Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1898, Page 16

16 : THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1898-24 PAGES. a FEELING OF, THE -CROWD|JUST BETWEEN SEASONS NEED A LITTLE EDITING Ta ol @ays highly placed men led. | “Say, do you notice how shabby every- good deal out of the Maine disaster. The | Now the{{ follow. The, pronunciamento of | body’s looking just now?” inquired a Wash- serio-comic women are all singing ‘‘writ- | an indivi: or of @ party no longer fash- | irgton man who puts in a lot of time ten-especially-for-me” songs about it, and | fortis pi opigion. ‘There is too much iné| noticing. “If you watch the people on they infallibly get terrific “hands” when, | dividualify amgng “modern populaces for | the street closely, you'll see that about at the conclusion of their songs, they edge | that. Meg have. got in fo the habit of think- | nine-tenths of them, men and ‘women, are over to the wings, grab an American flag | ing for themeelyes. A Star man witness- | wearing duds that have a sort o” frayed, out of the hands of a property man, and | ed, the other May, a quiet but significant | changed-color, had-lots-of-use appearance. wave it frantically to the swing of the | ebullition=of-@hat Parisians phrase the} I’m not speaking of the corps of dead- choruses of their songs. This is all right. | opinion of the“Pave—the trend of thought | swells that tog out in purple and fine linen It Is as it should be. It would be a queer | of street pedesfrians, high and low, on an | al! the year ‘round, but just the every-day thing, indeed, if silence should follow such | uppermos$ questicn. s push that you run against. You see, we're @ bit of stage work, and in these days the| In the show window of a tailoring estab- | now “right in the middle of what I call very calmest and most self-contained men | listment $n F #treet there was spread out | the shabby season. It’s a bit too early for under ordinary circumstances find it im- | an ordinary colpred map of the Island of | spring raiment, and the air is nippy enough return in the way of a royalty for an idea. | Possible to refrain from joining in the tu- | Cuba. Attached to a short stick, end | at times to make winter clothes feel com- The button shoe is all right, as far as it | multuous approval of the palms in impact The variety theaters are surely getting a caused to flutter over the map by means of | fcrtable. We're all trying to get all the goes, in that it does away with the neces- | When they see their colors exhibited under | some invisible air appliance, was an Amer-| wear we can out of ous winter outfits, ket, some of which are rather ingenious and of more or less value, but none of them have, as yet, struck the mark, though they approach it. I do not know of anything that promises such an enormous sity of using shoe laces, but it lacks some | any old circumstances. But, for the sake ican flag. Passers-by stopped before the | Some of us will pack away our winter essential requisites. It is well known that | of even approximate exactness, some of the | window and gazed long and earnestly at| clothes for use when the cold weather the feet are larger on some days, and even | Maino disaster songs, and all of the Maine | the American emblem floating over the | comes again, but just as many of us will JOHNSON» some part of a day, than at other times. | disaster recitations, ought to be edited. charted representation of the devastated | sell ‘em when we get through with ’em The button shoe furnishes no elasticity. | In a Washington variety theater this | isle. At times there were four or five rows | this spring or give ‘em away altogether. | Written for The Evening Star. your husband a man with faded yellow Written for The Evening Star. For thus, if it is buttoned as the buttons | week a slam-bung comedian, whose regular | of gazers, women as well as men, repre- We're all dead sick and tired of every- A Paradox. hiskers?"" = tition about thirteen works | 4T@ arranged, it cannot help but be un- | Stunt is a knockabout tu becomes sud- | sentatives of ihe thought on the question | thing we're wearing, but we feel that,| 79 jeq, by hi rks {i . " she answered. “But you needn't The superstition comfortable at times. In cold weather | denly serious at the conclusion of his act | of the hour in Washington homes. even if the collars of our overcoats are a eee 07 ein Remake an ee that he sent you with any orders both ways in the hotel business,” volun” | there is not much difficulty about it, but | and recites a little story, erected in d One of the men who stood looking at the | bit rubbed, or the { our winter teered the proprietor of one of our hotels | during the spring and summer it is otker- | cidedly lumpy verse, of the Maine disaster. | flag and the map, on Thursday afrernoon, frouners Siisviecame eae we might as to a Star reporter, “though in the great | wise. Shoe laces are much preferable dur- | It is done to slow music, and at every night | shortly after 4 o'clock, had a peevish ex- | well get all we can out of them before the majority of cases it is against any room| ing the warmer times, though they are | Performance and every matinee it has | pression on his countenance and ‘a peevish | balmy season puts it up to us to blossom Sy thirteen. People who are | rather annoying by coming untied. For | simply torn the house apart, both ends | inflexion in his voice. He was close up ve- | out gorgeously in spring rigs. A lot of that is numbered thirteen. ‘all other | SU™Mer wear they are much easier than | from the middie, up and down, going and | fore the window, and there were probably | the fen bing or keep up their fronts at strong enough to resist nearly the button shoe. When it is considered | Coming. it 1s a story of a “tiny little mid- | twenty-five men and women halted around | tris season by showing up in top coats, popula> supetstitions fa:l1 down when the | how many million pair of shoe laces are | ®##pman,” wnose smug, babyish face, brave | him, craning their necks to get a good look | but most of us, when we slough off the thirteen case arises for their consideration, | worn, it is easy to see what big money | ™@nners and all-around dead-gamness | at the display. winter overcsat, abandon overcoat w2ar- d especially when they are shown to a | there is in some more effective appliance | ©4rus for him the love of all the hoarse: “Well,” rasped the man with the reev'sh | ing altogether until the chilly weather and espec umber. Ina great num- | f fastening. There is no doubt that tho | VOlced, barnacied, heavy-weather men of | face, addressing nobody in particular, “so comes around again. reem having that number. agi — congress gaiters are the easiest kind of | the Maine on the trip down to Havana har- | that’s Cuba, eh? What I'd like to know now ber of hotels the rooms sumbered thirteen | shoes than can be worn, but even they be- | Dor. The tiny midshipman is pictured as | is, what have we got to do with Cuba?” tain way. He wouldn't dare.” I know a feller that kep’ on a-talkin’ night] “I only wanted to identify him. He's kind an’ day o round shouldered an’ wears a litte "Bout goin’ to the Klondike an’ "bout how he'd dare the cold. They couldn't skeer him with the freezin’ stories that they told. It stood to reason man could stand them chilly arctic airs, ‘Cause man is more adaptable than seals A good many men, of course, nave already treated us to their 082! v1 spring clothes, but the season for spring or polar bears. are used for storage rooms oF linen ¢osets | come, by the wearing out of the elasticity pa eS ee Shore faslest famil- | The man was made to feel that he had | suits is so early yet that they look con-| “A little frost,” says he, “will do the and the like, though in many of the most | of the rubber, sloppy and ill shaped in ice, fore an » | made a mistake almost before the words | spicuous. The women you see on the human system good”— time.” and there is a lot of mother-is-sadiy-wait- | wai n . being from twelve tc fourteen. This trou- | , ~The Publis advocates of temperance,” | Course, the tot of a middy gets blown sky- | from the flag and the map and regarded | her of them have already made thelr ap- doubt the best way to get out of the trou" | observed the most prominent of local tem-| 2/8 1 the explosion; of course, he is) the speaker fixedly. Then, almost simulé pearance on F street in their light-cloth t icked up in the harboi ‘ : = Ele as far as guests are concerned, but | perance speakers to a Star reporter, “have | Rforesald’ off Geen ee pe. Jojackete, and | Sancously, they broke into a cascade of de- | spring frocks, but they, too, look as if e persons will notice nunclation, not loud, but apparently deepl : ; scme extra sensitive persons will nO‘ | of late years turned their attention én-| of course, he dies on a cot’ ina Havana | rum tne SECs Ree CR ey ee 2 2 Those of the crowd who stoud in the r = the jump and fight shy of fourteen as well, rely to the moral attitude of the question | hospital, uttering brave words of cheer for | rear could not see the speaker, but their the women still wearing their winter tog: for they can see if the numbering WAS | _, ther than the 1. .| the United States navy, and sending com- } ears caught his-remark. Those who stocd properly carried out It would bear the | (ter Dist sien loa ities in stein forling, elevated messages to his mother | right by the speaker looked him straight in | that dress?" supposed fatal or unfortunate number. In = Pe we reached thelr | and sisters at hom the eye as they gave vent io thelr expres- | “You'll notice, too, how much ‘on the my hotel there is a room thirteen and I} majority how temperance speakers former-| There is, of course, such a thing as poetic | sions of disapproval, Out of the jumaé of im’ nen uh te Gre Sunt How aeine aartie assure you it is oftener vacant than oc-| ly discussed the questior. Every well- license. But when it is reflected that there denunciation, which was all over in less | are all worn and green-looking around the cupied. Only a few weeks since one of the | cqulpped advocate of the cause used to arm haven't been any midshipmen in the United | than half a’ minute, these phrasos were a AA ee eS men whose name is most prominently men-| himself with a set of disgusting-looking | States navy for about forty years this re- | caught: ap thpirishane tcom being rained upon. tioned in this country in connection with | charts, with which he Mlustrated the ef-| citation certainly seems to be a bit beside | “159 you call yourself a man; or what | The men are holding off. too, before they Politics stopped at this hotel. As thirteen | fect of alcoholic liquors upon the organs of | the mark. There are enlisted apprentices | are you’ get their lighter-solea shoes, so that their was empty, as usual, the clerk sent him to/ the brain and the stomach. It was preach-| in Uncle Sam’s navy—none of them under | ~ “Cuba's a heap more to us than a miilion | foctwear looks a heap run down just at tt, thinking that he was not affected by the | ed that the great danger in the use of stim-| seventeen years of agc—and if anybody has | o¢ men like you.” this between-seasons. All the same, when superstition. He noticed the number be-/ ulants was that they would destroy brains| ever been able to discover anything toi- “What's Cuba ‘to.us? Are the lives of 260] the trees begin to get leafy, andethe Iilacs fore he got to the door and refused Tne | cocteremechs: that whisky and brandy | like in the carriage or manner of a United | and odd Ametican sailors anything to | <rg ‘Tees begin to get leafy, andethe Macs room, saying that he would not occupy it} contained nux vomica, the button from | States naval apprentice he must have had “i your’ . ri he matter of clothes under any circumstances. He then told the| which strychnine is manufactured; that| 4 peculiarly discerning eye. “Any place, my man, around American Sees ean tiene wae vontthe: map.” But his wife, she shoveled off the snow an’ carried in the wood. It’s when he talks "bout fightin’ that I like to listen best. He says he'd be a soldier ef they'd put "im to the test. He pictures out incounters that seems natural as kin be; Before I think, I’m wishin’ I could dodge behind a tree. He wouldn’t flinch from danger, though; he'd raise the battle cry An’ keep spreadin’ fear an’ slaughter as he watched the foemen fly. 2 lin’ hh to man-|ch2cked coat whose sleeves don’t come He’ ear at tellin’ how mhalf way up to his el my But his wife does all the talkin’ when the “An’ his hair is cut straight off behiad gery make such remarks as ‘She just cculdn’t wait a minute, could she, to show : = clerk that he had studied | into te peaver pense eamnown nae ene age or age Ge Sh eee a waters is a lot to us that has got it in the eee een latent eee bottom of a paint brush? stition as far as it related to , cr y the use of iy EQUINE INEBRIATE. neck like Cuba ha: Sa ‘ , y had learned that in the three last presi-| oils; that beers and ales contained fish Rag cdp yunevrer cca @ uowepaner DROPPING FROM A TOP STORY. a eee “Hike pend Borers gy yang Sean 4 dentiai conventions the men who were to/ berries, and that the foam of beer was| Story of a Horse That Was Too Fond| “Oh, say, take a walk, Yourve got no a E oa stopped to | to ax ye fur somethin’ to eat, but I'll eave nominate the popular candidates for presi-| produced by soap, soap bark and other of Whisky. license to talk to” men that have got any |Am Experience That Was Not Alto-| The very smart young man PI messif the humiliation of a refusal. I ain't dent by circumstances were put into] things of like nature. The doctrine was ; izzurds of compassion in ’em. 2 gether Disagreeable. rooms in the convention cities numbered | earnestly preached that intoxicating liqnere | Several men in a Washington hotel were | SZ34rds of compassion in "omy that if] a couple of tourists were in the top of thirteen and that in each case their can-| of all kinds were deadly poison. After | ‘discussing a picture in a New York Sunday | you had the brains of a hoot owl” didates were defeated for nomination. He | listening to one of those addresses persons| paper of a horse drinking a dram of “Say, young feller, I'd as lief baste you thought the thirteen did the business for | were apt on going out into the streets to| whisky or other intoxicant, and a majority | in the nose as look at ye. them as much as anything else, and maybe | look for the dead bodies of those who| at once voted that it was only a delirium | “If you got off a bleat like that down more than all things else combined. Now | drank any Kind of liquor. Of course, they} ot u* ie S . where I live, you'd take a ride on o three- while this is true there are those who pre- | did not see any dead bodies lying around, | 0f Yellow Journalism, without foundation | SGcq rail ali Heht, all right, fer thirteen to any other number, and es-| and before they got to their homes they | im fact. “Perhaps you'd like a few more of our] ., it,” he said “that Pecially those wro are members of th> so-| were very likely to lose any confidence| “Perhaps,” put in an internal revenue | men-o'-war to go up in the air, hey?” I am willing to admit,” he called thirteen clubs, who hold their meet-| they may have had in the statements they| man with ‘a large experience, “and then, | “Take him out!” a drop of 500 feet to a stone pavement is ings on the thirteenth of the months, have | heard. Time showed that this way of| again, perhaps not. I am ready to swear | These are only samples of the iorrent of | not a pleasant thing to think about, but thirteen at each tabl> at the dinners and | treating the evil was the wrong one. Com- i 5 ms red-hot talk that instantly followed the | I am a witness to testify that a more d the like. If it was not for these, a room| mon sense would prove that the manufac-| that when I was riding through the moun- hiphital deathicoaid scomeety "be Lioagtaea numbered thirteen would be just so muci| turers of intoxicating liquors would not | tains of West Virginia and Kentucky in 3 listen to the grizzled old fellow who was | goin’ to stand around an’ try to soften yer talking as he leaned against the lunch | heart by eloquence, ‘cause de fust thing I counter. knowed I'd be workin’ so hard I'd have a “There ain't muth use beating a mule,” | breakfast earned, whether I got it or not. Fou" I'm sorry, though, fur yer husband's sake.” he was saying. “You've got to convince; "What has my husband to do with, this him. You've got to argue with him. He | case ; may not understand just what you are| ‘Nothin’, lady. H> ain't in it. That's . 8 ; why I'm sorry fur "im. When I met him saying, but the tones of your voice will nde Aaaicy me was I goin’ to make an appli- give him a good idea of what kind of man | cation fur a hand-out, an’ when I told "im you are. And if you can prove your intel- | ‘yes,’ he looked at me in a way fit to bring lectual superiority by some stratagem, the | tears, an’ says: ‘Pardner, you very chances are that he'll be respectful’ and | hungry? ‘Only -niddlin’,’ I. ‘Well, obedient ever after.” den,” says he, ‘I'd like to ax a favor. Ef the Washington monument the other day, and as everybody else does at that giddy height, they talked of the discomforts of a fall. At least one of them did. The other listened to him awhile. lest space in a hotel.” make them poisonous, for, if they did, they | quest of moonshiners and my daily bread, | fallen under it“all.~"Then he cdgei cut of | “Were you ever killed that way?” in-|" “You have to swear at mules a great | dat’ lady gives y> anyt'ing would ye be so ee RR would soon kill off their customers and put} TI had a horse that would drink his dram | the crowd sidewise ‘and hurried down the | quired the other, in a tone of doubt. deal, don’t you?” said the smart young | kind-hearted as ter come back an’ give me “The prominence given to the court-mar-| an end to their business. It took years tol as regularly as anybody. You know, or | Street as if hé feared pursuit, ami every | “Not exactly, but I went through all the] man, who was evidently growing uneasy | half?” tial case of Capt. Carter at Savannah,” ex-| get the physiological charts out of the| Youia if you tried ita while chat me man and woman in the « before the | motions.” at seeing the conversation progress so far a Jained an officer of the judge advocate’s| W2¥. but they have gone at last. It is 4 a while, that the bus- | Window followed his retreating figure w “How do you mean’ without his being in it. = * Di fic Proven beyond all doubt that whisky and | iness of mountain riding is about the hard- | expressiong.of contempt on thelr faces en “Listen. Fifteen years ago or there-| The narrator paid no attention to him, The Colonel's Position. office of the War Department to a Star re-/ beer will uot kill, physically. On the con-| €8t work on earth, not only on the man, words of scorn i@ their mouths. abouts I was holding down a job in the | put proceeded: “I have been misquoted,” remarked Col. Porter, “has caused a great many questions | trary, they seem to preserve the old soak-| but on the beast under him. Moonshine ‘d as old Gazette building in Cincinnati, a six- “I used to have a mule that would fol- low me like a kitten. He was as obstinate Stilwell, “in various ways and upon divers occasions, and I feel, suh, that the time has come foh me to set myself right.” “What's the matter, colonel? Are you going into politics?” “Do you mean, suh, to insinuate that 1 have evuh been out of politics? No, suh. But the mattuh of which I speak is of an entirely personal character. I find, how- evuh, that I am represented as giving ex- pression to certain emphatic opinions as to how a battle ship ought to be christened.” “I can guess your sentiments in that connection,” was the facetiously intended comment. “Possibly. But I want to make it clear, suh, that I have no prejudices as to the liquid employed.” “After all, it ts only a formality.” “Yes. But understand I don't mean to belittle the significance of the ceremony. and ill-natured as any animal I ever saw | Not in the least. They may break a bot- to be asked in connection with military | ers who use them as nothing else will, for | liquor is about as vile a drink as a man can THE JERMIFORM APPENDIX. sicry structure, which was considered a 1 ora there are many to be seen on the streets} Set outside of, but many’s the time that I = sky scraper in those days. I was twenty- = E beet eine ca every day who have drank steadily for| have been so dead tired when I got off my most a True Gissara | fe Years old then and not in as good fix Whether the finding of the court-martial! eon twenty to sixty years, and are a long | horse in the evening that moonshine act- =n as I am now, and I did not kick when the is final. To the extent that there is no| way from being dead yet. Intemperance | Ually was nectar to me, for the reviving nee boss told me to wash the windows on the eppeal from such a finding, that there is| is now fought frem the moral and eco- ereeoor any | ee anna is remarkable: To the Eaitok of The Evening Star: + | top floor. I was doing very well at it, and no revisionary court, the action of the| nomical standpoint, and much more pro-| Knowing about th . In contir) = ew horse that I had just se v 2 court-martial 1s final The finding, how-| &Tess 1s being made. Liquor kills the mor- | jt one day on a new horse that I had just distinguiaiea wees inloeist ae to tis giz. | Tubing away at the glass, when I lost al in mankind, not the physical always, - a SCAG Ff spraciie oa y ce in some way and out I went. ever, has te be examined by the judge 24-} though it may deaden it. good one, but the unusual work had nearly | zard functions of the vermiform appendix, | What Ivdid in going I cannot ‘say. What voeate general to see that the proceedings SEAT broken him down. He refused it, of course, | and, furthgy, that it is now almost a true | I thought I cannot say. All I remember * a i - in z but I held up his head and poured a pint | gizzard in iw but only rudimeniasy | was an instant’s consciousness that I was were regular and the regulations observed| “I was talking with one of she members | 9ut 1 held up fis Head and poured a pint | gizzai i womail only enia: It is Today An ation of the discovery of the | had got myself seated nicely on the sill, falling backward, but w! y in every respect. They then pass to the] of a party of tourists now doing the sights signs of improvement, and the last five in man, thé following will perhaps explai Roe ae Oennee omer val ects President for approval, and it is with him | of Washington,” sald a well-known gentle- | miles I rode him he was almost frisky. The | Appendicitis 1S! the name of the disease | gorse or knowledge that I was falling out to say whether they shall be carried into|man to a Star reporter, “‘and he told me | next day, along in the afternoon, when he | that affects fhigyrudifmentary gizzard of a| of a top-story window and would be eeuche execution. The acticn of the President is| that in visiting the Capitol the guide em- arb to fag, I poured some naar into him, | man, andthe reason,,why woman is not ed to death below. generally only an approval of the recum-|Ployed charged each one of them ten cents | Wt Heahan ten re are aay pefore, | affected like matpin-the same degrze of se- : When consclousness came again I was mendation of the Secretary of War. The | sghiy ive of them making cight and @ | take ft. ‘The thirdday he took it very easily, | Verity is becdtbe ‘thie ‘appendix is more | #} Nom and it was twenty-four hours af- finding can be approved in whole or in| Balt dollars per hour for his invaluable | and after that he took his jorum of liquor, | lke a true gizatrd'i§ woman than it is in | ter the fall, T did not even tsegie Nabe part. For instance, if a court-martial sen-| S¢rvices; and when his hour was out and | req or white, with as much facility as {| ™an. This is shown’in girlhood. As you ie rete ee! ia fences to dismissal from the army and | there were a few items unseen he declined tmprisonment in the military penitentiary | t© 80 further without an aditional contribu- stated in ‘our eXéellent editorial recently, | ™¢ 1 had fallen from the sixth-story win- aid. I had always carried a Wags a ay “many birds-swallow'as far as the gizzard | ow and that I had struck on the roof of a at Fort Leavenworth the President can | tion. eters teed Honan tes ne I carried a larger bottle for him, and he eo eria Dek Dian a ate Reon broken ‘the fall and saved Say lite, This Teens iste, aemMence fo dismissal alone. | rutty declined the further services of his Danie. ee, ae latte tae fully established that man is a derivative | Shed roof was made of boards without sup-| when I first got him. But I subdued him | tle of champagne if they choose to, as a Wioracctance tal yeisan and the best | Dighness.” day, when the work began to tell on him. | Of the former mammal and bird, it may | Port except at the ends, and I had gone! by an old trick; one that I read about in | sign that there is nothing too good for the Ge thin: ix the “washer anew ars —_-— I suppose he would have got drunk if he | be Yet established that woman's derivative | through them to the pavement below. That! a newspaper. He had made up his mind | country she represents, or they may shat- s carving sentence, ‘There Ie ho wey by| SHE WOULD AND SHE wouLpwr, | 1,{UPPO5¢ he would have got drunk if he |.’ ostiy trom the bird creation only, I was not killed was only the luck that | to balk and I coaxed and persuaded until | ter a flask of Kentucky spirits to show that Row serving sentence. ‘There 1s no way by when it was all I could do to stay on his |,,At this season of the year we observe | Comes to peopl> sometimes. I didn’t even | my voice gave out, and beat him until I | we are full of action and always mean busi- the civil courts, for they are. purposely | The One Thing That Kept Her From | baci, and that, too, when an hots before ie | that the domestic ten when she scratches | Dreak a bone, but I got a shake-up that | was red. “He didn't pay the slightest ate | nest; of with clear water te imply that o, civil courts, ‘for they are purposely BR Ge was all he could do to stay on his fect |the gravel for her highly concentrated | kept me in bed for two weeks and made | tention to it. Then I thought of this old | the vessel is dedicated to the crystal and berries che egret aie a ttre A sates és we Dota catasineee fcod, such as worms, larvae and seeds of | Me sore for three months. This monument | story and got some kindling wood. I built | unsullied truth. It makes no. difference eitizen can appeal brie jury trial, but fie| “Well, if you go, I'm going as a nurse, | 2), Weariness. nc of him I do not know, | #J Kinds, now and. then swallows a piece | !S some higher than that building, but I|a good fire under him, and it’s needless to | what the bottle may contain, it's con- officer dex ary bath theta aie “land that’s all there is about it!” she said | yy 7 suppose he {s a confirmed toper by | 0f stavel to assist her digestion. For the | fancy th2 feeling in falling is about the | say that he started.” ¥ tents when liberated to flash for a moment Conta’ at canuantaaens in re ae ra the to him the other night, when he threw it | this time, if he is still alive, for I furned |S8Me purpose the schoolgirl of today con- | ame.’ “Yes,” exclaimed the very smart young | in the sunshine before it mingles with the coon at tae hektine. Gat From that| out pretty strongly that he’d probably be | him over to a deputy five years ago who | 8umes pickles, «slate pencils, chalk, blue SS man, “but that’s one on you! You forgot | sea will be resplendent with poetic and moment the army controls him absolutely. | fighting for his country in Cuba in about a | liked a horso well ‘enough to give him | Clay. ashes, Se ee eine ot How China Treats Defaulters. the last part of the story. You know the,| patriotic suggestion. Any beverage will do It not only says what he shall do, but| gertuene champagne three times a day if he askia | 22ture. Gum chewing wastes the sally A recent number of the Pekin Gazette, | Mule moved just far enough to get away | —with one important exception, which 1 L that is needful for digestion, and the ap- he vehi can searcely bri myself to mention. what he shall not do, and there is no ap- for it.’ pendicevernirorniaeres aera a ee the oldest paper in the world, and’ for from the heat and left the vehicle to wnich | ¢: y ng a andl the -| “Oh,” he replied; “that’s out of the ques- ae ees he was attached standing over the blaze,| “What is that, colonel?” peal. The army regulations are the als tion, you know. You'd get the nevee AG cipiaeren tine Schoolgirl performs its functions to aid di- | 3.000 years the official organ of the Chinese | where It caught fire “I hope with all my heart, suh, that we Fes ancien ph er ort hate teense Ie te A Case o! rentiation. gestion. government, contains the following edict | “No,” was the calm answer. “This mule | sfiall neveh see the day when this country Everybody in Virginia who is anybody| Our- schoolboys by active exercise and | of the emperor, Tsai-Tien: ae 1 Ellett of Richmond, | their predatory habits do not nced ma wi ; : knows Col. Tazewe farlal noe thee ase oe ee ‘We have received a memorial from didn’t act that way. He was hitched to a is called upon to christen a battle ship with canal boat.” a bottle of nerve tonic.” Thus, citizens can meet together and di: “And even if you didn’t die, you'd be the cuss their grievances, but an officer or sol-| color of an unripe orange for the rest of te ’ : —_—— Ger has no such right, and the penalty for | your life. and most of them have an affectionate way | ang the result is that in adult life the | Shih Nien-tsu, governor of Kiangsl, de- ae so doing i very severe. During the time Oe ian Cee » | Of referring to him as “Taz.” He was in| vermiform appendtx of man is “shy” of | nouncing the conduct of Pien Yung-ch’un, The Bulbul of Pohick. Senta: Government. an army officer is on ja! ie, however, ae - town the other day on his way to New |{ts gizzard function and therefore subject | ex-magistrate of Hsinganhsien, Kuangsi York and in the course of a few incon-| to cusase: Meee becomes of all the pins | province, who, having retired’ from his gruvial remarks he told this story on him~| rer entice of tment or maa. | Post, Was discovered to be considerably in self to illustrate a point. zine in the lend. arrears in the payment of the taxes col- “Some years ago,” he said, “I had occa-| Thirty-five billions of pins are annual-| lected by him. When applied to for the r: sion to stop at a hotel in Baltimore where | ly manufactured in the United States and| payment of the said taxes by the pro- From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The government of Spain at present is neminally a constitutional monarchy. The Fresent constitution of Spain, drawn up by the government and laid before a cortes : vs|_ “Then you might get beri-beri. Peopl only technically under arrest. He draws e the same salary as if on duty, but can ex-| {hat live after having berl-beri are holy ercise no military function. Neither can MAL right" remainder of their days. Fe ey te ronea Teetne ma omney £2| “And you'd never get the smell of car- : t loci bolic acid out of your nostrils.” trial the right to converse with other offli- “Very well. If you go, I'm going, too.” “Spring,” writes the Bulbul of Pohick, is the time of year when people always plant fruit and write portry. I have not wrote eny portry for a long time, and I feared that I had almost gotten out of the habit. But when the irees begin to | Corstituentes, elected for its ratification wis sonar, pipettes {rivial matters; | “Of course, yeu'd have to have that fine | a friend of mine had been living for seven ee, Mehr Gp ee ee pee vineial | {reasury officials, ithe ex-magis-| put out buds and folks who have decided | March 27, 1876, was proclaimed June 30, among army officers, butepractically the] fetlon™= OF YOUr® cut off. to prevent in- | years. One morning after I had been there|‘m the eraws of the domestic hows map| inchs ante oe Which’ should {© move begin to put out furniture I am [ 1876. It consists of eighty-nine articles or effect is about the same.” caie-dan't amin that either” Saree aye aN al Stas Reckbrine, nani | Dose, the hen needs them in her ‘business | be punished. We hereby command that | OVercome by the impulse to take my pen | clauses. ‘The first of them enacts that = 6 : Spain shall be a constitutional monarchy, * “And you'd have to wear rub! whom I shall call Maj, Rockbridge, aud I} or she would not swallow them. The| the said ex-magistrate be cashiered and|in hand. My latest pome will be entitled 4 “The school children of the present have] that'd make your hands. Poa e asked the clerk if he had seen him about | daughters of our revolutionary fathers| arrested and placed in prison until he re. boy Gin eeatae ex eahat wanen! or te bai | powesiee caste hee ba tun genet oe tee many advantages their parents and grand- | hams.” | the office during the last half hour. He met here in session a fortnight or so ago. | funds the whole of his indebiédness to the | ny h is 3 Petyahe heaeanend ose bangincwr shinee. le agli parents did rot have,” said an old resi-| ‘“That's immaterial.” said he had not and referred me to an old| A correspondent or reporter noticed the | government. We further command the <i Hy 2 pense. > “ : SPRING.” ate and congress, equal in authority. There = = ae ; | , Fellows that have been down there ana | d@tky who presided over the boot blackery | following: “The ladies who made the| governor of Yurnan, the native women q dent of G: orgetown at SAS reporter; | know, tell me that the Cuban hostinate woe | in the adjoining back hall. + speeches had the sheets of paper contain-| the accused, to investigate and confiscate Oh. spring, = spring, seer ee id geen tane ome though they cannot be made to appreciate | simply ‘alive with, Haas oo elt Have You, seen anything of Major | ing thelr remarks carefully pinred togather. | any properties that may stand in the ac- | 4%,tcFe 38 Be abee ti ot Sacthe acertat mealies Geek oe it. By this T mean In the way of less hours | “Goodness gracious! George, must you | Rockbridge this morning, Uncle Joe?’ I in- | As each one proceeded with her speech she | cused official's name in his native and Seale Ped ord i telat dd vnghosn ys tes go?” of home study, holidays and early summer recess. It is not the usua! custom of many teachers to require chikiren to study at Leme, though there are occasional excep- tiers. This is as it should be, for if a teacher is y teacher at all, he or she can e@évance a child more by teaching them ; It is spring. ators, ed by thi —the auired. st know no sich gem’n, suh,’ re- | WOW detach a skeet and put the pin in| other towrs in Yunnan. Let not the pro- It is invariably alluded to 2s “gentle,” pig i rhe genes to naceed Sine Sunaron ST don't, kn gem’n, suh, other ahent arte pe aod detach: an-| vincial treasury suffer through the dis-| ‘Tne reason baud, 1 suppose: that we always | no Cheeerics Dol te exoecd one hundred See eDonmng en hing: 0 sala in aurpeiee. Seath nate ane hie wee eS makes folks kind of scntimental. eighty senators, elected by the corpora- (On courestved une aire? ites “aind "vat hel coptionen talking as ——+o-+—____. In spring come violets, modest and blue, | tions of state—that is, the communal and Young Men Who Crow to Wara Late| “No, suh; I dunno no Majah Rock- | While” The plus go into tee eae thet sa hee ge tee Sapp OUR ee | aan nom, She eae, tie wemvend- Sitting Lovers. bridge, ‘round yeah, suh. never reappear. It may be that woman is | From the Troy Times. pre one ties, academies, ete.—and by the largest : It is the sweetest time of all the year, : “The ery of ‘cock-a-doodle-doo,’ in imita- | wont Quam t understand the situation, and | not see she Watkes's, Cyeaded appendicitis | An amusing story is told of Sir Ellis | Full of joy and of good cheer: aaggched gate ggr ergy ged school than forcing them to study unassist-| tlon of the crowing rooster,” says an ob-| ‘Now, look here, Uncle Joe," I insisted; Worthless appendix or degenerated staxire, | AShmead-Bartlett, the American-born Eee TE A eg RO and of the immediate heir of the throne. Se Sia servant rositent of .“ ‘you know me, don’t you?’ | knight who has just been expl. . vho have attained their majority; . ed at their homes. In olé-fashiuned times | %€ ent of Maryland, “has been | ‘you K The inference is therefore if the men por. | 21s! J pisining '0 | on, think of the old farm: that is the place | WO have attainea their pan ag ts ie 7 > “Oh, yas, suh; you's Cunnel tt “ob children only went to school to recall what | Pt to good use in my section of the state. sept eed Ellett lion of the human race learn to swallow | Britons their defenseless condition and | Where all is lovely and full of grace! who can prove an annual rental of 00.000 they had learned while at home. Now, as 1] Some months ago a party of young people sae “how in thunder does it happen | Pits: they would be free from appendicitis. | their need of an alliance with the United | You can pick the flowers that bloom and pesetas, or £2,400; captain generals of the iminary smile, army, admirals of the navy, the patriar2h understand it, the theory at least is that | came to the conclusion that it would be | that you know me, when T heve enke bon education in boyhood would be | States. Sir Ellis, who is a brother of Baron Burdett-Coutts, whose aged bride on their | And potato bugs, if you wait awhile. of the Indias and the archbishops; the the child goes to school to learn what the well to give courtin, = ss necessary to this accomplishment, however, ry e 1g couples a hint that | here for three days, and you don’t know * teacher knows. In this respect the child has since, as we have seen, it takes pickle: van charm any advantages, though suffering under | ‘Re hour was growing late by crowing as | Major Rockbridge, who has been here for | Slate’ pencils, chalk, eter In eerie be ee a | marriage gave him her name and $250,000 | It) Ne it of Sylar charms | arcs | Presidents of the council of state, of the “The old man began dusting my coat | this worthless gizzard for the function of a | Year for life, owes his knighthood to the mab nase Sree, oF Ses Sree St Date 2 disadvantage if the teacher is not actual-| they passed houses in which lights in th> atarene: ac! 3 3 of the supreme council ly a teacher, but merely a listener to the | parlor indicated that sweet things were be- with the wisp in his hand. pin cushion in-adult life. That the vermi- | fact that when Lord Salisbury fermed his | Oh, think of life in a rural spot a Where the lambkins skip and the tramps | °f War and of the navy, after two years recitations of the pupil. In regard to the | ing said. At first the crowing was not in-| “‘I’se gwineter ‘splain dat right now,| form appendix 1s @ rudimentary gizzard | third ministry Mr. Ashmead-Bartl a8 office. The elective senators stmmmer recess, now it begins in public } dulged in until 11 o’clock arrived, but dur- | boss,’ te sala slater peasy mee I think it settled beyond further contro- | left out at thle calculations. In coe frst vet wo one-half pte five Fog ‘and schools as well as private from the 15th to| ing the winter evenings, when nights were |dar’s some folks w'at makes demselves | VeTSy, but as you say in your editorial of | two ministries he had figured as a lord of by totality every time the monarch dis- she cist of June, while in my days the | long, th> hour was anticipated, and recent- | more notoriouser in three daya dan some | March 22, “If this theory be correct a|the admiralty, At the same tine Howes ai part of The con- schools never closed until after the Fourth | ly belles and beaux who feared to be crow- | udder folks does in seben years. Da's jis’ | Curious pamdox ,is_ presented.” knighted to salve his feelings, the same boarders of july, ,Schcol opened the first week, gen-|ed at have closed their sessions by 10|how dat is, suh, and I agresd entirely | When in oF dignity was conferred on Blundell Maple, sing erally the first Monday, in September, afo'clock. The boys, however, have not | with Uncle Joe. : @ millionaire furniture dealer in Totten- covple of wecks earlier than the custom of | ceased to crow, and many as they drive —_—>_—_ ‘the. mee ham Court road, a shabby sort of district opaosagpe Hy we antes pease a bess a — roads peeks = erarts of crow- Alabama in the War. ly jn seman: alge ered Lord Salisbury re- 2 n is now. It| ii see a light a this organ rom each 0! may be that the shorter time is all that is | osiock. orn Mhemscives ierve | A half dozen or more of the many vistt- Sg necessary for present times, but old-fash-| been educated by this practice, and the | ors at present in Washington from all over foned teachers Spar — so.”” — aaa pet have remained | the Union were talking a few evenings ago ‘ quiet after mi now commence “zhere is @ fortune in store for the man | crowing at any hour after nightfall if they | © seutrocs vents ee verte who invents u self-fastening device for | hear @ horse trotting along the road. So | * %U' contingen' ly the shoe laces,” explained a | ‘shoe | Well seaaret oe we the hint conveyed by a esses a with: Gosie. @re a number of such devices on the mar- | a crower is about. ——— a A MARYLAND CUSTOM. RESOURCE. , ONE noble and long-suffering state, I want to Copyright, 1996, Life Publishing Company. you northern fellows to keep your hands off. <e # o —o—o = > Actors Like. the Center of the Stage. today for the center of the stage is a sur- was ue Hi