vwMT-.nnniWiaM ^JEgsaaB^&k&iMi^^ BID BETTIE BENNETL beside her to the spot where Mr. Vonderbust A BATTLE AMOKCiTHE AST3. nac%,*he liew:,4^6^fiwi*l3ftfc $, another to Virginia JLamb, that happened sick for a coupltTof days, and Isaicltc waited with his new Hambletonian, ing all efforts of the woun *ed ants to to-be duplicates of some I kept, myself that this was the end, anyway. To test the force of his whose pace tbey were going to because their mothers were so mad'at remove it. 1 Wine* flgkft\Sfetr PbU41yhlaTkCiytirm And then, one morning, when I thought There is no moralatatttowhatlam KadtSUTM. try together. their neglect, and I was afraid tney grip of the jaws I touched some of the she was in bed still, and was just getting oing to tell you about Bettie BennettAt When Bettie came back she came might begin to show their claws," she unwounded soldiers with a* pair oi ready to go and see her, she burst From tb Philadelphia Ledger. directly to me where I sat on the piazza said next day. "Why, didn't you see least the real fact of the cafe is steel forceps. They bit the end of the into my room, radiant, rosy as a In the summer, a year ago,a swarm with my crocheting. "If you don't me go and sit down by Mrs. Lamb? I forceps so firmly that it was not possible peach, fresh as a new-blown flower, that 4t is all very immoral/ But mind going in to lunch with me?" she of black ants (Formica Pennsylvanica) Was praising Virginia to her. I was to detach them by pressing them and caught me, and covered my old fchat' neither here nor there, said. I didn't understand until afterwards wishing I only had Virginia's complexionand built their nests betweeen the ceil* against the mouth of a collecting bottle face with cat esses. "0, I must kiss that I was part of her role, too. I had been watching the play some I wish I had!' 0, you have without crushing the ant itelf. ff somebody!" cried she. "And he isn't ing and the roof of a shed near our It gave people pleasant things to say to kotou to the chaperons, too, or When the enemy had beendriven ofl timeI, generally looked upon by the here." And I must tell you. I can'f dwellingmthesuburbs of Philadelphia. of her kindness to a forlorn old spinster, else they'll ruin you, the old tabbies! and the fighting was over, the workers let anybody see it, actually see it, it' ^fortunate others as an old maiden At a distance of a few hundred feet for one thing but the mam thing They put me in mind of hens, pecking came down from the nest and carried too precious!" probably without experience, I'm afraid if I had comprehended it the heads of the other hens' chickens. from the shed a second colony of the away many of the dead. But And it was a letter from Mr. Dunrobin in the beginning I should *put an end certainly without hope. The It's a part of the labor you when they ceased thfir labors bun- i^ 1 |f same species had also built a home in and in it he told frankly that to it out ot handwas that, quite think so lightly of. Why, I actually play went on at the seaside serious dreds of the dead were left and, from he had run away from her, ifshe chose a sheltered place. Both nests were innocent and ignorant of it all, 1 was got a partner for Julia Drinkwater! the fact that before lifting and dragging to call it so, because he felt there would 3play, for the stakes were high, high as of unusually populous. her chaperon. "It is such a misfor- more1 0,1 tell you, if I do get an establishment away a body, two or be no happiness for him, or her eithei when some Old Eastern potentate tune," she said to the right people, and a fortune, I shall do lots of Battles between ants of different them at the same time carfully exam- fL in a marriage with such a difference in ariskslug lovely Circassian girl, body "that my own dear chaperon, who good things. I shall make a particular ined it with their antennae, and then |p species, fought for the purpose of capturing age and taste, and temperament. always takes me about, was obliged charge to establish girls in life, to and soul, to his antagonist. The with one accord either took it away W^.. And now he had discovered there slaves have been often described. to leave almost as soon as we came give a nice wardrobe to this pretty or left it where it was lyingnever |&. fu .players were not Eastern potentates, could be no happiness without it. But on a bright morning in August I and I should have had to go, too, and person who wants it why, sometimes once seeming to differ in their decision-%. f* And he was coming back to learn his btib all the same, lovely girls, body was witness of a fight between these be buried alive somewhere, I suppose, a wardrobe is half the battlelook it would seem that even after death $, 4 fate. two colonies of the same species,which ajtfl soul, were the stakes. I if my dear little Miss Ruggles had not at me! People will think a world thev distinguished friend from foe. "O!" she cried, bursting into tears, could have been waged for no such happened to be here, and she has taken to think of it when I saw Laura more of you with one than without The wounded defenders of their home "it's perfectly dreadful that I'm so charge of me so kindly!" Take purpose, and which gave the occasion one, let me tell you. Yes, a particular tried to crawl up to the nest. The I fcwood, that stately beauty, and wicked. I'm not fit for him! I dont charge of that minx! I should as soon for a greater display of forethought charge to have one taught a trade, loss of legs and antennae made this deserve him, I ought to be punished! -Jeannette Dean, the dashing one, and have thought ot taking charge of a and one set up in business, and I shall on the part of the combatants than difficult, and while some succeeded I shall be0, I shall be! I shall tell "Caro, and Elsa, and Edith, and the will-o'-the-wisp. have a matchmaker of matchmakers. is usually conceded even to the ant. many failed. When the latter found him everything. I shall tell him how irest. And among the rest could one I've felt the need of it. So you see "Now you see what I mean when I the task a vain one, they crept slowly The nest in the roof was the one attacked. I maneuvred, and schemed, and plot I'm not so unprincipled as vou say it is necessary hete to be always 'forget Bettie Bennett? She was not a out into the grass and died. For The only approach to it ted, and think." on evidence. You're forgotten if you're two days after the battle a strong from the ground was by a post and person to allow hergelf to be forgotten. "Bettie, it will finish evervthing." not. Out of sight, out of mind. I am "Bettie!" guard of soldiers was kept at the bottom plastered wall about six feet high. A "It ought to, I can't help it if it here to be seen. If I hadn't been sitting of the post. Finally these were "I'm looking out for a great many smooth plank floor fitted closely does. I won't let him take me believing here with you that absurd little withdrawn, and the ant colony settled others than just myself." And yet you did not understand against the wall and post and was I'm all I'm not. If there's an Vonderbu3t would't have asked me "At any rate, it's doing evil that raised above the ground by a low down to its usual quiet routine. 1 other world, he would't know me in what it all meant, this furor about to drive, and the others wouldn't all good may come, Bettie!" step. This floor was the scene of the it. And 0, I'm afraid he wouldn't Sher. |ihe was not a beauty she had have gone to pulling caps about waiting "Well, it's better to do that, said conflict. want to. 0, isn't it too bad I should Married by Instantaneous Process. no accomplishments to speak of she on me to the dog-cart, and Mr. the incorrigible girl, "than nothing at be so wicked when I love him so, when In all my repeated study of these Dunrobin wonldn't have seen it as he was not an heiress. But she had everything all. Now tell me did I dance well?" I'd die to do him good? And perhaps nests and their inhabitents during sat there with his cigar. When I have Ch icago Heraldi "Like a little flame. Yes, I must the best good I can do him is to die. the summer months the small workers her own way the summer filled everybody's eyes Mr. Dunrobin One of our justices of the admit that you danced like a ball of were the only ones who seemed to But when that night she came in through. If you had to describe her will begin to see me. So I am always firelike a golden butterfly on the labor. They did all the foraging and peace was called yesterday afternoon from the beach, dripping with dew you would say she was a dark and very plainly visible with my tiain of wind." it was unusual to see one of the larger again, and hanging on Mr. Dunrobin'a to go to a German house in idiots. 0 yes, I am as light as froth, slender little person, with arch ways "I don't know how well that would workers outside of the entrance arm, her face pale and shining as a the city and marry a couple. Puting but it's a game as deep as the sea te. But that,s the way I like to hear and the gayest laugh in the world: of the nest, which however, star, she stooped and bent over me, underneath." on a clean collar and placing a you talk so I'll reward you. Look they faithfully guarded. The conduct facing a line of angry mammas, and *and that would be all there was "Bettie I'm ashamed of human here." of the latter so much more closely marriage cerificate in his pocket, he kissed my forehead. about it. All there was about it? natuie when I hear you talk." It was a basket of the most superb agreed with that of the soldier ants "Well, what did he say, Bettie?" 1 started for the festive scene. Arriving 0, not in the least! In the first place "No occasion," crumbling her bread. orchids that I ever saw, a priceless of kindred species that in speaking of whispered. at the house under the direction of a "You wouldn't be ashamed of me if I affair, from which she drew the scarf there was the readiest wit, the great-est them in this paper I shall call them "He loves me he adores me," murmured bow-legged boy, whopointe out the were trying to make a fortune by what she had thrown over it. soldiers and, so far as could be seen, Bettie. "He saidhe said he good-nature, the most perfect you call honest labor. Well, if this "With Mr. Donrobin'scompliments. place, he knocked and: went in. In did nothing else. didn't care."Harriet Prescott Spofford, grace. In the next place, there were isn't labor, I should like to know what Eh? He has seen me, you see." When I saw them on the morning in Harper's Bazar. the middle of the floor stood a stout the most wonderful toilets. it is." "Well, then of the battle both the small German girl sorry and plump, her blue "Labor!" "Well, then, this morning Jeannette workers and the larga ones or soldiers, "Well," I said to her, after a week eyes rolling nut tears as large as butter-pats. "It's labor enough, let me assure Dean is going to mount her hunter were out on the wall post, and His Work Told. or so, as she rested by me a moment, you, just to talk to these whippersnappers, and leap five barred gates and things: floor in great numbers. There was no V- I heard recently of a singular in ""it must cost all of a fortune to dres3 It's more trouble than it I shall let her do it. And fight then going on. A strong force of "What's the matter?" said the stance where a young southerner, with you. I don't see where you get it." would be to write a book to graduate Laura Stockwood is going to soldiers held every approach at the sympathetic justice. out political influence, civil service ex your conversation to the level of their drive into town shopping she'll go foot of the post and wall, smaller "So it does," she said, with encouraging "Matter," said the girl "dat Gottlieb little intelects, if they have any intel- alone. And Elsa and Caro are going to animation or other recommendation bodies were* formed in regular lines frankness. "Take my toilets, wend off and wouldn't marry me, lectsPenhurst, and De LacjP, and the woods let them go. I am going to half way the post, and large outstanding -and gloves, and boots, and folderols, than his ability as a lawyer, was appointed aint't it?" Van Stout, and the whole set. You find Mr. Dunrobin ond thank him just groups were stationed at -andall, and the interest of it would The justice said he supposed it was, to an office in the New Yorkcity 44 have to make believe to each one that as sweetly and modestly as a little close distances here and there upon take care of'one poor person for life. and intimated that he had come to government at a salary of $7,000 you find him perfectly delightful. If milkmaidI do write such a bad the floor and step, and running up .Isn't it .wicked?" and she looked at marry some one, and requested the a year. A vacancy occurred in the you're the least atom above his comprehension hand' And then I'm going to get my and down the post supporting the one with irresistible drollery. old lady to bring on the lambs to the in your talk, or silent, or district attorney's officeMr. Martine water colors and go out on those rocks. nest. "Yes, I think it is said I. For I sacrifice. Old lady said "dare vas no slow, good-by and good-by to one, Then I'm coming up to read with you wanted an assistant, a thorough law While I stood wondering at the unusual 'bad'known Miss Bettie of old, and lambs, "Gottlieb's run off and would good-bye to all. If one sees another that means get a nap, and then commotion I saw at the distance per, wno could take charge of appeal knew that if she got through this summer not marry mv Katarina." hanging over your chair, he thinks lunch. And after tnat I drive with of a few feet a host oi small alive she wouldn't have one penny casesvery important work. He "Well," said the justice. "Gottlieb there's something worth while theie, Mr. Vonderbust and later I sail with workers, closely followed by a great left. isn't the only man there is send for went to Judge Barrett of the and he is coming in for his share, but Mr. Kilgore, and then it's dinner, and horde of soldiers, streaming along a some other man to marry her." supreme court, told his want if he doesn't see anybody he is going then talking and promenading on the fence from the other distant nest. "And the worst of it is," continued At this Katarina's face brightened where it is plain there is something and asked the judge to keep a look piazza, and then the concert and They must have numbered thousands. she, "that when you think you have up, and she ejaculated: the other fellows admire. Do you see? dancing and supper. That's 'Well, out for a man wno could fill the bill In a very short time these hostile enough for a queen you and you've "Yah, dot is goot send for Hans." Here they come I thought they then.' And to-morrow there's the workers descended the fence to the In a few days Mr. Martine recived only made a start, and have to keep Hans was sent for, but he couldn't would." archery and the picnic to the Wells, "round, swarmed up the step to the ordering more Pelisser and from Bobbinet this note fnom judge Barrett: "Have come. When the messenger returned, and the yachting out to Red Reef She ran into my room one night before floor, and poured in crowds upon the and the others. It won't do to Katarina,determined not to give it up found your man. Come over to .su- Light." going down in the german, "Am defensive scouts. The antagonists suspected of any tarnish. You so said: preme court chambers." I all right'" she said. "Come down "For gracious sake, Bettie, day after rushed upon each other, and with (must de fresh or nothing. Why, I'm "Send mit Shoseph."" The district attorney went. Said with me, that's a dear." day, it will kill you!" their strong jaws cut off here a leg and iin debt up to my eyes!" Shoseph was sent for, but he couldn't Judge Barrett "There is a brief just "Why don't you rest to-night?" I "You can't stop. You have to keep there an antenna, and sometimes severed "Bettie, I don't know what you be round. submitted to me by a young lawyer asked, not yet aware of my chaperonage. it up. Stay to rest, and you're like the body ofan opponent at a blow. can think of yourself!" I said, in consternation. Katarina's heart fell at this news, I never saw before. It is one of the the dead man in a battle the others The foremost soldiers of the defensive "You have nothing to and the justice wasgrowmgimpatient finest pieces of work I ever saw "Rest'" she said. "As if thpre were will walk over your body." party came to the rescue, and the pay with. It's dishonestit'sit's Just then Katarina looked out of the When the case was tried I was sure any rest in the middle of a campaign! swarm of hostile workers was driven "Does it pay you really, Bettie?" -swipdling." window, and saw a hor and thick the young man was wrong in some I'll rest when I'm through." back toward the step. "It will pay. Don't you know how "No it isn't. It's business. If I young German going by, when she point, but I confess he puzzled me to Bettie, I'm afraid I love ease, beauty, splendor, luxury, But by this time the soldiers of the carr out my plans my pin-money rushed to the door and hallooed: find the error. He matched me, at "What of! That I shall fail? Well, fine houses, equipages, gardens, pictures, attacking party had reached the floor, roext year will pay my bad. debts." "Fritz' Fritz'" first almost completely. At last I what if I do? Folks have failed before. laces, jewels, bank accounts? moving deliberately onward in a "And if you don't" Fritz shortly made bis appearance discovered the error, but I teil you he And it I fail, life won't be worth a Well, that is what I play for. My little dense, black mass, crashing their "Well, then they can have the things at the door, when Katarina's mother is the man for the vacant place." In cent, and there's always a river you pittance would board me in a smaller foes as they advanced. In a iback." said telling me the story Mr. Martine said #& know." country town. I had rather die. So few moments the small workers were "Fritz, you lofe my Katarina?" "Bettie'" "I looked at the bottom of the brief "Bettie Bennett! I'll have nothing I throw it all at one tossheads I either all killed or retiied from the Fritz "allowed" he was built that ~"To look out for that is more and saw the name McKenzie Semple.' more to do with you at all. I think win, tails you lose. I shall have not front. Theni the battle between the way. trouble than I can take, with all the Who the deuce is he?' thought I. But you are a basket of orchids, but an orchidhouse. soldiers of the opposing forces began "Then stand up hero," thundered rest that I have. I'm in for it. And I sent for him, and a modest retiring "As bad as bad can be! Then come I was made for it all. I perish in earnest. Halting a moment till the justice, and before Fritz could re I've got to be a success." young man about 26 years old soon down and help me not to fail. I've in any other atmosphere. It isn't their ranks were close and compact, alize his position, he was man and "Bettie, if people knew about you, called and said he was McKenzie Semple. got to dance to-night till the last like a girl that wants money merely though by no means regular, the invaders wife, and Katarina's arms were around *you*d be anything but a success." He had recently come from the dance, and take ices and drink champagne for the sake of money. I want it for advanced to the attack in a his neck, and her lips pressed to his, "I don't intend* hey shall. And it's South, and I tnought of the criticism with the best of them or the the sake of living, living my own life." dense mass seeming to completely she crying between the calisthenics, ^.a. pity if I can't trust you." I would incur if I appointed astranger, worst of them, just as if I were to the cover the floor over which they It was Mr.Dunrobinwith whom Bettie "Mine husband mm Fritz'" "You canyou can. I don't approve but the fellow impressed me so favor manner born. If I don't dance the moved. In this close array they met was promenading the piazza that Our dnty as a correct historian com of you. If you were content to ably that I gave him the place, and I first dance, then the othere will think the defenders, whom they greatly outnumbered. evening after dinner and befoie the pels us to say that Fritz hugged back have never regretted it. He has been sit still, as I do, in one or two gowns, something's up or nobody wants me, They were received, however, concert and the dancing. He wasn't a3 well as he knew how, The justice, more than an acquisition to the office, and see the show go by or I'm an old story, and I shan't with at courage as great as their a dancing man he was only a millionaire, with head erect, stepped smilingly out and I learned recently that before "And let somebody else marry Mr. have a partner all the rest of the own, and their ranks were quickly well born and educateda quiet leaving the lovers to themselves, and coming to New York he submitted a Dunrobin' No, thank you. I'm not night. It's killingthis pace. Do you broken up and tbrown into apparent middle aged gentleman of unassuming \M walked away meditatively, a holy brief in the famous star route trials, content. But I shouldn't have gone think I am falling off any?" disorder. manners. She flashed me a glance as calm stealing all over bis massive pro but I never should have learned it into this extravaganceit makes my she passsd that might have put out After the- general charge had been "Falling off'" said I. "There's portions, the consciousness of having from him. Mr. Semple is now confined very soul ache to see those gownsif I the evening star. He sat beside her at thus made and the combatants were nothing to fall off. You'll be the more done his duty gleaming in his eyes to his home with a broken arm, -wer not obliged to be all the time on the conceit "he went with her next mixed up- in, an undistinguishable piquant and taking the more faded and honor, honesty and rectitude in the result of a fall on the slippery -evidence." morning to the archery herodeDeside crowd, single champions were seen you are. You'll be prettier at 40 his footstep. sidewalk, and I tell you we miss his I don't really see the need of that." her all the way to the Wells he sat rushing aroundi the floor seeking a than you are at 20. But 0, Bettie, counsel and assistance. He is a remark I do. If you're to be a success. beside her as they sailed to the Red foe. When, two of these champions you're awfully old at 20!" able man. and the kind of stuff out of '^And I didn't come here to go home Reef Light. He walked with her- the approached each other a mutual New Tricks of tne Prestidigitator. "Well, my dress is new. And isn't which great men are made."New ^acain. And I came here not only to next day after dinner but this time examination^ with the ends of their it lovely?" York Star. M. Bautier de Kolta, inventor o! rule this summer.but to have my rule they stepped down and away from antenna now seemed necessary It was a bright gold-colored satin, the new commonplace feat of "Th( tfemembered tn all summers to come," the lighted piazza, down the pebbly to tell foe from friend. Many such fitting like a glove and with it she "Noble ambition!" sappearing Lady,." is doing surpris walk, down the rocks, and meetings were friendly, and after the Siberia as- a Penal Colony. wore a quantity of topazes, and there -"It isn't ambition, I tell you it's ing things in London. On a stage out on the sands and along the salutation, both would rush away at was a black swan's-down wrap, to be ""business." Siberia as a penal colony is thus de draped in black, wiith the simplest accessories, beach in the starlight. When Bettie full speed. But when, by the delicate left on her chair or to pull up if she "But, Bettie. you're not a beauty," the master magician presents scribed by Bradstreet's: According to came in she was drenched with dew test of feeling or whatever serves them were chilly, and set off with its soft "So much the more to my glory." but she looked divinely happytoo himself in the conventional evening to thus distinguish, each had found recent advices from Russia, it is beginning shadow the perfection of her perfect 'You ridiculous midget!" divinely happy to notice the dark disapproval an enemy, they rushed upon one anwith dress, with ample coat and fullness O t be doubted in official circles little shape. "Topazes are cheap," g^ **She's littlebutshe'sshrewd." And on the brows oi all the the utmost rage, clinched both shirt-sleeves. These are mere concessions said she. "You can buy beauties as oft she sped as young Pennycastle whether it is expedient to continue to mammas. with feet and laws, and doubling themselves of the ordinary entourage of thi big as the tip of your thumb for $2,50 YvOame alone for an hour at tennis and maintain Siberia as a penal colony. up oolled over the floor, biting professor, of legerdemain. In produo And the next morning Mr. Dunrobin apiece, in the old country jewelers' WtJL sa$? her coming back in time surl^roumied and tearing each other, entirely undisturbed A special committee has been appointed was gonehe and his trunks and his ing on a plate of glass supported between shops. It's the setting that costs by an awkwaid squad of in-, their deadly work by being horses and his yacot and his man. It to inquire into the matter and report but nobody need know that isn't 18 two cbairs a spirit hand, which i, fi^young society men. lifted up into the air with a pair of was a little yellow wreck ot Bettie carat. It isn't everybody would dare taps the points on dice before thr fir -"Yes, they are an awkward squad," on the subject. Some statistics ti forceps. At one time the floor was that came into my room and threw to wear topazes with yellew satin no |?t4ahe said, in answer to me by-and-by. maestro himself knows the number just published show some light upon nearly black with these rolling combatants. herself face down on the lounge and contrast you know. But don,t they JjyfAnd stupidstupid beyond anything!" the magician reities possibly on SOUK the condition of affairs in that country. sobbed out the story. makeme look just dripping with light?" "The idea of taking so much trouble, of those subtle- arrangements which ls As the battle progressed the superior Between the years 1754 and "Well," I said, soothingly, feeling it "Yes," I answered "they make you Bettie, to please them, then!" belong to the reign of Psyshe. Thi numbers of the invaders drove the no time for a homily, and pitying the look like a constellation half seen in "I'm not doing it to please them, 1884 the number of persons sent to production oi a bushel of roses from defenders of their home slowly backward little wretch for all, "there are plenty sunset. But you're wasted here, Bettie. (the jackanapes! Yes, they are jackasrapes! Siberia numbered nearly 1,000,000, a paper simply coiled to hoki a pounl to. trhe foot of the post. Then a left." You ought to be in countries They don't know anything and of this number political exiles number of the small workers, who of sugar is efltected by monsieur with "There's nobody!" she cried. where there are kings you'd be directing abou society small talk and attitudes. numbered 750,000. One fact noted had been stationed upon the post his shirt sleeves doubled up* a depart "There's nobody! I'd jnst as lief you affairs of state presently." They can dance0, how they is the desire to escape manifested by ran rapidly up to the nest. In a are from* regular usage vAhich, with knew it as not. III lovehim! And "I shall be content if I can direct f^can dance! First one and then anoth- those people. During the past twenty A moment a fresh army oJLsoldiers, numbering O, the worst of this is, I deserve it! native politeness, is not carried oub 1 this affair," she said, with her gay |4rery*tHL,there are holes in the soles of years twenty-four per cent, of the many hundreds,, rushed from But I can't let these people see. I laugh. "Come! I've just given Caro by a Frenchman without*? a special re*- pfjyour slippers. Sometimes I go to total number of exiles sent to Siberia tho nest, and, desettding the post, quest for permission. A bird in a must go on just the same. I'll put a my turquoises. By the way, to tell Pcsbe so tired it seems as if baths of hot made their escape. It will be seen passed the guards at the base and fell I little rouge on. My heart's broken. the truth, the're not the least becoming ^^alcohol wouldn't put any life into Imy from this that it is impossible to prevent cage flutters in a lively way, and "high f| upon the victorious foe, driving them, I'm dead, dead, dead. I shall look in to me, and she admired them so. fhSeet. But I'm upa the morning as some from getting away. An almost presto" bird and cage are gone into back slowly, but steadily, to the* the glass while I'm doing it, though, There's another part of the labor you fresh as a rose with dew on it. I have equal difficulty is met in trying presLv w*ru ttuu cage*- are gone Ull(/ }&x edge of the step. The guards at the and say to myself. 'And, Bettie, give have to keep on the best of terms thin aift. The ample* coat is doffec to be. It's what I'm here for. And to reconcile the remaining colonists to base of the post did not appear to this cheek a touch ot red one need with the other girls, unless you are and passed round. Spectators runv ithey're a part of ray success, these littfjlee the country. The chances of marrying leave their station, to engage in the not, sure, look ugly, though one's perfectly assured that there's no need mage the pockets. The coat is return, wells. I've gotto so about with a and settling down are narrowed general fight, and\ only took part in dead. But let me hide there this of it, or else they will tear you to ed, and before it ia.again put o*, th if" train of them as certificates of it. because of the small proportion oi it all when then attacking soldiers morning. Have you any rouge?" pieces. Sweet life!" bird and cageare withelectricalshacp, They're just like itwhere one women exiles to men, averagingoufehe &' tried to pass them to reach the aest No one would believe that Bettie ness reproduced. Weird music fro It was a triumph that Bettie had yes, indeed whole about one to five. As marriage was disappointed, broken-hearted, $Hthan you, Mr. Vondetbust you're al-ways The fight lasted about five hours, the automatic oachestra give&tobe s% that -night. The beauties, the heroines, is forbidden until the exiles have been and ended in a total rout of the at dead or anything of the sort that not for the instantaneous appearaact so kind! It is just what I was thebasbleus and thesangre-azul* five years in the country, and the tacking party. Toward the close the night. She was recklessly, desperately I of a spectre in the centre of the stage 1*, wishing. Do you know I' sometimes were nowhere, as she said afterwards majority of the women are over forty wounded doubtless of the invading gay- Dancing on the edge of the Disenbhroudee\ the ghostly- presenct in her own dialect. She was surround think you the most"and I caught I years of agev it islittle to be wondered party, were seen dragging thamsjelves becomes a beautiful woman clad it volcano, she called it. And so she at that the coloaists cannot be expected ,ao more of the silvery sentence, for she ed like a queen-bee with workers. She off the, tieid generally carraijBg with Grecian costume. A newspaper \i was the next night, and the next, and to mak9 good citizeas. The off with Mr. Vonderbust,, had bouquets by the dozen, so that them some enemy which haft fastened placed on the carpeted &*age, a chaii for a week running, till all the chaperons objections to the exiles making a permanent catching up her daperies as she flashed her loversl had to- help*--*- her hol*d them. upon them by his strong aws in a placed on the newspaper the ladj I in the house were getting'wild i borne in the country are very all light and grace, and presently trip-' Sh gave them qnietly to the boquet dead embrace* In many eases these seats herself on the chauh Sheiscov Iered about her and expostulating with me strong* It seems evident irorn this otng down the stairs a close fitting less girls, in pursuit of her plan, you attached foemen were fcjand to consist with a magic mwfctle, and in an ft and that was the wayI learned that that Russia is not meeting with as dark serge, with a cock's feather in might have said, but really, I dare only oi a pair of jaws and a head, all instant mantle and. lady have van f^ I was suppposed too be her chaperon faer little turban hat, and half a dozen much success as England formerly did say, because she had a kind heart under the rest of their bod.y having been torn ished leaving the s&ajU: arid/ paper, intact* and I couldn't think where it other youths had sprung to hold her when it deported, its convicts to the all her artifice and audacity. "I away in *hefight..-JVith bulldog te- ould end, Aivcl then she went to bed South Pacific. J* ^^arasol, to button her gloves, to walk^ only gave one to Helen Peterson, and i