New Ulm weekly review (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892
October 7, 1885 · Page 5 of 8
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BA CK FROM LJBEBIA. AS USUAL. ry," said George disdainfully. 1What A.Pawnee Scalp Dance. so you know she is very oldand feeble arms lovingly around his neck exclaim-1 &h*" ails'em!" A 'and doesn't enjoy life much." "Well, ed: ''How much I love you." When 5f As I approached the lodge an hour "You should have scalded them last W&2 mamma," said the little innocent, Sow lovers fond, in leafy lanes, ^SrSP'jJ he came home that evening his wife Am Intelligent Georgia, XerroM Olrmmltmt before sunset, I saw dangling from a night," sighed Letty, wishing that she Together alk. |^^sfe4 "don't you think it would he well to had skipped for San .Francisco with 1 Impression* of the African Bepnbllc. ^a-*-1 -And. Corvdon averts his pains, had wings like a dove that she might chloToform grandma, too.' i$heis veryold lodge pole, which rose far above the another fellow, taking everything, all From the Atlanta Constitution. "While PlrilEsooy to listen deigns soar into the milk-room, and restore and feeble, and this hot weather she their household goods, even his best lodge, the scalp around which the And Buffers him Juna Hudson has arrived in Atlanta, suit of clothes. g&aPSR order out of the chaos. is awful cross. I don't think she enjoys To talk. dance wawoman. to beheld. Therscalsp Was after an absence ot over seventeen "Here's a go!" said George. ^'There fcha* ot a Th hai wa fully life, and I know I don't when she 4s* Tik. 1 -J? W^Bi isn't hot water." scolds me." ,-~v. years from Georgia. She was one of lEhougk poor, the youth protests he loves "Oh, George, you've forgotten to Her ii6 his life ^4 ^An Alarmed Pisherman.l^f ^1 .,.^.,_, the negroes who went to Liberia soon One morning, after eight days of 'They'll live, he swears, like turtle doves. put the kettle on!" 1 As I entered mcheselong th lodge annd one redscolor. wa with eighteen of a after the close of the war. She belonged Hie begs her, squeezing tight her gloves, FAMOUS FUNERALS. "So I did," said her husband. "And steaming up the Kiva, Stanley, the in except the dancers ten or twelve in To be his to Major J. W. Warren of the the sticks, hang 'em, are all burnt African explorer, discovered that the number, who sat in a semi-circle at the Dear wife. out!" Magnificent Pageant* in Honor of Departed river was the outlet of a large lake, Executive office, and was the nurse of back of the lodge and opposite the entrance, a richer beau, "You know I wanted you to get a Heroes. has1 which, subsequently, he named Lake !3$ut Phillis and two attendants who busied his children. The craze for Liberia did ton of coal?' said Letty, "but you In lover's ways deft, Leopold II., after the king of Belgium To the philosopher, of course, the themselves attending the wants of not captivate Juna, but it caught her ^fext day he comes his fate to know, said as long as wo#d cost nothing but Acting upon the rule, never to abandon the dancers. All was quiet, not a disposition of the lifeless human body s*e going to scoop him in, arfd soPoor husband, a skilful mechanic, who was the chopping and hauling, wood it a good thing until you have seen word bemg spoken until near the setting Corry dear seems a matter of small moment but would be." it through, lest you never have the opportunity a free negro in slavery times, and had sun. Then the drummers beat Gets left. to the great body of the people theraneral "Have I got to wait for that confounded again, he resolved to circumnavigate with all their power, and in came the accumulated property. New York Mercury. rites and last resting-place of one water to heat?" groaned it. Seeing half-a-dozen spectators (mostly men] pell-mell yelling In the latter part of 1867 there was George. of its great heroes are matters of keenest fishermen's canoes out on the lake, he at the top of their voices. All a very large emigration of negroes from "I don't know anything else for you bore down upon them, hoping to gain A DOMESTIC EXPERIMENT. interest. seemed confusion, all were talking at the cotton States to Liberia. A party to do," remarked Letty, drily." information and fresh food. All save once but once in, all again became Two long years were consumed in of about fifty was made up in Musoogee "Humph!" observed that lord and one canoe, as soon as the fishermen I quiet as before. The dancers were the formidable preparations of the and adjoining counties, of which master. I don't think," said Mr. White heard and saw the noisy steamer, fled. painted most fancifully, many being funeral of Alexander the Great. Dying Hudson and his family were prominent "What's for the breakfast?" The occupant of the remaining canoe covered all over with white or clay ^fchat hay crop ever promised so fine- at Babylon, he directed that his body, members. The negroes who composed "Ham and eggs, I suppose." was hauling in his seine, when he, too, paint. Where only the faces was ornamented which was immediately embalmed, ly." "Well, I'm up to that part of the this colony werenearly all old servants heard the noise of the paddle-wheels. the more rare colors were used, with elaborate care by Egyptian and -"Indeed1" said his wife, absently.* program, at least," said he, cheerfully. of well-known Georgia families. They He fell sidewise into his canoe, as if Chaldean adepts, should be deposited such as red, green, blue, yellow, but all "AJMHS: there isn't any fall in the "Oh, the dickens' What is the use of paralyzed. Then leaping to his feet, reached Liberia safely, and founded a in the Temple of Jupiter on an were painted beyond recognition. price of fruit," he said, "our peach keeping your knives so sharp? I've and bending to his paddles, he sent town which they named Fortsville, in Egyptian oasis. Undeterred by the Spotted Horse was the first to dance nearly cut my thumb off! Where do the tiny canoe swiftly over the water. orchard is going to net us a cool hundred enormous distance, the procession set he being the one who had cut the scalp honor of the well-known Georgia you keep the oat meal? I can be attending Says Stanley, describing the capture: forth, an army of workmen having from its owner. He came forth with family. Thehistory of the colony is a dollars." to your old milk pans while been sent forward to repair dignified air, first described how he had sad one. Most of its members died of As lie spoke he flung the homespun the breakfast is cooking, I suppose. He observes the monster rapidly the roads and bridges. The funeral killed the woman and cut the scalp of the fever. Hudson prospered and accumalated There is -nothing like economy in towel, with which he had been wiping car was drawn by sixtyfour gaining on him. He hears the whirl of before she was dead, even describing considerable property. A work!" his hands over the back of the chair, mules, chosen for their strength the wheels, and the throbbing of the how she had screamed and pleaded for few months ago he died. His widow But it was a mortal hour before the and size, splendidly caparisoned. The engine, and puffing of the steam. mercy. By use of the tomahawk he "Oh, George, do hang up the towel,' determined to return to Georgia with milk was strained and the pigs fed, car was itself of surprising magnificence, Another glance, and he springs overboard, held, he acted out as near as possible 1 3aid Mrs. White, "the nail is just as her two children and spend the remnant and by that time the house was blue the spokes and naves of the and Ave sweep past the empty the dreadful tragedy in which he had of her dayb among her old friends. aearthe chair-back, and I have enough with a sort of a smudgy smoke. wheels and ends of the axle? being covered canoe. played so important a part. Then I She reached Atlanta, and went at once "Hullo!" shouted George, coming in. with gold, the platform upholding steps to take in the course of the day, As we came up he dived, and our came the dance first the dancer's head "What's all thisis the house on to see Mars Joe" Warren at the Capitol, a royal pavilion incrusted with two sailors flashed into the depths without waiting on you." and body are leaned forward, the head fire?" gems, supporting a throne and coffin, who gave her a cordial welcome. after him. They brought him up,each reaching very near the ground, next "You are always grumbling about "No," said Letty calmly, "only the the latter of solid gold and filled with Juna Hudson is a woman of remarkable holding an arm, and swam with him 1 14 lifting the feet high in the air, he saanethincj,'" said the young farmer, breakfast has burned up." costly spices. But the body never intelligence, and appears to be to the boat. throws himself back into a sitting George uttered a long sigh. reached its destination. Ptolemy arrested as he jerked the towel to its nail. "Now, Ankoli, speak softly to the well educated. When asked what she posture with such force as to '*I "Who'd have thought the fire was so its progress and buried it at said- poor man." "There! Does that suit you?" thought of that country, she seem to jar the very lodge. A hot?" said he. "What am I to do Alexandria, which city may be said to In soothing whispers the native guide knife was held in one hand, a medicine never liked it. It is a remarkably rich "Here is,a letter from Cousin Dora, now?" have itself proved the enduring monument asked what his name was. gourd in the other, the latter of country and the climate is generally Creorge,,' said Mrs. White, wisely avoiding "Cook another, I suppose," said of the conqueror. "What did you pick me out for?" which was shook accompaniment to agreeable. I don't know whenlha\e Letty. the. mooted question. "She wants the fisherman asked. 'There are many Very different was the funeral of the music of the Indian drums. The felt a day as hot as this. The trouble "And what next?" demanded George, better than I in our village." i come here and board for a few Julius Caesar. The circumstances of dance was in exact unison with the is with the fever, which never fails to fiercely. weeks." "What does he mean, Ankoli?" his death were so tragic, and such music. At intervals he stopped and 1 attack settlers, and it is very fatal. "Why set the table, and then clear "He means," answered the guide, enormous crowds gathered to the ceremony, reviewed the story he had already related It takes two years at least to become "Well let her come," said White. "It it away and wash the dishes." "that there are-finer slaves than he is that they could not be formed or some part of it, then again acclimated, and I don't think the climate "With this cut finger?" complained "won't cost us a great deal, and a little in the village," into a procession, and the different danced with more energy than before. ever agrees well with anybody the husband. "Ah! There have been slave-catchers classes of people were accordingly extra money always counts up at the Thus the dance was kept up foiian but the natives." "I was obliged to do it all the weeks asked to come together under their here, then?" hour when he was joined by the rest of year's end." I had a felon on my little finger," remarked appropriate insignia in the field of Having evidently obtained all the "Is the population growing." "Bub George, I was thinking" Letty. "The young geese and information the poor fellow could give, the dancers. One by one they came Mars. The body of the great Roman "No, sir. I think not. The natives forth and related some act of valor, turkeys ought to have been let out "About what?'' was exposed lying upon a gilded bed, we filled his two hands with bright may be increasing, but there are fewer after which the dance was again begun. and fed long before this and the three covered with scarlet and cloth of gold, beads, and laid a dozen handkerchiefs ""Why, I am so hurried with the American negroes there now than calves in the barnyard to be attended This dance was kept up until midnight and placed under a magnificent canopy by his side. Then bringing the canoe work, and there is so much to do" there use to be. Nearly all of the fifty to. And then there are the kitchen when the presents were given. Many in the fdfcm of a temple. alongside, we asked him to step in,and that went over in our party died. 'That is the perpetual burden of and sitting-room to be swept and ot the spectators became so excited placed his cloth in the stern of it,with After the funeral ceremonies were Some came back. On the vessel that dusted and the beds to make, and the they took from their own body their your song," said Mr. White, irritably, a small parcel of cowries. over a question arose where they brought me back to New York were string beans to be picked, and the wearing apparel and threw it to the "Women do beat alitor complaining." After he had stepped in, he did not ^should burn the body. Some suggested twenty-one emigrants returning to bread to bake and the .huckleberry dancers. Then came the big smoke. seem to realize that he was a free and a temple on Capitoline hill, others *VVo:i'f you hear me out? said Mrs. this country. They generally get pies to make, and your white vest to The chief's pipes were filled by the rich man until there was such a distance suggested the Senate house, where he White, "So I thought it agoodplanto enough of Liberia in bix months." be ironed, and the potatoes to be chief himself with (Now-eo-cow) Indian between us that he thought it had fallen. The Sena,te, lesb willing to giveI)ora her board if she would help pealed, and the preserves to be scalded "What about the Government?" tobacco which is kept in abufialo head impossible for us to catch him again. pay him extraordinary honors, proposed me with the house-work a little. It over, and the cheese to be turned, "It is modelled after ours. All the and is thought to possess spiritual When he seemed a speck in the lake, a more retired spot. The discussion would accomodate her, and it will ac-oomraodtitc and the table to be cleared and the officers are negroes, and there are a virtue, and sent by the attendant to we saw the figure rise to its height,and was fast becoming a dispute me." dishes to be washed" good many politicians." one of the spectators who is known to then we knew that he was conscious when two soldiers, withdrawn swords "But it won't accomodate me! "said "Do the people generally seem to be have made some present. He smokes "Hold on!" cried George, "you've and blazing torches their hands, that he was free. Mr. Whi'c, cavalierly. "Really,Letty, happy'" and passes it to such friend as he said that once." forced their way through vthe crowd "Well, I suppose so. The natives are yo.are getting absolutely lazy." i washes. After all who have given presents "Very likely, but it has to be done and set fire to the bed. In a moment The Princess of Wales Snubs Mrs. happy in their way, but I don't think Mrs. White crimsoned. are handed the pipe of eacred tobacco three times a dayand the chickens there was the wildest excitement. The the country would satisfy those who Langtry. "No one ever said that of me be?foretTsaid the dance is either ended or they to be looked after, and the linen pillow-cases multitude fell to work directly, build she. been raided in Georgia." ha( begin anew, and repeat exactly what to be put to bleaching, and A London disnatch to the Boston ing the funeral pyre upon the spot. "But just look at it," said the farmer. I have related, dancing around the "What ib the religion of thepeople the windows to be washed and your First they brought fagots and then Herald says: The society journals de- I "Tell me of any other woman "Among the emigrants there are the same scalp, but after that night that trousers to be patched, and the stockings benches from the neighboring porticos, nounces the Lonsdale-Chetwynd fight I in tlvesieighborhood who keeps a girl! various denomination* we have here. scalp is never danced around again. to be darned, and the fire to be and next any combustible material wiiy, they wiake a boast of doing their The nati\ es worship idols. in the most unequivocal terms, and The American Antiquarian. made up again, and tea to be prepared they could find, and at length, as the own work." "Why don't they send missionaries you know you always want something excitement grew, the soldiers threw in Lord Lonsdale,who is a brother of the "They all ljave sisters, or mothers, among them*" hot for supper. And there's the their arms, and the musicians their dissipated character who was the first Grey Hair. i *r grown up daughters I have none." "They do, but it is a hopelesstask. I night's milk to be brought in and instruments, while others stripped husband of Mrs. Langtry's friend, "Pshaw'" said White. "Ridiculous! think Among the thousands of natives Medical and Sui'gical Reporter. strained, and the pans scalded and, down the trappings of the funeral procession. 0 course 7^011 have to work. We all Lady de Grey (Gladys Lady Lonsdale), I I saw while there, only three had Many persons begin to show grey and the geese and turkeys to be fed So fierce was the fire that it But your work don't we9 io. don't been civilized and Christianized. Missionaries and put into their coops and, oh, spread to the neighboring houses, and is generally condemned. hairs while they are yet in their Amount to a row of pins. I don't are scattered all over the dear! I forgot the churning! That will was with the greatest difficulty extinguished. As for Mrs. Langtry, she was subjected twenties, and some while in their teens. Jbiow of any woman who has it easier eountry, ahd they find no trouble in take an hour at least. But, dear George, As a fitting monument three days later to the greatest This does not by any means argue a 'Ubauyon do." getting crowds of the natives into their I am getting hungry!and I don't see the people erected to the "Mighty slight that could be inflicted upon a "That is all you know about it!" Many of these the least signs of breakfast George! Julius" a lofty column surmounted by piemature decay of the constitution. churches and schools. woman in her position, a deliberate cut usaid Letty, in a choked voice. profess conversion, and are enrolled as Where are you going? Iwantmy a star. It is a purely local phenomenon!, and from the Princess of Wales, who is not "Write to Dora that we'll board her I Christians, but almoswhen invariably they breakfast." may coexist with unusual bodily vigor. the plastic doll in the Prince's hands go back to idolatry they return Coming down to modern times, the 1 for five dollars a week," said White, The celebrated author and traveller, that some people imagine. This episode For George had disappeared in the accounts of the obsequies of the "Iron I to their tribes. The missionary work athori ta tively. 'We must earn all the George Borrow, turned quite grey before occurred at the Coombe House, midst of her exordium. Duke," perhaps the greatest ever I in Liberia seems to be making no progress." -money we cam while there is a chance. where Lady Archibald Campbell and he was 30, but was an extraordinary In twenty minutes or so, he returned known in England, and the second funeral Make the hay while the sun shines, her pastoral players were giving their swimmer and athlete at 65. and by his side trudged Mary Ann of Napoleon must still be borne "You don't think the future of the eh? And I guess you'll do as well as last performance of "The Faithfulle Pult, the nearest neighbor's twentyyear freshly in mind by many of the veterans Many feeble persons, and others who country looks bright?" other women do, Letty. Now run up Shepherdesse." The Prince of Wales old daughter. of to-day. The Duke of Wellington, have suffered extremely, both mentally "Nor stairs to the garret, dear, and get me sir. The emigrants who have entered into conversation with Mrs. "I take it all back," said Mr. White. after lying in state five days at and physically, do not blanch a hair gone there from this country as a rule Pisry blue Jean overalls, that's a good Langtry, who dropped the usual quaint "I lower my colors, Letty. Your work Chelsea Hospital, was borne to his last until past middle life while others, are not contented. Many of them come courtesy with which royalty is received is harder than mine. I'll be everlastingly resting place in St. Paul's on a car without assignable cause, lose their Letty obeyed, but the tears were in back, and many more would come if the Princess of Wales had turned blest if it ain't. Why, I couldn't drawn by twelve horses, accompanied capillary coloring matter rapidly when Swsreyes, and a big lound ball was rising they had the means. The country is her back and was talking to some take care of the milk and cream for the by a vast military and ci\ ic concourse, about forty years of age. up in her throat, and she could not going to fill up with intelligent one else. wages a girl would ask. I never realized the latter including Prince Albert, both Imrdly see the jean overalls, as they Race has a marked influence. The American negroes, and I don't believethe before how much a woman had to Houses of Parliament, judges, nobles, A hundred eyes watched the group. hung ap high on end of the beams. traveller, Dr. Orbigny, saysthatinthe natives will ever be made into good do." public bodies, the mourning coaches of It has often been said, and not unjustly, many years he spent in South America, citizens. They are ignorant anabrutal. As she reached up a loose board in of the Queen and royal family and an "Are you quite sure that you realize that the Prince of Wales is remarkable They are happy when they can eome he never saw a bald Indian, and the garret, floor tripped her her foot innumerable throng of the people. it now?" asked Letty, mischievously. for his tact, but even the most down from the forests loaded with scarcely every a grey haired one. Thenegroes slipped through on the laths and plaster distinguished social warriors sometimes "Well, I've got a pretty fair idea on Napoleon's funeral, as a parade, remains fruits to sell in the towns, and then go turn more slowly than the btlow, and, with a groan, she sank wTe know of a negress of lose their heads where a pretty the Subject," nodded George. unparalleled in our times. The back to their miserable huts." hites. Yet to the floor. woman's interests are concerned, and "But you should h#here ironingday,og on washin cherished remains of their hero, having pure blood, about 35 years old, who is The time passed on, and George saidLetty, "o on day,'- at this moment if any Mrs. Langtry been received by the French from quite grey. In this country, sex appears White grew tired of airing. needed the consolation of royal favor. on the day when we chop sausage-meat Changes in College Life. the English nineteen years after his to make little difference. Men tf shouted up the stairway The Prince plucked the Princess by or make soft soap, or" death, it was not so much a funeral New York Evening Post. and women grow grey about the same "ELffiNixk Alive there, Letty! Do you the sleeve, after saying to Mrs. Langtry "Stop, stop!" shouted George. "If as a vast triumphal procession that "mean to bv all day?" period of life. In men the hair and "I've come down to buy some bil in quite a loud voice, "Oh, the you sayanother word I'll go for Mahal a followed, during which all France beard rarely change equally. The one But no answer came. He ran up Hard tables for the college gymnasium. Princess would like to tell you'' The Binks, too. Haven't I said that I'll resounded with booming cannon, tolling is usually darker than the other for '^stairs, to find Letty lying on the floor, Can you tell me the best place for Princess turned around, surveyed Mrs. take it all back? What more would you bells and strains of martial music, with one leg broken, just above the several years, but there seems to be no them?" Such was the salutioa with Langtry quite as though she did not have?" while the excited people lined the banks ak!e. general rule as to which whitens first. which an Amherst Professor, a few see her, gave so light a bow that the "Wal, squire," said Mary Ann, who of the Seine and filled the air with The spot where greyness begins differs "Now you'll have to get some one to months ago, startled a New York inclination of the head was almost imperceptible,, by this time had removed her hat and frenzied shout and cries and sobs of with the individual. The philosopher *io the work,'' said Letty, not without graduate,, who, though not quite twenty and then deliberately shawl, "what'll I do first?" joy and gratulation. The resources of -a, spice of malice, as she lay on the Schopenhauer began to turn grey on years an alumnus, remembered how turned her back and resumed her conversation "Do!" echoed Mr. White. "Do everything funeral art were exhausted upon the calieo-eovered settee, with her poor the temples, and complacently framed ill the billiard player fared with the with her friend. It was the and let meget off to the hay-field pageant, and the imagination is unable ackle duly set and bandaged. a theory that this is an indication of Faculty when he was a student. An hottest day of the season, but the as fast as I can." to distinguish the details of a vigorous mental activity. ^Not if I know it," said George thermometer seemed to drop a hundred old graduate of Bowdoin^CoUege, in procession in which the catafalco, the "Jes' as your orders is," said Mary The correlation of grey hair, as well "White. "Hire a lazy woman who'll degrees the Prince looked exquisitely Maine,, returning to commencement central object of interest, was borne Ann. want a dollar and a half a week, and as its causes, deserves more attention foolish. Mrs. Langtry's confusion fifty years after graduation, asked the on a moving mound of gold and velvet "And I say, Letty!" he added. tier board into the bargain, to do the and study than they have received. was painful to behold, and the meaning of a rambling noise which is drawn by sixteen black horses and "Yes! George." work of this house? I guess not!" Such a charge is undoubtedly indicative social axe had fallen! But this new sued from the gymnasium. guarded and escorted, it is said, by an "Write to your Cousin Dora. Tell her "But what are you going to do?" of some deep-seated psychological scandal may help the Lily's theatrical army of 150,000 soldiers. we'll be glad to board,her, if she will asked Letty. process, but what this is we can only interests, which have of late begun to "Bowling?" the old man musing repeated house.4 assist you about the Compare with these splendors the "To do'it myself, to-be-sure. Half ascertain by a much wider series of observation languish. after a friend had answered his "But you've hired Mary Ann!" quiet and simple funeral rites of our an hour every morning, and half an than have yet been submitted question "they used to expel a boy for "There's work for 'em both," said own Washington, so befitting republican hour every evening ought to be enough to scientific analysis. bowling in my day." Colby University Mr. White. simplicity an the character of Jto squai'e up accounts." A movement is on foot to erect a in the same state is the most sectarian And he sat down a*nd took refuge in him who was, nevertheless, "first in "Well," said Mrs. White, "I shall monument over the tomb of ex-President and straight-laced institution anywhere In 1874, Clarence A. Portley, who last week's paper, while Mary Ann the hearts of his countrymen." A -Rustlike to see you do it." William Henry Harrison at North to be founda place where the had lately graduated from West Point, wrestled with the charred remains of gathering of the dignitaries of the "Then you'll have your wish," said Bend, O. It is on a natural mound in stage used to be regarded with a holy married Miss Maggie Alexander, daughter the breakfast and cut fresh slices of neighboring town of Alexandria, with iter husband. the midst of a pasture lot, and it overlooks horror. The commencement at Colby home-cured ham. of Dr. Alexander, a New York millionaire. the militia and Free Masons, his He rose early the next morning and the Ohio river. A dilapidated occurred afew weeks ago, and amon* When the wedding ceremony In this world there are bloodless friends and neighbors, his own war lighted the kitchen fire. board fence, enclosing a space fifty feet the attractions of the occasion, enjoy^ battles and victories won without a was over, Dr. Alexander handed his horse, duly compafisoned, led in the "Phaw," said he, as he piled on the square, separates theburial place from ing the official recognition of the authorities, clash of steel and in this category son-in-law an envelope containing midst, one vessel in the river hard by ^sticks of wood, "what does a woman the pasture field. Within the enclosure may be classed Mrs. White's victory was the performance of firing minute-guns and the whole procession $100,000 in government bonds. ramount to anyhow What's the next are two or three old cedar trees. over her husband, in respect to the "The Merchant of Venice" byacompany confined to his own private "Thank you," replied the gratified 'ifesson, Letty?" The tomb itself is a structure of brick, question of "hired help."Helen Forest grounds, where the tomb was made of professional actors. son-in-law and then he asked, "But as f- I always skim the cream and all under ground except thegables,and Graves. and still is.Boston Advertiser. These incidents illustrate how ravo-" we are going away would it not be better "1 strain, the milk," said Letty, who, it is covered with a roof of shingles, Iutionary has been the change in the that you should keep the money bolstered up on the lounge, and was that are now dilapidated and rotten. wereturn?7' "I'll doso," answered attitude of college authorities toward^ till Little Susie has a pet cat which is /Cpoibmg her hair with more deliberataon Even the brick walls that show above Two years ago a young Californian the students within the memory ofclL the delighted father-in-law, and his than she had practiced for a much older than its mistress so much the ground are covered with a green married one of the prettiest girls in graduates now living. Doubtless there"" l half-choked words, God bless yon,, my year. mould. A sloping cellar door covers older in fact that it is in an advanced New York. They removed to Sacramento, are plenty of old alumni who thinkK^^SM children," were lost among the clatter gs "Well, here goes then," said George. the steps which descend to the vault, Cal., where the young man had state or decrepitude. Susie heard her it is all a sad mistake, and who ahake^^Lr- of the departing carriage and the valedictory And a period of silence ensued. and even these doors of iron, exposed relatives and employment, and apparently mother say that she thought she would their heads in dismay over a genera-?#ffeill shouts. Not long ago Mr. Presently hegot shouted: livid happily together. A few to the summerrains and winter snows, I haven't milk-pan enough!'" have the cat chloroformed. It is hoped j^iS* tion which bowls plays billiards andS&|#A Alexander died without a will, and no days ago, says the Union, when the are eaten through with rust. the child did not understand the full attends theatrical performances under mention was made of the $100,000, "Of course you haven't," said Let- husband was leaving for his daily work ***"-& import of the word for the next day the patrouage of its instructors. Yet though his property was left to his *ty- "You must scald your yesterfday's. his \tife went to the head of the stairs there is no doubt that this relaxation she went to her mother with the cat in daughter. A friendly suit hasnow been You know you said you General Frank Sigel, -'mit" whom and gave him a lingering kiss. When of the ancient strictness in matters cf couldn't set up a tin-shop when I asked instituted to determine the ownership heir arms and asked her if she wanted he arrived at the foot of the stairs she the Germans used to. fight, has been amusement has accompanied an advance V?o"Thev a dozen more last month." called o him to wait a moment. She to chloroform it. "Yes, Susie," was the HucHliUe.i/ fat-boilin facto appointed to a $3,500 position in the 1- of the $100,000, the wife wanting her .uw..cnu. 1 cr in character and maAtlue^a nft icply, "I think it -will be better to do 1 ran down stabs, and throwing he County Clerk office in New York,- ^n oand to have the money, less noteworthy ft S-iWV WM feffcll ^M^'m^^^^s^^m -r-*