IGNOTUB
STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS.
Dr. Dedling plodded home to the vil MR. AXD MRS. si’l 101’EX DYKE.' Step ladders do not break in and cor-
RIDING A BLACKEISH
lage, and as he passed the brilliant
rupt? Going to lift that thing off me,
A HORSE AS A PAPER < AKKlia
windows of the little tavern, he paused,
or are you going to use it for a tomb L'urouiuion Advaatur««. •• Narrated by
Anderson Dadson has deliver,
remembering the bitter cold of the win The Rvlllcereiil He a, I of the Faintly At stone? Mark it ‘Hie Jacet Spoopen
One of the Chronicler«.
tempt« to Hans A Fletar«*
route of newspapers through pi „. ‘
ter air, the• frosty influence of the
dyke,’ or take it away before I liegin
Plains, S. I., every morning for tsT
No hand to feel the ebbing tide
breeze.
to exert my supernatural strength and
So slowly leave my heart;
“You're the man,” said one of the years past, and drives a thoroJSS
“
Now,
my
dear,
”
said
Mr.
Spoopen.
“
I
may
as
well
go
in
and
warm
my
kick
it
into
the
realms
of
eternal
bliss,
No one to heal-, e'en if I cried —
Indian mustang. Three weeks X, g
self,” thought he.
Uplifted I depart
dyke, prancing into the sitting-room where the ladder biteth )ike a—!” and listeners, “who killed a whale second
Mine host met him with a eheery air. with every evidence of delight and con- with a prodigious kick, Mr. Spoopen handed, aren’t you?” was asked of Dadson was taken ill, and sent word '
No mother here to press upon
his customers that the horse would
“Walk in, doctor, walk in! said he.
My aching head her hand,
I tentment pictured on his face. “Now, dyke sent the ladder to the nethermost Capt. Lish Fliker, champion fighter, around as usual, and asking the in«»
“
Not
that
room,
”
Dedling
mechanically
No 111» to speak and whisper "son,’’
part of the room and arose to his feet revivalist and exliorterof all the country' era if they would go out an,l tak ®“'
No cue to call me friend.
turned toward the apartment he usually my dear, what do you flunk I’ve brought foaming.
papers from the bundle in the horn?
entered.
“
The
railway
committee
is
you?”
“Never mind the pictures, dear,” about Booth Bay, Me.
"Pis hard to die when kindred stand
pack-saddle. Every morning them
sitting there.”
“Well,” replied the captain, after he tang
Around to s,s,the and cheer;
“I’m sure I have no idea,” fluttered suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke. “You
goes alone over the route and'’’'
But, ah! to die in thiB strange land,
“The railway committee!” echoed
leave
it
with
me
and
I
’
ll
hang
them
had
finished
whistling
a
strain
of
what
three weeks has only missed tw’00( .i'"
Is harder still to bear.
Dedling. “You don’t mean that they Mrs. Spoopendyke. “Please tell me to-morrow.”
is familiarly known as the “No. 2 se fifty-four places his master usuall.
are taking any steps about the old idea what it is, for I know it is something
“Oh, you’ll doit,” howled Mr. Spoop
No marble shaft will mark the spot,
plied.—[New York World.
' “|l‘
Or tell the world my name;
of building a railway between here and i nice?”
endyke, whirling on his heel and com lection,” “I am about the last mini to
By every one I’ll be forgot.
EXCITING
WHALE
HUNT
IN
SHETLAND
Glassville?”
talk
about
his
own
doin
’
s,
but
Hence
you
“Look,” grinned Mr. Spooyiendyke, ing down hard on his own photograph
None know from whenco I came.
“Yes, I do,” said the landlord. “It’s | unwrapping the package and develop which lie had carefully laid on the floor. put a leadin’ question I’m’ ’bleeged to
At West Voe, Dunrossness, on Sen-
a committee of rich capitalists, as áre
No gentle i me will strew my grave
tember 20th, early in the morning ,
“You are the one to hang it! Trust
With budding roses fair;
building factories close to the falls; ing a cabinet photograph of himself you fora thing of that kind! If you say I’m the identical old man, but it number of six-oared boats werepnxZi
But weeds and tangled grass will wave
don’t say I mentioned it, doctor, be nicely framed in gilt. “How do you had a wire along your ceiling and a wasn’t a whale, only a blackfish—wuss, ing to the fishing when they observed »
And scent the summer air.
cause I only caught a snatch here and like it?” and Mr. Spoopendyke held it catalogue in your ear, you’d only want I calls ’em. Ye see, afore old Grimes shoal of whales (twenty-eight in iltlni
A gentle word above my grave,
there, when I wascarrying in the plates; out at arm’s length and admired it a tin-type and a row to be an academy was dead he ami I used tew' do consider her) disporting themselves close to Sum
Will tell my name, my home;
but it’s to go right through old Miles
of design!” and with this complicated able seining, and he’d abaout all uour burgh Head. They immediately Wi’
A name, ah, few would care to have—
Grey’s cranberry swamp, th# railway hugely.
description of his wife’s few failings, ready cash salted daown in nets. One eha«*, and succeeded in driving them all
It is the name “ unknown !”
“
Isn
’
t
it
perfectly
splendid?
”
gulped
is! And the chairman is going to offer
Mr. Spoopendyke shot into bed as if he mornin* we’d jest got ’em aout and old ashore. The scene of slaughter was
Mrs.
Spoopendyke.
“
It
is
the
best
Miss Judith five thousand dollars in
were practicing archery, and nursed Grimes he’d gone off on some chore, wild in the extreme. Along the head of
likeness
of
you
1
have
ever
seen.
Did
THE HAUNTED HOUSE.
clean, hard cash for her share in it.”
his wounds and wrath until he fell when 1 see somethin’ big and black the Voe were spread the whales, lashiug
you get it for me?”
Dr.
Dedling
started.
The hou«e was haunted, All who saw
nsin’ right in the net. Fust I thought the water into foam in their death strug.
“Of course,” replied Mr. Spoopen asleep.
“Five thousand dollars!” he said
The frequent sign, "To let," said bo ,
“I don't care,” muttered Mrs. Spoop it was a whale, then I see it was a black gles, while in the midst of the blood and
dyke, still buried in admiration of his
And families did oft withdraw
slowly.
endyke, trying to untie the knot of her fish. 1 was in the dory and the only foam the men, wading waist deep in
Their goods and chattels. That I know.
Could it be true? If so, what a fatal counterfeit. “You don’t imagine I got shoelace with her teeth. “I don’t care. thing in it was a bit of broken scythe the water, were going from fisli to fish
it
for
the
rats,
do
you?
Haven
’
t
any
mistake he had made in rejecting a
And yet it seemed if awe bereft,
It will teach him another time to let that we’d used for cleanin’! fish, so 1 and plunging lances into the monsters’
A spot which ghosts might not invade,
bride who could bring the rich {Mirtion kind of a notion I brought it home to poor pa’s picture alone.”
shoved off and in a minute was along sides. One big fellow, managing to get
kill
bugs
with,
have
you?
Now
where
So when the final tenant left,
of a cranberry swamp as her wedding
side of the critter and him in water not bis head to seaward, went away at a
I flatly came to him and said:
dower. If ha had known this half an shall we hang it?”
“I don’t know,” murmured Mrs. A VISIT TO FRANCE IN 1815 BY AN OC over six foot. Growin’ mad 1 jest great rate, sometimes below and N,mf.
hour
—
one
little
half
hour
ago!
TOGENARIAN.
‘My friend, you seem with care oppressed,
hopped aout on tew his back and fetched times on the surface; but he had been
Spoopendyke, with her finger to her
And moving is a last resort,
*...........................................
him a jab and off he went, a-runnin’ wounded mortally, and he was easily
lips. “Why wouldn’t that space be
Do gohblins here disturb your rest?
The
schooner
Selby,
('apt.
John
Selby,
“Don’t fret about him, Judith dear, tween the two windows be a good
high and dry ashore. 1 aout with the brought ashore again—[Pali Mail m.
Is thisa haunted house in short ?”
sailed
from
New
York
for
Nantes,
July
he isn’t worth it!” urged honest Mar place?”
scythe agin ami fetched him another zette.
2,
1815,
and
I
was
on
board
as
super-
He said—and as he spoke he frowned;
maduke Redfield, who had stopped on
A cat ’ s SUICIDE.
"You’ve guessed it. That’B the hither his way to the postoffice to bring a mes
“Why wouldn’t the top shelf of the 1 cargo. Our cargo of cotton was to fur hit, and when he ran ashore agin 1
here,
pantry lie better?” growled Mr. Spoopen nish funds for a return cargo of silksand reached daown ami cut his thro’t and I
A well authenticated ease of feline
sage
from
his
mother.
“
He
was
al
We’re haunted by a plaguy Bound,
got a knock side o’ the head that raised
That splits the head and frights the ear.
ways a pretentious sort of a fellow, all dyke. “If you are looking for a place ■ other goods to be purchased in 1’aris. me abaout ten foot. I landed knee felo de se occurred at Trumbull oneilar
The
last
news
from
France
was
that
Na
where
the
light
won
’
t
strike
it
why
not
last week. Early in the week it wii
for outward show, with a hard heart
I've hunted up this phantom dire,
put it under the carjiet, or stick it be poleon was in 1’aris marshaling his deep in the blood-red water head first, noticed by her friends that pussy wa,
and a shallow nature.”
1 understand the horrid din,
and
when
1
picked
myself
up
I
see
the
One neighbor’s just got in the choir;
Judith glanced up at the clumsy, tween the mattresses! This picture 1 forces to meet the allied armies. W’e critter a-wallowin’ off. Grabbing the not herself. SlitMnoped and refused It
The other’s learned the violin.”
hard-handed farmer, and wondered that demands some refulgence to show it off, had favorable winds, and in 20 days scythe I jumped on his back and fetched eat, passed her nearest and dearwt
■—[New York Journal.
without recognition, and manifested 1
she had never before seen what a true and I’m going to put it where the most were in the Bay of Biscay, which we him another jab, ami that settled it.”
strange persistence in getting into tlie
face and what clear, frank eyes he had. refulgence is calculated to strike it. found swarming with British cruisers.
Tin: bad l.inaTs ok unusial diet .
Supisising there might be a blockade,
Now, where can we put it?”
sink, pails and bath-tub, from which she
“
I
loved
him
—
once,
”
she
faltered.
THE CRANBERRY SWAMP
“Isn’t that a good place, right over we wished to avoid being spoken. \Ve
“Yes, I have drunk whale’s milk. A would not be driven, even when the
“Forget him, Judith,” pleaded Red
the bed?”suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke, were chased by three British frigates, caow whale with young kem inter Deer water was turned on. One day she tu
field
;
and
she
began
seriously
to
think
“Of course you know very well, or at
who began to see that her husband was and the shot from one of them nearly-
observed to stalk solemnly down to the
least I am certain I have remarked in that she would at least try to do so. aiming for the chimney, where the reached 11s; but we outsailed them. Island a spell ago and a hull party of wharf, when arrived, to gaze long and
your hearing time anil again, a man has “Come over to our house and stay with painting of her father bus hung for One of the frigates continued the chase us tried it jest tew say we had. 1 wa.'. earnestly into the water. The soldier*
his own fortune to look to,” said young mother. It is rather lonesome for you years. “If you hang it over the bed, until the next morning. When we found took with a spell that night, and when watched her closely, but were not pre
I was done heavin’ ve’d never a known
here, for the present. at least. Spring
Dr. Dedling.
1 can see it w henever I come into the ourselves almost as far south as Bor me. The milk was the richest, sweetest pared for the result. After a while the
“Of course,” said Judith ; and as she will Is* time enough for you to come room.”
deaux, and near the coast.
Sailing creamy stuff ye ever see; good for kitten returned to her accustomed
,
Spoke the words a cold chill seemed to back to the cranberry swamp.”
“Just so,” snarled Spoopendyke, run north, in sight of land, we were sur infant whales, I reckon, but no use ter haunts, moped around, mewed nothing
Judith
thought
of
Mrs.
Redfield's
cosy
creep like ice around her heart.
ning a cord through the eyes in the prised to see the Bourbon flag flying.
to nobody, and kept about until the n-it
“if you had consulted me as to your kitchen, with its bright carpet, its win back of the frame. “I don’t know, The mystery was explained by the pilot, me if I was starvin'. I have been asked day, when she again walked down to the
a dozen times by these doctors tew ex
dows
lined
with
geraniums,
and
its
affairs,” the young man went on, “in
who
informed
us
of
the
battle
of
Water
though,” he continued, as a brilliant
wharf, deliberately lea]>ed overboard,
stead [of taking this extraordinary step shrill-voiced canary hanging over the idea occurred to him. “You like that loo, which had been fought six weeks plain my feelin’s, and 1 ain't ever been and committed suicide I >efore the eya
able tew do it justice. I seems I was
work-table.
without .advice—’’
“Do you think that your mother place between the two windows best, before. Napoleon at this time (July 26) seasick on my ]>ort side and had a mas of the astonished garrison.—[New Lon
“Yes, I know,” hurriedly interrupted
don't you? I don’t know but what that was on board the Bellerophon, off the ter colic tew starboard, and they was a don Day.
Judith; “but it is over and past now, would lie willing to be troubled with is a good place for a picture.”
English coast. The day following the changin’ Bides every minute and gittin’
A CAT WORTH HAVING.
so perhaps we had better not talk about such a guest as Ishe asked hesita
“Best place in the room,” giggled Captain and I landed at l’ainbieuf, where mixed. I never think o’ the stuff with
tingly.
it.”
A
remarkable
eat story is afloat in
at
our
breakfast
a
crowd
of
beggars
Mrs.
Spoopendyke,
satisfied
that
she
out failin' from grace.
Duke Redfield’s face w’as radiant.
Dr. Dedling shuddered as he looked
Somerville. The family which owns the
had carried her point and saved the gathered before the door and could be
“
I
sell
a
heap
of
tinkers
tew
the
“
Dear
Judith,
you'd
be
as
welcome
around at the dreary winter landscape,
dispersed only by throwing a handful of factory," continued the old deacon, cat have lately put in a new refrigerator.
location sacred to her father.
including the swamp that extended to as the flowers in May.”
“Then I’ll tell you what we’ll do,” sous among them. The most rapid yanking savagely at a desicated sculpin It is a monster in size and has a spring
The
next
day
Mrs.
Redfield
came
ward the east.
lock. The servant, while washing the
sai l Mr. S]>oop<*ndyke, with a gleam of traveling then was with the courier, and
“Buch a place,” he said “for a lady over in the old farm carryall to claim speculation in his eyes. “We’ll hang I rode with him two days and three that had been entangled in the net, refrigerator the other day, had occasion
“
but
mackerel
is
gone
daown.
I
hev
her guest, and the swamp was left to its
to select to live in!”
to get inside. Soon after getting in the
your father’s picture up there and I will nights. The road all the way to Faris
“It isn't very cheerful, but I have dreary desolation and the driving snows he content to take the subordinate place was guarded, by Prussian troops, and seen the time when the hull bay was so wind blew the door to and the spring
chock full that the fish’d lie pushed
of January.
lived here all my life, you know.”
wherever my passport had to be shown aout of the watei as ye pulled along. lock instantly fastened. The mistress
Scarcely three weeks had elapsed over the chimney-piece.”
“The more reason for wanting to get
Mrs. Spoopendyke saw she had been to the French authorities it was exam Why,” and here be peered around at was up several flights of stairs, aud the
when
young
Dr.
Dedling
came
to
Red
rid of it now.”
caught in her own trap, and made no ined also by the Prussian commandants. his listeners as if to guage their limit. servant yelled herself hoarse in trying
Judith was silent. She looked at the field farm in his new gig, with the old further resistance.
Paris seems to la* alive with officers and “I was settin’ in my bote off Nigger to make her hear, but could not. The
roan
horse,
which
really
made
quite
a
blazing logs on the old-fashioned hearth,
“Where’s the step ladder?” asked and soldiers of different nations, and on Island one day last August fishin’, when servant was terribly afraid of being suf-
fine
appearance
when
you
did
not
hurry
and trusl to keep hack the rising tears.
focated. She tried and tried, but could
the Sth of August the Russian Emperor,
him, and he was free from a visitation Spoopendyke, cheerfully. “Bring me Alexandria I., reviewed his troops on I heard a kind o’ rushin’ sound, and not open the door anyway, The eat
De. Dedling took up his hat.
the
portable
Tower
of
Babel,
and
I
will
lookin
’
up
I
see
a
black
mass
o
’
fish
■-Then 1 am to consider our engage commonly known as the “heaves.”
the boulevards. It was said they num coinin’ intew the bay, hoppin’ and beside the kitchen stove left her kittens
“There ain't nolssly sick here,” said fresco this wall with the finest of modern
ment is at an end?” said he.
bered 50,000. I had a good view of the jumpin' jest like they was tryin’ to git and rushed up-stairs, mewing as loudly
Julius, the hired man, who was spiff artistic efforts.”
“Yes," said Judith.
Mrs. Spoopendyke lugged the step Czar, an uncommonly fine-looking man. aout o’ the wet. First I knowed, a No. as she could. The lady left her work
ing wood at the side of the house.
“Good-by,” said Dr. Dedling.
and followed the cat down-stairs, won
He had fewer decorations on his person
“No, I know it,” said Dr. Dedling; ladder up-stairs, and Mr. Spoopendyke, than some of his officers, and his horse 1, extry, lept intew my lap, another dering what had happened to the kit
“Good-by,” responded Judith.
having arranged his string, mounted to
landed
on
my
head
and
intew
the
bote
“
I
want
to
see
Miss
Grey.
”
The next moment she was alone with
was not so richly caparisoned as theirs.
tens. Putting her paws up to the re
“Miss Grey ain't no ways ailin’ as I take down the old gentleman’s picture In the cavalcade there were the Emper they kem, two or three at a time, so’t frigerator door pussy mewed louder than
ttie logs, and the crickets chirping on
with a view’ to the proposed removal.
I
hauled
in
my
jib
and
commenced
to
know
of,
persisted
Julius,
testing
the
the hearth.
ever. It was opened. Out came Mary,
“Look out you don’t fall, dear,” or of Austria, the King of Prussia, the
It was just a month to-night since edge of his ax and staring hard at the suggested Mrs. Spoojiendyke, forgetting Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Or clean ’em. But they kept knockin’ half suffocated, half frightened to death.
agin
my
hands
and
kem
faster,
and
they had buried Old Miles Gray out of doctor.
ange, and other notables. I saw at an
She swears that the cat saved her life.
“I have called as a friend,” said Dr. her defeat in her solicitude for her hus other time the veteran Blucher exercis abaout ten minutes the hot was half When she mews now she is listened w
sight, and Mrs. l’ytehley, Judith’s el
band.
full anil they commin’ wuss and wuss.
dest sister, who had married a New Dedling, with dignity.
“That's all right,” smiled Mr. Spoop ing his soldiers. My business in Paris I began tew git scart, so 1 hauled in as one of the children. The cat is said
“Oh,” said Julius.
York grocer, had boldly declared that it
endyke
from hia perch. “You just quit was completed in 12 days, and a ride of the killick, but it got afoul in the kelp to have had quite a reputation for intel
“
Will
you
be
kind
enough
to
let
me
was high time the old man took himself
roosting
on that bottom round like a three days and two nights with the and fish, and afore I got her dear the ligence before.—[Boston Globe.
in?
”
persisted
the
doctor.
off the stage of this woild, and was
hen,
and
I will get on without any courier brought me to Nantes. We sailed bote was full tew thejseats, and by the
A CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA WILD CAT.
“
’
Taint
no
use,
”
said
Julius,
rolling
mnch disappointed to find that a thou
further
trouble.
” Mrs. Spoopendyke from l’ainbieuf Aug. 21st, and on the time I got it up the oars was buried
a
prodigious
pine
knot
down
from
the
sand dollars in gold represented all his
Early
on Friday morning last Mr.
23<1
of
September,
when
near
the
Jersey
wealth, with the exception of the cran pile, and preparing himself for a stu jumped off the ladder, but her dress shore, encountered the terrific and mem aout o’ sight, and lookin' round I see Hacket, Pennsylvania Railroad Agent
caught
on
the
step,
and
down
came
Mr.
her chock tew the gunwales and the
berry swamp In near the house; and this pendous effort; “there ain't nobody to
Spoiqiendyke like a bundle of soiled orable gale which did so much damage fish aslidin’ overboard, and the next at Derry Station, and L. S. Van Dyke,
projierty,
proiiertv, by the
tin terms of the will, was home.”
of the same place, started on a squirrel
at
sea
and
along
our
coast.
We
were
clothes, rolling on the carpet and trying
minute she settled never see her since.” hunt. When about two miles and »
“Nobody at home?”
to be divided^ between his two nieces,
in great peril, but were mercifully pre
to
get
clear
of
the
ladder
that
had
rolled
“
But
how
did
you
get
ashore?
”
asked
“
They
’
ve
all
gone
to
church,
”
ex
Judith Gray and Martha l’ytehley, as
half from the village, in the woods, u»i
after him and mixed itself up with him served. In the afternoon we had a fine, an incredulous listener.
claimed Julius.
they themselves might agree.
while they were walking along a road,
fair wind, and in the evening anchored
so
that
it
was
difficult
to
tell
which
was
“
Why,
”
said
the
old
man,
“
the
bay
“
To
church,
man?
Why,
it
’
s
Tues
"I’ll take the ready money; what
they heard a great commotion in the;
at Sandy Hook. The next day was the
which.
was
solid.
I
walked
ashoreon
the
fish.
”
day.
could I do with three or four miles of
bushes. Mr. Hacket cautioned his co» j
Sabbath. The morning was lovely, and
—
[Cor.
Philadelphia
Times.
“
Who
said
it
wasn't
?
”
retorted
Julius.
“What did you let go for?” yelled | with a fresh southerly breeze we sailed
cranberry swamp?” said Mrs. l’ytehley.
panion to maintain silence, and the two,
“Or, what could Judith do with it “They ain't gone to hear service—they i Mr. Spoopendyke, trying to get his . up the beautiful bay and harbor of New
men awaited developments. Presently
THE
PRIVACY
THAT
ABSORBED
WORK-
elbow out of his mouth, and still strug-j I York, and I step]s*d on the wharf just
either?” said llubart l’ytehley, who sat are gone to be married!"
thev observed an animal almost as large (
ERS LIKE.
"Who?”
gling with the ladder. “Didn't I tell I as the bells were ringing for church.
whittling a pine stick by the tire.
as a tiger coming toward them with ap
“Our Marmaduke and Miss Judith!" veto hold on? Think I don’t know how 1 The dreadful storm of the day before,
They tell of one of the Harts, a parent bloodthirsty purposes. Mr.
“I <laii" say she could manage very
Down
came
the
ax
upon
the
end
of
to
got
off
a
ladder
when
I
get
ready?
painter,
that
when
he
is
in
the
throes
nicely. I've heard mv Unde Miles say
Hacket promptly greeted the dangenw ]
“amid the roaring of the sea,” and the
that he sold sixty dollars’ worth of the pine knot with a crash that made i S'pose I want a ladder turned bottom events of the past 12 weeks—how differ of hilsir he admits no one to his room. , Imrking foe with a load from his gw
the
man
of
medicine
start
back.
upwards
when
1
want
to
get
down?
cranlierries one year out of the swamp.”
ent from the solemn and delightful Some one called on him once and The animal received the charge, howWj
*«•»«*
Take it off!* he roared, astisfving him services in the house of the Lord! And knocked. There was no response, "but with pain, sprang toward the gunner!
■aid Mrs. l’ytehley.
The
new
railroad
was
duly
constructed
self that he was powerless. “If you j thus ended my first visit abroad, when he heard a noise within, ami kept the with terrible violence, but dropped de»j
“Humph!” Runted her husband.
rapping up till the <liK>r suddenly in the roadway within two feet of the>-
“And that's legal interest on a thou directly across the depth of Miles Grey's want to .see a ladder climb up Spoopen- I I was nearly 21.—[Henry Hill.
opened.
sand dollars, you know," added his cranberry swamp, and live thousand dyke, stand up against the wall and ’
An examination proved it to be a cat
dollars were placed to Mrs. Marmaduke give me a show. Dod gast that ladder!”
“You'll excuse me,” said the artist, amount, an animal noted for its c®
wife. “What do you say, Judith?”
AT
TlA
DOME
OF
THIS
CAPITOL.
through three inches of aperture, “but ning and tenacity as well a« its ferocity-
“It makes no difference to me,” said Redfield's account in the nearest na and with a vicious wrench Mr. S|>oopen-
tional bank ; and Mrs. l’ytehley thinks dyke contrived to free himself from the
Judith, very quietly.
An unknown man, evidently a stran I am painting on a sky.”
It measured thirty-seven inches fre*
ger and a very daring one, performed a
And he slammed the door and re tip to tip and was twenty inches bip-l
“It does to me, then, because Ho she has made a mistake in taking the ladder and assume a perpendicular.
money
instead
of
the
cranberry
swamp;
cooed
“Let the picture go, dear,”
feat one noon recently at Washington sumed his work.
boart's business is in the city, and we
The carcase was skinned and pre
could do nothing with a lot of swampy but young Dr. Dedling thinks his mis j Mrs. Spoopendyke. “You can fix it which chilled the blood of every one
It reads like a rudeness, doesn't it? pared for stuffing.—[Johnston (Penn-; I
take
was
greater
still.
, some other time.”
land down hero."
who witnessed it. He ascended to the But what man who has ever tried to
“No time like the present I” hissed dome of the Capitol, anil, producing a work under fire of an idle lounger with Tribune.
No Mrs. l’ytehley took all she could
SNAKES IN NEBRASKA.
get ami went back to the grocery ; and
Tny F ourteenth . —He was the sec Mr. Spoopendyke, jamming the ladder pair of opera-glasses, mounted the rail little or no sympathy for his toil will
against
the
wall
and
mounting
once
yxxing Dr. Dedling, who had calculated retary of the E
ing
surrounding
the
dizzy-highted
plat
According
to science the number j
not
recognize
it
as
a
justifiable
one?
Kailroad.
He
on five hundred dollars to fit up an scratched his head, knit his brows, and mon*. “Never put off a father-in-law form hundreds of feet above the ground, A man can no more paint on anything snakes killed near Falls City, Neb.,®»
•ffice in the village adjoining, broke his drummed on the desk with his fingers, until to-morrow that you can get away and walked deliberately around the nar he is seriously interested in under a ing the late overflow of the NetlJ«|
engagement in a pique that Judith but he could not get there. Finally he with to-day! Now you hold that thing row footing viewing the city and sur foreign disturbance than he could write river is almost beyond belief. 1“?
should so deliberately have flung her rang his bell, and said to the clerk who tight, or yon will be apt to be a widow rounding country through his glasses. a poem or compose an opera. There were driven by the water from the
j
1 between this and the time it takes to Several persons in the parks below, who never was a painter yet, who, when he torn lands to the higher grounds,
fortune away.
entered:
“A set of sharpers!" cried he, with
“William, our road has decided to 'sweep me up!” and Mr. Spoopendyke witnessed the man spider outlined did good work, did not forget himself especially to the embankments thru*]
1 seeing that his wife had a death grip against tfle sky like a speck almost in and his surroundings in it, and there up for railways. It is estimated a»I
disgust.
mortgage itself again."
on the ladder, took the picture from the the clouds, rushed in and told Capt. never was one who could do good work more than three thousand snakes »s’
“Stop, Dr. I>edlingl” said Judith
“Yes sir."
coloring up. “You forgot that you are
“Do you remember the number of the wall and began to descend cautiously. I Albaugh, of the Capitol police force, under any other circumstances. The killed within a mile of this ,c 'j
“Shall I take the picture, dear?” and he immediately dispatched an of majority need privacy for their labor, They were chiefly garter shakes. I
■{making of my sister and her husband.” last mortgage?"
“Rut they have no right to impose on
“I think it was 13, sir. Yes, sir, I ; asked Mrs. 8poopendyke, letting go the ficer to the dome with instructions to like the portrait painter who, when the water moccasins, blue racers
I ladder and holding up her hands for bring the fool-hardy man down. The mother of a baby sitter said to him :
you thus.” exclaimed the doctor.
tie snakes were also killed. AbJ!
am sure "
officer, upon reaching the top, com-
“I agreed to the {dan without a re
“Mr. X., why don't you talk to me? was confined in a pasture surrow*^]
“Ah! very well. This will be the ■ the painting.
Mr, Spoopenkyke turned to hand it manded the stranger to get down. The I’m sure it’s very dull here.”
monstrance.”
fourteenth mortgage, then. It's of no
by a wire fence in the overfloN*"
Dr. Dedling shrugged his shoulders. particular account, but if will look bet to her, and losing his balance once [ command was obeyed by the leralist,
Replied with more excuse than polite trict, and when release*! it was
1 who remarked in a cool manner: “Why, ness ;
“In that you showed your lack of ter in the stock rejtort to see us quoted more came to the floor with a crash.
that several snakes had taken
“Got it?” shrieked Mr. Spoopendyke, j that's nothing; I am used to that sort of
■1*11«*! If you ha<l no regard for your as fourteenth mortgage bond«.”
“Then take a walk around the block. in hia mane. Since my reside"**
I
M
the
laibleY
again
toppled
over
nil
Imo
i
business.
”
He
refused
to
give
his
name,
self you might have had some for me.”
When I work I think of what I am I have traveled nearly all over
Jack
lias
gone
off
and
got
himself
and
he
saw_a
repitition
of
his
former
and descended in company with the of doing: not of what other people are not county, yet, up to the time o' .1
“Was it my money you wanted?”
asked Judith, stung to the quick.
lost, and he lias also found himself and mishap. “Think ye got the picture? ficer. The dome top is nearly -UIO feet doing.”—[New York News.
overflow last June, I 1-1' '*’□]
'
Got
a
notion
that
ye
saved
enough
to
from the ground, and to even look down
Ibr. I*edling colored.
walked home. “Are you not sorry that
t" see hall a dozen snak* - '**■
A middle-aged lady applied to Mr. The overflowed ilistrict along “*
“A man must take money matters you ran away and got lost?” asked the ‘collect the insurance on? If the pic. from behind the railings would makefile
nto consideration,” he said.
paternal ancestor, with a tone of grief ture is safe,” he continued in n subdued average mortal quite dizzy.—[Louisville Rarnum for the position of circus ’■ ■*!■ .1 wmibl n*,t average ’■1 ’ •
manager. When asked about her pro in width, ami it is astonishing • 1
And so it camo about that the en and reproval. "I wasn’t lost.” “But I and melancholy voice, "if the picture is Courier-Journal.
ficiency she naively replied that she had so many snakes found hiding
gagement was cancelled, and Judith nobody knew where you was.” “I knew ' safe, never mind me. Good bye. dear.
It was a Detroit girl who married at been married three times, and if any Nearly all the snakes in tbi* ' ^1
Grey was sitting there alone in wintry- where I was myself.” That settled it. When they ask for me. tell 'em I am
twilight, with hands clasped ami head A boy that knows where he is himself ‘ gone to that realm where the measly 15 so as to have her golden wedding | one could explain the word circus she ar** * onfined to the creek and river
I
pictures cease from troubling and tiie come when it would do her some good. I was the person.
■r>on her breast.
can never get 5*«t.
toms.
Around my couch no friend stands near,
No heart beats warm for me;
No eye to shed a friendly tear,
No w,,rd of sympathy.