I Miss Powell's Travels. such a precautionnot in my 'ouse, ed to say, "Mary, they are all yours full of sewing materials and half made i What Became Of Uncle Ja~ TPhe Good White Brother. mem. I'm that particular about my the roses and the thorn beneath garments. About fifteen miles from the beautiful cob's Quitting. lodgers' tea and sugar as if it was my them.'* "Well, you see I'veeot to have some o1 City of Tallahassee, the capital From Youth's Companion. bown, mem," a statement which, be She gazed at me incredulous a minute, new things to take home. Partly the FU)ri-f.a, lived an old planter whose it said, was strictly true. but my face reassured her, and Just why she should have decided neighbors'll expect it of me, and partly relations with the Indians had been .New York Witness. "Very likely," responded Miss Pamela, she asked: because all my things are giving *o leave her comfortable home and so pleasant that he had not the slightest "Fie, man! Spoiling your break- briefly. "I always use these fastenings "Harry, may I have it for my ownto out at once. So I weut to some of travel in "foreign parts" for six fear,of danger, although an Indian fast," said Uncle Jacob, as he came on my own doors at home. do just what I please with?" the dressmakers whose addresses you war had broke out, and he had been months, Miss Pamela Powell would There's no need of putting unnecessary "Yes!" I answered, "if you won't gave me, to see what I could do. But, into the garden where I was at work. warned of the possible result to himself. "have found it difficult to explain. temptation in the way of your smoke it. I can't have "any more bless you, not one of them could make "Too bad to spoil such nice breakfasts He had been almost paternal help. Mrs. Bexley." She then chanaed smoking in this house." a thing as I like it. They've all got Partly it was because the chance in his conduct toward them, upright as your Mary gets." the subject, and proceeded to order The mistress excused herself from their own patterns and they're bound had come to her. and just in all his dealings, giving them "Why, Uncle Jacob," said I, "I was dinner precisely as if her foot was on the table a moment, took the "old to use'em, and as for the dressmakers, shelter and food whenever requested, "It was none of my' seeking," she its native heath of Guilford, Conn. enemy," and sped away tothekitchen they were all sure that madame would brought up to earn my breakfast before always aiding them in distress, and Her first order wag shad. aid to an inquiring friend. "America stove, wiped her eyes, washed hei. like this, and that would become madam's I ate it." soemed to occupy a very high place in "Shad?" repeated the mystified hands of the whole business, and then style. is quite good enough for me. I never their regard. A great many of his "Tut, tut, man' didn't landlady, "I don't know what it is mean came back as sweet as one of the roses "Bah! I got 6ick of them all, and felt any call to go eaddina about the neighbors had abandoned their plan* Working in the pure air." that you mean, mem." she put in her belt. as none of them would agree not to tations and fled to the forts, but be world in search of something better. "Do you mean to say," demanded "Thank you, Harry," she said, and bunch my skirt3 and pulf them back "What then?" remained, confident in his belief of absolute This is Jame's doing. I'd never have Miss Pamela, "that you don't have the wealth of love that looked from in that absurd way in which they're "It's that nasty pipe that is spoil- safety, and having been repeatedly shad over here? What, you neverheard her eyes more than paid me tor the all made now, I just got mad, and "thought of it if it hadn't been for him. mg God's sweet air for you. Spoils assured by the Indians that, no of them? Well, I'd like some struggle my determination had cost. said squarely and fairly that I'd do your appetite, too. I know all He's picked up a foolish notion som matter what happened, this "good soft-shell clams." "It's all Uncle Jacob's doing. He's the things myself. It happened nicely, I about it. I never had a good white brother," as they called him, where that people who've been to "No such thing in our market, quit, and so I am going to." for I caugrit a sore throat, and breakfast for twenty years, though and his family should not be molested. Europe are better off and mem." Then Uncle Jacob, at the earnest request, didii't want to be going about in the your Aunt Rachel is the His family consisted of himself, "Why, you poor creatures!" said told the whole story of his battle drizzle seeing sights, anyhow, so I just Icind of respected and looked up best cook you ever saw. I used to wife, and a little girl of tender years* the pitying Miss Pamela, "what do and his victory. The boys, Harry, bought the materials, and settled find fault with my victuals and tell to. and he wants his folks to be equal and two chubby boys of 4 and 6 years. you eat? You don't seem lo have Jr., aged seven, and Walter, thirteen, down comfortably to sew. I had my wife they didn't taste like mother's. It was a warm, beautiful day in early to other folk's folks. So when they anything good. Did you ever hear of listened with eager interest. waist pattern with me, and it wasn't The patient soul bore it all meekly September. Earth, sky and air wu* fitiuck the new bed of ore in that a mutton-chop?" When breakfast was over they went any great affair to fit, and reaMy I've for years, but one morning said: 'Ja- in blessed amity, and the scene was "Oh, certainly, mem. Henglish out, but soon returned, Harry bringing had a nice time, and taken solid comfort mine of his and it turned out to be cob, did it never come into your mind one of placid peace and quiet. In the mutton beats all in the world, I've a cigarette and Walter a bunch of over the whole thing. There they that the difference between your worth so much more than any one hor^e lot the mules stood munching always 'eard say." cigars. are now, almost finished." mothei's cooking and mine lays in their fodder, the score of slaves were supposed it was, he was taken with a "There," said Harry, "1 tried to Sure enough, there they were, neat "I don't believe it's a whit better that pipe? You didn't smoke when at their quarters enjoying their noonday rich fit, and nothing would serve him smoke 'cause papa did, but I'll quit if piles of underclothing, made exactly than ours," retorted the uncompromising you ate her food. I try hard rest, and tli6 planter and his wife, he does." *but I must go over at his expensef after the patterns bequeathed to Miss Miss Pamela. "Why should it as I can to suit you, but you mix so ha\ ing finished their dinner, were sitting "So will I," said Walter, blushing. Pamela by her deceased grandmother, be? Our pastures are excellent, and and travel the whole summer and see much tobacco juice and smoke with on the long, rambling piazza having "The fellows teased me to try it, and and two dressess, one green and one judging from what I've seen of your the victuals that it spoils it all." a quiet chat over household affairs. ^everything. Will Courtney gave me these. I begun brown, precisely like the two which climate I should suppose that your "I didn't say anything, because All at once they notic a par- In spite of this disclaimer, I think to like 'em, but I felt mean when she had brought from home, except mutton would taste damp. Two there wasn't nothing to say but I \f of some thirty Indians approaching there may have been a mingling of 1 looked at mother. I knew she'd feel that they were new. Mattie looked mutton chops, thensuch as they kept thinking, yes, and smoking, too, the house. This, however.'was no -other motives in Miss Pamela's decision. bad to have me smoke, bhe hated it at the straight overskirts with the areand some mashed potatoes for awhile, but I didn't find any more nnusual spectacle, and excited no feeling She has a private desire to see so. J'm ||glad it's out, mamma. I'm well-known little double hitcn on you have potatoes? fault with your aunt's cooking. of uuea^inesb or apprehension, Europe in order to prove to her own quits, too." either side of the back breadths, at "Ot course, mem," replied the offended One day, while I was down pven though the savages were in full vmtnd and the minds of others that it "I declare." said Uncle Jacob, this the row of buttons on the sleeves, Mrs. Bexley. East for a spell, I was thinking war paint. was inferior to America. This was is what I call an anti tobacco club." and her cheeks dimpled wickedly. what I could carry home to Rachel. not a broad or just view to take of "Andlet me seeare blueberries "Oh, papa, cried Walter, "lots of The planter.relying implicitly on th "Miss Pamela," she said, "you are It kept coming into my mind that the the matter, but there was a certain ripe yet? What, no blueberries, either? the boys are smoking just like us. I friendly feelings he supposed were entertained the only perfectly consistent person I thing she would like best would be a loyalty and consistency in it that Does no fruit grow in England, mean to get up a club can I? May I for him by tne Indians, and ever knew." husband with pure breath and clean nvas very characteristic. Mrs. Bexley. ask some of them here and have Uncle which he knew he had \\ell deserved "I don't see that you are altered lips. So, with a mighty effort and a She was stanchly a woman of her "Certainly, mem. We have very Jacob tell his srory. and we ours by lorg years of friendly service, greeted one bit," said a friend to Miss Pamela, prayer for help I said: 'I'll do it. 'I'll word, and having consented to go she fine fruit. Strawberries is the fruit in may I?" them with a kindly smile andacordial after her return home. "Most people quit now and forever, so help me did so, on the first of July, in one of season now, mem, and gooseberries. handshake as they carre to the "Ask your mother, bov," I an come back from Europe quite different, God!' the qrand-est of steamers. It was You could have a tart, mem." swered. porch, all of which they appeared tc with all sorts of new notions and "Did you?" said I, taking my own her first experience of a large steam "I don't care much for tarts." said reciprocate. The good wife brought "Indeed you may, Walter," replied fashions, but you are just the same meerschaum from my mouth. veiel. Her dissatisfaction with Miss'Pamela, "unless I make the paste them out a nice lunch, of the best the Mary. "I'll help you all I can. We'll as far a3 1 can make out." "Quit?" said he, "I'd do it after I everything foreign began on the first myself. No, I'll have a good strawberry house afforded, which they seemed have a real Thanksgiving supper." "Those must be weak-minded people, made up my mind to it if it killed me days of her voyage. shortcake, if you know how to very grateful for. After eating this "Oh, mamma! how good you are. I should say," replied Mi3s that's your Uncle Jacob. There was make one." "There can't be any use in all this they bestowed themselves carelessly I'm so sorry I cheated you," said Pamela, severely. "There's nothing an old lady moved from our neighborhood, -wabbline," she told the stewardess, "Indeed, mem, I don't. We never upon the porch, and lighting their Walter. in Europe, so far as I know, which who lived right on the road "and that screw, or whatever it is, use the fruit in that way, 'ere in Heng- pipes became absorbed in the fragrant "And I, too!" said Harry, Jr. ought to make any difference in anybody where I was traveling. She'd known that keeps up such a grinding would land." wreaths of smoke. "And I, three!" said Harry, Sr. with common sense." me from a boy. I went to her and I run smooth if the engineer knew his "Oh, well," said Miss Pamela, with What a scene for a painter! The "But I have a confession to make," Susan Coolidge. says, says I, 'Aunt Polly, I want to business. the resignation of despair. "Just give middle-aged planter and his wife in the said Mary, Softly. make you a present. I'm going to But in spite of he'r protest the vessel me anything you've got, raw or cooked. A Superhuman Performance. Denter, calm and peaceful, without the "You, Mary!" I whispered. give you my pipe and tobacco.' The kept on "wabbling" and the screw People who are foolish enough to slightest thought of danger in their "You, mamma!" cried both the Some one in the Kansas City Journal old lady smoked. I knew she never continue to grind, and Miss Pamela travel must put up with with what minds the two little boys romping in boys. describes one of the feats of Madam would quit, and I couldn't quite bear had to endure both as bef she might, they can get. But stay, perhaps you the doorway the negroes laughing "You, Mollie!" cried Uncle Jacob, Blavatsky, the leader of the Theosophist to throw the pipe away, I'd had it so till, on thf ninth day, her miseries could get an egg-plant. No? Good and singing in their cabins, and grouped with a queer smile. "Have you been society: long. ended at Liverpool. gracious! didn't you over hear of green around this happy home circle a smoking, too?" At a small dinner party. Professor 'What fur?' says she. Ended, did I say? They only began. corn, or sweet potatoes, or tomatoes band of mem ess savages, each one, "Not exactly," said mamma. "At Clarke, of the geodetic survey, who "'Oh, I'm going to quit. Aunt Polly.' even?" though outwaraly calm and composed, least in another way. Do you remember, was once a student at Cornell, in the "'Quit?' says she. 'Why, Jacob A night on shore after many nights "Oh, yes, mem, we 'ave tomatoes, with murder rankling in his heart Harry, when we were first same class with Governor Foraker, of Gay, it will kill you! You can't do at sea can never be unwelcome, but but they're 'igh just now three pence and every nervo tingling with pleased married we had a talk on smoking, Ohio, told me of a strange experience it.' Mibs Pamela was by no means apiece they was yesterday in Covent expectancy waiting for a sign from and I hinted at the expense? You he once had in New York with Madame "'See 'i I don't,' says I, and I rode pleased with the arrangements of Garden, mem." their leader to turn the peaceful scene said I should have as much money to Blavatsky, the notorious theosophist. away. the big Railway Hotel to which, Three pencewhy, that's six cents in to one of blood, outrage, ruin and spend, just as I pleased, as you smoked "It's been twenty years and I in common with most of her fellow-passengers, of our money-six cents apiece! Well, desolation. In order to give his red up. Come this way and see nay He wished to test her supposed supernatural haven't been back after it yet. And she repaired. She was I never would have believed that, if guests some amusement, the planter smoking money." powers and see for himself it didn't kill me either," said Uncle asked double for her room because it any one had sworn to it. Why, Mrs. called some of the slaves And we followed her to the library, if she could do any of the wondeilul Jacob, throwing back his broad had a double bed in it, which seemed Bexley, in America, where I live, tomatoes to the porch. One of them had a which had been under lock and key things alleged, ot -which Julian Hawthorne shoulders, and striking his deep chest, unfair, because she did not want a can be had by the bushel for banjo, and rapidly fingering the for several days, for some mysterious is so fond of writing. He and showing his teeth sound and double bed, and only took it because next to nothing. Don't you have any strings he sent out jolly strains of reason. called and stated the object of his white, in spite of his seventy years. no single ones could be had. When it vegetables here except potatoes?" mild melody, to which the others "See these'" she said. "See these errand. The madame was seated in "Didn't you hanker alter your came to the charge of a shilling for When she reached the continent, danced in rude harmony. The In cases of new books. See this set of her arm-chair at one end of the room. pipe?" I asued. th use of a tin bathtub her indignation Miss Pamela felt so very lonely in the dians seemed very much pleased with Encyclopedias. These are for you, "Write a letter personal to your- "Hanker! 'Tain't no word for it. overflowed midst of all the life and movement in this entertainment, but the furtive Harry. This Dickens set is for you, self," she said, "about something Fact is, I don't believe there's any which she had no share, that she fell *'In America we should be ashamed looks that they cast at the leader Walter, and these Artists' Histories unown only to yourself, and seal it." word strong enough. But I'd made into the way of timing her plans so as to charge a stranger for a little water showed that they w?re becoming impatient and these Rollo Books are for you, He did so. up my mind. I was crosser than ten to travel with an American party, to wash in," she said, severely, to the over thw delay. Their eyes little Hal, and this crise of poems is "Drop it on the floor near the ta- bears, and I didn't dare to go home under the guidance of a certain Miss "Boots," who had brought her bill. teemed to glisten with a more intense for myself and my family, and it all ble." for three weeks for fear I should abuse Wise, or to follow and overtake them "No charge made for the water, luster, the pipes were carefully put came out of smoke!" This was done. She put her hand Rachel." wherever they might be. Miss Wise *mum it's use of tub. Please remembe away the decisive moment had come. Harry and Walter had their party, near the carpet, pointed with one finger "What did Aunt Rachel say when did not object to this, but the schoolgirls, the 'Boots', mum." The leader occupied a position almost and started a Tobacco Reform Club. and the letter came to her. She you told her?" who were traveling under her "I'm not likely to iorget anything directly in the lear of the plantre. Walter may tell of that some time il took it up and made a motion as it "I never said nothin' about it at care, found Miss Pamela a source of :at a hotel like this," responded Miss Carelessly stretching himself he he wishes, but more came of it than to open it. first, but I didn't smoke. If she noticed mingled entertainment and vexation. Pamela, and she walked majestically loosened his tomahawk from its belt. even this. The new books must b*. "I beg your pardon," said the startled it she didn't let on, the first day. on, taking no notice of his outstretched "She's great fun though," said Mattie The others remanied motionless and read. As I did not go to the office to professor. "That is a general and The second day, after dinner, she hand. The railway was the Allen. "It's really quite impressive impassive. With a quick movement, smoke, I stayed at home more. Wv private letter." said, 'Jacob, seems to me I haven't rwxt object which excited her reprobation. to see her stand up everywhere all like the leap of a startled phanter, he almost had our honeymoon over "Oh, I will not open it," was the reply. seen you smoke since you got home. over Europe, and protest against buried his hatchet in the skull of the again. Then Mary coaxed me to "If you look upon the table you You ain't sick, or nothing,' be you? everything that isn't American. "How behind the times these English unsuspected planter. With a smothered prayer meeting with her and I found will find a copy ot it." Does your business trouble you?' are!" she said to her next neighbor. "I wish she din't look so," said groan the victim fell from his the help I needed. She handed the sealed letter to Professor said the kind old soul, anxiously. "How different these cars are from Anita Ward, one of the party. "Really, chair dead. Clarke. He went to the table 'Poh,' said I 'I've always smoked *ours! No stove, no ice-water, no I'm quite ashamed to be seen with His wife sprang to her feet with awild andteaw an exact copy of his letter in after I ate for thirty years.' History of a Great War Lyric. .boys with books, and you can't get her sometimes. She wouldn't be bad shriek of horror and despair and his own handwriting upon another 'But I'm sure I haven't seen you up and move about if you want to looking if she wore better clothes." "My Maryland!" was written by Mr. turned to flee. A rude hand clutched sheet of paper. nor smelt tobacco.' aver so much. Trie baggage arrangements "Bless you. child, that's her consistency her by the hair and brought her to James R. Randall, a native of Baltimore, "Seal that up," said Madame Blavatsky, 'Go an' look in my other clothes, are perfectly benighted. I asked again. She doesn't approve of her knee? a sharp knife cufrher throat "and when you get home you and now residing in Augusta,Ga. Rachel, and see ii you don't find my for a check, and the man didn't French fashions. She has informed from ear to ear. Another flourish of will find it under the table in your pipe and tobacco/ The poet was a professor of English even know what I meant. He persisted me several times,'that the fact that the blood-stained knife and-her scalp, study." "She went rummaging away for in saying that it was all right and the empress of this and tne queen of literature and the classics in Poydras was toie off while she was -*et in. the "I put on my hat, thoroughly fright- awhile and at last said, I should have no trouble about getting-my that wears thus and so is no reason, throes of death. The neqnoes wereplaced College, at Pointe Coupee, on bhe ened," he said to me, "and got out of Where be they, Jacob'" she looked trunk in London, if only I'd at all, why sensible people should follow under guard while the savages* Faus&e Riviere, in Louisiana, about honse as-soon as I could and rushed so astonished that I said, recollect that it was in the second their example." When we go to" searched high and low for the little home. I found the copy of my letter 'Well, Rachel, you needn't look for seven miles from the Mississippi and luggage-van. When I asked what was Paris, I'm going to use all my influence, girl. The little boys were bound hand just as she said I would." 'em no more. I felt the pesky things to hinder some one else claiming it I flatter myself that I have a there in April, in 1861, he read in. the and foot and their tongues cut out. "How do you explain it?" I asked. down in Burnham (that's a good and carrying it away before Igotthere, little, to get Miss Powell into a tiedback They were then thrown into the kitchen New Orleans Delta, the news of the attack "There is no explanation," was th place for'em). You and I will never see he said if I liked I could get out now dress. Tne mules were brought out and on the Massachusetts troops as reply. 'em again. I've quit. Hain'tsmoked and then and keep an eye on it, but "You might as well try to make St. the barn and out-buildings fired. The for three weeks and don't mean to they passed through Baltimore. 6 there wasn't often any trouble about Ursula and her eleven thousand virgins search for the little girl was a fruitless Plots of Perjurers. for ail time.' You should have seen luggage. Gracious! what's that?" as stylish, as Miss Pamela," declared "This account excited me greatly," one and was finally abandoned. your aunt's face light up. She kinder From the New York Journal of Commerct. ithe door closed with a lond click. Mary Jackson. Mr. Randall writes, in answer to my Returning to the house rhey secured Three witnesses recently agreed together sidled up to me and said: 'Only the guard locking us in," explained Miss Wise and the girls made a little i. what plunder they couid find and then request for infoi mation "I had loaira to perjure themselves for the 'Jacob Gay! I must say!' and her neighbor. detour to Fontainebleau on the way set fire to the house, and' taking the (1 been absent from my native cjtv, ai&d sake of a comrade, and they rehearsed then she kissed me, a thing she di&n't "Locking us in! That I will not to Paris, so that Miss Pamela preceded negroes with them left the-place. The the startling event there inflamed my the main features of their story, often do. 'Ppects she didn't like the submit to!" screamed Miss Pamela. them by a couple of days, They bodies of the murdered parents- kad mind. That night I could not sleep, which was to establish an alibi to smpll of my breath. I tell you, Rachel's "Guard! guardl Come here this mojment!" had expected to find her at the Pension been dial ed into the kitchen, where for my nerves were all unstrung and 1 show that the accused was in another cooking was tip-top after that. Elise where they had just met, tne bov-i were, and all wo-ro'left tiathe could not dismiss what I had lead in i place at the moment the crime was "I've had good breakfasts for twenty "Yes'in," said the guard, popping but she was not there. wild work of the ll'ini"^. the paper from my mind. Abou* midnight committed. When they were examined, year, to bad taste in my mouth. ftmhead in at the window as the tram "Where do you suppose the queer She had gone tnat marniiSgr to a I arose, lit a candle andi went seperately, they gave such different Don't need to do anything to /I moved away. old dear has concealed herseii? asked little stream about four miles-from to my desk. Some powerful spirit versions of the surroundings of the get up an appetite. Rachel's Mattie, as day after day passed without "Unlock that door at once, please. her lather's house to fish, andi had seemed to possess me, and almost involuntarily scene they described that the scheme cooking is as good as* mother's, bringing any news of the missing I can't imagine why you locked it. It not noticed the lapse of tcm&uai^l she I proceeded to write the failed, and that they were disgraced. and better, too. You can't think how one. Mattie had an odd sort of fancy snakes .K&S as nervous as a fish out of Baw by the sun that it was-tows past song 'My Maryland.' I remember A correspondent askes if such a plot pleased she is when I praise it, seeing for Miss Pamela, who amused her immensely, water. Suppose the train should the dinne hour. Then taking feer line was ever successfully executed. We that the idea appeared to first take I was on the other track 30 long. and Miss Pamela reciprocated catch fine. Pray, what what would and string of fish she stauted gaily for answer in the affirmative. It may There's- the breakfast belk Come, shape-as music in the bra-iasome it. you expect us to do then?" home. When within half'a naile of the have been done many times, but one nephew, throw away that old pipe wild air that I cannot now rwall. It was more than a week before they "Sorry, mum, can't oblige you. house she saw the dense- srawke and notable case is told by Sir William and let's go in and tell Mary." The whole poem was dashed oil rapidly found out. Then a note came to Miss Against orders of company, mum," heard tlte yells of the Indians. Realizing Earle, before whom, as Judge of the "I won't allow that my Uncle Jacob-has when once begun. It was not composed Wise. Miss Pamela had taken an *in the guard hurried away, dining aU the dreadful horrors that court of common pleas, the stronger will power than I. in cold blood, but under what "appartement," she wrote, in one of to the window-frames as he passed were bsng perpetrated, sW hid herself prisoner was tried. Four of his What he can do his nephew ought," I may be called a conflagration of the the old streets near the Luxembourg, from one carriage to the other, and in the tall lv osvn grass, and remaino'2 confederates wishes to prove an said. "IE he can stopsmokingl cant." senses, if not an.aspuation of the intellect. and she begged they would all come leaving Miss Pamela at a white heat there uart'il nightfall. Then alibi, and so they met, designating one "But don't forget where tbestrength to see her. I was stirred to-a desire for of indignation. when darkness GMiie, almost dead of their numbe- by the piisoner's comes from, my boy," said my uncle. They found her, settled exactly to Acting on the advice of a fellowtraveler, seme way linking my name trith that with, fright and grief, she fled as fast name, and started out to spend the "If you do. likely as not you'll fail. her mind, in two little rooms full of Miss Powell had telegraphed OQ my nativs State, if not 'with my as list- childish strength could carry evening together. Thy took a walk, Tain't no easy job. 1had a big tussle,, sunshine, with a small stove and a in advance to secure lodgings in London. ber-'io the cross- noads,. hiding there it* land's language.' But I naver expected they went to a public house, had a and so will you. Don't try the rocking-chair, which she had hired for She found her rooms all ready, ths-dense undergrowth until she waa to do tkfi with cne single supreme quarrel, made it up, drank beer together job- alone. But there's, the bell again. a month. She had taken down all and her landlady, one of the typical re^sued by a pasty oi soldiers. effort, and no one was-more surprised and passed thiough a variety of Mary thinks we dita't hear." the wax fruit and mirrors with which .sort, stout, florid, distinctly English in than I was-at the wide spread and instantaneous adventures before they separared. I had just gathered a charming bouquet she had found the room adorned, and Iber ideas and distinctly London in popularity of the lyric I Harry Woodson, alias the Black I_a Then the three were offered as witnesses. of roses for my \srfe, and as we had made it look as much like a New Hier use and disuse of the letter H, .had been, so strangely stimulated to oftond, was shot 7 instantly killed* by The only lie they had to tell passed into the duning-room I placed: England "keeping-room," as was possible waiting to receive her. Her name was another colored man named Thojjias write." Mr. Rand-all read the poem, was in the date which they fixed for them on the vase by her side, and under the circumstances. Mrs. Bexley, and she preferred single White at CSitjago. A womau was ia th& the next morning to the college boys the evening of the crime with whi hidden beneath the leaves I tucked case. "I haven't been so comfortable since '/ladies as lodgers to any others, for and at bheir suggestion sent it into the prisoners were chaTged. Being my precious meerschaum. Mary I left home," she told them. "I've Jong experience had taught her that James Dolan and William Bn-*fea of he Deta in which it was first printed cross-examined separately there was thanked me for the flowers, but did Wyandotte, Mich., while intoxicated, went got a skillet of my own, and I make they furnished an easy prey for small and from which it* was copied into no contradictibn in their testimony, not see the thora among them. After to sleep! on the Lake Shore tr&ks near dip toast whenever I want to. I've extortions and speculations. Miss neaiVjr every southern journal. "I Detroit* and were run over by a freight as they all remembered the actual incidents Uncle Jacob had said grace, Barry, had baked beans twice, and they Pamela Powell, however, was one of train. Dolan was instantly kilfe&L Banks of the evening and each to'.d did not concern myself much about it," Jr.. pulled Mary's sleeve and said: tasted quite natural, though the another sort. died s&ortly alterwards. the same story. The criminal "Oh, mamma, see! There** papa's Mr* Randall adds, "but very soon beans were not the right sort. And I Her very first act was to produce a At Cincinnati, George Wsfeer Brett ing acquitted on their testimony. Ti.ty pipe in the rests.*' from all parts of the conntry there got a can ot that patent cod-fish, and jpatent catch, brought over for the conopanv made an aRbignmrQ'!,. Their ii.i- tried this invention again on the arrest Mary looked up quickly, the crimson was borne to me, in my remote place it made as good fish-balls as I want jiurpose, and affix it to the lock ot the bifctieB are $500,000 and s*sset at $3."0, of one of thegang, but the authciities rusloag to her cheek, but she only of residence, eviden.ee that I had made to see. If you'll all come to tea some 000. Preferences in the few* oi men iu.JtjQ* Cupboard in which she proposed to were suspicious when they saw a great hit, and that whatever might on real estate were* given to creditai* night we'll have some." tcecp her private stores. Mrs. Bexley that he testimony was a mere duplicate W).y, Harry!" She thought her represent ne.irly $200 K) be"the fate of the Cooiederacy, tiiw "Why, of course, we will," 3ried unrvoyed this arrangement with great of that given on a former trial, husband was playing a silly joke. song would survive iV'G&ntury* The Odd Fellow gr^yd, l.jdseo the e*V,l Mattie, "what fun! But, Miss Pamela, 4ii)favor, pointing to a table -and^it w^a easily expo3ed. I saw how she took it, and hasten- meets at Denver. is'that?5 what -1 "Indeed, mem, there's no need fcr