mimmM^ammam It's old Miss Abby come back from the EVENTIDE. brisk walk to the village, and found a A SOLDIER'S FIRST FIGHT. A ABLS STOB.Y TSIiEK courage alone sustained him. The Tewkstown poorhouse." stalwart, sun-browned man sitting opposite same sensations have been experienced "You don't mean—"began the mild At sunset on the beach I watch to Miss Abby, by the red glow by thousands of other people, who The aiost "aradgraiatic" and "Imitations" The children in their glee, widow. An Incident in the Early bays of the of the fire. perhaps have not the Moral courage f|k One picks a pebble from thai sancl :.: Creature that Ever liived. "That Mrs. Daniel Dabney and Mrs. Late Civil War. The old lady rose up in an odd, uncertain And throws it in the sea. to confess it. J| &'** Everard Elberson let th^ir old annt go Washington Republican. From the San Francisco Alta California. A tiny thing to agitate way. r\ In the same little band* of amateur to the poorhouse said Mary Miller. That vast immensity! A great many terrible things have "Ladies," she said, fumbling in "her Mr. Luke Prior, of Alabama, is noted soldiers (for they ware nothing more .Its circles widen, widen out "Yes, it is quite true. Mrs. Daniel snuff-box, "this is my dephew, Cyrus for his great natural sense and his original been written about the war, but it is then) was a fellow named Hitchings. Then, faintly closing o'er, leads society in San Francisco, I am Dubrey, he as ran away from home English. "I see," said he to a .Are lost in waves most turbulent, doubtful if a man has really told the He was the bully oi the camp always told, and Mrs. Elberson is a grand lady Or swept upon the Bhore. twenty-nine years ago come Michaelmas group of fellow members, "that Senator fighting, always quarreling invariably public about his first real sensations in Bridgeport, with a reception day,and Day, and we all supposed was dead. Hampton has been telling about a cow insubordinate. But in battle he was under fire—perhaps the idea would be "My life is like the pebble tossed servants in livery. What could they Cyrus, these are the ladies who are so he owns that can talk, and Senator Test utterly upset. If a chance offered h& On times refluent sea do with a half crazy aunt,who takes snuff more correctly expressed by saying good as to visit me here. I don't quite A sudden ripple stirs its face, tells about a dog that can black boots never failed to run. If chaffed about and talks uncertain grammar? Poor his real sensation in his first battle. Then glides out silently recollect their names but then it don't and imitate a Methodist exhorter. Now it in camp, he was ready to fight the Miss Abby! She has wandered back to In ever wid'mng circles, till matter much, and after all my memory It is all very well to talk of glory and whole regiment. But fiist fighting, or I have a mule on my farm near Opelika Its last faint breath is still. her old home. She was eighty her last ain't as good as it used to be. Nothing even pistol shooting, was very different which is certainly a judgmatic creature. heroism, and the lofty courage which As, weary with the strife to flight, birthday, and things are all misty and matters much now-a-days!" from the flash ot exploding mus« Where strength must measured b8. He is an onery looking cuss, but, as I heroism inspires. One can fully ap. vague to her." St rests its aching head within ketry. It was then that the nerves And Miss Abby sat down and fell into said, very judgmatic. I must say he is preciate the dignity of such emotions Sweet sleep—eternity "What shall we do?"said Mrs. Miller were*shocked and collapsed like a rag. —New York Star a "daze" again, as if all necessity for the most imitatious animal I ever after the fight is over, but tney are in accents of perplexity. "A crazy That men can bear themselves conversational effort were over. see. He is even more imitatious than the not so apparent in the initial shock woman here—it don't seem just right, bravely under such conditions is simply Cyrus Dubrey stood up—a bronzed, monkey. That mule's favorite amusement Molly, does it?" of the first battle. moral courage. They resolve to bearded giant, with dark eyes and a superb is to go in swimming with the "I'll take her back after she has rested It was in tne afternoon of a beautiful stand the racket though their nerves stature. boys, and—and would you believe it a little and had a cup of tea," said July day that a troop of partisan and heart incline them to skip. "Ladies, I beg your pardon," he said. he can swim on his back and dive head Mary Miller came home from the Mary cheerfully. cavalry, some sixty men in ail, was The famous Jack Wharton, who "But s'pposed when I came here I was foremost like a fish. Yes, sir he has "But prehaps she won't go." camped in one of the sags of the Osage factory upon that April evening, with died in New Orleans a few years ago, coming home! I knew nothing of all dived at least thirty feet and come up hills, on th great thoroughfare which "Oh yes, she will," said Mary. "Poor exhibited on the battlefleld the most a light, quick step. these changes. I never could have with his head A!1 over mud. This Miss Abby! She is as gentle as a then led down through the southwest. reckless bravery. A friend once said dreamed my cousins ould let this creature mule is so imitatious that he can counterfeit The sky-was all a jonquil glow the It had once been the highway from child." to him, as tney stood together in a go to the poor house. I don't know almost any wind instrument. frogs were eroaking in the stumps the St. Louis to the Red river. The camp battle field where Wharton's daring Her words proved to be correct. who you are, ladies," with a husky rattle There's a ferryman near my place who was in the confusion which distinguished Miss Abby Dabney suffered herself to be intrepidity had won universal praise: maples were crimsoned with their in his throat, "but I thank you from has shot at him several times. The ferryman early service and inexperience. led unremonstratingly back to Tewkstown "Ah, Jack, if I only had your courage!" the bottom of my heart for giving her a earliest banners of blossoms and, as has a horn on the opposite side Saddles were scattered in all directions. poorhouse, where the matron read shelter in her old age. And if money she tripped along, Mary found a tuft of the river for travelers to blow as a Horses were tethered to every her a shrilltoned. lecture, and declared "You d— fool!" was the laughing reply, will pay you for it—" signal when they want to come over. of violets, half hidden under a drift of available bush. Men were lying under she should not be allowed another grain "I was scared out of my wits." "It will not!" said Mary, sharply, as The mule got onto this racket, and the grateful shade of trees, or were engaged of snuff if she didn't behave better. dead leaves—pale, purple, scentless if the words conveyed a slur. m*—.— cm whenever he gets a chance he goes down in inexperienced cookeiy. They Old Miss Abby smiled deprecatingly. blooms! "No, I suppose not," said Cyrus with BISMARCK. to the ferry and brays just like a horn vvere dressed in all conceivable fashions. "They are pecular people here," she a sigh. "But I've plenty of money now. "The first violets always bring good a blowin. On foggy days the ferryman There was the merchant in his said to Mary Miller. "I think, my dear, The dear old aunty shall live like a luck with them," she whispered to herself graceful fitting frock of broadcloth Description of His Creat War Speech can't see across the river, and he don't they forget sometimes that I am a lady. queen the rest of her clays, for she was in the Cerman Reichstag. and plug hat the farmer in blue know whether it's the mule or a traveler. as she pinned them into the bosom But it takes all sorts of people, don't good to me when all the rest set me jeans the lawyer in professional apparel. While the prophets and warmongers you see, to make a world." He told me the other day that last of her blue flannel dress. down as a black sheep. I've made my The men were gathered from year he had pulled his boat over sixtytimes are contending with their various The next night, however, just as fortune out in Panama, and have come "Home" was scarcely the ideal realization nearly every nationality under the interpretations of Prince Bismarck's to answer that 'd long-eared Mary and her mother were sitting down home to redeem myself." of that peotic word to our factory sun. The American with his calm demeanor, speech, I shall but endeavor to tea, Miss Abby once more appeared, "I have heard of Cyrus Dubrey,'' said and fixed determination in to pen a picture of a scene in the reich. girl. She and her mother lived in the in the midst of a gentle shower of rain. mule,' as he put it. On my farm I have Mrs. Miller, gently. face and bearing the jolly son ot Erin, stag on what the Cologne Gazette "I hope I don't inconvenience anybody," a large bell, with rope attached, to ling tipper half of a shabby, unpainted "And I'll venture, ma'm, you heard restless, joyous and full" ot song and pronounces to have been the most she said, meekly. "But that up the hands at daybreak. An old colored no good of me," said the young giant, "Wooden house, with the blacksmith's merriment: the steady phlegmatic German memorable day in modern German women at Tewkstown has cut off my allowance man used to attend to this with a short laugh. "I'll not deny that the sullen, dark-browed immigrant «eol ding wife and seven riotous children history since the proclamation of Wilhelm of snnff, and after all, there's I was a wild boy enough, but there duty, but one night about two from Poland. Grouped about down stairs, and one-half of a trampled no place bike home." as kaiser at Versailles. By midday wasn't any actual evil in me, let folks years ago he suddenly died. Next where the plainsmen, grown hardy by the streets leading from Prince And once more Mary Miller patiently back yard by way of a garden, say what they would. And now I've morning everybody was astonished the toilsome days and nights in caravans Bismarck's palace in the Wilhelm walked home with the poor aid crone to come back a rich man, and there's to hear the bell ringing at the usual where nothing ever grew but burdocks, that yearly cross the great deserts the poor hou&e. The matron was infuriated strasse to the Reichstag building were nobody to bid mo welcome home, hour. I went out to see who was ringing with goods and freight fcr the mettles and Mrs. Mugg's long-legged thronged. All Berlin had turned out this time. except old aunt Abby out of the poor it, and, gentlemen, I hope I may distant military posts and voyagers fowls. to welcome the Iron Chancellor, who "It ain't human natur to stand this," house." never get back to Alabama if it wasn't in the lake country and from "the has been little seen since his|return from But Mrs. Miller, who had been a she declared. "I'll put her in the jug." He could not long have made this that mule! Yes, sir and that mule rivers where strength and vigor were :School-teacher once, and still retained Fredrichsruhe, and give the stamp "The jug?" repeated Mary. 4 statement however. has been ringing that bell ever since at acquired in tempestous labor. It was «ome of the refinement of her early of popular approval to the project "It's a room down cellar, where we indeed a mixed and curious assemblage. All the town was up to bid the rich davbreak every morning. Not only he was about to propose and defend. -education, had the tea ready, with a shut up the troublesome cases," said government contractor welcome to tnis, but he cahters down between the fihaded lamp and a bunch of maple There could be no manner of doubt the matron. "I can't stand this running The troop had been on the march Tewkstown within twenty-four hours. negro cabins, just as the old man used blossoms on tho table ready for Mary that Berlin, at least, was willing away business, and I won't! But Cyrus cared little for the friendly all day through heat and dust, enroute to do, to see that everybody gets out on and glad to give the 700,000 to come home. The jug, perhaps, proved efficacious, overtures of the old neighbors. for the main army, encamped a time. The old man had away of kicking mpn demanded for the better defense "Good news, mo1her!"the girl cried for old Miss Abby did not appear again few miles distant, and now, cast in Aunt Abby was the only person for on the door of a hand who did not lightly. The meadow farm is to be let! of the vaterland, and the $70,000,000 for a week. At the expiration of that every conceivable attitude and position, whom he seemed to care, and his greatest move out brisk, and one morning the to meet the thus entailed deficit Mother, we must take it." time, however, she crept noiselessly in they were taking a well-earned grief was that the old woman refused mule followed his example. In a certain Mrs. Miller looked dubiously at the in the military budget. From his just at dusk and seated herself like a rest. But suddenly there was a sharp to leave the old Dabney farm cabin there were a very lazy colored eager, bright face, with its blue-gray silent shadow in the chimney corner. palace to the parliament building the detonation of a distant rifle, and the house to live in the stately brick mansion family that never stirred until everybody drive was a triumphal procession. -©yes and fringes of yellow hair. "It's so good to be at home again," next minute the picket came galloping which he built on Prospect Hill. else was at work. Just at daybreak "Can we afford it daughter?" she Some people who twenty-five years she said, rubbing her wrinkled hands, in upon the guard. In a moment And then he asked permission to deck the mule backed up to the front ago mobbed him because they thought «aid slowly. "A whole house and farm "I some how seem to get lost of late. everything was in wild confusion. her little bedroom with the curiosities door and gave a kick with both feet him reactionary, and, as a traveling of forty-three acres?" Elnathan is gone, and Betty's gone, and Men ran in all directions inrjurs uit of he had brought from the Isthmus, and that sent the whole family through the "It isn't such a very large house, I am left here all alone. Yes, a cup of American had put it, "too big for his saddles and mislaid arms. Nothing in tacking up draperies and arranging back window. The mule didn't know boots," now huzzahed themselves another!" pleaded Mary as she laid the tea, please—sugar and milk. They was in and everything was wrong. On shells and silver coine he and Mary unconsciously it, however, and he kept on kicking. never remember how I like my tea at hoarse. Young ladies showered down bunch of violets in her mother's lap, this scramble ot eager and excited became quite good friends. The next day it took four carpenters to sior so many more rooms than we have Tewkstown. This is good and butter on him as he passed cornflowers, and men broke the clear notes of the bugle, Friends. She never knew that it was on my bread, too! We don't get butter put that cabin together ugain. Gentlemen these offerings alone won from the here. And we could keep two cows, sounding "boots and saddles." any thing else, until one day old Aunt and I could sell milk and butter, and at Tewkstown." as I remarked before, that mule's adamantine countenance of the Man In some way, no one could tell how, Abby took a strange idea into her head. epring chickens and eggs and I am almost Mary burst into tears. the most judgmatic and imitatious animal of Iron a smile. Though erect and the line was formed, and at a slow And Mary, holding a rich Oriental cord I ever see." soldierly in his cuirassier tunic, with sure that Will Davidge would work trot along the dusty highway the '•Mother," said she, "Miss Abby shall for Cyrus to loop into knots for picture ihe farm on shares. And only think, yellow collar, I thought he looked not go back to Tewkstown—she shall troup moved off to meet the enemy. Sponges. frames, heard her introduce Mrs. Miller pale and wan, as well he might. He mother, how delightful it would be to It had not far to go. Across the load stay here! Mother, how should I feel to a neighbor as "my guest, Mrs. Florida Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer. and covering the crest of a low ridge a seemed fully aware of the weight all fcave a home all to ourselves, where we if you were wandering friendless and Miller, the mother of the young lady One of the sights of the Florida reef couldn't hear Mrs. Muggs boxing Bobby's alone through the world scouting platoon was drawn up to receive Europe placed upon his words, and at that nephew Cyrus is to marry." is the sponger. He is generally a conch them. There was no science or first his care in their choice made his ears, or Helen shrieking with the 'But my dear—" Cyrus looked at Mary. Mary dropped from Conchtown, Key West, and devotes tactics employed on either side. Both speech slow and even halting. Behind toothache! And a little garden, mother, "She shall sleep in her own old the ball of cord and turned crimson. his entire time to the business of troops were equally ignorant of the where we could have peonies and hollybocks, his chair was placed a little table covered room, out of the kitchen," persisted "Mary!" he said piteously, "say that it fishing up the repulsive objects called art of war. They only knew that with seltzer bottles aud white and all those lovely, old fashioned Mary. "She will be no more care than shall be so. For I love you! And— sponges. This is done chiefly with their business was to kill. The order Rhine wine. His son Herbert officiated flowers that your soul delights in." a canary bird. Oh, mother, do consent! and you were good to old Aunt Abby hooks or spears, the boat drifting along came to charge. And they did. It Mrs. Miller's face softened. She will think then that she is in her there at arbiter bibendi. when all the world turned against her. until a sponge is sighted, when it is was each man for himself and the "It would be a great tenrptation, Molly," own old home. Oh, if you knew how I sometimes think, Mary, that you must hooked or speared, and jerked from its devil take the hindmost. A wild she said. dreary it is at that poor house, with be like one of heaven's angles." The bill having been read Prince, stronghold upon the bottom. When the and scattering fire blazed along "Its a month since old Mrs. Dabney the grass all trampled out, and piles of Bismarck rose, no one naturally chalf And this was how they became en- water is too deep for the hooking process, the line a sheet of flame answered clam shells lying round the door, and died," said Mary. "And they say that lenging his right to the presiding offR the sponger goes overboard and it from the other side. The her daughter in the city and her son in not so much as a dandelion or daisy to cer's eye. Pausing for a moment, hiJ They still live at the old farm house, dives to the sponge, by main force tearing dust rose in a dense cloud from the be seen." •California despise the old farm, with its glance swept around the house. Bej the happiest of married lovers, and it from the bottom. The sponges clattering hoofs of the horses, as ignorant one-story house and its old red barn. And Mrs. Miller yielded to Mary's hind him sat Field Martial von Moltkf Aunt Abby firmly believes that they are taken from this section are not as their riders of the art of So it is to be let. And so cheap, too! tearful solicitations. with folded arms and eyes closed, life all her guests for to her the woare the delicate toilet sponges, being a different war. A wild shout pealed through the Only a hundred and fifth dollar's a year. "Do as you please, my child," said busy brain teeming with all the secrews stands eternally still—the world that is grade, and only used for coar3e forest aisles, and in the midst of dust Mother, we must take it! I'll leave the she. The Tewkstown authorities were of the German war office. In the immediate so full of bloom and beauty to Cyrus work. They grow to a large size, and cries and yells, the excited and factory and turn dairy maid. I've saved but too glad to be rid of the poor incubus neighborhood ai*e gathered and Mary! furious men mixed battle. Rifles, some measuring three feet across and enough, you know, to buy the TO cows and Miss Abby Dabney settled down Messrs. Windhorst, Riohter, Benmngsen two high, and when active present shotguns, pistols, knives and swords and some real Plymouth Bock fowls to in her old home, as contentedly and unquestionably and others who had so strongly were used in reckless and indiscrimate anything but an attractive appearance. begin with, and oh, it will be such happiness as if she had never left it. How They Write in Massachusetts, opposed the government on the septennate confusion. Men were knocked from A good healthy sponge looks as it comes Say yes, mother—do say yes!" She ate and drank but little she talked bill. One hundred and twenty their saddles and trampled beneath to the surface like a great beef's liver, When Mary Miller pleaded like this still less, and seemed to regard Mrs. skilled stenographers sit ready with the feet of the frightened and rearing From the Boston Globe. and the odor is spongy—no other -word the gentle widow never knew how to Miller and Mary as guests, who had horses. sharpened pencils in the press gallery. Is there anything sweeter than a describes it. When a load of these come to visit the old farm. refuse and the upshot of it was that During the melee two brothers Telegraph operators sit behind tofeemwith aromatic flowers of the ocean is secured, sweet girl just engaged? they leased the Dabney house, and became "The widow Miller and her darter named Kelcher met in a fierce and fingers on the tickers and when they are taken down to Key West or co-sovereigns of the realms of must be rich folks, to undertake to support A new bloom is on her cheek, a new desperate struggle. In the excitement the first word of the great speech is may be cured on some of the keys. This Meadow farm. old Miss Abby, "sneered one neighbor light is in her eye, a heavenly halo oi of the strife each had failed to recognize said, the first thought that suggests consists of allowing them to remain in It was their first night there. Overbead happiness enshrines her. Shy, but his opponent and not until the itself is the wonderful disproportion the sun until thoroughly decayed, and the young May moon shone "She was well provided for at the proud demure, ^utdisnified. her heart death wound was dealt to the younger betwetn the speaker's frame and his then treating them to repeated rinsings, through a veil of purple mist. A solitary poorhouse," said another. reflects itself in her face, so that he man was the elder conscious of voice, the one colossal, the other almost until the animal matter is entirely removed. owl hooted in the chestnut wood who runs may read. "I never yet saw a farm succeed that the terrible deed he had done. The puny. Gradually, however, it They are then placed in the back of the house, for Meadow farm was was managed by women-folks," jeered Nor is it any prospect of golden gain, fight had dritted away fromthem.and deepens, broadens and increases in sun to bleach, and in this stage are seen situated on a lonely mountain side, the third. of riches and raiment, that renders he dismounted and bore the body to a volume until at last the disproportion covering the fences in Conchtown. •where no one ever came except on special "There'll be the biggest kind of a her radiant. It is the simple thought little distance, where a spring gurgled disappears. Suddenly a gurgling Skater they are subjeted to several processes, business. smash-up presently," observed number that she is an object of interest. from the earth. He bathed his face sound somes trom the speaker's throat one of which in some cases is The Plymouth Bock chickens were four, "and an auction sale of everything Somebody loves her. She reigns supreme and head, and tried to stanch tne flow like the suction of a ship's pump. sanding. This is more common in the safely shut up where foxes could not and 111 be on hand—for I don't deny in one heart. of b'ood that welled from his breast. Quickly a seltzer bottie is uncorked toilet sponge from the Mediterranean. reach them nor minks steal in to bleed that them little Alderney cows is the And, purest oi all pleasures, she has "It is no use, Billy," said the dying by Count Herbert's skilled hand, the Shake one and you will find that quite £heir young lives away the cows—two cunningest creatures I ever set my eyes some one to worship, some one for man, "It's a fatal wound. Carry me Rhine wine added, and in a moment a deposit of fine sand escapes. This was fine young Alderneys—were chewing on, and good milkers into the bargain." whom she can make utter self-sacrifice home." the liquid has gone gurgling down his not eaten or absorbed by the sponge •their cuds back of the old red barn, and But tune wore on, and there was no and abnegation. She is not only Strange to say the encounter had parched throat. Irresistibly the image when alive, as you might suppose, but Mary Miller had flung a handful of ce-dar flutter of a red flag over the porch. an idol, a saint, but at the same time taken place but a few miles from the of Gladstone, whom the sphinx ofVarzin is a process by which the sponge is increased, sticks on the hearth, where their On the contrary matters throve, and a devotee. Though she is a goddess, farm where their youth and boyhood so cordially detests, rose up and, as they sell by the pound, jscented blaze illuminated the old Mary declared joyously that 'farming he is a god, whom it is both her duty were passed where their parents before me, and once more saw they the object is evident. kitchen with a leaping brightness beautiful was a great deal more profitable business and delight to put upon a pedestal. lived, and where in a few hours the "People's William" place his egg-flip than working in a factory, and she When we think how many surplus to see. The tricks that the guileless spongedealer elder brother was to lay the dying bottle upon the dispatch box, drawout only wished that she had found it out women there are in the single State oi form of the youngest born at his "Because it's just possible that the is not up to are not worth chronicling. his notes and commence to demolish before.' Massachusetts, and how little it takes mother's feet. house may be damp," she said, "after Some time ago a young man the flimsy arguments of torv to make a girl happy, it really seems "Don't tell them at home you did being uninhabited so long. There, Until one gray autumnal evening was sent to a sponge locality to buy apologists. that the male population is not doing it. It was in battle and you "did not mother, isn't that cheerful? And isn't Mary and her mother came back from a sponges for a firm who was going to While the speech, which according its duty. As long as there is a bachelor know me." it nice our old rag carpet should fit this manufacture a new article that required Senator Anthony and Calhoun. to newspaper statisticians contained among us the grand old commonwealth The promise was given, and that floor so exactly?" with a satisfied downward large quantities, and it was found that 18,933 words, was bertig spoken, must blush to own it. There night the fratricide laid the dead boy glance. "And do you see those Mr. Webster, when he pronounced the young man paid as much for water Count Herbert presentee? seventeen is no valid excuse for bachelorhood in in his mother's arnft Save one friend tiger lillies I found them down by the his eulogium in the Senate on John C. and coral rock as he did for sponge. times to his thirsty father glasses of this State. no one ever knew how Jimmie Kelcher garden wall—oh, such a red wilderness Calhoun, said, half wonderingly and Better sponges are found in the Bahamas Rhine wine and seltzer, and each time Seventy thousand more or less lovely died, nor who fired the fatal bullet of them! Old Mrs. Dabney set them half admiringly, "he had no recreation than on the Florida reef, and the the glass was drained to tne last drop. women waiting to be worshipped! that ended his young life before it had out herself, they say. It seems only yesterday," business, though in the hands of a few, —never seemed to feel the necessity oi Once the prince sat dowfa. His face 0, generation of shirkers! Must the fairly begun. she added thoughtfully, "that I is a valuable one. The majority oi amusement." So it was with Governor was drawn, and evidently the varicose ladies take advantage of the season's But how about the feeling one has •came past here and saw old Mrs. Dabney people have peculiar ideas regarding Anthony, says the Washington correspondent veins, which so trouble Europe, were privilege and speak for themselves? in his first battle? That is not easily sitting in the big chair by the fire, the sponge. Some think it an insect, of the providence Journal. twitching. But when he1 came to the Breathes there a man with a soul so told. But to say one is not frightened, just where—" others a plant. It is, however, a simple He never, while here as a Senator, climax of the oration—hvhen he exclaimed: dead that he has never wanted a wife? judging by experience, would be animal, composed of many cells, Mrs. Miller uttered a little shriek and went on fishing or shooting parties he "We Germans fear God and^tf Single men, cease from being monsters far from the truth. There is no fright that are arranged in three layers, the grasped her daughter's arm at this moment, no one else' We seek* to cultivate never kept or drove fast horses, or attended of ingratitude and sacrifice yourself, so terrible as a man feels when he is lor Mary stopped short, with an middle one screting the lime or silex, friendly relations, butjve run after the Jockey Club races and although if only for the sake of selfishness? the first time under fire. He may conceal as the case may be, that goes to form ashy pallor overspreading her cheek. no one! We dread wai but against he was a member of the Metropolitan Leap year should not pass away the fact from every one but himself For as she spoke the door opposite the skeleton ol the animal. the furor Teutomcus JM power can until these thing3 be fulfilled. The men but his own heart hecannot deceive Club, he was never to be seen had opened, and a very little old womjua, stand,"—he rose, and then the house of Massachusetts should no longer al His nerves may be steady, his moral at its card tables or its billiard room Ex-Secretary Lamar tells the follow* silver-haired and shriveled like a shouted as one man,, and then the low the old Commonwealth to be courage great enough to bear him or bowling alley. Occasionally he would, ingstory of his experience at apolitical mummy, came in, and walking across tickers tell the world that Germany is pointed at as the State which most safely through the ordeal, but if when meeting in his own State soon after the while waiting to go out to dine, take a ,4he floor, seated herself in Mrs. Dabney's one and united "auf ipimerdar." eschews matrimony. It they do the the bullets begin to sing and the guns war. He was one of the speakers.and pack of cards and occupy a few leisure very corner. An old woman Not a word is said in opposition. fair neglected will be amply justified to flash there is not a feelingvof "goneness" alludina to the civil war, suggested as Pressed in the snuff-colored gown that moments in a game of solitaire, but 3 The socialists are powerless to combat in taking advantage of their leap year in his mental and moral economy, a parallel case the parable of the Mrs. Dabney had always worn and wearing don't believe he understood the first privilege. he is not made of the stuff that this outburst of patriotism, and as Prodigal Son and the joyful reception a snuff-silk cap, while a bag depended principles ot "poker" or "euker," those Prince Bismarck walked back to his ordinary persons are. He may not at his home when the naughty boy returned. from her arm. favorite gamesof many Congressmen, run, but he would give the world not house through the crowded street, He was succeeded by a negro, A Connecticut woman has embroidered "It cold, ladies," she said, looking to be afraid to run. It is the greater his carriage not having come, he knew a Eepublican, who, after some general around with a deprecating air. "Cold the words and music of "Home The president sent to the senate the fear of shame in nine cases out of ten that the bill was to be adopted unani- 1 remark, paid his respects to Lamar's nominations oi James M. Corbett of Dakota for the season of the year. And they Sweet Home," on a linen sheet which that enables him to face bravely the mously and en bloc. parallel. "Forgiben!" said he. "Dey to be register of the land office at Grand don't keep fires at Tewkstown." is on the spare room ben. Her guests situation. Forks, Dak., and Edwin Eels of Washington foraiben—dem brigadiers! Why, dey'se "Mother," said Mary, recovering herself have not decided whether the hostess William King, a farmer of Vermillion, Territory to be agent for the Indians come walkin' into de house an' bang It is told of Frederick the Great with a hysterical gasp of relief. "It D.-vkota county, who was troubled with of the Puyallup agency (consolidated) in means to indicate that they must feel, de do' an' go up to de oi' man an' that he never went into battle without &>* cancer, was taken to St. Paul and. bad isn't old Mrs. Dabney's ghost at all. Washington Territory. at home, or had better go home. 7^i say: 'Whar dat veal?'" trembling from fear. His moral operation performed on the 25tliiRn.d dl two days alter. w^^Ssr*" *$?|$r &f #.? }*?»$ 1 p^y^jumyiftiMrtiw