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.
&
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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