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BIRDS. DOGS. ETC.

FOR SA4.E-Singing canaries, parrots cats. doys
rabbits. guinea pigs. fancy poultry, pea-fowls
goldfsbas. incubatOrs. etc SCHMID'S BIRD
STOGE. 10 l2th st. nE- ul2-n
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FOR RENT-HOUSES.

FOR SALE-Seyen-r0Om and bath Ulu..
g. NV cost 5000; sacrifice Tor $4,000 Address
BOX CO this otice. eI53
FOR sALE-Reduced 3. $50. 500 down. balance
monthly; new 6-T0om and bath brick: bay win
BIS near cars ROLAND c. BOOTH. corner 10th
and G sts. NV. MISS
FOR sALE-sroRE AND DWELLING.
FOR sALE-Store and dwelling. north side Of
Fenna, ave, near Post0rlcei cheap rent Ad-
dress BOX 40 this Office miss
BUSINESS CHANCES.
FOR SALE-BasslaI House; bar. stock. and FIX
tures; viii sell cheap. l5zl King st.. Alexandra,
Va eI5-5
FOR SALE-Dining room, business location, at
cost snail deposit cash; snap Tor anyone Al-
dres itOA 81. this Once cI5S
To DISSOLVE PARTNERSHIP. one Of the best
established grocery, meat. and provision stores
IN the District, must be sold; monthly
ceIpts average $3.50; parties looking for such a
place tal1E 40 risk As shall permit strict in
yestigati0u OF entire business 10 buyer. Address
BOZ o., tins Office eI55
FOR SALE-s275. cigar and news store. clearing,
SO 20 IS per s'ceki b4ye other business Ad-
Dies BON s., this Office NILS
FOR SALE-EstabIished dairy stand, horses and
wagons. loo gallons daily Sc trade. Address
BOA 81, THIS once ml5-5
FOR SALE-Grocery. doing good business; bar
gain; quick. ". d. YOUNG, 200 9Th 81. nv.
mlJ-S
FOR sALE-Fiue cigar and stationery store;
good sunday paper tIadci reut. $3.50. apply
bio sth 81 Sc el4-3
FOR SALE-Grocery and provision sore. corner
10th and sts- new fixtures and fresh
stock viii sell i0z cash fixtures and stock OF
any part of stock. reason for selling. not able
90 give IL personal attention. Cali on " 5.
BROWN q Co, Slst and SIS. nv. eIf-3
CIGAR STORE, central. SI25- W Ii. YOUNG.
go 9Th 81. NV ellis
DINING ROOM aud roorning house clearing 500
monthly DUNLAP, 900 r. nils
WANTED-Plrtner IN cigar and pooIroon bust
neas; central location DUNLAP, 80 Z st. el5-s
ENERGETIC NAN with SIS can make big money.
Adde'S Bon =. tiuS ofice- eI8-3
FOR sALE-Au kinds 4 businesses BROAD
STREET d. CO. VI 81 NV mlS-3
WANTED-ExpeTitace party with SIS; can Sc
cure hale interest and management If dining
room: centrally located. HALE & CO., COS G
ST. NV. MISS
FOR SALE-PI4ster statulry factory; price $50;
account death NV YORK 81 >INE>S BRDK-
PRS. Gl r ST. MISS
FuR SALE-tiruoeTy for. so. 500 and invoice;
bargains NEW YORK 81 SlNESS BRC6ERs OIL
+ - miss
FOR SALE-S'rocery store. northwest: large bust
nezs, thorough Investigation asked NEW YORK
BUSINESS BROKERS, Oh r ST. MISS
FOR SALE-yiHk route o. 40 TO 45 gallons. in
GLIDING one horse. UtA wagon. everything COM
piete for The Dairy, cheap Apply - Monroe ST.,
Alacostia. d. T.. miss
FOR SALE->cEiug machine business. stock and
fixtures, viii cell cheap good stand 5Q3 PCnn-
sylyduIa ave Sc elI-G
BEST WATCH MAINsPRINGs. sOc. BROWNE,
COS +. where you transfer n.2l-R
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STORAGE.

w Buy. SILL. store, pack. ship furniture 10
G6l7-2. mtg3
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wANTED-AGENTS.
SITUATIONS wANTED-MALE.

WhNTED-By wood carver, g0rk Of any dcscrip-
ton NJ. 325 Pierce ST.. Anacostia d. G. Il
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WANTED-SUBURBAN.

WAHfED-To rent cottage IN Brookland or sub
urbs- address BOX Is. this once. miss
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" sNIEIl-At zee seams -,ss. also young girl
who has had experience sewing. 1872 ST.
nv. cl
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WANTED-Experience fni sbcrs on pants Can
o. once, CSC e ST. NV. third floor cljA
wAN4ED-Expereneed girl for confectionery
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WANTED-Lsdy 20 help On first-ciass coats: good
wages al year round 1872 North Capitol ST.
miss
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MISCELLANEOUS.
SEWING MACHINES repaired. sl.oo LOVES.
1898 9th uw. uI5-8
CHINESE AND AMERICAN CAFE for ladies and
gentlemen; meals served 10 order. 40s 18th st.
NV. SAN HiNG, Proprietor. mI5-5
TRY OUR l5c lunch from Il to .. The best in
The CITY. 1871 ST. MILF
BAD PILLS collected, OF no charge r. D.
GORDON, Lawyer. 90 Iith It. Nv. moo
PIANOS AND ORGANS TUNED. =. HELBIG's
MUSIC STORE. 1872 7th st. e2s-lmo
TEETH WITHOUT PLATES-FiFm. comfortable,
durable. beautiful. u1dctcctabic. painless. DR..
/. p. WILSON. 1903 D 81. NV. fe22-3Ot
Upright ianO, Si45
s. MONTHLY
PAYMENTS.
i. G. SMITH. 1920 Pcnna. Ave.
FULL DRESS SUITS for hire; one dollar. JULIUS
COHEN ilOi 9Th nv. c5tf
WILLIAMS BOOB EXCHANGE Books
bought and sold also book binding In an It's
branches 3 = ST. nV e30-f
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HELP WANTED-MALE.

WANTED-Expert craftsman, wide knowledge
with inventor 10 assist in perfcctiug inventions
Address BOY o. this office. cI5-2
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FOR SALE-SeVen-r0Om and bath Ulr,a. --
81 NV cost 5000; sacrifice for $4,000. Address
BOX c. this Ofice. eI5-3
FOR sALE-Beduced 3. 80. 500 down. balance
monthly; new 6-Toom and bath brick; bay win
GOV; large 7zres parking; inc location; CS6if5l
hi; near cars. ROLAND c. BOOTH. corner 10th
and G sts. NV. MISS
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WAREHOUSES; AND VEHICLES.

WANTED cheap horse for truck farm work.
Apply ROOM 2. g35 81. NV. mi
WANTED-T0 purchase cheap horse. Apply T.
J. KING. ISIS 9Th st. NV mI5g
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WANTED-FARMS.

WANTED-To rent farm suitable for TRUCKING and
dairy p b. RICHARD, Silver Hin. Prince
George County. Nd. mIs-g
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\. Daily. Local ior warrenroa

s-0i p n Week Days Loczl for Har-soz-
burg AID way Gtatiozs On Blaaazsas brznch
$50 p. r. Daily Local io- Ws-rent01 and
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WAREHOUSES;.

WANTED-To rent furnished house filed xifh
good paying roomcrs for the summer months
Address j., Room %, lie Dr0ft Building eI5-3
WANTED-To buy, fve OF six room house. with
nice lot, not far from the city Apply IeI0 r
81. ne. rnl5-2
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FUR RENI-FLAIS.
FOR BENT-Delightful fats 10 eth sw; five
rooms. $3.50. six rooms. $3.50 Iff3 East
Capitol, Metropolitan Railroad. mlf-5
FOR RENT-Nice three-ro0m fats. northwest
$50 20 $50. 81 A. BALIINGER, Bond Build
ing. la3L-rf
FOR RENT-Tc best colored tenants four room
and bath fats. 81 and % Pierce ST. NV. az So
and 81; new, modern, sanitary living homes
GEO. R. HILL. 6I5 18th 81. NV. ia2ftf-e
New-York tribune., 1902-03-16
THE NAUGHTY LADY NOVELIST.

When once the fair do take their bonnets Off
they are not content with that; they throw them
over the Windmills the French say Men do
not like this kind of thing. It not only disgusts
woman, usually earnest and very stupid who
enjoys these exccsSes. Clever women, nice
women good women. loathe them perhaps even
more than do. But there must be "A great
many earnest stupid women great many
morbidly curious women, who take a delight in
works which Lady Mary Wortl~y Montagu
characterizcs in passage very frank, concern
ing naturaists and the oyster. Mr.. Fielding
and Mr.. Tobias Smollett, though free spoken,
would not have rclished some nctions that are
Mr. SmolIett had little Of shrinking d"lcacy,
but they had sense of humor. The ladies who
write the kind Of stuff now in question have
none at all, and that is one reason why they
. dare 50 greatly. They do not in the least
guess how poor a figure they cut when they tell
those stories. which apart from their licentious-
ness. always have an element Of abSurdIty. The
worst that / ever was by lady who clear
" meant 10 see" her sisterhood. and go ono
better" She went it with vengeance, and
with a Will But, somehow, nobody took any
not O her and her abOminablc nOnS-uS
Who can tell why it failed? It was really
very curious and disgusting, and seemed to
have all the qualities necessary 10 secure Ger
tain kind Of popularity. / cannot even hint at
the plot as / do not particularly address the
earnest the dull and the pTuri"nt- To be sure.
il did not exceed $4,000 words. or seven hun
dred pages That was probably the reason
why so remarkably duh and loathsome a per
formance failed to be highly recommended by
the cultivated critics and warmly welcomed by
the sort Of ladies whose polished conversation
might make a casuist Mr. Bob Sawyer, ner-
vous and uncomfortable. Our SEX if all this
goes on must provide itself with fans to blush
behind We must leave the ladies before the
coffee and cigarettes begin to circulate. But
New-York tribune., 1902-03-16
THE CORONATION STONE,

of all classes Of men on Gods earth IN theSe th
latter DAYS none is more DEVOID OF ItNe.V'r
for tradition than your geologlst- - IL 80 -
,a.rs since one Of these-ProfesSor kalhSaS' 10
- D,uc+ need prv into the substance OF the
,arute1 Liza Fail and when he found thdt II
Iras of A dull reddish purple sandstone win
a few small imbedded pebbles ne hStu % not etSn t,
the grace to hold his tongue, but babbied 10 the
Iate Nr W F. Skene, the historian, explain
ing that the material Of our Stone of IeSllhy
5i5 correspond neither with the SeoioSIc<i'
et-sta Of Palestine nor with those OF Meath' put
1Eas Identical with the formation extending Tor
many miles round ScOae-
II comes 10 this. then, that the Scottlsh corona
+fo7 stone was no more than an ordinary bowl
der chosen 10y chance for the Inauguration ot
sor,a aar1y Pictish kinglet. whence ii acquired
on ayoteric dignity. to be enhanced by each sue
caseive coronation. Could there be a klndller
foo-bold for myth and mystery We are driven
.. ar-l1,5s mar its first and last migration
when Edward I carried il off. intending 10 oo-
Tterate the last outward and visible Signs OF
Scottish Independence.
There is nothing in the appearance of the stone
Itself 10 distinguish it as the palladium of Scot
tisb monarchy block Of reddish sandstone,
measuring - inches long 1854 inches broad
and lOls inches deep. ii has been roughly
dressed on the edges. probably to fit II into the
chair and bears an iron ring and link at each
end II is said that the following inscription
was carved upon il by decree of Kenneth Mac
alpine. first king Of the united Scots and Picts
nj faiiat fatum Scott, quocunque locatum
Inveneut lapidem. regnare tenentur ibdem
Thus rendered by Bellenden:
1.-The Scottis saI brS ke' that realme as native
ground,
Geife weirdis fall nocht,t quhaire'er this chair
is found"
The inscription has disappeared; but all true
SCotsmen hailed the accession Of their James
VI TO the throne of England as a literal and
glorious fulflnelt Of the hecy.-(Black-
woods Magazine
rBTook. enjoy. II prophecy fail not.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-16
4 LONDON SHEAF.
,,yrtREsTING QUOTATIONS FROM ENG
IISH MAGAZINES FOR MARCH.
FTEEN LAWS OF BOOK BORROWING.

.,1EvrI.EN LAWS OF BOOK BORROWING.
We can scarcely do better than conclude these
,o,es with a popular version of certain curious
Isy-s If Book borrowing originally found in
rony Of the .Lettres Fanatiques, Svo., 1879,
,oU In the British Museum. The complete text
1r ancient law Latin was published in The
-..benap1lr-" Of December 23, 1898. Prescribed
snT1e century and a half ago by one Francis
ya~gas Marquis Of Macciucca, to frequenters of
- Iibra~v the book lover Of any age viii find
iitte 20 Ctll at in their simple provisions, which
r7Ir Is follows.
- 10 not steal the book.
IN DO not cut or stab it.
iii For Heavens sake draw no lines about
if within OF without
~ DO not fold, crumple or wrinkle the
a Nor scrfbbIe on the margins.
..s-T AL the ink required Is already on the
,a,ce. do not denle them with more.
wi Let your book marker be of perfectly
VII. The volume is not to be lent to any
ore fr-. on any consideration.
~ Keep mouse, worm, moth and ny away
~ Let 10 oil. fire dust or filth come near it
..1-r Ir a word, use the book, don't abuse IT,
80 Read and make what extracts you
P','X rif when read don't keep it an unreason-
az. wv. See that the binding and cover are as
tbe,. we're when you received them
Ky D0 this. and however unknown you
.ra1 he entered in the catalogue OF my tTlthuS
Omit IT, and however well known your Hdlle
shall be erased" -
Tf,ee rules. the marquis adds, he imposed on
himself rs well on OtherS-a selI-ueIS A'l7
ordnance some will say-in the matleI, a. a.
least of making notes. with REGARD 10 i. "iI.y
tba ant hor may well reserve to hlmsei eNC-S'l
rights over his margins and fly leaves '0' IL
Powell in The FOrtnightly.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-16
THE KINGDOM OF CoCos ISLAND.

So far from the madGiug crowd this little ISL
and has lain since old George Ross first CHANGED
upon it that the Scots family. whose story is
surely one of tho hraNcSt Of the barely noted
romauccs of which the tale of the British En-
pirc is compact, has been able L. exert upon its
people unique AMI undivided influence. fash
Joining the minds ana souls OF men and women
sprung from an inferior race into a nearer ap-
proXimatiou to "a higher model. such an expert
ucut, aided 10y many years ana such complete
isolation, has never before been possible in
MaIayan lands and the results are extremely
curious The ability OF TIE lower stock to rise
to higher thilGS has been amply proved, and
it is interesting 10 note how many distiuCtiVcIy
Scots qualities haN" been grated to the Ori-
cutaliSm of the CucuS born MiltyS. They
have developed mu, of Scottish thriftness, of
the ScOtsmau's love Of order, regularity, neat
ness and cleanliness all virtues foreign to the
race from which they spring. Their women folk.
who tyrauuiIr shamccSsly over the sine
George Ross has SCI his face like nut against
the time honored practice of wife beating. in
duIge every Saturday in Il wholesale 'rcdding
up" of their houses, the like of which is not to
be seen i'm all Asia. Chairs and tables, and
knives and forks, have replaced the mat Strcwn
floors and the food creased fingers of their fell
lows in other MaIayan lands and from their
spotless dress. which lacks the national sarong.
to their swept and garnished compounds. there
is spick and span air about the people and
New-York tribune., 1902-03-16

to secure success it is not enough for the young
est or Oldest lady to be daring" and 'virile'
Miss Austen really has been more successful,
somehow, in the long run. Miss Austen, though
far from tmmodest, had humOr; humor which
these audaciOus modern ladies never possess
For mere temporary (though Iucra tive5 vogue
audacity may do much, but only if united with
an owl-Ii1e gravity Nobody would prosecute
the pOsSessor Of these qualities. Plain people
may steal a horse, We all know while pretty
people must not even be aware that nag is
grazing on the other side OF the hedge. AS long
as you are not lively, you may safely and sue
Longmaus Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-16
CRIME AND EDUCATION.

The ignorant races are by no means innocent
races Life and property are safer in Scotland
than in Sicily, and though race and creed may
be in part the causes stin the atter at least
must be one Of the results Of comparative in
telllgence- Crime, more especially violent crime,
seems on the whole to diminish with the spread
of education, though it must be admitted that
in some countries. especially France, there are
ugly breaks in the completeness of the evidence
The stupid are often cunning, and there is in the
ignorant disposition toward violence which
the late Mr. Hutton, a keen observer Of men
tai peculiaritfes always traced to a conscious
ness OF mental weakness. and it's resultant,
wish to manifest strength in some direction.
and so preserve self-respect The educated are
naturally better aware of consequences and
are, simply because they have been trained less
liable to be carried away by those fierce waves
of excitement the causes of which still not
completely traced. Southern mob, composed
Of persons who really know little more than the
beasts of the field, is capable of becoming at a
moments notice a crowd of atrocous criminals,
Il phenomenon constantly witnessed in the anti
Semitic outrageS. The drunken rough too is
more disposed toward outrage than the drunken
gentleman, because the latter retains more
completely some relics of intelligence. The
evidence of those engaged in educa ton is we be-
HeNe nearly unbToken in the same direction.
Ihey tend. no doubt slightly to dislike the
stupid VINO give them so much more trouble,
and yield them no reward; but their experience
Is that of deeply Interested observers and they,
as a rule, say that the Intelligent among their
pupils, and especially that class of the intelligent
1t IS only a class-Which likes to be instructed,
are on the whole. morally the better. are less
influenced by the wish for excitement, and more
disposed 10 dislike evil for its own sake. The
stupid OF both sexes have in them, they say,
a latent tendency both to vice and crime which
is not readily eXpca BILE though we should ex-
plain it, as have done in the of GOude,
the forger, by dulness of imagination, and a
consequent pleasure in anything which makes
them feel more fully alive. That is, suspect,
the ultimate source of that sense of pleasure in
crime which undoubtedly exists in a majority
of criminals, they would be fewer and much
less readily detected and kept down-Crhe Spec
tatOr.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-16

There are two remarkable Diseases either or
both Of which may attack you il you elect to
reside within the Congo basin; but you need
have no dread Of them if you live in any other
part Of the world one is the sleeping sickness,
q terrible mysterious and Invariably fatal NAL
adv. The patient is at first only droWsy, but
ends by sleeping almost continually, waking
only for meals or when fOrcibly rouSed finally
the tOrpOr becomes complete; he cannot be
reused even to take food and dies OF starvation.
The other disease alluded TO is even more curl
Gus. although fortunately not nearly so deadly,
and is known to specialists in tropical diseases
as aIuhum. from negro word meaning a saw
a very opposite name, for the typical feature Of
the ailment consists in the slow amputation of
one OF more Of the victims toes by means of a
serrared b0ny ligatUre which grows around the
JONI Of the affected member just where ii joins
the foot. As the ligature is completely
formed il begins to contract, and off comes the
Il had been severed by the surgeons knife.
When in 1874. numbers of English naVyieS
aua engineers consented 10 90 out 70 Cerro De
PaerO. iu Peru. to help in building the Trans
Aud-au Railway, they little dreamed that many
o. them were cOnsigning themselves 10 a llnger-
ing death from a strange malady, Of which even
the name was at that time practically unknown
IN Europe. The allment in question IS termed
yerrugas Spanish, a WartD, and it occurs only
in certain deep valleys in the highlands Of that
province. There, however, it is endemic and
frightfully fatal, especially TO the unacclima-
tied white man The whole surface Of the
bodv in bad cases, becomes entirely covered
with spougy, wartlike eXcrescences, varying from
the size Of q raspberry to that OF a pigeon egg,
and from every Of these the patients life
blood oozes out continually until he perishes Of
inaul,on.
Lomhardy is the place where pellagra is
always prevalent-that mysterious modern all
meLt. due TO eating damaged maize, which since
49,. when IL first noticed, is computed to
have been responsbl for the death of more
than five hundred thousand peasants. Manda-
lay Tingworm, again, Ia known and dreaded
New-York tribune., 1902-03-16
THE WRONG WORD AND THE RIGHT ONE.

Some self respecting pieces of furniture would
/ am sure, resent being called and refuse to
recognize themselves, under certain names. 1t
must, for instance have been remarked by
every ohServant person the partiality that GER
tain people have for the word couch" Does
not Couch raise up in the minds eye the horse
hair atrocities of the lodging house and the
country inn-in company with a "chiffonnier."
mysterious meuble have never identified. but
occasionally heard Of-and seem utterly inap-
plicable to ones own repoSeful sofas? Why. too,
does the word mirror sound 50 out of place.
when the more cumbersome double barreled
looking glass sounds quite appropriated An
easy chair is used 10y the same people who talk
about couch and the room conjured up by
ferent aspect from one containing "armchairs." 4"
Among their household gods there viii be knife
Sharpeners for table use; rests for the
carving knife and fork; basket mats under the
dishes. which will blossom out into dOylirS
underneath the cake at tea and everyw here
when possible on smart occasions papcrlaCe
mats. Glass shades on every possible and i'm
possible object ColOrcd wine glasses, "jiugleS"
(an abomInati"nD. fans put {" tho same incou-
gruoUS use. basket cak'ho!doTs. of course.
Lamps with voluUiuouS shades. that ar" left
in the room in the daytime. and in the summer
time "grato decorations.
'Mantelshelf" for "chimnoypi.cc" is also quite
characteristic insult to- the noble and long
suffering ally Of the hearth. But IL is possibly
the word mantle" which is dIsconccctlu=, "a
word dear to the heart Of the uV" inspiring
"Sal"swumeu' of diEuIu"d presence. gracious
manners and wonderful figures but which ono
never dreams ot using in talking OF ones own
garments any more than one would talk OF a
or worse sIiIl, dress suit" for evening clothes
Perhaps the word mantle Is stunned on account
of its sacred "reminiscences. Anyhow. We 30
know that they dc not tolerate such garments
fore he was admitted-uady Grove, in The
Coruhlu Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-16

their surroundings which they to their white
rulers More important STILL their whole atG-
tude of mind toward many customs of their an
ceStors has undergone total revolution their
MahOmetanism, for instance, having become
so much modified by contact with Scots preju-
dice that polygamy is regarded among them
an uncIean thing. Crime OF any serious deSCrip-
ton has been unknown upon the atOIl for years.
The able bodied men supply their night
police, whose chief duty il is to see that moore1
boats do not break their painters. The whole
population works sOlidIy, regularly cheerfully.
and as a matter of course-(Hugh Clifford, in
BIackwood's Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-16

IPIoUShout Burma; but even the most ignorant
ntise iiese Is aware that it cannot be contracted
outside the ancient capital Similarly "Roclk"
ever Is confined to Gibraltar although il Is
pIopabie that the ailment known as Maltese
ever. winch can be contracted only in Malta
ana ana there only in the spring and autumn is
iGIoSeIy allied to it. AIeppo evil, too, is un-
hiIoWh IN any of the other cities Of Asia Minor
Just as the Delhi boil, dreaded of our soIdierv
Is confined to Delhi.-(Chambers's Journal
New-York tribune., 1902-03-16
4 TSEFIL WOMAN.
FROM The Chicago Tribune.

From The Chicago Tribune.
'Elcuncrhasset" said Mrs. Higgins. as ha
was about to start downtown. 'can yuU let me
have a little money to run the house, with to-
day.
You can have just - cents" n, Erowled.
niuEiuG the coin at her and slammIug the door
b, hnI him ne went out.
by the way, Higgins" said friend who
dropped into his place of business an hour or
two later, will you 80 my security on d note
for 5000"
"Shurtleigh." replied Higgins it is an inheN-
ihle rule in my family that | must never do
anything OF that kind without consulting my
wife"