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MISS TOPPUM'S "LIFT."
How d Boy Saved an Old Maid Lon
Walk Down Hill.

How d Boy Saved an Old Maid Long
Walk Down Hill.
'1t don't do ter git diskeeraged bout
a boy. He may disappoint you pleas
urably." The old flagman surveyed
the stretch of track in both directions
as he spoke, then rolling up his bright
but well-worn banner, sat down upon
an old hand-car beside the road. His
vocabulary was more extensive than
accurate, and it was often necessary to
exert ones imagination in order to ara
rive at his full meaning.
''Its pretty hard" he said, ITO look
at rampant boy an see the Dan'l Web
ster, or moreover, the Lord Chesterfield
in him. But it may lurk there in subtle
guise, howsomever.
81 have tended this ere crossin'
thirty years, an everythin' from that
school there, on the hill, has ter come
over this track, an l have got pretty
| well versed in the habits of young ones.
when people lowed Briggs boy was
| destinated ter hang pendant from the
CALLERS, fused ter cry, Haiti He amt
notnin' but yearlin',' says Il wait ten
year or SO, fore yer vote him sech an
ag-grejus failure An he did turn out
ter be famously heard OH"
"What did he do?" asked the listener
"Well, l he'd trouble 'nough with
him. He was internally persistin' in
gittin' behind me an shoutin' out,
'War-hoo! war-hoor ter see me jump a
rod or too. Up to all sech capers! But
the time he took Miss Toppum down
hill was clincher He give her lift
as we say, fgnratives
"{ef see twas go6d slidih' on the hill
that winter, an the sleds was flynn
over this crossin' two minute con-
tinguous. Briggs's boy was leadin' the
band, as usual. He was on single sled
that day.
81 see him start from the top of the
hill, an he was jest under full way
when l noticed Miss Toppum walkin'
long moderate, right in the rut where
| the sleds was goin'. She's sixty year
old. an consequently very hard OF hear
in'i so she didn't pay no 'tention ter the
| shoutin':
"The lad tried ter turn his sled out;
| lIWdS ~ ucep III the TuG IIdI lie cOulun u
SO he jest give a little spring, fur he
was steerin' by the leg, an flunk him.
self over with his feet forard, an holdin'
but his arms, let slide right at her.
"She sot down sudden But firm. an he
held on to her an long they come. 1
! could see 'em some distance, an the
boy was so hid it looked fur all the
world as if Miss Toppum was out
slidin'.
81 could see when they went by me
that the old lady hedn't made up. her
mind whether she was dreamin', or
whether she was TUX UP by cyclone.
'she lives right there in that house;
I'M they Slowed down all stopped right
in front o the gate. She was all Of a
whew, but that boy just got up an TUX
off his cap an says, perlite as can be:
"'Oh, no trouble at all, madam; l
was comm your way, an was glad ter
save yer the walk. "'-Youths Compan.
| ion
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Only One Mistake.

"Are you the editor of the Blizzard?"
The caller was stranger, with his
hat on the back of his head and broad
smile on his face.
II am, SIR" answered the man at
the desk.
"Then it was you, presume-ha!
ha!-who wrote that notice of my
daughters wedding-ha! ha!-that was
in the paper this morning?"
Certainly not"
'It was all right" said the stranger,
jerking him out of the chair in the ex-
cess of his handskaking zeal. sit was
all right" he added, slamming him
against the wall. There wasn't any
thing wrong with it at ALL" continued
the affable caller, grabbing the editor
by the collar, pushing him backward
over the chair, catching him by the
heels, hauling him around the room,
upsetting the furniture with him, and
finishing by jamming him in the waste
basket There was nothing the mat
ter with it, sir, except that my daugh-
ter wasn't married at all, sir! Good
morningr'-Chicago Tribune.
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OLD VOICES.

Across the seas they come to me,
Old voices of a happier day,
When Love was young and Hope was high,
And flowers grew bright about my way.
sit within the rose-girt pane,
And watch the tranquil western sun
Dip gently In the golden sea,
And think of friends forever gone,
And while gaze and think, to me
There come old voices DER the sea.
hear them when alone [ stroll
Along the white surf-beaten shores
They mingle in the fishers song,
Heard mid the lull of oceans roar.
And when with toilsome steps, and slow,
Istruggle up the fern.clad cliffs
Which slope in beauty from the bay,
And watch fer off the fading skiffs,
They whisper of old times to me,
These voices from across the sea
So when night curtains sea and shore
And white stars CLEAN across the wild,
And underneath the shadowy lines
With thoughts of other days beguiled
linger long too sad to rest
For in this lonely heart of mine,
There whisper as from Ions ago
Old echoes that have grown divine;
Old echoes from across the sea,
They whisper of old times to me-
William Cowan, In Chambers Journal.
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THE CHARM OF FANCY DRESS.
The Joy of Being for Few Brief Hours a
Queen or Famous BeantY.

The Joy of Being fof a Few Brief Hours a
Queen or Famous beauty.
Fancy dress is always piquantly at
tractive to women. To pose for an hour
as some famous beauty, with conquests
innumbered and lovers galore-to put
on with gown the personality of some
royal woman, rich in sweet, attractive
grace, is to have vacation from ones
own limitations and prosaic graces
that is delightfully."- intoxicating in it's
effect; like the effervescenee of cham
payne But to achieve novelty and
distinction in fancy dress is not
easy in these days of renaissance,
when portrait galleries and libraries
the maid in the areaway wears, as the
New York Sun says, the replica of a
court lady's gown done in velveteen,
when the milliner's apprentice affects
the duchess of Devonshire hat, and
everybody models her morning wrap
pers after the dress in which Josephine
was crowned. There are a few pic
turesque costumes that fashion has not
made commonplace. Among these is
the Roumanian dress, whose rich en-
broideries are picturesquely unfamiliar
The aouave of velvet, braided with
gold; the turnedsdotfh collar of linen,
the full waist of sheer lawn, the tiny
hat with the eagles feathers.l
The ox-eye daisy, brown-eyed Susans,
as the children called the yellow dali
sizes with the brown velvet centers, is
an attractive gown for brown-eyed
beauty The bodice is of brown velvet,
the skirt OF long, narrow petals of lib
erty tissue in yellow, falling over pet
ticoat also of yellow. Yellow silk dai-
sizes make epaHlets on the shoulder and
an odd little head dress: The fan, too,
is daisy, and the slippers are yellow,
with stockings of brown.
The electra dress is novel and most
pleasing, for forked lightning of gold is
brocaded into a satin surface of deep
blue, like the color of the sky before a
storm. Over this falls a cloudlike drap-
cry of gray gauze belted with wires. A
transparent globe, crossed many times
with wire and lighted with electricity
inside, surinounts a staff wired round
about, and crown of eolored electric
lights flashes in the ebiffufe Of the
maiden daring enough to wear the bat
terry concealed beneath her wings of
silver gauze. Fortunate indeed is the
maid or matron whose brilliancy of
beauty; keen flashes of wit, radiant
eye, and gerlefal scientillation of charm
supplement the costtttns, - Chicago
Times. rt
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

The late Phillips Brooks was a
member of the class of '55 at Harvard.
William Astor has promised S1,OOO,-
600 to found a university for colored
people at Oklahoma.
Nine hundred and eighty millions
of dollars are invested in the 10000
churches in the United States.
--One-third of the students abroad, it
is said, die prematurely from the effects
of bad habits acquired in college
When God sees that we are in earn
est but lacking in faith. He will give us
something to do that will increase it,
Rams Horn.
There is no beautifer of complex
ion, or form, or behavior. like the wish
to scatter JOY and not pain around us
R. w. Emerson.
Cavalry Baptist church, of WASH
ing ton, D. c., celebrated New Years
day by collecting subscriptions amount
ing to nearly $3.50, 900.
Nothing is more a friend to society
than religion; it regulates everything,
puts everything in its place and makes
everything happy.
The late Thomas G. IIodgkins, of
Setaulket, L. l., bequeathcd his entire
estate, valued at $780, OOO to the regents
of the Smithsonian institution ut WASH
ington.
--R. K. Parsons has offered $50, 900
to the Congregational Theological SEM
mary of Chicago on the condition that
$500, 900 additional be raised by Novem-
| Der next
"A religious census of Lafayette col
| 1ege, taken in connection with the day
| of prayer for colleges, shows a total
church membership of 200 in an under
graduate body of 2s5. l"
The recently elected mayor of Cam
bridge, Mass. w. A. Bancroft, is known
to college men throughout the country
as Foxy" bancroft, the great stroke
and coach among Harvard oarsmen.
-Lehigh university proposes to build
laboratory that shall have no equal
in the college world. 1t will be 240 feet
long and sixty feet wide, and will be
four stories high, with basement
The cost will be over 5000, 200.
MIR. John T.. Woods, retired lum-
| ber dealer of Cleveland, o., has given
| k12O, 900 to the medical college of the
Western Reserve university. This makes
| the amount of money received by the
university in the last two years $780,
| bOO =
Old Morris chapel, one of the .fa-
nous Methodist churches of Cincinnati,
| at whose affairs hundreds of souls have
| been saved. is now theater with sa-
loon attached. Old Langley avenue
Methodist church, Chicago, is a dancing
academy.
A total of g., ,9O6i, o27 was contrib
uted during the past year in sums of
| $40, 900 and upwards to the foundation
or support of universities, colleges,
| seminaries, manual training schools,
churches, libraries, museums, art col
lections etc
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old gentleman, with a fur collar to his
coat.
Good evening, Miss Spencer" said
he. Il expected to meet the new party
here"
"The-1 beg your pardon" said Se-
lima.
"The gentleman who has purchased
this house and furniture" explained
Mr. Beasley, land settled it on yourself
and your mother. A friend of yours,
suppose-Mr Berkeley"
Standing sadly in the shadow of the
rhstling poplar boughs outside, George
Berkeley felt the magnetic influence of
another presence. A soft voice stirred
the twilight air like the far-off music
of forgotten days.
"Mr. Berkeley" it said-"George!-
please will you forgive me?"
A dead silence ensued.
Wont you, George?" with a little
sob in the voice. Ill didn't mean to
speak so harshly to you. 1 didn't
know then what l know now of your
noble generosity"
Silence-only silence still.
IF | accept it for dear mamma's
sake, you surely will not misinterpret
Inc. Oh, George! how can you be SO
cruel? Why don't you answer me?
What are you waiting for me to say?"
And still no word broke that haunt
ing silence!
George" In a low voice, "Ive
changed my mind. l will be your
wife!"
He took her in his arms.
'Dear sweetheart!' he murmured
Dear little melting snow wreath. 1
knew that love would conquer you at
lastp
When Mrs, Spencer heard of the en-.
gagement she said quietly:
II always thought they cared for
each other, but since your master died,
Dorcas, my poor head has scarcely
| been itself; but make haste and finish
the packing. We are going to New
port, are we not?"
And SO the wedding trip was to New.
port. Toronto Mail.
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Wit AND WISDOM.

1t is not mans sins that find him
ont: it is his neighbor. .--Atchison Globe.
The greatest part of self-willed
mans estate Usually goes TO the law
yers-Troy Press.
1t is the business of the prophet to
proclaim eternal truth and let that
truth crystalize as welL-Anon.
Talk is cheap. If you don't believe
1t see how much you can get for the
price of shave-Elmira Gazette.
A boy never looks in the glass to see
II his face is clean after he has washed
it; he looks at the dirt on the towel.
The reason it is no joke to step on a
tack in the dark is because it is impos-
sible to see the point. Demo
crat.
"A woman may not always be able
to discriminate, but she can tell a good
secret as soon IA she hears it-Elmira
Gazette.
The man who objects most to the
big hat at the theater has nothing to say
against it at church. He sleeps behind
it. t-Philadelphia Record.
The street piano may yet be re-
parded as a blessing because it can play
louder than the man with an ear for
music can whistle. e.-Washington Star
-Jawkins says that he spent so much
money for livery teams during his court
ship that his diet has been very livery
ever since he was married. Boston
Transcript
Hes tyrant. Why, he makes his
wife cook his meals" "And docs he
eat themT' "He does" ''That's not
tyranny. It is blind heroism "-Har-
pers's Bazaar.
-Chollie-"Doctor, have something
| the mattah with my bwain, could aw,
YOU tell me what it is?' DIR. Gruff-
THAT is a question for an analytical
chemist, not physician. Five dollars,
| please. Good day. sir. Vogue.
ANY man who is placed behind a
big hat in the theater has the right to
90 to the box Office and ask for the re-
| turn of his money. He will not get it,
but that does not interfere with his
right to ask for it.-Philadelphia Re-
cord.
A New Diagnosis. is.-Doctor-Put out
your tongue. Husband-I beg your
pardon. Tell my wife to put out hel
tongue Doctor-What do you mean
s;rp Husband Because it is not M
tongue that makes me sick.-N. Y
Press.
-Contemporaries-''Thes shark is tn
Oldest type of fish," said the countr
school teacher Not any older tina
the sucker, guess" remarked the DO
whose father had signed lightning-ro
contract that afterward turned out
be a promissory note Detroit Frf
Press
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HARMoNIEs IN coLoRs.
Where People of Fashion Might Get Some
Useful Hints.

Where People of Fashion Might Get Some
r -. Useful Hints. #-
Some foreign writers on matters of
art insist that Americans have no idea
Of harmony in color and arc almost
lacking in artistic appreciation of color
effects: The explanation is that we
are too busy to settle down selecting
exact and harmonious Shades, and that
in matters Of dress we simply duplicate
the colors worn at Paris regardless of
their suitability to ouf American at
mosphere.
The ability to select harmonious
shades with an unerring instinct for
proper effect is largely matter of tenn
permanent, affected more or less by eli
matte influences. Take the people in
semi-tropca1 regions. The most fastid-
ious artists have no fault to find with
the color relation between apparel and
background. 1t Is said, for instance,
that no two Moors will walk together
on the street if the eolors of their robes
are inharmonious, for the Moor has an
instructive sense of colors. The tints
in the gown of the merchant are in
"ltA bAiS
tones of his wares. An American would
probably think he was straining d
point if he took time to regu-
late the color of his attire by
the prevailing tones in his Office or Of
the street in which he walks. The fact
is the oriental does not take time either
to cultivate taste for artistic effects or
to put in practice prescribed rules for
color effects. With him it is d matter
of temperament. The colors of the
Scotch tartan; while very effective in
the soft, misty atmosphere of Scotland,
look crude and are consequently out OF
place in the clear air of France or
Italy. In this country there is an epi-
demic of color riots. At least an es-
thetic foreigner pronounces this lack OF
harmony in color disease. Take, for
example, a combination which is very
stylish at present, that of clear de-
cided blue and a green-not transpar-
ent shade, but green that is glaringly
bright There is absolutely no excuse
for such a combination, but it is one of
the caprices of fashion, and fashion too
often rather than taste or reason sways
most of us.-N. Y. Herald.
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yiolets OH the MRf.

A muff is quite incomplete nowadays
anless decorated with a bunch of vio-
let's, real or artificial If yours is of
fur and you can not fasten the blossoms
thereon without harm to the skin, stick
them In the knot of ribbon that sus-
pends the muff from your neck. An
other way of overcoming the difficulty
is to pass ribbon through the muff.
tie it in bow on the outside, and at
tach your posies thereto.-N. Y. World.
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Why 1t Was.

Husband-Why do your clothes cost
you one hundred dollars more this year
than they did last? Aren't things
cheaper?
Wife-Yes, dear. that's just it. There
are so many more bargains -Elmira
Telegram,
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linen Skirt Lining,

Unless one can afford good quality
of lining silk, the best skirt lining is of
linen. 1t is substantial enough to cause
the dress to hang properly. 1t wears
well and slips on and off easily. Linen
dress foundations in all shades may be
had, and the silk dust ruffie may be
added to give the desirable rustic, -
Chicago Tribuna
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IA how called on a merchant co,

"A boy called on a merchant con-
cerning place. 81 want an Office
boy" he said, in reply, 'if can get
the right kind of one. Do you want
a job?" "Yes, sir" responded the boy;
"but before take it I'd like to know
if there is any chance of promotion. :"
WELL" said the merchant, thoughtful
ly, that depends on the boy. The last
one we had here owned the whole
place before he had been with us sixty
days~
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-22
MR.. LOUD HEARD FROM
A Strong Defense of the Postal
Subsidy Act.
1t Has Been the One Means of Build
ing Up the American Merchant
Marine.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2l-Representative
LIQUIDS speech during the consideration of
the Postofice appropriation bill was one of
the features Of to-day's proceedings in the
House. He said: THE Democratic party
was, and it is safe to assume still is, op-
posed to the so-called postal subsidy act.
The very same gentlemen who have sup
ported the wholly inexcusable. unjustfiab BILE
and iDiquitous subsidy Of $4,000 for this
Southern mail service deelaim upon the
floor with tears in their eyes that the postal
aid law was unconstitutional and a robbery
of the masses for the benefit Of the pro-
tected barOns; but even the most bitter op-
ponent of that measure cannot deny that it
had its inception in that truly beneficial
policy, the encouragement Of American in
dustry, of American homes and American
labor. No one can deny that its object was
to encourage and foster that industry
which is the pride Of every true American
our decaying merchant marne-and with
out this law you would be unable this day
to hear the busy sound of the mechanics
hammer upon one Of the finest steamships
in the world soon to 1oat-a monument to
Republican courage and statesmanship."
Mr.. Loud quoted from the re port Of Post
master-General Wanamaker and from the
House Committee on Postoffices and Post
Roads in support of his opinion that it was
inadvisable to discriminate and to grant spe-
claI privileges to railroad lines for carrying
the mail.
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PREPARED TO FIGHT.
One of the Dangers of Interfering
With Burglars.
How a Robber, Who Was Also Ready
to Murder, Had Narrow Es-
cape From Lynching.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

LEECHBURG, Pa, Feb. 21.-This town
was thrown into the most intense excite
ment this evening by an attempted bank
robbery and the murder of a prominent
citizen in trying to capture the burglars.
One of the men was captured and narrowly
escaped lYnching.
Some boys saw five men trying to force an
entrance into one of the back windows OF
the Leechburg Bank building and they gave
an alarm to Constable Collars. S. S. McCul-
Tough and Councilman William Schafer. The
three men hurried to the building and just
as they arrived one Of the burglars came out
and was ordered to surrender. The burglar
drew revolver and fired and Schafer fell
dead, shot through the heart. Mccullough
returned the fire. and while the shooting
was going on a great number of people col
lected. The man who had shot Councilman
Schafer was caught and hurried to the
lookup, and at least 100 citizens formed
themselves into posse and started after
the other men.
The murderer was locked up and the
prison was surrounded by crowd of armed
men. and threats of lynching were freely
INDUCED in. But cooler heads prevailed,
however, and the crowd dispersed. But
little can be learned about the gang that
did the business, but 1t is certain the second
burglar was wounded and the chances for
his capture are good, as the whole town is
securing the country for him.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-22

what are termed pension abuses, and Smith
In particular believes that he has call to
work reform in that particular branch OF
the public service. He is also in accord
with the well-knowD economic ideas of Mr..
Cleveland, and naturally wishes the new
administration to be spared the embarrass
ment of being confronted with a deficiency
so large as TO prevent the carrying out of
those ideas.
Mr.. Smith was in Washington and in
close consultation with Democratic leaders
close to Mr.. Cleveland both before and i'm
mediately after the announcement was
made that he was going into the Cabinet,
and the fever for pension retrenchment has
followed at once upon those consultations.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-22
WRECK OF THE READING.
Tom Platt Does a Little Lying About
the Matter

New YORK, Feb. 2l-The Wall-street
comm isson houses as a general rule are
advising clients that, as the situation looks
unsettled, inactIon for day or two would
probably be the best policy. The opinion
is freely expressed to-day that the monetary
situation may become acute by the end OF
the week.
A. j. Antelo, one Of the Reading board OF
managers. says the Readings floating debt
is only Sc, 000,000 half of which is held by
SDeyer & Co., New York. and the other
half by Philadelphia capitalists, and all
secured by collaterals deposited with them.
Ex-senator Plat, who applied for the re-
ceivershp. is quoted as saying: Neither
j. Perpont Morgan nor the Vanderbllts
have anything to- do with it."
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 21.-The receivers
of the Reading road met the general officers
OF the company this morning. President
Mcleod said the promised statement of
Readings affairs will not be issued to-day.