A CASE OF PLAGIARISM. The young couple stood on the bank opposite the Gadfly contemplating' that small house boat with something1 less than a feeling of ownership lhan they had hitherto experienced. A fiery little steamer went up the river, and the waves, taking advantage of the confusion, ran and kissed the green bank and were off again before the green bank had time to protest. From the top deck of the Gadfly came a song to the ears ox Mr. Stewart, of Throg morton street, and of young Mrs. Stewart, that they were beginning to know quite well, albeit Miss Uagge, the singer, had only been there since the morning. Miss Bagge accom panied herself on the banjo, and ac companied herself all wrong: " I'm a little Alabarmer coon, An't been born very long." "I wonder," said little Mrs. Stewart "I wonder, now, how many more times she's going to play that?" "My dear love," said Mr. Stewart, sitting down on the bank. "Don't call me your dear love, Henry, until that dreadful girl has gone." "My dear Mrs. Stewart, what can I do? I can't treat her as we brokers treat a stranger who happens to stroll into the house, can 1? You wouldn't care for me to catch hold of her and mash her hat in and hustle her out of the place." "I shouldn't. All you have to do is to be distant with her." "One can't be very distant on a small houseboat." "I believe you like Miss Bagge still," said Mrs. Stewart. "1 don't mind her when she's still," said Mr. Stewart. "It's when she bobs about and plays that banjo of hers that she makes me hot." The shrill voice came across the stream: "Hush a-bye, don't you cry, mammy's little darling: Papa's gwine to smack you If you do." "Boat ahoy," called Stewart. The boy on the Gadfly came up from somewhere and pulled over to them, and conveyed them to the houseboat. Miss Bagge, looking down from be tween the Chinese lanterns, gave a lit tle shriek of delight as their boat bumped at the side of the Gadfly. "Oh, you newly-married people." she cried, archly, as she bunched up her skirts andearae skittishly down the steps; "where have yon been? Leaving poor little me alone with my music for such a time." "Did you say music. Miss Bagire?" "Yes. dear Mrs. Stewart. My banjo, you know." "Oh:" said little Mrs. Stewart. "Afraid you don't like plantation melodies, Mrs. Stewart." "I used to think 1 did. Miss Bagge." Stewart had gone along to get some thing iced to dri;ik and sometiiiug in the shape of a cigar to smoke. "IIow things change. Mrs. Stewart, don't they? I'm sure it doesn't seem six years ago hem Mr. Stewart and I and ma and two or three oilier. esnio up to Marlow. I think that was long before your day, before you came over from Melbourne, and we did really have the most exquisite time." "Hae you looked through the even ing paper. Miss Bagge?" inter rupted little Mrs. Stewart, hurriedly. "Oh, yes, dear. I've looked through it twice. One or two most interesting cases." "Where did you put it? I want to see what O'Brien has done for Middle sex." "I've dropped it somewhere," said Miss Bagge. "Could the boy go up for my trunk before it gets dark? I left it at the station, and I shall have some more things down next week." "Xext week:" Miss Bagge pui her hand to her brown thin neck and gave a cough of apology. "If I stay longer I shall have to run up to town one day to do some shop ping." There was a pause. The rings of smoke from 'Stewart's cigar at the other end of the boat floats 1 down by them. The boy below broke" a few plates and danccu a few steps of a. breakdown to cover the noise. "Dear Henry! " How the scent of his cigar does remind me of old timet.! I remember so well that night at Mar low " "Miss Bagge, will you go and play something?" Miss Bagge went obediently and strummed her banjo, and mentioned once more that she was a little Ala bama coon, and young Mrs. Stewart ran hurriedly to her husband. "I'm going to quarrel with her," she (aid. breathlessly. "That's right." said nenry, calmly; "anj-thing to stop that row." "I'm going to ask her to go back to town to-night, Henry." "But. my dear, isn't that rather ruder' "Of course it is. That's why I am doing it. You'll have to see her to the station." The private row was quickly and quietly over. When the last word had been spoken the self-invited guest begged ten minutes to write a letter, and then she pronounced herself ready for Stewart's escort to the station. "Sorry you are obliged to go, Miss Bagge," said Stewart politely. "It's an important engagement," said Miss Bagge, trembling, "or I would have stayed. Good-by, dear Mrs. Stewart. I dare say we shall meet again soon." Now an odd thing happened. As Stewart handed his charge into the boat a letter fell from her pocket on the deck of the Gadfly. Mrs. Stewart, in her usual good temper now that her husband's old admirer was departing, called to her as soon as she noticed the letter; but Miss Bagg paid no atten tion. It almost seemed that she did not want to hear. When Mrs. Stewart picked it up and saw that it was ad dressed to Henry Stewart, Esq., and marked "private and . confidential," she opened it without a moment's hesi tation. "Mr Dearest Henbt It is so sweet to be near ou .ihuiu. u. .. ,.i..u o.ku. tor tiio seashore, so do 1 sigh for you Cuu you im agine what you aro and over ta-ivo been to me? Yoa aro indeed my kins, and you know that I am your willing slave. Yours talilifully. "COKSTANCK HAiiUK." Young Mrs. Stewart sank down on a low deck-chair and gasped aud looked across at the two. "Well," she said, "this now is fear ful." There would be a good half an hour before llenrv returned, and in that good half hour it was necessary to de cide what was to be done. What was quite clear was that the creature must have had some encouragement to in duce her to write such a letter, and "Why, she is taking his arm!" she cried. Indeed, Miss Constance Bagge was resting her hand upon the arm of Mrs. Stewart's husband. Henry was carry ing her banjo, and. looking back, laughingly waved it at his wife. "Does this mean," asked Mrs. Stew art, distractedly, "that they will never come back?" The letter seemed to explain his slight diffidence in agreeing to the lady's dismissal; it explained also why when Miss Bagge had that morning made her unexpected appearance on the bank hailing the boy with a shrill "Hi!" Henry had only laughed very much. Mrs. Stewart summoned the boy. "Yes, mem, there is a trine up liter than this. It leaves Thames Ditton at eleven fifteen, and you get to good old Waterloo at about teu to twelve. And I wish to Gawd," added the boy, pious ly, "that 1 was there nah. This plice is a lump too quiet for me." That would give half an hour to speak her mind to Henry (if he did come back), just half an hour to ex tract from him a confession, and then a rush for the last train up. At Water loo she could take a cab to L'ncle George's; and if Uncle George couldn't see her through, why, nobody could. Uncle George was an ugent general. He wa-i a stern man. and he treated everybody as severely as though they were his fellow-countrymen. The white-ilanneled figure came back to the riverside. "He h::s managed to say good-by, then?" sal.'. Mrs. Stewart, fiercely. "I suoul.l like to have seen the parting." Henry came on Iki;ii-i1 and went strair:t to her, an 1. with 1'ie assur ance c: new husbands, Icissed hor tied;. "S'iVs an impossible creator.', " s:ii 1 :-":v-u;.;-t. lie sat down beside i: is wife :!::.tk ::u evening p:;pcr from his pocket. "i believe she took the extra away with her. I've had to buv an other." There was something in little Mrs. Stewart's throat that prevented her for the moment from starting her lec ture. "She wasn't so bad. you know." he went on. "in the old days. -Of course I was a mere youth t'.ion. But now she's too terrible for words. I suppose if girls don't get married they get warped and changed." "I want to speak to you, Hi-nry," she said, steadily. "Oh. bother that boy." he exclaimed. "We mr.:,t ;tt rid oi Lim. dear: he's a nnisancc." "It ura.-a't about the Ihv." "Nut the boy? Well, then Hullo! Here's a funny ease." She went on very quietly: "I want to speaK to you seriously. Harry, about a matter that has. by ac cident, come to my notice. 1 don't want to seem to bother too much alioiit it. and I suppose if I were as free a -some women are 1 shouldn't inind it in the least- But my mind is quite made up." He was not listening, but her head was averted, and she went on. "1 have left-the keys in the bed room, and my account book is totaled up to date, with the exception of the bill that came in to-day. There is no reason why we should have any high words." "I beg your pardon, dear. I haven't heard a word that you were saying " He had found the news patre in the evening paper, and was reading with much interest a diverting breach of promise case. "I was only saying" she raised her voice to a pitch of distinctness "that" "Look here; here's an idiotic letter the girl writes, to the fellow." "I don't want to hear it, thank you." "Yes you do. Listen. This is how it goes: Must as the wind sighs for the seashore, so do 1 sigh or you.' Why, the wind doesn't sigh for the seashore, does it?" "Go on. please," she said quickly; "read the rest of the letter. Is it re ally in the paper. Henry?" "Look for yourself, dear. It's too funny for words. "So (, I nigU for you. Can you imagine what you are and ever have been to me? You are indeed my king, and you know that I am your willing slave.'" "Why." cried Mrs. Stewart, "that's word for word the same." "As what?" "It doesn't matter, dear." She took from her blouse the letter that the disappointed Miss Bagge, with deplorable lack of originality, had copied from the evening paper. "Don't people do some silly things, Winifred, dear, when they are in lovo?" She took a marguerite from the bowl on the table and stuck it in his hair. Then she tore up the letter anil gave the pieces a little puff to send them out on the stream. "I b'lieve you," said Mrs. Stewart "Shall 3'ou want to be rown ac.os.1 for that last trine, mem?" demanded the boy, putting his head out of u win dow, "or is the guv'nor going to do it?" "The last train," echoed Mrs. Stew art "Why, of course not, James. Go to bed at once." "That boy's quite mad," said Stew art, turning over a page of the paper to find the cricket; "we must get rid of him." St James Biurget Isr Jewish marriages the woman is always placed to the right of her mate. With every other nation of the world her place in the ceremony is to the left STILL STANDING. Tho House in Which Washington Wrote His Farowoll Address. Some Interest Inij Furl About tho His toric Structure Onrn Occupied by the Flint President of tho I'nltcd Mitten. 1 The state of Xew Jersey, ns every schoolboy knows, was the scene of many stirring events during the revolu tion, and almost every city, town and hamlet has, or claims to have, a hind mark of which its inhabitants are very proud and delight to point out to vis itors. As in many other parts of the country, however, some of these monu ments, which should have the greatest c!aim on the American people from a historical point of view, have been neg lected, apparently forgotten ami al lowed to go to decay and ruin. One of these is the old Berrian house at Rocky Hill. It was in this house that Wash ington resided for many months, and among other acts wrote his farewell address to the continental army. The house, says the Xew York Tribune, is an old-fashioned structure, with large, square rooms and low ceilings to re tain the heat from the hickory and oak logs burned in the big. open fire places. At the time that Gen. Wash ington occupied the house it was the homestead of the family of Judge John Berrian, one of the oldest families in the state, which at that time owned vast tracts of land, obtained by grants from tho crown. Judge ISerriun, when the clash came, remained loyal to the American cause, and his house leeame a refuge for (len. Washington on more than one occasion. The old Berrian mansion is located about a quarter of a mile from the village, on a steep bluff overlooking the Millstone river. The little village of Rocky Hill is a Una six miles from Priuceton as the crow flies. Oil the old post road ami hx-atcd iu among the densely wooded hills of Somerset county it was unknown to Corn wall is or his soldiers, and after the battles of Trenton and Princeton was just the place for Washington nnd his handful of continentals to retire to for rest and refuge. Washington afterward returned at different periods to Uoeky Hill during the progress of the war. but the longest time he resided in the Berrian house was from June. 1TS3. to the following Xovom'.Hr. This was j:ist after con gress had adj mrn -d at Trenton to meet ut Princeton i:i tho old college build ings, ami here Washington was sum moned to meet them. Accompanied hr Mrs. Washing!. n and a part of his mil itary family. Washington t'Hik up his resilience in the 1.1 Berrian house. The general and hit stall rode daily over the seven miles of road to Princeton, where conim-vs was in session. (Ion. Wasoinclon evidently found life ex cvodingly restful aud pleasant in the Berrian house, and fou ml time to in dulge in the simple social recreations of the neiirhlnrho.l. Among the peo ple he called ujion was the family of John Van Horn, a wealthy tanner, with whom was staying at the time the noted painter, John lHinlap. The lat ter, in his reminiscences of Washing ton, mentions the agreeable surprise among the people over the pleasant discovery that the great general pos sessed a liking for social pleasures and could appreciate a joke by laughing us heartily as other men. It was suppH-d that Washington wis always serious and grave. Gen. Washington and Mrs. Washing ton were still living In the Berrian house on November -. 17S.1. and while there the general wrote his farewell add.ito the little army of patriots. Wa- hington left Rocky Hill at the end of NovetnlnT and went to Newbtirg to prepare for his triumphant entry with his army into New York. It is pr liv able that he never returned to the old Berrian house on Rocky Hill, although he left behind him many interesting reminiscences of his prolonged stay there. Altout fifteen years ago the land and house were purchased by David II. Mount, wealthy miller in the village. Later it was sold to Martin A. Howell, of New Brunswick. N. J. Mr. Howell made many necessary repairs to the ohl Berrian house, but by the removal of the great two-story veranda in front of it. which was supported, as were those of most colonial houses of pre tensions, by large, round pillars, it lost its characteristic picturesqueness. The architectural lienuty of the old colonial style of house, with its com fortable, hospitable look, has been en tirely lost and the house hxiks to-day like many other farmhouses, built for use only. It is now occupied by Michael 1 lines, a boss quarryman, and his family. They revere the memory of Washington even more than others that have lived in the house ssince he occupied it and delight to show visit ors through it. More Pathetic Than Humorous. An aged ouple Jiving south of Brazil. Intl.. who had devoted their three score and ten to rural life mad the making of a farm, sold their posses sions for the snug sum of sixteen thou sand dollars. When the pui chaser calh'd with a notary to close up the deal by taking the deed of title, the husband having signed and passed it to the wife, she positively refused to sign without a consideration, saying she had spent her life in making the farm, and liJid never realized anything she could call her own and now was her oppor tunity. The husband failed to satisfy her and secure the signature. Then the purchaser asked to know what she would take and sign the deed, fearful that she would be exacting beyond his inclination to comply. After a good deal of hesitancy she said she thought she ought to have two dollars, which he promptly bunded her, and she signed the title. She turned over the silver dollars time and time again, laughing over her good luck. She said: "Well, well, this is the first money I have ever had in my life that I could call my own and spend it as I may wish to do to suit myself." FROM THE COUNTRY. An Old Lady's Mint Visit to a Great City. The last passenger to leave the 4:30 train on the Michigan Central railroad lifter it drew to i land:.tiil oi.e after noon recently was a little oid woman in black. A wisp of gray hair str::rglcd from under an old-fashioucd poke bon net, find a pair of kindly Vine eyes looked out from behind her steel rimmed spectacles. In one hand she carried a huge, shiny valise, the key of which was tied to the handle with a strip of calico cloth. When she was part way up the platform she stopped with a troubled look, mid watched the baggagemen toil by with their loaded trucks. Presently she dropped the va lise and opened a big black fan which was fastened to her w.-.ist by a velvet riblmn. After she had wailed some time, one of the depot ushers came along and asked if he could be of any service to her. "Why, thank you, I think not." she answered; "I'm waiting for 'Dick' Rob inson." The depot usher hurried on aud paid no more attention to the little old woman. When he came back a half hour later, she was still standing where he had left her, gently fuuning herself with the black fan. "Has your friend come yet?" asked the usher. "No," she unswered. "His watch must have been slow." "Did he expect you by this train?" "Well, you see, it's this way. Last summer, Dick and his wife came over to Griggsburg to visit the Coopcrses. While they were there they came over often to my place to get a drink of but termilk. Well, we got friendly and Snrah told me a lot of things about Chicago, and that she couh'j't. by no manner of means, get buttermilk in the city. Before "Dick' went hack ho came around aud says: '.Mrs. Beggs, just take a run up to Chicago next sum mer und visit us. Ia-1 us know when you're coming, and I'll meet you at the depot' And so I'm here, nnd I've got three jar of fresh buttermilk for them in that bag." The depot usher helped the little old woman to a seat in the waiting-room and then he searched the directory for Richard Kobir.son. His charge couldn't help him much because she didn't know Dick's occupation. "All I know," she explained, "is that he's a genuine gentleman, and if he had get my letter he'd a been h"-r." The usher m::dc a list of two or three a.Mre ss-s ar. l put the w.::na:i ia charge of a trusty cabman with instruct ions to find "Lick." Two hours hr.er the driver came hack wi:h the report that his fare was delivering her buttermilk. Chicago Record. THOSE BACHELOR GICLS. How They Radiate Happtncsa and Have I tin. The world has improved in one re spect. There was a time when the woman who did not marry was sup posed to le a subject for jest: when it was concluded that she remained un wed Wcausc she could not do anvthing else. Nowadays it is all changed, ami the woman who does not marry has a recognired position socially, and we have nil grown wise enough to know that any woman who wishes can marry, says the New York correspond ent of the Pittsburgh Press. It is true she may not marry the man she most admires, but always she can marry some man: so that if she stays out her life alone is by her own choice. Then, too, the K-autiful friendships that may exist In-tween women are rceogniwd, and the possibility of a home lcing made without a man iu it is a certainty. In flats, in dainty little houses, two or three liachelor women (they don't call themselves girlsl. whose liws are so arranged that one can lie the homekeeper while the other is out in the world, are happy and com fortable from day to day. And In-tter still, they are not only happy themselves, but they make less fortunate women glad by bringing them in to share some of their pleas ures. They give agreeable little dinner parties, liiey entertain In tuiet ways, nnd always these womcnvhose names are not hoard in connrvtion with votes, nor whose pictures are seen in the paiicrs, as among those who intend to reimxlrsl the city government. The editor of n well-known literary roper is one of th.'se women, and she makes for nil nephews and nieces a lovely resting-place, managing to give it all the attention required in a few hours In-fore and after business. An other, .n very alxxle of K-auty. is the home of two women friends, one a well-known actress, the other the only woman dealer in plays in this country. And there are innumerable little homes where women are Imund by ties of lloo:L Qurrr I.lttlp Ifllnmi. A juecr little island is Navassa. A -ship load of negroes was landed in New Jersey the other day from the Pater son, hailing from this rock of four miles nrca. down in the ("arribcan. off Ilayti. llayti claims it and the Tinted States controls it. llayti never pushed her claim. It is totally bare nil pro visions are sent there, and several hun dred negroes are kept, at work, lvintr shipped like the hands of a vessel. In fact, the laws of a ship are in force there, ofliccrs and all. The product, nnd the only one, is sold by the Xavussa Thosphate company. There is no wharf or harbor, and the work is very laborious. There are frequent com plaints of hard treatment from the re turninif crew, which is usually shipped for hix months' service. The headquar ters of the company are in linltimore. Siiilfyln Him. 'I have called." said the captious critic, "to llnd out what reason you can rive for representing the New Year us a nude small boy " "That is done." responded the art editor, "because the year does not pet its close till the 31st of December." Then the captious critic went out and broke his nice new pledge. Indi anapolis Journal. for Infants and Children. THIRTY yearn oomtrvatlon of CaaToria, xrlth. the patronage million of yoraona, permit na to apeak of It without gqcasing. It la pnqnoatlonably tho beat remedy for Infanta and Children, tho world haa ever known. It ia kannloae. Children like It. It. gives thorn health. It will a are their Uvea. In it Mother have, omothlng which la ahaolntoly enfo and practically perfect at a. chlld'a medicine. Caatorla destroys Wanna. Caatorla allays Foveriahnoaa. . Caatorla preventa vomiting Soar Card. Caatorla cures IHarrhoaa and Wind Colic Caatorla rellevea Toothing Trophies. Caatorla cures Conatlpation and Flatulency. Caatorla nentraBjeea tho effects of carbonic acid gas or poiaoncma air. Caatorla dooa not contain morphine, opium, or other narcotic property. Caatorla aaalmllatea the food, regulates the atomach and Dowels,, giving healthy and natural aleep. Caatorla la pnt up in one site bottle only. It la not aold In hoik. Pont allow any one to aell yon anything elae on tho plea or promise) that It la "Jnat aa good" and "will anawer every purpose." See that yon rt OA-S-T-O-R-I-A. The fao-aimile signature of Children Cry for Union Liivery Stables, FRANK MINGUS, Proprietor, 5uccssor to FID. WORM AN. ... Having, lately ptirtliasxti jxptilar stable and -tockei it with new rii:s. sate vt!l fa-t teati's I Kin no'.v prepared to meet the wants f the traveling p'.sohe in a satisfactory manner. 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