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tell you," exclaimed Mrs. Wakeleigh. “Now, you won't breathe it to a living soul, will you? [haven't mentioned it to anyone else outsite the family, for it hasn't been announced yet, you know.” “Dear me!" replied Mrs. Adkins, becoming interested, “don't ki me waiting. What is it?" Jeanette is going to be married, She is engaged to Mr. Wadhams! “You don't say! Albert Wadhams ?" “Yes, You know the Wadhams, don't you?" “Ishould think Idid, They used to live just back of us, Yes, [knew Mr, Wadhams when he hadn't more than ‘one coat to his back.” “IT think Albert is such a nice young man. He's steady.” . ty? Um! Yes. I've heard that he's been coming here pretty steady for some time. When I first knew the family Mrs, Wadhams had to do her own house- work “They say Albert graduated with high honors at college.” “T've often seen her changing the clothes on the lino after a hard day's washing.” “I guess Albert could have had almost any girl in tows, They say he’s an excellent business man.” “Dil never forget the day that Mrs. Wadhams came over to our house to borrow a ho.l of coal to keep the chil- dren from freezing. My, but that was a severe winter!"* “I guess they'll go to Europe on their wedding trip. Albert says he has always wanted to go abroad, but has never felt that he could spare the time.” “Yes, Tused to save all my husband's cast-off clothes and give them to the poor woman, Sho made them over for the children. * Albert's father is going tomake him a partner in the business as soon as they come back.” “And those wretched little rooms that they lived int My heart often ached for those unfortunate children, playing around on the bare floor, with their cold, blue knees sticking out.” hh! Here is Jeanette!” “Why, how do you do,” said Jeanette, holding out a hand to Mrs, Adkins. “Come,” said the latter, throwing her arms around the sweet, beautiful girl, “I sha'n't be satisfied with a mere hand-shake, I'm going to kiss you," (Smack! Smack! Smack!) “There! Your mother has been tell ing mo all about it! Now I must be going. Good-by. Come and see me soon.”* And as she left the house her heart, that had erst been heavy, was light again.—Cleveland Leader. A pexsox who recently attended an art exhibition has drawn up aset of rules to enable the novice to know what kind of a picture he is looking at, Hesays thatif a pai: paints the sky gray and the grass brown he belongs old school. If he paints the sky blue and the grass green bol longs to the realistic school. If he paints the sky green and the grass blue be longs to the impressionistic school. If he paints the sky yellow and the grass purple bei a colorist. Ifhe paints the sky black and the grass red heise artist of great decorative talent and may make posteng he perseveres.—Chicago News. A centaix eminent judge who was recently re‘lectet when he was asked about the facility with which he tua from one case to another, replied that he had learned the from what he saw at a baptism of colored people he was aboy, The weather was very cold, 80 that tois merse the candidates they were obliged to cut away te ice. It befell that when one of the female converts ns dipped back into the water, the cold made her squirm about, and ina moment she had slipped from the preacher} hands and was down the stream under tho ice, Te preacher, however, was not disconcerted. Looking » with perfect calmness at the crowd on the bank, he sit “Brethren, this sister hath departed—hand me don another."— Argonaut, Yor sale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain. The Inter. Ecnortan Agusre—Mesere. Brentano, $7 Avenue de 1'Opers, national News Company, Bream’s Building, Chancery Lane, Paris Saarbach's News Exchange, 1 Mayence, Germany, “Agents for Germany, Austria and Switrerlands London, EB. C., England, Acesrs, There are a hundred imitations, They all lack the remarkable qualities of the gen- VOR SOAP 99 KooPiint PURE uine. THE THORNDIKE (*20x,*" OPP. PUBLIC GARDEN. Luggage Delivered Free (fr. N. Y., N. H. & H.R. R.). BOSTON USED BY THE BEST PEOPLE. RUINART. Turtle Oil Soap and Wood Violet. yas Mixture Smoking Tobacco # » “The Finest Obtainable”’ A TRULY CHOICE SCOTCH WHISKY AGENT C. H. Arnold » Willlam St. NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK mocee xv — DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE CO. OR the benefit of the readers of Lire, other people, about one hundred! of daintiest and most clever of the poems pris‘ in these pages have been issued in a sul volume of attractive appearance. The New York Sun says: The verses, wtid are by some of the most skillful of our write of vers de société, have that combinatice ¢| neatness, delicate irony and playful box characteristic of the brightest little paper 4 its kind."* The price of the volume is also att 78¢- club binding; $1.g0 full leather. | Life Publishing Compan) j 19 and 21 West 31st St., }| NEW YORK CITY