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ST. LOUIS. Aug. n.-Results of today's races:
First race-For threeyearolds and upward;
selling; one and one-sixteenth miles. Gilbert o..
Woods, 6 to 5, won; Joe Grady Qiorse) to 5,
second; Sadie Levy (E. Matthews), 40 to l, third.
Time, 200 ga.
Second race-For three-ye -olds and upward;
one and one-eighth miles. Celtic Bard (Gil-
more), even, won; Brdgeton q. Woods, to 5,
second; Kitty Clyde Dale, Is to l, third
Time. 1865 Ia.
Third race-For three-year-old and upward;
selling; six furlongs Graves (Yanduzen), to 2,
won; Veloce Fallehey), 40 to l, second; W. b.
Ga.es (CrowhursD, to l, third. Time, Ills IA.
Fourth race-rhe Missouri Selling Stakes; for
two-year-oids; six furlongs Wall (Dominick), 2
to /. won; sard (Dale), to 5. second, Adelante
q. Woods, to 8, third. Time, 1:15 "a.
Fifth race-Handicap; for three-year-olds and
upward; enc and one-sixteenth miles. Haviland
(E. Matshews), to 8, won; ohnet Oominick),
to 2, second; Pinochle (Yanduzen), to l,
third. lime, AS
Sixth raee-For threeyear-olds and upward;
selling; one mile. Danish DOminiek), to J.,
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HARLEM. Aug. 1i.-Entries for Mondays "a

HARLEM, aug 1l.-Entries for Mondays races:
First race-For two-year-old maidens; five fur
longs.-Jack Doyle, liz; Oscar Tale los, Fork
food 1Os Baldwin's entry; Propeller, Jos; Lenox
II. lOS Shut Up, 1885, Bengal, l05; st. Bluff, l05;
Icene lO5; Galanthus, lO5-
Second race-For three ear-olds; selling; mile
and seventy yards.-Thomas Carey, 103; Ben
Chance, l02; Gold One, I02; The Bobby, o.; Nit
ten, OF; Maharaiah, %; Vain, 90; Rosadiah, 05;
Aloha IT, %; Hansford, 05; Irish Jewel, 3d.;
owensboro. 80.
Third race-Steeplechase; short course.-Lord
Chesterfield, IA; Passe Partout, l39; Reno, 135;
Viking, 100; Sir Dick, 125; Last Past, l25.
Fourth race-For four-year-olds and upward; six
furlongs.-Boney Boy, 116; Abe Furst, u2; Her
mos I12; Sim w, 100; Headwater, 100; Crosby.
10s; &. 7. Cation, 100; The Lady in Blue, lO7;
Rival Dare, 107.
Fifth race-For two-year-oIds; FIVE and one-halt
furlongs. -silverdale, lis; Miss Bennett, lis;
Fancywood no; Tyr, los; Sad Sam, 100; Jano-
wood, 100; Bonnie Lissak, 100
Sixth race-For three-year-olds and upward;
one and one-sxteenth miles.-Nobleman, liz;
Star Chamber, 10l Quanah Parker, l0l; Malaise.
90; Scarlet Lily, 90.
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ST. LOUIS, Aug. rl.-Entries for Mondays
races:
First raee-For three-year-elds; selling; one
mile.-Two Armies. no; URcle Steve, III; sprSre,
l0I; J,iGsS J. Riley, no: ManiieaPiercc, los; FL
Caney, IA; Irema, los; Glen Lake, ll0; Terra
lene, Banealore. los; 1eeking, HJ7; Minute Gun,
10
Second race-For four-year-olas and upward
selling; mile and iurlong. Chorus Boy,
John McElroy, Lurday, 1G; Colonel Gay, l0T;
Governor Boyd, Ransom, Willie Price, Howitzer,
Uncle Jim, l0i; Feloce, l0T; ice Grady, 101;
Eleanor Holmes, I02.
Third race-For three-year-oIds aAd upward; SIX
furlongs. -Benham, 119; Charlie OBrien, 1l2;
Silent Friend, Loves Labour l15; Necklace, Al
Lone, III. sE1s
Fourth race-For three-year-olds and upward;
selling; one and one-sixteenth nijles.-Laureatc,
los; Sir Rola, 107; ida Ledford 81; Crockett, l02.
Fifth race-For three-y ear-olts snd howard;
six and onehalf furlongs.-Bnghtie B.. So; Ban
ish, %, Triaditza, 1914; The Getzer, IS; Diana
Fonso, 81; Lord Neville, Ill.
Sixth race-For two-year-olds; five and ore-
half furlongs.-Margaret F., no; Bfumist, 1lS,
Premus, 112; Mrs, Grammar, no; Monos, Wall,
Tony Lepping, Robert, ir., 49, D5fothy Lee,
no; Mr. Smith, ll3.
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ONE NEGRO KILLS ANOTHER.
Wan With Gun Tells Different
Stories About the ShoOting.l


NEW YORK, Aug. 11-Frank Davis, a
negro bootblack. nineteen years old, was
shot in the head at o'clock this morn
ny, by Henry Young. sixteen years old,
also negro, and died an hour later in the
New York Hospital. The shooting occurred
Just in front of the offices of l. Mendel q
Sons. COS and Go West Twenty-ifth Street.
Davis Young, and another negro, Willie
Thomas, sleep in Mr.. Mendels offices and
guard it from robbers and thieves, who in
the past few months have been very ac-
tive in the neighborhood Davis worked at
the Twenty-third Street ferry of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, and the two other ne
groes work wherever then can.
y few minutes before O'Clock this
morning Policeman Husick. who was walk
ing along Eleventh Avenue, near Twen-
ty-fifth Street. heard a shot close by and
turning the corner, saw the negro Davis
lying on the ground in front Of the Men
dels' Offices and Young standing near him
with a smoking revolver in his hand. A
short distance away he found Willie
Thomas. Husick arrested Young and
Thomas and sent fer an ambulance for
Davis. who was unconscious The details
OF the shooting told by Young do not hold
very closely together. Thomas, who was
detained as a witness, Will say nothing.
Young says that he and Davis were trying
TO fix the gate out in front of the Men
dels' yard
He had the revolver in his hip pocket
and fearing that ii might catch on the
gate and go off he took it out. Then it
went of, shooting Davis in the back Of
the head a few minutes later he told
another story. He said that as he was
holding the revolver in his hand DAVIS
called him some name and then the re-
volver went of.
Louis Mendel said this morning that he
had given the revolver to the three young
men to use IN case of the appearance of
any burglars or thieves. He said that the
weapon was not to be carried by any of
the negroes. bat was to be kept at hand in
the Office in case OF emergency. Young
will be arraigned today in the Jefferson
Market Police Court.
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THE RACING CALENDAR.
Results mt Highland Park.

HIGHLAND PARK. Arg. n.-Results of to-
days races:
First raee-For all ages; six furlongs. Spring
wells &C. Wilson,, to 5, won; Rallston H.
Thonpson), Q to ), second; Doublet (Coburn), 6
to s. third. Time, 1:12 81.
Second race-For two-yearolds; five furlongs.
Gray Dolly q. Daly), l to ?, won; The Copper
(Coburn). ! to 2. second; Bill Massie (PosteD,
to 2, third. Time, 02.
Third raee-For e-yearolds and upward;
selling; one mile. McGrathiana Prince Q.andry),
to 9, won; Kitty Regent (Coburn), 0 to 2, sec
ond; Lady Of the West CA. Weber,, TO 5, third.
lime, 1:4l.
Fourth race-The Oakland Handicap; for three
year-olds and upward; one and one-eighth miles
Bell Punch (Coburn), to l, won; Free Lance
(Powers), to 5, second; Chaplin "a. Weber,, 8
to 5, third. Time, 1854.
Fifth race-For two-year-olds; seliirg; Eve fur
longs Compass Q4andry), to 5, wo1 Lizzie A.
q. Daly) s to {, second; Donna seay CPosteD,
8 to l, third. Time, 1:01 IL.
Sixth race-For three year-olds and upward;
selling; six furIoDgs. Quaver Castro. to 2,
won; Pel Nell a. Daly), 5 to 2, second; Crinkle
(Robertson), to 2, third. Time, 1:l5 IL.
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Entries Mt Highland Park.
HIGHLAND PARK. Aug. 11--Entries for Mon

days races:
First race-For three-year-olds; seven furlongs.--
Alfred yargraye, no; Left Bower, 10; Royal
Sterling, 100; Hermencia, 102; Lottie sheville,
100; Mound Builder, %; silly Fox, 90.
Second raee-For .wo-year-olds; four and one
half furlongs.-Gray Daily, 10; Mudder, l07; Ida
Queklime, 107; Pierre j.. l0S; Handit, 100; G.es-
sig. 100; Tempt, 100; Virginia T., 100; Lightning
Flash 100.
Third race-For three-year olds and upward; six
and One-half furlongs--Winepress, Jos; Come
Quick, lO5; Tortugas, l0f; Gold Lack, 100;
Crinkle, 100; Glad Hand. 81; Lizzie Mccarthy, 81.
Fourth race-For three-year-olds and upward;
selling; ore and one-sxteenth mles-Sir Florian,
JOG; Kitty Regent, lOi; Miss Al Farron, 1915 Jessie
Jarboe, l0i; Emil lola, 90; Gun Cotton, 90; Ia
Zanene, So
Fifth race-For four -year-olds and upward;
selling; six furlongs-yiscount, lO1; saivado. 10' ;
Trocha, 10Y; Logan. Laudem1n, 104; Rey salazar,
IOI; l.. W., 104 Charley Heels, l0i; Cavotte, l02;
Vim. Rose lO2; Annie Teuton, l02; Niolak, l12;
Lottie Hunter, 102; Spaldy Y, 102; MaranthA
II, 102.
Sixth race-For all ages; six furlongs.-Zanone.
ia; Foneda los; Doublet, 81; sagacity, 9'j
Terminus So
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a FATAL BOILER ExPLosIoN.
Three worl<men Killed and n RuiId-
ing wrecked.

PORTLAND. Me-. Aug. ia boiler at
the Portland Gas Light CompanY's works.
on East Commercial Street. exploded at
1880 this forenoon, killing Engineer dob
crt Moles, Will;lm Carry pipe litter ard
assistant engineer. AMI William Case,
overseec Of the yards. The cause OF tie
explosion has net yet been dsce-tailed
The toiler was Of fftT horsepower, NSnd,
with two engines. was ii one story brieA
structure in the centre of the yard. When
the workmen from the other departments
reached the wrecked building they found
Carry standing in the middle Of the floor.
shouting for help, his feet pinned down
by the debris so that he was unable to
move them. The flames were nearing him
and the air was full of hot dust and smoke.
A man secured a rope and attempted to as
sist the struggling foreman. but the heat
became unbearable, and Carry expired be-
fore the eyes of his ellow-workmen.
The other men were evidently instantly
killed.
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same instant at distance of less than
fifty yards. Newman was shot through
the heart and fell dead. Taylor was sh5t
through the body near the gToir.
a party Of men conveyed him in a
vehicle TO Coleman jail, where he was
placed in a dying condition in his old &c
last night. Pierce Keaton and Jef Taylor,
a brother of Bill, are under life sentences
for the killing OF the fireman in eonnec-
tion with the hold-up
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BATTLE OF PITCHERS.
philadelphia Has n Shade the Best
of Luck, and Wins.

CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-Philadelphia won
tiful pitchers duel. Taylor was as good
as Donahue and both were in good form.
An accident gave Philadelphia one run,
line drive from Delehanty's bat leaping
over GREEN'S head by an eccentric bound,
and a three-base throw by Bradley gave
the Quakers their other run. The score:
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HAwLEY's RETURN TO FORM.
The Giants Pitcher Keeps Reds Hits
We'll Scattered.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 1.-THE Cincinnatis
continued their light hitting today and
were shut out in easy style by Hawley.
Three hits scattered in the second. fifth,
and eighth innings was the best the Reds
could do. Hahn also pitched a good game
and was very effective after the first two
innings. The score:
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MADE MONKEYS OF BROOKLYN.
Hushey's Great Pitching Gives Vic
tory to ST. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 11.-Brooklyn was never
in it today, being completely outclassed by
st. Louis. Kennedy was easy to hit, while
Hughey was az enigma throughout But
for Burkett allowing Jennings fast rap
to get by him in the eighth inning the
Superbas would have been completely shut
out. The score:
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Stolen bases-F Clarke. Duffy, O'Brien Two
base hits-F. Clarke, Freeman. Three-base hits
Ely, F. Clarke. Home run-Wagner. Sacrifice
hit-W. Clarke Double plays-o' Brien and Will
liams; W. Clarke and Lowe; Ritchey (unassisted)
Struck out-By Chesbro l; by Lewis, 3. Bases on
balls-of Chesbro, ); off Lewis, q Wild pitch
Chesbro. Umpire-o'Day. ATTENDANCE, l00
Time of game-l hour and 30 minutes.
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AMERICAN ATHLETES WIN.
Tewksbury Takes the 12O-Yard
Handicap mt Glasgow.

GLASGOW. Aug. 11.-At the Celtic
sports held here today ]. W. D. Tewks-
bury, of the University of Pennsylvania,
won the 120-yard handicap from the yard
and half mark, in u seconds.
M w. Long, Of the New York Athletic
Club, won the quarter OF mile run in
so AS seconds,
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Two-base hits-Robinson Three-base hit-Mc-
CURE. Sacrifice hts-Heidriek, McGraw. Donlin
Bases on balls-of Kennedy 4, off Howell l, off
Hughey l. Struck out-By Howell l, by Renne.
dy 4, by Hughey /. Stolen bases-Daly. Umpire
-Emslie. Time of game-2 hours and IS min
utes Attendance 700
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How the Clubs stand.
GREAT FIELDING BY PIRATES.
Circus Plays by Pittsburg Cause
Boston's Downfall.

PITTSBURG, Aug. 11.-Pittsburg's cir
Gus plays defeated Boston today. Ritchey
made a double play without assistance and
Beaumont was carried off his feet while
making a running catch of Hamilton's bid
for home, run and actually stood on his
head The score:
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Two-base hit-Gieason Three-base hit-Hick-
man. Double plays-Gleason and Doyle; Kahoe
and Steinfrldt. Struck out-By Hahn, 2; by Haw
ley, !. Bases on balls-Off Hahn. /; off Hawley,
/. Wild pitch-slahn, /. Umpire-Swartwood.
Time Of game-1 hour and 40 minutes.
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Two-base hits-Delehanty, Thomas Sacrifice hit
Taylor. Struck out-By Taylor 8; by Donahue.
2; Bases on balls-of Taylor, /; of Donshue. 1.
cRids s nPd Nc6oeK f Frt ba ae on Dsenan
Chicago, L; Philadelphia, !. Umpire-Terry.
Time Of game-1 hour'and SO minutes
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delay in Ordering Heuricb's beer, this is tho
very time you will want something TO stimulate
and give you strength during this hot weather.
Phone 6Si. Arlington Bottling Co., for a case.
OF Maerzen, Senate, or Lager.
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won; Triaditza o. T. Woods. to 5. second;
Malay q. Woods, TO 5. third. Time. I:42 II.
Seventh race-For three-year-olds AMI ~ ward;
one mile Libhie (Dominiek), to ) yoa; Two
Armies q. r. Woods. 6 10 5, second; Eugania
S. (E. Matthew'S, to ,, third Time, 1:fS II.
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IN THE BASEBALL WORLD.
Games Yesterday.

Pittsburg, 5; Boston, /.
Philadelphia, 2; Chicago, 0.
New York. 1; Cincinnati, 0.
st. Louis, s.; Brooklyn. 1
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New York at Cincinnati
Brooklyn at st. Louis
Pittsburg at Chicago.
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Get the Washington Mirror this morning.
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N~0S
Ms.!E
~

on this account, spoon diVlnation is IN
high favor among the rural bellies.
JANUARY.
1t Is very appropriate that this should
be the first month of the year. as far
as the Northern hemisphere is concern
ed; since its beginning near the win
ter solstice, the year is thus made to
present complete series of the seasonal
changes and operations, including equally
the nrst movements of spring, and the
death of all annual vegetation in the
frozen arms of winter. Yet the earliest
calendars. AS the Jewish, the Egyptian
and Greek, did not place, the commence
ment of the year at this point 1t was
not done till the formation of the Ro-
man calendar, usually attributed to the
second king, Numa Pompilius, whose
reign is SCI down as terminating ammo
672 B. c. Numa, it is said, having de-
creed that the year should commence
now, added two new months to the ten
/ into which the year had previously been
divided, calling the first Januarius. in
honor Of Janus, the deity supposed to
preside over doors Qat, janua a door,.
who might very naturally be presumed
also to have something to do with the
opening of the year.
Although, however, there was a general
popular regard to the 1st Of January as
the beginning Of the year, the ancient
Jewish year, which opened with the 18th
or March, continued long to have a legal
position in Christian countries. In Eng
/ land 1T was not till 1852 that the lst of
January became the initial dav of the
legal, as it had long been OF the popu-
lar year. Before that time it was Gus
tomary to set down dates between the
Ist Of January and the 24th Of March
inclusive, thus: January 80, 1859; mean
ing that popularity the year was 1859.
but legally 164S: In Scotland this de-
slrable change was made by a decree
Of James VI in privy council, in the
year 1900. It was effected in France
In 1864; in Holland, Protestant Germany,
and Russia, in 100; and in Sweden in
1883
The deity Janus was represented by
the Romans as a man with two faces
one looking backward the other for
ward, implying that he stood between
the old and the new year, with a re-
gard to both.
In the quaint drawings which illuminate
the Catholic missals in the Middle
Ages, January is represented by "the fiG-
ure of a man clad in white, as the TYNE
Of the snow usually on the ground at
that season, and blowing On his fingers
as descriptive of the cold; under his left
arm he holds a billet of wood and near
him stands the figure OF the sign
Aquarius, into which watery emblem in
the zodiac the sun enters on the 18th of
this month "
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On the principle Of beginning the year
we'll it has been customary in many,
countries to select New Years day as
most suspicious for matrimony, and In
deed remnant Of this custom is found
among ourselves, for no day is more
highly favored in this regard than the
1st of January. Many kinds of tests are
made by girls to ind out when and to
whom they are to marry.
The French peasant girl borrows her
mothers wedding ring and suspends it
by q hair from her own head, holding 1t
as near as possible to the inner Kim Of
a teacup. Then she counts, as RAPIDLY
as may be, the number of her own wears.
The tremulousness of her. fingers causes
the suspended ring to sway to and fro.
Another notes while she is counting the
number of taps of the ring on the tea
cup. and these betoliens the years of
single hlessedness that lie before her.
In the country districts of Germany
and England there is q tea and coffee
test, which has tho merit OF limiting
the years to a number SO reasonable
that any girl should feel satisfied with
the result. AS conducted, according to
Gunter, this test is as follows: A tea
spoon is carefully balanced on the edge
Of cup; then another spoon is partly
filed with tea or coffee, which drop
by drop, is allowed to fall i'll the bowl
Of the balanced spoon, until the bowl
outweighS the handle and the spoon falls
into the cup. The merit of this divina-
ton lies in the fact thaI one or two
good-sized drops will destroy the bal
ance and cause The spoon to fail, and,
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ENNSNN-~-cSNc-N<NC
We Have Many Wonderful
Things to See Here at Home.
ARTICLE NO. 7.

Chicago, st. Louis, st. Paul, Helena and
San Francisco.
Do you want to see a country where
every prospect-that is nearly every
prospect-pleases and each one has q
chance, where schools are free, where
religious tolerance is the rule and whero
the home life is the bright guiding star?
Travel over the United States.
There are no ruined castles no cities
entombed in the dust of centuries; no
crumbling moss-covered temple walls,
nor broken columns in our land sug-
GestiVe of extinct life and glory, of sad
ness, crime and death; but more sublime
than any pathetic old world ruins are
the massive, weird and eloquent battle
ments, fortresses and architecture of the
Western mountains, whose lofty SUBMITS
masquerade with the Clouds European
distances are mere steps when compared
with the strides necessary to cross our
domain from ocean to ocean and from
lakes to gulf. Where in Europe can you
ride as in America, for not only hours,
but days, through cultivated fields,
blooming prairies, and grassy plains, dot
ted with lowing herds and flocHs and
respondent with homes?
Our whole Union is so flied with
natural and acquired loneliness, with
scenic and historic interests, that it Is
strange an American should visit any
other country before doing" his own.
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"Vanity Fair"
"The Magic Skin. -
Famous B00k@>

heights of an assured social position.
Radon &Crawley Is her final prey, the
successful victim of her matrimonial
ventures. Having secured him. she is
moro at liberty to be herself, to cease
the strain of concealing her real nature,
in her home at least. To the world she
is still an actress. and the world does not
find her out until It has suffered by
her.
The environment is which she is placed
fashionable England of the beginning
of the century-offered g. great field for
the genius of 'rhackeray. He portrayed
it with marvellous, sustained skill through
the long, Ieisurely, many chaptered novel.
Not q foibis of fashionable life escaped
him, not one weakness of human nature,
not one faley Of thu gay world.
His satire plays like searching light upon
the canvas His humanity does not miss
tie pathos sometimes lurking under the
hard, bright surface Of events. lie DOES
not forget that some women are tender.
that some man arc brave Neither does
he pass eternal Judgment upon his char
acters. In his dealings with those fse-
qnenters Of Vanity FAIR" there Is sons-
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NEW YEAR IN BELGIUM.

One amusing custom is found in Bel
GUM. There on Sylvesters day, the eve
of New Years day, the children strive to
secure a sugar uncle" or sugar aunt"
as the relative who falls a vistim to their
wiles is technically termed, says the
New York Herald On that day all the
children of the household enter into a
solemn conspiracy for the mutual good
at the expense of the unwary adult whom
they may entangIe in the meshes of
their intrigues.
They employ every artifee to get one
of the older members OF the household
under lock and key. Early on that day
the keys Of all the doors in The house
have nlysteriously disappeared. They
have been secreted by the children. who
retain them, ready for instant use when
ever the occasion shall occur Then the
strictest watch Is maintained to the end
that some unsuspecting one may be alone
III room. An uncle enters q room to
search for the paper which ne has mis-
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THE TABLES TURNED

eve air here tonight said the deacon,
''to make good resolutions fer the new
year, which has fell foul of us in the
twinlllin of an eye. Now [ want to
start the ball a-rollin'. You all know
that I've got high temper, an I've
did considerable fightin' in the year
that's past an gone like a man that
owes you $40. What 1 want to do is to
swear off from fightin' in the new year,
which. us l have said before, has fell
foul of US. But I can't stop till I lick
Brother Jones, cos it's in me to lick
him, an ! wants to ease my conscience.
Eff he'll Jest step outside with me fer
five minutes, III lick him an then
swear off for good
They retired to the outer darkness,
but in less than five minutes the deacon
returned, much the worse for wear.
Il can't swear of this time, brother
in he said. He licked me"-Atlanta.
Constitution.
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VANITY FAIR.

VANITY FAIR.
This is one OF the few great novels OF
the world, and perhaps the only novel of
society that ranks as a classic, as
perfect and complete embodiment Of
those peculiar forces and conditions en-
braced IN the term fashionable" AS
the sub title states, 1t Is without a hero
Inc. The central figure OF the book Is
that chef-d oeuyre, the immortal, inim-
table, magnificent. Becky Sharp, the
transcendent type Of social strugglers,
the cleverest, most immoral woman IN
the whole range of fiction. From the
hour when she losses Johnson's diction-
ary, the last gift Of her teacher, out Of
the window of the Sedley coach, to her
final appearance on the stage Of the
novel, she never fa1ters the bluff game
she is playing with society. Her victims
are numerous. her success with slight ex-
ceptions, is unimpeacfabIe. In constant
contrast to her Ia pretty, pink-and-
white, aniable Amelia, all love and trust,
Becky'e school intimate and first pro-
tector. On Amelia and Amelia's family
Becky first climbs towards the d!axy