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THE LONG NAIL MAN THE BALLET DANCER don t belong to any particular season of That was my adventure. And Col. FEMALE DESPERADO. the year.” May has long since forgiven me that Why the man with the long finger As I turned away—I did not notice it unkind desertion of him. In fact—this Where They Louie From, aill| .. at the time, but it came back afterward, is quite private and confidential, mind Who Saved Three Men From Being nail was not killed by the first gun at Trained. ”w *«• Fort Sumpter, and as for that matter, Lynched. as things do come back, like a sudden —we are to be married soon, and I am he was ever born, is something we why In language I seek for improvement, Hash across the dark shield of memory going with him to Florida, to try the And strive to the beat of my power; shall not attempt to explain. Every “One, two, three, four. Then —a man who was lounging on the steps effects of a southern climate on his Broncho Lou was a well-known fron nail on every finger but one is carefully And yet 1 am saying, they tell me, did it right. Six, seven, eight.” looked hard at me. health. That is all. Isn’t it enough? tier character in the recent history of “O Jiminy!” ten times an hour. trimmed. Thia one is allowed to grow I colored a little, and thought to my “You—Miss Brown, you’re rathw I rush into rooms with my hat on; self, “Well, he will know me the next ENGLISH RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS. Colorado. A woman of perhaps 25, until it looks like the claw of a lieast. late.” I hop on one leg through the hall; We have thought that the long nail was with considerable pretensions to beauty, time he sees me,” and then forgot all -elide down the banisters madly; We hear a great deal at home about So on went the perforuizr.«-», I I roll round the fl.sir in a ball. about it; for I had mother’s black bom ' the annoyance of the compartment sys- she could yet be as fierce as a fiend in materialized laziness, Jan illustrated speck in the character of the man, but singing of the professor being extendy^ bazine to match, and Lil ’ s spring bonnet 1 speak while my elders are speaking; | tern of railway carriages, but it has its her ferocity, wr as gentle as a lamb, or this may lie a mistake, for there are to buy, and some dinner china to select, advantages. Each compartment opens interlarded with ejaculations, som»»e And, on«: thiug that greatly annoys and the doctor’s prescription for l.eeman 1 independently of the others, and so a as soft as an angel in her devotion to some people who are as indifferent to forcible, until, out of breath, the lnl|et' I I’m apt in a general fashion. To treat girls as if they wer** boys! to fill out at the druggist’s, so it was [ I train is unloaded very rapidly, There those eke liked. With her is somehow active motion as the long-nail man, but well on to seven when I turned old 1 is nothing whatever of the annoying linked the history of many of the des a love for solemn facts compels us to master descended from the hoi up® But though I'm a ls>.«r lieyond question, ailmit that the majority of them are which he had perched himself. Pomp’s head homeward in the suburbs 1 , delay that we have in getting in and out peradoes of Southern Colorado. Anil want to reform, goodness knows. paralyzed. The long-nail man has There vvnu to be nothing in manners of the town, with a feeling of elation 1 at stations. It is all done at once and “I suppose,” he remurked, “yonip In the years 1881 and 1882 cattle and many annoying characteristics. As splendid as people Hupjs.se: He which was quite pardonable, when one 1 | without confusion. As for tickets, you astonised. Well, I have been rather stock stealing was carried on to a large exhibits the claw as though it were a considers my experience in the market ’ ! do not give them up until you arrive. For sometimes they're worn, I imagine. rough, but it’s all professional." To hide what we’d rather not show ing line and my exceptionally good ; I There is, therefore, no liother of con- extent, besides numerous highway rob jewel of great price. He is proud of it They’re like a fine jacket that covers and he does not intend that you shall “Can I tell you anything aliout th. success. beries, which did not stop at murder, A shirt all in tatters below! ; tinuallv showing a check to the con- The sunshine was warm, and still on [ ductor. The names of stations are not were of almost daily occurrence. At lose sight of his greatest attraction His formation and training of a Itallet' best exhibition is shown when he enters Now this is not my case, it's certain. the high road, and I was rather glad called out, but they are very plainly Well, I suppose I ought to lie able Although I'm rude, noisy and pert; when at last we came to the cool shad marked in a dozen different spots at last one of the communities most cursed a grocery store. He cuts off a thin after being at it all my life. The firin' i lhe jacket may lie very ragged. piece of cheese, takes up a cracker, by these outlaws determined upon an ows of the Red Swamp, where the ' each place, and the guards can always But never you fear for the shirt! cipal difficulty on this side of the tt. nibbles the cheese and the cracker birds were all silent in the noon-heats, be called to from the window for infor- organized effort to “wipe them out. lantie is in getting the right inateri*; the sweetest of odors came floating up ' mation. The guards are uniformed and A I jiosse of citizens was raised, who, alternately, and fastidiously scratches The American ladies do not take to it MUSINGS. his cheek with the nail. This per from the tangled recesses of fern, and armed to the teeth, started out in quest as a profession as their English anj If life were naught but Hunshin*- on either side of the solitary, railed-in look very well, but the porters and of the desperadoes. After proceeding formance, he seems to think, will pay continental sisters do, though 1 Would love lie half ho sweet? ' : station men are more elegant yet. At for any amount of cheese, and his com road. If tilisH were all unbroken «bout six miles from town they were you they are by far the best suited fa Hereford, for instance, which is but a Would pleasure lie less fleet? All at once old Pomp gave a sidewise ’[small, quiet town, our baggage was found encamped to the number of six, mendation of the article is past any the profession in beauty, agility «aj possible remuneration. He carries a start — his ancient idea of shying — and as hard-looking ruffians as could be If sorrows fell alxive uh grace. Just look at those three yount then I saw a man, pale, dusky and taken possession of at the station by an found anywhere. No attempt at hiding little pearl-handle knife, and when the ladies. Did you ever see more grar-efa And woke no thought of fear elegant and stately gentleman, wearing If misery were a phantom winds of business have been blowing tired-looking, sitting on a fallen log; I had been made and the citizens rode in forms?” Would true joy lie as dear? was like mother—who would never let a stove pipe hat and a suit of dark blue the center of the camp with pistols his way, he scrapes the nail like a fox “Where do you recruit your cor« ' made up in a long coat fashion. It the shabbiest or meanest-looking vaga Were friends ne'er falsely proven, drawn and demanded the surrender of hunter does his horn, ami carefully from?” asked the reporter. Were hearts ne'er rent in twain. bond go past our house without a draught seemed like a favor for him to consent the outlaws. This request was an picks the little shavings from his waist •■From all classes. High and lo«l Would life be worth the living, i of milk, or a piece of fresh-baked pie, to accept a sixpence. But they all do swered by a volley, in which one of the coat. He is full of information, ami rich and poor present themselves, wish If onoe bereft of pain? Some excellent American, ! always begins a narration by giving the or a slice of her famous home-made consent. leaders of the citizens fell mortally ing to get on the ballet. Some at. Hawthorne I think, remarked that his t [date. “In forty-eight,” he begins, ami Ah, well, what matter? life's but a garb bread-cake—and without stopping to ' only regret in thinking over his ex wounded. Then followed a short but he generally closes somewhere in the ladies of wealthy families, with a That shields the great unknown, think, I drew in old Pomp’s rein. decisive battle, which resulted in the And we must weary of its wearing He theatrical craze. Others are disgusid < “Are you going toward Lennox Gross perience in England lay in the fact that death of two of the offenders, and the [neighborhood of “fifty-four.” Kre we kneel beside the throne. with working for wages that will oulr Roads?” said I. “Yes? Then jump he hadn't offered the high chancellor a capture, although badly wounded, of J dresses well, but how he manages to At every railway station, pay for his clothes or whether he ever keep body and soul together. While. I in ; I'm going in that direction, too, and shilling. 1 KATE'S ADVENTURE. suppose you wish to stop ever, there is three others, the sixth man somehow I does, no one seems in authority tostate. •f course, we have a few who are to I’ll give you a lift.” having made bis escape. The fight oc the manner born, ” and would not be a “ baggage ” room where, for four cents 1 am Kate. Of course I can tell my When he visits an editorial room he He thanked me in a silent, drooping i own adventures a groat deal better than sort of way, and seated himself on the (tuppence), they take care of your bag curred on the site of an abandoned rail [ wants a few old exchanges, and when happy unless before the fuot-lights." any one can tell them for me. That board at the back of the wagon, toward gage. Every station, too, has a capital road camp, and was known as the bat the editor, deep in business, tells him “Well, will you give some points in stands to nature. I’m not a practical which I pointed with the handle of my book-stall. It is not merely like ours, a tle of the grade. The three wounded I to help himself, he helps himself. He relation to the training of a lady for the | writer, und I don’t know how to produce whip. newstand, but it has good literature, and prisoners were taken to town and put takes the best ; not that he really knows ballet?” what the fashionable authors call “grand a plenty of it. Then, too, each im under a heavy guard, as threats of which are the most valuable, but because “It's hard work, let me tell you, fa “You look ill,” said I. portant station has its restaurant. Every lynching were freely made. So indig [ a devilish fate seems to guide his en all concerned. Come with rneandn pen-effects,” but I believe I can make “I am not ill,” he said, with a sinoth- i nant were the people, however, that the you understand how it was, and that is 1 ered cough. “Only tired with my long .restaurant is a rum-shop! There is When invited, he always show you.” wounded men|would havejdied for want terprise. all that is necessary. every facility for a good meal, but be The professor led the way into aa takes an expensive drink, ami if he can walk. I didn’t know it was so far to | I sides that, certainly on some roads, the of attention had it not been for Broncho get hold of a cracker and a piece of apartment down either sides of which Unman had sprained his ankle— ■ Lennox.” Lou. Without her these men would I opportunities for getting drunk surpass that's my brother—and he could not go 1 “I suppose you are going for work?” I cheese at the lunch counter, he scratches ran hand-rails, with the floor sloping have been left to their well-deserved i to town with the load of russet apples 1 said I. “Deacon ~ i his cheek with the long nail. He will toward one end like a stage, iurnished Brierley han a good | anything we know in America. Pocket that was already piled into barrels, and many hands just now in his tobacco | bottles, thin but copious, are spread out fate. She, however, assumed their drink with you all day, and after you at intervals under the bars with little t Stood waiting under the big red shed. on the counters for sale, containing rum, whole care, and devoting herself to are laid out, bless your che iquered life; holders or cleats. factory.” < them with a humanity and tenderness [ brandy, whisky, gin, »berry or port, etc., “It’s too bad!” said he. “Those russet ■•Those, ” said the professor, |s>inting “No,” said he; “I am not going to | he is as fresh as the mint that nods in and boys go from car to car offering these worthy of better objects,, they all re- the spring branch. Boys grow up to to the cleats, "are used by the ladiw apples are worth a deal at this time of work.” covered and were placed in what was j year_ and we shall miss the market I asked no more questions. I did not for sale. There is nothing done on the supposed to be more secure quarters to manhood, men wither into o’.d age, hut for putting their toes against for side day!” sly ; and at the lunch counter there is like the idea of a man’s shrouding him he remains the same. His claw has practice, or, as we call it, ‘turningout,' “Can't you ask neighlior Hutton to self in mystery in that sort of way; and 1 often a regular bar, always presided await their trial. One morning their I : many a time closed around the silver which means that the ballet-master or■ I jail door was found open and the bints j take them?” said my mother. as I glanced around once more a sudden over by a neat and tidy girl, who sells I handle, of the coffin, but when the mistress has to take every lady by theM i “Neighbor Hutton is a deal too sharp revelation came across -me like a blaze the strongest liquors with the mildest flown, with the aid, as was afterward death-grip is relinquished, he is again leg and turn each joint into a graceful a practitioner for me,” said Leeman. of light. It was tl-.e same man who expression of countenance. Apparently ascertained, of Broncho Lou, who had ready to eat cheese and scratch his position. Now this is a matter require “It’s a hard thing to say about a neigh had eyed me so keenly on the steps of nobody is ashamed to drink. They all furnished them with tools to escape and cheek with the long nail. No one knows ing great skill on their part, for manyii also horses, which she obtained from bor, but I can’t trust his honesty.” do it openly and make no secret of it. attempting it have ruined the girl fa the Park Hotel. ____________________ ________ _____ some of their friends. Simultaneously his father. No one has ever seen his “Mr. Hall?” Then I remembered my mother’s In London, indeed, so much of it is done with their escape Lou disappeared, and mother. He came to the country, he life by twisting the joint the wrong way. “Hall would he casting it up in my words of caution, Leeman’s reiterated that they sell champagne by the glass— “After this a lady is taught to Mini«I thinks, in thirty-nine, but jieople who face for the next six months that I had exhortations, the landlord’s friendly , a liquor which is supposed to spoil by it was rightly supposed that she had ■ batmans,’ which means hringint the lived in the neighborhood previous to* fled with them. asked a favor of him,” said Leeman. words of warning. opening. “Champagne, one sixpence” A hue and cry was again raised, stim that time knew him. He may die, but limbs alternately to the front, side ani^ ♦ “No, I'd rather lose the apples than And, in spite of it all, I had deliber [is a common sighn there. Great attention ulated by the offer of a heavy reward by the chances are against such a fortunate back in graceful motion,returning tothe^ i is given to the English railway stations. lose my independence. But it’s too ately thrust my silly head into the jaws original position without moving, and provoking that I must needs have of danger. There was only one thing ; At Shrewsbury, for example, a city of the town authorities, and it was not event, for when the silver trumpet shall in the swiftest possible manner. Th» blow eternity ’ s awful blast, he will long before the trail of the fugitives was slipfs'd on that piece of orange |ieel, remaining for me to do—to get out of half the size of our Hartford, or say is followed by Jan exercise which w 25,000 inhabitants, the station cost discovered, marked as it was by a num . doubtle s lie nibbling cheese and scrateh- call ‘ruchosson," or giving the foot and now of all time»in the world. I have the scrape as well as I could. [ ing his cheek with the long-nail. ber of fresh outrages. Not a ranch or been saving up> these apples alt the ankle a spiral motion. This, I mu» I cast about in my mind how to do $500,000. Along the route a grade ----------------------------------- winter with a special eye to this partic this, and presently, with beating heart, crossing is scarcely ever seen ; when it small settlement near which they had tell you, is very hard work, and rr| passed but had suffered at their hands, HOW THE BATTLE HYMN WAS WRITTEN. ular market day.” quires a great deal of patience and perej I dropped a little paper parcel of blue is, the gate is kept shut, except when and the pursuing party constantly re someone wants to cross the track. Its '‘Leeman,” said I, “I'll go.” ribbon into the road. ceived large accessions until it formed “It was in the first year of the war,” I severance if the postulant wishes to W “Nonsense!” said Leeman. normal condition is to be closed. Tun come a premiere danseuse. “Oh,” I cried, checking up Pomp, “But why not?” said 1. “Old Pomp “I’ve dropped my parcel! Would — nels ami bridges are frequent. Over quite a respectable company. Riding writes Miss Maud Howe, in her biography "The next two steps are the ‘I’asf night and day for several days, they of her mother, Julia Ward Howe, “ that these in many places ivies are growing, is aS gentle as a kitten, and I know would you mind getting out after it?” Bas' and ‘Glissa.’ After sever finally came upon fresh tracks made by Dr. and Mrs. Howe, Gov. and Mrs. ovorv inch of the way perfectly.” months’ practice of this sort she “Not in the least,” said the stranger; and other climbing vines; and a* many “But there are the Red Swamp Woods and he climbed laboriously out of the stations the cultivation of flowers stimu their game. Profiting, however, by Andrew and Mr. and Mrs. Eiwin Whip placed in the back row of the lialle past experience, the approach was made ple made their memorable journey to lated by prizes offered by the companies, __that desolate stretch of three miles, wagon. cautiously and soon the scouts reported Washington.” The visit was full of whence she gradually works herself I with never a house on either side of the He had scarcely set his feet oil the has been carried to an art. Crossing that the objects of their search were in deep interest, ami every moment brought i the front. < >f course a great deal depend way, except the deserted cabin where ground liefore I laid the whip on old the tracks atstations is not feasible, and on the lady herself. the old nogro hanged himself twenty Pomp with a will, and rattled away over walking on the tracks through the a deserted cabin standing in a dense with it some new experience of the ter “I am »peaking now of what we ft grove of aspen trees. Cautiously sur rors of war which shook the seat of country is forbidend. Look from the ear years ago,” argued my mother. legitimate ballet. The so-callfed dancig the long, straight road at a pace that rounding the cabin and covering every government. One afternoon the whole “Who cares for the Red Swamp seemed |sisitively marvelous to me and window half a day and you will see no of the Majiltons, Gerards, Cobblers» one on the track except an occasional point with their revolvers and Winches party drops out to the camps outside of Lorellas, is nothing more than oldscha Woods?” said 1. valiantly. “I never Pomp both. ters, the inmales were ordered to come Washington to visit Col. William Green. was afraid of frogs and whip-poor-wills, So we left our passenger behind, in railway employe. The whistle scarcely practice.” «nd I’m not going to liegin now. Lil, the middle of the Red Swamp. I could ever blows except at stations. The out and hold up their hands, which During the visit, their host turned to "Whom do you remember as la will you go out and help me harness, see him standing there, blank and as guard notifies the engineer that all is they quicklydid, and were soon mount Mrs. Howe and said: “Madam, you leading ballet-masters and mistresses« ed on extra horses and securely bound, must say something to my soldiers.” «arly in the morning, and—” ready bv blowing a Hhrill little whistle tounded, the sole figure in the long . with the exception of Lou, who was al To a woman who had never made a your time?” “Oh, I wish I was going too! Can’t perspective, as I ventured to look back, which he carries in his pocket. “M aflame Louise was undoubted lowed the freedom of her hands and speech in her life, this request,, almost I go, Kate?” cried Lil, my hoyden but I only whipped Pomp the harder; feet. Aftei a short consultation it was like a command, was, indeed, startling. the greatest ballet-mistress in EnglaM CARLYLE’S OLD HOUSE- younger sister, with her blue eyes glit and never let him ’bate his pace until decided to settle the desperadoes' fate Three times she ran away and hid her John Milan», John Cormack, formal« tering with delight at the idea of any we were well out of the Red Swamp. A correspondent of a Glasgow paper p- then and there. An open place was self, but the Colonel found her each vears ballet-master at Drury I.ane, thing unusual. “I’ve out-generaled him,” said I to | has lieen to Chelsea, and finding Car sought and preparations made for time, ami persisted that she should was remarkable for the size of his** “Htutf!” cried I. imperiously. “Of myself, “and I’ve saved Leeman’s lyle’s old house “standing empty, very ami M. Espinoza, a man of very an» eourse you can't, llasn t Pompa heavy twenty-four dollars. I’m sorry aliout [ dismal Booking, rather delapidated, lynching them, Just as a rope was be- speak to the soldiers. Finally, she stature, but who possessed a nose»M load enough, without your ninety the blue ribbon ; but it was only a yard ticketed to be let or to be sold,” breaks ing adjusted arosnd their necks, Lou, yielded to his solicitations, ami made a completely oversbaflowed his face, to pounds of mischief loaded on? Beside, and a quarter, after all, and 1 can trim out into the following exclamation: with a sudden move, took from a place short address to the company of men. was a magnificent dancer.” I of concealment in her dress a keen days after this, Mrs. Howe ami you must stay at home and take care Lil’s hat with something else.” “Will Scotchmen allow this to con knife, and liefore the astonished gather 1 Some “Some of the ballet have her friend» were present at a review of ul mother and Leeinan, and finish the They were delighted at my prowess tinue—will they allow to go to wreck fortunate matches, have they not, . chill** curtain for the big west chamber; when I related my adventure at home. and ruin this house, in which for seven ing could recover from their surprise troops, which was interrupted by a “Oh, yes. Some of the nobility the three men and woman were gallop movement on the part of the enemy. for Col. Hay may come home at any Leeman declared I was a capital little and forty years he lived?” The nun- England can trace their origin bar ing off into the timber at a rapid rate. Reinforcements were sent to a party of time now.” market-woman; mother shuddered at | ifest answer to this is that Scotchmen the foot-lights. You remember Cbt. Hay was our city boarder—a gen- the idea of the desperate tramp alone will most likely do just that thing. They were never caught so far as known Union soldiers in the neighborhood, case of the Duke of Edinburgh fal ■eman who had been recommended by with me in the tangled wilderness of the I Carlyle's house in Great Cheyne Row. although their course being south, there who had been surprised and surrounded. in love with a dancer in the AIM« his physician to try the fresh, pine- Red Swamp; Lil declared that 1 was a | in which “he lived for seven and forty is no doubt but that they formed a con The review was abandoned for the flay, called ‘Lardy Wilson?’ ” siderable accession to the already crim *x*ntcd breezes of the Shawaugeenta 1 heroine. years,” was never a house for anybody. inal population of New Mexico. Broncho Ami the troops marched back to their “The American school has cantonments. The carriage in which Mountains, and whom our rector had 1 “Wasn’t it a good idea for Kate to Thomas worked hard there and scolded Lou was never after heard from. Cer Mrs. Howe rode, moved slowly, sur develop«*«! any prominent danseuaes «woi.i-.i ndeil to the Icy Spring Farm. drop the blue ribbon, and send him harder. Jane used to leave the wedges "Yes, a few. Mme. Flindt • tainly she was one of the queerest spec We were not rich, although mother after it ?” said she. out of the windows, the windows rattled imens of womankind that ever graced rounded by what seemed a river of armed [ American, though she finished o» men. To beguile the time, she began I aad Leeinan had managed the farm and Thomas scolded harder still. Jane “Kate was a goose ever to let him get economically and well since father s into the wagon.” said l.eeman. knitting scolded back and wrote mean letters or disgraced a community. An expert to sing the John Brown song, on hearing other side. She is, von know, a e horsewoman, she always rode as a man; premiere for the Kiralfj'S. . dealli, and the weekly addition to our his btow. about Thomas to her friends. Carlyle's an excellent shot, she was credited with which the soldiers shouted: "Good for the w co “Whom do you u consider you. ” Mrs. Howe now spoke to her itavHiie would lie something worth eon- “Kate musn't go by herself such a immortal genius is something superior the death of two husbands in this man friends in the carriage of the desire successful danqjrs icers of of the the present day ■dei ing. to houses and wives. The old house has | ner: an experienced gambler, she was long distance again,” said mother. “The Frene , by _ all ] mean»: • which she had felt to write some woriis The idea of a city lioarder was very 1 drank my cup of tea and rested my few, if any, pleasant associations, and it I But I believe, n plea-ant, too, and icy Spring Farm was self, and went out afterward to see the might as well go under the hammer or well known as a dealer in stud poker, of her own which might be sung to this come the Italians, American fed’' who always drew largely and made big said before ,|t he [ stirring tune, saying also that she was ■ very lovely spot, although we seldom new brood of darling little yellow chicks i l»e taken by the people who will live in winnings for her employer. With her leail the van in a few years.j" »Mowed ourselves to think of that. which Old S|>eekle had brought off the it almost as happily as Carlyle himself. associations and employments there can afraid she should never be able to «io it. York Journal. No, after a little, I coaxed my mother nest during my absence. ! And as for turning it into a Carlyle Club, he no doubts that her end will lie a vio Her wish was soon fulfilled. She lay flown that night full of thoughts of battle, d l.eeman to consent, and the next 1 was on my knees in the hen-house, as lias been suggested, why the club STRAY WAIFS wning Lil and I were up long liefore feeding them with scalded meal from itself would die of the "blues."—[Phil lent one.—[Denver Rocky Mountain ami awoke liefore dab’ll the next morn News. ing to fin«! the desire«! verses imme daybreak, harnessing old Pomp, and the palm of my hand, when I heard adelphia Times. The crop of cigarette» is estimated diately present to her mind. She sprung Hutting ready for the day's journey mother calling me from the house. eight hundred millions. “Law sakes alive! Is that the way Hy the time the red, level light of the H kbe W ill W k D kaw tiis L ink .— ! you make soda warter?” said a green from her bed, and in the dim gray A highly-educated Maine girl hasj* “Kate' Kate! come up at once! Col. light found a pen and pa|ier, whereon rising sun touched old Pomp s gray Hay has arrived.” “A Nebraska widow with twenty-one 1 country girl to the clerk in Fuller’s drug finished shingling her father's o®1* she wrote, I scarcely seeing them, the Biaii'* with radiance. 1 was driving children is advertising fora husband." | store in Newman, the other dav, as lie “Col. Hay?” An Indianapolis woman wltoweifl lines of the poem. ■trough the Red Swamp, where the . . Returning to her I started up. looking with blank dis There is great virtue in printers' ink ; | gave her her first drink of soda water. couch, she t was — 7 presently —« asleep, but No. 1 shoe claims to have had ciT ■upI- trees, from which it took its may at my calico dress and the meal l it has brought fortunes to men ami “Yes. ma'am,” said the polite clerk, ‘ 1 said to herself: . .j ‘I offers of marriage on account of her •»me. were all aglow with crimson stains on my hands. women; but we don’t believe a double as he washed the glass; “that’s the not until she hail like this better than anything I have Rest men and ushers heretofa* blossoms, and the thrushes and robins < xiimn advertisement, inserted next to However, there was nothing io- it wav we do it." ever written.’ Ami so the Battle Hymn sented with scarf-pins by the I* nailed to one another with Hute-like but to obey the summons; so I went up resiling matter every day for six months “Waal. I never!” she exclaimed in „ ._ now (t)u,v might to ■otes to the house. A sort of blur seemed to would bring a husband to a widow with astonishment, as she tasted it. “You of the Republic was born. It was the grooms, now think they oug" . Jill children—unless the latter don't make it like I thought you ded,” one thing of Mrs. Howe's that will be gold watches, dress suits, an«® Well, I managed splendidly. I knew enme before my eyes, as I entered the twenty-one 1 handed down to posterity: kept in the background, or under she continued, blushing. Prayer books bound in whit* ” «hero I was going to when I started. sitting-room, and heard mother saying: are 1 ‘My ey«x* have neen the glory of the conn ng anil gold, costing $25, are shown* ground, or somewhere. We dislike to I Bold the six barrel» of russets to the "Col. Hay. this is my eldest daughter, |1 “How did you think it was done?” of the Lord; ■MH who kept the Park Hotel for four Kate.” |_ go back on advertising, but the line “Why, I—I—thought you took hold He is trampling .nit the vineyard where the kind made for brides to hold to1 dollars »piece, and that was more than Aiid then the blur cleared away, anti ,nu*^ be drawn somewhere. hands at the nuptial ceremony. grapes of wrath are stored.'* etc. of a silver thingumbob and kinder tzvoinn himself anticipated. I knew the man I had twice before Quite a controversy has been pf'v pumped it out. but veu don't. You “It may not be the bent thing she han A wicked young man says that he «•Re careful you don't get robbed, seen that day—the pale, tired traveler never will, upon any consideration just took hold of that there do-good and written, from a literary standpoint, but bv the Rev. Thomas K. Bre«-h*r* ■aw," »aid the man. ate he watched me whom I had so recklessly abandoned in whatever, really believe that a pretty just milked it out jest like I milk old it is the most notable and the most fense of suicide in certain ezsr**’ put the bills into my little leather the middle of the Red .Swamp. act of supreme consideratenew »f” girl knows what a kiss means till he has [ Cherry, only you put in some strippin’s stirring." porteuMMtnaie. “I—I beg your pardon, Col. Hay," it from her own mouth. first. It's awful good truck though—if erowity.” ««Robbed!'* said I, with a laugh, I cried out impulsively. “I thought The greatest of all the world's fashion it hadn't so much belch in it!” Does her hand-writing '!***' who should rob me .’ vou were a thief!” able dressmakers is bald. Ladies will ------ -♦«------------ Now is the time when the seaside acter? ” he was waked, know!" said the land- The burst of laughter that followed landlord wonders if a profit of six hun Mr. |Frederi> k Gebhardt (Mrs. Nil be pleased to learn that such is the ef yes, of course." the other »»•' —xa^tmmp« from every inmate of the room effectu- dred . per cent, will pay him for leasing son's brother) drives a dog-cart and roan fect caused by brain work in their be “but I’m blessed if I can mak* half ally scatter«*«! all embarrassment. in the absence of Mrs. Langtry. the ol.ijranch for another season. what the characters mean." I’m often quite sorry about it, Aud feel that it’s terribly sail, But though I live long tieyond manhood, Aly manners, I’m sure, will be bail.