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LIEUT. SCHWATKA AS A MUSI CONCERNING A SENA 10k. FACTS ABOUT WOMEN. self on being out of sight in an obscure MAKING STEEL PENS hunter . ox corner. A monument for Adelaide Phillips ~’— She was sitting looking at the gay The Pi oceMri of Manufacturing Ualf-Waked Statesman Calcile» Sud Steel Fens | will soon lie put up at Marshfield, Mass. A The leuder of the overland an ti., people, when she saw her brother on iteli Stuhl of the Danger Signal. --Opposition to the Goose. pedition of 187!» describes, in t( J*' Mrs. Mackey, wife of the “Bonanza the < ther side of the room wit'i a party tember Century, “A Musk-Ox H„ 1 King,” will probably make Washington of friends. She thought he beckoned with the »i<l of numerons ilhistn.c 1 Ex-Sergeant at-Arms French, in his i her home after New Year ’ s. The steel pen is a modern invention, to her. Had site only known her mis He says of their first chase aiX"1".* Lady Anne Blount, daughter of the interesting lecture, “Ten Years Among take! She started to go to him, and not fifty years having elapsed since it game: “Great fears were entertai *' somehow, in tlie lace flounces of a sweep was introduced, and, like many other I Earl of Lovelace and his late Countess, the Senators,” relates the following by the experienced I love the past, those quiet times, hunters thafij So hallowed by the p.iet’s lay. ing dress feil her unwary footsteps. It innovations, it met with much opposi Ada Augusta Byron, is said to be a amusing anecdote concerning Senator musk-oxen had heard ourapproarf. . ' The charm of song, the sweetest rhymes | speaking likeness of her grandfather, was all done so quickly that Edith stood were now probably ’doing their ¡M Wherewith to bless a summer day. still, seemingly fascinated by the broken tion and had a number of rivals. Of ■ Lord Byron. When Laily Anne was Davis of West Virginia: “There was The men so bold we there behold meshes-of the lace-covered train. She these the quill pen was the moat formid | presented to the Queen her Majesty Davis, of West Virginia. From the best’ to escape. The sledges were ' Their fortunes free with beauty east. Ah, these to me pure friendships be, was not annihilated by the looks of the able, and to this day the quills of geese I kissed her, saying as she did so: “I humble position of a brakeman upon mediately stopped and the <loe. I love, I love the dear old past pretty owner of the garment, for they are used by some old stagers. Pens of 1 do that for the love I bear your anees- the railroad he has fought liis upward unhitched from them, from one to fi J or four being given to each of theriei"’ were not m en by her. 1 tor, the isn't whom I most love.” I love the past, those warlike days. way to two honorable elections to the men and boys, white or native tH When mon is asessei 1 a purpose strong, “By all that is lovely, Rayner, there’s silver and of gold, the latter especially, Miss Kellogg’s first appearance on And tilled with faith a thousand ways the counterpart of my picti r > you have been great favorites with those the stage took place when she was a Senate. All industrious, useful, hon were present, who, taking their 1^2 Pursued tlie life of noble song. painted. I thought it was ideal, but who admire much flexibility in a pen, child five or six years of age at a juve orable member. A diligent, conscien es in their left hands or tying them Then hearts were true and bright as dew, slip-nooses around their waists „tarM Thon hojsi through loss and death could there she is in flesh and blood, and a and the handy self-feeders, as the stylo nile concert in Birmingham. She sang tious worker on appropriation commit without delay upon the trail,’ |eav[? last, pretty sciapo she is in, I should say.” graphic, have plenty of users. But, a song entitled and ending. “Who will tees, and, with Windom, earnest in all the two sledges anil a few of the 1)(WZ Ah, these to me brave friendships be, “ Why, ” — and Robert started — “ that ’ s I love, I love the dear old past. after all, the steel pen is the most gener buy my roses red?” and as she uttered efforts for improving and cheapening dogs ill charge of the Innuit won,„ Edie.”’ the last line, at the same time hold I love the paat, and would that I Edith with her brother by her re ally used, and, unlike most inventions, ing forth the flowers, Thomas M. New transportation from the interior to the who had come along for that puIMw’ Could t rn and live w¡thin its pale, membered herself. tlie method of its manufacture has not son, then editor of the Daily Journal. seaboard. It is wonderful how the in and who would follow on the trail with That I might see its golden sky. “But Robert, 1 tore the dress so fear been essentially changed or improved. exclaimed, “I will buy them,” and fluence of early education or early the empty sledges us soon as firing ». Ami all its fair surroundings hail! heard. The «logs, many of them 41 fully, and it is such lovely lace!” My heart is there, I breathe its air, The steel from which pens are made placed a bright new silver coin in the habits ding to us in alter life. musk-ox huntA-s, mid with appetite, Ami cling to all its skill amassed. “Humph!” Davis, who, 1 have just told ¡lands of the half-frightened young Senator is the finest crucible cast steel rolled doubly shiirjs'iieil by hard work and Ah, these to me fond friendships be, They looked up to see Mr. Blanco in earlier days a brakeman, you, was I love, I love the dear old past. constantly diminishing ration, tuaJ into sheets 7-1.000 of an inch thick. singer. near them. There are some very curious laws in once gave the senate an emphatic dem- “Beg your pardon, Mr. Rayner, but Frol» this the blanks are cut by means Saxony regarding servants, girls more onstration of this oft-noted lad. Judge like mad at their seal-skin harness lines SONG OF THE JERSEY. your friend need not worry over those of a punch and die in presses worked by especially. The mistress is obliged by Thurman, being a generous snull-taker, as they half buried their noses in the torn furbelows, which happen to belong hand or foot, the operators being girls. law to allow the servant one pound of carried an immense red bandanna tumbled snow of the trail, and hurrivl With fingers tired ami stiff. The side slits in the pen, the central oval their attached human being along at a With muscles swollen and Bore, to a cousin of mine.” or semi-circular hole, the corrugations butter and one of coffee per month, handkerchief; and when he arose to flying rate that threatened a brokea A maid in stood in a gros grain silk, Mr. Blanco knew, and Robert sur speak usually, as a preliminary , grasped Viewing her Jersey o’er. or the equivalent in money. If the mised, that the desire for an introduc or embossings, tile curved or semi-cir girl furnishes her own bedding she se his nose with the red bandanna anil limb or neck at each of the rough gor Sad, sad, sad. cular form to the originally flat blank, ges and jutting precipices of the broken tion was what drew his remark. Then wi -ki’dly winking her eye cures 1 >4 cents per night for so doing. gave a blast like a trumpet. It was She cried aloud, like a lunatic mail: “How beautiful your cousin is,” said and the stamp of the |>en or the Seventy cents a month is allowed for w ell toward morning of a wearisome all- stony hill-land, where the excitingchiw I’ll put you on, or die.’’ Edith, later on in the evening, when maker, are nil formed and produced by her washing, and she receives 5 per night session, and Senator Davis was was going on. The rapidity withwhiek "Stretch, stretch, stretch, she sat tele a fete with Albert Blanco. similar means—the screw hand press cent upon all purchases she makes. asleep, his head resting upon his desk. an agile native hunter can run when With her tongue mnst bitten in two, All her reserve seemed to vanish in his or the lever foot press—by the use of She is required to give one mouth’s But I will sav for tlie senator that lie thus attached to two or three excited And stretch, stretch, stretch, punches and dies, each pen being han dogs is astonishing. Whenever a steep presence. Till her head|Catne jieeping through. notice before leaving her place. The was not often asleep in the senate. Sen valley was encountered the Esquimau “Yes,” was the reply; but she is not dled separalelv. With moansand sighs and tears, ator Edmunds had provoked Judge These corrugations ami slits ami cen law also requires that each servant keep would slide down on their feet, in a sit- With tears and sighs ami moans, half so beautiful as—” a book for recommendations, in which, Thurman to a speech, and by introduc She pawed the air, fell over a chair, His eyes dwelt for an instant on his tral cuts are not merely fanciful orna upon her leaving her place, her mistress tion, tlie judge unfurled his red ban ting posture, throwing tlie loose snov Ami tillod the room with groans. companion’s face, but the sentence re- ments, but are intended to adapt the is compelled to state the cause and the danna and blew a blast of more than to their sides like escaping steam from pen to the user. Some want a resisting a hissing locomotive, until the bottom Sick, sick, sick, innined unfinished. usual power. Mr. Davis may have been was reached, when, quick as thought, pen, very still' and allowing consider girl’s character. * She lay for a week in bed; * » » * * dreaming of his old railroad days; at Sick, sick, sick, Miss Ilubertine Auchert, the hand they would throw themselves at full It had been some months since the able pressure without opening the nibs With a pain that racked her head; any rate he sprang’to his feet in a hall- events of the ball, The friendship had wide enough to make a heavy mark; some editress of the woman’s rights dazed condition, and, catching sight of length upon the snow, mid the wild, ci- While in a cl «et dark The naughty Jersey laid quickly strengthened between .Mr. others a yielding pen that requires hut paper of Paris, La Citoyenne, had an the red flag—tlie old signal of danger— cited brutes would drag them up tlie Twas torn t > shreds, 'twas rout in twain, Blanco, Robert and his idealized sister, a touch to open the nibs. Then there unpleasant experience lately. She took and seeming to imagine that he heard a other side, where, regaining their feet, And sorry was the nudiL in fact Edith wondered if it were not are many degrees of these qualities re a trip to the seaside, and at Roche shriek of alarm from the open throttle they would run 011 at a constantly ac —[Washington < 'apital. something more than friendly regard she quired, as well as differences in sizes; fort entered the omnibus, which con of a lacomotivejcalling “Down brakes!” celerating gait, their guns in the mean felt for her friend, But had not his so that a single establishment makes no veyed her, with other tourists, to the seized his desk, and, by the brakeman’s time being held in the right hand or THE ARTIST’S STORY. cousin informed Robert that Albert was less than forty-six styles of steel pens. hotel. When she arrived and asked firm, quick twist, wrenched it from the tightly lashed upon the back. Of course, cast steel of such extreme for a room, she was informed they had “We had hardly gone a mile in this BY FLORENCE KIRK. engaged? Oh, dear! why should that tenuity becomes hardened by these no rooms for ladies who travel alone. floor. I was not present on thin occa harum-searum chase before it became irritate her? sion, and, therefore, cannot assert the Edith Rayner laid down the stocking evident that the musk-oxen were but 1 For a second time she was dreaming successive pressings and punchings, and When she asked where, then, she she was darning, and gave herself up to by a bright coal fire, one hand sup- must be annealed. This is done by should go, the “gallant” hotel man entire truth of the story from personal short distance ahead on the keen ran, knowledge. But it was often repeated the settling of the question which all the |>orting tlie sober, pensive face. Her placing the blanks or unfinished pens, remarked that was her own lookout! and the foremost hunters began loosen morning had been puzzling her brain. rever}- was broken by tlie entrance of in a cast-iron box, which is then covered The other tourists laughed and sided about the senate chamber, and I never ing their dogs to bring the oxen to biv She sat with idle hands, with an absent the object of her thoughts. She knew by a larger box, leaving a space all with the hotel man. How she got heard any of the details called in ques as soon as possible; and then, for tlie look in her deep gray eyes, trying to Albert had been for a long time in the around of half an inch or more, which other shelter is not related, but when tion.” first time, these intelligent creatures is tilled with uslie. or fine charcoal she wrote for her pa]ier she put forth contrive to think. To a rieh young lady studio with Roliert. gave tongue in deep, long baying, a, The whole is then subjected to a glow a plea for a hotel for ladies as there an invitation to a brilliant party Is— DESCRIBES HIS WIFE. they shot forward like arrows, and dis “Anil are your thoughts pleasant?” ing red heat for about two hours, and are cars for ladies. well, it is but a question of what will be appeared over the crests of the hill, “Not very,” was her reply. A few days ago the wife of a German most becoming—the richest and latest mridst a perfect bewilderment of flying “I have been asking Roliert to bring allowed to cool. When annealed these design. But to a poor one like Edith— you to my house this evening. I have blanks may be rolled up by the fingers CRACKING, STABBING AND SCULLING living in the eastern part of the city snow and fluttering harness trace,. was suddenly called to the country by a just like so many bits of tea lead, which A11! she knew just what and how it was. a painting we have been discussing.” There was an angry, dark frown on message from a sick sister, and she left The discord of shouts and howling, “I would not go,” she said to herself, the generally genial countenance of home expecting to return at night. told us plainly that some of the animal, “A painting?” she asked with some they much resemble in softness. In heating for hardening the same Uncle John Fisk, of New York, He “No, 1 would not go if it were not for curiosity. Of what? 1 should like to had been brought to bay not fardistant, method is used—packing in double glanced around suspiciously to see if lie Being delayed, and having left no word and we soon heard a rapid series of Robert; and he doos not consider that see it, if it is something nice.” for her husband, he naturally became boxes six or eight inches square — and I have nothing to wear. “Dear, dear! was observed, and then beckoned to a sharp reports from the hreech-loadm “I wish you to do so, Edith, for My garni t cashmere would look—how it the picture is beautiful, and of a lady when the pens are red hot, they are swarthy stranger, who was standing anxious and went to the police. mid magazine guns of the advanced “ How old was your wife? ” asked tlie would look beside gay silks and satins!” whom I love and hope to marry. Will poured into a tank of animal oil. When near. The stranger approached, and hunters. We white men arrived jus captain of the station. But Robert did think and consider; you come? Would you like to see taken out from this bath they must be stealthily exhibited a weapon of gleam in time to see the final struggle. The “Vhell, she vliasas oldt aH me.” handled carefully, as they are not only ing steel. It had no hilt or guard, the did wonder how he could manage to add her?” oxen presented a most formidable-look “How old are ;ou?” a little to his sister’s wardrobe for the He waited some time for tlie hesi stiff and brittle, but crumbly; they can blade being of the same piece of steel “I doan’ tink much about it for two ing appearance, with their rumps firmly occasion. 11c thought of it over and tating “yes,” and noted, not witli dis be squeezed to minute fragments be as tlie blade. wedged together, a complete circle ¿1 over again, until—well, what had he pleasure, that it was given reluctantly. tween thumb and finger. They are then “Can you stab, and stab quickly?” years, but de last time I count oop I swaying horns presented to the front, vlras 40." placed within a cone-shaped sheet-iron done? The ait:st stopped and gazed at asked Uncle John Fisk. The stranger with great blood-shot eyeballs glaring Robert thought tier less communi “How tall is she?” the canvas. A new idea entered his cative, less cheerful than was her receptacle open at the largo end and nodded assent. “Then go and get in like red-hot shot amidst the escaping “ Vhell, she puts her chin on top der mind. Slowly under the touches of the wont, when lie came in and found her mounted on a spindle, and are rotated your work,” replied Uncle John. Now, steam from their panting nostrils, jnd fence and looks oop and down the brush grew a graceful foim, with a mass alone. And he, too, seemed to smile over a glowing tire until tliev turn to a a member of the Produce Exchange ac pawing and plunging at the circle of fu full or “low” blue. They are then cidently overheard the remarks and be shtreet” of pale golden hair, a warmly tinted, over the unusual mood. rious dogs that encompassed them. The “ She ’ s about five feet, eh? ” oval face. About the symmetrical form He went to Sam Albert Blanco’s home was one of chilled in oil, and when cool are rattled came alarmed. “I oxpect she vhas from five to seven rapid blazing of magazine guns right in fell s iit Vila of girnet. It was not the wealth and luxury. Edith noticed it in saw-dust until they are quite clean Robins and related what he had heard, feet. Dot makes no deeference. If she their faces—so close, often, as to burn work of an hour, nor a day, but of all She had never before been there; and bright. The next process is the saying: their long, shaggy hair—added to the many. And now with satisfaction, the and yet Albert soon put her at her grinding of the nibs on minute wheels “If there is any stabbing done it will vhas kildt she vhas deadt alloafer.” striking scene. Woe to the over-zealoue “ What is her weight? ” of fine emery and of corundum, and painter contemplated the finished pic ease. He had a faculty for making her be traced to Uncle John, and he will be dog that was unlucky enough to get his “ Vhell, I can't hold her on my lap lastly comes the essential process that ture. Il was Edith—and true to na forget her embarrassment in strange arrested.” harness line under tlie hoofs of a charg completes the pen and makes it a pen ture. lie had painted her in an attitude places. Robins looked at him in astonishment. anymore, I pelief if she falls down oop ing and infuriated musk-ox; for they shtairs it preaks all der blaster off der she often assumed when in deep thought “Wliat are you giving me? Why, “I will show you the picture now,” —the slitting of the nibs. This is done will follow up a leash along the ground and meditation; an attitude of grace, hi' said, after they had finished looking by a pair of shears acting the same as Fisk wouldn’t stab anything except a house.” “I’ll put it down at 200. Describe with a rapidity and certainty that would the presses and punches. This splits full of suggestion to a poet's fancy. steak. He was hiring an oyster- at some drawings. Words cannot ex do credit to a tight-rope performer, and her looks.” the steel from point to central hole stabber.” “Edie shall have this for her birth press how 1 love the original.” either paw the poor creature to death ot “ Vhell, somedimes she looks like she without removing a particle of material. day,” said Roliert; “and if she does so In response to a request for informa “She ought to be very happy then,” conies from der boorhouse, and Home fling him high in the air with their well for canvas, surely she cannot look replied Edith, before she thought what The pens are then lacquered, straw or tion on thesubject, Mr. Robins said: horns.” brown, blued or blacked, or left bright, ill among the richly leathered crowd to she was saying. “There are three ways of opening times she looks like a lady mit a rieh husband. ” as the style demands, and packed for morrow night. Ah, Deven, I mu very oysters—cracking, stabbing and scull He hail taken her into an adjoining “Dark hair?” THE VERY ODD "PIONEERS ’OF DAKOTA. the market. glad to seo you 1” ing. Have you ever been in an oyster room. “Let’s see! By shimminy ! I pelief It was an artist friend who had en- saloon and stood up to the counter and “This is the painting, Edith.” A CHARACTERISTIC OF SCOTT. It is not strange that the dwellers in i —vhell, I gif it oop. tered his studio unnoticed, but not eaten raw oysters? Well, a cracker is so, but—yes— ■no Only one glance did she give to her Dakota should he somewhat different If she vhas deadt dot hair make no alone. Scott wandered as freely as Shake a man who opens oysters by laying them own counterpart and po> trait, and from common folkH. Nowhere else “Mr. Rayner,.Mr. Blanco. This gen turned to go; but a detaining band and speare to all points of the world’s com on the block and breaking olF the shell deeference.” beneath the sun was there ever gathered “Wliat colored eyes?” tleman, Roliert, is a lover of art and arm prevented. pass, in contempt of the unities of time with his knife first, after which to open “Vhell, dot troubles me some more. such a pioneer population. No hickory wishes to si'e your pictures. As I am "Is shv very happy, Edith, as you and place. He constructed human types the oyster is easy work. It is the old- shirts mid hobnailed rawhide boots; 1» in a hurry and have business down said she ought to be?” for obedience to the one unity retained fashioned style, hut is gradually falling Let’s see. Vhas a cat’s eyes pine?” “Hardly. They are black, with a log cabins mid coonskin caps; no lumber town, 1 will leave him with you a short We think she was and is. for eer- —consistency of character—as harmo into disuse for the reason that particles ing old ox-wagons, full of tow-headd time." tainly no happier home exists tlian niously as Goethe. There was only of the shell and mud are liable to fly yellow pupil.” “I doan’ know oof my vhife liadt brats, with a half dozen brindle doo llobeit willingly showed his pictures. that of Albert Blanco. And his wife, wanting to him tlie philosophical spirit, into the face of the customer or remain “And this is all?” inquired -Mr. Edith, never now is put to her wits' which, by the permanent sense of an in on the oyster when opened. Stabbing some pupil’s in her eves, but I hear der trotting along between the wheels;» coarse home-spun and hog and-hominy; Blanco, as his eyes wandered around end to get something to wear. scrutable destiny, gave to their drama an oyster is a Boston style. It it grad shildren sav she looks like a eat.” no toil-swollen hands and smell of so® “Anv peculiar marks?” the room. of human life a mon' or less somber ually being introduced all over, and “She lose one toe vlien she vhas a sweat and manure piles; no, no. 0® “All,” replied Robert, “except this,” coloring. Scott's universe was not a must supercede cracking ere long. To pioneers come in palace cars, reading T#E GREAT AMERICAN LIARS. directing his attention to the painting very mysterious affair at any time, lie stab an oyster the bivalve is held in the shild.” “No—no. Any marks on her face, the latest novel, or Longfellow s rhyth" »■till on the < a el. s'ems to have believed t int the whole hand. The knife is then run in until it The great American liars from Erie, evcle of things from age to age was catches the eye of the oyster, and then lingers missing, or any scars?” mieal twaddle about “The Land of the His guest stood regarding it for some “Let’s see. Last spring has lias a Dacotabs,” which always reminded lime, and then astonished Robert by Pa., and Texas have evidently formed superintended by a Providence as cheer the shell is dexteriously taken off. Some a partnership and established blanch ful as himself, who distributed human boil on her neck, but don’t vha» all of a two-tai led Jdog with a tin cantitd asking the price. offices in all the chief towns and cities. lots on a perfectly intelligible law of men lay the oyster on the block and cured oop. She shtrike a clothes-line to each. Their costumes tell ofjaun» “It is not for sale,” said Robert. stab them instead of holding them in “But 1 like it,” replied Mr. Blanco. They are turning out copy fast. We kindness. He never had the slightest their hands, but the principle is the mit der ax and plaek her eyes, but dot to New|>ort and Saratoga, and tlirir •‘I like it, and well. I will give von one , have only time to note the story of a difficulty about the : r.angement of s_- same.”—[N. Y. Sun. vhas all gone. 1 doan lielief she any wives and daughters are up in all tl* sparrow which catches six ducks every eiety ; its inequalities and gradations of hundred and fifty dollars for it.” marks has. You slmst tell der bolice- mysteries of Worth, Demorest and Bui- To an artist just making a name as day, taking hold of them with its bill, misery. In his view then' were those mens to look oud fur a fat womans mit terick, and familiar with the newest Axn H e D id . — “ I ’ ll tell you what, ” Roliert was, the amount was t«xi tempt shaking them as a dog does a rat, and who should rule, and those who should said a prominent stock speculator to the a green dress; oof he sees some one dot agonies in o]>era airs and dance step- ing. Mr. Blanco hud the picture sent then throwing them over its head; of a acknowledge their rule by loyalty and proprietor of an up town hotel the other is my vife. If he doan’ see her it vhill All farm work is done by machinery- home, and Robert and Edith were made young man in Alabama who for several obedii'tiee. For the one set then* was day, “there is Isjund to lie war between he some odded vhomans."—Detroit The ground is broken with sulky )>!<>*’• years, being destitute of beard, had a all the pomp and circumstance of im Free Press the sowing is done with bnggy seeded- happy by the good fortune. France and China.” ----------- *♦,------ —— the golden grain is harvested with setf- “And now, Edie,” said her brother, hard knot in his neck cut open and memorial etiquette and a pre-eminence “ Yes, it looks that wav. ” binding reapers and thrashed by steaffl- alter they had devoured the three green found a beard all rolled up and ni -elv in high deeds; for the other set there A millionaire of New York, promi “ It will la» certain to raise French fifty dollar bills with their eyes, “noir packed away in this wen; of a Bridge, was homely industry, and a willingness wines a notch.” nent in social circles, paid *11,000 to se while the engine feeds itself with str»’ you can have something new to wear.” port (Conn.) “Professor" who has in to lie useful—the industry, it might be, “ Yes." cure the release of a French prim* for fuel. Dur grangers farm in <W vented a brass belt with a nipple from of picturesque thieving, and a willing • • • » • • donna from an engagement and fled tailor-made suits, with kid gloves o’ “ And niv advice to you is to lay in a The elegant house on A------avenue which he noislesslv projects a jH'llet, ness growing out of close attachments full stock at once, and thus get the len- with her to Europe. This seems like their hands and diamonds blaaiaglf was ablaze with light. A constant and which, in the presence of a witness, which were all the mon’ delightful if etit of the advance.” «good deal of money, but if is not much their shirt-fronts, while the dljjj stream of carriages came and went, killed a dog in fifteen minutes w ithout they wen* absunl. “Thanks—I will." to pay when a man wants a whole lambric handkerchief, with which the’ the animal's knowing it was hit; and leaving liandsotuely-robed and hand prima donna to himself. Freddy is re carry on gentle flirtations with W* And half an hour later he was tele some women—aristocratic and pompoms finally, of a St. Louis man, who. by A S ocial DirricULTV ix Cute ado .— graphing to his cider-maker in New ported to have expended over *80,000 give forth the soft fragrance of ne»' men, polished and self-possessed ladies means of two plates of glass one-thirty- “Why do you not invite Mrs. Jones. Jersey to increase his order by 10 bar for the simple privilege of being laughed inown hay, with rose or jis’key and gentlemen of fashion and society. | sixth of an inch apart and filled in with Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Smith to vonr re rels.—[Wall Street News. at and talked about as the sole proprie [Correspondence of St. Louis Wo*j In the dressing-room, shrinking. and j glycerine, has made a telescope w ith ception? They are very nice ladies.” tor of the affections of one who is a Democrat. dazed, was Edith. How she wished I which he is able to see u earmine sea. “Yes, but you see my husband don't L angtry ' s A merican S lang ._ Mrs. third-rate actress. Prima donnas in their plain but rosy Grange bat-like birds, and msec, men herself hack want me to associate with them.” ' Uingtry, after telling a New York re ought to come much higher. The Lampton family have • little home! Roliert was becoming sue- "'th rudimentary arms and wings, or “Indeed, w hat have they done?’ porter what she intends playing this death five or six children, but the b»J* *------ n ho were fishing in the sea eewsfuL Ilis success though limited. I anteumc, “Why, they got divorces from him, scas.ufi wound up the interview by sav ¡tad obtained tlie invitation that had I Seeing a picture of Father Time, bald- are pretty much in the ratio and such actions, you know, are very ing: "Well, now isn't that enough so that the family is f*r y" brought them there that night. In vain ! In Washington the workingmen are insulting to a sensitive man.” about business ?J I want to tell you headed ami with a scythe, Dan Froh- deaths, living childless. A few weeks iittollWJ did Edith look among the throng for organising to protect working girls from something funnv. Do you know, I was man commenced Isjoking him for 11*00, another as plainly dressed as she. The street Insults. The idea is a good one. Bin F orm . Y ou K now .—Elder Sis- accused hv my friends at home of speak and sent his brother out to engage the was another death in the family, dark garnet dress had not been sup- Policemen are entirely useless except to ter—“Geraldine, why did you take so ing with an American accent; while here old man at any price. David Belasco the undertaker's assistant called ** 1 planted by any new one and though it arrest drunken men. and have l»een much trouble to snub that haudsotne, all the critics Name me for my English will write the play as sesm as he sees it. house’. A small boy met h.rn^*^ t was pretty and neat and intensely l»e- ' known to stare impudently at women manly young fellow we just met?” accent. If I didn’t pick up the Ameri The Frohmana beat al! other managers door. “Is your pa in?” you want to see him about?” •mning, she felt she looked in shabbi ''Ion their own account. A few hard- Geraldine—“Oh, that's Harry Hard- can intonation I certainly caught up lots booking time. to ask him when the funeral will **** ness as conspicuous as a black sheep in I fisted, laboring men might .io go.si by lines. He hasn't a cent to his name of your slang, and very good slang it is, — place.” “You needp't see him ’ a flock of white ones. She felt out of knocking out bulling dudes w ho annoy and he's got a mother to support, and too. But one uses it quite unconscious Dio Lewis has a plan bv which beauty all, if that is all you want. I c,n .'ij place entirely, and when Robert left her girl clerks and working women on the that sort of tiling isn't good form, you ly, and it strikes those nnnsed to it at may- court the sunshine anil woo von that. Pa always buries n* ** 'or a little while *h > congratulated her- streets. know, nowadays.” once.” freckles. o’clock in the afternoon." I LOVE THE PAST- I love the past, the dear old past, The day* of chivalry anil song, My eye» thereon are sweetly cast, As time in circles speeds along. It is so fair, so glorious there, That all my heait is beating fast. And these for me are friendahi;«, free, I love, I love the dear old past.