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W A S H IN G T O N ' ì HE S T R A N G E GU E ST. Ho brought a branch of olire— This stranger guest of mine; Could I deny him entrance. Who bore the peaceful sign? Ah, no! 1 bade him welcome, I set him meat and wine: But while he drank and feasted IIow laughed his eyes divine! 1 took the branch of olive (The soothest plant that grows). And from tin* curven ceiling I hung it with tin* rose. “ But why to me this token. Who never lacked repose? Why this to me,” I (|iientionc> “ Who know no feud nor f<> He smiled beneath the < This strangest strana*'r guest. A branch from off tin/thorn-tree Had told his «»muffii best: For since my hoiufe he entered There’s ne’er (/heart at rest. ith the olive! th love his jest. ’E C T E l) 8 1 0 ,0 0 0 . ile Smith was 11»—pretty, vlva- *, ambitious. hut Ju.t now tin* very uch discouraged owner of the Smith Imitation uiul It« encumbrances. T w o weeks before she had been summoned from her scliuol at Stnuuton hy the death o f her grandfather, and. as there was no other relative, had entered at once Into possession of the property. A few days after the funeral the own er o f the mortgage had made an osten sible visit of condolence, but hail so Interpolated Ills expressions of sym pathy with matters o f practical signifi cance that when he left W illie was for the first time aware that she was only the nominal owner of her plantation. At first she was stunned, for she had already begun to make plans for the Improvement and extension of the an cestral acres. The poor cabins of the negro tenants were to be replaced by new ones, neglected fields were to be again fenced anil brought into cultiva tion, and better methods anil better machinery were to he used. Her grand father had been easy-going anil im practicable. hut she bail supposed that her schooling nml the house expenses had been met by the rents paid him by negro tenants. Now she knew that the mortgage hail been gradually increased to meet the deficits. This morning she was in the kitchen helping Aunt Chloe with the Ironing, hut her thoughts were busy with the formidable problems o f the flituue. There were the expenses and the In terest to lie met. and. worst of all. there was JllHi still due her school at Staun ton. She eouhl not see any possible way to pay It. for the season had been bad. and the renters, instead of paying what they owed, were beginning to clamor for advances on the next year’s crops: and the creditor had delicately hinted that her grandfather had al ready raised the mortgage out of all proportion to Its security. In anxious succession her mind went over her own accomplishments in search of some thing thnt would he money-producing. She was fond of scribbling, and was fairly good nt drawing and music, and had won a school reputation as a lin guist. Hut she was too honest and practical to overrate these accomplish ments. They were good things to know, lint would not help her at this crisis. No. she must struggle as best she could until the el-editor foreclosed: then she would go out and seek a place among the wage earners. “ Heyer's yo' mail. Mis’ W illie." called Uncle T o I m *‘ s voice through the open window, and a black hand was thrust In with a package of letters. She look them and glanced over the postmarks carelessly. Most of them were from school friends at Htannton. Several were circulars, and one was one from I*eadville, Col. She selected tills and examined It enrlously. She had no correspondents In any part o f fhe West. Inside was n check and a short letter, with the printed address o f a l.eailville banking house. The letter read: “ W illie Smith. Talhottom. (la.: W e are requested to forward you the in closed cheek for ten thousand dollars t*IO,(XX» l’ lease acknowledge receipt, mid oblige, yours truly. •’ W A L D R O N & CO.” She stared nt It for a moment, then hurriedly examined the check. Yes, tt was for $10.000, made in favor of Willie Smith. Kill, of course, It was a mis take. I f she Imd any relatives in the world, they were so far removed as to have been overlooked, and certainly none o f them was rich enough to send her *10.000. Talbottom was a small, unprog res alve town, whose straggling arms reached out drowsily to the line fence o f the Smith plantation. W illie cross ed two fields anil went down a short lane, and wns then In the principal street. There wns but one luink. and Its cashier was an old friend of her grandfather's. She went directly to hint and explained her errand. ” 1 reckon It's all right. W illie." said the old man. after he had carefully ex amined the envelope nud Its eontetils. “It's directed to W illie Smith. Tallsit- tom. anil you're the only W illie Smith I know. And Waldron & Co. an* all right. Our house has dealt with them. And Pm bound to say. my dear." put ting dow it the papers and looking at her beamingly. “ I'm plumb glad for this windfall. I can almost hear yo' grand father chuckle in his grave.” •'But It can't be mine,” Insisted W il lie. " I don’t even know that I have a relative In all the world.” "Somebody yo' fam ily baa lost sight o f." «»Ill »be eashler genially. "N ow , there's a man over In Jasper County got a fortune from a cousin he hasn't beard from In thirty years. I reckon this is something that way. It's likely to ' mother'# couslr cr gbinebody else. Anyhow, It's all right, Ami I'm wllliug CO U NTY IIA T C IIE T . to take the e h e rjf Will you have the easy chair by an open window. Then ' CHINESE ARE T H R IF T Y FELLOW S he setthsl himself in an easy chair and money, or le a ^ J t on deposit?” (««a r t in H n x iiir . » on B o r r o w e d C a p ita ! I wish I mon* sure,” hesitated gave a glowing picture of the Calhoun und A l w a y s Ite p a y th e L o a n *. Willie. plantation. "lu gome respects the much-abused -W ell, The young man said little, but on his »pose I telegraph to Wal- China men," said I Ion« Sin« l.ou«, one dron A; Can you come In again this j face was an expression of mingled | amusement and indecision. And this of the Interpreters anil «eneral agents afternVhu? I amused indecision remained with him of the Chinese Six Companies, to a Star hen shf re tur ned in the afternoon and even appeared in his voice until reporter, "are way in advance of the shier hand •d her a slip of paper. they went out to the Calhoun planta ordinary worklu«uinn. and particularly tion. But when they returned, late in go In regard to tlielr Ready Money As It rea I. “ Metchants’ Hank, Talbottom, (¡a.— the evening, it had wholly disappeared. sociation." Hong Sing Long spends most of hla •\\ys> Willie is an exceptionally tine Gentlemen: Nothing to explain. We forwarded cheek to W illie Smith, Tal girl,” he said, with suppressed enthusi time in New York, though he visits bot torn, as requested. I f the party pre asm, “ and if 1 am not mistaken the Washington several times each year. senting it can be identified you may community will yet lie proud of her He is an educated Chinaman and has cash same with perfect safety. Yours, plantation. She seems to have the fac had the advantage of several years at ulty of knowing just what she wants Harvard and besides has been gradu “ W ALDHON A CO.” “ So you see it is a ll right,” said the and just how to go about doing it. 1 ated as a lawyer. "W ith the exception of one. nil of the cashier. “ Now. you will please indorse could not have planned the improve lueuts better myself. Miss W illie told Chinese laundry places ill this city are the check." Willie did so with a sudden feeling of me she wanted to plant trees along her the result of the Heady Money associa bank of the river, which runs between tions: that is, the money necessary to exultation. the two plantations, and that ii would start them came from the Ready “ How will you have it?” briskly. “ Suppose you give me $(¡.000. That be nice if the owner on the other side Money. The plan Is not unlike the will pay off the mortg.^ge and make could l*e induced to do the same. Are building associations, w hich I am told some necessary repairs. The rest I will you sure »he place can he bought?” have quite a clientele here, and which were originally started in Philadelphia. | deposit with you. And and suppose abruptly. "The Calhoun place? Certainly, and The Chinese plan Is to start Ready you let me have a check book; it will for a song.” Moneys as often as a party o f Chinese be more convenient.” “ Well. I want it. I suppose It’s too find they have any surplus money on The next few hours were momentous ones in tlie young girl's life. The mort late to get it to-night.” * regretfully; “ but hand, the idea being to keep the money gage was paid, and visits were made If you!ll arrange for its purchase early moving along. It Is the custom of the | to grocery and harwware and seed in the morning, so that the papers can laundry hoys, for Chinamen always stores, and to painters and carpenters be made out before noon. I ’ll be infin speak of each other as h v s , to gather and stone masons; and before she went itely obliged. And I ’ll make it worth M ut on Monday, that being their olT home a check was on its way to the your while^* day. and « »sip. All who have spare "Hut you haven’ t seen the place yet?” money put it in a pool and authorize principal of her school at Staunton. In tlie morning men came out and expostulated the cashier in amazement. some one to keep It personally as a “ Yes, I have—across the river, you deposit in a bank. As soon as the pool made estimates, and they were follow ed by painters and carpenters and la know. Besides, I ’ m willing to take gets any size the word goes out and it borers, who began to repair tlie old your word for it. I f you can have ev is sold to the largest bidder. If there is family mansion, and to surround the erything settled before noon I will go more than one applicant for It. neglected fields with substantial fences, over after dinner and talk with Miss "As a general tiling there is hut onp and to build new cabins under tin* mag W illie about the shade trees. And. do applicant aud he gets it. at a rate of you know.” with animation. “ I ’ve been nificent live oaks that grew along one Interest agreed upon. It starts him in thinking that those bluffs above the side of tlie plantation. business and in a few weeks he begins W illie spent most of her time out live oak grove will be a fine place to paying back. Now and then there is throw a bridge across tlie river. I won doors watching tlie work and making no demand for the money. It then goes der if Miss W illie will like the Idea.” occasional suggestions. The new cabins to the cities where It is needed. Just The next day the good people of T al were surrounded *by generous truck now the Chinamen are starting laun bottom were stirred to unwonted excite patches, and when they were finished dries In a number of small towns of the ment by the news that an energetic she was careful to rent them only to South, and my errand here now is to industrious, reliable negroes. In this stranger had bought the old Judge Cal get some of the Ready Money funds to houn plantation, and that unlimited she was greatly assisted by the cashier, improvements were contemplated. he advanced for that purpose. who came out frequently to watch the "S afe! I’erfeetly safe. The civiliza And, even while this report was being progress o f the work and whose advice circulated from mouth to mouth, it was tion of the Chinese Is no new thing. It was always valuable. followed by rumors o f lavish contracts is 5.000 years old. They have found One day a brisk, prepossessing young and engagements made with the towns out that honesty is the best policy: not man stepped into the Talbottom post- people of tlie town. Decidedly the on account of the moral or religious office. question involved as you understand it, stranger was no ordinary man. ‘‘Any letters here for Willie Smith?” And evidently W illie thought so, too, hut on account of the business proposi he asked. for she would Hash covert, inquiring tion Involved. Honesty Is best because “ No. she called after them not an glances at him from under her long, I It pays, as for many other reasons. In hour ago.” dark eyelashes, and sometimes would business dealings Chinese are very “ She?” curiously. listen with almost bated breath, won strict, much more strict than any other “ Yea. Generally her man Tobe gets dering what daring scheme would be people. them, but she happened to be In town "The Chinaman knows that if he bor proposed next. He was so different tills morning. You’ re one o f the men from any man she had ever met—so rows he must pay back, and that the working out there, I suppose?” energetic nml impulsive and chivalrous. consequences of not doing so are very “ No, not exactly.” She could not help liking him, and she serious, much more serious than it is He left the postofflee nml walked He could not withstand his impetuosity : with Americans or European«. across the street to the bank. any more than tlie reeds of the river i knows this before be gets the money “ Has W illie Smith presented a check could withstand the current In spring-1 and does not take It unless lie means to here for $10,000 recently?” lie asked. time. She offered objections to the ' pay back. The man who acts as secre- “ Miss W illie Smith has,” replied tlie building of tlie bridge and he overruled 1 't.'iry of the Ready Money is also the cashier. them in a single impetuous speech. She treasurer. He takes pretty good care to "I beg your pardon, I meant Miss did not like tlie idea of assuming all give a good account o f his stewardship, W illie Smith. You see. out West, we tlie expenses of improving the river, for Ills happiness depends upon his con get in the habit o f dropping ceremony.” but did not dare expostulate for fear of duct. The Chinese Ready Motleys fre The old cashier looked nt him the quizzical look which she knew quently close up in a week, though or thoughtfully. would come into his merry eyes. In dinarily they last longer. Each trans “ So you are a Westerner, are you?” side of a month she began to feel that action Is a separate one. A man may he asked. he was as much at home on her planta In* a member of a dozen or bare all of “ I was. hilt expect to be a Southerner tion as he was on his own. but she t his money in one. now,” said the young man frankly. could see no way to prevent it. "The great advantage of the Ready “ My mother left this country nearly And, Indeed, she did not want to. In Money is that It gives everyone who thirty years ago. but I have often heard the fall their engagement was definite wants it money to open up business for her describe her old home. When I ly announced, ami all Talbottom said himself whenever he sees the oppor made my pile I concluded to come it was the most suitable match o f the I tunity. There Is no waiting—no secur flown here and look around; and if l year. ity is needed except a promise to pay. liked the place to stay permanently.” A few weeks before the marriage he The payment never falls, except for The cashier’s face cleared instantly. carefully overhauled his papers. There good reasons, such as accident or sick “ Good!” In; exclaimed. “ You can’ t were many letters addressed simply to help liking such a grand country. All W illie Smith; some were to W illie H. ness. In fact. It does not pay to fall to it lacks Is money and energy. But what Smith, and a few to William Hamilton! pay, for it will cost more In the long run. When your civilization Is 5,000 part of the West are you from?” Smith. All of them were destroyed. years old. you will know more than you “ Lcadvlllc, Col.” “ It isn’t well to keep papers,” he i do now, and will understand things that “ Ah. I began to suspect it. You have soliloquized, as the last one was re- 1 been connected with the house of W al duced to ashes. “ Some folks see them.’’ now seem to lie wonderful in us."_ Washington Star. dron A: Co., and called in to see if the —New York Ledger. check reached Its destination all B ig Cotton Ureases. right.’’ He came from behind the coun O f the many cotton presses which Tlie Man anil the Snake. ter and took the young man’s hand The reputed fascination of the sen were in operation In New Orleans sixty warmly. “ I am right glad to see you, pent's eye is the motive o f a story in years ago the two principal ones were suh. Yo* house never sent out a better Mr. Ambrose Bierce's volume o f tales the Levee cotton press and the Orleans check than that in all its life. Miss entitled "111 the Midst of Life." Mr. cotton press. They were large and W illie has paid off a mortgage on her Brayton was the guest o f a friend, an massive buildings, each occupying, like plantation, and is making wonderful eminent zoologist, whose specialty, of most of the others, a square of ground. Improvements, suh—wonderful! And which he had a line collection, was The Levee cotton press was built in do you know,” lowering his voice, “ if snakes. Stretched upon n sofa in his 1832 by a company bearing the same It hadn’t been for that check I nchally own room. Sir. Brayton glanced from name at a cost of *500.000, and was two believe she’d been forced to go off aud the book he was carelessly scanning stories high. It compressed some 2C0,- look for work—nchally forced, suh.” while awaiting the summons to dinner, 000 bales of cotton a year. The Orleans “ Indeed! That would have been too and saw, in the shadow under his bed, press, also fronting on the river, oc had,” said the young man, “ but---- ” two small points o f light about an inch cupied an area o f 032 feet by 308, the '“ There's no but now.” interrupted apart. He gave them no special building nearly covering the whole space. This press, which was begun la the cashier cheerfully. “ Her future’s thought nud resumed his rending. as clear ns a June sky. I f I’d received In a few minutes he gave an involun 1833 and completed In 1835, cost over the check myself I wouldn't have been tary start, and stared into the obscurity *753,000, compressed about 150.000 half n> much pleased. Miss W illie’s a under the lied. His gaze disclosed the bales per annum, and could store 25.000 fine girl—a gem in a land that Is full coils of a large serpent; the points of bales of cotton. Its immense length of Jewels. You must excuse my enthu light were Its eyes, but were no longer gave it a very Imposing appearance siasm. suh,” apologetically, “ but In a merely luminous |>oiuts; they looked in from the river. sort of way yo’ house seems to have to his own with a malign significance. A l r i o a t o r . T w e n t y K e e t Lo n g. had a band In the good fortune. Hut Brayton was a brave man. hut this Alligators were formerly one of the come Into my private room and we’ ll seemed an occasion when discretion chief animal life tenants of Red River talk over the country. You’re to l>e one was the better part of valor. He would nnd the bayous of Louisiana, where, be o f us now. and maybe 1 can give you beat a retreat and backward, so ns not fore steamboat navigation came to in some points on buying a place. And to disturb the reptile: but instead of the terrupt them, they could be seen by I ’ll tell you about Miss W illie and her movement his will had shaped. Ills hundreds huddled teg -ther on the I nnks plans.’’ Here a new thought seemed to right foot was placed In advance o f bis or massed on the floating or stationary strike him. “ flo w ’d you like to go out left. logs—especially of Red River—waking and see her y o’self?" he asked abruptly. The snake did not move, but Its eyes the solitudes o f the forest with their “ W e close early, and I generally go seemed to become larger and more lum bull-like bellowing. Tlielr length was that way for a walk. She’ll I k * glad to inous. There were strange noises in generally between eight and twelve see anyone from Waldron St Co.” Brayton's ears as. with reluctant steps, feet, although they sometimes grew “ Nothing would please me better.” he could not refrain from drawing to be twenty feet long. Their hides “ Very well. You'll take dinner with nearer the lied. Suddenly something were once used extensively for the me. and if I can be of any assistance struck him a hard blow upon the face. making o f shoes, but the leather, not In you* plans do not hesitate to use me. He had fallen to the floor. proving o f sufficiently close texture to Now. there’s the Calhoun plantation. The zoologist, startled by a terrific keep water out, slioeniaking from this Joins Miss W illie and Just now can be scream from above, rushed to his material was abandoned. had for a song. And. really. It’s the friend's room. There lay Brayton, L ik e s and lllallkes o f Birds. beat thing you ran do In the whole senseless. As be bent over him be Tt Is said that birds are nearly as sen. country. Rut you haven't told me yo’ glanced under the bed. attire In their likes nnd dislikes as dogs. name yet. aub!” "H o w did this tiling get here?" he “ Smith—er. Call me Hamilton Smith.” exclaimed, and pulling out the snake, 8ome people esu never gain the friend “ A good name, sub—a good name. flung It to the renter of the room, where ship o f a eageil bird. A bird has to learn by experience that it Is safe with W e have Smiths In every county in the It lay without motion. a human being liefore tt will respond to South, but I tell them a good thing can It was a stuffed snake; Its eyes were kind treatment. not be too common. My mother was a two sboebuttons. No man ever disappeared that some Smith.” He led the way Into hla private room How time files frym the date on one did not invent a woman story on him. and motioned the young man to an which a man distinguish! himself! th - discovery was made that the tt. girls had cut exactly alike. The eon- ltS. W IL L IA M f . W H IT N E Y test was declared a draw. And lmw will soon succeed to the va all tin* marriageable young men ()f tbf cant throne of queen of Goth seventh ward are casting tlielr eye, am's society. Such at least seems to he with favor In the direction of these fair the understanding among those who i young women who so gallantly demon- are familiar with fashionable Intelli stinted tlielr ability to cut firewood gence. Since the decline and fall of Bnn*rer i?i Mock Mn ' r n-'cn. Mrs. William Astor Gorham society has Not a few giddy girls think it >, , been queeuless. It wns thought for a time that young Mrs. John Jacob Astor huge joke to participate lu a mock m,r. would he elevated, but the fact that rlage, yet such events have often lo,| she Is a Philadelphian ruined her hopes. to serious embarrassments. Marriage Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, recently Mrs. Is a matter too serious to he tritied with. Judges In the courts have fre W. K. Vanderbilt, aspired and was crushed. Slu* will live abroad hereaf quently lieeu called u | m > u to dissolve the ties thus thoughtlessly entered lutUi ter. Mrs. Cornelius Vondervllt cannot sometimes. It Is sail to relate, with the connivance of ministers of the gospel und magistrates who ought to know better than to play the part they do In these utfairs. If a clergyman were to annemuee that a baptizing | kh > 1 would Is* opened some evening, either In the church or elsewhere, and that be would perform the rile of baptism as a public entertainment on the fattest woman or the tallest man lu the neighborhood, s' > ;; A \ ‘*‘V i | there would be no more sacrilege than I there Is In a niork wedding gotten up for a public show. & Ì l*lnce to Keen ii Bicycle. An Ingenious English woman has de signed a cabinet for the bicycle In the form of a hall table and hatstand. Thl, cabinet can la* made of any wood and finished to suit any style or color. The ¡sunken panels are filled In with Japan ese leather paper, both in the doors aud on each side o f the mirror back. All the ordinary requirements of the en \ trance hull are supplied, but naturally MISS. W11, L I AM C. WHITNEY. the Interior required a good deal of assume the headship of the butterflies skillful arrangement to afford the great on account of her husband's Illness. Mr. est amount of accommodation will the Whitney's new wife is Just the lady for least possible space. The flap In the the crown. Slit* Is 3(1. entrancing!)' cabinet above the opening doors la beautiful, and as flu* wife of Captain Randolph had entree to the very beat drawing rooms o f aristocratic England. She is eminently fitted for leader of the smart set hy reason of her wealth, fam ily and experience. As mistress of the big Whitney mansion at the corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street slit will be brilliant. G O TH AM S O C IE T t QUEEN. M ifii'." fm Chop Wood for a Ifiinh.-inil. There was a novel wood-cutting con test in the Seventh Ward of Williams port. Pa., the other day. In which five young women took part. The girls are all employed in the Lycoming rubber factory, and. having a holiday, they turned tlielr time to good account, be sides settling a much-disputed ques tion as to which was the most entltlinl to a husband. The girls are Bess Mayers, Flora Maid. Lillie Maid, Lillie Dunlap, Belle Gouhly and Mary Rus sell. all pretty, vivacious young women, who earn their own living anil make good wages In the rubber factory. In a banter the other day one of the girls proposed that they have a wood-chop ping eotitest, and the one who proved M ÎI -MS jJÉl c a b in e t fob b ic y c l e . hinged, to throw back, so that the bi cycle can go in without any alteration of the handle bars. Then the iloor is fitted with grooves and draws out alto gether, to be used as a “ home trainer,” while in its proper place in tlie cabinet it serves to keep the bicycle in position. There is plenty of room inside for all the bicycle belongings, as well as the cleaning apparatus. H o w to K > e p W r in k le s Away. A simple preventive against the ap pearance of wrinkles is this: Saturate a soft towel in very hot water, wring it and apply it to the face, keeping it there lor at least twenty minute«. Then .J V dry the face very gently. This must be - s- done just tiefore going to bed. When traveling, if the skin is very sensitive, do not bathe the face except at night and in the morning, and then throw a WOOD-CHOPPING MATCH. few drops of tincture of benzoni into herself to be tlie champion cutter the water, so that it may be made soft should he entitled to a husband, while and agreeable to the skin.—I^adies* the others, it was agreed, must wait Home Journal. two years before joining fortunes with G race H o w e M cK inley. ht»r best beau. The girls, each with a brand-new ax. bedecked with red. white and blue rib- Imns, marched into the hack yard of Widow Hartman's home and made an assault on the woodpile. Widow Hartman Is a helpless Invalid, she hav ing fallen and hurt herself quite badly last winter. Her daughter lain works In the rubber factory, too. and she was one of the movers In the wood-cutting scheme, although she took no part In the contest. Five loads of hemlock slab wood out to stove lengths, had been delivered at M idow Hartman's place the day before -tin * girls paying for it-s o there was plenty of material Tor them on which to test their strength and skill. But the way the ribboned axes flew and tongues wagged wns only equaled by the shower of split sticks thnt gradually piled themselves up around each chopping- Hock William Baskins and Joseph Schell were there as retire.-s. one of tlie young men. however, had a more Niece o f the President-elect, who will direct Interest in the contest than being take n prominent part in W ashington Judge for one of the girls was his society during the next administration. sweetheart, and. according to the coni- — Boston Post. pact, if she proved one of the losers In a * W a is tc o a t«« f o r F a i r W e ^ re *«. W',Ul'1 ,M1 compelled to Vests of cream lace over white »*L* «.u t two long years before she coul(. are very dressy, and art* partlcu.arl* become his wife. For fo.tr hours the chic with the all black braided LL|l>r wood-chopping went on: the girl, eot made gown. red in the face; they ro.led np their I’ retty serviceable vest front, nee w o ro 'i " T ! " elr plun,P' P " * arms were bared almost to the shoulder., made of gay plaid silks or striked vel and whacked away at the hemlock vets. These are finished with the f*| Mocks as though their lives Instead of pouf, which Is held In place by en» enameled buttons. a hiishand depended upon It. For morning shopping excursion noth ’ .In" nf 12 °'<’lo<’k came, nnd at the end of that time there were five wearv ing is smarter than the bright IMJ* perspiring girls and five big pile, ¿f scarlet waistcoat o f smooth cloth, hob nicely split hemlock wood for Widow toned high to the throat wit*- «lull Hartman. Bnt for the life of them the or old silver buttons. referee* could not decide between the Any sort of excessive decoration j* piles Of wood cut hy Mias Dunlap and not considered too much for the HR . Iiss Russell as to which was the larger. vest, which seems to be a necessstf ml indeed, arter raking over all the part of every gown, whether It Is ■t*“ 1 «ticks and counting them separately. with or without a Jacket