brick oven,
long since relegated to the past rin
favor of q range" Its capacious
mouth looked large enough to swallow
almost anything, and as she turned
away to make remark about some
thing else Oscar quickly slipped his let
ter inside and shut the door hurriedly,
with bang which must have made the
ashes fly inside.
In his excitement he forgot that the
oven had not been opened for several
years, and probably would not be
| opened for years again. AS he passed
out he glanced mysteriously from Faith
to the oven door, look which she
failed to interpret, as she did not hap
pen to see him place the letter there.
The day of parting came The autumn
passed and no word came from Oscar to
cheer Faith.
ole has forgotten me-" she sighed
softly, but she remembered at part
ing he had whispered: New
Years." Would he come then? The
day came and ended and he did not
come. ''Then he did not mean that"
and she reproved herself for thinking
so.
All this time Mr. Carson's mind was
partly on his potato crop failure and
partly on Oscar.
cts kinder strange we hain't heerd
from him or of him sence he went
T away" said Mr.. Carson, taking it for
granted that Faith would know him"
meant Oscar, and forgetting that he
had emphatically declared ''there
should be no letter writing or any SIGH
nonsense"
"Arter all, he appeared to enjoy old
fashioned things. l member how
curious he looked into the old brick
oven"
Faith remembered it, too. Soon after
ward Mr.. Carson left the room. With
curiosity born of sentimentality she
felt as if she wanted to look into the
old oven. She walked leisurely to-
ward it and opened the rusty, creaking
door. There was the fateful missive
She took up the letter mechanically,
wondering what it could be- 1t was
addressed to herself and sealed. In her
excitement she closed the door with a
bang which startled Mr.. Carson, who
was reentering the room.
Faiths face was white and she was
breathing hard and fast. She felt as
# she held a message from the dead.
'"What have you got there, Faith?"
he asked.
II don't know, father: just looked
in the oven, as Oscar did, and l found
this letter there. 1t is directed to me, "
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BILE magnitude had occurred in the
household of Anin-ad-Dowleh (treas-
urer of the shah), and the eunuchs
were suspected. They, however, de-
MED point-blank. Then a mollah
(priest) was introduced into the house,
after first receiving his instructions.
This venerable parsonage assured the
assembled domestics that the culprit
would have his hand palsied the mo-
ment he dipped it into the dish in the
adjoining room. Then the servants all
fled through the darkened room, being
first solemnly adjured to touch the
dish. The guilty party was caught.
This fear betrayed him. The dish con-
tanned sifted wheat flour, and every
body's hand bore the traces of contact
with the flour on emerging from
the room except the negro sin.
ner's. He was at once accused by tho
priest and confessed. He deemed his
detection due to sorcery; the sim
pie but effective trick had not been
fathomed by this child of nature.
WOLF Won SCH1ERBRAND.
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glory had departed! Yet such is the
fact. And those modern Greeks make
very plant, adroit, interchangeable
and useful servants, excelling in all
those points by far the other con.
quered nationalities whom the Turks
and other dominant races in the Mos
lem world employ for the purpose,
such as Armenians, Arnants, Bull
garians, Abyssinians, Sudanese, etc.
In the large cities Of Turkey, especial
ly in Constantinople and Smyrna, it is
largely by the devious influences these
Levantines exert in politics, admins
tration and finances that the Greeks
are still, so far as practical results go,
the preponderating race in that
country. .
It must be added here that the
Greeks in Turkey are not natives Of
the little kingdom of Greece, but
rather natives of Turkey-Levantines
or Byzantines, in fact, so debased by
centuries of serfdom under Turkish
rule that they have learned to readily
kiss the hand that smites them. In
language, features and social customs,
though, they have remained true to
their race. .... -a.
And in one thing more--in their
names. If you ever travel in the
east and do not know the name of any
Greek servant you meet, try Aristides.
If that does not answer, Leonidas. For
nine-tenths of these Greek servants
bear either one name or the other. One
and all they have ransacked the long
scroll of fame in the history of their
proud and highly cultured forefathers,
and have chosen for themselves the
most Respondent names of all-Miltia-
des, Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Agesilaos,
Themistocles, Pheidias, Apelles, ETC.,
and remember what shock it gave
to my esthetic feelings every time I
had to bawl over the bannisters in my
lodgings in Constantinople for Socra-
ties, the said Socrates being villain
ous-looking old man-of-all work, with
a squint in his eye and a hump on his
back. And as he, so do thousands of
other beavers of wood and carriers of
water drag the melodious and immor-
tai names of their ancestors through
~; luuc' Lucy dIC, VAOuSu, uCCeIly
unconscious of their own degradation,
and they are just as boastful and vain
glorious, just as untruthful and willy
as the Greeks of classic times, but
servitude has made them cowardly,
dishonest and immoral as we'll.
The conditions of domestic service
in the East Indies have become pretty
we'll known through the writings of
English novelists and travellers, but
domestic service in Persia and adjoin-
ing lands is a field hitherto unexplored
by writer's The Persian word for
servant is "nowker,'' meaning man
ready to do your bidding. He is hired
by the year at wages varying between
10 and so kerans per month ($1.50-
$3.50. The average pay for a good
body servant is 40 kerans ESQ., per
month, and for cook SO. This in
eludes some food FURNISHED him in it's
raw state, such as rice, flour, fruit,
meat, a suit of clothes every year, and
some kind of shelter in the house.
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word "worlx." Work, according to his
mind, meant labor among fields and
vegetation.
Work among a few bibs an fuckers
don't amount to much," he continued,
with a sidewise glance at Faith, who
was buisly washing the supper dishes;
II mean real work that keeps man at
1t arly an late"
Faith flushed. The "bib and tucker
shaft had struck home. She knew he
was thinking of Oscar Blake, dry
goods clerk. She replied with more
spirit than difference.
81 suppose store work does fail some
times, and potatoes give out once in
awhile!''
This time her arrow found its mark,
for hadn't Mr.. CarsOn's potato crop
failed this year?
All the while Faith knew that it
really was not so much ''city store
work" to which her father objected as
it was to the clerk, who two years ago
had passed summer vacation among
the hills surrounding Cramp Hollow,
and who had formed an acquaintance
with Faith, much to Mr.. Carson's OBJ
lection He was afraid Faiths head
would be turned by new-fangled no
tons and she would want to leave the
old farm.
Oscar Blake was not q dude. He was
simply good. straightforward fellow,
who, by merest chance, had the oppor-
tunity given him to 20 to the country.
uo "A ~ III
was sent there by an old city resident,
who, in his early boyhood, had lived
there.
A clerk, who was Oscars chum. had
been i'll long time, and, as they were
friends in their poverty, Oscar had
tended him devotedly, and this, in ad-
dition to his clerical duties, had nearly
Frustrated him. BY some fortunate
discovery the chum had turned out to
be nephew to Oscars rich employer,
and he, to show his gratitude, sent him
off to recuperate, with a promise of
promotion when he returned
Oscar found the woods and fields
charming, and Faith Carson he pro-
nounced more than charming
YVES the word most frequently in his
thought. But Mr.. Carson guarded
Faith very jealousy and suspiciously,
and when he wasn't guarding her, her
mother was. which was all perfectly
right and proper, only it didn't give the
lovers half q chance to be comfortable.
All know what becomes of girls who
are cautioned against falling in love
with particular somebodies; they gem
orally go straight of and do it. And
Faith was no exception to the rule.
Although Oscar did not ndsopportuni-5
ty to tell his love, yetit did not seem
to prey upon his cheek" for it grew
plumper, fresher and browner every
day. Never a chance could he get to
see Faith alone.
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Have You Thought

About going to Florida this winter? It's
the greatest resting place in America. Sea-
son soon opens. Elegant hotels, magnif-
cent tropical surroundings While people
in the North shiver and button their great
coats closer you can sail summer streams,
lounge through the magnolias, or rest under
the bloom of orange groves.
You can angle in the best stocked fishing
waters of America.
You can have the most perfect hotel
service. .-.
The way to reach Florida is by the Vesti-
buled Trains of the Queen & Crescent
Route. t
Finest trains in the South. =
Solid Trains and, Through Sleepers to
Jacksonville.
100 miles shorter than any other line.
Service as perfect as modern American
railway can make it.
Apply to any agent, or send your address
to w. c. R1NEARsoN, G.. P. A., Cincinnati,
O., for winter tourist rates, schedules, in
formation as to hotels, etc. See that your
tickets read over
The QUEEN & CRESCENT ROUTE.
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Mr.. Carson approached her and looked
at it through hastily adjusted specta-

Mr.. Carson approached her and looked
at it through hastily adjusted specta-
cles
"Sho! Sure enough! Read it now!"
Faith read it, but to herself; then
handed it to her father with flushed
cheeks. Mr.. Carson read it slowly,
then placed it in Faiths hands without
saying word.
"You see, now, father, if he could
have told me about it it would have
been all right l suppose he thought I
would find it soon, and now it is over
two years. It is too late now," and
here her voice grew pitifully weak and
trent bling; ''but l shall write him at
his old address, just once, though l
may never hear from him again. Per.
haps this is what he meant by whisper
ing New Years."
Faith took her letter and went slow.
ly to her room. Mr.. Carson looked aft
err her with a sigh.
''So-that's what's been the matter
| with her, an I've ben a-doctorin' of her
with sarsaparilla an other arbs! Guess
they WON'T cure her. I might as well
let things take their course!''
Faith wrote Oscar dainty little let
ter, telling him of finding his at that
late day, and simply said: 81 would
have written you If had found it
| sooner"
Oscar was not at the old place. Her
letter wandered from place to place,
forwarded by Uncle Sans faithful pos
tai clerks, until it reached him one
happy day in the midst of rising for
! tune.
1t found him still free, except for ties
of love for Faith. Only four more days
and the new year would be here! He
started hurriedly for Cramp Hollow
and walked into the old kitchen from q
binding snowstorm.
| He glanced for an Instant toward
Faith. sitting by the fire and leaning
her head YEARLY against that old oven
door; then marched resolutely toward
the surprised old farmer and said:
.'Mr. Carson, l have come for Faith!''
Mrs Carson dropped her knitting
work, Mr.. Carson dropped his newspa-
per and said in broken voice:
Then l have faith to believe you will
get her."
And he did the very next day, which
was New Years day Chicago News
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R1ao Reward. 300.

The reader of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity Catarrt
being.a constitutional disease, requires 6
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrt
Cure is taken internally, acting directly or
the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting naturein doingits work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura
tive powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure
Send for list of testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, o.
E8rSold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills, Is cents.
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A Resolution That Could he Kent.

They say that wise little boy whose
Sunday-school teacher distributed slips
of paper to her scholars and asked each
to write thereon New Years resolu-
ton, decided to make 3 resolve which
he would be able to keep, and to secure
the prize offered to the boy who, at the
beginning OF another year, should have
come the nearest to keeping 1t. He
wrote: Resolve, that i vii tri too be q
year alder by mex moo years The
Voice -.
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GARDEN AND FOREST.

AN odorless onion is cultivated by
Chinese gardeners.
A PEAR that weighs over thirty
ounces Is on exhibition at q drug store
In Atlanta, Ga. st.E
THE British scientific expedition to
the Philippine islands is said to have
discovered 1850 feet above the sea
level, on the sides of the extinct volca-
no Apo, flower five feet and half in
diameter. -.... j. ..s ..,: f..
A FARMER near Shepardstown, Pa,
raised stalk of cabbage with ono
huge head in the center and eighteen
smaller ones around it, These were
about the size of quart measure and
perfectly formed. ........s..
In the earlier periods Of life trees in
crease much faster than when adult
the oak, for instance, grows more rap
idly between the twentieth and Thrift
eth years-and when old the annual
deposits considerably diminish, so that
the stgata are thinner and the rings
proportionately closer. g,.... -....-s .. q
Happy New Year!
That is the wish of the Burlington Route
for the many Thousand Northwestern peo-
pie who have travelled over its lines during
1893, and the many more thousands who
will do so during 1894. Now word about
the development of the Burlington system.
In 1880, the Chicago. Burlington T. Quincy
Company, the parent Burl:n gton road, oper-
Ated only 1,76O miles. In that year It &C
quired 1876 miles of the Burlington & Mis-
souri River in Nebraska. Branch lines
were at once built to almost all the import
ant towns in Nebraska, and IN May, 1882,
the road was completed to Denver, Colo
RADIO. In 1887 the line was opened to Chey-
enne, Wyoming, the center of a large cattle
trade: To supply coal for the operation of
the Western lines, a narrow guage road
running from Denver to Lyons was pur-
chased, and In 1889 line was pushed to
New Castle, Wyo., to take advantage of
large coal fields there. In 1856 the Chicago,
Burlington & Northern was completed, CIV
ing connection with St Paul and Minre-
apOlis. In 1891 the road reached Deadwood,
giving access to the rich mining regions of
the Black Hills and the healing Hot Springs
of Dakota BY control of several Missouri
railroads, the Burlington added St. Louis,
Kansas City and St. Joseph as terminal
points, and is now engaged in building a
Bird ge across the Mississippi above st.
Louis. and another across the Missouri near
that city, besides purchasing large terminal
traffic from the East-Chicago, Peoria and
St. Louisiana from them diverge lines
passing through ten different states: Hi.
nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and
South Dakota, and reaching every import
ant trade center-St. Paul and Minneapolis
on the Northwest, Kansas City and ST.
Joseph on the Southwest, and Omaha,
Deadwood, Cheyenne and Denver on the
West. With now 1000 miles of road in the
best possible condition, the Burlington sys-
tenn challenges competition, and assures
the public of the same excellent service as
in the past. For any information as to
tickets, routes and rates, write to W. J. c.
Kenyon, Gen. Pass Agent, st. Paul, MINI
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Old News.

S. S. Teacher-If Eve, the first
woman. had done as she was told,
there never would have been any
trouble in this world.
Little Girl-Oh, yes, I've heard papa
tell mamma that many a time.-Good
News.
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Sex In Garments.

Mamma-Did you find your uncle
Tom sick in bed, Arthur?
Arthur Jagged seven)-No, mamma.
He was sitting up with his Father
Hubbard wrapper Oh; an he was eating
some tea.-Judge.
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Explained.

She has harsh and rasping voice,
An eye that's blue and cold,
A temper hot, yet she's my choice,
For she has stores of gold.
-Harper's Bazaar.
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"A Good Excuse.

"My youngest son is twelve years old
to-day, and am puzzled to know what
profession he should adopt"
"Why don't you make him cashier?''
ooh, no. He doesn't like railroad
travelling. Paris Figaro.
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Capable Substitutes

"You don't have monarchs in this
country" said the foreigner, musingly.
'tNot by that name, {" replied the ma
tive. We have servant-girls, how
ever."-Judge.
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The Umpire.

Mrs. Wickwire Who shall decide
when doctors disagree?
Mr.. Wickwire-The coroner, guess.
Indianapolis Journal.
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Waiting.

Ada-No; Priscilla will never marry
unless she finds her ideal.
Ida-What sort of a man is her ideal?
Ada man who will propose
Puck.
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A Vast difference.

4 $50 you didn't marry Jack after ali q
No, my dear. You see, there is a
vast difference between an engage.
ment and cinch. Judge.
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AN EXTENDED POPULARITY. Bro,en's Brora-
cfial IrocheS have for many years been the
most popular article in use for relieving
Coughs and Throat troubles. Price rs cts.
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Maud-Do you believe that marriages
are made in Heaven?
Marie-I don't know. But I don't
intend to wait and see.-N. " Herald.
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ParaeioxicaI.

Clews She's curious sort Of girl.
Baine-In what way? ST
Clews Well, she's not at all curious.
Town Topics.
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In an autograph book-''Be consistent.
Never accept advice. Not even this."-
Fliegende Blaetter. Eagfs8 -.8E q. !:
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YOU'VE MAN-"T Tommy, you are such a
nice little boyw Tommy-aNo use talking
that way to me, Mr.. Deadgene Sis al
ready has fellow" -Truth.
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But He Does-to Trains.

Snooper-This is brave watch Of
mine. 5 S5
Skidmore-W What's brave about it?
{ .Snooper-It never runs.-Town Top
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MAuDE MARIE PAssE-"I'm proud to be
able to say that you are named after me-"
Maude Marie Budd-"So am L; somany
years after you."-Bufalo Courier.
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Only One Night Out to Florida.

Only One Night Out to Florida.
The morning train via the Monon Rout9
leaving Dearborn Station, Chicago, at 8:8
a. m. connects at Cincinnati with the
Through Vestibuled Train of the Queen and
Crescent Route leaving at 100 p. M, reach
ing Jacksonville at 10 80 p. m. the follow.
ing day. The service of this popular line 10
unsurpassed by any line to the south. For
rates, time tables, ETC., address City Mcket
Office, 252 Clark ST., Chicago, or FRANK
REED, G. P. Agt., Monon Block, Chicago.
ToMMY-"Willie, do you know the names
of all the stars2" Willie-"No' Tommy
"Wen, do. That ones O'Brien.' .',
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DEATH does not end all Look at the
large number of contested will cases
Texas Siftings.