A Butternut Victory.
By JOHN NELSON TRUMP.
¡Copyright, 1400. by John N. Tnjmp.)
“Vlllandightm Is Just the man
And Pugh's bis right hand bower,"
hang Tommy Murphy an Abljali passed
the Murphy gates.
“Shet ep!” snapped Abijab.
“Halii’t a-goin to,” said Tommy and
went on with the song:
"To meet the abolition clan
We’re ready every hour."
r t Mi lissu's opinion and nt the Mur
thys’ io tell Molly.
Molly agreed and the next day (Mon
layi Al'ljitb asked Melissa If »be ob
jected to Molly's company. Melissa
did uot object to Molly ns a girl, but
she did demur about riding with a But
ternut. However, Abljali said they
need not sit together at the speaking,
and that It did not matter much In the
buggy, and Melissa agreed and walked
down with him to see Molly about the
luncheon.
Molly promised to furnish her share
and to keep down her Butternut tend
encies. and everything went smoothly
except for Abijab. He cursed his good
nature, which wouldn't allow him to
refuse either or both. He could stand
one girl in the buggy beside him. but
two—
After gearing up Tuesday morning
and grooming himself with more than
usual care he drove around for Molly
lirst.
She came down the steps as he stop
ped at the gate, and when he saw her
he cursed some more. She bad on a
white lawn dress, the waist made some
thing like the shirt waist of the present
day. but with rows anil rows of brass
buttons upon it. small ones on the
shoulders and down the sleeves and
larger ones in quadruple rank down
tlie front. Her hat was a little straw
affair, trimmed with Illusion and fas
tened at an Impossible angle over her
forehead to leave room for the enor-
Abijab would have been glad to have
stop|>ed and shut Tommy up, but he
didu4t dare. He was on his way to pay
a call on Melissa Bray ami was too
tressed up to take tiny violent exercise.
Abijab Hopkins was the beau of
Goshen and a rank abolitionist. He
weut lo Cincinnati almost every month
and lienee was an authority on fashion,
as his costume of that afternoon show
ed. He wore a long tailed blue coat,
made with full skirts. Utting closely in
the back. Under the coat was a dow
ered velvet waistcoat, fastened with
bulletlike pearl buttons. His dove col
ored trousers were skin tight, with a
black stripe up the side seam uud held
down by a strap passing under the
foot His shirt was “store bought,”
and lie wore a High pa|>er collar and a
tie made of small colored beads woven
into a ribbon with infinite pains, the
work of Melissa, as was also the snaky
looklug watch guard, manufactured
from her own hair. Abijab was proud
of the tie and the guard.
Personally lie was not handsome. It
might lie said that his hands were too
large and too red and too freckled uud
hung, like lehabod Crane’s, “a mile be
low tils coat sleeves.” His face was
red, too, a shade brighter than bls hair,
which was parted far to the left in front
and "roacbed” toward the right in a
high, sweeping billow. In the back It
was parted in the middle and brushed
away from the medial line to either
side, where It met the front hair In
Tittle duck tails Just behind ids ears.
And ills whole head was redolent witli
hair oil.
Abljali was a "stay at home ranger.”
He hadn't enlisted and bad escaped
the draft. Though be was the only
young man left In Goshen, be was not
in demand by the girls, as might be
supposed.
Few people had any re
spect for "stay at home rangers,” and
when Melissa began to go to singing "ItTij/, litjah," she said, "I’m jest that
glad to see you!"
school and spelling lines with Abljali
people began to lose respect for her mous mass of liair—her own and an
too. But Melissa knew what she was other's in the back. Her hands were
nbout. She was one of those girls who Incased In pink silk mitts, and she car
can't exist without some one to tllrt ried a green silk parasol. But It was
not the waist that caused Abijab to
with.
Abljali passed the Murphy gate witli curse nor was it the hat; it was the
anger in Ids hertrt. Nothing made Idni skirt. It was full, very full, and wns
so mad as to hear the Butternut kept distended by hoops whose pe
song. He hated Yallandigham and all riphery was a dozen yards or more.
bis adherents. though Molly Murphy Slje had to come through the gate side-
was a nice girl. To tell the truth, lie wise. Abljali turned his horse as far
was not sure which lie liked best Me to one side as possible to allow the
lissa. tlie abolitionist, or Molly, the passage of the voluminous skirts, but
Butternut. He would have felt better with all he could do they touched both
could lie luive thrashed Tommy, lint lie wheels when Molly climbed In.
She sat down carefully—she bad to—
knew better, both on account of Ids
new clothes and on account of Molly. and Abljali sat beside her, and togeth
He wasn't going to give up ids chances er they drove off for Melissa.
Her costume was the same as Molly's
with tlie only other girl who would go
in degree as well as kind, and when
out with him.
Melissa expected Idm; lie was expect the two girls sat on tlie single seat of
ed every Sunday afternoon, and she the buggy the vehicle seemed tilled
was dressed in her best to receive Idm. with skirts. Abijab saw no room for
But it wouldn't do to let bitn know. himself and said so.
"You can set between us,” said Mol
There was a peculiar code of etiquette
existent In Goshen; so when he entile ly, shoving into one corner, which caus
up the front steps she pretended to be ed a dangerous elevation of hoops on
the other side.
surprised.
He had some doubts about being able
“Why, BiJah,” she said, "I'm Jest
that glnd to see you! Won’t you set to sit between them, but lie could do no
more than try. and after much squeez
down ?”
He sat down and put Ids lint on the ing and exclamation they got very un
comfortably settled and drove off, the
floor. He was awkwardly bashful.
It would be useless to reproduce their hoops standing out over tlie wheels on
conversatlou. It was about the weath both sides and almost hiding the young
er and crops and politics.
Abljali man in the middle.
There were a great many people at
avoided the subject of the war as lie
had avoided the draft officers. As he Mount Repose. A few men dressed
like Abljah—boys most of them were;
was about to leave Melissa said:
“Are you goin to the speakin to Mouut lots of girls dressed like Molly and Me
lissa, and some men In army blue, pale
Repose next Tuesday?”
“I 'lowed to go.” sahl lie. "Want to and maimed, home on furlough or dis
charge. The speaking was held in the
go ’long?"
'
"If It don’t put you out none." she open air. with a stand for the speakers
nnd backless benches for tlie auditors.
answered.
“You'd Jest as well go as not. I'm The crowd made a tremendous noise
getting settled.
goln to take my buggy."
The morning speakers were of little
“All right. Bijah." she said; "I'll lie
note — candidates for county offices,
ready.”
He put on bis lint and started down with merely a local reputation. In the
afternoon was to come the grand
the walk.
"You'll have to fetch n lunch," said speech, the heavy artillery of the cam
he as he readied the gate. "Ma's sick, paign—Brough himself, candidate for
governor of the state of Ohio. Save
and" —
“All right.” she called after him; for the occasional collapse of a bench,
excitement was kept down for the aft
"I’ll fix it up.”
Mount Repose wns six miles from ernoon.
When the recess for dinner was an
Goslien. on the Columbus pike, and on
Tuesday Brough, the abolition candi nounced. the two girls spread out the
date for governor, was to speak. Ev luncheon they had brought on a table
erybody was going, and Abljali felt cloth on tlie ground. There were fried
proud to think that he would have a chicken, 'lickles, cold green corn boiled
girl along even if he hadn't been to on the ol> and piled up like a log cab
the war and got wounded. He walked in. two kinds of cake and four kinds of
with his head up till lie reached the pie apple, dried cherry, raspberry and
Murphy gnte. He looked for Tommy, rhubarb. Melissa and Molly sat on ei
but Tommy had di sap pen red. Molly ther side of tlie cloth anil had to reach
was leaning over the gnte, and Abljali way over to get past their skirts. Ahl-
Jah sat at one end.
stopped to speak to her. She wart con
After the meal the girls bundled their
slderate of Ills feelings and had put
away her bddgo made of the cross sec respective properties Into their respec
tion of a butternut when she saw him tive baskets, and when they bad fin
coming. All Butternuts wore budges ished It wns time to get good seats for
of that sort, and the abolitionists felt the afternoon speech. True to his prom
It their duty to destroy all such em ise to Melissa, Abljali had Molly sit in
blems of opposition.
front of the abolitionistic young lady.
“Evenln, Molly,” said Abljali, as be He sat by Melissa.
halted at the gate.
The speech was like all others of that
"How are you, BiJah?” said she. time—defamatory to the south, touch
"Goin to the speakin Tuesday?”
ing heavily on the wrongs of slavery,
“Yep,” said he, resting bis foot on touching lightly on the rights of na
the lower binge and dusting bis trou tions and winding up with a eulogy on
sers with his cane.
Abraham Lincoln; only this particular
"Who witli?" she asked.
speech ended differently.
"I 'lowed to take Meliss.” said he.
Molly had shown no dnngerous But
“Why?”
ternut symptoms during the day. In
“I wanted to go awfully," she an fact.she had applauded feebly at times,
swered, frowning prettily.
but when Mr. Brough called the whole
“I'm sorry I hain't got a carriage." rnce of Butternuts cowards nnd thieves
said be, flushing a deeper red as be
thought of ills next words. “But If
you don’t mind, and Meliss don't, you
can go In the buggy with us.”
"I don't tnlnd,” said Molly, not blush
ing In the least, "and I'll ask Meliss."
She hadn't forgotten the prevailing
fashion in feminine attire, but she
thought, by exercising proper care, two
could ride In a single buggy at a pinch.
Abijab was the only chance, and she
liked to flirt ns much as Melissa.
“Never mind.” said the young man.
“I’ll ask Meliss myself.”
It would give him an excuse to call
again at both places, at the Brays' to
she could stand It no longer. She put
on her Butternut badge, a declaration
of wnr then, nnd turned so Melissa
could sec it. Then did Melissa's In
stinct for destruction of all things But-
ternutty assert Itself, and. In tlie words
of old Mr. Meyer, a German by birth,
who saw It all, “she grap for dot
padge.”
Rut she didn't get It. Molly leaped
to her feet ns quickly ns her skirts
would allow her to resent the Insult,
and, raising her green silk parasol,
smote Melissa ou her clilgnou of arti
ficial hair, thereby breaking the weap
on. The" Melissa tried to slap her ad
versary. uud lu dodging Molly weut
" LEARNING A TRADE.
backward over the beueb behind her
The Danger of Makin* u spcetallat
That put au cud to hostilities. The
of n
li.uer.
scene can lie Imagined better than de
WHERE OVER 100 OF THE COUNTRY’S
It Is geneially to the interest of an
scribed. Abljali turned away, and Mrs.
EARLY LEGISLATORS SLEEP.
employer that un apprentice should not
Meyer assisted the prostrate girl to her
learn bls trade .is a whole, but only a
feet and declared an armistice. But
the speech went on unheard. Every Dariui Site« In Suburb« of Wa«hiun- little section of it. says .io eph Horner
body was laughing too ttairli to listen;
ton Thut Wert* «»et Apart For tbe In Cassler's Magazine. It pays better
everybody except Abijab.
He didu't
Free Interment of CongreMUie« to keep a Ind repenting the perform
ance of one section of his craft than
laugh; he was too worried.
iAwiy From Home.
to tench liim nil. More money Is made.
“I'm a dumb fool.” said he to his
Gn tbe eastern outskirts of Washing But the apprentice becomes a young
aunt Maria when the girls had gone to
separate houses to repair damages. ton, where the city, stragging over the special 1st. a prig lu Ids teens, cocksure
"I'm a dumb fool to take a Butternut ronimons and vacant squares, halts at over some little piece of handicraft at
and an abolitionist out together. Dumb
the edge of the marshes of tlie Ana- which he muy earn something over his
ed if I know which to take home.”
cost ia river, stands the old Congres normal wages, and many n hid does
“Take Meliss.” said Mrs. Maria.
sional cemetery, with its eightscore not lieeome disillusioned until lie has to
“Course I'd ruther take Meliss." cenotaphs, memorials of departed face the world and try his luck In
Abljah answered. “But I can’t well statesmen. Years ago the tide of pop other shops.
git outen takin Molly. And I dursen't ulation surged westward and north
And therefore the liest shops in
take 'em both."
ward. overrunning tlie salubrious high which to place a lad are not the big es
"Won’t Will llauson take Molly?" lands of those sections aud establish tablishments, but the small ones, where
suggested his aunt. "He used to spark ing its burial grounds in the new re every class of work is done and where
her.”
gions
But this little city of the tlead tools and appliances are often scant.
"They’ve fell out," he complained.
was left alone in tlie deserted quarter, A Ind will learn more in these than In
The Fruit« of Wnr.
"Well, there's Ben. He come alone, witli tlie Jail. Hie almhouse and tbe those replete with every appliance and
I tu pur ter» and Dealers in
Not long ago I visited tlie town of
Book, New«,
and he can’t drive good with a bullet workhouse for neighbors.
minutely sulsllvlded into sections and
Novara, In northern Italy. There In it MOFFITT
Writing and
in his arm. Lot him take oue of 'em."
In it are 1«SO ceuotuplis to dead con groups.
Wrapping...
"He won’t have Molly, aud Meliss gressmen, stretching in monotonous
The best training for a lad today is wheatllehl the farmers have plowed , &
CAHD STOCK
won't go with him if be Is an abolition rows through the cemetery, all of them, that which lie can evolve for himself. up skulls of men until they have piled ,
STRAW AND KINDERS' BOARD
1st and got wounded. She said so. with two exceptions, of a uniform Tbe greatest evil that can befall him up a pyramid lit or 12 feet high. Over
Ä5-Ö7-M*-« . Fl mt St.
Mebbe he would take Molly, though.”
shape and size, and erected at govern is to become a specialist and nothing this pyramid some one lias built a can
T«u. main 199. 35 MAN FRANCISCO.
"All right. You ask him.” said Mrs. ment expense to the memory of the more while in his teens. Yet that is opy to keep off the rain. These were
Maria. "Now, look here, Bijah Hop government's dead
representatives. what must happen if he spends several the skulls of young men of Savoy, Sar
kins. 1 want you lo talk to Meliss Some of the stones mark the actual years tending machines or doing re dinia and Austria men of IS to 35 .
'bout the way she acted. 'Twan't lady burying place of the defunct states petitive, unvarying tasks in oue big es years of age. |M?asants from tlie farms
ami workmen from the shops who !
like.”
men, Init others, like those commem tablishment.
"Don’t care,” said he. "Molly hadn't orative of Henry Clay, John Quincy
The liest training, therefore, today is Diet at Novara to kill each oilier over •
rates Country
solicited, anti no pains will be soured
oughter bit her with that umbrcll’.”
Adams, Tlmddeus Stevens and others, that gathered by the peripatetic youth. n matter in which they had very little | patronage
to make them comfortable during their visit.
"You talk to her, anyway. I’a’s call
concern.
merely stand in honor of those dis If a lad cannot gain experience In one
Further on Frenchmen, Austrians . 9DG Market st, an<l » Ellin st., corner
in me. I got to go."
tinguished names. Since 187U tbe prac place, he should move about, gathering
Stockton, san Francisco.
Abijah's mind was full of very seri tice of erecting cenotaphs, begun in as much as he can accumulate with nnd Italians fell together at Magenta,
Telephone Red 3M. MRS. RANFT, Prop.
ous thoughts ns he backed the pony be 17. Hi, has been abandoned.
the
hue
of
the
blood
that
flowed
out
one flrm, then on to another, and at
tween the shafts. He guessed he had
When the cemetery was established tending training schools as opportunity under the olive trees. Go over Italy
better talk to Melissa, but he would In 1808. its projectors thought it would offers. Ilis views become broadened, as you will there is scarcely a spot not ,
SAM MARTIN
CHAS CAMM
For 3 years with
have to be careful bow he talked. She be a suceesshtl idea to secure the inter lie becomes self reliant, and In time, crimsoned by the blood of France. | For 23 years with
C. E. Whitney & Co
C. K. Whitney & Co.
was dangerous. On the whole, he be ment in tlie new cemetery of congress having found Ills true work, lie may icareely a railway station without its
lieved he liked Molly best. She was men who passed away while serving settle down as a specialist.
pile of French skulls. You can truer ,
NEW COMMISSION HOUSE
more quiet, and then the pie she had tlieir country In the then malarial cli
them across to Egypt, to the foot of
made beat Melissa’s all hollow.
the pyramids. You will find them In |
The Old Fashioned Boy.
mate of Washington and that it would
Just as he fastened the last buckle give this mortuary site distinction
At a little dinner of a few old timers Germany nt Jena ami Leipsic, at I.nt- '
he saw Melissa Bray coming toward above ordinary burying grounds.
.n this city tlie other night one of the zen and Bautzen and Austerlitz. You
him In a borrowed hat, and he turned
will find them in Russia at Moscow. |
So JOO burial sites were set apart for -peakers said:
121-123 Davis St., San Francisco.
to hear wliat she had to say.
"What has become of the old fash in Belgium at Waterloo. "A boy can ,
the free interment of congressmen dy
"I jest wanted to tell you, Bijah,” ing away from home, and the place ioned boy, the one who looked like his stop a bullet as well as a man," said i General Commission and
said she, "that I wouldn't trouble you was named tliet'ongressional cemetery. father when his father carried the sort Napoleon. And with the rest are the ■
Produce.
to see me home.”
In those days it was impossible to >f pomposity which was like the divin skulls and bones of boys "ere evening I
Specialty, Butter, Egg* and Cheese.
“Who're you goin with?” he nsked.
transport it body long distances with ity tlint hedged a king in the time when to be trodden like the grass." Popular
Your consignments solicited.
“Ben's goin to tuke me.” she said
out great expense and trouble, and the kinghood was In Its break of day, the Science Monthly.
“He come alone.”
boy
who
wore
a
hat
which
threatened
purchasing of burial lots was expen
Abijab said nothing, but after she
Queer Turkish Fish.
sive, so the privilege thus extended to come down over his ears, the boy
had gone and climbed in beside Ben lie
April It* Is th«’ great fete day of “Ba
was readily accepted. The funerals whose trousers were made over from
thought some more and shook Ids head
were conducted witli imposing ceremo Ills father's by Ills mother or aunt or lukll,” or place of fishes. Tills is a
over his thoughts. Melissa had done
nies, and the departed solons were laid grandmother, the boy whose lutlr had a small church situated outside tlie walls I
Just wliat she said she wouldn’t do,
away with pomp and circumstance in cowlick in it before and wns sheared of Constantinople, and it enjoyed no I
nnd he would have Molly to sit with
tlie spaces specially allotted and set off the same length behind, the boy particular reputation before the con I
1dm In the buggy. If lie wasn't a But
who walked with both hands in the quest of Constantinople by the Turks j
apart for them.
ternut, why, then—
As methods of transportation Improv pockets of his trousers nnd who expec At the time of the Invasion, however, a :
"I'll do It.” lie muttered as she came
All the world knows Hint eofl'ee in
ed. however, with the years, and the torated between his teeth when his monk wns cooking some fish there
out and got lu with him.
excessive use is injurious. Ami yet
families of tlie deceased found oppor teeth were damped together, the boy when a messenger came anil told him
She gave him Just the sweetest sort
the coflee lover cannot stand taste
tunity to tuke the bodies home for In who wore boots run down at the heels, Hint the Turks had entered Constnntl
less cereals. There has to this time
of smile aud never mentioned the af
terment, the practice fell Into disuse, the boy who never wore knickerbock nople. Tbe monk did nut believe Hie
lieen no happy medium between.
fair until he spoke first. But they had
and ultimately a law was enacted pro ers or a roundabout coat, the boy whose story and said lie would sooner believe
Cafó Bland tills the void with the
gone some way before he spoke at all,
that
the
half
cooked
fish
would
Jump
|
viding that a cenotaph should be erect ehlrogrnpliy was shaped by the gym-
best elements of both. It is richer
aud It was uot until they bad passed
than straight coflee, mid many will
ed In the cemetery to every congress mist les of his tongue, the boy who be back into the water. As lie spoke the j
the first tollgate that he found his
not lx- easily convinced that it is
man who died in the harness, and for lieved Ills father wns the grentest man fish Jumped back into the water, ami
voice.
not all coflee. But we guarantee
a number of years this custom was fol in the world anil that lie could have since then the place has had a great
"You hadn’t oughter done that way,
that Cafó Bland contains less than
lowed, so that many of the monuments been president If he lind wanted to bo, reputation for its healing powers.
fifty per cent eofl'ee, which is scien
Molly,” said he. “ 'Twasn’t nice.”
A church Ims been built over tlie
merely stand in memory of the con the boy who was his mother's man
tifically blended with nutritious
“She hadn't no business tryln to take
gressmen without actually marking the when the man wns awny from home?" spring dedicated to "Our Lady of tlie
fruits ami grains, thus not only
my badge.” snid Molly.
Fishes,” and on this day a regular pil
burial sites.
—New York Sun.
displacing over fifty tier eent of the
“Mebbe not,” said he, “but you
grimage
takes
place
from
nil
parts
of
In 1870 a law was enacted providing
eatiein, but neutralizing that which
hadn't oughter hit her with the uni-
remains mid still retaining the rich
the town. Many sick are carried tbit ti
that no cenotaph should be erected un
Virtue of the Matta.
brell'."
cortee flavor. To those who sutler
less interment was made In the ceme
Among tiie Matin “onesta” Is tbe er, nnd many miraculous cures are re
“I’m sorry 1 done It, Bijah," she an
with the heart, to dyspeptics ami
tery, ami there lias not been a burial great virtue. This virtue is sahl to be ported. The truth of the story Is proved
swered, looking ruefully at the demol
to nervous people Cafe Bland is
of a congressman In the plot since that possessed by those who never under by the presence in a large marble lined
ished parasol. “But she tried to lilt
especially recommended as a health
tank
In
Hie
church
of
the
lineal
de
year.
any circumstances help the authorities
ful mid delicious I leverage, so satis
me afterward.”
Tlie cenotaphs are plain blocks of by giving Information, not even of scendnnts of the half cooked fish. Any
fying that only the member of the
“I know she did”—he blushed at the
one who does not believe Ims only to
family making the change in the
thought of the scene—“and 1’11 tell her masonry, covered witli ceiueut to with crimes of which they may be the vic
stand the ravages of the elements. tims. To give Information is to forfeit look in the water, and he will see them,
eoll'ee knows there has lieen one.
so.”
More healthful, richer and less ex
Each is inscribed with the name of tlie nil honor, to become a “casclttunl,” or brown on one side and white on tlie
“I hain't never goin to speak to her
pensive than straight eofl'ee. Better
ojher, swimming nbout nt tlieir ense.
dead man, tbe state lie represented in spy.
again,” said Molly determinedly.
in every respect. 25 cents per th.
tlie bouse or senate and the date of Ids
This feeling which underlies the Ma
“You won't even say you're sorry?”
Your grocer will get it for you.
Sea Ihi tiling.
dentil. Some of tlie inscriptions are lin. wldch Is not old. but was born In
Ask for
“No, I won't. But I’ll tell you, Bi
now Illegible, but tlie oldest one de Sicily ut the beginning of the nine
A person can easily determine with
jah,” she said, looking Into his face.
cipherable Is on n cenotaph in memory teenth century, is due to the inborn one Indulgence whether or not open
Abljali didn’t know wliat to say, so
of Andrew P. Butler, a senator from hatred which the Sicilian has for gov nlr bathing is hurtful to him. If cir
he kept quiet until they were almost
the state of South Carolina, who died ernment. Any Interference of the au culation Is speedily restored after he
witldu sight of home. Then he decided
in 179G. As stated, all the cenotaphs thorities In his private affairs lie re has left tlie water. If Ids skin Is well
It was time to speak.
are of uniform size and shape, except gards with Jealousy and distrust. In reddened and lie Is soon well warmed
"I wlsht you wan’t a Butternut, Mol
in two instances. One Is a marble mon Ills sight n man who calls on the au up and as strong ami "lively" as when
ly,” he said.
ument to Elbridge Gerry of Massachu thorities for anything Is vile. He be he took Ids first plunge, then lie may
She looked at him again and began
setts, nt oue time vice president of the lieves In settling private differences properly assume that his hath has done
to sing softly:
United States nnd famous in Revolu privately, either by fair fight or mur him good. If. on Hie other hand, Ills
“I had a dream the other night
tionary history. It is a pyramid shaped der.
skin continues cold nnd clammy for 15
When all was clear and still;
pile of marble nbout twice the height
I dreamt I saw Vallandigham
No matter what a member of the or 20 minutes, notwithstanding the
Go sliding down ■ hill.”
of the other cenotaphs, surmounted by Mafia may suffer, he will never inform. brisk rubbing he gives himself, nnd for
An abolitionist song, and Abijab was nn urn containing a representation of If lie recovers from an Injury, be will an hour or more afterward he is weak,
an undying flame. The other Is a mon avenge himself If he can, and If lie dull and languid, then lie may be toler
Tlie Dronm In n Beehive.
beginning to understand.
To the drones nature has certainly
“Then you’ve changed your mind?” ument to George Clinton of New York, cannot he blames no one and would ably certain that there Is something
also vice president of tlie United States scorn to even take the authorities Into wrong with him which forbids cold been very bountiful. They are very
be asked.
large and strong, have a helmet made
“Mebbe,” said she so low he could and active in tbe war of 1812.
bls confidence, A Sicilian proverb bathing.
Among the cenotaphs is one to I’ush- runs, “If I live, I will kill you; If I die,
scarcely hear her. “Have you changed
of enormous black pearls, two lofty
A Pot Walloper.
ma-ta-ha, a Choctaw chief, who. the I forgive yon.”
yours?”
quivering plumes, a doublet of Irides
The parliamentary register for 1890 cent. yellowish velvet, a heroic tuft and
Inscription states, died of croup in the
“About what?”*
showed that there was then only one a fourfold mantle, translucent and
“About Meliss. Do you like her like sixtieth year of his age while visiting
Shoilng ihr Queer.
Washington in 1821. Beneath this In
you used to?”
The game of counterfeiting in this pot walloper in nil England. One see rigid.
“Molly,” said be, Ignoring her ques scription is the statement that the red country Is played by people of all na ing the term for the first time might
While the workers have 12,000 facets
tion, “you aud rue's been knowin each chieftain in Ids Inst breath desired the tionalities, and, nlthough some women easily Imagine that a pot walloper was to their eyes, the drones are gifted with
other a long time. I know I ain’t band- big guns to be fired over Idm. He had nnd children are used as tools, men a species of Ichthyosaurus or some oth 20.000; while tlie workers have 5,000
some, but if you’ll”—
the salute he desired.
take the principal parts. After having er reptile of a past age. It will be dis nlfnctory cavities in tlieir antenna?. the
“Course I will, Bijah," she whisper
It might be economy If the govern made the coin the great problem Is how covered upon Inquiry, however, thnt llr mes have over OO.OOO. While tlie
ed, leaning close to him.
ment were content nowadays merely to convert it Into good money. Tlie tlie term “pot walloper” Is literally one Workers are laboring for tlie benefit of
And the Butternut bad scored one.
to honor the departed congressmen maker rarely takes part In that opera who bolls a pot and was applied to vot the community tbe drones sail off every
with a cenotaph, for the 100 memorials tion. It is the business of gangs, which ers In certain boroughs of England bright morning into space. Irresistible,
Foalna as a Mogex.
probably
did not cost as much as half a consist usually of two persons, known where, before tlie passnge of the re glorious, nnd tranquilly make for the
A curious feature of a model’s occu
form bill of 1832, the qualifications for nearest flowers, where they sleep till
dozen
modern
funerals of defunct ns the “holder" and the "sliovcr."
pation Is her posing for nn artist who
suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) the afternoon freshness awakes them.
statesmen.
Congressional
funerals
now
The
holder
carries
a
stock
of
the
is painting some one else. Wealthy
his own pot In the parish for six
Then, with the same majestic pomp
people are capricious nnd often do not are elaborate affairs. There must be counterfeit money, and the sliovcr has
months.
Ind still overflowing witli magnificent
cure to give long sittings. Therefore, a Junket with every ceremony. The one piece. This he lakes to a store or a
schemes, they return to the hive, go
after the nrtlst has caught the expres body is transported to the home of the saloon nnd buys something for a small
A Cnrlona Tree.
sion of the face, lie will call In a model deceased In n special car, accompanied amount, and when he comes Into tlie
There Is a curious combination tree straight to the cells, plunge tlieir heads
to pose for the figure. Some models by one or two Pullmans, containing a street the holder sees him from his po In West Stockbridge, Mass. It Is pri to Hie neck In the vats of honey nnd fill
do not care to do this, ns part of tlieir more or less sorrowing congressional sition a block away, joins 1dm, receives marily a maple which measures, a foot themselves tight as a drum to repair
enjoyment of their occupation consists escort, with a well stocked commis the good money anil hands Idm another from tbe ground. 12 feet 3 Inches in tlieir exhausted strength, whereupon,
with heavy steps, they go forth to meet
In seeing themselves reproduced oil sary. of course. There are carriages counterfeit.
circumference. Fifteen feet from tlie
The object Is to work so that the ground there are one or two birch limbs the'good, dreamless anil careless slum
canvas, but there are others who are and flowers and mourning and a dis
play of white sashes quite Imposing.
shover, if detected, may plead Inno growing, and higher up are currant and ber that shall fold them in Its embrace
quite willing to help fill out.
Then some day special services are cence and prove that the piece Is the
Various models luive various points
raspberry bushes which bear fruit each till the time for the next repast.—Mae
of excellence, nnd often a painter will held In tbe house and senate, and the only one that he has and that he lias no year. It Is not stated whether tbe 1 terlinck's "Life of a Bee.”
employ nt different stages In the prog family of the deceased is present to other money. Some clever operators sugar made from Its sap has a rasp
nnllHichter« Afrnltl of Cow.,
ress of his work from three to four hear him eulogized nnd endowed with go so far ns to mix good coin with the berry flavor, or the birch bark a cur
It will probably not surprise our
models for one fjf'ure on his canvns. more virtues than ever they dreamed bad.
rant color ami taste, or the berries a
One model Is known for her coloring, In his lifetime that he possessed. The
spicy tang of birch. It Is very old and readers to hear that most Spanish bull
A Little Drama.
fighters object td fighting cows. The
another tor her hands, another for her eulogies are afterward printed In mo
In the morning n workman kissed Ills blds fair to stand for many years real reason may, however, nstonlsh
h.;ir. An artist generally notes In his rocco covered volumes and distributed wife and children nnd went to help n longer.
them. A sportsmanlike objection to
address book the characteristics of n among the friends and constituents, hundred others tenr down n building.
persecuting a female animal has noth
Illa Manner« All In n Hunch,
model after her mime. These quota after which congress, deeming that It
During
the
dny
he
slipped
nnd
fell.
The laundress’ little l»oy Is being ing whatever to do with It. The fact Is
tions are taken nt random from an has performed its duty, dries its eyes
Then came an nmbulnnce nnd a hos
artist's address book; "Fine young and proceeds again to business.—Wash pital and then a bit of black crape on strenuously brought up "by hand." that Hie average toreador Is sincerely
“Why, mum," she said despairingly, “If afraid of a cow.
Jewess,” "English, tnll and slim, blond, ington Letter In Los Angeles Times.
an obscure door.
And he has good reason. The cows of
I pounded that boy black and blue I
costume;” “Good back,” “Good llgure,
Ills
children
went
on
without
their
Too True.
couldn’t learn hltn Ills manners. Here, the half wild breed used for the arena
short legs, Ivory tone.”—Cosmopolitan.
Schools anil colleges exist for tbe father.
Willie!” to the urchin, who wns looking are much quicker in their movements
His wife, whose life hnd been bound
purpose of aiding us to keep up with
confusedly nt some pennies given him than are tlie bulls. Tlieir horns are
Why She Wanted It.
up In that of her husband, grew pale
by the mistress. "What do you say to more pointed nnd more formidable.
Mr. Bowers - I don't see why you the knowledge of those wlio have never
and died.
attended
them.
—
Boston
Transcript.
They do not lower tlieir heads to the
the lady?”
want to spend money for a new ther
Helplessness killail the little ones.
Willie looked troubled. Then. "Yes. ground, shut their eyes nnd charge like
mometer when we have a half dozen
Vencoao»«.
Yet In speaking of the accident men
nuAirn; no. ma’am; pease, fnnk you. a locomotive upon the rails, bnt are
already.
Returned Traveler —1 have often
esttise me.” he said breathlessly, re alert nnd ready to follow every move
Mrs. Bowers—Rut this one has a ba thought of that young Mr. Tease and said:
"It was not so bad. Only one man
membering nil his “manners" nt once, ment of tlieir persecutors. Tlieir war
rometer, and barometers are so handy. how he used to torment Miss Auburn
wns killed "• Chientro Journal.
like tactics have been adapted not to
the occasion evidently being great.
See. it says “rain,” and Just look bow about her hair. Did she ever get even
blind, bovine frontal attacks, hut to the
There'« F.tlqnetle In All Trade«.
It Is raining!—Puck.
with him?
strategy of active nnd cunning beasts
A indy who Imprudently explained to
Old Friend -Long ago. She married
The Hnnian J«w,
of prey, of which the human bull fighter
Snrcaatle.
a fishmonger tlie oilier dny Hint' her
him.—Illustrated Bits.
The human Jaw Is very loosely sock Is only a feeble mimic. If these cheap
He looked about 7 years old. and he
purchase wns intended for the cat's
sat tieside his mother In a Broadway
Ladles and waiting maids among the dinner wns a little hurt nt receiving It eted In the skull, so that It Is often dis Idols of the Spanish populace would
car one day Inst week. "He’s 4." re ancient Greeks nnd Romnns wore plain wrapped up in n newspaper "I tinder locatevi by tbe mere act of yawning. face young nnd active wild cows which
marked the mother as the conductor hoops of gold or silver In their ears, stood, ns It wasn't for yourself, muni.” Not being Intendisi for biting purposes, hnd just been robbed of tlieir calves,
held out his hand for the fare. With and as time progressed these became replied the fishmonger loftily. "We tirv offensive or defensive, no attention they might perhaps forestall the butch
never a smile. "Is be married?" asked more elaborate, precious gems being er wraps up In brown when It's for teems to have been paid by nature tq er, but they would, nt any rate, do
making It fust.
something to earn their laurels
th " ’’ductor —New York Sun.
cats!”—London Chronic'"
set in them.
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