rttey -'-5 r^^ipiti mmm Stephen A Douglas IMd His Best. WATT FOR ME. dely any to pass it without my know* details having been altered, and the J, Vice at Monte Carlo. gold becomes an additional pleasure, ing it. Will that content you?" The young man "who does the best proper names suppressed. Mr. Bird and the sparkle ot the pieces a charming As many Americans will doubtless SaaCTrastti row the little stream "You are very kind but he might is the only person concerned in it who bis circumstances allows," makes even sight. The monotonous voices ot 'Where the wagoner cools his team, visit Monte Carlo while abroad this wait till your letters are finished." would be able to bring action for libel that a stepping-stone to success. the croujriers are the only discordant Where^ between the banks of moss, season, a description of the most dazlingly "That will make no difference. I against me, but for his own sake he is ISfcaad t&e-stepping stones to cross. sounds. When poverty obliged Stephen A. dangerous spot in all Europe promise to sit up till my hot water's likely to keep quiet. 0'c them comes a little maid, Douglas, a oy of fifteen years, to give ay not be untimely. People are inclined Drought. Will that satisfy you? JLaaghing, cot a bit afraid up all hope of entering college, he indentured to wonder why the place has Mother, there upon the shore Too Good to be True. "Oh, Dut that's too much." Americans in Paris. 'Crossed them safely just before-. not long since been closed. The fact himself as an apprentice to "Not at all. If you tell me in the A double house was recently moved This the little lassie's pleaWalt Paris Letter in the New York Evening is that tne site is not on the territory morning that you've ad a good a cabinet-maker. For two years he from Powell street, San Francisco, for me, wait for me! Post. of any of the European powers. The night," with a pleasant smile, I shall worked at his trade with such industry concerning which an old settler tells only authority is a municipal government, Let no American deceive himseli feel amply rewarded besides I can do dfcfit. so swift the waters ran: an interesting story in the Sacramento as to become a first-rate cabinetmaker. which is an alias for the great with the idea that he can combine Oae false step, 'twas all undone with less sleep than most people, and. Bee. He says that two young men A feeble bo dy a nd poor health Ofcfele heart begins to beat, pleasure with economy in Paris. gambling company. Both Monaco I'm sure to take it out before lunch- from New York state, who had been forced him out of the shop. When he Ifearing for the little feet. a certain extent this might have been and Monte Carlo are owned by eon." to school together, arrived in San ,3oon. her fear will all be lost, discovered that he could not become done in former times but nous avons Prince Carlos III., oi Spain, who Miss M. expostulated, but he would Francisco early in the "fifties." Black "What the stepping-stones are crossed. change tout cela. Yes, we have mostly a mechanic, he determined to study lives in royal style in a magnificent not listen, being quite excited went to the mines, and Gray remained 'Threemore yet on which to stand changed it ourselves. The FrancoGerman at the idea of rendering a service castle in the former place. He is 79 law. He began a course of classical Tiro- moreone morethen on land! in the city, and, with a small sum, war and (what may appeal to such a pretty girl and when years of age, and has been totally blind Tis the little lassie's plea studies at an academy, aud carried it fitted out a little store. Heprospeied, singular, but is nevertheless true,) the Wait for nae, wait for me! the guests separated for the night, and for thirty-two years. The geneial married, had children. Then came a on with the application which enabled greater cost of a republican iorm of he whispered, I haven't forgotten," manager and chief executive of the big reverse. He found himself in a him within four years to mast er nearly -'SJtt.Paryoo, my laughing lass, government, have indeed enhanced the she gave him so charming a look of gambling company is a womanMine. tight place, from which nothing but "Wfcbea the years have come to pass, an entire collegiate course. During expense of living even for Parisians gratitude that his heart fluttered like Blanc. She is an elderly, heavilybuilt 3Jay One still be near to guide, $15,000 would extricate him. He that time he also persistently followed themselves. But the extravagance of a schoolboy's. While you cros3 life's river wide. matron, much feared by all her went among his friends to rai^e the newly-enriched Americans has impressed "When, no helping hand is near, a course of law studies, under the instruction employes. Her husband, M. Blanc, money, but they had none to givt ]SkMMJ, if you should call, to hear the Parisian hotel proprietor, Two o'clock A. M., with a decaying of an able lawyer. was formerly manager of a gambling him. And then, as he turned a street Think, however far away, restaurant-keeper and shopman with fire and without the solace of a pipe. company controlling the establishments corner sharply, he ran into Black's At twenty vears of age, he left the .Mother still knows all you say. tue notion that we are all rich and all He had written tv, or three letters at Baden Baden. Wiesbaden arms. He told him his trouble, and E'ea in Heaven heeds your plea academy, and the law office, to seek fools. This is one of the consequences just to save his conscience, but the effort and Carlsruhe. He first rented the Wait Cor me, wait for me! gave him all his history during the ten his fortune in that vaguely defined region beQn separated. of our Civil War, after which the people had been so great that he Monte Carlo site in 1854, from the years they had then known as "the West." He whom it had enriched came from wouldn't have begun another to save Italian government for 50,000 francs wandered through Cleveland, Cincinnati, the Smithvilles and Skurkhollows of LADY B'S BUTLER. his life. In order to reassure Miss M., a year. When Prince Carlos came into Louisville a nd St. Louis, seeking 'I have the money," sa'id Black the North and the West to spend a who might be on the lookout, he left possession, four years later, the in vain for some "opening" through "but $15,000 just sizes my pile. I am portion of their ill-gotten gains. the smookingroom on pretext of a present gambling rooms were opened. which he might pass to self-support. tired of minincr, and hoped to settle 1LCHII2CL Life. headache, and established himself in Mr. Blanc managed the place for eighteen A Frenchman, and, more than all, a In his pilgrimage he arrived at Jacksonville, down here aii'l get into some business, hib room about midnight. Smoking Miss ILis a pretty heiress, whose years, and at his death was succeeded French shopkeeper, ib a paragon of 111., with thirty-seven cents but you can ha\e it my dear fellow, and sleeping were both out of the question, 'name for obvious reasons we must by his wife. When the srreit politeness. Doubtless he is shocked in his pocket, and he himself unknown and 111 take a whack at pick and and two longer hours he had suppress Mr. E. is a young diplomatisfcwiio German gambling places were closed, at what he must consider the extreme to any person in the town. He sought rocker again never spent in his whole existence. He fancies he has every chance Monte Carlo received an enormous rudeness oE other nations, but it is a employment as a law clerk, offering Gray took the money, and Black heard doors opening and shutting sign of his own sincere courtesy that accession of prosperity, which has continued a becoming an Ambassador before his service for his board a nd lodging. returned to the mountain. In the down-stairs, a suppressed lauth at he never appears to notice it, or to to this day. Xo lawyer wanted him. He sold his fcfoe fast of his short-cropped loeks has course of that year the merchant the last good story told amidst tobacco laugh or even to smile at our blunders, =chool-books to pay for bread and 'Resectedkim. Mr. R. has heard of Miss made a lucky turn and sent the miner smoke, the tread of several which can not but afford him a fund bed, and walked to" Winchester on a his money with ample interest. Then being the owner of a wonderful&eauiul pairs of feet in different directions, of quiet internal amusement. It ay cold December day. they ceased to coriespond, and the and then silence. diamond necklace, and alpossessing "The noble, the idle, the dishonest, be, too, that it is partly for the sake The morning after his arrival, he left last the merchant heard of his friend Miss M. being no longer there with more personal atfcraefciotas the immoralin fact, all who are rich. of his pocket that he does not take his lodgings to find employment. As was that he was about to marry and her white lace and her small figure all tlian are supposed to belong our vagaries into open account. In return No mechanic or artisan is permitted he approached the public square, he move into a new mining district. of a tremble to work up his feelings, tx any tetifc ki teres tins paupers. Miss it is well for us to flatter his to live in the province. You will not saw a crowd, and joined it. An Fi\e years afterward the miner and he began to feel his position eminently vanity. be admitted unless you are independently M., a the other hand, has been in'tatrmeA ministrator, about to sell by auc his family returned to San Francisco. ridiculous. His excitement had cooled wealthy and gamble for amusement The other day a young lady who the stock in tra de of a deceased that Mr. R. was a very decent Black was dead broke. Everything down, his compassion had waned like only. The company doe.s not lodges at our hotel, having occasion chant, was halted by the want oi ssorfc of fellow, with the smallest had gone wrong with him. His mining the moon bat infinitely bored and intensely for a carriage, sent for the concierge. want tne patronage of anybody who man competent to keep a record speculation* had failed, the mines he amount possible of Foreign Office sleepy, he was bound by his -i1" "Ordonnezmoi un voiter," she said. cannot afford to lose all he carries in sales, and to make out the bn had discovered petered out, ths men swagger.. They met for the first time promise to a girl. And all on account "Yes, mees. Yen sail mess prepare his pocketj. If you get broke they purchasers. he had trusted deceived him and he of a dream! He asked himselt with his sunder Lady B.'s roof, and surveyed herself?" "Je suis deja." The concierge, will send you home in first class style No person in the crowd, though se, had about $50 remaining of a onct fingers running through his usually mdkLQther with mutual interest from although momentarily paralyzed, or if you wish to remain they will eral ot them ad been asked, was wil ample ioitnne. He hunted up his neat hair and his mouth distended in 'apposite sides of an elaborately-decorated cr and did not betray his embarrassment board you free, handle your telegraphic ing to undertake the duty. The friend Grav, who was. of course, de an unconscious yawn, if anybody had by the slightest movement of his daanertaAde. The necklacecame messages without charge, besides ministrator was embarrassed, t.v 1. lighted to s^e him. "And I don't see ever heard of a an being victimized facial muscles, hut merely stood still lending you spending money." /up tot Mr. R.'s expectations, but their would-be buyers impatient. anything fo'- me to do old man,'.' said IXiN by somebody else's dream. It was with an inquiring look. The "Don't you think that the estimate "P'raps this 'ere stranger," I owoec- surpassed them. Not only was the despondent miner, "except to get arrant nonsense, and he was a fool to impatient Western beauty stamped of- 365 suicides per year is a little man, pointing to young Dcvr:i a job shoveling sand, if you can help aheptttifcy. but also vivacious a nd give in to it. No, not quite that, with her foot and added in a steep?" would do the job. He looks as if he me to one a throb of compunction, or the girl evi&ess&ls"' amusingnot a painted, high key, "Maintenong!" Th at was understood, "Not a bit. During the winter season could read, write, and cipher." "I ha\o jii^t moved into a handsome would have worried herself into fits lKei5Si26i-tt{ doll like the women beside and the concierge bowed they frequently average three or The administrator pressed him to house an Powell street." said Black, but he ought to have reasoned with ^aim, got up for admiration, and incagwtbie himself out of the room on his way to four a day for long periods. Of course, serve, and tendered him the libe.a. and I want you to come and dine with her, or suggested that she might have of conversation. Not being acosame execute the order. He soon reappeared, all do not take place at the gambling salary of two dollars a day. He consented me to-morrow earning. It is adoublt a dosj in her room. LadyB.'s Fidget bowed again and said, "Zecarriager to admire without some rooms or on the grounds, but counting the auction lasted three days, hou^e, finished about a week ago." would have been sure to bark If a ees all a ready. Vill inees give heivelf ffiorfc of return, he left the doll those at Monaco, Nice, Cannes, and the temporary clerk had six dollars The miner was on time, with his mouse squeaked, and would have ?e pain to make herself to descend? 'fea tS*e tender mercies of her left- Mentone and other jlaces which are in his pocket, no mean sum for a shabbily dressed wife and little ones. howled the house down at the sight Mios gave herself that pain. The obsequious man whose ca-*h amounted to only directly caused by gambling at Monte ^\an.d neighbor, and devoted his attention "You did well sticking to the town," of a burglar. Apity hehadn't thought concierge opened the door thirty-seven cents. But he had gained Carlo, the estimate is none too large. he remarked to his old schoolfellow. of it but supposing he had, Miss M.'s t& Miss M. Theyhadgrownquite and bowed her into the carriage, and more than the money. The I have verified the figures over and "Hfcie you are way up as a merchant, gratitude would have been given to 'iehm&ly -aver five o'clock tea, and now then the young lady realizing prehaps promptness with which he discharged over by conversations with croupiers. living in a fine house, all your own, Fidaet and not to himself, and he oxcfoatiged telegraphic signs across the that she had been somewhat impetuous, his duties won for him the admiration "The castle at Monte Carlo devoted and having a bank account as long as rather wished to win it. Another itafokz about any small episodes that endeavored to atone by a 'winning of buyers, administrator a nd auctioneer. to gambling purposes is an ancient my arm, I suppose." yawn, till he thought he had cracked smile and hei thanks thus expressed, arose during dinner. Mr. 11. thought granite structure, two stories high, his jaws. The firo was dying our lie Before dinner they visited the ad "Remercy, vons etes tres fa was getting on, a nd became so engrossed was aft aid to stir it, but he thought with a broad flight of shallow, pure joining iiO'i-e, which was furnished in It was in the days when President e^pece." The concierge retired to his that he 'neglected his favorite he might tickle it with the poker. He white marble steps leading to it. To ju'eo^ely the same style as the mercha S:u kson was fighting the United States bureau to consult his dictionary as to aetree, mad had scarcely tittse to do got up cautiously, and was stretching nt's we!hn~. Then they sat down Hank, and party feelings were at er the east may be seen the Alps, and to the meaning of defa and espece. His out his hand for the poker, when he chatted o\tv old times until the late leat. Young Douglas was a $asVkf& to the saddle of mutton. But the west the Mediterranean. The contortions in private upon the discovery warned the miner and hou'1 heard a sound in the passage. He began m-x-s ot the Df Gen. Jackson's administi building adjoining is an immense KIIfice, seben. the regulation ice-cream had may be imagined, but he gave to think his nervous system was his wu that it was tunc to return to At intervals during the sale, ami in and was built for a church. The 2Taa.de its seoctud he noticed a sudden no evidence of it afterward. This concierge deranged, for he had never believed thea' lodging hou*e. he evenings, he joined the political architecture of both buildings is antiluated, cfoaaga in the girl opposite to him. was always our friend, because there was the smallest reason for his onversations which took place. The "All light, my boy." said Gray, and difficult to describe. The we never addi'essed him in French, and "She to:rated as white as her own hand- watching. ability and the good nature he ^how- "but ]ust stpp next door, there is Dffices and gambling rooms are on the because we complimented him upon IserxMfir ^,nd leaned back in her chair, *d in defending the President caused something I wish to show you which I left side ot the main hall as you enter. But the sound was repeated, and sent his English. It is better not to speak vaifleafc iuad abstracted with wide-open che good old farmers to take him to neglected on our first vi-.it. "When Above them is a large expanse of exposed an unmistakable thrill through his French unless it is absolutely necessary. -eyes &4S& parted lips. For the rest of their hearts. It was discovered that they entered the hall Black halted. galleries, from Inch promenad3rs veins. He got to the door noiselessly, he was poor, and wi-hed to open a 'the time she scarcely talked at all, "Here," he said, "that looks like my can gaze down into the gambling thanks to his slippers, and without -chool. In a tew day-, his new ft lends trunk." and seemed incapable of rallying but rooms, up at the moon and stars, opening it any further, peered through The Ginsrer Drunkard. provided him with torty pupils, each "Nonsense said Gray, "come upstairs forward to the Alps, or out upon #&m who ok her head when he made a the crack. He could scarcely believe Georgia newspapers have drawn attention of whom was to pay three dollars per to this bedroom." the waters of the Mediterranean. 'On his eyes when he saw Bird, the butler, sigKs Ihait bo was ready to assist her to the fact that Jamai ca ginger quarter. "Why," said the miner, looking carrying a pair of tiny high-heeled the right side of the main hall are the i-wjfc of the room, and kept her seat till has become quite popular as a about him, "confound you, you have While teaching school, he devoted boots in his hand. W as there really cloak rooms, a large library and reading-room 14ia, LtAies rose and filed slowly through beverage since the prohibitionists caj mo\ed all my tiaps up hereirom that his evenings to studying the statutes something, in the dream after ali? Lla and a lounging and smoking hs'&iE. would have given much lodging house tured the state, and the ginger drunkard of Illinois. On Saturday afternoons waited until the man actually stopped room. Not a drop of wine or liquor o fd&isw them at once, because his "A\e, have I, my friend?" shouted he acted as counsel before the justice's is becoming an institution. The at Miss M.'s door, and then placed his is obtainable in the building. At the soriosily was vividly roused. He the other, slapping him on the shoulder. court. At the end of three months he Hotel Mail says that while to the hand on the handle. end of this hall are the entrances to should a an keep his 0 "Whe- abandoned his school, and opened a araus sure there was some mystery be- average citizen the above item ay Then with one stride he was by his the theatre, which building, although things but hib own house, and in law olhce. The monej'- he had received hwA fche scenes, for she looked as if appear incredible, to the hotel steward side. an annex, is much larger than the what part of the house better than for teaching, together with his fees 'What are you doing here?" he said s&ekad. .recta.ved ashockseenaghost, it is an old, old story the ginger drunkard main structure. During the winter, his own bedroom?" Black was bewildered, for legal serutes, justified him in applying in a stern whimper, staring the butler which is of course the fashionable season, is an old acquaintance. Sometimes or discovered an unwished for friend. and began to have doubts to the Supreme Court for a license straight in the lace.. this theatre is crowded nightly, it is the yard an or a waiter A soon as he could get aw ay he look^ad of his friend's sanity, but when his to piactice law. The an started, turned perfectly no admission fee being exacted. The who applies for "just a leetle ginger!" around the drawing-room, and seelag fi friend thrust a deed of thi-s very house In seven yea is horn the date of his livid, and let the boots fall from his attractions are always first-class, and but his best customers are among Miss M. sitting apart fromtheoth- into his hands, and followed with a application he occupied a seat upon shaking fingers, but he made a great Sarah Bernhardt, who is a great gambler the female employes of the hotel, *r Jadses and turning over the leaves deed of copartnership in his business, the Supreme Court bench, and in ten effort after composure, and tried to herself, has given many a performance and the constant demand on the storeroom he broke down and cried like a child. oi at, p&ofcograph-book in evident pre^oouupatatvn, vears he went back to the East as a steady his voice as he said: I had there at a salary of $1,000 a for a "few drop s" of ginger member of Congress. His subsequent "And now ue are moving away this (he mad his way to her, forgotten to send up these boots before, night. On the second floor of this amounts in the aggregate to no small lareer as a United States fcpnator, a old nor.se, sir, to another quarter." sir, and I was afraid the young (vasad sstaading before her, so as to shield building are the six private or reserved item of expense. The effect of ginger leader of the Democratic party, and a said the narrator of this remarkable lady might want them the lust thing &er from observation, asked in a low gambling rooms, the moat sumptuous on an habitual partak er is much the Presidential candidate, is well known. tale ot gratitude and friendship, "but in the moi'ning. in the world. "twice it he could do anything for her. same as a continual use of morphine, Doubtless, it is spotted with errors I would not take a hundred thousand "If she did it wouldn't be your business "In the busy season the best of these She looked up in surprise. 'Thanks, and the same cunning exists in the and faults, for he was but a man but dollars for it." It was Black himseli to bring them. You must be mad will rent for 50,000 francs a night, and .1 don't wa nt anything." it illustrates that honor and fame maimer of procuring it a nd the peculiar who told the story, now a most successful or drunk, and I shall report you to single bets in them of 1,000,000 francs :oire to him who instead of repining merchant. ghastly complexion produced by your master to-morrow." "But you are annoyed or ill, one or are of nightly occurrence. Of course, l&Lfc otfots:- 1 shall never forget your at his situation, uses it as a fulcrum. the use ot morphine is invariably present The man's under-lip shook, and his their charge includes the strictest flif' in the ginger drunkard. The disease A Sharp Bookdealer. eyeo shifted uneasily. I meant no A ooSc at dinner.'' privacy, with croupiers, a large police is more prevalent among scrub harm," he said, sullenly, as he stopped -"Ik any one notice it?" eagerly. New York Letter. guard, and every attendance and attention Why Eve Did not Keep a Girl, to pick up the boots. women and laundry girls than chamber-maids, *"L3tofc a, soul, except myself. Of that the human mind has invented. A curious fact in New York City life A lady gives the following as some But Mr. R. stopped him on a sudden '^3VLtts I don't wish to forceyour confidence, but when it does attack You may imagine that this is that the value of things is estimated of the reasons why Eve did not keep impulse. "Leave them here and go but if I can be of any service one of the latter clas-s she will satisfy is royal pleasure, and that the mere by their cost. That is not generally a girl: "There has been a great deal off at once." Co you her craving by drinking the cologne possession of millions will not secure true, of course, for most people try to said about the faults of women, a nd Bird seemed inclined to remonstrate, *Nat one can do me any good," hurriedly. found in the rooms ot absent patrons admission except in company with nobility. get worth for their money but among why they need so much waiting on. and even stretched out his hand again "Only I wish to heaven I ad rather than make oo frequent demands Some one, a man, of course, has the our million inhabitants there are a as if to take the boots, but Mr. R. sieves: come!" on the housekeeper or steward "On entering the castle one passes presumption to ask why, when Eve signed to him to go, with a significant sufficient number of men of another Ife looked at her with genuine compasaiore, through a guarded anteroom to the for ginger. One unfortunate girl was manufactured out of a spare rib, a frown. for-he saw that she was shiver.MEfeeww.h sort to form a conspicuous element in door of the gaming rooms. There one drank a mixture of .Worcestershire servant was not manufactured to The butler slunk down the passage, ead to foot. public places. In the store of a dealer is halted and politely requested to sauce and alcohol for months, after giving a backward look before he wait on her? She didn't need any. "ha& fetch Lady in rare books I saw Benjamin give name and address. After a few having been refused a daily moining turned the corner. Mr. R. watched & A bright writer has said: 'Adam never /"That the world. I would tell further questions, the visitor is directed Butler looking at a War book that nip of Jamaica ginger, and the strangest him out of sight, then picked up the yott, only you would think me so fool- came whining to Eve with a ragged to the office proper, where a searching ad been interleaved with engravings part of her story was, she was boots and carried them to the gaslight. tsb," looking round to besure that no stocking to be darned, buttons to be investigation is made bjr the chief illustrative of battles described in the one of the best workers in the hotel Nothing in the first, a dainty, ami could overhear. sewed on, gloves to be mended right detective a nd his assistants. If the text. He asked the price and was told and had no other vices. innocent covering for a pretty foot "1 promise you I won't," earnestly, awayquick, now!' He never read replies and proofs of identity are not $25. He remarked that possibly he but something hard rattled in one of a be took a chair and sat down the newspapers until the sun went satisfactory, the visitor is firmly but might come in later to buy it, a nd them as they dropped on the floor, :|aat in front of her, so that she should down behind the palm trees, a nd then, 'I respectfully denied admission. If he Lotteries I Prussia. and he was not surprised to find in sauntered out. The bulky volume sanat isave to raise her voice. "Pray tell stretching himself, yawned out: 'Is passes muster, he is given a personal the second a long, pointed knife. As A report recently submitted to the still lay on the counter when a stylish supper ready, dear?' He made the card of admission, good for one day, he drew it out and scratched his finger Landtag gives the appended interesting Tfe was tnl a dream," with the young man entered and glanced at fire and hung the kettle over it himself, three months, or during proper behavior, with the sharp edge, his blood turned information about the character of a smile. "Last ni^ht I it. we'll venture, pulled the radishes, as he may elect. cold as he thought of the girl's white 'thought I was foeing murdered for the a nd capital of lotteries in Prussia: "There's something you ought to peeled the potatoes a nd did everything "The view on entering the room is throat and a crimson gash. -sake of this wecklace," playing nervnwsly From January 1,1880, to January 1, put into your library," said the merchant. else he ought to do. He milked dazzling a nd bewildering. Brilliant If it had not been for a dream, that with tlae diamonds round her 1885, the Government has authorized "It is unique a nd curious." the cows a nd fed the chickens and lights flashing through magnificent girl would have been brutally murdered whi to throat, "and I woke up strug^big special lotteries to the amount of 36,- "How much?" asked the fellow, as looked after the pigs himself, a nd never crystals around above and below in her bed. witn a m&n-a man with a long 000,000 marks. Foreign lotteries he carelessly turned the leaves. brought home half a dozen friends to handsome, courtly raeD in full dress, rJiki and reddish hair. I felt I should figure in this list for one-third of this "Eighty dollars," was the bland repiy- dinner when Eve hadn't any fresh walking a nd talking in low tones, or dbaosr him. any-where, and I saw him Mr. R. thought it right to tell the sum. The prizes were composed of sitting a nd playing with reckless indifference pomegranates. He never stayed out *&Hiay at dinner," with a shudder, circumstances of the case to Lo rd a nd merchandise to the amount of 16,- The interest of the customer palpably or deadly earnestness queenly till 1 o'clock at night and then scolded ^sm&mg the liquors." Lady B. Miss M. agreed with him, 800,000 marks, a nd money amounting rose at the price, and within five women, in gorgeous attire, hushing because Eve was sitting up and crying Wl\y that was Bird, the butler. but said she would go home before he to 7,480,000 marks. The merchandise minutes he was theownerof the book. their chatter a nd playing with unsurpassed inside the gates. He never loafed SEba couldn't be afraid of him." spoke, to avoid a fuss. As soon as lotteries give only about ten I asked the seller, a familiar acquaintance, skill and audacity, or inex?erienced around corner groceries while Eve "I am,'* looking at him with terror she had left the house the story, into per cent, profit, which is very small now he could bring his conscience UI am sure he will bravado a nd eccentricity, was rocking little Cain's cradle at lot her pretty eyes. told, a nd Lady B. nearly went was when one considers what enormous to that sort of double-dealing. 'he swell of music and the breath of home. He never called Eve up from &ey and murder me to-night. I can't hysterics. Lo rd B. said there was sums are put in motion. The money "It is a perfectly legitimate feature flowers permeate the warm, voluptuous the cellar to pnt away his slippers %a 60 bed. I should never close my not sufficient evidence to support a of my business," he replied, "to get lotteries give as high as 47 per cent, atmosphere, and soften the scene not he. When he took them off he syes," and she shivered again. charge of murder, but he declined to the most I can for curiosities like that. profit. It is to these latter that are to one of delicate enchantment. put th em under the fig tree beside have his enterprising butler any longer **'Bea can go to bed and sleep in perJsefcxaooudence. Gen. Butler is a regular customer, and due such remarkable works as the Everything that is said or done suggest"subdued in the house. He therefore dismissed his Sunday boots. In short, he did I tell you what I'll 1 was well aware that he knew the completion of the Cologne Cathedral. emotion or elegant propriety. him at once on another pretext, dloryou," and Mr. R. smiled, feeling not think she was especially created value of such things. There was no Classifying the lotteries by objects, we This is the scene of the world's and Mr. George Bird is now on &a he was making a noble effort. for the purpose of waiting upon him, chance of selling it to him unless I find that 4 9 per cent, of them were organized greatest dissipation, a nd the picture the lookout for another place, where ^Our rooms lie on the same corridor. ami he wasn't under the impression named a reasonable figure. ut in the for charitable and benevolent has strong toneaswell as harmonious he may cut a throat when he feels inclined, foawt heaps of letters to writeworse that it disgraced a man to lighten his other case I know the man too. He purposes, 34 per cent, in aid of agriculture, coloring. At first the ringing of coin, with no troublesome third fetckao that I mu st sit up. I'll keep wifes cares a little. That is tha wouldn't have looked twice at the 7 per cent, for art, 3 oer cent, for as it is swept rapidly over the green party to interfere. A nice thought for Otjdoor ajar, which won't be noticed, reason Eve did not need a hired girl, book if I ad named the same price 1 pious works, a nd 3 per cent, for "en cloth in counting, rattles unpleasantly those about to engage a butler. S there is & light in the passage, and and with it is the reason that her de- had given to Butler, but the high cost eral utility," on the ears of a stranger, so quiet m& earn are so sharp that I would This story is true, only a few trifling struck his fancy." are the surroundings hut once accustomed to the jingle, the melody of pare