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It is tho sweet :ui"l tender cracG
Of sorrow i:i a lovelv fa'
Wlicntlie brijrlit eyes arc brimmed with
tearn,
Thnt yearns through all the vanished
years.
For. thcmgli long vear.s have iassed
away,
I still recall that parting day
When here, v. ith breaking hearts wo
stood
In this dim twilipjht of the wood.
The windinir pathway is tiie sjini);
The oak, m whieh I carved her name.
Still easts its slif.dow over me;
Ami still All ! what is tills I sec ?
The pale faee lifted to my own.
The .sad. sad lips that made.sweet moan.
IJ n." iiseii his oi'tho future vear.s
When other eyes would lill with tears.
A Hit of Lace.
"It's a perfectly exquisite piece of
lace, papa.'
"I dare say, Flor."
"lint I want you t, look at it."
; J. shonldn t know anv more about
it if I did."
"Well, then, I want vou to buy it."
"Buvit! What .or?"'
"Why, for me."
"l'ay live hundred dollars for a
handkerchief for you?"
'Yes,. indeed. A!1 the girls have
them, although Vertaiulv this is a
imic, lui; jea.st
theirs. 1 don't
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little
jiieev thai
Know
whv L
ney
stiouiil have a handsomer handker
chief just because she is married.
Ar.vbody else would say it was
euongh to be married, ami so h t me
have the handkerchief. Married,
women have everything love, ami
lace, and diamonds. Xow, papa,
ju-t take out your pocket-book." Jt
was a coaxing voice.
"Da you suppose I carry .300 bills
in my pocket-book?'
"1 1 makes no odds. Your check
book, then. I have set my heart on
it, it's such a l eautv. If vou oidv
look at it look at that wreath of !
flowers, all so delicately t haded;
here the close work in the light, yon
see, there the open work in the
.shade, so pei feet yon can quite fan
cy the colors; and all done in this
one thread. See, papa, t hi re's a
dewdrop, that round hole in the
mesh."
'Nonsense, Flor; I can't see any
thing of the kind there."
"That's because your eye isn't edu
cated, sir. Mine is; for I have
studied other people's laces till I
could almost, work- them. That's a
good man! I knew you would. Yo i
always do. One, two, three!" And
then there ;.s a shower of kisses
and linkhug laughter. And that
was li.e conversation of a millionaire
and hi daughter that Lucia?) Mai vin
heard over the transom of the next
root ii to his :n (he hotel whtre he
staid over night a, ear or two ago.
seeing neither people. mr hand"kvr
Chief, and nghaM at the thought of a
ha:idkeivhi f costing the awful or'ce
ot s-.j(m). v. lr.en was oeo-1 hird of t!m
mortgage on his liule place that he
was trying to pay ofT, heart and soul
a conveis.itiou that r.o.y recurred
to him in a moment of real agony, as
the housemaid stood before "him
holding a Utile limp r;.g in her hand
that site had j-.st snatched out of the
washtub, and thrd. last night was a
bit of dainty lace that Miss Hose
Mereier had called her handkerchief,
and given him to hold dining the
galop. Good heavens, how was he
ev. r going to restore it!
He was a young lawyer, ju:,t en
tering noon what in" time would
probably be a lino practice, but
which was now rather empirical, lb
had started in the race for wealth
and honor with good legal ability,
good name, and good morals, and
with no other impediments than a
little patrimony in the shape of a
modest d willing in the suburbs,
which he had been obliged to mort
gage for the means to get a part of
his education and his profession,
w hich mortgage he was striving to
pay off, that he might begin the
future clear of the world. Ife was a
handsome fellow, this Liucien 3I.il
vin, an ambitious one too, in some
degree, ami very nearly as proud as
Lucifer. He used to feel many ii
pang in the association with those so
much wealthier than himself to
wdiK'h certain circumstances had sub
jected him. lie had had an impor
tant case accidentally thrown into
his hands, and had acquitted him
self sow vll that the wealthy client
took him up and would not Jet him
down; and when Lncian remonstrat
ed t hat it was out of his power to
keep up such association, and was
moitifymg to his prido besides, the
client had assured him it was not
pride, but vanity, that was mortitied,
and that the way to be as wealthy as
those he met was to keep their com
pany and get their cases; aud he had
thought, on t.he whole, that perhaps
ns inend was right, and that, if he
j)egan to yield with an ignoble mo
tc, he had nevertheless become
very fond of the ways of people to
hom wealth had given every oppor
tunity of culture and grace, and who
knew how to treat life like a work of
art Moreover, it was not a little
hat he was petted by various of
these good people. Certain mother-
3 huhes made him at home with
them and won his confidence and
aheetion, notably Mrs. Uarnetta.
larents with good rent-rolls of their
own, as Mrs. Uarnetta used to toll
him, were not so inconsistent in the
matter of rent-rolls as of virtue and
talent iu their daughters' husbands
and he was invited here and invited'
there, and given to understand a
great deal more than he chose to un
derstand. Proud as Lucifer, as it
was previously stated, he was goino
to marry no ht in ss of them all and
be the thiallof her money; he would
not marry a rich woman, he could
not mary a poor oue. When he mar
ried, he was going to give, not take,
aud at present he had nothing to
give. Perhaps he would have been
a nobler person if he had not been
quite so strenuous in this matter of
obligation; but then, as Mrs. Bar
netta said, he would not have? been
Luciuu Malvin, and Lueian Malvin
was a very good fellow, after all, and
thero are few of us but have our
faults. .
It wa's among these people that he
happened to moet ttosa Mercier. She
had come from a distant place, and
was visiting his pleasanfest acquaint
ance; and c.rta-nly the house was
pleasanter still after her sunshiny
little presence dawned on it. It
seemed as if, for instance, there
never had been any lloweis in the
house before, although it had al
ways been overflowing; it seemed as
if there had been no music there, no
light, or color, or cheer; and 'now
the place was too dangerously de
lightful for a young man who did not
want to marry to frequent. .She was
such a lovely little tiling; not exactly
beautiful, that is she would not have
been beautiful in a picture, but in
flesh and blood, and in Lncian- Mal
viti's eyes, she was exceedingly beau
tiful, with her soft color, her clear
dark gaze, and her blight hair that
broke into a cloud cf sunny rings
about her sweet faee; such n, gentle
E?.vety went with her wherever she
did . Knob a tender grace of manner,
too, in tl-e intervals of her-buoyant
spirits, 1
ier voice was
i a wa I'
bling voice
ll or
w
ays were such v.m-
some ways, ljucian Malvin i'eit that
he must forswear her presence un
less he wanted to make life a burden
to himself; and he ceased going to
Mrs. liaruetta's, where she was stay
ing, almost as suddenly as the day
forsakes the horizon in tha. dreary
season when twilights are not.
Ibit if he could shut himself out
from the Barnctta:-, he could no'
shut Miss liosa out from general so
ciety; and go where he would, he
met her almost nightly, laughing
gay ly, singing sw etly. dancing light
ly, till he declared to himse lf that, if
tin's v. as going to last, he must in
.h'ed cease going out at all. Jhit
th.tt was a little too much ; he did
not know how positively to deny
himself the more sight of her. Yet
things were growing very precarious
whim he could not take a book but
he saw tijiit blushing, gohl-envinged
face slide between the pages, when
he could not make out a writ without
being'n danger of slipping her nam1
into the blanks, when he heard the
delicious voice murmuring in his
ears when he waked, and walked
night with the li'.t'.e spirit when
slept. He made a compromise v.
himself it was all he could and
dared that a'"any rate he would
daii'-e with her again. It was
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'ill
he
ith
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idle eil'ort. He might almost as well
have danced with her as have stood
looking e.t her, quite unconcerns of
his general air. and ail the lover in
his glance. Mrs. Uarneita bce'-oned
him lo her side; be stood ther- pist
as Rose came up from her prome
nade and left the arm of one cr.vali.-i-to
bo carried, oil" by another. "Yon
are not dancing. Mr. Malvin, she
said. "Oh, would you hind my fan
and handkerchief?' He followed
thorn with his eve a.
an as
the
m us it:
e;-;s!;ed
What
) a dashing galop,
rut hal that oilier
ri:
man
with his cle.s
rling?
whv did she s u iter it? wb
it decency
that eo Mi
was there in the society
man. led such surface? Ii
ll his em-
.-.race whining wildly to this wild
music!
I'You do hate him, don't yon,"
said Mrs. Uarnetta, in his ear." "If
looks could slay ". Ife started.
Was he carrying his heart upon his
sleeve for daws to peck at? '()). I
don't pity you a bit," laughed Mrs.
Ihunetla, low-toned. And, putting
out her hand, shy took Rosa's fan
and opened it as she talked. "Any
body," said she, "with such power
of making misery, ought to enjoy it."
"1 I beg your pardon, Mrs. "liar
netta. but if you read me riddles, I
must ask you also to be their Sphinx."
"Oh no; it was the function of the
Sphinx to propound the riddles, not
to solve them." And Mrs. Ruuelta
laughed her low, pleasant laugh.
"'You do not come lo us any more."
she said. "And, as I used to be in
your confidence before you deserted
me, I can imagine the reason. I do
not like to say that it is very shabby
treatment of an old friend. Of
course I cannot say that it is rude.
Rut if yon do not dance w ith Miss
Mereier this evening I shall lie fear
fully Oii'ended. I am not going to
have my little treasure made unhap
py for the sake of the safety of the
I'rince of all good fellows himself."
Lncian changed color so suddenly
that Mrs. Rarnetta put out her hand
in afl'iight, half expecting to see him
fall; but in a momeuthe was him
self again.
"Do you Is Miss Mereier "
he began, aud paused half way.
"As if I should say another word,
and had not already said altogether
too inuohl" said Mrs. Rarnetta.
"There she has left dancing and
gone for nu ice. What do you think
round dances, on the whole?" And
they were, to all appearances, deep
in a discussion of the subject when
Rosa returned and swept her late
partner a courtesy, and took shelter
on the other side" of Mrs. Rarnetta.
Perhaps she had seen the way Lu
cian's eyes had followed her, and it
had given her a certain illumination
that made her shrink.
Just then the band began one of
t'ie Hungarian waltzes, a sweet and
rapt nous measure that set the blood
itself to dancing in one's veins. Why
not? One last dance, one last mo
ment of ecstacy. ere he went out for-
; ever into loneliness. Directly he
i crumpled the bit of lace into his
; pocket, and was bending before the
; little Rosa, who seemed suddenly to
I have lost all her light gayety, and
I who put out her hand to him with a
; conscious burning blush upon her
fco that his heart reflected in a
melting glow. And then there was
no thought of pride, or of negation,
or forgetting; the music was swing
ing them at its will; they circled in
eacli other's arms to its delicious and
delirious inovement, eternity would
hardly have any bliss for lovers be
yond the bliss of this moment. Yet
only a moment vt as it a few mo-
ments, a brief sweet space of half- ;
conscions time; and then a faint !
recognition crept through its spell '
and warned Lncian of the poison in I
this honey. He was m the act of !
surrender; he was about to seal his
fate and that of this dear girl; to
take her away from her father's
wealth and her luxurious ease, and
condemn her to the carkin cares of
poverty. All his nature rebelled;
he chose not to be swayed by this
melody of horns and strings; ho
would have no passion, neither mu
sic nor love, so master his soul as to
become the element in which it
swam, an exclusion of thought ami
fear, of sight and sound, and all
other emotion: and, with his im
perious determination, he chose to
break the enchantment; the real
world crept back upon his senses, he
heard the tuie, beyond this cloud
that wrapped them, breaking again
into its distinctive measure, and, ex
erting his wilL, he controlled their
steps, and. paused at last, beside Mis.
Rarnetta. and, with a low bow. ami
without a word, gave Rosa back into
that lady's care, and passed into the
cro.vd and. out of the vlaee, and
home to his lonely rooun.
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It was daybreak before he so.'ght i
repose, walking the Hours tut titou,
hardly knowing what he did or what
he thought, but intent upon con
quering himself. He would give
the world for Rosa Mercier's love,
but he would not give his pride. To j
him that pride meant self-respect; i
to many her. the child of opulence,
meant either to sell himself for a j
price or to reduce her totivulde and i
weariness in which her Le might j
soon wear out. He did not doubt '
that lovo now ; without a syllable's
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only hoped and cursed his f;-.'.e thai
forced him to hope such a thing,
that presently the love would pass,
and some one who would make her
happier would claim her.
with maledictions in the
A- length,
ct, midl
e.l his pockets of the gloves, haii-.l-
kerehie;
and trill
thtie, and
went to bed, with the sun coming
through the curtains, ami, worn out
in body and mind., :--. pt to theb-ess
-.1 thjioujli oblivion c-f all the
world.
When he awoke it was late i.i the
day. All his trouble rushed over
him. but in a moment all his wi ll to
cpt
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ro.-e too. J Ie
; re
ed
liim-
self I
ureiv. lij meant loo cai
that night on .
he." haniikerchi
Ii--s M. i-.ier, restore
i f thai he I. ail forgot-
ten to give back after the dance, ami
in some indirect veiv ho 1.,.,. !,. I
t : iiii oe lutcmie.t ne er to marry, audi
so seal i; is doom b
Olid hope. He
j
went into the 1,1st room when he
had completed his toilet, ; nd after
attending to out; or two othc r all'airs,
looked for the handkerchief that he
remembered to have tosse.l upon the
table there. 1 1 was not on the table; it
was nowhere in the room. In a
panic, he rang the bell? and when it
was answered., instituted an inquiry
concerning the thing. V0s indeed,
Susan had seen it, and thought it was
so v ellow ami soiled she would t.d;e
it down and wash it. "Lors, sir, it
was the dirtiest little rag," she said.
"Just straw-color. Ami I thought
I'd give it a run through the tub
and the blueing and make it lit to
be seen."
"Good heavens!" he eiied with a
horriikd Hash of remembrance of
having Somewhere heard that the
yellower lace was, the more precious
it was, -and that it never was washed
on any account except by people
who did nothing else. "Let me
have it at once." And in live min
utes after Susan stood before him
holding up a little limp rag, an I
with a pang as from the blow of
smiethiug unknown and dreadful,
the conversation that he had heard
over the transom of the hotel door, a
year or two ago, swept back upon
his recollection.
I-'ive hundred dollars! And gone
to grief in a moment! And he could
no more replace it than he could liy,
without what was the same to him
as absolute ruin. Of course, lie
must replace it; he could not be in
debted, through the stupidity of
his servant, or through any other
means, to Miss Mereier in that sum.
Without any doubt she valued such
a bit of hice; and if anything were
needed to demonstrate to him the
wisdom of the course he had decided
on. and the utter absurdity of having
dared for a single moment to look
with love on one of these
darlings of fortune, it was the
fact that her handkerchiefs alone were
items of 500. What a shame! what
wickedness! what a preposterous
folly! How could a young man
marry! lie burned w ith"iadiguation
then.
Rut co replace it; one-third of the
sum he was saving to redeem his lit
tle property from mortgage, all the
money he really had in the world
! beyond that for his daily expenses!
j It was the ruin of his hop-is. Ids am
j bjtions, bis pride that scorned so to
! ke anybody's debtor; it threw him
j back in the race how long! Rut it
, must bo done. He had a tril'e over
; in the National Solvency Rank,
i He drew his check for the necessary
I sum, and folded it away in his pock-
; et-book and then weiit about his
business till nightfall, when he came
back to his dreary moms, and made
himself ready for a call at Mrs. Rat-
, neMa's.
j The night had never seemed so
beautiful, the stars so large and keen
thrilled him widiv and ik-clv, h j WiJV you used to do. and save your
cast a sudden shadow of regret"; he ! s?,f Ili3s vexation, and save my
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and far above the earth, fio remote
and eold they typified all the dear
and happy things oflife forever rc
moved from him. His heart was
chilled and his face was white when
he stood at last in Mrs. Rarnetta's
dravir,g-room, and she lloated for
ward to meet him. He had not ask
ed for Miss Mereier.
"It is delicate errand, Mrs. Rar-
netta." said he, with a dreary attempt
at smiling. "Rut the truth is that
my maid, in her officious kindness,
has done such damage to a bit
bit of Miss Mereier s property that
I must replace. And I have coao
to beg you, out of your friendship
for me, to transact thofaffair, if such
an article can be replaced here. I
believe these little trilles are rather
costly, and if you will procure one"
and he laid the check he had drawn
that morning' and the little limp rag
in Mrs. Rarnetta's . hand "as like
the original as possible, I "
"My dear ?dr. Malvin, what in the
world are you talking of?" cried
Mrs. Rarnetta. "Have yon money
to throw about in this way? Five
hundred dollars what is it for?"
"To replace Miss Mercier's hand
kerchief, if you will be so good as to
make the purchase."
"Like this?" said Mrs. Rarnetta,.
holding up the limp rag by one
corner.
"Like that," said Lncian.
"Oil, that is too good!" cried Mrs.
Rarnetta, with a poal of laughter.
"It, is too good, it is too absurd !
What creatures men are! Did you
imagine that this bit of finery whs
worth all that : this little strip of
grass-cloth and German lace! No
wonder the vonng men don't marry.
then!
tit
Mr. Malvin, this
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i in i.es iioie i;a e.t ; i-.e i t-e ici coms e.-.;icij
! 2 r.0, and was nearly worn out at
i that. Did you imagine, too. that my
I poor little Rosa could wear :5.'V)
handki rchiefs, without a ct lit to her
name ?"
"Without a cent to her name?"
cried Laehui, snrinuiug to his feet.
"dxaetlv.
Alia! Ts that the
whv didn't vou come
tro
, o
md talk it all over with me in the
litth; R:-a too? What an absurd
boy you are! Another would have
waited to hear that she was an heir
ess; you wait to hear that she is
penniless. Well, she is, if that sat-
I isfics yon, exempt ;.ir what i snail
J "leave my little god-daughter when 1
dinwhich will not be at present, D.
! Y. And there she is in the next
room now. Rat bless me "
I Lueian had not waited for the rest
i of he iu vocation. IL was already
! iu the next room, and Rosa was al
I ready in his arms.
j A Cicvcr .?r.g;;lcr.
j The narrative of the wonderful
performances of the conjurer Pimetti
at St. Petersburg, which has cropped
"P !lt intervals br some years past,
is n gain "going the rounds." Ae-
coming to tne s-ory, no was entra-geu
to perform before the Kmperor Alex
ander about the beginning of the
present century, the hour being fixed
for seven. He did not arrive until
eight, an I being reproached with the
delay, asked the monarch and his
eoartiers to look at tlv-'ir watches,
when it was found that every time
piece in the palace had been put back
an hour. A minute or two afterward
they all indicated the correct time
without having been touched. He
introduced himself into the Lmper
or's private apartment mysteriously
when the palace doors were all locked
and guarded, and the conjurer was
supposed to be under police surveil
lance at his own house. The most
brilliant triumph of his career in St.
Petersburg, however, was his exit.
He gave out that he would leave at a
certain hour by all the city gates
simultaneously. Large crowds ex
cited by curiosity watched at each of
the fifteen gates, at every one of
whieh Pimetti was recognized at the
time appointed as walking slowiy
out; he addressed the people, bid
ding them adieu in an -audible voice.
The testimony of the ofUcers placed
at every portal to inspect passports
continued these unanimous declara
tions. The marvels of modern Spir
itualism, so far as physical manifes
tations are concerned, are far out
done by these feats, as they are also
by the kindred performances of Hin
doo conjurers.
Slft. iiiiog Hie Cart!:;.
. . . , i
Experienced gamblers can stock a
pack of cards tor almost all games,
which makes it very hazardous for
novices, whose money is at stake, to
play with them. A noted profession
al gambler having made a large for
tune at the game of vincrt-in-et-un
(twenty-one), was finally detected in
his mode of stockin-r a pack for rob
bing his victims. There being fiffy
two cards in a fall deck, consequent
ly there are thirteen of each suit,
which, when arrang d by certain
words, forms a stock that cannot be
disarranged by cutting the cards a
hundred times. It is done by the
following key: Eight kings, three
tens to save nine fair ladies for one
sick knave. After the cards have
been cut (not shuffled) as mny
times as is desirable, see the 'bottom
card aud take that from the starting
point, then the whole pack can be
called off from the top without mak
ing a single mistake. The trick
above exposed is beyond ordinary
comprehension and well calculated
i to lure young men to certain ruin,
j Yours truly,. boys,
j Uccle Jake, the Miller.
j
j A citizen of Dakota took a Turkish
bath in Omaha a few davs ago, and
i died within an hour. The verdict
! of the jury was: "He hadn't ought
i to have got so much of the mud off
' of him at one time.".
fWHIlfl. "
Siliii'ir Uull and the Sioux.
The St. Louis G lobe-Democrat of a
recent gives the following sketch of
the Sioux Chief, in a conversation
v.ith Mr. J. D. Keller, of that city:
Mr. Keller was from 1SGS to 1873
clerk of the agent at Standing Rock,
and had ample opportunities to get
acquainted with this t':"b .-. of blood
thirsty savages. In fact he lived
among them so long that be learned
to speak their language "like a na
tive," and was a great favorite of the
big chiefs who came to the agency.
They called him "Minnehna Ochila"
(the Writing R y). The word Sioux
means "cut-throat. According to
Mr. Keller's statement, the various
bands of Sioux number from 35,000
to 15,000, and are divided into the
following different tribes: Unkapapa,
Riack lYet, Saus Arcs, T wo Kettles,
Upper Yanktonais, Lower Yankto
nais, Santee Sioux, Rtirgklvs, Min
neconjons and Galk is. Part of these
live east, and part live west of the
Missori river. Tatonka Otahkah
(Sitting Bull), who led the savages
in the attaek-rigainst Custer belongs
to the Unkapapas (dried beef eaters) .
Mr. Keller knows him well, and de
scribes him to be about live feet in
height. He has a large. head, eyes
and nose, high cheek bones; one of
his legs is shorter than the other
from a gun-shot wound in the left
knee. His countenance is of an ex
t remedy savage type, betraying that
blood t hirst iness aud brutality for
w hich he has been so long notorious.
He has the name of being one of the
most Huccesiul scalpers i:i the In
dia:) country. There has hern a
standing reward of 1.000 offered for
his head for the last eight years, by
t'ne Montana people, who have
special cause to know his ferocious
nature, and some of his worst
deeds have been perpetrated
in that territory. The Sioux,
when on the war path black
their faces from the eyes down,
the forehead being painted a bright
red. When in mourning, and very
eager to revenge t'ne death of friends
or relations, thov cut their hair
nor!
and daub their faces with
earth.
Their feat.
if horse
manship are wonderful
They con-
shier le.e grearest aei 01 vaior 10 ne
the striking of their enemy with
some hand instrument while alive,
and, whether alive or dead, it is the
first one that strikes the 'fallen foe
that "cor.nts the r'y'.';," and not the
one that shoots him. They do not
always scalp. Their object in scalp
ing is to furnish a proof of their
deed, and give them to their women
to dance over. They always attack
in a sweeping, circling line, eagle
like, give a volley, pass, on, circle
and return 0:1 a different angle.
When they kill one of the cnemy
there ij always a rush to get the first
crack at him, so as to "count the
eo'.'v," and then some Indian who
was disappointed in getting a cut at
the victim while alive, scalps him.
The Sioux always camp with topes
(lodges) in a circle, making, its it
were, a stockade, and when on dan
gerous ground they picket their po
nies in the center. Mr. Keller is
familiar with the ground where the
disastrous engagement of Custer oc
curred. Concerning this he said:
"My idea of the Custer slaughter is
that the Indians had no women and
children in their lodges, and had par
apets dug under '.he lodges out of
sight. Custer, thinking it a family
cairoa, rushed into the center of their
fort, w here resistance would necess
arily prove fatal. Hi s only means of
escape was, after finding himself in
this fix, to run right through and
out, aud not stop to fight, but join
Reno's command and retreat."
(.luMsinrHi 7?Iahl.
The old favorite, Goldsmith Maid,
retains all the vigor of her youth
and at the ripe age of seventeen has
equalled the greatest of her earlier
achievements. Her trotting at Rel
mont Park, in Philadelphia, when
she repeated her record of a mile, in
2:11 occasioned the wildest enthusi
asm " Rudd Roble drove the lleet
footetl mare around the track for a
mile on a gentle jog, and when she
was brought out for the second heat
she was full of fire and mettle, shak
ing her heal as saucily as a miss in
her teens. At the word she shot
away like a bullet from a Creedmoor
rifle. A slight skip was made near
the first quarter, but Doble, with
consummate skill, caught her up be
fore a brake was effected, and the
first quarter was reached in 33 1 2.
The half-mile was reached in 1:00
1-2. Another skip before the three
quarter post, Doble holding her
down to her work as fir m as a rock.
The time was now 1:10, and the ex
citement was intense. All eyes were
centered on the game little Queen of
the. Turf, as closely pressed by the
running horse. With her driver
yelling like Comanehes on the war
path she came thundering down the
home-stretch, Doble giving her the
whip and using every endeavor to
bring out the full speed of the best
piece of horseflesh ou the continent.
Nearing the seats, everybody was on
tiptoe, and the mare crossed under
the wire in the marvelous time of
2:11. The judges placed the figures
upon the blackboard and displayed
it to the view of the audie-nce, when
a wild, enthusiastic shout went up,
the stable boys tossing up sponges
and their hats in one general, grand
hurrah. As the Maid was driven
back to the stand Doble's face was
wreathed in smiles, and the intelli
gent animal pricked up her ears and
seemed to appreciate the ovation
quiet as much as her driver.
The Lucky Queen Mining Com
pany has ordered the withdrawal of
all its mining stock from market,
and proposes to sell 110 more at any
price.
All Sorts.
KiTn business, biicli-making.
Sioux-lug machine,: the scalping
knife.. What interjection is of the feminine
gender? A-lass!
Jvirly to bed and early lo rise.
Makes a iinin l oaat in a way we despise..
Cool drinks Those taken at an
other fellow's expense without invi
tation. If falsehood paralyzed the tongue,
Avhat a death-like silence would per
vade society.
The extreme height of misery is a
small boy with a new pair of boots
aud no mud puddle.
Accommodating a friend" with a
fifty dollar note is an ex-L-lent way
of getting rid of money.
It was a little boy in New Jersey
who said: "Yes, soda-water's good.
It's like your foot's asleep."
There is nothing that will turn a
lady's head so quick as new bonnet
on the head of another lady.
An old farmer found that when
his I.103-s were big enough to help
him the;,' wero too big to work.
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An r.pothoeary shop on the corner
with a green antdo stand in front.
shows the eternal iituess of things.
The man who has sacrificed all of 0
the money he could borrow from
his friends thinks !; has claims oil
the people for office.
'd "i v. ho would scruple to utter a
l:e. do nor s.-ruple to entertain a
prejudice, for-efiing that prejudice,
is a standing falsehood..
A wag, noted for his brevity, writes
to a friend to be careful in the selec
tion of his diet. He says, "don't eat.
Q-cumbers; they'll W-up."
An Irishman complaind to his
phvsician that he stuffed him so
much with drugs that he was sick a
long time after he got well.
A London doctor says that one
chew of tobacco per day will hurt a
man more than twenty chews. Chew,,
brothers, chew twenty quids per day.
When a young Jad.v said to her
f. liar the other night, " 'sleap year."
he just remarked that he couldn't,
his mother would bo looking for him
home.
The young man in the country
who takes his girl on a railroad ex
cursion and doesn't buy her any
pop-corn can be set down as pop
soulcd. The striped stockings of the Sioux,
squaws, we learn from the experienc
ed observer of the New York Iforahl,
consist simply of three strokes of
green paint.
It wasn't a loaded Marion county
preacher who recently said: "Rrez
zern, szcasier for a emmil hie tgo
srough ze knee of an idol, zau for
hie a rich man to live hie peaz
ably with his muzzer-in-law."
-The boy's first really great lesson
in acting usually takes place upon
meeting his mother iu search of the
pnutry-key, which lies securely at
the bottom cf his trousers-pocket.
1
M:lV
Southerner, writing from Cape
to his home paner. wonders
wh v a prudish girl who will dance
with no one but her brother will rnn
along the beach, "naked as to the
knee," aud kicking sand at her beau.
Little Girl: "Oh please, sir, I've
brought your shirt 'ome, but mother
says she can't wash it no more, 'cos
she was obliged to paste it up agen
the wall and chuck soap-suds at it,
it's so lender!"
An old negro was paid his wages
in silver half-Tollars. He gazed
benignly upon them as they lay in
his palm, grinned as though in tri
nmnii, and exclaimed: "Dat's da
stuff rats can't chaw'."
"Where's the bar?" asked a dirty
looking stranger of the bell-boy of
the hotel the other day. "Wvhat
kind of a bar?" asked the latter.
"Why, a saloon bar, of course; what
do you suppose I mean?" "Well,"
drawled the boy, "I didn't know but
you might mean a bar of soap."
Tii is is the way a citizen of Denver
advertises for a last calf: "Rund
away' 1 Red and vite caf. His tu
behint legs vas pluck, he vas a she
caf. Enipotti vat prings him pack
pairs 5 tollars. Jacob znddering.
Clear Creek, threo miles pehind the
pridge."
They tell a story of a judge in Ala
bama who sent an officer out a few
davs since to get him a drink of
whiskv. The officer returned with
it, but the amount did not satisfy
the judge. The second time ho
came back with a tumbler full, and
remarked that the bar keeper said
that he "didn't know that the old
fool wanted to take a bath!"
Said a Denver prisoner to nia
Honor: "You've sent me up every
summer for four years, and I've
missed the Fourth of July every,
time. Now I want you to make it
short this time. Make it so I'll get
out before the Fourth. This is the
last Centennial I expect to spend on
earth, and I don't want to spend it
in jail." ...
Occasionally barbers get hold of a
poor quality of bay rum, aud, when
such is applied to the face of a man
just shaved, it smarts like fire for a'
few moments. A case of this kind
occurred in one of our barher-hopa
the other day. Whoop! hold! Holy,
Moses!" yelled the man, springing,
wildly from the chair, and clasping
his burning cheeks with both hands;
"von may skin me that's all right
but 'I'll be essentially cussed if I'm
going to bavepepper-sanee rubbed on
it afterwards! Now, you hear me!"
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