New Ulm weekly review (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892
July 8, 1885 · Page 5 of 8
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EOTO AND BEUGION. so if we let Henry the Eight appear he girl with the glorious hairhair which you'll let me, and she can read them to my way, filled with a fiery indignation will, no doubt, appropriate tliem both, looks as if it had caught and kept you." a&rainst some one, I knew not whom. Shadowed by the lilac tree, & Pittsburgh Cftrl Who Converted Xer so unless Napoleon should make his appearance prisoner the sunshineand great dark "Yes, I had to take the money I got I asked to see Louis'' employer, and he Near the garden fence, Sorer but ConUfc JTot Harry. in some future timeand we blue eyeseyes like violets that have fer the milk, that is some ov it, fer received me in his private office. Stands my neighbor, Rosie Lee, must hope that this catastrophe Charm of innocence! grown in the shadethat was- Donna. these. I thought ef he spent so much "My husband has just been arrested,"* William Flynn, an. ex-member of the Swopter than the fragrant flower, "Prince Albert, do you like apples She has been our daughter ever since fer drink, it wouldn't do no hurt fer me I said. "Can you tell me what for?" legislature, asked' in marriage Miss With the dew-drop laden, "Yus, I do." the trial, and no daughter in the whole to get books ter eddicate the children, "Be calm, madam, he may be wrongly Jennie HooK", of Pittsburg, Pa., a pretty tFairer than the morning hour, "Of course von do, take these there city is more beloved. Is the winsome maiden! though they need cloes bad, too. suspected but as things stand now blonde of 18: He was a Protestant and now, I would like to see the rest of the Prince Albert's pants are patched all it looks as though he is guilty ofof she a Catholic, and the parents of Miss JFrom the marole's top-most limb, royalthat is, bring one of the others over, and George the Third has only appropriating a large amount of our Hook objected to a union, but the barrier With the flush of day, ALONG BROADWAY. tomorrow. Let me see, Elizabeth I one dress, 'n I wash it nights when he's funds." Come the redbreast's matin hymn, that this difference built between always thought I should like to see Sweetest roundelay' asleep, 'n Henry the Eighth has'nt I sank upon a chair my Louis, the them was- not strong enough to keep An Afternoon Sketch of the Great Thoroughfare ~l"et the soag the maiden sings, Elizabeth. What a pity Raleigh or nothing to wear," best man the sun ever shone upon, them apart, for Flynn kept coming and or Hew York. Tuneful, soft and lowly, Leicester can't come with her. Good "Who?" I asked, my hair almost guilty of stealing! The world was 3oming at stated evenings of the week, "To ono heait a rapture bungs, night, don't forget to bring Elizabeth, A gossipy writer in the New York standing on end. slipping away from me, it seemed. The E en moie puie and holy. *nd Jennie was always at home. The after that we may arrange an audience Citizen says: I have stood on the Corse "Henry the Eighth. Donie, she said man in compassion handed me a glass i parents persisted in tiieir objections, wilh Victoria, andwell, I don't know Happier thought than lips can speak of Rome, the Strada Toledo of Naples you thought one uv 'em ought to be of water, reiterating that it might turn and told him to cease his Beams hei blue eye about Geoige the Third. I'm afraid he the Prado of Vienna, the Linden oi named Henry the Eighth, so I named out all rifjht after all. -Joy lights up her glowing cheek visits. Miss Jennie said she would not is not very piesentable, but" Berlin have wandered through the Hei bethrothed lsnigh' babv that." "I thank you for telling me," I said, marry any other man but Flynn, whereupon "O, he can't walk yet!" exclaimed Heedless of the lilac's bloom, bazaars of Constantinople and of Smyra What could I say It was too awful. "but it is to come out all right, for the ti the parents consented to the visits Oi the mormug's glory, Donna Isabella. I have looked down upon the motley "I think," I at last faltered, "that best man that lives is not more innocent -All that in her heart finds room tvith the distinct understanding, however, I could not bpgm to relate all the group of Russian soldiers and Polish Henry is a nice name, but I would leave than he is. Can you tell me where Is Love's sweet, old stoiy' that they were to remain single. sport we had about that family. We peddlers in the streets of Moscow I Nathan Upham. off the rest of it. I must say I don't they have taken him?" But finally the wooer was won from his had them all, one after another, excepting have stood at heat of day amid the like the rest of it He told me, and I went there and strong conviction, and at the end of a George the Third, who could not throng of London bridge, and watched "Don't you? Well, I'll leave it off found my Louis again. I staid with "D OM ISABELLA." five years' course of lectures to that end walk, and the baby. There was no end the tides of men ebb and flow along the then, though Henry's rather plain him as long as they would let me, and he consented to be baptised in the to the harmless jokes we perpetrated Boulevard des Italiens and Boulevard alone." then went home, My friend next door Catholic faith. Of course, this capitulation, upon them, there was no end to Montmartre of Paris, but in no city "I like it for that," I said, "and if came and begged me to spend the Elizabeth H. Bohan in Chicago Tubune. the laughter their ridiculous names excited after so long a siege, was a sigaal have I seen so strong a mixture of races you'll call him so I'll send him a pretty night with her, but I would not, so she We had been married fonr weeks, in us as I said before, it took so of great joy to the young lady, and as in Broadway at noon. The great dress for a present." staid with me. I am sure that was Louis and I, and had just returned from little in those days to make us laugh. nd she went at once to the Episcopal residence, annual fairs of Saxony, of Russia, and When I started home my heart sank the most dreadful night I ever spent. We loved each other so well, Louis had gave word that she had secured a our eastern trip to the cozy little home of FianceLeipsic, Novgrrod, and within me and tears would come. I No sleep come to me. My Louis was a nice salary, and I was released from niv proselyte, and a time was fixed when she Beaucaire, and the motley quays ol waiting for us. I was a teacher Louis had never been in such a place before, in prison. These awful words rang duties which had become tiresome to might bring the young man and the Gibraltar, Marseilles, Alexandria and and the dark cloud of ignorance and through by brain continually. The a bookkeeper. All our savings were in me. There was absolutely no cloud upon $0- ceremony of repaptism be solemnized. Genoacome nearest to New York the darker cloud of intemperance that clock striking the hour struck out the bank and were the nucleus around which our lives, no shadow even of a skeleton the strange picturesqueness and variety brooded over that home seemed so very, words, "Louis is in prison!" The Under the forms of the Catholic our closet. our dollars were to cling until there was of their crowd. In those great fail"you \ery pitiful to me. The next day I trains coming in shrieked it out on the religion, cases of this kind, where the see once or twice a year a huge enough to buy us a home. I was strong O, how very, very happy we were! sent them the bookspure, good, useful chill night air and told the world my convert has no parents professing the commmgliug of those dieamy easten How wonderfully beautiful was life! and well and was going to do my own booksand a lot of bright calico for Louis was in prison. Even the little same belief, it is necessary that some one races who hang around the gate* How unrealized were soirow and care, dresses for the children, and I felt that I cricket in the wainscoting piped out all work. Why, I just laughed at the idea shall act that capacity, become their that separate Europe Irom and then as the summer wore on there was doing a little, for God's sake. night long, "Louis is in prison." godfather or godmother and pledge Asia of having a servant. "What work was and along the beautiful came to me a new joy, a wonderful "Why did I not do it long ago?" I I went to Louis in the morning. My 5 tlieniselves to ace that capacity and ijhoien there to do," I said, "in a house all newly of the Adriatic, where the ocea mystery, and 1 saw in Louis's eyes a asked, soirow fully, but Louis said, kind neighbor and other friends went keep a guardianship over them through seems to have sent its worn wa\ os tc furnished and with only Louis and me deep reverence that I had not seen before, "Never mind that, love only let us resolve his bail, and he returned with me. I life. And this pledge is solemn and seek, like so manv other wasted spirits, and his tones were more tender never to forgot again." could keep up no longer, then, and in it?" perfectly binding. At the time set for a soft and sunny grave, are to be seen and we prayed together oftner and our A few weeks more passed away, when Louis tended me. He never left rny the baptism the two lovers were at "Have you everything you want, lounging on every quay sailors of e\ ery joy was of a quieter kind. I thought one aiternoon my next door neighbor side, and there was no smallest attention hand, had gone together without other zone and clime and lace. But over love?" asked Louis the first day after then that I had only impelfectly undeistood camo rushing in in great excitement. that could be paid to me that he attendants, and the solemn ceremony these pictures there hangs a lazy, indolent what happiness was before. our housekeeping. "Do you know?" she cried, "that that omitted. He petted me like a child, was gone through with. When the cloud, and they are to be seen bnt familythe royal family, as you call but I kept my bed for several days, so A great wish sprung up my heart "Why, yes, I think so let me see priest asked her if she was to act as periodically. The scene of Broadway themhave had scarlet fever in their gieat had been the shock. Then gradually then to do something for God's sake. bread, butter, meat, vegetables, sugar, godmother the happy young woman is equallv varied, ever constant ana hon tor a week, and that Donie has the hoiror of that night wore "He has done so much for me, love, leadily assented, eager that no techni- tea, coffeebut there! wc have no milk. been bringing us milk just the same?" away, and I went about the house again I must do something for Him," I said more brisk. There goes a Yankee bality should delay the consummation "Where shall I get milk, Louis?" as usual. to Louis. "Oh," I said, "it can't be possible, parson, an embroyo Talmage, for instance, of her ish. And when the ceremonv can it?" "What better can a woman do for If Louis felt troubled he concealed "I'm sure I don't quite know, dear evidently calculating how he can was through the young girl, with flushed "It is possible. It is true. One can God than to become a good mother?" it from me, and he spoke so confidently concoct a sermon which will not only milkmen go about the streets I've seen cheeks and hesitating woid&, told never tell what such people will do. asked Louis, with a shower of kisses. of everything coming out right at suit the pulpit on ne\t Sunday, but how the wik of that hour had destroved them with their tin cans hundreds of Have you ever had it?" "Yes, I know, dear, but my heart goes the trial that at last I believe 1 it ould, with soniv gentle toituung a second appearance the barriers between them and that times. I wonder who that nice looking "No," I said, and I felt myself growing out so to all mothers now, and more too. We had not many weeks to Avait on the lecture stand, and possibly they, too, would soon come befoie him little woman next door gets her's faint and cold. than all to the poor wretched ones with for the trial. Then again my love was after find a lucrative repose on a again to solemnize another ceremony "You poor little thing." she said, brutal husbandsthe ones who are iiltreated, prisoner at the bar. from." shelf of the Messrs. Appletou and Harper and to ask his blessing. compassionately, "and there aie three who have to be overworked and As I listened to the array of evidence Next comes a Pennsylvania fanner, Soon after, when they wanted to get "Don't you think I'd better run over little ones too." poorly fed and clothed and to the hopeless against him my heart grew sick with looking as if he had just risen fron. married, the priest refused to perform And ask her There was a ring at the door. "If it'a ones, the ones who have to look forwaid fear. I wondered how I could hose the lake of Harlem, carrying in his eye the ceremony on the ground that the Louis," I said, "don't say a word just "I don't know that it's just the thing, to the time when the vices of the been so hopeful I wondered how he a vigilant determination not to be outdone, young woman having become godmother yet." fathers will appear in the children. O, could have borne up as he did through pet you see, she hasn't called on you, which proclaims that, though could not become the wiie of I wish I could do something for these, It was Louis, and he looked ill. all those weeks. His attorneys did all broad Dutch in frame, he is sharp Yankee her convert. The good father comforted and" if its ever so little." 'Darling, I've just received a telegram. they *bul for him, but the attorneys in spirit. Here we see two of the them as best he could, and offered, "Called! why, how could she when Brother Sam is dying. I must go to for the prosecution drew closer and "I don't know of any one you could most honored judges of our bench as the only consolation at hand, that we only got back last night I'm sure him. Throw a few things into my closer about him a chain of circumstantial do anything for" said Louis reflectively. which has of late years much grown in perhaps a petition to Rome might absolve valise. There's a dear wife." evidence that I felt it would be "I've never been in the parts of the city there could be nothing wrong in my honorone lush, the other American her Irom! her vows. Thev went almost impossible to break. where the very poor dwell, but I will I did so mechanically, and he embraced one in the autumn, the other in the iway, and tinj. advice was acted upon going to her door and ask her to be so go I will find some one for you to aid, me and was gone. It was almost over. The counsel for spring of life one covered with the full is quickly as possible. They waited kind as to tell her milk man to bring my darling." "I did not tell him," I said, as I returned the defense had finished his eloquent ripe fruit of eminence and distinction, anxiously for two years, but hope so us milk, too." to the dining room. "His brother "O, how good you are, Louis how I appeal. The counsel for the prosecution the other wearing the blossom of one long deferred grew sick, and at last the is dying, and he has gone to him. wish every woman had a3 good a husband had made it appear quite plainly day ripening into a similar richness "No, of course there couldn't," said bridegroom, feeling the injustice of being One thing at a time is enDugh." as I have"but I won't tell any that Louis was guilty. It only remained pleasantly discussing the last novel oi kept waiting so long, insisted on Louis, so he waited while I ran over. more of our foolishness. "Come over and stay with me to-night. for the judge to charge the jury, and the last play as a light relief to their being released. Since then he has "A little girl brings her milk, and she 1'ou canuofc stay here alone." thenthen the fearful sentence. That day. as the time drew near when weightier intellectual morning work as married a* young lady of Penn avenue, Bays they are clean people, so I asked "Yes I will go," I said. Just then Donna Isabella was to bring the milk, they saunter home. So this was life. O, how long ago a school teacher being lus choice. Sho ti Donie's knock sounded on the kitchen the thought suddenly came to me that her to send to us also. She seems to seemed to me the time when Louis and I lived only a few months after the wedding, ten door. My neighbor flew to open it, and perhaps I could do something for laughed so joyously at every little thing. and now the petition to Rome ia lie a nice little woman," said I when I A Queer Town. I could hear the bitter torrent of words them. That they were very poor I It was not two months ago, but it seemed being agitated again, for the young returned. she poured forth. knew, for I had seen many evidences of years, ages. Bill Arp in the Atlanta Constitution. godmother that would have been a "Well, now you are all right I'll be it about the children. That there was "Never show your face here again, nife is still unmarried and otherwise It was very still as the judge arose Texarkana is a novelty. I nevei is, some reason why Donna disliked to off," and Louis kissed me and went you awful creature. How could you unpledged.New York Times. and he did not speak just at first. In knew until now where its long curious mention her father I had seen also. light from a pest-house into our homes, that pause a slight disturbance at the down to the store. name came from. Texas and Arkansas, ds. So I resolved to go back with her that bringing disease with you? Go off, and door was distinctly heard. Then a and it is ail right, for the state line I O, that fiist dinner! You see I knew as Mntilated Notes. night and discover a way to help them. never come again woman and a little girl came timidly 3phts the town in vo. This line does A wras Donna and her mother. -very little about cooking, and cooked When Louis came the dinner was on up to me. It I felt badly for the poor child. "It is The following are the regulationsgoverning not run with the streets, but diagonally three times too much, and it was not the tablea full half hour before the The mother whispered to me, and this awful ignorance." I said but I felt the redemption of mutilated and right through business houses and usual time. 1 in turn told our counsel what she said. badly for myself, toD, and for Louis. done nicely either, but Louis only notes and fractional currency. United pri\ ate residences, so that when the Then he arose. Then I locked up the house and went "I'm going home with Donna Isabella, laughed and said: "What could be expected States note3. each equalling or exceeding merchant is behind his counter in Texas over with her. The next day I came love. I'm going to help them if I can. "Your honor, we have a new witness. three-fifths of itb original proportions, his customeis are in Arkansas* Ithought of a school teacher and that back and staid at home all day. Towards We should always do what is just at This little girl claims she knows who the are redeemable at their full (face thatthere/'vould be some conflictrof laws, i The "was sure in a month's time I would night two men came to the house hand to do, I think." real culpiit is7 and I beseech you to let value in other United States notes by and theie is someespecially aboul be the best cook in that street," and that and asked for Louis. I told them that her be examined." Her objections So we hurried our dinner and Louis the Treasurer and the several Assistant crimebut these people all unite in i he had gone home to his brother, who were interposed by the counsel for the wiped the dishes for me. Ye3, he really it was "the best dinner he had ever eaten Tieasurers of the United States,-and everj thing for ths good of Texaikana, was dving. prosecution, which were promptly overruled did! He often wiped the dishes in anyway, because the best little wife are redeemable in com in sums not le3s and all criminals can't dodge over the by the court, and Donna was placed those days, and we had such good times. "When is he coming back, madam?" than $50, by the Assistant Treasurer at line to do any good. They have extradition in the world cooked it." Then I laughed upon the stand. I used to think it just the nicest thing asked one of the men sharply. New York. Fractional notes, each laws of their own, not state and we were just as jolly as could be. in the world to have Louis in the kitchen "I don't know. He did not tell me. "You won't let him go to jail she equalling or exceeding three-fifths of laws, nor municipal laws, but Just as we had finished there was a helping me. He used to look so corneal I don't suppose he knew," I answered. said, appealing to the judge. "He its original proportions in one piece, the laws of custom and self-protection. J, with one of my large working aprons "Of course he didn't!" said the other, didn't do it. I know who did it, but timid kuock at the kitchen door and the are redeemable at their full facar-value When a man skins over the line the officers on, standing bent forward so as not to sneeringly. "They never know, do I've been sick, awful sick, but we in United States notes, in sums not less little girl with milk entered. of that side shove him back, law wras let the towel touch his vesthe they?" didn't have the scarlet fever either. I than $3S orno'law. If he wants to sue* for kidnapping by the Treasurer and the sevgral "Come right into the dining room." very neat in his dress. I remember "If you will leave me your address I didn't know nothing about it till Assistant Treasurers of the United he can't find ai respectable law I said, "I wane to give you some cake. once we had been talking such nonsense will send word to correspond with you, now, but I knew all about it weeks ago. States^ United States notes and fractional yer to take his cabe public opinion is and laughing so much that I did not if your business is important," I said, I knew all about it the night it was done. Have you little sisters and brothers notes, of each of which less than against itr, and so he has to submit. observe that my pan was very near the with all the dignity I could assume. That is the man who did it"pointing 5 SXes'm." three-fifths remain, and notes torn or They have a double city government, edge of the table. All at once down it to the junior partner of the firm, who "Most likely you would." And they "''Well, take this cake to them," I said, cut into pieces each less than threefiffchsy two mavors and two marshals, but there came, and all the water ran over my laughed scornfully, but whose face later both laughed and walked away. I sat "filling her pail. "Now what is your are redeemable only by is no clash of conflict and no jealousv. nice clean floor. You should have seen on as her story progressed became livid down, trembling violently. Something name the Treasurer of the United States. Well, I believe that the people on the Louis jump. I laughed until I had a with terror. dreadful was going to happen I ielt "Donieisabelle." Fragments of United States, notes, Texas side are a little more airy and pain in my side: then I cried hysterically sure. O, if Louis was only at home, I An angel from heaven could not hare "What?" gold certificates, silver certificates, and consequential than those over the Arkansaw Then Louis got frightened and thought. But when he does come, I looked more glorious to me at that moment "Donieisabelle." fractional notes, constituting^fearly onehalf linefor atTexaaiawell, he started for a doctor, with the apron still must tell him I am going to have the than that pale,, hollow-eyed redhaired "Good heavens, Louis! Can she but less than three-fif tha,, when unaccompanied is just a. Texan, and that means a good on. I screamed for him to come back, scarlet fever. I felt it coming on, I child. mean Donna Isabella?" by evidence tbac the miss1 deaL They are not only proud o* living and he came. I pointed to his apron, J,Yes'm," said the child with a pleased was sure, and perhaps his brother ing portions have been destroyed, are Then she told it all in her quaint, illiterate in their state, but they are sorry for and then fell to laughing again. He should be dead, and then perhaps I wayhow she was passing the -smile. redeemable at one-half the- full face those who don't. They look upon all took me in his arms and begged me would die, and thenlike a good angel store the night she had been spurned There was a dreadful pause. Louis' value of whole notes or certificates. the rest of us as unfortunates. The stop, but I could not. I laughed and one of Fenelon's splendid sentences came from our door, and by the light of the eyes were wider open than I had ever Fragments leas than half ai redeemed^ time- was when they invited immigra?tion, cried until I had not strength enough into my mind: "I will not have lamp she saw her father approaching in seen them before. He did look so ridiculous. only when aceompanied by an affidavit but they have- ceased to feel coiircern left to raise my head. Louis was as scarlet fever. Louis's brother will a drunken frenzy. Afraid of a blow if executed iu accordance witeiithe requirements about that now, for the cry 13, pale as death. He told me afterwards not die. These men were only rude, he should recognize her, she slipped "Ohayesthereyou may go of the following: paragraphsnotes "still thejr come." They give cordial he thought I had gone mad. It was they meant nothing wrong. Louis will into the dark alley and crouched down now. "Good night," I stammeredr The and certificates, of each of which welcome to all, but they hint that after his first experience with hysterics. be at home to-morrow most likely, and in the shade of a large packing-box until door closed after her, and then I relieved awhile they may take a vote as,to less than three-fifths-* remain, accompanied everythinng will be all right." I felt a he should have passed by. She had But, O yes! I was telling about going myself. I laughed until the tears by an affidavit fjssna the ownea-or whether a foreigner may come or nat. little better then and my courage came been there bnt a minute when two men home with Donna Isabella. I went rolled down my face, and Louis took me from sucl^persons as, have knowledge back, and, locking up the house, I went came swiftly np the alley and stopped home with her, and found, O! such a on his lap and we both laughed. of the f&jtts, that the* missing portions over to spend another night at my so near her she could have touched home of misery. Theie was actually Ah me, what a little thing it takes to A Philosopher's Diet. have beea totally destroyed, are, i the neighbor's. them. They were the junior partner not one comfort there. The mother make young, happy people laugh. It proof famished is satisfactory, reafeemed and his accomplice, one of the clerks. I once knew a man who had reached The next morning Louis came back, had a terribly worn, hopeless look on cseems to me as I look back that Louis at their full face isism. The af&2avit as close to the- perfection of human and he looked so cheerful. Sam was her face. There were nine children, "This is what he said," she went on, cand I were laughing nearly all the time must ssate the cause- and manner ol philosophy as- possible. One-half ol not even sick, he said. with not clothing enough jr four on taking a slip of dirty paper from her in those days. oiutili&on, and mast be sworn and subscribed! the discomfort and a large proportion "Some one must have been playing a them all. There were two rooms, and pocket. He whispered, but I heard "You did not tell Her Majesty to before an officer qualified! to administer of the misery of the world,, he- said, joke on me, though a cruel and- foolish just inside the second lay the father in him, and I writ it all down. It's almost keep on bringing us milk," said Louis oaths, wJuo-naust affix his official came from our inability to gratify tastes one." a drunken sleep. like what the prince said in the -at last. seal' thereto, and the character ol that are acuiredthat are not} by any Primrose Princess of the Then I told him of my fears of scarlet-fever, There was a pile of yellow-covered "I was too overcome, but one of her the* affiants nius&be certified tpbegoodi means, necessary to existence* This fellow and he took me in his arms "Never mind about the princess, books on the shelf. I picked up one Tank will surely know enough without by soeh officer or- some other, having ani held a theory that there is,noin any and told me not to be afraid that he child, but let us hear what this man said, "The Primrose Princess of the Pathless being told," I returned. And she did. official seal. The Treasures- will exer- part of the world absolute necessity foi could not believe it until he had investigated said our attorney. So she repeated: Prairie." Another"The Imprisoned 'The next evening as we were at dinner c& such a discretion undei- this regula-* starvation*. That everywhere- nature it himself that he would go then 'Remember the quarrel to-morrow, Earl and His Faithless Bride." Another"Lord the little, timid knock sounded, and in tiott as may seem to hisi. needful fr* has provided something that wfil sustain and be back in half an hour and tell all and don't overdo your part. I'll dismiss Mounttower's Haunted Cas- talked Donna Isabella and a little protect the United States* from frasdl life. He argued that men -very often about it. He took his hat, and was just you then you take the first train tle." "brother no less doleful looking than fragments a.et redeemable are rejected suffered from the absence-oft -what they going out of the door when the same two for Dakota and buy up those lands I "You read these?" I asked the woman. herself both pale thin and red haired. and returned counterfeit notes ar men stepped in and seized him by both had been accustomed tOveat and they told you of, and as soon as 1 can find "What is his name?" I asked, indicating branded and returned. arms. an excuse I'll sell out and join you. I've did not stop to think that it was possible the boy. "O, yes," she answered, brightening fixed the telegram right."' to.swrvive even on water for a period "You are my prisoner," said one of "Prince Albert," she answered quietly- up, "that is, I don't know how to read, of time. He had travel^ and he made them. In 1860the United States coa*ained The junior partner was arrested, the Lbut Donie and Prince Albert read 'em one rule in all his travels, to eat whatever clerk was traced out west and confessed in round numbers, $UXX),000 people, "Your prisoner," exclaimed Louis. "AhV and what are the others' to me. Heindicating the drunken I-* any other fora* of teaman life could 'named?" the crime and justice was meted out to "This is another mistake. What am I who consumed over- 86,000,000 gallons sleeperdidn't want 'em to go to school, eait, and failing human, life, what any them. My Louis was a free man. He arrested for, pray?" "There's Victory, an' Marylouise, an' but I made him b'lve they could earn of spiritons liquors^ while in 1884, with i efchier form of anisial life could subsist was offered a partnership-in the store, Lizabeth, an' Yongerry, an' Josephine, more money bymby ef they went to "O, say, now, that dodge won,t work a population of 5&,0Q0,000, tfee manufacture upon. He could with equanimity, ii and not many years after became sole an' George-third, anan' school'sum fust, and Donie she ken yon had better come along quietlv." and excess of imports: over exports there was nothing else for it, live like a proprietor. read all them booksjust splendid. He "Henry the Eight," I suggested. "So I will," said Louis calmly. "Take were only 73,000,000 gaBonsthat tti Digger Indian. His relish for a good says I've made 'em Tjove ther stations "No'in, but maybe the baby'l be lie. your hands off and I will walk along My poor baby came a few weeks is to say, while the number of people in dinner was as. great as anybody's, bnt givin' on 'em good names an' sendin' ^Tisn't named yet." quietly." Then to me: "I will be back after the trial, bnt God took her back the country h3 increased more than 73 he never eased to get away into a desert, 'em to school." "Good Lord, deliver us," I cried, looking presently, love. For my sake be calm. immediately to Heaven. Our hearts per cent, sinee 1860, thev use 15 pet or a strang* land, or an uninhabited island, at Lotus for the first time. It is all a mistake, and it will be all were fall of sorrow, bnt we felt tkat it My soul fainted wrthin me as I answered cent, less oi spirits. On the other hand, %t? because he ielt implicit confidence "The group would be more artistic, right soon." So they went out. would be wrong to mourn longx so we the consumpliDn of malt liquors ha? that he eould always find something to dear, with Henry the Eight. It's pretty My brain whirled I could scarcely tried to bear it bravely. "It is right to send them to school, risen from 100,000,000 gallons in 186fl cat, even if he had to suffer a certain ^hard on Maria Louisa and Josephine to think bnt in a moment a desire to go And Donna? You saw that/tall, fair but you won't have to spend any more to 590,000,000 gallons last vear, and amount of unpleasantness in doing &- ,""be compelled to live in the same house, to the store where Lotus was employed girl, who passed through the room just money for books books you will like, I that of native wines from 1,800,000 gak [San Francisco Chronjsk* ,.but Napoleon is absent, you'll observe, am sure. I will send!, them H? "SUM if took possession of me. I was soon on (before I "began to relate this storythe low to. over 1^,000,000 gallon KE sis. 'Si^ifiW