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been applying her ear to the keyhole, t woman enters. "You are singularly prompt,” he says, with a lowering glance and a sneer. "Xkrfs is Mrs. Grunch," turning to Vera, “iny housekeeper. She will see to your wants. Grunch, take these young ladies away. My nerves,” with a shudder, "are all un strung to the last pitch.” Thus unceremoniously dismissed, Miss Dysart follows tlie housekeeper from rhe room, Griselda having preceded her. Through the huge dark hall and up the wide, moldy staircase they follow their guide, noting as they do so the decay that marks everything around. She flings wide a door for rhe girls to enter, und then abruptly departs without offering them word or glance. They are thankful to be thus left alone, and in voluntarily stand still and gaze at each other. Vera is very pale, and her breath is coming rather fitfully from between her parted lips. “He looks dying." she says, at last, speaking with a heavy sigh, and going nearer to Griselda, as if unconsciously seeking a closer companionship. "Did you ever see such a face? Don't you think he is dying?” ••i “Who can tell?" says Griselda, might think it, perhaps, but tor his eyes. They”—she shudders—“they look as if they couldn't die. What terrible eyes they are! and what a vile old man alto gether! Good heavens! how did he dare so to insult us! I told you, Vera”—with rising excitement—“I warned you that our coming here would be only for evil.” A moment later a knock comes to the door. "Will you be pleased to come down stairs or to have your tea here?” de mands the harsh voice of the housekeep er from the threshold. "Here” is on Vera's lips, but Griselda, the bold, circumvents her. “Down stairs,” she says, coldly, “when ,we get some hot water, and when you send a maid to help us to unpack our trunks.” "There are no maids in this house,” replies Mrs. Grunch. sullenly, “You must either attend to each other or let me help you.” «No maids!” says Griselda. “None," briefly. "And my room? Oh—is this mine, or Miss Dysart's?” "Both yours and Miss Dysart’s: sorry if it ain’t big enough,” with a derisive glance round the huge, bare chamber. "You mean, we are to have but one room between us?” "Just that, miss. Neither more nor less. And good enough, too, for those as----- ” “Leave the room,” says Griselda, with a sudden, sharp intonation, so unexpe-t- ed, so withering, that the woman, after a surprised stare, turns and withdraws. NEW AIRSHIP FOR WHICH GREAT PROMISES ARE MADE NOT TOO YOUNG TO MARRY. Mere Children Are United in Wedlock in Mirny European Countries. Among the peoples of Europe there is no fixed age at which people may marry and as a consequence children of tender years frequently assume the responsibilities of cares of wedded life. In Austria a boy aud girl having ar rived at the age of 14 are considered to be old enough for matrimonial purposes aud the law allows them to marry and begin housekeeping as soon as they please lu Germany a man is uut coli sldert to have arrived at a mar ringe able age until he is 18, and ln France and Belgium the man must be 18 and the girl 15. In Spain the bridegroom must have arrived at the mature age of 14 and the bride must be a staid young lady of 12. The law is the same in Portugal. Hungary has a funny marriage law. For Catholics the marriageable age is considered to be 14 for the boy and 12 for the girl, but for Protestants it Is 18 for the boy and 15 for the girl. Why this distinction? In Switzerland and Greece the ages are 14 for the boy aud 12 for the girl, the same as in Spain and Portugal. In Spain, Greece and Portugal boys and girls mature rapidly and a boy 14 there is as old physically as a boy of 18 in more northern coun tries, but it seems strange that the hardy mountaineers df Switzerland, where there is no such excuse for child marriages, should set such an early age for matrimony. For really youthful marriage one should go to Turkey, There the law allows an. boy and girl who can "walk • properly” and who understand the meaning of the necessary religious ser vice to be married for life, lu Bulgaria and Servia girls are allowed to marry as soon as they cease to be babies and the girl who is not engaged by the time she is 16 is considered a hopeless old maid. In America a woman never loses hope—nor a man either. CHAPTER I. they— It is hot, isn't it?" This last he Below, a great broad stretch of ocean, says hastily, as if ashamed of his ani calm as death, slumbering placidly be madversion on the age of the sorry cattle neath the sun's hot rays; above, a sky of in question—their horses, no doubt; and palest azure, flecked here and there by there is something wonderfully charming dainty masses of soft, fleecy clouds; ami in the faint apologetic color that springs far inland, a background of high hills, into his cheeks. As he finishes speaking clothed with a tender foliage, a very baby he looks at Griselda so hard that she feels leafdotn, just bursting into the fuller life. it incumbent on her to return his glance Toward the west the trees give way a and to say something. A model of a new dirigible airship was recently on exhibition in Chicago. It little, letting a road be seen, that like a “We thought our last hour had come,” represents the results of fave years’ work on the part of William Reiferscheid of straight pale ribbon runs between the she says, laughing softly, and looking at Streator, Ill. The model shows a contrivance consisting of two major parts, a greenery for the space of quite a mile or him a little shyly, but so prettily. “But cigar-shaped balloon, to which is attached a frame, on which are six propellers. so, and then reaches the small fishing vil for you, one cannot say where we should Four propellers are used for ascending and two for steering. The power is sup- lage where the simple folk of Glow-ring l>e now.” plied by a gasoline engine. Destley toil from one year’s end to the She bows to him, and so does her sis The owner of the machine claims it will do many evolutions unknown to the other, some in careless joy, some in cease ter quite as graciously, and then the flying machine of Santos-Dumont. The Streator inventor declares his Eagle, less labor, some, alas! in cruel weeping, horses once more commence their snail- for that is what he calls it. could be driven from Chicago to New York at the because of those "who will never come like progress, grinding through the dusty rate of 100 miles an hour, and that it could be sailed around a tower with its back to the town." road at the rate of three miles an hour. side touching the structure at all times. He also contends that the Eagle could Along the white road, that gleams The little episode is over; the young man be turned around all day in the -same spot in the air. It is planned to construct thirstily in the burning sunshine of this settles his soft hat more firmly on bis a machine at an expense of $10.000. hot midday in June, a carriage is crawl head, picks up his rod, regards it anx lug with quite un aggravating slowness— iously to see that no harm has come to an antiquated vehicle of a type now al it, and disappears once more into the AWFUL BOER MORTALITY. it to attend to customers in the store. most unknown, but which once beyond shelter of the cool wood. It was done with an ordinary engrav doubt "cost money." The carriage, being Half an hour later they are at the en British ReconcentrodoCamps in South er’s tool. Africa to Be Abolished. an open one, enables the people ns it trance gate of Greycourt, and practically “I had heard of some man who had The horrors of the British reconcen passes through the village to see without at their journey's end. Both girls, with undue trouble that the occupants of it are an involuntary movement, crane their trado camps in South Africa are to be done this,” said Mr. Houseal in explain two girls; both very young, lioth singular necks out of the carriage to get a first abated. The appalling mortality that ing his design, "but 1 did not believe It ly alike, though in distinctly different glimpse at their future home, and then has marked these camps from the be could be done, and determined to try styles. turn a dismayed glance on each other. ginning has at length aroused the Gov myself. I first rubbed the head of the “It is charming!” says the younger girl, Anything more dreary, more unfriendly, ernment to action and the system un pin on an oil stone to obtain a flat sur with a little quick motion of the hand yet withal grand in its desolation, could der which thousand of Boer women face. Then 1 heated the cement on toward the sweeping bay, and the awak hardly be seen. the disk which we use for holding such and children have perished unnecessa "How dark it is,” says Griselda, a ening trees, and the other glories of the small articles. When the cement cool landscape. "All charming, far better nervous thrill running through her, as rily Is to be changed. LATE JUDICIAL DECISIONS. than I ever dared hope for; aud yet nty they move onward beneath the shade of The reconcentrado policy of England ed I screwed the disk tightly to the the mighty trees that clasp their arms mind misgives me, Vera." in South Africa will be one of the dark stand. The most difficult part of the A State license to practice medicin« She turns n brilliant glance on her sis between her and the glorious sky—thus est chapters connected with the Boer matter to me was in keeping track of ter, full of terrible insinuations, ar.d then blotting it out. the pin. 1 used a four-inch lens on the bestowed upon a physician is held in war. Even Secretary Broderick, under A sudden turn brings them within view laughs a little. Thus animated, she is a Hurley vs. Eddingtield (Ind.), 53 L. R. whom they were instituted and main job, but I am not accustomed to using very pretty girl, half child, half woman, of the house. A beautiful old house ap A. 135, to impose no obligation to re tained, does not defend them. The a glass of any sort, and frequently I'd as fresh as the morning, and with eyes parently, of red brick, toned by age to a lose the pin and go digging around like spond to every call, so as to render him like stars. Site lifta one slender black- duller shade, with many gables, and over death rate in them lias been awful. In liable for arbitrarily refusing to attend gloved hand, and placing it beneath her grown in parts by trailing ivy, the leaves six months 13,941 persons perished in a man in the dark. But I managed to a sick person, although no other physi keep pretty well on its track. ” Bister's chin, turns her face gently to her. of which now glisten brightly in the even them. During one month 3.156 deaths The regularity of the letters as they cian is procurable. Such a beautiful face! Very like the ing sunshine. of whites are recorded, and of the vic riante one la-side it, yet unlike, too. There are seen under the glass testifies to The coachman, scrambling to the The payment of a negotiable promis tims 2,633 were children. The death is a touch of sadness round the lovely ground, bids them in a surly tone to CHAPTER III. this. Mr. Houseal says he will keep sory note by one to whom it is indorsed rate for six months approximates 253 lips, a mournful curve; indeed, a thought alight, He is tired and cross, no doubt, A few days later the girls are sitting the pin as a curiosity. Mr. Houseal is for collection is held, in People’s and fulness too great for her years is stamped by the unusual work of the day. And in the garden. It is a beautiful day. 25 years of age.—Baltimore American. Drovers’ Bank vs. Craig (Ohio), 52 on every feature. A tender, loving, yet presently they find themselves on the Even through the eternal shadows that L. R. A. 872, not to render the maker strong soul shines through the earnest threshold of the open hall door, hardly encompass the garden, and past the thick To Preserve Old Chapel. liable either on the bote or as for mon eyes, and when she smiles it is reluctant knowing what to do next. The shambling yew hedge, the hot beams of the sun are The lovers of the antique and pictur ey paid to Ills use, unless such payment ly, as if smiles all her life had been for figure of a man about seventy, appeared stealing. esque architecture of former centuries is made with his assent. bidden to her. presently from some dusky doorway, he “A day for gods and goddesses,” cries in the City of Mexico are pleased at the “Oh! that reminds me,” said Miss Dy waves to them to enter the room, and, Griselda, springing suddenly to her feet, Representations made for the purpose sart. "I quite forgot to tell you of it, shutting the door agaiu behind them with and flinging far from her on the green announcement that an ancient land of procuring a contract, with the intent but the day before we left Nice, Nell a sharp baste, leaves them alone with sward the musty volume she had purloin mark, the little chapel of La Concep that they shall be Acted on, without Stewart said that this cousin you speak their new relative. Gregory Dysart. ed from the mustier library about an hour cion, is not to be destroyed. It has knowledge whether they are true or of, if he does exist at all, at all events ago. been variously claimed for this chapel does not do it here.” not, are held, in Simon vs. Goodyear CHAPTER II. "Perhaps I'll never come back. The that it marked the spot where Cuauh "Which means?” Metallic Rubber Shot1 Company (C. C. Vera, going quickly forward, moves to- spirit of adventure is full upon me, aud temoc surrendered to Cortes, also that “Thnt either he won't, or ward an armchair at the upper end <>r who knows what demons inhabit that un A. 6th C.), 52 L. R. A. 745, to be within it was the first Catholic temple in witli his father. Can't, Nell the room in which a figure is seated. She known wood? So, fare thee well, sweet, the rule that a contract procured by nte to believe.” which mass was said in tlie City of sees un old man, shrunken, enfeebled, my love! and when you see me, expect false representations may be disaf “Can't it is, you may be sure," says the with a face that is positively ghastly, be me.” She presses a sentimental kiss up Mexico. A recent investigation of these firmed. younger girl, restlessly. "Fancy a father cause of its excessive pallor; a living on her sister’s brow, averring that a points among the best authorities on Tlie existence of a disease in the ap whose son can't live with him! And yet, corpse, save for two eyes that burn and “brow” is the only applicable part of her ancient history of tlie capital did not after all, virtuous astonishment on that gleam and glitter with an almost devilish for such a solemn occasion, and runs plicant at tlie time of taking out a life- establish them positively, but the little »core is rather out of place with us. 1 brilliancy. lightly down toward the hedge. chapel Is without doubt one of the insurance policy of which he is entire cun imagine just such a father.” She runs through one of the openings “So you've come,’’ he says, without earliest places of Christian worship ly unconscious is held in Fidelity Mu "Well, never mind that,” says Miss Dy making any attempt to rise from his in the hedge, crosses the graveled path, built in tlie city by the Spaniards and tual Life Association vs. Jeffords (C. C. sart, hastily. chair, "Shut that door, will you? What and, mounting the parapet, looks over to “Yes. Very good; let us then go from a vile draught! probably in the whole of North Amer A 5th C.), 53 L. II. A. 193, not to avoid And don't stand staring examine the other side of the wall on the policy; although in his application sire to uncle," says her siBter with a lit like that, it makes me nervous.” which she stands, after which she com ica. tle shrug. "Do you think we shall gain The chapel of La Concepcion now he denies having disease, and agrees His voice is cold, clear, freezing, It mences her descent. One little foot she much by the change? This old relative of seems to the tired girls standing before slips into a convenient hole in it, and then stands in the rather neglected little that any untrue statement shall render MISS HOBHOUSE. ours is, perhaps, as delightful as we could him as if a breath of icy air had suddenly the other into a hole lower down, and so the policy void. plaza of the same name, which is the wish him, and yet I wish father had not fallen into the hot and stilling room. on and on, until the six feet of wall are per 1,000; and if children alone be re Acceptance by a man of annuity pro public stand for the heavy carts and left us to his tender mercies.” "Vera, I presume," says Mr. Dysart, conquered and she reaches terra firm«, “Do not dwell on that,” says Vera, holding out his lithe white hand to permit and finds nothing between her and the garded the death rate will exceed 460 wagons licensed for hire. It is to be vided for him by his wife’s will in lieu per 1,000. with nervous haste; "do not seek tor her to press it. "And you are Griselda? desired cool of the lovely woods. rescued from this unromantie sur of all other interest in her estate is held To an English lady. Miss Hobhouse, rounding, however, and a park laid out in Re Qua vs. Graham (Ill.). 52 L. R. A. faults in the inevitable. He is all that is 1 need not ask what lunatic chose your With a merry heart she plunges into left its. You know the sudden decision mimes, as I was well acquainted with the dark, sweetly scented home of the the modification of the system under about it. The chapel will be given a 641, to make him a purchaser of it, so arose out of a letter received by father your mother many years ago.” giant trees, with a green, soft pathway which so many unfortunate Boer wom few needed repairs and protected by a that It is not within the provisions of from Uncle Gregory about a year ago. "I feel that I must think you at once. under her foot, and, though she knows it en and children perished is due. This suitable railing. It has been proposed a statute placing beyond the reach of When father was—wits -lying----- ” She Uncle Gregory, for your kindness to us,” not, her world before her. creditors trusts in good faith created lady, who comes of a good English l»auses abruptly, ami a tremor shakes her says Miss Dysart, gravely, still standing. It is an entrancing hour. She has stop family and whose interests in the Boer that the new garden to be called Jardin by, or trust funds proceeding from, last words. Berriozabal. after Mexico’s late min ped short in the middle of a broad, green "Ay. ay. You acknowledge that," says some person other than the debtor him reconcentrados is merely a feeling of ister of war. The younger girl turns quickly to look he. quickly. “I have been your best space encompassed by high hills, though self. pure humanity, visited South Africa at her. There is infinite love ami com with an opening toward the west, when friend, after all, eh?" The Groom Was Forehanded. passion in ber glance, but perhaps a little last spring and sought to ameliorate this uncomfortable conviction grows clear The jHiwer of a city council to compel "You have given us a home,” continues contempt, ami certainly a little impa- Ministers have many interesting and a telephone or telegraph company to Miss Dysart, in tones that tremble a lit to her that she is lost. She is not of the their condition. She appealed to the tience. nervous order, however, and keeping a Government to act and it did. It ex- utilising experiences. tie. "But for you----- ” put Its wires underground Is upheld in "Do you A local clergyman was engaged In Northwestern "Yes, yes go on.” He thrusts out his good heart looks hopefully around her. polled her from South Africa. On her Telephone Exchange Far away over there, in the distance, heartless old miserly face as if athirst for further return home Miss Hobhouse again np- conversation with a number of friends Company vs. Minneapolis I Minn.), 53 stands a figure lightly lined against the but 1 do n -t think our father was a man words. "But for nic you would both pealed to the Government to interpose the other day. when each started tell L. R. A. 175. to the extent of exercising to excite respect, much less love or regret, have been east upon the world's highway, massive trunk of a sycamore, that most and end the system under which Boer ing stories of weddings lie had per a reasonable discretion, but with the unmistakably declares itself to be a man. i or " to live or die as chance dictated. To me, prisoners, or pensioners, were being ju formed. One of the party had this to denial of any arbitrary power to make His back is turned to her, and he is bend- j "Oh! It Is better not to speak like that," to me you are indebted for everything. such a requirement unreasonable, Interrupts Miss Dysart, In a low, shocked You owe me much. Each day you live ing over something, and. so far as she can dicially murdered. Nothing came of offer: Some time ago a great big fellow, where the overhead wires have Itet-n tone. "Don’t do it, darling. 1 know you shall owe me more. 1 have befriend judge thus remote from him, his clothing; her appeals. She then published the is considerably the worse for wear. A ed you; 1 have been the means of saving facts she had collected in South Africa roughly dressed, and a wee mite of a placed in tlie streets under authority of w hat you mean, but----- " gamekeeper, perhaps, or a well, some "An-1 1 know that I shall never forgive you from starvation.” and the result lias been nil awakening young woman came to him. They had au ordinance constituting a contract. thing or other of that sort. At all events If so corpse-like a face could show signs or furgel the life lie led you," says Grisel of tlie British conscience. The Govern no witnesses, and. In fact, did not care of excitement it shows it now, as he seeks the sight is welcome as the early dew. da, with a certain angry excitement. Dog Climbs Trees. ment felt constrained to take notice of to have any. Nevertheless, a brides <To be continued. > "Well/ that is over!" says Miss Dysart, to prove by word and gesture thnt he is Shap is a brindle bull-terrier dog of maid and groomsman were selected the opinions and feelings created by their benefactor to an unlimited extent. with a quick sigh, heavily indrawn. To >i Poet. the publication of her pamphlet and from the household, and the ceremony unusual brightness, who belongs to a "What was this vendetta, this terrible The hateful emotion he la-trays raises in To learn poetry “for repetition” It tlie order was given for a change in the began. They hull promised to love and deaf and dumb girl at Silver Lake, lifelong quarrel that was kept up be Griselda's breast feelings of repugnance doubtless a means of cultivating a | com entration system. obey and all the rest of the service, Mass. Snap's favorite occupation when tween him aud father with such monoton and disgust. when the preacher announced: “Kiss not chasing rabbits and woodchucks is "I have consented to adopt you,” he know ledge of literature, but schoolboys ous persistency?" to try to climb trees after the saucy the bride.” ALPHABET ON A PINHEAD. "That hail to do with our grandfather's goes on presently, his cold voice now cut sometimes regard the authors of poems will. Papa was tlie eldest son, yet the ting like a knife. "But do not expect learned as taskmasters and personal The groom, on bended knee, hesitated little red squirrels which abound in the property was left to Uncle Gregory; and milch from me. It is well to come to a eneitnlett. This view Is amusingly ex Wonderful Achiex enieiit of a Baltimore a little, tried to say something and grove in the vicinity of his mistress’ Engraver Excites Surprise. tHat for no reason nt all. Naturally, papa proper understanding at the start, and pressed in a letter which was found home. So much have they aggravateti couldn't. II. A. Houseal. an engraver employed was very angry about it. and accused so save future argument. Honesty has the astute dog that in his endeavor to amoiig the papers of the venerable “Kiss the bride.” said the pastor. made me poor. Yon have been. I hear, Gregory of using undue influence.” by George Walter, jeweler, has accom get nt his provoking enemies he has de German poet Gelbel. It was written “ Why. parson. I d(d. afore i came accustomed to lead a useless, luxurious "Just so. ami of course there is a good plished a task In the engraver’s art deal beltiml that you don't know. There I existence. Your father all his life kept up to liitii by some sehooltioys of Lubeck. ■ witch eclipses the engraving of the here at all.” replied the groom, whose veloped into quite a tree dim tier.—Bos a most extravagant menage, and, dying, and Is signed “ Karl Beckmann, II. face had taken the color of a June rose. ton Post. always is; nobody ever tells quite every Lord's prayer upon a silver dollar, thing. And besides Oh! Oh, Vera! left you paupers.” lie almost hisses out K'asse." The letter is printed In Lit The witnesses burst forth in laughter, Army Im pediment a. which was supposed for a long time to the last cruel word. Oh! what has happened?" erature. After stating that two boys while the minister had all he could do Armies are adding so many curious Griselda starts to her feet. be the triumph of tine work in engrav Grim-ida dutches in au agonized fashion had been flogged because they could to retnin the serious expression which “The honesty of which you boast is not vehicles to their impedimenta that It is ing. lie has mnniigtffl to engrave the at tin- leather stile of the crazy old he always wore when wedding people. not learn Herr Gelbel’« "Hope of chariot, which has toppled over to the everything." she says, in a burning tone. a grave question in some quarters alphabet complete on the head of a —Duluth News-Tribune. left side and stands in a decidedly dissi "Let me remind you that courtesy, too, Spring," the letter reads as follows: whether their mobility will not be seri common pin. Mr. llouseal. who rarely has its claims upon you." We suppose you did not think of such pated position. The ancient driver, pre uses a glass in his work, cutl read the ously impeded in future wars. There Something Sharp Needed. "Ilah! The word pauper is unpleasing, things when you wrote the poem. The auntably asleep, had let the horses wan letters with tie naked eye. and al A young married woman who began were the movable forge, tlie movable der nt their own sweet will, and they be it si-cn.s." says he. unmoved. "Before we Herr Ix-hrer says it Is a very beautiful though there are few perso,is whose housekeeping n short time ago went ermatorium. the hospital, the ice ma quit this point, however, one last word. ing ol<! and sleepy, too, the result was poem, but there are so many very beau that they had dragged two of the wheels You are beneath my roof; 1 shall expect tiful poems and we are obliged to learn eyesight is so strong, a common mag Into a hardware store in a Maine town chine and now comes the traveling dis infecting apparatus, The latter in a up on a steep bank and nearly capsized you to conform to my rules. I see no one. them. Therefore we beg aud entreat nifying glass serves to make them easi and asked for a biscuit cutter. I permit no one to enter my doors save ly distinguishable. The letters range this carriage. The proprietor, one of her friends, se wagon so fitted that it can readily tnovef you. esteemed Herr Gelbel. make no my son. I will not have people spying "Oh, thank you," says Miss Dysart, from left to right and are all capitals. lected a small ax. and with a solier from camp to camp to disinfect leaning forw ard and addressing with earn out the nakedness of the land, and specu more beautiful poems. And to make In the first circle around the edge of face presented the same to her. clothing of the soldiers. lating over what they are pleased to call It worse we have to learn the biog est glume and heightened color the young the head of the pin are the letters from Without smiling the young lady took my eccentricities. They will have me raphy of every poet, what year he was man who had risen descended, perhaps, < hina Pays Old Scores. A to M. Inclulive. Within this is a the ax. put it over her shoulder and sounds pleasanter and more orthodox - rich, but 1 ant poor, poor, I tell you. Al born In. ami what year he died In. We A Chinaman in tlie Philippines second circle beginning at N and end marched out of the store and to her like a good nngel from somewhere—the ways remember that." w rite to you because you are the only strttcted the innocent natives to Griselda's features having settled them ing at Z. aud directly in the center is home with It. wood on their right, no doubt. A fishing poet still living, and we wish you a dress all Americans as "John." . the Ac mark. The diameter of the pin rod. lying on the road w here he had tiling selves into a rather alarming expression. And now the young hardware mer very long life. it when preparing for his ignoble ba'tle Miss Dysart hurriedly breaks into the head is barely a sixteenth of an inch, chant is in some doubt as to its being yet they say Chinamen have no sense with those poor old horses, proclaims the conversation. Senator Mark Hanna wears as a and it can be understood how small the much of a joke on the young lady.— of humor.—Buffalo Express. t he has been whipping the stream "If you will permit us," she says, faint watch charm a gold nugget which Is letters must be. They are about one- Boston Journal. Pos-offlees in the United Staten. •aims here and there lirilliautly ly, "we should like to go to our rooms, to fourth the size of the letters In the At the close of the fiscal year 1900 the interstices of the trt-es. rest a little. It has been a long journey.” worth several hundred dollars. It was All the mean acts of his life are Lord ’ s prayer engraved on a dollar. to,” says he. lifting his hat. "you Her uncle turns and touches the bell presented to him by a number of Meth- there were 76.688 postoffices in the thank me. It was really uothing. near hint, and immediately, so immedi odist frleuds who reside in Cleveland. The work occupied about an hour and a quickly brought before a drowulnj lusi» United States, or one to every l.OuO half, Mr. Houseal occasionally leaving or a candidate fuj office. l’oor brutes, 1 th.ok they w»r» asleep; ately as to suggest th» idea that ah» has Ohio. inhabitant«. « i