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Mrs. Mitchell and tell her he must see her
Immediately. He would await her in the
library.
With eyes round with astonshment the
little maid fled as from the evil one. She
walked the lady and gave her the roses and
the message. And he's terrible in earn
est," she yentured to add Hes got awful
news for you, / guess"
Paul walked the floor like a eonqueror
while he waited, but the moment he heard
the soft approaching footsteps sudden,
awful fear seized him and threatened TO
tai Ike his life outright, but he reSolutely faced
his task.
Marian he demanded sternly, II am
a dull fellow and not good at jokes. Tell
me what you meant by your story last
night l ain the boy who sent you that
valentine. You are now, as you were
thenand always have been the one woman
in the world to me. Tell me!f and he
seized her hand Ibid you know?''
Mrs Mitchell had keen sense of humor,
and the situation OF being routed out OF
her early morning slumbers for the purpose
OF hearing proposition of marriage from
a gentleman arrayed in conventional even
ing dress and with the manner OF u robDer
baron OF the Rhine nearly oyercame her.
She hid her face in his arm. Paul, dear,
she managed to murmur, will you never
understand? Don't you see? You would
not see, and couldn't make you see, and
so / told the story-on purpose"
AS MI Van Orm was about to take his
seat at the breakfast table, something i'll
the appear rance of his guests arrested his
attention. He paused, still standing, and
contemplated them with an air of keen
solicitude. His wife gently suggested to
him to sit down, but ne remained trans
fixed and oblivious to all hints.
What is it, my brother, that makes you
hold your head as if you owned the world?
A nd you, Marian, friend OF my boyhood,
what causes that pinky bloom upon Your
erstwhile pailid cheek?''
Charles, don't make yourself ridicu-
lous and EN- barras sing" pleaded his
wife.
MY dear, a mans house is his castle. Ii
there is anything sly or hidden or mysteri-
GUS going on there, il is his right, his
privilege-nay has duty-to investigate
it, And he waved the carving knife
sUggestively.
Don't get oratorical," laughed Mrs.
Mitchell, growing more rosy. 1T is moth
ing -only-Paul and i have just proposed
To each other
nd we have been accepted" proudly
added her lover.
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of them, and a really poetic little verse.
This is it. Listen:
For thee, sweet lady, sweeter than the
rose,
More pure than purest lily-chalice
white,
These buds We're gathered in the morn
ing light.
Thy lovers heart, sweet lady, with them
goes
She rcCited the silly little verse in a
voice SO vibra mt with feeling that it
made Mr.. Van Orm grin under his mus
tacie, but Paul Jarvis leaned forward,
listening intenrly.
Wasn't it pretty and delicate?' size
asked. And just laughed over it''
She had risen and walked to the door.
She paused and hesitated a moment, then
turned Her face was pale as marble, ana
her blue eyes seemed to bum.
Yes, l laughed them she repeated
in half defiant tone, but time brings
its reyenges, and now-now would rather
get that same valentine from that same
boy and know that in the rough way of
this world there was one heart really
true TO me than to receive anything else
me-
Jarvis sprang up. "Marianr' lie gasped,
but size was gone. He sank back in his
chair, feeling weak and utterly foolish.
My distinguished brother, it seems to
me that for an intrepid soldier who can
chase the Indian over the plain and the
lying agent can bind with chain you ap.
pear trifle floppy.''
Charles, be still! What is it, Paul?''
his sister asked, in tones of sympathy.
''oh, nothing" he answered, weariIy.
! q think l had better get to bed. | am
not yet used to your unholy hours"
After he had gone Van Orm turned to
! to his wife: Jeanne, the mans in love. "
! He announced it as sduden and wonderful
| discovery. Il know the symptoms. He is
/ hit nard, and. Jove, wish himluck! Marian
! is a woman worth winning, and, what is
! saying a great deal, he is worthy Of her.
! 1t is a case where can do the bless you,
my Children act with clear conscience
| Yes" he added, with renewed conviction;
"yes, he certainly is in love-
His wife looked at him with a pitying
smile. She began to speak. then checked
herself. Why deprive him OF the pleasure
| of thinking he had made a discovery of
| something which she had long perceived?
( She only said, do you really think so?"
in aninscrutable tone as she began her slum-
brous journey toward her chamber.
! But Paul Jarvis had no thought Of retir-
ing. He paced his room, living over all
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ABOUT PRESENTIMENTS.
Prof. Newbold Gives Some Curious
and Novel Experiences.

Il
and Novel Experiences.
Are so-called 'presentiments' real and
should heed be paid to them? These are
questions incidentally discussed by Prof.
William R Newbold In hs paper on The
Interpretation OF Automatisn'' In the Feb
ruary Appletons Popular Science Monthly.
Prof Newbold gives some personal expert
ences. Nine times in the course OF his own
life he had what is called "presentinent.
He says: Eight times l wrote it down
at once before lea rning whether it was
true or false, and the ninth time spoke
OF it, Three OF these We're false, one was
partly true and partly false, one was not
verified, but probably false, All these
related to subjects much in my thoughts,
and were probably suggested by circum-
stances Four were true, OF which one
might have bcensuggested by circumstances.
The other three were not only true, and
not apparently suggested by circumstances,
but We're among the most agitating ex-
periences of my life. One drove ME, in spite
of the resistance of my reason, TO take
Journey which seemed the act of lunatc
and proved the wisest thing l could do
Another impelled me TO W rite letter to
a person $50 miles away, to whom l had
written a few hours before, but who hap
pened to be in great trouble at the moment
felt the impulse. The third gave me ahso-
lutte assurance that the very thing was
about to happen which l believed tobe of
all things most impossible. | do not, or
course. quote these few experiences as
proving the existence of teiepathy, but
merely as illustrating what / mean by 'ap-
parently telepathic phenomena The vast
ma iority of apparently supcrnormal Pile
| nomena are susceptible of telepatlhc ex-
! planation but in a few cases one is driven
! to other conceptions.
Sometimes knowledgeis is shown ofevents
| not known to any one. and other times
! percipient will seem to see things at
distance, or to become aware of events
remote in time. These phenomena are
| ascribed to 'clarvoyance.' precognition'
and 'retrocognition They are much less
| common than those of the telepathic type,
and the evidence for them is by no means
/ AZ Good ~
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his past, cursing the cruel circumstances
which had made him rough and unpol
ished, then thanking God that he had at
least lived clean life, if not civilized
one.
When morning dawned he left the house
and strobe up and down thestreets, anathe-
matiZing the shiftlessness of the florists
because they had not already opened
their shops.
a plethorjc German flower vender, with
obviously old-fashioned, early to bed and
early to rise notions, finally appeared, and
was nearly startled into apOplexy by the
sudden entrance OF a tall, distinguished
looking man inevening dress who demanded
his roses, "all of them,'' with regular
money or your life air.
Laden with his purchase, Paul strobe
home and commanded the sleepy little
housemaid, whom he encountered in the
hall, to take the fragrant armful at once to
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a $4,000 PRACTICAL JOKE.
1t Cost the Joker and His Victim
Nearly Its Face value in Anxiety.
(From the New York Sun }

(From the New York SUM-
Stewart W. Denison, clerk in the EN-
ploy OF the American Sugar Refining Com
pany, went into the Gust ON house on Tues
day afternoon TO pay the duty on two car
goes of sugar. He had with him check
for ST $3.50. 40. 1t was what is known
as custom house transfer check, and was
drawn on the Bank of New York. In the
rotunda Denison stopped to talk TO Broker
John T. Rafferty,, of the firm of j. W. Mas
ters 6 Co. Denison laid the check on u
desk in front OF Rafferty,, and as Edward
T. Barrett. an employe Of the custom house,
went by Rafferty, picked up the check in Il
joke, and, handing it 10 Barrett, said:
Here's that money 1 owe YOU"
Barrett stuck the check in his pocket
aud with hurried THANK you'' went on
about his business.
few minutes later Denison, who had
not noticed Rafferty's act, turned to pick
up the check. Not finding it, he became
very much excited and ran around the
rotunda wringing his hands and crying
out that he had lost q check for $4,000.
Rafferty,, who had no idea what the paper
was that he had handed to Barrett, was
now as badly frightened as Denison. He
confessed that he had attempted joke MI
the two men went out after Barrett. They
didn't find him until late that night, and
then Barrett didn't remember what had
become of the paper. He finally recalled
that he had jammed it in his overcoat
pocket and there it was found.
When Collector Kilbreth heard Of the
incident he was very indignant and said
that he didn't want such goings-on around
the custom house. He has always been OPP
posed to skylarkng, and it is said that he
will summon both Rafferty, and Barrett be-
fore him and give them lecture ON the
subject.
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FAMINE AND PEsTILENCE.
Dangers Attending the Plague Now
Prevalent in India.
From the London Spectator.)

(From the London Spectator)
The news of the week from India is
bad and sad The plague in Bombay is
spreading fast, and the official reports
show that distress, already acute or deep
enIng into famine, extends over popula-
tion of 81 100000, more than that of all
European Russia, and it is doubtful IL the
worst is yet foreseen, the local governors
being more alarmed than the central au-
thority. The number of persons on relief
works is already 100000, will reach
100000, and may, says the vieeroy, ex-
ceed 5000, 900 during the worst time. The
government, therefore, which already ex-
poets to expend f6 ,00O,0 900 and will have
to expend a12, 100000, is willing to dis
tribute famine fund TO be raised in Eng
land, which on Friday afternoon, reached
10000.
The accounts OF the plague in Bombay
grow worse and worse. The disease does
not diminish in virulence, though half the
population has fled; while it has broken
out III the great port OF KurTachee, ,inPo oona,
the great Mahratta capital, and in
great number of smaller places"
Even the money-lenders Of the baZaars
have fled, trade is nearly paralyZed. the
means Of burning the Hindoo dead are in-
sufficient, the Mussulman dead cannot be
properly buried, and their cemeteries are
full of exhumed bodies; while so deep is
the general terror that the native doctors
either fly or refuse to touch the sick The
government is alarmed for other capitals,
especially Calcutta, where, owing TO the
nature OF the soil. good sanitation is ex-
cept.onally difficult, and il is discussing
the possibility of a desperate step-the isO-
lation of Bombay, which means, of course,
ruin for the time.
The fact that the pest is diffusibIe, which
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enough to appreciate real, unadorned worth
They want little pomp and circumstances
withit he was gentleman and Iwasa-
MINK
Marian a mink! That is alliterative,
but it isn't fact. You can't convince us,
even with your winged words, that you
were ever a mink, whatever mink may
be- said Van Orm, with tone of con,
yiction.
.Is that the 'retort courteous?' Paul
flashed a look of interest. 1t pleased
him TO have her quote his friend Touch
stone.
but let me tell you about the yalen-
tine" she persisted. 1T was not the con-
ventional heart OF the dart affair, with in
sipid rhymes of love and dove and gilt
Cupids and lace paper 1t didn't even de-
clare that he was my valentine. 1t was a
heavenly basket of roses, dozens and dozens
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For Seeley Dinners.

"Yes, sir,' said the supervising archi-
tect of the new hotel, THAT room is
4Ox60 feet, perfectly lighted and ventil-
ated, and yet so arranged that no living
man can get into it unless he has the COM
bination. It's absolutely burglar proof -
But holy smoke, man. We don't need
any such vault as that protested the pro-
prietor.
vault? Vault? Who said anything about
yault?" retorted the man of skill. THAT
Is the bachelor supper-room. Chicago
Journal etaH.
The morning times., 1897-02-14

only, and not outside OF Italy, where it
is the product of the skill of generations.
Not only is macarom made here, but the
more difficult vermicelli, and that delight
of all foreign and OF many American
palatcs, spaghetti, and these are sent TO
all parts of the country. Experts alone
can distinguish the difference between
the Detroit-made article and that from
over the seas.-Detroit Free Press.
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An EncOred Valentine
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES:
BY Campbell Pendleton.

Mrs. Van orm's reception had been a
great success The mob had gone now,
Lut the family still fingered in the de-
serted drawing room TO refresh themselves
with a little real conversation after the
faiguing phrasemaking of the evening
There were only four of thenl-the host
and the hostess, pretty, qmet little Mrs.
Mitchell and Mrs Van Orm's brother,
Paul Jarvis
The men had claimed the privilege Of
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was not the case in the last London out
burst, is most ominOuS. asis the news which
comes from all sides that the smaller ami
mails, pigs, goats and rats, and even poul-
tly aud pigeons, are plague-striCken. The
calamity is most awful one; to our mind
more awful in the concentration of its hor
ror than even the famine. If both should
strike any district, that district will be
a charnel house. There is another danger,
too, Immediately at hand-Europe will boy
cott India.
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SUICIDE FROM A BALLOON.
A Rejected SuitOr's Drop OF 1900
Feet Into the Water.

The body Of Manuel Perez, who lost
at Key West, Fla, says the St Louis
Globe Democrat, was recovered from the
bag there, but it had been so mangled
by sharks and fishes that it was almost
unrecognizabIe. 1t was at first thought
that Perez lost his life as the result OF
accident, but developments show that, re-
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A Pa Storal Call.

REV Mr. Skylark has had a $1,000
call"
"Whew! From New York;
mo: from the teacher of the infant
class, who says he promised to marry
ber''-Plain Dealer.
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Bars Not Yet Closed.

He-So you reject my proffered hand,
cruel girl? l have nothing more to live for.
she-Oh, don't know. The bars tio not
close for half an hour vet. cincinnati En-
Quirer.
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Had the Same Legs j..

'.You won't win that race again-that is
not as good wheel as the one you rode
s'Never mind; these are the same legs that
/ had last year."-Chicago Record.
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The New journalism.

what dis I heah about yo' goin' into
junnelism, Ephrahaim?'' We'll, Mistah
Black, we done issued a yaller kid cullud
supplement- Gown at Duh hous las week,
dat's all. Indianapolis Journal.
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-Seguramente va no me recordara ": 70

-Seguramente va no me recordara ": 70
soy Pepito.
-sPepito?
-Si, aquel que una vez tropezo con su Sc
fora Sc rompi6 las narices.
"A la verdad, no recuerdo NADIA de ESQ.
-iQu6 ha de recordar! 81 hace de este la
friolera de nueve amos.
listed me confunde, pues en- esa epoca
yo era adn soltero.
NO, no, es ell mismo, Don Antonio.
-Niunlliach.
~Cabal
-sY que es 10 que le trae aquf?
-Pues NADIA, que deseaba verlo.
@iQuiere pasar adelantes
Mil gracias .. iHombre! prop6sito:
no olga que abuse de su buena amistad; pero
como deseo ir al bale de las flores usted
tan complaciente, espero me facilite casaca
los zapatos, 81 tiene una corbata blanca
mano, 49,. lie quedarfa agradecidfsimo.
-Lo siento, caballero; mi traje hace dos
meses 10 comprometf con ese mismo fin.
-Entonces, perd6neme la molestia.
NO hay porque.
-Beso usted la mano.
-Vaya usted a.... paseo.
-Senorta, permitame un breve instante.
-;Qu6 le pasa; Sc siente usted acaso in
dispuesto?
mo, es Que'..
Motto en- usted una turbacion muy mar
cada.
-Demasiado marcada senorita; 20 soy un
infeliz.
--Esto es un enigma; no cntiendo NADIA de
10 que me dice.
-Mire, ffjese...
-Ja, ia, ia, ja!.... iqu6 es eso?.. us.
ted vestido de torero.
Jay! Senorita, no Sc burle asi de un
desgraciado -. . los faldones de mi casaca Sc
me han desprendidos con el sudor porque esta-
ban pegados.
90 ia, ja, ja....
-iPor Dios! sea usted un POGO mas COM
pasiva, que va la pareja que viene detr;s me
tiene desesperado.
Els que yo.... ia, ia, ja!
Esto es atroz! mo Sc puede tolerar!..
mi chistera convertlda una sinfonfa.
Y 20 he encontrado una que no me pasa
de la coronilla.
En- cambio 20 he dado con csta que esta
hamante me queda mejor que la que traje.
-iOh, la metam6rfosis de los tiempos mo
FRANCISCO LOPEZ Sanchez
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Ell CORONEL LAGuNA

Esta muy bien, amigo Lopez, que ell pats
manifesto grandes simpatfas por Gel Goberna
dor Cristiano> que es el tipo que representa-
don sabas Marin, tipo muy aplaudido por los
pafses civilizados en- ell siglo XIX.
Pero es una ingratitud no aplaudir nj pre-.
miar los que ayudan secundan al General
en- su obra exceptional en- Puerto-Rico.
Conocf al coronel Laguna hace va cerca de
veinte aflos, en- casa de un extranjero, poderoso
ent6nces, de gran Influenza, abogando por
los adelantos materiales del pats; desde esa
epoca hasta ahora, en- ell derribo de las murallas
siempIe leno de buena fe apoyando ell tan de-
seado como aplaudido proyecto.
iPor que, pues, va que hay 4oenido Da-
recuerdo para este buen ciudadano?
Debo decir usted que ST soy conocido del
senor Laguna, pero cuando me encuentra, unas
veces no me solt7o y otras tanepoco.
No es amistad la que me mueve, sino
;usticia. a.-***
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NOTICIAS

~. Ell bale que tuvo lugaf anoche en- Ell
palacio de Santa Catalina, pesar del NAL
tempo que reinaba, result6 brillantfsimo, como
todas las festas organizadas por la distinguida
generala Marin. Nosotros sentimos de todas
veras no haber podido asistir a tan agradable
reunion. La concurrencia fue extraordinaria y
en- ella tenfa representation 10 mas granada de
Ma sociedad capitaleha. El frente del palacio
estaba alumbrado con profusi6n por focos cleo
tricos artfsticamente combinados; las escaleras
y los amplios salones del palacio vefan ador-
nados con exquisite gusto, y el general Marin y
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-05-18
Ant9s del bale, en- e| bale
y despueS del baiIe.

-kso es mas que descaro; empe1ar toda
la ropa para conseguir dinero; veremos despues
con que traje vas la ofcina. ......
-Estoy en- un compromise con ell sastrc;
quede en- llevarle ell importe de la hechura
del frac esta tarde, antes esta mi palabra
que todo
--si, ESQ es hoy; pero mailana empezaran
los clamores tendras que ir a la ofcina de
etiqueta.
-:Y que? en- altimo case Sc va, no serd
el prlmero; ademas me queda ell recurso de en-
peiiar ell frao despues del baile y con ESQ tendr6
bastante para sacar mi traie de alpaca. =
-lras en- faldetas empcnarlo.
-Todavfa tengo amigos que pueden
servirme en- apuro.
ESQ 10 veremos.
Maestro: aquf lie traig 90 este trabaio; pc
ro le advlerto que 10 necesito para ell bale de
las flores.
-iBueno ~ que dcsea listed? 49,
-Serfa usted capaz de sacarme un frac de
estas dos prendas? mite, una chaqueta de to-
zero y unos pantalones.
-Esta uste loco? no We que ESQ serfa hace,
un ridfculo.
NADIA, NADIA, quede como quede, 10 ne
cesito con urgencia y creo que usted cumplirl
mi encargo.
-iPero don Celedonio., mire bien 10 que
hace.
En- que quedamos, ilo arregla usted (
no?
va que usted 10 manda.
Con que va sabe, para el bale de las flo
res, sin faltar.
-;Don Antonio esta aquf?
-Servidor de listed.
lola Don Antonio!. . ique tai Y la ia
milia? icuanto deseaba tener el placer de vi
sitarle!
-Pero. J. susted quien es?
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Old, martires del est6pagO

Del D;ario de Jazisco, Gaadalajara (Mejico)
En- Ahualulco de Mercado., estado de ia
lisco reside ell senor Enrique Garcia, persona
muy estmada por sus dotes de hombre verfdi-
CO, honrado inteligente. lie aquf La relaclon
que ha hecho recientemente ell senor Garcia.
<Poco mas de cuatro amos hace que venfa
padeciendo de una gastralgia terrible la
cual no tuve sino un sufrimento continue du-
rante largo tempo. Desde principle con
oportunidad acudf uno de los mejores medi-
de esta poblacion, qulen con verdadero en-
peno viendo 10 expuesto que estaba quedar
este estado tai vez para siempre, me atendio
debidamente aplicandome los mejores medica-
mentos que crefa TITLES. Despues de largo
tempo viendo que en- lugar de mejorar en-
peoraba, hice viaje especial a Guadalajara,
para yer ST ALA encontraba 10 que tanto deseaba
mi salud. Estaba abrumado por las circuns-
tancias tan peligrosas por que atravesaba. Ell
apetito me faltaba, pero NADIA podfa conner
poruue no consentfa mi estomago nj 10 mas
mfnimo, pues con la mas insignifcante cosa que
comfa me atacaba al est6mago un cruento do
lor que era cosa de desespersr. A este Sc 81
guieron insufribles dolores de cabeza con ell
gusto amargo que constantemente tenfa en- la
boca, Sc me hacia la vida una carga pesadfsima
En- Guadalajara me estuvieron curando al
gunos mGlicos de los mas eminentes, pero en-
los ocho meses que pase aquella ciudad,
ninguno Sc comprometi6 4 proporcionarme
mas que un alivio temporal. Viendo que sola-
mente en- temporadas cortas me sentfa mejor,
regrese MI casa detil y sin esperanzas de una
curaci6n radical, por mas que tuve la precaucion
de traer conmigo metodo curative. Deses-
perado va resuelto pasar toda mi vida en-
constante agonfa, fuf persuadido que practi
case ell metodo que ira jje de Guadalajara, pero
al cabo de un a1o persuadido de que mi NAL
segufa en- ell mismo estado, determine abando-
| narme por complete y dejar que sc minase gra
dualmente mi existencia.
AAf estuve padeciendo hasta que dfa
amigo mfo llamado Guillermo Bayardo
observando 10 lastimoso de mi situaci6n, Sc
| empen6 mucho que tomase las Pfldoras
Rosadas del doctor Williams para personas
palidas. Creyendo que esta medicina tras
| taatas que habfa tornado no me harfa NAL,
compre una botellita tengo que confesar que
obtuve exito excelente. Comenc6 q tomarlas
| seghn recuerdo en- Septiembre de 1895 Ell
efecto de las pfldoras fu6 tan maravilloso, que
aun no habfa acabado el primer pomo cuando
| ell dolor habfa desaparecido por completo; mi
| est6mago comenz6 4 funcionar luego y desde
entonces no ha ocurrido novedad alguna. He
seguido tomandolas no dudo que las Pfldo-
| ras Rosadas del doctor Williams me salvaran
| la vida. Nunca dejare de recomendar tan
| meritoria medicina
Atestigua la veracidad del case ell senor
Lucas l.. Guevara que es persona muy conocida
| estimada en- Ahualulco. Dice ell sehor Cue
vara que las Pfldoras Rosadas del doctor
Williams Sc venden mucho en- SD botica y que