*.OCE AND CABDS so as to get a good look arouno Murdered on a Wedding-Sight. and see which way to go next. Story at A Stage-: months we disbanded at PbHadelphia, JEFF. DAVIS I N PRISON.. From the Boston Courier. "I was just going to step down when In Boone County, Ky., just below all glad to be dropped so near home. From the Sew York Son. -A The youth and maiden sat alone I looked to see where I should put my Petersburg, on the bank of the Ohio I was all broken up. Instead of being fft*PBo you want to know something Upon tJie pebbled strand i^^* foot. I think that that has been Charles S. Triplets Story of His Pleasant recuperated by the traveling I was and almost opposite the rolling-mill at gn Beside the sea, and in his own Life at Fort Monroe. characteristic of me all my life, child about the inner life of the show busi- sick in bodyand naiad from hard work Aurora,Ind.r He held her lily hand. stands a deserted, vaeant I always look to see where myioot is 1 Fronf*the San Francisco Alta. and disappointment. We were promised ness-?" said a dapper young man to frame dwelling, known fa? and wideas eyesl"vjs**J going before I step. If I had put my He gazed into her sapphire settlement n ftru*T the haunted house. So many stories and instructed I was in 1865 First Lieutenant the reporter. "Well I'm just the one 'I love you sweet,'' he said *v foot down then from where I stood, it to call at a eertain place in New York have been told about it that sturdy, the Twelfth United States Infantry, who can give you the straight tip as The maiden answered him with sighs 5 would have gone into he wide-open for our statements. After charging weather-beaten and sun-bronzed fishermen, and in the absence of my Captain, 'VHAnd blushing hung her head. to roughing it on the road." mouth of a rattlesnake that was me ior many things I had never heard while passing in their skiffs, commanded E Company of the First coiled up there in a ring as big as a "Ever since I was a boy I have had of, and over $100 for 'bus hire, they He pressed the hand so soft and white, look upon it and talk about it as a Battalion of that regiment. Early in half-bushel basket. That's the way a hankering after the show life, and a figured that there were a feAv dollars And kissed the dimpled chin, "hanted" place, and the boys and October I was ordered to Fort Monroe, they get when they are ready to couple of years agor And said, "If I played cards to-night coming to me. I called a couple of while I was engaged girls from Aurora, while rowing for and reported for duty to Gen. N. A. I know that I would win. strike." in a church choir, I felt the fever times, but never got it. The Jerseyman pleasure upon the river in the summer Miles. My rank as Lieutenant subjected "But didn't it rattle to give you coming on mighty strong. I began to found himself in debt to the manager, moonlight evenings, cease their singing You ask me why, you shall be told," me to detail as officer of the warning, grandmother?" cultivate an acquaintance with theatrical and Pm afraid he never paid and are inclined to pull away from the He pressed the fingers white guard, as such I had for the twentyfour "No, indeed, child. That's the way people, and almost before I knew up. "I know I'd win because I hold Kentucky shore when approaching the hours ot my detail immediate they beg when they want to sneak out it I had signed a contract with a comic A lovely hand to-night." place. "But hard' as it was on ue, it was charge of or distinguished prisoner, of a fight." opera company for a forty weeks' worse for the poor girls. Many of my orders being "not to allow nim out "I've heard that a rattlesnake is an engagement. I was to receive $18 a This uninviting, shunned and mysterious them, allured by the tempting salary, GRANDMOTHER'S STOEY. honorable sort of an enemy, grandmother, week besides traveling expenses,, and I of my sight during my tour of duty." house is a frame, two stories high, gave up their places in churches and and always gives a fair warn- had it figured out how I was to do the with two rooms below and two above. Mr. DaA'is was confined to a room in left happy homes and mothers, some country and have a few hundred dollars It stands above the reach of floods Carroll Hall, which was designed as tog." Written for the American Rural Home. through poverty, others through ambition. saved up when we disbanded in some fifty feet back from the high, quarters for Lieutenants, who are entitled "It isn't so, child. That's like a It was a hard situation for "Now don't talk to me about the spring. Everything seemed rosy bluff bank. The fence which once surrounded to two rooms only, so all the good many other things they tell innocent girls. Their slender wardrobes snakes," said dear grandmother there was an ah of business about all it has long since fallen down, rooms, except the mess hall and library, about snakes that ain't true. But Avere soon worn out, and they Brown, with as fine a contempt as so the details, for the contracts, were and the yard is full of high rank weeds that snake just lay th,ere swingin' are in suites of two rooms each. had no money to purchase more, and drawn up by a well-known agent, and, and creeping vines, where snakes and sweet a voice and so kindly a face its head back and forth, softly The doorways Avere all grated Avith Avhen the Avinter set in, Avhile the men although the chorus was mostly composed lizards live unmolested. In theout evenf like. All I could see was its pinkish could keep themselves warm in the iron, and a sentry walked before each could show. It was hardly possible to fly swallowr of amateurs like myself, the ing hundreds of red mouth, rising from that coil bar or hotel office, they had often to on a pile of cocoa matting some four think of her as old, to believe that she principals Avere public favorites and the old brick chimney, circle around of green and black and yellow. I stay in bed all day, as they had not inches thick. The officer of the guard really began life with this wanning century, well up in their several lines. and settle back into the dark funnel couldn't moveit seemed as though I the quarter to pay for a fire in their Avas not alIoA\-ed to leave the room bats fly in and out of the broken windows "It was the middle of August, so we although there attached to her had always stood there and should rooms. I have often seen them singing unless relieved by the officer of and half open door&, and later had about two weeks in which torehearse always stay there lookin' at it. At in opera bouffe with tears in. their the charmthe dim half-lightof the the day, nor to sleep at all in the night is heard the owl's dismal our parts. The theaters were first I couldn't think. No, child, I eyes." "good old times" when our country during his twenty-four hours of hoot from her perch upon the roof. vacant at the time, and we had little don't suppose the snake charmed me, duty. The grated windows were locked, way very young the fascinating but The whole premises present a scene of difficulty in getting a suitable place. but my nerves were sort of unstrung Current Paragraphs. the keys being in the custody of the utter ruin, decay and desolation. sturdy romance of life in the then Although our repertoire consisted of you know, to begin with, and I believe officer of the day. As was the custom several comic opera, Ave were to be Several Avriters have lately celebrated The house was built many years I was just paralyzed with fright. Then Western frontiers of New York State, on my first day of duty as officer of put through only tAvo, the others being abstinence as a cureall. One of ago, with the lumber and materials I somehow pulled myself together long of pioneer days in Michigan, of struggles the guard I was introduced by my rehearsed Avhile on the road. It them quotes the old Russian General taken down the river from Cincinnati enough to know I'd got to do something, and experiences that were experiences, predecessor to Mr. Davis, thus "Mr. was here the trouble began. The by a youngere mamurdered name West, whose Suvarofi as maintaining that hunger for the snake wouldn't wait among the Davis, Mr. Tripler of the Twelfth. Mr. in which wild beasts and Indians, wr chorus was painstaking and quick to family is the best treatment for every human much longer. Theie was a rail and Davis said- "Are you Stuart Trip- learn, but the principals, who Avere pioneers of Boone County, all the disease and Rulty, an English Quaker and all sorts of dangers and escapes, brush fence back of me, ten teet from think ler?" I said "Yes, sir." He then bloAA up with self sufficiency, seldom coula1 members of which wereprominent and physician, records in his diary, '-1775, i the log. The only thing I commingled in delightful confusion said he remembered my grandmother appeared together at the rehearsals respected citizens of the community. of was to make a rush for the top of 3d month, 2t day. A blessed repasi (Mrs. Hunt) and had very pleasant and when we made our debut in a The house was intended to be his future that fence. Then my mouth flew open of bread and Avater. a sovereign "These little striped things no bigger small toAvn in Jersey one of the men, recollections of my father (Surgeon home, and at the time of its construction and the awfulest yell came out of it cure for indigestion, and no danger of than your finger, ain't worth the name who had boasted he knew the whole was regarded as the finest Tripler of the army). We had that you ever heard. At the same instant a debauch." 1 of snakes," grandmother continued. thing, word for word, torgot his lines. residence on the Ohio, nearly all the first day no further conversation until I made a rush, a jump and a scramble "When I was young wehad snakes that General Judson Kilpatrick used to We had struck our first snag, and the others being log cabins of rude constructionengagedyoungelady and the next I knew I found myself on the time came for his daily A\alk were snakesadders,black snakes, rattle tell the story that after his appoint- I local papers gave us a poor send-off The married,whom to the top of that fence yelling in a way around the parapet. At that time wras to and snakesand out in Michigan lots ment as Minister to Chili he was met the next day. he to stampede Indians. I was as much the officer of the day came accompanied more that I don't remember now. by an old lady AA'ho had knoAvn him whom he expected to occupy his new scared at the sound of my own voice "But I enjoyed the life. The gilt by tAvo negro prisoners, unlocked Did I CA er have an,y adventures with home as his wife was named Reed, from childhood, and to whose bucolic as I was at the snake, but I had not yet A A orn off the business for the door, when Mr. Da\is, dressed in Bles you child, I should snakes9 and lived upon the opposite side qf the kept on. Somehow I felt that when mind the gallant General's large way me, and I had conquered all traces of snuff-colored clothes, Avith a Raglan think I did. You want me to tell Ohio on the hills near Aurora, Ind. I jumped the snake had jumped too, nervousness. The only thing A\e were of stating things had sometimes seemed overcoat and a soft, high-crowned, you one? Well, I'll tell you one She, too, was quite a belle and an and had missed me. I guess it was afraid to face was the empty benches, like exaggeration. "Wall, Jud," she black felt hat, stepped into my room. that I thought of the minute you heiress. In due time the marriage took the yll that made him miss. I didn't and Ave saAV plenty of them until Ave said, "I hear you have been called to Gen. Miles entered at this time Avith came in and made such a fussjust place at the home of the bride, and, dare to look around, but kept on yelling. got into Pennsylvania. The boys the mitistry. Glad to hear it. You'll the daily papers, which were placed on as though that young college after the ceremony, their friends accompanied It was half a mile to the cabin, Avere a jolly, devil-may-care lot of fellows, make a real good preacher but [solemnly], a table in Mr. D.'s room. The prisoners chapwhat saveddid youe bsay's killins hi the young couple to the and I didn't have much hopes of making and we had not been two weeks name9had you i lif Jud, you must stop your ly- commenced at once to clean up the river and West rowed his wife over to anybody hear, but I said to myself on the road before I had blown in the ing." room, and we left the following order: a harmless little garter snake no the newly built and furnished home, that I would never get down till little sum of money I had stored away ft Mr. Davis and officers of the niore'n two feet long' What are you reaching there just at dark. Their somebody camefather, or the hired for an emergency. Then until I again In the northern part of Nebraska guard, ten pace& behind two sentries, so red in the face about? Yes 'tis a friends watched them from the opposite man, or one of the boys". Then Iheard set foot in Brooklyn, I hardly knew an Irish colony, called Jackson, has a couple of paces behind them the officer hot day. And it was just such a day shore till they entered the house, a crash in the underbrushthe next Avhat it Avas to have a dollar in my been settled for 29 years, six of the as this that I went down through the of the day, and lastly, some distance and that was the last time either was minute I had tumbled off into John's pocket. colonists of Avhich are worth from clearm' to pick a basket of wild plums off, Gen. Miles strolled along ever seen alive. arms and 40,000 to $90,000 each. They were "As soon as the manager got his to send to Aunt Mary. That was reading. very poor when they arrived there, "Why,that was grandfather's name!" clutches on the doorreceipts theyAvere Late the following morning relatives when your grandfatherI mean your and Avere so discouraged by the desolate sent off to the backer in New York. "You musn't interrupt me child calling, and failing to receive any reply We took our time, and Mr Da\is, great-grandfatherlived over on Canandaigua appearance of the prairie and the Of course the principals, got their salaries, and I only had time to say 'The to their repeated knockings upon the by his instiuctive and most entertaining Lake. How old was I then? but the chorus and the rest of loneliness and desolation, which affected snake, John!' and he had given me an door, opened it and entered the house. conversation, rendered this a I was only a girl, going on 17, but I us got nothing but promises. It did awful kiss on my lips, yanked a stake them so much that if they had Upon the bed in her night clothes lay most delightful duty. He seemed to suppose you'd call it a young lady not matter Jiow good the houses were, out of the fence and was ready to fight the money they would have left. Fortunately the bride of a few short hours cold in knoAv everything. He had the unusual now. And that makes me think of we were always told Ave would be'paid the whole world forme. I don't know death, her face and throat showing they had not. They had faculty of drawing a young man out your college chap againyou'll find my in full as soon as Ave struck good business. whether it was the kiss, or the danger that she had been strangled or smothered come up by steamers from the Southern and making him show his best side. feather fan in the top bureau drawer, Our traveling expenses had to he was in, but I came to my senses to death, and the furniture in the States, Avhere they had been digging We would sometimes stop abreast of dear. wrhatevertyoyour He isn' college bechap? do child hon be paid, as Avell as the board bills but quick enough when he had his arm room giving proof by its disarranged ditches. the Avater battery, in front of the commanding Well, Ave never had the money in our own around me, and somehow I didn't feel condition that a terrible struggle had officers' quarters, and recline est with him and with yourselfif you As the morganatic young prince hands. When Ave struck a stand, the as though anything could ever hurt taken place in the chamber of death. on the cre&t of the Avorks, where he mean 'Yes,' say 'Yes,'if you mean Henry of Battenberg has been turned manager would make arrangements me again while I clung to himand The husband could not be found and A A ould relate pleasant stories of the 'No,' say 'No,'but be mighty sure into a "Royal Highness" because he with some third-class hotel to board there never did, if he could help it has never been seen or heard of. Whether old army, ask aftei common friends, you mean 'No,' before you do say it. married the queen's youngest daughter, the chorus. The principals, who had he killed his wife and fled has never and often give me points in my profession And Grandmother wiped a tear or You'll have heartaches enough, dear, says London Truth, there are to the spending of their OAvn money, never been known, but his relatives and Avhich Aveie invaluable. To two from her eyes. without laying in a stock of 'em be found many people so foolish as to put up at the same hotel Avith us, friends asserted most positively that show how small a matter he Avould "What became of the snake, Grandmother'" that you don't have any call ask Avhy a similar honor was not conferred and I didn't blame them. that could never have been the case, notice and speak of, there AAere a to have. There was a goodlooking A\rekick. What Arasthe on the Marquis of Lome, who as there was no motive lor such a number of trees growing along one of "It was waiting for me on the other "Why didn't young fellow that lived married her majesty's youngest daughter deed. The most reasonable theory the fronts of casements A\ Inch bore side of the fence. John killed itit use? We Avere far aAvay from home near neighbor to usnear neighbor but one. The answer to me seems is that some third person or clusters of white berries. Mr Davis was six foot long, lacking an inch, Avithout^a cent in our pockets, and as for those days, although our nearest simple. Lord Loineis an Englishman. persons murdered them both, the said- "Lieut. Tripler, I saAV and as big around as your arm. It long as Ave staid A\ ith the shoAV Ave had neighbor was two long miles away Prince Henry is a German. Referring murderers having some grudge against you riding a ^ice-looking horse the had eleA en rattles, and I remember something to eat and a place to sleep. that used to hang around father's cabin them, and then either concealed the to Lord Lome, in the Court Circular other day, but it is out of condition. they tried the oil out of it. Rattlesnake Some of the members AA'ho could afford a good bit. I knew what brought husband's body in the vicinity or carried his name is not alloAA'ed to appear with Those berries you see there are one of oil was a great remedy in those it telegraphed home for enough money him there, and I guess the rest of the it down with his clothing, and, that of his Avife, Princess Louise, but the best condition medicines I know days." to take them back to NeAv York, Avhile folks did. I was a little vain in those with rocks to hold them down, sunk is put doAvn as the last on the long of, and you can find them all over the "How did it happen that John was others slipped into rival companies days, child, and considerln' that I was them in the river. Why the wife's list of guests, being made to give the South remember that it's Avorth there to save you, Grandmother, after and took their chances of jumping the only girl that was comin' on to body was not similarly disposed of, knoAVing." On our return Dr. Cooper's pas to the count and countess of Erbach-Schoenberg. you had so uncermoniously sent him from the frying-pan into the fire. We womanhood in all that country for some say, is because the murderers servant came in with Mr. Davis' off the night before?" thought of nothing but schemes to ten miles around, I got my full share wished to leave it in the room, and, lunch. All his meals A\eie supplied raise the AA'ind, and there wasn't a of attention. That kinder turned my "He had come back to tell me he When General Sherman was at Saratoga the husband's body and clothes not from Dr. Cooper's table, and Mrs. crook in the country Avho Avas so full head, as it has turned the heads of was going away and that I would recently a neAvspaper correspondent being found, the natural inference Cooper AAas a notable housewife, and of Avays that are dark and tricks better girls than I was, and so I was never be bothered with him any more, had the thoughtfulness to remind would be that he had murdered her the markets of Fort Monroe were that are vain as Ave. Some curried a little uppish and carried my head as I had said I didn't want to be. him that theperiodof his sojourn "on and had fled the country, the perpetrators A A ell supplied you may be sure Mr. favor with the principals, and pretty high on my shoulders. This He heard me call. 'That's Fan'' this shoal and bank of time" AA'as limited of the double murder taking Da\is did not suffer. The only request managed^ in that way to squeeze the young fellow that I told you about said he to father. 'Where is she?' and delicately observed: "I know this plan to divert suspicion from he ever made me during the box, while others bribed the stage he had said as much as that he loved father laughed at him 'That ain't the you Avon't want so much ostenatation themselves. But be that as it may, time I Avas stationed there Avas manager to discount their notes. But me, but I hung back, although all the voice of a human creature,' said father. at your funeral as this one" (referring and whichever story concerning it be to bring him a feAv apples each the best of all Avas the box-office racket. time I wanted to own up. One day I 'That's, Fan, and I know it,' said to that of General Grant). He ansAvered true or false, the house has never since time I came on guard, A\hich I It was this way. You see, a man heard he had taken Martha Forbes John, and he followed the noise till he Avith a plump, round "No!" and had an occupant for more than one did. I rather think he asked Avould buy somethingan umbrella, a she was his Uncle Jared's housekeeper got to me. It wasn't hard to tell added. "I Avant to make all the noise nieht.Cin. Enquirer. me for the sake of letting me think I valise, or any other article he liked to meetin' at the cross-roads schoolhouse where the noise came from. I was so Avhile I am alive." Then he went on AA'as doing him a favor in return for and enter into an agreement Avith the the Sunday before. She was old broken up by the shock that everything to say "My grave Is bought and his exceeding kindness to my grandmother storekeeper to take it back for a'consideration. enough to be his mother, and crosseyed, I looked at was green and black paid for. I shall be buried at St. when he Avas secretary of Avar. Then it Avould be sent to Improving On His Wife's Method. and she stuttered at that and yellow, like the sn*ake, and so Louis, Avhere my children are buried. He could make a request in such a Avay the box office with the bill. This panned and it didn't make any difference that father sent me away to visit for a few When I go they can put me in there Buffalo Courier. that you felt he had conferred a favor out immensely until one day when in a little sniff, I had told him I days. When I came back I had my and drive a stake in to mark the There is in this city a young Benedict on you in preferring it. Ave Avere in Galveston a Jonah sent a wouldn't go to meetin' with him and weddinggown with methat's the one spot." These sentiments of the old who is so fortunate as to be wedded coon in with a mule, upon which there that he needn't come for me. Girls packed away in the cedar chest up hero Avere perfectly characteristic of C. C. Clay was confined in the rooms to a lady of rare beauty and attractiveness. was $65 to be paid. That Avas Avorking will be girlsand that means they stairs, and if you'll look in that little him, and yet there is nothing more directly beneath Mr. Davis, but had NOAV this young Benedict it a little too much, and the manager will be unreasonable when they set box in the small drawer of my bureau, certain than that his own obsequies Mrs. Clay with him, and Avas not had in all respects proved a model husband shut right down on it there and out. I was mad all through, and the tied up with black and white ribbon willnot be the simple affair he describes. guarded as Mr. Davis as. Mrs. Clay wredding, and black for and had acquitted himself so then. We never got up anything so more I though of that Martha Forbes white for the There are those who think that in used to send sometimes a pitcher of faithfully on all occasions that his good afterward, although a Jerseyman in my place, the madder I got. That the funeral, dearyou'll find that rattle military genius he is the peer of Grant, punch to Mr. Davis. My orders not wife had confidence in him, and willingly Ave had with us, a pretty hard drinker, night he came, but I sent him off in a with eleven rattles." and the stake by which his country forbidding it, the pitcher Avas always intrusted the most sacred hesitated at nothing when he wanted 'jiffy.' I Avouldn't hear a word of explanation. marks his last resting place will be a passed in, Mr. Davis Avas supplied with Then, with a bright and beaming and important duties to his charge. a drink. One afternoon, while Ave I just told him to go, and very different sort of stake from that good cigars by his friends. I know smile that lit up the time-defying face: So fully, indeed, did she trust were rehearsing, he rushed into the that I rever wanted to see him around he refers to. they Avere good, because Mr. Davis remarked "It was a snake that got Eve turned him that on Wednesday last she green-room clad only in an old oilskin our farm again. He was high strung, that "smokers are gregarious out of the garden, dear, and it was a started for the country to have a suit smeared with paint and tar. He too, but he looked more sad than angry and I can't enjoy a cigar alone," and snake that opened the Garden of Eden week's visit with a friend, and the last told the manager he had been taking as he clapped on his hat and went Shoddy at Long Branch. offered me one nearly every night, after tome." words to him before startinghaving a swim off one of the docks, and some out into the night without a word. he had assumed his most sataniclooking i- The most quiet people at Long consigned the baby to the tender mercies sailors in a skiff had stolen his clothes He had a strong, three-mile-and-a-half night robeshe wore a red Our Native Arabs. Branch are those Avho have good positions of the nursewere: "Georgie, and left the jumper and overalls in tramp through the woodsand when flannel nightgOAvn, cap and drawers. at home and who have gone Of all the tyrannies which afflict the gromise to take good care of Fido. their place. HeAvas drunk for three I remembered that the woods weren't He Avas never annoyed, insulted, or there for the purpose of seekinga rest. world none is more powerful than the days, Avhn the manager asked him on't let him over-eat himself, and safe I wanted to call him backbut I Avorried during his stay. Gen. Miles The most exuberant and notoriously unacknowledged dread of waiters at hoAV he got such fine New York clothes above all, bathe him regularly. You'11 didn't. I went to bed and had agood was coldly civil, and others "officially conspicuous are those Avho are obscure hotels. Yet one need not plead poverty inTexas he never winked, an eye. find the bath tub in the parlor the cry and then lay awake till daylight i. polite." I, perhaps,and as was natural, in their OAvn homes. They make to escape it. It happened once to towels are in the linen press and his worrying abouVhim. It would have was more kindly disposed, but I never "The manager thought of nothing up for this obscurity by becoming a gentleman traveling alone that he served me right it the bears or the comb and brushes are in the left hand exceeded my instructions. I think Mr. but making money, and after the A A hat they consider the stars of the took a single day's entertainment at wolves had got him, with nobody on corner of my right hand bui*eau drawer, Davis will himself give the lie to the treasurer had skipped Avith the receipts life at this place. Many are the ex. a Boston hotel. He paid his bill in earth to blame but myself." and thecologne is on the shelf above. exaggerated accounts of his sufferings. one night, he became harder pedients employed by these people to the morning without remonstrance And be sure when you're finished to Imprisonment is not pleascint under than ever on the company. For Aveeks attract attention and achieve the though it was "rather steep." The wrap him in his blanket and put him the most favorable circumstances, and With a hand over her eyes grandmother we had nothing but one-night stands, notoriety so desired by them in their fare had been good and he was prepared in the sunshine to dry, and if he c-c- no fallen chief of a great mo\'ement stopped so long that it seemed and when the cities Avere a hundred brief careers. Not over half of the for the charge. At the door, as he catches cold teelgraph me." So saying could have expected or received more as though she had fallen asleep. or more miles apart Ave had no sleep elegant equipages seen on Ocean I was about to emerge, stood four waiters. she printed one last impassioned considerate tieatment than did Mr. "But what about the snake, grandmother?" except what Ave got on the cais. At avenue during an afternoon are owned One had his portmanteau, another kiss on Fido's nose, tearfully Davis. softly, so as not to awaken first Ave thought t.hat Avhen the last by the people driving them. They are his wraps, another his umbrella and delivered him to her husband's arms, het if she were really asleep. train left before' the shoAV was sent down from New York, and hired a fourth flourished his clothes broom. stepped into the carriage and was gone. '"That's just what we're comin' to over Ave would have a full by the Aveek or the month or the season He gazed at them till they themselves A little story comes from El Paso, On Thursday and Friday George implicitly now brightly. "You think I've been night's rest, but Ave soon found that by dealers who make a specialty were forced to laugh. "Look here, fel- Texas, which has a very perceptible carried out the parting instructions wandering away from the path, as the engineer had received extra of furnishing shoAvy and aristocratic lows," he said, "if you think you're of his absent wife. He bathed moral. The city has just gotten anew they say all us old women dobut I pay to keep the train waiting for us. outfits for hire. Liveried coachmen to have a quarter apiece you are mistaken. haven't, child. I've only been telling Fido, cologned Fido, brushed, combed jail and the first persons to occupy it We got our meals in the same haphazard and footmen are also furnished by I shall only pay a dividend of It this so you'll understand the rest of and dried Fido. But yesterday morning are some parties Avho monkeyed Avith way as our sleep. We'd telegraph these same dealers. This explains in 25 per cent. Here's one quarter, ijb better." when the scribe passed by their ahead to the next station for the contracts for the build:ng and un many instances the incongruity between which you may share among you." residence he heard wild yelpings and "Well, as I was saying, I went down so many covers, and as there Avasn't Hi dertook to defraud the "/ublic out of the persons who are driven and Without pretense of poverty, this traveler Into the clearm' back of the cornfield ki-yi-ings proceeding from the yard. time for any examination they didn't $50,000. I'M'' the persons who drive. The equipages claimed justice. to pick a basket of wild plums. Father Stepping up to the fence he looked care much what they served. Sometimes 1 are nearly always correct in style and had warned me to always keep a over and saw an unusually fat pug, Northern immagration is flowing into the dinner was good, but the Nobody wishes to be thought taste, and the liveries are of the best sharp look out for snakes, and he now tumbling on the ground, now temptation to cheat was so strong North Carolina in a small but steady "mean." But it makes some difference cut and make. The coachmen and wanted me to take a stout stick with turning somersaults in the air and that Ave soon began to anticipate it, as to who it is that thinks. A reasonable stream. Most of the new comers are was1 footmen often look like younger sons me whenever I went. This time I frantically yelping the while. Some and seldom got Avhat we wanted. The gratuity for attention is never farmers or mechanics, and the majority of English peers. The people who hire BO nervous like and sort of upset that few yards off stood Georgie with his empty dishes were left at the following amiss, and backsheesh is as useful, go to the western part of the State. these outfits are not remarkable for I forgot it. The plums were plenty, station, whence they were returned to hands in his pockets and a smile of -judiciously applied at the door of a Recently Dr. Clark Whittierpurchased their taste in dress or for their refined but the bushes were so high that I their owner. When the dinner wes sweet contentment on his face. He hotel as at the base of the pyramids. 60,000 acres of land there, about one appearance. If they are remarkable could hardly find my way from* one particularly bad, the plates, usually was bathing Fido. He had chained Still one needs to be sure of his Arab third of Swain county. He will divide to the other. I stepped uj on a big at all it is for the very opposite.New met with some accident. him to a post and turned the hose before he applies, ^.Philadelphia it into a thousand farms of 60 acres logit must have been two teet through ledger 4| fiWMh I York World. upon him. 'After being on the road some seyen each, and settle them with 1,000 fam_ /e ihes. ..*8** &$&*- 1