DAKOTA JOTTINGS. THE RIPPLING TRAIN. Nina. "Yes, that' all right, Gladys. yet too material for 'saioke.' My what people always did in such cases. Feeding Coal to the Fire: You and I will hold each other's next idea was a curious one: 'It If he knew where Mrs. then was The throwing of fuel upon the fireis hands, and pmch hard if we get very looks like soapy water.' I said to myself he would write to her just for the fun "Let's tell ghost stories, then," said generally considered as a means frightened." Out of fifty-six bachelors in Pierre 'can one of the housemaids have of the thing, and a3k her to besogood of augmenting the amount of heat Gladys. "-f.^^ "Thank you," Miss Lloyd replied. been scrubbing, and upset a pail on as to look up in her diary, if she kept only six have been married during "On the whole I should prefer for you the stairs?' For the stair to the next produced, and taken as a whole it one, and let us know what she had "Aren't you tired of them? One the past year. not to bold my hand." floor almost faced the library door. been doing on that particular day'the does have that effect. But for the hears nothing else nowadays. And The Argus-leader announces that "But I won't pinch you so as to But—no, 1 rubbed my eyes and looked 6th of April, isn't it?' he said—when maintenance of a steady fire and art* they're all 'authentic,' really vouched hurt," said Nina, reassuringly "and again—the soapy water theory the Methodist university will beyond I would have it that her wraith had eveitheat only a small amount of fuel for, only you never see the person it isn't as if we were in the dark." gave way. The wavy something that paid me a visit. I let him talk. It a doubt be located at Sioux Falls. should be thrown upon a fire at "Shall I turn down the lamps?" kept gliding, rippling" in gradually assumed seemed to remove the strange, painful who saw or heard or felt the ghost. the time. The reason for this is that Dakota has about 175,000 sheep. asked Mr. Snowdon. a more substantial appearance. impression—painful because of It is alwe-ys somebody's sister or coal is dependent upon two constituents "No! no!" exclaimed his wife. It was—yes, I suddenly became ^f Hutchinson county has 11,346 and that terrible sadness in the sweet face. cousin or friend's friend," objected for its heat giving properties. convinced of it, it was ripple3 of "There really is nothing frightening But neither of us knew where she was, Spink is second 7,984. One of these, the carbonaceous, remains young Mrs. Snowdon, another of the —scarcely even 'creepy'—in my story soft silken stuff, creeping in as if in we scarcely remembered her married It is reported that several "blind in a solid state, while the other, at all," said Mr. Marischal, half apologetically. some mysterious way unfolded or unrolled, guests at the Quarries. name! And so there was nothing to pigs" which closed at Oakes during "You make me teel like an not jerkingly or irregularly, the bituminous, is volatilized. A* be done except—what I did at "I don't know that that is quite a the recent term of court have reopened. imposter." but glidingly and smoothly, like once, in spite of Herbert's rallying— the latter process must be accomplished reasonable ground for discrediting "Oh, no, Uncle Paul, don't say that. little wavelets on the seashore. to mark down the day and hour with before the first will be ready them en masse," said her husband. It is all my fault for interrupting," scrupulous exactness in iny diary. "And I sat there and gazed. 'Why for burning, the first effect of throwing "The Dog Got Left or How She "It is natural enough, indeed inevitable, said Nina. "Now go on, please. I "Time passed. I had not fogotten did you not jump up and look behind fuel upon the fire is that of cooling. have Gladys' hand, all the same," she Captured the Rooster," is the title of my strange experience, but of course that the principal or principals the door to see what it was?' you .Not only must the solid added, sotto voice "it's just as well the impression of it lessened by degrees,till may reasonably ask. That question a new book soon to be given the publie in such cases should be much more coal be raised to the furnace temperature, to be prepared." it seemed more like a curious I cannot answer. Why I sat still, as by an Iroquois lady. rarely come across than the stories but the volatilization if bewitched, or under some irresistible dream than anything more real, when "Well, then," began Mr. Marischal must be carried on. Here the themselves. A hundred people can repeat Thirteen saloonkeepers have turned one day I did hear of Poor Maud once more, "it must be nearly fifteen influence, I cannot tell, but so it was. same laws come into play as in theevaporation again. 'Poor' Maud I cannot help the story, but the author, or years ago. And I had not seen her "And it—came always rippling in, in $6,500 to the treasury of Sioux calling her. I heard of her indirectly, of water. The evapora-1,^.,^, for fully ten years before that again! till at last it began to rise as it still rather hero, of it can't be in a hundred Falls for the privilege of dispensing I was not thinking of her in the least and probably but for the sadness of tion and volatilization require moreheat came on, and I "saw a figure, a tall booze during the next six months. places at once. You don't disbelieve in a sense I had realiy forgotten her her story I should never have heard it graceful^ woman's figure, was slowly than that accounted for in theelevation in any other statement or she had quite gone out of my life— at all. It was a friend of her husband's advancing, backwards of course, into During the past two years there of temperature, and whicb **5.r that has always struck me as a very narrative merely because you have family who had mentioned the the room, and that the waves of pale has been taken in at the penitentiary is therefore rendered latent. Hence curious point in the story," he added circumstances in the hearing of a silk—a very delicate shade of pearly never seen the prime mover in it?*' at Sioux Falls as admission fees from unless care is taken to burn off the parenthetically. friend of mine.and one day something gray I think it must have been—were "But I didn't say I discredited them gases, as they are given off it would visitors $455, woich will be spent for brought round the conversation of old in fact the lower portion of a long "Won't you tell us who 'she' was, be better that they did not exist. the library. on that account," said Mrs. Snowdon. times, and he startled me by suddenly court train, the upper part of which Uncle Paul?" asked Nina, half shyly. For it will be easily understood at inquiring if I remembered Maud Bertram. "You take up so, Archie. I'm not hung in deep folds from the lady's "Oh, yes, I was gomss to do so. I A negro was recently confined in I said,of course I did. Did he if the fire, which is due to the combustion waist. She moved in—I cannot describe logical and reasonable—I don't pretend am not skilled in story telling, you the Yankton insane asylum for one know anything of her? And then he of the solid carbons, did nothave the motion it was not like ordinary see. She was, when I first knew her— to be. If I meant anything, it day. When he was discharged he attached told me. walking or stepping backwards—till to heat these gases, it would* at the only time, indeed, that I Knew was that a ghost story would have a "She was dead—she had died some a red rag to a long pole and the whole of her figure give out just the same amount oi her—a very sweet and attractive girl, great pull over other ghost stories if and the clear profile of her face and months ago after a long and trying struck out on the railroad track. nafned Maud Bertram. She was very heat that would be available for & illness, the result of a terrible accident. head were distinctly visible, and one could see the person it happened pretty—more than pretty, for she had steam making. It is due to this fact The Rapid City Journal estimates She had caught fire one evening when at last she stopped and stood remarkably regular features—her profile to. One does get rather provoked at that coke has been accredited, withgreater dressed for some grand entertainment the trade of the Black Hills in cured there full in my view, just, but only was always admired—and a tall and heating properties than bituminous never coming across him or her," she or other, and though her injuries did meats during the past year at $150,000 just, beyond the door, I saw—it came graceful figure. And she was a bright coal, simply because the I added, a little petulantly. not seem likely to be fatal at the upon me like a flash—that she was no and agitates the question of locating and happy creature, too that perhaps, gases in the coal have been distilledand time, she had never recovered the stranger to me, this mysterious visitant! She was tired they were all rather was almost her greatest charm. a packing-house there. AtfJ shock. I recognized, unchanged,it seemed not burned. But when the furnaces You will wonder—I see the question tired, for it was the first evening since '"She was so pretty,' my friend City Marshal Dunn, of Deadwood, to me, since the day ten years ago, are so designed that these gases hovering on your lips. Miss Lloyd, and the party had assembled at. the large said, 'and one of the saddest parts of when I had last seen her, the beautiful are thoroughly burned, the heating reports a total of seventy-nine arrests on yours, too, Mrs. Snowdon—why, if it was that I hear she was terribly country house known as the "The features of Maud Bertram." properties of the coal will be found tobe I admired and liked her so much, Idid during the year, the heinous disfigured, and she took this most Mr. Marischal stopped a moment. Quarries," on which there was not to not go further. And I will tell you greater by just the amount of offense consisting of too much stimulant sadly to heart. The right side of her Nobody spoke. Then he went on frankly that I did not because I dared be dancing, with the additional fatigue heat given out by the combustion of and too much noise. face was utterly ruined, and the sight again:— not. I had then no prospect of being of "ten miles there and ten back the gases in excess of what was required of the right eye lost, though, strange able to marry for years to come, and "I should not have said 'unchanged.' Husband (confusedly)—Oh-er-two to distill them. again and three or four evenings of to say, the left side entirely escaped, I was not very young. I was already There was one great change in the or three gentlemen called to see me and seeing her in profile one would such doings without intermission tell, thirty, and Maud was quite ten years sweet face. You remember my telling on business, and they were shown in have had no notion of what had happened. even on the young and vigorous. younger. I was wise enough and old you that one of my girl-friend's there. That's the ante-room, my Was it not sad? She was "The Inside Track" Woman. enough to realize the situation greatest charms was her bright.sunny To-night various less energetic ways such a sweet, bright creature.' dear.—New York Sun. thoroughly, and to be on my guard." happiness—she never seemed gloomy of passing the evening had been proposed. The sensation of the city, says anAtlanta "I did not tell him my story, for I Music, games, reading aloud, "And Maud?" asked Mrs. Snowdon. or depressed or dissatisfied, seldom correspondent of the GlobeDemocrat, He Many of Lead City's young bachelors did not want it chattered about, but recitation—none had found favor in "She was surrounded by admirers— even pensive. But in this respect the is the queer conduct of are getting tired of boarding at a strange sort of shiver ran through everybody's sight, and now Gladys it seemed to me then that it would face 1 sat there gazing at was utterly Mrs. Mary Grant, a lady of great me at his words. It was the left side the regular boarding-houses and hotels Lloyd's proposal that they should havfi been insufferable conceit to have unlike Maud Bertram's. Its expression, respectability. Some time ago she of her face only that the wraith of my "tell ghost stories" seemedlikely to and consequently are setting up even asked myself if it could, matter as she—or 'it'—stood began to develop a passion for claiming poor friend had allowed me to see." fall flat also. to her. It was only in the light of there looking, not toward me, but establishments of their own. "Oh, Uncle Paul!" exclaimed Nina. the inside of the walk wherever after events that the possibility of out beyond, as if at some one or For a moment or two no one answered "And—as to the dates?" inquired she appeared on the streets. Thepolice A couple of prospectors who have Mrs. Snowdon's last remarks. my having been mistaken occurred to something outside the door-way was Mr. Snowdon. were slow to take any notice* been looking over the Turkey creek Then, somewhat to everybody's surprise, me. And I don't even now see that I of the profoundest sadness. Anything "I never knew the exact date of the of the actions of a lady so irreproachable, the young daughter of the could have acted otherwise—" here so 3ad I have never seen in a human region east of Yankton a few miles accident," said Mr. Marischal, "but house turned to her mother. Uncle Paul sighed a little. "We were face, and I trust I never may. But I but matters have at last reached assert that they have uncovered two that of her death was fully six months "Mamma," she said, the best of friends. She knew that I sat on, as motionless almost as she, the crisis where her arrest was "don't formations of coal on Dan Stafford's after I had seen her. And in my own be vexed with me—I admired her, and she seemed to take gazing at her fixedly, with no desire, know necessary. She allowed farm. mind I have never made any doubt a frank pleasure in its being so. I had no power perhaps to move or approach you warned me once to be boy to take the no man or that it was at or about, probably a always hoped that she really liked more nearly to the phantom. careful how I spoke of it but The Cass County Farmers' alliance the sidewalk, and inside of short time after, the accident that wouldn't it be nice if UnclePaul would and trusted me as a friend, but no I was not in the least frightened. I has a letter from an eastern party accidentally pushed when oneway-- she came to me. It seemed a kind of tell us of his ghost story? And then, more. The last time I saw her was knew it was a phantom, but 1 felt between her and the wallhisr fence who is ready to invest $ 10,000 in a appeal for sympathy—and a farewell Mrs. Snowdon," she went on, "you just before I started for Portugal, paralyzed, and as if I myself had she assaulted him with her parasol, creamery in Fargo, on the condition also poor child." could always say yon had heard one where I remained three somehow got outside of ordinary conditions. and, if she carried none, with her They all sat silent for some little that 1,500 cows and sufficient ground ghost story at or from—which should years. When I returned to And there I sat staring at time, and then Mr. Marischal got up hand. The person thus assaulted I say?—headquarters." London Maud had been married for Maud, and there she stood, gazing for a plant be guaranteed. and went off to his own quarters, saying would be surprised, and quickly get two years, and had gone straight out before her with that terrible, unspeakable Lady Denhoime glanced round half something vaguely about seeing if One of the topics of conversation in away to escape the remarks of the to India on her marriage, and except sadness in her face, which, even nervously before she replied. his letters had gone. political circles at Bismarck is the action by some few friends who had. known though I felt no fear, seemed to freeze people in sight. She soon came to be "Locally speaking, it would not be "What a touching story," said us both intimately I seldom heard her me with a kind of unutterable pity. of the retiring board of county at headquarters, Nina," she said. known as the "inside track" woman, Gladys Lloyd. "I am afraid, after "The Quarries was not the scene of mentioned. And time passed. I cannot "I don't know how long I had sat and everybody, gave her a wide berth commissioners in reducing the salary all, it has been more painful than he say I had exactly forgotten her, your uncle's ghost st ory. But I almost thus, or how long I might have continued as she passed. One morning oi the district attorney from $1,200 realized tor Mr. Marischal to tell it. but she was not much or often in my think it is better not to speak to sit there, almost as if in a she assaulted a gentleman on Whitehall to $400 per year. Did yon know anything of Maud's thoughts. I was a busy and much about it—I am not sure that he trance, when suddenly I heard the street quite seriously. She pulled, husband, dear Lady Denhoime? Was would like it mentioned, and he will absorbed man, and life had proved a front-door bell ring. It seemed to The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader ays his whiskers and threw bis hat into- f" he kind to her? Was she happy?" be coming in a moment. He had only serious matter to me. Now and then waken me. I started up and glanced "There is a man in town who says the street. The scene that followed -€*, "We never heard much about her a note to write." some passing resemblance would recall round, half expecting that I should that four months ago he was not married life," her hostess replied. was ludicrous. The large crowd en- ?J her to my mind—once especially, find the vision dispelled. But no she "I do wish he would tell it to us," "But 1 have no reason to think she joyed his astonishment as he tried worth $500, and that to-day he is when I had been asked to look in and said Nina regretfully. "Don't you was still there, and I sank back into was unhappy. Her husband married to disengage himself from the wornan's see the young wife of one of my cousins as easily worth $50,000. He made think, mamma, I might just run to my seat just as I heard my brother again two or three years after her in her court dress, something in hold. This morning she went "lt the study and a-sk him, and if he did coming quickly up stairs. He came it in real estate." death, but that says nothing." not like the idea he might say so to her figure and bearing brought back down Decatur street shoving every towards the library, and, seeing the "N—no," said Nina. "All the same The Press declares that nothing me, and no one would seem to know Maud to my memory, for it was thus, door wide open, walked in and I, still man into the ditch who would not mamma, I am sure she really did love anything about it? Uncle Paul is so in full dress, that I had last seen her, would please Brookings more than gazing, saw his figure pass through give her the track. She was finally Uncle Paul very much—much more kind, I'm never afraid of asking him and thus, perhaps unconsciously, her that of the woman in the doorway as to enter into an alliance with Madison arrested, and in response to why she f^ than he had any idea of. Boor any favor." image had remained photographed on you may walk through a wreath of assaulted the men, said: "Haven't and Mitchell to bring about the Maud!" my brain. But as far as I can recollect mist or smoke, only—nlon't misunderstand '^Thank you, Nina, for your good I as much right to the track as any-^ extension of the Manitoba line from "And he has neyer married," added at the time when the occurrence me—the figure of Maud till that opinion of me you see there is no rule body else aud, if it is my right ought Gladys. Marshall, Minn to Mitchell. I am going to relate to moment had had nothing unsubstantial without exceptions listeners do sometimes I not to fight for it? I have a poor "No," said Lady Denhoime "but you happened, I had not been thinking hear pleasant thinas of them68lves," about it. She had looked to me, Chief Fields of Fargo received information opinion of any lady who wouldn't I,* there have been many practical difficulties of Maud Bertram for months. I said Mr. Marischal, as he at as she stood there, literally and exactly that Thomas Lagrange, in the way of his doing so. He fight for her rights. I just think I was in London just then, staying that moment came round the screen like a living woman the shade has had a most "absorbingly busy life, ought to have the inside track, anti-J-^^ supposed to have been implicated which half concealed the doorway. with my brother, my eldest brother, of her dress, the color of her hair, the and now that he is more at leisure he "What is the special favor you were who had been married for several will fight for it until I die." ,?J" with Dick Wo od in the robbery ol few ornaments she wore, all were as feelshimseh too old to form new ties." thinking of asking me?" years and lived in our own old town defined and clear as yours, Nina, at the store at Hickson some time ago, "But," persisted Nina, "if he had The relatives of the lady are now house in Square. It was in April, the^ present moment, and remained Nina looked rather taken aback. has been arrested at Barnesville, bad any idea at the time that Maud taking steps to have her put into theinsane "How softly you opened the door, a clear spring day, with no fog or halflights so, or perhaps became Minn., and will be brought to Fargo cared for him so?" ayslum. Uncle Paul," she said. "I would not about, and it was not yet 4 so again as soon as my brother 4 a*t once. "Ah, well," Lady Denhoime allowed, have spoken of you if I had known o'clock in the afternoon—not very wa3 well within the room. He came "in that case, in spite of the practical you were there." ghost-like circumstances, you will admit. forward, addressing me by name, but The Press deals with social affairs Doctor and Patient. difficulties, things would probably "But, after all, you were saying no I had eome home early from my I answered him in a whisper, begging •L in Miller as follows: ''It is pleasant have been different." When I consider what the educa*tionof harm," observed her brother Michael. club—it was a sort of holiday time him to be silent and to sit down on to see people nicely dressed and it is And again Nina repeated softly. with me just then for a few wteks, intending the seat opposite to me for a moment a doctor entails, what endless "And for my part I don't believe Unele proper, but it betrays a large degree "Poor Maud!"—Louisa Moles worth, Paul would mind our asking him to get some letters written or two. He did so, though he was study and investigation, what patient of mental vacuity in one who endeavors in Longman's Magazine. what we were speaking of." which had been on my mind for some taken aback by my strange manner, labor when I reflect upon the to work the 'exclusive' racket "What was it?" asked Mr. Marischal. days, and I had sauntered into the library, for I still kept my eyes fixed on the continual risks that he must take, "I think, as I have heard so in society in a western country a pleasant, iair-sized room, door. I had a queer consciousness the continual self-control that he .. Rabbits in Australia. much, you may as well tell me the lined with books, on the first floor. that if I looked away it would fade, town like this.'" must have balanced by continual whole." Before getting to work I sat down for and I wanted to keep cool and see The burning issue in Australia is compassion when I remember how/ The -county commissioners of Lawirence "It was only began Nina, but a moment or two in an easy chair by what would happen. I asked Herbert the rabbit. This rodent, which elsewhere he is ever contending in a face-toface her mother interrupted her. the fire, for it was still cool enough to in a low voice if he saw nothing, but county adopted a resolution is hardly given a serious and hand-to-hand encouater "I have told Nina not to speak of make a fire desirable, and began thongh he mechanically followed^ the fixing the license for liquor dealers at thought, in that part of the world has with disease and death I think -feha it, Paul," she said anxiously "but— thinking over my letters. No thought, direction of my eyes, he shook his $500 a year. In Deadwood twenty become a pest of the most serious and he should be an industrious and it was only that ail these young people no shadow of a thought of my old head id bewilderment. And for a licenses were granted in Lead City, alarming character. It is estimated thoughtful, a brave and noble gen-g^ are talking about ghost stories, friend Miss Bertram was present with moment or two he remained thus. that the progeny of one pair or rabbits, eleven Central, four Galena, one and they want you to tell them your me, of that I am perfectly certain. The Then I began to notice that the figure tleman. To the invalid he is re left undisturbed, under favorable I Whitewood, one Brownsville, one own strange experience. You must door was on the same side of the was growing less clear, as if it were receding, He is the master mechanic of whatr^ not be vexed with them." circumstances, 'will in three years room as the fireplace as 1 sat there, yet without growing smaller Terraville, one. may be a very troublesome machine.. 'sjjjk "Vexed?" said Mr. Marischal "not half facing the fire, I also half faced to the sight it grew fainter and vaguer, reach 13,718,000, and the Australian He is the autocrat of the table a The district court opened at Grafton, in the least." But for a moment or the door. I had not shu^b it properly^ the colors grew hazy. I rubbed my farmer does not doubt the accuracy of the lodging, of raiment and exercise. Judge Tetnpleton presiding. two he said no more, and even pretty, on coming in. I had only closed it eyes once or twice with a half idea of the computation. Moreover, His advent is the event of spoiled Mrs. Snowdon looked a little without turning the handle, and I did that my long watching was making Tames Collins was brought before the they can manage to exist where stock day. His utterances are oracular,J|| uneasy. not feel surprised when it slowly and them misty, but it was not /ty ap-and jury and indicted for the murder cannot, and even drought does not his nod Olympian. His learning i» "You shouldn't have persisted, Nina," noiselessly swung open, till it stood so. My eyes were not at fault of Moore, which was committed arrest the increase of the plague. boundless, his wit irresistible, hisf „. she whispered. right out into the room, concealing —slowly but surely Maud Bertram, Some years ago the ravages of the at Minto on last Fourth of July goodness not to be disputed. He*0?%5| Mr. Marischal must have had unusually the actual doorway from my view. or her ghost, melted away, rabbit became so* serious that the morning. His trial will take plaee takes the responsibility of living off j|§ quick ears. He looked up and You will perhaps understand the position till all trace of her had gone. I saw State was compelled to interfere, better ii you think of the door the familiar pattern of the carpet shoulders which tremble beneath it,, next week, Attorneys C. D. O'Brien of smiled. but little has been accomplished, "I really don't mind telling you all as jost then acting like a screen to where she bad stood and the objects assumes the battle with pain, and I St. Paul and W. J. Hughes defending although Victoria vbere is to hear," he said. "At one the doorway. From" where I sat I of the room that had been hidden fights the sick man's duel for him,. Prosecuting Attorney Spencer and could not have seen anyone entering by her draperies—all again in the spends £20,000 a year in the fight, time I had a sort of dislike to mentioning He condones the cowardice of shrinking -^Gen. A. B. Ward of Grand Forks for the story,for the sake of others. the room till he or she had got beyond most commonplace „way, but she was and new South Wales £100,000. On nerves and puts them to sleep. the territory. The details would have led to its being the door itself. I glanced up, gone, quite gone. $,£ many stations 100 and 200 men are He encourages and stimulates and recognized—and it might have been half suspecting to see some one come "Then Herbert, seeing me relax my constantly employed in trapping, and Several prominent Dakota Democrats bolsters the sufferer into shapeagain. in, but there was no one the door painful. But there is no one now living intense gaze, began "to question me. I yet the rabbits continue to increase. will leave for Washington from to whom it would matter you had swung open of itself. For a told him exactly what I have told you. Large tracts of land have already Huron in the interest of the immediate know," he added turning to his sister, moment I sat on, with only the vague There is no relationship on earth, He answered, as every common-sensible oeen irreparably damaged, and even admission of South Dakota. thought passing through my mind, *I •'her husband is dead too." like this between doctor and patient. person, of course, would, that it in some cases destroyed for agricultural must shut it before I begin to write.' I Lady Denhoime shook her head. He owns me, owns at least this arm I ^Among them are Judge Spencer, was strange, bat that such things iid purposes, as an area of 400 "No," she said, "I did not hear." '^But suddenly I found my eyes he set when I was a boy, and these happen sometimes, and were classed Judge Bartlett Tripp, Gov. F. M. Ziebach, square miles on the South Australian fixing themselves on the carpet something "Yes," said her brother, "I saw his lungs, whose every wheeze and sputter by the wise under the head of 'optical Hon. E. W. Miller and Gen border, wich used to carry 35,000 had come within their range of death in the papers last year. He had delusions.' I was not well, perhaps, he recognizes as I do the voiee of Moris Taylor. Besides these, J. W. sheep, but now supports none. The married again, I believe. There is not vision, compelling their attention in he suggested. Been over working? a familiar acquaintance. The mother Shannon, editor of theHuronite, and a machanical sort of way. What Government of New South Wales has now, therefore, any reason why I Had I not better seea doctor? But who bore mn has not so intimatea was it? -fi 0 L. H. Hole will go to Washington on should not tell the story, if it will interest become so alarmed that it has offered I shook my head. I was quite well, knowledge of my peculiarities, my you,"he went on, turning to the the same errand soon. It is thought a reward of £25,000 for an effective 'Smoke,' was my first idea." 'Can and I said so. And perhaps he was penchants and antipathies no friend, the others. "And there is not very there be anything on fire?' But I right, it might be an optical delusion method of destroying the pest. If the that the presence of-these gentlemen however faithful, is so tolerant of my much to tell. Not worth making such dismissed the notion almost as soon only. I had never had any experience "universal Yankee nation" has not faults or has such an easy way of curing with other representatives of both a preamble about. It was—let me see of such things.'All as it suggested itself. The something, entirely lost its boasted ingenuity, them. He reconciles me to myself political parties, will have a good 1 —yes, it must be, jiearly fifteen years faint and shadowy, that came slowly the same,' I said,'I shall mark there would seem to be & .fine opening by a quieting powder, and start? effect and hasten the disposition ol ago." tg$ rippling' itself in, as it were, beyond Eh down the date.' for some American berajL^ *g^ me fair with the world once more.— the Dakota question "Wait a moment, Uncle Paul," said the dark wood of the opes door, was "Herbert laughed and said that was Scribner.