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Musical Saturday Evening. Saturday evening a number of

the pupils of Mrs. R. B. Foster gave a recital at her home. A number of friends of the puj i's had been invited for the occasion and an enjoyable evening was spent. At the close of the recital a vote was taken by those present and a silver medal was awarded to Olive Miller, she re ceiving the highest number of votes. At the next recital another vote will be taken and this medal will then be awarded by vote to some one else. The program was as follows: Polonaise Chopin

Emil Engel, Mrs Foster Morning Praj er Landon

Louise Pry or Santa Claus Guards. Krogman

Cella Hild Through the Forest Frederick Williams

Beatrice Gould Tramp Through the Woods Homer Norris

Kathrjn Beeson Contentment Waltz Fordj ce Hunter Fire Balls Mazurka Franz Behr

Laura Carson Dance Among the Leave:. Frederick Williams

Sara Goldberg Blue Bird Polka Russel

Elbridge Lord Joyous Return, Effie Robinson Heartsease—Mazurka Max Werner

Lucene McCuaig The Pixies on the Water Arthur Brown

Lizzie Erickson Second Walt7 Godard

Mrs McCuaig After the -Shower Lena Goldberg Pagoda March—2 pianos G F Daniels

Margaret Anderson Eva Foster Pure as Snow .. Lange

Dorothy Majo Waltz—Piano Duet Carl Bohm

Mj rle Methoen, Katie Bunker Dreamland Engelmann

MissKaelble Bubbling Spring Rive King

Olive Miller June Bugs Dance~2 pianos Edward Hoist

Ivis Roberts. Olive Miller Mrs Foster. Eva Foster

The Stale Bread of Hungary. In Hungary they do not eat fresfc

bread. Whether It is because the Hun garlans believe in hygiene more than their American or European brothers and sisters or not has never been told, but the Magyar is partial to stale bread, and the staler the better. His "rozskenyer," or ordinary black bread, as it is eaten by the very large ma-jority of the Magyar population, is carefully laid away on a shelf and dug out for consumption months and months after it has come out of the great ovens. If the huge loaf, weigh-ing something like five pounds and for which the Hungarian pays 6 or 7 kreutzer, equivalent to about 3 or 4 cents in American money, has careful-ly been hidden away for two years, it Is considered all the better. The Hun-garian never thinks of where the bread is to come from tomorrow. He thinks of where it is to come from next year, for he has at least a year's supply on the shelves. The Hunga-rian bakes her bread 365 days ahead of time. Her Wednesday baking is for the Wednesday of a year to come; fier Thursday baking for the Thursday of a year to come.

Essler Reappointed Agent. John F. Essler has been

appointed as the local agent for the Minneapolis Brewing com-pany, succeeding Char les Knopke , resigned. William M aenze, auditor for the Minne-apolis company, has been in the city for se.eral days, checking up the affairs of the local agency and getting the affairs in condi-tion to turn over to Mr. Essler. Mr. Muenze and Mr. Knopke leave this evening for points along the north line of the M & I , where they will also check in the new agent for those places. Mr. Essler was agent for the company prior to the acceptance o ' the position by Mr. Knopke, aud thoroughly understands the business. Mr. Knopke has not announced whether he will en-gage actively in business m this city or not.

Foster Case Continued. The cases against William

Foster, Frank Bogenrief and William Wellcome, charged with cutting and removing timber from land belonging to C. F. Ruggles, were taken up by Justice Skinvik yesterday.

The cases against Bogenreif and Wellcome were dismissed aud considerable testimony was taken in the case against Foster, when the latter case was ad-journed until the 29 th inst , Fos-ter being released on bail.

Joint Installation. The members of the local

Woodman and Royal Neighbor lodges will hold a joint install-ation of officers this even-ing, at the Odd Fellow hall.

It is the intention of the lodges to serve an elegant oyster sup-per and have a general good time

All members of either order are requested to attend.

i n t noss . "There's a man at the door, pa," call-

ed little Willie from the lower hall, "who wants to see the boss of the house!"

"Tell your mother," called pa. "Tell the cook," promptly called his

toother.—Philadelphia Press.

To Cut the Night In Two. Professor Victor Hallopeau, member

of the Paris Academy of Medicine, says:

The true secret of long continued, valuable brain work is to cut the night in two. The scholar, the Inventor, the financier, the literary creator, should be asleep every night by 10 o'clock, to wake again at, say, 2 In the morning. Three hours' work, from 2 to 5, in the absolute tranquillity of the silent hours should mean the revealing of new pow-ers, new possibilities, a wealth of ideas undreamed of under the prevailing sys-tem.

From 5 to 8 or 8:30 sleep again. Tak-ing up then the day's work, the brain will be still saturated with the mental fruits of the midnight vigil; there will be no effort in putting into practice or carrying further what was planned or begun those few hours before.

The habit may be hard to acquire, but mechanical means of waking at first will Induce the predisposition.— New York World.

The Military Death Sentence. "You know how a soldier traitor is

put to death," said the colonel. "The traitor stands blindfolded, and half a dozen privates shoot at him simul-taneously. But perhaps you don't know that each of those privates, though he take the most careful aim, may afterward say without fear of contradiction that the traitor's blood does not stain his hands. This Is the reason: Two of the rifles for this ghast-ly shooting are always loaded with blank cartridges. Then they are shuf-fled, and no one knows which the harmless ones are. The executioners draw, and each is as like as not to draw a harmless gun. So when they shoot they can solace themselves with the thought that maybe they are only shooting a blank cartridge at the poor blindfolded wretch before them."

Hans Breitmann's Phi losophy. I have found that if we resolve to be

vigorous of body and mind, calm, col-lected, cheerful, etc., we can effect marvels, for It Is certainly true that after awhile the spirit or will does haunt us unconsciously and marvel-ously. I have, I b.elieve, half changed my nature under this discipline. I will continually to be free from folly, envy, Irritability and vanity, to forgive and forget, and I have found, by willing and often recurring to it, that, while far from being exempt from fault, I have eliminated a vast mass of it from my mind. It is certainly true, as Kant wrote to Huf eland, many diseases can be cured by resolving them away. He thought'the gout could be.—Letters of Oharles Godfrey Leland.

Forbidden Games. Almost every one of England's pop-

ular games has at one time or another been made illegal. Scotland is the home of golf, yet In 1457 the Scottish parliament passed an act entailing se-vere penalties on any one caught play-ing the game.

Edward III., Henry IV. and Henry VIII. all strongly objected to football, and Queen Elizabeth made it an of-fense punishable by imprisonment to play football. There is a record of six-teen people being imprisoned at once for breaking this law.

Football is still under a ban in some parts of the world. Two of the Swiss cantons refuse to allow it, and in Tur-key it is absolutely illegal, and those who dare to play it are punished.

Among oddities of laws about games must be mentioned a French decree of the thirteenth century. By the king's command the gallants of the court were forbidden to play tennis "in their shirts." Whether his majesty of France insisted upon coats only or whether the unfortunate players were doomed to practice in complete suits of armor does not appear. — London Graphic.

Agriculture In Africa. Excepting perhaps some Malayan

tribes the African negroes are said to be the finest agriculturists of all the natural races. The Bongos are said to have a greater variety of garden plants around their huts than are found in the fields and gardens of a German vil-lage, irrigation is practiced. The An-golas, in the Kongo districit, have prac-tical Irrigation. The Wachangu show wonderful skill In irrigating their ter-raced hillsides by tunnels of water di-verted from the main stream. "They have a clear mode of irrigating equally a given surface. As the little canals of water are always elevated above the cultivated plants, they will tap them at a convenient spot above the beds to be watered and then turn the stream into a rough conduit made of the hol-low stems of bananas cut in half, the end of each stem overlapping the next. Then as the water enters the last joint It is freely turned right and left, dis-tributing the vivifying stream in all directions."—Southern Workman.

Not Bird Bnilt. "There was a strange man hsre to

see you today, papa," said little Ethel, who met her father in the hall as he came home

"Did he have a bill?" "No, papa. He had just a plain

nose."

As a Starter. Doctor—Madam, your husband must

have absolute rest. Madam — Well, doctor, he won't listen to me— Doc-tor—A very good beginning, madam— • very good beginning. — Illustrated Bits.

He Was the Limit. He—Do you think It would be foolish

of me to marry a girl who was my In-ferior Intellectually? She—More than foolish—Impossible.—Answers.

Time to Change. It was at a table d'hote dinner at a

hill station in India that a very young officer just up from the plains found himself seated next to a lady whom he took for one of the grass widows common in those parts. He made him-self agreeable, but his neighbor seem-ed a good deal out of spirits, so he said sympathetically:

"I suppose you can't help thinking of your poor husband grilling down be-low?"

But the lady was a real widow, and when he learned that he changed his seat—London Answers.

Sparing the Smasher. "I told you," said the merchant, "to

mark this box 'Handle With Care.' What's this nonsense you've painted here?"

"That," said the college graduate, "is the Latin for 'Handle With Care.'"

"How do you expect a baggageman to understand that?"

"He won't and therefore he won't get mad and smash the box."—Philadel-phia Press.

For Feminine Jurors. In breach of promise cases the pres-

ence of female jurors among the male jurors would certainly benefit the men, as they would at once see through the wiles of their own sex, disconnect the picture hat and the pretty gown and disclose the hussy at heart in the plead-ing, innocent betrayed one.—Lady Vio-let Grevllle in London Opinion.

Too Cold For Overcoats. "You do not find any one wearing

overcoats in Alaska, even in the win-ter," said a man from that territory. "The principal thing to be careful about is keeping the head, hands and feet warm. In that part of Alaska where I have been the only land trans-portation is by dog sleds, and to fol-low them one has to drop into a dog-trot beside the sled. An ordinary suit Is plenty thick enough to keep you warm, and an overcoat is dangerous in that temperature. Trotting alongside a sled wearing an overcoat would make you perspire, and the bitter cold would freeze the perspiration. The men there wear a fur cap that covers every part of the head and face except the eyes, and there is only a little peep-hole for them. Wool lined mitts are worn on the hands and moccasins with woolen stockings on the feet."—Balti-more Sun.

Tragedy of a Wooden Leg. A" man who travels on a wooden leg

says: "About the worst accident we ever heard of befalling a wooden leg-ged man Is the time one such unfor-tunate was going home after being to a late supper, along about 3 o'clock In the morning, when his peg leg went through an auger hole in the grub plank sidewalk, and he kept circling about that hole all night thinking he was going home. The editor of this paper wants It distinctly understood that we cannot vouch for the truth-fulness of this story."—Kansas City Journal.

All the Same. At one of the large north country

churches recently a fashionably dress-ed lady happened to go into one of the private pews. The verger, who is known to be a very stern old chap, im-mediately bustled up to her and said:

"I'm afraid, miss, you'll ha'e to cum out o' that This is a paid pew."

"Sir," said «the young lady, turning sharply round, "do you know who I am? I'm one of the Fifes."

"I dlnna care," said the old man, "If you are the big drum. You'll ha'e to cum out.*'—Edinburgh Scotsman

Dainty if Not Substantial . The wife of a farmer had a sister

come from Chicago to make a visit. One day the thrashers came, and the guest insisted on doing" the work alone and sent her sister away to rest. When twenty-seven thrashers filed In to sup-per that night they found a sandwich tied with ribbon, one chicken croquette, one cheese ball the size of a marble and a buttonhole bouquet at each plate.—Emporia (Kan) Gazette.

Want of care does us more harm than want of knowledge.—Franklin.

Superimposed. In the hall of a philharmonic society

the following notice was posted: "The seats In this hall are for the

use of the ladles. Gentlemen are re-quested to make use of them only aft-er the former are seated."—II Rlso.

Long Sight. The longest distance ever compassed

by human vision Is 183 miles, being the distance between the Uncompahgre park, in Colorado, and Mount Ellen, in Utah. This feat was accomplished by the surveyors of the United States coast and geodetic survey, who were engaged, In conjunction with repre-sentatives of other nations, in making a new measurement of the earth.

Cheerfulness. The cheerful man's thought sculp-

tures his face Into one of kindliness, touches his manner with grace and his business life with friendliness toward humanity.—Jacksboro (Tex.) Gazette.

F4fe, Not Death. There is much difference In the psy-

chological effect of the two ideas "life" and "death." This was illus-trated, says the writer of "Letters From a Surgeon," in the case of Gen-eral Frank Bartlett, who was wounded on the Fredericksburg pike in 1864. General Bartlett was brought to the surgeon bleeding profusely from a wound in his head. He was uncon-dous and white as death. The sur-geon called his name, but could not rouse him. Passing his finger Into the wound, he found the ball had not pene-trated the bone, but had simply cut an artery in the scalp. This the surgeon bound with a ligature. He laid the general on the ground and completed dressing the wound.

"No harm done, old boy!" he shout-ed. "This is only a flesh wound. You will be all right when I take a stitch or two."

The good news seemed to bring Gen-eral Bartlett to consciousness. He rallied completely.

"I thought I was done for," he sard. "Well, if I'm all right, here goes."

Before the surgeon could stop him he was in the saddle and riding at the best gait of his horse back to the front again.

The Ways of the Moonshiner. The ways of the moonshiner are pret-

ty much the same everywhere. A suit-able location consists of a secluded spot with water in abundance. It is important, should he ever be called upon to defend a case in court, for the question of the ownership of the land upon which the still is located, to be Involved In doubt; hence the moonshin-er gets as near the line of his own land or the land he controls as possible. The stills are primitive affairs and are often made complete in the neighbor-hood in which they are operated. With two or three square yards of sheet cop per the still maker requires but a few hours to make the "b'iler." Home-made hogsheads are usually used as fermenters, and the only thing that the illicit distiller has to send "off yander arter" is the worm. Being difficult to secure, the moonshiner prizes his "worm" highly, and that part of the distillery is usually taken away when the operator leaves.—David A. Gates In Metropolitan Magazine.

Origin of "Bluestockings." Burke, apropos of "Evelina," paid

Fanny Burney this high compliment: "We have had an age for statesmen, an age for heroes, an age for poets, an age for artists, but this"—with a gal-lant bow to Fanny—"is the age for women." The name "bluestockings," given to these distinguished women, arose, according to Fanny Burney In her "Memoirs of Her Father," from an apology made by Mr. Stillingfleet in declining an invitation of Mrs. Vesey's to a literary meeting at her house. "I am not properly dressed for such a party," he pleaded. "Pho, pho," she cried, taking him and his dress all In at a glance, "don't mind dress! Come in your blue stockings." This he did, and "those words ever after were fixed in playful stigma upon Mrs. Ve-sey's associations." — T. P.'s London Weekly.

What We Stand On. The density of the earth as a whole

has been estimated, with close agree-ment among the scientists who have made the determination by different methods, to be about 5 5, or five and a half times as heavy as an equivalent sphere of water. On the other hand, the average density of the materials form-ing the accessible parts of the earth's crust Is between 2.5 and 8, so that the mean density of the whole globe is about twice that of Its outer part. This indicates that the central part of the earth is composed of heavier mate-rials and may even be metallic, which condition, says the Engineering and Mining Journal, would accord perfect-ly with the nebular hypothesis.

Nature and Broken Bones. In the splicing of broken bones na-

ture can give the best surgeon pointers. When a bone is broken the splintered ends are surrounded with cartilage un-til they are firmly held In position. Then gradually a layer of bone is placed between them and soldered to-gether. All the physician has to do Is to bring the two ends of the bones together so that the point will be smooth- and even. Nature's little agents do the rest—New York Tribune.

Taste Governs Spell ing. Shakespeare spelled his own name in

sixteen different ways which have survived, and it is evident that Eliza-bethan spelling "depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller." It Is the printing press which made spelling by stereotyping It, and it is, after all, on the printer's reader more than on the professor that the spelling of the future depends.—London Star.

Napoleon's Name. The name Napoleon written in Greek

characters will form seven different words by dropping the final letter of each in succession. When read, these words form a complete sentence, mean-ing, "Napoleon, the destroyer of whole cities, was the lion of his people*"

Wrong. "There is a word of one syllable in

the English language that Is always spelled wrong, even by the most edu-cated people."

"What Is that?" "The word 'wrong.'"

Birds and Kites . No bird, so far as known records

show, has ever alighted on a kite or attacked one. While a scientist was flying a train of five kites some years ago a large silver tipped eagle came suddenly out of the higher air and swooped round and round the first kite, looking against the sunset sky like a huge silver ball. As the train of kites was pulled in the eagle followed, visit-ing one kite and then another, seem-ing uncertain just what to da In a few minutes, when he seemed to have decided that they were not good to eat and he knew nothing about them, anyway, he indignantly flew off and Was lost to view. While the scientist'* kites were high in the air one March flocks of geese flying in the wedge flew over. They invariably stopped, broke up, hovered above the queer object and at last slowly reformed and flew away. While the larger birds all come from heights above the kite, the small birds of the air will alight on the string holding the kite and sway to and fro.

Mysterious Glass Balls . According to a foreign correspondent

of the geological survey at Washing-ton, among the most interesting fea-tures of the small Island of Billlton, between Sumatra and Borneo, an is-land long famous for its rich tin mines, controlled by the Dutch government are the "glass balls of Billlton," found among the tin ore deposits. These nat-ural glass balls are round, with grooved surfaces. Similar phenomena are oc-casionally found in Borneo and Java as well as in Australia. The corre-spondent quoted thinks they cannot be artificial, and there are no volcanoes near enough to support the theory that they are volcanic bombs. Besides, it is claimed, the glassy rocks produced by the nearest volcanoes are quite dif-ferent in their nature from the mate-rial of the balls. It Is suspected that the mysterious objects were ejected ages ago from the volcanoes of the moon and afterward fell upon the earth.

"Caracul"—Its Etymology. 1 have often been asked for the ety-

mology of "caracul," which Is a term now largely used by furriers to denote a variety of the fur called astrakhan. The new English dictionary does not contain caracul, but it has caracal, which is liable to be confused with i t though really quite a different word. The caracal is an animal, but caracul, like the nearly synonymous term, as-trakhan, Is the name of a place—Kara Kul—i. e., the Black lake, near Bok-hara, which has long been celebrated for its output of furs. The earliest reference I can find to it In English Is In Matthew Arnold's "Sohrab and Rustum:" And on his head he set his sheepskin cap, Black, glossy, curled, the fleece of Kara

Kul. —London Notes and Queries.

Living In the Electric Light. Writing to a friend in the country, a

New York merchant says: "I live In the electric light I leave my home at 7 o'clock, after dressing and taking my breakfast by electric light Then I go to the subway, one block distant, and ride to within a block of my office. There I work all day by electric light and go home again by the subway and spend the evening in the glare of the Incandescent lamp. The weather conditions make no difference, because my flat and my office belong to the semidark kind. Sometimes I wonder what I would do without electric light, and sometimes I ask myself when I yearn for a little sunlight Is the new light really a blessing?"—New York Tribune.

We love to expect, and when expec-tation Is either disappointed or grati-fied We want to be agalu expecting.— Johnson.

John Stuart Mill. The genius of this great Englishman

was such that before he was twenty he was recognized as the champion and future leader of a powerful schorl of philosophy and politics. John Stu-art Mill is said to have studied Greek at the age of three and at fourteen had begun logic and political economy. The writings and doctrines of this master mind were and are still read and preached not only In this country, but throughout the world. Jqhn Stuart Mill stands out prominently among nineteenth century thinkers.—London Mall.

Hardened. "Listen to this, Maria," said Mr.

Stubb as he unfolded his scientific pa-per. "This article states that in some of the old Roman prisons that have been unearthed they found the petri-fied remains of the prisoners." "Gra-cious, John!" replied Mrs. Stubb, with a smile. "I suppose you would call them hardened criminals," — Chicago News.

But He Was Cured. "I think I'll have to take treatment

for the forgetting habit From whom did you take your treatment that was BO satisfactory and successful in im-proving your memory?"

"From—ah, from—ah—oh, I forget his name, but wait a minute, and I'll get one of his cards out of my desk."— Exchange.

Supremely Exasperating. l

"Don't you think airs. Spurrell has an awful temper?"

"She has, but can you blame the poor Woman? She has a husband who just absolutely won't get mad at all." ^

Both Are There. Teacher — Is there any connecting

link between the animal and the veg-etable kingdom? Bright Pupil—Yes, mum; there's hash.—Philadelphia In-quirer.

Obviously. "Let me see," mused the sporting

editor. "What is an incubator?" . "An incubator," repliedjihe agricul-tural editor, "is an egg pffnt."

Dear, Indeed! "The dear, dear girls!" exclaimed

Mrs. Pawklns, looking at her fashlon-' able daughters enthusiastically. } {,

"Yes; the dear, dear girls!" muttered Mr. Pawkins despondently. > .

England's Historic Miser. John Camden Nelld, whose magnifi-

cent bequest to Queen Victoria sup-plied the funds out of which the prince consort built the present Balmoral castle, deserves a place among the great misers and was as remarkable a man as any of them. He was educat- ' ed at Eton and Trinity college, Cam-bridge, and was a barrister at Lin-coln's Inn. At the age of thirty-four lis father's death placed him in pos-session of a fortune of £250,000, and from that moment he became a con-firmed miser. Nelld lived at 5 Cheyne walk, Chelsea. His big house was so meanly furnished that it did not even boast of a bed. Two old women, who Aid his chores, and a black cat were his sole companions. When he visited his large estates In the Midlands, which he did frequently, he generally walked unless he could ̂ geta lift for nothing, and he was not even above taking a gratuitous seat on a dung cart. Sometimes he was compelled by the weather to take a seat on the stageeoach, and there he would sit outside, shivering and dripping, for he never wore a greatcoat, an object of commiseration to his fellow passen-gers. ^

Lincoln's Rebuke. The saying that there are few hon-

est lawyers did not hold true in the case of Lincoln A man once called to retain him on a suit

"State your case," said honest Abe. The man did, and then Lincoln said: "I cannot represent you, for you are

wrong, and the other party is right" "That Is none of your business If I

employ you," said the client. "Pardon me," said the man who aft-

erward became president; "my busi-ness is never to defend wrong. I nev-er take a case that is manifestly wrong."

"Well, but you can make trouble for the other fellow."

"Yes," said Lincoln, "I can set a whole community at loggerheads, I can make trouble for this widow and her fatherless children and by so doing get you $600 that rightfully belongs to her, but I won't do It"

"Not if I pay you well?" "Not for all the money you are

worth," was the reply.

A Warrior Too. The wooden boards that had marked

the graves in a certain rural cemetery rotted off and were raked up In the spring, cleaning. Consequently on Memorial day when the delegation from the G. A. R. arrived with flags and appropriate floral decorations for their departed comrades the decorat-ing committee found Itself somewhat In doubt as to which grave belonged to Captain Blodgett and which to Hannah Ericson. The mistaken dele-gates heaped their offerings upon Han-nah's last resting place and departed. That afternoon Ericson, the Widower, drifted, with the rest of his world, to the cemetery. When he saw the flag and the flowers above Hannah the astonished Swede fell to chuckling Joyously.

"Veil," he exclaimed delightedly, "dose faller bane pooty smart too! Ay tank dat vor all right and som gude yoke on Hannah—he vor pooty gude fighter herselluf."—Youth's Companion.

Discouragement is but disenchanted egotism.—Mazzini

| Man yields to custom as he bows to fate—in all things ruled, mind, body and estate.—Crabbe. V " - ^

Devonshire Terrace. Dickens was twenty-seven years old

when, in 1839, he moved from Doughty street to Devonshire terrace. George du Maurier lived for some years in 1 Devonshire terrace. In this celebrated house Dickens wrote no fewer than ten of his books—"The Old Curiosity Shop," "Barnaby Rudge," "The Christ-mas Carol," "American Notes," "Mar-tin Chuzzlewit" "The Haunted Man," "The Battle of Life," "Dombey and Son," "The Cricket on the Hearth" and "David Copperfleld." Devonshire ter-race was situated at the comer of the Marylebone road and used to be called the smallest terrace in London.

It Varied. The late Judge Saunders of North

Carolina was noted as an angler, but he had a poor memory as to the weight of the fish he had taken. On one oc-casion a friend, trying to entrap him, said, "Say, Judge, what was the weight of that big catfish you caught the other day?"

The judge turned to hie waiter and said, "Bob, what did I say that catfish weighed?"

"What time yesterday, boos—In de mawnin', at dinner or after suppah?"

The Moon. Astronomers long since came to the

conclusion that the moon's surface Is very hot during the height of the lunar day, which, as will be remembered, lasts two weeks, and very cold during the lunar night which is equally long. These extremes of temperature reach their height at the lunar noon and midnight and are greater than any natural temperatures on the earth.

The Golfer. Bertie (to caddie, searching for lost

ball)—What are you looking there for? Why, I must have driven it fifty yards farther! Diplomatic Caddie—But some times they hit a stone, sir, and bounce back a terrible distance. *

French Economy. France In her system of finance and

In her whole scheme of economy aids and encourages saving among the peo-ple. The government conducts a vast banking Institution whereby every postofflce has Its savings bank depart-ment—its "calsse d'epargne." Here any one may make a deposit as low as 1 franc (20 cents), which deposit Is re-corded In one's "llvret de la calsse d'epargne" (savings bank book). A convenient feature of this system tend-ing to make saving easy Is that one may make his deposits In any post-ofilce anywhere In France and may Withdraw any part or all his savings at any postofilce, without regard to where the deposits have been made. I have never had a servant In France who had not her "llvret de la calsse d'epargne," and yet the girl or woman, if she had no family of her own to support, almost invariably contributed to the support of her father's family. I have had one middle aged "femme de chambre" on whose face each day I could read pretty well how the bourse was going.—Flora McDonald Thomp-son in Harper's Bazar.

Shopping. Shopping Is a form of cruelty in-

dulged by married ladles toward their husbands. It is incipient in young girls, reaches an active condition in brides and arrives at its most virulent stage between the tenth and the twen-ty-fifth year of married life. A small, delicate, slight nervous, sensitive wo-man who would faint away at an empty mouse trap will go through the shopping district in from two to seven hours and come out refreshed and sus-tained by an unfaltering trust if her husband's credit is good, while that gentleman at the end of forty-five min-utes has to be carried home on a stretcher. Some women are born shop-pers, others achieve it, but not one of them has It thrust upon her. Shopping Is extensively practiced on week days, beginning on Monday with a rush and ending on Saturday in time for the opera. It promotes Industry. Without It married men would have time to rest—Delineator.

Shooting a Rabbit . In Sullivan county there is a man

who spent a whole day hunting, and at nightfall he was returning homeward empty handed when he found a rab-bit in a snare and still kicking. He released It and was about to dispatch It with the back of his hand when it occurred to him that he could not Say he shot It as no shot marks would be found to corroborate his story. Bo he tied a string to one of the hind legs of the rabbit tied the other end to the fence, backed away twenty yards and fired. The shot cut the string and bunny ran away. Such a good joke on himself was too good to keep, and he told It at the village grocery, little thinking that it would be handed about, until now If you want to anger him the mere mention of the yarn opens theold sore.—Forest and Stream.

Pract ic ing by Bar. When Grover Cleveland was practic-

ing law at Buffalo among his associ-ates was a young lawyer who, though a bright fellow, was rather inclined to laziness. He was forever bothering Cleveland about points of law rather than look them up himself. At last Cleveland became tired of i t and the next time the young- man sauntered in Cleveland knew what he wanted and, getting up, pointed to his bookcase and said: "There are my books. You are welcome to them. You can read up your own case." The fellow was caught, but he rose to the occasion. "See here, Grover Cleveland," he said, "I want you to understand I don't read law. I practice entirely by ear, and you and your books can go to thunder!"

Women Rule as Babies Do. The ordinary man would still much

rather glorify women and set them on a mock throne, whence he can depose them at will, than have to acknowl-edge in them a real title to regard. It is difficult for a man to overcome his essential self importance. Most of ns perhaps prefer to have inferiors round us—an abject trait of character, but natural. And only very slowly have we men been getting to prefer our womankind as friends and equals rather than as queens and pets, ruling us as a baby or a spoiled dog does.— Landon Saturday Review. «

A Clever Hint. ••You are so popular," sighs the

•wain. "You have so many suitors!" T h e ideal" smiles the fair young

thing. "Why, I can count them all on the fingers of my left hand. See. The index finger is Mr. Smugforth, the sec-ond finger is Mr. Balder, and the third finger—the third finger of my left hand —the third finger is you."

Next day he got the ring for i t -Chicago Post

Wil l ing to See. Mrs. Enpeck—The philosophers tell

us that blessings often come to us In disguise. Mr. Enpeck (with a sudden show of spirit)—Maria, when are you going to unmask? . „ * ^ ,; ?