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sol at the unfortunate person whom have
mentioned and said sweetiy, Teddy, dar-
hnS, that poor man would be very glad
u lie had nose TO itch" All / did was
10 ask her name and address and for
ward them on postcard 10 the editor
or the Spectator. But after performing
lhls obvious duty, / fell To meditating
on The high standard of morality that
Is expected or children. When a grown
Up person declares lie has such a head"
10 stern moralist bids him be thankful
mat he has head 10 be such" per
maps IL Is merely that there is no guiIlo-
tine 10 point the moral Anybow chill
dren are constantly being told (poor dears)
that this thing or that is an occasion for
lhanktulness, when it must seem to them
10 oe precisely the reverse. / speak as
fool on these matters land, in order to
anticipate criticism, let me add on a good
many othersl but / do not believe in
obiruding morality on children TO apy
great extent
Morality is mixed up with death and
sorroW and all sorts of things of that
KIND. Surely IL and they might be ignored
Tor few years. And then children have
flne natural taste for straightforward
Wlckedness; conscience doth not make cow
arcs or them, and they break window
panes with an acute and most enjovabIe
CONSCIOUSNESS OF crime. Every parent
should invest in a few window-nanes.
theE cost a tTlIle at the moment but he
WIN be repaid 900 per cent later on.
when he NBds a friend IN his son and no
dark memories Of past austerfty Ia sIaIJ
between them. As for daughters-but T
DO not suppose that anybody could Ina
austere TO daughters. AT least ] can't
PLEA SITR Il
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Copyright by David Christie Murray
1887

Copyright by David Christie Murray,
1889
Very nearly quarter OF a century ago
with an officer of the English police, who
at this hour fills a position of high trust
at Scotland Yard. At the time of which
l write he was sergeant in the force of
a great provincial city; smart, alert, am
bilious, and reSoIute To get on. He and
were in one or two big things together.
I had got wind of a gang of Russian forg
ers on one occasion, and was playing de
tectiye on my own account, when the ser
geant received instructions to watch the
same gang. We met, understood each other
and combined our forces. Ny silence as
when at last we bagged our men we each
had an exclusive" We were engaged
together in conniving at the escape of as
Thoroughbred swindler as might have
been found in the British dominions. There
wasa reason for this connivance which may
some day make the story worth telling. 1
lent the sergeant an informal aid and
countenance in the capture OF a des-
perate defrauder in his bedroom at the
Queens Hotel, and narrowly escaped being
shot for my pains. When l went rowling
about the slums Of that great provincial
city, as / did pretty often, the sergeant
was my frequent companion. And when
at last he gained his hearts desire and
was promoted to London. i was the
only person In whom he confided the fact
that the audacious capture which secured
his promotion was due to chance.
1 have never made notes of these mat
ters, and the names of the people con-
cerned in this adventure have long since
slipped my memory, but the facts are clear
enough
In the year 1871, and long before and
after. manufacturing jeweler, in large
way of business, kept shop in st. Paul's
Churchyard, on the right hand side as you
go westward. The commoner kind OF work
was done at Birmingham; the better and
more valuable jewelry was the product OF
skilled hands employed in small workshop
in Clerkenwen. The private clientele of
the house was small, but the business trans
acted with "the trade was probably as
large as any In London. Only one CONNER
cial traveller was engaged, a Jewish gen
tleman. man of exemplary character and
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stands as highest authority on the subject,
both abroad and in her native land. Her
book, Tried by Fire volume dealing
with ceramic art, has been accepted as a
textbook at the South Kensineton Art
Museum. and the thanks of the lords of
the committee Of council OF education
have been conveyed TO the author.
Mrs. Frackeltoh began her labors with
grinding her clay IN coffee mill and rolling
1t out with her pastry roller She is now the
head OF a large manufacturing business,
which turns out all sorts Of American"
colors and appliances for the art. Here
home talent Is encouraged on every side.
and her Own sex Is given every benefit In
the counting room, store, artroom, studio,
and worlrooms teachers and students are
all women, and they have even taken the
place of kilnmehll when necessary.
This distinguished art worker has been
the recipient of diplomas, medals and prizes
galore, aud although she is one Of the fe "
OF her profession who has never set foot
on any continent iHlt her own, she is being
constantly houored by substantial recog-
milton from other countries for every stage
OF her art, from the clay to the firing, in
kiln OF her own Invention, which is in
T.
only American who has received a foreign
medal for ceramic art She has declined
an offer from The Mexican government ofa
place at the head OF n national school of
ceramic decoration. at the Antwerp Ex.
posltlou, last season, she was medaled
Tor her American gold, bronzes and colors,
as well as her china painting. Eight awards
were her share at the Worlds Fair, besides
the gold medal for the "Frackeltou jar
notable bit of pottery designated as the
"best art salt-Glaze produced TO date in this
country," and which had the honor of be-
Ing the first article sold in the, womeu's
Department
But her latest discovery is the use of
water colors on china, something unique
or Its kind, and with which she is going
to introduce many novel effects
Born in Milwaukee, which is still her
home, Mrs. FrackeIton is OF old New York
aud New England stock, with strain of
Quaker blood, and she is American to the
backbone. She is intensely patriotic, and
her lienage stretches back to Colonial nd
Revolutionary times
She has charming home in her native
CITY, but She travels occasionally, and last
winter she passed in New York city, where
herstudio GU Fifth avenue was the gather
ing place of many uotables in art circles
She is pre-emiuently feminine i'll her tastes
ana ways, conscientious and devoted in her
domestic life, a warm friend and helpful
one.
or late she has devoted her time and en-
ergies to the fornatio of clubs and classes
aHover' the Uuioni to further the no Wedge
ann practical work of pottery. She looks
forward to the gradual development of a
natlonalschool o. mineral painting, and she
has Journeyed from Maine to California
DreacilinC her cncnn1 nf hnnIltr
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rest, aud esconcing himself in one corner
OF q secoud-class smoking coInpart rtment and
five minutes before the trains depart
ure he fell asleep. At Chalk Farm he
was dimly aware that somebody got into
the carriage and then he slept again. BE
was half way to Rugby before he
awoke. His felow-passeuger was seated
in the opposite corner at the far corner of
the compartment, and the sergeant sur
veyed him unipterestedly, through scare
opened eyelids. 1t was Jewish gentle
man of neat and dapper aspect, with
and cheeks and chin clean shaven. He
smoked cigar, and read a railway novel.
but every now and then he seemed to awake
to sudden interest in a hat-box, which
was bestowed in the light luggage net
ting overhead and at such momentshe would
Screw himself round and look upward, as
II he had half-feared to find itspirited away.
Now" said the sergeant in telling me
the story, "it's curious thing, but this
is what set me to thinking. When was
kid, aud right on to when 1 left home,
my old mother never let me go to bed
without reading chapter out of the
Bible to me. 1 never got bit o. good
out OF 1t, as fur as / remember, but I
never got no harm anyway. / hadn't
thought of the words for the best part
of fifteen years, but when that chap had
looked at that hat-box maybe q dozen
times, they came into my head, as plain
as IL person had spoke 'em in my ear.
Where the treasure is, there will the
heart be also" And "what have you got
there, my frieud?" I says 10 myself:
II wonder" BY and bye the sergeant had
something else to wonder at The jew
ish gentleman drew off q welLfitting
glove or tan-eolored dogskin, and began
to finger his cheeks and chin with a very
delicate carefulnes His faaa. toolz a
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SNRANGE SUICIDES

A Paris Shoemake Extraordinary
Reason Tor oeif-destructIon.
Paris working shoemaker, named
Chapeau, committed suicide on July % for
an extraordinary reason. He was found
dead i'll his room su9ocated by the fumes of
a charcoal stoyes4 On the table was found
a letter, in which he said: For ten years
pastI have been saving up to buy a really
pretty china table service, which has cost
me 115 francs. 1 had promised to inau-
gurate it by a dinner to my numerous
friends in the neighborhood; but as l have
not the means ofSpApvlding a good feed, 1
have resolved toSsdIe. In order that my
friends might not be w holly losers, however,
l desire that theissrsice may be distributed
as here set DOWN., EThen follows list of
the friends among whom he wished the va
rious parts of the service divided.
The Irony of Fate, Indeed
Inc other day at Brunn, the capital of
Morayla, a journeynaD baker and his sweet
heart determined to commit suicide together
oy drowning themselves in the Scwarza.
The young man was out Of work and sa w no
prospects of being able to get married.
Tue couple carried out their fatal resolve
aud their bodies were found in the river.
Ihe pockets of the young man were searched
and I'D them Were found florin and lottery
ticket. A few days afterward the dra wing
for the lottery took place, and that very
ticket turned out to be the winner of 20 900
florins, or about $40 900.
Suicide of French Savant.
Considerable sensation has been caused
In Scientific circles, says the London Ohron-
lcies Paris correspondent, by the disclosure
that Prof. Baillon, the eminent French
botanist, who was supposed to have died
from natural causes, committed suicide.
NJ. Baillon, like Seneca, bled himself to death
in bath. The friends of the deceased
saYant were advised not to publis hthe facts
or the case, so as not to delay the religious
obseQutess
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Buried

We stand upon the cAurChyard sod and gaza
Into the grave OF our beloved dead;
We hear the solemn words of prayer aud
praise;
we mark the yew-trees waving overhead;
We See the sunshine flicker on the gras,
The green grass Of the graves-and
daises white; 7
Adown the lane tae village children pass,
And slyly pause to watch the holy rite.
Deep in the earth upon the coffin lid
Lies the last gift despairing love could
make,
White scented blossoms Tat soon must bS
hid
With all we loved, from eyes and hearts
that ache.
Love, strong as life, was powerless to save
TTe can but strew fresh flowers upon the
grave. 4
Yet in this grave, tear-moistened and new
made,
Where we must leave the happiness OF
years,
May not a worthier sacrifice be laid
Than even our fairest flowers or widest
tears?
If we should bury with the pure white
bloom
A cherished folly or a secret sin,
1t might make hoIier the silent tomb.
Deepen the peace the dead lies folded fn.
on, mute, cold gravel that doth receive ouI
lost,
And with our lost the offerings Of oul
love,
Take these things also; we do not count tbs
cost,
And God in Heaven doth, looking down,
approve.
Sleep, darling, sleep; pray God that diea
with thee -
Which might have parted us eternaHyt
All the Year Round.
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A WOMAN POTTER.

Mrs Frackelton Has Gained Wealth
in Her Unique Profession.
In Mrs s. Stuart FrackeIton is revealed
beautiful and womanly woman, a talented
artist, and the first of her sex in America
10 become a potter The ancient art of
pottery, or modelling in clay, has always
been esteemed In foreign lands as one of the
most valuable branches OF artistic industry,
but in America Mrs. Frackelton was one
OF its pioneer devotees. Step by step she
has advanced, self-taught from lack Of all
opportunity on this side the Atlantic to
learn her chosen pursuit. until now she
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the servants think about us; we do mind
we pretend TO be indifferent about our ap-
peaiance; we are not We pretend to be
poorer than we are, worse than we should
ike TO De, more stupid than we think we
a1e. We pretend that others have virtues
which we do not discern in them, gifts
with which we aIe OF opinion that they
have not been endowed, and a liking for
ourselves OF which they are guitIeSs Ow-
ing TO this systematized humbug the world
is toieiably pleasant place to live in. For
a man with an aVowedly good opinion Of
hlnSer, OF one who displays anxiety as to
the impression he is making or who openly
outIages the walters feelings, or who tells
you the exact figure of his income or ex-
plains the power Of his mind, may be sincere.
Dut is an outrageous person. He might as
welI go about without trousers because he
happens to have a good leg These PIE
tencesare the garments, clad in which " ecan
with pIopriety take our place in the human
show loom. BY all means let us wear them
ana take them off only when we are alone.
NO doubt some people sleep in them and
they, being never removed, as it were grow
10 the skin and become monstIousIepi
deImis that smotlIers the real man till he
himself can no longer see what manner of
man he is. This is humbug in the soul and
The worst disease that canafflict q mortal he.
lng-far different from the graceful de-
PiSNluhhOh VI Ou1StlSGby lUe courteous and
moderate oVer-appreciation of others and
the smiling tolerance OF what comes. that
happily blended, make good and quiet
manners.
Many duties are laid down for us that
are very hard TO perform; for example it is
very hardto be good. But it is by no means
difficult to be disagreeable. That is a
duty-if 1T be allowed to be a duty
fatally easy to perform. Yet surely
some arc disagreeable from a sense of
duty; no merely natural propensity could
account for this profound unpIeasa ntness
Ihere are many perfectly Legitimate motives
for being disagreeable; you have your
tragedy to write and want to be undis-
turbed; you came to talk 10 A and b won't
go; c has said something about you and
you are minded to give him lone for him.
SELF, ID had trod on your corD-well then
If his foot should chance to come in your
way All these reasons deserve respect;
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"HUMBUG." be does not, for his
part, consider that the gossip is " literary"
] dareSay il isn't Literary.is, I suppose,
the adjective that belongs TO the noun
-S9unodGId SOS usqM puB =. 'sInapLalu.,
ment that one book is Literature" and
another not literature" / never know
what The gentleman means ] should like
70 play Socrates and make him explain
his terms ] would refuse most sternIv 10
allow hIm to take refuge behind his talk
about Understandable but unmistakable
touches, and SO forth Such evasions are
worthy only OF q story-teller who. finding
MmseI unable to describe his heroine's
charms tells you that they are indescrib-
albe, lndetlnable, namCiesS, and so on and
bllrhely goes on his way, conceiving that
he has fulfilled the whole duty OF an author
But my correspondent is not OF this kidney.
he knows very we'll what he means by =. lii
eTary gossip he means gossip about lit
erary people, and by literary people he
means people who write books II this be
Really what he wants, nothing is easier
than TO oblige him. Here's paragraph or
Two founded on as good authority, | ven
tnre TO say, as many that appear in contem-
porary publications.
MI Fly, the novelist is q very tail man,
Win sim and elegant Figure He has
small, piercing, dark eyes, and a mass OF
thlck black curls that cluster over a low
forehead caughtS glimpse OF linn at a
party The other night as he was drinking a
glass OF loaSt-aDd-w3ter This habinal bey-
erage), but Mr.. Fly is seldom TO be seen in
LONDON, preferring the seclusion OF the
county We hear that he has leased Chats
worth for term OF three months, and it is
whispered that the rent figures out at
G2,OOO month. After this we should hear
no more OF The woes Of authors MIR Fly's
nght leg is as nearly a S possible the same
Length i as his left. Mr.. Fly has left Eng
land Tor The Continent accompanied by Mrs
Fly and his charming children he viii
reside during August at Florence, having
taken short lease OF the Pitt Palace in
that town. He is hard at work on q sa-
afIcal novel OF modern society, in which
several peIsonages wei known in the West
Emo figure under the thinnesJ OF disguise
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smokers the decensus Averno does not be
cOIneIacills all al once The attitude of mird
here indicated is a good example of the
aseetic point Of view. Pleasure is an open
enemy or a false friend, always seeking
TO attain dominion over US and TO turn
US TO slaves. We must resist its very be
Sinnings, and the Thin edge of the wedge"
plays as large part in such matters as
IL has since the world began i'm political
discussions. In the same book a story
is told OF an Indian fakir who spent
twenty years wandering from shrine to
shrine, ard during that time never lay
down. but slept with his arms supported
in loops OF ropes. At the end of the
twenty years he failed TO obtain some
token OF divine favor that he expected
and, corceiving that he had failed in
some point of obligation, started IL on
second round of equal duration. One
can Only hope that the poor man died be-
fore he had gone very far. But a bed
would have been too delicious, so he
never rsed ore. There is certainly not
now ard probably seldom has been much
need to depounce the votaries of discom-
fort II their ideas be q disease the dis
ease is not very common. When | asked
my friend Mr. Gladboy's opinion OF, the
subject, he observed, after a long pause:
"A wise man does not care about what
he drinks. He does. however, drink what
he cares about" and he declined entirely
10 he drawn ipfo any discussion as to
how much OF what he cares about the
wise man drinks. / suppose the answer
would be as much as a wise man would
drink MIR. Gl8dboy. although he rcfcsed
TO talk. rose and took Epictetus from the
bookcase in order TO show me Tie fol-
lowing passage: in banquets remember
that you entertain two guests. body and
soul, and whatever you shall have given
TO the body you soon eject, hut what
you SHAH have given to the soul you keep
always" 1T is very true. sir" cried
MY attention to the dinner is in an inverse
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peafness Cannon NE curea

BY local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition OF The
mucous lining of the Eustachian tube
When this tube gets inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. and
when ii is entirely closed deafness is the
result, and. unless the Inflammation can
be taken out and this tube restored to its
normal cordition, hearing will be DESTROYED
forever. Nine cases out of len are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition OF the mucous surfaces
We viii give one hundred dollars for any
case of deafness tcaused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
Send for circulars, free.
F. j. CHENEY s. CO.. Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, Toe.
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OF at Manchester, Liverpool. Edinburgh,
Glasgow; when after four or five days
his wife, for the first time since her mar
rage, was Ignorant of his whereabouts,
then things began to grow uncomfortable
and suspicion began TO peer. Not at all
in the direction of the dapper little Jewish
gentleman. He was above suspicion, as
the wife of Caesar should have been Sew
enteen years of unstained fidelity were
not to be rewarded so. But it became clear
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ratio 10 the attractiveness OF my partner"
81 do not imagine said he, 'that Epic
tetus means anything of the kind" How.
ever, a thing may be true, even though
Epictetus did not happen to mean it-not
thai / yentured to say SO to Mr.. Gladboy.
A SAD CASE
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PLEASURE.

S ir J a m e s
Stephen, father
of the late Sir
James Fitzjames
Stephen, on C e
smoked a cigar
and because it
was so delicious
never smoked an
other. This fact
it stated IN Mr.
Leslie Stephens
most interesting
life of his brother.
Apart from lhe
remarkable cir
cumstance of any
man finding Lis
first cigar Cell
p5orc fp,r 4n most
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Some people are
wonderfully good
at using every
occasion 10 incul-
cate a moral les
son. / was pass
ing through Traf-
falgar Square the
other day when |
met, at the same
moment, q an
who had had the
uliSi DiiuuS TO lose
his nose, and a
lady accompanied
b. q sInauboy. As
he passed me the
SIN all boy cried
piteously, Ma,
any nose does Itch
sol" without a
moments hesita-
ton the lady
pointed her para
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] was sitting
the other day on
q tree-trunk in
a pretty country
meadow, PEN
sively regarding
a large board on
which was writ
ten, Have you
tried Trouncer's
II o T sewhips E?
They are invalu-
able 10 Hus-
bands, B" when a
young man Of
respectable but
melancholy ap-
DearaQce an.
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the one intorable thing is person who
is disagreeable from sense OF duty. The
attitude 10 altogether too arrogant for
humanity. The old philosopher says that
one that can live entirely alone is more
or less than humap-he is q god or beast.
The person who ia disagreeabie on principle
is nearly In the same case; but / never
think him god Let us put on our clothes
before We walk abroad aud wear them as
carefully as we canathey soon become like
a well fitting boot: which makes your foot
look well, while you do not so much as
remember that you have it on.
GOOD INfENERYTHING.
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LTTERARY GOSSIP

/ have made these
remarks partly be-
causeIwanted toaiT
my views anddo not
get toonlany remun-
erauYe opportuni ?
ties. but partly be
cause ] desired TO
respond in a becon
ing spirit TO a letter
whichIhayeTeceiyed
NY correspondent,
IT seems, expected
for some reason OF
other II did nothing
to deceive hinl) Il
find three particu.
lar columns filled
with literary gos-
sip, and although hS
admits Il don't SET
how he could very
well help himself
that the Fly gossips.
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From the eardan y, Fac,

Adam-I have got to go out for a while
tonight Eve, and if find that snake hangs
ing around when 1 come back III get a
divorce
Eve-There's one thing you can't do.
Adam.
Adam-What's that?
Eve-You can't send me back tn M
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AftsunderSfood

"Win you love me when am gone?'s
asked Mr. Liuger Longer of his sweetheart
If you'll go soOu," replied the faiths
ful girl, with a yawu.-Exchange- =
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Y eS, Indeed.

You win notice that have you on the
string," said the boy to the kite.
Yes" aus wered the kite. ''And that'R
what makes me soar. ar."-Indianapohs Jous
uaL
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Among all the
"goIies'' Of nov
els which have ap-
poaIed / do not re-
member one or
Tales without
Titles. Yet uheIe
may have been
one, foI many
things happen in
this world without
my knowledge nI
assistance. lfthis
thing has not so
happened il would
be well worth try
ing. OF the book
might be launched
without a name
and declare itself
only if the Ieyie ws
eIe favorable
might in fact
adopt the couIse
now followed by
"a n o n YIN Gus
authors. Yet no
title at all OF at
any time would be
the best, foI titles
are most trouble
some, and il is
siIaBge that no.
body has cut the
knot and bOldlyIe-
lecled them alto
gntheT. There is,
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W Q pretend
that we are in
diffeIentto what
is said about us;
we are not. We
pretend that So
ciety boIes us; it
does not. We
pretend that we
have a very low
opinion of ouI-
selves; we have
not. We pretend
not tOmind what
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IA love affair upset ftm" IIueulIy {,
"a nd even there it's dying out
Indeed, my dear" said Mr. GIadboy.
''Of course rs wrong" pursued Lady
Amy, with q sigh. But one would see a
great deal less OF ones husband"
Impossible" murmured Mr.. Gladboy,
abseutly