Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1898, Page 14

Written for The Evening Star. “The last day of the year never comes around without reminding me that I am indebted to @ kind Providence for being alive.” said a well-dressed gentleman at the St. James a few evenings ago. “And how so?” asked another gentleman who had been an attentive listener to the conversation. ‘Il escaped the Ashtabula disaster ‘by the skin of my teeth,’ to use an every-day expression. At that time I was traveling for a Rochester house and my territory embraced the towns along the south shore of Lake Erie. “On the day of the disaster I was call- ing on some friends, who were customers of mine in Erie, Pa. I had given up work for the holidays, and, instead of jumping back to Rochester, was putting in the time to suit myself. “My friends in Erie had exacted a prom- fse that I should spend a day or so with them, and I was fulfilling the promise. About noon I made up my mind to go to Cleveland, where I intended remaining un- til after the new year festival, before starting into work again. “I left an order to have my trunks go on the afternoon train, and, as it would be an hour before the train was due, I «cheerfully assented to enjoy a sleigh ride with one of my hosts. It was this sleigh ride that saved my life. We drove out five or six miles on a good stretch of road west of the city to a little place called by the people of Erie ‘the head,’ named so because it is the head of the bay. “The time passed swiftly and when 1 looked at my watch I was astonished to find that I had only about twenty min- utes to catch my train. My friend whipped up the horse and we sailed right along over the snow, he occasionally giving me the comforting reassurance that there was plenty of time. “When we got within about a half mile of the depot we saw the smoke of the locomotive as it was pulling the train out. The engine puffed and steamed in the frosty air, the speed was accelerated, and _final- ly the train passed from sight. While 1 bemoaned that I had been left, little did 1 think that the train was at that moment hurrying along to such an awful fate. “| went back to the home of my friends. Several times that blustering evening did members of the family suggest that I was just as well off. When I retired that night I found a hot soapstone at my feet. Still <I felt that I ought to have made that train. “It was not until the next morning that I learned of the awful wreck at Ashta- bula. My heart leaped into my throat when I thought of what a narrow escape I had. My trunks were on the ill fated train and were burned up. That day I went to Ashtabula, on my way to Cleveland. Such an awful sight I never want to see again. SDo you think I ever forget when the anniversary of that event rolls around? Not much. It was more than a year be- fore my nerves recovered from that shock.” The gentleman who related this story es M. Wilson. He has for many years lived in Chicago, and is one of the best known commercial drummers in the country. we Ke KE Every one of the great army of Kingsley- ites will welcome this new story of the im- fortal Reverend Charles. It has never, I ““félieve” been printed. It comes from an English lady, whose country residence was qokRder, bis spiritual care, and at whose ta- ble he. was. ihgrefore a frequent . guest.” ® The good man's well-established habit of talking much about things of which he krew little is the cause for the story. He had a habit, particularly at dinner tables, of holding the guests agape with minute Mories about the inhabitants of Mars or the fishes of Kamschatke. All of this wailed except on such unhappy occasions as when he came unexpectedly across some one who had lived in Mars or fished in Kamschatka. It was on such an unfortu- Mate pocasion that Kingsley gave this ex- cuse. which deserves.to be preserved. Some urknown little man from the very foot of the table interrupted a very brilliant dis- course about, say, the climate of Mars with a very unexpected “i beg your par- €on, Mr. Kingsley, but what you state is wholly untrue. I have lived there able to assure you that you hav €rossiy misinformed.” Embarrassed only for a moment, Kings- ley replied: “I am very sorry if I have been making misstatements. You know, of gourse. that I would not do so intention- elly. But I fear that it often happens. However, I always console myself with re- membering an incident of my youth. I was on the vsual grande tour and came to Strasbourg. 1 was being shown the famous clock by a loquacious and ready-witted old dame. 1 saw how the works went and how the aposties marched. But as she was growing far too eloquent over the wonders of the work, I said: ‘Yes, my good woman. It is a very fine bit of work. Fut I must call. your attention to the fact that al- though my watch says it is only 1 o'clock, this great dial says it is nearly 2 I know my waich 1s correct. Cannot your great clock keep time? She was very indig- Lant. ‘It keeps the time quite good enough sir; always within an hour of the correct time. Why, what would you have? A clock which does so many very wonderful things cannot be expected to do them all well.” And may I not console mysel! some- times with the thought that perhaps I, too, am like the Strasbourg clock?” ee ee * Are we “the” Americans or not? At least here is a definitive admission that we are from the head of a great nation that has lor.g been chief disputant to our claim to the title. Common usage abroad has wade us always the only Americans. Other f.Eabitants of this continent are known as Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, &c. But we are always the Americans. In any cf the smaller capitals of Europe, if you ask for the residence of the ministre des Etats Unis, no one in the streets at least will have the slightest idea who you are talking about. And yet every gamin will run to show you the house of the ministre d’Ame-zique. ‘There was much discussion of this sub- ject last summer when the engraved sta- can Ambassacor and Mrs. Hay, At Home,” &c. All cf this naturally stirred up the dispute, which is probably still raging after the manner of the interminable contro- versies which the London papers encour- age in disputatious contributors. There was lest summer a host of Canadians, Brazilien and other n eighborsa protesting im the papers against Mr. Hay’s assump- tion of a whole continent as his home. Now comes a strong adherent to the ranks of the ambassador's defenders. The London Times gives very fully e recent ad- , Sir Wil- dregs of the that they were appointed from the same county, but that they emanated originally from the same county. And that county is the smallest county in Ohio when popula- tion is considered. General Paine was born at Chardon, the county seat of Geauga county, but moved to Wisconsin when a young man, where he practiced law and was s2nt to Congress. A more valiant offi- cer never participated in the war of the rebellion. He lost a leg at Stone River. I believe he still lives in Washi: on. “General Leggett died a couple of years ago in Cleveland, where he was loved and respected. Leggett was from Montville, Geauga county, a little cross-roads town eight or ten miles from Chardon. I have heard him tell about the place. He was a school teacher when the war broke out, but he threw aside redagogic labors to become a soldier. And what a warrior he was! He became a member of General Grant’s staff and was accorded the honor of lead- ing the first column that entered Vicksburg upon the surrender of that city by Pem- berton. Yes, General Leggett was always near to Grant. While the Hero of Appo- ™mattox was on his deathbed at Mt. Mc- Gregor: he sent for Leggett. He wanted to talk with him. What ‘Washingtonian of a pera g eee does ms remember t! 5 ishy ir and milit: General Leggett?” ay ae e kk Kk KR “We meet all classes of people here and we have less trouble than you would sup- pose,” said one of the doorkeepers of the {Senate to a Star reporter. “The most overbearing persons we are compelled to stack up against are those who have busi- ress or social relations with some of the senators, or, perchance, there is a blood relationship between them. ~ Those per- sons, as a rule, carry the impression that the Senate chamber, with all its accessories and perquisites, wes made for them end no one else. Czar-like, they wish to throw aside all rules, and the result, were their ideas and wishes carried out, would be ab- solute chaos. “A year or so ago, when the Senate was holding night sessions, a son of one of the senators, who has caused his father much annoyance and embarrassment be- cause of his reckless and dissipated ways, put in an appearance at my door, and was going in without a card. I told him he ™ust have a card. “*'I guess you don’t know me,’ he said, in @ maudlin way. ae ‘I do not, sir,” said I, ‘but, whoever you are, you must conform to the r and have a card.’ = —_ “He attempted to throw me aside and’ enter, and I nailed him and held him, while my vartner went after the sergeant- at-arms. The young fellow was locked up. For months he tried to have me discharg- oo. His father, however, did not side with m. “The folks from the country are the easiest to deal with. They ask many ques- tions and they are patient listeners. If you tell them that they are violating a rule they’ take the admonishment in the spirit that it is given. Their violations are always done unwittingly. They never threaten that they will report you. And I have not the slightest doubt that not a few of them have more downright in- fluence than nine-tenths of the snobs and would-be aristocrats who assert their self- constituted authority wherever they go. Yes; give me the plain country folk to deal with every time.” ** * kK ef Representative Barham of California is one of the most striking figures in the House because of his angular features and his luxuriant growth of cream-white hair, which is always well groomed. Judge Barham’s district is strongly re- publican. The other day he met, for the first time in many years, former Represen- tative Henry G. Worthington of Nevada, about whose diversified fe The Stat re- cently printed an interesting story. They grasped hands cordially. and then. this, col- loquy ensued: , “So you are.from,.Sonoma county, are you?” asked Worthington. “Yes, and it is a glorious old county,” Barham replied. “Indeed it is. And you ate representing @ republican district?” : “Yes. The republicans are in the as- cendancy there now.” ‘ “sgéme difference from the days when I stumped it for General Fremont.” - “As a boy I remember your speaking in Santa Rosa.” < Boer “And do you remember the 4ifficulties I encountered in trying to instill some. of the doctrines of republicanism in your county?” “I remember one instance in particular.” “What one was that?” “When the democrats of Santa Rosa set a big black dog on you at your meeting.” “Well, I have occasion to remember it, inasmuch as I ‘carry a good-sized scar on one of my legs where the dog chewed me. fent settee in one of the lobbies and chatted about old days in California. «ee ek & “I am always filled with a desire to mur- der or to commit seme other horrible deed when I hear a man speak of the pretty girl who writes his letters as his typewriter,” said a dealer in stationery, who is also a stickler for the use of good English. “In the first place, it is entirely wrong, and secondly, it is grossly inelegant. We pever speak of the man who runs an en- gine as ‘an engine.’ And it would be just as proper. The idea of calling a person who operates a typewriter ‘a typewriter.’ The proper word is ‘typewritist.’ The pretty girls who are such an important factor in the business correspondence of the coun- try are ‘typewritists,’ not ‘typewriters.’ Will,ycu kindly bear this in mind? ———— The Truth of the Text. “I hold to the scriptural doctrine that it is more blessed to give than to reeeive,” said the little man who ts familiar with quotations. “I confess that I have never been able to appreciate the force of that injunction,” led the big fellow who believes in respond. looking after No. 1 above all others. “Perhaps I should say that it is easier, continued the little 5 “Well, I don’t see it to school, And I'm sure you've ofttimes heard that it was against the rule. Capadian premier, frid Laurier, in which he on have served as commissioner of patents. “It is a coincidence that I have never ssen referred to in the papers that two of the most distinguished men who held that office were from the same county,” said one of them. *. “And who were they?’ asked another. Several old Washingtonians who had at- tended the funeral of Major Benjamin But- terworth were discussing the men who “Thegwere Gen. Mortimer D. Leggett and Gen. Halbert_E. Paine. I don"t mean And then the two adjourned to a conven- thy I n't seen one for a month. Couldn’t keep my eyes off of her. At last couldn't stand it any longer. Got up and went over to her. Asked her if I couldn’t raise the win- dow for her. She said I couldn’t. Takes a strong man to raise a car window some- 7 times. Asked her if I couldn't let her have federal, lying treet, the piers es gare iacea I ge peer i wpe ge @ paper or a book. She said I couldn't. | @rparent right in the path. Janeary. es a ee s ae D information that he attracted the nott: t Tried her again on buying sémething from | Gcmoumied hd, raising the head of the,| playe ‘Whah is “em_ell de summer friends | denator Sorgtum, who took a iking. te the train butcher. Wouldn't have it. Of- | Dioced Dhl reo vy ie Rac pgerntell besten Dat uster cheer me ‘long; him and secared his future to the extent fered to get her & glass of water. Wasn't lee gor ine See hiaky to recive ed peopl: De blossom, smilin’ as it bends; of paying him $10 a week as long as he . Trieg everything ew. urn him, at the: same time expressing deep “Stop him,’ int ted a list De crick wif murmurin’ song? worked faithfully ten hours a day. Some- ea —— ee ae a es tes sympathy with. He inquired who he | him; {t's his ‘errupted a listener. times the senator paused to converse with I miss ’em so! An’ as I gaze him. Some remarks had been made con- Tage in the east, I told her. She said she | ¥8%- @nd was answered: named his treat to suit himself, and the fa- = cernin blic affairs, al er a moment didn’t play. Then she lookéd at me for a| yf, #m Gen. Francis Barlow of New |cetious man paid for ail. T saya.dat dey mus’ be, or two of intense thought, Rollo looked up minute—maybe it was longer. Then she | “tn, 1 te ame A es Like love an’ hope of yuthuh days, from his work and exclaimed: spoke. Saket Ce ee og ee Sonera MISHAPS OF ANIMALS. No mo’ foh sech as me. “Now is the time for every good man to ‘Do you knaw who you remind me of?" | $7ted, Gem: Gordon, “Have you any 5 come to the aid of his party.” she, looking at me admiringly. 1 Eloaed tse of letters from | WH@ Quadrupeds Which Are Most But dar below de groun’ dat’s froze “I don’t quite grasp your meaning,” ald ‘No,’ says I. “Is it some dear dead friend | 14 brcney ake & package sof le! ‘said Bare Liable to Accidents, De flowers is tucked awa; the senator. of yours?’ aaid I, trying to do the funny act. | fhe b foie bb ig obra di ranted From the London Spectator. iat Tosi as ln bs te “I don't know that I expressed myself ““‘Not exactly,’ said she laughing. ‘Not | 10% on {weakened voice. : meee Be TPA Soak Ot Si, quite as clearly as I ought,”. was the reply. exactly, but of one that will be dead in . Gordon’ aié’'so. Among wild quadrupeds, only te rumi- A-waitia’ foh de May. “What I mean is that every man ought to about seven seconds after my husband sets |.” Now.’ sald Barlow, ‘I beg of you to} nants with large horns and long limbs be willing to save his country if he can.” eyes on him at the next station. 2ead one to me;*for they are from my wife, An’ so I checks de tears dat staht “Aren't your ideas a little exaggerated?” 1, Wyhat's the name of it, madame?" says and I wish herwords to be the last I shali pepe ereremd Anes acted patent aa ope: An’ to de lesson cling: inquired the senator, as he* impatiently , making believe I was ready. 7 , twirled his glasses, 3 FO ae ee ‘While the shot and shell’ were plowing | recorded from time to time, and Bucklana | St /ef’s Jes’ de winter of de haht “Well, sir, taking your speeches from dlc “ ‘That's it,’ says she, laughing more than | BP the ground Gen. Goren read aloud the | gives an account of a ourious accident _ A eos aise way to ageing. tation has ‘given me a very exalted idea ever, and 1 ‘fell all over, myselt trying to | eter. Of 8 mobde, patriotic woman to her | Wnict, befell « big stag in Windsor even x * of what a man opens 36469 % Go” paki ‘ond of the train’ 11e sleeper at the | roading it, Gen, Barlow requested him to |The poor beast had been standing on its New to Her. But you don't mean to say you think that one man ought to be able to save a ‘The smertly-dressed yourg woman who| whole country.” had worn a Ligh hat all through the con-| “Why—sir—you wouldn't limit yourself cert. was coming from the theater in com- ety. _ motion woud ar pany with the serious-looking young man. should respect the bounds of common tear up all the letters, as he did not wish pg THE ACTRESS AND THE CLERK. pene fo be profaned by the eyes of | tree, and caught its hoof in fork in the angers. % S trunk. This thi “Gen, Gordon hinged boa: end rew it on its back and broke She Wanted to Send Her Stage Dress | hurried forward ipenitabs his Bitter the bone. Though red deer are in this Find legs to nibble leaves from a thorn- sense.” -Off by Mail. He then sent-e: flag of truce by messenger | country mainly found wid on mountain | ‘I can't help thinking of the lady who | "nt. y, 14 not let As all theater goers are aware, there are te sem Meade, Ge endian loge es = aut ~ — doubt odin are | sang Jast,” he remarked. : tenity to eens ce Oe eee a r nger was informed where Mrs. Bar- mountain species, or specially clev- “Yes,” she replied. “I shall never forget “y ¥ y art ' Tee ere oe Companies Sx Washington Liaw aught be. fonod: Op secsving: Geli |r oe seek mon aie G. Millais | her. {Sera plea anpetion this week the chief elements of which are | Gordon's note sfie hastened to her husband | mentions one pass where the bones of deer It was truly beautiful t and I hav lished iderable. pretty girls who are shapely of person and j on the fleld of battle under fire. She found | that have missea their footing and fallen | “Yes, indeed It was a delight to see such heve managed to put 9 township oF Soa scant of attire. Out of this bevy of beauty | him, and, under her careful nursing, he | down the crags may frequently be secn. | good material used with so much discre- | the right of way for a railroad, several one of the prettiest came on Thursday | ¢°0vered his health and strength. Broken limbs are very common, even | tion. It was the work of an artist. Any- mines and a large portion of a city, but the “Gen. Gordon and the brave officer whom | among park stags, generally due to fights | body could see that. id f savin: vhole country into the branch post office on F street near | he succored on the fleld of Gettysburg met | in rutting time. This must usually fead “You mean ‘anybody could hear it,’ he ne arigit lanham pnts my 14th, and, approaching the window where | again about fifteen years after the date of | to the death of deer in all districts where | ventured to correct, * the good-looking clerk waits for people who | the incident I have related. Gordon was | large carnivora are found; but the aston. | “Well,” she conceded; “it was rather loud * x buy postage, she smiled one of her most | then @ United States senator from Georgia | ishing way in which broken bones, or even | when you come to think it over. But she A Wet Weathor Soliloquy. a sais nd the supersensitive | "4 Barlow was attorney general of the | worse injuries received by wild animals, They tell us that the rain will fal} at les, al ie pel state of New York. At a dinner given by | cure themselves if the creature is let alone clerk fell off the three-legged chair he | Mr. Potter, a representative in Congress | shows that the most serious accidents nous On just or unjust, one and alll. roosts on, but soon recovered his savoir | from New York, a gentleman was intro- | not lead to death, even if left to nature. Then why faire and came up serenely. duced to Gordon as Gen. Barlow of New | The mest striking of recent instances is Am I, “I beg your pardon,” she said, “can I | York city. the case of a doe antelope at Leonards- Who meekly try send a package of goods by mail? “Gordon scanned him closely and ob- | lee, which smashed its hind leg high up, Umbrellas f: y needs to bi “Certainly, miss,” responded the clerk, | served: , and so badly that the bone protruded. It See ee eee ae Sew, “at one cent an ounce for merchandise.” “*Was Gen. Barlow, the brave soldier of | Would have been shot, but it was observed Compelied to slosh In a mackintosh, With never a rag “twixt me and sky? “How muct. will it cost to send a dress at | the Union army, who was killed at Gettys-.| to be feeding, as if not in pain. It survived that rate?” burg, related to you, sir?’ the winter, and was seen to swing the in- “Stage dress or street dress, miss?” ‘Though not with literal fidelity to his- | jured leg forward to scratch its ear before “Stage dress, si toric truth, yes, sir; very closely related,’ | the bone set. ‘The fracture reduced itself, “Well. miss,” he explained, hesitatingly, | was the prompt reply. ‘I am the Gen. Bar- | and the cut skin grew over the place, leav_ but with delightful naivete, “we can’t very | low who was killed at Gettysburg, and I| ing a scar. Later, thoush lame, it was easily charge less than a cent, but you can | recognize in you the Gen. Gorden whose | perfectly well, and reared a young one. win out, miss, by sending three or four of | soldiers killed me.’ A tiger, recently killed in the hot weather, them in the same package.” “Upon that-announcement they gave each | tad a bullet wound a week old which had Ordinarily the lady might have resented | other such oven proofs of mutual esteem | smashed its shoulder. This wound, though i Around me arrant sinners move— That such they be their deeds will pyova I see Their glee As moisture-free They pass, while I of less degree In worldly show, Must watch them go With good umbrellas—filched from met the imputation, but the manner of the | as served to ifiustrate that no hands clasp |a very bad one, was perfectly ‘healthy, clerk quite disarmed her, and she smiled |so warmly, #t ‘least among Americans, as | and there was evidence that since it wos and bought a ten-cent stamp, much to the | these that havd sheathed the sword, after | inflicted the tiger had eaten no flesh, but surprise of the clerk. having drawn. it in battle. only drunk water. In the Wateroo’ cup ee This ce eee to emblazon the | coursing in 1886 “Miss Glendyne” and “the | 4. 1. of ine few Sais ko bun lenih & e = cs Se truth of Gen. j.amar’s utterance in his | runner-up” Yor the cup were slipped at a = Z de SENAZON: LERDAAN'S LUXURIES. speech ujfon thé death of Senator Charles | hare which went wild and ctrone, Whec | Style Is really becoming. There is no doubt | as She Had a History. G Fran Tit Bits. 4 Sumner, diiveréd ip thé House of Repre- | killed after a good course by the two crack | about its be'rg quite new. s | He Would H: 4 mic at — Meals | sentatives, when! he said: “Americans, know | greyhounds, ft wae fecnt. tor haee cone The composer has certajniy fitted | A well-dressed and sharp. and Smoke Fifty-Cent Cigars. one another and you will love one an-| three feet. This may be compzred with | her admirably. some way got into the editorial sanctum, “If I had plenty of money to do with as | other.’” ., A the account of a collie dog, recently quot- | She looked at him in surprise. and very shortly was standing by the edi- I wished,” said Senator Lindsay of Ken- > ot the pebers, which’ had one foretopt:, | Weill’ she exclaimed. “People ate gen) eax tucky to a party of friends at the Hotel Wilting to Give It a Trial. TERCING: WEE Senha es eee | Ener de yee mete “I beg your pardon,” she said, in saluta- Wellington the other morning, “I'd have | From the Dgtroft yfree Press. with the flock. Dogs, which ought to ‘te |, “I Rave heard them called ‘modistes’ and tion, “but can sou spare @ few menuass music played at all of my meals and get| There was a,igok of suppressed anxiety | little liable to accidents, are very frequent | ‘habit makers’ and several other mames, | of your valuable time?” cigars made at $50 a hundred. Those are | on the face of the.Janitor of a Detrojt, the- | sufferers, largely from’ their association | but this is the first time lever heard a mil- “I am very busy, madam,” replied the two luxuries I would most surely indulge | ater as he appspached the manager. He | With man and intense desire to participate | liner called a ‘composer. z myself in. I'd have the music played by a a editor, “but if you have anything of im- in all its doings. One of their commonest = = . twisted his bat,Ja his hand and kept his | 1, 9! x * portance to communicate I shall be ‘ a 13 ss € glad to small orchestra, say a horn and two or Fe ag te oe riding ‘ three violins and a flute and a bass viol, eye riveted upog the operation. in_carts, They become quite clever at His Impression. ~ , hear it.” “I know,,timeg. are pretty busy,” che be-{ scrambling or jumping in, but are not | They Were sitting in the walting room| “Taank you,” she said, looking round in a and I’d have it play soft, harmonious airs while I ate, and now and then I'd have 1 woman in San, in-a halting ay, “but I thought, that | “built” for jumping-down on a hard road. | o¢ the railway. station. Picturesque of vous fashion. “I am a woman with a some vocal music given by colored voices. usually just below the shoul- | no mistaking ‘the fact that their home was | ing a story on the horizon, “possibly you is, I came group, to ask if I could get oft | If the cart moves as they make their hi [ Sry, ae , f oS ring, the danger is increas - | costumé aiid breezy of manner, there was Excuse me, jogized the edit o- sor , te 5 waa Ds ni Mopday? es See ger is ii ed, and fore- apologiz he Or, See ere’s a peculiar harmony in a’ negro's “Goin’ yuck, tin’ 2” der, are very. commonly seen.. Dogs also | i i” eveiped rtion of the far | had better step inta my private effice,where singing tone. I'd have ‘em sing such things | _ “No, I never do up hunfin’, ‘cept to fish a} have dangerous falls when on the ground, went a mre you will not be interrupted.” i as ‘When the Watermelon Hangs [Upon the | little nodW and’ then.” ” accidents usually only ascribed to ds ee a " She thanked him, and they wen' t Vine.’ ‘That's a song calculated to in, “Yourdeiwte Jong YO ‘any of the foot ball | and horses. A greyhound, ASE at fail “I tel YQ what it is, Bob,” said one of | sajoining room. pe Seat, Went me te spire the most, sluggard appetite. I re-| teams?<:with> a -smile..."We can’t spare speed wil! trip, fly head over heels, and | them, “I’m fickled to death to be on my| “Now,” he sald, when they Were seated, member hearing it once on a Mississippi | yon 80 out -and,.get wrecked on a grid-| break a leg or even its neck. ‘Master j way back Wéme to Crimson Gulch. Be it | “1 presume you wish to tell me something river boat. A lot of us were aboard and in | ir 3 at ‘ = ‘ Magrath” in 1870 went through the rotten | ey, chumbdte, e of your history?” the party was Hooker of Mississippi. There | | “I've helped fight" Injins,” sald the Jant-| ce of ‘the river Alt from Ghich’ Altar | ever So -kumbbe, there's no place like home. s, sir; that is why I am here.” were some darkies aboard who played in-| tor, as he nfomentarily talsed his eyes from | ¢ i me, while We've had 8.fips.trip-end met good peo-| very well, proceed : strumental music with banjos, guitars and | the twirling hat,:“but Fd go to jail before Nene ‘died Months eter custne ple, bat. I ig get back home where | say to'me wil he held in the Meee cone a fiddle. I asked ‘em if they ever sung, | I'd go Into a foot ‘ball aime. It hain’t no | strangest mishap which the writer has ever | we know ev: . ; Where we can sit in a | fidence, and I will publish only what you und they said they did .sometimes. -Well, | Pleasure“ that I’maskin" a’ little time off,” | seen fall to the lot of a dog was the case of | game-and no’ to. ask what the ante | Wish. You were saying you were a woman they struck up ‘When the Watermelon | 8d'the sentence ended’ in @ deep sigh. a@ setter which “tripped”. over a sitting with a history.” This very sympatheticall: Hangs Upon the Vine.” Hooker had never | | “Oh, 1. begt your’ pardon. None of your | hare. ‘The doe, @ leree.. hesvy) anune | is or whether play virelghs Grouse | -. in cneourantr. “2 heard it before, and it nearly set him | folks seriousty 1N or dead? I might have t ft t ss i was running at high speed in @ field of | the corner. Theft® no telling what you're |“ ““¥os sir,” she began, as she laid a doc crazy. noticed that you'séemed in grief. thinly planted mangold. As it passed be-| S0ing- to stack ‘WP against here. I'm git- | ment before him. “It is a history of Nae —_-———_ A t =f i gilye, and I guess they | tween the. rows, -its hind feet struck some- | tin’ downright“Wertous. If I didn’t think | polean Buonaparte, in eighten monthly Unused Rooms in a Palace. = shies u eu = ere’s nuthin’ of that kind | thing, and it nearly turned a somersault. te ng bye. “eee soon I / parts,.at two shillings a month, and——” From the New York Evenin, a & The object was a squatting hare, which, | dunno but 1'd_ ni * .. | He threw up his hands, but she had hi es oe os i ‘Thai's good. Frem*what 1 can gather, | as the dog flew over in one direction, quiet- |, “What's thé tktter with you, anyhow?” | and he put down his name, Now en 2 n the old-fashioned brick palace at Ken- | then, you simply want.a vacation. Feel, ly scuttled off in the other. inquired his. fompanion. “You'll be seein’ | “woman with a history” is mentioned in sington a little suite of rooms is carefully | that. you need a rest and a change?” a ghosts next.” < his hearing it makes cold chilis rum down ; “I don’t need no rest and I hain’'t ex- 2 guarded from the public gaz, swopt and | pectin any: but T stipes we Len aineg _ HOW SHE DID ‘IT. garnished and tended as though the occu- | You know, I've « cars Pants of long ago were hourly expected to | while, and: Eve evans “peor, uncerinns | SIE! Cashier's Mind Reading Methods return. The early years of England's aged about— 3993.2 of Making Change. sovereign were passed in these simple “ee” no! Going to,.@et married? That's 22 = SS, —— Str ate rooms, and by her orders they have been | 'fypg/ . 3 indore : kept unchanged, the furniture and decora.| the fut pad ead UG BE Oo es ee series ad tions remaining today as when she lived oe OD GAR ee ie inside these walls. In one corner is assem- Origin of ‘Toants. Scendant of Morgan le Fay and to have bled a collection of dolls of all sizes, dress- | From’ the Chicago News. some of the family tralts of Heller, the ed tn the quaint finery of 1625. A set of | ‘The word’ “toast,” used for describing | Se°ond-sieht aS a she =e to miniature. cooking utensils and a rocking- | the proposal of 2 health in an after-dinner | X®°W by intuition or instinct or something horse stand near by. A child's scrap books | speech, dutes back to the mediaeval times, | °!S¢ What was the price of the meal he had “It's all right for you to make fun. But | his back. you don't know how bad things are around sn gee Uae this way. We think we've seen some live- 45 ly times out our way which TL wish to ve. | Those Onions and “A Little Defense.” peat, ‘we jes’ think so,’ fur-as @ matter of | Te the Editor of The Evening Star: fact we ain't. What I've been readin’ has| If riy well-meaning “story” on “Onions led me to make up my mind not to touch | and Society” in The Star January 8 had no other good result, it had the effect to bring forth a breezy letter in your col- vmns of Saturday last from the most charming of writers, Grace Greenwood. And it is my first duty to offer humble apology if she seriously insists that I have misquoted her. ; | consumed, and also just the amount of . I did not intend the quotation from hy aucag somber at seseeanas Mrnite, | When the lovirig-cup was still regarded as | qroney this hand when he approached ta . vanclent lecture” to be a verbatim onc, draped bed where the helrcas to the great. | 22 -indispenseble feature of every banquet. | pay. He first noticed that when he pre~ ; although it may have appeared so. Tho est crown on earth dreamed her childish | The cup would-be. filled to the brim with |.Semted a 35-cent check she immea.ately - Paragraph was meant to give the sub- dreams, and from which she was hastily | ¥ine or mead, dn the center of which would | laid upon the rubber mat a dime and a stance of what Miss Greenwood said aroused one June morning to be told that | Be Dlaced a plece of toasted bread. it | nickel which she hed been holding for * rather than a literal statement. ~ But it is she was a queen. So homelike and livable | Putting his lips thereto the host. woul nge. - quite possible that I even failed to give an air pervades the place that one almost | P&#8 the cup to the guest of honor seated this man inquired of himself, the substance correctly. It was my priv- expects to see the lonely Httl2 girl of sev- | 0D his right hand, and the latter would in | “did she know that 15 cents would be the f liege to report Miss Greenwood’s lecture, enty years ago playing about the unpre- | ‘t@rn pass it on to his right-hand neigh- | ccrrect change? There was no earthly way * delivered at Brooklyn, N. ¥., when I was tending chambers. bor. In this manner the cup would circu- | for her to tell what money I was going to & raw young journalist—I disdain to say Afstaction for the past and a reverence for | !ate round the table, each one present tak- | offer her, either. How did she come to hew many years since—and it was at a the memory of the dead have caused tne | !N& sip while drinking toward his right-| have the exact change ready without a time when other lady lecturers—Miss Anna royal wife end mother to preserve with | hand neighbor, until finally the cup would | Second’s delay or without having to go to Dickinson among them—were “calling the the same care souvenirs of her passage im | Come beck to the host, who would drain | the cash register for it?’ He could not an- a card till I get back home. I don’t want | ©" down right smart” for their treatment other royal. residences. The apar:ments | What rémained and swallow the plece of | swer to his own satisfaction. to stay after what I've seen in the paper. | °%,Women. that sheltered the first happy months of | toast in honor of all the friends assem-| The next day he bought a 45-cent meal, ‘There was @ long piece about it. A man | _Thusit is easy tosee how at this distance her wedded life, the rooms where she know | dled at his table. and she promptly laid a nickel before him. | Cots jewelry stare clerk to show hin e | of time, words, uttered by others on a kin the joys and anxieties of maternity, have | _ History teaches fbat the ancient Greeks, | the 5-cent plece being the only coin she held | fray of diamonds. and the Hest thing that | dred subject, might have been attributed to bacome for her consecrated sanctuaries; | the Romans, the Assyrians and the Egyp-| in her hand. It was the correct amount, as jewelry store clerk knew the fellow had | MifS Greenwood. If this be so, no one where the widowed, broken ok lady comes | Hans were in the habit of drinking one an- | he gave her a half dollar. He experiment- | Jovsy $0re, cleric} diamonds out'n his | Sill more regret the mischief of it nor be on anniversaries to evoke the un- | Cther’s health at dinner. Indeed, at Ath- | ed several times afterward, and at last @p- | hand and stolen it.’ mcre ready to make acknowledgment than forgotten past, to meditate and to pray. ers, the etiquette concerning what may be | pealed to her for information. “You mean the jewelry store clerk jet | !-if that will be of eervice. Who, as the year is drawing to its close, | described ree sald, a een ever notice | himself be robbed. ss es {Greenwood bas, little does not op2n in memories some such sa- ¢ int your check? en I see you} Ro) 1 oad reason to feel aggrieved; for the incident cred portals, and sit down in the familiar | Xnown by the name of “Philothesis:” "Tre | coming twenty fect away T know by te | ack ME pene fee oaatak Tae Les Tat | has alturded hor Ba aupertualiy’ te taper. rooms to live over again the old hopes and etegegeed of the repdst were in the | slate-colored check that you have eaten | mends to fill out anything but a straight | 224 the public to read, a delightful portion fears, thrilling erew with the joys and ‘bit of drinking to one another until they | 20 cents’ worth. If you have a red ticket, flush, do you?” of that address which helped to make her temptations of other days? Yet each year | COU'd carry no more and then they would | that warns me that you want to pay fora - reputation as one of the most graceful thes2 pilgrimages into t! past wine two-bit meal. A blue one means 30 cents. “eo writers and lecturers of that day. more and more lonely This yellow one is, of course, for 40 cents. take by the hand pen to be handy. At The amount is printed upon the check, but a: See: - “professing” to take Artemus [rad through the antiquated hate becens | £m prevailed." Post-prandial oratory, | aoe cae a ay printed Ups = When Rollo grew up he developed the se- | Ward's humor seriously was well’ undes. few2r with each decade. pie ‘was severely condemned as out. “Yes,” said the other, somewhat relieved, | rious way of looking at things which was | stood at the time as a bit of irony, of place, and while the Greeks contented | “that seems easy. But still money is expected young man whose chil H. M. 8. JORD. the oup of with, exclaiming, as put | not of different colors. How do you kyon | 2 2¢ i ®: le ad <3 t! excl: 5, * The Piano’s Resonance. the 9.f0 their. a ¢ hood had be2t devoted to asking questions Prof. Gray in the Chicago Times-Herald. be happy,,, the, s restricted them-| reading, sure)? "AGY? That's mind | or people. wha were able to answer them, ‘The resonance of a piano comes from the | Selves to | ‘Ehtin 5 “Not at all. When you come with a] He took a great interest In the affairs of gound board and not from confined air ne id quarter ticket you will usually give me the a’ _“Jinks is the meanest man on earth.” bodies. It is so constructed as to’be sym- - : EE oe te seeca sen exact change or half a dolar. ae “why? 7 ress regardless of | “I told him a good sti pathetic to any rate of vibration that the ¥ half. ju) Whether there was & guide book or other / to a dinner, and when we 4 enn en Ag 5 various strings are capable of transmitting - work of reference handy to verify them or | worked it off before I had a chance.» to it. If a string is vibrated alone in the sound vw feeble, but when = —— >? air the is very C WE MUSTN'T ALWAYS JUDGE BY APPEARANCES. Phil May in Punch. ——____+e-+_____ ‘The Channel Islands and France. ¥rom the New York Times. It several times has been rumored in European diplomatic circles that England was on the point of cedmng the Channel Islands to France, as a quid pro quo for reniaining fn ‘undisputed possession of Egypt. Possibly the only reason why ne- gotiations have neyer come to a head is an § id ° i