^PieajS"-!5 rfi-v-~^-? awtei mil ^fPiqMl JIVMMIipMIRNJIt ifiiPHnppfwilP WBlWBWpBBSSBS^ '%-stp NEWSFEOM CONGEESS. of Alabama olaims to estaousn additional ufesavmg goingtoisleep with stations for the construction of additional Jim was not a caroet-knignt, and "All right." I am fight. E yott do. Til follow you light houses: extending the free delivery "Speak but one wordy" "he cried, .MZ. ^xSfK would have left hiscuertmorewillingly you to-night so's to know you ain,t system, to towns of 10,000 persons to amend plnmb to hell but what I'll git ^ou!" And madly clasped her hand than faced one ot Burton's daughters. SENATE. the statutes so as to require brewers to give a drinkin', an' we want to start about "I quite believe ityou needn't JFt* bonds for three times their estimated monthly "Speak but one word, my love, As ne stood hesitating he heacd a little The senate reassembled in continuation half-past 9I got to do a little somethin' worry about that." tax: tor allowing Fourth of July claims reported And I shall understand. yesterday's session.at 10 a.m. Arter cry ol pam, aud then, a man's here first." by the accounting officers of the treasury to "I don't worry much." some unimportant business the senate voice said sharply: 'Don't be a fool, amend an act for the muster and pay of certain "I ask no sweet caress _, "Don't you want to'buy a. wedding "When wilL you be back with the closed the legislative day of Wednesday by officers, so that any person duly commissioned, Nelly." It was not old Burton who Of lovers when they partf ring?" whether the commission was received or' lady?" adjournment and at 11 opened the last spoke Jim was sure of thatit must I am content to wait not, shall be considered to have been commissioned "Yes, I reckon 1 do!" legislative JVC- of the Forty-ninth congress. "To-mor,' I reckon^ Don't say for the date named in the commission be one of the "dudes"and helistened. Speak but one word, dear heart. The resolution of Mr. Cockrell for a select "Sell you the ticket for one cheap. nothin' 'bouther to him. Jest kinder to provide a school of instruction for cavalry If anyone was talking roughly to one tomimttee of five senators to examine and light artillery to provide for the inspection Uncle Jake's got it, down by the rail- "Mine is a trusting soul, amuse him like lies an' sich. So long, of those girls into the business of the executive of tobacco, cigars and snuff and^to repeal section road." That rests its faith on thee preacher." 3151, Revised Statutes to effect a rearrangement department in Washington,the causes of delay "But you promised* Arthur you It asks no vow of love, "Fix that in the mornin'. Come to or grades of officers in the adjutant general's Jim saddled the hired horse and in the transaction of public business, promised!" Speak but one word to me. department to provide for filling the bed now. I ain't slep' in sheets fer a rode over to withim two or three as to the necessity of additional buildings, office of United States treasurer in the absence "Precisely. And I probably told tarnation time. I'll git you a stiddy etc was taken up. Mr Van Wyck offered miles of Burton's, andmacarttook then the of treasurerand assistant treasurer to allow 'Speak! speak'" he cried, "and still! you that you were an angel. Men will the on his merchandise liable to specific rates of duty to horse to ride out, preacher." an amendment to add the words "and also hitched1 My heart's wild pit-a-pats" bridle off, use figures of speech under certain circumstances. be transported in bond, although the merchandise to the cause of delay in transacting public She looked into his eyes wrist, and wrapping himself in his oilskin may not apnear by the Invoice to ho consigned Be sensible, Nelly, business in congress." The amendment And softly whispered, "Ratsf" to the port Aesired to allow underwriters "slicker" slept soundly through When the Rev. Mr. Noyes dismounted was rejected. The resolution was agreed believe this is all nonsense but Exchange. to be recognized as consignees of merchandise the night, while the horse cropped the at Mountain Lion ranch next day to. The conference report on the house on abandoned vessels to restrict ownership of if you want to make a. run for it I'll fn rass within the scope- of his tether, lands in the territories to American citizans to bill authorizing the employment of male he was weary and biuised, but cheerful. pay your fare east and eee that you're prohibit government employes from hiring or messengers in the postal service was made an hour after sunrise he rode down "Quiet sort of place, this!" he remarked. A WYOMING WEDMM. comfortable. But as for marrying contracting out the labor of United States convicts: and concurred in. The legislative bill was to the ranch. The men were all out on "You mightn't think it, Mr. to amend the act prohibiting the importation you. I can't do itnot yet, at any passed with some unimportant amendments and immigration, of foreigners under labor the range, and after getting a cup of Mason, but I was once a hermit. I rate. If you see fit to make a scandal contracts to regulate the jurisdiction of United coffee from the cook, Jim awaited developments. Ihe Jfew^TTay Oat West of Settling 01* Wrongs. set up a cell about three miles out of you'll be biting your nose off to spite States circuit courts: for the adjustment of the Nearly the whole day was taken up in conference By and by Helen Burton land grants and the forfeiture of unearned lands San Francisco, and people used to your face, that's all. I'd be in a mess Prom the Argonaut. reports between the two houses, to provide for bringing suits against the government went down to the corral and he diive out there with offerings. In certainlybut where would you be?" enlivend occasionally by sharp discus- Jim Mason dismounted at Barton's followed her. She said good-morning, flush times, that was, and I've had as "And if I went east?" Forty house joint resolutions became laws, ranch, turned his pony into the corral absently enough, and Jim's heart failed many as four boxes of cigars brought the prinoipal ones being as follows: "If you let me manage my own way him a little. But he pulled himself to me in one day." and strode heavily into the bunkroom, Directing the commissioner of labor to make Mr Haj nes called up the vetoed senate you'll be Mrs, Scranton a year from an investigation of convict labor: to authorize together. One of the riders of Burton's bill gr vnting arrearsof pension to Thomas now and nobody'll know the difference. "You wouldn't drive much uv a the president to protect American fishing vessels "Miss Helen, do. you know that Hopkins The house refused to pass the and American fishermen in Canada authorizing What's the use of all this cry- outfit said, "How!" and Jim gave him trade here," said Jim, grimly. "You bill over the vetoyeas 153, nays 95. Scranton?" an investigation of the books accounts of the ing?" see this cabin's on'y used when the the same terse greeting. Pacific road. Jf The house refused to pass the Sally Ann "Yesyes." outfit gits 'round here on the calf gather, Bradley pension bill over the vetoyeas, "Oh, ArthurI am so wretched THK SENATE BILLS "What's new over Crazy Creek way?" "Well, he's over ter Mountain Lion, and wants the corrals to brand in. 123, nays, 122 Mr. Oox (N. moved to Of the total number of bills which passed Jim Mason left the corral, and spurred an' he wants ter know ef yer wouldn't asked Long Pete. the senate 320 became laws, including 113 suspend the rules and pass the senate bill Used to keep a ranchman here to hinder after the men. He could not face like to ride over there with melt of a public and 205 of a strictly private repealing the tenuie of office act. Agreed "Nuthin' much. Is the old man fellers from burnm' the corrals for the poor girl, and he dreaded making "Is he ill? Is nature The following is a list of the more to and the bill was passed172 to 67. firin', but it's so out o' the way they here' Mat wants him to send over a more trouble for her. But all the way important senate bills placed on the statute "Not' zac'ly but he's got a feller On motion of Mr Anderson (Ohio) the don't do it now. I got the hotel folks books of the present congress:: to the mouth of Crazy Creek he was couple o' you bucks to help swim them house passed over the president's vetoyeas from town over there. I reckon he to put up ten lunches in this sackone The presidential successional bill devolving wondering what he could do. 1J3, nays 63the senate bill for the wants you towell, I ain't sure, but Northern cattle 'cross the river. heirship to the presidency upon raerabers of the uv 'em is fur the gal, but you kin erection of a building at Dayton, Ohio seems to me he's a preacher! Anywise, cabinet, in the event of a vacancy in. the office We're short-handed." tackle the balance. I'll gifc a fire in the Mr. Wilson (W. Va reported a further of president and vice president: interstate commerce he wants you to come and not to say disagreement on the District of Columbia "Say, Mac," said Jim Mason to the stove fur you, an' then I got to light bill for the retirement and recomage of "Better see him after supper. Got nothin'. Will I catch up that little appropriation bill trade dollars the electoral count bill for the allotment Hall Circle Cross foreman that night, out again. You jus' eat an' pound his two gal daughters out here now, of lands in severalty to Indians and extending blue o' youm and clap your hull onto Mr Henderson (Iowa) moved to suspend "I got to go to town. Wouldn't yer ear till I stir yo.u up agin to-mor'. the protection of the laws to Indians on the rules and pass the senate bill granting him?" and they're ieedin in the new shanty. the various reservations to repeal the tenure ot leave when you're so rushed on'y Ef anybody comes along tell 'em you a pension of 2,000 a year to Mary E. "Thank you, yes. Oh, it's a long office act to increase the annual appropriation Them two dude cowpunchers eats can't help it. I kin come out in a got smallpox an' run 'em off. Reckon Logan. for militia to establish agricultural experiment way over. Can I get back" couple o'days." you won't be bothered. Give me that stations for the study of the effects of narcotics with 'em, an' they take a sight Mr Matson opposed the bill. The "Oh, that'll be all right." and intoxicants the public schools to flask out o' your coat fust'd yer motion to suspend the rules and pass the Mac poked his pipe thoughtfully. o'time." legalize the incorporation of tiades unions to Helen Burton's clever little bni bill was lostyeas 146, nays 113not think I wasn't onto it? Well, ther "WelL be as quick as you kin. If the increase the pension for the loss of an arm or pony gave the hired horse a stiff pull, "I don't hold with women and the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. leg to indemnify the Chinese for loss sustained ain't 'nough there to git tight on, I river don't go down it's going to be a and early in the afternoon they rode by the Eock Springs riots: for the relief of The president approved the following: dudes on a cow ranch much," said Jim. guess. So long, preacher." job swimming cows. Takeone o'them Washington Territory and Idaho for the settlement The act to authorize the president to protect into the corral at Mountain Lion. extry horsesyour string is kind o, of accounts for arms between Montana At midnight Jim reached Burton's "Who does?" ejaculated Hairy ,md defend the rights of American "Will youjist hold on here aminit?" and the United States to amend the laws relating worked down. If you see any men I ranch, turned his tired and hungry fishing vessels, American fishermen, American Mike. "I'm goin' to quit Burton. to patents, trade marks and copyrights said Jim, and entered the house, where want two'r threeno tenderfeet." trading and other vessels in British pony into the pasture and picked his to authorize the postmaster general to allow he released Scranton. With college chaps comin' out here dominions of North America, the Indian compensation for railroads for apartment cat Next night Jim was in Cheyenne. way into the bunkroom through the service furnished pursuant to agreement to "Now, Plugtooth, there's a dame appropriation bill, the act to establish and swellin' roun,' it ain't no place He went to the house of the Crazy group of beds about the door. Hairy provide for the execution of articles of the Chinese agricultural experiment stations in comin' in here and the preacher is going treatv of Nov. 17, 1870 Creek Cattle Company's general manager Mike, who was sleeping by the stove, for a common waddy. I run cows in conection with the colleges established to marry you. An* I'm goin' to and said: "Mr. Gray I want to rolled over and saluted him with: Of the foregoing measures seven became under the act ol July 2, 1862, the act relating this country when the Injuns was look on through the winder. Ef yer laws by the expiration of the constitutional git a hundred dolfare right off." "You back again? Stampede over to contested elections, the diplomatic runnin us, an' I got no use fer fancy niake a kick or don't behave pretty to ten days' limit, the Mormon polygarry,trade appropriation bill, the agricultural "Why' Jim' this is a new trick for there. dollar, militia and four private billa The that dame you'll get them ears o' appropriation bill, the act to restrict the bnsiness. One o' the dudes he stacked you, coming to town in the middle of senate bills vetoed were thuty-nlne in number, "Stampede nuthin'. Where's them ownership of real estate in the territories yourn reamed out with a forty-five. up' longside o' me on circle t'other work, and wanting to play faro." jr~ 1 eleven being of public and twentyeight waddies' beds that went over with to American citizens, the Pacific railroad Savvy? I mean it, too, you little of private character. Among the public "I had to come in, Mr. Grayand it day, an he says, 'Fine mornin,' Mike'' me?" inquiry bill, to repeal the tenure o! office scoundrel. Git your fixin's ready, biHs vetoed were these: ain't faro 1 want it for. act "In the corner where them bridles is I says, 'Yes, it ain't an' you'd better preacher, and tie 'em solid and quick." To quiet the titles of settlers on the Des "I haven't got that much but I'll see hagin' and Mike went to sleep again, Moines river lands (passed over the veto in the not monkey 'roun' me with yer cheap When Jim brought Helen into the LAST DAY OP THE SESSION. if my wife has. Can't you wait till the senate and failed of the two-thirds in th while Jim unstrapped and rolled out cabin she ran toward Scranton and Senators Sherman and Saulsbury were appointed house): for the erection of a public building at talk. I'm a sixshooter man from office is open in the morning?" a bed. co join a like committee on the part Sioux Citv, Iowa: to grant railroads right oi was about to speak to him when the way back, I am I eat snakes, an' I'm Df the house to wait on the president and way thfough an Indian reservation in Montana. "I'd ruther not but I can borrow it In the morning he waited about the Rev. Mr. Noyes interposed. howl9" That's Infoim him that the two houses had completed The ninety-three house bills vetoed included round town if you ain't got it." a wolfyou hoar me corral until he saw Scranton,and then "Pardon me, my dear young lady, their business and were ready to adjourn, eighty-seven private bills and six Mr. Gray got the money, and told said- "Say, Plugtooth, was it you how I throwed it into smarty." but for the moment we will consider unless he had something nfther to bills of a public nature. Among the public Jim to sign for it at the company's was wanting ter buy thet black horse submit to them The presiding officei announced bills vetoed were those for the erection of a this rude hut a place of worship. "The dames is pretty slick dames," the appointment of Messrs. Cocktell, office the next day. o' French Charley'sthe one as he federal building at Duluth, Minn. to distribute Here is the ring, Mr. Scranton." Harris, Jones (Ark.), Piatt and Cullom seeds among the drouth-stricken said Pete, "ole Burton reckons to broke ter leap fences?" "All rightan' you know I asked In five minutes the cermony was finished. &s the committee on investigation in the executive people of Texas, and to grant pensions to "Yes." you to look after my back wages fur marry the plug-tooth dude to one uv The final injunctions which department, Messrs. Dolph and dependent soldiers and dependent relatives me there's about six hundred. I'd Cockrell to attend the annual examinations ot deceased soldiera Mr. Noyes so unctiously delivered "Well, ef you're kind o' slick about 'em. Seems his ole man owns a railroad at the military academv, and Messra like that in the mornin'." seemed to exasperate Scranton beyond it you kin git him fer fifty. French THE BEGULAE APPEOPEIATION BILLS East somewheres." aldrich and Gray on the board of examiners "Well go slow with it Jim. Mac is which tailed of enactment weie the i'ortifica. all patience, and, turning to his owes me some dust an' I got to git it. at the naval academy A resolution of thanks tion bill tor both congresses, the river and "Maybe so. Plug tooth 'ull fool talking of going back East after this bride, he said: He's over ter Mountain Lion with lo the presiding officer for his abdity, courtesy harbor bill of the present session (which waj season, and we shall want you to take and impartiality was offered by Mr Harris him up a trip," growled Mike. "He's the horse now if you kin, come right not signed by the president) and the de "I hope you're satisfied. If I don't and unanimously adopted. A subsidence of his place." ficiencv bill, on which the conference report over an' I'll git him to dicker. On'y a no 'count sort. Reckon his people Jim Mason's hand dropped on business and a general lull in the senate was not submitted time for action. Fiftj 'I reckon I know the brands as well he don't want none o' this Burton his shoulder. chamber followed, it being understood than sent him out here to keep whisky out bills in addition to these which became as most of 'em. But Mac is a nateral gang to know nothin' about it till the the president of the United States was on "Excuse me, Mis' Scranton, but I laws and those vetoed were sent to the president, uv him. Durn himkeepin' some his way to the capitol One of his secretaries born cow-man. That rheumatiz is a but were pocketed bv him on the adjournment horse is sold. He owes the oleman want to speak to this gen'leman outside. Mr Pruden, appeared and announced of congress, and therefore failed. good man out uv a job." pesky thing ain't it. A man can't last some stuff, I b'lieve." Preacher, you an' the lady wait that the president had appxoved and signed The most important are as follows: "Kin he ride?" asked Jim. no longer than a snowball inhell,ridin here." Scranton's eyes glistenedthe black several bills. The president himself had The river and harbor to prevent the oroprey. "Ride nuthin'. Burton give him a with that in him." about that time reached his room in the horpe was worth a hundred and he He led Scranton to the side of the ment of convict and alien labor on publio works string o' plumb gentle horses. Sets 'm capitol Messra Sherman and Saulsbury reported "Cattle looking well?" creek, where a few box-elders made a hastily saddled a pony. They rode to open to settlement the public land strip soutb that the committee to wait upon the Boldier-f ashion." of Kansas the O'Neil labor arbitration bill foi "Fairish. Range is gettin' pretty feeble effort to shade its cattle-trodden over to Mountain Lion together, Jim's president and inquire if he had any further the settlement of controversies between interBtate "Well," said Pete, "the dames think crowded. Well, so long." banks. horse beginning to need the spur towards communication co make to congress had roads and their employes the Morrisoi he's nicer'n a white faced yearlin'. "Good-night, Jim." performed that duty, and had been assured the end of the journey. Entering Jim returned Scranton's pistol, saying: surplus resolution to annex apart of Idaho to by the president that he had no ui ther communication He's sure gettin' in bis fine work with From there he went down to Wes the corral they dismounted, and Washington Territory. "Now I'll trouble you tor that to make. The presiding officer The Northern Pacifio forfeiture bill and the pretty oneHelen, or whatever Moyer's. The proprietor of the Diamond as Scranton was about to pull the fifty for the preacher." then announced that the senate stood adjourned the bill to repeal the pre-emption and she calls herself. There.s slush a hollerin. Palace Saloon was watching a knot out of his ladigo Jim Mason Scranton seized the weapon, a new without day The dial of the senate timber culture and desert land laws Well, we kin rustle grub if we monte game, but assented to Jim's clock showed it to lack four minutes of tossed the loop of his riata over the self-cocking revolver, and fired almost were in conference for a long while, but the don't eat with the dudes." the hour of noon, but the actual time was proposition to "have a bottle o' differences proved irreconcilable. The bill "Dudes" shoulders, drawing it up so in Jim's face. He was not successful, four minutes past to tax fractional parts of a gallon of spirits After supper Jim went over to the wine." that Scranton's arms were piniom however, in his revenge, his rage was was killed b,y a refusal of the house to accept gaudily painted house and discharged at his sides. THE FINALE IN THE HOUSE. Over the champagne Jim said: uncontrollable,and his aim bad. the conference report Bills establishing A few minutes after 5 a. m. Blount announced his mission. "Look here, Wes, want a couple o' additional aids to navigation at th Jim's reply was prompt. "I didn't "Quit your fooling!" said Scranton, that the conference committee on mouth of the Mississippi and forfeiting the "Did you see the gals?" asked Mike surlily. men to go out to Mac. Is there any think you'd try it," he said, and as the postoffice appropriation bill had leached i i land grant to a railroad from Ontonagon to when he returned to the riders cabin. good hands here?" "It's your fooling" I calkilate to Scranton was about to fire again Jim an agreement by the recession of the senate the Wisconsin state line also failed in conference "Got a kind o' squint at em. Wich confeirees from the subsidy amendment. "Yes there's Texhe's broke alreadyand stop, Plugtooth," replied Jim, as he shot him through the head. while the bill to create a department The report was agreed to. thus disposing of one is it has the sort o' open mouth of agriculture and labor was killed by Heifer Jack we'll about drew Scranton's pistol from his belt. Helen, hearing the shots, tried to the bill finally Ihe legislative bill came the inability of its friends co send it to a con. short-liped like? She's as slick-lookin'as Then he bound the raw-hide rope get his wages cleaned up to-night. He'. force her way out of the door, and from the senate about 6 o'clock, and it was ference commitceee. About 150 bills and any o' them actresses't come to round his hand, close up to the houdoo, playm' five-dollar chips." had almost pushed by Noyes, when Immediately called up by Mr Holman, who joint resolutions which passed the house Cheyenne.' explained that the point of difference remaining and led his captive into the loghouse. "All right. Now I want you to put tailed of action in the senate, some of which Jim entered, his face flecked with between the two houses was the were defeated by adverse committee re "Helen, that is .She's the won me into a little racket, Wes, on the whitish clots, and checked her. item tor secretaries for senators After a porta The most important of these are as the jay is after. What is it quiet. I want to run up agin' a busted "Ther's nuthin' thar now. You'd "Got some comp'ny for ye, preach- heated controversy between Messra Townshend follows: he answers to? Scranto, ain't it, preachera preacher that wants stuff er." better marry me, I reckon, Widder and Cabell, the former severely criticising To authorize the establishment of export tobacco shorty?" the house conferrees tor yielding, pretty bad. Savvy?" Scranton." "Delighted!" said the Rev. Mr. manufactories and for a drawback upos as he said, to the dictation A man rather over six feet in height imported articles used in manufacturing ex 'I don't worry with tha6 brand Noyes. "As the locum tenens oi the Helen stood in the doorway, white of the senate, while the latter vigorously ported tobacco: terminate certain Chinest looking up from the raw hide rope he much. But most o' them bucks is diocesan of Mountain Lion, I welcome and dazed, while Noyes, incompliance defended them, Mr Holman treaty stipulations and prohibit the Chinese im is braiding and rolls a cigarette before pretty well fixed, Jim. There's that you to its cloisters, my young with a look from Jim, married them. moved that the house recede from its disagreement migration in the United Statea he replies. to the senatorial clerk amendment friend." Noyes chap, though, him as the Methodists About seventy-five bills passed by the sen "Here's your money, preacher git Carried, thus passing the legislative ate failed of passage in the house The Blaii "Sounds somethin' like that. Goin' fired out o' Denverhe's up to back to town." "Are you one of the gang?" snarled appropriation bill. The deficiency bill had educational bill, after passing the senate wa back in the mornin', Jim?" Dyer's Hotel, an' if he's bus-ted he's As Noyes left the cabin Helen fell not reached the house, yet on motion of never allowed to come before the house foi Scranton. "So you've turned road "Ruther. We gathered a raft o'cattle sober. Round him up, anyway." action, although its friends olaimed Mr Long the senate amendments to the bill heavily on the floor. Jim wet his de agent, Jim Mason. Take the fifty and a cided majority in its favor on a test vote were non-concurred in, and the speaker authorized over thererode all our orses "All right I will. So long." hand in the bucket, and dabbled the let me goyou'renewatthebusiness." to appoint a conference committee poor. I ain't had my boots off three "See you agin 'fore you hit the water awkwardly on her head. When Jim plucked open the stove door The conference report on the bill adding nights a week. Pound my ear tonight, "Yez Won't Travel Par, Then." breeze?" she recovered he led her to the corral, various cities to the list of reserve bank with his spurred heal and thoughtfully Atlanta Constitution: Hon. John Under though, pretty solid." "Lreckon." fund cities was adopted. At 11 clock a and lifted her into her saddle. spat in the fire. "Violent language, wood, ex-lieutenant governor of Kentucky, toll "You may's well crawl into my "So long." resolution was adopted for the appointment "Now, Miss Helen, you ride to Pine my son!" exclaimed Noyes. "If you a very amusing anecdote at the banquet givei of a committee to inform the president that dog's nest," said Shorty. I've got a The Rev. Mr. Noyes proved to be Bluffs. You know the trail. There,s in hts honor in the city l&Bt week, and whio) are sincerely curions as to the purpose congress was ready to adjourn sine die. Mr pretty fat bed, I have. That fellow reasonably sqber, and accepted the convulsed the guests with laughter at his ex money 'nough in this wad to take you of my presence here, I don't Beed (Mr Hatch being in the chair) offered pense. In replving to the address of weloom the freighters hung give me three pair stranger's invitation to drink with East and then you write to Jim Mason, the foilowihg resolution, which was adopted mind telling you that I am here to delivered by Mayor Cooper, Gov. Underwoot daisy blankets. I'll roll her out alacrity. unanimously by a standing vote: Crazy Creek Cattle Company, and solemnizea funeral, and that you said, among other things: Boon's I get this strand drawed. Outside's "You're a preacher, ain't you?" said lemme know wher you are, so you'll Resolved, That the thanks of this house are are about the size of corpse required." The kind and generous treatment which ha best, I reckon." hereby tendered to the Hon. John G. Carlisle, Jim. been bestowed upon me by the citizens of At git more. I'll see your ole man tonight Jim looked up sharply, whistled a "Wjrfg the speaker* for the courtesy, ability and fairness lanta makes me feel very proud, and remind "You bet you. I don't hanker after an' make it all ri^ht with him. "I have that honor. I am glad to with which he has presided over the deliberations line of "Never Take the Horseshoe me of an incident which occurred some yean sleepin' in-doorsnot without it of the Forty-ninth congress. ago. In addition to being mayor of a small tow When you want a divorce, you git look like it. Malicious men have from the Door'" opened the stove in my section of Kentucky, I had been electa snows. That's why the city chaps it. So long, Miss Helen." hinted that my presence was not too door With the orher heal, pursed up delegate to the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellow* look so rockydon't let the wind WORK OF CONGRESS. clerical. Mine, sir, has been a chequered whkh was to meet in Indianapolis, lad. O his mouth tentatively, hesitated, H. R. HAXTON. blow their whiskers nights." coarse, such honors to a young mat careermonk, spiritualist, nigger kicked the door in place again, and made me feel very proud in fact, I felt abou "Wonder who'll git to go over to minstrel and canine surgeon" Summary of Measures Enacted by the Forty-Ninth said: six inches taller than my actual night, an the river with you," said Mike. strutted along after the manner of a peacock A Good Description. Congress Just Expired. "Not interruptin'do you want a "Ez to the fifty, I'll take it when I In addition to all this. I had the good fortune "Camped down bv the bend?" couple of twenties?'' asked Jim, displaying The following is a list of the more important want it, Plugtooth. Ez to my havin' possess an "annual" over the Louisville & Nash From the Boston Courier. "Yea." ville railroad. I boarded the train at Bowiin house bills which have become laws: the coins in question with ingenious turned road agent, I ain't so sure A lady who has honored the Editor Green, and took a seat in the car opposite an oh "Is the company givin' pretty good the pension Pacificfrailroadsland widow and To forfeit the Atlantic & sagacity. what I hev turned." Irish washerwoman, whom I had seen in th by chatting with him for an hour told oreas chuck this year?" grant toin town, but did not know. Presently the con The Rev. Mr. Noyes abruptly deposited "Are you both crazy!" dependent relations from $8 to $12 ner month him among other things some anecdotes "Way up. Mac makes 'em. There ductor came around for tickets. He stoppe his tumbler on the bar, and to abolish certain fees for official services to "Oh, no, Plngtooth we ain't been and collected the Irish woman's ticket farsr, an ain't any more dried apples on of the noble red men who in the American vessels, and to amend the shipping answered, "I should smile!" recognizing me, he simply bowed and passed or eating' no loco. Look here, you're laws (the Dingley snipping bill) to amend the the wag'n, but ole Greaser Smith the1 The woman eyed me quite awhile, and days of her grandmother still lingered, "Kin I dicker with you, straight?" gom' to be left alone here with this Thurman JCE (it requires the Pacific railroads to leaned over and said: "Mister, how eea it yg is cookin' fer us, an' his bread pay the costs of surveying and conveying their "First off, preacher, my name's Jim a forlorn and broken remnant, in the ride free, while I have to pay?" Somewha gen'l'man, an' you're eoin' to be tied is the best round-up bakin' out. I land grants and subjects the lands to taxation so taken back. I hardly knew what to say in replj Mason, Half Circle Cross outfit. I ?3 up, which he ain't. Now, Plugtooth, upper valleys of the Kennebec river. soon as the companies are entitled to them, notwithstanding hear them Horseshoe 3 men is gettin* Finally, I answered: "Madam, I am riding don't make no six-shooter plays, and the fact that they may delay selection) I got a notion he's the sort o' ornery my face" The woman jumped up all excite The feature of civilization to which condensed milk. Now I call that the increase of the naval establishment ment, and said, loud enough so all the passes I don't set up~to^be no bad man from chap thet if you sass him he will knock civihzin' too much. Man can't drink these half tamed savages seem to have i was passed in the first session of the {.resent gersintbe car could hear: "Face, ees it! B the Meteetsi cotintry, but this is money the stuffin' out o' youso long ez yer congress, and provides for the construction of gorrab, yez won't travel fur then I" straight coffee ought to quit singin' taken most kindly was begging, and I'm going to talk to you, an' if you two armored vessels of sixteen knots speed, one tied up. An' if I was you, I'd be kinder to the cows." cruiser of the highest practicable speed, one torpedo numberless were the requests which ring in any funny business you'll cough perlite, I would." boat and one dvnamite gun cruiser, and for *J Approve the Knights of tabor. When the men were all in bed, and 5 through your ribs." they proffered, in wheedling tone and the completion of the monitors Puritan, Amphitrite, Scranton swore savagely, and the EOME, March 1.The Ameripan bishop I Shorty had thrown a boot at the candie Monadnock and Terror) to pension the "Go ahead." with suppliant manner, to the white Rev. Mr. Noyes expressed his reprobation Mexican war veterans to impose a tax and regulate stuck on the doorsill, Hairy Mike's take a favorable view of the Knights "Will you stop budgin' for two or of the practice of profanity. the manufacture, sale, importation and brothers who dwell' in undisputed Labor. Cardinal Gibbons has placed befor raucous snore gave the signal for silence exportation of oleomargarine to authorize the three days, and take a trip out Fort "No use worryin' him, preacher," the Vatican a formal statement as to the nat possession of the land onee owned by andrest. transfer of the Highwood iractnear Chicago to the Laramie way with me? It's $10 a day, said Jim. "Now, I'm goin' to tie him ure of the organization and the attitudi United States for military purposes to protect the dusky ancestors of the petitioners. At daylight next morning Jim Mason and $10 extry for the wear o' your the church should adopt toward it Th homestead settlers within railroad limits to down on thet bench, an' then I've got and two of the Burton riders "One of the things which they begged enable national banking associations to increase cardinal says this: tools, Bible and sich." to quit you one while. Here's his pop, their capital stock and change their name and started for the camp on the North for worst," the lady said, "was He considers any condemnation of the Knight "Go ahead." ftSfc* 'J preacher, an' if he wiggles too much location for the construction of a congressional be not only useless, but highly inopportnne.an Platte River. A few miles on the way for grandfather's fruit. Especially library building to grant a license to towing "My sister an' her "feller wants'to chuck a hunk o' wood at him, but it might alienate the sympathy of the America) Jim discovered that he had left his did one old Indian plead: "Eenemost vessels to carry a limited number of persons laboring classes from the ahurch and hampe git married. You're to meet'em empty don't shoot ef you can help it. And in addition to their crews to forfeit the cuert at Burton's and told the other water no quite water eenemost pumpkin, the mission of the church to the laboring poor ranch an'hiteh em."* New Orleans, Bacon Bouge & Vicksbnrg railroad kin talk to him ab'out any thin' not The primate treats alarmist theories respectini men that he would lope back for ite no quite numpkin berry much land grant to reduce the fees on domestic "Shake." -^yh the Knights of Labor as puerile and says tha too excitin'. Savvy?" money orders for sums less than $5 to make and overtake them on the dividue me want him."" nearly one-third of the men belonging to th "Only you see this feller he HaVa "Perfectly." allowances for-elerfe hire to postmasters of the searche,d organization are Catholics. It is not a secret so Reaching the ranceh he "J thn "But what did he mean?" the Editor "al th CUert,c the first ana second classes to cover the cost of clerical grudge agin' preachers. I reckon one "An water him ef he gets dry." cietvinthe sense condemned by the church hnnlr o f,/VuT Z7 ro asked stupidly. labor in the money order bureau: to extend Dunl and consequently exempt from canonical ^BU of 'em sinched him playin' monte or When Scranton had been carefully the immediate delivery system to prohibit the The lady laughed. sure. In Cannda. the case is different. He oon nre oannia th a w{Fo~.. n*. went down to the barn to see if it lay somethin', an' I might have to hold passage of local or special laws the territories secured Jim called Noyes to one side, siders the organization of the Knigbts of Labo "If you were a darky," she answered, where he had left his saddle overnight, making appropriations for additional barracks him down, like, while you do the marryin'.so in the United States not only harmless, but pes and said: "you would soon guess." at the Southern, Northwestern and Western Crossing the corral toward the barn sibly beneficial in assisting in the eventual set he can't crawl your hump." "You don't want to try and square branches ot the National Soldiers' home to tlement of the great question of the proper rela And then the hearer divined that door he was arrested by the sound of provide for closing up the business of the court tiona between laberand capital. "I think we understand each other, yourself with the dude preacher. Never the noble savage hankereiipr water-* a woman's voice within the building. Mr. Mason." change sides in the middle uv a melon. \J.