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«A KU KST I X ru L A T io y it but little of their « a . . . ...ibors. and even the broad verandas of the colonel's quarters on the north side were no more popular or populous than ,E 8 KINO, Ü. 8. A, OF T H E VV' Votatici’I Daughter," "Th* those of Capt. Lane at the southwest corner. Mrs. Lane and Miss Marshall Vom the Hanke," "Dun- AM 1 STTF ich," "Tw o Soldier«” attributed this to the fact that the sun on its westward way passed behind their LE V cozy home and left the front piazza cool hy J. B IJppinrou Oomptuiy ml publiahad by «pochil arriine»- and shaded, whereas even the canvas hangings in front of the Morrises' could “ ■) a moments silence. The not quite shut out the glare. But Mrs. tri HK I lit ' . K tly sauntered over and tried Muiris laughingly declured that since inf( to tile dining room, their coming into the society of Fort le key if you wunt to go in Ryan she had become “ a decided back Hearn. “ I have kept all number.” eked since Blauvelt left ex- Whether the theory o f the colonel's ue and my bedroom upstairs, wife was true or not, it must be said STAT oor is locked, too. Jake al- to her credit that she accepted the situ •s in the front way. I don't ation with charming grace, and was . _*ruur ......... rrtary o f Stai- iy one has come through the quite as frequent a visitor at the Lanes' a»i:rrr ice the day the captain's faui- as many of the younger women. Her i'ubllc lust t Printer own guests had departed, leaving her Welsh have to come here for somewhat lonely, she said; and while she reme Court j sT asked Lane. thought it by no means a proper or con Filth r ; but he was under guard at the ventional thing that she should be so rnrv KlP lad a sentinel over him—and both constantly visiting people who so seldom ml I were here. Ho took nothing honored her she could not but have ocular this house but bis own personal br proof at all hours of the day that Mrs. igs, and never entered this room at Lane and her fair friend, Miss Marshal], « at day. I couldn't help it, but after could not sally forth to make calls except t him with Schonberg today the at the price of leaving a number of call xplanation of my loss that occur- ers in the lurch. There were other young a mo a moment ago was—Welsh, ladies in garrison just then—Miss Whar iff low could ho havo been the man?" ton visiting her brother and Miss McCrea ini' ere was another moment of silence. staying at the Burnhams’. There were ' stood thoughtfully examining the several pretty girls in the neighboring of the desk, then strolled into the town who frequently came out and spent and tried tho key o f the front door, a few days with the families at the Dost, he stood there under the swinging and all these of course, as well as the ip the clink of an infantry sword was young married ladies, were the recipients ril at the gate ami the voice of Capt. of much attention on the part of the o f •die. ficers, young and old. It is a fact well What are you youngsters doing at understood in army circles that few offi i hour of tho peaceful night? Come cers are too old to tender such attentions here and worship nature and visit and no woman too old to receive them. tries for me. Oh! beg your pardon, And Mrs. Lane was rejoicing in the le; I thought it must be some of the success of her projects for tho benefit of s.” Georgia Marshall. Her friend was a Maj. Kenyon and I have been keep- pronounced success from the day of her Hearn awake,” was the answer, arrival; and yet it was somewhat diffi e are just going.” cult to say why. She was not a beauty, Hello, Brodie,” quoth the major, as despite her lovely eyes; she had none of too, came forth. “ Have you been to those flattering, soothing, half caressing ow Brent is?” ways some women use with such telling elinous, 1 m tola. Only the doctor effect on almost every man they seek to steward are with him. I was just impress. She was not chatty. She was ting for 12 o’clock to go dowa und anything but confidential. She was up the sentries. There ought to be rather silent and decidedly reserved, > but calvalry officers of the day at yet a most attentive listener withal; and post, by Jove! so that they could then she had the courage of her opin around among those outside sen ions. Her prompt and prominent part . It’s too far for a Christian to in the little drama enacted the night of c twice in twenty-four hours. Thank her arrival had made her famous in the , there’s the call now.” garrison; her frank, unaffected, but gra . the first words from the lips of the cious ways had done much to make her try at the guard house the lamps at popular. i -vo western gates were promptly The statement that she was an orphan (j,¿uisfaed, and then the forms of two and poor, combined with the fact, which could be discerned flitting from the other women so speedily determined, ' to post, extinguishing each lamp in that she was not pretty, had removed l. Soon i he entire quadrangle was her, presumably, from the range of tpped in total darkness, and the silent jealousy. The other girls found her rs gleamed all the more brilliantly in very entertaining, since she let them do i unclouded sky. Far over to the much of the talking, and were willing ».ward tho reflection of tho electric to accord to her a certain quiet style of ts, a pallid, sickly glare upon the her own. The men were glad to be civil pens, suddenly failed into nothing- to any friend of Mrs. Lane’s. And vet Georgia Marshall had not been there a "hat's the first time the town clock week before, as Mabel confidently pre urs have been so close together dicted. she was having in abundance v coming to the garrison. Where tetes-a-tete of her own. •et this custom of dousing the It was the third morning after the es dnight?” asked Lane. cape of the prisoner Goss, and for forty- 'i started that when they eight hours nothing else bad been talked ♦, it from town perhaps, of among the soldiers, and nothing had t," answered Brodie. " I excited so much comment among the sentries down toward families at the post. Up to this moment not a trace hail been found. The two , though liome on the iron slats in front o f his window had night wind, the call of been cut through swiftly and noiselessly ended. It was now the from within with watch spring saws, and ist sentry, No. 8, whose the tallow and iron filings lay about the Vie winding road at the stony window sill. He hail been thor ood yard. A nciV, mu- oughly searched before being put in that licb, softened by distance. cell, and it was absolutely certain that 1 s'r ‘ iW^ei-ve ociocx -auu j neither files nor tallow were then in his /ho goes there? Halt! Halt! possession. The guard swore that no -a-ard—Number 8!” Bang! man had had access to him afterward. i the first of the four officers A wire netting prevented anything from e southwest gate. He could being thrown to him from the outside, itfalls of the officer of the and thijs had been forced upward and .„ru n n in g down the road past the outwai »1 after the bars were cut. The Sergeant of the guard was sure .bles, and without hesitation followed 1 tilt. The guard was hurriedly tum- that no fiian had touched or even spoken ; ont and forming. It was the ser- to him, except when he himself had ,nt who faced it to the front and Been his d inner and supper handed in. de the customary report to Capt. There could have been no collusion on die, as the officer of the day came the part of the sentries, for the men on No. 1 all through the day and night - r to the spot: he guard is present and the were of the infantry, and warm friends of Brent, who would have lost no chance • secure.” üble snicker in the prison room of putting a bullet through the supposed 1 these words. A corporal file assailant in the event of his attempting .epped back into the guard room to escape. The blacksmith said it would nffiy ordered silence among the take several houtrs—at least five—to file ere. which only evoked more titter- through those tjwo bars, and the man d whispering. A sudden thought must have worked with the patience of a beaver. It was a drop of only seven ed to tile officer of the day. ng your lantern here,” he said, as feet to the ground without, for the win de through the guard room into dow overlooked the uphill slope back of rrow passage beyond. On one the guard house; and yet, as he proba- s the prison room whence the blv had to come through head first,, that Oise ,,/weeded, on the other were the was quite a fall. The prints of his out spread hands were found in the dust ells. ( heap, and it looked as though he must “ Open these doors,” he ordered. “ There's only one cell occupied, sir; have lain there sofme moments before stealing away. / the third.” The sentry far down by the wood “ Open that, then.” The heavv door creaked on its hinges. yards, No. 8, stated that just as he was A gust of cool night air blew through calling off and standing faced to the to cell The window was wide open, east so that his voice might carry to the guard house, he heard a sudden stumble e iron slats were sawed away. The behind Mm: a man tripped over a log ' had flown. Private Goes, the as- between him and the road, then ran like >t of Corp. Brent, was gone. mad down toward the old station. It C H A P TE R V IL was too dark to recognize who it could be. The officer of the guard had stopped to interrogate the sentry rn reaching | his post, but Mr. Hearn had pushed ahead, and down at the foot- of the hill hoofs and had plainly heard a horse's ^ M \ the light nimble of wheels ossing the .king trot; I bridge and going at a pass, relia- yet soldiers returning ‘ nor heard | ble men, had neithe’ n the flats | korse or wagon an' own. An I along which lay the the wheel effort had been mr though a \ tracks from the trees near place was fourni ind buggy the old static- or three had eviden determine j hours, it t r crossing which ws -ons com- the strea 'orning fng fror __ had to’ „ 4 * * m i : c ’ o u n ' L b I fcsUo what « tfifrf” V O' " --------- to have taken a tui „ m w ____ __ though there was still danger, there was hope. What struck many inquwers was the fact that the doctor seemid ill at euse, and invariably evaded the ques tion, when pressed as to the nature of Brent’s delirium. This, of course, sim ply served to whet public curiosity; and the young soldier became, all uncon sciously, an object of greater interest than ever. The ladies of the infantry, who had known him by sight some time, were certain that from the very first he had borne all the outward appearance of a gentleman, and in every word and gesture liad “ given the world assurance of a man” of birth and breeding. Their sisters of tho cavalry, who had but re cently reached Fort Ryan, were not slow in accepting their theories. “ The oiggcsi t - m__ In the world are going on right here in New Y o rk ," said a hotel man. “ Take that concern there,’ ’ nodding at a huge hotel up town. “ Neither the phalan stery at Guise nor any other socialistic community compares with it, aud it is only one of a dozen or a score, big and little, in this city. The members, or guests, as you may choose to call them, put their money into a common fund, and they live in style and comfort that j would cost them easily two or three times as much if they didn't have co operation. They ure in a fireproof build ing, heated with steam and lighted by electricity; the fittings and plumbing are the finest that a millionaire could Such things were by no means un get; they have private telephones in common in the service: and wouldn’t it their rooms and trained servants are at be delicious, now, to have a romance in hand day.aud night. How many of them the ranks at Ryan? Only fancy, Mrs. could afford such things in a private Burnham, Mrs. Brodie, and, above all, bouse? That's what socialism w ill da “ Does it pay? Well, rather. A hotel Mrs. Graves, were quite ready to go to the hospital at any time the doctor would in New York is either a gold mine or a permit and become the nurse of the bottomless pit to drop money into. It is young corporal; but the medical man generally the former if it is a first class almost bluntly declined the services of hotel with plenty of capital back of it. two of these ladies, and with positive Otherwise men wouldn’t be so eager to Insolence, said the third, had told her invest millions in hotel property. One she could much better devote her minis firm is reputed to have divided 8150,000 trations to her own children. “ Just as the first year. The w ife of the manager if I didn't know best what my children of another hotel is famous even in New York for her diamonds. The number of needed!” said the offended matron. And it was about Dr. Ingersoll that hotels not particularly well known that Mrs. Graves was discoursing this very bring their owners from (50.000 to morning on Mrs. Lane's piazza, while (100,000 a year is surprising, if half her own olive branches were clambering the stories told are true. These are ho the fences and having a battle royal tels that do a transient trade. The place with the progeny of Mrs. Sergt. Flynn across the way expects to have 500 or at the other end of the garrison. And, 600 guests living there the year round as luck would have it, who should come and paying something like (1,000 u along the gravel walk but the major year apiece. Some pay a good deal and the doctor, arm in arm, at which more. A ll the proprietor has to do is sight Miss Marshall’s expressive eyes, to take in the money and keep his guests brimming with merriment, sought the from kicking. That's where the brains half vexed features of Capt. Lane, who come in in the hotel business— keeping had been fidgeting uneasily in his chair your guests from kicking. Why do some during her ladyship's exordium. Like hotel keepers fail? Well, one reason is many another excellent soldier, this that some of them mukesomnch money practised trooper had no weapon with that they want to be Astors or Vander bilts right away and so listen to which to silence a woman’s tongue. "Y ou 'll find I ’m right, Mrs. Lane. schemes their guests have to propose. See if you don’t,” proceeded Mrs. Graves, It takes brains to salt money away as all unconscious of the coming pair. well as to make it. “ There is one thing about these so “ Yon found I wasu’t mistaken about Maj. Kenyon; and they are just as like cialistic hotels here in New York that outside hotel keepers don't like. That as two peas in a pod—both of them.” Then, recalled to the possibilities of old joke about New York being the the situation by tho mirthful gloam in finest summer resort in the land is grim Miss Marshall's eye and the audible earnest for them. New Yorkers who chuckles of Mr. Lee, she whirled about own places in the country are staying and caught sight o f the object of her at them longer and longer each year, but the season at summer hotels is dissertation. “ Oh, it's you they’re laughing at, is growing shorter and shorter. I know it?” she hailed. “ I was just talking one place that could reckon confidently upon a season of three months. Last about you.” "Then how could you find the heart summer its season was not more than to laugh. Mrs. Lane?" said the major, six weeks. People used to be crazy to raising his cap with simulated reproach get into the country and sorry to come of mien. “ Does it umuse you to see back to the city. Now you’ ll find that fellow mortals flayed alive? Is it not husbands and fathers have to coax their bad enough that, like Sir Peter Teazle, I families to go away at all, and they am never out of Mrs. Graves’ sight but caD’t keep them away after the first that I know I ’ve left my character be cold spell gives them an excuse to come hind me? The doctor aud 1 were won back. I don’t suppose that people like dering whether there was a vestige left the country any less than they ever d id ; of the good impression we strove to but the country hotels can’t keep up make upon Miss Marshall.” to the standard that people have been “ I ’m sure you ruined all possibility of taught to expect here, aud people won't that three days ago, major, when you put up with the deprivations aud dis showed her what a cynical old party comforts they have to suffer in the coun you were. N o wonder the young officers try. So the luxury of living in New in our regiment lose all love for their York is killing the summer hotel busi profession after hearing you talk. I f I ness, and New York is getting to be a were Col. Morris I wouldn’t have you greater summer resort every year. ” — contaminating the lieutenants of the New York Sun. Eleventh the way you were trying it on T h r e e Y o u n g L a d ie s o f OdenKa. Mr. Hearn the other day.” “ Where is Mr. Hearn, by the way?" There are in Odessa at the present asked Mrs. Lane, eager to put an end to time three young Russian ladies of great such an unprofitable controversy. “ He wealth, who are engaged in the useful hasn't been in here for nearly two days. calling of selling coal, washing linen Come, major—come, doctor, walk in and and serving in a farm, and the charbon sit awhile. W e want to hear how Corp. nière, the washerwoman and the farm Brent is, too.” servant have received and divided among "Brent seems easier, Mrs. Lane, thank them during the last few weeks 868 o f you,” answered the surgeon. “ I cannot fers of marriage. They have been called stop just now; we came over to meet the the Cinderella« of Odessa, because their mail, for the orderly seems to have an strange fate found them out in that unusually big load this morning. Here town. “ I think that very few have come the youngsters up from the post- sighed, when fate at last has found office now.” them,” writes Praed, and though these And as he spoke perhaps half a dozen ladies have some cause to sigh their young cavalrymen, still in their riding trouble is a passing one. boots and spurs, as though they had but A wealthy Russian had lately died at just returned from drill, came slowly up Odessa and left them a fortune of many the slope. Wharton had an open news m illion rubles, but on the condition paper which he was reading aloud: the that each and all should take their turn others were hanging about him, evident at 15 months' servile labor in the con ly listening with absorbed attention, to ditions already specified, “ to the end the neglect of their own letters. that, having known the life of the poor, “ What's the matter with the boys?" they may rightly embrace the life of asked Kenyon, whimsically, as they ap the rich. ” They may, if they think proached. “ They look as solemn as well, afterward form a leaguo of heir owls.” esses who shall follow the same course Naturally all eyes were drawn toward to matriculate as millionaires. An the coming party. Lane, bending for amusing feature is the noble self re ward, saw that Hearn's face was pale, nunciation of the 868 suitors, who one even under the coat of tan and sunburn. aud all agree to overlook the 15 months' He would have passed them by, simply bard labor in consideration of the sunny lifting his cap, as Wharton half folded years which they, the heiresses, w ill the paper when the group filed in through enjoy and share ever after. “ Your ex the main gate, but again Kenyon spoke: perience,” writes one, “ w ill be inval “ What makes you look so like a pack uable to me. You w ill not only be my of mutes, lads? What's gone wrong? Is partner, but my charge d'affaires.” — congress sailing into us again?" Pall Mall Gazette. "M aj. Kenyon,” said Martin, deliber ately, halting in front of the gate, “ I J u d ic ’n O p in ion o f t h « K alM ir. said some disparaging things about your remarks here the other day. I beg yout pardon, sir. You were right; I was wrong. Hold on. Hearn; don’t go now and brood over this thing. Stay here with the crowd, and we'll take it all to gether." Lane had half risen, anxiety deepen ing in his dark gray eyes: “ What is it, Hearn? Come in here, come in, all of you.” And Georgia Marshall, glancing from one face to another, noted the silence and gravity that had fallen on each. Borne looked full of suppressed wrath, others simply perplexed and annoyed. Without word to any one Hearn stepped in *nd stood beside her chair. “ You best know your own papers, major: you read this aloud.” said Martin. And Kenyon, looking about in mo mentary surprise, unfolded the greM pages of the Chicago daily. His eve* gleamed as they caught the heavy head lines at the top of the sheet. .. (TO BB COBTUtCB».( res side of the first consul's nature lhat time dominant. Bo far as con. with his aspirations for personal ) and glory, he put into piuctical op tiou many of the must important rt lntiouary ideals, failing only in tl which sought to substitute u natio’ for ii Rimali church. Butin this prices he took full advantage of the state ol French society to make himself indis pensable to the continuance of French life on its new path. Incapable of the noble self abnegation which character ized the close of Washington’s career, hy the parade of civil liberty and a re stored social order he so minimized the popular, representative, constitutional side of his reconstructed government as to erect it into a virtual tyranny on its political side. The temptation to make the fact and the name fit each other was over power i ug, for t he self sty led comniou- wealtli, with u chief magistrate claim ing to hold his office as a public trust, was quile ready to bo launched as a lib eral empire onderà ruler who in reality held the highest power as a possession. — “ L ife of Napoleon,” by Professor Willium M. Sloaue, in Century. 1 tl at sha Evei trout even K blackest above, m the road, t Fretting if — Helen I Every shop This custom ha “ The ¡store o f tl may beuo more t while “ The Mi F o rr e s t's T r ib u te . Nate Salsbury once met Forrest, tho cairies a stock V. But in the lar great actor. But he hud bettor tell the story him self: “ It was at Columbus, O., bers of finely sb in tho railroad station at midnight. It ous clusses of j was cold, bleak, biting weather, and tile establishm tho old fellow hobbled up aud down the custom of pelc platform, but there was majesty even in terbalances an his very hobble. An undertaker's wagon on the part of pulled up at the station, aud a corpse 1 When you be was removed from it. Tho baggageman a tiny tin cyliu carelessly hustled the body into his dray up in the slu aud wheeled it down the platform. As body, marked be halted, old Forrest broke out into the number. most horrible cursing, and with bis j Every time t tongue lashed the baggageman for his | a bean isdroppe, careless handling of the human clay. and at stated times th Then lie turned, approached the corpse, and for every 10 or f and broke into the oration of Mark A n the generosity of the tony over the body of Cresar. No one lowed threepence in was there but tho frightened baggage- This custom must h man aud a handful cf actors. The great ! tiquity. — London Cor actor’s voice rose and fell, and the sub tie tears aud resolute thunder of the ora- ” * °* tiou awoke the echoes of the station as To a Berlin factory a grand organ in a majestic cathedral, credit o f having found He read every line of the oration, aud I® noticed for said in an aside speech, as a clim ax: ' eycty Saturday she \ ‘ There, take tliut, you poor clay in the “ boot toothache, which coffin. I ’ ll be dead myself inside a year. ’ disappeared by Sunday And he was. ” I sure as Saturday came ui __________________ be seen with her face sw T h e F ir s t li r e » » s u it«. ages, but otherwise a tt “ I have read,” writes a correspond- auties as usual, hiually ent from Jacksonville, “ the remarks came curious as to wlnit i made by the Rambler apropos of the in- 11' ar recurrence of the evi troductiou of the dress suit in Cincin- the foreman in the factoi nati and tho uncertainty of the date of bandage, and, lo! there w that important event. Permit me to sug- i mustard plaster on her gest that it was some ycurs eurlier than j c l ° !e questioning she conf you indicate. I f I am not very much bail done the same tiling e mistaken, I saw a dress suit in Cincin in order to havo nice red nati in the year 1869. It was worn by a | going to church on Bund: gentleman who had just arrived from | The plasters hurt her soi the east, and I remember it attracted a she preferred a little pain great deal of attention. This was really appear more winsome at cli the pioneer movement, and the first peo morning and at the dance i ple to follow it were the volunteer fire- I noon. men, who were greatly pleased with tho | M o t t o « * F o r E in b ro id o rin low cut vest which permitted such a | For embroidering ou trr liberal display of shirt front. They wore “ I ’ ll pnt a girdle round at their suits ou Sundays aud occasionally or file phrase, "Traveler ou other days when some celebration tent,” w ill form a wel was in progress. The habit became gen upon the perennial “ Br eral in 1876, or 1878 as you say, and button bag may aniionn there were a number of men who owned above buttons. ” Eiuh their own evening clothes in those slips may allude to ” T years.” — New York Mail aud Express. dream,” or ejaculate * A C lu l» t o W h ic h G a rfie ld B e lo n g ed . The death of Mrs. Dr. J. H. Robinson at Mentor a few days ago, better known ae “ Aunt Betsy,” leaves only one mem ber surviving of a club of five which was organized at the opening of the war. When the late President James A. Garfield enlisted, tho club was or ganized and was composed of Gen eral Garfield, the Rev. Isaac Errett of Cincinnati, tho Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Robinson of Bedford, and the Rev. Har rison Junes of Union. The club cove nanted to give sympathy, encourage ment and aid to each other in sickness or trouble whenever needed. Of tlieclub there is but ono member now alive, the Rev. Harrison Jones, 88 years of age, who is living in Mount Vernon. At Garfield’s funeral Dr. Robinson had charge of the ceremonies, the Rev. Mr. Errett made the address, and the Rev. Mr. Jones offered the prayer.— Ohio State Journal. ■ with us. ” A veil case M ysterious v e il o f b ris That’s both her luster i nr “ The veil spun fro The pretty cloths wliict the ears of corn hot w be marked, "Corns, w ’ of life ,” “ When corut to rea]ie,” or Whittier golden corn. ” Bread < “ Bread which sti hearts.” — Ladies’ Ho T h « M an H* A gentleman rece to the notice of u oitj fellow who was look Some few days afti and the geiAUutUin a had proved a wise o “ Not at all I” rep “ Dear me I " sa thonght he wonld h to the ground; so ft “ Yes,” responde was too fa ll of f T h ie f to C stc h a T liic f. gone, and £1,060 o A noted ex-burglar is employed as a “ Yon don’t say private detective in one of the largest he was exactly tl retail 'ty goods stores in N ew York looking for. ” city, and a gentleman connected with “ So he is !” ei the house said recently "th at the ex- is !” — Loudon Tit- crook’s services are invaluable. ” He was engaged on account of his wide ac Whet a “ quaintance with shoplifters. A number “ Hurricane" is of professional shoplifters, with whom for a West Indies he is acquainted, are aware of the posi hy modern meteoi tion he holds aud consequently keep long continue away from the building. A female ex lence. In Beunm thief is also employed in a similar ca winds are classed We had a drama this week, but we pacity in another large house. The pol “ fresh” and **i had also a comedy. Mme. Jndic’s de icy of setting a thief tocatcb a thief ap next isa " s t iff” parture for Berlin has given u gay note parently works well there.— Pittsburg wind and then t The “ gales” rnn to the tune of the hour. She made one Dispatch. classes, the last forget almost M. Jaures’ oaths. Mme. C r o « l F.x»mln«*rw. Jndic has been questioned by a German A reporter for the Cincinnati Tribnne ricaue. ” correspondent, and she has declared that lately overheard a dialogue between two B she would sing with pleasure to tho suburban gentlemen. An authority Berlinese in general and to the emperor “ How did your daughter pass her ex- in particular. There is nothing to say 1 animation for a position as teacher?” ; hysterical perw influence. The to this, but it is Mile. Nitouche’s judg asked the first man. ’ ment on W illiam I I that is worthy of j “ Pass!” ,was the answer. “ Sbedidn’t own fancies— n | they prove Yen record: pas» at all. Maybe you won’t believe it, “ He suits me, that sovereign. He has but they asked that poor girl about | tients. Even if style. He knows bow to take tho things that happened before she was passes off very French. ” born.” When Ed wi T o tako wbat from them? Villages. the Countess < A C o n c «l» « d Man. —Paris Illustration_________ E<iith— Harry is tlm most ccuceitud 1 to put her to « N o W o o 'lo r , a large iron ct roan I ever met. “ I cannot account for it," said the doc ! she was expos tor, “ but this Is a severe case of mat de | Ktbel— What make? yon thinks no? to the execrsl "W h y, he a-s'rts that 1 arn tli lucr." lisb ra b b i* “ I know ft, doctor," said the sick man, ni<*t arinrahln woman in the world, the “ ft is all caused by the soprano In the next most Ixfantifol, Intel) < tiial. and in Prussian^ flat practicing on the high C's.” — Detroit ! try rexpeot a paragon, and then ask* roe] asliej of tin * ¡Free Press. if I do not love hitu." — Brooklyn Life