AftCEOFAITR PILLOW. well," I wondered not a little that early in the morning, on some exhilarating THE WHITE HOUSE AS I IS. took place between the front of th&^l mon tin slop-bucket to catch the drippings, a young man with so much delicacy of expedition, it it is pleasant to crowd rushing from the mam floor anc| and over the knob at the top feeling should, at the same time, be so the leaders of the throng which rushed notice how lively and expansive they is turned a jelly tumbler with a thick -1 BeamtlM In Spots and Very Cheapand Common Harper's Bazar/ intensely practical. I had already decided down the gallery stairs. The dead and ragced rim. It is used as a are. For the first hour they talk all at in Other Spots. He was a bright, handsome young in my own mind that the pillow lay mostly in opposing rows, the feet drinking glass. ouce, laughing their words rather than From the Cleveland Leader. be of some delicate shade of blue jEellow of perhaps five and twenty, of each row close to those of the other, Col. Crook's room is large, airy and speaking them. But as the forenoon The White House is truly ,beautiful, pongee, decorated in one corner with one row of heads lying toward the while T, a demure spinster well into well lighted. It has a good carpet, goes on, one after another drops gradually alsatian bows of pale pink satin. and it has cost since the' beginning gallery stairway, the other toward two or three desks and a little safe, the fifties, looked quite old enough to into comparative quiet and silence. However, I yielded the point with as the opposite side of the hall. The_ nearly $2,000,000. Among all its in which is kept the money which |f|$fbe his mother. good a grace as I could, mildly suggesting It 13 not that they have ceased faces of the dead were distorted with runs the White House. A fire blazes magnificence.however, there aie many that a border of yak lace would So the gossips at tlie little summer to enjoy the excursion and each ogonized expressions. The clothes in the fireplace, and in front of this bits of the commonplace, and in that give a pretty finish. were completely torn from the bodies other, but the effervesecnce of the uncorked lies another Smyrna rug, the binding ^hotel where we were boarding could part of it which is daily viewed by the "But wouldn't it tear easily?" of some of the victims. A little girl, of which is badly frayed. Who sleeps animal spirits of the morning ^really find nothing to say, though we asked Jack. public eye it is in places actually shabby. since identified as Eva Marks, was in this room I do not know, but a has spent itself. ite.0 had long talks together, this found lying at the bottom of a pile of "Oh yes, if it were handled roughly," folding bed, with a plate-glass front, In this letter I want to describe In a similar fashion, as we get on in 'iyoung Jack Turner and myself, when I replied "but on a pillow like this it dead. Her lower limbs were bare and arranged so that it looks like a life past the period of obstreperous the business part of the White House would wear for years." the upper part of her dress was -torn ward-robe, stands in one corner of i we happened to meet in the parlor or youth, we incline to talk less and, as it strikes the average caller. It is a to shreds, showing that she had the room, and a close inspection will "On the whole, I think I'd like it write less, especially on the topics ^out on the piazzas. great white building of two stories fought hard for life. Isaac Levy, a show the bedclothes looking out between better without any such filigree work which we have most at heart. The 1 The special craze among our young venerable Hebrew with long white the cracks. and a basement, with a porte cochere simple things arethebest," returned younger people notice this and think Jlady boarders just then was the flowing hair and beard, was found Col. Lamont has a very fair room, my somewhat discouraged pupil, as it is because we are growing lukewarm in its front and an iron railing tipped among the dead. He and his making of all sorts of pretty and it is moderately furnished. There for the fifth time he picked out some on these matters. They deplore us, with a brass gilding at the side. It wife were regular attendants at is a bookcase at one side, and at different unruly stiches that I plainly told him among themselves, as being "lost leaders" ^pillows, which they filled with has a big lawn in front of it, and there the performances which had been parts of the room two revolving would spoil the looks of the whole or lost followers, of this and the !pine needles or buds of the fragran given in the hall. They always sat is a fountain spouting up a spray in bookcases made of walnut, which probably pillow. other fine cause. But they do not balsam fir, and embroidered near the door. It is thought from the cost $16 apiece. There are china understand. The thought is deeper the centre of this. The front door is with various appropriate mottoes, Well, in due course of time it was position in which his body was found spittoons in this room,and the furniture and stronger in us now, perhaps,than finished, that is, the plain serge cover i 8uch as "Dream of the woods," "The reached by a crescent of asphalt drive, that Mr. Levy, instead of fleeing alone is upholstered in red leather. Lamont when it was visible at the surface and was firmly stitched together, and then pines shall whisper peace," "Give me in the top of which lies this porte when the panic started, remained to has a chair of state big enough made more noise. We are beginning how I longed to embroider upon it your balm, O Fir-tree," etc., etc. help and protect his wife. So the old cochere. This asphalt is cracked in for the fattest king that ever sat upon to realize the uselessness of perpetually some lovely sentiment about the murmuring -And as the picking of these pine needles man was brushed down by the rushing a throne. His desk is a big flat walnut talking, that is all. If there is a places, and gives back all the rays of pines and the balmy fir trees! and pitchy fir-tips was disagreeable crowd and stamped to death. His one.and it is usually covered with thing to be said we perfer to wait and But of course that was out of the the sun during the heated summer work for dainty white fingers, it wife's body lay opposite. The woman papers, and the colonel is a very hardworked say it only when and where it wil'l hit question. Jack had evidently no idea months. Along its side runs a foot was quite the fashion for all the chivairic was in the prime of life, and woie man. Beside him at another something or somebody. of doing anything futher himself in young men in the house to volunteer brightly-colored clothes and quanti-' walk as wide as an ordinary pavement, desk sits Col. Henley, the assistant Moreover, if the youngters will observe the way of needle work, yet was as theic services in this initiatory tie? of jewelry. Beside her lay a little piivate secretary, who is always writing and the material of this is plain us a little, they may see that we anxious as ever to have the whole part of the woik. Moreover, there boy whose knickerbockers and stockings or opening letters. He opens hundreds say a number of thingspretty forcibly, pillow made by his own hands. On sandstone in blocks about two feet were torn to shreds. was not a little rivalry among them of letters a day, and if he had a tooby simply taking them for the whole, he was a very patient and square. -as to who should find the most fra.grant cent tor each word he writes he would granted. They might follow us around, A man named Thomas Goldberg persevering pupil for an active young The landing under the porte cochere trees, a epecies of the balsam be one ot the richest men in America. A and and C, and a half dozen more says he went to the gallery of the hall, fellow devoted to tennis and base ball, is of the same ordinary sandstone, tnv denominated "strawberry" being Into Col. Lamont's room there are of us elders and listen to our talk for accompanied by his wife and family. and I used to wonder what tender and as you go up to it you can look doors entering from the cabinet room therarest and most in demand. a whole week without ever hearing They all sat together. The play was a loving thoughts he was working into over the iron railing and. see the President's at the right, and the clerks' rooms at I was therefore not at all surprised from us a single argument or exhortation melodrama called "The Spanish Gipsy those great, clumsy seams when I saw servants ironing his shirts and the left. The clerks' rooms look like on the subject, say, of the Intellectual girl." During the performance some that peculiar far-off look come into when this new acquaintance of mine, other unmentionable family garments well-furnished law offices, and two or Rights of Women, or the Rascality boys.in order to obtain a better view of his beautiful brown eyes. having found out my botanic proclivities, in the laundry of the basement. thiee clerks are here constantly busy. of Thick-and-Thin Partisans, the stage, climbed up an exposed gaspipe There is only one thing that troubled came to me one bright morning Raising your eyes you note Col. Lamont has a little den a or the Curse of the Ignorant Vote. fixed along the wall. This strained me. In spite of the persistency that Holland shades of a cream color with an immense tow bag slung across room off from Col. Crook's, where But they would soon notice that what the pipe and started a leak. Mr. with which Jack had worked day after cover thewinowsof the east room, and .'his shoulders, and announced his intention there is a telegraph office and a telephone, we quietly take for granted in our talk Goldberg placed his handkerchief over day upon the pillow, and in spite walking up the sandstone steps you of picking fir in some remote and a man working at the typewriter. would furnish a number of tolerably the leak and some one shouted "turn of the numerous letters that came to reach the front door, and here note woods on the other side of the mountain. When Lamont is very busy strong creeds or platforms. They off the meter."' This shout was raised him addressed in a delicate feminine that its step is also of sandstone, a Would I go with him and show he shuts himself up in this, and he is might come to the conclusion, too, simultaneously with a cry of a'arm hand, I couldn't help noticing, as did part of which is painted brown. In as hard to get at as though he were liim the fight kind of a tree? He had that this quiet taking of certain things from one of the actois on the stage. all the other boarders, in our little front of the door lies a big straw-colored out of the city. The cabinet room brought back a whole bagful of worthless for granted by sensible and vigorous Then tne people in the gallery TOS0*\ hotel, that the young man was paying mat of cocoa, laid there for you and that of the President are, of stuff the day before, and all be=cause men and women is not to be despised, and rushed headlong down the stairs. (ft marked attentions to a pretty to wipe your feet upon before entering. course, better furnished than those he couldn't tell a spruce tree as a working force, in comparison Mr. Goldberg's wife was torn away young girl, who had joined our party. The front doors of the White House I have so far described. President ifrom a fir. with whole parlorsfull of vociferous from him and trampled to death. His She had fascinated us all, this winsome are of walnut. They are double doors, Cleveland works behind a desk which How could I resist such a pathetic clatter. sixtten-year-old son jumped upon the Muriel Pales, with her sweet face and into each is set an oval piece of was a present from Queen Victoria, appealespecially whenhec ul show heads of the packed mass, and escaped and her charming manners, and I plate glass with panels of mosaic and around him hang beautiful pictures, ane in this particular piece of woods a by running over them. The managers couldn't wonder that Jack had not about it. Through this oval glass the Temperate Eating and More Exercise. and at his light hand blazes rare and beautiful species of orchid are not to blame for the disaster. been able to resist the spell doorkeepers can see who wish to enter, a bright fire. At his back are windows that I had long been trying to find? The passage from the hall to the but then, did I not know his secret, and if they are objectionable can giving a magnificent view of the No! I could't refuse. So Jack with street entrance is ten feet wide where and were not all my sympathies with Timely comment is made by "The refuse to open the door. In one of Patomac and the Virginia hills, and &is ba and I with my basket started the struggle occurred, and the doors the frail little creature for whom the Pittsburg Press" upon the growing them on the inside a card hangs. in the shelves ot the book-cases around off in high spirits that glorious summer swung both ways. There are several fir pillow was designed? How could a This card is made of tin, and upon it practice of "digging graves with den- the walls is the White House library. morning It was one of those minor exits from the gallerythree young man be so fickle? Was the old in black letters is painted: tine," the writer finding notable illustrations rare days in July when a cool breath beside the staircase. The disaster There is an elevator the White proverb "Out of sight out of mind," irom the mountains tempered the in the deaths within a few arose, not from the crowding of the House,though few people know it, and to prove true again in his case? I confess OPEN, 10 A. M. midsummer heat and gave me anexhil passage, but from the frantic efforts years of such men as Matt Carpenter, CLOSED, 2 P. M. the old house has as many curious I was beginning to be disappointed arating sense of what Longfellow CLOSED. of the people the gallery to force nooks and corners as you will find in in Jack. W. H. Vanderbilt, Hancock, Hendricks, calls It was after 2 o'clock when I called, their way down the crowded stairs. the curiosity shop of some "Old Mortality." Grant, McClellan, David Davis, "I'll let you know if the fir pillow the electric thrill, the touch and the house was closed to visitors. The men an women in front were driven The old house has outlived Arthur, Logan and many less prominent really does her any good," he said to The door-bell of the White House is at headlong into the passage, where they Of life that seems almobt too much. its usefulness as a place of residence. me in a light, flippant way that quite "high livers" of sedentary 'The three miles walk around the the right of the entrance. It. is of met the excited occupants of the pit, It should be turned into offices, and vexed me as he bade us good-by a few "mountain seemed as nothing, and we habits- "Secretary Manning has been bronze and rather pretty. The doorknob and there was a hopeless block. congress should give an appropriation days later. A telegram had come to soon reached our destination, the was especially dpsigned for this big enough to refurnish the business disabled from a similar cause, and him from the distant city, and 'broad, dark belt of woodland that door. It is as big around as a baseball part of it. The presiclenb should have President Cleveland is, for the second although I knew we would miss the A Gang" of Real Anarchists. ^enclosed, tike a velvet girdle, the picturesque and it has an American eagle cut a residence apart from it, and he time this winter, laid up in bed with bright young fellow, I was glad of anything little lake at the foot of the into its brass face. should have a chance to get away New York Letter. rheumatism, gout, or something of that would take him away from highest peak. Jack had proved himself Entering the White House through from his work like any other man of I went the other day to see agangof beautiful Muriel Fales. Not that I that kind, brought on by too much a most entertaining companion these big front doors you first stand business. real anarchists. They were plotting, had aught against her on the contrary, all the way. He reminded me of a eating and not enough exercise. Now in a great vestibule or hall. This is a I was charmed with her myself, as usual, in Adolf Schlag's beer saloon dear young nephew I had lost, and, conglomeration of the grand and the Cleveland and Sheridan talk about Frederick Douglass and Theodore for she was no coquette, but a noblehearted although a week before we had been cheap. The floor is of tiled mosaic, over on the east side. It was here the 'massage' treatment or a so* of young girl. Still, I couldn't Tiiton in Paris. total strangers, I was glad to notice and probably cost several dollars a that the Kohut fire bugs, now instate Turkish bath treatment to reduce help seeing that matters were begin* that he seemed to regard me already square foot. The wall before you was London Letter. prison, were accustomed to meet and ning to take a serious turn with her their burdensome flesh' Mechanical as an old and tried friend. Upon one made by Tiffany. It shuts "you off Fred. Douglass and his wife have as well as with Jack, and I thought discuss their schemes. It's general appearance removal of blubber, in other words! jsubject, however, he was very reticent. from the grand corridor where the been in Paris this winterfor that it was high time that such scandalous does not differ from hun-*-* "When I had found for him a clump of guests promenade at the state reception What they and all such should do is matter may be there stilland have proceedings should come to an end. dreds of its class. The tables are ar- Hi^ .the genuine "strawberry" tree and and in which the portraits of all to live moderately and exercise freely. received much polite attention from Indeed, had half a mind to tell ranged along the room, and at some jokingly asked him for which of our the Presidents hang. It is a splendid "The world laughs at Gladstone, a section of the American colony Muriel myself all about the mysterious hours are. occupied by men sipping pretty young ladies he was going to piece of glass mosaic which shines like chopping down his "almost daily tree there. Douglass and Theodore Tiiton pillow, only that I had promised their beer and all talking at once. If pick the fir, he looked up quickly, and so many jewels in the evening. The jr.r at Hawarden, as a crank but in consequence had been friends in the old days, and Jack eternal secrecy in regard to it. you are a stranger you may take a itben, with a confused look on his chandelier in the centre of this vestibule of tree-chopping and other naturally they went about a good Now, though I am an old maid and seat within a foot of a table full of socialists, ifrank countenance, said: is a beauty, and the walls and heathful exercises Gladstone is a power deal together now that they were met supposed to have all an old maid's proclivities "Oh, it is for no one here it is for the ceilings are frescoed. Thus far the in the world at near eighty years of and not one of them will pay again. The two heavy, large-featured, for meddling with other people's -'aome one miles and miles away. And room is beautiful. But look around age and Emperor Wilhelm, who takes the least heed to your presence, but distinguished looking men, with their concerns, it is not often that I do you think," he added, with an abstracted you. Two cheap, rough cocoa doormats his daily horseback exercise, is a lively all will continue the discussion of the massive heads of white hair, attracted become so greatly interested in people air quite foreign to his usual lie upon the mosaic floor. The old boy of ninety. How many Chicago case, or anything else, without very general notice on the boulevards. that I meet in this random way at a manner, "that it is really a cure for wood-work of the yestibule has been eighty-year-old able-bodied men in the least reserve or restraint. One day they dined together at a quiet summer resort. consumption?" grained to represent black walnut and public life have we in the United Schlag, a short, mild-mannered man restaurant and talked together for a But Muriel and Jack and the little "Hardly a cure," I answered, "al- varnished, and this varnish is cracked States? Washington living and the with a prodigious moustache, will long time. A Frenchman sat near and consumptive maiden had somehow 'fchough I've known it to give relief in like n old picture. Besides the door packing of heavy dinners here and come from behind the counter to wait watched them attentively. A day or crept, each one of them, into my foolish rmany cases of confirmed lung trouble." entermg the hall there is a walnut umbrella there about the country uses Americans upon you, and after bringing beer, or two afterward Mr. Tiiton came alone old heart, and I felt strangely responsible The young man sighed heavily. stand which would be dear at up at a time when English statesmen Rhine wine, will offer the newspapers,^ to this cafe. The Frenchman, after for the future happiness of "Well," he replied, after a long silence, $5, and in the hall beyond, at the are at their best. Bancroft, the in English and German. The first some hesitation, approached him and them all. Moreover, Muriel's mother "I am determined to try everything foot of the stairs, lies a Smyrna rug, historian, is over four score and still thing you observe 13 the number of^**^ politely asked permission to put a had placed her under my charge for for her." which long ago saw its best days. This healthful and happy, out he takes his pictures of Henry George scattered the remainder of the summerwe were question. Mr. Tiiton said, "Certainly, Of course, my sympathies v\ ere immediately hall and indeed the stairs which lead to daily long walks as he has done these about tilt* place. Behind the bar is to talk French together preparatory to it you ill speak slowly,toir my French aroused. I began at once the president's office as well, are carpeted twenty years. But Americans of the a large imperial photograph of her European trip in the falland is still very imperfect." Then the to picture to myself the pale young with an old piece ot Brussels, physical qualities of Bancroft are him a cabinet nicture slands beside when the frank young girl, knowing stranger said: "When I saw you and -girl in her far-off home, fading away which was good once, but which would scarce. one of Lucy Parsons among the my interest in Jack, began to snow day by day, like some frail, sweet your brother together here,although I not now bring fifty cents at auction. decanters, and campaign lithographs "What our prominent and well todo me the letters that came to her on his 'Hower. could of course, understand nothing Against the wall sit a couple of $3 of the bald headed author adorn the people need is temperance in eating return to the city, the burden weighed "Has shebeen ilia long time?" I that you said, I made up my mind, wicker chairs, and over the desk at walls. Hanging at one side of the room and an abundance but not excess upon me all the more heavily. Each ventured at last to inquire. from the refined modulation of your the foot of the stairs hangs a calendar is a blackboard in a picture frame, of exercise. More of plain bread, beef letter, as I could see, grew more and "For more than a year," he answered voices, that you must both be orators. bearing at its top the advertisement and upon this some patrons with talent and tea, and less of turtle, oysters more lover-like, till at last Muiiel briefly, and then quickly turned I should like to ask if in England of a railroad. This carpet has been for caricature display their accomplishments. and wine more of active exercise and ceased to show them to me,but would i he conversation upon some other patched to fit. It has been sewed and it is usual to have two brothers so A coach dog that has less of sedentary occupations more read me short sentences here and there .subject. thatStill,heavy I could not help noticing1 resewed, and at the edges of the equally gifted and experienced in public of walking and less of carriage riding, been dozing behind the stove jumps a burden evidently with a charming, blushing hesitancy breadths the nap is well worn away. speaking." and so better health and longer lives. up and invites a drink. He prefers that I could not fail to interpret. I Hay upon his mind, that, try as hard A strip of the same carpet, with a sixinch beer. But he won't drink flat beer if he Mr. Tiiton is passing now.he tells his One day, however, there came to me, .as he might, he could not entirely border sewed to each side of it, knows it, and he sniffs contemptuously friends,the most peaceful and contented as well as to Muriel,a letter from Jack, tshake off. covers the stairs, and this stair carpet A Story of Washington Etiquette. at the pail of stale drippings. He years of his life. It is three years and as it will explain to you the Now, I do not think I am.over sympathetic, is fastened by silver-headed nails. wants plenty of froth, and* when the The late ex-Govenor Morgan, of since he domiciled himself in Paris.and whole situation,especially the romance or have more than the ordinary Ascend the stairs. Each step is spigot is turned, and the drip enHven- J'- New York, told this good story on he will probably end his days there. He of the pillow, far better than my garrulous amount of curiosity usually attributed worn threadbare by the tread of ed with a little deceptive foam, he "Cf^L has a floor in a grand old mansion, talk could do, I am going to himself: to woman kind, but all the thousands of office-seekers, and at the v1 makes away with a quart easily and once the home of the Dues- de Nemours, give it%to way home I kept thinking of Jack's you in full: "He had been Governor of New top of the landing a white path of Hcks his lips approvingly. The occupants an ancient building on the Ilede little sweetheart, "so many miles "My Dear Miss Hardacre: I promised with1 the well-worn Brussels marks the road York, and, of couise, familiar of the table appear to be too Paris, back of Notre Dame, in the .Away," and wished he would tell me to let you know if the fir pillow to the President's reception room. public and social life in Albany and familiar with these oddities to bestow i veiy heart of historic associations. you so kindly helped me make for fsomethLig more about her. Stop here a moment and look before elsewhere but when he became senator more than casual notice upon them. Here he spends much of his time, writing, my poor Angora pussy did her any It was the evening of that same day, you. There is a window looking out the question of precedence was entirely They drink their beer and gravely4iscuss reading, living happily within good. My mother's letters about her I remember, that he came to me in upon Lafayette park. This is ornamented new tp him. He gave a dinner all sorts of schemes for reforming %& himself. For the rest, he is free to quite worried me while I was with you ^"the parlor, and drawing me into a with a lamberqumof green silk the world and abolishing the police at which Seward was present as Secretary dine wherever his vagrant fancy dictates, at the mountains,for she is of a rare p^quiet corner, said he wanted to ask which was fine once, but now faded, department. Jt was here at Schlag's of State, as well as Sir Frederick to find companionship wherever breed, and is a great pet with us all. fi'/vanay advice upon a very important stained, threadbare and shabby. It that Lucy Parsous, wife of the Chicago Bruce, the British Minister, and Mr. The doctors told us that her sickriess he chooses. I fancy that no dreams of ^''.,-subject. looks as though it might have been condemned anarchist, lived while Tassara, the Spanish Envoy. Tassara was a case of consumption, but since Did I think it would be possible for fame or of especial achievement bought at the auction of a secondclass lecturing in this part of the country. was the senior, or dean, as it is sleeping on the fir pillow her cough has gri^him to make up the fir pillow all himfj^self? come now to Mr. Tiiton. The work boarding house. A Holland Schlag accompanied her on her trips called, of the Diplomatic Corps, having grown less frequent and her appetite He used to hem the sails of his now upon which hef is engaged is understood shade within it hides its shabbiness once in a while, and while waiting served longest at Washington and is decidedly better. I think she fully |g toy boats when a little shaver, and to be ephemeral in characterdone from the street. for him to get ready she would come by the rules established at the Congress appreciates the delicate 'strawberry' ^served a good apprenticeship in sewing as much for the sake of occupation Now walk along the path of the down into the saloon and sit by the of Vienna the question of precedence fragrance we took that long, pleasure ffion buttons when a college Tboy, and and mental relief a3 anything office-seekers. Go through those wide stove- She was treated with grave is settled among diplomatists walk around the mountain to secure. ff^fchought he could,still manage a needle else. His chief interest is to like doors of walnut which are fastened respect and kindly sympathy, and according to the seniority of their If she recovers, as I now feel almost R pretty well, if would only" have the his life and to keep it smooth, uneventful, back at the bottom by five-cent iron none intruded upon her as she sat service at any particular court or sure she will, I hope to have the patience to show him. restful, wittiin the compass of simple hooks, and you stand in the presence there, wrapped in her own sad pleasure of presenting her to you capital. Governor Morgan knew nothing Of course, with a woman's inconsequence, desires and pleasant associations. of Col. Loeffler, the man who receives thoughts, all unconscious of those the kind benefactor to whose infinite of this rule, and when dinner was I immediately offered to do the cards of visitors and takes them around her. It was here that she received patience and forbearance she owes the the whole thing for him. But no! he announced he asked Sir Frederick into the President. There are no seats London Theatre Horror. a telegram from her husband, pretty fir pillow upon which she is thanked me jast prerereto th same,thhimselfbut said, Bruce to take out Mrs. Morgan. 'But here to speak of. LoefBer sits on a saying that all the prisoners refused do i The hall in Princess street, Spitalfields. soundly sleeping at the present writing. 'WQuld really I can't do that,' said Sh? Frederick, walnut swivel chair before a flat walnut mercy. Her eyes lighted up as she London, where the fatal panic Now. in spite of my mature years, I 'it is Tassara's right. He is the dean.' desk, and the only furniture about rose to her feet and read the dispatch recently occurred resembled a disordered still have stored away in my nature a One word more before I close. Congratulate 'Pshaw!' exclaimed the Governor, *I him consists of two high-backed chairs, to her friends. "Good," she said auction room. Broken furniture, deal of romance, and this fancy me, dear Miss Hardacre, upon painted red, which look as though don't care who is dean, England is a "I've always told them to demand. crushed toys, children's hats, broken of the young man touched a having won for my own, the dearest, they were intended for a lawn or front greater country than Spain, and you justice, not mercy," and all present g, bottles, orange peel, actors' wigs and sympathetic cord. Of course it sweetest little woman in all the porch. Up two or three steps at the ought to go before a Spaniard.' nodded an emphatic approval. There would^give an added value to the wide world. Muriel will tell you all shreds of clothes lay scattered over right is another landing, leading to the Bruce, in his dilemma, appealed to was nothing forced about the scene. ^j- pretty gift if it was all his own work, about it. i the floor. There were many blood office of Col. Crook.the disbursing clerk "l It was quiet, natural and unconscious Seward, and Seward went up to Morgan. .and who could tell what psychological _s. Ecstatically yoursr^ spots on the backs of chairs, as well of the White House, on the left hand, but when this dark-skinned woman, 'My dear Governor, you must .power, what wonderful "mind cure" as on the floor. Every here and there and to Col. Lamont's office on the XfV"'- JACK TURNER.JS worn and weary with her labors, hoi-g|f let Tassara take out Mrs. Morgan, or A^ -_ 3|ti might not be effected when the little ghastly knots ofhair were clinging to right. A yellow Brussels carpet covers low-eyed and yet not unhandsome, ^JR he'll write to his Government and the invalid pressed to her lips the magic the floor of this, and a $12 walnut the fnrniture. Several escapes were stood up amid the grim, bearded Ger-llJ^ "to?? 5^ ip whole State Department will be in Taking Things for Granted. pillow her lover's hands Thad made? table ser ires as a desk for Arthur, made through the windows, most of mans, and calmly approved her husband's trouble.' In order to avoid an international Oliver Wendell Holmes in the February As to the material and color, I really the messenger of Col. Lamont. In which are badly smashed. The ladies refusal to accept his life at rupture the Governor yielded, Atlantic. wished that I knew the young girl's one corner stands a little four-gallon were found 'at the bottom of the price of his beliefs and principles and the diplomatic rules were ob- When a number of good-humored preferences, and when Jack suggested black water cooler upon a mistaken though these might beit the stone stairs leading to the 1*^ people arc setting out, bright and A plain gray serge, as "sure, to, wear. cheap oil-cloth. Under the spiggot was dramatic. gallery. served.' f,jHere alternate struggle