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THE SACRIFICE
OF YVES,
THE FISFIERM AN
By mAxrME AUDorN
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

IT HAT fellow Yves has never known
or father, much less single friend
With him the most important fact was
that he was strong; his two arms
We're all he had to keep him from
starvation. He was handsome, but he
did not know it. nor would he have
cared if he had known it; his regular
features and proud carriage told OF
noble blood.
The men in the village hated him
because he was a stranger, and be
cause his courage was greater than
their own, and they We're Jealous, too,
women. Both men and women feared
him. Why, he did not know or care.
Yves lived in a stone cabin that he
had built himself during the winter,
when the fishing season was at an
end; he carved little boats and play
things that he sold during the sea
son to tourists And because he never
spent his money in getting drunk at
the tavern, the villagers called him
stingy.
Furthermore, they hated him be-
cause one terrible night during the
equinoctial gale, when not a single
sailor dared to go out, Yves went
alone in his light boat to the rescue
Of a schooner upon the rocks. After
this their hatred redoubIed; but hatred
is not enough to kill a man who de-
sires to live
One evening, it was three wears aft
er the rescue Of the schooner, Yves
was alone in his cabin, when he heard
feeble cries outside tie door. 1t was
IN winter and cruel north wind
was making the snowfakes dance in
great swirls on the cold beach,
Yves opened the door Crouched upon
the sill he saw woman and a
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Lifting an onera House.

Thirty men have accomplished in
Pittsburg the feat of moving a weight
Of 4,992.o00 pounds distance Of q
feet. They have lifted the Grand opera
house Of the city off its foundation,
moved it forward q feet, and planted it
on a new base. It required less than
So hours to accomplish the job, and one
could not see the structure moving. In
this colossal building were the largest
theater in Pittsburg, the largest bill
lard and pool room in the United States,
a bowling alley, a BARRIERS shop, and va
rious other establishments, yet the
whole massive fabric has been trans
planted without accident, without Jar,
and without the slightest injury to any
part of it.
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READY FOR EMERGENCY
Girl Whose Ingenuity and Inventive
ness Were Always in Work
ing Order.

Not able scholars, but eapabl
women, is what the girl students o
our colleges desire chiefly to become
says Miss Elizabeth McCracken. TIL.
college-bred woman should be, ant
she generally is, person of re
sources.
Not long ago" writes Miss Me
Cracker, in the Outlook, an acquaint
ance, to whom had just told the gooc
news OF the continuous advancement
OF a mutual friend in her chosen occu.
patton, said, in comment:
" 1t is not so much because she is
brilliant that she succeeds as it is be.
cause she is always prepared fol
emergencies, however great.
Or small. | added.
:. You are thinking of the magnet,
was the quick reply.
The magnet??' questioned.
Yes, my acquaintance explained
One day at college one of the other
girls dropped her eye-gi asses in a mar.
row opening between two walls. she
couldn't reach them, and had very
nearly decided that they must remain
permanently out Of reach.
Our successful friend happened to
remember that their frame was made
Of steel. She went to the physical
laboratory, borrowed a magnet. tied
a string to it, and. lowering it care
fully into the opening. gravely drew
up the eye glasses. y
Miss McCracken, who was making a
study OF American college women
passed along the anecdote from one
institution to another in the course OF
her Investigations, and at each It
ELECTED the same comment: How like
a college girl
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little girl, huddled closely together and

little girl, huddled closely together and
moaning piteously. Yves carried them
into the house. and, piling the wood
| upon the fire, prepared a great bed
of seaWeed for them in one corner.
But the woman had suffered too long
from the lack of food and che cold.
Early the next day she died. Then
that fellow Yves adopted the little
girl, fral figure of 49, with big
pleading brown eyes. Her name was
Margariton.
After this winter night a new life
began for the lonely Yves. 70 him
Margariton became a whole family.
She was society, she was his daughter,
his sister, his companion, his friend,
she was his idol, before whom he
Frustrated himself in perpetual adora-
ton.
There was nothing too good for her,
and the money he had earned so pain
fully was scattered gladly for the
finest stuffs for her dresses and beau
tiful lace and gold chains Margariton
might well have become selfish in the
midst Of such loving worship, but
there was no room fer aught save
grateful affection in her warm little
heart.
Not far from their cabin, the rock
cliffs, sloping gently on either side,
made room for a tiny beach Of finest
sand, where in one corner rose a
stream Of purest water.
One summer afternoon Margariton.
her pitcher poised upon her head, was
following the narrow path that led to
the spring, when she heard voice
calling to her. Turning, half fright
ened. she saw a young man, an artist,
sitting on the rocks before his easel.
For moment the painter stood lost
in admiration of the beauty Of the girl
before him; then. as she was about
to hasten on. he stretched out botn
hands, pIeadingly. regardless of the
fact that he was still holding his
palette and brushes, and cried:
Young lady, / beg and entreat you
to remain just where you are, without
moving, if only for an Instant
Gladly" said Margariton, blushing
rosily.
The painter Immediately disappeared
behind his canvas and the brushes flew
fast as be worked. Half an hour later
ne asked his model to inspect his nrst
sketch.
Margariton fastened to his side, her
curiosity stronger than her fear. AZ
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cam, poor woman, and I viii rescue you. :
knew how, and dad was getting the
countess calmer. but she evidently
thought he was an assassin, for every lit
tie while she would yell for help, and
then the night Waterman came in with
a house policeman. and one Of them
chokedd dad off, and they asked the count
ess what the trouble was. and she said she
had just retired when she was stabbed
about hundred times in the small OF
the back with a poniard, and she knew
eonsplrators were assassinating her,
and she screamed, and this old bandit,
mea.e1ng dad, came in. and the little
monkey, meaning me. had held his hand
over her maids mouth. SO she could not
make any outery.
Well, I got my horse chestnut all
right, out Of the bed, and the policeman
told the countess not TO be alarmed: and
go back to bed, and they took dad and
I TO our room. and asked us all about it.
See, put dad put up story about hear
ing a woman scream in the aext room,
and, thinking only of the datT of a gem
tleman under the circum stanees. rushed
to her rescue, and all there was to It
was that she must have had a night
mare, but he said if he had It to % over
again. he would do the same Anyway.
the policeman believed dad. and they
went Off and left us. and we went to
bed, but dad said: 'Hennery you I'M
derstand, | don't want to make any
more female acquaintance. see. among
the crowned heads, and from this out
we mlngle only with men The idea
q me going into a woman's room and
finding a Floradora with fits and tan
Tums, and me, sick man. Now, don't
write to your ma about this, cause she
never did have much confidence in me,
around women with fits. . So. Uncle
Ezra, You must not let this get into
the papers, see?
Well, We have bought our tickets for
Liverpool. and shall sail tomorrow. and
while YOU are making up your cash ae-
count Saturday night we shall be on
the ocean. ] pose will write you on
the boat, if they will tie it up some
where SO it will stand level. Your dear
boy,
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| ct and ct, but we couldn't get away with
hardly any of it, and dad wanted to
| wrap some Of the duck and Holsters and
| things in newspaper and take it to the
| room for a. lunch, but the waiter woaldn t
have it. But the cyclone struck the
house when dad and / got up to go out
| Of the dining-room, and the waiter
brought dad the check.
What is thls?" said dad, as he put
on his glasses and looked at the check,
which was S43 and over.
Dinner check, sir said the waiter,
as he Strengthened back and held out
his hand.
why. amt this house run on the
American plan" said dad, as his chin
began to trembIe
NO, sir, on the Irish plan" said the
waiter YOU pays for what you hor-
ders." and dad began to dig up. He
looked at me as though was to blame,
when he told ne to order all there was
in sight. Well, have witnessed heart
rending scenes, but never saw any
thing that would draw tears like dad
digging down for that s43. The doc
tors at home had Ggdered excitement for
dad, but this seemed to be an overdose.
and | was afraid he would collapse. and
l offered him my glass Of brown pop
to stimulate him, but he told me could
go plumb, and If I spoke to him again
he would maui me. He got his roll half
out of his pistol pocket, and then talked
loud and said it was damoutridge. and
he wanted to see Aston himself before
he would allow himself to be held 40
by hlghWaymen, and then all the other
diners stood up and looked at dad, and
lot of walters and bouncers surround
ed him, and then he pulled out the roll,
and it was pitiful to see him wet his
trembling thumb on his trembling dry
tongue and begin to peel off the bills,
like you peel the layers off an onion,
but he got off enough to pay for the
dinner. gave the waiter half dollar. and
smiled sickly smile at the head waiter.
and | led him out Of the dining-room
broken-doWn old man. As we got to the
lobby, where the horse show of dress
suit chappies was beginning the even
ing procession, said to dad: Next
time We will dine out, guess, and at
that he rallied and seemed to be able to
take a joke, for he said: I'VE dined out
this time. We dined out 81, and then
We joined the procession Of walkers
around, and tried to look prosperous,
and after awhile dad called a bell boy,
and asked him if there wasn't a good
dairy lunch counter near the Waldorf,
where a man could go and get a bowl
of bread and milk, and the bell boy
gave him the address of a dairy lunch
place, and I can see my finish, cause
from this out we will probably live on
bread and milk while we are here, and
4 hate bread and milk
It got all around the hotel. about the
expensive dinner dad ordered for him
self and the little heir to his estate, and
everybody wanted to get acquainted /
with dad and try to get some stock in
his copper mine. T had told dad about
my telling the boTs he was q bonanza |
copper miner. and he never batted an !
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Niagara,s Fading Glory.

Those who want to see the great falls
in their primitive beauty and grandeur
must not delay the visit long. CONNER
cialism. thatspirit that has invaded every
field of endeayor and is changing the
character of our civilization, is the cause
of it. Already the hydraulic plants in
operation at the falls, when in full head,
divert ASSOC cubic feet of water a sec
ond from the river above the falls, car
rying it through the fumes to the drops,
where it runs the turbine wheels that
produce the power. This amount of
water. says an authority, is % PEI cent
Of the whole volume. But when all OF
the works are completed and in opera
ton that have been authorized there
viii be G7. 406 cubic feet of water a sec
ond diverted, which is Al per cent. OF
the whole volume. So here, in sight, SO
to speak, is diminution Of two-ffths Ct
he volume of water that has hitherto
gone over the falls; in other words,
there will be but three-ffths as much
Niagara falls as there has been.
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a thing always to be cultivated is
good humor. No propt to trouble has vet
been discovered the equal in strength
of good nature. 1t is just as much an
obligation Of men to fight against de-
preston as it is to fight against oppres-
sion, and yet men yield readily to de-
preston and say they will die before
they will submit to oppression. says
the Sioux City Journal. They begin at
the wrong place with their heroies.
Good humor is the safety valve It pro-
vides way for unnecessary and harm
full steam; which, i confined. may result
in ruinous explosion. Good humor
dwells in the house of comfort; it waters
The plants, feeds the canary, draws the
curtains to admit the sunlight and at
evening time it lights the lamp.
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that has just stepped off her throne for
a good time. She has got a French maid
that is a peacharino. You know that
horse chestnut. with the prickers on
that | put in dad S pants at Washington
| Well, have still got it, and as it gets
| dry the prickers are sharper than
needles, sharper even than a servant 5
tooth, as it says in the good book
thought I would give dad a run for his
money, cause exercise and excitement
are good for a man that dined heartily
on S43 worth Of rich food, so when we
went to our room / told dad that I was
satisfied from what a bell boy told me
that the countess in the next room, who
had gold cords over her shoulders fer
suspenders, was stuck on him, because
she was always inquiring who the love-
ly old gentleman was with the sweet
little boy. Dad he got SO interested that
he forgot to cuss me about ordering
that dinner, and he said he had noticed
her, and would like real well TO get &C
quainted with her, cause man far away
from home. sick as a dog, with no low
ing wife to look after him, needed cheer
full company. So / told him I had It
all arranged for him to meet her, and
then I went out in the hall, sort of
Whistling around, and the French maid
came out and broke some English for
me. and we got real chummy. cause she
was anxious to learn English, and |
wanted to learn some French words: SO
she invited me into the room, and we
sat on the sofa and exchanged words
quite awhile, until she was called to
the telephone in the other room. Say,
you ought to have seen me jumped
up and put my hand inside the sheets Of
the bed, and put that chestnut in there,
right about the middle of the bed, and
then, after learning French quite spell.
with the maid, we heard the countess
said must skip, cause it was the count
ess' bedtime, and | went back and
told dad the whole thing was arranged
for him to meet the countess, in a half
an hour or SO, as she had to write few
letters to some kings and dukes, and
when she gave a little scream, as though
she was praeticing her voice on an opera.
or something. dad was to go and rap at
the door. Gosh, but / was sorry for
dad, for he was so nervous and anxious
for the half hour to expire that he
walked up and down the room, ana
looked at himself in the mirror. and
acted like he had Indigestion I had
told the maid that she and the countess
must feel perfectly safe. if anything
ever happened, cause my dad was the
brayest man in the world, and he would
rush to the rescue of the countess, if a
burglar got in in the night. or the water
pipes busted, or anything. and all she
had to do was to screeeh twice and dad
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4 woman in Ohio recently obtained a
divorce On the ground that her husband
had made her move 43 times ii nine
years. An abstlrdly insufficient rea-
son for dissolying the marriage relatiea
1t undoubtedly was, says Youth Com
panion, yet enc can imagine what their
Wandering Jew" existence had meant
to the woman and her children. 70
nance clusters about place that has
been lived in a century or more, but
sentiment does not gather about house
lived in to-day and abandoned to-mor-
row. The family may have fitted in and
Gut Of splendid rooms, vet all the lime
they were homeless; Tor one must grow
into a house and a neighbcrhood, and
that IS q slow process. An old proyerb
declares that three removals are as bad
as a fire, another that q rolling stone
gathers no moss. Our ancestors took a
long step toward civilization when they
ceased to he nomads. Personal expe-
rience also reenforces q woman who OBJ
iects 10 frequent removals. for most Of
the work falls upon her, and che small
share Of social life which a Householder
can enjoy is taken from her ut every
journey But women, the home-makers,
are seldom victims of the moving habit.
They need no admonition beyond hint
that the habit, if lightly yielded 70, will
strengthen, and that it IS as fatal to
family happiness as 1t generally is to
prosperity. Even if the children must
go away, the home should be constant,
that they may lpek back to it, through
all the changes, as to a steady beacon.
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A Heavy Fine.

Under the Elklns law, any railroad
company which pays. rebates in any
form, or any shipper who accepts them.
is liable to a fine of from $1,000 to
$4,000, upon conviction. It also pro-
hibits the carrying of freight at less
than the published tariffs. The Inter
state Commerce Commission is en-.
powered to detect and prosecute yio-
lators Of this statute. President Knapp,
Of the Commission, states that since
this law was passed, rebate paying has
been as rare as forgery.
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ToIstoi and His Sons

Tolstoy the Great divided his real es-
tate between his five sons before setting
out on his reforming mission In this
way he protected it from conhseation in
the event Of exile. A mine has been
found on the estate Of Leo which makes
him the richest member Of the family.
None of the brothers resembles the old
count. In Paris they follow the lead
Of grand dukes One Of them served as
an officer in the war. They all like to
belong to the heaVy-sWell elass.-Lon-
don Truth.
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'.Peekts Bad Boy ete.1
Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.1
Waldorf-Astoria, New -York.-Dear
Uncle Ezra: We are still at this tay-
ern, but we don't do anything but sleep
here and stay around in the lobby even
irgs to let people look at US, and dad
wears that old swallow-tal coat he had
before the war, but he has got a new
silk hat. since we got here; one of these
shiny ones that IS SO slick it makes his
clothes look offuI bum. We about went
broke ON the first supper We had, or
dinner they call it here. You see, dad
thought this was about a three-dollar-a-
day house, and that the meals were in
GUIDED, like they do at Oshkosh. and SO
when we went down to dinner dad said
we wouldn't do a thing 10 old Aston.
He let me order the dinner. bur told me
to order everything On the bill-of-sale,
because we wanted to get the worth of
our three dollars a day. Well, honest,
I couldn't order all there was, cause
you couldn't have got it all on a billiard
table. Say, that list they gave me had
everything on it that was ever ct or
drunk. but I told dad they would fire us
out if we ordered the whole prescription,
so all I ordered was terrapin, canvas
back duck, oysters, clans, crabs, d lot Of
new kinds Of fish, and some beef and
mutton, and turkey, and Woodcock, and
partridge, and quail, and English pleas
ant, and lobster and salads and ices, and
pie and things, just to stay our stomachs,
and when it came to wine, dad weak
ened, because he didn't want to set a
bad example to me, SO he ordered hard
cider for hisself, and asked me if want
ed anything to drink, and I ordered
brown pop. You'd been tickled to see
the waiter when he took that order,
cause | don't s,pose anybody ever or
dered cider and brown pop there since
Astor skinned muskrats for a living,
when he was a trapper up north. Gosh,
but when they brought that dinner in.
you ought to have seen the sensation il
created. Most of the people in the
great dining hall looked atdad as though
he was Grasses. or a Rockefeller. and
the head waiter bowed low to dad, and
dad thoughtit was Astor, and dad looked
dignifed and hurt at being spoken to
by a common tavern keeper. Well, we
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EVERY one ASKS HIM
unw Hr COT RID OF HIS 0BsTIN Ale
- MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM
arr. Jones Tells of the Way by " nleh AZ
Treated Himself successfualy
when Doctors Failed.

4 = - -
s;~r,,vsicians. all OF them good, one OF
them ! specialist, had done thelr 9esa
for Mr.. Jones at different times =au.1n5
| three wears, and still he suffered lear
snllv from the tortures OF TheuIaa61sih.
Tha rheumatism that had been cor
mant in his system was saadeniy
rronght TO an acute stage by exposure
while he was drawing ice III Eepf1aIys
1901. From that time on Tor Q peFloa
Of more than three years be was con-
stant sufferer. He tried many xmas o.
| treatment, but the rheumatism yoIllh :
bulge. When regular doctors Ialleus
and one remedy after another proved
useless. many said: IT should THINK ne
would give it up and save his money:
Of his condition at this time, Mr.
Jones SAYS: .sMy rheumatism starsea
in nv right thigh, but IN Tune l5 APP
reared in every muscle of my body. {
lost the use of my left arm en-
tirely and nearly lost the use OF my
right one. My feet were badly aIeeeeo,
especially the bottoms of the heels.
When my right side was affected there
was swelling, but the left side dldnss
swell when the disease settled there.
The internal organs didn't seem to pc
involved at all. The trouble was al ID
the muscles and the nerves.
Among the.few who still encouraged
Mr.. Jones to think that a cure n1lghs
vet be found was friend who had rea-
son for great confidence in DIR. VII
hams' Pink Pills, and acting on her
advice he bought a box Of them IN Sep
tember, 1904. The story Of what fol-
lowed is brief, but nothing could be
more satisfactory.
]" When 7 was on the third box. says
Mr.. Jones, could realize change foz
the better. { felt sure then that DIR.
Williams Pink Pills were the right
medicine for my case. I kept on with
them for several weeks longer and now
I am entirely well, and everybody is
asking what took. y
Mr.. William Jones lives at O2ford,
Mich. DIR. Williams Pink Pills effect
wonderful cures in rheumatism, because
they work directly on the blood which IS
the seat of the disease. They are sold
by every druggist.
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The craze for giving and accepti1

The craze for giving and accepting
coupons for purchases Of merchandise,
to be redeemed by prizes. was lately
given a more or less merited rebuke
by Nat G. Goodwin, the actor. He
bought bill Of goods. and the salesman
offered him the coupons that the amount
Of the purchase called for. Mr.. Good
win shook his head. u don't want EN-, .
he said You had better take them,
sir" persisted the clerk; we redeem
them with very handsome prizes. If
you can save up 1000 coupons, we give
grand piano. Say, look here, . re-
piled Mr. Goodwin, IF / ever drank
enough of your whisky or smoked
enough of your cigars to get 1000 OF
those coupons. wouldn't want piano.
Id want harp.