Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1896, Page 14

A i! ogical Park these warm nights ns the quiet piace it is during id one of the attendants. “The ming of summer had a wonderful on the animals, and this is very after the sun goes down, They k out in the wildest noises during the y part of the evening and keep it up in lively style till nearly midnight. Af- ter that they settle down for a sleep, and! quiet enough until the next night. ! ntest thing starts them off. The‘ n to start the music, and the | gers furnish t volume. The | yamp of the hi is no more mus popotamus: cal than th and rhinoceros are beautiful | It can be heard for a half -ouple of weeks the animals will down for the rest of the summer. ** & * * “Soda water fs furnished in much better condition now than during any previous a popular druggist remarked. sirups are now carefully prepared, and the modern soda water apparatus is as near perfect, it seems to me, as is po Bible. The facilities for handling and crush- | ing the are a great improvement on | what they were even a few Ss some criticism, howe n that quite a num opted the modern S about twi d soda tumbler. xk eK fish is almost un ed an official of the tish commission, in reply to a question. “Prof. Baird devoted al of time to the question as to of life of fish, and he found that rdinary carp, if not interfered with, | J live five hundred years. In his writ- he subject he stated that there is he Royal Aquarium, in Rus- - Several carp that are kuown to be over hundred years old, and that he had a only ho! old-fasnic ai is ob: a number of cases that whales ver two hundred years old. A has had an or- th y , and that he had pur-| © forty years before it came jon.” amateur * * eyclist * runs It is all right for to train down to per- 2 who do not uid, in ontrary rning hd never eee Kk 5 some queer testimony offered in remarked an examiner in| n office a few day “That arriages is it ome peculiar T have * in hand of a widow proviag her | 2 comes from Missouri. rot rer-in-law of the widow testifies brother when he with my Another w: to marry.’ ‘I remember the marriage : forget it, for t son that az disappointed in not ma | ing her m for I must admit that she | was the cnly young lady at that time that I had ever cared for. then T am not | sop ular, for T ha ad thr ss xe RK x attaches of the surv One of the geological United States onderful snake laims it is true. So docs his | was one of the parties to it. known in this uch doubt ex- | prefer that | I not be given for the According to the gentleman, far west in th ran ad no difficu wh to the months later ani near the He packer » bring it to W rward exciting happened one in front of the door cf a >» manufactory of s ch A lady who is prominent in reles had just arrived at the place to look at a carriage ch she had he was accom- . by a lady friend. As they were about to alight from their carriage they noticed that there was some excitement in h of the e manufactc ating about getting out a mz out of the place mployes could za me to hear said ¢ the comments | L. Perkins at "t remember a season not c« backward was more a boy forward rv known t was or m re re. It is a singu- | ere are very few people, no | matter how good their memories may be to other matters, who can re et from one year to another what the weather was a re, and yet at the time th talk t it so continuously that it would be dit would be indelibly impressed upon their minds. “Upon the other hand, people who remember y. who can tell the degrees of heat or ‘cold, the storms and frosts, with dates, during the past thirty or forty years. This is not @ particluarly unusual season. I thought it ere are some little else, but | Fla., at the Ebbitt. | panion | re | was until I met one of the last named class, who remembered a year without a summer—snow in July and other phe- omena that reconciled me to what is being provided for us this year. OR OK Ok Ok “Whatever may be said of the influence of the A. P. A. in politics, they beat a man in my district in a comical way,” said R. *. Gunter of Gadsden, Ala., at Willard’s. “Jerry Long wanted a small office and was a little afraid of the A. P. A., so he hunted up a man whom he knew was strong in that organization and made him- self solid by talking strongly in favor of the principles of the order. A few days later he was introduced to a man named Flanagan. He supposed that naturally a man by that cognomen would hear nothing with so much pleasure as # scoring of the . P. A., so he made an opportunity to vent his wrath upon the secret order that was attempting to influence politics. He grew eloquent as he praised the work of the Catholic Church and denounced the A. P. A. The next day he heard that Flana gan, in spite of his name, was an A. P. organizer, and the politician's name, not even presented at the convention. ee KF | “The time will come when thé fruit ing sections will be also great cattle-ra’ sections,” said R. L, Wadley of Bronson, “It seems strange to talk of feeding frutt to cows, but that is a very profitable disposition to make of a good deal of it. It has been lately learned that fruit is very much better for cows than an exclusive grain or grass feed. Of fruit that can be shipped ts too ex- ve fer cattle feed, but on every fruit farm of any considerable size there Is enough unsalable product to take care of a number of animals, and it is remarkable how well they thrive on it. 1am now feed- ing over a hundred, and find that it pays was handsomely to ke2p them in conncetion with my fruit farm. Apples, orang peaches, prunes, bananas; any and all of these are not only re ei, but have proved to possess remarkable qualities as. fatteners.” —_—__. BEAUTY AND ITS OPPOSITE. The Pretty Girl, the Homely Girt and the Man As a Star writer was talking to a retired colonel in front of an up-town hotel a few days ago a very handsome woman passed them, and the writer's eyes went after her almost as fast as the colonel’s did. 3y Zucks,” exclaimed the writer, “isn't she pretty? “Rather,” admitted the colonel, beauty is something you can't most always sometimes Lank on. Especially the beauty of a woman's face or figure “Well, it's always good io look at, any- how.” “Of course, and sometimes it's lasting and tual, but oftener the very pretty woman is not the most attractive “Sull, there's 4 charm “but in beauty,” in- ed the writer, as he strained his eye: around the corner to get a farewel! view of the fleeting vision. ow here's where I come in with a s » laughed the colonel, who always makes his points with a story. “When I a man of thirty-five | was on one oc- casion going down the Ohio river from Cincinnati te Louisville. As I p the cabin of the steamboat that me, I saw two young two and twenty, s ards, evidently waiting I noticed them because one w that a man would have been tr all his manliness not to have seen her. She as gray-eyed, with a beautiful complex- soft silk was to women, of standing on or some one. n, n hair and a figure which was grace itself. As the young man of today Would say, she was a ‘corker. Her com was as homely as the other wa pretty; homely that I felt sorry that she h to carry such a face around with her. Who or what they were I had no means of knowing, but I was glad that I was goiug on the same boat with them, for the sake of the pretty girl. I went back to my state room, and in a ‘Ww minutes thereafter I heard women's voices In the cabin near my door. 1 noticed then that I had left it open, aad as I closed it I saw that the two young women had the state room adjoining mine and were just entering it. They didn’t see me, and I closed the door, feeling elated over the idea that as soon as possible I would make the acquaintance of my pretty neighbor. Then, as I began to slick up for the conquest, I’ heard voices in the next room. One was sharp and angry, the other soft and pleading. I could only catch an asional word, but I learned they were s ers, and one of them was reading the riot act to the other, and the other was taking it very meekly, indeed. “After a while one of them stepped out en the guards, and though I didn’t care to reep out I could hear her abusing every- thing in sight. She was outside only a minute or two, returning to begin her tirade inside. Inwardly I thanked my stars that I had been thus placed, because by the merest chance I had been let into the si erets of the dispositions of these two sis- ters, and I wondered why it was that beau- y couldn't carry other charms as well. At | the same time, [ made up my mind that | the conques | er hoping to make, would be indefinitely I was on the point of making, postponed. As the boat pulled out 1 went forward to look at the city we were leay- ing, and when I came into the cabin again the supper table stretched away down the length of it and I caught the appetizing odor of ham and coffee and that sort of thing. “I knew the captain, and he invited me to a seat at hi ple, and when I sat down, behold, my two young women sat eppesite. The captain, of course, knew trem, and at once presented me. They were ather quiet at first, and most of the talk arried on by the captain and myself. watching the homely girl now, be- cause I was afraid I would have to run up inst the temper of the pretty one, and I wt want to be any further disillusion- it was enough to simply look at her, Jove. temper or no temper, she was a and as I was = my supper in eating shape I stopped . and all at once the tones of the -e I had learned in my state room filled the vacaney my voice had left. T was al- most afraid to look up, I did, because it wasn’t the pretty girl's voice at all. [ er felt so relieved in my life, and that cht as we sat on deck in the moonlight [ 1 her all about it and 2 whole lot more. And was she up te her beauty in all re- cts?” inquired the writer. The finest woman 1 ever met,” said the . he ighed the cotonel, the writer a beautiful medallion of wife, which he carried with him always. A Valuable Servant. From Harper's Bazar show! his “Didn't I tell you, Norah, that I should be at home to no 0} “Yis, ma‘ai but the lady has on jist the foinest new hat yez iver laid oyes on, an’ I pete it me Christian jooty to hev yez see ART AND ARTISTS ‘The pictures by Felix Berrardelli, now on exhibition at the Fischer gallery, take on an added interest from the quaintness and unfamiliarity of the subjects depicted. The scenes are for the most part from Mexico and the countries of Central America, and have ‘the brilliant coloring ard strange forms of vegetation of those regions. Glimpses of the home life and customs of those people are portrayed in such pictures as the market scene and the water color showing a native woman kneeling in the cool arched corridor which surrounds the sunny court, busying herself in the prep- aration of tortillas. “In the Studio” and in the other interior views one finds some peculiar mannerisms, but the artist has in general obtained good light effects. An at- traetive piece of work is a profile view of a fair young woman with a mass of red hair, entitled “The Princess Flavia,’ from Anthony Hope's “Prisoner of Zenda." This exhibition will probably close the season at Fischer's. * t Walter Paris, who ‘has for some time made his home in New York, is now stop- ping in the city for a short time, and plans if possible to kold an exhibition ef his work at one of the galleries before long. ae Victor Mindeleff’s work is always original and decorative, and had he turned his at- tention to poster making he would doubt- less have made a great suc of it. As it is, he prefers still life subjects, but dif- fers widely from most in the selection of his objects, which are usually grotesque in form and bizarre in color. In his Oriental Poppies ke has succeeded in catching the brilliancy of the gorgeous flowers, and has surrounded the vase in which they are placed by several appropriate objects 0 strange design, Among these is a seduc tive opium pipe, from which wreaths of smoke curl upward in an odd way. A dainty bit which Mr. Mindeleff has recently done is the decoration of a little volume of the “Bibelot” series, containing the Rubaiyat of Omar KrEayam. as an exbaustive i tion of the poem, but has been confi to light, airy de signs, painted in water colors here and there on the printed pages, and makes a very dainty little booklet. * Mr. Emil H. Meyer's head of an old man, which has been on exhibition at Forsythe's, is a strong piece of work, both on account of the excellent modeling of the rugged face and truth in color. Mr. Meyer has an- other canvas there of an old German wo- arm. the man with a market basket on her The reflected light’ which is cast on weman's wrinkled face by a red ed) ebief knotted about her throat is espe: ly well rendered, and great attention has been paid to the accuracy of the v: ‘There Is also exhibited at the stot ty Miss Juliet Thompson, entitled “ Lilies,” in which the color is admirable * * * Signor G. Trentanove, the sculptor of the Pere Marquette statue, has recently finis ed a bust of § Dav which is consid likeness. The recent additions to the collection of Mr. Ralph Cross Johnson have been exam- ples of the work of the old English ma ters, for which he has a great fondness. He has lately acquired a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Sir William Hocthy, of the same family as the little Penelope Boothy whose sweet face is familiar to many from Reynolds’ portrait. Sir Wil- liam is dressed in the riding costume of the period, holding his hat in hand, but so simple is the treatment of the figure that one hardly notices anything but the face, which is a masterpiece of exp: on. It is considered one of the best portraits by that greatest of English portrait paint The color is deep rather than warm and bril- liant, and in this respect it differs widely from Reynolds’ portrait of Lord Roth which Mr. Johnson secured at the King a short time ago. The latter por! a florid gentleman of a thorough: type, and there is a wi in the man’s dress and surroundin Johnson has other paintings by } of which perhaps the mest notat small canvas which Joseph Jefferson pro- bounces to be unguestionably a portrait of Kichard Brinsley Sheridan. “His though small and select, ‘d y represen- tative of early English landseap: orge Vincent of orwich school, Gainshorough, Copley, ng, and Wilson, and in port fine specimens by such men as Lawrence. Romney, Hoppner, Lely, and Opie. * * o* Though the largest of the old Dutch paintings which have been at Veerhoft's during the past week is scarcely bigger than a man’s hand, they are little gems in their way. One of the best things shown is a Rembrandtesque head bearing the signature of David Teniers, to whom a number of the little paintings on oak pan- els are attributed. A realistic tavern scene by Gerhard Douw is exhibited, and pictures accredited to Adrian Brouwer, Isaac Os- tade, Gabriel Metzu and Von der Helst ar shown. There js the characteristic rich coloring of the Dutch school throughout, and owing to the superiority of the pig: ments used by the artists of that time the colors are as fresh and fl laid on. There has also been shown a small collection of mezzotints a um- ber of study heads in peneil by A.-M. Tur- ner, Frederick Marshall, and the late W. R. Allen. Many of these are very delicate in execution, and a student may learn much from them. Inglish roheth Mr * During the latter Sane of the week un ex- hibition of ofl paintings by Miss Anna Stanley was placed on view at Veerhoff's, The pictures are almost all scenes from HoMand, and have been attracting consider- able attention on account of their bold masculine handling. The most impor canvas, entitled “Summer,” is of a Dutch girl in the quaint headdress of the vou gathering roses from a bush whi among a tangle of vines and shrubs. strong in color and full of sunlight. In the “Sand Sifter there is one ot those gray day effects common to the low, level country of the Netheriands. A good Dutch interior is exhibited, but the best work is on outdoor subjects, such as the littie land- scapes called “The Road” and ‘ rhe Wind- mill." The picture entitled The Lone Fisherman,” which was admired at the Cosmos on account of its simplicity and directness, is again exhibited nere, * . * It is Carl Rakeman’s bent is mostly in the direction of landscape, and he succeeds in getting good atmospheric effects in both water color and oil. He is now at work on a small study, taken from a sketch made in Germany, of the old ruined castle of Drachenfels, seen against a mass of clouds, behind which the sun is setting. In col- laboration with his father he has also done some good mural decoration. In the sum- mer he plans to take a trip north with W. H. Coffin, and spend the time in outdoor sketching. * In response to the ‘invitation extended, large numbers of people have visited the Washington Light Infantry armory to see the poster show, which closes this evening. Of its sort, it is well worth seeing, being the largest and perhaps the most inter- esting collection yet shown in this city, The designs shown are the best of the six hundred which were submitted by artists from al over the country to compete for the prizes offered by the Columbia Bicycle Company for the best advertising posters, The prize-winning designs have been, of course, the objects of the deepest, interest. That by Maxfield Parrish received the first prize, and all unite in considering it a fine example of the poster art. The second prize design, by Rohn, is very fairly good, but that by Romes, awarded the third prize, comes in for criticism on account of the many colors used. The design by H. S. Haines, which received the fourth prize, though not as artistic as many that rec ceived honorable mention, has admirable advertising qualities. Four Wi artists are repres d_in the exhibition. In the design submitted by J. O. Clay, a Roman warrlor~stands® sword in hand, using the name plate of the bicycle as @ shield. A. G. Randall's design, an athleti¢ young fellow. in a red racing costume, standing ready fo mount his wheel, is strong and bold, nd has the merit of being visible from a ig distance. That by J. C. Souther is of ‘different sort, more at- tention having been paid to the details and the meaning of the design. A cyclist is racing with Pegasus, and the figure of Mer- cury ig seen at onside of the design. The color, though harmonious, is a trifle too light to be seen clearly at a distance. Harry W. Bruns has a poster of a knight in armor, wearing the Columbia's red, white and blue. < > * + At the annual“niteting of the members of the Art Students’ League the following officers were elected: E. Francis Riggs, president; E. C. Messer, vice president; W. B, (ailton, treasurer; Miss Anna Lee, assistant treasui Miss Aline Solomons, recording secretary; Parker Mann, cor- responding secretary. Four new mem) were elected to the board of control—Mr. U. S.J. Dunbar, Mr. Sawyer, Mrs. Marble, and Miss Meetze. The water color class of the league, under the direction of Miss B. E. Perrie, has commenced the most inter~ esting part of the year’s work, the outdoor sketching, which will be continued through the month of May. % Mrs. F. H. Schotiell, wife of Ensign Schofield, now on the Marblehead, and granddaughter of Dr. Cox, formerly of this city, has had a portrait miniature admitted to the Saiou,” Paris, where she is now studying at the Julian school. Her picture has the increas honor of being admitted “sans protection,” it having been painted without a master, her studies be- ing from the figare entirely, and this being her first year, a Theodor Kauf:nann, whose recent death was announced in The Star a few days ago, was an artist of international reputation, and for a number of years a resident of Washington, He was born December 18, 1514, in the province of Hanover, Germany, and studied in Hambarg. Munich, Dresden, and Halle. He took an active part in the political revolution of 1S#8, in consequ of which he was compelled to flee to § erland, and from theré to Belgium. In 1550 rite he came to Amertea, and worked as a por- ‘True late his trait painter, for a number of year to his republicy when civil w: he offered srvices as a volunteer for the preser tion of the, Union, and the supp! very. After the war he entered the f of polities, and in St. Lonis he took a prom- inent part in the memorable campaign for re-election of Abraham Lincoln. He ain the subject of historic his first 1 ngs: Among “General She! “On to Lit (Damn the Ty 38 of Clviliz: .valn attempt of at ns to stop the pro Mf the Pacific ‘i During his ten 5 Mr Kaufmann conducted wn art and ished ork entitled * “Americ. £ ting Boo! He ratiea, gressive thinker, always of times, and a patriotic Ame as a true artist. ae ce has been done to i the ymission of her mothe list of lad members? ar Phompson by these notes fr wen c Lt of Washingt: 5 dune well de YW oat Work on a th ior Vou A LAWYEIUS INVENTION, He Proposes a Street Car Laprovement im the Interests of the Conductor. From the Bunt A Buffalo 1 has made an invention, on which he has ap- Dlied for a patent, and which surely pos- the ory ret nd new. 1 trolley car.” It is to the s of any car, short dis- tance from the roof, and is lar nough 9 | carry the conductor of the car. Upon it he rides throv A , collecting fares and ving the regular instruc without having w 4 nary gympastics of crowding between over passengers and ving off the tons. A part of the invention is a “plenty- of-room-in-the-front” arrangement, similar to a cotton-baling p for tilling the car to its carrying ca only half loads, as is ne are packed but one tier of the machine, which matic, the compan. noyance. Its u any one who travels know that at the present rate company must lose more money as few as i) passengers in a could, by the improved pr . hold double the number. gotiations have been nearly closed to sell the right to use tais machine on all Buffalo s vent the necessity for a new company, The inventor . most within his gr: ‘y when ears ep. By the use entirely auto- nd a is n save time tly appar t cars, nd com} $a fortune al- From the €hi Post. “Here's a problem for the ‘new woman,’ ™ he said, as he moved in the direction of the door, so that he could make his esc: easily If it became necessar “Go ahead,” said the fashion editor re- signedly. ‘Well, she is adoptin as rapidly as she can. “So it's claime: “She is imitating him in all possible ways.” “So it's claimed.” “Her hair will go nex: man’s habiliments y short no ts on wearing her hair short, what I want to know is ‘how she will conceal the fact that she is becoming bald. Then he dodged and got out just in time. 2 The cause.—St. Paul's, THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 189¢--TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ALKALI IKE AND HIS TOWN “That reminds me,” said Alkali Ike, apro- pos of a remark of the tourist, which is now forgotten by deponent, and must for- ever go unrecorded, “of the cese of Hop Along, who wanted to go east.” “Hop Along,” repeated the tourist. “A lame man, I presume?" “Nope!” replied the Alkaline citizen. “His maiden name, so to speak, was Hopkins A. Long, but in the course of human events part of it was rubbed off, similar to the way pebbles are worn smooth by rollin’ around in the ripples, an’ the rest of it sorter got together again I'ke a j'int snake does after bein’ broken in pieces—an’ he became Hop Along.” “T see “Jest so! Wal, this yere Hop Along con- tended with the west for years an’ not rat- tin’ his horns agin the sides of the corral none. He has been here in Hawville so long that he regards bimself as shook down an’ settled for good, when, withou warnin’, ke fins a yearn sproutin’ in his buzzom, as it were, that whisky won't sat- isfy. You sce, he's been born back thar in little old two-by-four, hide-bound New Eng- land, whur it is all recks an’ hills an’ s stinginess; whur they split pen- meke change, an’ it hurts their lin's burcevz they can't collect ten per cent interest on the debt of nature, an’ the is is full of prim old maids hangin’ oa like dried pawpaws, un’—" Iam frcm New England, if you please,” sa‘d the tcvrist, mildly. “Then you know how it i *" Te- sponded ‘the ingeruous he ft Connecticut when he a cub of fourteen cr sech a matter an’ hadn't never even thought of goin’ back till this yere homesick: ess comes upon ft, but it keeps on growin’ like boilin’ What is bred in the bone ts like a r ‘ak out * an’ worse. ‘If for a long and mopin’ around Ike : sucked in thunder. sickness is Lke love. When either one of ‘em gits a firm cinch on its prey he e a gent in the of an annycon- es whur he 's dead wrong an’ » best of his ability, but ft only jail with the smalipox—bound to by Or: someh Hop xits ¥ eps his yearnin’ to bh * nothin’ 4 Hop Along. He thinks ams of it by night, an’ at ast rong an taste it. his appreciation for h y grub an’ hungers for the bur- dock greens an’ clam chowder an’ similar heathenish fodder he prairie grass wavin’ in th ninds him a great plerty that the whi a little raid perfious parlor opens up with a g whisky. Directly he begins to pend most of the daytime humped up in a chair in th of his wiewam, * Ww the; like he was try other ight cnoug Of course, h ng by him: as 5 we try to his lonely j use, Ig it don’t touch continns ifulness, bi yearnin’ n't think of not t of voi to smell t hope you'll « won't thir trudged a 3 Grizaly Johns don't’ make differe stan’ the ccean like th his revolver—which w ophet. I offer the > raid the stores an’ see earth some of them thar lol | pinin’ for, on, Who ts makes search. None of rar to Know what lobster we are plumb genial proprietor of th urant makes a discovery rouraged ull the ? says he. ‘I reckon I'm cursed to the indin’ in the picture. } What part of the bur onster is in the ca how? admir appearance none, © Hon, Plunk Ske T don't kin’ poor old Hop with whisky 1 Kinds of snakes, but it shore like playin’ it mighty low down on 9 feed him sech oiycal lookin’ pas this. He r lobster, all » but mebl aderin’ in an’ don't know what he fs talkin’ he durn thing looks like it was Icok: bil says Grizzly Johnson, who, as before, is plenty oid an’ wise. ‘This yere portrait is an ex sy ion got up to deceive the innycent purchaser: a lob- ster is about a foot long an’ fs simply a big salt water crawfish, nuthin’ more “Upon that we tramps off to Hop's shan- ty, cuts the can of reptile open an’ hands it to the sick man. ““Yere is your lobster, old felleg,’ says Plunk, ‘But I'm afraid the cussed ‘thing is spoilt.” “Oh, no, it hain't!" says poor Hop, sniffin’ it similar to a bridal wreath. ‘Ah-h-h-h-h! ‘That smells like the ocean!" ““Smelis tc me a heap more like an at- tack of earache,’ says Plunk, wrinklin’ up his nose. Ah-h-h-h-h! That tastes {Ike the sea! says the sufferer, with a happy smile, when somebody gives him a spoonful of the juice. “Huh! says Plunk, samplin’ it. ‘Tastes med more like your foot was asleep!” al, to make a’short story long, as the feller. says, poor Hop ceases to regard us any more after that, an’ wo leaves him alone, gazin’ lovin'ly at his lobster an’ takin’ a sip now an’ then. Nuthin" of importance happens after that till along toward 3 o'clock next morn- in’, when some stranger that is ridin’ through the settlements hauls up in front of the Buzzard Roost, whur me an’ Plunk an’ others of Hop's comforters is lodged, an’ sets up a yell. ‘Has the gent that resides in the she- bang out at the west end of the street got any friends in this yere wigwam? says he, when the heads an’ guns begin to poke out of the windows. “*A heap more than you haye, when you come howlin’ us out of bed at this un- a timel. hour!’ says I, plenty sourcastie ‘What do you think you want?’ “‘Nuthin’,’ says he, calmly. ‘I'm rich an’ contented. But mebby it will interest that gent’s friends to know that—er—er— any ladies listenin’?” “No. Go on with your sickenin’ story? “Wal, then—the Pit of Tawment ’pears to have broke loose in his house. From what I could gather from the standpoint of a mere passer-by, I jedge that several wildcat: is engaged in skinnin’ your friend “alive, ur else his wife is sorter argyin’ citizen rec to hima gale at sea. He falls completely out of step with his feller men | an’ don’t take no interest in live topies at all He don't even stray arouad wh bout i I to the AL citize hat thar worse worse, an’ we know he'll cither go gib- ' razy cr break aw ovd resolutions an’ stamped. st! “His malady is simply plumb foolish- matters with him—I reckon it’s the latter.’ “Did you go in an’—' “Who, me? Not so's you could notice it! I've been married, myself, a great plenty, an’ have had the pleasure of ridin’ seven miles through a halistorm to git the rim of a skillet filed off from my neck. Unh-uh! When a gent an’ the wife of his buzzom is engaged in determinin’ which is the best man, your old Uncle Fuller jest passes by on the other side. I hain’t no- ways hawty, but I’m a heap smart “Huh! says I. ‘You hain't showed it this time! The gent that lives thar hain’t possessin’ no wife. “IT hain’t testifyin’ whose wife it is that is pourin’ the gad to him,’ says the strang- er, cheerily, ‘but if thar hain’t a good, old- fashioned family row goin’ on in that viller I never had the pleasure of listenin’ to one. Wal, I reckon I'll be ridin’ along.’ “It hain't long till we have piled into our trappin’s an’ rushed off to investigate. ‘The stranger hain’t lied so bad as he might have done, after all. “Sounds like about seven of "em was all jumpin’ onto the poor sick man at once,’ says Plunk, when we gits within a block of the house. “When we broke the door down an’ charg- ed in with our guns in our hands we could see by the moonlight that streamed in through the place whur the deor had been that the room looked as if Hop had been enteriainin’ a cyclone. The furniture was knocked this way an’ that, an’ everything turned wrong side up but the bed. No- body was to be seen, but thar was a scrab- biin’ an’ groanin’ under the bed. ‘Who's thar?’ demands Grizzly. ‘The late Hopkins A. Long,’ says a pain- racked an’ twisted voice. ‘Will you please git a club an’ pound me across the stum- mick about forty times?" “With that, poor Hop slowly an’ sadly emerges from under the couch, walkin’ on his hands an’ feet with his back down an’ his abdoughmen bowed like a drummy- ary’s hump. 1 am glad to see that you are well enough to pl jokes on your friends,’ says Grizzly, plenty grim, as he lit a match an’ at Hop. ‘I reckon this yere is what call a pun, but cussed if I seé the ‘his hain’t no joke,’ Tm Ur-r-r-r-r!’ ome kind soul tears out an’ directly brings Dr. Slade on the dead run, an’ after 4 spell poor Hop is eased an’ quieted, an’ then he explains ‘That thar lobster tastes so good an’ I am so weak an’ homesick,’ says he, feebly, “that T surrounds it all at one session an’ soon drops off to sleep. Later, I'm dreamin’ that I ed a whole’ gosh-blamed n, Which winds up in a says Hop. K about nightmares! I had night elephants an’ night crocckydiles an’ night d is all at the same time, an’ then some! I don’t know what all hap- pen I found myself tearin’ an’ iin’ around the room like a fitty cat in a strange bag. The furniture was upset, the lamp broke an’ the matches lost, an’ I forgot whur I at, which one of the s I was an’ what year it happened to ut thar is one thing I'm certain of, emen; I'm cured! I don’t want to go no more! I have had a taste of the n, an’ one taste is plenty for me—I nt to go st.” tis how Hop Along's homesick- d upon the homypathic prin- don't w HYPNOT _ M IN COURT. A Verdict Pee fn Jury Rendered iar Cireamatances. “Hypnotism,” re:narked the prove: a Star repor “is a most pecular power. A dozen years ago, when hypnotism had not been Trilbyed into its present fame, I Was one of twelve jurymen in a murder al. It was an intelligent jury, too—-” ‘laughed the reporter, “other- ise you would not have been there.” “That's all righ ed the professor, “but our intelligence was of no great value to us. The case was one of murder, in eh the murderer gained a fortune by ir out of the way and taking The trial did not take place fter the death of the vic- : enee was very nearly cumstantial, but it was a re lear of circumstane Well, t wasn't 7 interesting that at any murder xtraordinary, eyes, which were of the one reads of in stories to chill the blood. He did not use them, however, to any extent until all the evidence was in and the attorn began their talk. Then he turned them upon the jury and fastened them there, as if pleading with us to ‘ave him. All the arguments were in by 6 o'clock the first day, and the judge began to charge the jury. All the ‘soul of the prisoner seemed, then, to be in his eyes, and I eo t get my mind on anything | but soner. What the judge was | Saying to be a far-off whisper, | vague and indistinct. Whether the other jurymen were affected as I was I did not know, because I hardly realized that there | Was any one on the jury except myself and | Bat the prisoner was looking at me for nelp. | “had an indistinct idea that he was un- worthy to be saved, but in spite of myself I could not briyg myself to condemn him. Then the jury was sent out, the eyes of the prisoner following until the door was between us. I was the joreman, and as | Soon as we had entered the room’ and sat down I said, ntlemen, the prisoner {s not guilty.” Statement was agsented to without a d nting voice, and in five minutes’ time we were in the box again, and ten minutes later the prisoner was profusely thanking us for a verdict in his M. hen he left the court room quickly, and the jury was discharged. We walked says he. kon T° e dazed. the most peculiar in Son OF That ase suey otras, the | uncomfortable feeling Tevet expe: 5 . ake hone and I went to bed that night feel- BO pach Se Raine in a case of |irg as if I were smothering. Next morn- other BE ie caren haint been able to | ing I was all-right again and I made it a it shet of it since. My patrons hain’t | point to question my fellow jurymen. In proud, but when they seen the picture on | cach case I discovered an experience simi. the c they all said they wasn’t drunk |lar to mine, but we hardly dare say we enough to ulge in ro sech look ars | been hypnotized. That winter a trav- | mint, an’ the last I knowed it was kickin’ | hypnotist came to town, and that around somewhurs unopel put itself in his hands at a private : it out xamines it, | > and every man on it was what is bout thi s| ed a ‘sensiti That settled the busi- Mian one eo | n The prisoner had hypnotized the ed a anit a weet serge some fifteen or twenty fect long, accordin’ | Warited it, Mat hee toe te ee eee | Wanted it but it was not to be retracted, and the vi rdict stood.” — Such is Fame. From the Chicago News. An old celcred man who wheels rubbish cut of alleys in a southside residence dis- trict considers himself pretty well known among the pecple away from whose back docrs he pushes ashes. One morning re- cently one of the gentlemen who employ the African walked out into his back yard and spoke familiarly to the ash wheeler. “What is your name?” he asked, in ad- dressing the colored man. “George Wash- ington,” was the reply. “Washington— | Washington,” repeated the gentleman; “it seems to me that I have heard that name before.” rejoined the African. ‘e been wheeling ashes out of these alleys for "bout ten years.” ————-++ Merely an Advertisement. From the Chicago Post, ‘The paper says that a married woman has been abducted at Hammond, Ind.,” she said. “I don't believe it,” he replied promptly. “I'll bet it’s nothing but an advertisement. They're trying to induce married men to come There to settle, and they can’t tempt me unless they can produce affidavits.” Thea she said he was a “mean thing,” and he chuck!ed softly to himself and started for the club, eee Wife—" to like Husband —‘There’s a slight difference, my dear, between being talked to and Before we were married you used to have me talk to you.” talked at.’ ‘Truth. Broiled Lobsters. ALetter from Their Famous Discoverer. OF INTEREST TO ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE QUESTION OF RESTORED HEALTH. No one ever enjoyed a “broiled live lobste without gratitude to the discoverer of that feast— Von. William D. Park, for years proprietor of the Park Hovse, Boston, and known to thousands as “Billy Park.” An atsolute favorite everywhere, and with a private and public record to be envied, his restoration to health is a smatter for congratu- lation ¢n all sides. How sick he was, and bow he regained health, Mr. Park tells in the following letter, dated Boston, March 24, 1896: Eureka Chendeal & Mfg. Co. atlemen: For two years I was much afflicted with Dyspepsia, Rheumatism and Ge superinduced by an wi for forty yeans. I lind supposed my health was gone beyond recovery but being induced to try Dr. Charcot’s Kola Nervine Tablets, to my rur- prise and gratification, the use of two boxes has Tesulted in the disappearance of Dyspepsia, Rheu- ism and Lassitude. I feel a new man; my ds are sursrised and congratulate me on my recovery to health. I am glad to give you these facts, and beartily commend the Tablets ax mar- velous in their curative properties. WILLIAM D. PARK, Late of Park House. Mrs, Caruline E. Gillhan, late has used the ets, with in Insomnia. excellent results Why should you not receive the same benefits aa aid Mr, Park and his sister, if affticted as they yy Won't it ents and $1.00 per box (one month's trent- See Dr. Charcot's name on box. Kolm free. Eureka Chemical & Mfg. Co., La Crosse, Wis., and Boston, Mass. THEN LECTED ORDER. Much Annoyed, but She Was Prev ed Upon to Overlook It. From the Chicago Tribune. Prosperity appeared in dress and bearing, A woman halted several days ago before a display of china and crystal in one of our large stores, and fixing her eyes upon the slim saleswoman, who stood ready to serve her as far as human power could go, said with some asperity of tone: “I've come to inquire why an order I left here (wo wecks ago last Wednesday was not attended to as promised. The girl at this counter said she would have the package sent out Lue next morning.” “Madam—" began the saleswoman, but nged woman hurried on: “I thought uds store could be depended upon—I'm sure it boasts of being reliable— and so I tock the girl ai her word. She had 4 listless air, and I ought to have had more dzment than to leave an important mat- r with her. It was a pickle jar—som —=s like this one, only handsomer. I or- dered it sent—" “Madam——" again began the saleswo- man. 0, D.”" continued the complainant, deaf to the interruption. “I wished it par- ticularly for dinner use the following da; and I waited for it till the last 1 did not come. It never came. gence I regard as unpardonable. I wouid have reported the matter sooner, but—" “Madam,” began the saleswoman for the third time, while, oblivious for the mo- ment to the needs of customers, sister women on either hand listened with deep interest been out of the city for two the wronged voice would have right of way—“and have just returned. I don't s e girl who took my order. She and a fine color, though, as I've said, she seemed listless. Where is he’s dead," completed the cried the complainant, seeming- d that a shop girl d dare to with an untilled order upon her hand What did she die of?” “Typhoid,” was the brief answer. “It must have been a rapid se,"" ob- served the woman as if skeptical of the diay sis. “It was walking typhofl,” explaine: saleswoman. “That day you saw her last in the store. She couldn't get up the next morning, and when the doctor came he said the fever had been burning a good while. It was too late to do an thing for her. She didn’t give up in ti ¥ ees she couldn't. She was buried y terda, Well,” returned the mollified woman, “that explains the matter. I'm sorry—of course—the girl had to die. What is the price of these perfume bottles?” i the was RAILROAD BLUE ENVELOPES, Discharge Card. From the New York Times. When a railroad employe receives a let- ter inclosed in a blue envelope he gener- ally understands it contains a check for salary due and a note saying his services are no longer required. So the “blue en- velope” has come to be dreaded -among railroad men, and even when the Italian hands see their boss receive a they know that something Regarding the origin of the “blue envelope,” there are many stories. Howard J. Ball of Buffalo, general western passenger agent of the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western railroad, in reply to a question, said: “I have been in railroad service f ty-one years, and the ‘blue envelope’ dates beyond that. The term has been ac opted all my experience as meaning dis- wrong. ‘or thir- ‘There are exceptions to the rale. missal card is not always inclos blue envelope. Some railroad preside velope for all correspondence wth the oflt- clals of the road. President Sloan of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western {s among the number. Of course these en- Velopes are never sent to any one outside of officials. When a conductor gets a let- d in a blue envelope he may his uniform. y railroad men believe that the “blue envelope” originated on the New York Central about eighteen years ago, when there were many discharges. Although the envelope may have been used in this case, it had its origin long before. A dis- i ina ts use a blue en- The story is current that some forty years ago a gang of workmen engaged on the Erie canal, near Schenectady, had for their foreman an {iliterate Irishr who was color blind. This foreman one day rge in sed in a blue e velope. He presented It to a fellow work- mnan to read. The friend had also been dis- , and took great pleasure In reading letter. The Irishman quick ‘Well, be dad, they think less of yez than they does of me. They painted me letther green before they sint it.” Thus it came about that velope” was known on the I is one of the first stories told about {t. There seems to be little danger of the term being forgotten so long as there are rail- road men to be discharged. so Another Penalty of Greatn: From the Chicago Tribune. The gifted but impecugious lterary ge- nius wrote an impassioned letter to a per- sonal friend, asking him in the name of ity to lend him $10 to keep him ing. “I may not get the $1¢ 5 bitterly, as he sealed it, mercenary grande’ for this letter.” ly remarked: the “blue en- ie canal. 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