Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1894, Page 15

THN EVENING ATAR, -BATURDAY, SEPTEMBER. -20,. 1894—TWENTY. PAGES, B Hints Tht Mo Female Sh “ ” ty tq towns comprised Maasa- | does s0 ne elected commander steps floor, and the hair-cloth furniture stood at el colo: and. so out from company’s ranks and marches A A - exact and appropriate intervals, as if the RIDE OF THE HUB father rts, and on March 11, . toward the governor, The retiring com- s mourners were Just expected to take thelr ) grown S., the ‘was granted. mander rt ee ewly elected commander t places. On an open melodeon stood a This ture | pass other the middle of the « rade grounds. The commander ASG To Geis of John Winthro} the os the retiring i Friend after friend depa o Up the . ‘ol P. 1e gov or ol 1e er rt ‘pon Massachusetts colony, whi a |- | takes his place in the ranks, while the new | \. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery pois = nay, whens ao eee _ Hands of the | Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. of Boston. tom, alters ne pestge cad ah arse. | fare fut Gd emay "up by Ric peatinee: ig Gales came on high, black “What do you tive participation in the affairs of the com- poate meee ern ne omentary standstill “Flour and ‘ 4 t the beetle-browed THEIR VISIT HERE NEXT WEEK ee eee cee pe lg instances where men have held the com- d _ ‘stepped off upon the mand a number of times. c-.4 ‘wooden tive of having the officers commissioned a F Platform whlch I re A History That Covers Nearly Three reotly by the governor of Massachusetts, membered so well. A and insists on its being done by him and no few more corners of Centuries. one else. In 1790, when John Hancock was Ever Neglest. A LADYS GOOD ADVICE A Careful Explanation of the Cause of Most ef Their Trouble r, he was sick in bed, and, the boards had brok- What They Should Do. en in and a knot had dropped out, leaving though on 4 “Women are great sufferers.” oad a @ round hole, throug! “Pale, sunken-eyed maidens who gaze with re ADHERING TO OLD CUSTOMS it, the retiring x those ~ Selick Reali atnel) Git cn Gay Banae enn tee ee ak ee re agree pushed its head. Otherwise there was n0| With condensed milk. Projecting collar bones, blovdiess, haggard-look- Written for The Evening Star. change. I turned the knob of the door of| | breathed a sigh of regret that every- ing mothers, sufferers from stoiuach ! I | ! i the ladies’ waiting room. It did not yield | thing Ser = a en ae 5 “Oth ” country life n mi ; failed to commission the off- er door,” suscested & man, who was | Cveryting narrow and dismal bad ‘been | or oun Dave on que. \ person. Once was when Gov. Sum- | !tting on my bag quite as if he were ac- | Dirt ra and maintained. tunity to examine at : % ner died, in 1709, and the other was in 1774, | customed to it and it fitted him. I might] ‘The school teacher was boarding with| “Any temperance organizations?" close range one of WN when the seat of government was remov: have known. The “ladies’ room” was only |'Mandy, and came in a little late to din- . od io. eee from Boston to Salem by order of the Brit- | opened a few months in the seasor um- | ner. She was a slender girl, with intelll- | “Do i ia i tions” of the Hub, \, Ish parliament. ‘The duty was. then per. | pened a few m nee Cia, fissepeyes ‘ASHINGTON WILL if j [ i 2 Hy i i 5 i z a F formed by William Brattle, major general | ™eF boarders, because it had no stove, and | Sent eyes and a beautiful brow and smile. " “Here,” I said, “I shall find solace.” I in- ‘Make vinegar to “If this ts so, why are throughout the province. there were one or two panes out of the north | quired about her school. She confessed to power of endurance and Ancient . ‘The company’s banquets are great events, | window. Besides, it made the cell calied twenty-two pupils, from A B C to the fifth \\ saa's many distinguished mo haee ae the “ticket office” “drafty” to open its win- | reader. caeaear Na main reason is that men pay more atteation legs ea ie mahogany. James | dows on both sid di mmaster | _ “How do you manage this mixed school?” ‘They know that sickncss means canmkine py 74 = Monroe, afterwani President, was at the | poy scruier op Fig Maser rapa enterea | I asked wistfully; for in that pathless Sa- not misery, but loss of time and money. arrive here = banquet in 1790, and since that time Presi- th 5 familiar a 7 hara I once had fioundered. . Women allow Ubemselves to become the regular autumnal ex- dents, governors and foreign potentates @ men’s room, a figure ambled up She looked at me with wide-open aves of wenknesses that could be easily over- cursion, which, in the j have partaken of the hospitalities of the | to me, hesitatingly. eyes, come by the use of @ timely remedy. parlance of this old — ZZ old corps. In 1820 the company was pre-| ““s'pose ye want @ carriage, don't ye?’ | “In the usual way,” she replied; and And yet there are thousands of bright, bappy pip Mesa pe sented with its famous punch bowl, which |1 knew the old driver of my school days | Meant “in the only way women who have discovered the truth of this the fall field day. aS Bene cent tie Ten Ey CO cnatit to he Medea, githough thin uae i ne eee aaa They are wever sick or despondent, Geagged ost or Wherever the Ancients, as they are col- Honorable Artillery Company, incorporated | unmistakably he, he did not seem sufll- | arithmetic lessons in the forenoon, three core ae: me Pe - loquially known, go on a visit they are al- setts,’ 1638." _It was a present from Senator Jon- | ciently alive to be ineonsistent with my | classes; writing and geography and gram- hat do you do with hay?” ihe Wank Gen eae at and than Hunnewell, and was made to order. | theory, mar are in the afternoon, two classes “Nothin’, *twon’t pay cuttin’, ways sure to make @ sensation, and there Th Seng et mylere diet ae ry. a in for | ‘its tony See ane tee are two questions which the person behold- le! ery .Y | “Not yet, Mr. Tobias,” I responded, shak- | ¢ach. ee It ts now used at all anniversa- les. The present commander of the Ancients It was if I had “backward, oh, back- ing hands. “I may want one after noon. ward,” turned “Time in his flight,” to my Are you itere all day?” own school days. fng the old company for the first time al- ways asks. The first is, why do they all i ; rei F i ui i il 5 iF Bot always,That thi: !s Col. Sidney M. Hedges, who was born in| “No, I gin't. I'm goin’ to plough the| “You read the Testament in the morn- yell, the old was pret! Bever have stood the test of year bear pansies povlage Crag teagan pore a ib e St. Louls In 1844. He came to Boston in | pattey lot “tween now and next. train | ing, reader after dinner, and spell twice | pieces, ‘and the wind blowed down the ' ‘any s{roug indorsements trom eminent ttle axes that the officers carry instead | ‘te, said company re in 1882, He was appointed an ald-de-camp | t!me; but 1 can hitch up any time ye want ire asked, mechanically, Son_house.’ rem wed oe ~y = of swords. ition with the rank of colonel on the staff of | me. Jest step up to that peach-try by the | «And the little ones sometimes lie down reliabie. It is well to answer these queries at once. ot | Gov. Brackett in 1890. Col. Hedges is at | fence yunder and holler, and I'll bring the|on the bench and sleep, and you fold a i if ! i The variety of uniforms is due to the fact the head of one of the big insurance firms | team round. Goin’ up to ‘the old place?’ ’” ayppecte a pillow?” ff Bostoi ne = that the old company ts divided into two ny to Seneen, one the Algonauin and other clubs. "He ie alse | “F Mays” and my chin felt quivery. Was branches, known as the infantry and ar- act | ! ! “And you give these no other recess than be old and decrepit, but I ain't too old tor it possible that my heart was still tethered s instance, is one selected from gorges pe yr aera general court, : eae Lo ares ahead to hla spot? very, it will never escape ae: ones?" vote Lt it long’s I cam hoof it to ay tien Which tell Doe for the artillery division, but the men who | P* >, the to Boston, to Harvard | fy necond dese ea ee ggonsistory. thir} “Gite mechanically” 1 wetked across the | “YOU do not read to them or show them “Who did you vote for last year for Con- oe rai Parade in the infantry wear the uniforms to! church where he The first Meutenant of the company ts | Street toward the undertaker’s. It seemed “I don’ know now.” PALA, N. ¥., February 27, 1804, which they are entitled. For example, the| twenty-four men i ponder Maj. Aaron A. Hall. He ts a veteran of esting ber ttn —— repens “You have no concert exercises for all, | “Who was elected?” ‘Warner & Go., Jate Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks used to a Were representatives ty the general eH ST hk ls His ety | 1 coud Gudtiquialy tha Wen of eariterar peter ir dM ~ ‘Bate = oe 3 $ Search WER Che Actes Sh aN tne tee rte” Coe, lec neante G6 Mammal | stuce the war serene ie ee tee oes | ate class‘o-inbocts, ‘and the individual note “Me Gawten, or Mauer with ptt” AiMicted sistecs good, I will brief pings of a major general of United States | coiony, and one weenant, of Rhode Island | cavairy companies in Massachusetts the | Of every order of bird, The nesting robin “No. oe af Z of Safe Cure have done for troops, and in any of the parades of the| Hampshire, in ai canteen — of New | Roxbury Horse Guards. He is now assist- Pott softly, cee ipping bird” cheep-| «Ana you dare not take them out on the| “I forget.” my right side was completely corps a half dozen brigadier generals, a cers a and two private citizens, ae am fo noel eonmea 0 | the second brigade | ©, ielosinaaly "arene Settle green | gmss sometimes for lessons?” “What 4> you think of woman suffrage?” to what doctors term congestion score of colonels and a great number of pag ton pingpers nd lieutenant is Josiah S. Cush-| °Ver @ round stone expectantly with my 0. “Of WHAT?” as “And you have some apparatus in a case, “Women’s voting.” the historian, says: ) ing, who was born in Bedford, Mass., tn | foot and startled @ numerous family of that | nye the case is locked anda the key is lost, ‘Pshaw, now: women don’t vote.” guished and honorable men in 1854. Lieut. Cushing is a devoted yachts- a podous crustaceous animal” known in| ang two of the planets are broken off?” “But they want to.” comprised its first. members.” man and a thirty-second degree Mason. He | Polite society as the “sow bug,” all engaged | “Three of the planets.” “Who? You don’t say so! Well, that’s the is true to a large extent of the member | 3 @ nephew of the late Luther S, Cushing, |/" thelr usual imconsequent, geometrical! an! One more planet off its axis since | beatin'est I've heard” Women!’ Be gosh!” ship of the present company, which hee in. | ®uthor of “Cushing’s Manual.” Tithe whieh 2nd {dentical with . families | my day. They must have found the key, | “What do you think about it?” creased from the original twenty-four to| The adjutant of the company is Capt. Ed-| With which I had been acquainted forty | then, at some period, and lost it again. ‘I think they won't vote; not whiles my nearly seven hundred members. ward B. Wadsworth, who was for fifteen | Ye@rs ago. “And you expend much time and strength | name's Pittman Tooley. I'd like to ketch When Sir Edmund Andross came to Boa- | Years a member of the Massachusetts mill- Soe undertaker came out to meet me in| eeping order” ” any women folks that belong to me e@ ton with a commission as governor of New | tla and was one of the most popular com- is shirt sleeves. He was ever the most! “yes That is the hardest thing I have | votin'! Why, they don't know ne more shout England, he and his associates manders of the celebrated National Lancers | ¢heerful man in the county. Nothing in-| tq do,” votin’ than a@ no-horned cow does about ernment, who had a strong prejudice | of Boston. He joined the Ancients in 1885, | tcTfered with the prosperity of his business. | “you do not speak pieces or have composi- | hookin’, Much’s ever they know enough to against the people of Massachusetts, sup- | making his first parade to Washington on hegre his little shop was faded, «nd | tions?” make a minute puddin’, nowadays. Vote! Pressed the meetings of the company, but | the occasion of the dedication of the Wash- ed big black H's had been lengthened by | “No, The parents do not approve.” Well, {am beat. I never heard tell o” such the old officers held their commission ‘until | ington monument. He is a Mason, a Red | ‘Ain till they looked like ladders. “Do you play irside games rainy days’ & thing. Where you been? Who told you? Andross departed, when the regular drills} Man and a Knight of Pythias. it there any news?" I asked. It was as| «No. The committee will not permit it, | Wan't they jest @ tryin’ to pester ye and and exercises were resumed and continued | Lieut. Thomas J. Olys, who is chairman etnias inside of me made the inquiry, | for fear the stovepipe will fall.” make fun on ye? You don’t s'pose any wo- until the commencement of the war of the | of the fall fleld day committee, 1s one of the | Wuite independent of my volition. Ri Ah, that stovepipe! I remembered the | men foiks raaily think they know enough to revolution, except in October, 1721, when | most popular officers of the corps. He has jald out Long George last week,” he | wire, which, under Providence, preserved | vote, do you?” the general assembly forbade: “All training | worked hard for the success of the Wash- | 2"sWered, “and embalmed the farmer on “ | us from disaster, I gave him up, and determined and trooping in Boston by reason of the | ington trip, and if it comes up to present | Adirondack Murray's place. Drawler ain't!" ““and the boys and girls take recess | visit of condolence to Jobe wife. pee: vast number of people exercised with the | expectations he can justi fied, to live. F got the broadcloth for ' T found her etanding parlor win- | 3 Ree tae zi Shane of thn roan justly be given & large | piMeomn yesterday! ‘menas is dreadful sick; | “RAPE +» dow ‘alll, washing windows, The sun "wes Best is Cheapest: During the revolutionary war no regular WALTER BE. ADAMS. had dyspepsia alk the spring; he’s took “The boys play very roughly, but the | temporarily allowed to wander all over the meetings of the company took place. The Pees tS forty-four bottles vo Plantetter’s bitters. | giris do not play at all, but sit on the step | room, and touched the sheeted corpse Col, Sidney M. Hedges. military men of Massachusetts were at- Little Ike’s got a cancer. He sent a lock of ie?” THE DOCTOR LOST. or the ‘entry’ tabl c tending to other business. The old jeal- . his hair and $10 to an astrologer, but the “ ” majors and captains may be seen in the} ooo) of military authority, which had crop- medicine never dit him a mite o" gcod. | “ticve you any school brary?” yanks, all of whom saw service in the civil) ped out among the first Massachusetts set- | A Bet of a Thousand Dollars That His Suppose you knew Benjay’s Henry’d got a| « 0." wet Kadn’'t oh ed hi spring, ‘.. In’t clean jouse this shy explained. “Job catched cold so easy I :Am Eddy ’ : didn’t even dast to scald a bed-cord. So, of war. Some of these old uniforms are get-| tlers when they objected to the formation Patient Would Die. gov'ment office. All his folks are down| «Thore used to be a small collection.” course, I had to pitch in, Mckity-split, & Hi ting pretty well faded and worn now, but | of the Ancient and 2 ea a oan From the Philadelphia. Record. a now, visitin* him. Joel's son's been “Yes; the books wore out and finally the | do it all before the ronan fis anette € ri erato their wearers take @ little more pride in| Dany, had again made tte eppenti ee at-| ‘The gambling instinct is “strong in most | (ted, mayor of Argentine, and they've | mico ate them.” €red out, but the neighbors are real clever. them, permaps, on thin account thority "ot King’ George was dstod” and | men, Uut it is acidom that ono hears of u| tee Dever hag avg rete less it | "And You are all glad when term closest” | ng of ‘em are whitewasttt the apstaice | & Cates Bite moran an Iter Dez! ever been west of | «pecs? while I clean the down-stairs. 0: officers of ths company are espontoons: ana | OveFthrown, and from that hour the elvil) man with sufficient nerve to bet a sum of Nand eee ere. thankful and her hus-} During this conversation I lived just | Youngish girl and wouldn't work before the | % 6, tale Goer hace bean eee tae eccunanune money on his own life. A wager of this nd went to Tennessee last winter. Seems b. Z seven years, and went to school every day, | Corpse; but I ain't afraid o’ Job, alive or Officers of the organization for very many kind has just leaked out, in which two| °.f addin’ was ketchin’, and halt the folks | with my dinner in a basket. ead; and if I can get all through Defore was out o’ there heads with it. They'll ff d said -b; the funeral, it'll be tw: , rs. prominent memberc of a Walnut street | know so much by After it I rose ani good-bye, very 0 B00d Jobs out o’ The commander of the company always ich by then they come back there 7 - | Way at once. dd P any always club are concerned. These two men have| Won't be no livin" with ‘cme and ineyin bs | solemnly, passed through, the clean, nef. | Way at once Muddy Potoma Maa the naceeuioneby atins or tne . been close friends for years. One is a doc-| Efviny sdvice ta all'the neighbors the lorg-| over, and it 1 wasn't going to the grave, on Water re. en you an was u “i at commander, fastened around his tor and the other a lawyer. A year ago] young folks didn't Pisdricno grace ronal San = — ——— and make a dried-apple by a silver chain. The history of this the lawyer, who had previously enjoyed the | winter and then come home and strut all But I rallied myself up to date when the ted We na De FUTERING. old bit of insignia ts not known. It has best of health, began to complain of feel- | summer. Why, even Siah Graves has been up ~ 'e_ have PROVED NATURAL been worn for over a century, but where it ir and wen! Ww. STON ‘the from r from originally and who first wore it ; IE min down, He consulted his friend, the | to New Haven twice inskle of a year.” |back’ to ‘the station and stod, ty "the | “You KBow,” ahe sald, “everyboty goes to 1% ue JENETES Casbcbae “intra {ine never been discovered. It is very old, \ ammsaticn com Restart tet e | ne these Christian names, as in a | “peach-try” and “hollered,”and sooner than | funerals. There ain't much to go to, and | {0% those who — fore never Sore Georened, 3 ve itr were ected, the action 9f hs hout | penis fnctrhaten ong Sageear® | fe anouldnave expected wan ot may way | {Us the only chance flka have to goto the Dishes é strik : dn’ 7 oe “the old place.” weed out the graves of ‘jae eet oe tae coat heathen ye = J . was impaired ed and that be. wo in't ive a our business is good, 1 imagine” I did not feel like talking. I asked no | their own folks. Hank Moulthrop founds ‘a artillery company it has no artillery, a i . Pati, \ oy Rs a mi rahe es; I can’t complain. This always was | questions, and for the most part answered | hen’s nest on kis wife's ve, with eight me eld ren aie taal dae weeyal tal s )! ‘ lor! ; a and w Loca wi Keegy a gréat place for folks to die. Folks die none; yet the old driver rambled on and | €ses in ft, the day Phily ‘Toad ‘was buried. the tate authorities and its members carry j rod a hak fanaa Ca aie ee tae here that never died before. And folks that | gid not notice my irresponsive attitude. I ain't goin’ to have but four hacks, though. feuskets and swords. ae SS a mt cont Wea tLOte non are or pee Bown sone ayn fer thirty |“ "Member the day you started for nor- Folks ainat walked over Job when he was 3 2 et jaid out.’ alive in” 4 % ‘The readers of The Star are already fa- : wrong and that I do live over a year!” he|’ At this he looked me over with such an | mal School and I tpped you over ina | Hive aim’ ® Soin’ to ride after him ‘cause miliar with the arrangements tha’ ve Aaron A. Halt. exclaimed. He was in deadly earnest. The | eye to measurements that I excused myself hel?” “I guess you hain't lived away so long but doctor was positive that his diagnosis was | abruptly and turned into the elm-lined road, | “24 camphor in your satel what you kno that don't net's authority has been supreme in the com-| correct and was forced to accept the bet. | ambitiously named London strest. T ctacead | Mieteh: Aukaan yon ‘came theese aud Someae ee Eee bape! stay day ot all fo Catan che Anatase: See SCAT | miemwonitts @f MARBOONRINI RS The money was placed in a safe deposit] at my usual pace. Then I remembered father was sick and you wanted me | Over the house wh mourn Poa ere. It Is not, thelr first visit to the na-| In 1788 the company was called together | vault, and the lawyer went abroad. In six| where I was, and that I wasn't cole ence | Your fa! rw aed, ther le th PSP m’s capital, for they were here at the by Maj. Bell, who was the com: months he returned. The year was up| where and didn’t want to do anything, and ee em Re ak ‘and Pillsbury’s i 7 . but as many of th 4 sandy road, up by Luman’s?/ even rummaged her bureau draws, and Seticaton a Washington monument mander in Epler tcl of wounded during | last week and he won his wager. And what|1 dropped into the saunter which became | "2d¥ road, up by Luman's?’ a ares, “and is more, he says he is open for more bets | the spot. had been re jutionary war or had died the rebel flag on the old Griffin house, in to see her some since Cousin Pitt Je mis “Anclent and’ Honorable’ Artillery | some cther cause, oF had left the state, tt bein morgen Cont Geen en amgnt, Tentered | war time, and Sam Grosvenor pulled it , and they hain’t done talkin’ about it pa hat the number of members was —— Dos F he: ¢ a| down? He was killed in the battle of Fred- ine 3¢ ihe state of Massachusetts, it | feauesa to fifteen. But from this time the How Can the Girls Get Even? letter for me. ‘The postmaster's wile was | ericksbure, - ‘And they sald there was a hunk of mag- Is older than the law of Congress creating | increase in membership was remarkable. | From the Louisville Post. Shee Cheany ay the family breakfast in the | + *,ember how the officers came after | ishy and a rag in the top draw, and the ti o - | “ice cream apartments” In the rear, while y ’, | tins in the butt’ry didn’ " from the oflicers of the continental army joined] some weeks ago some of Loulsville’s rep- > Ww Mose and Ed and couldn’t prove nothin’, ry didn’t look as if they'd bot orang Ar eperney Gays armory Pape them being Maj. Gen., afterward | resentative young people were invited by nde ne in his shirt-| ti they asked Sary Lib her dog’s name, | been Scoured for a year. historic old Faneull Hall, the “Cradle of | Gov. John Brooks of Medford, Erie. Gen. | ur. T. A. Snyder of Cincinnatl, who is re- | sect “Tecra, ng emecery, Ad os Mantes and she sald ‘Jeff Davis: end then they aoe muss gettin’ the whole house Liberty,” and all its members are excused | John Winslow of Boston 4 , 5 ME rey Pee | ee ae ape Dee of 00 Son ~ . & had | \ ame eune te ae fi i incon of Hingham, all three of | ported to be one of the wealthiest men rots a. ‘listed, and that ended the war in Flanders. | neral. And I'll wear my teeth to the grav oven seam ie the creates ane Catena commanders of the company; | the porkopolis, to go to Canada on a camp- | | Paled sae . os anything for two days| “«'}iember how your grandma used to let | !f it gags me, before they shall find “em and chusetts in person, and this ceremony al-|Gen. Lincoln was the intimate personal | ing party. He represented himself as the iolka sae tants pap ee ~ Benjay’s | in every shack and feed ‘em, no matter | Count ‘em. | Ways takes place on Boston Common at the | friend of (Rayer — _ host, and seemed so anxious for his Louls- | puttare tos aaa ar eid panies what time o’ night. Folks use to say she'd ts a a every scrap of letter tha the British officers at the surrender of | ville friends to accompany him that not a] Jack, asking her to make a mournin’ bua, | be,Tovbed and killed, but Ja, sho wa’n't | or Roper Job had, or me." They won't find Yorktown. one refused. They were delighted, and se-| net for Job's wife. Bell tolled last night | sige o' Podunk wouldn't a fit for her. You | can tell "em, the old ra; Whitman, in his history, relates an amus- | curing Mrs. John A. Stratton to chaperon = — fifty-two, so I s'pose Jod is | use to be jest like her, *Member how, when | folks lock everything up. ing incident in which Gen, Lincoln figures. | them, they went to Cincinnatt, and from a ers been powerful weak from spit-| the rebel flag was a wavin’ and Mose and|® thing. I'll leave everything The story ts as follows: “In 1788 his ald | there to Canada, going part of the way by | jin’ blood all winter. Horace would 'a| iq there with pistols, you marched past,| make “em think th was solicited in framing the first militia | steamer. nowed it; but, you see, they've been mad tars full of eggs. That’ Jaw of the United States, and when the| For over two weeks they enjoyed the| at him ever since he embalmed the ola | 2tipes and won nd mypoccgr tiered | ITE og rizers will be here, too, the ANYWHI * > it, singin’ ‘John Brown’s Body’ top o’ your | * wet committee had the subject under considera- | camp life, and when they came home they | ™4n, ‘cause he charged ’em $5. They said mica? Be you that way now? - ‘I s'pose the '] tion, Gen. Lincoln introduced @ clause to | were convinced that Mr. Snyder was a very | (twas cool weather and he never made but | ““«There’s Uncle Pitt comin’ out to speak | @¥ after the funeral, and they're another T7See that my mame ts on every pound preserve the ancient privileges and customs | liberal man, and an elegant host, though ie but he said the roads was bad | to you. Shall I stop and hitch?” Set of pizen old pelicans. If an and = upd 5 of such independent corps as were then | he did seem at times a trifle patronizing to ls horse was lame, and he had to hire | “y was glad to see Uncle Pitt. He looked a| !70n pot that leaves a speck o° N, Buncheri 1325 7 sr. 16d created by charter cr otherwise. Gen. | some of the young men. one 0° Zenas; so it cost him a dollar, be- henner ntidinnnc ee SO their hands, or a spider's web in The Monumental, Blount of Carolina, one of the committee, | Imagine the surprise of the young people | #ides the fluta he turned into the old man, | Million years old when T was @ girl, and he | in" peg‘p. cr oplders web in « Fashion Leaders "t k a day older now. was vehemently opposed to any such clause, | several days ago when each of them re-| 8d he held more than common. Horace | Udnt look a day o they will tell it agin’ me to ; , Uncle Pitt,” I said, as he made a whdh Gen. Lincoln stated the origin and | ceived a bill for $14 for board for the time | ‘old me ‘twas wuth % jest to scrub the old | teint Y5 ‘roll down his shirtsleevea, but aay, " claim of the Ancient and Honorable Artil- | they were in Mr. Snyder's c.mp. The men | man pod put into a good, clean grave. | thought better of it, “do you pretend to ‘Now, if you'll excuse me, I'l lery. Blount, in @ passion and with a| have sent the following to Snyder, which, | But I don't know. Anyway, he don’t get | Work at your age?” Dut some lye over to heat to scrub sneer exclaim ‘And pray, who in hell! they claim, will relieve them from all obii- | 2 job on Job. Job’ll have to keep the best with.’ . “No,” he answered briskly. jon’t pre- | + commands the Ancient and Honorable? | gations: Way ihe can, for there ain't another em-| tend to work; T work “T don’t ot nlt 's,very hard for you to have In Fine Millinery at Gen. Lincoln calmly replied: ‘Your humble | To Mr. ————, Dr. on mist this side o’ New Haven, and there c mesg = er your long wa r servant.’ This put Blount and his adher-| For services rendered while invited guest: | 2@!n't been no tce since the last o' March. ” ie first shock of your grief.’ Populai Prices. ents to silence, and the clause was included | Rowing boat, catching grasshoppers, walt-| OPenest spring I ever see. Say, if ye're}] «Does tt pay?” had to ser poate, Jt would be harter tt] Que Exhibition of French in the act. Thus the original charter, | jn, ‘tab in, 50 goin’ to stay long, hadn't ye better take a} «12 . Rain ro bugs | 7, bad to set ond snivel. Every mean in Ceitmaneh Oe the eomvary ace |e on Tn Ceimiinn water, 60. 9D Der | Fr ws, No. end drouth and trick the neighbors played on Job and every h day. i and rot! It don’t pay for the Paris green.” Hats and Bonnets, Capt. EB. B. Wadsworth. confirmed by Congress.” Total account. $21.00 | _ Before T had time to ask whether he} ““wny do you plant them, then?” hateful word I ever gave him, I can take Since the revolutionary war, the meetings | Credited by board. 14.09 | Meant an ice box or a P. O. box he was in-| «why do we plant ‘em? What should we | t,0Ut, 0m, myself wich the mop. I don't | TOORTHER WITH A LARGE ASSORTMENT oF ae — be the eer. — of 5 i of the company have been continuous, and terrupted by a woman with a package for want to do no thinkin’, either, till after quaint old forms an custo ve do with ‘en? Ain't nothin’ else to do but | the prisal wren wee u Dress and Suit Hats although it has had {ts periods of prosperity} Balance due sseseeese, $7.00 | the mail. It was clumsily wrapped in thin | piant ‘em, and hoe ‘em, and dig ‘em—what “ tegen a Saat Kve ont : gre in voque today, the most moticeable of nd depression, it has maintained ite oF] The girls have Hot decided what to do. | Ptr ang, trated with a pin. She asked | th bugs feave—and sell ‘em for nothin’.” oat Sat Nive ant te do: FRO Oe Om LSOn Ob > 4 Cao ‘ | ganization unimpa! ‘a me of them will probably remit, but sev- 74 “Why don’t you try another crop?” pany clects its own officers ‘and fellowing | Bas been a good deal of company legislation | eral threaten to send in @ bill for making | M2 hand, then the other, and passed it| <yan’e know woth ‘boot mo ater crop. Untrimmed Millinery, e old custom the bellots are always placed | &% #0 dues. assessments and by-laws put | themselves agreeable. t do you thing that’s watht~ | Know all about potatoes, Allers raised "em, vpon the head of a drum on the parade #4 ——— ; “goln’ to Middletown.” Ee tinued: ground on Boston Common. ‘These ‘public | RABY Prevail. At the June parade the Procrastinating Professor. pl Sugeested, with sdme timidity, that tt] win the country? Veet And Grow up “I shall have the use of a third. That’ drums and fifes summon the members In with the country? $ | und Grumhead elections are always unanimous. From the Chicago Mail. weighed, a = a little worse than nothin’. The rest goes sag CS oie | ee eee tie ee nal SR SR : "chy | {0 his folks, that he hain’t seen in forty- | ..00,°™t every lady may get @ chance to see our ny takes place about two weeks before | ‘he early days of the colony, and the espon. magnificent indifr ; “and thi Didn't Ab Leote go west, and wasn't he | five years. He was bound out when he W pany eraut a tm <= “Uncle Phi” Armour, who got home yes- reo eigen tay © fust | carnation glad to get back, too? Said there | seven scars oid “We H Decided to Con Steata dactint'ts atuava nage ao eee oN terday from his European trip. Rotch of my stilvatds Is two, pound. sea! | Was Jest a8 good @ chance to make money | “““rhat is a very unjust law. Do you not pcan eg va’ pence, and let her go,” he dec! re Geeret uni the public slectin eseurw car The story is in two chapters, with a pe-| as arbitrarily as a police court judge, here as out west, and better neighbors, and | think women ought to vote?™ tinue Our Display This cl y that to my et Entire Coming Week, store across the road,.where “Miss” Jack | *TtY years ago. ere Leete go An@ cordially invite you to this exhibition, ce f Wales. Thirty years or more ago P. D. Armour ’ ‘I don’t know. Somewhere out in the ‘Men wouldn't let ‘em, woul 2 . gg yy ae "artillery was a young man attending an academy | po* ;buslly trimming the mourning bonnet | Genesse countrys went on the canal: come le ould they? ‘They ya i = went. No; this the best place for farm-{ been bossed about hv much soal use W. in 16%5, and {ts second to this company in : dormitory and took a pretty seminary giri Sh he pani she vat tn the | cra. Putatves are a eure'e tru ax any: | coataon otten ee ane 39 F St. N. W. 1638. The Ancients, however, did not get out for a long bugsy a Pons shovel, thing.’ “No, I don’t want to vote, and I couldn't their charter without meeting considerable Z It came to the ears of the dignified fac- She smiled grimly at her joke and con- Boston Common. rod of thirty years elapsing between the| While he was meking change I silpped | HYe more like folkcs.”* ~ J g , never let women do anything but wai Th M 1 Company is the oldest military organization near Syracuse, N. Y. There was @ ladies’ | sor 40%, Widow, while Mr. Jack was rins- | pack soon *s he could get back, too Mun. Se hee ie onumenta . ve “What's that got to do about it? ‘The company has but few honorary mem- é MEY away. I looked in’ ati the window of the ‘I heard you say that to my grandfather “Why, then they would help make better bers, and at the head of the list stands lay Keg inthe grocery depart- A . “em while they give orders. First time I've fm America. ‘The Massachusetts Bay colony i seminary near oy, and one beautiful moon- | ment. gar Keg in’ the grocery Gepart- | gers went south; come back poorer ’n they | cleaned house tn thirty years that hain't granted its first charter to ryai lege . ure of what?” help make no laws. I don’t know , 3 < t P. D. Armour, 7 “Why don’t’ you sell beans?” carpet rags. That's more’n I wish I b Were inclined to look with disfavor upon tered up vor coer & o'clock dinner. “A country dinner, I re ell beans! Ugh Folks that don’t kt new. '. apy such organization and Governor Win-| y Years passed 01 oung Armour came / flected rapidly. Sweet. ham and eggs or ~ Acoma ‘olks that don’t know how don't have to 4 when the company first asked Wy) . to Chicago and became the greatest mer-| chicken pot-pie, rye bread, amber tea, rich Why don’t you catch frogs and sell} do it. I wish I'd never learnt. ane fe 2 ate al recognition from the council, j ? chant in the world. i : gream, peach preserves, baked Indian’ pud- Lei SES Gaetan ‘most forgot to show you proud of. We're gusting prices, 9g wrote concerning it: “Divers gentlemen ( One day an old man with a pair of white | ding and buttered apple ple! <n ame tee mai arate : eeeae | Sere eee o jitved the sheet with fal- them that every merchant would and others being joined in s military com E wy side whiskers snd a professional beatific |" Tfollowed “Mandy into the clammy par | 1,“Why don’t you s il green, sweet corn? | tering Angers, ard f stared blankly for an to equal, pany desired to ba made a corporation, but mile was ushered into Mr, Armour’s pri-| jor, sind she rolled up the green paper cur- | Tt, makes my mouth wate aioe Soe mace adBlow, e piscld face of my old | > UCH ES. the council, considering from the example Second Lieut. J. S. Cushing. vate office. taing in a hesitating way, ag if afraid the| 5 crbody's got enoweh. eve SWAY. | schoolmate, on which the freckles stood ° of the Praetorian Band among the Romans, | toons which the commissioned officers of | “You remember the Academy, Mr. | gunilght might touch heF before she could | Everybody's got enough. in_bas-relief. the Templars In Europe, how dangerous | the company carry on de have been in | Armour?” his visitor began. t away. A belated wasp crawled out of} ;But I mean in the city.’ Silently, but full of clamoring questions, r it might be to erect a standing authority hse continually since 1970. ‘The old corps is | , “I should say I did. I wag expelied from | some negiected corner and quarreled harm- How tee ea of ee it to the city?|I climbed into the crazy carryall and iui gf military men, which inight easily, in| very punctilious, and the ceremony of com- | that institution for taking Susie out | lessly with the window-pane. She lifted a| Carry @ backload Ponnicg Bn its it when we | another minute I covered my face with é time. overthrow the civil power, thought | missioning the officers is very impressive, | buggy riding. wad of her apron for a weapon, but re- | G0 set it there? City folks ain't @ eatin’| both hands, and the griet of the world The Hou hton Co. it to stop it betimes; yet they were al-| The governor of Massachusetis is escorted | ‘Well, then, perhaps you remember me. I | jented. green corn. Pitt's widder brought home a gave wer, before my own, for I could see $ g ’ lowed to be a company, but subordinate to| by the company from the state to | am Prof. ———. I was a member of the fac- “Oh, I thought it was a fly!’ she ex-| Paper, namin’ what they eat there, bisk | the decaying porch under which the phebe i2i6 F STREET 5 W. @ll authorit Boston Common, where, surround his | ulty then, as Iam now, And I want to say, | claimed, much relleved. and consume and beef a lay neste], and the tons of the maple trees | —Y¥—Y¥—~ ‘The men who sought to form the company, | staff, he takes a seat under a tent Mr.Armour, that I always protested st | She offered me Demorest’s Magazine and | crokays. Laws, they wouldn't condescend Pig — like frowaing giants,” guard- however, were not easily discouraged. Sev-| ly erected for his use, Across the your ¢xpulsion as belng unjust and uhwar-| set herself at once about the dinner. I | to, gnaw green corn. “ eee ne eines i -a eh ee eral of the first settlers of the colony had | ground, drawn up in line, is the company, | ranted by the facts. a8 the way, Mr. Ar iced around the parior. It was one of ‘Do you can any corn?” HAVENS. been members of the honorable artillery| At a signal the retiring commander | mour, the academy ts in a financial strait | many I had known intimately; and as I sat . —_.>___ company in London, and were men some-| marches across the parade ground to the | Just now and I came to see if you would | there, in dismal confinement, I could not| ‘“Do you have any frait?” : eis Se what proficient in martial duties. The} governor's tent, where he halts and sur | give us some gueetance, realize that I had ever escaped, or could} “Thousands of epples when it’s a apple Mnew. necessity for bodies of trained troops to pro- | renders his espontoon and gorget and re- Welt,” replied the millionaire, “if vage | signs Thi tested against my expulsion all I sified ser sagt taternirecensd pom yergnd Af Mt ten’t?* wad ees t thi ttlers from the wild and sa) his commission. The governor alwi est ™ mn al ve by the picture of a weeping figure, t? S = Jotions cnrroendiag them, made the subject | makes a little 5 congratulating him | got to say is that you've been @ long time | leaning on a very expensive tombstone, | ‘Then we don’t have any. Husband—“You sharpened your lead pen. Ait: tection imy uy the prospe: of the company under | in letting me know about it. “Sacred to the mémory of ——,” and ‘Do you can apples?” cil last night, didn’t you?’ These a trom the ola Lontion: oem hie command, anf that "Is ed. But Mr. Armour made out a good round | frame of flowers woven of “No.” rs w the necessity of having trained pr om 3 the retiring ler faces shout ae check, just the same, and sent the old peda- | gated hues, detached from “Have you no other fruit?” command the different militia companies ' marches back toward the company. gogue on his way rejoicing. an Wite—“How did you know?” Husband—“T have just been trying to inebriated rag “No, we buy some oranges and bananas ! shave myself.”