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THE LONG NAIL MAN. THE BALLET DANCERS. That was my adventure. And Col. don’t belong to any particular season of FEMALE DESPERALM). Hay has long since forgiven me that the year.” Whv the man with the long finger Where They Come From, and l|ow I’m often quite sorry about it, And fuel that it’s terribly sad, As I turned away—I did not notice it unkind desertion of him. In fact—this nail was not killed by the first gun at Who Saved Three Men From Being Trained. Butthough I live long beyond manhood. at the time, but it came back afterward, is quite private and confidential, mind i Fort Sumpter, and as for that matter, Lynched. My manners, I’m sure, will be bad. as things do come back, like a sudden —we are to be married soon, and I am I why he was ever born, is sometlung we In language I seek for improvement. flash across the dark shield of memory going with him to Florida, to try the "One, two, three, four. Then you : shall not attempt to explain, ^yeiry And strive to the host of my laiwer; Broncho Lou was a well-known fron —a man who was lounging on the steps [ effects of a southern climate on his i nail on every finger but one is carefully did it right. Six, seven, eight.” Ami yet I am saying, they tell me, health. That is all. Isn't it enough? tier character in the recent history of | , trimmed. This one is allowed to grow looked hard at me. ‘‘O Jimmy!” ten times an hour. “You—Miss Brown, you’re rather I colored a little, and thought to my Colorado. A woman of perhaps 25, until it looks like the claw of a beast. late.” I rush into rooms with my hat on: self, “Well, he will know me the next ENGLISH RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS. We have thought that the long nail was 1 hop on one leg through the hall; time he sees me,” and then forgot all | We hear a great deal at home about with considerable pretensions to beauty, materialized laziness, Jan illustrate* So on went the performance, 1’slile down the banisters madly; 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 speck in the character of the man, but singing of the professor lieing extensivelv I roil round the floor in a ball. bazine to match, and Lil's spring bonnet | tem uj „ of Iall railway carriages, but it has its her ferocity, ar as gentle as a lamb, or this may be a mistake, for there are interlarded with ejaculations, some very 1 siiaak while my elders are speaking; to buy, and some dinner china to select, I advantages Each compartment otiens as soft as an angel in her devotion to some people who are as indifferent to And, one thing that greatly annoys— forcible, until, out of breath, the ballet- and the doctor's prescription for 1-eeman ’ independently ■ I’m apt in a ^uieral fashion, of the others, and so a those she liked. With her is somehow active motion as the long-nail man, but master descended from the box upon To treat, girls us if they were boys! to All out at the druggist's, so it was train is unloaded very rapidly, There a love for solemn facts com ¡»els us to well on to seven when I turned old ■ is nothing whatever of the annoying linked the history of many of the des admit that the majority of them are which he had perched himself. But thougii I’m a lx».ir beyond question. And want to reform, goodness knows, i Pomp’s head homeward in the suburbs delay that we have in getting in and out peradoes of Southern Colorado. paralyzed. The long-nail man has "I suppose,” lie remarked, "youare of the town, with a feeling of elation at stations. It is all done at once and There seems to lie nothing in manners In the years 1881 and 1882 cattle and , 1 many annoying characteristics. He As splendid as |>eople suppose: which was quite pardonable, when one ! without confusion. As for tickets, you stock stealing was carried on to a large | exhibits the claw as though it were a astonised. Well, I have lieen rather rough, but it’s all professional.” considers my experience in the market i do not give them up until you arrive. For sometimes they’re worn, 1 imagine, extent, besides numerous highway rob | jewel of great price. He is proud of it ing line and my exceptionally good j — To hide what we'd rather not show "Can I tell you anything about the and he does not intend that you shall There is, therefore, no bother of con- They’re like a fine jacket that covers success. -“ „„“ showing a check to the con- beries, which did not stop at murder, lose sight of bis greatest attraction llis formation anil training of a ballet? j tinuallv A shirt all in tatters Is-low! The sunshine was warm, and still on . The names of stations are not were of almost daily occurrence. At best exhibition is shown when he enters the high road, and I was rather glad i i called ■ out, but they are very plainly last one of the communities most cursed a grocery store. He cuts otl a thin Well, I suppose I ought to lie able, tlie Now this is not my case, it’s certain. after lieing at it all my life. The prin Although I'm rude, noisy and pert; when at last we came to the cool shad I marked in a dozen different s|>ots at by these outlaws determined upon an piece of cheese, takes up a cracker, cipal difficulty on this side of the At The jacket may be very ragged, ows of the Red Swamp, where the each place, ami tl.e guards can always nibbles the cheese and the cracker But never you fear for the shirt! birds were all silent in the noon-heats, be called to from the window for infor organized effort to “wipe them out.” alternately, and fastidiously scratches lantic is in getting the right material. The American ladies do not take to it A | posse of citizens was raised, who, the sweetest of odors came floating up MUSINGS. mation. The guards are uniformed and his cheek with the nail. This per from the tangled recesses of fern, and ’ look very well, but the porters and armed to the teeth, started out in quest formance, he seems to think; will pay as a profession as their English and If life were naught but sunshine on either side of the solitary, railed-in station men are more elegant yet. At of the desperadoes. After proceeding for anv amount of cheese, gnd his com continental sisters do, though 1 assure Would love l>e half so sweet? you they are by far the best suited for «bout six miles from town they were road. If bliss were all unbroken Hereford, for instance, which is but a mendation of the article is past any All at once old Pomp gave a sidewise small, quiet town, our baggage was found encamped to the number of six, possible remuneration. He carries a the profession in beauty, agility and Would pleasure lie less fleet? start—his ancient idea of shying—and taken possession of at the station by an as hard-looking ruffians as could be little pearl-handle knife, and when the grace. Just look at those three young If sorrows fell above us then I saw a man, pale, dusky and elegant and stately gentleman, wearing found anywhere. No attempt at hiding winds of business have been blowing ladies. Did you ever see more graceful And woke no thought of fear tired-looking, sitting on a fallen log; I a stove pipe hat and a suit of dark blue had been made and the citizens rode in I his way, he scrapes the nail like a fox forms?” If misery were a phantom the center of the camp with pistols "Where do you recruit your corps Would true joy be as dear? was like mother—who would never let made up in a long coat fashion. It hunter' does his horn, and carefully the shabbiest or meanest-looking vaga seemed like a favor for him to consent drawn and demanded the surrender of picks the little shavings from his waist from?” asked the reporter. Were friends ne’er falsely proven, "From all classes. High and low, bond go past our house without a draught to accept a sixpence, But they all do the outlaws. This request was an coat. He is full of information, and Were hearts ne’er rent in twain, swered by a volley, in which one of the rich and poor present themselves, wish Would life be worth the living, of milk, or a piece of fresh-baked pie, consent. Some excellent American, always begins a narration by giving the If once bereft of pain? or a slice of her famous home-made | Hawthorne I think, remarked that his leaders of the citizens fell mortally date. “In forty-eight,” he begins, and ing to get on the ballet. Some are bread-cake—and without stopping to i 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 Ah, well, what matter? life's but a garb decisive battle, which resulted in the That shields the great unknown, theatrical craze. Others are disgusted think, I drew in old Pomp’s rein. I perience in England lay in the fact that death of two of the offenders, and the neighborhood of "fifty-four.” He with working for wages that will only And we must weary of its wearing “ Are you going toward Lennox Cross j he hadn’t offered the high chancellor a capture, although badly wounded, of dresses well, but liow he manages to keep Ixxly and soul together. While, Bre we kneel beside the throne. Roads?” said I. "Yes? Then jump I shilling. At every railway station, pay for his clothes or whether he ever in; I'm going in that direction, too, and I suppose you wish to stop over, there is three others, the sixth man somehow- does, no one seems in authority to state. •f course, we have a few who are to KATES ADVENTURE. having made his escape. The fight oc the manner born,” and would not be I'll give you a lift.” a “baggage” room where, for four cents When he visits an editorial room be I am Kate. Of course I can tell my He thanked me in a silent, drooping ’ (tuppence), they take care of your bag- curred on the site of an abandoned rail wants a few old exchanges, anil when happy unless before the foot-lights.” own adventures a great deal better than sort of way, and seated himself on the , road camp, and was known as the bat “WeU, will you give some points in any one can tell them for me. That board at the back of the wagon, toward e ! I ......... Every station, too, has a capital tle of the grade. The three wounded the editor, deep in business, tells him relation to the training of a lady for the 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 prisoners were taken to tow n and put to help himself, he helps himself. He ballet?” newstand, but it has good literature, and under a heavy guard, as threats of takes the best; not that he really knows writer, and I don’t know how to produce whip. "It’s hard work, let me tell you, for I a plenty of it. Then, too, each im- lynching were freely made. So indig which are the most valuable, but because what the fashionable authors call "grand all concerned. Come with me and I’ll "You look ill,” said I. 1 portant station has its restaurant. Every a devilish fate seems to guide his en pen-effects,” but I believe I can make nant were the people, however, that the show you.” “I am not ill,” he said, with a smoth When invited, be always you understand how it was, and that is ered cough. “Only tired with mv long j restaurant is a rum-shop! There is wounded menjwould have’died for want terprise. The professor led the way into an | every facility for a good meal, but be- takes an expensive drink, and if he can all that is necessary. apartment down either sides of which walk. I didn’t know it was so far to . sides that, certainly on some roads, the of attention had it not been for Broncho Leeman had sprained his ankle— I.ennox.” Lou. Without her these men would get hold of a cracker and a piece of ran hand-rails, with the floor sloping I opportunities for getting drunk surpass that’s my brother—anil he could not go “I suppose you are going for work?” ' anything we know in America. Pocket have been left to their well-deserved cheese at the lunch counter, he scratches toward one end like a stage, furnished to town with the load of russet apples said I. “Deacon Brierley has a good fate. She, however, assumed their his cheek with the long nail. He will at intervals under the bars with little that was already piled into barrels, and many hands just now in his tobacco bottles, thin but copious, are spread out whole care, and devoting herself to drink with you all day, and after you holders or cleats. on the counters forsale, containing rum, them with a humanity and tenderness are laid out, bless your die quered life; stood waiting under the big red shed. factory.” “Those,” said the professor, pointing I brandy, whisky, gin, sherry or port, etc., "It's too bad 1” said he. “Those russet “No,” said he; “I am not going to and boys go from ear to car offering these worthy of better objects, they all re i he is as fresh as the mint that nods in to the cleats, “are used by the ladies i the spring branch. Boys grow up to appleH are worth a ileal at this time of work.” covered and were placed in what was for putting their toes against for side for sale. There is nothing done on the year—and we shall miss the market I asked no more questions. I did not j sly ; and at the lunch counter there is supposed to be more secure quarters to manhood, men wither into old age, Imt practice, or, as we call it, ‘turning out,' day 1” await their trial. One morning their | he remains the same. His claw has which means that the ballet-master or like the idea of a man’s shrouding him "Can’t you usk neighbor llutton to self in mystery in that sort of way; and j often a regular bar, always presided jail door was found open and the birds many a time closed around the silver mistress has to take every lady by the over by a neat and tidy girl, who sells take them?” said my mother. flown, with the aid, as was afterward I handle of the coffin, but when the leg and turn each joint into a graceful as I glanced around once more a sudden “Neighbor llutton is a deal too sharp revelation came across me like a blaze the strongest liquors with the mildest ascertained, of Broncho Lou, who had death-grip is relinquished, he is again position. Now this is a matter requir a practitioner for me,” said Leeman. of light. It was the same man who expression of countenance. Apparently furnished them with tools to escape and ready to eat cheese and scratch his ing great skill on their part, for manyin "It’s a hard thing to say about a neigh had eyed me so keenly on the steps of nobody is ashamed ‘o drink. They all also horses, which she obtained from cheek with the long nail. No one knows attempting it have ruined the girl for do it openly and make no secret of it. some of their friends. Simultaneously his father. No one has ever seen his bor, but I can’t trust his honesty.” the Park Hotel. life by twisting the joint the wrong way. In London, indeed, so much of it is done “Mr. Hall?” Then I remembered my mother’s i u\Yt7h7y senchmnpagi'.e'bv Um ¿¡asZ- with their escape Lou disappeared, and mother. He came to the country, he “After this a lady is taught to throw “Hall would be casting it up in my words of caution, Leeman’s reiterated it was rightly supposed that she hail thinks, in thirty-nine, but people who ‘batmans,’ which means bringing the lived in the neighborhood previous to face for the next six months that 1 had exhortations, the landlord’s friendly | a liquor which is supposed to spoil by fled with them. limbs alternately to the front, side mid | opening. "Champagne, one sixpence” asked a favor of him,” said Leeman. words of warning. A hue and cry was again raised, stim that time knew him. He may die, but ' 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 "No, I’d rather lose the apples than And, in spite of it all, 1 had deliber original position without moving, and lose my independence. Hut it’s too ately thrust my silly head into the jaws I is given to the English railway stations. the town authorities, and it was not event, for when the silver trumpet shall in the swiftest possible manner. This At Shrewsbury, for example, a city of blow eternity ’ s awful blast, he will provoking that 1 must needs have of danger. There was only one thing long before the trail of the fugitives was is followed by Jan exercise which we slipped on that piece of orange peel, remaining for me to do—to get out of half the size of our Hartford, or say discovered, marked as it was by a num doubtless be nibbling cheese and scratch call ‘ruehosson/or giving the foot and 25,000 inhabitants, the station cost ing his cheek with the long-nail. now of all titres in the world. 1 have the scrape as well as I could. ber of fresh outrages. Not a ranch or ankle a spiral motion. This, I must $500,000. Along the route a grade been saving up these apples all the | ' » «»-4------------------ I cast about in my mind how to do crossing is scarcely ever seen ; when it small settlement near which they hail 1 tell you. is very hard work, and re winter with a special eye to this partic this, and presently, with beating heart, passed but had suffered at their hands, HOW THE BATTLE HYMN WAS WRITTEN. quires a great deal of patience and per is, the gate is kept shut, except when ular market day.” I dropped a little paper parcel of blue someone wants to cross the track. Its and the pursuing party constantly re severance if the postulant wishes to lie- “It was in the first year of the war,” "Leeman,” said 1, “I’ll go.” ceived large accessions until it formed ribbon into the road. normal condition is to be closed. Tun quite a respectable company. Riding writes Miss Maud Howe, inlier biography come a premiere danseuse. "Nonsense!” said Leeman. “Oh,” I cried, cheeking up l’omp, “The next two steps a rd the ‘l’as “But why not?” said 1. “Old I’omp “I’ve dropjied my parcel! Would — nels anil bridges are frequent. Over night and day for several days, they of her mother, Julia Ward Howe, “that Bas’ and ‘Glissa.’ After several these in many places ivies are growing, is as gentle as a kitten, and I know would you mind getting out after it?” finally came upon fresh tracks made by Dr. and Mrs. Howe, Gov. and Mrs. months’ practice of this sort she is and other climbing vines ; and at many overy inch of the way perfectly.” their game. Profiting, however, by Andrew and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Whip placed in the back row of the ballet, “Not in the least,” said the stranger; “But there an- the lied Swamp Woods and he climbed laboriously out ei the stations the cultivation of Howers stimu past experience, the approach was made ple made their memorable journey to whence she gradually works herself 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 the front. < If course a greatdeal depends has been carried to an art. Crossing with never a house on either side of the He had scarcely set his teet on the the tracks atstations is not feasible, and that the objects of their search were in deep interest, and every moment brought 1 on the lady herself. way, except the deserted cabin where ground before I laid the whip on old a deserted cabin standing in a dense with it some new experience of the ter "I am speaking now of what we call the old negro hanged himself twenty l’omp with a will, and rattled away over walking on the tracks through the grove of aspen trees. Cautiously sur rors of war which shook the seat of country is forbidend. Look from the car rounding the cabin and covering every government. One afternoon the whole legitimate ballet. The so-callbd dancing years ago,” argued my mother. the long, straight road at a pace that of the Majiltons, Gerards, Cobblers and “Who cares for the Red Swamp seemed positively marvelous to me and window half a day and you will see no point with their revolvers and Winches party drops out to the camps outside of I.orellas, is nothing more than old school one on the track except an occasional Woods?” said I, valiantly. “I never l’omp both. ters, the inmates were ordered to come Washington to visit Col. William Green. railway employe. The whistle scarcely practice.” was afraid of frogs and whip-poor-wills, So we left our passenger liehind, in 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 the and I’m not going to liegin now. Lil, the middle of the Red Swamp. I could they quickly did, and were soon mount Mrs. Howe and said: “Madam, you leading ballet-masters and mistresses of will you go out and help me harness, see him standing there, blank and as guard notifies the engineer that all is ed on extra horses and securely bound, must say something to my soldiers." ready by blowing a shrill little whistle with the exception of Lou, who was al To a woman who had never made a j your time?” early in the morning, and—” tounded, the sole figure in the long “Madame Louise was undoubtedly “Oh, I wish 1 was going too! Can’t perspective, as I ventured to look back which he carries in his pocket. lowed the freedom of her hands and speech in her life, this request, almost the greatest ballet-mistress in England. I go, Kate?” cried Lil, my hoyden but I only whipped l’omp the harder; like a command, was, indeed, startling. feet. After a short consultation it was 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 Milans, John Cormack, for many A correspondent of a Glasgow paper tering with delight at the idea of any we were well out of the Red Swamp. then and there. An open place was self, but the Colonel found her each | years ballet-master at Drury Lane, who was remarkable for the size of his feet, thing unusual. "I’ve out-generaled him,” said I to has been to Chelsea, and finding Car sought and preparations made for time, and persisted that she should and M. Espinoza, a man of very aniall "Htuffl” cried 1, imperiously. "Of myself, “and I've saved Leeman’s lyle’s old house “standing empty, very lynching them. Just as a rope was be- speak to the soldiers. Finally, she course you can’t. Hasn't Pompa heavy twenty-four dollars. I'm sorry al>out dismal Hooking, rather delapidated, ing adjusted aroend their necks, Lou, yielded to his solicitations, and made a ' stature, but who possessed a nose which load enough, without your ninety the blue ribbon; but it was only a yard ticketed to lie let or to he sold,” breaks with a sudden move, took from a place short address to the company of men. l completely overshadowed his face. He pounds of mischief loaded on ? Reside, and a quarter, after all, and I can trim out into the following exclamation : of concealment in her dress a keen Some days after this, Mrs. Howe and ' was a magnificent dancer.” “Some of the ballet have made very “Will Scotchmen allow thia to con knife, and l>efore the astonished gather her friends were present at a review of you must stay at home and take care Lil’s hat with something else.” matches, have they not?’ of mother an 1 I-eeman, and finish the They were delighted at my prov.ces tinue—will they allow to go to wreck ing could recover from their surprise troops, which was interrupted by a fortunate “Oh, yes. Some of the nobility of chintz curtain for the big west chamber; when 1 related my adventure at home. and ruin this house, in which for seven 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 1 and forty years he liver! ?” The man- ing off into the timber at a rapid rate. Reinforcements were sent to a party of England can trace their origin back to You remember the time now.” market-woman; mother shuddered at ; ifest answer to this is that Scotchmen They were never caught so far as known I’nion soldiers in the neighborhood, the foot-lights. Col. Hay was our city boarder—a gen the idea of the desperate tramp alone will most likely do just that thing. although their course being south, there who had been surprised and surrounded. case of the Duke of Edinburgh falling tleman who had been recommended by with me in the tangled wilderness of the , Carlyle’s house in Great Cheyne Row, is no doubt but that they formed a con The review was abandoned for the day, in love with a dancer in the Alhambra Ilia physician to try the fresh, pine- Red Swamp; Lil declared that I was a in which “he lived for seven and forty siderable accession to the already crim and the troops marched back to their called ‘Lardy Wilson'.” ” “The American school has not yw years,” was never a house for anybody. inal population of New Mexico. Broncho cantonments. The carriage in which scented breezes of the Shawaugeenta heroine. Mountains, and whom our rector had “Wasn't it a good idea for Kate to Thomas worked hard there anti scolded Ix»u was never after heard from. Cer Mrs. Howe rode, moved slowly, sur developed any prominent danseuses “Yes, a few. Mme. Flindt is an recommends I to the ley Spring Farm. drop the blue riblsm, and send him harder. Jane used to leave the wedges tainly she was one of the queerest spec rounded by what seemed a river of armed out of the windows, the windows rattled imens of womankind that ever graced men. To beguile the time, she began | American, though she finished on to* We were not rich, although mother after it?” said she. and ls'eman had managed the farm “Kate was a goose ever to let him get and Thomas scolded harder still. Jane or disgraced a community. An expert to sing the John Brown song, on hearing other aide. She is, you know, a leading economically an.I well since father's into the wagon.” said Leeman, knitting scolded back and wrote mean letters horsewoman, she always rode as a man; which the soldier- shouted: “Good for l premiere for the Kiralfys.” "Whom do you consider the most about Thomas to her friends. Carlyle’s an excellent shot, she was credited with you.” Mrs. Howe now spoke to her death, and the weekly addition to our | his btow. Incom.1 would Is» something worth con "Kate tnusn'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 I successful dancers of the present day ■ ■ The French, by all means; next to houses and wives. The old house has ner; an experienced gambler, she was which she had felt to write some words sidering. long distance again,” said mother. Tlx- idea of a eitv Imarder was very 1 drank my cup of tea and rested my few, if any, pleasant associations, and it well known as a dealer in stud poker, of her own which might lie sung t<> this come the Italians. But I believe, a» pleasant, too, and ley Spring Farm was self, and went out afterward to see the might as well go under the hammer or who always drew largely and made big stirring tune, saying also that she was said before.(the American lady *■ a very lovely s|s»t, although we seldom new brood of darling little yellow chicks be taken by the people who will live in winnings for her employer. With her afraid she should never lie able to do it. lead the van in a few years.' —Pe< allowed ourselves to think of that. which Gid S|x*< kle had brought off the it almost as happily as Carlyle himself. associations and employments there can Her wish was soon fulfilled. She lay York Journal. And as for turning it into a Carlyle Club, l>e no doubts that her end will lie a vio down that night full of thoughts of battle , So, after a little, I coaxed my mother nest during my absence. and Leeman to consent, and the next I was on my knees in the hen-house, as has been suggested, why the club lent one.—[I »enver Rocky Mountain and awoke la-fore dawn the next morn STRAY WAIFS morning Lil and I were up long liefore feeding them with scalded meal from itself would die of the "blues.”—[Phil News. ing to find the desired verses imme The crop of cigarettes is estimated at ------- -------- daybreak, harnessing old l'omp, anil | the palm of my hand, when I heard adelphia Times. diately present to her mind. She sprung eight hundred millions. getting reaily for the day’s journey. “ Law sakes alive! Is that the way mother calling me from the house. from her bed, and in the dim gray A highly-educated Maine girl has juat II kkk W ill W k D raw tiik L ink .— ! you make soda warier?” said a green By the time the red, level light of the “Kate! Kate! come up at once! Col. light found a pen and paper, whereon i “ A Nebraska widow with twenty-one riaiug sun touched old Pomp's gray Hay has arrived.” country girl to the clerk in Fuller’s drug she wrote, scarcely seeing them, the finished shingling her father's office. children is advertising fora husband.” store in Newman, the other day, as he lines of the poem. Returning to her mane with radiance, 1 was driving An Indiana]»olis woman who wears a “Col. Hay?” through the Red Swamp, where the I started up, harking with blank dis There is great virtue in printers' ink ; , gave her her first drink of soda water. couch, she was presently asleep, but No. 1 shoe claims to have had six maple trees, from which it took its may nt my calico dress and the meal ' it has brought fortunes to men and “Yes, ma’am,” said the polite clerk, not until she had said to herself: ‘I offers of marriage on account of her f wom»n; but we don't believe a double as he washed the glass; “that's the like this better than anything I have Mino, were all aglow with crimson stains on my hands. Best men and ushers heretofore yj* blossoms, and the thrushes and robins However, there was nothing for it co ti i> i t Iveriisement, inserted next to way we do it.” ever written.' And so the Battle Hymn sented with scarf-pins by the brio*J called to one another with Hute-like but to obey the summons; so I went up reading matter every day for six months ‘•Waal. I never!” she exclaimed in of the Republic was born. It was the grooms, now think they ought to l>* notes to the house A sort of blur seemed to would bring a husband to a widow with astonishment, as she tasted it. “You one thing of Mrs. Howe's that will be , gold watches, dress suits, and silk h Well, I managed splendidly. I knew come Indore my eyes, as I entered the twenty-one children—unless the latter don’t make it like I thought you ded,” handed down to posterity: Prayer Isroks bound in white where 1 was going to when I started. sitting-room, and heard mother saving: are kept in the background, or under she continued, blushing. •My eyes have seen the glory of the coming and gold, costing $25, are shown as "How did you think it was done?” of the Lord; "Col. Hay, this is my eldest daughter, ground, or somewhere. We dislike to I «old the ail barrels of russets to the go back on advertising, but the line “Why. I—I—thought you took hold He is trampling out the vineyard where the kind made for brides to hold in t man who kept the Park Hotel for four Kate.” hands at the nuptial ceremony. grapes of wrath are stored.” etc. must lie drawn somewhere. of a silver thingumbob and kinder And then the blur cleared away, ami dollars apiece, and that was more than Quite a controversy has been pro“»» "It niav not be the best thing she has pumped it out, but yau don ’ t. You I knew the man I had twice before Lnaman himself anticipated. A wicked young man save that he "Be can-fill 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 I by the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher e is the most notable and the most fense of suicide in certain cases as » now,” said the man, as he watched me whom I had so recklessly alwndoned in whatever, really believe that a pretty just milked it out jest like I milk old it stirring.” act of supreme considerateness and it” Cherry, only you put in some atrippin ’ s put the bills into my little leather the middle of the Red Swamp. girl knows what a kiss means till he has eroaity. ” first. It's awful good truck though — if “ I — I beg your |>ardon, Col. Hay, ” | portemonnaie. it from her own mouth. The greatest of all the world's fashion i “ Does her hand-writing denote cbar- it hadn’t so much belch in it!” “Robbed!” aaid I. with a laugh. I cried out impulsively. “I thought able dressmakers is bald. Ladies will acter?” he was asked. ‘ ‘Certainly ■ ’ you were a thief!” Now is the time when the seaside "Why, who should rob me’” Mr. (Frederick Gebhardt (Mrs. Nil- be pleased to learn that such is the ef . yes. of course,” »lie other answe • The burst of laughter that followed landlord wonders if a profit of six hun "(th. I don’t know!” said the land fect caused by brain work in their be 1 "but I’m blessed if I can make lord “There’s always tramps and fram every inmate of the room effectu dred per cent, will pay him for leasing sou's brother) drives a dog-cart and roan half in the absence of Mrs. Langtry. the oldjrani h for another season. ; what the characters mean.” burglars around They're a crop that ally s< uttered all emharraaNnent. MANNERS.