Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1897, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1897-24 PAGES. ‘® QUEER _ADsUTANT. ABOUT : PROMINENT MEN Am Army Incident Which is Interest= img in More Ways Than One. b 2 “Tt has never been in the newspapers,” | There are threeumen in Washington who remarked the retired army oMfeer, referring | receive mcre mail than any other dozen te something he had been eaying as the re- (tyge ‘These three are Presi- Porter joined the group. McE @enetor Mark Hanna and it must have happened a thousand * Wrason. : ‘McKinley's mail has run over ventured the reporter, who has an | 600 letters #'dgy¥"since His inauguration. {dea that everything worth knowing is to | Before that stima,it was nearly as great. : be found in the newspapers. | Of course it is toywell known to be worth ar sd ame «2 —. . pry ons means death to the policy business, even| “I was just on the point of telling a| repeating that the President’ sees few of y ew ‘ i EC. commodions house at 3 if it ts only half enforced.’ In a couple of | Story,” sald the officer, “of a peculiar hap- | these hurdreds of letters, but it is a funny s fi . “ Berm days the draft was sent to the chairman of | pening which occured some. twenty odd , BO end of amusement the House committee on the District, with | years ago in tana. Mon: To make : pong:the White. House clerks, @ request that it be introduced. All that | dearer ‘ 4 time I was engaged at the Capitol and: oe a pect ct tee postion of-the correspond: knew the members of the committee. I AN INTERMITTENT HEART STOPPED EVERY THIRD BEAT. BUT MRS. STROPE'S HEART NOW NO LONGER LAGS, BUT THROBS RRGULARLY, asked them to urge the passage of the bill, districts, word—“Personal,”" It is either this or : d ; “Two rears ago I had my first experience with and with others I was allowed to address “Private”. The tian or wotmen whocgaiia of, Dr, Witlame: Pink Pills “ora long time Twa the committee in support of it. The last ame subordinate in| either of t tavehe Nattetetnese * a x, SES F Sew soe section of the bill provides a fine for any | command of tMe district. In the depart. be weltes secs sores fc WuSeelanives hates! ; = et ek eee ee one who knowingly rented premises used in | ment are several districts, and in the dis. | 82° sie but my beart did mot beat as it should. traffie 1 icy tickets. + |- | Teached the President’s eyes and have ac- , ventz ” « ection was irregular. the — oe = <ceent toly, Mee are oor cei the soaticunia at plished what they were intended for.| Written Exclusively for The Evenlug Star. much,” contemptuously responded ‘the ne tots, tt suddion cesea- but in a couple of months it did. A few | stance a colonel had been given the distriet | That is ebout all the satisfaction the writ-| Driven te Deception. wearer of the ash-sorinkled vest. “It's days before the bill became a law a well- Iy heart seemed to rest fur the period comi wn in so far apart that | of « peat, thon. of Montana, and as was customery he had | TS ever get. Nearly all these letters <7 A woman with a weary but resolute face a sank pe Mader deen pal len ae two! gas, nnd. chs Feoume 8 ection. known policy dealer, through a real estate | appointed the adjutant of his regiment, a| ffm office hunters, and this is so well Stopped the physiclan just as he was get-| "““rhey-re pretty big drops, though.” quent as. that, but scarcely a day that : Zyening St agent, rented a house which belonged to] West Pointer, by the way, as his acting | known to the clerks that they never think ting out of his carriage. Pshaw! Compared to the real thing, | tiny dit not cocur. “Tt felt as though sometht Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. me. The day after the bill had passed I} assistant adjutant general, whose chiet | Of turning them over to the President. The = ffice,”* id. “1| this shower is nothing but a leak in a | 8°"! strike the beart with great fore “Though there are several fine specimens | was informed that the house was used as a| duty it was to promulgate the orders of his | Mall which is reaily personal to the Pres- ‘Just step into the office,” he said. Ty S it out of place. During that portod of meteorites in the National Museum,” | policy shop and that I was to be proscuted | chief, said orders always being signed: Col, | ‘dent is pretty well known to the clerks, | will be there in a minute or two." wash boiler. By the way, somebody was] Tiny dowh to’ sleep or rest tay hands Femarked a scientist to a Star reporter, | for 9 violation of the law as 2 punishment ; Blank, district commander; Lieut. Bienk, | era he gets this mall. The ‘complishing | “Tt won't take long to tell me what 1| Claiming | that ipter egy ery be wy a Bit" ad eden a | ee =. - | for having assisted Mr. Noyes in securing | acting assistant jutant general; and it ee want to kro she answered. “It ain't] cort of thin I could do nothing which would prevent it. | My “there are not as many as I had antici ned, | was obit; ree, the intention of the writer than if lett off. sort 0 is. gee Ase Mike I pated finding there. Meteorites are neces- | hywbver thas Preclgned Hey ppened. | was sacatcte ot eae Blank to obey thee | Secretary Porter does aot see half of] anything I propose to pay for. I'll ask you} | “I sald that,” came the rather timid con- | fet were, affected, in a ike mater, and ily very scarce, and, though they have | signed the bill, and I immediately called | orders without question. the mass of mail which goes to the office. | the question, and then if you think it’s | fession. : é ¢ | SoH bad possosston of me. sarily very scarce, ” “ There are a number of secretaries under eedn’t ‘Did you ever try a voyage at a great | of aftairs ‘sompirtely upset my been falling from the skies since the be- | Opon cag ps General Coppel sc ore or ane SAR era the new com- Mr. Porter, and they divile the work. No something that calls for cash, you n altitude?” jobs Sulsonn taoreune aeons ares , | partment oft ustice an in forme: im 0} ler an . A. A. G., we began to ¥ ia i answer it.” ” ginning of the world and are constantly | the facts in the case. He sald he would get | notice that the adjciacy Maa queer spelis | Mail, however, is neglected, as it 1s cared falling, bat very few have been found, ‘No. can ay — eT t “ of any rt | mental, which T endure the President to postpone approving the | and acted strangely, but it was not quite | for by somebody, and if a letter cught to ‘What did you desire to know I thought not. If you had you wouldn't Pe ” 33 and often T was compelled from sheer ex- c e me ing as hypnotism?” | make any such assertion. ect y bury themselves dec | law until I had time to serve notice on the | enough to cause alarm, and we gave it no| © seen by the President, whether he is ‘Is there any such thing = z haustion to ett down during the day to obtain spp ees arid ep orem estes | LL my house. I had| great amount of thought until one day he | Personally Interested or not, he will sec it.| «certainly there is.” ‘A number of years ago I went with a v some respore. But as soon as 1 did so I felt that Btrange as It may appear, there are more | the, notice Sexved in an hour and so in- | left the post with s detail of men, a tour- | THe clerks know their business, und would | stot any good? ince for storca His boat was a small | fwttese stints oe az ymaaed fet. and oe eorites to be seen in the | formed the Attorney General, who then | mule team hauling their stuff, and driving | BOt think of keeping ‘ven a dcubt| “A great deal depends on what you mean | P:2 STS ST PS ern, Prag ee ee oval Museum in Vienna than in any, or. | called on the President and got his SE Te [Leet te oe aecenmnent noe fonaticomecoues Splook et | py that” affairs ever built. We saw a storm com- | "Ove day my con, who was tecping © Geng store - . If y into any trouble | and mules. e colonel commanding > e f at the time, brought me home some of Dr. - indeed, in all, of the American museums. | of the bill. ‘If you get left t — “What I mean ts, will hypnotism en-| ing, and in spite of our efforts to run away | tthe time, brousht me howe sowe, of Dr. Will Se eerie neta ate wart Gan TATierts | tatoraeel men towtlifseteces ter eotentaners lecueie ciate ‘Siecr in command | Senator Hanna's mail is nearly as great | avis te person who has learned how to do] from it, it overtook us, Talk about rain! | ("i / ik Pils for Pale Hoople and advised me Se ee eee eee en cicotr Tau al | Elie: poten: Seon EEE eee TIRE Ree nothing to say be-| #° President McKinle: It js claimed | the trick, to shake his hands in front of | What we encountered there was a perpen- | (o,"te,tnem for my heart troahle. | 1 did o and can museums have a sufficient fund on PGE RIS: Rate ein ined thes semained wa! cause: the adjutant showed him the orders | that it is larger, as many people write to | another person's eyes a few times and then | dicular river, My friend stayed on deck to | two months, and they certainly cared me. for hand to purchase thei ‘The Buroean | ow = 2 pet of the district der to the effect that | Mr. Hanna who think they might get at-| make him believe anything that he chooses, | see that we didn't run into anything, and | now my. hea Tegularly and all) mumboces and, have plenty | it three months without paying me a cent commander to the effect that & = d by him. Ina few min- | bas disappeared and my circulation is in splendid Museums, on the other hand, e Dl a d during the last month I had | he take such a detalfl and the stock and go | tention from him when they couldn’t from | no matter how ridiculous it is? I, of course, stocd by him. In a a foe of money and outbid American museums | o! ean CoTaa pare teelrer eho policy | on an expedition to the th to deliver | the chief executive. Every letter which| “Within certain limitations that can be| utes I realized that if something wasn’ Ietot the sbove, taping Men. Strope's ex- Ea et pte oem etre) (er a Sond tr eer enone ‘any of us | £088 to Mr. Hanna is answered. ‘Tho sen- | accomplianod- : done we'd drown right in our tracks. I | perems mny he beabcial ke sth who" tea su very general desire among foreign Berra eene cascport UeviBwD at the post knew, and whatever we may | tor employs half a doxen stenographers | “Could T learn it?’ waited my opportunity, and, presently, from derangement of the heart. Ge eh etre rns] Nae POS i have thought of it, {t was none of our busi-| 20d- typewriters. His private xecretary | «fm afraid not” When a big wave came along and tilted the | ‘Dr. Willa Pills contain, tm a condensed ir fice Sy Ce ce eee ere ate New Yorit avenue one day last | ness to question orders which were as plain | Teceives $4000 a year salary, $1,000 more} “Well, then,” she reped with a sigh,” I| boat up so that the deck stood at an angle form, all the slements necessary io give mew other things as well as meteorites. It aareati : and regular as apparently were those the | than the senator receives in his official | reckon I'll have to hire-it done. That| of about forty-five degrees, I turned the aod _richocs to the sol sal restore, qatar Seemed, like a contradiction of things for | week, when the weather had turned warm. | 2nd Tesular as apparen sre evna Bim the case Of the President, | being the case, I'm ready to talk business | ergine loose for all there was in it. 1] Bees.” ‘They aro yy me to have to go all the way to Vienna | 4 pretty woman was passing along near a “Nearly three weeks after the adjutant’s | Mr. Hanna does not see or handle a large | with you. How much will you charge to} gianced at my friend. He was white as a | Vito, dance, sciatica, neuralgia, — rheamatiam, oon ee te ieee ay study and | SPOt of grass when she began to dance and | departure the detall of men ano thie fnui: | proportion of his malt aithnaes the ee do a small, tidy job of hypnotizing for me?"| sheet, but he grasped my hand in token | nervous headache, the after citer’ of ie gp Set peaticatanty Se mente ee ee | acxcaus al tit abi Gf ee eke acs | mm ae ee the post in com-/ “personal” is freely beaprinkled in the] “You will have to apply to some one| of his approval of what I was doing. It | pilpitetion ut tee woes’ pale and sallow complex on the came foc & wousees Wee | Seren P . : FOF the sergeant, who reported that he | COfrespendence. “Senator Hanna's mall is | else. I do not profess any powers in that| was a desperate chance, but it turned out | fons, all forms of weakness, clther tn mnie of fec renee men ran to her side and pleaded with her | Mand of the sergeant, cg fhill, a I had honed. The boat began to rise | Male. Pink Pills are sl by all dealers, or will tution.’ F been ordered by the adjutant to return chiefly from importuning office seekers and | direction,” was the rather chilly answer. | as oped. e is x be sent postpaid on recelpt of price, 50 cents a a to tell the cause of her worr$. In sobs, and | to the post with the men and team ond he , thelr friends. “All right. Maybe then you can give| steadily and swiftly on a slant. It was a “In the way of salaries the chief brew- | still prancing, she pointed to the grass, and ers of many of the leading beer breweries | there lay a little snake, not over ten inches . - ‘ix boxes fi 50, by addresst Dr. f me the address of a first-class hypnotizer.” | time of horrible suspense, for we didn't | Way Ore boxes for $2 Bim egy Fe 3 would report later. This was the extent o r benectady. z Mies * me further inquiry, | wmense cerrespondence. He has receivei — = in this country.” observed a prominent | Jong. It was trying hard to’ wiggle away | ¢d we Seyelopent themn herein faci | an average of 432 letters daily since he “Nothing that I ever heard of. Anyhow, | wheels wouldn't take hold of. But we got frem the disturbance. One brave man rush- tae Winget precious, and I don’t want to lose time on} in utter exhaustion. When we recovered . ani fesscrs. Indeed, an expert brewer of repu- as he went along to any one who would | S#lary as a United States senator. The she a ack ay y <. ve “long com: Une and now I'm willing to pay anybody} expcrienced anything more dreary than | RO MO. Qne day nex’ week “long y brick and a stone and struck the lifeless | train, and he had kept going as long as his |£tate that constituents in every portion my own knowledge, get from ten to tweive —o mus” Medicine Company, sel the official report, but some of us conclud-| , Senator Mason is the third man wit! re you sure nothing else would an- pow what minute the craft might strike brewer to a Star reporter, “far exceed those that the adjutant had proceeded south for | Came to Washington, and the cost of an-| we're honse-cleaning. Every minute is| safely to the top and both sank to the deck up and dealt it a blow with his umbrella Fed S ~ experiments. I've managed to get my two} sufficiently we took a survey of our sw. An’ de man, he looked pow’ ful tation can command any amount of money | €4 it, but the man continued to belabor the | purchase at any price he could get the | Jolly, big-hearted and big-brained junior ‘ : : c -% . ~ . 2 that can do it a fair price to hypnotize| the impression made by the tremendous | 2&t man; ‘cross de bridge; lean ovuh; los’ reptile with each. Still another rode up on | stock lasted. As soon as the supply was| Write him asking for favors. It is a te: swer?” thin spot in the storm that the p = — = often ‘nough ter think of the average college presidents and pro- two weeks at a very leisurely pace, selling | SWering this is sutficient to eat up his The blow broke the snake’s neck and kill- say he bet he ain’ gwineter ack dat 1 boys to put the parlor carpet over the] rovt.cings and I give you my word, I nev is the Par Many of them, to reptlie. Another man rushed up with a| horses and mules he had with him in his | Senator from: Illin is so popular in his the way of salary. Ma fe : ance; losh! t Y them and make them believe they’re out] exparse of vacancy which met our gaze Pal espera nnges Ls a righ! thousand dollars per year, and their em-/| a bicycle and whecled across the quivering | exhausted the detail was ordered back to | timorial to his popularity which few sena-| in full view of the grand stand, with the} on all sides. After a few hours of it I “aetigr ap aheer diem 8 I aoe ployers would rather double their salaries | Teptile several times. Notwithstanding the | the post. tors have, although few would care to be man Bcore & Go eat thine toeit on bases Sad Rt | would have gives = fortes for the eight | oo ne ce Seen snak. Was nearly chopped to pieces, it] “On this information the colonel, on his} bothered with popularity of that descrip-| that parlor carpet is a base bail, coming] of a few telegraph poles or the sound of Wait a minute. Yoh ain't hyuhd de wiggled its tail a last time. The woman | return a few days later, made an investiga-| tion. All these letters are answered, too, | hot from the pitcher sixty times a minut a train boy peddiing cranges.” “fhe brewers of whom I speak are as @ | screamed and pranced again, and the men | tion of the adjutant’s books and papers | and many of them are «lictazed by the sen- t * “How did you get down?” asked one of | S72. Sy Gomme tp asin; went Gowp, ouane Tule highly educated chemists, as well as | once more rushed to the attack. Next a| and of those officers who had furnished | ator himself. More men come to Washing. the group. than lose their services. Senator 3 Sane ; : " come up agin. Stahted’ down vers. While they give but little atten- | ™4n drove up with a heavy wagon and roll- | him with all he took away with him, and | ton to ses tor Mason than any other The Bulbul on War. “We didn't bother about that. After | awhile an’ < = gy An Hpac 9 wers. le > hele weak, | €@. the wheels over what was left. it was discovered that every man who had | senator. except the Ohio man, They all} 7 am aware,” writes the Bulbul of Po-| Playing reven-up till we wot tind of tne they hone Ranenat coneetson nat cnet | «qs. tt dead row?" she demurely cried, as | anything in charge that the adjutant went. | want him teveo te the vine Hone watt they have general supervision of each e drivin’ ‘crost de bridge got up on top “ game, we turned in, and when we awaken- | WUS ariv “= e mabe oF ce she walked away, protected by the brave | ed to complete his expedition. could show | them, and he does it. ‘They have become | Dick, “that a great deal of Boot peo ben €d it was broad daylight. We found that | Cr iS wagon an tumbled a bale o' hay brew that is made in their establishments. | men who had r'sked their ilves for her. & proper order for the same duly signed by | acquainted with his genial and helpful | Wrote about the war in Europe. But there] as the storm subsided we had sunk gently ‘An’ whut did he do?” ‘They p2ss upon the malt, the hops and all “Well, I ruther think so,” said a country- | the district commander and by the acting | diepositicn, and frequencly take advantage | are many ways of doing the same thing, } until we were drifting in sunshine_and “He looked up sl eps it $ man who had stood by and watched the | assistant adjutant general. Everything | of it. and T do not hesttaie to claim that nobody | safcty on the broad, placid bosom of Lake | ,,,H¢ looked, up at de gemman on. ee eee ee Nae on | bool thing with vat amntist ont histiraraed | wasildone resulaniy: sear etaccites tore | werenident MoKinley really Ukes to see| nas yet wrote on the subject in the way | Eile.” ty, Spe can be used, as also upon the water. A reckon ft cum ter town on a load | subordinate who had received any orders | Senator Mason! Not long azo the President eee, be seen from whet| 49d you say you don’t believe in any deg brewirg is a very expensive undertaking, hay,” he said, “‘but I’m inclined ter | from the adjutant had hastened to obey | asked Senator Mason to tell one of his ave es) nay, n fz such thing as an air ship?” queried the 2 = ‘i c " . Which goes ter prove,” aor ine, cbutation of their brews of beers | think it will never get back ter ther coun- | urtil all he needed had been turned over | stories. ‘The senater responded ty telline | follows, which I have entitted, man with the white vest, quietly. a eet —_ Carp dewagt oad depends upon the formula which they use, | try. My, it's funny how many city folks it | to him, and the whole hed been duly au-|a story which convulsed the Preside DOWN WITH THE TYRANTS! Af course not. And what I have just | Us, See fuPrs "henge de uature ob or @s well as their profit. I have known of | takes to'kill a little snake.” thenticated, Nor was it forgery exactly, | with laughter. It illustrated the fact that | Oh, Isles of Greece! Oh, Isles of Greece! | told you goes to show thet it wesley bone blame fool by fillin’ "lm ap wif quotations” chief brewers costing their employers ———_ for the adjutant was very nearly acting | the ple which the President had to dis- Where burning Sappho loved and sung; | lonesome and undesirable institution if we * twenty to thirty thousand dollars per year | Written for The Erening Stai within his powers as far as signing his | tribute won’t go around by a long odds. It} _, . | had one.” ** by the miscaiculations they made, for the ee chief's name was concerned, anyhow. was this: T'll sing your praise in war and peace “Maybe it does,” was the reply. “May- An Admirer of Shakespeare. Srows ubsctl commplgied wacaaer onion tne Love Ere Too Late. “Then the colonel and everybody else} Pat. McCarthy wave a dinncr, to which | With all my heart and likewise lung. be it does. Anyhow it has impressed one standard, and had to be disposed of at | From the German of Ferdinand Frefligrath. made an effort to find the adjutant, who | he invited three or four of his neighbors. | 1 hope, gentle reader, you will excuse great lesson that I shall never forget. And | The small, quiet man, with the giasses gold- greatly reduced prices, bearing no label, so “0 lieb so lang du lieben kannst.”* had disappeared as completely us if the| Pat. had allowed his wife to cook only one The liberty of mentioning Sappho, took by | that is that there is no need of a man’s bound, that the brewery could not be held respon- garth had swallowed him. Nothing came | chicken. When dinner was served Pat the muse; setting the worst of any argument, if he} 31a @ smile that was pensive and kind; sible for its shortcoming. The slightest © love as long as love you can, of it, however, and his army and home | took possession of the carving knife, and | wepecialy as you must all agree, can only get the upper hand of his con- For he views great events, as time brings jecror: taizuil ther: wintallnen.| arten rome: And love as long as love you may; friends had given the case up in despair, | in © most hospitable ione said to’ Mrs. | ppb oan, 28 you 2 were not wrote by me. | Science, and think in a hurry.” Phe foie the hentreds of thecnaad gotcar tenn The hour will come, the Lour will come when one day at a post in Arizons, nearly | Dugan: Iam painfully aware some people say Ss ae aitaiuve. ta caney.ieueea aude encums tn ‘When you shall mourn o'er lifeless clay. two years afterward, a leutenant who had | ‘What part of ther fowl will yox have?” | ‘That Sappho did not always behave in a ** With a calm,-philogyphical mind. beer is worl off into country places and just arrived at the post met an enlisted ‘A leg if yez plase,"-was the answer. ladylike way. An Interloper’s Apology. And thé ha: that he waars in {ts fashion ts ;80ld in irregular ways, while only the ‘Take care to keep your heart aglow Somewhere about the place who seem-| “An’ what. part-will yes have? Would | put of aeat-clece poems she wrote a few, The papers read before a scientific asso- old, $atandard becr is sold to the city trade. And love enfold, and love uphold -| £4 like some one he knew. He watched | yez loike some av ther white?’ Pat in- So it must be admitted, even by the most | ciation had been of an unusually abstruse | ana hs Spak tis Dalaba waka: € “Wine makers aiso draw fabulous sala- As long as you can find a heart the man for a few minutes and then went | quired of, Mrs, O'Hooligan. ‘ proper, of whom I hope I am one, that - A : wd perpen tes Cr eea Mintranaeers exinmedsoreay efter him. He at once called the soldier by |“““‘An’ @ leg ‘Will do ime.” she anewerta. some good she did do. ‘ character that evening, and the comments | But he dreads any change; for its pockets wine maker to get from five to ten thou- the name of the adjutant, wiio had been} as each unstterea the part of the fowl | She lived a great many years ago, on them more than ei just hold sand dollars per year. I know of a dozen And when one bares his soul to you, his classmate at the academy, and the ad-| she desired was’ given Her. And may be slandered, for aught we know; | Ordinarily _ technical Some books that are faded and torn. California vineyards who pay their prin. Do what you can to make him glad, jutant responded, but could only very | “What part will yez have, Moike Walsh?” Let the mantle of charity cover her in| nd profound. But a cipal wine makers five thousand dollars a| ‘That all bie dase mey be at ence saat explain hy, he had “disappeared, | Pat blandly inquired of his neighbor. these versifications, SS year. Of course, there is only one of these ‘And esl Pia enone end stranger still why he hal gone back} “01 balave Of will take a leg. too,” said | Not to mention the statute of limitations. | @0 obscure corner He laughed at the jest and applauded the Sightpriced: men jahont the clase wie Rot an hour of Bis be and. course ene ey 22,5 Private soldier. Of | Motke, in his most modest way, wishing to | Oh, gallant. gentlemen uf “Greeee oni | close to the door is. ; song making is attended b piaifficuliies, course (ihe leutenant at once had an in-| follow in the footsteps of the rest of the ” ladies, too, tenad with close at- \ That echoed to fellowship's call; Ee eee bent ponte Piven tafe thm And guard your tongue and temper wells vestigation set on foot, which resulted in | company. Some words of cheér I would fain send to| tention to all that Nor shrank from the banter that passed fig ee a LO An angry word is quickly spoken; @ private hearing, which further resulted |" “Bogorra,” sald Pat to Mickey, “what ok was said. All the i i thepagh hee tegen: Me Gaeta tat ei demented man to his home. Over halt of the letters which go to the | They ere gencrously given, even though | him as a guest invite pai ree gered ace are agrees ae en — fob a o ie Cpe and © love as long as love you can, “At last accounts, which was two years| White House are answered in @ stereo- they do not happen to be what is| ed by some other Let every man, gray beard or youth, Ty carefully studied. Then the moon is And lore ns long as love you may; ego, he was still ving, and though not to | typed manner. For instance, the lettses to needed most. member, and, @s a Mrem:hinsout sit the ehtab ok aenmtibes _ pened. to: ay an ee ene varts of The hour will come, the hour will come Say crazy. was beyond any question very | applicants for office run‘ something like | Let us never forget as our friendly en-| matter of fact, he sees ‘ail oe — - = bat iitle ce caste, ree ‘When you shall mourn o'er lifeless clay. Gecidedly off, so tha: it is probably just as | this: “The President directs me to say couragement we bring, was an entire strang- And boldly acknowledge the truth!” iisinade= AW’ the tatters ne well that a verdict of insanity was return-| that ke has received your application” | ‘That sympathy does not cost anything. er to everybody. He oe y 3 caller ‘whies cau: te toma eee ‘Then shall you kneel down by the grave fd and Uncle Sam shouldered the loss of | etc, and then follow a. few courteous | Oh, Athens, glorious, classic town, never joined in the And the rollicking bachelor wished for « and it is for this reason that clases spit hide your sad and tear-stained eyes his horses and mules in silence. words. The letter is printed, the type be- ] You are a city of inueh renown. Ee applense, but bis =e ane sells y it me’er again a = in near like thi a rh relations there to visit em woul wi ivary- ee be ORS ee te A Matter of Language. toydacelvelanyboaylexeentiaaresccnttel| ieee ingly respectful and attentive. One of the} ANd the spouse for his freedom onoe e or a champagne. He : At @ Washington hotel last Sunday a |letters are signed “John Addison Porter.” | ‘Though I'd rather be in Athens, Ohio, just | members, in a spirit of hospitality, stopped ia kanaarnay Soeke ies Bite Meese es to produce a wine without | And ery: © look from heaven on me Star reporter dined with a St. Louis friend | This is a fac simile of the secretary's sig- at present. 2 him before he could get out of the door. And the sailor for home and the shore. color. Shouid he fail in getting o colerion Who weep in sorrow here below; ives! nature, and is printed, like the balance of | We owe the land ef Grocee very much; Glad to see you here again, Mr.—I must | some chvied past here far aentdens of wine he turn the whole thing inte | Fouts @at Tees Geran Sa eee ee oat oeseteo arg twas Fears | tsa tiar Tho aumUmlne lenin ran neem Tee Chee otee One ee forgotten ycur name en clitetiaualthaa’savelkinece aero DOs a Gast ei and was then on his way home. As might | the applicant receives this letter. if he is cian bend and such. “Barker is my name,” he answered, with | 4 f9™@ (uist dnkn ehiseke beds Sena loss. The same way the various failures Sea be supposed, the St- Louis man had been |in Washington, he Is delighted. He thinks | Then three cheers for the Greeks—yet I avon Deve been a rere eee rie aant | AB they sought Sis confession with, Jomal to obtain sherries, port and other wines, He cannot see, nor hear, nor come over on the other side long enough to be- | that the President has personally read his nap, Confess ¢ ones ees it-they fiat bas) ee ier ‘egular attendant acclaim where color is not an objection, can be ‘To meet your glad embrace; ah, no; come acclimated, so to speak, and he was | #Pplication and is ‘giving it especial atten- | With more intelligent . turned into clarets if all other brands do ‘The mouth that kissed you oft says mot: “°Twill sure be a strange one!” they said. Love, I forgave you long ago! Il thelr names 0 queer. “Yes. I took the liberty of dro} In rather inclined to have fun in a mild way | 10m. Newspaper men at the White House eS een Ene e speed re 5 idne » to the desired result. In the with American visitors who were still de. | equently have candidates pull out these | My heart is with them, as I think of those | now and then. So long as I didn't cmate as well as in California, some Athoriontiess letters and show them with great gusto throngs any Cisturbance, X thonght you woulda’t | N° gue, tess than I~ he replied, “lowes the wines are now being made. The | He aid forcive you! bat his ¢ “A small incident amused two or three | #8 Persoral letters from Secretary Porter. | Merrily ee aera “You are taterested in science, then?” That & great man’s effulgence may lend; attempts to make champagnes, however, Fell oft because of words you sald; of us immensely one day at a railroad sta- SS TOTO ASU OTe enarete Naeisoat fan es; In a way.” ioe None more fears the treacherous currents are not as numerous as they were. The But now ‘tis well. Be prarad ticn in Liverpool,” he said after telling Queen Olga’s Philanthropy. golf, and bicycle riding, and other re you a student of any particular dearpiread high-salaried wine makers are usually id cached adi ae oe several stories. As you may be aware, ee eninigstwer seal : branch ; Where jests o'er the wine cup ascend; brought over from the famous vineyards = pee Oa almost the first peculiarity a traveler ob- | FT0™ the Chleago Inter-Ocean. ‘And not allow war to become what is cat-|" “No. I must confess that I'm not. Yet s tavern—the Mermaid—I see, far away of France, and are always employed for a Olovelan long as tere serves in England—and every American | The Queen of Greece is at the head of eaca tan: “Why, in that case a great deal of what And I =n i —_ — to poly season. jong 25 love you can, in England {s primartly a traveler—is the | an association of women whose object is Although for vengeance I do not thirst, is said here must be unintelligible to your” | 4,S!@88 with the poet for to the play ‘The beer brewers are employed by the And love ax long as lore you may; universal use of tho word ‘luggage’ for | the moral regeneration of criminajs. They | Pncoe that the aniten will cet the worst “It is. To tell you the honest truth, 1| 3¥,,the comrade ‘twas theirs to call year, for beer making can be conducted ‘The hour will come, the hour will come what the majority of Americans call ‘bag- | ‘"® ™9r z Z Li aaransi danderatanatahen ia iaivenarel GanAne tenon trilobite from a petrified ‘will. successfully eight months in each year When you shall mourn o'er lifeless clay. gage, and further, the use of the word | frequently visit the inmates of the prisons | Of it. For I unde crawfish. I don’t believe that I could dic, a With the wine maker he has but two —l. S. PERKINS. | ‘bag’ where the majority of Americans | in Athens, giving them religious instruc- Which does not strike me as praiseworthy | tinguish, with any degree of confidence, Mariiage Certifieate Store. Taiins..'" @ year to make his success or Sea would say ‘grip’ or ‘satchel.’ tions and a sympathetic attention to their or humorous. between a chunk of Jurassic rock and «| From the New York World. failure. The Stranger From Abroad. 50 much tox pretece = Now,-among the | woeg.(ghiols also) famous|for ‘her skilliin | Bupnesine that more than one man X werel pimne er tastes *e# *¢ * & Fr the arrivals at Liverpool about six weeks ago to marry; “And yet you enjoy yourself?” There is a second-hand bookseller in 6th “One of the things which force themselves | ©™ the Detroit Free Press. was an American from Chicago, or a Chi- | fancy needlework, and creates the most For bigamy in jail I would certainly tarry. | “Immensely! I heard about what you| venue, not far from 14th street, who Dhevee aeeiman,” explained a dealer in| | AS @ learned professor tells this one on | cagoan from America, as he would prob- | curious and beautiful articles. ‘The Queen ‘And go to be thankful I endeavor Were doing, and I couldn’t resist the temp- | ought to get rich if he makes the samme bicycle sundries to a Star reporter, “com | Bimself tt must be given full credit: ably put it, who seemed to think this En- | of Portugal is more frivolous, having the risks whatever. | tation to ym hear sel! the remain: 1 “Partly to appreciate Detroit hen | slish custom was a reflection on his En- | reputation of being the “most dressy” lady | Thet I am not running any Rancinasiontees eoen tnt qe nat help | [Rise Of Droait on grander stantly is the price charged for lamps. We | , cpt ‘some rete. | elish, and when he went into the station |in Wurope. Her pale complexion ead sae, Oy repeating my visits, even at the risk of be, | 2&SS 25 he does in selling marriage cer- Srblenat, eee one cise Know it is ex- | came back, and partly to vistt some rela-| Sih, and when he went into the station | in i hair permit any colors, and she often A Thrilling Excursion. ing treated with indignity as an intruder. | tificates. A customer in his book store the orbitant, but there is no relief from it. | Uves. I went dowh into New Jersey last Liverpool, he met an Englishman journey- | eppears in astonishing costumes. The| , - Neve there is any such thing | I hope there will-be no objection to my | other night overheard two bits of conver- The men who sell the lamps do not get | $€a80n. Riding over the Camden and Am- | ing in the same direction, who made mat- Princess Waldemar of Denmark ranks ‘I don’t believ: ws ho | Continuing to sit quietly in this corner, for | sation which were highly interesting. First all the money. Indeed, taking the cost for | DY one day, I went into the smoker to en- aac for the Chicago man, because imiong the most fashionable of royal ladies. | as geo eters yippee ree ere sleet you don t know what a glorious, blissful | a woman came into the store and asked if repairs. making lamps good, and tinkering | J0¥ the one weed I allow myself in twenty- | the peep eres aan ee wae “iWclssen pee. => of the hotel and who| and women whooeen na pany cf amen | ne had @ blank marriage cerdficate, He generally, there is less profit to us for the | f0Ur hours. It was pretty well crowded, | there ahead of the Anvrinnn. = nee was allowing cigar | again and talk besides | £2id that he had just “one or two left,” lamps we sell than in the other things used | 20d I found a seat by a rather ordinary “ ‘Very good,’ said the Englishman, after | From the New York Tribuve. ry, Y] ashes to drop on his | bicycles.” and also remarked to her that they were by riders. There is no business reason ered aaa who — aoe for me = aeierine sable: with Lorene a There is a little woman wearing gold- Wp, vest. ae * very hard to get. E why a d bie: ente! ito conversation. It was bag - who, -/ “But people ve x * “How much?” she as he show AA ee a a | ae ee ee ee ey eee ee oneneeneey mil Ui Bz soon itt” expostulat- A Misleading Proverb, yan Diank ‘tecord of ail the way from $3 to $5, for the finest of t out of the way and gave place to the | resign’ @ position she has held for thirty ~ > ed him if he was doing America. got 4 ed the man who! Uncle Eben had taken @ book out of house lamps, with chimneys and decorated “* “Been tryin’ to,’ he laughed, ‘and had | American. yeara. It was a position that Gen, Grant | , Q wears long red side-| picka: ‘Jim's he said, and she globes or shades, can be bought for much | bl far. “Zhat's all right, said the American | gave her and that Sheridan and Sherman ] Lif whiskers on his head anny hand and was turning I The with a Star-Spangled-Banner wave cf his g f his feet, | the leaves with close attention. ler ess money. The makers of the high-grade to the man in charge, ‘I'l just take | Kept for her. She has handled every tm- Y and spats on his =A r bookseller re- lamps started out with a stiff price and. a Tepalug with ine Sad lett ayebeoraaees | poctaal: Gasman Wat ten army training me, The other members reckon I knows why yoh come “long though there are some signs of weakening | made a flyin’ trip over some of them bloody | my lug wi ‘See? be quick about ¢ eat to th rid, She is ti the Curbstone; yere makin’ all dat ‘splay o° dis book,” they maintain their prices. This taing | States down there,” and he laughed again. |in the van. And be ai quarters sent 01 © Wo! 1e ( said he. “De las’ time I hyuhd ‘bout yer was impressed on me very farcibly last “He seemed good natured and I asked Miss Blanche Berard, the postmistress of 4 readin’ yoh wus hangin’ ober Season, when there were about 2,000-wheels | him his impressions of America. West Point. The post: 2 = a story whah sold here at auction. They brought all |‘ ‘She's all right, he sald. ‘I'm doin? a predecessor lage of West Point has been held by a “Which simply goes | 9°Y done scuttled er ship ebry yuthuh the way from $16 to $33. Another auctipn | ittle impression work over here myself,’ Berard for nearly two-thirds of a century. “ to show,” was the| Page. I spose yoh wants me ter notice house sold a large lot of a different make | Still chuckling. “You see,’ he went on, ‘I’m After sixty-two ‘¥ears it goes into alien a reply, “that we are | dat dishere book hab mo’ good advice in at prices ranging from $25 ‘to $40. To a | @ blacksmith’s striker, and I'm strivin’ to hands. “Miss'Btarithe,” as every one calls living in an era of| it dan a shad has bones” man or woman who had béught a whole | make a hit or two. i'm some on sledge- her, is tired -and-wants to live quietly adulteration. Nobody | «x lear: . new bicycle for $20 It was difficult tp ex- | hammer blows, and there's sometimes bel- with her cats;theeirds, her old. spinning | ever saw things like that before they got ‘3 done learn er heap fum dat book, plain why a lamp should cost from $2 to | lows to mend when I get very busy.’ | wheel and her plano She has never had | to making chemical laboratories take the | '@Plied the boy, earnestly. “I knows some $. Taking the price for the lamps sold “I couldn't quite make the man out, but @ blunder egainst her, and if | place of distilleries. What do we ‘want | &F ft by h’aht.” for use in the house as a factor in the cal- | put him down as an eccentric Englishman she has ‘an ener “West Point would like | with an air ship, anyhow?’, “Lemme hyuh yer speak it.” culation, I think that 50 cents should be | of good intentions and gave him myecard condemned, to know ‘who it ts, ~ ; “Bcientists say it’s bound to come,” ven- price enough fo- any bicycle lamp on the | as I left him, asking him to see me if he t+ ge — tured the proprietor of a white vest and market. The difficulty in the case, how- | ever came to Detroit. He said that he had a pleated shirt bosom. ever, is that the makers of the bicycle | no card, but told me that his name was . “Of course scientists tell us it's coming. Jamps think otherwise. And there you | Fitzsimmons, | Scientists have families to support, “No. But 1 a@re. - 2 ” Aire ee aesaine } same as other poeple, and it’s their ‘busi- | rect foolish: ‘Phe policy and lottery business in this | men’ owes its Cownfail more to the efforts of the late Henry O. Noyes than to any or all other men combined,” volunteered a gentleman who was interested by him in the movement, which took a couple of years to successfully carry it into effect. “Mr. Noyes reported the Police Court proceed- ings for The Star for a number of years. He saw hundreds of policy runners and Backers arraigned in the courts who man- aged to secure acquittai for the reason that there was rot sufficient law to convict them. The police and other authorities knew this, but took no special efforts to secure the passage of a law which would stop the business. One morning a policy ase Carac up in the Police Court and, iike the others, it was dismissed because law then in existence did not cover tt. ‘te less than a half hour Mr.*N drafted Freshman—“I would 1 statutes. So as to be it was strong "Exa is nothing sure was Sfough he asked Judge Snell, who was then scalp you don’t the Court judge, to examine it and ks." give him an opinior on it. Judge Snell 2 7 it lg nero and ae ad- an ad. in The io'Sim ana Sad a hie oes RSE pico Nothing on the Face. elt ike to get shaved, hil Wi E Li rise