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. D.C. SATURDAY, MAY 80, 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. z 7 SR anitG ” f In several minutes there was another obstruc- THE NIGHT LINER. ' BATTLE OF THE PLANTS. DON;T GO awaY YET. CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY, | Written for The Evening Star. “STRANGE ABOUT WEDGEWAY ae broke ranks and chGtered ascent teat at | le Mae «Ward Lite, bat He is a Necessity | Some Curious Vegetable Diseases Prof. | No Necessity for Leaving Washington at This | A New Branch of Science That Will Predece = SuLaaves Be epeens. THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTO ¢ ase, vlog ber} im Washington. . Galloway is lnvestigating. $ Season. Great Results. An Anacostia Ghost That Mekes Its Appear- np Rc Ste goer tugged APER MEN HAVE A GOOD EX- re + z HAS BEEN SUGGESTED BY MR. THOS. ‘ance Occasionally. A DECORATION DAY STORY. : = we eink ie ie Heth ae edgoway asked: cuss for boing wp into t night. Thetr best: |S oy a sashans wana artacas cums—-rma| omssees cea eae ne me, ont 3 32-1 I ison ot thoimitheonion lastietiontnet tc | Almost eowstine orice bens bess tcldor . feared q io Wish Fou'd ask 'em what that black erow | ness often requires it, and that fact issuficient | anne ar um PLANT HOsPITaLTecaTMeNt SUMMER RESORT BoaRDING MovEE UxTH. THE | tbe Cxhibit at the Chicago fair relating to an- | Written concerning the superstition of various WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY Sieeten Be boy = M* mouth 4s all about,” said | explanation for the knowledge of the “night| Op rms parisre—nivip Proonabe WEATHER 8 NUCH WARMER TRAN 11 Has BEEX. | *bTOPOloEy the criminal should have e show. | Faces and each day gives new evidence of what . 7 = liner” or “‘night hawk” possessed by a writer uae oe JOmS RAUBERTON. aay oe Pi eee Hy Pag Sten, ve fcreet | tor Tax Stas. F. GALLOWAY, CHIEF OF THE DI-|/VHE “LADY OF THE HOUSE’ WAS = i died when you left—died of grief, sure as| In the first place, for the benefit of the un- vision of vegetable pathology in the De- In tho Paris exposition of 1889 this interesting | *trange, even absurd, things persons will be development of humanity was given aconspicu- | led to believe. Often these tales have a certain reading letter and as she read she made | ous place. Thecriminal at present is receiving | Weirdness about them that makes them fascinat- ra oe ‘One of the boys stuffed him and | initiated, it must be premised that » night partment of Agriculture, so Stan reporter | comments. greater attention at the hands of philosophers | ing, but when the story is localized and the (Copyrteht.} F pt him, thinkin’ you'd turn up some time and | liner is a hack that Toams the street at night in | was informed yesterday, expects shortly to re-| “‘Yes, this seems to be the very place. We than has ever been accorded to the type, which | characters are familiar then there is added in- THENEVER CONVERSATION CHANCED ore pd pin pak esdens search of belated waytarers and carries them | ceive from India an assortment of coffee plants | can have the front rooms. There's © fine | may be said to represent an enemy in the very | terest attached to the story. “It was only a few to languish in any group of the members member, and as you wasn’t there we put ‘the wherever they want to go for s pecuniary con- | affected by what is known in that country as | peach orchard. Yes, and only five min- | body of society, and therefore well worthy of | days ago that the writer listened to the fotlow- of the —th volunteers during the last year of | “ * ze-| crow ons stad, fastened your medil to his| sideration. These hacks are of every de-| the ‘‘coffee disease.” This trouble causes | utes from the station. That's the very thing. | notice, just as a dangerous tumor—for, like the | ing quaint account of the recent appearance the late unpleasantness some one was sure to 5 a foo peep alongside of | scription and variety, from a hansom or|s loss of $10,000,000 yearly, and no means | There is boating and fishing for you, Hénry, | tumor, the criminal is a morbid growth—would | of a ghost in the quict little town of Anacostia. reach i “ ” a in ‘ers 5 boiorn ALC in the crow answers | “e™dic to ® coupe or “kerridge,” but they | have yet been discovered for contending | and a tennis court, too, and—,” but hero her | deserve interested and even anxious study done heerd about der ghos’, name the : “Btcange about Wellgoway:” : bs ‘Here’ an’ drops the staff. Now, though, say, | *!! possess this point in common, that they | successfully against it. It is hoped by the countenance fell and she added despairtngly: der city. It's der traf, sure “ . s - @ heap of ‘citement "bout it ap a al in the afirme- for Wedgeway's | ere invariably old, shabby and dissipated | authorities who send the plants to Prof.| “It is the old story. They won't take any| “Criminology” is the approved word for this yor. Has anyboly ened dor apertt? Sow, daw sande, “exalts resigns = = evws¥™"| looking. ‘There ia an antiquated minstrel joke, | Galloway thet he ‘will bev able “to Sed children!” new science. Although the latter has sprung | Fou go's makin’ fun of ine, conse vst ghor’ ee palegehe eset cageahaal hid well: i t so old that its whiskers are gray, so to speak, | out some way in which the trouble may be| “Oh, doit lot that interfere, my dear, if the | so recently into being it already embraces twe | ain't "so laughin’ mattah. Wh: je ol” ! jonel = mundi which will bear repetition, because of the “ap- | overcome. The specimens will be shipped in | place is otherwise satisfactory,” eagd Henry. schools with very opposite opinions, the ques- | man has been a comin’ back y Scam ts eaae ecnagana tata aot forward, accom Plication on it,” as Jack Bunsby would say. It] boxes with glass covers, such as are expressly | “Nonsense!” eaid his wife; “you know we | tion at issue being whether criminals are born cong mos ays foo BE cial yet sasegained Tankof “flower of the regi- relates tos man who took « night liner, and | made for the purpose, with provision for main- | are going away simply because of the children. |or made. ‘The Italian philosophers are the - ois der dark, an’ when he comes round now, ° tice is. to be | having been fastened in by means of adoor | taining » condition of moisture inside. Upon | Yet, nobody seems to be willing to board them. principal advocates of the that | white and ghosty, it’s fearful. Now, dar w: mt.” He was a thorough soldier and a com- a Just a au officer; be was also the best of good fel- Scheer © colonel’s reply. | ““Thefellow is | which no human being except the driver | receiving them Prof. Galloway will set aside »| What can we do?” these ber of the: a the unfortunates 7 noo gd ‘ crowd of fellers out dar orfe night, all « sittin’ I member of the post already; that | could open after it hed been cl with an equipment of potent -|on der porch, talkin’ an’ laughin’ lik in bving bn words at Geode for eer Mica eetPa ec | oa dengan i nag [ween | Eye monn to ar | ete ie t,o Fst Sty sy expec who : : ‘pubteutens Med. Mvaen an tails teauee guaint ,Droop that crow!” said the commander. | so dilapidated that in rattling across the street | To FIND OUT WHAT CAUSES THE DISEASE. It is needless to follow the dialogue further, | bad by heredity is unable to control his or her | of ‘eb It untn't “ane The 4 that he could not bear to seo even an ° ‘" order was obeyed. ‘he medal was de-| car track the whole bottom out. bat ne for it can be readily understood that the lady | impulse to do wrong; be-or she falle naturally | jes looked an’ looked, an’ then it gun’ ter walk rsp tached. The colonel whispered to the com-| senger's cries to stop were misinterpreted a reat necessary wil be to find oot | was vexed and that her husband had finished | and unconteollebit inte eet Gove. ey, | up an’ down der po'ch, like es der ol” man used animal suffer; why, he had evea nursed @ the glass | mander, who nodded his head. Then the colo- | a request to drive faster, and the poor wretch | Precisely what enemy is attacking the coffee | his breakfast and made haste to go to his office. | the Prisons are gorged with pereons whose mis- | ter do. Der young men were pow ful frightened, ia akin Chae teal Galion’ aad: a Sand a nel had the fifers and drummers face about | had to run all the way over to Georgetown in- | Plants and causing their disease. To do this Dor’? 60. chievous performances are not to be referred | an’ at fust dey didn’ move, but when dat xpook shabby bird with one white feather in its wing, | become of it? Broken, probably, and its | and he whispered to the color bearor. As the | side of the hack’ ‘This ra ected eee 3 may be remerered reg lloway will take «scrap of one of the! Now, the first piece of advice that should be pep y Neclgeedr ad fank co to the senghts | ome toward ‘em dey went like acoon ‘fore der Gear ‘i learly that after- | fragments thrown among the camp rubbish, in | Commander pinn eo me upon the breast | merely an ex: rated illustration of the rot leaves and chop it up in @ saucer ¢ tess of their ancestors. According no- | dogs. No, dey didn’ stay feat gi heel ‘Woletoa'e can: | Doping vith has au deecassrutt onsen: of the honorary member the music. shricked | condivion of the svestae sieee ne of distilled ‘water. Then he. will take a | SiTen to those who are already contemplating | tion vice and mes Propagate their kind in the | goin’, dey jes went. Dey der during the march and in battle. hilo little ‘Phil’ took. bis lessons to and rattled a salute, the flag droorea, Wedge- ‘some inves Oo abaeeana: Grop of the water, which has thus be-| leaving Washington for the country is simply | world, and the doctrine of original sin finds | an’ one of “em skinned der whole of As for his soldicrly qualities, he was the only | heartso rapidly that Decoration day was al- | Way seized the sacred rags with both hands and nore, i 1 certain sort of illustration. & rootin’ long der groun’ tryin’ ter bide bis head \t i Slowly they prowl along near the curbstone, | ©°Me filled with the germs of the complaint, | this—don't go. What do you want to go away ng der g: ee “ studied | ways looked forward to by him, and he saved | Pressed them to his lips. of {9nd will let it fall into a tube contain-| for? Will you find the cram; juarters of a | Tom der sight of der ghos’. Does i bilieve im pa eckeghae cageasend ore: [hin ova panaien te uy Sowers to throw among |. “What shall wo do with the crow, now that | %@rching for belated parties of mon and then “4 ty a | ing s small quantity of gelatine that has been | summer boarding house or hotel as comfort- On th tions; bis regiment had always part of a | those that were massed around the statuesof Lin- | he can’t act as substitute any more?” asked the | When they find one they make tempting offers | sterilized bt boiling. The germs will feed | able as you have in town? Not by a great deal. makin other hand, the French school argues large army, where the officers did not see any | coln and Washington and at the tomb of Grant | bearer. of cheap transportation, and the driver some- | pon the gelatine and rapidly multiply, so that | Here you can roam about from room to room, | that there is nothing in heredity which the in- WHO CAN SEE GHOSTS. senso in studying more than waa required of | —a tour of these American shri made | _ “Put him where he belongs,” said Wedgeway, | times forgets arrangement that was made | he will have quite a good-sized patch of them|can open all the doors in the house and | dividual is not able to control; that it is hie “Course, ‘tain't all der common trash of aie them by their daily duties: to see that their | by him and hisfather in the early stroking the bird’s glossy plumage. The boys | when the journey is finished. Men who are | within —o hours. Meanwhile he will | get more currents of air than are good for you. | duty to control it and in his power; further- ‘ men were thoroughly fed in camp and on | whenever the calendar brought in ‘the flower | Understood him; wit 5 r ; inw moment the wires binding | ‘‘on a bat” are apt to be generous. The only | have 'n in a section by themselves s num- | You can do what you choose, in fact, instead of | more, that his cri inal tend ly the | Worl’ dat can see der ghosies. It's only der the march and were kept up to their | feast of the loyal dead. ‘Then father and son | the bird's feet to the pole were loosed and thes eels ‘spend | ber of healthy coffee plesa/and thas herwiltl betag imprisoned within the four walls of an oy mecwnice hedge wf Icky ones dat bas cord ober dere eye. result of education or ding inf work in. the field was as much’ ss they, the | would find saan’ shrough the lett shoulder of Wedgeway’s | money is the fact that they haven't got any. | inoculate by rubbing upon their leaves some of | ili-ventilgted closet set user foneteey costars | reat fafancy upward MOAR rice best ter goa doubtin’ too much "bees ike most of the line in other Union | of the procession and raise their hats as each | Coat; in another moment the bird was securely | But ‘the general disposition is to hang | the germs thus propagated. If thereupon the | and obliged to keep the stringent —— The distinguished Prof. Lombroso of Italy | dem tings, ‘case a pusson's like ter meet der armies, felt called to do, but Wedgeway | stand of colors or battered flagstaff passed | fastened in his old place. Again an aid dashed expense. Yor this reason the night liner's | Coffee disease is reproduced he will have dis- or j fimo is- | that emanate from your landlord ndlady, | states his proposition thus: ain't a expec'in of it. Wh: seemed determined to know it all and the boys | th Conn trade is not such s bad one from a| covered the foe sought and it will only remain | as the case may be. ‘on 5 4 “As the anatomist will find in the human | war» man who seed der ghds'es right along.an" admired him for it while they declined to fol-| On Decoration day, however, Post doesn't stop obstructing the | pecuniary point of view, but it must be » hard | to find out the life history of the destroyer! Don’t go away until you have got to,ard then | body traces of organs that are useless or dan- ; be tol’ hi low hisexample. He frequently was detailed | the avenue too late to find good positions. | line of march,” said he, “it will be ordered out Fite to drive one of these hacks. All night long oye ‘iew to learning what means had best | only stay as long as may be absolutely neces- | gerons. so the antropol it or the psycholo- | cussed a: - for tem| staff and special duty, Wedgeway had been so interested in showing | of column.” it is one successive battle with refractory pas- taken for combating it. There is no doubt | sary—that is to say, if you are a person of ordi- gt finds in the soci bear an instinct which | Der man stood it jes long ss ever he could, was invaluable in court-martial—all this while | the boy where the British and Americans hads| ‘‘Order and be hanged!” roared Big Stikes, | sengers. Sometimes, too, a drunken man is | that the encmy is some sort of fungus, allied | nary means and can afford to keep up but one | belongs to and was received from his ancestor, |n’ den he says ter his brudder, he sa fight on Manhattan Island that when they | while the commander hastily shouted, ‘For-| put into night liner by his friends aud tho | to wheat rust, but there exists about fifty | establishment. Of course this doesn’t apply to | « savage of primitive times; that a criminal was | ‘I show yer der ghor'es.’ An’ his brudder, wher reached the route of the procession there was | Ward—march.” Stikes continued, “You'll love | dircctions aro given to drive him to a certain | thousand different kinds of parasitic f that | bloated bondholders who have acountry seatas |= man born so and was from his infancy with- | eager like, he come out an’ say in a big voice, the list to fill the first vacancy in the le | no room except against the curbstone. Wedge- | the biggest attraction in the show if you get and when the destination is reached | Prey upon plants, so that there is le | well asa townhouse. For them there is no real | out moral sense. he say: ‘Show me der ghos' above none of his comrades felt jealous. When i awhile for position and finaily | Tid of us.” . ” An’ der way E poor cabby finds that his passenger has | room for selection. goingaway. They merely movefromone houseto| Possibly the future will de school that | he say: “Put you lef foot on myright foot an’ i Capt. Boone was shot dead during « skirmish, | found a place where he could lean against ony the procession started and again it | entirely collapsed and he has a man who is hos'es? When dar'ssuch a cinr’ case as dat, ain't nuffin’ ter do but b'liove it. A DISRASE OF OATS. another. But they are not asfortunateas poorer | will try to combine the two ‘above | put my lef foot on you right foot, den you it was supposed that his would be given |@ lamp post so that little Phil could lean = the survivors of the —th broke | dead drank on his hands. Nothing will rouso A new disease has recently attacked the oats | People are apt to think them. The country | described into a working method. ok ober my lef’ shoulder, you see der ghor'es to Malastre: the fiery little adjutant, who had | against him and npt grow weary while seeing | Tanks and unloaded additional questions und | him. What is to be done with him? “To. cin ponplccen sent grows tiresome,and then they must put up Sas ania an’ der gobbelins. He looked as his brudder been specially trained abroad in the art of war, everything. | They were just in time, for from | information on their old comrado, thé colonel | the bell and wake up the household and ban Comntrr, so that last year the crop was| with the same discomforts as other people ‘and who Wedgeway himself said knew the busi- | up fe i euhibis ‘coberved to inak don’ tol him, an’ he fell ober back like as he helene, ihe Fumble and thump of | bringing a glad flush into the honorary mem- | him in as though ho were a barrel of flour and | largely a failure everywhere east of the Miv-| undergo if they travel. Furthermore, they : cinded numerous models | war dead. ‘Tree weeks affer dat dey done ness better than half the brigadiers | drums, the shriek of fifes and the blare of brass | ber’s face by saying, in the most matter-of- | then to ack fox Payment from the man’s wife is | sissippi river. In Pennsylvania and New York | feel bound to go to this country place ‘every | and casts of criminals’ skulls and brains, some | buried him. Yer see, miss, it don't do no good i the yneral’s. i rather embarrassing even for a cabt and so | it was almost a total loss, and the production | summer, whether they wish to do so or not, | in wax and others in plaster. Some represented | ter be alius a wantin’ ter know everything. jedgeway | st “Oh, Wedgeway, I must tell you before I| he generally drives around with his elpless | of this grain was less than for many years, | whereas Poorer people can board in Maine one | their faces before and after execution. Also | HOW THE SPOOK MAKES ITS PRESENCE KNOWN. for the place and Malastre was the first to con- illuminat forget it that just before you left I had recom- | burden until he can bring him to and make | although the acreage -planted was greater |summec and in Virginia the next if the; there were casts of the hands of many in-| «{ clar fer goodness, honey, it's all der truf, gratulate him when his commission arrived. As the thi mended you to the governor for promotion to | him understand what is expected of him. than ever before. mn the plants were | choose. dividuals. One series began with the hand of rs to his patriotism. he could recite the whole | police il the rank of major; our major, you'll remem- ALWAYS TROUBLE WITH THE FARE. from four to six inches high their CAN'T TELL BY CORRESPONDENCE. Declaration of Independence as easily as the | ing Wedgeway scrutinize each company line, | ber, was ‘woubled a ery wad of it, an’ if der ol’ man had « done the giant Kalmuck and endéd with that of Gen. | &” 5 great deal by an ola woun * leaves turned red and died; no head was formed Tom Thumb. M. Vinson ted | gone an’ stopped dar, yer migh’ be s'picious. chaplain could repeat a verse of Scripture. front and rear, would have wondered whether | and ‘Ab you dkin't return, al-| Really it is hard to think of any man who has re But what s quantity of correspondence the | Tom Thum! omy A grey neato resign. s and no,seed developed usually. Thus it hay series of caste of the ear. One taking a cursory | Dar wan’ no one 6’ asecin’ of bim it was, then. that so fine a fellow, | the fellow imagined himeelf the reviewing off-| though I waited along time for you, I had to | ® harder life than a cabman. Everybody seems Pens that the market price of oats at peeoent People who go about boarding in summer have | vim os font of the casily believe’ that ail | back der firs time, wie beaebee *o mean and one with such brilliant prospects, should ger. Then came the posts of the Grand Army | fill the vacancy with some one else, but I was so | to think he must necessarily be intending an | is about twice what it is ordinarily, which | 0 go through with. And, afterall, it isa mere human ears were different, except those that | like ter all his "Iations. and der sperit whatdon’ have disgraced himself so terribly. Why. al- | in loose order, as when they tramped southern | sure that you were innocent and everything overcharge. He is always to be disputed with, | is very hard upon the horses as well | experiment, when they finally buy their tickets belong to the same head. die in peace, is a goin’ ter turn ober once ‘n'a ready he had been recommended, unknown to | roads at “route step,” none of them looking or | would be made clear in the course of fianee wee always to be threatened and sometimes he is | upon their owners. Farmers in varigus states | for a certain place, which the correspondence = While. So arter two or tree days dat spook jes any one but the colonel and adjutant, for the| acting like soldiers, though some wore | I retained the commission. It would have been even arrested. Whatever you give him, | have appealed to the Dopartment of Agri-|has convinced them must be everything ‘WHAT MIORT RESULT. @ comes back, an’ it rattles der doors an shakes position of major, the incumbent's resignation, decorations and others lisplayed Of no use to You, of course, except to show | unless you have had » distinet under- | culture for help, and an investigation has teen | that ‘the Ment can desire. When they ar-| Such was likewise shown to be the case with | der winders,ascarrin’ all der people in der house. om account of trouble from an old wound, hav- | empty sleeves or carried crutches. W: igeway | you how highly you were esteemed y your re- | standing before you entered his hack, he asks | made which has brought about the discovery | rive at their destination everything may be | other features, which in the future may afford | Allus mean like, didn’ grow no better for bein’ ing gone north at the same time. Yet when it | knew some of them by sight; he had learned | gimental commander and your governor. for more, and whatever he charges you | that the complaint in this case is caused not by | wrong, and then more correspondence takes | to the student of such matters illustrations of | dead. But der ol’ man wax never like oder ‘was learned at department headquarters that | much abows saan ee Tee en seas | Simental erode anes Waigeway. “You | you declare is too much. Both of you mest ou | fungus but by bacteria. Until quite lately | placesud the whole family motes oe te trove, character upon which reckonit be based | Pustons. One day a man says, “Why don’ yer ines fo the cuemy certain atticlos conteeberd | cendoe and he hurriedly pointed out one after | know how a soldier feels. “You'll send it to me | terme of aggression, You aro convinced of the | it was not know? that’ bacterts trae ete | ace Fince, ihere is no way of finding out | with an accuracy now undreamed of, Men acd | A¥ like ea a white man; why don’ yer sell lines to the enemy certain articles contraband | another to little Phil, telling who they were, | when you reach home?”" intention of the cabman to cheat you and Plants, but Profs Galloway has made some | about the summer resort except by actually | women may sclect their mates for amserians | 80me of dis propity, an’ den buil’ a fine man- of war, among which were large quantities of | and occasionally looking up the en may se! mates format avenue towee | Once more the column moved and remained | is convinced that you don't intend to Xery interesting cultures on gelatine of | going to sion dar in der forks, so's ter be like der fine Percussion caps, and a search was suddenly | who or what might be coming next that the | in motion until the street was reached where | kim iis just dues.” This life of Te ,aviety, responsible in this mstance. | "A gentleman in Washington once went down | jitt infinitely more, assurance of satistaction | How tar in Wet forks. so'e ter, not ter pick der made one day of the effects of every one on should know about. the ost and that whose guest it was were to|and contention is always for any cabmany In fact the tissues of the oat leaves were |to the railroad depot to ascertain when the Sebte por = gm ; | of pieces of iron an’ pay per, jes ter make « bit certain portion of the line « few imiles above| During one of these glanceshe saw ithdraw. but for the night liner it is ten times | found to be actually swarming with these| trains left for the place his wife and chil beneath the cashier's Sunday school demeanor | Of money.’ But der ol’ man be ays, “I'se New Orleans, nearly 100,000 percussion caps | thicket of old colors and flagstaff rained iagewar," said the post commander, who | worse, for both sides are less careful of | minute organisms, which bored into them and | dren were about todeae fon Wie ay we | anappetite for the depositors’ cash. The pro- | *luss lived die way, an’ I'se « heap happier. ‘were found in a box under the in Wedge- | his eye to learn at the earliest had disappeared an instant during the last halt, | their language and less mindful of the con-| ate them up. Theory in the matter was re- | the result of his investigation to his Detter half sen ay father-in-law willlearn by tweaking the BOW THE POLICEMAN Was FRIGHTEXED. way's tent. p what they might be, but wit minute or | “we're to be dined, immediately after breaking | sequences of a row than they are in the day | duced to certainty by experiment in the green- | she serenely inquired: if “4 Wedgeway was violently agitated and ssid|two some obstruction caused the column to tanks, by our hosts. I've made arrangements | time. ‘The only consolation that the night | house hospital. that be did not put them there and could not | halt. Suddenly some one who, by the sound | for a place at table for you.” liner has is derived from the good nature which To DEsTnor imagine who ani. As for Malastre, the ad-|of his voi med a foo: or two of} ‘“Iwas very thoughtful of you, ci wales! in,” | is usually a characteristic of drunken men. If futant, he shed tears in his indignation and said the reconstructed soldier, “but I sha'n't be | you offer a night liner his choice between a| _OTdinarily, where fungi are concerned, it is romised to kill the guilty party when he was se happy ast can until Leach home and tell | sober fare or @ drunken fare at 2 o'clock in | Practicable to destroy them by spraying with Riscovered—kill him’ twice once to Pon | rep ane? sbout Wedgeway, indeed,” was the | my wile. She’s been euffering with me for the | the morning he would probably choose the | Solutions of sulphate of copper and other mix- the first baby can be clapped into jail as soon | he hitches his horse ter der ol’ trofand goes ‘cross him wept ge aid and comfort to the reph past ten or twelve years.” drunken fare asthe more remunerative and | tures, but in this instance such @ method of | be expected to be an adviser to private femi- rd a ly. i der road ter lean against der fence while be ' enemy afterward for selecting Wedge- ‘edgeway felt as if turned to stone; he al- lurry home and tell her; then come to us,” | less obstreperous of the two. treatment was not applicable, because it is not | lies going into the country fo Stowtap tasked setae Estee ine apn aee Ni way, the soul of honor and patriotism, as a| ways wore a felt hat closely resembling the | said Big Stikes. Wedgeway laughed and shook e serene aural appendage of the candidate for his | “Is datderen’ of der ghos' story? Why, of speitwar at the depot say what sort daughters han how much the girl and not her | mise, der bes’ part ain'ts been started yet. 4“ ee money is ; the cl ry ascertain Ne, Inever gsked him,” said the husband, | Dy the cock of hey chorget eres Dae eeerti® | Only der oder day der limb of der law what ut, you see, he might have known,” said E | rides up dis way at night he comes up ter der 4 the wife. ix Jed ede ye a ot ety ttt fie She was very absurd. No ticket agent can 4 li zi gountry for the summer, | 'iconing toward crime. In chert rests. No, he couldn’ get no beer at dat time « rete : at it would, never ‘@ great - night, an’ I don’ wan’ yer ainterrupin scapegoat. The staff officer who had been sent | regulation pattern, but it was only by tre. | his head as he replied: Wau ot ksceesl caaun: Poa old: Se cate nak’ herarinS SPPArats | ir there wers some person, whotoul give the a ee ee ; | meaty mors. All of a tuddent be looks chews out to conduct the search was just as dous effort that on this occasion he raised | “She isn't that kind, old man.” eek ae EA Dak | lm SUM | ot Gila a: the: dxponse_ Of the |r ere Tere ee ple ne BE eg mnt ery oh tog as sorry, | mendous effort that on this occasion hi “She isn’t that kind, old man.’ . the old hacks about the streets at night? Well, | freatmen: ‘would "bo too’ great aay: wen, Points on the subject. restraining influence of “public opinion wee rt though not so demonstrative; he ordered | his hand to draw the brim over his eyes| “Give me your sddvew Wedgoway,” sald the It was found that the sced produced ia ONILDRES THE GREATEST DIFFICULTY. keep every one good. SS a a Wedgeway underarrest, and hadaseutry posted | as he dropped his head. Poor fellow. |coloucl, taking tables and Erpell from his [ae & general thing, they aro » prety shabby | iby Latected distin man gorse TERS ban | Pe gRNDRES THE ouxatea wep nig porch. He only ge’s joea sight of him, soho goes a eeet ith instructions toshoothism should | How was he to have known that | pocket; “so lean send you that commesin® | lot. They walk as slowly as mails, They stand | teria, and it is feared that the planting of ecole gions : Figen at ober ter make a careful perusal of der premi- he attempt to escape. General ead eoten ames for a gallant | You know. Thank you. Now go put that good | still ike rocks and go fast asleep. ‘They have no | feritz,,tua, it, is feared bringing up a diseased | 00° Previously alluded to, i.e., the children. | SENATOR JONES HIKES A MAMD. | sex. Ai der fence he stops an anke "What yer coon the sstoniahing g news made ite way | general | and. best known by the general's nick- woman out of her inisery: i ey and they have lost all self-respect. Still, | crop on the gee Year. | Therefore nie" | People who are blessed with several growing, i er & an! ober seer, Bat der figger didn m bay we te in- | name—the *] * — ye, boys,” said Wedgeway, shale: ® fare comes along they y » i uy ‘The Man Believer in Short tion, wen’ r formally on detective duty in’ each company. P j- | hands all around; “you'll forgive "mo for hur | heft cars and do tier “best, There “fe |oae®,Tecommended that farmers shall procure | children @ud the doors of many desiesbte ‘Hours oats: i +r tor rascal who put up that Lives Up te His Belief. ‘From the Ohicago Hersid. : , all thelr seed vats from boarding houses and hotels closed fo them. : hat job on Wedgewsy delegation Fring, I know, if’ you'll put yourselves in my | an undersianding “between the driver aud the iy Sg What al thoy going to Goaneat teh tee pats Tus not soon discovered it would ‘be ‘because | of « city post place's moment. 5 : They don't like 0 be out alt night; |fas not yet appeared. “With this precaution | send the young folks te ove neva to} ‘Senator Jdace acalenii there’ was v0 brains i fallen jure cheers for Wedgeway'" shouted Big | they hate the company hey meet, but thoy | it is. Roped’ that.” the misfortune mon | another the gives ible money to offender knew nothing of ull this. Stikes, as father and son hurried awas. | know it is neceseary in order to get a living be avoided, but it is not yet known how the suggested. They can’t | the needy, ‘but he can't be fooled. He had a on = camp chair and studied the edgeway have be- | Wedgeway stopped and raised his hat. As for | so they do it without much grumbling under rer ill work. Meantime trial is being | leave them at home. The truth of the matter | been talking politics in the Richelieu for a case—tried to imagine how’ it would | come : little Phil, he not only raised his, but joined in | the circumstances, sore ove ape di ap Dl ad bo heen ep at all, in many cases, | couple of hours yesterday afternoon and started look fo im ihe were a member of Court , ihscheering, If other people could cheers | To drag a night iver about the a fet of beasta, | BOwital according to various methags of treat-| if it were not on the children's account. "Ths | out fore welky Ae le ceechen me ne rome shoal man, father saw no reason wi e shoul "t do it ‘inly a terril lor not beasts. Some is The property found in his possession was con. ind | to, as be explained to his mother that night, "| New-of the neople whe, teator iets beat, | ment. ered so sroegnt thet the dis- | consequence is that they go where they can, | fessional beggar, approaching with bowed bead, of war—shockingly so; there was| get away, but the humar wall was solid. ‘There aid: ease “was rendered eo greatly destructive by | and not where they would choose to go. the small houre of the night and utter male- | 202,77 : ae enough of it to last two regiments through two | was a.slight movement among the veterans in | wets OK eaeeray & full hour to tell the | the small hours of the night and u poe cg royce i ema glo te “Please, sir, help a deserving cause." I don't care for money; work is what I'm after. I've rs where were of the 4 hi Shole glorious story to his wife, though she | dictions against the slow pace of the horse that | opinion thet it was aggravated by drought. 80 | not understood by fathers and mothers, but or three days of fighting; it was not of a make | front of him, and W. ray trembled, but it i Ys re yulls ths ver reflect that perhaps that horse used in the Union army and he coud give no | seemed to be only = feats groupe for | rene eraet women in Now York trom the | pulls then e Teen ! some of the experimental oats are being 01 le who are so unfortunate as to have no moment he began. Little Phil listened to it | Wa# ® millionaire’s trotter or carriage horse | watered and othe te cenit £ i ers starved for water to sce if | little folks in their households can get alot = 4 ibie how he ins moment, which seemed an hour, another | all with eyes and mouth wide open uni felt | once; that he stepped high and. swift ther bas anything to do with the mattce. without other people's children about them uf | eR nothing since yesterday, in homes t 2 | voice was heard to say: ce himself growing when he comprehended that boulevard and summer resorts. Very fe work now in preference to money. der port af tnd een going | ‘-What are you fellows chinning about?” his own father had really been one of the sol- THE HOSPITAL WARDS. thinking of “going on leave “You would never get so lowas to work, | cer Dilieve of the line; it “Oh, not Fon rere only remarking that | diers whom he had been so carefully taught to | le upon and fond hands to caress him, untilhe| Of course itis necessary that the wardsin 008 tty for them at in- | would you?” asked the Senator. in come begun through @ quiet order that had come it was strange about Wedgeway. admire. Suddenly the wife arose from her | Went to pieces and was sold at auction toa liv- | Prof, Galloway's hospital for plants shall be ood enough for anybody of taste; | ‘*A chance is all I ask, sir. I've been to every | © from Washington that an: PEE, STowled the inquirer. “Wouldn't | husband’s knee und took from a trunk some. | ery stable keeper, from whose hands he passed carefully separated from each other, in order they do go away thos would de wal | store in Cbicege ead fos nothing.” be allowed to enter the a I like to get s grip on that same Wedgeway just | thing in a frame which the child remembered, | into the ignoble occupation that he now plies. | ‘10% i104 shall not be a ee to look out for the little pitchers that have| ‘What would you do?” Prejudice to good order One: i never was so mad about anything in | though he had not seen it since he learned to | The fall of Beau Brummel, the pet of royalty and Pratlcetaganpelere tongs gonvered. from one t ears and that tell other people what they nything that's honest, sir. Would lessen the probability o my life. It grows harder to think of him with | ou! Again the commission was hung in its | the nobility, fro1 high Position of leader | division {0 another. The object being to | fear. ‘ou may be a true bill after all, and I'll give g disagreeable. Spies had reported ‘ang patience as time goes on.” old place; the child climbed upon a chair and | of the dudes of his time to a miserable poverty- | Study one complaint at a time, the pur- ae oak youachance. I'll give you 50 cents an hour to that gray cloth. quinine and other articles con- pat torture | To make it worse little Phil | spelled it out; then he turned around, raised | stricken mendicant, is a. fitting ‘parallel |Po% in view would be * interfered with sprees Gre eae toast ‘work for me. traband of war were getting through the lines, | had heard it and was frightened. He was lean- bis right hand in air and shouted, ‘Hurrah for | to the downfall of the sleek, petted roadster | %Y the communication indiscriminate | About the going away time what a miserable m cai i : “Thank you, sir, for saving Against his father and trembling violently. | Wedgeway!” His mother laughed gaily and | into the miserable, jaded, wretched beust that | (iseases. So the greenhouse is partitioned superfluity in the family arrangements the man | two days tor thet? ene MY Hite. TU work Wedgeway bent lower and bravely and ten- | assisted at the hurrahs, while the father cried | pulls the nightli Do horses think? Beau | off, Keeping each sot of vegetable patients by | of the house appears to be. The place is| Senator Jones told the fellow to walk along and derly lied: Uke baby. ‘Then Slrs. Wedgeway brought to | Brammel in his squalid attic used to imagine | themselves. One group in various progressive chosen without regard to him, He i he would find him something “Bont be scared, Little chay Those men | light the old photograph of er husband as n himself in the worid of fashion, entertaining Gn wd parece malay Beh gp ca et in town cll crmman be be belnan ‘yr oe tay | politician from Nevada does are talking about some other Wedge 'm a in little hi . the nobili Ye onec-pampe: nag a - ~gil Z iy ane not the only man of the name: this bee father waceaartvoce eetente mee in| that now supports the shafte of an old played | their accommodations beneath bell giasses, | %T¥ant, who will be left with him, to Picnic r ri i by himself as best he is able in a house where gi . He big — Brace up, now ! ten minutes with a beardless fuce and the tips | Out coupe ever make the mistake of suppos- | Sd 80 on. Usually a hospital is utilize thing has beer ; to bee walked with tramp ‘Michi- "The chlid was reassured and i Tn | ing that Pennsylvania avenue is the race track, | fF curing its sick inmates, but. in this one | Oeste ee ra en put away; to beconstantly i J sso athe Veterane and wa he pictures ‘Then It wan ig wites teen tere | nid fia the eavelone Lond of humanity et'ns | the. Featfout phyeictan ‘makes it''aie "pont | bilden. to buy "and ‘end by mall one is | gan avenue, and it was woe. the Sino-looking i juddenly he sh 1 to er ° in-| Ress to render lis victims sick artifi- | Country feminine articles of apparel. Of course | ‘Tians turned around to see 2 Ta ehararter would | something. S After supper the .siory- was told agnin, with | Crags thong ts proud of him cx takes any. 1s. | Sitiy, and when they ais be burns their corpses, | he makes terrible biunders. "Did any man Hlacrison strcnt concoking companion. | Near in the eld. Had not Bonecict Arrold been th a whi Ing. Little Phil war again an intel ate” | ism well-known fact that they. have extraor- | it he threw out the defunct they would be neve | ever Know It ie utterly Incomprene pie | tty of old. timber. Senator Jenn eeadean of the bravest and niovt usefus soldiers i= aitiough bie ural bedtime had Tong paned: | Gitery Memoric, and the memorien of thon |B! ropagat. the, toute wich caused | man © cravat? sentior sex that thee busbar | fF tod to hires new man. ‘When i do that for Suddenly he eprang up and exclaimed: that prowl the streets at midnight must be re- rambet | cad beothece Ghamid give @ seater t he the Senator said he would that he was in for di A black crow with a white feather? Wedge- | SUddenly he sprang up and exclaimed: positories of many bitter regrets and disap- | Of agents in various sections of the country de- | and brothe Saitter ae Mette | ted chance to bave a 7 i “Soldier: Vote their attention entirely to traveling about | When they are so little different from thecravats epee toleve prt wr ae —_ that he forgot his fear and! “Only some of the boys going home, little | Pointments. a and collecting specimens of plants suffering | that are already tied which seli for a quarter | the man work and earn his money. looks of his old comrades. At | crow a heavy hand was laid byt "said the father, as the youngster threw THE MACKS MAY HAVE HISTORIES. from sil gorta of pla te fo8 | Yet the women whoare in the country get cross | Under these circumstances the foreman was . ¢ f physical derangements for b to get a new man for nothing, and the fel- dead of night he slit the back of his tent, | cam staod before him ‘hom he recognized = rehigeeegab = Peter eres eset rch sending to a = lloway. Pagine raffing waa eoecity makes mistakes in fow lished in to, work apy Ay cht mt Big Stikes, sergear je company ay,” said the child, 4 ing ash : ORMER TIMES Nevertholess, ladies, when you do now and then to thank his benefactor for which he had first enlisted, and » deep voice writhdrawing his head an natant; “they've just probed des peer egies pa pecan it was imagined that plant blights and mildews | this summer you may reflect diet Go Bo ro ee en ne setae chons \ ane pone snpene . eon t t . leave behind you sometimes tonsele thensnizcn | five minutes when a gaady tally-he meine toa fore the dwpatah announcing his dinappeurance. tor Ngdewar! By the piper that played be-| °° Sade Auta" poled ie the gyetent enlle in Wasbingtonin times gone alec z Sito Tass ecco: | iets. peetiy doegreation tenets all day | 326, down the boulevard. | The Senator railway train special guards fore Moses! Bos ‘ y. Poss ette rode in it and Montoe food. g Y 3 P . aside look at Shore lays fo examine the passes of officersas| In an instant the poor fellow was dragged to | Gums While Mrs. Wedgeway told her husband cia Burne and the gaillant | teries, in fact, into which it was hopeless if not | Sat 32% may enjoy yourselves, or think you was turned ‘the tammp Jamped - 4 i didn’t believe that child would sleep a | 284 before him a are enjoying yourseives, for, back was turned the tramp jamped well us soldiers, but Wedgeway had the good | the f the I Phi esis J P Van Ness. ye i i jit sjoying 3 selves, for, as a matter of ‘ Sextune to have jase Pm iose he ae —_ =. ae oS a aa at i wink that night, and the father said that he | ¥°Ung Van Ness. The subject is too vast. Anybody actually impious to inquire. It is only fact, you would be Zar better off if yon stayed | #2 r 2 - " didu’t believe that he himself would, either. | Ca" conjecture easily enough the history of the | within twenty-five years that has home, but there are mitigati. ‘the escaped from iste. bad notoue ageing Groupe | MOE Tanta Haaand soul ~Otspaee anid ber any, i | Sede at tens aeate Reel | om, ald enlrena "sop fhe | hapten Wi ks amine S| hs "ends Sol aged scams ean ros oom 2 : rh Dogan a, : 1 is i , e From there he wrote a m, gad) whispered hoarsely: “Don't disgrace ame | are eT those Ligite inc big ro on eeeexe | the horses and the hacks themselves a broad | {Now Complaints which attack vegetables, | lave o' nights, if we choose. Who is to know | Be Tea oo leben in aba | t hacks it is really wonderful how much | Who is to scold us? Why should home Pofere my ron my only child, I never did | fie men carry in lection ties aor way i | Held opens for the imagination to roam over, | tea pe! ‘Sccomplished in this line of research, | at all? ‘Then there are little bachelor dineers = I bye ey who never knew*sny-| oon think is painted on the outside of Why, eer ringed ectieeaet for gael eae : considering the shortness of the period it has | down town—not bad atall, and far better than “Who said you did, you infernal fool? Wasn't | Just what some of the Grand Army fell — covered. Curiously enough, very many of the | the crowded hotel or boarding h juse dining we all there when the whole thing was cleared | day before they knew you was fancy. most valued products of the soil ior table | room, where the old women are‘talka his ( ae " cenaige ahenh en ‘ purposes are purposely raised by. farm- | all the time and ‘where everybods in fy iGleared® apt" garpel Wellgeway. “Where? “Teas woah the sitter ina mans oo as An Apology. era in a condition’ of ill Health im | pretend that "she iivea Yodo zine £0 Who?" How? "I never heard of it.” his wife. Just then the drum was silenced, | From Puck. ogg Mags fewred = be mere, agrecable style at home. some one shouted ‘Halt!’ and as windows went . 4 -xampl ese = ma looking | ‘ap all along the block the best brass bead that , be found in bleached celory, asparagus, endive game aS ES measton. ear that, boys? He | Money ‘could hire in haste e pam we a sv 4 and the forced rhubarb, with its long pink men play cards in summer, and to Rally Round the Flag-” stalkand crumpled yellow leaves. Such ab-| whether the game is whist or hearts or tiatwhy you never: lt | so. coon hla witetor capporis oek be’ ootsts ‘ normal growths would not survive if it were = of ‘you, . va peter probes Ate wl you who areaway can never kno card straighten again until themusic ceased. Three} “Y—, not for ici iment whic ny Te- is be a acquainted with « little is, the dazed man, | Cheers were given, and the voice of Big Stikes - 2 * y ceive at the hands of the agriculturist. Bf st ks prt tee yours, Bie whe Sa me not —— ne a a dearly oa — i a. “Here, Phil; lage en a Wadganes atl tink ree : - ys evening? Every evening shortly after Fied him, although he first told her ” , Wedgeway, 5 y lark the cards are produced cloud which was over bis life.” She framed his The Limping | #f You don’t want ‘us all to come pilin’ up : ts od lode wan te tain's commission, draped the national ‘chanes te there tlemen and ladies start to play whist. The Perey pond ; ; lor becomes theirs and no one else can jore about it and hung it where she could see and call him dreadfulnames, | ‘Come along!” shouted little Phil. é it, for if there is any conversation the fe cack morning a# soon as abo could open her | as is the custom of many strong men when In « minute or two the entire visiting d i pee teen Se Sema. they feel unusually affectionate. tion of Limping Tim Post was in the little flat. a pens thas those who don’t pla: wakSt years went on the cloud grew greater | “God bless vou, dear old boys!" said Wedge- | There was no room to spare, but, as the colonel driven into the halls or out on fnstead of lem Wedgeray wanted to join the way, with shaking voice and filing eves" “hat | remarked ith grim snile, they'd boen tn . : 1 Fo S7ey Then you must, but uublic and the Loyal | if you love me put me out misery. How | close quarters before. Each boys WAS ne B i soon to begin your inquiries about P Gil tt happen? Wee ae? Me Telgoway ‘what a splendid fellow ler has- - . Rew .snow on the steep slopes, and is frequent | summer resorts. Stay — ‘ae bend waa gud tough aye ind known it before, in winter or spring. The second type is a rush | the anforma\ er 60 t ; of old snow, detached by the heat of loomed like «rove, ‘Finally the Golonel called cDerbermishepd ea ero order and said: Mr. De Wrider (w! just been thrown’ o ain—exeuse me—Major Wedgeway, | “You see what Ab dog has done! ‘we've come down here for the e: purpose | has frighten: 4 a maki Mr. ter—"*Well, he axes de hoss's to ‘ot | pardon, mister. Ses? | Ho wasn't barkin’ at de ; he was barkin’ at you. Seo?” RHE a339 i A Mean Trick Somewhere, ‘From the New York Sun. Blithers bad been hanting and had. stopped “raThat ain't all,” said Big Stikes. on tho way home tohave his game bag fur- to show you off an’ we're ola alshed. . New York tries to prevent Mrs. B—Woll, John, did you shoot any- emer ; Jala (opening. bag)—"Did 1? Saat take « ,B—“Lovely! Six beautiful soft-shell ++ —____ * No Obstacle There, From the Indianapolis Journal. She—“You will ask papa, will you not; or must I?” He—“Ob, I have seen him. Factis, be made the suggestion that it wes about tins ter ase ¥0 i Fy HET ud i i f erabs.' Beer niiee eft ee F fi tl i i Hi fl i rth t