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The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
What Grieyed the Bride.

The bride of brief month crouched In a corner of divan-crouched among her gorgeous pillows, while the bitter tears streamed down and stained the delicate fabrics. This was the end of her young ambition, her brave efforts to made life one grand sweet song. AS she uttered one last sigh of despair her mother entered the room and flew to the divan, casting her arms about her prostrate child.
 My darling girl, what is it?" she cried. "Confide in your mother. What is 1t that thus wrlngs your heart?"
 "N-nothing, ma; n-nothing. B-but it Is all over."
 What Is all over?' questioned the mother in alright. Has your husband abused you?"
 ''No, ma," said the bride, raising her self upon her elbow and speaking with tragic emphasis. You remember what my ambition has been for months W-well"-sobbing- cut both bloom CTS for one leg, and it was remnant and I can't match it anywhere"
 My child" said her mother solemn ly, your trouble is indeed to great to Weekly.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
The Family Lihrarv-

The library Is now within the reach of all classes. Competition between the publishers and the multiplicity of au- thors has forever banished the day when a small volume was luxury, and the book-stalls have placed treasures of literature where the poor may reach them. The poor in purse may become the rich in spirit Books are so cheap that they often materialize in the hands of those who love them; and sometimes the possessor hardly knows how or whence they came. So the library has not only become feature of the home, but a necessity. The collection of books is bound to be made It comes without effort There is always room for one more book, and the first thing you know there is a caseful, and by and by the case runs over and another materialized from somewhere Maybe the family carpenter nails it together, and some one else gives 1t a coat of paint; later on the books crowd that case: finally there is a roomful, and loi you have library. You make room for the books you love.-Woman's Home Companion.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
Art in Envelope-Making.

The envelope, as we have it now, is modern invention. The old custom, before the cheaper postage system was introduced, was to close by means of sealing wax or waters the sheet of pa per the letter was written on. With a cheaper postage and the development of the postal system the world over, to- gether with the rule prepaying postage, came the idea of making more con- venient covering for letters. An i'm mense industry very soon sprang up. The skill of the inventor was turned to the making of machinery which would cheaply and rapidly manufacture en- volopes of all kinds, sizes, shapes and cost, combining slight cost with neat ness and strength of covers. The wa fer and sealing wax became in a few years articles which few used, and then chiefly formal and public or legal docu- ments, but the people ceased to use them altogether. This branch of manu- facture is now carried on extensively in the West, as well as in the East, in large factories md paper mills, and the trade of the United States is in- creasing with the extension of the pos tai system and the enterprise of con- mercial travellers to an extent almost incalculable
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
An Innovation.

'1 notice," said Bronco Bob. that you make rule at political gatherin' to have all the speakers close friends an partners lined up on the platform with him."
 ''Yes; he is usually accompanied by some of the distinguished men of his own party"
 "Well, it's a mighty good idea h Crimson Gulch, when a man has any thing to say, he jes' gets up on the keg an takes his chances But I'll have the boys adopt your way. It keeps the opposition from maxim a man redick- leous by cOmin' up behind an gettin' the drop on him while he Is bOgin' and scrapin' to the folks in front Washington Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
Rough on the Bride.

At a small country church a newly married couple were just receiving some advice from the elderly vicar as to how they were to conduct them, selves and so always live happily.
 You must never both get cross at once; it is the husbands duty to pro- tect his wife whenever an occasion arises, and wife must love, honor and obey her husband, and follow him wherever he goes"
 But, sir" pleaded the young bride.
 q haven't yet finished" remarked the clergyman, annoyed at the inter- ruption. "She must"
 "But, please, sir Gin desperation), ''can't you alter that last part? My husband is going to be postmanr
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
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please let me go, or you will be late to that party"
 What partyY"
 Why, over at Upham Center. Aren't you going to take Sylvia?'
 No, am not. I did think of 1t. but as long as did not say anything to her about It am not going. Not that l should feel obliged to go, even if I had said anything-now. Do you want to know what am going to do this even ing%
 "Yes."
 T am going to stay and visit you. And before go home you are going to promise to marry me-"
 ''Why-why, John"
 "Well, what?"
 ''I thought have been trying all the time to think of you as a brother-in- law"
 Frying, Judith?"
 "Yes, because-oh, John, don't make me say it."
 "And, Judith" said John, q believe have loved you all the time, only you have been so shy and reserved that l didn't know 1t"
 The COW stirred uneasily. Judith gave happy little laugh. "Oh, John" :" she said, aren't you ever going to milk that COW"
 ''Yes, am. And, what Is more, am going to milk her every time I come here, and I am coming oftener now So if you feel very badly about it, you can set the day just as soon as you like"
 Perhaps I shall learn to milk yet" she called back as she went hurrying to the house. She took off her skirt and jacket and went to look after the ne glected supper.
 You are getting awfully careless" her mother complained. "A little more and that hot water would have gone on my foot"
 'I should think you were crazy" said Sylvia, little later. "You go flying around, singing some idiotic song, and what under the sun you have that hide ous sweeping cap on your head for is more than I can sec"
 Judith put up her hand and snatched 1t off, coloring guiltily.
 Seems to me 1t takes John forever to milk tonight. We'll be late to the party if we don't look out" Sylvia said, grossly.
 And Judith Is late about supper, too," said Mrs. Simmons. T think you had better put on your dress before supper. It will take longer, being a new one, but I will help you"
 When they were seated at the table Sylvia was very pretty in her smart new gown, but, somehow, she could not get John to look at her. When his eyes were not on Judith they were on his plate.
 When they were through supper John stepped to Judith's side.
 Sylvia" he said. Sylvia colored slightly; he did not often call her by her first name Sylvia, can't you do the dishes tonight? Judith and I are going into the other room. You see, we have rather good deal to say to each other, being just engaged. Chicago
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
INDIANS AS WATERS.
It Does Not Do to Quarrel When Buck
 Is Servant.

Is Servant.
 "Apropos of Indians as walters" said the social travelling man, 'I dare say the students from Indian colleges will do frst-rate, but have in mind time when It was tried in Nebraska in a small town on the Missouri bottoms, ana ID a way that was not altogether satlsfactory to the guests who were waited on.'
 ere you one of themY' asked the representative of piano house.
 NO, but was at the little river taV- ern where it was tried. The girl wait CTS had all left for new big hotel that was to be opened in the next town, and the landlord had to do the waiting him. self, and then he thought of the h. dlans at the reservation and went and hired four of them. They didn't get around until breakfast was over the next day-an Indian doesn't have any idea of time-and there was only one man who hadn't eaten. He was drummer for New York clothing house, and the biggest growler in six teen counties.
 You take his order, Jim,' said the landlord to the man he had been drill ing. Put this bill of fare under his nose, give him a glass of ice water, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul
 Indians are not as slow as they seem, and this was one of the wicked est bucks on the reservation. He man. aged to get the order all right and car ried it in and served it, and then, towel on arm, he stood at the back of the guests chair, as he had been instructed to do. But the drummer was ugly and swore a big round of oaths that he would have no Indian in his.
 ''At that the grim statue at his back whipped out savage dirk from his store accoutrements and, holding it over the head of the grumbling guest, he said, with consistent Indian breyity, by a Choctaw swear word: You eat
 And eat he did, flesh and fowl, not daring to move a muscle, while the arm of fate held the murderous knife with in an inch of his visage. And it was not until he had eaten everything in sight that his dilemma was discovered and he was rescued in a state yerging on collapse.
 That particular guest was never again heard to complain, but the trial of Indians as walters ended then and there, their methods being quite too original, or aboriginal, for practical ap- olicatioE."
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

been seriously i'll at New York, but is recovering, will be permitted the cour- tesy title of archbishop metropolitan while he lives, but it will not be off, cially employed. The new metropoli- tan of Canada has been bishop of Mon- treal since 1878. He was born at Tru- TO, England, in 1915, and emigrated from England to Newfoundland when he was 19. In 1S40 he was ordained a deacon of the Anglican church and a priest one year later. His early min istry was spent in organizing mission stations in the province of Quebec. His first important charge was that of St. Georges at Montreal. He is president and one of the most scholarly divines In Canada.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

Events to-day are, moving with mar vicious rapidity. Corporate combina- lions yesterday considered fabulous are to-day realities. Principles yester- Say revered as sacred are to-day re- 1ounced as puerile rot. The present tendency in less than decade will make a complete revolution in the char Rcter of the nation. The old man will pass away before the harvest. The young man must ultimately reap the fruit of the seed we are now sowing Hence of all men the young man is most intimately concerned with the cul- imitation of the present policy. In the political arena the young man is su- preme. The energy, enthusiasm, per sistency, buoyancy and numerical su- periority make him a determining fac tor in the molding of public policy. If he will but awake to the realization of the fact, he has it within his power to direct the destiny of the republic. His verdict concerning the present prob ems which agitate the political and in dustrial world will mean veal or woe for the rising generation.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

The trend of literary publications in this country partakes of the spirit of the times and is almost purely commer- cial in its purpose, character, and ad-
 vertising. The authors are not of the first rank and some of them of no rank at all, so far as past success is con- cerned, yet by skillful advertising and commercial methods furore is started for their mechanically constructed books and they reap temporary but large profits. It is another peculiarity of the book-making of the day that it is purely initiative. A book following certain special line makes a success. Straightway books of that kind flood the market. New writers spring up in all directions and even the old writers catch the cOntagion and leave their regular field of work for the speciality which is the fad. Take the historical romance. for instance One successful book of this kind was followed by scores, among them Richard Carvel," When Knighthood Was in Flower" !" ''In the Palace of the King" ''The Car dinaPs Snuff Box" Under the Red Robe" Janice Meredith" and numer- ous others, running up into the hun dreds. They are not only crowdlng the book stalls, but flooding the stage in dramatized form. The historical rom ance is now somewhat on the wane Readers are growing tired of story after story constructed substantially on the same lines, with the same conventional hero and heroine, and the same kind of ly on hand. Two of these are we'll un- der way at present. It was only neces- sary for MT. Westcott's David Harum" to prove a success to set other writers at work making Yankee character sketches. Irving Bachellor gives us "Eben HOlden," Charles Sherlock Your Uncle Lew" and Edwin A. Dix "Old Bowen's Legacy" These are only the forerunners, but they are all sue cessful from the commercial stand point. The portraits of the authors stare at us in posters and magazine covers contain startling arrays of fig ures running into the thousands for each first edition. Men who were never suspected of a literary turn of mind are launched by the publishers as success full novelists. Another fad just begin ming to rage is the love letter. That adroit literary fake, "The Love Letters of an Englishwoman," set the pace. Victor Hugo's love letters have just been published, also "The Love Letters of Liar" "Bismarck's Love Letters" and Another Englishwoman's Love Letters" are in press. Le Gallienne has published "The Love Letters of the King" (though the title is misleading), and "Napoleon's Love Letters" and "Canova's Love Letters to Mime. Reca- mier' are announced. To keep up with these fads is exhausting, if not impos- sible. In such an emergency there is comfort in the words of the last arti- cle written by Charles Dudley Warner: "Without special anxiety, then, to keep pace with all the ephemeral in litera- ture, lest we should miss for the mo- ment something that is permanent, we can rest content in the vast accumula- tion of the tried and genuine that the ages have given us. Anything that really belongs to literature to-day we shall certainly find awaiting us to-mor- row"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

The answers of James J. Jeffries to a committee of Missouri physicians who catechised him as to his habits and rule of training revealed again the open secret of health and strength. The great fighter told the doctors that he sleeps nine or ten hours and depends more on that than anything else" to keep him right. The value of this great conservator of vital force is known to everybody, and yet how many men and women cut down the hours given to sleep in order to crowd a little more pleasure or work into that day! Jeffries Is a giant, but he says, ''I never let any body break my sleep"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

"The American soldiers, in physique and intelligence, are superior to any other troops in the world" said Lieu tenant Colonel Lee of the British army to an astonished House of Commons recently. The speaker was military at tache of the British Embassy at Wash ington during our war with Spain, and accompanied our troops to Cuba. As a close student of military affairs, he was familiar with the personnel of the armies of the world. and was disposed to think the British soldier second to no other. His Cuban experiences led him to hold and his candor impelled him to utter the compliment above quoted. Our soldiers in China, serving side by side with the best European troops. have been outclassed by none in dis cipline, self-control and courageous de- ~Otion to duty.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
HERE IS THE MODERN ANANIAs.
He Was Among Strange Liars, but He
 Made Them Ashamed.

l He Was Among Strange Liars, but He Made Them Ashamed. A tall, thin man, better known on the St. Lawrence in the bass season than anywhere, stepped from the steamer one noon recently at Santa Catalina Island, California. The boatmen who own the stands along shore, and who have keen eye out for a prosperous looking visitor with a rod, did not give him a second glance. A dark-eyed tuna fisher moved up to give the stranger a seat, and then continued his conversa- tion. Some one had just landed with catch of forty barracudas, and he was discussing 1t.
 But you should see the Florida bar racudas. killed one in Bahama some years ago that measured eighteen feet in diameter"
 The stranger shifted his seat nerv- ously.
 Its teeth were like young bowie knives, and dozens of men are killed by them every year. This one l took on reel; it was a sort of arrange ment fixed into the stern of the boat and turned on a crank, and when we hooked the fish began to work on 1t, and for ten hours I wound and worked, during which that barracuda lowed our boat from Bull Pup key to Punta Cor da, distance of ten miles. where we finally killed it on the beach. 1t weigh ed 290 pounds, and its bite was deadly poison"
 That Is a remarkable story" said the stranger, who did not seem espe- cially pleased, "but it Is nothing to what I have seen in the Gulf of Pa mama, where the sharks are so thick that when you go fishing you have to dynamite the bay to kill them of. But what I was getting at was the story of the first mate of the Mozambique. She came in with flag at half mast, and it seemed that the mate had put after a whale. She was a whaler, and had fired at big sulphur bottom, the gun harpoon striking 1t on the tail, passing directly along the spine, and coming out at the mouth. When the animal was hit 1t turned around so quickly to see what had struck it that the har- boon. in coming out of the whales month struck the unfortunate man and killed him."
 The stranger rose and passed on in silence.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

Scores of old barns in Ohio have floors and managers of black walnut, put in fifty or seventy-five years ago, when the chief endeavor of the pioneer was to clear the dense forests for crops. So popular is black walnut fur niture abroad that English and French agents buy even old barn timbers and fence-rails. One of the few walnut groves left In Ohio was sold last month for export as lumber. The largest tree, eight feet in diameter at the stump, brought twelve hundred dollars. In view of this fact ArbOr Day sug- gests more than a sentiment; it hints also at financial investment. Young people who plant walnut groves or avenues may live to reap substantial profits from the timber thereof.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
The sDouqe and It, U.-.

Two little girls with snub roses and public-school voices stood in front Of the window of a Third avenue drug store yesterday afternoon.
 "MyP' said one. Look at the sponges! Most a thousand of lem What dyer s'pOse they use lem all for? didn't think they was so many states in the world" The other little girl looked at her companion with withering scorn.
 Don't yer know" she snifed con temptuously, "that windows has to be washed Y-New York Commercial Ad- YertiSer.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
The Family Silver

"Fer the lands sake," said the wom- an in the blue Mother Hubbard as she fastened the clothesline to the division fence, what do you think of them Joneses telling around that the burglars got in their house an stole the family silver? Family silverl Huhw
 Its so, though" said the woman in the next lot. They had dollar an quarter piled on the mantelpiece fer the grocery bill, an it was all in silver."- Indianapolis Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

The Governor of North Carolina Is of the opinion that lynching can be stop ped only by public opinion. Nonsense? A sheriff who knows his duty and is not afraid of 1t, and who is backed up by few determined deputies, has it in bis power to overawe the average mob. As for public opinion, there's plenty of lt already
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

In Switzerland a telephone in 6 pri- vate house costs $7.5O a year. The telephone people will retort, of course, that the expense of wires in Switzer- land isn't so great as it is over here.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

A statistician puts it that Alaska has only eleveli-il lIs. dths of an inhabitant to the square mile Of the many pie lures of arctic desolation this one of a lonely fraction Joking vainly across the bleak snow drifts for its other eighty nine one hundredths is perhaps the most affecting.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

Several Americans at Manila went down to Borneo to look at the equator, but it was found that the British had wound their section of it up on a big spool and refused to part with it at any price.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

A Pennsylvania woman who says she has lived very happily with four hus- bands has taken a fifth. Marriage seems to be a great success with her, but the vote of the husbands has not been nolled.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
A NOTED cHuRcHMAN.

Rt. Rev. William B. Bonds Archbishop
 and Metropolitan of Canada.
 Bishop Bond of Montreal was select ed by the house of bishops of the Church of Eng nd in Canada to suc- ceed Archbishop Lewis as metropoli- tan. He will hereafter be known as lord archbishop of Montreal and metro politan of Canada, having jurisdiction over the territory from the western limits of Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean. Archbishop Lewis, who has
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

It is asserted in England that King Edward intends to a great extent to abolish the giving of peerages and other honors for purely political and party services. Pulls on peerages may sometime depend solely on merit, and there will probably not be so many hOl- low titles.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

The young bride who reads with a proud thrill "she swept up the aisle on her fathers arm," never thinks of the after days when she will sweep up the kitchen and dining-room floors and not get even a mention in the society col unna
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
Longevity of Onakera.

The remarkable longevity of the members of the Society of Chosen Friends in Great Britain has been fully sustained during the last year, the aver age age at death In the United King dom, from 1 to 100 years, being 61 years ' months and ' days. Two women members died over 100 years old.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
The Beaefir of the Doubt.

Don't you think some of our Con gressmen waste a great deal Of their timeY
 We'll answered Senator Sorghum. with great deliberatiOn, you ought not to be too nasty in judging. Unless you look through a mans private ledger. how are you going to know whether he has been wasting his time or nOtP'- Washington Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
An Earneat Wor.hinner-

Dashaway-Miss Galloway took me aside yesterday and wanted to know my honest opinion of you
 Cleverton-I hope, old man, that you gave me a clever send-offi
 Certainly. told her that you never made love to a girl in your life that you didn't mean It."
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03

When a man complains because his meals are not ready on time, his wife planes the woman caller who stayed so long, and whom she followed clear to the front gate begging her not to go so soon
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
Depends on the Doctors Bill

Brown-That was a lovely basket of fruit you were carrying home last night, Jones. How much did IL cost you?
 Jones-I don't know. The doctor Is still at the house.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
1t Cured Her.

"No," said the man in the maekin- tosh, "my wife doesn't give away any of my old clothes or sell them to the ragman any more. cured that habit effectually once"
 How was that" they asked him.
 "When fould she had disposed of a coat hadn't worn for several weeks I told her there was a letter in it she had given me to mail the last time had il on. And that was no lie, either" he added, with deep satisfaction.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
Rarhinp in Wine.

Malmsey is again used in France for bathing purposes. It takes a hundred quarts of wine for a bath, the French character of which is shown by the fact that the wine is poured back into the barrel after use, and is employed over again for the next bath.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-03
No Elatterer.

"This," said the man who had just moved into the neighborhood, 'is one of my own drawings"
 "Ah," said the visitor, who hadn't taken any particular fancy to him, "did you draw it in a raffie?"