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1898

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Villon ae aa his hands with a gesture 0! inimitable impudence. ‘“‘If your lordship had done me the honor to follow my argument!’’ he said.

“I do you too much honor in submit- ting to your presence, ’’ said the knight.

‘Learn to curb your tongue when you speak with old and honorable men, or some one hastier than I may reprove you jn a shi wrper fashion.”’ And he rose and lower end of the apartment struggling with anger and antipsthy. Villon surreptitiously refilled his cup.

“Tell me one thing,’’ said the old man, pausing in his walk. ‘‘Are you really a thief?’’

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ity,’ returned the poet. ‘My lord, I

am.”’

‘You are very young,”

**T should never have been so old,’’ re- plied Villon, showing his fingers, ‘‘if I had not helped myself with these ten talents. They have been my nursing mothers and my nursing fathers.*’

‘*You may still repent and change.”’

**] repent daily,’’ said the poet. *‘ There are few people more given to repentance than poor Francis. As for change, let somebody change my circumstances. A

trust continue to eat, if it were +s that he may continue to repent.’

“The change must begin in the heart,’ returned the old man solemnly.

o.'*My de: wr lord,’ re "ee , “*do ‘yak Mally thaty that steal for 'pled- sure? I hate stealing. os any other piece of work or of danger. My teeth chatter when I see a gallows. But 1 must eat, I must drink, I must mix in society of some sort. What the devil! Man is not a solitary animal—Cui Deus faemin- am tradit. Make me king’s pantler— make me abbot of St. Denis; make me , bailly of the Patatrac; and then I shall be changed indeed. But as long as you leave rae the poor scholar Francis Villon, without a farthing, why, of cottse, I remain the same.’’

‘*The grace of God is all-powerful.”’

“TI should be a heretic to question it,’’ said Francis. ‘It has made you lord of Brisetout and bailly of the Patatrac; it has given me nothing but the quick wits under my hat and these ten toes upon my hands. May I help myself to wine? I thank you respectfully.’’

The lord of Brisetout walked to and fro with his hands behind his back. Per- haps he was not yet quite settled in his mind about the parallel between thieves and soldiers; perhaps Villon had inter- ested him by some cross-thread of sym- pathy; perhaps his wits were simply muddled by so much unfamiliar reason ing; but whatever the cause, he some- how yearned to convert the young man to a better way of thinking, and could not make up his mind to drive him forth again into the street

‘*There is something more than I can understand in this,’’ he said at length. ‘Your mouth is full of subtleties, and the devil has led you very far astray; but the devil is only a very weak spirit tefore God’s truth, and all his subleties vanish at a word of true honor, like darkness at morning. Listen to me once ynore. I learned long ago that a gentle- man should live chivalrously and loving- ly to God, ana the king, and though I have seen many strange things done, I have still striven to com- mand my ways upon that rule. It is not only written in all noble histories, but in every man’s heart, if he will take care to read. You speak of food and wine, and I know very well that hunger is a difficult trial to endure; but you do not speak of other wants; you say nothing of honor, of faith to God and other men, of courtesy, of love without reproach. It may be that I am not very wise—and yet I think Iam—but you seem to me like one who has lost his way and made & greet error in life. You are attending to the little wants, and you have totally forgotten the great and only real ones, like a man who should be doctoring toothache on the Judgment Day. For such things as honor and love and faith are net only nobler than feod and drink, but indeed I think we desire them more, and suffer more sharply for their absence,

i speak to you as I think you will most easily understand me. Are you not, while careful to fill your belly, disregarc- ing another appetite in your heart, which spoils the pleasure of your life and keeps you continually wretched?’’

Villoa was sensibly nettled under all this sermonizing. ‘‘ You think I have no sense of honor!’’ he cried. ‘‘I’m pour enough, God koows! Its hard to see rich people with their gloves, and you blowing in your hands. An empty belly is a bitter thing, although you speak so lightly of it. If you had had as many as 1, perhaps you woald change your tune. Any way I'm a thiet—make the most of that—but I’m not a devil from hell, God strike me dead. I would have you to know I've an honor of my own, as good as yours, though I don't prate about it all day lung, as if it was a God’s miracie to have any. It seems quite natural to me; I keep it in its box till it’s wanted. Why, now, look youghere, how long have I been in this room With you? not tell me you were alune in the house? Look at your gold plate! You're strong, if you like, but you’re old and unarmed, and | have my knife. What did I want but a jerk of the elbow and here would have been you with the cold steel in your bowels, and there would have been me, linking in the streets, with an armful of golden cups! Did you suppose I hadn’t wit enough to see that? And I scorned the action. There are your damned gob- lets, as safe ag im a church; there are sou, with your heart ticking as good as Lew: asi here am I, reaey fo go ont

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again ‘as power as I came in, with my one white that you threw in my teeth! And you think I have no sense of honor—God strike me dead!’’

The old man stretched out his right arm. ‘I will tell you what you are,’’ he said. ‘‘You are a rogue, my man, an impudent and black-hearted rogue and vagabond. you. Oh! believe me, I fool myself dis-

graced! And you have eaten and drunk at my table. But now I am sick at your preénce; the day has come, and the

night-bird should be off to his roost. Will you go before, or after?’’

‘“‘Which you please,’’ returned the poet, rising. ‘I believe you to be strictly honorable.’’ He thoughtfully emptied his cup. ‘I wish [ could add you were in- tellige nt. ’' he wens on, knocking on his head with his knuckles. ‘‘Age! age! the brains stiff and rheumatic.’’

‘*God pity you,’’ said the lord of Brise- tout at the door,

‘‘Good-bye, papa,’’ returned Villon with a yawn. ‘*Many thanks for the cold mutton.’’

The door closed behind him. The dawn was breaking vver the white roofs. A chill, uncomfortable morning ushered in the day. Villon stood and _ heartily stretched himself in the middle of the road.

‘““A very duli old thought. ‘“‘I wonder may be worth?’’

THZ END.

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'.2. GUNNERY PRACTICE, ee

An Occasion When Quickness of Action Prevented a Fearful Disaster.

An officer of the United States navy relates the following as illustrating some of the perils of gunnery at sea:

‘*I came very near going up into the

ir in small bits on this last squadron cruise. We were at heavy gun practice at sea and but for the quickness of a gunner’s mate would never have re- turned. As you probably know, tho heavy guns in the turrets are fired by electricity, te gun being discharged simply by pressing a button. The officer in command of the forward turret on our ship during rapid firing practice was just about to press the button to fire one of our big guns when a gunner’s mate was seen to grab at something on the wall of the turret and then fall in a heap on the floor. The officer pressed the buttom, but the gun was not dis- charged. When the mate came to, he was asked what had happened, and he informed the officer that the breech of the gun had not been locked and that what he grabbed at on the wall was the wires forming the electric firing circuit.

‘*When he saw that the officer was pre-

paring to fire the gun and at the same time observed that the breech of the gun was not locked, the only thing that occurred to. him to prevent the gun be- ing discharged was to destroy the cir- cuit, which he did promptly and effect- ively. When all this occurred, there was a charge of 250 pounds of powder in the gun, another charge of the same size in the turret ready to be served, and the passageway leading to the powder magazine was wide open. But for the quickness of the gunner’s mate the gun would have been blown out inside the turret, the gases from the burning pow- der would probably have ignited the charge lying in the turret, this explo- sion would have ignited the powder in the magazine, and the chances are that the whole ship, crew and ali, would have gone upia theair. A thought that has occurred to me is this: Suppose the accident had occurred, what do you imagine the verdict of a board of in- quiry as to the cause of the loss of the ship would have been? Since his experi- ence the department--has adopted elec- trical means to prevent the discharge of any of the large guns until the breech is locked.’’—San Francisco Chronicle.

WOULDN’T BURN HIS BOOTS.

Thongh Ue Didn’t Mind the Effect on |

His Stomach.

After he had sold hisioad of wood and had received $4.25 for it he strolled over to the little combination billiard parlor and barroom on the other side of the square. His faded old eyes lighted up and his new cowhide bocts, larded generously in grease, squeaked exult- antly as he thought of that drink he had been planning to get ever since he left the farm at daybreak.

“Jest one old snifter

Of that good old lifter,”’ be cooed to himself, ‘‘and Il! be primed ter start fer home.

**Abost one finger of that old red eye will do the bizne,s, I calculate.’’ he

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a feverish red mitten from his right band and jammed it down in his ‘‘nants’’ pocket. ‘‘I ain’t a drinkin man—nhever was—but when it’s so cold outside yer breath freezes ter t’waggin wheels ye’s got ter resort ter some pow- erful remedy ter thaw it out.’’

The bartender agreed with him. For months he had watched the old farmers come in, order just one finger of whis- ky and drink a whole handful of fin- gers for the manifestly unfair expendi- ture of 10 cents. He had decided to put

new cowhide boots was the first victim.

The remedy he placed before him was powerful enongh to thaw the Yukon. The old man poured his glass full—just asthe bartender knew he would—and gulped it down in one big swallow. The effect was instantaneous. The vic- tim gave one convulsive shudder, look- ed reproachfully at the bartender and whirled areund four times. Then he sat down and hastily began to pull off his cowhide boots.

‘‘What the mischief are you doing that for?’’ inquired the astonished bar- tender.

“‘Can’t ye see them’s brand new boots?’ gasped the victim. ‘‘D'ye think I’m goin ter let them burn up tew??’— New York Press.

Sick Fish.

When a fish in an aquarium is ailing or injured, it is put into a reserve tank, out of sight of the visitors, and where it can be looked after at any time. The circulation of the tank is adjusted with great nicety to give the fish the greatest possible amount of water, and with the constant renewal of water the greatest possible amount of fresh air. A fresh water fish may be treated with salt wa- ter baths. The fish is fed on the food best suited to its condition or most like- ly to suit its fancy.

It may lie on the bottom of the tank motionless for hours, like a sick pergon |

in a bed, 1* inay sometimes seem to be dead, but a closer inspection will show ' a feeble movement of the gi!l covers, which marks the fish’s respiration. Aft- er all, the fish may die; oftener, under treatment, it recovers, and then it goes back to its place in the display tanks.— New York Sun.

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my little girl of 5 years. On being shown a photograph of English choir boys with their surplices on she ex- claimed, *‘Oh, mamma, lock at all these gentlemen waiting te be shaved.’’ —People’s Friend.

Welsh mothers put a pair of tongs or a knife in the cradle to insure the safe- ty of their children. ‘The knife is also used for the same purpose in some parts of England.

An adult perspires 28 ounces in 34 hours.

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Keep the brood as near the center as possible and the honey nearest the out- side frames.

The queen, no matter how prolific, should be confined to the space occupied by the cluster.

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Uneasy lies the aie e ‘that wears a frown.

The closer money is the harder it is to get hold of.

i It is easy to find fault, but it’s hard to tell what to do with it.

Some people use very poor material when they make up their minds.

No wonder the occan waves get angry when the wind is continuaily blowing them up.

The most popular female in the United , States is the blond lady whose face adorna , the $20 goldpiece.

The average man never fully realizes at midnight how very sleepy he is going to be at 7 o’clock the next morning.—Chica- go News.

DIAMOND DUST.

A dual system of bascball umpires ts good. No matter how big or obstreperous a player may be, two of them should be able to put him ont.—Philadelphia Times.

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The —.ceting of the basebail tnagnates in Philadelphia seemed to be similar to ai old fashioned ‘“‘swapping"’ bee, with vhis difference, that men were the commodity instead of horses. —New York Herald.

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