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appointment, and over by the grand
staircase is mobile mountain Of
trunks that are forever coming in and
going out.
This place is busy sluiceway,
where the fever of broadway drifts in
continually and anxious men come and
go. and comfortable men watch the
tide and actors hObnob and gamblers
consult and city officials meet their
friends and managers set up the drinks
and thecountry buyers look on and feel
that they are il the swim.
One day there was a strange, soft
odor Of violets in the place that no.
body had ever detected before. This
subtle,i invisible atmosphere settled
down graciously around the, leathern
settees, fioated sidewise over Mary
Jane Libby and drifted into the open
doors of the cafe and barroom. It was
SO gentle that while nobody spoke of
it, everybody was conscious of it.
1t was the new telegraph girl in her
cage at the end of the big bookstand.
She percolated in a mostrextrao ordinary
manner through the network of her in
closure; streamed out, so to speak,
through her wicket, really waited her
self all over the place, SO that the blase
Jim Meade took to one leathern chair
where he could watch it, and Henry
Abbey took to standing in the draught
of it, and Jimmy Kelley tried to catch
it on his sleeve cuff with pencil and
all the walters over in the cafe turned
their heads toward it as they passed
the open door and spilled their coffee
and soup.
You see the apparition was not at all
credible. We had read of such things
but we never expected to see them
methodically planted there in the swim
like bunch of amaranths in a water
ing cart.
All Jim Meade could do was to sit
in that leathern chair and try and
coax himself by sticking his scarfpin
into his gullet that he wasn't dream
ing. Certainly there never was in any
business pen anything quite like that
or quite SO unconscious of it. / noticed
that most of the good fellows who had
to go from one end of the vestibule to
the other and cross the outlook from
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-06-27
AN EXTRAORDINARY HALIRUT.
1t Weighed 245 Pounds and Was Speared
by Fisherman.

A few days ago there was landed at
Stronness. Orkney, a halibut of extraor-
dinary dimensions, measuring eight
feet ten inches in length and weighing
no less than two hundred and forty
five pounds, says the London Field.
The fish was discovered by two lads
who were engaged in hauling lobster
creels at the back of the Holms, dis
tance of about mile and half from
Stromness pier 1t was observed on
the sand apparently asleep, and as
they had no appliances with them
with which TO attempt a capture they
marked the spot and returned home to
acquaint their father. Armed with
kind of harpoon, TO which line was
attached, they went back to the place
and found She huge fish haGnot moved.
Carefully watching an opportunity the
father succeeded in planting the har-
poon in the back Of the halibut. The
weapon entered the spine and rendered
the fish powerlesS, but on account of
tits size and weight it was only after
considerable difficulty that it was got
on board. In its stomach was found a
variety of small fish which weighed
upwards of six pounds. 1t was at once
carefully packed and dispatched by
steamer and rail to the London mar
ket.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-06-27
BOOKS AND WRITER'S.

FLAMAARION, the well-known French
astronomer and the author of
"Uranie," says that he will write no
more novels.
THE late Lucy Larcom never began
her proposed sequel to her pleasant
'.New England Girlhood," and the
book is now to be written by near
relative.
THE new editions of Shakespeare
still pour forth from the hurrying
presses. The Warwick edition is
the newest one in England. This is
what is called ''a reasonably expur-
gated one" for use in higher schools
and colleges.
THE pope has awarded a gold medal
to Scotch Protestant author, Prof.
Ramsay, of Aberdeen university, and
ordered his book, entitled The Church
in the Roman Empire Before 10 A. d. >"
to be placed in the reference library of
the Vatican.
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was wasting her time.
The fact is this girl, with her superb
neck that would require a Rives to
write about, and her arched eye
brows that were like the moral law,
and her searching look of innocence
that was like disembodied conscience,
so bedeviled, hypnotized and tangled
up the state of things at the hotel that
it began to have the sober air of
Quaker meeting. Even Henry Abbey,
when he went to get the morning
papers, they lay very close to her.
hummed a strain of Nearer, Ny God,
to Thee" and some of the politicians,
who had to do business at the stand,
slipped their big diamonds into their
pockets for the time being. All the
fellows who worked the races and the
pool rooms went somewhere else with
their dispatches and the mashers who
sent violets found out that the cock
eyed news agent at the stand always
wore them in his button-hole.
Then it was that the proprietor Of
the hotel began to perceive the
truth, and one morning there appeared
behind the wicket gaunt girl with
red fingers and skinny hair and Rhine
stone jewelry. She had little gray
eyes and wore glasses. and Harry Lee
swore she wore pantalettes tied round
her ankles. l think this was irony.
She winked her gray eyes and worked
her long red fingers and chatted with
everybody and she knew her business.
Then the corridor recovered its euui-
ibrium. The good fellows breathed
easier; the cheering smash of the
trunks greeted the ear once more. The
walters spilled no more potage. The
jocund dawn broke again on the ambi-
ent air. The new girl took a cocktail
herself at lunch time and left the glass
with the lemon in it where everybody
could see it. AS the proprietor proudly
remarked: There was no Venus of
Milo, Salvation Army Sunday-school-
Venus-rising from the sea nonsense
about that girl"
The hotel was saved. Business was
business.
And the other girl?
Heavens. have l got 20 tell that?
Well, she married the cock-eyed pur-
veyor of Mary Jane literature.
NYM CRINNE.
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THE OLDEST.

THE oldest artist known to be still at
work is Mrs. Foss, of Washington, who
has been married sixty-six years.
THE oldest locomotive engineer is
probably Albert Johnson, of Raleigh,
n. c. He is over eighty, hasa pension
from the company and likes to tell how
he ran the first enginesin Raleigh.
THREE of the Oldest in Eu-
rope, Gladstone, De Giers and Bis
marck, are the most commanding iig-
ures in its three greatest empires
And the venerable kossuth, almost as
old as the century, is an inspiring
presence in a fourth.
WHEN Jefferson Davis body was re-
inferred Gen. George Wallace Jones,
of Dubuque, acted as pall-bearer. He
is in his min etieth year, and is the old
est ex-s enator. He was contemporary
OF Jackson, Benton and Crittenden and
something of duelist in his day.
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STARvEuMG COLLEGES.
R3arly Struggles for Existence of Our
Schools and Universities.

Rtarly Struggles for Existence of Our
Schools and Universities.
The American college of the middle
Ysf this century, like its English
5eriginal, ,,existed for the work of the
church. If the college dies the church
dies wass sthe basis of its appeal for
money and influence. Its duty, says
David T Starr sJordan in the Popular
Science Monthly, was to form a class
Of educated men. in whose hands should
HE the representation of the creed. In
ehcNnonths of,ignorant men the truths
of the church would be clouded Each
iwise church swouldt see that its wisdom
BE not, ,marred by human folly.
The kneeds of one church indicated
the needsio others. So it came about
lthatIeach of the many organizations
called.churches in America established
its colleges here and there about the
country; all based on the same general
plan.
Andsas.the little towns on the rivers
and .s,raiiries grew with the progress of
the country into large cities. SO it was
:taoughtGby some mysterious virtue of
in time would grow to be great uni
versities. And in this optimistic spirit
the future was forestalled and the
schools were called universities from
the beginning. As time went on it
appeared that a university could not
be Eadea without money, and the
source of money must be outside the
schools. And so has ensued long
struggle between the American col
lege and the wolf at the door-a
tedious, belittling conflict, which has
done much to lower :the name and dig
nifty of higher education.
To this educational planting without
watering repeated again and again,
east and west, north and south, must
be ascribed the unna turally severe
struggle for existence through which
our colleges have been forced to pass,
the poor work, low salaries and hui
initiating economies of the American
college professor, the natural end of
whom, according TO DR.. Holmes, sis
starvation"
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Overlooked.

Mrs Strongmind about IL start to
the exposition groQnds)-Let me see
here are the wraps, here's the lunch
basket. here's the opera-glass and
here's the bundle OF umbrellas. I
guess We've got everything. and yet
rhilsrep, we haven't forgotten any
thing. have we?
husba nd and Father (standinc meek
ly az the horses heads}-Shau | get in
now, my dear?
Mrs Strongnind-Why. sure enough,
James, l knew there was sonething
isclling,-Chicago Tribune.
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Origin of 4 Common Saving.

The expression, Mind your Ps and
Cs," is Of comparatively recent origin,
dating perhaps from the invention OF
printing. p, d, Q and 5 are letters OF
the same form IN the lower case" (p,
d, q. b., differently used, and the say
ing was 4 warning 70 printers 70 get
their letters in the right boxes. Other
explanations exist; one is that when
wigs were worn ii was difficult 10 be
graceful and remain bewigged. SO that
men were adTnonished TO mind their
pieds feet and queues wigs. y third
is that the tapsters marked 2 for pint
and = for quart against the names OF
men who ran up scores a the inns. and
were adjured by their customers TO
mind their Ps and Qs- The frs, sug-
Cestiou seems the best.
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In A BROADWAY HOTEL.
low a Lot OF People Were Hyp-
noticed by a Girl.
The House Began to Run Itself for tho
Telegraph stand Before the PropTic-
tor Could Tell What Was
the Trouble.
tCopYRIGHT, 1881.

There is an uptown hotel with one
face on Broadway. 1t is, and has been
for several years, a public rendezvous
for politicians, actors, sports and men
about town. It's ample corridors are a
sort Of social bourse from one till half
past three. It's capacious barroom is
the meeting place of good fellows; its
cafe is noted for its potage, its black
coffee and its civilized walters.
Obviously the proprietor is a good
fellow himself and so are his clerks,
attaches and messengers, and even his
bouncer puts Oh gloves and uses moral
suasiOn.
There is, of course, a great big news
stand where the daily papers melt like
the dew of Hermon in the morning,
and Mary Jane Dibby and others of
her kind disport themselves all through
the hours for the unsuspecting mer-
chant from up country. Then there
are leather padded settees on the mar
bic floor where good fellows can wait
for hours for their friends to keep an
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NOVELTIES OF THE DAY.

LACE or embroidery continue to or,
nament the lower parts of the sleeves,
these remaining close fitting.
SATURDAY to Monday parties, as
they are called, are the latest fad in
London. Baroness de Rothschild will
give series OF them at Waddesdon
manor.
a PLEASING variation Of the stereo-
typed question: who IS your favorite
heroine in fction?' has been suggest
ed by a novelist who asks: (Which
heroine OF fiction would you prefer to
take down to dinner?'
SOMEBODY has made the discovery
that the giving OF middle names 10 off
spring IS going out Of fashion This
will be q death blow 20 magazine
literature, where man is obliged TO
have three names and to spell them
all out.-St. Paul Pioneer Press
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that wicket got their umbrellas be
orange peel or ran against somebody
in the most idiotic manner, and Mr..
Harry Lee. who once killed an original
tour-act social drama by sitting down
on his hat in the first actor rather
had it killed by a boy in the gallery
who promptly shouted out: Pop Goes
the Weasel Harry Lee told me that
when he trod on that orange peel and
made 4 sudden descent from dignity to
anthropoid absurdity he was sure he
heard a silver gurgle like 4 chime go
Ing up from that wicket.
The fact is that in less than week,
instead OF that telegraph stand being
run for the house. the house was begin
ming 10 run itself for the stand ac-
cording to some unwritten law.
There was some difference of opinion
in confidential circles as to whether it
was the hair or the eyes, or the curve
OF the neck or the mouth.
My own private opinion is that these
things were so co-ordinated that it was
the height of absurdi,y to specify
them They just melted evasively into
a general concept of girl
Its funny thing, but everybody
down to waiter who spills potage has
in his soul an ideal OF girl, that never
YVES on land or sea, and when he sud-
denly finds her on deck he hardly be-
heves the evidence OF his senses. As
Mr.. Harry Lee observes-ani he has
had al extensive experience-'-a real
girl s always too good to be true
Well, this telegraph operator. in =
plain black dress, began 70 melt the
foundations of the hotel as sunbeam
melts an iceberg. She demoralized the
hotel basis CT things jim Meade
wouldn't take any more drinks because
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Encouraging to n=akir.oa.

"Mr. Yoder, your daughter Irene has
given me her permission to ask of you
her hand in marriage, but before ask
for your formal consent you will
pardon me if make the inquiry, as it
is matter of lifelong consequence to
me, whether or not there have ever
been any indications of insanity, SO
far as you know, in your family?"
you say Irene has accepted you,
Mr.. Hankinson?"
II am happy to say she has"
Then, sir" said the old man. sllak-
ing his head dejectedly, lit is my duty,
as her father, to tell you that Irene is
showing decided indications of insani-
ty."-Town Topics.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-06-27
Merry MUllets.

Tourists visiting the Indian and Ba-
mana rivers in Florida are astonished
and amused at the antics of the mullets
OF those streams. These fish grow to
be five or six pounds in weight and are
famous jumpers. They leap from the
water, shoot three or four feet through
the air, come up again and leap twice
as far, and keep on for half a dozen
OF leaps. each longer than the other.
Now and then mullet takes leap of
fifteen or twenty feet and disappears
1t happens not infrequently that
leaping mullet falls into a passing
post,
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OVER THE RAILS.

EUROPEAN railroads stretch 142, ,6Ss
miles.
An ordinary day coach weighs about
$4,000 pounds; Pullman sleepers weigh
about - 900 pounds
ESG1sE No. 900 or the New York
Central railroad recently made the run
from Rochester TO Buffalo. sixty-nine
miles. in sixty-eight minutes The en-
giueer was Charles Hogan.
TIE street railway company which
owns the lines in the City Of Mexico
has a monopoly Of the funeral bust
ness there II runs special funeral
cars. white for children and black for
adults No hearses are used Mouraers
ride 20 the cemetery IN ricAly-up
holstercd special car.
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Close Observation.

Teacher-Now you see why some
substances absorb moisture. Can any
OF you name a substance which so
easily absorhs moisture that it is near
1yalways damp?
Boy can.
Teacher-Good. Nothing pleascs me
more than an evidence OF careful ob.
servation. What Is it. Johnny?
Boy-Mud.-GoodN News.
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Knew What He Wanted.

Now, madam" said the guide at
the worlds fair, what is it that you
would like to see first of alp"
'Oh, | dunno-let's see. Tommy
dear. what would you like to see
frst?"
The popcorn counter, ma said
Tommy Harper's Bazar.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-06-27
1 Deadly In-uit.

Reggie see you are wathe- gone
on Miss Bullion, ola chap. Do you IN
tend 70 press your sult2
Algy-Pwess ne sn:t2 Why what
do yoa take ne for: blawsted taiiaw?
(Weeps with enao.ian nl--ErsAalSl<n Life
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-06-27

The FIRST bread was made by the
Greeks: the frs. ~indmilIs b. the
saracens.
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Attorneys Pocket Docket.

The Lawyers wade Necum," can be used in any
State and in any court The most complete and
in1exes-an alphabetical index and diary index;
shows at glance just what date lawyer has case
in court; keeps complete record of Of the case.
Handsomely bound in flexible back, convenient
size to carry in the pocket Endorsed by attorneys
everywhere Price of Docket S1.O0 BY mail post.
paid TO any address upon receipt of slO7
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-10-21
ROBBERY AND MURDER.

Masked Men Use Their Guns in Hold
ing Up n La Crosse saloon.
LA Crosse, Wis.,. Oct. 21.-About 8
p. IN. a robbery and probable murder
occurred in the south part of the city
at the saloon and boarding house OF
Joseph Ausfelder. Boarders were play
ing cards and Joe waa behind the ba..
Three men entered with handkerchiefs
over the lower parts of their faces, all
drew revolvers and comma nded Joe to
give up his money. He handed over
$25. Then M of the boarders was
ordered to give up and he
yielded two $40 bills. Next a
little German known as Casper was
called up to turn over what he had. He
laughed and pushed the robber away,
saying: You clear ont and let me
alone" Thereat all three fired at once.
The man who gave $40 was hit in the
leg, but 1t Is not Q serious matter. Cas-
per caught two bullets in the head, one
just back Of the ear and the other in
the neck. He dropped to the floor and
doctors nov attending him say it looks
as though either wound will be fatal.
The robbers escaped.
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AJanior N.poi.on q r,n.pe.,

, Who says that the African race Is not
going forward, that II b not saving, that
II lacks method ana econcfnyand the de-
sire to prepare Tor tbs rainy day9 On
Pennsyfyahia 4venne ii bootblack who
will b Q millionaiss u he lives long
enough 6sHtlsm@n took His chair yes
terday morning and requested that his
s..fl:ussstSsa ", ihinGdasT IN Aarky went
scross the sfEest and rStursned with .
harnnA. AZ A1af Fass aeH Il saf
pess. igsnunt cornfsl piggers,. he
-, 81 T sss II 'sln0a' pss-psy amt " >
3 44nping ther xind from ths fruit ana
nin1stit nSAt lmused1Omesof
~ saoWt6s1& floetaR&t6cS6ved hisslo
70 III kGsskfsst "a
.thAb11enk nsSe6k1sStforAsssn Winh
oeg1p G&sae = aan1
8 )
- EHX - 49,
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THE CITY.

Wheat, 46; flax, 50; oats. II; barley, %
to 50.
Howard Democrat. a.: Mrs. Mary
Casey came up from Madison Monday
night to visit with her daughter, Mrs.
g. ". VanLaningham. She waa accom-
panied by her eon, N. III.
Between thirty and forty couples mot
at tho opera house last svsning and had
an elegant time 70 the music Of the Lake
City orchestra, which played in most de-
iightful strains.
Judge Williamson held q short session
Of court to-day and admitted TO probate
the viii Of the late Olive Stanford, DR..
=. L Clark was officially appointed ex-
ecutor and an order issued for the I'LL
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Personal ETEMA.

DIR Nannestadt went to Woonsocket
by the evening train.
Mrs. Kate Collins, sister of VIM. To-
bin, and children, returned To her home
at Sioux Falls to-day.
tJehn Gilchrist contemplates 0 0 GO
ing to the Soldiers Home at Hot
Springs, S. d., to spend the winter.
Hon. c. B. Kennedy OF Canton and
John e. Diamond OF Sioux Falls came
in from the north on their way home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Phelps Of Santa
Rosa, Cal. returning from the worlds
fair, are visiting in the families of Mrs.
Northrup and w. A. Thomas. Mrs.
Phelps is a sister OF Mrs. Northrap.
Attorneys McGrath and Soper return
ed from Canton, N. B. Smith and wife
and Mrs. johnson from Chicago, Mrs. A.
A. Bartlett from Wisconsin and Mrs. 8.
Douglas, sister OF Mrs. Beai, from Chi
clgo.
Mrs. Chas. Jones returned from Row.
ard this morning whittier she had been
to visit her folks. Mr.. and Mrs. Jones
will son take up their abode in the new
honse being built for them opposite the
w. T. Stearns residence, south OF the
Normal school ground.
Departures for the worlds fair this
morning were VIM. Lee, A. w. Hol-
bridge, John Cline and a number OF
young men from the country. Other
passengers from neighboring towns,
we'll known in Madison, also bound for
Chicago, were p. HI. Mccormick, Agent
Price and wife, Lake Preston; DR.. Sedg-
wick, Bryant; j. B. Cameron, Artesian;
L. II. Radcliffe, Howard.
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THE CH URCHEs.
Order OF Exercises at the Different
Houses or Worship Ina this City
TEN borrow

OWs Oh WOFsnlp IN tmls GHtx
Tomorrow.
BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. T. Babcock will preach at the
Baptist church both morning and eye-
ming. Sunday school at noon. Y. P. u.
at T:30.
GRACE CHURCH.
1890 a. M, Morning Prayer with SER
mon. Theme: .Christ-The Ultimate
Source OF Satisfaction" 12 M, Bible
Glass and Sunday school.
Litany service with Lecture on We'd
nesday evening at 7:3o. All persons are
cordially invited to attend and take part
in these exercises.
NJ. E.. CHURCH.
Class-meeting at 9:45 a. m. Sermons
by the pastor morning and evening.
Subjects: Morning, "New Years Greet
ing" Evening, 'The Gospel of Hades."
Sunday school at II M. Junior League
at $3.50 p. m. Epworth League at $50,
led by Miss Mira Clark. The public
cordially invited.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
"Our Anchor" will be the theme of
the morning sermon by the pastor. At
the evening service at 7:3O o'clock the
Rev. Geo. Williams of Mitchell will
preach. Subject, "No Exodus Without
q Miracle, or. The Deliverance of the
Israelites in. the Light of the Monu
ments." Sabbath school at noon. Y.
T. 8. @. Z. at 6:35 p. No., led by Miss
Fitch. Everyone cordially invited.
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Lost d Valuable sstch..,.

Dallas. Tex, Oct. 2l.-James T.
Dargan, vice-president of the Security
Mortgage and Trust company of this
city and prominent in iSurance and
financial circles, was robbed of d satchel
containing $4,000 in negotiable notes
ms bonds on the Texas and Pacific
train between Dallas and Longview
Junction. He was en- route from Dali
las to Atlanta, Ga, and the satchel was
stolen from his berth in a Pullman car
while Dargan was asleep. Other pas
sengers also suffered losses by the thief.
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Chicago Grain and Provisions.

CHICAGO, Oct. 20, 1893.
PENN PRICES.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. csc; May. 72Hc.
CORN-October, 3Shc; December, $3.50;
May, <2Nc.
OATs-December, 27h; May. siNc.
PORk-January, Sl4.35.
LARD-January, Ss.373.
SHORT RIBS-January, $7.z7N.
CLOSING PRICES.
WHEAT-October, 621sc; Dece nber. 844Sc:
May, 7lzS072c.
CORN-October $3.50; December. 3s3sc: May.
42AOlzssc.
OATS-October, 2shc; December, 2S3sc; May,
31ss1slAc.
PoRk-October. SlB.oO; January, $l4.3.
LARD-October, S9.75; January, $s.31h.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 2l.-The standard bred
norse show has ended SO far as Mime
sofa is concerned. The state has a total
OF III premiums out of "a. Jay Ladue,
Luverne, Z; ID. j. Cameron, Lacresent,
|; IL. T. Watson, Minneapolis. /. and
j. A, Rutherford, Austin, /. Total
cash prizes, 81, 100, and medals.
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Overfastidious Taste.

Men overfastidious in their choice Of
tea have been victims of their too vivid
i~maginations. One man objected to a
brand Of tea purchased by his wife, pro-
nouncing 1t weeds" and accordingly
selected a choice kind. His next cup Of
tea was pronounced perfect. The color
was good, and That's q cup of tea for
YOU was said with emphasis as he drank
the second cup made from the weeds"
his wife had bought.-Good Housekeep-
ing.