IS IT WOS2H WHXX.S? TAKING THE CENSUS. just ten miles southeast of New Orleans, down town to-day asked Mr. rf'You want a dollar or two? What he had no wish to repeat himself. Annie '-p on the east side of the river, at at night. W S do you want with a dollar or two?" had taken care to curb his extravagances, Fun on Jefferson Avenue and Henranerative Is it -vrortli while to jostle a bi other, the Lake Borgne canal outlet. There "Yes," she replied. "There, Annie, don't bother a fellow. by giving him always a little life9 in the Seventh Ward. Bearing Lis load on the rough road ol the gulf is six miles east, while where "Spent every cent, 111 be bound," I'm in a hurry." less than he asked for, and invariably Is it worth while that we 3eer at each other, "Say, old'fellow, the next time a I stood it was fifty-five miles away, jokingly. But with grave deliberation she drew In blackness of heart, that we war to the inquiring just how he spent, and meantime, census of births and deaths is to be and were a side mouth made there &t kirfe, "No, I have exactly two cents left: out a quarter and laid it down, then another, reckoning up how much he had taken, don't you fail to get a job in God pity 113 all in our pitiful plight. the Lake Borgne outlet, two miles but I walked both ways, got no crepe and another, next two dimes. each day, with great exactness. All ne of the big-bug wards!" exclaimed wide and fifteen feet deep, at most, de lisse, and went without luncheon, "Let me seethree quartersseventy-five, this, as he knew, was copied from his God pity ua all as we jostle each other. jolly Sick Tisler to a reporter a few the outflow of the surface water of the although faint with hunger." God paxdon us all for the tuumphswefeel ten is eighty-fivetenninetyfive, own custom. Besides, he reflected, ii lays ago. river would be so great that there When a follow goe3 down 'neath his load on Mr. Grav looked shocked. and here is a 3-cent pieceninetyeight he found it so disagreeable for a week "Don't believe I'd like it. Always the heather, could not be any overflow, and, consequently, Why did you not come to me cents. Will that do?" how much more so must it seem year Pierced to the heart words are keener makes me sick to go around mixing the problem of how to dry "Because it was out of the way and "Yes." And Mr. Gray hustled them F4 than steel, after year with no prospect of a change? oeer." Louisiana is easily solved. When And mightier far for woe than weal. because, to tell the truth, I felt too into his pocket, and hurried from the In short, he felt himself to be the "There's lots of fun in it." that is done, then the Harvey or Barataria *x cross." i. room. meanest man in existence. "'Tis one r. i i Were it not well thistuief hte's journey, "What in drinking fifteen or twenty gulf-water ship canal could easily "Cross with me?" He was in hopes liis friend would inqtiire half to own it," and the other half tc On over the isthmus, down into the tide, kinds of beer?" be made five hundred feet wide, fifty "Yes, with you." And poor Annie's into the cause of the scene, when 'We give Irni a ii3h instead of a semcnt, reform, we suspect. "No in taking the census. You'll feet deep, and straight as a pole, due 'Ere folding the hands to be andabide grievances burst forth. he would tell him of the compact, and "There, Albert," said his wife, "I am never know how cussed lazy some south to* the gulf, fifty five miles, and Forevei and aye to dust at his side. "To be going along the street hungrier how it originated. It would then pass glad the farce is ended. Resume your people are until you take a big book through which could pass the biggest than any beggar, while my husband as a joke. But Mr. Raymond did not prerogative." Look at the roses saluting ea*.h other, under \our your arm and go around ship that could be made. Gulf water Look at the heids all in peace on the plain, is known as the successful Mr. make any remark. Instead he thought It was Tuesday evening, at half-past ifeking questions. I've been around." should be used, and thus keep out the Man, and man onlyfaiak^j war on his biothei' Gray! To have no money in my pocket, to himself: six precisely, when Mrs. Gray said this. "Where did you find the laziest settlings of the Mississippi river. And laughs his heart at his peril and because my husband thinks I am "Good gracious! What a girl she is. At the same time she handed her husband one?" These settlings now drop, after meeting pain, not to be trusted! Before I married you And I thought her so pretty. I never his pocket-book, and then returned Shamed by the beasts rhat go down on the "Upon Jefferson avenue. Oh, I the gulf water, three miles out I was in business the same as you plain supposed that Albert would make such to her seat. don't know as she is real lazy, but up from the river's mouth, and are roached that is. I earned my living by teaching: a meek husband. Catch me getting there they're so stuck up they wouldn't Mr. Gray counted the money carefully, up on the sea bottom just like the la it worth while that we battle to humble you earned yours by trading. married and having quarters doled out dust,tumble come to the door if you rung the bell and then divided it into two equal Some poor follow down the thread in weaving cloth, and the ships lime too soon will all1 Now, suppose, when we married 'God pity us to me in that way!" ill day, for fear you'd think they was piles. This accomplished, he crossed can't plow through it when drawing All of us together, like leaves a gust, you had given up your business He pitied his friend's embarrassment, the servant. At one house 1 rang the over to his wi*e, and placed one in her more than, say, twenty-five feet, and Humbled indeed, down mto the dust to assist me, or because it interfered bell seven timesthe girl was out to but did not appear to notice it. Instead, lap, saying: were it not for the constant dredging JOAQUIN MTLLEE. the shed, I s'pose, and the woman with your new duties, and 1 allowed he chatted unconcernedly of old friends or passing of the screw propellers of "Henceforth we will share alike. was a-settin' in the bay'window about you no money to spend as you chose. I and past times. Suddenly turning a ST031Y FOR HUSBANDS. depth, the depth would be but about Buy what you choose. I have faith in four feet from me, and looking at me dressed you well, to be sure, but gave corner, they met two mutual acquaintances. twenty feet so the nvermen told me your prudence and judgment. I am all the time. you no money, without the whys and Hand shaking3 and inquires iD New Orleans quite recently. not infallible. Why need I sit in judgment Mrs. Gray stood looking out of the wherefore's and whither's being inquired followed, and the four had so much to "At another house I seen the women upon you?" into in short, treated you as vou do say that Mr. Gray decided to send a window, while her husband put on his up stairs at the window as I went up Mrs. Gray's eyes glistened with pride Flowers on the Kansas Prairies. me?" note to his partner, and spend tha forenoon the front steps. A fat, good-looking and happiness as she replied: hat and gloves, preparatory to going Barbaric splendor of the scenes in "You exaggerate the case, Annie. with his friends. irl came to the door and I commenced "Believe me, Albert, you will nevei down town. They had just risen from 4t Aida and UAfncaine seemed repeated Men and women are differently situated. hring questions at her. The party now adjourned to a restaurant, regret this, for now I shall have an opportunity as the glorious panorama of blossoming a nicely-spread table, and the room was I should think you would be glad to be and Mr. Raymond, aware of the 'Any children been born here to use my reasoning facul- prairie unrolled day after day. neatly and tastefully furnished. saved the trouble of earning a livelihood. during the last year?' sa I. exact amount of hisMr. Gray's ties." Can you picture to yourself ten acres 'Don't know, says she, I hain't funds, ordered lunch. He never did rearret it. There was no indication of poverty of portulaca? or whole hillsides curtained been here but three" weeks. I'll go But just consider the disadvantages Before separating, a little excursion there, yet Mrs. Gray's voice and manner with what seems a superb \nd ask missis,' and away she toddled of an empty purse. Put yourself in my to Beech Island was proposed for Monday. variety of wistaria, except, that it How Pope Leo looks. were falteiing as she asked for up stairs. Pretty soon she came place. How would you like it?" Mr. Gray invited them, meantime, grows on a stalk instead ot hanging toddling back and ^ajs: to spend the evening at his "Why, if I only had to ask, first-rate." some postage stamps. Rome letter to San Fiancisco Chronicle trom a vine? Do you know how it 'Missis wants to know what you house. The evening passed was a pleasant "Well, then, suppose you let me carry Leo XIII. has aged very much during "How many?" asked her husband, feels not to be able to step without want to know for?' one. Annie was in excellent spirits the pocket-book for a week." the last two years. His figure has bent curtly. crushing a flower, so that the little 'Tell her I dm taking the city census, sang and played, and was altogether "All right. Ill do it, just to show under the load of his responsibilities. prairie-dogs, sitting contentedly with "Three v.ill do. I thought I would as inquired bj law each year,' charming. Mr. Raymond, remembering you that it is easy enough. Here's the Bat his face has lo&t nothing of its expressive their intimate friends the owls on the sa^s I, and away scooted the girl write to mother and the girls." the monev, decided that matrimony was pocket-book." And he gave it into her and mobile vivacity, and, although littie heaps ot earth thrown up around again. When she got back she said: a snare when women were so deceptive. hand. "But I'll take a quarter first to "Did you ever reckon up, my dear, not handsome, it will never be their holes, have every appearance of 'Yes.' begin on." The next day, which was Sunday, torgotten by any one who has seen it many9' says I. having planted their own trontjards how much you spend for postage stamps "How Mrs. Gray, without being asked, gravely 'What do you want of a quarter even once. His transparent complexion with the choicest floral varieties? in the course of a year?" asked Mr. "'Only one,' sajsshe. handed her husband fifty cents. "Cigars." and emaciated features make him look Tnink of driving into a great field of 'Boy or girl?' says I. Gray, as he lit his fragrant cigar. Mr. Raymond was present, but did "Well, here are two ten-cent pieces like one of the Christs that were painted sunfloweis, the horses trampling down 'Girl,' sajs she. "Well, let us see. You write at least not appear to notice it. He was apparently try to make that do. Did you ever the tall stalks, that spring up again in the early days of the church, and 'Wnat's her name?' says I. engiossed in the book he was reckon up how much your cigars cost behind the carriage, so that one outside five letters a week, which is fifteen of which a few specimens still remain in 'Dimple,' sa)s she. reading, but he heard Mr. Gray ask: you in the year. Let us see. You the held would never know that the catacombs. He is a nervous man cents, and fifty-two times fifieen are 'That's her baby name,' sa^s I. smoke at least two a day, at an average "What's that for? Oh, the contribution a carriage-load of people were anywhere one eminently impressionable. A mere 'What's her real, lull name?' seven dollars and eighty cents a year, 1 of ten cents a piece, which box! Thank you," he said. But to in it or riding through a says she, and up trifle will often make him low-spirited missis,1 'I'll ask to say nothing of paper and envelopes. amounts to one dollar and fifty cents himself he added: "grove" of them, the blossoms towering and quite as insignificant a cause will she went. a week. Now. fifty-two times one forty out of reach as you sit on horseback, "Why not save it to go with the I haven't a correspondent in the world, render him all right again. This is 'Beatrice Branscombe Brown,' and a tall hedge of them grown makes seventy-five dollars and eighty twenty-five cents I have already, so as tli6 reason of the indecision and the outside my business." says she. up as a barrier between you and your cents a year, to say nothing of those not to be compelled to ask for money on Your friends," said the ife,"live near seeming coutradiction in his policy. It 'When was she born?' says I. 41 companion! Not a daisy, or a butteicup, you give your friends. A hundred dollars Tuesday Then I can succeed in getting leads him to act suddenlyon the inspiration 'Til ask missis,' says she, and I or a clo\ er, or a dandelion, will you,while mme are in another state. Do will scarcely cover your expenses some for Monday's trip without the of the moment, so to speak whistled 'The Watch on the Rhine' you see all summer but new flowers in that line." knowledge of my friends, and this absurd you wish me to give up writing to them and yet no one who has studied his face clear through before she came back. too exquisite for belief the great farce will end without any more "As our old friend, Abigal Stillman and her face took on an extra tinge of can doubt his energy,or the unfailing 'Day before Christmas,' savs she. white prickly poppies, and the sensitive unpleasantness." says,' who'd a-thunk it,' said Mr. Gray, tenacity of his will. That he is a man 'What is her father's name?' says color. rose, with its leaves delicate as a Monday morning came all too soon laughing but he was surprised to find of action and born to govern, he abundantly maiden-hair fern, and its blossom a "By no means. I merely mentioned for try as he would he could not get the the sum so large. proved at Perouse, when he was 'Mr. Brown, of course, says she. couutless mass of crimson stamens attention of Annie when he endeovored the cost of the thing. But I must go. The next morning Mr. Gray had archbishop of that diocese. 'What's his first name" says I. tipped with gold, and faintly fragrant. The girl was fat to broach the subject of the projected gone some distance from the house before Good-by." missis.1 'I'll ask Even familiar flowers are unfamiliar trip. Fidgeting with his knife and fork, he remembered that lie had only and she'd begun to puff by that time, "Albert," she said timidly. When he was elected pope he was in in size and profusion and color. What he cleared his throat at last, and in a twenty-five cents. and she addled as she went up the at home would be a daisy, is here the such bad health that everybody thought 3Vfr. Gray turned back. nervous way made a plunge. "I'll riik it," said he to himself "pechaps stairs. size of a small sunflower, with petals his pontificate would be a very short Mrs. Gray elevated her eyebrows. "Can you leave me five or six dollars I'll not want to buy anything. 'Benjamin Bruce Brown,' says she. of delicate rose-pink, raying from a one, and some people say it was this Ill show Annie that a man can do without "To the island? Pray, what for? It I want to go down town to-day." 'What does he do for a livin-?' cone-shaped centre of rich maroon I fact which induced certain members of money." is hardly the season for excursions." says 1. "Five or sis dollars!" exclaimed Mr. the Sacred College to vote for him. Mr. Raymond really pitied his friend's shot with gold. A had brought "Hello, Gray!" cried a voice, interrupting 'Keeps a store,' says she. His health has never been better, since Gray in astonishment. "What on evident distress, so he said, jokingly: with her numerous packages of seeds his reflections. "What is the 'What's her mother's name?' says he entered upon the life of the Vatican, earth can you want with five or six dol- "Why, you see, Mrs. Gray, we want and slips, nobly bent on having ribbon biain study about." and all hopes which may have been flower beds and mosaic parterres to get off for a time, as we used to It was his old friend, Frank Kaymond. lars?" 'I'll ask her,' says she. based on his feebleness must long since about the house but she sat on the when boys." The two men had not met 'Betholinda Berthelet Brown,' ""I knew you would wonder,but I have have been set aside. He is posted on steps and threw them broadcast, never The lady smiled grimly, and said: since Mr. Gray's marriage, and as Frank sa\ she. all the men and things of the day and needed some money for a long time to knowing, in the profusion ot flowers was to remain in town for a week, Mr. "Albert is, as you see, too extravagant "Just then the woman came to the has manifested much tact in reconciling that would have been there anyway, get a few necessary articles." Gray invited him home. He lit a cigar, by half. I cannot, in the present state head of the stairs, and says: the tradition and policy of the Holy wiiether hers ever came up or not. and handed its mate to Frank, as he of our finances, give my consent to his 'Seems to me you're asking a I gave you two dollars last week." See with those of other governments of And how beautiful where the grasses did this. going." With these words, spoken threat many impertinent questions.' "I know it and I used it for materials the world. Since his accession there the most useful one the most "beautiful with great composure, she walked off, The two conversed of old times until -Law requires it,' says 1. 'Where to work up for our church fair." has been a notable change in the Sacred of all the delicate little "buffalograss," leaving the gentlemen to themselves. they reached Mr. Gray's place of business, were vou born?' "Church fiddlesticks!" said Mr. Gray, College. The foreign element is for which the prairie is famous, "By Heavens, Albert, I never would "Buffalo.' when they separated, Frank agreeing tcontemptuously. "Well, I can't see waving its tiny curled side of now so strong that it almost counterbalances stand that!" said Frank, vehemently. 'How old are you?' to be at the Gray's at six o'clock. what you need with five or six dollars." feathery daintiness as if its beauty the Italian. So far hi.} "creations" "To be tutored like a schoolboy!" Annie was apprised of his coming by a 'None of your busines! Matilda, "Here is a list of what I need," said were its only excuse for being, yet have given satisfaction. While 3lnt the door!' Haven't you any money at the 3tore? If note from her husband. Mrs. Gray, handing a little slip of paper bravely "curing" itself into dry hay the creation of cardinals is a matter not, call upon me for any amount, and "Oh, it's fun! Say, we get ten cents to her husband: Going home that night, as was his invariable as it stands, when the autumn winds which depends entirely on his own will, let us hurry, or we shall be late." apiece for births and deaths and that Onepair kid gloves $2 00 custom, he ran into Benton's begin to blow, that the happy flocks there are certain archbishoprics the mbumbents day I made just fifty cents, Up in "No, I am afraid I cannot go. I am One pair kid slipppeis 2 00 to buy some cigars. Benton wa9 surprised may "nible, sharp-toothed, the rich, of which he cannot well avoid Eightpair Balbrlggan hose 1 00 Dutchtown can make 6 or 7 a pledged not to take any money from the to see him drop the dozen he had thick-growing blades" all through making cardinals. Silesia 52 da3%"JJet/oit Free Pres*. stoie, and it would not be right to accept taken up. the winter, without their being gathered -Crepe de lisse 50 any from you." into barns.Alice Wellington "Are they not good?" inquired the The Mississippi Problem. Harper'1s Magazine for June. Russia at the Gates. Glad of an excuse, Mr. Gray then Total $5 75 llolhns, in dealer. "We think them our choicest." Capt. Cowdonsa^s in a late letter: told his friend the secret of his wife's ""Crepe de lisse! What is that From Charles Marvin's "The Russians at the "They are good. But on second The city olNew Oilcans, geographyicalh, conduct. "Euffling for the neck." Gates of Herat" thought I will not take any to-night." Bismarck's Dream. is the best located city on the "Whew! So that is it," said Frank. "Will it wash?" Our British Generals and the Generals Mr. Gray had alwavs purchased his sphere. She is near the gulf, and has "Well, I'm glad to have my faith in Are Austria and Russia working together "No." of Russia value Herat, not solely on cigars as he used them but now he all the Mississippi basin at her back. womankind restored? But isn't she for England's humiliation? "I thought so. A sheer waste of account of the city, but on account of I wished he had a box at home. However She has an area of land 2,000 miles overdoing the matter? Did you ever The report that these great powers money. What fools women are! What the resources of the district in which it he decided to ask his wife for some north of her by 1,500 miles wide, all "ha\ come to an understanding about refuse her money before others would a man think of putting i piece of is situatedresources in corn and beef, I money, and run out and fill his case ot which has unfold facilities for agriculture, the Orient," must be classed amonothe "I think I did last summer, when stiff, white, papery nothing around his which, if swept into any point of the without his fiiend's knowledge. Twenty-four manufacturing, grazing, and man} statements of the day tha Mrs. Osgood was visiting her. They neck, that cost fifty cents? and four hours had passed, and he had Herat district, not necessarily to Herat commerce. She, like New York, has are important if true. Austria has wished to visit a friend residing in Biddleford. dollars for gloves and slippers Well, already begun to experience a feeling of itself, would feed an army of at least water lines her rear that reach out never been Iriendly to Russia. She I thought it was foolish, and I must sav, Annie, you are glowing extravagant. shame, and a disinclination to ask for 100,000 men and sustain them during and drain the numerous tributaries to has alwa} stood opposed to Russia's told them so and finally refused my I pay for your dresses, bonnets, monev. A thought of Annie crossed her main ditch, the great Father of the final advance upon India. It is this ambition in the direction of Constantinople. wife the money. The truth is," apologetically, and all the essentials, without a his mind. "Pshaw! she doesn't ha^i to Waters. Perhaps 3on ha\e noticed great campaign ground, and not exclusively During the past decade a diplomatic "I had met with some heavy onurmur that is," said he, "with sundry treat friends to cigars," he muttered. that Boston has deep water in front the town of Heiat, that is the key controversy between Vienna losses, and felt that we must econo- recollection to the contrary, when they and railways in the rear and, practically, of India. If a line be drawn south of Herat and bt. Peteisburg has gone on almost Frank Raymond was already at his mize." come within reasonable bounds. But it is the same with Baltimore without intermission. Yet it is asserted 100 miles to Furrah, a second west house, and Annie had a tempting little "Why not have allowed her to use these little thingsthings which are of while New York has the six by seventy that the most amicable relations supper for them and Annie was looking seventy miles to Kusan, on the Persian her own judgment? Perhaps she intended no earthly accountI should think yeu foot Erie canal and lakes behind her now exist between the two governments. her prettiest. frontier, and a third 120 miles north, F* to economize in other ways," might do without." Hudson river, and to the tact ot the behind the points occupied by the Russians, When supper was over, he took Annie said Frank. "They are what no lady can do without. cheap water transportation of New a rough idea may be formed of a Ministerial officials of Austria are aside and asked for a dollar, which "I believe she said something of the The slippers are to save my nice York, she owes her success a3 a rival district as fertile as England throughout, claiming tor Franz Joseph all the she gave him grudgingly. Then he excused kind. But to tell the truth, Ihad got walking boots. You yourself noticed city to Boston and Baltimore and, and possessing marvelous mineral credit ot having effected a" settlement himself for a moment, and bought into the way of thinking that women my gloves last Sunday, and said you now, then, should New Orleans have resources. This is the camping-ground, ot the Anglo-Russian dispute. England some cigars. They were wretched affairs, needed to be continually curbed, or they detested a soiled or torn glove. Stockings deeper ocean vessels than either of was iorceel to back down, they this is the place of arms, which Russia however, and -filled the house with would run into extravagances." those three cites, and with water flowing are rather necessary in our land, say, because Austria interposed at wants in order that she may be always a villainous odor, for he had to get to her doors, why wouldn't she "It's a shame to treat a high-spirited and" Constantinople to prevent the conclu- *c able to threaten India. There is no them at a new place, Benton's being increase enormously in her commercial woman in that way." "Say no more. But why is it that sion of an Anglo-Turkish convention such camping-ground anywhere between too far off. power9 "I realize it now, fully, more fully .these wants come all at once?" which would open the Dardanelles to the Caspian and Herat, and none than you can, unless you go through The next day the two friends started "For the simple reason that hitherto But there are two greai problems English war ships. The British cabinet again between Herat and India. with my experience. Annie said she out together when Mr. Gray, with an air I have bought them myself, with money which 3 early, monthly, weekly, daily, became alarmed at this hostile 3 Hence, not without reason have the had done plain sewing to pay for things of having forgotten something, said, earned by plain sewing. But since my and hourly confront the people of demonstration from an unexpected. ablest Generals of England and Russia that she needed, rather than ask me "Excuse me a minute." illness, in the autumn, it hurts my Louisiana,, and they are these: quarter. \r* designated the district the key of India. for the money. I understand it now side to sew much, and I have to give 1. Can Louisiana get rid of her "Ill go back with you if you have forgotten If Austria's attitude is not misrep- ti I would rather have earned the money it up." overflows? anything," said Mr. Kaymond. resented, perhaps we see the beginning The Russians are posted at the gates for our trip by sawing wood than have Mrs. Gray enjoyed her husband's 2. Can New Orleans harbor ships of Mr. Gray clapped his hands on his of a movement for the realization of of Herat the English are posted on asked for it. Fancy having to always horrified look. fifty feet depth? pocket. I thought I had forgotten Bismarck's dream, which eliminate* the hills dominating the avenues to ask!" 'Plain sewing! Annie. I thought you Not long since I crossed the river at Turkey from the powers of Europe, my pocket book, but I haven't," Candahar. Between them lies the New Orleans a mile above Canal street,. had more pride." Do you knov, Albert, I am glad this extends Austrian rale to the Bosphorus, he said "so it's all right." And Afghan barrier. That barrier, physically, to "Harvey's Canal." The mile-wide,, I had too much pride to BEG of you has happened? I may marry sometime and annexes part of the German. & then he hurried on, his cheeks is of such a character that the muddy, turbid stream Was moving to provinces of Austria to the German. R" "Atfhat I could earn myself," she said with in fact, I'm thinking of it strongly, and tingling with shame at the deceit. But Russians could drive a four-in-hand from the gulf at about the rate of three miles empire. For Russian consent to-thia *f^ -some spirit. now I shall avoid the course you have he could not risk having his friend go their own Cossack outposts to ours, I per hour, and, when full, it has to run grand scheme, Austria, with the con- 1&.\ taken. Otherwise, I presume I might "Well, here is four dolalarsand a half. back with him and stand by while he and during the 549 miles ride they down a slope of about seventeen feet sent and support of Bismarck, could 'S^ have donejust the same. I believe a great Try,to make that do." And he hurried asked for money. would pass only two towns on the road in going to the gulf, at the river's attord to favor Russia's plan of reach- ^fj. many men do." off. Mr. Gray was lucky that day. He Heratfwith 50,000 and Candahar, with mouth, 120 miles distant. I landed at ing salt water by way of Afghanistan .ff Mrs. Gray sighed. had no calls for money, and he had a "Do? Why, yes. My mother never 60,000 people. There are bad roads in Harvey's canal-dock, which is not Cincinnati Times-Star* ^:^S^^\a "He means well," she said, "but men half a dozen of those horrid cigars left, had a simple penny without asking father Afghanistan, but they do not lie between yet opened to the Mississippi river on St seem to think women are like children a couple of which he smoked on the for it, and she helped earn it all, and the Russians and the English. its north end, by some few rods. I not to be trusted with money." The Missouri Mule. street after his friend left him. In fact, was prudence and industry personified. There are fierce tribes, but they lie the walked south for" less than 400 feet, Meanwhile Mr. Gray was soliloquizing: "It's rather strange," observed a he concluded to risk another day in the I'll turn over a new leaf. Ah, here come thinnest between the Czar's soldiers when, down there in the canal, I saw 4lthat England I "Strange how extravagant women passenger from Pittsburg, our friends." t, same way. But on this day he realized and the Queen's. There are patriotic gulf water just twelve feet lower than are, Annie is one of the best in the should send clear over to Missouri the old adage, "It never rains but it Mr. Raymond, to Mr. Gray's great the river, only a few rods north of Afghans, but the least sentimental and world, but she does not know the worth to buy mules for use in the Soudan, pours," for from being asked to change relief,6said it would not be possible for where I stood. You ask why don,t the most amenable to European influence of money any more than a child. That wonder what that's for?" a bill, to getting his coat ripped and him to go on the proposed trip, owing they cut the bank two miles wide and lie between the Cossack and the four dollars and a half will be spent before asking for credit at his tailor's, the day to unforseen circumstances, whereupon "Tactics, my dear sir, tactics," replied fifteen feet deep, straight to the gulf, Sikh. There are fearful mountains, night. Women can't keep mon- was a series of mortifications. Mr. Gray, in an off-hand manner, proposed a military looking man "England^ only fifty-five miles south, and thereby but they do not lie along the road I ey." that, as Frank could not go, they policy in Egypt is to get up close Annie was unaware of all this. In drain the flood waters of the river, mention. Horrible deserts exist, butin i Mrs. Gray went down town, as intended to the enemy and then turn tail and re^ should all come to his house that evening fact, she thought her husband was failing and so increase the outflow that the this ease the most fertile, parts of Afghanistan but she walked instead ofriding, retreat slowly and in good order. again. "My wife will be glad to see you," bottom ol the river will deepen up to to realize the situation. So when, mark the route. In one word, in order to save her money. While Here is where the mule is expected to said he. its rocky bottom or shoals? Well, now,, at night, Mr. Gray asked her for money there is no barrier at all between the down, she felt faint and hungry from get in his work."CMca^o Herald ancient citizen, vou have me,. suro. Itom spend the next day, she wickedly put The week had passed, and "Richard Russians and the English, except such her walk, and would have liked a lunch, Why don't they?" hi off with some excuse, and ingeniously was himself again," or could be if he as we ourselves may'try to create and Jtat she had no money to spare. ^J$~M} Careless or fraudulent placing Q ralhrat evaded the request until he was chose, but his wife had mirrored his interpose to check the advance of the But, now, while this could he ibne i'Oh, by,the way, Annie, difl yofi j|o properties In the bands of courts should, r forced to prefer it before his friend. past actions so truly and forcibly that Cossack. &k i there perhaps is a better place. It is ceive a check,/?atficay Review. hi\