Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1890, Page 13

: | 1 | | v Mr. Morton's Immense Income and His Beautiful Home. HIS FANCY FOR FINE STOCK, A Nine-Hundred-Acre Farm Covered With Imported Cattle and Sheep —Mra Morton's Popularity — The Shoreham Flat Morton's Every Day Life. Covyright 1690, by Frank G. Carpenter., Wasuixatox, Feb. 18.—|Special to Tux Bre. -1 sat in the press gallery today and took a goou look at Vice President Morton. He is more regular in his attendanco upon the gessions of the senate than any vice president we have had for years, and he ap- preciates the dignity of the position. He sits in his big mahogany arm-char as steaight as a string, and he wielda the white ivory gavel with his right hand in- dignifiea angles, Ho s a fino-looking presiding officer. Six feet high and with a scholarly stuop in his shoulders, his smooth-shaven, statesman- like face makes one think of the vice presi- donts at the beginning of our history. His hair, woll combed and_parted vory near the middle, is iron gray. Itis brushed well up from n broaa and rather high forehead, and its style of dressing is much the same n that seen in the pictures I'homas Jefferson. Vice Pres- men! Morton looks very much like Jefforson, save that his complexion is bru- nette while Jefferson's was blond, and his hair has been black while Jefferson's was red. The vice president’'s eyes are blue and when out of his chair aud mingling in Wash- ington society his face is one vast, substan- tial smile. Mr. Morton learned to smile while he was making his fortune. He startad life as a clerk 1 & country storeand he smiled 0 pleasantly at his customers that at twenty he was able to go into business for himself, At twenty-five his-country store grew too small for him and he carried his smilo into a commercial house at Soston. 't worked as well as 1t did 1n his birthplace, Shoreham, and it increased his pile to such an extent that at thirty he concluded again 1o smile for himself, "He then bechms the head of the commission house of Morton & Grinnell at New York, und by 1863 he had suoceeded so tar that ho was able to estab- lish the great banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co., with its branch at London. There was_more, however, in Mr. Morton than the simple smile. There were good business brains behind his pleasant face and by the time te was forty he had made & for- tune, He has made more since then and his money has not bardenad his face or his heart. His smle which paid him well as a young man has continued to pay him well as @ statesman. It made him a successful min- ister to France, aud it is making him one ol the most popular statesmen at the capital. is, I think, the offspring of his good uatore ratlior than policy, and 1t i8 worth more to him than all his millions. It keeps bim from worry and enubles him to withstana the vex- ations of Washington and its soclety. HIS RERDS AND FLOCKS. Vico Prosident Morton is a good dresser. Ho does notskimp his tailor and his coats are of the latest and most fashionable cuts. o wears a statesman like double breasted frock coat, and his every day pantaloons are of a dark gray. His clothes seem to be part of him, and is a marked figure i the senate, at the white house and in Washing- faw drawing rooms. He has added much to Bis popularity by the series of magnificent entertaiuments which he has given and is pivig i Wasbington, and he does not iet the income from his Jdozen-odd million dollars lie 1dle. He spends as well 88 malkes, and ho has a largo number of men 1n his employ. Vice President Morton is a man of uffairs as well as a man of societ; He carries on an_jmmense business in ad tion to the work he does here in Washing- ton, aud thero are foew men in the country who can do so much while appearing to do 0 little. ~The care of his immense property enough to keep one man busy, and he has a stock farm in addition to being a statesman aud bauker ana a society man. His farm is a8t Rhinecliff and is known as the *‘Ellerslie Stock Farm.” It contains 950 acres and co stitutes his country home. The vice presi- dent, however, makes this farm a business wvestment as'well as a place of summer rest. He has a hundred head of the choicest imported Guernsey cattle upon it. Every one of his animals hxs a noted record, and all were brought over from KEurope at his expense, There is hardly & cow among them that b not won A& prize as a producer and butter malker, and their introduction has done mauch to improve the cattle of New York. Mr, Morton is_also inter d 1 fine wool stock farm num- He has weekly reports as to how his cows and sheep are doing and the cultivation of the exten- sive estate requires considerable correspon- dence, SUOALS OF BEGGARS. The Vice President’s mail amounts to an ayorage of fifty letters a day and the covers ail sorts of subjecte. His known wealth and his generous disposition, make him the object of numerous beggars and he receives many applications for charity, Some of these are of the most cheeky variety and as an in- stance a young man from Maino wrote a few days ago nsking for two of his best regis- tered Guernsey cows, and saying that he wanted nothing but regeistered stock and would like to have them shipped as a gift ‘with the freight paia. The letter was prob- ably not answered. There are numerous worthy applications for charity received by the vice president daily, and among them are many requests from young boys uud girls who want to be educated. +Some of these are answered by bis secre~ tary, but for any wmillionaire to reply to all the dewands upon him would make him a pauper within a year. The president ro- ceives numerous applications for charity and our mitlionaire senators are bescechod “for gifts every day, The most of them, like tho vice presidont, do give a great deal, but it is only after s thorough iuvestigation of tnodflwu and to such as they kuow are in need, A GOOD RIDER, Vice President Morton rises early, break- fasts at 8:50 o’clock and then goes iuto his study and works at his mail until 11or 12 o'clock, when be goes to the capitol, often walking the mila anda balf between bis house and the senate, Feis employed at the senate all day anl his evenings are taken up with the dioners and other wocial requirements of Washingron Vice President Morton 1s a good horseback rider, He is fona of fiue horses and he has elght £ood ones in his stables here. His rid- g horse is a handsome sorrel mare and he t infreguently rides out on her with his wughters accompanying him. He has tive &irls rlnxlnfz in ages from seven Lo sixteen Joars and all of these are gewting an eques- Arian education at the riding school in Wash- Sogton, The remainder of their education 18 rried on by a French governcss at home nd by their attendance at one of the female sominaries of the capital, They have their overness coustantly with them. aud Mre, ortou with Mrs. Wanamaker and severu! other of the leading society ladies have got- ten up @ class of ten young girls to whom Miss Susan le, the sister of Edward Everewt Hale, is giving » course of lectures ou uulllll literature and poetry. A MAGNIFICENT MANTION. Both Vice Fresident Morton and his wife are French scholars and their career in Paris Wus A most succesaful one 1n a social as well s in & diplomatical way. Morton _was Bot hum the meagro salary of our minkster at Pll‘ll in thl keeping up of his entertainiments and he speat much more than (M #17,500 'hhh ho received. In Mrs. Mor- ton’s Paris salon all classes of distinguisbed were found aud berdinner part oted of French ton will probably cost him se * eral limes the uno\uul his 88,000 salar; aud the -ddnuu -mn he has % his ha 1 THE WINNINGS OF A SMILE. |& THI U“lAliA DAILY donce 1n many a town and the rooms which ho devotes to his roceptions and diuners would cover more than two of the average ity lots. You could turn a wagon load of hay around in his big dining rootn without grazing the walls, and vou might drive a couple of carriages abreast through the scries of parlors which, opening by folding doors one into the other, form a carpeted space more than 110 feet in length. ‘T'his Morton mansion must contain about twenty-six rooms. Itis roached by a big porte cochero of iron and 18 entered by wide front doors of oak and plata glass, Stepping over the mat in which in big letters of red number 1500 is wove you come at once into what seems to be the house proper. There i8 no cold conventional hallway, but the warmth of A home greets you the moment you step over the threshiold, The hall runs neariy the wholelength of the house. It con- sist of & wide, well-lighted room at the richt in which a fire blazes merrily tioking of a pretty French marble, and of & long left ‘almost filled of cream painted steps which an easy grado leads W second story. ‘The woodwork of this hall is of an ivory whileness. The walls are hung in crewm satin which runs about the whole to the height of your waist. In one corner of the room at the right & little round bay window juts out just large enough to contain away to the ck of black space at with L) the child,who stands on a red pedestal, there hangs a balm tree and in the corners of the hall there are tropical plants in richly colored pots as high as a tablo. One of the curiosi: ties of the hall is the fireplace twhich is framed in tiles of Mexican onyx and in front of which there is a fender consisting of fwo big torpedo-like bombshells standing on their ends with their noses in the air and with a massivo brass chain fastened to brass hooks set into their sides and running from one o the other. These bomosholls were thrown by the Prussians into Paris during the siege and Vice Bresi- dent Morton got them while ho was minister to France. WHERE 118 WORK 13 DONE. The vice president’s study or workshop is at the right of the entrance in a room oppo- sito the stairway. It is almost oval in shabe and it contains & bay window looking out on Rhode Island avenue. In this bay window there 18 a desk at which one of the vice president’s secretaries writes, and the whole room is packed full of the working materials of a publiocman. A flat top walnut desk as big as a dining table stands in the center of the room and the walls are lined with cases of books. Scrapbooks lie on o8 here and there, and the center desk is littered with lotters, papers and manuscript. At one side of it the vice presi- ident sits in an arm chair, and opposite him his confidential secretary, Mr. Kobert Chil- ton, who has been with Mr. Morton for years. The walls of this workshop are lined from the oak wainscoting to the picture rod with portraits and the noted friends of Mr. Morton look down upon him as he does his work, In the center of the wall at his righc there is a big photograph in a black frame of Gambetta, who was premier during a part of the time he was minister at Paris, ana on the opposite side of the room is a flne etch- ing of President Gartleld, while in_a corner next to the mantel hangs o big photograph of Premdent Harrison with a half. length portrait above him of the president of the French republio, Mr. Carnot. President Carnot sent this picture to Vice-Pres- ident Morton a few days ago with his compli- ments, and the vice president has photo- graphs of all the great leaders of K'rance. The mantel piece i# lined with photographs, and there is a fine old cngraving of La- fayette by Ary Schaeffer on the wall near the door. Vice President Morton has artistic tastes, and throughout his whole house you may see the pictures and engravings which he picked up abroad. There is littlo new furni- ture in the nouse, so Mrs. Morton tells me, and the most of the things used wore brought here from New York and Paris. Leave the workshop aud cross the ball and ou enter the parlors. They are separated rom thoe hall by portiers. You notice that one of these portiers is of rich brown velvet plush embroidered with flowers and the other a costly Turkish curtain which evi- dently once closed the door of a Mohamme- dan mosque. You pass by a screon covered with fine broussa embroider, the library, and this library’ the parlors. It is a large room walled with low book cases and hung with fine paintings. “The cases come to the lieight of your waist, and books in flne bindings 1ook out of the shelves through glass doors. Above tne cases, the walls are hung with dark red satin’ of afine enoush quality to make a dress for .a white bouse reception, and against this background hang the paintings, ‘There are two full-length portraits os the vice president and his wife by Bonnat, and these hanz on the tWO sides of the back of the room. These portraits are very flne, and the one of the vice president the great I'reoch artist says he considess the second best thing he has ever done. It represents Vice President Morton standing. Itis hife-size and it is a work of wonderful art. The painting of Mrs, Morton is equally fine and the vice president’s wife is one of the handsomest of the wives of our statesmeén. Shcis of me-~ dium height, straight, well-formed and her face is full of strength and character. She has blue eyes and she dresses in exquisite taste. This picture represents her in an eveping costume of dark red velvet and the color shows to advantage her beautiful neck and arms. ‘The photographs of the room, however, are quite as interesting as the pictures. They are as numerous as those-of the study, They are scattered from one end of the li- brary to the other and they stand in collec- tions and singly on every available spot. One screen-ltke frame of thirty cabinet photographs represents the royal fami- hies of Europe and Mrs. Morton picked these up while she was abroad, I asked her whether she had met all the persons ropresented in the frame, but ahe told me that the French court was a re publican one and that her acquaintances had been more democratic. She pointed to an- other frame in which the pictures of Gam- betta aud other French leaders stood side by side with Blaine, Lincoln, and other Amori- can statesmen, and she showed me a small Sevres bust of President Grevy which he had given to Mimster Morton, Vice President Mortou's house strangely enough rivals the white house not only as a society center but even ia the style of its fiuisn, The library is the red room, and the room that opens into this is furnished 10 & tint very nearly akin to that of the blue room of the white house. There parlor, whose walls are huog 1 s greenish tint, and should the vice presid take out nis dining table aud turn his din- ing-room into @ ball room he would huve a small east room at the end. The furniture of these two second parlors is of gilt wood upholstered in delicate yellow satin, and the pictures which hang upon the walls are_by noted artists. A red velvet carpet runs through the scventy-tive feet of reception rooms and a red velvel rug forms the center of the dining roow. The house itself is furnished in exquisite taste and it is one of the fine, though uot the finest, house at the capital, Mr, Morton's stable is as elaborate as his house, It is a part of the house and is of the same red pressed brick with black lines runming around it. The vico president s & swell coachman and footman i & rich plum-colored livery who wear stiff cockaded hats und drive his high- stepping bays hitched 10 a big coach with red wheels. THE SHOREHAM BAK, During the winter much has been said about the vice president's bar at his new Shorebam botel. art- ment house at which mavy of the most ubted of Washington people Live and for which they pay from $1,500 to ¢ for a suite of tarnished rooms. a restauraut on the ground floor and it was in this that the bar was suid 10 be located. Mr. Morton's agents were jnterviewed on the subject and ho himsel! éxpocssed great wdignation at the statement. ‘The truth is m.w lho appli cation for & license o sell Liquor was made without bis knowledge and that he had no in- terest 1n the botel beyond the leasing of its spurtments through his agents. It -u- tru that o license had been grauted, but is was & rt of the agreement at t -uma of the rent- g of the fiats that no be used as & bar or !or the sale of wines, walt or spiritous liguors. These flats mow coutain sixtesu ~congross- and amoug the noted men who in_ them sre Senalor Farwell, er Reed ava Re tative Cannon. ‘The flats cost in the neighborhood u-fiu- ter of a aultion of dollars to build, and iuse- mwh @8 10 roows are rented exceot by the men, live ear they probably pay & good interest oo the vestment. Alr, Mam- a8 & vestrywan of Amer| Epusco Epiacopal churon ot Fire, ' 88 AP Gl u: o A acat 4 fie and 1 sm 0 run & saloon o BEI 'RLA‘\.I)A\ FEBRUARY, ould not if he could He is pnum of and has named them ‘‘The Shores after the new Englund village where he was born I'u\\n G. Canresrten, | sure PEPERRMINE DROPE The onfon 18 a scentury plant The man who loses is never accused of not nlaying fair, | A dofeated bill is like a California railway train—it's noed under. ® | . A Horse Chestnut—1 have got a sure tip | for you on the next race. “1 was driven to d\inl id the man who got out of @ cab and went into the barroom. The worla seldom looks to see the kind of tracks you left behina vrovided you only get there. The average waiter holds a tray, but the boarder generally finds him playing the deuce. A fashion paper says: “Pockets are not found in ladies’ dresses now.” Were thoey evert When a man knoiws that he cannot gt out of the mud his next impulse is to go i deepor., Mrs. Cumso— Tsal our te imported from Ching, Johu! *‘Ob, no; we raiso our own repartee,” Nationality Doubtful.—First Little Girl— Is your doll a_French doll? Second Littie Girl—I don’t know; she can't talk. In School—*'Why may Queen Elizabeth be supposed not to have been very very fond of Hency VIII1" “Because sho had so many mothers," Briggs--1 tell you, it makes me feel sad 10 meet a young man on the road to rumn, Braggs—I didu’t suppose such a thing could be possible. Miss Cable—I have had that parrot for three months now and it has never spoken a word yet. Caller—Perhaps you have never given it a chance. Jim—1'm just like the Father ot his Coun- try—I_cau't tell a lie. Jam—I can—some nies. I can always tell yours a mile off. For instance, this last one. Yoast—They raise some wonderfully big beets out in Cullfornia, I'm told. Crimson: beak—Yes; but they don’t get into the banks like tney do in New York. “I hear your coachman ran off with $500 of your money. Are you Roing to try to re. cover it *No, the poor fellow will need my daughter went with him.” “The tricky man is almost always sure to be found out," said Smithers to Blithers. “That's a fact, especially it you are calling to collect money that he owes you.” A Strong Resemblance.—McCrackle—That puir of trousers reminds me of the condition of affuirs in_Europe. MocCorkle—How 80i MoCrackle—It has a worelike aspect, ki A, MUSICAL AND DRAMAILIO. ; Richard Mansfleld 18 now under the man agement of T. Henry French, Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett are to begin their third joint starring tour early in October next. Next season Miss Fanny Davenport promises to give Sardow's *iheodora’ the handsomest production that ithas ever had. John T. Kelly, an Irish comedian, will atar next season in & new farce comedy, and John W. McCinney will direct the tour. Billy Burch is trying to organize the Sau Francisco minstrels with Frank Moran, Add Ryman and the Only Leop, in the com pany. It is stated that Marie Prescott will shortly be seen in New York at the Fifth avenuo theater in & now version of *'Cleo- patra.” Mr. Lawrence Barrott returos from Eurove May 1, when he will begin active preparations for his next season's tour with dwin Booth. R. D. MacLean, who recently purchased “Spartacus, the Gladiator,” from dJ. Mack, is mAking arrangements to produce that play in the near future, As 5000 @8 A0 AcCLOr Or an actress now makes a hit in & part they get the *‘starring bee” in thewr bonnets and bogin to think of getting some one to write a play for them. Sir Henry Commings and Mr. A. H. Charhberlyn, the owners of the Princess' theatre, London, will shortly pay a visit to this country as the guests of Mr, Alexander Comstock. Miss Rose Coghlin makes her first appear- ance in Pittsburg as a star March 10, She is to play in that oity for one week during which she will be seen in_‘Jogolyn,’” *Peg Wofiugton” and “Forget Mo Not.” harles Wyndham has bought a play assion Flowers” from the ICen- Koudal says it is a delicate littlo n for her uiany years ago by her W. Robertson, the author of Miss Adele Payn, an American actress, is just now in London making purchuses of costumes, scenery, etc., With a view to the early production of ‘‘The Dead Heart” in New York. Itissaid tbat 300 costumes are being made for the Bastile scene alone. Lotta, who has not appeared on the stage this season owing to an accident which be- fell her late last spring, has been engaged by Samuel Fort of Haltimore to begin & tour on April 10 and to truvel for the balanco of the season under his management. It is under- stood that Mr. Fort has engaged the actress for next season well. Loua will travel as far as California and will produce a new play duving the season. A testimonial {s to be tendered to Mrs, James G. Rlaine, jr., at the Broadway thea- ter, New York, Tuesday afternoon, Febru- ury 18. Tne programme to be offered the public will be interpreted by a brilliant array of professionals and amateurs, promi- nent among whom are Mrs. Kendal, Richard Mansfield, W. H. Crane aud company, the Lyceum theater company, Eisie Lesiie, E, H. Vanderfelt, Elsie de Wolfe, Edward Fales Coward and Elta Proctor Olis, Competent judges say that the scenery and costumes that have been prepared for Adele Payn's American tour with “The Dead Heart” surpass the Lyceum production. The Bastile, with its moat and ponderous draw. ridges, the exterior of the Concierge- rie prison und the guillotine scenes are the finest ever puinted in Loudon, "Two of the leading costumiers bave been at work for woeks on the dresses, of which there ure over three hundred. No expense has been spared to make this one of the grandest scenic attractions ever sent to the United States, A genuine guillotine and cannon, both ot which havo seen service during 1o rebellion, have mn purchasod by Payn in F'rance aud witl serve as “prop: —_— The Fairs of 1876 and of 1892. The opportunity which is offered by the occurrence of the fourth centenary of the discovery of America, is one which the nation ought to seize for giv- g a strong forward impulse to the sentiment of American nationality, writes General Francis A, Walker in the February Forum. Men have said, and not foolishly, that the war of seces- sion never could have occurred at all had itbeon postponed until after 1876, It is certain that the centennial exhi- bition was a mighty force making, not for centralization, but for national unity. The uaintance which was formed at Pniladelphia, in that year be- tween widely sundered sections and classes, bas had a prodigious influence upon the subsequent life of the country. Yet the celebration of 1516 was but - a trivial thing this respect, .to what the wlebrnuun of 1892 muy be made, 1l properly ingu- gurated and carried oo, with the pres- tige and the resources of the now most powerful naton upon earth, The Philadelphia enterprise was in its in- ception aimost wholly of local interest. During the first ninety-cight dl}'l the sun;bar ‘:l uumi:-i‘onu ru 8,7 3 uring the remain sixt; -oue dlyl the uimber was 6,140,610, A T tion of our reoph dd not find out uulll the exhibition was well nigh its close that they greatly cared to go. An even larger tion did not find this out at all until it was too late. But today the winds of our people are prepared to take all that may be offered; and the celebration of 1802 will begin where that of 1876 left off; or rather it will begin with a prestige and a force de- rived, not merely from the ultimate success of the Philadelphia exhibition, but from the fame which that success has acquired through the revolving yeurs. | THOUGATS I LB‘.IITH{ VELN, | Waifs From the . 1d of Wit and Huml HIS BRIDE HAD EXPERIENCE. = And She Knew on W tm. Side of the Altar to StaflA Brighe Nebraska (Kjd—She Twigged. 00 Much. Punasutawney § Iloye the spring, the gentle spring, With 1ts porfume and its song. But I can not say [ liko this thng, Of having it all wintor long. A'New leading. Rochester (N. Y.) Jury: “Do you know that if you look into them you will always find tome deeper meaning in the Mother Goose rhymes than they ure generally supposed to contain?”’ “Nonsense. What deeper meaning is there in ‘Papa’s gone get alittle rabbit skin to wr “Why, the baby was born bald,” “Well, what of it?” “And needed a little hare, of course.” A Quick od of Connting. New York Sun: Little Bertrand had promised his mother always to count 100 pefore speaking after becoming angry. One day his sister snatched an orange from him and his angry retort came in a suspiciously short time. “Bertrand,” said his mother, “did you count 1002 “Yes'm.” “How did you count 1t “Ten, twenty, firty, forty, fifty. sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, hund'd.” COurious Notious of Clients. *‘Clients haye curiousnotions,” a law- yer said to a Brooklyn Citizen man. A client was in court one day when I gained a motion in his suit with $10 costs, and my opponentat once paid the money. *“*You'll deduct that from my bill, won’t you?’ my client asked me. * ‘No, sir,’ I replied, ‘I shall ckarge you 850 for coming into court and earn- ing this $10. “He paid up and got another lawyer.” A Female Stratecist. Texas Siftings: Jones—“That Brown girl is a smart one.” Smith—**What is 8he up to now?” *You know whenever she goes out she hae her pug with her'.’" **Yes, [ understand.” “Well, she has trained that dog to trot uloue abut ten feet behind her.” ““Well, wnat of that?” ““What of that? Don’ 't you see she can look back at the man \m(lu‘ the pretense of looking after the doj Litt1+ Willle Gets There. Clothier and Furnigher: Miss Brainy (of Boston)—I want to have you send home u suit of clathes for my little brother Willie. Ho'is clcum years of age. Salesman—Yes, madam. Should yvou say—er. thut he was Jlarge or small for his age! Misu Bmlny—We“ I don’t know that Willie has any superfluity of adipose tissue as compared with other boys of his age, but he is usually in the habit of arriving at his destination with both pedal extremities fimnl) placed on this mundaue spher: How Thov Taik on the Stage. New York Tribune:- The stage hero never talks in a simple, straight-for- ward way, like a mera orannry mortal, **You will write to me when you are away, dear, won’t you?” says the hero- ine. A mere human being would say: “Why, of course I shall, ducky, every day.” But the stage hero is a superior crea- ture. He says: “Dost see yonder star, Sweot?”? She looks up, and owns that she does see yonder star; nnd then off he starts and drivels on about that star for full five minutes, and says that he will cease 10 write to her when that pale star has fallen from its place amid the firmament, of heaven. Some Other Place. Detroit Free Press: “I wish you couldshelp'me out a little,” he said as he looked in on & Gratiot avenue cobbler. *Vhell?” *‘There’s a saying about the sluggard, you know. He was told to go to—to— what was it? He was to go to something and learn wisdom, but what it was I have Iorkon.en‘ 1t wasa’y to the bee, was it?” WO, “gor the grasshopper?” “I\ur to the wasp nor hornet?” “'l hen what was it?” “It vhas to gopy Halifax und keep right avhay from mo!” was the vigorous reply, as he pounded away on & piece of sole-leather. An Unfortunate Hurglar. Washington Capital: A wan, hag- gard and ragged gentleman upoanred at the kitchen door of a New York resi- dence. “Will you please give me something to eat?” inguired the poor man of the cook. *“With pleasure,” replied the oblig- 1ng cook. ‘‘But first tell me what un- fortuitous combination of circumstances brougm you to this lamencable condi- tion, “Alns!” replied the sufteriug appli- cant, *‘1 am simply a plain, common- place bank burglar, and the superior skill of the presiden®s and cashiers in this l.hr&vinkmm‘l hi l.hrown me out of employment.” “ **Poor man,” n)ncuqud the cook. youulurq. piece of lemon will give pie.” Her Usual-Place, President Hyde of' ‘Bowdoin college tells & good story of the first marriage ceremony at which he officiated while occupying the pulpitiin Jersay (‘n.y, says the Lewiston Journal, Ii seems that the bigger half of“the interesting couple was rather tiwrid aud nervous, one of those men whbu ditfidence is in dunsero! leu.dln himihto some awk- ward blunder. he bflde on the con- trary, was remarkably! cool and self- possessed. As the teduple presented themselves before Président Hyde mera seemed to be some misunderstandin, regard to the side on which the lgn should stand. The groom hlwhed about nervously, but the bride was equal to the occasion. Quickly chang- lng place with her bashful fiance, she remarked confidently: *‘There, T am sure this is the side on which 1 have always been accustomed to stand.” This solved the difficulty, and timid groom and the ynunn widow, who knew all about it from experience, were speedily united. He Wa alpuraiso Kd. A Valparaise lady tells the Fremont Tribune the following story; The other afterngon Willie came run-~ ning howe from school in agreat hurry. Throwing his books m the closet he 'land the wh 16, 1890, ~S12 asked his mother v( there was l\n\lh\n){ for him to do. Mamma, very much sur- prised, replied that there was, and our young friend was kept running here and there until nearly an hour had clapsed. Then, seeing by the expression on his mother’s face that t} was nothing else to be done, ho said ; ’s been a dood boy to-night, hasn’t “Yes," was the reply. “Do you in= tend to help me this way eyery even- ing? Well, not "zactly. You see I tored my paals on the way home from school today and I had to do something so's you wouldn’t wallop me."” The Sleeping-Uar Wreck, Washington Post: Manager Bennett has three bright youngsters, ranging from three to seven. The other morn= ing he was awakened by a heavy crash in the children’s room, followed by prolonged howl. He rushed in. The smallest kid was raising the roof, while the eldest stood, half frightened, con- templating a heavy burean which was tibped over on the floor. “Papa.” he shouted, the upper berl. berf. With considerable diffculty Mr. Ben- notjraised tho wreck and skipped it on to she track. Then he oponed the up- por_drawer, and young Frank popped hit head out and surveyed the group. “We was playing slecpin’ car, pop,” “Frankie’s in Frankio's in the upper he exclaimed. I got in all right, and Fwed tried to climb in the lower berf when the old car tipped over. But we didu’t brweak nuffin, did_we, pop?" “Nothing more valuable than_your necks, you young train robbors,” was the fond parent’s comforting reply: Ln\c L] ‘l‘ll("l(_l Boston Courier: Miss Hurryup—Ahl George, you cannot tell what troubles & girlhas who is receiving the attentions of a gentleman. Mr. Holdoff—Troubles, Carrie? Of what natice. pray? Miss H.—Well, one’s little brothers are always making fun of one, and one’s relatives are always saying, ‘‘When is it to come off?” as if marriage werea prizo fight. But that is not the worst. There’s the inquisitiveness of one’s parents. They want to know every- thing. Thore’s pa now; he is constantly asking such questions as: ‘‘Carrie, what are Mr. Holdofl’s intentions? What does ho callupon you so regula; for and stay so late when he does call? And he sometimes looks so mad when he asks these questions that I actually tremble. Mr. H.—And what answer do you make to his questions, Carrie, dear Miss H.—I can’t make uny answer at all, for you see, you haven’t said any- thing to me aud—and—of course I— yes Then Mr. Holdoff whispered some- thing in Carrie’s ear, and the next time her father questions her she will be roady with u satisfactory reply. A Woman Who Twizeed. New York Sun: When he boarded a Broadway car at Union square there were several vacant seats but he seemed in no hurry to set down. When all the seats except one were filled he acted as il about to take possession, but at that moment a lady entered, and he bowed and offered her the place. **Thank you, but I had as soon stand,” she replied. “And I had rather stand,” he per- sisted. “But I couldn’t think of depriving you of your seat.” **But, I insist, madam.’ “But [—[—" “Then I shall also stand.” She rode two squares and got off, and he bung on for asquare further. When he had disappeared a woman at the front end of the car with a bundle in her lap, remarked to herself, but loud enough for all to hea **The poor critters! She couldn’t sit for her tie-back dress, and he couldn’t for the tight lacing of his corset.” Three Types of Drama. Detroit Free Press: The border drama—I am only a rough fellow, Mary. I don’t wear finc clothes and use fine words, but everv time your father brought you here to the mountains 1've loved you, Mary, but if uialthlul heart and a pair of roady hands—- “Take me, Bill; I've loved you all my life.” (Throws hersolf in his arms.) The society drama: “I've come to s I'm going fur away. I will t'ouble you no more. Iamgoing to leave friends, home, everything, for your sake. I trust 'you will be happy without me, dearest—I—good-by—" Starts for door. good-by, Mabel. 'hey rush to each other, “Then you love me, after all!” “Why, of course, you sily hoy. Couldn't you see I was only trying to make you jealous?” Freach drama: *Without you life would be a blank. I could not live—I would kill myself. You are my all, Your presence has en- thralled me. Say but the word and I will throw myself at your feet. Say that blissful word whicki will make you mine.” “But my husband?” *'Oh, he doesn’t coun s ha Seminolrs of Florida, On a recent visit to Biscayne bay I was brought in contact with some of the remnants of the Seminole lndians who yet have their homes in theeverglndes, says & writer in the Philadelphia Press. One thing in Earnwlur struck me very forcibly, that was thai the Indians were evidently very indus- trious people, as they brought down the various rivers from the ever- glades, to sell and trade, hogs, chick- ens, ducks, eggs, vegclubles, siarch, corn, sirup, hides, bird plumes, ete., ns also the facl that they were buying $10) sewing machines, furnituve, and io one case a pinno, as well as the most jm- proved firearms, atthough they ure sav- uges and are often badly treated and worse cheated by some of the so-called civilized white men, This the Indian realizes, and us a con- sequeace they keep aloof as far as they can from the whites and avoid all con- tact possible with them; and hence are very aifficult to approach and not at all commuoicative. However, they live in peace with each other and bear much wrong to live in peace with the whites. The government has tried frequently to induce these Indians to take land in severalty, agreeing to give them title to 160 acres of land each, But, as Tiger Tufl said when President Arthur failed 10 keap an appointment muade to meet him on the iwanee river: *'White man much eheakl He hea) Plie' Wash- ingtopn man no ’g Tell Big Father 0 go to grass, Hnwuvur the Iondian suys in regard to this iand matter—re- duced to flbh *‘Indian own all the has not stolen, We don’t want auy title, possession is all we need, and peace.” Buddbism is spreading 10 & considerable extent among the femaie graduates of the universities aud other voung peo) l-nl oa\- ture in Europe, sud the hfl 1 being the door of Max Muller, who h mrna with having tirst brought that re n Lo the attentiou of the Christian worl His de- fenders say that the converts are made chiefly by Hindoos who come from Indis to attend the universities. % (TIEEN PAGES. i TR SET OF TEETH ON RUBBER For Five Dollars. DR.R. 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