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WHY
NOT?
I sometimes wonder (if it be a sin
I pray our gracious Lord to pardon me)
Of that strange creed the people harbor in
An eastern country, if it may not be
As true as strange. There are so many creeds,
So many “I believes;” yet who dare say
There are too many, if each fit the needs
Of some poor soul to help it on the way?
Or claim that one, and one alone, is right?
They are all bound in one great brotherhood,
And in two words, it seems to me, each might
Its teaching to the world express: Be good!
But this belief is strangest of them all,
That when the chief of angels downward fell
From bis high seat above, and by that fall
Became a monarch of the souls in hell;
That, though God cast him from his lofty place,
In awful justice for his punishment,
Yet is he bending from his throne of grace
In tender patience till the fiend repent;
Until his angel nature come again,
Then will the gracilis words of “I forgive,”
Fall on the fires of hell, a cooling rain,
And every'tortured soul shall drink and live.
Then hell and earth an 1 heaven shall be as one
In love and peace and holy blessedness,
Each warmed and lighted by the shining sun
Of endless day, the sun of righteousness;
Buch is their creed. What think you, ye who hear,
Tliat they blaspheme? Perhaps; but, tell me,
who
Can know these t’<ngs? However it appear
I sometimes wonder if it is not true.
—Harriet F. Blodgett in New York Sun.
ALMOST OUTLAWED.
thoughts and words, to betray Ills secret
motives, in spite of himself to reveal
that with which his mind had incessant
ly occupied itself—no, for heaven’s sake,
anything but that!—“I want no sister of
mercy, no attendant; look after me at
intervals of several hours,” he said, turn
ing to the physician.
He smiled a t the notion.
Hartman determined not to fall sick;
he struggled terribly, and fought with
all the strength he had left against the
approaching foe.
There he lay shaken by the fever, but
still conscious.
“That’s the nurse, that’s the chair,
now I am stretching out my hand, I
know exactly what 1 am doing,” he re
peated ten times every hour.
“And if it turns out otherwise, would
they give any weight to feverish dreams?
Nurses, . who have to hear so many
things, will not notice’ it at all.
“I have not committed the theft; I
know nothing about it. That I will
keep repeating to myself continually;
perhaps that will influence the delirium.
They- say the mind runs usually on
things that are the farthest removed
from the normal thinking, but my
thoughts are still perfectly clear.”
Then a veil fell over the reality, In-
stead of the Sister of Mercy j the attor
ney in his black gown and cap stepped
into the room, took a chair and sat down
before the bed. Through the sharp
glasses the still sharper looks were in
cessantly directed upon him. Like
glowing steel,, they bored themselves
into his brain.
_
, _ „ _ _
A “You will be delirious, my boy,” said
the attorney, and nodded his head.
“I shall not,” thought the sick youth
and clung toliis bed.
Day after day the tormentor sat there,
staring at him, and listened. Then more
and more of his colleagues came, also
judges in their robes, and all seated
themselves in long rows before his bed.
Breathless they listened; one gentleman,
old and hard of healing, always kept his
hand at his ear. “Now he will be de
lirious,” they whispered at times. There
was a deafening ringing in Hartman’s
ears.
He felt a terrible rage against the
black assembly.
He had a mind to put out his tongue
at them' and to call: “Wait, if you will,
you fools, you will not hear one syllable
from me; 1 shall remain, mute as the
grave.” But he controlled himself and
remained quietly lying.
The faces, in close array, drew nearer
and nearer to him.' Now the nearest
were already sitting on the edge of the
bed, and now even on his body. They
put heavy ice cold law books on his
head, heaping them up to a crushing
burden. One kept striking him with an
invisible hammer on his forehead and
crying out madly: “Won’t you rave now,
won’t you?”
It became insupportable. He struck
out, and shrieked so that the landlord
came hurrying up the stairs and looked
through the chink of the door,'and the
attendant drew back in terror, and the
physician stood helpless for a moment;
With the greatest, effort the feverish
patient raised himself and cried loudly,
and distinctly: “Wretches, you think I
would rave and betray myself. Now,
just to defy you I shall not do it. See,
with a clear mind, to spoil your pleasure,
I say it frankly: I stole the money from
the, merchant Hellwig, in his office the
twenty-fifth of March, I, Conrad Hart
man.”
As if relieved, he sank on his pillow
From this moment a sensible improve
ment was noticed.
The nurse told incidentally about the
strange occurrence, the landlord spoke
of it, and so it happened that the young
attorney had the satisfaction, before the
expiration of the period of limitation, of
redeeming his previous failure.
The first caller which the convalescent
received was the attorney. Without
surprise, cold and quiet, he received
him and made his confession.
Afterwards he tried several times to
drink off his medicine with one draught,
but be was prevented from doing so.
So he was able, after a few weeks, to
exchange the sick chamber for the prison
cell.—C. Shorter in Five Stories a Week.
AMERICANS IN LONDON.
AN
ENGLISH VIEW OF THEIR
TIONS AND MANNERS.
AC*
No Need of Travelers from
America Stopping at English Hotels,
Because Houses Run Upon the Ameri-
can Plan Are Numerous and Good.
There Is
One of the glaring anomalies observable
in the actions of wealthy Americans who
come to London in these days is that they
almost invariably stay at the old fashioned
hotels conducted upon the English plan.
And not only do they select those which
are merely different in their style of gen
eral management- from American hotels,
but eagerly seek admittance to those whose
waj’s and customs would have been an
tiquated in the reign of Queen Anne and
are renowned for the observance of all
those petty rules which make the lives of
the English upper classes ridiculous in the'
eyes of the rest of the world, but. without
which there are some people who fervently
believe the nation would not be safe nor
the crown secure.
Why Americans should do this is past
comprehension, unless it be the result of
that blind.infatuation for everything Eng
lish which is the controlling principle of
the Anglomaniac’s existence. It can not
be because they like it—really like it. If
it be done for the gratification of curiosity
purely and only we might be able to under
stand it. If American ladies and gentle
men of large and unlimited means want to
see what a characteristic English hotel is.
like, and go to it so to see, it is one thing.
But if they go because English people go
to it, and'that, therefore, it mus} be “the
correct thing to do, don’t you know,” it is
quite another. I am afraid the latter mo
tive controls the whole business.
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HER ABILI t V r ECOGNIZED.
Mrs. Wittenmeyer^
r| of Civil War Fame
Honored by ■ »Her Associates.
The lady who wj is checen as president
of the Woman’s R4 »lief corps for the cur-
rent year was one’] hrhose life for the last
thirty years has j reen devoted to this
country and its defenders, and among
the many noble women who have en
deared themselvesito the "dead as'well as
to the living, nong has secured a more
lasting gratitude than the lady thus hon
ored. Mrs. Annie] Wittenmeyer is a de
scendant of an officer who participated
»cwaiuga, ana
in the battle of Saratoga,
and saenneea
sacrificed
his life to secure me
t
victory of that de-
cisive battle. Hi L^i died without the
knowledge that the
trie sacrifice had not
been in vain, but the honors which he
thus won are treasured by his descend
ants with laudablegiride.
His son, inspired by' like patriotism,
served with distiAtion in the war of
1812, and in the next generation three of
the brothers of Mrs. Wittenmeyer were
found in the defense of the Union. It is
not strange, therefore, that Mrs. Witten
meyer should feel She patriotic impulses
of her family, and abandon the comforts
of home to alleviite suffering in the
camp and in the .hospital. With a brave
but tender heart she went .-to the front to
minister to the sick. the wounded and
dying. While therethe legislature elected
her to the position i>f sanitary agent of
that state, and authorized Governor
Kirkwood to gram her a commission.
The various supplies which were sent
from that
wer§ dis
tributed by .ffer'cHrection, and moneys
necessary for the care of the soldiers
were intrusted to her.
She was placed at the head of the spe
cial diet kitchen system of the Christian
commission, which employed as mana
gers nearly thr.ee .hundred ladies, where
by food suitable for the sick and con
valescent was supplied without waste,
and best adapted for their ’ proper nour
ishment. In this field of labor she re
ceived substantial aid and co-operation
from every, officer of the government,
including President Lincoln, Secretary
Stanton and Surgeon General Barnes,
who manifested a lively interest in her
work. She was privileged to travel from
point to point, as she deemed advisable,
at the expense of the government. She
also secured free transportation upon
her order for all women employed by
her.
Mrs. Wittenmeyer thus became aware
of the movement of the troops and of
any necessity for. supplies at points
widely distant, the one from the other,
and was enabled to send nurses where-
ever they were or might be needed. She
might well be said to have -been in com
mand of the organized charities of the
north, and to have been acclaimed queen
of the army nurses.—New York Tele
gram.
JUICY BEEFSTEAKS.
A CLUB THAT EATS MEAT WITH
ITS FINGERS ONCE A MONTH.
IN A SAFETY VAULT.
The Place Where People Keep Bonds«
♦Jewels and .Valuable Papers,
What looks like the iron railed door of
a cell may be seen just beyond the en
trance to the Lincoln bank. It is the
The Peculiar Fad of the Old Curiosity passage way to the vault for money and
The cell do.or is always
Club, of New York—A Diiiffy Place ol valuables.
Meeting for Wealthy Bohemians—Con- locked, and in the daytime a man is al
ways in the vault. Besides the open iron
- trast with Another Club.
railing door, there is a set of others of
Within hearing of the continuous clatter steel plates, which close in the passage
of the east side. elevated road,-in the rear 'way. The vault is lighted by gas, and
,room of ashop crowded, from the,stand of except for a small desk, there is nothing
.'old books at the door to the back windows, to be seen in it besides steel and iron and
i. with the dùsty, rnstÿ, musty and curious copper. The floors' and walls and ceil
lodds and ends that have won for it tha ing are of steel four and a half inches
(title of the Old Curiosity Shop, a man sat. thick. The vault is on the ground floor,
before a sheet iron stove cooking beef- and it is believed that if the building
steafs. He was a big, powerful man, with
large, strong hands, a large and massive ' should fall or be burned down by fire,
.¡head and a determined face. Yet he; the vault room would remain unharmed
¿handled the savory segments of meat as and intact. Debris as thick as the layers
at Pompeii might fall upon it, but the
delicately as a woman might have done.
Sitting around the room on stools, chairs, I vault would still be there all right. And
trunks,.piles of books arid tablés loaded' the' bank people think that with a little
with prints, playbills and autograph let defense by guns the place would be mob
ters were a dozen men or so, all of more or proof, too.
less local notoriety. There were a couple
The room is not much more than
of politicians among them, a prominent twenty feet square, and a tall man can
up town builder, a famous, contractor and touch its ceiling with his hand. There
house raiser and mover, a composer whose are 2,500 large and small safes built in
music is played throughout the world, a ' its walls.
They rent for from §8 to
bronze founder, a: sculptor; several paint-1 §1,000 a year.
People keep bonds,
ers, the, art editor of a great magazine, and1
stocks, mortgages, deeds, other valuable
a sprinkling of, literary men, brokers, '
physicians and men of business—all of papers and jewels and money in them.
whom supervised the culinary preparations When a man calls to cut off his coupons
in progress at the stove with grave interest. or look at his papers, he is identified by
The rattle of conversation was as inces the keeper of the"vault, who stands by
sant as the hissing and spitting of the him while he unlocks his compartment.
The man takes out the tin box, and is
steaks over the fire.
-The method employed by the large man ushered into one of a~ Seri es -o f -little
in preparing the meat was peculiar. The rooms off the vault. They are about as
steaks^ which were cut in thick slices, were big as a Turkish bath disrobing closet,
piled on a platter. A sharp faced, shrewd and contain a desk and one or more
¡eyed, small boy ent the slices into generous chairs. The minute of the arrival,of the
piieces. These were put in a pan, which, i man, his name, the box number he
filled with boiling fat, sizzled at red heat opened, and a few other things are re
;on the top of the stove. The surface of thé corded in a book kept by the vault
meat was hardened in a moment, arid then keeper, the little closet he is shown to
,it was extracted from the pan with a long '
fork and.broilad over the glowing coals iu! is examined to see that there is nothing
the body of the stove. As each piece of j in it except the desk -and writing mate
steak was deposited «upon a thick slice of, rials and chairs. When the man has
bread in a monstrous trencher, part of a set clipped his coupons and brings back his
of priceless old English china from the tin box to put it in his safe, the time of
stock, the rich juices confined in it com his departure is recorded, and the closet
menced to leak out of the perforations he occupied is inspected to see that he
made by the tines of the fork, and to soak left nothing, valuable behind.
into the bread in a gravy, whose perfume
Some of the rich men come to look at
filled the air. The process of cookery was i I- . their papers only once in a month or two.
rapid, for the meat was not allowed to re-1 Others go there once in the morning,
main long enough on the fire to lose its' ■ when they are going down town to their
tenderness and its juiciness. The pile upon ' i offices, and then stop there again in the
¡the trencher grew quickly; but when, at a
afternoon, when returning home. These
given signal, which consisted in a rap of
the chief’s fork on the stove, the company are the men who leave there whatever
'fell to, its diminution was even more rapid- extra actual money they have from day
Each man ate with his fingers for a fork to day. But gold and silver and treasury
and the gravy soaked slice of bread for a notes are not largely left in the vault.
The contents of the boxes are cluefly the
,dish.
, The Old Curiosity club is an organiza papers representing money. However,
tion composed of men who collect some at the time of the Grant & Ward failure
thing. One is a collector of old masters plenty of people got frightened and
'And another a collector of tnodern pictures. brought big rolls of bills from down
One gathers up bronzes, another ivories, town banks and stuffed them into their
another books. There are in the club col compartments. Lots of men who don’t
lectors of pistols, playbills, porcelains, rent boxes -permanently did hire them
photographs, armor, atlases, autographs then for short period's.
and a great many other collectible things.
Many of the safes are used by trustees
It was from their casual meetings in the
shop In the course of their prowlings in of estates. These safes cannot be opened
quest of the curious that the club took its i by one person. Fqr as many trustees as
origin. It has,à regular weekly meeting there are there are as many keys, and
on Saturdays from October until June, whenever the safe has to be unlocked all
Each key
when members drop in and drop out again the trustees have to come:
informally, and once a month treats itself performs a different service in opening
arid such guests as it may choose to invite the lock. The keeper will insert his key,
to’ a feed on beefsteak cooked upon the twist it. and thus prepare the lock for the
plan invented by mine .host Fullerton insertion of Trustee A’s key. Trustee
years ago when he was a gold hunter in A’s key is put in by him and turned, and
the mines of eastern Venezuela.
this makes the lock ready for the key of
On the other side of town to the Old Trustee B. At last the bolts are turned
Curiosity Shop, aud in a vastly more aris and the door may be opened.
This
tocratic neighborhood,.let us drop in at a •mechanical device has to be resorted to
.private dining 'room over the store of a in order that nd. single trustee mav get
fashionable caterer, It is. a snaetoJKi iwa,,
. papers or
_uy gtiu ¡one center ot which is laid a table tne est'atei-?New York bun.
shimmering and sparkling with crystal
JONES* PRIVATE ARGUMENT.
That air same Jones which lived in Jones,
He had this pint about him:
He’d swear, with a hundred sighsand groan».
That farmers must stop git tin loans.
And git along without ’em;
That bankers, warehousemen and sica
Was fattening on the planter.
And Tennessee was rotten rich
A-raising meat and corn, all which
Drawed money to Atlanta;
And the only thing, says Jones, to do
Is, eat no meat that’s boughten;
But tear up every I. O. U.,
And plant all corn and swear for true
Ter quit a-raising cotton.
Thus shouted Jones whar folks could hear«
At court and other gatherins.
And thus kept spoutin many a year.
Proclaimin loudly far and near
Sich fiddlesticks and blatherins.
But one allfired sweatin day
It happened I was hoein
My lower corn field, which it lay
’Longside the road that runs my way,
Whar I can see what’s goin.
And after 12 o’clock had come
I felt a kinder faggin.
And laid myself un’neath a plum
To let my dinner settle sum,
When long come Jones’ waggin.
And Jones was sett in in it so,
A readin of a paper;
His mules was goin powerful slow.
Fur both the lines he had tied to
The staple of the scraper.
The mules they stopped about a rod
From me and went to feedin
'Longside the road, upon the sod.
But Jones (which he had took a tod),
Not knowin, kept a readin.
And presently says he: “Hit’s true, _____
Hartman was by no means a bad man.
Youth, love and opportunity made him
a criminal. That pocketbook full of
bank bills had been left in the counting
-That GhsbyJS'heafHs4evelT*^'”
room. There was no.one present, and the
Thar’s one thing farmers all must do
youngman. hadthoughtlessly .seized-it.
To keep themselves from going tew
Bankruptcy and the devil.
All that had happened more than four
years ago.
“More corn, more corn; must plant les»
AMERICAN HOTELS IN LONDON.
Strange that no suspicion had fallen
ground.
All I can say is it is pitiful and enough
And mustn’t eat what’s boughten;
on him! It is true, he enjoyed the confi;
to bring a blush of shame to the faces of
Next year they’ll do it-; reasonin’s sound.
dence and favor of his employer, but also
real Americans. It is uot as if there were
And cotton’ll fetch ’bout dollar a pound;
a happy chance had a good deal to do
Tharfor^ I’ll plant all cotton.”
no hotels in London conducted on the
with it. It happened that just at that
—Savannah News.
American plan, and, as in the days when
time an office boy had been detected in
George Wilkes wrote “Europe in a Hurry,”
some misdemeanor and forced to leave.
In Mental Ruts.
there were nothing but dark and dingy
little English hotels to go to. But there
Naturally, of course, he was suspected
“The monotony of certain lines of
are dozens of hotels such as are the rule in
of having committed the theft likewise.
business and slight use of the mental
America and under the roofs of which you
An able young lawyer had been retain
faculties consequent upon a familiarity
would be justified in supposing an Ameri
ed to investigate the case, and he was
of a simple, unvarying routine,” said an
can lady or gentleman would feel thor
not a little chagrined at his failure to
oughly at home.
observant gentleman, “soon gives a
discover the perpetrator.
At any one of the modern hotels any
stolid, apathetic, half idiotic cast to
Hartman experienced a moment of re
American, with an American love of com
the human countenance. Take any
lief, but only a moment, as a burden as
fort, might be contented. -There they can
body who has little or no variety in
of lead seemed to weigh on him.
have hot and cold water, bathrooms, a
his daily life, and in a short time his
billiard room, an elevator and a table
Might not some new clew be found,
d’hote. Everything (with perhaps a slight
face is as blank as a piece of putty.
some unforeseen occurrence throw light
English tinge) which they are accustomed
on the m
The * torture lasted for
“A wooden impassiveness of feature
to in America they can have at these hotels.
four horrible years. The. very thought
takes the place of what we term ex
Yet
Americans
seem
to
prefer
the
opposite.
of it made the perspiration- start on his
pression, and the intellectual powers re
Instead of going to the sort- of hotels they
forehead in the coldest days.
lapse into that dormant state that
have been used to all their lives, and-their
Why did he not invent sòme pretext
fathers before them—the sort of hotels
characterizes alike the savage and the
for' going abroad? He was Often on the
which even some openminded English
idiotic. You will see the same thing in
people are generous enough -to admit are
point of doing so, but the fear of arous
the
idle, listless man about town, who
the best hotels in the world—they turn
ing suspicion by any singularity of con
is too lazy to work or think, and hasn’t
their backs upon them and rush to Long’s,
duct prevented him from putting this
enough energy or even inclination to
Claridge’s and Morley’s, where they are no I
idea into execution. So he lived on with
more really at home than a bird would be
be b^.d. It is irritating to talk to such
this threatening specter, ever before-his
in a cage.
people. The restless, nervous man of
eyes, unable to dispel it .or to hide him
As a rule, the better classes in England
keen intellectual edge who 'comes in
self from it.
Ohio’s Champion Woman Walker*
do not stay at hotels in London. Some do,
contact with them chafes inwardly and
“The others”—he would not even to
of course, but the majority have town
The champion lady pedestrian of Ohio
sometimes outwardly.
residence^ of their own, and when in Lon lives in Middleport, two and one-quarter
himself use a more definite expression—
don' during the season they live in them. miles below The Telegraph, office, in
“are in jail for their wrong doing—do they
“Half the trouble and friction that
But sometimes, when obliged to be in town Pomeroy, where she has been employed
suffer more? They are deprived of free
arises between individual members of
when the season is over, they may go for a
dom indeed; the blow has fallen heavily
as a compositor for the past eight years.
the great, active, hustling public and
night or two to a hotel—and to hotels such
upon them with the sentence of' the
Every week day, winter and summer,
officials of various lower grades is from
as Long’s and Claridge’s.
court; but .afterwards there is peace
for the eight years she has walked to and
this very fact. Neither the offender
HOTELS ENGLISHMEN PREFER.
around and within them.”
But they go to hotels of this kind simp from her work, with but six weeks’ rest.
nor the offended understands the seat
To accuse- himself?. That.would be
ly because they prefer them, arid they pre Her walks average twenty-seven miles
of the difficulty in dealing with each
foolish. Chance had favored him hither
fer them because they have always been per week, through rain and sunshine,
other.”—New York Herald.
I
accustomed to them. They would sooner snow, mud and' summer heat, and she
to; why should it not continue to do so?
walk up stairs than be carried up by a I often clambers around Ltlie bluffs to get
So' mòre hoping, more trembling.
“lift;" they would rather have their bath by flooded districts!
Hartman had become by his misde
How She Recognized Him.
in a portable tub by their bedside than in
meanor, strange to say—a dilettante in
There is one story on “Tim” Campbell
This gives her 1,404 irjes per year, or
the most elaborately appointed bathroom;
matters of law. He had furnished him
miles in eigbfiB^A^ Subtracting
the point of
they would sooner; shave themselves than 11,332
»rested-she lias
self with a book on the criminal code
go Oyara lu une liotei uaruer shop, a:uq are. km uxues rOr
which “Tim” has probably not seen himself
decidedly happier with a small Sri bf not 11,0*70 miles still to her credit. During
and Jlie criminal procedure, together
yet, for he tells it in an innocent way, which,
and silver. Tail pillars of piled up plates
water, brought up by the chambermaid, the eight years she has actually per load the sideboards. Champagne cools in
with various commentaries. These books
Hard AVork in a Mail Car,
of course, adds much to its flavor:
than
they
would
be
if
drawing
it
them
formed his favorite reading after shut
formed 24,600 hours of labor, and has set silver tubs, buried to the bottle necks In
Mr. Campbell has a strong appreciation of
The German makes the best mail route
selves
from
a
silver
plated
tap.
The
very
about 19,680,000 ems of type. When she cracked ice. Waiters in full dress glide agent, but you very seldom find an Irish his dignity. It does not oppress—it sustains
ting his door at night. With a hasty eag
things
they
do
not
like
in
a
hotel
Ameri
and comforts him. Not long ago he was
began walking and working she was' not about with the noiseless movement of
erness he devoured their contents.
cans do (or ought to); the very things they enjoying good health, but now she is rosy ghosts. On every side magnificent'groups man Or American who will submit to-the walking through the corridors of the house
As a chess player would treat an in
severe discipline that is necessary -to per
do like Americans do not (or ought not to).
wing of the Capitol when a woman spoke tq
of roses load the air with their sensuous
teresting problem, so he treated lii-s case.
Yet is all reversed directly Americans cheeked and vigorous, and thinks no perfume. It is that hour of the evening fect him in distributing. I have seen him and said:
more of a jaunt of half a dozen miles
beginners, on the run from St. Louis,
Mitigating circumstances, the chances
come to London.
“Will you see if Mr. Glover is in th?
when the theaters disgorge their audiences.
in a trial, every thing possible and impos
Another thing: It costs a lot more than most ladies do of walking around A rattle of wheels halts short outside. enter Kansas City with the blood stream house?”
I
ing from their hands and the fingernails
money to stay at Long’s or Claridge’s than a square in the city.
sible that a layman could extract from
Mr. Campbell drew himself to his full
Steps, voices and the rustle of silks sound
at the Americau hotels—ór rather those
this juristic material, were brought into
on the staircase. The silent waiter at the torn off. The injuriés are regularly in height.
English hotels which are kept on the
Crazed by Hair Dye.
“Madame,” said he, “.there are gintiemen
action. Mòre than once he caught him
door opens it, and admits a lady and gen curred in working the newspaper mail.
American plan. Besides which, all and
A lamentable case of softening of the tleman in full dress. Others follow in The sacks become filled with all kinds of around- here to do that thing;” and he em
self declaiming a brilliant defense in a
every of the great swells of high life, when brain lias come to the knowledge of a few couples, quartets and little parties. Along refuse from the floors over which they phasized his remark with a sweeping gesture,
loud- tone, and then he would listen
ever they may lie compelled to go to a Lon
society people, and it will result sooner both curbstones of the dark side street are dragged. After- standing the motion which included in its scope the entire force of
anxiously; somebody might have heard
don hotel, always go to Long’s or Clar
lines of carriages are drawn up. The com of the cars for fifty miles the papers are house employes, from the clerk to the door
him.
idge’s, oY one of the other leading West or later in the confinement in a private pany make themselves at home. Nearly frequently coated with particles of iron, keepers.
Hartman had also his favorite chapter,
End “family” hotels. Iu which case their asylum of a beautiful young woman who everybody knows everyhody else. Those
The little woman looked up into Mr. Camp
steel, glass and splinters, and tear a man’s
arrivals and departures are carefully has been a favorite in fashionable circles. who do not are speedily introduced.
which treated of the statute of limita
hand to pieces as he dives blindly into bell’s face.
She has for several years been addicted
chronicled and published in the “Fashion
tion. There he read: “The prosecution
“I’m Mr. Glover’s wife,” she said.
Some one plays* an air brilliantly and
Behind the Tinies.
able Intelligence” column of The Morning to the dangerous practice of bleaching boldly, like an expert, on the grand piano the sack for the packages. A few days
“I thought you were,” said the Honorable
for crimes that are punishable with no
are always necessary to cure a novice of “Tim,
Post.
The
American,
plan
hotels
do
not
Miss
Choteau
(from
St.
Louis,
examin
her
hair
by
means
of
certain
powerful
” in a tone that showed that the fact
in the corner. A few couples whirl a turn sore bands. The second day he is crip
more- than three months’ imprisonment
ing Cleverton’s Ascqt)—Did you tie that soar to this height.
did not impress him very seriously.
acids, and her mind has become so seri or two of à dance. . The splendid costumes pled,
must begin within five years, etc.”
as his fingers are drawn up, and
“SWAGGER” PEOPLE ABROAD.
“You’re Mi’. Campbell, are you not?” said
ously affected therefrom that her physi- of the women and the -wealth of jewelry he cannot open his hands without the
Although he knew the passage by yourself, Mr. Cleverton?
The great puzzle to Englishmen in this
Mrs. Glover.
they display, the elegance of the men, the
deverton—Certainly.
cians
regard
her
case
as
incurable.
heart, yet he read it again every day, as
respect is why Americans want to show off
most excruciating pain.—St. Louis Globe-
“I am,” said the Honorable “Tim,” in his
Miss Choteau—That’s just like you in
For several months past her actions opulegt appointments of the room itself Demccrat.
if its contents might have changed in
England. They can understand their
most impressive way.
combine to convey the impression of a pri
slow
New
Yorkers.
If
you
lived
in
St.
have
been
so
peculiar
as
to
excite
the
sur-
j
liking to live well and have nice things
one night.
“I thought you were," said Mrs. Glover,
vate party in #. private house. In fact,
The Deep Lunged Recitationists.
Four years and a half have passed; six Louis you could buy your neckties -al and to live in good houses as they them prise of those of her acquaintances who however,’ we are looking in on a regular,
quietly, as she turned and walked away.—■
selves
do;
but
what
they
do
not
compre-
I
ready
made.
—
Cloak
and
Suit
Review.
were unaware of her mental disease; but supper of the aristocratic Beefsteak club,
months more, and he will be free, legally
.The feature of recitations at receptions Wash. Cor. New York Tribune.
hend is why they do not prefer America to the secret has ¡been carefully guarded by ah organization composed of the flower of has developed into a colossal bore. Peo
free. The voice of conscience would
She Was Ready for Him.
to swagger in. English “swagger,” in its the family, and very few of her friends fashion in New York.
ple are supposed to go to such places for
soon learn to be silent when the pressure
Mr. Winks (solemnly)—A noted .physi truest sense and meaning, is indulged in outside of the home circle know of her I The musical chime of a huge Japanese the pleasure of meeting- their host and
Not Afraid to Fight.
of anxiety should be removed. Six
only
in
England.
I
allude,
of
course,
to
temple bell in the rear of the room calls hostess and others, and having some little
“All the Brandenburgers are soldiers,”
months—why should they not pass as a cian says that deadly bacteria lurk in the best people. They swagger at home I malady.
She was an exceptionally bright girl, the club to table. The waiters, headed' conversation with them, But frequently said the German heir presumptive in a
moment;, why might not a miracle hap bank notes, and that many diseases, es because it is perfectly legitimate that they
the steward, bring in, in procession, the deep lunged recitationists are all recent speech. All the world knows
pen, and time for once, just once, make pecially smallpox, are spread in that should. It is their right and privilege and | and her misfortune is therefore all the •by
charger after charger of noble steaks, of there and the evening goes by like unto that. France found it- out at Sedan to
way.
habit to do swagger things and to -be more to be deplored.—Louisville Post.
a leap ?
the proper. English rump cut, smothered one in a hall where there is a regular her cost. The night Louis Napoleon and
Mrs. Winks—Then, dear, you had bet thought -very swagger by people beneath
The almanac became, from that time
in oyster sauce. There is none of the rude
his son 'reposed on downy couches in
ter
give
me
all
you
have
at
'
once.
Fv*
A
Woman
Taxpayer.
them.
It
is
the
snobs
who
swagger
when
on, his _best friend He could sit bent
and hbarty enjoyment of the Old Curiosity programme of elocutionary exercises. silken tents the Brandenburgers passed in
been-
vaccinated,
you
know.
—
Chatter.
they
go
abroad
on
thé
astonish-the-native
This
puts
a
stop
to
conversation
and
Miss
Floretta
Vining
is
one
of
the
over it for hours, counting first the
club here. The finest English china re
principle. They cannot swagger at home largest taxpayers in Hull; Mass!, and-a places the gravy soaked; chunk of bread. foroc-s everybody who has ears to hear. the saddle, getting ready for the attack
months, then the weeks, then the days
A Bad Habit.
and so they go abroad.
public spirited citizen, who is always do Knives and forks of silver take the place .If the recitationist took to the humorous which was to end in the capture of the
again and again. In the middle of the
On the other hand, the' really swagger
He attempts to kiss her and she jumps
ing something for the town. Not long of fingers,-rind -champagne that of Spanish the weariness of then- auditors might not French army like so many rats in a trap.
night the thought would strike him that away.
people in England are quiet, unobtrusive
ago she attended the town meeting, as wine and beer. But, if the truth must be be so apparent; but many of them lean Prince William, who is reputed to be of
he had made a mistake in counting; the
“Oh, Matilda!” he cries, reproachfully. and simple when they travel, or go to stay she wished to call attention to the dis told, one may hear more bright and clever very strongly toward the tragic—so a more martial turn of mind than his
lamp was quickly lighted, and his work
out. of Eugland. If you see a
“Forgive me, Gregory. I hoped that anywhere
things, more wit and originality in the strongly, in fact, that their props do not father, the' unfortunate crown prince,
man traveling with half a"dozen servants, creditable condition of the public ceme dusty back room of the east side shop in
began anew.
always sustain them.—New York Press declared in his speech that it is not true
I had got over that bad habit of seeming showing
tery.
With
two
or
three
exceptions
all
up
at
every
station
and
a
great
Time never passes slower than when to shrink at such times—with you, at
that he wants war for the sake of glory.
one evening than during the whole season “Every Day Talk.”
row
and
noise
going
on
whenever
he
makes
the men present were merely poll tax at the caterer’s palace uptown.
But he is a Brandenburger, and “all the
one counts the minutes. It seemed to least.”—Philadelphia Times.
his
appearance,
be
sure
he
is
a
retired
payers; but this woman, who bore so I And when it comes to the business of the
Brandenburgers are soldiers, ’ ’ who “only
Hartman sometimes as if it stood still, or
Secretary Bayard’s Day’s Work.
tailor or butter maker. The dukes and large a share of_the expense of the town, meeting, no steak and oyster .sauce ever
fear God,_and nothing else in this world.”
as if the minutes grew maliciously to
Insulation Perfect.
earls go about like other people. - They had to ask permission 'torfpp'ik in the had the savor of those melting morsels
The
secretary
of
state
begins
his
day
’
s
There is no need to fear that Germany’s
hours, the hours to days.
Smith (in a terrific storm of thunder keep their swagger for their own country,
work before breakfast, at bis house,
If he only could spend a few hours in and lightning)—Jones, this is getting and do not assert themselves abroad; town meeting; and could only'be allowed that the Old Cariosities eat in their natural where he receives the early mail, and it military prestige will be allowed to wane
tender and fragrant from their
under this kind of a ruler.—Chicago
sleep! The thought led him to ' bu| dangerous. Have you any metal about Therefore, they cannot i magine why Ameri- : to do so as a favor. But Miss Vining’s juices,
journey through the red hot frying pan usually takes him till 10 o’clock^-to read
cans who have a standing at. home are not suggestions' were adopted, and $3,500 and the bed ’ of fiercely glowing coals. it. If he has any time remaining he an Times.
opium, and now many a day and almost your clothes?
was appropriated to repair the cemetery. Still, halfa lohf is better than no bread,
every night was passed iff artificial slum
Jones (always impecunious)—Not a content with it.
How Fame Is Achieved.
swers his private letters with his own
I suppose you might talk and write till —Boston, Letter.
ber. A moment of relief came, when he dime.—Chicago Times.
and a beefsteak prepared for service on a hand, and at 10 the official carriage calls
Hardly any one who has risen in the
doomsday, but you could not hope to im
awoke and realized that so and so many
Royal Worcester platter is not to be given to take him to the department. Reach smallest degree into public notice is above
press these American swaggerers abroad
Gypsies as Players;
the cold shoulder because it has' not the ing there, he spends the rest of the morn the harmless vanity of telling the utterly
hours had passed.
with the utter “bad form,”, in English
Chamois skins are not derived rrom eyes, of the things they do. Of course,
The continual excitement could not
From their first appearance down to picturesque surroundings of one broiled ing receiving the public, and the after obscure man how fame is achieved or the
fail to undermine even such a powerful the chamois, as many people suppose, they have a right -to do what thpy like, if the present the gypsies have been great at the end of' an iron fork.
noon in attending to his official corre foundation stones of even moderate
constitution as Hartman possessed. With but are the flesh side of sheepskin. The they can pay for it. But because a man Is players and second rate actors, and it- Professor Wilson- held that the only fit spondence, and in holding conferences greatness laid. The millionaire recalls his
mankind could accord to beefsteaks with his assistants. About 3 o’clock the
every day that brought him nearer'to the skins are soaked in limewater and in a able to pay for a thing is not a justification- is asserted by one writer that there is honor
diligence as a boy in sweeping out the
was to cook them properly and eat them,
longed for goal,'he "grew feebler arid solution of sulphuric acid; fish oil is for his doing it or having it.—London Cor. not a theater or music hall in England and his -ideal of the culinary, portion of official letters and other documents which store on cold winter mornings, the lawyer
I
San
Francisco
Argonaut.
__
__
____
______
_______
_
_____
require
his
signature
are
placed
upon
his
his wonderful assiduity in copying papers
paler. If seemed to him as if his limb's poured over them and they are care
this ceremony was that which is adopted
or America that does not include one by~the
Beefsteak club. Cobbett, on' the table, and it usually takes him an hour and reading very early editions of law
l ,
were lead, as if his head were too heavy fully washed in a solution of potash.
How Swedish Maidens Tell.
‘
other
hand,
favored
his
steak
without
_
4.L
x.
more
fo
read
and
sign
them.
His
or more personsof gypsy descent. Iff
books by the firelight, and the literary
to bear. He dragged himself heavily
In Sweden maidens anxious to foretell the this country many of them! conduct Sàuqé, flavored with shalot or.tarragon, work for the day is not often finished be man the toil expended on his first verses
from the sofa to the chair, from the chair • It has been proved that wasps’ nests future
i
arid
with
horseradish
for
a
condiment.
If
place a ring, a coin and a piece of
to the sofa. When pain in the back sometimes take fire from spontaneous black ribbon each under a separate cup. If small circuses or traveling shows, which both these old time steak experts could eat fore 5 o’clock, , when he _ goes for a horse- and his secret joy at seeing them in the
a supper with the Curiosity .club, they back ride into the country with his “poet’s corner” of the country newspaper.
seized him he called a physician.
combustion—the chemical action of the the ring is first exposed they marry within they erect in the woods where they w’ould, I am u BU1C,
UUVXL UUV4VUV
sure, RUJUIO
abjure their
ancient
‘
ftjj graceful
-----------------------
a daring
and
eques There is nothing sweeter than the reflec
“You are going to have a severe sick wax upon the inflammable, material of the year; the coin secures a rich husband, pitch their camps, and charge a nom methods of preparing and dressing the daughter,
trienne.—Washington Cor. New York tion that one’s own career is a standing
inal
sum
for
admission'.
—
George
E.
feast.
—
Alfrei sd Trumble in New York Ad-
ness,” was his decision.
but
the
ribbon
denotes
an
old
maid.
—
Cas
the nest. This fact may account for
Mail and Express.
encouragement to the young and friend
vertiser.
“Of what kind? Be perfectly frank, I some' of the strange fires which occur te’s Family Magazine.
Walsh in New York Epoeh.
less to be up and doing with a heart for
Mosquitoes Not Afraid of Alligators.
am alone in the world,- and must maks in barns and storehouses.
every fate.—New York Post.
Great Reforms Move Slowly.
Labor and Expense in Circulars.
A Physician in Every Menagerie.
It has been said that mosquitoes ob
my arrangements.”
The scheme of Pundita Ramarai to
Just how much the postoffice depart ject to the strong smell of the alligator,
All keepers are supposed to study the
Thackeray and His Manuscript".
“Well, the symptoms look like typhus. ”
The average expectation of life on the rescue the child widows of India, for
Thackeray took up his manuscript time
Hartman’s face became even paler principle of heredity may be found, ac which she enlisted substantial sympathy needs and ailments of the animals. un ment receives every year for making but if this be so they can overcome
men
’
s
lives
burdensome
with
circulars
their dislike when there is a chance of after time to touch and retouch till his
than before; his eyes stared with the ex cording to a statistician, by adding the by her lectures in this country a year or der their charge, and they understatad
of every imaginable character it is im
fastidious taste was. satisfied. -After his
pression of horror upon the speaker.
ages of a man’s parents and grand two ago, is not proving as successful, it the best methods to coax their dumb possible to estimate, but if St. Louis is a draft of human blood, for Humboldt death his friends found some sheets of
relates that while dissecting a large al
“A slow ’fever, in which one does not parents, if dead, and dividing the result is said, as she and her friends hoped it friends into submission; but in addition
any criterion it must be enormous. One
lose consciousness; is it not so, doctor?
would. A reform which strikes at one to these keepers every circus and me firm alone sends out considerably over ligator, eleven feet long, the odor of manuscript in his pocket book scored and
by six.
twenty times over. The
Certainly so?”
of the greatest social weaknesses of nagerie has one or more physicians who 1,000,000 a year, and quite a number em which infected the surrounding atmos underscored
world
is
not
foolish as some sloppy
I
“If my fears are likely to -be realized,
The greatest artesian well in the caste bound India cannot, however, be prescribe for the sick animals. An im
phere, he and his assistants were fear writers appear so
to think, and appreciates
I could wish the contrary. The fever world has been struck in South Dakota. expected to travel with railroad speed. ported wild animal is too valuable to ploy a large staff of folders and address fully stung.—Knowledge.
care and finish. As a rule, the work
begins violently, you are delirious at the It is 960 feet deep. The water pres ‘ If in these early days of its inception it lose without an effort to save its life, ers, and get out from 2,000 to 5,000 a
A kitten which has no front legs or tail that lives deserves to live. The slap dash
crisis, and the-worst is over, when you sure is 225 pounds per square inch, aud attains the momentum of Juggernaut’s and all that science knows is brought day each during the busy season. If attracts
custom to a barber shop in Hart style may last for a time, through the
every one they send to reads the circu
I
recover consciousness.”
its flow is from 8,000 to 10,000 gallons car it will be a cause for hopefulness.— into requisition to cure it of any com lars as little as I do there is a terrible ford. The feline is three months old, lively wonderful art of puffing, but it soon dies
To be delirious! Hartman shuddered.
Harper
’
s
Weekly.
and healthy.
out.—London Society.
plaint.
—
New
York
Epoch.
per
minute.
amount
of
love
’
s
labor
lost
in
the
work.
To bedehrious, not to be master .of his